05w51:1 Everything, or Throwing the Backlog on the Winter's Fire, or Xmastravaganza Posted December 24th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 51 number 1 (everything, or throwing the backlog on the winter’s fire, or the xmastravaganza) ——————————————————————— But first the news…. “Welcome to Ohio! Ihre Papiere, bitte!” | Metafilter http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/47812 “Governor Taft of Ohio is about to sign Senate Bill 9, the Ohio Patriot Act. Among its provisions: * Police can deny entry to “transportation infrastructure” to anyone not showing an ID; * Police can demand the name, address, and date of birth of anyone suspected of having committed a crime or being about to commit a crime, or having witnessed a crime or a plan to commit a crime. Failure to provide this information is an arrestable offense — so basically all demonstrators could be required to give their names, addresses and dates of birth or face arrest; * Reminiscent of Joe McCarthy’s famous question, many state licenses will begin with the question “Are you a member of an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List?”. Failure to answer means no license; answering affirmatively is self-incrimination. * Perhaps worst of all, the original version of the bill simply prohibited state or local governemnts or government employees from objecting to the USA PATRIOT act. The current version allows criticism, but threatens local government with the loss of funds if they in any way “materially hinder” Federal anti-terrorism efforts. “Welcome to Ohio! Ihre Papiere, bitte!” is from Metafilter, and included this comment: “The men who founded this nation were brave and forward thinking, the United States formed as the most modern and enlightened government in history. And now, through the spoiled tricksters in power, it is being dismantled while the citizens are at home watching another sitcom, laughing, laughing, laughing. […] Oh, and f*ck Jesus and every moron who voted for Republicans because they promised to stop homosexuals from getting married.” Yeah, f*ck ’em. But it is Jesus’ birthday and all, supposedly. But maybe Jesus was a bastard. Maybe he was born in the summer. Ah well, at least it’s time off work, and we get to eat well. Where is Santa Claus? | Timothy Comeau http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/commentary/2005/12/where-is-santa-claus.html from 1990 when I was in Grade 10 Sata Claus | Timothy Comeau http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/commentary/2004/12/sata-claus.html Santa loves logs Santa is Satan right? http://www.blowthetrumpet.org/TheGreatDeceptionVideo.htm at first I thought this was satire than checked out the rest of the site and saw that it’s a looney Christian one and so the video I guess is supposed to be serious.Thanks to Rany (whoever you are) for the link. Merry Religious Assimiliation Day | OmniNerd http://www.omninerd.com/2005/12/22/news/455 “The first recorded Christmas on December 25th took place in the 4th century, a date coinciding with the birthdate of Mithras, the Persian sun god. Pope Julius I is rumored to have adjusted Jesus’ birthday to match Mithras’ because the church was unable to stop the pagan celebrations and thereby could associate their festivities in Jesus’ name. Other traditions owe their roots to non-Christian origin. Evergreen trees were revered by Druids for good luck and fertility because they withstood the hardships of winter. The tree became a religious symbol of everlasting life and was decorated to symbolize the sun’s power.” The Earthly Father: What if Mary wasn’t a virgin? | Chloe Breyer http://www.slate.com/id/2132639/nav/tap1/ “Should Schaberg and other scholars who question the virgin birth be hurled into the outer darkness? The problem with dismissing them, as the fourth-century church authorities dismissed their forerunners, begins with Scripture. The biblical sources for the virgin conception are a few short passages in two of the four Gospels. In Matthew, an angel appears to Joseph, who is perplexed about his fiancee’s pregnancy. Should he divorce Mary or have her stoned her to death, as the law of Deuteronomy requires? “Joseph, Son of David,” says the angel, “Do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus.” The angel then goes on to quote the Hebrew prophet Isaiah. “Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel.” (In fact, “virgin” comes from Matthew’s use of a Greek mistranslation; the Hebrew in Isaiah reads “young girl.”) The version in Luke is similar.” Mary’s Not a Virgin | The Current speaks to Jane Schaberg http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/media/200512/20051222thecurrent_sec1.ram Mary’s wasn’t a virgin, she was just unfaithful I guess Eluding Happiness: A Buddhist problem with Christmas. | Jess Row http://www.slate.com/id/2132724/?nav=tap3 Oh, but now Buddhism’s in the picture. Which is interesting because…. Scientists to check Nepal Buddha boy | Navin Singh Khadka http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4479240.stm Introduction to Meditation | Gil Fronsdal http://www.audiodharma.org/talks-intromed.html …which reminds me of the Buddhist joke I once heard which I never really understood. I guess that means I’m stupid. But whatever. It went: ‘what did the Buddhist say to the hot-dog vendor? — I’ll have one with everything.’ so, on to everything…. Blink and The Wisdom of Crowds | James Surowiecki & Malcolm Gladwell http://www.slate.com/id/2111894/entry/2112064/ Preacher of the profane | Daniel Binswanger http://www.signandsight.com/features/399.html Ad glut turns off viewers | Gary Levin http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2005-10-11-ad-glut_x.htm Are you there God? It’s me Margaret | Mathew Fox interviews Margaret Atwood http://maisonneuve.org/index.php?page_id=12&article_id=415 Move Toward Plain Language in Canadian Court Decisions | Michel-Adrien Sheppard http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2005/11/move-toward-plain-language-in-canadian.html The Plain Language Association INternational http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/ Artblog.net: Vincent Van Gogh, the drawings | Franklin Einspruch http://artblog.net/publications/2005/12/van_gogh/ Art in Newfoundland | Craig Francis Power http://artinnl.blogspot.com/ nobody writes me letters anymore. boohoohoo this was awesome: Optics in Renaissance Art | Charles M. Falco http://realserver.princeton.edu:8080/ramgen/lectures/20020507falcoTV7300K.rm (link to realmedia presentation, or go here: Lectures at Princeton page) and this was really good…: Urban Planning | The Current speaks to Fred Kent http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/media/200510/20051024thecurrent_sec3.ram Fred Kent complained about Frank Gehry’s work and that of similar architects, which in Toronto, means he’s talking about our reno-projects…. he refered to it as ‘starkichecture’ and spoke of design being a disease. Monuments to ego (*cough* Liebskind) maybe, but as public spaces, they leave much to be desired. Personally I can see an historical connection to architecture and fascism, but who cares what I think. Some pigs are more equal than others | Timothy Comeau http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/commentary/2005/10/some-pigs-are-more-equal-than-others.html Not Special | Timothy Comeau http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/commentary/2005/12/not-special.html Let’s have a culture of six pack minds baby. Because then the world might be a better place. In the meantime there’s Muhammad Yunus. Muhammad Yunus is one of the most inspiring individuals I’ve ever come across in the media-scape. A highly recommended video presentation…. Ending Global Poverty | Muhammad Yunus http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/289/ “ABOUT THE LECTURE: Imagine a bank that loans money based on a borrower’s desperate circumstances — where, as Muhammad Yunus says, ‘the less you have, the higher priority you have.’ Turning banking convention on its head has accomplished a world of good for millions of impoverished Bangladeshis, as the pioneering economist Yunus has demonstrated in the last three decades. What began as a modest academic experiment has become a personal crusade to end poverty. Yunus reminds us that for two-thirds of the world’s population, ‘financial institutions do not exist.’ Yet, ‘we’ve created a world which goes around with money. If you don’t have the first dollar, you can’t catch the next dollar.’ It was Yunus’ notion, in the face of harsh skepticism, to give the poorest of the poor their first dollar so they could become self-supporting. ‘We’re not talking about people who don’t know what to do with their lives….They’re as good, enterprising, as smart as anybody else.’ His Grameen Bank spread from village to village as a lender of tiny amounts of money (microcredit), primarily to women. Yunus heard that “all women can do is raise chickens, or cows or make baskets. I said, ‘Don’t underestimate the talent of human beings.'” No collateral is required, nor paperwork—just an effort to make good and pay back the loan. Now the bank boasts 5 million borrowers, receiving half a billion dollars a year. It has branched out into student loans, health care coverage, and into other countries. Grameen has even created a mobile phone company to bring cell phones to Bangladeshi villages. Yunus envisions microcredit building a society where even poor people can open ‘the gift they have inside of them.'” I’ve linked to things relating to Bonnie Basseler’s work before. Here is a video presentation from Printceton. I’ve linked to the real audio version, but there are others available from the source website here: Lectures at Princeton page How Bacteria Talk to One Another | Bonnie Basseler speaking at Princeton (video) http://realserver.princeton.edu:8080/ramgen/lectures/20051017basslerTAPE56K.rm Merry Christmas everybody. -Mr. Timothy —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Saturday 24 December 2005 @ 5:24 PM
