...with the number of cars not burned. This will put the figure into better perspective. About 19,999,000 cars in France were not burned on New Year’s Eve; that is to say, 99.995% of them. Surely this is the way the figures should be presented to improve the population’s morale? (...) We … [Read more...]
‘5 Things I Learned as a Cop (That Movies Won’t Show You)
Joan Crawford in ‘Flamingo Road’: ‘The face of melodrama’
Moorlocks: French film scholar Jean Loup Bourget once dubbed … [Read more...]
More TED Talk backlash
The key rhetorical device for TED talks is a combination of epiphany and personal testimony (an "epiphimony" if you like ) through which the speaker shares a personal journey of insight and realisation, its triumphs and tribulations. What is it that the TED audience hopes to get from this? A … [Read more...]
Good: Saul Zaentz finally dies; famously sued John Fogerty for sounding too much like himself — twice
Zaentz not only owned Fantasy, he also owned everything Creedence Clearwater Revival recorded as well as the songs that John Fogerty wrote under the band’s original contract with the label. [Read more...]
Jim Goad on the ‘penis-in-vagina = rape’ thing
These are the same sort of reality-inverters who insist that rape has nothing to do with sex, that it’s purely an act of power. This doesn’t consider the possibility that in the course of human events, sex and procreation and power are intertwined rather than discrete entities. It also fails to … [Read more...]
Basic principle of Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech was right, says Nigel Farage
Asked if Mr Powell ‘saw it coming’, he replied: ‘Well no ... for different reasons, for different reasons and on a completely different scale. ‘I mean when immigration was being discussed in the 60s and 70s and 80s we were talking about an annual net inflow to the country of between 30,000 and … [Read more...]
‘Israelites’: A Musical Exodus in Two Minutes and Thirty Five Seconds — My NEW PJMedia post
PS: Hope you'll check out the excerpts from Don Letts' "Subcultures" series sponsored by Fred Perry -- they're outstanding... Pre-internet, if you didn’t know an … [Read more...]
‘Don’t you know who I’m not?!’ As always, read the paper upside down…
Catsmeat and chickeepoo kicked out of De Blasio VIP section when someone realized, correctly, that [Read more...]
Something Weird Video founder Mike Vraney dies, age 56
Dangerous Minds: Anyone—everyone—interested in strange cinema owes Mike Vraney a debt. The video shop that I mentioned in a DM post just yesterday carried so a … [Read more...]
Looks like I don’t have to worry about the Sex Pistols playing Vegas after all…
Thanks to Rick McGinnis for sending me this -- although now even John Lydon is saying [Read more...]
Lawmakers hear proposals to ensure the future of the hula hoop
Oh, sorry. That should be "Social Security." Retirement was a fad. The government will steal your savings. You will likely work until you drop. Basing your future on some glossy … [Read more...]