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The Jackson 5ive Cartoon Series Pilot Episode++
The Jackson 5ive series pilot Episode (the show ran 1971-73).
Mikey's pet snake Rosie escapes to go see Dianna Ross in concert downtown (the boys are always playing Ross' record). Includes songs "ABC 123" and "Goin' Back to Indiana". Watch (auto-playlist):
More Jackson 5ive clickside: another cartoon episode, "Pinestock", and the 5ive live on the Carrol Burnett Show. They do a skit with Burnett playing the prudish music teacher. The boys jam out some "this old man".
Then a couple unreleased Michael Jackson & Freddy Mercury tracks replete with youtube photo montage.
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Editor-in-Chief of Techmucking Magazine WIRED Plagarizes Wikipedia in New Book
"In the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion, $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources."
From Waldo Jaquith at the Virgina Quarterly Review
INTERNET MEME TO THE X-TREME: Unnecessary "" Blog
Unnecessary Quotes is a very guilty pleasure, much like This Is Why You're Fat, but in no way like Stuff White People Like.
Is This Funny?
We're not sure.
But a gentleman named Mark Maynard penned this letter to Robert DeNiro, and it has spread like California Wildfire all up and down the electronic coast-to-coast.
Facebook Not For Racists
Last Friday, Republican activist Rusty DePass made a passing remark on Facebook about how Michelle Obama is related to an escaped gorilla. Such a colossal blunder could spell doomsday for his progeniture, seeing as how Facebook facility is now so widely used to augment natural selection; one can only imagine the shame his spawn will suffer as a direct result of Rusty's S.M.M. (Social Media Mishap).
Scribd.com -- the Youtube/iTunes/ePimp of the written word
In case you haven't heard of Scribd.com, it's the new publish-it-yourself site, for ebooks and other documents. It was recently profiled by the NYTimes. It also happens to be a good place to find yourself a call girl in Bangalore.
Crisco's Non-Cooking Uses
Crisco has properties that allow for many uses beyond its currently marketed purpose of cooking.
As a household utility product it has many alternative uses, including:
Removal of tar and lipstick from clothing.
Removal of ink, grease and dirt from surfaces and hands.
Revitalizing the surfaces of wooden utensils such as bowls and cutting boards.
Shedding water and snow from weather gear such as galoshes and snow shovels.
Barrel Monster Faces Prison
NC student Joseph Carnevale aka "Banksy" is being charged with larceny for stealing and damaging the traffic barrels on May 31 for the purpose of building a statue. Banksy assembled a barrel monster out of bright orange traffic barrels and put it to work directing traffic on a busy public street.
Still Life: Gemma Clements
University of Stratford Graduate Gemma Clements' collection inspired by Stepford Wives and liberty print history, the use of identity and how it can be lost in society.
More at fashion156.com and at Flickr.
Enid Collins Wholesale Catalog, 1973
"...at formal teas. as always, Collins handbags steal the show. Even Mrs. Thompson's secret spiced tea recipe can't compete!"
From cathyofcalifornia
Fallen Princesses : Disney Just Got Real
These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The '...happily ever after' is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues.
Read more here.
THE FUTURE IS UPON US: Wearable Gesture Interface AKA "Sixth Sense" brings interactive holograms to your chest, palm, and fingertips!
"Easy access to relevant information that can help us make optimal decisions about what to do next and what actions to take..." says MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Director Pattie Maes. (Watch the TED video and listen for the oohs, ahhs, and gasps in the audience!)
Tank Man's ass Revealed!
AP Photojournalist Terril Jones unearths sensational never-before-seen image of Tank Man's ass on the eve of the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Justine Lai: Join or Die
"In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order..."
Read more at the artist's website.
World's Largest "Fusion Facility" Finished
Located in California, the "fusion facility" is said to be able to create quantum cuisines from across the entire spectrum of... everything. fast food my ass food--this shit's light!
It's also home to the most powerful laser ever built (actually several lasers). Sounds like something that could fall into the wrong hands.
Project proposal: let's etch the moon.
RUN, BLAGO, RUN! show opens July 24
Graphic artist Ray Noland alias "CRO" has been hard at work funding a 3-day exhibition in which artists are invited to re-interpret the classic jogging pose of Illinois ex-Governor Rod Blagoyevich. Participating artists include Jeff Zimmermann and Tariq Rafiq, while celebrity jurors include Joan Cusack and Derrick Carter.
Last Call for Chicagolympix
Photo © spudart via Flickr.
Mayor Daley and a small entourage from the Chicago 2016 organizing committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee are traveling to Olympic headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, to make a final sales pitch before as many as 90 of the 100 members of the International Olympic Committee -- the governing body that plans to announce Oct. 2 which city gets the Games.
Among the finalist cities, Chicago is the only one that hasn't offered a blanket guarantee against potential Olympic losses. It has been 25 years since the IOC has awarded the Olympics to a city whose bid did not include a blanket guarantee...though outgoing USOC chief Peter Ueberroth praised Chicago last week as "the leader," and the widely read Olympics-watching Web site Around The Rings ranked Chicago first.
Redmoon Theater: GET A DICTIONARY!
Redmoon Theater is Chicago's longest-running and most commercially successful spectacle theater company. They were founded in 1989, and over the past 20 years have transformed from a lo-fi, DIY, community-driven public puppeteering troupe to one of the nation's most gargantuan operations...
CALLOUS COUPLE ACCEPTS REWARD FOR FINDING LOST DOG
"Balabolil said she gladly handed over the $2500 reward money, stopping at an ATM machine to get the final $500."
Wow that is SO NOT COOL of them!!! And what about those of us who don't have an extra $2K to throw at people who refuse to return our lost pets??
2nd Ward Alderman Ain't Got No Love For "Misdemeanor Wieners"
Photo © John Dunlevy via Flickr.
An incredible event is taking place on Jackson and Western--or WOULD be taking place, were it not for Bob Fioretti's admitted lack of humor and subsequent lack of compassion for an inventive and playful foodservice enterprise with roots in community service, social activism, and criminal rehabilitation.
Read more about the Sausage Scandal...
Official noise over the parking meter sale; and your Alderman's side business
Two articles on the Tribune website worth a gander.
The Inspector General says the deal for the parking meters was officially shitty. He's only several months behind the rest of us.
And you can check out your Alderman's "economic disclosure forms", uploaded by the Trib to Scribd.
See also our "review" of scribd.
