Saturday, November 29, 2008



NEW DUB MIX FROM HOTBOX RP RECORD'S LIGHTSLEEPER AKA. DJIAN STRAIGHT FROM L.A.
el $leep3r dubmix
Check it monnn... SEEN!.. IRIEE!







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Friday, November 28, 2008

SOuth PArk Burn Down Hottopic Retail Store (Twilight Bandwagon)


The Goth Kids drive a stake through the heart of the South Park Vampire Society.
With the popularity of Twilight(ughhhh)everybody wants to be a vampire.. Who knew? Well...the way to destroy an infestation of "vampires" in your town is to burn down your local Hot Topic (http://www.hottopic.com)or.. stop PRETENDING TO BE ONE..!!.





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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Spiritualized members form 'supergroup'




Former members of Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Spiritualized, Echo And The Bunnymen and Goldfrapp are set to perform their first gig under the name The Hookham Boys in London.
The band features Damon Reece (Massive Attack, Echo And The Bunnymen, Spiritualized), Alex Lee (Placebo, Suede, Goldfrapp), Sean Cook (Spiritualized), Joe Allen (Strangelove), Jake Drake Brockman (Echo And The Bunnymen), Vincent Pellegrino and Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), who rarely performs live.

Admission will be by donation, and proceeds from the show will go to the Teenage Cancer Trust.





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u got to have balls to do the "El Torro" .
how anyone to do ANYTHING on that rail is beyond me. that just seems way to fuckin crazy. that front smith is sooo clean.


Various clips from the el toro 20 set.





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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Volcom "BALUT SALUTE" Philippines Tour


"Skate Demo & Autograph Signing" then Party!


Date: December 6, 2008
Time: 2:00pm ONWARDS

Location: 28th Street, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City (the street beside the Helipad along Rizal Drive)






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Sunday, November 23, 2008

I MISS MY DIGITAL HARDCORE MUSIC.




DESSSSSSSSSSSTRRRRRRROOOOOOOOYYYYYY!!
If you haven't heard this kind of music before here's a brief description: Digital hardcore music is typically high-tempo and abrasive, combining the speed, heaviness and attitude of hardcore punk and riot grrrl with electronic music such as hardcore techno, drum and bass and industrial rock.

The music was first defined by the band Atari Teenage Riot, who formed in Berlin, Germany in 1992.The band's frontman, Alec Empire, coined the term "digital hardcore", setting up the independent record label Digital Hardcore Recordings in 1994. German bands with a similar style began signing to the label and its underground popularity grew, with small digital hardcore festivals being held in several German cities.By the mid-1990s, a number of new record labels specializing in the genre were formed around the world. These included Gangster Toons Industries (Paris), Praxis (London), Cross Fade Enter Tainment (Hamburg), Drop Bass Network (U.S.), and Bloody Fist (Australia). DHR also had some kinship with the Frankfurt labels Mille Plateaux and Riot Beats. Alec Empire's work subsequently set the template for breakcore.
Other prominent digital hardcore musicians of this period include Christoph De Babalon, Cobra Killer, EC8OR, Hanin Elias, Lolita Storm, Nic Endo, The Panacea, and The Mad Capsule Markets.

In Alec Empire's words, "Digital Hardcore went from a local, Berlin based scene to an international underground movement." The soundtrack to the film Threat included contributions from digital hardcore musicians, along with metalcore bands. James Plotkin, Dave Witte and Speedranch's project Phantomsmasher combined digital hardcore with grindcore. 21st century digital hardcore groups include Ambassador 21, Left Spine Down, Motormark, Rabbit Junk, The Shizit, Realicide and Tuareg Geeks.

I WOULD DIE FOR PEANUT BUTTER.
Between 'Burn Berlin Burn' and '60-Second Wipe-Out' I think this album is most definitely the better of the two.. with the latter having somewhat a bit of a rap type style to it.. not that that's good or bad, depends on one's tastes.. but with burn berlin burn, the singing is more, i dunno, better? I mean that it the nicest way possible so please no hard feelings..
much noisier and louder..?.???..
to sum it up, if yr looking at atr as something different or perhaps if yu've heard of them and are looking to hear them, i strongly recommend this album over the latter released '60...'
the album is mainly revolution based lyrical screams, distorted break-beats, sampling going on, and chaos..
I personally enjoy 'Into the Death','Heatwave','Not Your Business', and perhaps 'the Future Of War' slightly and I do mean slightly over the others, meaning that all the tracks are purely exquisite bliss ;'')

