Andrew WK: 'It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a juvenile restraining order'

Andrew WK aged 17 (back when he was Andrew Fetterly)

I've never let anyone hear this song before. I'm deeply humiliated and embarrassed at the thought of anyone hearing it. This is probably the most intense and personal song I've ever recorded – it's called My Destiny and it was written and recorded when I was 17. I shouldn't do this.
 
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I was in high school in the 1990s, in a town called Ann Arbor in Michigan. I had a crush on a girl and was deeply and passionately fixated on her. She had a baby face, a 14-tooth smile, large eyes, a crowned forehead, an oversized brow and a tender style. She consumed me with both lust and hatred – lust, because I was truly drawn to her beauty and soft skin, and hatred because she rarely spoke to me, wouldn't look at me much and never gave me a chance to show her my deep affections. I used to call her house just to listen to her say, "Hello?" Then I'd hang up, terrified and shaking with nervous ecstasy.
In our senior year of high school, when I was 17, we were required to make a final project which was presented to the head of the school and graded as our final exam. This was when my crush was at its absolute height. I decided to write a song dedicated to her and submit it as my final project for graduation. The song was My Destiny. I've never recorded another song like it, and now – listening to it after all these years – I can see why.
Here are the lyrics:

Called Up Your Number Fourteen Times
To See If You Were Home
Home Is Where I'll Find You
When I Find You
Do You Feel Lonely When You're Alone
A Sheet To Keep You Warm
Warm – Electric Blanket
An Extra Blanket
You Are My Destiny
I'll Make You Fall In Love With Me
I'll Make Myself Your Fantasy
Weeping Like The Willow Tree
Drove Past Your Doorway Fifteen Times
I Don't Want To Cause You Harm
Harm – That's What You're In For
If You Don't Open Your Door
So I'll Keep Knocking A Million Times
I Will Knock Until My Knuckles Bleed
Bleed – That Blood Will Leave A Stain
On You Forever
You Are My Destiny
And I'll Make You Fall In Love With Me, Me, Me

It's horribly painful – the sound of confusion and trouble, which is what I was in. I had wanted the song to have a big impact, but not the kind I got. Be careful what you wish for...

The day after I submitted the song, the head of my school called me and my parents in for a private meeting. They played the song for my parents as I sat next to them, paralysed and devastated by the humiliation. The head of the school recommended that I go into counselling or see the school psychiatrist (my parents did send me to a child psychologist following later exploits in arson, baseball card forgery and mail fraud: his final diagnosis? "You have a devilish side"). That was bad, but nothing compared to what happened a year later.
It turned out that the assistant to the head of school got a copy of my song on cassette and gave it to the girl I had a crush on. This was probably the worst thing that had ever happened in my life. She heard the song and was completely freaked out. Within three days, every kid in school had a copy. She told her friends, teachers and parents: "This guy at school is stalking me and threatening my life." She played them the song and they called the police.
In the end, I had a juvenile restraining order put on me, which lasted until I was 21. I've never told anyone about it since, except my closest friends and family. Three months ago, I was advised by my personal manager and life coach to finally let people hear it, to resolve the nightmare. So, I am. Now is the first time since the incident that I've let anyone hear the song. And I can hear why.

Andrew WK @'The Guardian'

HA!

A plane flying from Washington to Denver Wednesday was escorted into the airport by F-16s after Mohammed Al Madadi, a Qatari diplomat, evidently had a cigarette in the lavatory. When flight attendants smelled smoke and asked him what he'd been doing, he allegedly replied "Lighting my shoes on fire."

UC Santa Cruz taps Nicholas Meriwether to be new archivist for Grateful Dead Archive

The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Nicholas Meriwether as the new archivist for the campus’s historic Grateful Dead Archive.

Meriwether comes to Santa Cruz from the University of South Carolina, where he has served as Oral Historian in the South Caroliniana Library for the past five years. His background experience includes work as an educational, research, and rare-book consultant.

Meriwether holds a bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, plus a Masters in Library Science--with a specialization in archives--from the University of South Carolina.

His research on the Grateful Dead, their cultural significance, and their impact on late 20th century society has resulted in a number of publications.

Meriwether is the editor of All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007), as well as four volumes of Dead Letters: Essays on the Grateful Dead Phenomenon (Dead Letters Press).

