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Karl Rove gets mic-checked, loses his shit: ‘Who gave you the right to Occupy America?’


 
Let me jog your memory Karl: That would be the framers of the Constitution. It’s their birthright as Americans, fuckwit!

Hilarious. Last night at Johns Hopkins University, the man who history will ruefully recall as “Bush’s Brain,” Fox News commentator Karl Rove, got the business from Occupy Baltimore. He didn’t handle it too well…

Via Think Progress:

“Karl Rove is the architect of Occupy Iraq, the architect of Occupy Afghanistan!” yelled the demonstrators. Occupy Baltimore had infiltrated the crowd and began chanting against Rove. “Who gave you the right to occupy America?” asked Rove to the protesters, apparently unaware of the Bill of Rights. As they repeated their slogan, “We are the 99 percent!” Rove petulantly responded, “No you’re not!” He snidely added, “You wanna keep jumping up and yelling that you’re the 99 percent? How presumptuous and arrogant can you be?”

Johns Hopkins spokeswoman Tracey Reeves told the media that around 15 people, none of them students, were asked to leave and that some were forcibly removed by campus security. No one was arrested.

If you don’t want to listen to this lying turd’s lips flapping, you can scroll right to the 1:48 mark when the fun begins! As astonishing as it may sound, Karl Rove, one of the chief architects of the invasion of Iraq—not to mention much of what’s wrong with this country—seems to think he’s got a leg to stand on when lecturing people on “moral cowardice”! Incredible.

WHY should people be expected to be polite to a class warrior/war criminal like Karl Rove? He was the troll under the bridge of the Bush administration and now he’s getting paid as a propagandist on Fox News. HE deserves respect and politeness? He deserves to be dropped in the middle of the streets of Baghdad in the nude is what the fuck he deserves!

Get used to the rest of your life, doughboy. This isn’t going away. And even if your side wins a few battles along the way, our side is still going to win in the end.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.16.2011
03:06 pm
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Jean-Jacques Perrey returns to ‘I’ve Got A Secret’ with Gershon Kingsley, 1966
11.15.2011
10:44 pm
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As a follow up to yesterday’s post of Jean-Jacques Perrey demonstrating the Ondioline on I’ve Got a Secret in 1960, here’s another of the great man in action on the same show - and it’s even better.

Perrey returned to the quiz show six years after his original appearance, and his secret was exactly the same. Only this time he was given more of a chance to display the range of the Ondioline by comparing its voices to that of the real life corresponding instruments. The panel also take longer to discover the secret, and Perrey takes some pleasure in making them guess.This footage is great, but the real treat here comes in the last three minutes, when Perrey is joined onstage by his musical partner Gershon Kingsley to perform the song “Spooks in Space” from their classic electronic pop album The In Sound From Way Out! (available on the compilation The Out Sound From Way In!). It’s a spirited, joyous performance of music that still sounds unique today, and is guaranteed to bring a smile to even the hardest of faces.

I was lucky enough to see Jean-Jacques Perrey perform in 2005 at the ripe old age of 76, and he was just as jolly (if slightly unhinged) as he appears on this show, like a slightly manic but beloved uncle who used a stuffed lion toy to help communicate. Way out, perhaps, but Perrey has been responsible for bringing early electronica to a large audience, while simultaneously stripping the music of its austere trappings. This clip is a great example of how he did it - when Perrey & Kingsley perform the fun is infectious:
 

Posted by Niall O'Conghaile
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11.15.2011
10:44 pm
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Britta’d up: Is NBC putting ‘Community’ on ice?
11.14.2011
11:01 pm
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Sorry to be the bearer of such fucked up tidings here, but according to Deadline Hollywood, the powers that be at NBC have decidedly “britta’d” up their programming schedule by benching Dan Harmon’s mega-genius meta-sitcom Community mid-season. Ouch! This is a sad day indeed for smart comedy on American television. The word has barely leaked out, but it’s already turning into a cause célèbre on Twitter. (Nearly 900 new tweets appeared in the time it’s taken me to HTML this post).

Things haven’t been this bleak and hangdog around Casa Metzger since the day that shithead BBC3 controller cancelled Ideal. What idiocy! Both Friends and Seinfeld took a while to catch on. Dogshit like Whitney is still on and Community is on the ropes? Isn’t America a meritocracy anymore? Fans love the shit out of Community. This is a super short-sighted move on NBC’s part. There needs to be a “Save Community” petition or a recall election of NBC brass or something.

Something drastic. Like kidnapping? You can complain to NBC here.

Or maybe FX will just step in and grab it. Here’s hoping.

UPDATE: The Hollywood Reporter says Community is not being cancelled. But what are the odds of it sticking around if it’s not even being put back on the schedule?
 