At the time ATR completely blew me away. To this day, whenever i need a nice sharp blast of audio amphetamine, this is the disc i reach for. And it's funny, on the surface it just seems like "oh, right, punk rock with techno beats", but the sounds and the textures are so perfectly dense and overwhelming that you know that the mastermind behind this wall of noise -- Alec Empire -- was far more than some snot nosed punk with a sampler. Sure, sure, the faux-anarchist stance is naive and silly, but something makes me think that underneath the naive self-righteous indignation, they knew it was silly too. For my money these guys were far more interesting, inspiring and innovative than Nirvana (even though they gleefully sample Nirvana, or re-play the riff and get away with it!)

Well, it's 2008 now and the digital hardcore revolution has all but ended, but still, it was a damn cool noise and deserves a listen. And the seeds of a new dissonance have been planted. Time to take that ball and run with it in a new exciting direction....

Oh yeah and make sure to use lots of exclamation points!!!

Arrgh!!!

ha ha!





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Friday, November 21, 2008

Almost Impact Lutzka Dude Review




hat is an Almost Impact support:
Almost Skateboards just came out with new technology. This new concept consists of two disks underneath both trucks that the top ply contains strips of a carbon fiber material encased in urethane. This process takes the harsh vibrations from landing high drops, large sets, or a constant of flip tricks and spread the pressure throughout the deck. This technology definitely does work. This new series has it all, gnarly graphics, sick tech, and a 30 day guarantees.



First Impressions: I saw this board in my local shop and it just looked so sick. When I got home I picked up another of my previous decks and compared the two weights, and I found the almost a bit heavier.Also it was a 7.6 and i was a bit worried it would be too skinny. Some people are scared off by the fact the are made by dwindle. So what if your deck is made in china, it still skates great.




After Set-Up: when I first stepped on it I could feel it was in fact a little heavy, but the response/pop felt amazing. Also the board was very easy to flip because of the size. The weight issue is definitely not a problem at all through this decks life, the amazing snap and response feel evens everything out.



Skating It: Throughout this decks life (a whopping 4 months) it held up great. It razortailed a little faster then many other decks, but chipping really wasn't a big issue until the last week of it's life. The impact disks stayed in (there's been rumors they pop out) and they didn't pressure crack a lot, just two tiny cracks on the outer back truck. On the last couple weeks I had it I noticed cracks along the back of the tail, which I have never seen before, but I have a feeling it was because I skated it constantly. The chipping is either nothing or major on these decks from what i've experienced. I was practicing my back tails and I chucked my board at the ledge (bs tails aren't really my friend, haha) and a chunk of the top ply came off the tail. about a half a month later I was practicing my 3flips up the euro and i was warming up, so my nose must have hit the top deck the right way and a huge chunk of the top 3 plys came off the nose. none of that affected my skating. It's death came about when i was trying shove mannys on a really low ledge, some kid walked in front of me and i got a really bad shinner, so I just focused it. It did not break from a skate related cause.



Here's the stats

Weight:5/10 - A little heavy, but it didn't bother me that much.
Pop/response: 8/10 - This is where the deck excels, great pop and response.
Durability: 7/10 - It held up, but large gashes and dents in the side is common, also chips a bit. Razortail occurred fast too.
Flip: 9/10 - Very easy to flip and catch, very nice control.
Overall: 7.25/10



Concerns/FAQs/Final Points:


1. Impact Support technology reduces pressure cracks, and reduces breakage near the trucks.
2. The weight of this deck is a bit heavier than your standard favorite.
3. This deck is very easy to flip, unlike some decks that take a lot of effort to do large flip tricks.
4. The responsive feel of this deck is great, it pops up onto your feet, and because of this there's a good control variable.
5. This deck is good for everybody (unlike what I said before). Yes it provides excellent performance for stairs and drops. It also provides a great amount of controlability for tech skaters. The deck's shape helps with locking into grinds and landing tricks clean.
6. The warranty is cool because you can get a new one if you snap it in the middle a lot.
7. Not a flimsy deck, such and habitats or toys. when i'm skating such decks I feel I could focus it with my left foot first try.



Thanks for reading!




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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Marijuana Could Be Good for Memory — But Not if You Get High (huh?!)





Everybody knows a forgetful stoner, but research suggests that low doses of marijuana could be good for memory, and even help prevent Alzheimer's disease.

