Dr. Terawatt's Journal of Ecstatic Rural Poetics
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My friends would appreciate this.
Librarians are very special people. They are the caregivers of the world of the mind, the nurturers of dreams and the defenders of truth. Perhaps no other profession is so marked by the singular generosity of its practitioners.
- Denver Post editorial, March 25, 2000
What have the cyclists ever done for us?
REG: Cyclists have bled us white, the bastards. They don’t pay road tax, they run red lights. And what have they ever given us in return?
XERXES: Pneumatic tyres.
REG: What?
XERXES: Pneumatic tyres.
REG: Oh. Yeah, yeah. They did give us that. Uh, that’s true. Yeah.
COMMANDO #3: And ball bearings.
REG: Yeah. All right. I’ll grant you pneumatic tyres and ball bearings are two things that the cyclists have done.
MATTHIAS: And the roads.
REG: Well, yeah. Obviously the roads. I mean, the roads go without saying, don’t they? But apart from pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, and the roads…
COMMANDO: Lightweight steel tubing.
XERXES: Chain driven differential gears.
COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh…
Follow the link for more of this Monty Python-inspired history lesson of the debt motorized travel pays to cycling pioneers and activists!
I assembled this “Five Card Nancy” strip back in 2008 and promptly forgot all about it. But it must be shared.
Scott McCloud’s 5 Card Nancy page: http://www.7415comics.com/nancy/index.html
Cosmic Jungle (Second Rough Mix)
Terawatt
A miniature sketch of a tune that I put together a few weeks ago. Will have to rework it into something much longer, since the main drum loop is pretty awesome and can go into lots of territory. A friend said it has a Ratatat vibe to it; I concur.
Rrrrrrright (Dharmapunk Remix) (320kbps)
Deerhoof
Back in 2005, Deerhoof issued a challenge to its fans. Download a file of mp3s of the building blocks (bass parts, vocals, drum tracks, etc.) to the new song “Rrrrrrright” and use them to make remixes, which could then be submitted to the band’s website and posted for all the world to enjoy. Of course, I had to see what kind of damage I could do.
This is the end result, which I discovered today while digging through an old hard drive.
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
(Source: New York Magazine)
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