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Commented on Woman with dystonia can only walk backwards
"Anthropologist on Mars" is another by Oliver Sacks that's a great read...
Commented on G20 police uses arrested student as trophy in group photo
Perhaps the cuffed guy requested a photo. ( "Hello DAD! I'm in JAIL!" )...
Commented on Bulletproof glass demonstration
New for TV this fall, it's America's craziest family at it again: The Cheney's!...
Commented on TV archive with 3 days' worth of 6 networks' 9/11 coverage
SHADOWFIRE, perhaps I'm reading you wrong but I couldn't disagree more. To forget, and cease awareness of how horrible that was would be to take W.'s horrible advice to "return to shopping". That style of denial is as ridiculous now...
Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
"The pic was actually made a while back for some other purpose. Of the available images on this sad occasion, it seemed the most appropriate!" Alrighty then. :) I'll always remember him from his Chipendales (sp) routine with Chris Farley...
Commented on Patrick Swayze, 1952-2009
What's up with the nearly silly, less than honorable (just enough so to be confusing) image selection Boing Boing?...
Commented on Short video about Big Bang
Please come to my place and share in some boxed wine while we discuss hot spaces further....
Commented on R. Crumb unsuccessfully attempts to flatten a 78 record in the oven
Only two ingredients needed! Low heat, and a LOT of patience! This makes me appreciate the wide world web....
Commented on Adventures in ill-advised graphic design: Singapore anti- sex trafficking poster
I'm a graphic designer (hoo-fricken-ray for me), and what I can't stop looking at is the hand logo, and why I'm being subliminally badgered to read into some sort of meaning with the multiple letter N's. Is there an acronym...
Commented on @BBVBOX: recent guest-tweeted web video picks (boingboingvideo.com)
Xeni's third to last link has been pulled! HELP! I can't stand it!...
Commented on Holy Vending Machine
Jesus = original creative commons merchandising. Sorry Atheists, this is where you fail. No merch to hock....
Commented on Teach kids to be safe on the net by getting them to think critically about censorware
I like the thinking and intent, but I don't (yet) understand how this proposal produces an end result that includes "safer" access to the web for say, an extremely horny or hyper-curious middle-schooler. By "safer" experience I'm assuming either the...
Commented on Piglet with monkey face
Am I at the supermarket waiting in line with nothing to do but stare at freaky tabloid covers?...
Commented on BB Video: The 1944 "soundie" that inspired Devo's "Whip It" (Oddball Film + Video)
Director: "Ok great, now hang on to that trust, ok? Save that sort of 'hey you fooled me' reaction until about the fourth time around, then really lean into it. Repeated honest mistakes first, then real betrayal, Ok? GREAT."...
Commented on Paperclips dance to electromagnets on train
Their transit floor hygiene is incredible. Unless you count the paperclips....
Commented on Wandering minds are active minds
Dude, man, (2 sec pause) ...stop bogarting that Default Region strain. (cough)...
Commented on RoboGeisha trailer is awesome, includes weaponized tempura shrimp
All awesome, except for ass stabbing. Not cool. Also note the cheesy Live and Let Die-esque melodies tucked into the soundtrack. Quite cool....
Commented on 13 year old kid reviews a 30 year old Sony Walkman
Don't forget the terminology for that era as well, like "wow and flutter", which I think was a term used to describe the inevitable feature of the upper range of frequencies in your music gradually fading out, then gradually popping...
Commented on Terrific review of the execrable Transformers movie
Awesome, so where's the rallying cry for Gilliam then? Sadly missing....
Commented on ACLU sues TSA for illegally detaining and searching man carrying $4,700 in cash
AGIES: What was he doing if not that?...
Commented on City of Toronto does crummy job inserting black guy into stock-art photo on official publication
Looks as if whomever was in charge had (maybe) a narrow vision and insisted on the concept of a "huddle", which is very specific to satisfy with only stock photography. Feel free to file this in "justification for appropriately paying...
