Look at This Blog

Just caught a sneak preview of Pirate Radio (aka The Boat that Rocked) with Wendy. It’s based on the true story of pirate radio in England in the 60s. The flick is a lot of Hollywood schmaltz, but the story is cool and it’s a potent reminder that governments used to fear the power of art.

swine it up

They’ve basically stopped testing people for it in TO, unless suspected patients have difficulty breathing or a fever above 100 C. It’s more virulent than the typical strains, so I’ve heard that if you’ve caught the flu this season (like me), you probably got H1N1. The good news is that 99.99% of people who catch it just experience a rough flu for a few days and then get better all by themselves. Give it a few days, and I’m sure you’ll feel swine… I mean fine.

circumpolarnavigation:

Umm, as far as I understand there are a few symptoms that might happen with swine flu that don’t usually happen with the the regular one, like puking or diarrhea, which I don’t have thank god. But also, the body aches are supposed to be worse and the fever can be unusually high or completely absent (the latter of which is not the case with the regular flu.) I think it might also last longer sometimes and can go away and come back… But it’s hard to say because some people get it mildly and some people have to be hospitalized. Personally, the worst part of it is not even ‘swine flu’ specific, but that every single time I get a cold or flu I get bronchitis. Which come to think of it, probably means I have chronic bronchitis which would mean I’d be in the first priority vaccine group which is pointless now since I already have the damn disease. Bummer.

You should try and call the nurse’s line again. She’s probably going to tell you to go to the clinic and get a diagnosis asap and to otherwise stay home completely isolated until you’ve recovered so you don’t infect anyone. :(

blownspeakers:

I too am sick. How can you tell if it’s swine flu or regular flu? I realize phoning the Nurse Line is probably 100x smarter than asking on t3h internetz, but the line is jammed right now.

towerofsleep:

circumpolarnavigation:

So I talked to a nurse just now and based on my symptoms she says I probably have the Swine with complications (went into my lungs). Has anyone started making “I survived h1n1/09” buttons or tshirts yet? Oh wait, I just checked for myself… they have.

Oh no! Get better soon! Before I come to visit!

Saturday, November 7, 2009 — 6 notes

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Chain & the Gang — Deathbed Confession

I am SO sick and tired of those Communists trying to socialize my Nazism…

robotindisguise:

rillawafers:

savingpaper:

Jon Stewart pulls a full Glenn Beck. [Video]

“Take a look, if you will, at what your appendix is connected to. I mean: It’s all there! Your appendix is connected to your large intestine, which is connected to your small intestine, which is something Karl Marx had. That doesn’t seem suspicious? Because what is the small intestine connected to? Oh, I don’t know… the stomach? Which is where acorns would go if you ate them? ACORNS?! Where have we heard that name before?!”

GOLD

“I’ve always disavowed this idea of the artist as a primitive, I think like anyone else they should be able to talk about what they’re doing, just like an electrician would. Or a plumber.”

-Ian F. Svenonius

PFork: Fucked Up Plan All-Star Cover of "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

“We wanted the biggest people we could get. If we could get a Jonas Brother on this, I would get a Jonas Brother.”

via blownspeakers

Kings of Leon launch clothing line

I hope they sponsor Wild Beasts. OK… now I’m just being mean.

areminder:

vanmega:

I’m pretty sure nobody asked for this.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t’was his intent
To blow up the King and Parli’ment.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England’s overthrow;
By God’s providence he was catch’d
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
And what should we do with him? Burn him!

I will find each and every one of you and punch you in the chode.

The only reason we do this is because if you say, “I’m a pescetarian,” most people don’t know what you’re talking about. And we’re not “like everyone else,” we’re pescetarians — that’s why there’s a separate term for our diet. Even if I feel like eating red meat or poultry (a feeling which does happen on rare occasions), I don’t… that’s what makes me a pescetarian.

And your criticism of “superior lifestyles” is bogus. Without debating what constitutes “superior,” it’s pretty silly to ignore the fact that superiority can be measured in degrees. People who (choose to) drive their cars less are superior to those who don’t, people who (choose to) donate a little bit of money to charity are superior to those who don’t donate anything, and those who (choose to) eat less meat are superior to those who eat more. It’s not as if vegans are the only ones exercising a moral imperative about what they eat.

It’s arguments like yours that allow people to justify their own (shitty) choices by condemning the (not shitty) choices of others.

amilniazi:

Here’s the “thing” about the kind of people who say things like, “I’m a vegetarian but I eat fish.” FUCK YOU. If you stopped preaching about your ‘superior’ lifestyle no one would even notice that you’re a HUGE hypocrite for eating fish (WHICH IS AN ANIMAL) and would just assume you’re like every other person in the world who just eats whatever food they feel like eating. But every fucking chance you assholes get you have to tell the whole shitty world that you don’t eat meat. YOU DO EAT MEAT YOU CUNT. Die.

BLARUEOIRH”!#%U%(U $I(RUWEKAFLdh

These guys aren’t good. And actually, this song sounds a lot like that Kings of Leon hit minus the stadium schmaltz. Now, to reiterate what I just said in the form of a logic table:

Sounding like Kings of Leon is not good.

Wild Beasts sound like Kings of Leon.

Wild Beasts are not good.

badspelling:

C’mon world - can we shut up about the xx for just a minute? Wild Beasts are so so much better and deserve some of your attention.

In Britain there has long been a complete lack of decent singers - in my opinion, no one of note since Thom Yorke really…

Most British bands just can’t fucking sing. And the disappointment has been papable. But this fella can sing. Boy, can he sing. And the lyrics too. the music. the complete fucking package. Wake the fuck up world, the Wild Beasts have just made you a delicious cup of English Breakfast tea. the great decade of british vocal dearth is over.

[EDIT]

Originality too, I forgot to say that they’re completely original as well. Name one band they sound like. I mean, like, really sound like. I can’t think of one. Rare.

Never forget: Glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990

Zizek just invoked Kung-Fu Panda as a way of understanding Berlusconi's dominance in Italian politics...

FTW or WTF?

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 — 4 notes

Blogger arrested and jailed for for using Twitter to help protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh evade the police.

This is loony-tunes! This guy tweeted about police whereabouts (public information available to anyone with a pair of eyes) and got nabbed by the FBI for doing so!? I hate when this kind of “Enemy of the State” conspiracy stuff turns out to be real.

“Though the FBI says so, it’s not entirely clear from the complaint that Madison’s tweets were actually illegal…”

via Threatened Voices

Claude Levi-Strauss, RIP.

“Among the more striking conclusions of his work was the idea that there is no fundamental difference between the belief systems and myths of so-called ‘primitive’ races and those of modern western societies.”

I’m going download some of his work for free from AAARG in his honour.

(via www.boingboing.net)

This really speaks to me on a deeper level… I think it works because I can imagine Thom actually saying that.