Warming Up to the Chill...
I've been taking it easy since the Miami trip. Lots of dithering re upcoming tour, mainly organizational stuff. Probably go as a five-piece to Canada (Ben, Rat, Chris, AWK, and myself), and save the debut of the octet for the States in Nov-Dec. We'll have Horoscopo in hand on the 25th, and new t-shirts as well. Scads of releases on the horizon - it's almost overwhelming. You musn't think I'm complaining, of course. I remember the days when the silences were truly deafening...
Listened to the expanded Korean version of Andrew's Close Calls with Brick Walls for the first time late last night... Wow. If you're still a doubting thicko, you deserve forced rehab with Mel "I Own Sobibor!" Gibson and Robin "Unfunny Since Garp" Williams. It's my favorite of the major label trioka - just fucking excellent throughout. Way to go Andy! (Uhh, Mr. Wilkes-Krier. Sorry.)
Can't believe that CNN Headline News co-cocksucker Chuck Roberts referred to Ned Lamont yesterday as the "Al-Qaeda candidate." ¿Qué? Amazing. Bernard Shaw must be weeping into his oat bran. As this presidency descends further into ignomy, so too does the Fourth Estate. It would be shocking if we weren't already numb to it.
With the death yesterday of the original softball-lobbing chat show host Mike Douglas (who was ogled religiously by my mom, and millions of other 60s-70s hausfrau), the New York Times reminded us in their obit that Douglas' executive producer was one Roger Ailes, the very same troll who engineered Fox News' lamentable rise to cable ratings dominance. Oh well...
Trading my H3 for more tofu, I remain...
TS
Listened to the expanded Korean version of Andrew's Close Calls with Brick Walls for the first time late last night... Wow. If you're still a doubting thicko, you deserve forced rehab with Mel "I Own Sobibor!" Gibson and Robin "Unfunny Since Garp" Williams. It's my favorite of the major label trioka - just fucking excellent throughout. Way to go Andy! (Uhh, Mr. Wilkes-Krier. Sorry.)
Can't believe that CNN Headline News co-cocksucker Chuck Roberts referred to Ned Lamont yesterday as the "Al-Qaeda candidate." ¿Qué? Amazing. Bernard Shaw must be weeping into his oat bran. As this presidency descends further into ignomy, so too does the Fourth Estate. It would be shocking if we weren't already numb to it.
With the death yesterday of the original softball-lobbing chat show host Mike Douglas (who was ogled religiously by my mom, and millions of other 60s-70s hausfrau), the New York Times reminded us in their obit that Douglas' executive producer was one Roger Ailes, the very same troll who engineered Fox News' lamentable rise to cable ratings dominance. Oh well...
Trading my H3 for more tofu, I remain...
TS
Comments
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form4b.html?76
He will get a copy of the email, by the way.
Post in this thread that you've sent a complaint. Let's see how many we can get. It's important he and his bosses take note of this.
Flaming him won't be helpful, though. Reason is the best response to weak reporters like him.
But, I'm interested... what is his source. "Some people say" is just a FoxNews tactic for saying what you want without attributing it to anyone, specificially.
Q.
Daily Kos has an informative thread as well:
http://www.dailykos.com/
An excerpt:
Losing It
by georgia10
Sat Aug 12, 2006 at 11:10:01 AM PDT
Just twelve weeks away from Election Day, frigid poll numbers for the President and his legion of "W brand" candidates throughout the country have Republicans scrambling for Karl Rove's dog-eared playbook in the hopes of stopping (or at least slowing down) the unprecedented Democratic momentum going into the midterm elections.
Fear-mongering, of course, is Chapter 1 in that book.
This week, we witnessed a vitriolic and coordinated attack on Democrats. Cal Thomas evidenced his need for a straightjacket as he lamented what he calls the "Taliban" wing of the Democratic Party. Bill O'Reilly libeled an entire voting bloc of American citizens when he said that Connecticut voters prove that Americans have "no will to restrain Iran's jihad" . Likewise, Tony Snow insulted Connecticut voters by claiming they chose to "walk away" from fighting terrorists. Dick Cheney implied that Connecticut voters were weak and that Al Qaeda "broke" their will. Meanwhile, Tom DeLay distracted himself from the prospect of prison time this week with fairytales of Democrats who think that terrorists are "wonderful people." Over at the RNC, Republicans sent out a "your money or your life" fundraising email that would have made Tony Soprano proud. And, of course, no propaganda blitz would be complete without the stenographers in the media, like Chuck Roberts of CNN, who mused aloud whether Lamont is an "Al Qaeda Candidate."
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TS
Well, the cold tends to do a body good. I've not been truly frozen since a December 2004 trip to Russia... I miss the clotting.
The Korean release of CC/BW has four more songs than the Japanese edition. At least I think so. I'll ask him when he and his group return from Asia...
Horoscopo drops in 13 days!
Best,
Tom
your mass media BFA seriously had that kinda atmosphere? goddamn - long live school in french canada - the revelation of my fucking life, man...i brought all 3 of my absentee ballots in for show and tell!
Best,
Tom (some would say I'm the nun-fucker of post-post-pre)
Uncertain of "tofu," but if one juggles those four letters but slightly, "of tu" emerges. Anyone with at least one semester of Latin should recognize the common pronoun "you." Thus, good Anon., are you positing the age-old existential query "Who am I?" If so, we suggest random readings from this list of authors:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Søren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Edmund Husserl
Martin Heidegger (shameful Nazi wretch that he was, his genius somehow manages to slash through veils of thuggish obfuscation...)
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre
Mickey Spillane
If you are not posing the aforementioned question, we are sad to report that we can be of no help to you.
Best of Luck,
Tom