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Mozart’s Rondo alla Turca by this guy. Is it necessary for him to flip his stick in the air right in the middle of this? Yes. (Read More)
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It's Bryan Ferry Day at (human) meme. It's that special time of the week where we ideate on how much joy and pillaging Roxy Music brought into our eighties lives -- even if we didn't know it at the time. (Read More)
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In Portland, Oregon, lots of noise tends to float around and then sometimes it lands down by the Willamette River. Sometimes that music has a melody and for now we can go ahead and call it Mint Julep.
The band started recently by musical couple Hollie and Keith Kenniff is a shoegazey methadone trip that may [...]. (Read More)
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Chuck Klosterman is a noted author of quite excellent rock criticism. Residents of his hometown, Wyndmere, ND, are pushing for mayor a Vietnam vet named Brandon Franks who "lived in the Bronx out of his car for at least twenty-five years" and who will outlaw Bud Light in favor of whiskey. (Read More)
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Mason Votes
According to a poll earlier this month, 61 percent of Americans oppose an auto bailout, 70 percent believe that a bailout would be unfair to taxpayers and another majority of those surveyed did not believe that the bailout would help the economy. Only 15 percent believe that bankruptcy in the auto industry would immediately (Read More)
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President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Arne Duncan, the current chief of Chicago schools, is wholly unsurprising: As with many of the incoming executive’s cabinet picks, the murmurs concerning Duncan’s nomination swelled as early as this weekend, the sources of which obscured themselves in the shroud of anonymity. (Read More)
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Student journalists and bloggers from throughout the country write about the economy, education and foreign policy at the Voice of Young Voters Presidential Transition Forum, only on UPI.com. (Read More)
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Melbourne’s Cut Copy have got served by Damn Arms, who turned up a transcendent mix of the already swagworthy “Far Away”. You can listen to hear why you are dancing. (Read More)
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If there is one thing (human) meme does not do, it is politics. BUT, if there is one thing (human) meme appreciates, it is being catered to.
That is why we were so happy to come across this exceptional use of headgear, from way back when this was Sen. Cowboy. (Read More)
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The French always have to do everything better than US. Writing? Camus. Philosophy? Camus. First Ladies? Nude models and singers, often in the same body.
Carli Bruni makes very pretty music and that’s probably about as much as you can say about it. (Read More)
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By registering their subjects in an identical framework, with similar poses and a strictly observed dress code, Versluis and Uyttenbroek provide an almost scientific, anthropological record of people’s attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. (Read More)
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Crooks and Liars
Political Punch: ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer. The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent veteran of the Clinton White House is said to have a (Read More)