[Hat tip to Scot Danzter]
TODAY I SAW…
BY JEFF DEENEY TODAY I SAW a powder blue-and-white pickup truck pull up to the curb across from where I stood, mid-block on a side street near 29th and Dauphin in Strawberry Mansion. The truck’s cab was piled with scrap metal and appliance parts, precariously held in place by a single length of corded yellow rope. I had been standing around, waiting for someone and making small talk with a neighbor for a minute before the truck stopped and parked. The house over my left shoulder was boarded up and abandoned. The house directly behind me had a storm door […]
THE UNSETTLING TRUTH ABOUT LIFE
The teachings of Alan Watts, with animation by the South Park dudes.
THE TAO OF MITT: Suffer The Children
ASSOCIATED PRESS: His shot at the Republican presidential nomination in jeopardy, Mitt Romney will begin running a TV ad against Iowa front-runner Mike Huckabee on illegal immigration starting Tuesday while weighing how much negative campaigning he can add to the methodical plan he’s followed all year. The ad says the former governors have a lot in common — but not on illegal immigration, an important issue in Iowa, which will lead off nomination voting with its caucuses on Jan. 3.“Mitt Romney stood up, and vetoed in-state tuition for illegal aliens, opposed driver’s licenses for illegals,” the ad says. “Mike Huckabee? […]
5 Things U Should Know About Fiery Furnaces Last Nite
ELEANOR DIG ME: Fiery Furnaces singer Eleanor Frieberger, First Unitarian, Opener MGMT continued their streak of great opening sets in Philadelphia, playing as well with the Fiery Furnaces as they did with Of Montreal in October. Though their live show may be a bit low key for some, it was far from boring, and the guitarists had some of the best veins-that-pop-out-of-arm-while-playing in recent memory. Surprisingly, the Fiery Furnaces’ disjointed, wandering, and largely epic style of songwriting translated very well to the stage. Singer Eleanor Friedberger wove yarn after yarn in a set comprised of songs mostly from their latest […]
KBR/HALLIBURTON: Gang Rape Inc.?
ABC NEWS: In the lawsuit, Jamie Leigh Jones also says, after the gang rape, she was held in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door. It was only after, Jones says, she convinced a sympathetic guard to loan her a cell phone that she could reach her father, who then called his congressman, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, to help get his daughter out of Baghdad to safety. RELATED:
Q&A: Armed America Photographer Kyle Cassidy
Dan and his Mossberg Model 88, Bushmaster AR-15, Rock Island Armory / Sendra M16, Remington 700 PSS, Springfield XD, FN Five-seveN, H&K USP, Sig Sauer P226, Colt Commander 1911, and Glock 22 by KYLE CASSIDY Kyle Cassidy has been a freelance writer and photographer since 1999. His photographs have been published in the New York Times, Barron’s Financial, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He writes frequently about technology and has been an outspoken voice in the area of practical modern photographic theory. Largely known for his fashion and portrait photography, he became interested in photographing gun owners during the 2004 Presidential […]
5 Things You Should Know About Neil Young Last Night
RUST NEVER SLEEPS: Neil Young, Tower Theater, Last Night 1. It takes a lot of dead dinosaurs fossil fuel to bring Neil’s folksy brand of crunchy laidback-ness to a theater near you, just so he can deliver in person that iconic line in that iconic song — “Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 21st Century” — like that old Indian chief in the commercial standing in the white man’s trash with a tear running down his cheek. And the audience can break into spontaneous cheers and applause, as was the case Sunday night at the Tower. By […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR After former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes reported on the fall of the Taliban in 2001, she decided to stay in Afghanistan as the country was being rebuilt. In 2005, she established the Arghand Cooperative, a business that sells local products for use in perfumes, soaps and food. The author of The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban, Chayes wrote about her experiences starting the cooperative and selling beauty products in December’s Atlantic Monthly. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 (Rebroadcast tonight at 11) Director JASON REITMAN and screenwriter DIABLO CODY join Marty to talk about their new film […]
BOSS OF ENGLAND: Merry Xmas! War Is Over!
It must be true, that’s what the Prime Minister of England told the troops in Basra, like, yesterday: [British Prime Minister] GORDON Brown yesterday delivered a stirring festive message to Our Boys in Iraq: “Happy Christmas – war is over.” The PM was cheered as he praised UK troops and revealed combat operations in Basra will end “within two weeks”. Iraqi forces will take over as the 4,500-strong British force switches from front-line duties to a training role. By early next year, our contingent in Southern Iraq will be cut to 2,500 – and may be withdrawn completely in March. […]