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Phillyist Framed 2008 Competition
My brother Ray has an opening tonight. He’s one of the finalists for Phillyist’s Framed 2008 competition.
The show is tonight at Studio 34 Yoga, at 4522 Baltimore Avenue. Hope to see some of you there!
PS See more of Ray’s work here.
FOOB: No Fat Chicks!
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Today’s FOOB is more than a little offensive. This morning’s message from Lynn can only be stated as “No Fat Chicks!”
If it wasn’t made clear enough yesterday that Julia is inferior to Lizzie, with the wonky teeth and the gaping maw, now we see that Julia is also -horror of horrors- FAT!
Worse, she [...]
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Dock Boggs
Dock Boggs was the real deal, and the brief biography I’m does not do the liner notes on the Revenant Records compilation justice.
Dock was from Virginia, and was a bootlegger. At one point the revenuer man broke down his door,and grabbed Dock’s wife as a human shield. Dock aimed his gun, fired, and [...]
New Haven Story
I worked with this woman in New Haven named Rosemary Hernandez. She was a pudgy little person, fifteen years older than me with a booming voice that cut the air like an SST. She wore her hair up with a lot of hairspray, and had eyes that seemed to bug out of her [...]
Read More..>>Only a Mom Knows
Twice in the same “Phables” strip (warning, PDF), Brad Guigar writes, “Only a mom knows how sometimes the fear of one’s own death has nothing to do with one’s own life.”
Right, “only a mom” has any sense of responsibility or devotion to the family. “Only a mom” knows what it’s like to have children who [...]
Lizzie, the Magical Negro, and Families of Choice
I added some thoughts to FOOB: Getting All Racial that I think speak to my larger concerns regarding subtle racism in For Better or For Worse, so before I go on, I hope you’ll pay a visit and read my expanded post. Don’t worry, I wait.
As you’ll see, I wrote a bit about institutionalized [...]
Frank Zappa
John Amato at Crooks and Liarsreminds me that its the 13th Anniversary of Frank Zappa’s death.
I was a big fan of Frank, from the moment I heard “Broken Hearts Are For Assholes” at the tender age of 13. That song had me in hysterics. His stand against the PMRC and the [...]
So What? We Deserve It.
ut the evidence that the human species is in a whole heap of trouble keeps piling up, like the research work in Amazonia (referenced in the Lovelock article) that suggests the world’s largest rain forest is extremely sensitive to drought, and that many of its tree species probably can’t survive more than three years of [...]
Read More..>>More on Hardcore and Political Consciousness
In 1983 I was an angry, lonely, and misunderstood 13-year-old. Most of this was rooted in what was going on at home: my mother had surrendered to her alcoholism and spent half of her time in a staggering, unpredictable drunken rage, and the other half in her room with the door locked, recuperating from [...]
Read More..>>John Yoo: So Full of Shit His Eyes Are Brown.
Yoo: The changes of the 1970’s occurred largely because we had no serious national security threats to United States soil, but plenty of paranoia in the wake of Richard Nixon’s use of national security agencies to spy on political opponents.
“No serious threats”?
What the fuck is John Yoo talking about? or were those ICBM’s the [...]
