It’s official, LQ loves industrial musicals and you should too. So much so that we compiled this handy dandy chart of industrial musicals. You’ll be humming along to “Look at this Tub” in no time.
Source: laphamsquarterly
I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
Source: laphamsquarterly
Best designer’s invoice ever!
Well, you take a big chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan.
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen)
It’s been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I’m finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.
Leslie Nielsen in 1988
Nielsen died November 28 at the age of 84.
I believe in a country that rewards hard work and responsibility, a country where we look after one other, a country that says I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper, I’m going to give a hand up, join hands with folks and try to lift all of us up so we all have a better future, not just some - but all of us. That’s what I believe.
Barack Obama, September 30, 2010
Obama still has the chops - the only one who does - to pull America from the Republican mess left to him. While he’s certainly not perfect I pity America if it turns its back on him in November.
Actor Tony Curtis has died. Obit: The New York Times.
I’m not sure where this came from but if you work in advertising it’s worth the read. Consumer generated content is lazy, quit bothering people and do your job.
Source: fletter
By and large talent is in such short supply, mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Pity America
There’s a laundry list of reasons that America is becoming less and less relevant in the 21st Century. It’s glory days far, far behind it the good ol’ U. S. of A. can barely get any progressive action out of the (seemingly) most progressive POTUS elected since Clinton.
The tip of the iceberg is Human Rights. One of the best examples: the fact that the rest of the planet is slowly but surely coming to terms with gay rights while the U.S. actively seeks to limit them is a sad, sad indicator of America’s moral failings.
Glenn Greenweld has an excellent article on Salon where he discusses Argentina’s recent adoption of same sex marriage and America’s failings:
The contrast with the U.S. is quite instructive and depressing. Not only is the U.S. not close to nationally recognizing same-sex marriage, but we have a law — the Defense of Marriage Act — that explicitly bars the granting of any and all federal spousal rights whatsoever (including immigration rights) to same-sex couples. Despite the election of a President who campaigned on a pledge to overturn that law, and overwhelming Democratic control of Congress, repeal of that law isn’t even on the table. The absolute most that is possible is a repeal of the unfathomably regressive ban on gays in the military, and the Obama-ordered granting of more spousal employment benefits to gay federal employees. Virtually no national politician in the U.S. is even willing to advocate same-sex marriage, and those who advocate granting equal rights as part of “civil unions” refuse to take any real steps to bring that about. Amazingly, it was only this year that the U.S. ended the repellent ban on HIV+ individuals from even entering the country, one of only 12 nations (a list largely comprised of some of the world’s worst human rights abusers) to have continued it that long.
As a young man one of my grandest ambitions was to move to America, living in New York. “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere…” Now, the U.S.A. is becoming a derisive, divided, pseudo-theocracy, afraid to move forward and stuck in the muck it has created. Slowly, inexorably that muck will pull it down.
