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I was trying to articulate this in an earlier post, but Gail Collins hits the nail on the head. “Louisiana has gotten $130 billion in post-Katrina aid. How is it that the stars of the Republican austerity movement come from the states that suck up the most federal money? Taxpayers in New York send way more [...] Grayson ‘n’ Alex posted their first podcast, about Oceanic Market and Deck Pizza. Former House Speaker Ray Sansom’s email has gone missing, including emails to, from, and about Northwest Florida State [...] Re/Creating Tampa blog [...] Over in Martin County Florida there’s a battle of the burglars going on. “In retaliation, Williams and four other men broke into Benson’s Port Salerno residence in the 1700 block of Southeast Salerno Road on Feb. 20.Williams told deputies he demanded Benson give him his property back, but Benson “played dumb,” and refused to say where [...] Legal Satyricon has one of the best Lux obits I’ve seen. The obit also has the extrasauce bonus of explaining the copyright battle behind Urgh! A music war. “As Lux busted out “Tear it Up,” and shoved the microphone down his throat, he was the image of pure off his ass I-don’t-give-a-flying-fuck-what-you-think-motherfuckerdom. All the while, [...] My favorite Philip Jose Farmer story is “The Jungle Rot Kid on the Nod,” (followed closely by “J.C. on the Dude Ranch” and “The Henry Miller Dawn Patrol,” and “Venus on the Half-Shell, and, well there’s lots). Farmer was also the author of Venus on the Half-Shell by Kilgore Trout. Farmer loved to appropriate other characters [...] Rolling Stone has a stream of Zappa’s “Lonely Little Girl” to promote the new 3-disc set combining We’re Only In It For the Money & Lumpy Gravy. “The collection boasts two versions of each album, the 1968 mono edits (including the original, unreleased-on-CD version of Lumpy Gravy) and the 1984 remixes that boasted new rhythm [...] Tampa-based journalist/critic Philip Booth kicks off two new review/crit blogs covering music, movies, and [...] Chuck Schumer points out that governors cannot pick and choose which elements of the stimulus funding they will accept or [...] Excerpts from the Fiscal Responsibility Summit, February 23, [...] Flight of the Conchords [...] the dangers of [...] I saw on the news last night that Gov. Jindal was “refusing the stimulus money.” What they didn’t make clear is that he is only refusing one element that adds up to less than 2% of the total amount being given to Louisiana. It took two years and 6,000 paintings to make this animated [...] The winners of the Golden Raspberry Awards have been announced. This year’s big winner for craptasticness is Mike Myers and his big steaming pile – The Love Guru. Paris Hilton won both worst actress for her performance in The Hottie & the Nottie, and worst supporting actress for her role in Repo! The Genetic Opera. Thanks to TampaBLAB I just stumbled across a marvelous local art blog – Surreal Muse Studios. Check out Natalie’s shop at Etsy. And through the Surreal Muse page I found Art Squeeze, covering Tampa’s art scene. Don’t forget, the Gasparilla International Film Festival is only four days away, Feb. 26-March 7. [...] Don’t forget, the Gasparilla International Film Festival is only four days away, Feb. 26-March [...] There’s a slightly larger version here. I want to thank Brian Ries at Creative Loafing for hosting their recent little shin-dig for local foodie bloggers. It was great to finally meet all of the food bloggers I’ve been reading for so long. I also want to thank everyone for the kind things you said about Eating Tampa – Thanks! After hearing such nice [...] Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips “Bill Plympton’s Oscar-nominated short leads us into the twisted mind of an overprotective bulldog. Though released in 2004, this cartoon has never been online in full before, so this is a rare treat for online audiences and fans of great short films.” Spaced is great. Modern day London bohemians (or, I now pronounce, the LoBo’s) hang out, stay minimally employeed, and pursue odd whimsy’s. Directed by the director of Shaun of the Dead, and co-starring Simon Pegg. You can watch episode one here at YouTube. Embedding has been disabled. Here’s something the Obama administration could do. It could make Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports easily available to the public. This dovetails neatly with Obama’s stated desire to create a more transparent government and it should get bi-partisan support. McCain has in the past proposed a bill to open CRS reports to the public, and [...] Republican governors like Sanford and Perry who complain about the stimulus package and then take the money remind me of Lewis Carroll’s The Walrus and the Carpenter. The Walrus is inconsolable over the deaths of the poor oysters. The reason the oysters are dying, however, is because the Walrus is eating them. Sanford and Perry [...] I watch my fair share of television, but I’m a compulsive commercial muter, so I wasn’t aware of the ads by the high-fructose corn syrup lobby until yesterday afternoon. Here’s a parody of that commercial on YouTube. My understanding of the “Fairness Doctrine” is that when a lobbyist group puts up transparent propaganda the television (or [...] The Pirate Bay trial is finally getting underway. The Pirate Bay is a .torrent site based in Sweden run by folks who get a kick out of thumbing their nose at outdated copyright and intellectual property laws. It’s hard to say exactly what The Pirate Bay does that is illegal, so they’re being charged with “promoting other [...] Who knew? Nigeria has the third largest film industry in the world. Here’s the Wikipedia entry on Nollywood. This LibraryThing post touches on an issue that’s always percolating in the back of my mind. Why is the Internet so compartmentalized? It’s not really, but my use of it is. How do I find useful information, sound introductions, and entertaining insight into topics I may not even know exist? There is a trap from picking [...] |
 
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