His writings on popular culture, music, literature and history have also appeared in numerous anthologies, journals, and books.

“The Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz represents an extraordinary collection with immense research value to academics and scholars from a wide range of disciplines—including historians, literary critics, musicologists, and others,” noted Meriwether.

“The material in this archive will enrich our understanding of a range of academic topics that extend far beyond the bounds of popular culture and American music,” he added.

Meriwether’s role as archivist will be to provide managerial and curatorial oversight of the Grateful Dead Archive--planning and supervising the processing of all materials and facilitating the archive’s use by scholars, fans, and students.

“Nicholas is a perfect fit,” said University Librarian Ginny Steel. “We feel very fortunate that he is interested in this position because he has an excellent academic background and exactly the archival experience and training that we were seeking. He also brings deep connections to the Grateful Dead community that will enhance his work as he helps us build and expand the archive.”

The Grateful Dead donated their extensive band archive to UC Santa Cruz in 2008. Representing one of the most significant popular culture collections of the 20th century, it documents the band’s remarkable creative activity and influence in contemporary music history.

“I just can't imagine that there is a better person for this job than Nick Meriwether,” said David Gans, host and producer of the nationally syndicated "Grateful Dead Hour" and author of several books about the Grateful Dead.

“He is the embodiment of academic passion and scholarly dedication. I have spent countless hours in conversation with him about the Grateful Dead, and I have learned from him a great deal about academic rigor and the importance of getting all of this recorded properly for posterity,” Gans noted.

The archive includes a wealth of materials related to the phenomena of the Deadheads, the band’s far-reaching social network of devoted fans, and the Grateful Dead’s highly unusual and successful musical business ventures.

“The Grateful Dead Archive will be, like the Dead, something much more than it initially appears,” noted longtime Grateful Dead publicist and biographer Dennis McNally. “Just as the band was not merely a music group but an adventure, an odyssey, and a subculture, the Archive will reflect not only the Dead, but that most critical of post-war decades, the ineffable 1960s.”

The Grateful Dead Archive is expected to open in 2011, as the centerpiece of UCSC’s new and renovated McHenry Library.

Scott Rappaport @'UC Santa Cruz News'

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Upheaval in Kyrgyzstan Could Imperil Key U.S. Base

Imaginary subway maps

@'Transit Authority Figures'

Based on the London Underground map design by Harry Beck

Getting a fix

'Old Woman in a Casket'

Photo by Dezo Hoffmann

'Scream Thy Last Scream' and 'Vegetable Man' were recorded in early August 1967 for possible release as  Pink Floyd's third single. There had even been a press announcement on 25 July tipping this song (under the title Old Woman in a Casket) for release as the next single. However, Scream Thy Last Scream and Vegetable Man were thought to be too inaccessible and unsuited to public consumption to release.

 'Scream Thy Last Scream' 

(Mono/Stereo/Alternate Mono mixes)

'Vegetable Man'

(Mono/Stereo mixes)

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Anger about digital 'stitch-up'

Latest from Kyrgyzstan Uprising

Reports have now emerged that Kyrgyz opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva intends to stay in power and lead an interim government for six months which will write up a new constitution for the county. This could not be confirmed immediately by all sources. In the morning after protesters ousted the government in Bishkek and took over government buildings, the city is still reeling from the looting done the day before. (See pictures below)

However, no reports of new violence from the capital have emerged. Some Kyrgyz netizens reported that the situation was relatively calm and that some people had even gone to work. The opposition earlier declared that they have appointed new ministers of interior and defense and were working to restore calm in the capital.

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How To Ruin Your Co-Worker’s Reputation

Same as it ever was...

Digitual Economy Bill, 

Kyrgyzstan, 
Alan McGee back on drugs?

Alex Ferguson's boorish comments...

All the usual bullshit really...

The only bit of good news was ManU getting knocked out!

Wanna see a Taiwanese boy with a bowl cut cover Whitney Houston? Yes you do

117 will soon need a name!

I'd propose Audiozobium, but for some reason, I get the impression this would not be well received. But how about Iggypopium? Or even better, Ziggystardustium? Wouldn't that be cool?

A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive elements with chemical properties no one can predict.