Commented on AOL CDs make great shims for home carpentry projects
Never mind that, what's that in the background?? Pet time machine?...
Commented on PETA pushes to halt Seattle fish mongers from tossing fish
I don't have any problems with the idea of watchdog group for the ethical treatment of (living!) animals, since checks and balances are usually a good thing, but this is idiotic. I hear the fish market was offering up a...
Commented on Corpses are rotting more slowly than they used to -- is it because we are germophobic?
Remember Supersize Me? Too much french fry consumption....
Commented on Donald Rumsfeld's Strangeloveian Defense Briefing Art
a) Un b) Fucking c) Believable d) All of the above...
Commented on Nine-year-old plays Ozzy
A sure fire way to get my dad to like Ozzy finally! Sweet!...
Commented on Was 1971 the best year to be born a geek?
67. Got to see Star Wars upteen times at the Cooper Theatre in Denver at a perfectly developed 10, and just in time to catch both Mattel Football I & II, and Sid & Marty Croft's run just before it...
Commented on Ex-drug czar John Walters made a fool on CNN
This reminds me of the Bush administrations tactics to debate just about any controversial subject: lay out fear-centric sound bytes for the public to readily digest, all the while keeping your opponent exclusively on the defensive (effectively disabling any further...
Commented on Border patrol alleged to have beat up and tazed pastor, smashed his car, on US soil, because he insisted on 4th Amendment rights
Regardless of how all of this might've come about, this should be a wake-up call to folks to assert their rights (lest risk allowing them to be widdled away). Of course, to be able to assert one’s rights in a...
Commented on Prom dress store changes photo of dress
Hmm...same dress... The big vagina's still included though, RIGHT?...

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Anony Mouse commented on Woman with dystonia can only walk backwards
Watched the video with mute on, and I reckon I lasted 10 seconds before 'Yakkity Sax' kicked in in my head. I bet I'm not alone!...
bluesboy22 commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
Whoa ... what memories! I'm wondering if anyone has any info about the bands in the early/mid/late 60s. I used to go to the Rugged Room, if anyone remembers it (on Alameda?). There's one band in particular I would like to find out if any recordings exist. Anyone remember "Fuzz", from Thornton? "Lothar and the Hand People"? KIMN radio had a battle of the bands at the Denver Arena downtown (gee, I think that was the name of it - it's now part of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts). Maybe there's a good website with this kind of...
kip w commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
stantoni, the missing line is "And we'll have fun, just you and me / on K... L... Z!" Also, more information about Jay Mack, Niles Lishness and Farley McLooth can be found on the internet. Some of it was surprising to me. I knew about his heart attack when he was doing an overnight show, but was somehow unaware of the car crash at the height of his fame that led to his later health problems, or that he died a few months after having his life saved by an alert listener. A sad end for one of two disk...
golden80 commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
Mountain States Bank on east Colfax... They had a pretty catchy ad on the radio around 1982. I don't have the actual audio, but I soooo remember it: (Chorus group) Oh they say that time is money, so you spend it drivin' 'round, Drinking dollar gasoline and smellin' up the town, Searching for a parking place that you can call your own, (Woman's voice) Hey, there's a spot (Man's voice) Oh no it's not, it's a (honk honk) loading zone. (Chorus group again) Now, is this any way to bank, any way to bank? Driving 'round in circles while you're...
HITMAN IN OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND commented on 1960s and 1970s Denver pop culture open thread
1976 Was the year that I was brought in to do nights 7- Midnight on KDKO Denver from WJPS in Evansville, Indiana I was called the MIDGET on the air....and was working at KDKO when we co sponsored a Marvin Gaye Concert and he was a no show and I lost my gig because of his no show...I was fired and moved on to a station in Colorado Springs for awhile then 38 more years of radio broadcasting from Denver, Colorado Springs, San Diego, Baltimore, Ocean City, Maryland etc.....anyhow just thought I would see if by chance anyone remembers the...

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