From the ISLAGIATT (It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time) File

Tighty-whities of course.

People have ways of coping when their worlds stop making sense. When mine stops making even its usual tiny modicum of sense, I cope by means of housecleaning. Indoors, outdoors, meatworld, cyberspace, I take stuff out of attics and basements and garages and folders and dust it off or wash it or otherwise spiff it [...]

A Face In the Crowd

(my take on the original)

Disgust: on the Lonesome Rhodes Trail to Tortureville

America Is Better Than This

Triumph of the Propaganda Mill

Teevee Crackpot Calls For Joining Him

The Only Image You Need To Understand Beck-a-paloosa

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Notes from The Beckture

and the best for last:

Driftglass gives us  A Beck Poster of [...]

Best performance by a cold remedy in a supporting role

Click on the image to view behind the scenes footage of  Messrs.  Beck  &  Vaporub prepping for their performance.

Pause at :38 for the money shot.

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UPDATE: Nearly a year has gone by since I made this little picture; time which Glenn Beck has used only to pollute our collective consciousness to an [...]

A Face In the Crowd 2009

Or:   how I spent 5 hours on a windy, blustery Sunday evening because I was bored and not in the mood to watch Mad Men.

Yes, yes, of course I was trying to update the poster from the 1957 movie starring Andy Griffith.

It would have been a lot easier if I could [...]

Apropos of nothing

Jeez it’s really been a while since I posted anything here.   A hearty  Sorry about that hereby goes out to anyone who has felt neglected or who gives a good goddamn about what happens or doesn’t happen at this blog.

Status report:   everything’s fine, or as close to fine as it ever gets.

The homestead [...]

Sunday Surf with a backwards R

From Crooks and Liars:

See how Glenn Beck cleverly alerts viewers that he’s talking about commie stuff?

Yeah, we’re already down with that, Glenn.

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“Rush Limbaugh has posted a transcript of his remarks on-air today acknowledging the conservative voices who have spoken up in his defense. It is a group in whose good [...]