The team produced six atoms of the element by smashing together isotopes of calcium and a radioactive element called berkelium in a particle accelerator about 75 miles north of Moscow on the Volga River, according to a paper to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The superheavy element 117, which is made of atoms containing 117 protons, is roughly 40% heavier than lead.

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Element 117 fills the final gap on the list of observed elements up to 118. If the latest discovery is confirmed elsewhere, the element will receive an official name and take its place in the periodic table of the elements. For the moment, the discovery will be known as ununseptium, a very unwhimsical Latinate placeholder that refers to the element’s atomic number, 117. 

@'IndiaTimes'

Catholic Bishop: Children Want to Be Sexually Abused

The Bishop of Tenerife provided an interesting explanation for the vast numbers of children raped by Catholic priests: They asked for it. In 2007, when the American Catholic Church was reeling from sex abuse scandals but not so much Europe, the Bishop of Tenerife, Bernardo Álvarez, made some interesting Christmas holiday comments.
In a Christmas Eve interview with La Opinión de Tenerife, Bishop Alvarez said that there are children who want to be abused:

There are 13 year old adolescents who are under age and who are perfectly in agreement with, and what’s more wanting it, and if you are careless they will even provoke you.

That’s right, the rapists aren’t the priests. It’s those seductive tempters and temptresses, fresh-faced whores all, bending over in front of priests, flaunting their taut, young, moist flesh, just begging to be used as the sexual playthings of perverted pedophiles (and hebephiles) who have sworn to their imaginary friend that they will be celibate for life.
It’s probably their plan to sue later and retire on the Catholic Cult’s ill-gotten loot. After all, so many seem to be doing it!
Bishop Alvarez got some bad press shortly thereafter:

The controversial comments drew immediate criticism, including from the Spanish government, which hinted that it might review its relations with the Church unless action was taken against the Tenerife Bishop. Gay rights groups and child welfare associations called on the authorities to prosecute the Bishop for inciting and defending abuse of minors, while left-wing political parties demanded that the Pope sack Alvarez immediately.

In 2008, the Spanish Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGT) filed a criminal complaint against him for “identifying homosexuality with the sexual abuse of minors” and for “promoting an attitude of violence and discrimination” against homosexuals:

“It seems that he is justifying the abuse of minors, coming from an institution that has been condemned the most times in the world for sexual abuse,” said [FELGT president Antonio] Poveda. “It is necessary for the hierarchy to be respectful and to know that as citizens they have freedom of expression, but they also have to respect the standards that are set by the laws in this country and in this case they have passed that boundary, therefore we hope that the Attorney General will intervene to prevent such lamentable declarations from being made again.”

Despite the outcry at the time, it appears to have been a flash in the pan. The most recent story on Bishop Alvarez? The 2009 reopening of the Bishop’s Palace in La Laguna, damaged by fire in 2006.

La Laguna – 11.07.2009 – Before blessing the building, the Bishop of Ten­erife, Bernardo Álvarez, summed up his feelings in just two words, “satisfaction and thanks”. Satisfac­tion with the work done, and thanks to the thou­sands of people, institu­tions, companies, parishes and many more, “without whose support and soli­darity it would not have been possible to complete the work”.

Seems Alvarez is still Bishop, and likely still blaming children for being raped. Perhaps the Vatican will hire him as Benedict’s new PR agent!

Jenny Donati @'Paliban Daily'

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I do NOT freebase cocaine

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The Bias of Veteran Journalists

The Aliens@home!

Look, ma: no oxygen! (The image is a distant cousin, not the newly discovered sea critters.)

Deep under the Mediterranean Sea small animals have been discovered that live their entire lives without oxygen and surrounded by 'poisonous' sulphides. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology report the existence of multicellular organisms (new members of the group Loricifera), showing that they are alive, metabolically active, and apparently reproducing in spite of a complete absence of oxygen.

@'ScienceBlogs'

Update:

Here is a pic of the anaerobic organism

Dad!!!

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Congratulations...

...It's a boy!

Pictures of Banksy in Jamaica by Peter Dean Rickards from 'Afflicted Yard'

Sites that publish these photos are usually handed a cease and desist take down notice by Banksy's solicitors at the same time that they deny it is him.

Rickards was responsible for selling the wall that Banksy painted on in Jamaica through ebay....
(Thanx Stan!)

