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Chum

The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their colors, lights, and s

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In the early morning hours of February 1942, a pale orange object appeared over Culver City in Los Angeles. US planes were scrambled and fired on the object, as did ground cannons, but the object wasn't damaged. It disappeared from sight after around thirty minutes, according to this site .

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Music:

Syd Barrett, Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, Rolling Stones, Morphine, Morrissey, Miles Davis, electronic, fifties, eighties, jazz, classical, etc. .. .. ..

Movies:

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John Carpenter's Halloween, The Thing, Christine, They Live, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Spielberg's War of the Worlds, Jaws, Close Encounters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire of the Sun, Scorsese's Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, Raging Bull, Ed Wood, The Monster Squad, Hearts in Atlantis, The Fly, Dead Ringers, The Dead Zone, Cronenberg's Crash, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Alien, Aliens, The Hidden, The Godfather trilogy, the oevre of Buster Keaton and the Three Stooges, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Bubba Ho Tep, In the Mouth of Madness, My Neighbor Totoro, La Dolce Vita, The Big Lebowski, To Kill A Mockingbird, and the great Jackie Brown ... this list is without end.

Television:

The Sopranos, 24, Lost, The X-Files, The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Night Stalker, ABC Sunday Night Movie

Books:

Thomas Hardy, Alan Moore, Naomi Klein, Flannery O'Connor, Melville, Tolstoy, Henry James, Harper Lee, Richard Yates, Richard Ford, Jhumpa Lahiri, Carson McCullers, Martin Amis, Frederick Exley, John Waters, Tim O'Brien, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Greg Bear, Stephen King, Dan Simmons, John Shirley, Jack Ketchum, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Azzarello, Garth Ennis, the classic poets, especially Blake, Keats, Sandburg, D.H. Lawrence, Poe ... more later.

My Blog

Anthrax Island

This news story has more red flags than will fly at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. So, the FBI is closing in on a suspect in the Anthrax mailings of 2001, and the presumed guilty -- Bru...
Posted by Chum on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:01:00 PST

From the sublime to the ridiculous *UPDATED!*

Have you stared for hours at pics of the Large Hadron Collider? You're not alone. Long have I contemplated it, with meager results. That ends now. The LHD is supadupa fly. CERN Rap from...
Posted by Chum on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:58:00 PST

... sounds like something Miggs would say.

..Putting yourself out there for an oil company land grab in an ad that doesn't really make a lot of sense... ...
Posted by Chum on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:51:00 PST

NEWSFLASH! CBS News fights to block news in Rather suit

Dan Rather TRIAL?  Really, Drudge? But Dan Rather is suing CBS.  He's actually the plaintiff in a lawsuit.  But maybe Drudge is right in the final analysis, because in the press, a fiel...
Posted by Chum on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:17:00 PST

As journalism goes, so goes democracy...

The Last Great TV Journalist, Bill Moyers, made the below remarks during his keynote address at the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, which is worth reading (or watching on youtube,...
Posted by Chum on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:00 PST

When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object...

... hilarity ensues!! ..This piece, from Australian comics John Clarke and Brian Dawe, may seem a little too close for comfort, to this... ..... which inevitably leads us back to thi...
Posted by Chum on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:22:00 PST

Out There

When [Wall.E director Andrew Stanton] heard the lyric "out there" from "Put on Your Sunday Clothes," it "kicked" in for Stanton. "I was just hooked. I didn't show it to a lot of people for a while bec...
Posted by Chum on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:29:00 PST

What, me worry?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ...
Posted by Chum on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:59:00 PST

"This is not a proud moment."

One of a handful of senators standing up for the Bill of Rights and the rule of law, Russ Feingold addressed the Democratic position on the FISA legislation rolling through Congress, calling the compr...
Posted by Chum on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:42:00 PST

I can haz more record profits?

Just as Americans are starting to realize that oil multinationals are about as good for humans and other living things as cancer sticks, the billionaire CEOs and other oil types have found their pot o...
Posted by Chum on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:54:00 PST