05w06:1 The Good Reader in the White House Posted February 8th, 2005 by timothy. 0 Comments ood Reads Mailing List | 2005 week 6 number 1 (the good reader in the White House) Of George W. Bush, we may often think of this quote of Mark Twain: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” And yet, apparently Bush does read. Although a few years ago he told reporters that his favorite book was a children’s story, and while he is now historically associated with My Pet Goat an enthralling tale which he couldn’t drag himself away from that Tuesday morning, lately he’s found new books other than the Bible to proselytize about. – Timothy ——————————————————————— The odd couple | The Economist http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3623386 “Yet for the past few months this paragon of good ol’ boy common sense has been infatuated with a book about an abstract noun by a Jewish intellectual. Mr Bush recommends Natan Sharansky’s ‘The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror’ (Public Affairs) to almost everyone he meets (including Condoleezza Rice, who mentioned the book during her opening remarks at her Senate confirmation hearing). Nine days after winning re-election he spent over an hour discussing the book in the White House with Mr Sharansky himself. The meeting must have sounded extraordinary, given Mr Sharansky’s thick Russian accent and Mr Bush’s Texan drawl. But by all accounts they got on famously. “ White House Letter: Why is Bush reading Tom Wolfe? Don’t ask | Elisabeth Bumiller http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/02/06/news/letter.html “What the official list omits in Tom Wolfe’s racy new beer-and-sex soaked novel, ‘I am Charlotte Simmons’. The president, a Wolfe fan, has not only read the book but is enthusiastically recommending it to friends.” —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Tuesday 08 February 2005 @ 3:00 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
04w45:1 Posted November 3rd, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 45 number 1 John Kerry has called Bush to concede defeat, meaning yes it’s true: four more years. I for one am burnt out by the past year, hope has turned to ash, enough is enough. I know most of the people on this list are lefties, so I’m going to avoid political articles for the next while. No need preaching to the choir, when most of us are Canadian to begin with and nothing we do or say matters. If a particularly good article comes along showing Bush is as guilty of war crimes as we suspect he is, then maybe I’ll post to it, but that’s not likely to happen. The voters have spoken and they’ve chosen George Bush’s vision of America.Now I figured, if Bush wins, I’ll send a link to that Guardian Article. Published on Oct 23rd, many of you have probably read it already. If you go to Guardian’s website today, looking for that article, you find: The final sentence of a column in The Guide on Saturday caused offence to some readers. The Guardian associates itself with the following statement from the writer. “Charlie Brooker apologises for any offence caused by his comments relating to President Bush in his TV column, Screen Burn. The views expressed in this column are not those of the Guardian. Although flippant and tasteless, his closing comments were intended as an ironic joke, not as a call to action – an intention he believed regular readers of his humorous column would understand. He deplores violence of any kind.” The article has now been removed from the Guardian Unlimited website. The offending sentence is: On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod’s law dictates he’ll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr – where are you now that we need you? I can’t help but agree with the first part – despite of what the Christian Evangelicals think, God in fact does not exist. – Timothy ——————————————————————— A reader’s guide to expatriating on November 3 | Bryant Urstadt http://harpers.org/ElectingToLeave.html “So the wrong candidate has won, and you want to leave the country. Let us consider your options.” —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Wednesday 03 November 2004 @ 12:03 PM
04w44:3 Redskins Lose Posted October 31st, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 44 number 3 (redskins lose) ——————————————————————— Winning Tradition | Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/election.asp “Claim: The outcome of Washington Redskins home football games has correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1936. Status: True. […] Update: On 31 October 2004, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Redskins in Washington, 28-14, which – if the established pattern holds true – predicts that Democratic challenger John Kerry will unseat incumbent President George W. Bush in the upcoming presidential election. Last updated: 31 October 2004″ —————————————-http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Sunday 31 October 2004 @ 10:44 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
