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Salvador Dali Leda Chair

And they don't have furniture by FLLW, Eames, Herman Miller ....

Yeah Eric Stonestreet!

Religion Is Evil; And Your Shit Stinks As Bad As Theirs, So SHUT THE FUCK UP

Thank you, authoritarian Christian nationalists, for compromising our national security. We now have video for al Queda' recruiting propaganda:



When I joined the protest of "Draw a Mohammad Day," I didn't do so to bully a religious class. I did so to stand up against an assertion that religious sentiments trumped free speech (and could do so with threats of violence).

The same applies to my support of the "Ground Zero Mosque;" or, as I like to call it, the "Ground Zero YMMA." I will not accept crazy, non-realist arguments ("this slaps the 9/11 victims in the face"), nor the insistence that tolerance has a radius.

The first amendment to our Constitution is hard; it's not for the weak of mind, but it protects us from them. And I am weary of Christians throwing bibles in glass houses.

Forget about Ground Zero and use your noggin to think back to the bloodiest event in American history. Was it the Confederacy of Muslims, Atheists, and Homosexuals whose bloodthirsty hordes converged on the goodly Christian Yankee Army of the Union North at Antietam and Gettysburg?

I am the first to say that Islam is a wicked religion: but they all are. And our great republic doesn't win by pretending that the arguments that work in theocracies apply here. Or by pretending that sentiments trump rights.

I am deeply disturbed by this rhetorical Jabberwocky. What do you think will happen when some Muslim Americans go to the completed Ground Zero Memorial, pull out their prayer rugs, and pray that the families of the victims have an iota of grief lifted off of them; and that Muslims around the world will unite against those who would commit violence against our republic?

Now, we all know what will happen: they will likely be castigated and harassed, if not beaten and kicked and spit upon.

We are better than that, and I won't have it any other way.

I'll defer to another Alabama graduate:



Roll Tide Joe! Were the Republican Party as decent, and thoughtful, and principled, and grown up as you.

It Would Be Uninteresting If It Weren't David Fincher

And the musicians who beat Richard Cheese for the best cover of Radiohead's "Creep?" Scala and the Kolancy Brothers, which is apparently a Belgian girls choir.



I don't think I'll skip this one.

But I Want It Now!

Episodes will alternate between universes.

How I Got My Camp

"People, They're No Fun"

"Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury" is transcendentally hilarious. But before that, back when I was in college, a great punk musician wrote a song that covered the same topic.

I'd forgotten how much I love his work

Helping the Ennis House



Doing the mural at the Atlanta Aquarium

AND appearing at Dragon Con this year!

Strangely (In)Appropriate

This is a bad bit of boobala pop, but the subject and a slap near the end are worth it (from Upright Citizens Brigade).

Per aspera ad astra

Ray Bradbury hates big government: 'Our country is in need of a revolution'

Ray Bradbury is mad at President Obama, but it's not about the economy, the war or the plan to a construct a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City.

“He should be announcing that we should go back to the moon,” says the iconic author, whose 90th birthday on Aug. 22 will be marked in Los Angeles with more than week's worth of Bradbury film and TV screenings, tributes and other events. “We should never have left there. We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever."

and from Reason hit & run:

Ray Bradbury Hysterical Theater: We Got Too Much Gummint, Too Many Internets, But Not Enough Moon Colonies!

So Much Better Than The Movies

Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3

My Life Will Soon Be Very Unproductive

Force Unleashed 2 trailer:



Bioshock Infinite trailer:

Put your thinking tuques on

Inception theory du jour of the day

I have always thought the name Ariadne to be lovely & have used it in various games. When I realized it was Ellen Page's character's name I was intrigued: Why pick a name from Greek antiquity? Ah, Christopher Nolan, you scamp, you are truly a thinking man's director.

Ariadne helped Theseus get out of the Minotaur's labyrinth by trailing string. Obviously this can refer to Inception's Ariadne's abilities as a dream architect, but can it also be a sly way of Christopher Nolan telling us what really happened to Cobb?

