December 2011
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Stop Motion: “How To Make an Old Fashioned”
Okay, first I should say, this is NOT how I would make an old fashioned. Don’t muddle an orange (or God forbid, a cherry and slice of pineapple) into your drink. Just… don’t.
I do however, love the video and their use of stop-motion animation and jazz music.
Here’s how I would make an old fashioned: Take a old...
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November 2011
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Live Occupy LA stream. →
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On the Butterball Hotline
President Josiah Bartlet: This time of the year, there should be a hotline you can call with questions about cooking turkeys. A special 800 number where the phones are staffed by experts.
Charlie Young: There is.
President Josiah Bartlet: What do you mean?
Charlie Young: The Butterball Hotline.
President Josiah Bartlet: Butterball has a hotline?
Charlie Young: Yeah. It's an 800 number, the phones are staffed by experts.
President Josiah Bartlet: Are you kidding me?
Charlie Young: No.
President Josiah Bartlet: God, I'm sorry, I love my country.
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Poet-Bashing Police by Robert Hass →
“My wife was speaking to the young deputies about the importance of nonviolence and explaining why they should be at home reading to their children, when one of the deputies reached out, shoved my wife in the chest and knocked her down.”
Robert Hass, a Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner and former US Poet Laureate, is a professor at UC Berkeley. He is 70 years old. He...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
M83 (22)
Active Child (16)
Childish Gambino (13)
Lisa Hannigan (10)
Cass McCombs (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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I can’t see any legitimate basis for police action like what is shown here....
– Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic (via rachael-maddux)
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Open Letter to UC Davis Chancellor from UCD...
serenagrace:
Follow up to my previous post….
A damning open letter to the UC Davis Chancellor from a UCD Assistant Professor. An excerpt:
Without any provocation whatsoever, other than the bodies of these students sitting where they were on the ground, with their arms linked, police pepper-sprayed students. Students remained on the ground, now writhing in pain, with their arms linked.
What...
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NYPD are clearing Zuccotti Park right now →
wilwheaton:
The whole world is watching, NYPD.
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Google knows it. Viacom knows it. The Chamber of Commerce knows it. Internet...
– STOP SOPA, SAVE THE INTERNET - Boing Boing (via fred-wilson)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Mayer Hawthorne (50)
The Smiles (19)
Ed Sheeran (15)
James Vincent McMorrow (13)
Active Child (12)
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