12.17.03
Posted in Politics at 1:28 am by Craig
Note to self: while in the UK this week, must look up the odds on Howard Dean winning the election in 2004. I bet they rate him with much longer odds than he should be carrying, since I bet anything the odds-makers can’t predict his success any better than the pollsters who I think *still* don’t have a real handle on the power of the organization Dean’s building up. Anyway, might be a nice way to make a few grand in the next year…
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12.09.03
Posted in General at 8:46 pm by Craig
A
post by Justin with a quote from
a Warren Ellis article about modern pop music led me to realize how much our views of foreign cultures, particularly the Japanese, have shifted during my lifetime:
he American music industry … seems to have sunk into a bizarre obsession with paedophilia. Britney Spears has gone from schoolgirl gear to a deeply strange hentai look, little-girl head stuck above great shiny plastic boobs, singing in a Minnie Mouse voice. No wonder she was being stalked by a shifty-looking middle-aged Japanese bloke. He probably had a suitcase full of tentacles to use on her. Christina Aguilera gifts us with the vision of a twelve-year-old girl in leather chaps and a rubber bra.
So, from the 80s view of “they will rule the world with their ruthless efficiency and corporate dedication” to “suitcase full of tentacles”. What direction next?
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