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Philip Michael Thomas’ 3 Minute Angel Dust Freak Out
01.21.2010
11:50 am
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Posted by Tara McGinley
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01.21.2010
11:50 am
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Laurel and Hardy Face Jail Time
01.21.2010
11:36 am
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Citizen Voice says:

Carlos Laurel, 31, and Andre “Sug” Hardy, 39, of Lincoln Street, face eight charges related to cocaine trafficking. Police arrested Laurel and Hardy after they showed up at a Kingston residence and allegedly delivered 50 bags of cocaine to the unidentified occupant Tuesday at about 5:53 p.m. Police estimate street value of the cocaine was $2,500.

Hardy, who is on federal parole for previous cocaine distribution charges, also had 10 bags of marijuana hidden in his waistband, cash and a cell phone. Laurel is on Luzerne County probation until 2013 and has been previously arrested on drug-related charges, according to Luzerne County records.

(via Arbroath)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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01.21.2010
11:36 am
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Go on, do your “Martha Raye trick”
01.20.2010
11:19 pm
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Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.20.2010
11:19 pm
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Just Kids: Patti Smith & Robert Mapplethorpe
01.20.2010
07:37 pm
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Reviews for Just Kids, Patti Smith‘s musings on her early days with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe are trickling in, and, happily for this fan, they’re ranging from good to glowing.  Bookforum calls it “occasionally corny and often deeply affecting.”  Janet Maslin of The New York Times compares it, favorably, to Bob Dylan’s impressionistic take on his own budding youth, Chronicles, Volume I

And much like Dylan’s own look back, Patti Smith ends her story on a golden note: fame is looming fast, but the deaths of Mapplethorpe and, later, her husband and musical collaborator, Fred “Sonic” Smith, are still very far away.  A clip of Smith and Mapplethorpe follows below:

 
See also: Remembrances of the Punk Prose Poetess

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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01.20.2010
07:37 pm
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Larry ?
01.20.2010
07:17 pm
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Tuli Kupferberg was a mentor to all of us who grew up in the ?

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.20.2010
07:17 pm
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Covered: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali
01.20.2010
06:41 pm
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Via Covered, a blog dedicated to comic artists “covering” classic comic covers.

Posted by Jason Louv
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01.20.2010
06:41 pm
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U.S. Version of “Torchwood” on the Way
01.20.2010
06:31 pm
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Fox is developing the cult hit Dr. Who spinoff show “Torchwood” for American audiences. I bet you five bucks they will get Adam Lambert to play Captain Jack. If nobody’s thought of this yet, consider the idea my gift to the dark machinery that runs Hollywood.

Huge news for sci-fi fans: Fox is developing a stateside version of the U.K. hit series ?

Posted by Jason Louv
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01.20.2010
06:31 pm
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Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kupferberg
01.20.2010
06:09 pm
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Dangerous Minds pal Michael Simmons sends word of a concert in New York this weekend to benefit Tuli Kupferberg, patron saint of bohemian New York and one of The Fugs, history’s first punk band. In his way Mr. K has challenged the world, but Michael tells it much better than I can:

The Fugs were founded by poets Tuli Kupferberg, Ed Sanders, and Ken Weaver in 1965 as a logical marriage of the three Bs—Beat (poetry), (the) Beatles, and (Lenny) Bruce. Born in 1923, Tuli billed himself as “the world’s oldest rock star” at the advanced age of 42. He’d already published Beat zines Birth and Yeah, was noted by Mailer and Allen Ginsberg for outsider behavior including the levitation of the Pentagon, and beloved by we younger hippies for his unshakeable bohemianism as captured in his rooftop striptease. (It’s interesting how repressed America was back then while now everyone gets naked on the Internet. There was a time when disrobing publicly was a political act.) Tuli wrote many of the Fugs’ biggest non-hits: “I Feel Like Homemade Shit,” “Nothing” (“Monday nothing/Tuesday nothing/Wednesday Thursday nothing”), the aching ballad “Morning Morning” (beautifully covered by Richie Havens), “CIA Man” (recently heard in the Coen Brothers Burn After Reading), and “Kill For Peace,” the greatest anti-war song of all time. The latter captured Tuli’s outrageous wit in the service of his dead serious anarcho-pacifistic loathing of war and violence.

Thr Fugs broke up in 1969 and reformed in Orwell and Reagan’s 1984. They’ve continued to record and perform live, rail against the ruthless and selfish, and sing to the heavens in support of peace, fun, sharing, and love. If none of the latter four attributes have been abundant for the last 30 years, one cannot blame the Fugs. O how they’ve tried. For those who trot out the tired clich?ɬ

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.20.2010
06:09 pm
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6 Shocking Discoveries About Scott Brown
01.20.2010
04:04 pm
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While the fallout from yesterday’s Senate race in Massachusetts sends Democrats scrambling to save health care, here’s the Daily Kos’ Laura Clawson with 6 Shocking Discoveries about yesterday’s victor, Scott Brown (beyond his above posing for Playgirl in ‘82):

The campaign against Scott Brown has effectively been 10 days long.  Ten days is not a long time, but in that time we’ve learned a lot about Brown.

1. Scott Brown suggested on television that President Obama was born out of wedlock, then tried to claim that Martha Coakley was making things up when her campaign called attention to it.

2. Scott Brown voted against aid to 9/11 recovery workers because it was too expensive, while at the same time he was trying to fund a golf course in his district and give tax subsidies to corporations.

3. Scott Brown tried to deny emergency contraception to rape victims.  When he was called on it, he tried to deny the truth, then hid behind his daughters.

4. Scott Brown claimed he didn’t know anything about any Tea Parties, even though he’d appeared at their rallies and publicized fundraisers they threw for him.

5. Scott Brown opposes a fee to get back bailout money from the biggest banks.

6. Scott Brown supports a constitutional ban on gay marriage and thinks two women raising a child is “just not normal.”

That’s a lot to take in in 10 days. Imagine if there had been a longer campaign in which these stories emerged more gradually so voters had time to absorb them fully.  Now imagine what else we’ll know about Scott Brown in 10 more days.

President Obama’s thoughts on passing health care in relation to Senator-elect Brown:

 
See also: Dazed Dems Rethink Entire Strategy

(via Alternet)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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01.20.2010
04:04 pm
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Charting the Beatles
01.20.2010
11:26 am
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Exploration of Beatles music through infographics:

These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording sesion notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings. Join this project here.

Charting the Beatles
 
(via J-Walk Blog)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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01.20.2010
11:26 am
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