Damn, one day later and it would coincide w/ my birthday!
CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
I’m publishing this book!
Rob Funderburk, Rhubarb and Ribbie (former mascots for Chicago White Sox), 2011. Illustration for Chicago Stories by Michael Czyzniejewski, available here.
{9}The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.
{10}Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.
This afternoon I was sitting outside of a coffeeshop on Division drinking Hibiscus tea and reading a book titled “Adventures in The Skin Trade” when a man who looked to be about 70 leaned over and said, “Is that a sex book? It looks like a sex book.”
I laughed awkwardly, looked at the cover which…
CRITERION CORNER GIVEAWAY!!!!
hey there. it’s been a while since i’ve randomly given stuff away, and that doesn’t jive well with my philosophy that love and / or readership should be shamelessly bought. so in honor of the holiday season - and to make up for lost time / clear my shelf of some extra stuff i’ve got lying around - i thought i’d throw the biggest Criterion Corner giveaway yet.
The Prize:
- DVD of Sidney Lumet’s 12 ANGRY MEN!
- Blu-ray of Claude Chabrol’s LES COUSINS!
- 1 DVD box set of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s THREE COLORS! (opened but never watched and in mint condition… long story)
- 1 MYSTERY DVD!!!! (maybe a Criterion film, maybe just something I want to share with a stranger. definitely previously loved).
TO ENTER: just “like” and / or Re-blog this post. each note will count as a separate entry, so every fellow blogger can therefore submit a maximum total of 2 entries.
giveaway will be closed at 12 P.M. EST on Friday, 12/3/2011. 1 winner will be randomly selected from the notes. so the odds should be okay if not super awesome, but someone’s gonna get some great stuff for nothing.
good luck, and thanks so, so much for reading the blog and my Criterion Corner column on movies.com!
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Art Young on World War I.
[Image of a pen-and-ink cartoon of four well-dressed men dancing and throwing money and signs in the air while an orchestra made up of cannons, guns, and bombs plays in a balcony above, conducted by a demon. Over the orchestra are the words “Orgie Maniacle.” The first well-dressed man is labeled Editor, and the sign over his head says “All for Democracy.” The second is Capitalist, and the sign reads “All for Honor.” The third, Politician, “All for World Peace.” The fourth and most foolish-looking, Minister, “All for Jesus.” The signature is by Art Young. The entire image is captioned “Having Their Fling.” and is subtitled “(The cartoon on the World War for which Art Young was arrested and tried twice in the United States Courts.)”]](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luio6piKyq1qze2tmo1_r1_400.jpg)
Art Young on World War I.
[Image of a pen-and-ink cartoon of four well-dressed men dancing and throwing money and signs in the air while an orchestra made up of cannons, guns, and bombs plays in a balcony above, conducted by a demon. Over the orchestra are the words “Orgie Maniacle.” The first well-dressed man is labeled Editor, and the sign over his head says “All for Democracy.” The second is Capitalist, and the sign reads “All for Honor.” The third, Politician, “All for World Peace.” The fourth and most foolish-looking, Minister, “All for Jesus.” The signature is by Art Young. The entire image is captioned “Having Their Fling.” and is subtitled “(The cartoon on the World War for which Art Young was arrested and tried twice in the United States Courts.)”]
Goat at a hardcore show. Seriously.
I love pics of animals in wrong places
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