Archive for the 'obituary' Category

More BP BULLSHIT

Forward from my Gulf contact:
—— Forwarded Message
From: Deepwater Horizon Response External Affairs
Reply-To: Deepwater Horizon Response External Affairs
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:21:07 -0700 (PDT)
To:
Subject: Two Members of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Die in Unrelated Events
DATE: June 23, 2010 19:19:38 CST
Two Members of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Response Die in Unrelated Events
Key [...]

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Oil Disaster May be Unstoppable

Posted by Brendan on June 25th, 2010 filed in corporate deadbeats, environment, obituary, oil, youtube

It really IS Biblical…. we are SO THOROUGHLY FUCKED.

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Birds Covered in BP Oil

Posted by Brendan on June 4th, 2010 filed in anger, big business as usual, collapse, corporate deadbeats, economy, obituary, oil, photoblog, poverty

The Boston Globe has been running large and heartbreaking photos from the Gulf of Mexico. Here are a few that I’ve reduced to fit the format of the blog but I encourage you to visit the link (the Globe is a historic, but struggling, newspaper) to see them full size. Charlie Riedel is an excellent [...]

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love You, Going to Miss You

Posted by Brendan on June 3rd, 2010 filed in anger, calling bullshit, corporate deadbeats, extinction, obituary, oil, unemployment, youtube

Thanks, BP, you fucking DICKS:

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Ronnie James Dio, Legend of Metal, Dead at 67

Posted by Brendan on May 17th, 2010 filed in Rock-n-roll, heavy metal, obituary, super rock

Ronnie James Dio, a legend of heavy metal, died yesterday from stomach cancer at the age of 67. It’s a terribly sad end for one of the genre’s true innovators. Dio popularized the “heavy metal horns” sign:

… and never stopped performing. I saw Dio about two years ago on the Heaven and [...]

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Don’t Shit Where You Eat

First press play:

Then open this in a different window, for the soundtrack effect.
Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom.
But scientists and environmental groups are raising [...]

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malcolm mclaren, RIP

Posted by Brendan on April 8th, 2010 filed in obituary, punk rock, youtube

Malcolm McLaren may have been a rock-n-roll swindler (among other things), and I owe him my sanity. Let me explain.
In 1983, I was a lonely angry not-quite-yet-a-teenager. i was small for my age, and a late bloomer (puberty didn’t really kick in until summer 1984). i hated my parents, my school, and everything else. [...]

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SCOTUS Decision

Posted by Brendan on January 21st, 2010 filed in big business as usual, calling bullshit, crime, elections, just gross, obituary, politics, youtube

So the Supreme Court has spoken, and America is no longer a nation, but a subsidiary of the the Corporation. The Democracy Experiment was fun while it lasted, but apparently we were not able to keep our Republic, as Franklin had hoped.
It’s gonna be quite a ride for the foreseeable future, because if this [...]

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Jack Cooke, the Norton Flash, RIP

Posted by Brendan on December 2nd, 2009 filed in bluegrass, obituary, youtube

jack Cooke, longtime bass player for Ralph Stanley, has died:
We have just learned that Jack Cooke, long-time member of Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, passed away last night (12/1) after suffering a massive heart attack.
Cooke performed with The Stanley Brothers in the 1950s before going to work for Bill Monroe from 1956-1960. He [...]

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My 5th Grade Teacher Died and His Obituary is Fascinating.

Posted by Brendan on September 25th, 2009 filed in obituary

A friend from elementary school emailed me, letting me know our 5th grade teacher, Hugh Moore, had died. it was a bit of a shock, not so much because his death was unexpected, but because I thought he had passed away long ago. He was in his fifties when he was my teacher, and [...]

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