When given a compound similar to THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, rat brains displayed reduced levels of inflammation associated with Alzheimer's disease. The drug also stimulated the production of proteins associated with memory formation and brain cell growth.

"Everyone is aware that smoking too much marijuana impairs memory," said Ohio State University psychologist Yannick Marchalant. "Our work stays on the safe side — doses that we know are not going to impair memory, but improved it."

Marchalant and fellow OSU psychologist Gary Wenk previously showed that marijuana can improve memory formation in rats. The latest research, presented at this week's Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, provides a detailed look at THC's effect on the brain.





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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

WAHAHAHAHAHA! Sex Doll In The Woods Sets Off Murder Investigation




A 60-year-old Japanese man has been charged after dumping his lifelike sex doll in a remote part of the woods, as he could find no better alternative for disposing of it. After it was stumbled upon by a couple walking their dog, police launched a murder investigation that was halted when forensic pathologists finally unwrapped the "corpse." The case sheds light on an interesting quandary: how does one get rid of an extremely realistic replica of a human being?




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Michael Moore's Next Movie



When Paramount Vantage and Overture announced Michael Moore's long-gestating follow-up to "Fahrenheit 9/11" in May, executives stressed the film's foreign-policy scope. "This is going to tackle what's going on in the world and America's place in it," Paramount Vantage chief Nick Meyer said.

But as the political winds shifted in the months before the election -- and gusted after it -- Moore subtly began reorienting his movie. Instead of foreign policy, the film's focus now is more on the global financial crisis and the U.S. economy.

The untitled movie will contain an end-of-the-empire tone, say those familiar with the project, and Moore no doubt hopes that this will give it a more general feel that will untether it from a specific political moment.

But some political and entertainment experts wonder how much Moore's incredulousness and occasional pessimism about the state of U.S. policy, which served the filmmaker well during the George W. Bush years, will play in the current hopeful climate brought on President-elect Barack Obama.

"If Moore offers a prescription for how to improve things, he may indeed find an audience that at this moment is eager for change," said Craig Minassian, an entertainment consultant and former Bill Clinton aide. "But it's going to be hard for him. What this election shows is what's right with America, and sometimes what Michael Moore does is highlight what's wrong with America."

In the meantime, a focus on the collapsing markets brings its own risk, Minassian said. "The problem with the financial crisis is that it's changing so quickly. I'm not sure how relevant is going to be in six months, and I'm not sure if people want to hear it; my sense is they already have a pretty good idea of a lot of the people who are to blame for it."

An election favoring the Democrats would remove some of the factors that put Moore in vogue both in the U.S. and abroad during the Bush years -- and pushed his three theatrical movies during that time to more than $300 million in worldwide boxoffice.

It's worth noting that Moore famously shoots a lot of footage and makes many critical decisions later in the production process, so the tone could still shift; it's tricky to know what any Moore movie will ultimately look like before he completes the film.

Overture and Vantage declined comment.

Still, Moore is feverishly shooting, and the movie is expected to come out as early as this spring, with Vantage and Overture hoping to capitalize on the current high levels of political awareness.

Moore has also said that in some ways he sees the movie less as a sequel to the Middle East-themed "Fahrenheit 9/11" than as a bookend to "Roger & Me," the director's breakthrough nearly two decades ago. That movie featured the U.S. economy and the auto industry at its center, and that, if nothing else, could again prove a timely theme.





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Sunday, November 16, 2008

"Zeitgeist Addendum" PARTs 1 to 10


We cannot post all the videos in this blog.. so.. click on this you tube link to listen. parts 1 to 10 : http://www.youtube.com/user/zeitgeistmovie?ob=4

UPDATE: "Zeitgeist Addendum" will be premiering at the 5th Annual Artivists Film Festival on Oct. 2, 2008. It will be free online on Oct. 3, 2008.


This channel will contain interviews with Peter Joseph and other related media that pertains to "Zeitgeist The Movie"

The Revolution Is Now.

Please visit www.ZeitgeistMovie.com

Note: This account is not monitored by the film's creator. All emails to the film's creator should be addressed directly through the film's site.

