RIP: A Remix Manifesto

This documentary is the best summary of how wrong copyright, the RIAA, MPIAA, Disney, and lots of other too powerful organizations have got it all wrong. The clip above shows just a couple examples of the illusion of original ideas in music and how groups like our beloved Rolling Stones are […]

yes, yes. getting on the bandwagon of change. this blog will change going forward. i’m about to lock everyone else out from writing entries because it didn’t proceed as i expected. i may or may not continue but think i will. i’ve had a big change in my life and […]

Why didn’t we think of this?
http://us.god.tv
I’ll be a monkey’s uncle jimmy if I know how we missed those three powerful phenomena together separated by simple dots.
Anyone on the loungechicken who harbors such genius business ideas please bring them forward … now please.
Holy Jeez -

Naomi Klein and Tom Hayden of the Chicago 8 in a timely dialogue that touches on so much including whether reading the Loungechicken is the reason you and I dear reader are not taking direct political action “in the streets”.

I just watched this video again a wanted to throw it up to share….kinda Crooks and Liars style where I let the video do it’s thing but add a little bit to set it up. I’ve talked to lots of people about the current “mode” of the internet often referred to as Web 2.0, and […]

So I just finished The Da Vinci Code. A little behind the wave on that one but I decided to read it now since I would inevitably see the movie. It’s a good suspense novel and I enjoyed the ideas. Particularly about Christianity burying previous ideas about worshipping a Goddess and setting […]

Well it’s a bit passed the 25th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder in New York City but Jennifer and I have had our own John and Yoko type of week here in Blantyre. On May 26, 1969 (about one month before I was born) John and Yoko checked into the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in […]

You remarked that 60 percent of Americans do not trust the media but put the blame on “The Da Vinci Code” and Oliver Stone (to name just two). How about accepting at least some of the blame as a journalist writing in The New York Times?

CHICKEN HAIKU NO. 2
go to the whiteness
so obscure in the dark clouds
the chicken schmokes up
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery
Edward W. Place Jr.
In a sense you could say we’re late to the dance with our entry into the blogging commons (I’m certainly late with my first offering). But late is a way of life […]