As a follow-up to my Roddy Frame post from a week or two back, here’s Roddy teaming up with Mick Jones from The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite to do something energetic, political, and way danceable: the ever-fabulous “Good Morning Britain,” from Aztec Camera’s album Stray, released as a single in 1990. And this is […]
Entries Tagged as 'Culture'
Music: “Good Morning, Britain”
April 5th, 2007 · Comments Off on Music: “Good Morning, Britain” · Culture, Music, New Wave, Video
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News Roundup: Amber Waves of Tainted Grain Edition
April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Blogs, Business, Climate Change, Culture, Doctor Who, Food, Foreign Policy, Health, Human Rights, LGBT, Media, News, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Supreme Court, TV
Bush thinks he has the right to “attach conditions” to the Supreme Court’s ruling on greenhouse gases. Bush also said China and India must get on board the international effort to combat global warming. “Unless there is an accord with China,” he said, “China will produce greenhouse gases that will offset anything we do in […]
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Jonesing for Doctor Who
April 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Jonesing for Doctor Who · Culture, Doctor Who, Lit, Media, News, Science Fiction, TV
Season 3 of Doctor Who is off to a great start, premiering on the BBC this past Saturday night to an appreciative 35.9% of the UK TV audience. Episode 1, “Smith and Jones,” served up rhino-headed aliens called The Judoon, a hospital on the moon, and of course the debut of the Doctor’s new companion, […]
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News Roundup: Supreme Court, Python,
and Gromit Edition
April 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Advertising, Apple, Blogs, Business, Climate Change, Comedy, Culture, Film, Fringe, Health, Human Rights, iTunes, LGBT, Media, Music, Nature, Neo-Futurists, News, Politics, Supreme Court, Torture, Travel, TV
The Supreme Court rules that the EPA has the authority — and the responsibility — to regulate greenhouse gases. Carl Pope of The Sierra Club says: “Today’s ruling is a watershed moment in the fight against global warming … The ruling is a total rejection of the Bush administration’s refusal to use its existing authority […]
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Music: Tim Curry, “I Do the Rock”
April 2nd, 2007 · 4 Comments · Culture, Film, Music, New Wave, Video
Time for a little Monday music pick-me-up! This one needs no introduction: it’s the inimitable Mr. Tim Curry doing that thing he does. Nobody prances better.
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Raising Issues with Tissues: Greenpeace Infiltrates Kleenex Ad Campaign!
April 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Raising Issues with Tissues: Greenpeace Infiltrates Kleenex Ad Campaign! · Activism, Advertising, Business, Climate Change, Media, Nature, Politics, Video
One more post in honor of April Fool’s day — here’s Greenpeace pulling a pretty good activist prank. Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, are responsible for clear-cutting irreplaceable old-growth forests in order to make their tissues. Meanwhile, there’s this Kleenex ad campaign where people are asked to sit on a blue sofa, artistically placed on […]
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News Roundup: “An Exceptionally Heavy
Spaghetti Crop”
March 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Activism, Apple, Business, Climate Change, Comedy, Culture, Factory Farming, Feminism, Film, Food, Health, HIV/AIDS, iTunes, LGBT, Media, Music, News, Politics, Science, Tech, TV, Video
Here’s a little smorgasbord of items I wanted to blog this past week, and didn’t get the chance to. Because unlike spaghetti, time to blog doesn’t grow on trees! John Nichols of The Nation asks whether we’re nearing an “Impeachment Moment,” noting that the I-word is finally being discussed — if not exactly embraced — […]
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In Chicago: Even in Blackouts, LIP,
and The Dollar Store Show
March 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on In Chicago: Even in Blackouts, LIP,
and The Dollar Store Show · Chicago, Culture, Fringe, Music, Neo-Futurists, News, Performance, Poetry, The Partly Dave Show
What’s going on in Chicago this coming week? Almost too much for one imaginary tree-climbing pachyderm to blog. But here are a few highlights: On Monday night, the world’s best acoustic pop-punk outfit, John Pierson’s band Even in Blackouts, will be playing a basement concert in John’s own basement! It’s at [address redacted now that […]
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Mia Farrow on Darfur, Divestment,
and the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
March 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Business, Culture, Film, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, News, Peace, Politics
Mia Farrow, in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN, seems to be taking a real leadership role in drawing attention to the genocide in Darfur and putting pressure on those who have the ability to do something about it. Earlier this week she had a great op-ed in The Boston Globe (free […]
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The Roosters of the Peace
March 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Nature, Peace, Video
And now for something completely different: Two chickens break up a fight between two rabbits. And we’ve got the video. You go, peace roosters! What would El-ahrairah do?
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Music: Split Enz & Sparks
March 29th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Blogroll, Blogs, Culture, Music, New Wave, Performance
Ooh, I think it’s high time for another musical interlude, before Ocelopotamus goes into New Wave withdrawal. We don’t want the Ocelopotamus getting antsy, hissing and splashing around in some kind of hypo-wave-onic panic and scaring the crocodiles. In fact, let’s start off with a welcoming doff of the cap to all of Ocelopotamus’s new […]
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Brzezinski on Iraq: Escalation Is “A Nonstarter.”
March 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Foreign Policy, History, Media, News, Peace, Politics
The April issue of Harper’s Magazine has a lengthy transcript of remarks by Zbigniew Brzezinski speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Feb. 1. Brzezinski was the National Security Adviser in the Carter Administration, and is currently a professor of foreign policy at Johns Hopkins University. I’m no expert on Brzezinski, and reading over […]
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Mandarin Dynamite!
March 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Culture, Film, Food, Journal, Science
I was at the Whole Foods yesterday and they had something called a “Meyer’s Lemon” in the produce section, which looked like a lemon only much orangerer, and a helpful sign explained that it is indeed a cross between a lemon and an orange, developed in China. My question: if you create a cross between […]
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News: The Hidden Cost of Margarine
March 27th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Adobe, Climate Change, Comics, Culture, Internet, Media, Music, News, Performance, Politics, Science, Software, Tech
• Orangutans may be extinct within five years, thanks to a soaring demand for palm oil leading to the destruction of their forest habitat. This situation needs to be addressed in product labeling somehow, so consumers can know that they’re buying sustainable, “orangutan and rainforest-safe” palm oil. Via this DKos diary. • Here’s a fascinating […]
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