Divine Strake
Watch the skies over Nevada on June 2.
The WaPo calls Divine Strake "a conventional alternative to a nuclear weapon".
Can any American plane carry a 700-ton payload?
The world is what you make of it.
Watch the skies over Nevada on June 2.
Sidney Blumenthal is Salon's best columnist. I'm going to blog all his columns as often as I remember. You should read them all. He does him some terrific writing.
There's always something interesting at transom.org.
From the Pitchfork Interview:
When I hear auto tune on somebody's voice, I don't take them seriously. Or you hear somebody like Alicia Keys, who I know is pretty good, and you'll hear a little bit of auto tune and you're like, "You're too fucking good for that. Why would you let them do that to you? Don't you know what that means?" It's not an effect like people try to say, it's for people like Shania Twain who can't sing. Yet there they are, all over the radio, jizzing saccharine all over you. It's a horrible sound and it's like, "Shania, spend an extra hour in the studio and you'll hit the note and it'll sound fine. Just work on it, it's not like making a burger!"
Robert Altman has made great pictures, especially Nashville. In one scene, Connie White, played by Karen Black, performs in a Nashville club. In the middle of a song, she says,