Swans to play Supersonic

Photograph by Carlos Melgoza  

Michael Gira's Swans are set to perform at the forthcoming Supersonic Festival in Birmingham. The latest incarnation of the post-punk, New York No Wave group consists of original members Norman Westberg and Cristoph Hahn along with Phil Puleo, Chris Pravdica and Thor Harris (though original and long-running member, Jarboe, will not be appearing). The group are currently recording a new full length album to be released on Gira's Young God label later this year.

Supersonic Festival takes place at Birmingham's Custard Factory, 22-24 October. Tickets are on sale now, click here for more information.

@'The Wire'

HA!

jupitusphillip You will not be allowed to cast your vote inside Connie Booth, Tony Booth or Tim Booth out of James. #electionfacts

US-Afghan relations sink further as Hamid Karzai accused of drug abuse

Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination

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Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory

The clock struck 3 a.m. Julian Assange slept soundly inside a guarded private compound in Nairobi, Kenya. Suddenly, six men with guns emerged from the darkness. A day earlier, they had disabled the alarm system on the electric fence and buried weapons by the pool. Catching a guard by surprise, they commanded him to hit the ground. He obliged, momentarily, then jumped up and began shouting. As the rest of the compound's security team rushed outside, the intruders fled into the night.

Assange, a thirty-something Australian with a shock of snow-white hair, is sure the armed men were after him. "There was not anyone else worth visiting in the compound," he says, speaking on the phone from an undisclosed location in Africa.

The self-centeredness and shadowy details of Assange's tale—and his insistence that he must be taken at his word—are typical. They're part of his persona as the elusive yet single-minded public face of WikiLeaks, the website that dubs itself the "uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis." Designed as a digital drop box, the site is a place where anyone can anonymously post sensitive or secret information to be disseminated and downloaded around the globe. Earlier this week, it posted its most explosive leak yet, a video shot by an American attack helicopter in July 2007 as it opened fire upon a group of a men on a Baghdad street, killing 12, including two unarmed Reuters employees. (Two children were also seriously wounded in a subsequent attack.) WikiLeaks said it had obtained the classified footage from whistleblowers inside the US military...

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David Krushner @'Mother Jones'

Military can't find its copy of Iraq killing video

Wikileaks Better at Finding Classified Pentagon Videos Than Pentagon

Tales From the Slush Pile

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James Williamson on The Stooges

Photo: Robert Matheu 2009

It's been more than 35 years since the Stooges unleashed their seminal album, Raw Power, on an unsuspecting, and largely unimpressed public. It has since been lauded as a classic in its own right, not to mention one of punk's most important precursors. To celebrate the latest reissue of the album, as well as the band's latest live incarnation, MOG's Ethan Stanislawski caught up with the band's guitarist, James Williamson.

An essential part of the Raw Power sound, Williamson retired from music a few years after the Stooges broke up, spending most of the intervening time as the Vice President of Technology Standards for Sony Electronics. Now that he's back with the band, Williamson was ready to talk about the group's original era, overcoming beefs with his bandmates, Raw Power's legacy, and how Iggy Pop's stage persona has actually gotten more intense.

MOG: How much have you been in contact with Iggy and the other band members while you've been at Sony in the past 30 years?

James Williamson: Very, very little. I saw a couple of gigs... one with Iggy solo and one with the band when they first got back together, but other than that I haven't even seen them. The only time I'd talk to Iggy was involving publishing and things like that. I did visit Ron Asheton once when I was visiting my sister in Ann Arbor. Other than that, there was nothing really at all.

MOG: In an interview a couple of years ago, you said you had no real interest in rejoining the band. What was the biggest factor in the change?

JW: Ron died, so Iggy and I started talking to each other again, just about catching up. When people die, there's sort of a time where all those little things really don't matter that much anymore. There wasn't going to be much of an opportunity to rejoin the band because I had my job with Sony. But then Sony was handing out early retirement packages, so I took mine... The question was whether I wanted to do it again. Essentially, it all boiled down to the fact that these guys needed me to do it.

MOG: You played with Ron on bass in the original run, and now Mike Watt's been playing bass with the band for years. What was it like rejoining the guys now that they've been playing together for a while?

JW: The band dynamic has been fine... Three of the five band guys are guys I'm very familiar with. We're old buddies.