** Updated 10/14/07 *** There have been several other websites and organizations claiming to be working in connection to this film and it's creator. They are not. The only official resource for this film is http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com. All others websites and organizations claiming to be affiliated are claiming so falsely.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Defining SERiAL MURDER


Serial Killers: Defining Serial Murder


From Eric W. Hickey's "Serial Murderers and Their Victims"

Differences Between Mass Murderers and Serial Killers


Gary Ronald York and James Douglas Latham, spree killers who travelled from Florida to Utah

In both mass and serial murder cases, victims die as the offender momentarily gains control of his or her life by controlling others. But the differences between these two types of offenders far outweigh the similarities. First, mass murderers are generally apprehended or killed by police, commit suicide, or turn themselves in to authorities. Serial killers, by contrast, usually make special efforts to elude detection. Indeed, they may continue to kill for weeks, months, and often years before they are found and stopped-if they are found at all. In the case of the California Zodiac killer, the homicides appeared to have stopped, but an offender was never apprehended for those crimes. Perhaps the offender was incarcerated for only one murder and never linked to the others, or perhaps he or she was imprisoned for other crimes. Or the Zodiac killer may have just decided to stop killing or to move to a new location and kill under a new modus operandi, or method of committing the crime. The killer may even have become immobilized because of an accident or an illness or have died without his or her story ever being told. Speculation currently exists that the Zodiac killer is stalking victims in the New York City area. The Zodiac case is only one example of unsolved serial murders, many of which will never be solved.

Second, although both types of killers evoke fear and anxiety in the community, the reaction to a mass murder will be much more focused and locally limited than that to serial killing. People generally perceive the mass killer as one suffering from mental illnesses. This immediately creates a "they"/"us" dichotomy in which "they" are different from "us" because of mental problems. We can somehow accept the fact that a few people go "crazy" sometimes and start shooting others. However, it is more disconcerting to learn that some of the "nicest" people one meets lead a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde life: a student by day, a killer of coeds by night; a caring, attentive nurse who secretly murders sick children, the handicapped, or the elderly; a building contractor and politician who enjoys sexually torturing and killing young men and burying them under his home. When we discover that people exist who are not considered to be insane or crazy but who enjoy killing others for "recreation," this indeed gives new meaning to the word "stranger." Although the mass murderer is viewed as a deranged soul, a product of a stressful environment who is just going to "explode" now and then (but of course somewhere else), the serial murder is seen as much more sinister and is more capable of producing fear.

Third, the mass murderer kills groups of people at once, whereas the serial killer individualizes his or her murders. The serial killer continues to hurt and murder victims, whereas the mass murderer makes his or her "final statement" in or about life through the medium of abrupt and final violence. We rarely if ever hear of a mass murderer who has the opportunity to enact a second mass murder or to become a serial killer. Similarly, we rarely if ever hear of a serial killer who also enacts a mass murder.

The mass murderer and the serial killer are quantitatively and qualitatively different, and disagreement continues about their characteristics just as it does about the types of mass and serial offenders that appear to have emerged in recent years. Perhaps the single most critical stumbling block that today stands in the way of understanding serial murder is the disagreement among researchers and law enforcement about how to define the phenomenon.



Defining Serial Murder




In February, 1989, the Associated Press released a story about a serial killer who preyed on prostitutes in the same area of Los Angeles that harbored the Southside Slayer. He was believed to have killed at least 12 women, all with a small handgun. The news story referred to the victims as "strawberries"-young women who sold sex for drugs. Farther north, the Green River Task Force in Seattle, Washington, continues to investigate a series of murders of at least 45 young women over the past eight years. When the corpses of boys and young men began appearing along the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1980s, police became convinced a serial killer was at work in the area. The preceding cases are typical of homicides one might envision when characterizing victims of serial killers. The media quickly and eagerly focus attention on serial killings because they appear to be so bizarre and extraordinary. They engender the kind of headline that sell newspapers: "The Atlanta Child Killer," "The Stocking Strangler," "The Hillside Strangler," "The Sunday Morning Slasher," "The Boston Strangler," ad infinitum. The media focus not only on how many victims were killed but on how they died. Thus they feed morbid curiosity and at the same time create a stereotype of the typical serial killer: Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper, Albert Desalvo, and a host of other young white males attacking unsuspecting women powerless to defend themselves from the savage sexual attacks and degradations by these monsters.

