Category Archives: media consumption

stuff I watch and listen to and read

ketch-up: links, media consumption and political miscellania

From the comments in an on Stuff White People Like (a hilarious site whose authors need to stop stalking me!) I happened upon a gaggle of DC bloggers who made me feel fat and provincial.
Even tho their leader gives Finnish girls some props… in his way…
Finnish - I used to call [...]

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Barack Obama- Yes We Can

This is my favorite political propaganda, ever. It brought a tear to my eye the first two four times I watched it.
I wanted to post this on QuadMag, but we are having a serious database problem over there that has crippled the site. Booo. But there was an impassioned supporter of Ron Paul in the [...]

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supreme master moomin vision and the muumibuumi

Not everyone will find the “funky little moomin” clip I posted a link the other day entertaining–or even explicable, so I would like to offer a little background to those deprived souls not familiar with the stories that inspired the Moomin funk-phenomenon worldwide.
Saving me hours of typing is this 16 minute program from a [...]

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watch the Boondocks

It is crunch time. Holidays are upon us and the semester is rolling to a relentless close. It’s all I can do to make time to laugh, and the folks at Adult Swim/ Comedy Central/ Aaron McGruder Inc. have made it easy.
The new season of The Boondocks is all over the internet, thanks to a [...]

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new Amazon mp3 store is nice (DRM-free!)

Just downloaded my first bought album in mp3 format, using Amazon.com: Manu Chao’s La Radiolina. The service worked like a charm, way better than the recent black eye left by the Amazon Unbox video download service, which was even a hassle to uninstall.
Unlike iTunes, the Amazon mp3 downloads are DRM-free, so you can burn, [...]

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of lampreys and shellsuits

Learned something new about Finland on this travel-video site. I wonder if they eat the heads, or they have to cut the teeth out?
Lamprey have nothing to do with this hilarious article in the Helsingin Sanomat about the “authentic Finnish national costume,” the shellsuit (tracksuit in U.S.-English). However, in the lamprey video, you can [...]

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the all-consuming self

Recently took in The Century of the Self, about psycho-analysis, advertising, consumerism, mass behavior and how we’re all getting got. The BBC-produced series illustrates how both Freud’s theories and his family members were well in the mix of American public relations, advertising, entertainment and politics before, during and after World War II. It goes on [...]

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media fix

Sometimes I tell people I dont have a television and then let them believe that means that I dont watch a lot of television. Cuz people who dont watch television are cool. But this isnt true at all, I do watch television. In fact I watch quite a bit of television, more than I care [...]

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tech lust: Nokia e90 Communicator

It doesnt happen often, but it does happen. I am stricken with a case of tech lust so intense that it makes me a little ashamed. How DO you justify a thousand dollar phone? “I want it” isnt really enough for me to convince myself. But wait, there’s more!
My current phone (the Nokia 6101, [...]

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light summer reading

Even without any major travel since our jaunt to the Bay Area in May to see Bjork in concert at Shoreline Amphitheatre, my summer was busy with the freelance writing I mentioned and the big deal in July, our QuadMag.com 10-year anniversary party.
Never mind that I was supposed to be working on my [...]

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