The Near Distant Ago

Monty Python: the Misanthropic Introspection Years

2016-02-12T23:45:00.000+00:00

Hans Richter-ghosts for breakfast (1927)

We Have a Name for This Sort of Thing, and It's Awkward

2016-02-05T23:41:00.000+00:00

Get Your Man Ray On

2016-02-02T15:55:00.000+00:00

Berlin Ecke

2016-02-01T18:11:00.000+00:00

Hair Crime: Life on the Street

2016-01-31T15:30:00.000+00:00

Sam Frost says The Bachelorette ruined her hair after having it styled FOUR times a day

"I've got a bit of a mullet happening."

The fate of the underclass keeps me up at night. By which I mean the AUDIENCE.

Questions one Cannot Un-Ask

2016-01-30T16:30:00.000+00:00

"Kid mullet" is not a new comic book superhero for a folically questioning age, but rather a kid who will spend a few decades trying to live down that which lives foreever on the net. Dad asks daughter why she gave herself a haircut

Ansleigh says she was just practicing, but her dad says if she practices more, she's going to run out of hair.

Sly 3 year old kids these days! They know how to post videos on the net! In a sane universe, this wouldn't happen - and if it did would be called child abuse by "oversharing".

How Bowie Pushed the Boudaires of Looking Wide Eyed, Paralyzed in Fear

2016-01-29T19:00:00.000+00:00

How David Bowie pushed the boundaries of gendered fashion

It was the result of his ex-wife's habit of playing dress up with him in a strange attempt to experiment with taking away his manhood. Wisely, he left her.

A Moose Lodge for Our Degenerate, Knuckle-dragging Age

2016-01-28T22:55:00.000+00:00

Meet the Travelling Jagrs

Armed with black mullet wigs, the Travelling Jagrs are starting to make a name for themselves:

"He had some epic hair back in the day"

Filmfest Continues

2015-03-15T13:37:00.001+00:00

"Stop Train 349" is a rather odd1963 drama starring José Ferrer and Cold War era Berlin.

https://youtu.be/_CBGER1x7l0

You may not Pet my Jet-Train

2014-09-26T16:43:00.001+01:00

Empire of Noise

2013-12-06T20:20:00.001+00:00

News Digest from the Fake-Crisis Management Center, no. 2013/11F

2013-11-12T10:32:00.000+00:00

Asteroid heading for Earth?

No. Why do you ask?Call Bruce Willis
No, you call him. Dudes from Jersey creep me out.
London - A fleet of kamikaze spacecraft could be used to defend Earth against asteroid strikes The robotic vessels would change the direction of any threatening space rock to prevent it from crashing into the planet.
Or not.
Under the plans, member nations will share information in an International Asteroid Warning Group, allowing space agencies to pool their brainpower to come up with the best way of deflecting any incoming objects.
I guess the intrepid "journalist" (let's call him Tin Tin for now) doesn't get that the PLANE wasn't the Kamikaze, the pilot was, and that he is more than welcome to participate in the "beta test", being part of that pool of exemplary "brainpower."

Somre Kids Were Scared of Clowns

2013-11-11T17:33:00.001+00:00

Not me. This is what used to get me:

Because a Two State Solution was No-Where in Sight

2013-11-10T10:07:00.000+00:00

Entomologist shares idea to solve bee crisis
Dr. Spivak’s approach relies on nature’s law of the survival of the fittest (natural selection), and some encouragement from humans (artificial selection).
A glimmer of hope! Someone has the good sense to do nothing. We need to find a big word for this.

Some Things Will Never Change

2013-11-09T08:02:00.000+00:00

Mum says the mullet must go However, intelligence indicates that she has been saying this since 1982, without any sign of success.

Please issue an APB for this "Humour" Thing

2013-11-08T12:21:00.000+00:00

Because they need some of it airdropped as soon as possible. Javier's hair humour:The 44-year-old star also finds hair plays a big role in getting to know someone.

Apocalypse When?

2013-11-07T13:52:00.000+00:00

Apocalypse called for by 2065 moved to 2031, then to 2032: Russian scientists discover dangerous asteroid

Asteroid 2013 UG1 was discovered by Russian astronomers using MASTER ... asteroid that is headed on a dangerous trajectory towards the Earth in 2032.

400-metre asteroid sighted may 'blow up the earth' in 2032:

A LARGE asteroid has been discovered zipping past Earth that astronomers say is dangerous and will return ... ASTEROID HEADING TOWARDS NEW YORK?

Hang on to your fedora. Start hoarding Lucky Strikes. 2031 will come to decimate Gotham in 2032.

Among the Mandarins, the Words for [Fake] Crisis and Opportunity Mean the Same Thing

2013-11-06T02:00:00.000+00:00

Astronomers in Siberia Locate an Asteroid Headed for Earth in 2065: Recently scientists in the Crimea discovered another potentially hazardous 410-metre asteroid that is headed on a dangerous trajectory towards the Earth
United Nations agrees to establish Asteroid Warning Group

Retro Spooks

2013-11-03T21:25:00.001+00:00

Heard today was an old-timey relic of the distant ago, a number station. It was heard as clearly as Radio Habana Cuba was on the same frequency a few hours earlier. Yup, I turned on the radio, and it was just there.

Eat Up. Or NOT, Suckahs

2013-10-26T11:30:00.000+01:00

This Would Never Have become the Subject of a John Huston Feature Film

2013-10-25T12:30:00.000+01:00

~~The Treasure of the Sierra Madre~~ The Football Mullets of Medellin: In the city of Medellin in Colombia, the mullet is not just a haircut. It is much, much more than that.

... their [sic] bitter foes but they're really singing from the same song sheet in the hair department and it may as well be the Vandals' punk celebration of the mullet.

Number Stations Still Exist

2013-10-23T08:34:00.001+01:00

I captured one quite randomly while tuning through the dial, having not been able to sleep. It was at 0825 UT on 9330 mhz, a frequency commonly used by legitimate, non-state broadcasters.

The strong, clear signal received in Virginia must surely originate in Cuba or some other part of the Caribbean for clandestine communications with agents placed in the US.

This absurd poetry continued for about half an hour. It seems that in the digital age, this old technique refuses to be entirely abandoned.

Captain Lou is Watching You Poop

2013-09-06T22:51:00.000+01:00

Captian Lou is Watching You Poop

2013-08-29T22:48:00.001+01:00

Radio in the Age of Waiting

2013-01-09T13:35:00.000+00:00