That's all the thinking I can do today. Now, back the to The Sims.

"There Is Not Conclusive Evidence..."

David Boies makes homophobic ass-hat evangelical Tony Perkins his bitch.

This is why he won:

'No Evidence of Harm' from Same Sex Marriage. Watch more top selected videos about: Face the Nation

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The video might not work, but I strongly encourage you to follow the link and watch this video. It is AMAZING!!!

"The witness stand is a lonely place to lie."

My Lament, Put To Song

When we look at the debase sprawl that engulfs our living space, we should all be held responsible for its horrifying banality:

They heard me singing and they told me to stop,
Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock.

Modernism is dead. Long live the age of the dummies and their politics of failure and resignation...

I guess we're stuck on this decaying rock, doomed to perish.

Album Review: Arcade Fire's The Suburbs

Arcade Fire's Funeral was inspired, and Neon Bible was brilliant (and both were suggestively atheistic). But their new album, The Suburbs, is exquisite.

I don't understand people who don't own and love Arcade Fire's albums. You might as well worship some god....

My Hero

From CNN:

A flight attendant cursed out passengers, grabbed a beer then triggered an emergency chute Monday at a JFK Airport terminal, authorities say.

When the police arrived, he was having sex with his boyfriend.

"Do I Disappoint You, In Just Being Human?"

Fully Processed

Inception is now one of my top 3 movies ever.

Tim Minchin Explains Donnie Darko

I Knew I Knew Where Mal Lived

The buildings from Inception's purgatory reminded me of some mid-century modernist building, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was.

At lunch today, I was perusing a book on modernist architecture, and I found it:

The Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles

Am I wrong?

And yes, I bought the book.

Must...Buy...

Holy shit on a Jesus cracker with brie!

I love Picnic!

Somebody Smack This Has-Been

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich called the decision "an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution"...

"Congress now has the responsibility to act immediately to reaffirm marriage as a union of one man and one woman as our national policy," Gingrich said in a statement.

For Newt, marriage has been between 1 man and 3 women. Not at the same time, of course; that would be too traditional.

Prop 8 Overturned, 14th Amendment Next

Chief Judge Vaughn Walker (a gay, libertarian conservative first nominated to the bench by known socialist and butt-cancer survivor, Ronald Reagan) overturned California's Prop 8, stating that,

The freedom to marry is recognized as a fundamental right protected by the Due Process Clause. See, for example, Turner v Safely, 482 US 78, 95 (1987)...

Uh oh, it's the Republican/Tea Party's new worst enemy: Amendment XIV!!! But what about "traditional marriage" in the US?

The evidence shows that the movement of marriage away from a gendered institution and toward an institution free from state-mandated gender roles reflects an evolution in the understanding of gender rather than a change in marriage. The evidence did not show any historical purpose for excluding same-sex couples from marriage, as states have never required spouses to have an ability or willingness to procreate in order to marry. FF 21. Rather, the exclusion exists as an artifact of a time when the genders were seen as having distinct roles in society and in marriage. That time has passed.

Don't tell that to the fussbudgets over at Concerned Women for America. Those pious, submitting broads might rend their maternity aprons and stomp on them in disgust with their bare feet.

After going on about how the government must have a very compelling reason to restrict rights of a group of people--or some communist French nonsense like that--up comes my favorite part (which is a header, no less):

PROPOSITION 8 IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE IT DENIES PLAINTIFFS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT WITHOUT A LEGITIMATE (MUCH LESS COMPELLING) REASON

The whole thing is a scathing page-turner. Early in the ruling, Chief Judge Walker describes how the defendants only called two witnesses, one of whom was not qualified to enter expert testimony. It's as riotous as dry legalese can get, and it reminds me of Judge Jone's ruling in Kitzmiller vs. Dover.

Cheers to Gov. Schwarzenegger for refusing to defend Prop 8. And cheers to Chief Judge Walker for including this nugget:

That the majority of California voters supported Proposition 8 is irrelevant, as “fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.” West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette...

Cue "activist."

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