| Molotov Cocktails, Undeployed |
[May. 20th, 2012|12:15 pm] |
Police here have arrested a few people and accused them of making, or planning to make, Molotov cocktails. Alleged targets include Obama campaign HQ, Rahm Emanuel's home, and police stations.
The defense lawyer called it a set-up:At least two informants "ingratiated themselves" with the three men, brought the materials and made the alleged plans, he insisted, calling it "an entrapment to the highest degree." You have to be careful with the entrapment defense, since, like the insanity defense, it starts an admission that you did it.
Yes, your honor, I did it, but I've got a good excuse,
so I hope you'll let me loose. |
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| full speed ahead |
[May. 19th, 2012|11:44 am] |
Indulging my fascination with gauges and dials on the USS Midway:
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| Not Much To Report |
[May. 18th, 2012|11:02 pm] |
This would have been a regular workday in downtown Chicago. But due to all the scare stories about the NATO confab and the protesters...
downtown
was mostly shut down.
I went to work. But a lot of people didn't. I think my morning train was one quarter full at best.
I saw the protesters go by my building 3 times. I had a good view. There weren't a lot of them. My favorite sign:
Give Class War A Chance!
Well, they've got 3 more days to protest before the NATO Show blows town.
Maybe this was just a warm up.
Maybe tomorrow they'll swarm up
in much bigger groups
of class warfare dupes. |
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| Brodustrial: WWJD? |
[May. 18th, 2012|05:22 pm] |
Ad·ver·sary calls out Combichrist for being misogynistic, racist fuckheads -- while opening for them.It was when I got booked to play Kinetik, and I found out that I was scheduled to open for Nachtmahr and Combichrist. Given how strongly I feel about the way they do what they do, I didn't think I could just get up there and play and pretend as though I wasn't going to be followed by these two acts that I've openly criticized. I actually considered just cancelling my performance, and being done with it. I don't want to be associated with what they do, and I don't want to be a support act for them, even in a festival setting. But I took some time to think about it, and at some point I was listening to Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death and thought, "What would Jello Biafra do?" He'd use the stage time to tell people why he's pissed off. And so here we are. They played this PowerPoint behind their last song: Later in the linked article, the Combichrist guy rebuts with, "Hey, I'm just kidding with all that misogyny and racism, can't you take a joke?" In case you couldn't have predicted that. Industrial music began circling the drain in earnest in around 1995 and has been fully dead as a genre since 1999, and this brodustrial jock-rock bullshit from bands like Combichrist certainly brought nothing to the party. "Football season is over, Veronica. Kurt and Ram had nothing left to offer the school except for date rapes and AIDS jokes." Mirrored from jwz.org. |
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| Extras, Extras |
[May. 18th, 2012|11:26 am] |
I get emails all the time from fans who want to be on GAME OF THRONES.
Here's your chance. The call has gone out for extras for season three.
https://www.extrasni.com/news
Of course, it helps if you actually live in Northern Ireland.
Or the Republic of Ireland.
Or Scotland or England or the Isle of Man... y'know, someplace where you can actually get to the shoot. If you're in South Africa, Brazil, or Japan, your chances of getting a call are not good, alas.
On the other hand, if you're a bearded long-haired amputee from Derry, you should be gold. |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 17th, 2012|11:57 pm] |
California!
O cornucopia and pandemonium! O promised land of jagged mountains, ragged deserts, soaring forests, sweeping beaches! O home of Hollywood's bewitching mirages and Silicon Valley's mad fast-forward ferment! O shining apotheosis of uttermost West!
O Skid Row and Sixth Street and subdivisions littered with the carcasses of slaughtered dreams. O foreclosed homes and savaged families and for-profit hospitals and undocumented millions and that permanent outcast underclass of untouchables called the poor. O remorseless machine that eats ambition and shits despair.
...So anyway, I've been reacquainting myself with this my readopted home, by wandering around on a bit of a mini-road trip: Sonora Pass, Mono Lake, US 395, Lake Isabella, Fresno's Underground Gardens, and the Central Valley. It remains a very pretty place.
  
Postscript: You know what one of the nice things about having a pretty good phone is? It means that if you go on a mini-road-trip and like a dumbass completely forget to bring a real camera with you, you can still sort of almost kind of make do. |
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| Energetic Opening |
[May. 17th, 2012|11:46 pm] |
Our production of Into The Woods opened tonight, with a big burst of energy. I think Act One was 15 minutes shorter than it was the night before in dress rehearsal. And I didn't hear of any mistakes that the audience was likely to detect as such.
The audience gobbled it up like the wolf gobbled up granny, laughing, clapping, cheering.
It's great fun to have a crowd
that's happy and loud.
(photo by one of the Murphy boys) |
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| Icelandic MP Moves Elves' Boulder to His Home |
[May. 17th, 2012|03:08 pm] |
 "The elves will travel in a basket lined with sheep skin so that they can be comfortable on the journey." MP for the Independence Party Árni Johnsen arranged for the relocation of a 30-ton boulder, which he believes is home to three generations of elves, from Sandskeið on Hellisheiði in southwest Iceland to his home Höfðaból in the Westman Islands today.Árni first encountered the elves’ dwelling when he was in a serious car accident in January 2010. His car overturned and landed beside the boulder 40 meters away from the highway, Morgunblaðið reports. His SUV was damaged beyond repair but Árni escaped the accident unharmed. He considered whether the boulder might be a dwelling for hidden people and had it saved from landing underneath the south Iceland Ring Road when the highway was widened. “I had Ragnhildur Jónsdóttir, a specialist in the affairs of elves from Álfagarðurinn in Hellisgerði, Hafnarfjörður, to come look at the boulder with me,” recollected Árni. “She said it was incredible, that she had never met three generations of elves in the same boulder before.” “She said an elderly couple lives on the upper floor but a young couple with three children on the lower floor,” the MP described. The specialist concluded that the boulder’s inhabitants were content with the move. “But they asked whether the boulder could stand on grass. I said that was no problem but asked why they wanted grass. ‘It’s because they want to have sheep,’ Ragnhildur replied,” Árni continued. The specialist also said that the elves wish for the boulder’s “window side” to face the view. “I promised to do so,” Árni stated. The boulder will be moved on the ferry Herjólfur and the elves will travel in a basket lined with sheep skin so that they can be comfortable on the journey. Ragnhildur explained to Árni that when he was in the accident everything went crazy on Hellisheiði. Elves from all neighboring settlements were called out and there was much confusion until one large being took control of the situation. “Ragnhildur said it was my protecting spirit, because my time hadn’t come,” he concluded. Also: Angry Elves Said to Have Wreaked Havoc in West Fjords Vigdís Kristín Steinthórsdóttir, a nurse, healer and hypnotist, believes hidden people, or elves, who live in the mountain were upset when the tunnel through Óshlíd was made and are causing these mishaps. Mirrored from jwz.org. |
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