Dareland

RIP Jesse Helms

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:07:00 +0000

Brother Can You Spare a Couple Billion?

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:22:00 +0000

Everything is okay

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:19:00 +0000

Elmo's unsuccessful audition for Casino

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000

Dems da breaks

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:08:00 +0000

Obama Clinches Dem Nomination
Illinois Senator Surpasses Delegate Milestone; Clinton Delays Decision On Campaign's Future

Okay, you gotta ask yourself whether CBS really had to announce this piece of important news with an old black cliché. Oh, dem boneheads, dem boneheads, dem dry boneheads. According to my precise calculations, using "Dem" instead of "Democratic" saved CBS a grand total of seven letters, which would have filled up a lot of cyberspace that's now filled with pornography. Way to go, CBS.

Preview for the New Coen Brothers film

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Burn After Reading - Red Band Trailer

Screengrab from donut sleeper cell training video surfaces

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:47:00 +0000

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Keep Jesus Off My Penis

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:31:00 +0000

Arithmetic from Hell

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:33:00 +0000

DERIVED FROM HARPER'S WEEKLY
May 27, 2008

Take 1850, the date of the first publication of Harpers, divide by 16.97 a year for subscriptions, multiply by 4,071 dead U.S. soldiers in Iraq, multiply again by 432 dead U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, add $130 per barrel of oil since 1992, times the class of '08, subtracting twenty-five thousand people times the class of '06, minus 80,000 dead Chinese divided by 69 dams, plus 130,000 dead Burmese times five months of rain in Chile plus a 34-year-old farmer in Kumamoto, exactly equals 54 people vomiting toxic chlorine gas plus Dick Martin dying at 86 plus Charles Booth dying at 104, divided by the Twin Cities Republican National Convention times the fourth human foot washed ashore in British Columbia, divided by three guns, minus two of them loaded, times the 640 percent increase in the cost of scrap metal times food riots in 30 countries, plus 100 million to 950 million chronically hungry people divided by 20,000 tons of Japanese rice with a 300 percent increase in the price of potash divided by the 35 years nobody noticed the fertilizer executive.

Airline Safety Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:22:00 +0000

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The League of Public Domain Properties

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:51:00 +0000

Pieta of Liberty

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Google Smackdown of the Week: Wii

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:23:00 +0000

VS.

VS.
and the winner is...
"Wii the People" by 23,220

Stan Freberg takes a stand

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:23:00 +0000

Stan Freberg appears on the Dick Cavett show to play some fascinating political radio ads from 1971. It's a precursor to moveon.org, explaining that wars don't stop, they just wind down, and asking you to call your congressman in support of the McGovern/Hatfield amendment for the withdrawal of all troops from Vietnam. Remember, "irresponsible demonstrations will not move them, but you may."

A Wonderful New Drug Hits the Market

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:13:00 +0000

Time to Move

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Ever have absolutely no idea where you're going to end up? Me too. Gotta get out of here (Palm Desert, CA). Too hot in every sense of the word. Me and Max. Soon. Got $600 a month for rent plus transportation costs covered. Can do my job from anywhere with internet access. Got a room or a rental property available? Hate credit checks with a passion? Know a rock star going on tour who needs someone to housesit? Require a houseboy to bathe your harem? Always wanted to hang out with someone who looks like Celine Dion? Lemme know.

dare2b@earthlink.net

935 Lies by Harry Shearer

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:34:00 +0000

935 Lies

annals of flying penises

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:04:00 +0000

Flying Penis Invades Russian Political Scene

Here is "grand chessmaster" Garry Kasparov, who moonlights as the leader of the Other Russia movement, "a loose coalition of activists opposing Vladamir Putin and the current Russian government." He gave a speech Saturday in Moscow when a FLYING HELICOPTER PENIS interrupted him, frightening the world, until some (gay?) dude swatted it down. Don't believe us? Watch. [Sharenator, Waxy]

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Poem by Barack Obama written in 1981

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Tue, 20 May 2008 13:12:00 +0000

    Under water grottos, caverns
    Filled with apes
    That eat figs
    Stepping on the figs
    That the apes
    Eat, they crunch
    The apes howl, bare
    Their fangs, dance,
    Tumble in the
    Rushing water
    Musty, wet pelts
    Glistening in the blue.

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I'm Bill Hicks and I'm dead now

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:39:00 +0000

Comic Book & Cartoon Characters as Senior Citizens

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:37:00 +0000

Donald Soffritti has a great series of illustrations showing what some superheroes and supervillains might look like in their old age.

Along these same lines, Spirit Magazine, the inflight magazine for Southwest Airlines, recently published an article on Nickelodeon which includes a wonderful illustration of some popular cartoon and comics characters as senior citizens.

via Neatorama & Cartoon Brew

illustration by Donald Soffritti & unknown

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Give Everyone a Million

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:43:00 +0000

These rebate checks don't make it. They're a Band-Aid on a hemorrhage. More drastic solutions are called for.

I remind you there was a TV show in the 50s called The Millionaire about a guy who anonymously gave a random stranger a million bucks. Just because the show was cancelled in 1960 doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

Here's my economic plan for America; get rid of all social programs and level the playing field by simply giving absolutely everyone a million dollars, whether they need it or not. Then people can afford whatever they need. Housing problem? Solved. Poverty problem? Solved. Medical care problem? Solved.

Traditional wisdom says this will cause inflation, but I don't think so. Prices would not go up because retailers would need to make less money because they were already millionaires. EVERYBODY isn't greedy. Americans would go on spending sprees, giving absolutely every business in America the very shot in the arm it needs, and all the sales tax would feed the government coffers. Banks would be flush with all those people paying off their mortgages and credit card debt.

Yeah, I know what you're thinking. Where will this money come from? Half from taxes, in which case everyone has to get TWO million, or nowhere, just like the war in Iraq. No need to use the dead tree version of money. Why waste all that capital on printing and envelopes and postage. Direct deposit from the US treasury will work, simply increasing the debt. Let the country go bankrupt. Who cares? You're a millionaire. Move to Tahiti.

ORWELL ROLLS IN HIS GRAVE

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:24:00 +0000

by Film Threat

Much has been said about the state of the media in our world, but how did we get to such a place where the United States can declare war without scrutiny, that Paris Hilton is a celebrity and the line between "propaganda" and "news" is almost non-existent? Well, ok, so nothing could explain Paris Hilton's popularity, but Robert Kane Pappas's documentary "Orwell Rolls in his Grave" tackles the other problems, and brilliantly so. If you haven't seen this documentary before, then you're in for a treat. If you have seen it, well, you should see it again!

Stephen Colbert remembers Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who discovered LSD.

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:57:00 +0000

Walking Bike

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Dare) — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:45:00 +0000

Max Knight design

Here is a bike that i designed for my good friend Yorgo Tloupas at Intersection magazine.

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