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John Lennon at 72 - from the National Beatles | Examiner.com. Related articles John Lennon's Biggest Solo Hits in the US (Mixed Media) 146 Rarely Seen Photos Of The Early Beatles for John Lennon's 72nd Birthday The Antique Circus Poster That Inspired John Lennon to Write 'Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite' Lady Gaga wins peace award from John Lennon and Yoko Ono Replicating John Lennon's "Mr. Kite" poster … [Read more...]

OUT TODAY: Tame Impala's LONERISM (Modular): Also: Reviewed soon in truthdig. George Harrison: It's Johnny's Birthday And this, including a comparative look at Beatle covers: Related articles Stream Tame Impala's New Album Lonerism Tame Impala - Elephant Tame Impala - Lonerism: album stream Tame Impala's Lonerism WATCH: Tame Impala - Elephant … [Read more...]

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Puffer Fish Mating Dance: Underwater crop circle mystery solved | Earth | EarthSky. "Japanese photographer Yoji Ookata captured the photos below while on a dive near Amami Oshima at the southern tip of Japan. He said the rippling geometric sand patterns are nearly six feet in diameter and almost 80 feet below sea level..." Related articles Deep Sea Sand Sculptures - Yoji Ookata Discovers Giant Underwater Crop Circles (TrendHunter.com) Underwater Crop Circles Discovered in the Coastal Waters of Japan Mystery surrounding underwater … [Read more...]

QUOTE OF THE MONTH: Nicholson Baker in the New York Times Book Review: "We're in the middle of a presidential administration in which one man in an office with velvet couches goes down a kill list. Our president has become an assassin. This sickens me and makes me want to stop writing altogether." See also: Human Smoke, an alternative history of World War II. 30 minutes of MC5, a band out of time: … [Read more...]

Shame about David Brooks's out-of-touch Op-Ed column, but double-shame on David Remnick for his unctuous, interminable New Yorker profile. Together they spawned a cottage industry of dissent: Robert Christgau hailed the Scandinavian show he caught as "transcendent": "One problem with that Madison Square Garden audience was that it felt smug -- aware of Springsteen's complications, but certain that he'd sweep all troubling thoughts away. The Roskilde fans weren't born in the U.S.A. But they never forgot how contradictory it is, and they loved … [Read more...]

TO CELEBRATE NIXON'S RESIGNATION, 1974: From the New Orleans Times-Picayne: Justice is a long-time fan of old school vinyl records. As a sideline, he built a couple of custom turntables, with handsome rectangular wood bodies. Aesthetically that wasn’t enough. Scanning the Internet, he came across photos of crop circles, the presumed landing sites of extraterrestrial vehicles. It was a surrealistic eureka moment. Justice cut crop circle shapes from plywood, allowing the wood grain to represent the wheat crop. He assembled them into an oddly … [Read more...]

So far, very sturdy voices have chimed in against Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom (HBO), including John Powers in Vogue, Jake Tapper in the New Republic, and Tom Carson in GQ. As a journalism teacher, I'm developing pedagogical angles, but his trope of revisiting recent news events quickly wears thin. Sorkin uses it mainly to preach about how much better journalists should behave on deadline, how often everyone bursts into applause, etc. The clincher for me came with his use of Coldplay's lame "Fix You" in episode four, with that maudlin Rudy … [Read more...]

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