The Near Distant Ago

Set Phasers on 'Stun' or Something...

2012-02-28T16:40:00.000Z

From Slashgear, an ever reliable source of news:

NEOShield international asteroid threat-reduction group forming nowThis commission hasn't issued any threats thus far, and they've not formed because there's an inordinate amount of asteroids headed for Earth
Un hunh. Elsewhere, a sure-fire winner:

Europe considers asteroid shield

Something to Get Cranked About

2012-02-27T14:42:00.000Z

#Occupy #Mullet ! ! !

Protest This: Hair stylists who don't look at the picture you brought in.
That's called a mullet.
He goes further into the land of the overraught:Elvis was right when he said, "a little less conversation, a little more action, please."

Fake Crisis Still Selling Well in College Towns

2012-02-26T16:37:00.001Z

Warm Winter Keeps Hives Busy as Bees
Sharon Friends of Conservation and Sharon Garden Club sponsoring showing of global bee crisis film Sunday.
Which, curiously enough, isn't global.

Saturday Dada

2012-02-25T19:17:00.000Z

Dreams That Money Can Buy, 1947: Collaborators included Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Darius Milhaud and Fernand Léger.

Keep my Meatwhistle out of this...

2012-02-17T16:44:00.001Z

Why not show your lurrrrve with a slightly marbled center cut?

Bruno Taut in Berlin

2012-02-09T14:56:00.002Z

His work is hard to explain, and hard to not love.

The Never-Ending Movie-enduced "Bee Crisis"

2012-02-07T16:37:00.001Z

If it's news to you, that's because you haven't been propagandized yet by agitational activist types yet. The fact is that it's an illness, that man and his evil SUV driving had nothing to do with it, and that it's going away on its' own as nature travels its' course:

What's Going on in Princeton This Week?: Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?" examines the global bee crisis through the eyes of biodynamic beekeepers, scientists, ...

Elsewhere:

What's happening this weekend in Mercer County: Jan. 27-29: (further bee-extermination porn)

Spring line-up announced : On March 5, Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?

Get angry, people!

Anachronism meets Anachronism

2012-02-02T14:42:00.000Z

But Leppard were always the ultimate mullet band...

Among the Impressionable: People Who Pay for Premium Cable

2012-02-01T17:42:00.000Z

The Chicago Tribune reports that:HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire' sparks demand for men's retro haircut
It's not really a MULLET we're talking about here, but we'll let them have their "fun".

It's actually just another collection of over-the-top adjectives being tossed around about the empty lives of hipsters.
"Most places around the country, the style is slightly less exaggerated," Ash says. "And the more severe James Darmody look is one we're seeing stronger in our major metropolitan areas where there's a little more high fashion.... [Men in] Los Angeles, New York and Miami seem to prefer more of an extreme look, where it's much shorter through the sides and longer and more artsy on top."
"art-say" !!! Spoken like someone who never kissed a girl, if you asked me.

AFN 1107khz from Kaiserslautern Recieved in Berlin

2012-01-09T22:52:00.005Z

Recorded 26 December 2011 using a cheap reel-in wire antenna suspended out of a window into a closed exterior courtyard.

Mister Grab-Ass

2012-01-01T20:59:00.001Z

Hey! Don't touch the goods!

Wet and Cold

2011-12-21T12:30:00.001Z

But that's life.

Dystopia Found

2011-12-18T19:15:00.001Z

The 70s were never good to this place, and it seems to have been unkind to the old broad since.

It Makes Biafra look like a Sandbox Fight!

2011-12-16T14:42:00.001Z

Amish beard-cutting war out of control

Goosestepping with Panache

2011-12-15T16:08:00.000Z

The Ministry of Silly Walks has it's own armed force.

Without a fake Crisis we are Aimless

2011-12-14T16:40:00.000Z

Huffington Post:Without an Asteroid-Annihilating Rocketship, We're Toast
mmmm'kay. Next comes the "planetary distress signal", I suppose.
WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE: there is a giant asteroid headed towards Earth. All the astrophysicists and rocket scientists and brain surgeons agree ...
The Psychiatrists though could not be reached for comment.

From the Chronicles of European Wierdness

2011-12-14T11:47:00.001Z

A Russian Man Was Caught Trying To Smuggle 200 Pounds Of Butter Into Norway

The Forbidden East

2011-12-13T17:38:00.001Z

Well, not really. The west was what was forbidden to the easterners. The East was forbidding.

