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Well, the season’s just about over for my garden. Within the next few weeks I’ll be reaping the last of the hot peppers and drying them out, bringing in the planters and thinking about next year…The plan after the jump.
(PS The squash I bought at a farmer’s market and was letting it ripen a bit more)
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This whole infantalizing (or is it infantisizing?) of adult puppet characters has got to stop. I will touch on this more in a later post, but for now, this is just ridiculous:
OK SERIOUSLY.
WTF.
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A Tiny Revolution has a great bit about what a Democrat commercial would look like in response to Bush’s comment that the current civilian deaths in Iraq would “look just like a comma” in the history books.
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JC Penney has banked their buck on the Carol Channing Ventriloqist’s Doll being the hottest toy this season. I can’t imagine any child crying their eyes out when they open their gifts and find this under their tree. Because every child wants to play with a Carol Channing dummy that they can work into their routine as a 1920’s ventriloquist! Bear in mind that all the people who find ventriloquism funny are dead, and that vaudeville routines ain’t coming back anytime soon. I’ve got my ear fairly close to the hipster ground and I haven’t picked up any buzz on this hot new trend.
JCP also has this available for other famous dummies, like Charlie McCarthy, Howdy Doody, and more! I’d post them, but they’re only in JCP’s (Bad) Idea Book and not willing to put them online and for good reason. Collect them all, and then collect massive amounts of anger (not to mention the bills from future therapy sessions) from your child when they bring this to show-and-tell on January 2nd.
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Holy Crap — you can play as flyboy Bernie Sanders as he drops the bomb on special interests, the Extreme Right Wing, Mudslingers, and my favorite, Fat Cats.
Link
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Ben Folds covering “Such Great Heights”
Why won’t wordpress let me embed YouTube crap?
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…and ours was not among them. Granted, these are pretty good, but Bohemian Raspberry and my sister Karen’s I Am The Walnut are pretty good, you have to admit.
Here’s my take:
Well, there’s always next year.
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If you’re like me, you enjoy futuristic fiction, but not that crappy let’s-live-in-space/crappy-SciFi-network-shows/bizarro-future-worlds kind of futuristic fiction. I enjoy the social aspects of the future, like what will normal, everyday people be doing? How does all of this technology affect our lives and how will it affect future generations? What’s it going to be like in 20, 30, 50, 100 years? The differences between 1956 and 2006 are astounding; I’m just trying to picture 2056 and my mind’s getting, like, totally blown away!
Here’s a short story that was published in New Scientist magazine, via boingboing.net, and it’s all about teens in the future being completely put into line via the control of totally awesome social networking. Here’s a clip:
That creepy “differential permissioning” sure saves a lot of trouble for grown-ups. Increasing chunks of the world are just… magically off limits. It’s a weird new regime where every mall and every school and every bus and train and jet is tagged and tracked and ambient and pervasive and ubiquitous and geolocative… Jesus, I love those words… Where was I?
Right. We teenagers have to live in “controlled spaces”. Radio-frequency ID tags, real-time locative systems, global positioning systems, smart doorways, security videocams. They “protect” us kids, from imaginary satanic drug dealer terrorist mafia predators. We’re “secured”. We’re juvenile delinquents with always-on cellphone nannies in our pockets. There’s no way to turn them off. The internet was designed without an off-switch.
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