Culture


Sing a Fair and Balanced Song

Mad Kane is back from vacation and feeling very fair and balanced. So much so that she has written a fine fair and balanced tune :

Fair and balanced,
Fair and balanced.
Empty slogans, rabid views, and shrill rants.
Fox calls critics liars.
O’Reilly’s filled with angst and ire.

Go sing the rest.
And, being so excited to have missed the blackout, she created a special dubya blackout cartoon but The Village Voice thinks maybe Pataki should be blamed.


RIP Jerry Garcia 8.1.42-8.9.95

It all rolls into one
and nothing comes for free
There’s nothing you can hold
for very long
And when you hear that song
come crying like the wind
it seems like all this life
was just a dream
Stella Blue
Stella Blue, Lyrics by Robert Hunter


Flashing

Flashing may have a new meaning:

A growing flash mob craze — when crowds organized by e-mail turn up in unexpected places — brought a mob late on Thursday to the flagship Times Square store of Toys “R” Us, where a giant dinosaur roars menacingly at customers.

Prediction: at least one of these events will, in the future, include just that: flashing.
This is a phenomena that is aching for a name of its own. We all understand getting Slashdotted and if we are lucky tomorrow we will still understand being flashed.
Who has a unique name for these gatherings?