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This is just awful. I don’t want to live here anymore. KGW’s lovely Abbey Gibb files an informative news feature on just how Portland’s awful history of human trafficking is revealed in a network of underground tunnels downtown: http://www.kgw.com/entertainment/Sha-138610174.html Thanks to Ben Easher for this 1999 article from Anodyne Magazine Online which includes such . . . → Read More: Portland’s Awful History of Human Trafficking Revealed in Network of Underground Tunnels Downtown
Peter Stampfel with daughter Zoë Click here to view Freak Folk Origins Part I, by Peter Stampfel. The Weavers had their last hit in 1952 with “Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)” after which they were shot down by the House Un-American Activities witch hunt. Guy Mitchell, who had a number of folkish hits in . . . → Read More: Freak Folk Origins Part II, by Peter Stampfel Perhaps the most un-American thing about Vladimir Nabokov was his unwillingness to play at the jazz of talk show gab—even in this nearly prehistoric example. “Off the cuff” was simply not in his vast vocabulary. Whether the interview was to be published or broadcast, VN insisted on receiving the questions in advance and . . . → Read More: Vladimir Nabokov Discusses Lolita on Fifties Television, By Tom Fredrickson It was forty years ago today, Daniel Ellsberg brought the Prez to play, They’d been going onward to raise a pile, And they’re guaranteed to raise a smile, So may I introduce to you, The act you’ve known for all these years, Ellberg’s papers helped the Prez go down. Yes, forty years ago today . . . → Read More: Pentagon Papers in the NYT, By Mark Erickson Here is a new music video from the band Longboat (Igor Keller) of their song “Beyond the Moon.” It embodies all the hopes and dreams of the post-war era. – Jim Demetre This is from Reddit, where the description read, “She asked the balloon wrangling dude for a machine gun. He added a touch of awesome.” This Smithsonian-bound photo comes with a super-sized combo of illustrative details at no extra cost. Not only are we served the proud gleam of the misunderstood balloon man and the . . . → Read More: She Asked the Balloon Wrangling Dude For a Machine Gun – He Added a Touch of Awesome I’m lying on a recliner, its’ faint aroma of sweat and mold having long past become an unnoticed fragment of my day. The white sheet draped over it helps to mask the odor, but it still creeps through, like smoke in a clean room. The sleeve of my sweatshirt is covering my eyes and . . . → Read More: Fighting Fire With Men, Machines and Water: Answering the Call of Duty at a Chicago Firehouse – By Stephen Sawyer Up until the late 1960′s it was rare that a Top 40 hit single broke the three-minute mark. Sure, there were exceptions, such as Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” and The Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” both of which ran well over three minutes. But so much was exceeding the three-minute . . . → Read More: RICHIE’S REPRISAL: IN PRAISE OF THE 3-MINUTE SINGLE DURING AM RADIO’S PSYCHEDELIC ERA: Notes from the Pallid Pilgrim, Rich Horton Full story is here. Full story is here. Today’s the 50th Anniversary: . FBI page re Christopher Wallace with downloadable pdfs. Time magazine article on the subject. Thanks to Boing Boing. . Daniel 12:4: But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. – KJV The Daily Mail has reported, “For scholars of faith and history, it is a treasure trove too precious for price. . . . → Read More: Daily Mail – The Biggest Find Since the Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy Metal Books Found in Cave in Jordan Could Change Our View of Biblical History |
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