MOG: How was playing with Mike different from Ron?

JW: Mike Watt is a sweetheart kind of a guy, and a really, really good musician. So he just does his job. Playing with Ron was a different style of bass playing, and a different time. Mike and I are really clicking right now.

MOG: He probably grew up playing all the songs from Raw Power.

JW: Yeah, as a matter of fact, he had played all of them, actually.

MOG: There's been talk of you guys are working on a new album with this lineup. What's the status of that?

JW: There are about three songs we're working out now that are new. There's a fourth we may never release... we're thinking we'll try to record something this year for people so they can hear us. Maybe it will just be a single or two to start out with... we're pretty busy. But we do want to release something... that's our intention.

MOG: How consistently have you been playing guitar over the past 30 years, and what was it like to pick it up live?

JW: 35 years, actually, but who's counting? I hadn't been playing at all, period... When I took this on, I had some serious woodshedding to do.

MOG: In a lot of recent reunions, some musicians have picked up instruments after not playing for decades. Is it kind of like picking up a bike?

JW: A little bit. If you're a musician who's played for a while, those synapses are still there. They're not firing too well when you start, but once you get going you get back into it. Luckily it's my music and it's my style, so it's kind of natural for me. If I had to play somebody else's stuff, who knows.

MOG: The band now is much less wild now than in the '70s... Iggy is still very intense, but how have things changed now?

JW: I think he's more intense now than he was then. It's pretty amazing how much he puts into the show now. Back then he was also intense, but very unpredictable. You never knew which Iggy you were going to get. There were times when we didn't even know if we were going to get through a show, and sometimes we shouldn't have, then we did.

MOG: Mike Watt's talked about how he can't believe how aware Iggy is of what's going on in the band while he's still performing like that.

JW: He's an experienced pro at this point. He's a perfectionist now, which is one big difference from the old days. He demands a lot, but that's a good thing.

MOG: Do you feel good where you left things with Ron before he passed?

JW: I guess when I met with him at his house, things seemed to be okay. That was before the band reformed. After the band reformed, they got very busy.

MOG: They just remastered Raw Power for the third time... What's your thought on the new mix?

JW: I think they did a first rate job on it and the whole package. I like that they brought the Bowie mix back on the market; despite all the criticisms of it I think it deserves to be on the market, for historical reasons if nothing else.

MOG: I grew up in the CD era, so I never heard the original Bowie mix.

JW: That's the important part of the Iggy mix, because with the Bowie mix, people like yourself hadn't even heard of it. But he [Iggy] had a big enough name eventually where he rereleased it, and people got to hear it, which was a big help for the album.

MOG: One of the things I think people lose perspective of is how much you guys stuck out back in that era... What do you think is different about how the Stooges were seen then vs. now?

JW: The Stooges were not about whatever was fashionable or acceptable or maybe even successful in that time... We really played music for ourselves and not for other people. As a result of that, the music wasn't very popular in the day, because no one could relate to it. But I think the success of the music came later when so many people imitated it. So it was something people were more in tune with, and it sounds strangely contemporary now.

Ethan Stanislawski @'MOG'

Girlz With Gunz # 96: Polski plakat 'Bladerunner'

This one is for you Spacebubs!

