Klipz

listening to "The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset"

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 11:45:08 -0600

listening to "The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset":

mescaline synesthesia.

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:09:03 -0600

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin created a small scandal when she told a North Carolina crowd, “We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America.

via amazon.com

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Book Review - 'Methland - The Death and Life of an American Small Town,' by Nick Reding - Review - NYTimes.com

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:56:09 -0600

Illustration by Henning Wagenbreth

via nytimes.com

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listening to "Atomic Blondie - "

Sat, 30 May 2009 09:24:45 -0600

listening to "Atomic Blondie - ":

make it magnificent!

"Chris Locke is working on a new political biography to be titled “Are You There, Oxycontin? It’s Me,..."

Wed, 06 May 2009 14:29:40 -0600

“Chris Locke is working on a new political biography to be titled “Are You There, Oxycontin? It’s Me, Rush.” “”

- too good (via humorzo)

"Controversy in the 1990s also emerged when it was discovered the Church Universal and Triumphant was..."

Wed, 06 May 2009 13:02:24 -0600

“Controversy in the 1990s also emerged when it was discovered the Church Universal and Triumphant was amassing a very large cache of weapons. This discovery seemed to be at odds with the Church Universal and Triumphant’s message to outsiders as a place of peace and harmony. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, State, and Local Law Enforcement Agencies subsequently investigated this area and found the Church Universal and Triumphant’s Leaders to have been complicit in obtaining and hoarding these dangerous weapons.”

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphant

see also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Ballard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22I_AM%22_Activity

listening to "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo (blip.up) - Rick Derringer"

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:01:56 -0600

listening to "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo (blip.up) - Rick Derringer":

what can I say. that time of night.

“At first glance, everything looked safe.” ~ Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:36:25 -0600

“At first glance, everything looked safe.”

~ Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956

listening to "She's Not There - The Zombies"

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:33:56 -0600

listening to "She's Not There - The Zombies"

Twittering to myself here on Tumblr. I may have achieved the total satori of full-bore...

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:51:12 -0600

Twittering to myself here on Tumblr. I may have achieved the total satori of full-bore self-involvement. Call Guiness!

Making ground lamb jambalaya. Bit of a culinary mixed metaphor, but it sure smells good cooking.

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:49:12 -0600

Making ground lamb jambalaya. Bit of a culinary mixed metaphor, but it sure smells good cooking.

More snow on the way. Also, more groceries. Wot larks!

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:48:09 -0600

More snow on the way. Also, more groceries. Wot larks!

listening to "Liar Liar - Castaways"

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:14:39 -0600

listening to "Liar Liar - Castaways"

Fucking about with blip.fm here. Stand by…

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:12:00 -0600

Fucking about with blip.fm here. Stand by…

Listen to my station on Blip.fm!

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:11:27 -0600

Listen to my station on Blip.fm!

"The $50 Registration fee can be waived if you have a current license to Carry a Concealed..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:18:40 -0600

“The $50 Registration fee can be waived if you have a current license to Carry a Concealed Weapon (CCW).”

- spooky shit from Minuteman Border Fence

G8

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:01:19 -0600

"Series XII. Midget Schedules “Midget schedules” from 1934, filed alphabetically by last..."

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:30:03 -0600

“

Series XII. Midget Schedules

“Midget schedules” from 1934, filed alphabetically by last name. The data was compiled from midgets who were assembled from around the world to work in the “Midget Village” at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1933 and in 1934. The “midget schedules” include measurements and trait descriptions. Also in this series are files of clippings, correspondence, notes, and photographs concerning the Midget Village, including an oversized photograph of the midgets who worked there. There is one card file containing bibliographical citations about midgets, as well as traits for individual midgets.

”

- Eugenics Record Office Records , American Philosophical Society. On this same page, compare the voluminous Trait Files and associated material with, e.g., Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman. We are re-inventing some mighty strange wheels. Which is not to suggest that anyone actually gives a shit.

White People on God

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:06:34 -0600

White People on God

" Department of Genetics (1904-1971) The Station for Experimental Evolution was established in 1904..."

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:22:07 -0600

“

Department of Genetics (1904-1971)

The Station for Experimental Evolution was established in 1904 at Cold Spring Harbor in Long Island by CIW [Carnegie Institution of Washington] under the suggestion of Charles B. Davenport. He would become the department’s first director. The name changed to the Department of Experimental Evolution in 1906 and combined with the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) in 1921 to form the Department of Genetics. During these years, researchers studied how genetic information was passed through familial lines. “They also studied human traits, and that is where Davenport ran into trouble. He became a leader among eugenicists, who sought to use scientific principles of heredity to solve social problems….This shameful initiative was ended by Vannevar Bush almost as soon as he became president of the Institution.” (Trefil 49)”

- Carnegie Institution of Washington