Month: October 2013
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The guys who dressed up as bloody Asiana flight attendants
Ron thinks these are actual uniforms and maybe real flight attendants – which is a violation of any airline's contract. As stupid as blackface for Halloween. The guys who dressed up as bloody Asiana flight attendants
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Jelly Belly Chairman Donates to Anti-Trans Campaign
Hopefully the recently passed Baron of Haribo (Gummi) doesn't have similar complications. Jelly Belly Chairman Donates to Anti-Trans Campaign Records show the chairman of the board for Jelly Belly Candy Company gave thousands to the campaign in California.
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Girl Can't Help It
What Scott saw on the subway.
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CEO-to-worker pay gap is obscene; want to know how obscene?
Part of Dodd-Frank was requiring companies to report the CEO/worker pay gap. You can tell it's obscene because companies are fighting the requirement. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20131020-0-770122.column#axzz2it1XT9a6 CEO-to-worker pay gap is obscene; want to know how obscene? Nothing seems to get U.S. corporations' dander up like a threat to the pay and perks of their chief executives.
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Andy's Recommended Listening
New DJ Theresa mix added to my big Dropbox of dance music – over 4 days of music – https://db.tt/XsS6ASgH Andy's Recommended Listening Shared with Dropbox
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You Have to Choose (Yugoslavia 1992)
“Who are we? My parents were raised as Yugoslavs. My whole life, all I had known was that I was in Yugoslavia and was a Yugoslav. Are we supposed to choose? You HAVE to make a choice.”
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Uh oh- Los Angeles School District's $30 million iPad program falls flat
Paper. Pencil. Structure. Small classrooms. http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/24/uh-oh-los-angeles-school-districts-30-million-ipad-program-falls-flat/ Uh oh- Los Angeles School District's $30 million iPad program falls flat Last week- I wrote about how one-to-one tablet programs in Missouri and Texas K-12 schools had hit some road bumps. In North Carolina when 73-000 Amplify tablets arrived — from Robert Murdoch's ed…
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Vegetarian Option Just Iceberg Lettuce On Bread
This reminds me of the first Thanksgiving my sister Heather was doing raw foods and we'd called ahead to Tommy Lancaster's to see if their dinner had a salad bar – they said of course! When we get there it's tuna salad- chicken salad- fruit salad – and a pile of iceberg. Vegetarian Option Just […]
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And one more David Lynch clip before bedtime – one I've linked to before. And a *HUGE* spoiler if you've ever wanted to watch Twin Peaks from the beginning so don't watch it if you don't want a spoiler. The absolute scariest fucking thing I've ever seen on television.
Twin Peaks – Who is BOB? The revelation scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN02pNRqgM8 One of the most disturbing and intense scenes in television history: the discovery of who killed Laura Palmer. Hugely anticipated back in 1990 and it was wel…
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Another David Lynch gem- this is one of the creepiest scenes ever captured on film
Lost Highway Mystery Man at party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLQW2qr5Hs Fred encounters the Mystery Man at Andy's party. Read my essay at: http://coreydufort.blogspot.com/2006/11/mulholland-drive-and-lost-highway.html