Yet more assholes!

Talking of assholes!

Glenn Beck tries & fails at art history.
@ 'HuffPo'

"An escape valve, just letting off steam..." Assholes!

Condom ads

!?!

The reality of war

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”

US politicians do not want the people to see photos like this.
This is the reality...
NB: This is not the photo in question mentioned above.
The Wayback Machine at the archive has a lot more photos that perhaps would sway public opinion against all wars.

The making of Lou Barlow's 'Goodnight Unknown'

Cath Carroll remembered...

Peter Terzian, editor of the anthology Heavy Rotation, and two of the collection's contributors--Martha Southgate and Joshua Ferris --talk about the unique and essential relationship between life and music and talk about the record albums that have inspired them.

Who is Cath Carroll I can hear you collectively ask?

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street Blues

The Rolling Stones - Loving Cup

Dot Allison - My Widow

Dot Allison - Paved With a Little Pain

Penguin Books design

A brilliant pool of photos at Flickr
As David Pearson who uploaded the photos says:

"I photographed the journal as part of my research for ‘Penguin by Design’. It currently resides in the Bristol University Archive (Special Collections). I certainly wouldn’t want to be responsible for it!"
Thanx to 'Boing Boing'
Jan Tschichold at Penguin Books (PDF)
Here

Influential people

Chinese Artists Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, and Zhang An, 2006, oil on canvas

Go here to this painting of famous people. Hover your mouse over a person and it will usually bring up a Wiki link to that person. The camel leads to people who look like camels! Ha!

The Heartbreakers Live w/ Richard Hell (1975)

Going Steady, Chinese Rocks & Pirate Love. VERY RARE. Uncut, really bad quality!

Miserable

The New Adventures of Hitler was a satirical and surreal (one scene has Hitler opening a cupboard to find Morrissey singing Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now) strip based on the claims of Hitler's sister-in-law Bridget Dowling that Hitler had lived with her, her husband Alois Hitler, Jr., and her son William Patrick Hitler in Liverpool from 1912 to 1913. It first appeared in Cut, a Scottish arts and culture magazine and became instantly controversial, and some interpreted Morrison to be a Nazi due to his use of Hitler in what was essentially a humorous story.
Via 'Coisas do Arco da Velha'