t-rex returns, recycling begins

T-Rex returned to Union Station just in time to find out that Prairie Village has finally started a curbside recycling program.

visual reviews of aural entertainment: rock paper scissors

Rock Paper Scissors.
4 April 2010. House Party, KCMO; attendance ~150

visual reviews of aural entertainment: taylor swift

Taylor Swift
@ the sprint center, KCMO. 3 April 2010; attendance, ~15,000.

if i had you

obamas secretly prepare for new world order

Think about it. An organic garden to feed the first family, some bees to produce honey, a hen house, and a rabbit hutch in the east garden—it can only mean one thing. Michelle Obama has been stockpiling the means to make her family self-sufficient. And given the mood of the right, she'd better hurry before they storm the castle.

Couple the First Lady's penchant for home cooking with Biggie O's penchant to always be surrounded by a cadre of weapon-toting, highly trained killers (who have ready access to a few thousand rounds of ammo) and you can see this family is set to maintain residency in the big white house indefinitely.

Revelation! During the coming apocalypse, the President will have the entire US military at his command.

If this liberal, healthy-eating-habit, forced agenda isn't stopped soon, America's ready access to Twinkies, incentive payments for high-fructose corn syrup production, and $1.99 whole roasted chickens could be threatened. The next thing you know, these Marxists will expect that all American children deserve a decent education and their parents a living-wage job. Beware! Univeral health care and tax increases will surely follow.

I'M FAT. FUCK OFF: The Kansas City Tattoo Convention

Except for the sentiment being splayed across the front of the I'M FAT: FUCK OFF t-shirt, the KC tattoo convention was surprisingly conventional. Like motorcycle bars, punk clubs, and art openings, the room suffered from a multiplicity of sameness packaged as rebellious attitude. Rage against the man morphed into a rancid Diesel ad populated by overweight white males fawned over by legions of slim, cute, American Apparel chicks cloaked in subservience and thrift store accessories. The strong man and the tamed woman with a back story of too many taxes, stifled personal freedoms, and a deep, patriotic abiding love of guns. It could just have been easily been a Tea Party gathering

Most of the tattoo work on display suffered from the notion that if you call it art, then it must be art. When viewed repeatedly, endless derivations of Sailor Jack inspired ink begins to resemble this century's version of a Normal Rockwell poster.

Granted the medium seems inherently limited but Wafaa Bilal, an Iraqi-American artist, has recently been stretching the bounds with noted effort. For a recent piece, Mr. Bilal had the names of ten Iraqi cities tatooed in Arabic on his back. The 5,000 black dots used to inscribe these names represent the visible American casulities from the now, 7-year long conflict. To represent the more than 100,000 largely invisible Iraqis who have perished in this war, Billal had the outline of Iraqi tatooed, using 100,000 dots of ultraviolet, black-light ink.

The work benefits a not-for-profit designed to bring children displaced by the Iraqi war to the US for education.

enlightened self-interest

Also known as The Revised New World Order. Campaign Manager William Klein promises an aggressive, historic campaign that “puts people second” or even third.

Visual reviews of aural and 3-D entertainment: quixotic vs nomathmatics

Visual reviews of aural and 3-D entertainment
quixotic vs nomathmatics @ the foundation room, kcmo. attendance ~200

best riposte to a post

The Internet, the coffee shop sans coffee where free-speech minded, democratic-loving members of the left and right go hot-tubbing on Sunday morning, is nothing to sneer at. OK, decidedly untrue, but in the interest of plot, let us suspend disbelief for a moment.

Writing recently in the NY Times Carpetbagger blog, host Melena Ryzik reminds us that the dirty cauldron of Hollywood business is still, well, dirty. For this Republicans surely rejoice; the rest concern yourselves with the red carpet faux paus of Ryan Seacrest.