05w35:2 Audio and Video Posted September 3rd, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 35 number 2 (audio and video) ——————————————————————— CNN Weatherman | CNN http://retrospection.net/videofiles/hurricanekat.php “‘But Chad … Chad … Chad … translate that for us, I don’t understand!'”From: Mon 30 August 2005 4:30am EST Interview with Mayor Ray Nagin | WWL-AM http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com/audio/ray_nagin_20050901.mp3 “‘Put a moratorium on press conferences …. don’t tell me 40,000 people are coming here! They’re not here! It’s too dogone late. Now get off your asses and let’s do something, and let’s fix the biggest godamn crisis in the history of this country!'”From: Thursday 1 September 2005, 14:05min The Kanye West Quote | Kanye West http://media.putfile.com/Kanye79 “‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people…'”From: Friday 2 September 2005 —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Saturday 03 September 2005 @ 9:15 PM
05w07:2 Video Valentines Posted February 16th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 7 number 2 (video valentines) Dear 640480,I love you PS: I’m only late with this because I was out of Instant Coffee until today. Timothy ——————————————————————— 3rd Annual Video Valentine | 640480 Collective http://www.640480.com/valentine/main.html 13 Quicktime Movs —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Wednesday 16 February 2005 @ 8:31 PM
04w51:3 Patriotic Propaganda Posted December 17th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 51 number 3 (patriotic propaganda) Thank you Hollywood for teaching the world how to make patriotic propaganda videos. The war is more fun with internet. I found out about this via Metafilter where these comments to this link were posted: Not to sound like I hate freedom(tm), but I love how much more well-reasoned this sounds than American propaganda. posted by borkingchikapa at 10:16 AM PST on December 15 A new era of Adobe Premiere Propaganda? This is pretty fascinating. Instead of having leaflets dropped on my head and watching state TV, I am choosing to watch propaganda to satisfy my curiosity, and it’s so easy to do. I imagine there’s probably around four Kevin-Bacon links between the author, the journalist and me. Yay internet. That being said, the video’s pretty standard stuff. It makes a good contrast with the scared-rat untranslated blurry badly lit masked man type videos the individual groups have been putting out so far. About time they hired a ‘marketing board’. posted by anthill at 10:29 AM PST on December 15 I agree, with you both. It’s reasoned, rational and contrasts strongly to some of the recent comments I have heard from US army commanders: Fallujah being a “Nest of Vipers” etc. It is a bit surreal hearing a Midlands accent in those circumstances… and it would be very easy to string together using stock footage without every having been near Iraq… …must watch what I say before Homeland Security starts following people home from the Mosque in Wolverhampton. posted by fingerbang at 10:30 AM PST on December 15 ——————————————————————— A Message From The Iraq Resistance | The Iraqi Resistance http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7468.htm “And to George W. Bush, we say, ‘You have asked us to ‘Bring it on’’, and so have we. Like never expected. Have you another challenge?'” Windows Media File —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Friday 17 December 2004 @ 12:45 PM
04w50:1 Frank Zappa on Crossfire Posted December 10th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 50 number 1 (Frank Zappa on Crossfire) A trip back to 1986 revisiting the censorship debates of the time. I have a feeling this video has recently been posted on iFilm because Zappa at one point says that the country is heading toward a fascistic theocracy. This debate on limiting freedom of speech itself validates freedom of speech, because Zappa is so reasonable and the other guest(John Lofton) makes an ass of himself, which is more devasting in my mind to just having him shut up. And who is John Lofton? Info on him is here, http://www.hisglory.us/articles/lofton_bio.htm where you’ll find this, which pretty much explains everything: “And he never went to college which is why he is so smart.” – Timothy ——————————————————————— Frank Zappa on Crossfire | iFilm http://www.ifilm.com/viralvideo?ifilmid=2658805 Real Media stream, 21.18 min —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Friday 10 December 2004 @ 6:12 PM
04w43:2 The Sequel Posted October 20th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 43 number 2 (the sequel) Remember “Fuck New York”? Here’s the sequel. Thanks to Irina Slutsky for letting me know, and hiphopmusic.com for posting the link.- Timothy ——————————————————————— Sweetliving | in8.com http://in8.com/sweetliving/Resources/sweetliving.mov Quicktime MOV 9.1 MB —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Wednesday 20 October 2004 @ 9:54 PM