“In 1979/80 my family took part in the biggest espionage scandal that the former country of East-Germany saw in its entire 50 years of existence”

- Thomas Wagner, “If It Had Not Been for 15 Minutes”

Mr. Wagner’s story is a tense and fascinating one, and paints an honest, well rounded, and compelling portrait of the DDR that’s rarely found in the English language. Having livbed there myself (as a lucky foreigner who could leave,) I can attest to that.

They Invented Their Own Worst Stereotypes

2011-12-12T20:14:00.001Z

Now iss de time on Schprockets venn ve tance.

Es ist zum Kotzen

2011-12-11T10:12:00.000Z

In the early 1980s on the imaginary political frontline of the cold war, desperation was ripe. The western left wanted to disarm unilaterally, just to get the voices out of their heads. Common sense prevailed, and the resolute were victorius.

Looking back, the bleatings and howlings of the fearful seem pathetic, as their only best option was to maintain the status quo that imprisoned hundreds of millions of people east of the “Antifaschistische Schutzmauer”

Streaming TV URLs

2011-12-10T13:06:00.000Z

Aggregators be damned!

BBC - mms://wm.bbc.net.uk/london/news/nb/londontv_16x9_nb.wmv
CBC North - http://a514.v8752d.c8752.g.vm.akamai.../northbeat.wmv
Russia Today - http://213.161.69.101/russia%20today?mswmext=.asf
Sky News - mms://live1.wm.skynews.servecast.net/skynews_wmlz_live300k
INTRACITV (French) - http://www.impek.com/go/inraci/wm
NASA TV - http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplayli...segment=149773
NHK English - http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/r0/high.asx
CBC Toronto - http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/newsatnoon/toronto.wmv
CBC Montreal [English] - http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/newsatsix/montreal.wmv
CBC Vancouver - http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/newsatnoon/vancouver.wmv
Webmir TV [Russian] - http://www.webmir.tv/tv/video/news.asx
BBC Politics - http://wwitv.com/stream/7689.asx
E-Music Television - http://broadcast.global-mix.net/?m=e-music&.wvx=
Livestation/Various [English] - http://www.livestation.com/channels
Cubavision - http://cubavision.cubasi.cu/Tvcubana
ZDF [German] - http://wstreaming.zdf.de/encoder/livestream6_h.asx
3sat [German] - http://wstreaming.zdf.de/encoder/3sat_vh.asx

Pretty Soon they'll be Able to Take Their Act on the Road

2011-12-09T18:03:00.001Z

Just like the good old days of sending them to Siberia, Putin and Berlusconi: both close to political obscurity

Aging Supermodel Mullets in the News

2011-12-08T14:42:00.000Z

It seems we're supposed to get excited about this: Kate Moss covers Vogue as Bowie
With her blonde hair styled into a distinctive mullet, the 37-year-old model is a note-perfect copy of the Aladdin Sane character Bowie created in 1973.
Ziggy Stardust, and the entire cultural buzz that it really wasn't predates Moss' birth by a year.

As there was no enormous rash of either UFO obsessiveness or a newfound ken for crossdressing, one could say that the entire identity engineering thing was a miserable failure. No-one tell Kate Moss that though.

It's ART, you Ignorant Peasants!

2011-12-07T17:30:00.003Z

Holiday jeers for Ugliest Christmas tree in Germany:The startling Yuletide sight stands right next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in the heart of western Berlin on Breitscheidplatz.

The “Traffic Tree” – the name being a nod to the hectic run up to Christmas - was created by 36-year-old artist Thomas Plattner, who specialises in creating sculptures from found objects. So, instead of traditional holiday baubles and tinsel, battered toys and discarded household items dangle from the tree’s scrap metal branches.

It has been christened the “ugliest” in Germany by the country’s biggest newspaper, Bild.
Normalweise, one would celebrate a meaningful date or event with the finest you can find, those things that show you've sacrificed the most you could... except in modern day Europe where you're supposed to not care.

In fact one can't even plausibly call this pile of literal refuse an homage to nature, or even an offering to the Gods of reccycling.

Heard any Cheesy Headlines Lately?

2011-12-06T16:37:00.001Z

Soup to Nuts: Portland business is a honey of an idea
After he read a long article in the New Yorker about the honey bee crisis, he decided to take the plunge.
I guess this makes them the perfect candidates for modern farming.
The couple now has two hives.