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fengi.)
My Little Pinhead and if H.R. Giger designed My Little Pony. (Hat tip:sfslim.)
Natalie Dee is my soulmate. (Hat tip:human_loser.)
Taliban takes high cover: Can’t smoke ’em out? Troops struggle with 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants.rohmie.)
memetherapy: What's the Point of Science Fiction? Part 1
Hipsters are to gentrification what fluffers are to the porn biz: we get the area ready for the big pricks to come in and blow their load.(Hat tip:
fengi.)My Little Pinhead and if H.R. Giger designed My Little Pony. (Hat tip:
sfslim.)Natalie Dee is my soulmate. (Hat tip:
human_loser.)Taliban takes high cover: Can’t smoke ’em out? Troops struggle with 10-foot Afghan marijuana plants.
A couple of brown plants on the edges of some of those (forests) did catch on fire. But a section of soldiers that was downwind from that had some ill effects and decided that was probably not the right course of action...(Hat tip:
rohmie.)memetherapy: What's the Point of Science Fiction? Part 1
Paul McAuley: Science fiction is the holy fool of literature. It can say what it likes and get away with an examination of truly radical and subversive ideas because no one takes it seriously. When it’s at its best, we’re generally in trouble. Science fiction flourished during the social and economic upheavals of the 1930s, during the Cold War, and during the Iron Age of the 1980s. It should be flourishing now, damn it, but too many people who used to hang out with it have wandered off into some kind of fluffy make-believe world or other. Real science fiction doesn’t make stuff up. It turns reality up to eleven.(Quoted all over the damned place lately.)
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That damn marijuana.
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Date: 2006-10-24 06:59 pm (UTC)Oh, I'm sure!
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Date: 2006-10-17 06:37 pm (UTC)I have mixed feelings about CBGB's closing. On one hand it's sad to it go, one other hand it need to go. Since circa 1988, CBGB's has lost it's luster in underground punk and places like ABC NoRio on the east coast and Gilman St. on the west coast is where truely innovative punk bands have been coming from in the twenty years. Actually, in the last ten years, the best bands have come from Seattle or the Midwest and South.
Since then CBGBs, has been a punk-rock disneyland tourist trap for hipsters and scenesters who want an escape from thier banking jobs or graphic design jobs and pretend that they're fifteen years old and going to basement shows still for the weekend.
Actually it's quite fitting that the owner is talking about gutting the interior and moving it to Las Vegas because in the punk scene it currently has about as much athuenticity as a Las Vegas casino immitating ancient Rome or Paris. Most punks see it as a non-event.
That aritcle about it you posted had some good points. But still it smacks of a older gen-Xer (at 27 I'm at the tail end of gen-X) bitching about how kids these days have no heart from his midtown-Manhatten bubble world. It'a lecture I've heard a million times and I've even given when filled with booze.
It kind of reminds of a boomer hippy telling hippy kids my age how the Fillmore or Woodstock were so great and that everything is "fake" now and that hippy kids these are just immitating a moment in time that can't be replicated. Boring.
Anyway, I could write abouy the subculural scene politics behind this (non) event all day, but I'll spare you the boredom. :)