04w41:2 Oh those Images That Play Across The Screen Posted October 7th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 41 number 2 (oh those images that play across the screen) ——————————————————————— Why Did James Baker Turn Bush Into Nixon? | Frank Rich http://tinyurl.com/68nrs “‘We’ve never seen anything like this, even the old Kennedy-Nixon classic great debate,’ said a breathless Chris Matthews on the ‘Today’ show as he touted a poll showing that John Kerry had won presidential debate No. 1 by as much as a 4-to-1 margin. But actually we have seen something like this – and at that first Kennedy-Nixon debate. The polls may have gyrated more violently this time around, but the scenario is identical: a campaign’s seemingly mundane decision about television theatrics has potentially changed the dynamic of a presidential election.” Confessional Cinema | David Edelstein http://slate.msn.com/id/2107903/ “Jonathan Caouette’s Tarnation (Wellspring) is a memoir composed on film – —composed, you might say, over a 20-year span and then rubbed and buffed on a Macintosh computer with the program iMovie. My press kit heralds it as a revolution in the ‘audio-visual confessional’ – —which gives me, as a film critic, the heebie-jeebies. I mean, that’s all we need: more exhibitionists with ready access to cameras and editing software. […] But a masterpiece it is, of a mind-bending modern sort: This story of a 31-year-old man and his mentally-ill mother is right on the border between what shrinks call immature ‘acting out’ and mature artistic sublimation. ” —————————————- Long links made short by using TinyURL (http://www.tinyurl.com) To remove or add yourself to this list, go here http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com emailed by Timothy on Thursday 07 October 2004 @ 11:01 PM
04w38:4 Yo Rummy! Posted September 16th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 38 number 4 (yo rummy!) The Fuck New York video which I sent a link to in 0435:1 is one of the most brilliant things I’ve seen all summer and easily will make this year’s top ten list. Since it’s that good I’m obviously not the only one out there who thinks so. Hiphopmusic.com reporter Irina Slutsky got an interview with the filmmakers, the link to which is posted below. – Timothy ——————————————————————— The Guys Behind The “F*** New York” Video | Irina Slutsky http://www.hiphopmusic.com/archives/000651.html “If we saw one more poster with a fist on it, in stark black/white contrast, telling me to go fight whatever, I was gonna puke. We feel like protesting needs to be fun and have some sex appeal. We want to get younger people involved. In the 1960s, a lot of people were getting laid for protesting – not that we’re getting laid cuz of this movie – (laughs) But protesting is a way to align like minded individuals. […] These kids are punk-ass young republican prep school kids. We wanted to have a next generation of Republicans shown as the antithesis of the people we want to reach. […] Throwing in the fact that the kids are these thugged out individuals is showing that the whole Bush family is the most thugged-out crew in the world. We wanted to write it the way kids tal k on the street. ” —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Thursday 16 September 2004 @ 12:44 PM
04w38:2 Creative Bush Craziness x2 Posted September 15th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 38 number 2 (creative bush craziness x2) The thing about running a mailing list is that people hate spam. So ISP’s and servers go through all this effort to help reduce the efforts of American and African businesspeople. Which means that sometimes your messages to friends and family and people who want on your list just don’t get through. Running a list means that you also sometimes have “problems with the server” as technical people working with the machines between you and the recipient try to deal with issues surrounding spam. Not that I’m saying this is spam nor that the problems were my fault! (Goodreads does not what to be considered synonymous with faux-meat products so please take advantage of the link to unsubscribe in each message if you would rather not get these anymore). So yesterday, I had “problems with the server” and I’ve been told it’s been fixed, and which means that some of you (I think) are getting this for the first time while others are getting it twice, only this note is new. But the one below isn’t:Both these posts come via Mark Federman’s What is the Message? weblog at the U of T McLuhan Centre. – Timothy ——————————————————————— Bush vs. Jesus | Mad Magazine http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.html What if W was runnin’ against his homeboy in the sky? George Bush sings ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ | rx http://www.audiostreet.net/artists/006/407/song_sunday_bloody_sunday.html the ironic joys of sampling —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Wednesday 15 September 2004 @ 11:35 PM
04w38:2 Creative Bush Craziness Posted September 15th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 38 number 2 (creative bush craziness) Both these posts come via Mark Federman’s What is the Message? weblog at the U of T McLuhan Centre. – Timothy ——————————————————————— Bush vs. Jesus | Mad Magazine http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.html What if W was runnin’ against his homeboy in the sky? George Bush sings ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ | rx http://www.audiostreet.net/artists/006/407/song_sunday_bloody_sunday.html the ironic joys of sampling —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Wednesday 15 September 2004 @ 1:44 AM
