The video above is of, well, an exploding whale. The carcass washed up in Oregon, where the Highway Division decided to blow it up with a half-ton of dynamite. One of my undergraduate history instructors showed it in class to demonstrate misplaced faith in technology. I love the exploding whale video, and watching it in […]
Medley from Riki Lindhome on Vimeo.
My friend Bart (note his blog is often NSFW, although he’s usually good about putting images behind cuts) pointed me to Garfunkel & Oates. The music’s playful and poppy, and it’s great to see a woman-led act in this comedic vein. You can download a whole bunch of their songs […]
The working girls of 1980s 9 to 5. [source]
Today is Equal Pay Day. A day to pause, reflect, and get your hackles up about the fact that women still only make 78 cents on the male dollar. As if that weren’t infuriating enough, that’s just the average — African-American women earn just 69 cents on […]
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As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade. Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era focuses on the […]
I am incredibly disturbed when people don’t know who ABBA is. I don’t especially love ABBA — they have some excellent tracks, but I was never particularly tied to them — but, I think it’s impossible to conceive of the current pop music scene without ABBA having happened. Also, they’re the only band to ever […]