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Fifty years ago today, the world was introduced to the first James Bond movie and the first Beatles single on the same day. Both Dr. No and “Love Me Do” debuted on Oct. 5, 1962.That's the opening sentence. No idea if it's worth the click, but it's a coincidence alright. Truly the day the boomers hit puberty & The Sixties began?
The First Family is a comedy album recorded on October 22, 1962 ...Our contribution, only 45.
A Woodland Hills couple refuses to stop displaying their loyalty to Mitt Romney despite suffering terrorism due to their public support of the GOP presidential hopeful.
a tape purporting to show Barack Obama engaging in a 40-minute racially-charged rant.How much would you pay to see that? (And what was Hitler's personal best for a racially-charged rant, anyway?)
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| Unexpected Guest, Echo Park | Photo by Sarah Williams |
John D. MacArthur got rich by selling one-dollar life insurance policies through newspaper ads during the Depression. “Dubious” is how Parade magazine charitably described this scheme in 1976, by which time MacArthur was a self-made billionaire and self-styled colorful old codger, fond of shoveling leftover food into his pocket at banquets.St. Nick on a kebab stick, if Parade fucking magazine calls your shit dubious ...
NOT ONE of the first MacArthur Fellows is suffering from lack of recognition for his or her talents. What’s more, though some probably can use the money more than others, not one really faces financial obstacles to exercising his or her creativity. They are already doing whatever it is the MacArthur Foundation admires them for doing, many are doing quite well at it, and presumably they will keep on doing it, unless this windfall encourages them to stop.*Final worth-it paragraph:
But take something like the “Kennedy Center Honors,” created three years ago because, according to Kennedy Center chairman Roger Stevens, "We believe that there is a need in this country for national recognition of individuals who enrich our lives and our culture by their life work in the field of the performing arts.” A “need”? The first winners were Marian Anderson, Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Richard Rodgers, and Artur Rubenstein. Have they really been underappreciated and underrewarded for their contributions to our cultural life? Is there another potentially great hoofer out there somewhere who has considered Fred Astaire’s career—the fame, the glamor, the money, the love of millions, the other awards—and who has decided it’s not worth it, until he reads that Fred has won the Kennedy Center Honors, and decides not to become a dentist after ail? That’s what you have to believe in order to suppose that giving Fred Astaire one more award serves any useful purpose.Yep. Eff the entire structure, Oscars &c too.
Even the ones you may not have heard of are identified as having “won honors for her poetry, film-making and plays” (Leslie Marmon Silko, a 33-year-old Pueblo Indian) ...Our guess is that receiving the prize didn't hurt Leslie Marmon Silko at all, so we begrudge one to the MacArthurs while laughing at Kinsley.
From the Daily Beast. "Son of a bitch." Nice, huh? Whadaya say to that, Xian fans of Revelation who "luv" Israel? Terrorist-lovers is what we say.17 and 0.
--Number of mosques vandalized by 'price-tag' attacks and number of people charged with the attacks, writes Yedioth's Alex Fishman in a look at what the government is - and is not - doing to stop Jewish terror.
Lord, We Ask & Believe when you put your healing hands on Shayley she will know all is well because you paid the price for ALL of us with your 39 stripes for all diseases are under your blood. Good Yontive[sic]... Happy Holiday...Yom Kipper [sic] day of Fasting and remembering God's sacrifice, his son. Jesus is Alive! REJOICE he gave his life for us!Maybe we're too quick to condemn. Perhaps "Yom Kipper" has nothing to do w/ Yom Kippur. Certainly Yom Kippur has nothing to do w/ "remembering God's sacrifice, his son." We'll just guess she may not want to be a Jew, either.
Nationally, pedestrian fatalities represent 11.4 percent of traffic fatalities; in L.A. we have three times that many. Bicyclists killed in traffic accidents represent 1.7 percent of fatalities nationally, but it's nearly double that in L.A.Indeed. We planted a foot on the right rear quarter panel (Appeared to have left a dent, but we weren't foolish enough to stick around & admire our handiwork/footwork.) of a fuckheaded air polluter who turned left in front of us & against the light just last wk. on Wilshire near Western. (PROTIP: Do not kick air-polluting devices w/ your toes. Use the flat of your foot.)
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.Live it, or live w/ it!
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| A bolt-action rifle may not be the weapon of choice today. |
