James Blagden’s hilarious short about Dock Ellis and his legendary no-hitter on June 12, 1970: “I’m high as a Georgia Pine” is now cemented in my lexicon, even if I’m only baking Toll-House Cookies.
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Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No
Posted in Art, Comedy, Pirates, Sports, tagged Dock Ellis, fantastic, James Blagden, June 12 1970, no-hitter, Pittsburgh Pirates, straight up awesome on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Girl Talk, U2, and Walt Disney as Remixer
Posted in Art, blog, Courage, Creativity, Film, Innovation, Music, Pirates, Politics, tagged Brett Gaylor, Girl Talk, Greg Ginn, Mark Hosler, Negativland, RiP! A Remix Manifesto, These Guys Are From England and Who Gives A Shit, U2 on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just watched Brett Gaylor’s Rip! A Remix Manifesto on Hulu last night. I’m actually shocked that NBC, Fox and ABC (Disney) would have this online, in this format; despite its lionization of Disney the Man, Disney the Company is really taken to task here. Maybe it’s the “if we join them, they will disappear” belief. [...]
Holy Sh*t, did Carl call that one or what?
Posted in Pirates, Politics, tagged Pirates, Somalian, South Park, US Navy SEALS, USS Bainbridge on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Three shots. 75 feet away. In the dark. Yeah, I’d be grinning, too. Well done, boys. UPDATE, 4/23/09: A brutal reconsideration of the crowing American cheers for the snipers by South Park, my own included. Do I think the pirates crossed the line by taking hostages? Absolutely. Is there more to the story than than? [...]
