Smell That?

If you've been watching this space...

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:10:20 -0500

...and have been wondering where I've been the last couple of years, you might want to try my actual blog at

http://tonyhightower.com.

Many thanks, please keep in touch, and much love to you and yours who are currently incarcerated.

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"That Was Dangerously Close To Perfection."

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:46:24 -0400

Peter Case on Pico Boulevard in LA

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Money Shot

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:01:56 -0400

Shark Tank Water Slide, Golden Nugget Hotel, Las Vegas, NV (click for full size):

Full photoset to come, but I got on the plane soaking wet after my 15 seconds of scheduled glee.

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Air Heart

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:47:53 -0400

Air-Heart

Taken last night among the dark St. Demetrios' Carnival on my block.

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Tip Your Veal, Try The Waitress

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:08:37 -0400

[obligatory]

You know, I'm not a total loony. In many ways, I'm more rational than one or two of you. Maybe. For example, I think Hitler was wrong about a great many things. He quit on his painting career way too quickly; he should have really pursued that. I suspect he would have had a much happier adulthood if he had just stuck with the art thing and laid off all that sordid race hatred and genocidal whatnot.

But if I may defend him for one moment, I think I get the whole moustache thing. Sometimes shaving that thing is just more than I can handle at that hour in the morning. My philtrum is so deep and impossible to shave sometimes that I can imgine Luke Skywalker flying his X-wing down it with a mess of tie fighters chasing him. Seriously, if Stella had a groove this deep, there wouldn't have been much of a movie.

I need a third punchline, and then I can put this topic away, maybe forever.

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Two Quotes

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:00:00 -0400

I don't wanna swear it but it's something that I've heard/A gun in the first act always goes off in the third
- Peter Case

And secondly, Cenk Uygur says basically everything I could say about the Virginia thing:

Just think of some of the disturbing people you have met in your lifetime, whether they're the guy staring at you with that crazy look in his eye in the New York City subway or the really weird fellow at the rodeo who doesn't fit in with anyone. Your neighbors, your classmates, your co-workers. Think about all of them with guns. Man, if that doesn't scare the bejesus out of you, you don't live in the same place I do.

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News By Default: Lewis Black

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:59:02 -0400

Interviewed by the Progressive:

Q: What is your take on Hillary’s Presidential bid?
Black: I can’t do it. The first time around they did a basically decent job of running government and keeping a stable atmosphere in the country. But they created a psychotic whirlwind around themselves, and I’m not ready to go back to that psychotic whirlwind. And people may have forgotten, but Hillary destroyed any possibility of a government-run health care program. She should go away for a little bit. Even Nixon went away for a little bit. You don’t get things the first go around. You have to work for it. And granted, living with Bill is working for it, but it’s not enough.
Q: And Obama?
Black: Would a few more years’ experience hurt? I mean, he beat Alan Keyes, for God’s sake. A Doberman could’ve beaten Keyes. Now, I think Obama’s very good and very smart and may bring something fresh, but I am not comfortable with anyone that age taking office in this current political climate. Ultimately, what I would really like to see is a Republican and a Democrat crossing over lines and running together and saying, “Fuck you!” to the status quo.

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Opa! Opa! (Opi? Opuseseses?)

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:33:39 -0400

A few days late due to technical issues (my home computer in the the hospital with third-degree overuse), last week's trivia recap is finally up and in full effect.

We asked a question about banksy this week. Here's a wonderful piece from Channel 4 news showing him outting up the pieces on the Palestinian/Israeli dividing wall:

banksy

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Miranda July And Her Dirty Fridge

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:26:28 -0400

In which Miranda July, to promote No One Belongs Here More Than You, her new collection of short stories, vandalizes her kitchen.

My love for her is as true as it could be for someone who I only know through her art, and she knows she can get away with a lot of things that most other people can't -- she can often act like a six-year-old who knows how to be really cute and charming, and sometimes she abuses that skill -- but jesus, have you seen Me & You & Everyone We Know?

[via milo, via a few other places]

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"I thought they were cute, and maybe just a little bit preposterous. I gave them a 98."

nobody@vox.com(Chico B.) — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:41:33 -0400

It may be slightly corny to say that these two videos both illustrate deeper truths about the human condition and modern culture (or even culture of a previous generation; we have, in fact, come a long way, baby) as we know it, but I was never afraid of being corny.

Dick Dale gives the only lesson you need to know about the music business in one excellent three minute rant:

Dick Dale Interview

And Dance Fever had the foresight and class to bring on "Mr. Bizarre" Frank Zappa to give some dancers abnormally high marks and bust a few awkward moves himself:

Frank Zappa on Dance Fever

If I've learned anything today, it's that the road to the top of the music world has many paths.

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