But what is the reality? For those in law enforcement, serial killing generally means the sexual attack and murder of young women, men, and children by a male who follows a pattern, physical or psychological. However, this definition fails to include many offenders and victims. For example, in 1988 in Sacramento, California, several bodies of older or handicapped adults were exhumed from the backyard of a house where they were supposed to have been living. Investigators discovered the victims had been killed for their Social Security checks. It was apparent the killer had premeditated the murders, had selected the victims, and had killed at least six over a period of several months. Most law enforcement agencies would naturally classify this case as a serial killing-except for the fact that the killer was female. Because of rather narrow definitions of serial killing females are generally not classified as serial killers even though they meet the requirements for such a label. One explanation may simply be that we rarely if ever hear of a female "Jack the Ripper." Women who kill serially generally use poisons to dispose of their victims and are not associated with the sexual attacks, tortures, and violence of their male counterparts.

Although many offenders actually fall into the serial killer classification, they are excluded because they fail to meet law enforcement definitions or media-generated stereotypes of brutal, blood-thirsty monsters. The "angels of death" who work in hospitals and kill patients, or nursing home staff who kill the elderly, or the "black widows" who kill their family and relatives also meet the general criteria for serial killing except for the stereotypic element of violence. These men and women do not slash and torture their victims nor do they sexually attack them; they are the quiet killers. They are also the kinds of people who could be married, hold steady jobs, or simply be the nice man or woman who lives next door. They are rare among serial killers, just as serial murders are rare compared with other types of homicide.

To include all types of serial killers, the definition of serial murder must clearly be as broad as possible. For instance, Hickey (1986), by simply including all offenders who through premeditation killed three or more victims over a period of days, weeks, months, or years, was able to identify several women as serial killers. However, there exists such confusion in defining serial killing that findings can also easily be distorted. In addition, current research presents some narrow operational definitions of serial murder without any documented assurances that the focus does not exclude pertinent data. To suggest, for example, that all victims of serial murder are strangers, that the killers operate primarily in pairs, or that they do not kill for financial gain is derived more from speculation than verifiable evidence, given the current state of serial murder research.


Typologies of Murder

In essence serial murderers should include any offenders, male or female, who kill over time. Most researchers agree that serial killers have a minimum of 3-4 victims. Usually there is a pattern in their killing that may be associated with the types of victims selected or the method or motives for the killing. This includes murderers who, on a repeated basis, kill within the confines of their own home, such as a woman who poisons several husbands, children, or elderly people in order to collect insurance. In addition, serial murderers include those men and women who operate within the confines of a city or a state or even travel through several states as they seek out victims. Consequently, some victims have a personal relationship with their killers and others do not, and some victims are killed for pleasure and some merely for gain. Of greatest importance from a research perspective is the linkage of common factors among the victims-for example, as Egger (1985) observed, "victims' place or status within their immediate surroundings (such as vagrants, prostitutes, migrant workers, homosexuals, missing children, and single and often elderly women)" (p. 3). Commonality among those murdered may include several factors, any of which can prove heuristic in better understanding victimization.

Much of our information and misinformation about criminal offenders is based on taxonomies, or classification systems. Megargee and Bohn (1979) noted that researchers usually created typologies based on the criminal offense. This invariably became problematic because often the offense comprised one or more subgroups. Researchers then examined repetitive crime patterns, which in turn created new complexities and problems. Megargee and Bohn further noted that, depending on the authority one chooses to read, one will find between two and eleven different types of murderers (pp. 29-32). Although serial murder is believed to represent a relatively small portion of all homicides in the United States, already researchers have begun the difficult task of classifying serial killers. Consequently, various typologies of serial killers and patterns of homicides have emerged. Not surprisingly, some of these typologies and patterns conflict with one another. Some are descriptions of causation, whereas others are diagnostic in nature. In addition, some researchers focus primarily on individual case studies of serial killers, whereas others create group taxonomies that accommodate several kinds of murderers.

Wille (1974) identified ten different types of murderers covering a broad range of bio-socio-psychological categories:

  1. depressive
  2. psychotic
  3. afflicted with organic brain disorder
  4. psychopathic
  5. passive aggressive
  6. alcoholic
  7. hysterical
  8. juvenile (the child was the killer)
  9. mentally retarded
  10. sex killers

Lee (1988) also created a variety of labels to differentiate killers according to motive, including:

  1. profit
  2. passion
  3. hatred
  4. power or domination
  5. revenge
  6. opportunism
  7. fear
  8. contract killing
  9. desperation
  10. compassion
  11. ritual

Even before American society became aware, in the early 1980s, of serial murder as anything more than an anomaly, researchers had begun to classify multiple killers and assign particular characteristics and labels to them. Guttmacher (1973) described the sadistic serial murderer as one who derives sexual gratification from killing and who often establishes a pattern, such as the manner in which they kill or the types of victims they select, such as prostitutes, children, or the elderly. Motivated by fantasies, the offender appears to derive pleasure from dehumanizing his or her victims. Lunde (1976) recognized and noted distinctions between the mass killer and the serial killer, notably that the mass killer appears to suffer from psychosis and should be considered insane. By contrast he found little evidence of mental illness among serial killers. Danto (1982) noted that most serial murderers may be described as obsessive-compulsive because they normally kill according to a particular style and pattern.

