Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch dies
RIP MCA.
BREAKING: Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch has died, Rolling Stone and TMZ sources say.
From Rolling Stone:
Adam Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009. The rapper was diagnosed in 2009 after discovering a tumor in his salivary gland.
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Allen,
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Jack Kerouac
Jack’s dedication to Allen Ginsberg in his signed copy of On the Road…
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On this day in music history: May 3, 1982 - “Pornography”, the fourth studio album by The Cure is released. Produced by Phil Thornalley and The Cure, it is recorded at RAK Studio One in London from January - February 1982. Part three in a trilogy of albums that includes “Seventeen Seconds” and “Faith”, it will be a career defining release for the band, and a high water mark for the goth music genre and subculture. Much of the material will be written and recorded while The Cure is in a state of flux, though it will become their most successful album to date in the UK and broaden their cult following in the US. “Pornography” will peak at #8 on the UK album chart.
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The historical Jesus that emerges from Ehrman’s mainstream defense is a purely human, miracle-free Jewish male with a very common name living in first century Palestine, who after an unremarkable youth went on to teach things that many others had taught before; one more apocalyptic preacher, among many others at the time, whose predictions were proven wrong within a generation; one more “troublemaker” crucified like countless others by the Romans after a drive-thru trial during the Pilate administration. Being such, the Jesus that can be reconstructed from history with any certainty is, for all practical purposes, as irrelevant as the mythical one, effectively shrinking the debate on his existence from a grandiose quest with theological implications to an inconsequential and endless exercise in academic hair-splitting.
Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.
The Clippers — “Mature Women”
Depressed Bin Laden thought about ‘al-Qaida’ name change, White House says
Ever wish you could escape your troubles by changing your name and moving away? Well, according to President Barack Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser at the White House, Osama bin Laden knew the feeling.
“Hunkered down in his Abbottabad compound, bin Laden anguished as al-Qaida suffered ‘disaster after disaster,’ encouraged its operatives to flee to areas ‘away from aircraft photography and bombardment’ and even thought about changing the name of his notorious international terrorist network, John Brennan said in a speech on Monday.”
”’So damaged is al-Qaida’s image that bin Laden even considered changing its name. And one of the reasons? As bin Laden said himself, U.S. officials ‘have largely stopped using the phrase ‘the war on terror’ in the context of not wanting to provoke Muslims,’ said the U.S. official.”
What’s your suggested name for a rebranded Al-Qaeda?
The first ever mixer with crossfader. The Gaumont Chronophone: made in 1910.
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Accumulating random crap since 1976! Mostly strange humor, fountain pens, history, politics, LGBT issues, art, odd pictures from my iPhoto library, and irrelevant status updates. I'm an ESTJ. In my day job I'm a scientist or something. And I like boys.
