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Mary Sativa: Acid Temple Ball
02.19.2010
01:51 am
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This lost gem of late-sixties psychedelic erotica by “Mary Sativa” (har har) documents the sexual exploits of a young woman while on seven different drugs (one after the other). Now that’s proper journalism, about actually important things. Check out this customer review:

Acic Temple Ball describes the loves and lovemaking of a young lady during the very peak of the psychedelic era of the later sixties, the height of glorified sex, drugs, and rock and roll. This book is truly a classic of it’s era. Our heroine in “Acid Temple Ball,” experiences lovemaking while using at least seven different types of drugs popular or available at the time. Her experiences while on LSD and other chemicals is both surprisingly seductive and amazingly accurate and believable and actually well written. Sharon Rudahl, shows her talent as a writer capable of fascinatingly realistic descriptions of feelings and emotions even in hallucenigenic and altered consciousness affected states, even at the young age of 21 when she wrote this paperback. This is clearly a paperback for adults only, something you wouldn’t want even mature young teenagers to read without some adult supervision. Nevertheless, this book is an unique trip into it’s time, focusing on the pleasures and sensualism of a young female during the height of the love generation and her experiences through the use of at least seven different types of drugs in various combinations. I recall reading this book in 1969, the year of it’s first edition. I think my beautiful Sri Lankan cosmopolitan girlfriend gave me a copy (or should I say “turned me on to it”), before she threw me a surprise birthday party in an old historic stone church in the University district of Minneapolis, complete with rock band, light show, and mescaline punch sponsored by the cosmic vendors association. “Acid Temple Ball,” by Mary Sativa, (Sharon Rudahl Peters), is part and parcel of the time, seen through the looking glass and mystic smoke of mind blowing sexual narrative unbalanced by the bummers, by-products and general downers of drug use - but what a trip it was. Sharon Rudahl later was a pioneer of “underground feminist comix” and most recently released the 2007 paperback novel “A Dangerous Woman: the Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman”, which is also well written and has been well received.

(Mary Sativa: Acid Temple Ball)

(Read it for free here!!)

Posted by Jason Louv
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02.19.2010
01:51 am
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The Mysterious Vibes of the Numbers Stations
02.19.2010
01:35 am
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Numbers stations (click here to listen to a sample) are shortwave radio stations that broadcast weird-ass strings of numbers, voices, and other randomly generated effluvia. Messages from aliens? Spies? Sock gnomes? The dinosaur-men who live in the center of the Hollow Earth…? None may know…

Numbers stations (or number stations) are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast artificially generated voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a spelling alphabet), tunes or Morse code. They are in a wide variety of languages and the voices are usually female, though sometimes male or children’s voices are used.

Evidence supports popular assumptions that the broadcasts are used to send messages to spies. This usage has not been publicly acknowledged by any government that may operate a numbers station, but in 2001, the United States tried the Cuban Five for spying for Cuba. The group had received and decoded messages that had been broadcast from a Cuban numbers station. Also in 2001, Ana Belen Montes, a senior US Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, was arrested and charged with espionage. The federal prosecutors stated: “Montes communicated with the Cuban Intelligence Service through encrypted messages and received her instructions through encrypted shortwave transmissions from Cuba”. In 2006, Carlos Alvarez and his wife Elsa Alvarez were arrested and charged with espionage. The U.S. District Court Florida stated: “defendants would receive assignments via shortwave radio transmissions”. In June 2009, the United States similarly charged Walter Kendall Myers with conspiracy to spy for Cuba and receiving and decoding messages broadcast from a numbers station operated by the Cuban Intelligence Service to further that conspiracy.

It has been reported that the United States uses numbers stations to communicate encoded information to persons in other countries. Numbers stations appear and disappear over time (although some follow regular schedules), and their overall activity has increased slightly since the early 1990s. This increase suggests that, as spy-related phenomena, they were not unique to the Cold War.

(Wiki: Numbers stations)

(The Conet Project: Numbers Stations 4-CD Compilation)

Posted by Jason Louv
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02.19.2010
01:35 am
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Who cares!
02.19.2010
12:41 am
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io9 posted this hilarious/awful video that appears to be a “We Are the World” type affair except that the purpose behind the song, the message if you will, is to save Doctor Who, which was at the time (1985) in danger of being cancelled. So in typical 80s fashion, a bunch of egotistical pop stars, most of them now consigned to the pop culture junkyard from which oldies shows never beckon, got together to make a charity single (for cancer) and to save their favorite TV show.

Amongst the now total nobodies, you can see the sixth Doctor, Colin Baker who’s singing holding a beer (nice one, Colin), members of Ultravox and Bucks Fizz and Justin Hayward from the Moody Blues. This video goes from terrible to laugh out loud funny about halfway through.

Posted by Richard Metzger
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02.19.2010
12:41 am
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Poll: Majority of Minnesotans ‘embarrassed’ by Bachmann
02.19.2010
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Imagine how hard it would be to get out of bed in the morning if you knew that over half of the people who knew you thought you were an embarrassment? Imagine now that you are a politician with that kind of affection out there for you. Would you bury your head in shame like a normal person? If you’re Rep. Michelle Bachmann, probably the stupidest person to currently hold elected office in America today—and that’s really saying something—you double down!

