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12/30/02:

Funkita for the paradigms

I'm usually trying hard to avoid contentious politicos. With the Festivus season and all, my head has been emptied of all the NPR headlines that rattle 'round my nodes, and replaced by the wild implications of all these irresistible "look-out!" links that fall out of the blogscape. It's not so much that I'm shocked, shocked - I just kinda see these and have to admit that the Holidays just make me feel really glib. So, today, I'm gettin' 'em all out then burying this page back into the music posts.

A CIA manual for Nicaraguan "freedom fighters" passed out in the 1980s. Great for practicing your Spanish and lots desktop images to pull a few confused stares into your cubicle (via No Sense of Place).

The top ten 11September conspiracy theories which, although intriguing, becomes kinda anticlimactic after a lead like this -

"For about thirty minutes after his chief of staff told him that America was under attack, George W. Bush continued to sit in an elementary school classroom listening to a second-grader tell a story about a pet goat."

(Link comes by way of Consumptive.org who very generously brought a pop in traffic to this green little weblog here (yes, indeed this is Jeremy of the evidence photo lab writing))

And with your conspiracy theories well-studied and water-tested, apply these long-suspected but newly detailed politico paradigms to Unocal's recent good news

or perhaps challenge yourself not to laugh OR shiver at Time Magazine's breezy story on that quiet kid from Wyoming.

And now that I've re-fictionalised my own senses, back to spiffy new sounds, bright lingo-isms, and all the all-around art-like phenomenals that keep all us dirty plebians from freakin' out.

posted by jeremy @ 3:14 PM