June 2012
26 posts
The Future of Music (Is a Bunch of Screaming... →
A very interesting response to the whole “David Lowery publicly shaming an NPR intern whose only real point was that she’s part of a different digital generation.”
To be sure, Bob Lefsetz isn’t the authoritative voice on anything. He’s a blowhard with strong opinions who occasionally fancies himself an expert. On the other hand, he has some substancial experience in...
“You don’t fight piracy with laws, but economic solutions.”
– — Lefsetz
If you follow the music press, you can’t have missed the brouhaha surrounding NPR intern Emily White’s recent blog post and the response from David Lowery (AKA that dude from Cracker). Naturally, Lefsetz weighed in.
There are great points on both sides of the argument. Emily observes...
“I have put up children’s pride displays for most of the last 12, 14 years, and I...”
– Proud Kids, Proud Books: Little Island Picks Kids’ Comics for LGBT Pride
By Andrew Wheeler
Toronto’s Little Island Comics is a very special place. As the world’s first comic shop aimed exclusively at kids 12 and under it plays host to some of the most infectiously enthusiastic comic fans you’ll...
People Who Rock in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest...
The Hulk
Black Panther
Dr. Doom
The Dr. Freeze Looking Mother Fucker
The Leader
Annihilus
The Vision (and to a lesser extent, Ultron)
Captain America (the only hero that sounds remotely like his big-screen counterpart)
People Who Do Not Rock:
Iron Man
Everyone Else
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Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes is officially fucking baller. It’s one of those shows that takes the lessons from All Ages material and infuses it with a mature storytelling sensibility. For what is essentially a children’s cartoon, it seems actually quite ubpatronizing..
And seriously, it did “Secret Invasion” in a way that actually made sense! It has Surtur in it!...
Whoa. This is great.
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“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a...”
– Ray Bradbury [Bradbury on Fresh Air] (via nprfreshair)