Researchers have been attempting to create profiles of the "typical" serial killer from the rapidly accumulating statistics on offenders and victims in the United States. The most stereotypical of all serial murderers are those who in some way are involved sexually with their victims. It is this type of killer who generates such public interest and alarm. Stories of young women being abducted, raped, tortured, and strangled appear more and more frequently in the newspapers.




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An Attempt To Prevent Water Wars Of The Future


In scary Mad Max-esq times ahead, the most essential natural resource will probably be water, not oil. Vast underground aquifers lie hidden across the globe. The problem is that these crucial sources of fresh water cross national boundaries, setting up the potential for conflict over their control at virtually every transnational border on the planet. With this fear in mind, the United Nations' UNESCO has completed a "blue gold" map resulting from a decade of work between numerous countries. The hope is that by revealing the layout of the Earth's large hidden deposits of water, the way will be paved to international law governing how water is shared between adjoining nations.






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Was George Carlin Our Mark Twain? Comedy Greats Say Yes



Shining stars from America's comedy universe gathered Monday in Washington to honor the late, great George Carlin with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Jon Stewart, Denis Leary, Bill Maher, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin and more congregated at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to pay their respects and recall how Carlin shaped their careers and made hard work seem like nothing but laughs.

"For all his anti-establishment cred, he was a working man," Stewart told the crowd, according to the Associated Press. "He punched in. He sat down and he wrote. He respected what he did."

Others did not: The event was greeted by some protesters with signs reading "Carlin's Going to Hell."

For his part, Carlin would probably have been flattered by that. After all, he thrived on commentary and confrontation, dissecting language, logic and hypocrisy better than nearly all his peers and followers. His infamously insightful "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television" routine made it all the way to the Supreme Court. And his sociopolitical salvos burned either side of the red-blue divide.

"On certain things you'd call him a lefty. On other things, you'd be surprised how conservative he might be," his best friend and former manager Jerry Hamza told the AP. "[But he] would have been humbly grateful" for the award, Hamza added. Throughout his career [Carlin] was perceived as an outsider or maverick, [but] had a real desire to connect with other comedians. He loved being in that club."

Being compared to previous Mark Twain Prize-winners like Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Billy Crystal and Lily Tomlin is one thing. But being compared to Mark Twain is quite another, as the author was not only a master of language and satire, but a timeless chronicler of American society and its discontents. His work has transcended time itself -- no easy feat, and one that Tomlin and Crystal might have difficulty with down the road.

But I believe Carlin will not. When it comes to the great subjects of the 20th century -- war, media, advertising, racism, consumption, governance -- and even the little ones -- where you put all your stuff, bad drivers, fussy eaters -- Carlin is almost unparalleled in his wit and critique. He was an exceptional American, and a top-shelf satirist whose rants will live on through the 21st century.

Rest in peace, you cranky, brilliant bastard.





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Thursday, November 13, 2008

In Real World News: Batman versus Batman

Where are you from? Oh, I'm from Batman!

Yes, mga bords, there is a place called Batman. It is is a city on the Batman River in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of Turkey.

And on November 7th, 2008, Batman Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan began looking into legal possibilities toward suing Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight for naming infringement and "placing the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the film's success has had on the city's inhabitants."
Huseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of Batman, has accused "The Dark Knight" producers of using the city's name without permission.

"There is only one Batman in the world," Kalkan said. "The American producers used the name of our city without informing us." (i love this guy!)

I was laughing my ass on a comment made by somebody in the superherohype site, who calls himself "dude" saying: "Sounds like Turkey is having some money problems. This should be a lesson to tell the people of 'Wolverine', 'Watchmen' and the city of "Captain America:The First Avenger" before they sue"


yep. That's the mayor of Batman. Maybe he'll sue Nintendo next for basing Super Mario on him. hehehe




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