Shubber Ali played this for me and a few others on his laptop when we were sitting around drinking margaritas out of the pistonless pump Friday night at the Space Access Conference in April.
It’s about a ten-minute Ken-Burns-like documentary video, complete with mournful fiddle music and spirituals. You’ll find it a gripping and poignant story. You’ll also find it an extremely politically-incorrect hoot.
[Via Spacecraft, which has a new URL]
Listen to this when it gets posted tomorrow.
In the early morning the bodies of 14 men were discovered in a shallow mass grave in a rubbish dump in northeastern Baghdad. Some of the victims were blindfolded and appear to have been executed with a shot to the head. Now this news bulletin…
BBC radio 15:00 GMT, Friday, May 6, 2005
This gives a new meaning to murderous competition for news delivery.
Iowahawk is back (sans comments, apparently), from an alphabetical tour of our great land:
Iowahawk is back (sans comments, apparently), from an alphabetical tour of our great land:
Iowahawk is back (sans comments, apparently), from an alphabetical tour of our great land:
Jonah helpfully points out (as do others) that today is not only Earth Day, but Lenin’s Birthday.
Coincidence? Yeah, that’s what those watermelons want you to think.
[Update at 12:45 PM EDT]
I just realized that it’s actually worse than that. The original Earth Day, in 1970 was on the centenary anniversary of his birth.
Amidst pathetic whines about plagiarism, Iowahawk has released some previously unseen redneck haiku.
Or maybe, since the Oscar debacle, book and movie sales haven’t been going too well? After all, Monroe’s only a couple hours from his home town of Davison…
These images aren’t the whole reason, but they sure didn’t help. And they’re pretty darned funny.