Is This the Future of Journalism? Why Wikileaks Matters

This week marked the international coming-out party for a new media organization that could upend the sacred cows of traditional journalism. Wikileaks, an Internet-savvy investigative journalism outfit, released a video showing an American Apache helicopter open fire on a group of men, killing two Reuters employees, along with 10 other people, on July 12, 2007.  "There was no threat warranting a hail of 30mm [caliber gunfire] from above," says Anthony Martinez, a former U.S. Army noncommissioned officer who has watched thousands of hours of aerial footage of Iraq. COMMENTS (0) SHARE: Digg   Facebook   Reddit   Bookmark and Share More...  The video, seen through the perspective of the Apache gun camera, captures a dark moment in the Iraq war. As the American airmen chuckle over the body count, it also amounts to a damning indictment of war culture. No traditional journalism organization was able to bring it to the public, as these tapes are normally classified; Reuters filed an FOIA request but never received a response.  True to its promise to release complete source material, Wikileaks has posted the full 38-minute gun camera video on YouTube. But the focus of its Monday press conference was an annotated, 19-minute edited version, published on the site collateralmurder.com. It opens with a quote from British provocateur-cum-journalist George Orwell:  Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind.  The video proceeds to transcribe the radio chatter and break down the action with highlights and arrows. A group of men gather in the street; one reporter talks on the phone and another shoulders a camera bag. Seconds later, the pilots, mistaking a camera lens peeking around a corner for an RPG, strafe a cluster of civilians. That is almost forgivable. But events turn from queasy to horrifying when the crew open fire on an unarmed van that has stopped to pick up the journalist left alive. As Wikileaks shows in a closeup, two children sitting in the front seat of the van were struck by the barrage of gunfire.  The video was sensational, and it exploded online Monday -- it's since gotten more than 2 million views on YouTube and prompting a follow-up story by the New York Times.  Many viewers were undoubtedly encountering Wikileaks for the first time, though the organization was launched in December 2006. The site, which is funded by private donors and does not accept government or corporate funding, encourages would-be whistleblowers to upload incriminating material anonymously on its website. The small editorial staff verifies submitted documents, decrypts or translates them when necessary, and then publishes them in full -- often with commentary.  This is not to imply that Wikileaks' editors are merely passive distributors of their sources' information. They cultivate and protect anonymous sources, verifying submitted materials, adding context, and promoting important leaks. In the case of the Iraq gun camera footage, the process began with using volunteers to help decrypt the submitted file. Then they worked with Icelandic journalist Kristinn Hrafnsson to verify the video on the ground in Baghdad. Wikileaks says Hrafnsson found the two children who were injured in the attack, and has posted recent pictures and other documents. The whole story cost the organization about US $50,000, according to Julian Assange, the site's co-founder. 

Jonathan Stray @'FP'

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What Does Palinspeak Mean?

Why does Sarah Palin talk the way she does? Just what is this sort of thing below?
We realize that more and more Americans are starting to see the light there and understand the contrast. And we talk a lot about, OK, we're confident that we're going to win on Tuesday, so from there, the first 100 days, how are we going to kick in the plan that will get this economy back on the right track and really shore up the strategies that we need over in Iraq and Iran to win these wars?
Just forty years ago people would be shocked to read something like this as a public statement from someone even pretending, as Palin pretty much had to have been by the time of this quote, that they were going to be serving in a Presidential Administration.
It’s not quite Bushspeak, which, with the likes of “I know what it’s like to put food on my family,” was replete with flagrantly misplaced words with a frequency that made for guesses, not completely in jest, that he might suffer from a mild form of Wernicke’s aphasia, interfering with matching word shapes to meanings. (Bush the father wasn’t much better in this regard—there just wasn’t an internet to make collecting the slips and spreading them around so easy.)
Rather, Palin is given to meandering phraseology of a kind suggesting someone more commenting on impressions as they enter and leave her head rather than constructing insights about them. Or at least, insights that go beyond the bare-bones essentials of human cognition — an entity (i.e. something) and a predicate (i.e. something about it).
The easy score is to flag this speech style as a sign of moronism. But we have to be careful — there is a glass houses issue here. Before parsing Palinspeak we have to understand the worldwide difference between spoken and written language — and the fact that in highly literate societies, we tend to have idealized visions of how close our speech supposedly is to the written ideal...

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John McWhorter @'The New Republic'

Andrew Sullivan (Daily Dish) - A question for you...

You say you will be "rooting for the tories"...how DO you feel about this?

Joan Jett - 'Dressed To Kilt' NY 5-04-10

*swoon*

Revelation 3,14159...

@'alulamecontou'

The music industry is sucking the blood of its main assets: the musicians. Gang Of Four does something about this.

They'll let you, the potential listener, do it instead. Or whatever sick perverted thing you'd feel like doing with your favorite band's blood!

Gang Of Four are set to give away bottles of their own blood in exchange for money contributions to aid the recording of their new album 'Content'.

The post-punk veterans are funding the album through Pledgemusic.com - where users can contribute cash to the process and be rewarded with album-related products, including the vials of blood, in return.

@'NME'

Twat!

AIannucci
Just seen Cameron describe 'the great Ignored' as 'hard working, fair minded, hard working people who work hard.' No wonder they're ignored.