December 2009
skeetonmischa:
31 Songs From The 2000s
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"The 10 Best L.A. Albums of the ’00s," L.A. Weekly →
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"The Valleywag Guide to Restoring Your Privacy on... →
[Ed. Note: I guess this was kinda-sorta a big deal, or not, I don’t know — didn’t follow it that closely — but it seemed to have elicited a response from Zuckerberg and his cronies. I let my “Wastebook” die over the last year-plus. I really decided one day after its second re-design’s iteration that it was a mess. It felt like toiling in obsolescence, like...
"Afghan Killing Bares a Karzai Family Feud," NY... →
WASHINGTON — On Oct. 16, four sport utility vehicles barreled into Karz, Afghanistan, the hometown of the country’s president, Hamid Karzai, and pulled up to the home of one of his cousins, Yar Mohammad Karzai.
Teams of armed guards blocked the street and herded passers-by into a nearby mosque while seizing their cellphones, then removed the front door of the house, according to Karzai family...
WatchCurrent Vanguard: “Notes from a War On Terror”
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"Facebook to Monitor Berlusconi Content," NY Times... →
MILAN — Facebook said Tuesday that it would monitor content on its Web site dealing with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy following an attack at a political rally that left him hospitalized.
“Promoting violence, or posting threatening content, is not permitted on Facebook,” the social-networking site said. “We will take quick action to respond to reports, and remove any content reported...
"Final Edition: Twilight of the American... →
A scholar I know, a woman who is ninety-six years old, grew up in a tin shack on the American prairie, near the Canadian border. She learned to read from the pages of the Chicago Tribune in a one-room schoolhouse. Her teacher, who had no more than an eighth-grade education, had once been to Chicago—had been to the opera! Women in Chicago went to the opera with bare shoulders and long gloves, the...
“It’s not that I don’t appreciate a good party or the holidays, it’s just...”
– D. Reinhardt, “Skeetonmischa,” on a multitude of things, but mainly re-imagining the Western as a futurist, post-apoc, dystopian tale, Denzel’s IRL cool, the new Hughes Brothers’ joint — Hey, guys, remember that little run-in with Tupac? If only Defamer or maybe even...
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Less Than Zero (1987): White Lines...
ilovehotdogs:
Remember the end of high school? Everyone’s all “Sign my yearbook!”, stiff “ass out” hugs, Kodak moments and “Keep in touch!”. You and your besties go your separate ways hoping to reconnect, catch up over a few lines and reminisce about the good ole days. You go to college for a while and it’s alright: more girls and more drugs, but something’s missing. You decide to go home...
"Money Can't Buy America Love," Foreign Policy →
While the debate over a troop surge in Afghanistan rages on, there has been virtual silence on the effectiveness of another central component of the U.S.-led strategy in Afghanistan: the surge of money intended to win Afghan hearts and minds. The figures are astounding: Next year, Commander’s Emergency Response Program (CERP) funds, the monies available to the military to support projects...
