December 2009
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Video: New video from Today in Tehran 31 Dec http://bit.ly/7e5eV8 #cn4iran
2009-in-review (for the internet): pt. 5:
Rose Metal Press release How Some People Like Their Eggs and The Field Guide to Flash Fiction.
2009-in-review (for the internet): pt. 4:
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2009-in-Review (for the internet): pt. 3:
2009-in-Review (for the internet): pt. 2:
1. Banks, But No Banks Program:
Banks, But No Banks: Invest with CHOCOLATE CAKE CITY in the BANKS, BUT NO BANKS Quality Investment Program. So — you want to invest with Chocolate Cake City. First of all — thanks for choosing us! We know you’ve come a long way before this — a long way — and we appreciate the fact that you’re willing to give CCCQIP a try....
re: "Boobies."
@efleischer Man alive. Call an ironic video “Boobies” and out come the angry, frustrated, sexist crazies.
@efleischer “Hey, here’s something called ‘Boo — wait a second. A high/low-brow comedy sketch? BUT MY PLAN WAS FOOL-PROOF!”
@AlmightyGosh @efleischer I regularly google “boobies” on mainstream websites looking for something to hate myself...
2009-in-Review (for the internet):
1. Chocolate Cake City - Boobies:
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Pool Date:
4. I wrote a book.
5. Iran, Iran, Iran, Iran.
6. 6 or 7 Popes.
7. Gaby’s stand-up gets written up.
8. via The Burbank Historical Preservation Society - Sonik Ear:
9. Harrison Grimley Does Stand-Up Immedately After Committing a Murder:
10. The last CCC show for Ed, Greg, Jack, Steve, Chaz, Dan, Gaby, Sam,...
We Run An Open Ship:
Formspring.
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via Hamid Dabashi:
Americans should send delegations of civil rights icons, film and sports personalities, Muslim leaders, human rights organizations, women’s rights activists, labor union representatives and student assemblies to Iran. Let them connect with their counterparts in Iran and expose the illegitimate government that has suffocated the democratic aspirations of a nation for too...
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via Ackerman:
“Please help us make our democracy.”
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Some Context: Iran:
Sharif University. (Wikipedia.) Mashad University. (ibid)
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Some Context: Iran:
One of the things that appeared on twitter yesterday was the fact that the student publication Mowj Nou was shut down. Here’s a little bit more background:
On Wednesday, December 15, the student paper Mowj Nou, which is published in the Science and Industry University under the management of Navid Ataei on a daily basis, was banned. In the letter sent by the oversight committee, the reason...
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Iran Round-Up (Dec. 30th):
Mousavi’s nephew’s “surprise” funeral is forced upon his family. He is buried in …
Sec 9, row 38
Call for Protest, Tomorrow at 15, Enghelab St. (Imam Hossein Sq, Hafte Tir Sq, Vali Asr Sq, Vali Asr Cr.)
Bahare Hedayat is arrested http://bit.ly/6oPPHu #iranelection
they set the Hossanineh of Sharif univ on fire to arrest and punish some innocents...
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“I believe Bob Dylan and James Brown … had a baby.”
– Jon Stewart, on Bruce Springsteen. Kennedy Center Honors.
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Vonnegut's Cape Cod Saab Story. →
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Margaret Thatcher had a temper and taste for... →
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Reviewing the Review: Anthony Lane and The...
From the New Yorker (Oct. 15, 2007):
… and they are asked to stay and attend his funeral, yet even the mourning mood is startled and lifted by the aquamarine blue on the village walls. Is this itself a diversion, as Anderson’s detractors would claim: a cheap doodle, masking the director’s inability to sustain a strong emotion? Or could it be that his greens and blues, like his other...
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How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen Deal? I... →
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Iran Round-Up (Dec. 29th):
Once again from the twitterscape:
10 students were injured in clashes at Elm O Sanaat Univ (Univ of Science & Technology) today http://bit.ly/61yzB5 #iranelection
Shamsolvaezin arrested: http://bit.ly/5CtGBV #Iran #IranElection
01 BBCPersian: 6 young plainclothes entered Shamsolvaezin’s house at 1:30am showing a warrant w/o any names on it
#iranelection 02 BBCPersian: He refused to...