Background from Bagger2.0:

On Wednesday, Mark Boal, the screenwriter and a producer of the movie [The Hurtlocker], was named in a lawsuit brought by Master Sgt. Jeffrey S. Sarver, whose Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit Mr. Boal embedded with in Baghdad in 2004 as part of an assignment for Playboy magazine.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in New Jersey, is based on six counts, including misappropriation of name and likeness, invasion of privacy, infliction of emotional distress, fraud and negligent misrepresentation. It seeks in excess of $75,000 for each count, along with costs, interest and legal fees. It charges that the movie amounted to “the exploitation of a real-life, honorable, courageous and long-serving member of our country’s armed forces, by greedy, multibillion-dollar ‘entertainment’ corporations.”

The best, and seemingly most appropriate response by many to this was:

Hey, Master Sgt. Jeffrey S. Sarver, here's something to add to your emotional distress: You're a simpering overgrown baby.

How's that for defamation. Sue me.--quin wag, claremont

Let's hope that federal court appointees who, unlike Hollywood stars, are anointed for life, were listening.

anti-craft goes mainstream

We were deep in the clutches of a week long absinthe binge when the Divine Hand of Brilliance touched us in an inappropriate place.

Thus begins the anticraft manifesto. It's a good place to start but seemingly ends in a vegan wrapped in bacon–which in all honestly isn't a bad start. But why stop there? Why not dip them in chocolate (72% cocoa!) afterwards.



One would have thought that bacon had reached its cultural, if not porcine, nadir with Bacon Explosion, a two pound, flame-grilled hunk of sausage wrapped in an equivalent weight of bacon. Pre-cooked weight 4 lbs; cooked weight 2.75 lbs: you can guess where the difference lies. The only thing less surprising than the viral nature of this singular flavor was the fact that it wasn't deep fried, which I hesitate to even mention because surely the next version will be just that to accompany your deep-fired turkey.

Once bacon, seemingly the only pork product that isn't white meat, moved into the pantheon of an Iron Chef secret ingredient we knew the trend was nearing an end. Bacon can be many things but never a secret ingredient.

Bacon shawl photo from monster crochet.

when animals go berserk

When you put a killer whale in a tank, clap, and dangle fresh food in front of them in exchange for tricks, then one shouldn't be surprised that one day they might get bored with the white man's view of nature as just another entertainment venue. However, one should be surprised to learn that Tilikum had his own Twitter account and that SeaWorld officials, in response to the orca's recent drown-the-trainer routine, went berserk and suspended the account.

The GOP F'n hates Valentine's Day

One of my spook friends turned me on to these GOP tricks. Valentine cards surely designed as much to build a database of e-dresses for spreading the hate as much as having a little fun at the expense of others.

Here's a story that you might have missed though. James O'Keefe, the anti-ACORN filmaker, who was largely responsible for the hate campaign during the last election cycle, was recently arrested (along with 3 co-conspirators) for trying to break into Senator's Mary Landriue's office. They face felony charges that could land them in prison for 10 years and draw a $25,000 fine.

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visual reviews of 3-D entertainment

Smurfs in 3-D. Coming soon to a theater near you!

teddy! we hardly knew ya

Loves me some Soul Train...and the bass line in this groove. It's never easy to let it go.

where is lazie lynch

This is for the HATERS out there who are starting up some fire with the fans about me hitting or robbing an old lady get a fuckin life you worthless shits, i got respects and havent touched or robbed no old lady. now move on and find a life ya shits

--Facebook profile of Craig 'Lazie' Lynch, the Internet police taunter who's garnered more than 30,000 fans since posting updates of his on-the-lam whereabouts.

tsa announces new travel restrictions

In the wake of the thwarted Christmas Day terrorist plot on Northwest Airlines flight 253, TSA has announced new restrictions for air travel. While somewhat vague as to the specificity of the restrictions, passengers will no longer be allowed to carry explosive devices on board international flights arriving in the US.

grizzly bear eye candy

An colorful antidote to "The Road".

tiger woods 11th 12th mistress revealed

Warrior Ant Press has learned that, in addition to the other women in his life, Tiger Woods was also known to occasionally sleep with himself. In what may be the most unusual twist in this long-term relationship, Le Tigre, who seemed to exclusively date white woman, crossed not only racial, but gender barriers.

lance armstrong can't touch this

You've never seen anything like this—parkur meets skateboarding meets bmx tricks. Danny MacCaskill does things on a bike that no else has even contemplated.