04w43:1 The Jon Stewart News Explosion Posted October 9th, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 43 number 1 (The Jon Stewart News Explosion) ——————————————————————— TuckerGate: The Video | Anna Marie Cox http://www.wonkette.com/archives/tuckergate-the-video-023539.php A link to video of the Crossfire epsiode in various formats. The IndyMedia clip is complete and a Real Media file but the quality is really low. – Timothy Stewart Caught in the Crossfire | Dana Stevens http://slate.com/id/2108346 “Boy, I’m telling you. You spend one weekend in the boonies, visiting some crunchy friends with no TV set, and you miss out on the biggest television story in months: something actually happens on a political talk show! Moral of story: never go anywhere, and watch as much TV as possible. But meme time be damned: I just have to say a few words about Jon Stewart’s live freakout on Crossfire last Friday. Well, perhaps not so much ‘freakout’ as ‘searing moment of lucidity.'” Jon Stewart, Again in the Crossfire | Lisa de Moraes http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43775-2004Oct18.html “The left and the right on CNN’s ‘Crossfire’ finally have found something they can come together on. Both sides hate ‘Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart. Round 2 of ‘Crossfire’ vs. J on Stewart: On Friday, you’ll recall, the Comedy Central late-night star appeared on CNN’s afternoon screamfest, ostensibly to promote ‘America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction.’ Instead, to the surprise of hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, Stewart blasted the show and the two men personally, calling them ‘partisan hacks’ who ‘have a responsibility to the public discourse’ but ‘fail miserably.’ “ So what did you do on Friday? | Jon Stewart on The Daily Show http://www.looptvandfilm.com/blog/dailycross.mov Quicktime MOV 3.4 MB —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Tuesday 19 October 2004 @ 1:26 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
04w40:4 I loath America Posted October 1st, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 40 number 4 (i loathe america) My website tracking is showing me that Margaret Drabble’s “I Loath America” is currently a hot search, so I figure I might as well bring this one off the archive’s shelf. Written in May 2003, it comes to us from the salad days of the Gulf War II: The Son’s Revenge. Perhaps the search has something to do with the fact that Margaret Drabble will be interviewed onstage October 30th during the Harbourfront Centre’s International Festival of Authors.By the way, I did catch the bug in the posting I sent out earlier this week; the link broke due to a bug in the program I’m using to send out these postings, one that I can’t do anything about except to be vigilant. So apologies for that, but what I’d like to say that all of these postings go up on the goodreads website, which I do have control over, and since I usually find the problems very quickly, there you can find spelling mistakes caught, problems fixed, and an eye pleasing design, all available for the low low cost of clicking on the link below. – Timothy ——————————————————————— I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world | Margaret Drabble http://tinyurl.com/b8y9 “I can hardly bear to see the faces of Bush and Rumsfeld, or to watch their posturing body language, or to hear their self-satisfied and incoherent platitudes. The liberal press here has done its best to make them appear ridiculous, but these two men are not funny. […] America is one of the few countries in the world that executes minors. Well, it doesn’t really execute them – it just keeps them in jail for years and years until they are old enough to execute, and then it executes them. It administers drugs to mentally disturbed prisoners on Death Row until they are back in their right mind, and then it executes them, too. They call this justice and the rule of law. America is holding more than 600 people in detention in Guantanamo Bay, indefinitely, and it may well hold them there for ever. Guantanamo Bay has become the Bastille of America. They call this serving the cause of democracy and freedom. ” —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Friday 01 October 2004 @ 1:20 PM
04w39:2 Bush-Bashing Posted September 22nd, 2004 by timothy. 0 Comments Good Reads Mailing List | 2004 week 39 number 2 (bush-bashing) On Wednesday September 22nd , CBC’s morning radio program The Current analyzed the “Bush Bashing” phenomenon, noting among other things that 7,435 anti-Bush books have been published. A link to an archived Real Audio stream of the conversation is provided below. – Timothy ——————————————————————— Bush-Bashing | The Current http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/media/200409/20040922thecurrent_sec3.ram Real Audio File, 28:00 —————————————- http://goodreads.timothycomeau.com To remove or add yourself to this list, go here emailed by Timothy on Wednesday 22 September 2004 @ 11:49 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
