Finally! An “extended preview” trailer for The Golden Compass. Been waiting for-EV-er for a look at this. Hard to tell too much for sure, but it does seem like they’ve gotten the look of it right. And it seems like maybe it’s going to be fairly faithful to the book — fingers crossed anyway. […]
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Golden Compass Trailer
July 31st, 2007 · 6 Comments · Books, Culture, Fantasy, Film, Lit, News, Video
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Music: Catching Up to Yoko
July 24th, 2007 · 9 Comments · Chicago, Culture, Feminism, Human Rights, Journal, LGBT, Media, Music, New Wave, News, TV, Video
Something I’ve been meaning to post for a couple of weeks now … I’ve long thought that Monica Kendrick is the best music writer at the Reader and the spot-on writeup she turned in just before Yoko Ono’s appearance at the recent Pitchfork Music Festival only reinforces that notion: 9:00 Yoko Ono For decades her […]
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Good Morning, Day 7
July 24th, 2007 · Comments Off on Good Morning, Day 7 · Activism, HCC-DDT, Health, Healthcare Crisis, Human Rights, Journalism, Media, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid
About 50 Americans have died since yesterday because they couldn’t afford health care. That brings the total to 350 people who have died thanks to our profit-focused health care system just since I started keeping this count, six days ago. If 350 US citizens had died in a plane crash this week, we’d be hearing […]
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Roundup: Picketing Flamingo Edition
July 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Roundup: Picketing Flamingo Edition · Apple, Blogs, Chicago, Climate Change, Comics, Culture, Design, Essays, Foreign Policy, Health, HIV/AIDS, Illinois, LGBT, Music, Nature, New Wave, News, Politics, Roundup, Science, Tech, Travel
“Iraq hasn’t even begun”: Writing in the LA Times, Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European studies at Oxford University, examines the long-term consequences of the debacle in Iraq, and concludes, “Looking back over a quarter of a century of chronicling current affairs, I cannot recall a more comprehensive and avoidable man-made disaster.” Digby on […]
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Good Morning, Day 6
July 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Activism, Film, HCC-DDT, Health, Healthcare Crisis, Human Rights, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid
About 300 Americans have died because they couldn’t afford health care since I started this count five days ago. About 50 more will die today. Since this is turning into a kind of daily witness, I suppose I should document my source for the statistic this is based on. Michael Moore says in Sicko, and […]
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Good Morning, Day 5
July 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Good Morning, Day 5 · Activism, HCC-DDT, Healthcare Crisis, Human Rights, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid
Since I last updated this count, on Friday, about 100 more people have died in the United States because they couldn’t afford health care. That makes about 250 Americans who were allowed to die because they couldn’t pay for treatment, just since I started this count four days ago. About 50 more will die today.
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Video Roundup: Colbert, Stewart, and Olbermann
July 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Comedy, Culture, Healthcare Crisis, LGBT, Media, News, Politics, TV, Video
First up, Stephen interviews Michael Moore … all the way from Brazil! Next, Jon Stewart’s take on anti-gay Surgeon General nominee James Holsinger, in which he manages to reveal some surprising truths inherent in plumbing fixtures. (I previously posted Colbert’s take on Holsinger’s fixture fixation, but Stewart gets some good mileage out of it, too.) […]
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Moore vs. Gupta: The Wrap-Up
July 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Moore vs. Gupta: The Wrap-Up · Culture, Film, Health, Healthcare Crisis, Media, News, Politics, TV, Video
I didn’t get a chance to weigh in on the whole Moore vs. Gupta dustup while it was happening (much to the relief of the scale!), but here’s a little post-mortem wrap-up. First off, some links in case you missed any or all of it (all video links except the second one): Round One: Michael […]
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Good Morning, Day 3
July 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Good Morning, Day 3 · Activism, HCC-DDT, Healthcare Crisis, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid
Since I started this count two days ago, about 150 people have died here in the US because they couldn’t afford health care. That’s enough people to fill, what, three or four CTA buses? About 50 more will die today.
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Dogging Michael Vick
July 19th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Activism, Culture, Film, Media, News, Pets, Politics
There have been a lot of scandals involving professional sports figures in recent years. But the federal indictment of NFL quarterback Michael Vick (of the Atlanta Falcons) on dogfighting charges is in a far worse league than the latest steroid abuse flap. Here’s what the email I got from the Humane Society of the United […]
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Good Morning, Day 2
July 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Good Morning, Day 2 · Activism, HCC-DDT, Healthcare Crisis, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid
About 50 more people died yesterday, here in the United States of America, because they couldn’t afford health care. That means that about 100 Americans have died due to lack of affordable health care since I started this tally yesterday. About 50 more will die today.
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Crowded House: For the World, Not for the War
July 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Crowded House: For the World, Not for the War · Culture, iTunes, Music, New Wave, News, Peace, Politics
The new Crowded House album, Time on Earth, was released last week in the US and the week before in the UK. It’s available for download from iTunes (with bonus tracks!) and of course you can get the CD from Amazon. The band will be touring through December (including their two shows here in Chicago, […]
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Good Morning
July 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments · HCC-DDT, Health, Healthcare Crisis, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid
About 50 people died yesterday, here in America, because they couldn’t afford health care. About 50 more people will die today, for the same reason.
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Books: “Too Slow a Form of Information Delivery”
July 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Books, Culture, Education, History, Internet, Lit, Mythology, News
Scary quote of the week: In an article from the LA Times about the sad passing of another indie book store owned by a wonderful old eccentric — which is kind of like losing one of the last 12 rare rhinoceroses or something – anyway, toward the end of that article, we read this: Dowdy […]
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