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When we talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil in this country, we absolutely have to talk about Brazil, and — from what little I’ve been hearing — we haven’t:
The Brazilian government has undertaken an ambitious program to reduce dependence on imported oil. Imports previously accounted for more than 70% of the country’s oil needs but Brazil became energy...
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Where (Apparently) The Iranian Government Keeps... →
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Global Business in Iran. →
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New York Times Editorial: Iran's War on Its... →
WatchFrom elsewhere.
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There’s something about the way people from the CFR frame certain things that always manages to bother me — like this:
The original goal was to protest the June 12 election because of a widespread belief of fraud and a rigged election.
“Belief?”
I don’t know whether to attribute it to a sensitive ear or not, but coming from an American media environment, the willful...
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Iran:
Here’s a question — one that might prove irrelevant in the coming days/weeks, which I’m perfectly willing to accept —: if the Iranian Central Bank starts withdrawing defaced currency, what effect does that have — if any— regarding sanctions?
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Iran Round-Up #3 (Dec. 28th):
via @omidhabibinia (translated from the Serbian):
“Mobile networks occassionally work, but are under full control, e-mail is monitored, and telephones almost don’t even work.”
Note: Habibia never said he wanted an Islamist Democratic Republic. That’s a mistake on the part of the article’s author.
(Link.)
The arrest of Haleh Sahabi is being confirmed and...
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Iran/Twitter Round-up #2 (Dec. 28th):
“German TV just reported that a large number of Iranian officials are fleeing #Iran 2 seek refuge, stay tuned for more updates”
via @oxfordgirl: OMHURI-E ESLAMI paper says Central Bank of Iran announced that all banknotes w/ scribbling on them invalid from nxt week”
I asked, “Why scribbling? Why invalid?”
@oxfordgirl: Central bank warns against defacing bank...
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Iran round-up (Dec. 28th, 2009):
Given that The Dish has been lax in their round-ups today, here is my round-up of the day’s tweets:
Ebrahim Yazdi, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, is arrested at his home at 3 AM. (His son was just on the BBC, saying — in short — that it was abhorrent to arrest a 78 year-old man who has spent his life promoting an open society in the country.)
“Tehran & Shiraz:...
Tiny Tim Was First Called "Little Fred." →
“I once said cynically of a politician, “He’ll double-cross that...”
– Oscar Levant. The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13
I’m thinking that when I turn 24, I’ll treat every single day like an episode of “24” until I’m disowned by friends and family and shunned from society at large.
Or until I pass out from sleep deprivation.
Bob Dylan On His Recent Conversion to Christmas.
As part of his interview with Bill Flannagan for Together Through Life, Bob Dylan discussed his recent conversion to “Christmas.” It was left out of the final publication, as — some sources close to Dylan believe — this would have spoiled the forthcoming surprise of Christmas in the Heart.
We’ve obtained an exclusive copy of those remarks, and have transcribed them...
Turns Out Colbert Had Much More Aggressive... →
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Monologue: (2)
Every time fall in New England comes around, I want to leave my house at quarter-to-twelve and drive to yours with blues-soaked radios stuck in every elm along the way. The tipping point of I-am-yours-dom. I am becoming a kind of eighty, ninety, one-hundred year clockwork. But good God, how does the clock work?
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The View from the Afternoon.
The uninterrupted flatlands. Green. Far-off clouds a miniature navy fleet in the midst of battle. The car carved its metrical path under the tumult. Somewhere, the car is being tracked by a poorly built GPS, and given the shoddy quality, the car hops back and forth between five or so streets in a repeating pattern that the GPS operator tries to whistle, thinking it might be a tune. Above this,...
michaelclair:
Baby Jesus Was the First Glam...
“What would happen if trolls were just bag ladies collecting stray cats for...”
– Guillermo Del Torro.