Monday, 5 December 2011

Hubert Sumlin RIP


Bluesman Hubert Sumlin, guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf, dies at 80

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Bill Maher 
Got to admit Tebow better player than I gave credit for- of course if u think this has anything to do with a 1st c. Palestinian u r an idiot
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WTF???

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Charlie Brooker ('Black Mirror') interview

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A New York spider gave me an insight into US private healthcare

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The Black Keys - Lonely Boy (SNL)

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McKenzie Wark 
Special issue of Theory and Event on :
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Steampunk Wheelchair

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'New' song from Elliot Smith 1997 WMUC session unearthed

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Socrates RIP
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Christopher Logue RIP

...In 1951, Logue quit dull postwar London for bohemian Paris. There he became part of an expat literary community that included the Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi. Logue joined Trocchi's editorial team on the literary magazine Merlin. The first edition included one of Logue's poems, and his debut collection, Wand and Quadrant (1953), was published by an offshoot imprint of the journal. Logue soon discovered that if poetry did not pay, then writing pornography for Maurice Girodias's Paris-based Olympia Press did.
Under the pseudonym of Count Palmiro Vicarion, Logue wrote Lust and a collection of bawdy limericks for Girodias, the publisher of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955). Trocchi proved to be a real friend: he saved Logue from his second suicide attempt, provoked by the feelings of sexual timidity that troubled him for most of his life, and about which he wrote candidly in his memoir Prince Charming (1999).
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Me Want!!!

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Average Annual Hours Worked per Employed Person in Germany

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So it would appear that economic success is not related to selling your life away to the company after all...
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Bound By Tradition

On 20 October 1998, the Zhiqiang Shoe Factory in Harbin, China sent out a press release stating that they were officially halting production of a curious variety of footwear known as “lotus shoes.” This announcement may appear pedestrian to Western eyes, but in a way it was a symbolic epitaph for a bizarre custom which had been in practice in parts of China for about a thousand years: a process known as foot binding. Until the mid-twentieth century, a girl born into an affluent family in China was likely to be taken aside sometime in her first few years to begin a process of sculpting her feet into tiny, pointed “lotus” feet. This body modification was intended to attract suitors and flaunt one’s upper-crusty status. The culture at large considered these reshaped feet to be beautiful, and the dainty gait that resulted from such radically reshaped extremities was seen as alluring, but the process of producing lotus feet was grisly, problematic, and led to lifelong podiatric problems...
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Alan Bellows @'Damn Interesting'
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Europe Should Beware Leaders Peddling Austerity

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