Harry Dean Stanton is without question one of my favorite character actors, if not my favorite. He has been in a number of great movies with some amazing roles—I’m thinking Cool Hand Luke, Alien, Escape from New York, Pretty in Pink, Paris, Texas, Wild at Heart, etc. And I certainly echo the following sentiment articulated [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Harry Dean Stanton’s Repo Code
Published by November 29th, 2007 in YouTube, film, films and movies. 6 CommentsXeroxlore: Folklore in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Published by November 29th, 2007 in fun and xeroxlore. 3 CommentsYesterday I caught up with my favorite Folklorist, Dr. Gary Stanton. Gary is a member of the Historic Preservation department at UMW, and whenever I drop by I am guaranteed a long, fascinating discussion about all things American culture. This time we ended up talking about Xeroxlore, also known as Photocopylore or [...]
2008 is going to be the end of an even greater error!
Andy Rush has already blogged about Netflix Instant Video (what a man, what a man!), but I haven’t used it because I didn’t have Windows XP installed on my Mac Book Pro (it’s not Mac OS friendly).
My two-cents to add to Andy’s post is that it notifies you when one of the movies [...]
Babe Ruth in full salute after signing up for a three-year stint in the New York National Guard. I have to give a special thanks to the RSS feed at Shorpy’s Photo Blog which delivered this gem of an image right to my feed reader. Can you image that? All this history delivered straight [...]
The Painful Politics of YouTube
Published by November 26th, 2007 in YouTube, gun control and politics. 3 CommentsNow, I understand Mike Huckabee is a conservative nut case and may possibly be the worst Republican candidate of an extremely bad pool. Nonetheless, his campaign strategy for YouTube show an unbelievable amount of pop culture savvy by playing on the general fascination with all things Chuck Norris (see the Chuck Norris Facts article [...]
Another gem from the Ubuweb RSS feed.
Dan Graham’s Rock My Religion (1982-84)
1982-84, 55:27 min, b&w and color, sound
Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that begins with the Shakers, an early religious community who practiced self-denial and ecstatic trance dances. [...]
Gladly Eating Some Drupal Crow
Published by November 24th, 2007 in drupal, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 14 CommentsBill Fitzgerald has posted about a most impressive aggregator he put together with Drupal in about six hours. He documents the modules he used, and his creation slices and dices the content from various feeds in some really impressive ways.
This may very well be the beginnings of a more sophisticated tag cloud, directory, searchable [...]
UMW Blogs & Middlesell Sittin’ In a Tree…
Published by November 22nd, 2007 in UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 4 Comments…R-S-S-I-N-G.
I happened upon Middlesell early this morning (this site is an independent homepage for UMW students established by the inimitable Bobby Durette) only to discover that posts from around UMW Blogs are being fed into this space. How fascinating!
Now it really shouldn’t come as a surprise to me, for Bobby is a remarkable guy [...]
…I’m celebrating the culinary contributions of the eyetalians…
Image courtesy of PetroleumJelliffe
…and the Jews…
Image courtesy of Harris Graber
…in New York. Who has room for the dirty Puritans when in Rome?
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