 
Via The Daily What

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.14.2011
11:01 pm
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Jean-Jacques Perrey plays the Ondioline on ‘I’ve Got A Secret’ quiz show, 1960
11.14.2011
09:03 pm
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On this now more than half a century old clip, the pioneering French musician Jean-Jacques Perrey demonstrates the early synthesiser the Ondioline as part of a quiz show called I’ve Got A Secret. The year is 1960 and electronic instruments (in particular synthesisers) are still fascinatingly new. The point of the show, as the name would suggest, is for guests to reveal a secret to the host and audience and then make the panel of judges guess what their secret is. And I gave away Perrey’s secret in the first sentence of this paragraph. Oops.

Not to worry - the panel guess almost instantly what Jean-Jacques’ “secret” is:
 

 
Perrey then goes on to demonstrate the Ondioline to the genuinely awed people in the studio. What is perhaps more awe-inspiring for the modern audience is the host Gary Moore nonchalantly smoking a cigarette:
 

 
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Happy birthday Jean-Jacques Perrey!
Jean-Jacques Perrey is Mr Ondioline (1960)

Posted by Niall O'Conghaile
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11.14.2011
09:03 pm
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Bob Dylan: ‘The Times They Are A-Changing’, Live in Toronto 1964
11.13.2011
06:58 pm
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In January 1964, Bob Dylan released his classic third album The Times They Are A Changin’. As part of the promotion for the record, Dylan was offered a half-hour slot on Canadian TV’s arts series Quest. The loose form of the show suited Dylan and allowed him to showcase 3 tracks from his new record and 3 from previous album, Freewheelin Bob Dylan.

“The Times They Are A-Changin’”
“Talkin’ World War III Blues”
“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
“Girl from the North Country”
“A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall”
“Restless Farewell”

It was momentous piece of television, one that firmly established Dylan as “the voice of his generation”, as he sang his most radical folk songs, which, in light of Occupy Wall Street, are still as relevant and as important today.
 

 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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11.13.2011
06:58 pm
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Mr. T’s Fashion Show
11.11.2011
01:53 pm
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Mr. T, the Black Betsey Johnson, presents the latest in 80s fashions.

Check out model “Kelly.” Looks like an outtake from Billy Squire’s career killing Rock Me Tonite video

“Thank you Xena and Zena.”
 

 
Squire’s “Rock Me Tonite” video after the jump…

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Posted by Marc Campbell
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11.11.2011
01:53 pm
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Rolling Stones 1964 TV commercial for Rice Krispies
11.10.2011
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The Rolling Stones’ Rice Krispies jingle written by Brian Jones. The commercial had a short run on British TV in 1964.

Stones in Chuck Berry mode and it actually rocks for a jingle. Snappy!
 

 
Via Open Culture

Posted by Marc Campbell
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11.10.2011
05:13 pm
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Dark Shadows comic book covers (1968-1976)
11.10.2011
03:01 pm
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The Monster Brains blog recently posted some delightful high-resolution scans of Dark Shadows comic book covers based on the 60s gothic soap opera.  I really like the top one from 1970.

Visit Monster Brains to view the rest of the collection.


 
One more choice selection after the jump…

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Posted by Tara McGinley
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11.10.2011
03:01 pm
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Ops ‘n Pops and The Seeds: Cool clips from teen dance show ‘Shebang!’ 1967
11.09.2011
11:16 pm
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These two clips from 1967 episodes of teen dance show Shebang!, hosted by Casey Kasem, are candy-colored time capsules featuring some ultra-cool Sixties artifacts, an era when even writing utensils were on acid.

Ops n’ Pops psychedelic ballpoint pens, a Vox amp,Super Meteor guitar, Radiocorder and Honda mopeds!

Kasem talks to proto-hipster/radio deejay Dick Moreland about his trip to the Monterey Pop Festival.

Good times.
 

 
The Shebang! Dancers get their groove on to The Seeds’ “A Thousand Shadows.”

Posted by Marc Campbell
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11.09.2011
11:16 pm
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Cosmic Clock: The passing of time visualized
11.09.2011
03:28 pm
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In this clip from the “Earth is Change” episode of the great PBS kids science series, 3-2-1 Contact, at just before the five minute mark, you can see Al Jarnow’s profound—and somewhat haunting—“Cosmic Clock” animation.

Jarnow also did animations for Sesame Street and The Electric Company. A DVD of Jarnow’s complete short films made for PBS and The Children’s Television Workshop, as well as his experimental animation work, is available through the Numero Group.
 

 
(via Kottke)

Posted by Richard Metzger
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11.09.2011
03:28 pm
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