LARRY CRAIG’S BACKDOOR: Wonkette Friend Recalls Sneakin’ In With The Senator It was late in the Spring of 1987, and Phillips was a graduate student at George Mason University. “One of my favorite hangouts was The Follies,” Phillips explains, referring to the notorious and now-closed go-go boy bar La Cage aux Follies on Capitol Hill. “There were so many closeted neocons who trolled for cock and ass there, particularly cock and ass on younger men: Terry Dolan, Jon Hinson, and a bunch of other men who seemed to run in a close and secretive group. I had sex with some […]
OiNK TAKEDOWN: The Shit Hits The Fans
SHERIFF’S SALE: OiNK, a massive P2P file-sharing site with a reported membership of 180,000, was shutdown by Interpol on Tuesday. This ominous placeholder now greets visitors. Closed internet communities known as “ripping groups” often get demos, early mixes of commercial releases and promotional copies of pre-release albums in advance of release with a view to distributing the music as widely and as far ahead of release as possible. Each ripping group gains cachet amongst its peers for being the first to get new music and uses torrent sites to distribute the music as widely as possible. OiNK operated an exclusive […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR In The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea, veteran journalist Steve LeVine writes about the high-stakes political gamesmanship over control of the rich oil resources in that region. Caspian deposits “earned an early, almost mythic reputation,” he reports. “Marco Polo’s was perhaps the first written account. He reported a gusher that in a single hour produced ‘a quantity of oil sufficient to load up one hundred vessels.’” In modern times, the region’s rich petroleum reserves have been the object of schemes involving generations of Western industrialists, the governments of emerging […]
RIGHT BRAIN/LEFT BRAIN: Can’t We All Get Along?
The Right Brain vs Left Brain test: Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it. [via DAILY TELEGRAPH]
PAPERBOY: ‘When Milton Attacks!’ Edition
BY AMY Z. QUINN We know how it is: so many words to read, so little time to surf for free porn. That’s why every week, PAPERBOY does your alt-weekly reading for you, freeing up valuable nanoseconds that can now be better spent ‘roughing up the suspect’ over at Suicide Girls or what have you. Every week we pore over those time-consuming cover stories and give you the takeaway, suss out the cover art, warn you off the ink-wasters and steer you towards the gooey caramel center of each edition. Why? Because we like you. ON THE COVER CITY PAPER: […]
JUNK SCIENCE: You Can Get It On TV Now!
The Silent March — Gun Violence in America, a BiG TeA PaRtY video written and hosted by Elizabeth Fiend, was filmed at the protests that erupted during the National Republican Convention in Philadelphia in 2000.
MAILBAG: Throw Another Shrimp On The Barbie!
Dear Jeff Deeney, I’ve only one question to ask: “How did you know she was a Methadone patient?” (Perhaps she was drunk, under the effects of benzos or maybe suffering a neurological condition.) Regards, Toni Gear Australia
HEAR YE: I’m Not There Soundtrack
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WORTH REPEATING: It’s A Raymond Chandler Evening
“There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands’ necks. Anything can happen.” — Raymond Chandler, ‘The Red Wind’ * LA TIMES: Porno For Pyros NEW YORK TIMES: One Million Evacuated + Half Million Acres Burned=Heckuva A Job HUFFINGTON POST: In a June report, the GAO report […]
BOYS GO TO BAGHDAD, REAL MEN GO TO TEHRAN: White House Orders Super Bunker Buster Bombs
Tucked inside the White House’s $196 billion emergency funding request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is an item that has some people wondering whether the administration is preparing for military action against Iran. The item: $88 million to modify B-2 stealth bombers so they can carry a newly developed 30,000-pound bomb called the massive ordnance penetrator, or, in military-speak, the MOP. The MOP is the the military’s largest conventional bomb, a super “bunker-buster” capable of destroying hardened targets deep underground. The one-line explanation for the request said it is in response to “an urgent operational need from theater […]
VIET NOW: The Eyes Of Condoleezza Rice
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — The State Department official responsible for overseeing Blackwater USA and other private security contractors in Iraq resigned abruptly today. Richard J. Griffin, who has been the director of the department’s diplomatic security bureau since June 2005, faced stiff criticism from Congress over his handling of a Sept. 16 shooting episode involving Blackwater that left 17 Iraqis dead and other acts of violence by the State Department’s security guards. A special panel appointed to investigate the handling of diplomatic security in Iraq found a glaring lack of oversight and accountability that was hindering the American diplomatic and […]
TODAY I SAW…
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW two young black girls walking on 52nd by Kershaw Street, just south of Master. One girl had her hair cropped so close it was nearly shaven, and she had no bra on under her skintight turquoise top. The other girl had braids and was a little thick; her shape pushed out from under the edges of her similarly form-fitting chocolate colored outfit. They crossed 52nd Street in the middle of the block, and as they walked out into traffic they entwined hands, not caring who knew that they were lovers. The short-haired girl was […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR By the end of The 40 Year Old Virgin, the title character had lost his virginity — and actor Steve Carell had become a star. The actor, who was a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show for several years, has gone on to films including Little Miss Sunshine and Evan Almighty, and next summer he’ll star as hapless secret agent Maxwell Smart in a Hollywood adaptation of the vintage TV series Get Smart. And of course he’s got a central role on NBC’s The Office. Now Carell is starring in Dan in Real Life, a big-screen comedy about […]