A new survey of Minnesotans shows that a majority of residents — 56 percent — are embarrassed by Rep. Michele Bachmann. The release of the survey, commissioned by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America and Credo Action, follows recent high-profile statements by Bachmann that she believes President Barack Obama wants to “annihilate” conservatives, that the U.S. faces a “curse” – and extinction — if it fails to support Israel, and that government must “wean” Americans off of social safety net programs like Medicare and Social Security.

The Bachmann survey results, released exclusively to the Minnesota Independent, measure responses to the question, “Do you think Congresswoman Michele Bachmann does Minnesota proud in Congress or embarrasses Minnesota?” While 56 percent of respondents statewide said they were embarrassed by Bachmann, 29 percent answered that they were “proud” of the Sixth Congressional District Republican, and 15 percent were “not sure.”

Predictably, 87 percent of Democrats polled said they were embarrassed, while only 12 percent of Republicans agreed (58 pecent of Republican respondents said they were proud of Bachmann).

Poll: Majority of Minnesotans ‘embarrassed’ by Bachmann (The Minnesota Independent)

Posted by Richard Metzger
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02.19.2010
12:07 am
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Quality Entertainment
02.18.2010
11:38 pm
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(thx Cory !)

Posted by Brad Laner
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02.18.2010
11:38 pm
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Babies With Laser Eyes
02.18.2010
11:18 pm
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“The finest selection of babies with laser eyes on the webernets.”
 
Babies With Laser Eyes
 
(via io9)

 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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02.18.2010
11:18 pm
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Menacing Teddy Bears From Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor
02.18.2010
05:38 pm
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Just when you thought Mike Kelley achieved all that was possible in the “soft sculptural” realm, here come artist Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor‘s 7-foot teddy bears, or, as she calls them in nightmare-friendly fashion, “No-names.”  O’Connor currently has a show running at LA’s David Salow Gallery.  Here’s a descriptive snip from the LA Weekly:

Imagine an alternate ending in which Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma, the Woodsman and the Big Bad Wolf join forces in a sewing circle to create an army of spawn from the detritus of the urban/industrial world encroaching on their simple way of life, and you might get an idea of what glares at passersby from the window of David Salow Gallery in Chinatown.

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Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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02.18.2010
05:38 pm
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Obama’s Awkward Call to the Astronauts
02.18.2010
04:57 pm
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“Hey guys, what’s happening? No more manned space fights. Hope you’re cool with that. K thx bye.”

Astronauts flying in space are used to VIP phone calls that don’t always go as scripted, but Wednesday’s conversation was probably one of the most awkward.

President Barack Obama used his chat with the crews of the space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station to declare that he sees space exploration as “so important.”

“My commitment to NASA is unwavering,” Obama said. He emphasized “how proud we are of you ... and how committed we are to continuing human space exploration in the future.”

A few weeks ago, the White House unveiled a plan to cancel NASA’s new spaceship, its two new rockets and the NASA program, now five years in the making, to return astronauts to the moon. Though Obama also wants to add an extra $6 billion to NASA’s budget over the next five years, his proposal has thrown much of the space agency into turmoil.

None of the 11 astronauts was rash enough to bring up the outrage felt by many of their colleagues, but they were more candid during media interviews they gave earlier in their mission.

(NYT: Obama’s Awkward Call)

Posted by Jason Louv
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02.18.2010
04:57 pm
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Jim Jones Jr. Sits Down With Oprah
02.18.2010
04:05 pm
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Well, I never thought I’d be posting anything Oprah-related, but who knew we’d be hearing again from Jim Jones Jr., the son of Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple founder and engineer of the Jonestown tragedy?  Jim Jones Jr. lost both his wife and unborn child that day, and seeing him in a forgiving mood on Oprah certainly provides a fascinating footnote to what’s been described (pre-9/11) as the single greatest loss of American civilian life in a non-natural disaster.
 
Part I of the interview follows, with links below to the other two segments.  Never one to shrink from controversy, Oprah follows Jim Jones Jr. with the sister of John Wayne Gacy.  You can watch some lesser-quality video of that segment here.

And if you’ve never seen the excellent Jonestown: The Life And Death Of People’s Temple, YouTube hosts the documentary in its entirety (click here for Part I).

 
Jim Jones Jr. On Oprah, Part: II, III

 

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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02.18.2010
04:05 pm
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Build a “Wobbly H” With Twilight Pillows
02.18.2010
03:31 pm
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More disturbing than the Twilight shower curtain, and potentially a good companion to the Twilight dildo, it’s… the full-sized Twilight body pillows!

Have you ever dreamt of sharing your boudoir with a pasty teenage bloodsucker…or Teen Wolf? Your innermost fantasies are now a reality thanks to these Twilight “manllows” on Etsy. Bonus: they’re from the torso up, so everything stays thematically PG-rated!

Need a handsome shoulder to cry on after a long day of being the most middlingly average person at your high school? These Twilight “manllows” (man + pillows) fit the bill quite nicely. If and when they come back in stock on Etsy, you have the choice of Jacob (sans denim cut-offs, natch) or Edward (quasi-abusive emotional detachment not included).

(io9: Bring the Horror Home)

Posted by Jason Louv
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02.18.2010
03:31 pm
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