Archive for the 'signifyin' Category

Anjani’s "Blue Alert" and Old Navy

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Old Navy is currently running ads with Anjani’s “Blue Alert” as backdrop.  They have now ruined the best song on her latest album.  To hear it the way it was meant to be heard, visit her blog with your speakers turned on.
The song lyrics are a poem written by Leonard Cohen.  It is pure poetry, […]

Gore’s Cult of Reason

Friday, July 6th, 2007

Al Gore’s latest book is called “The Assault on Reason“, and he makes the case that “Reason” alone is worthy of our praise and adulation, and furthermore is under assault by bad people who worship foreign Jewish gods.  Amazon sells it in a bundle with “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”.
This kind of […]

New Favorite Hacker Quote

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Alec Baldwin, talking to an answering machine: “You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone”.
There certainly is humiliation and a phone involved, but I think that statement was just the start.  Alec Baldwin, didn’t you promise to leave the country?  There is no reason for an answering machine to put up with […]

Are You Vice Neutral?

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Although the former Vice President uses more energy at home in a month than the average American household uses in a year — and more than the average village in the developing world uses in a year, his handlers want us to know that he “walks the walk” and “practices what he preaches” about energy […]

Revenge of the Tidols

Monday, February 12th, 2007

Titles of nobility were tools created by powerful families to keep wealth concentrated within a genetic line.  The precise mathematical formula for optimal inbreeding was embodied in the descending hierarchy of rank.  For a thousand or more years, wealth and genetic ambition have fed the golem of nobility, and at last the golem has broken free […]