I'm a lawyer who rep'd a lot of Occupy defendants and it was pretty well established that the police sent in undercovers. It came up in a bunch of different cases.
Agents provacateurs? Sending homeless in? Those assume that Occupy 0.) were a real problem for the powers-that-be and 1.) were important enough to bother oppressing in _fancy_ ways, and I don't believe that either of those were true.
I agree with you Murakami. Now let us never speak of Zuccoti Park ever again.
9:19am
Ike:
Today’s most American question so far: if it says “Back Off, Baby on Board!” w/a silhouette of a gun on the back of a car, does that mean the gun is named Baby?
Note the article's burying the lede '…except for Apple' which means everyone else know how to adapt—and, of course, if you repeatedly use the _same_ Juggalo makeup, it recognises _that_.
@Ken, police shipping in homeless kids never came up, so far as I'm aware, but undercovers were plentiful and often the loudest agitators. I may have misunderstood what you were responding to in your discussion w/ Clay.
Dan:
I always assumed that Lecter was inspired by Blake by way Batman—'One law for the lion and ox is oppression.'. Lecter takes as given that because he is so different to 'normal human'—intelligence, strength, weird eyes, polydactyly—that the rules for them can't rightly apply to him. He was introduced in a book revolving around an image from Blake.
Personally, I found him uninteresting in "…Lambs"—too competent, Superman without Kryptonite—and haven't bothered with his subsequent appearances. I'm particularly uninterested in attempts to give him a backstory, as I think him _designed_ to be unexplainable.
Also, @Ken: the David Mann "cocaine and chicks flying though space on a cocaine mirror" painting is the stuff of midwestern biker legend. An iconic image.
@Ken: Are you talking about Blitzed? I started watching it. It's bonkers. I couldn't finish it because it was bedtime and it was making me dizzy, but I plan on watching it later.
The Allies were more benzedrine and dexedrine, methedrine being judged to be too crash-y.
The documentary I saw failed to show the ads for Pervitin aimed at housewives, and gave only glancing attention to speed use among our civilian war workers…and ignored the post-war effects of lots of diverted product dumped on the streets. I don't know anything about Japanese use during The War, but have gathered from movies that it helped fuel their rebuilding and enriched the yakuza.
The Allies solved the meth crash problem by embedding the meth into a plastic pill, forcing it to be time released. That drug was called Desoxyn and was very popular with the Warhol factory crowd.
just tuned in (tho I heard "cocktail bar" earlier - give that song an honorary grammy.) and I see drug talk here. I very straight edge but love hearing about such. workmates had a story of a guy who saw a pill on floor and simply popped it in. this was bk in the 60s in college.
The contents of “Blitzed!” are sensationalistic, but really fall in to the world of “truthy.” Norman Ohler didn’t really reveal much that hasn’t been known but the way he did it (he’s mainly a novelist) is really wince worthy. Let’s just admit you don’t really need drugs to go to war or be a crazed loon of a soldier… But it helps!
Anybody else occasionally getting minor bursts of static at 91.1 FM even when you're in a strong reception zone and there shouldn't be any static? Just got it again during "Crazy".
My brother used to work at Electronic Data Systems when Ross Perot owned it... Mr. Perot never knew that when he would fly in on a helicopter, some of the employees liked to watch at a window and say, THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!
Always discover something new and very cool on FMU, this time around it was "Hotel Delmano" from Munya. This track has "summer soundtrack material" written all over it.
I was really hoping for a cover of Mandy, not Angie.
11:43am
jan:
@Ken- Glad to give back! Great to hear that track again.Was just looking into getting Emerson Kitamura as a download. I'm an old timer and want a physical capture for music...but don't want to pay up for vinyl!
whenever I hear the word Jesus, I think of Cher (not). but since her b'way show is gonna close soon I might sneak in during intermission. does she die at the end?
At the boozer the other night, the bartender's girlfriend was sitting at the bar perusing her iPhone. I heard her constant banter of "Hey babe? Babe? Hey? Daniel? Hey babe?" It was mind numbing.
11:51am
Chi Bill:
HelloHiHoney-what? I wish I could hear your wonderful show more than I'm able at work, Ken. OUTSTANDING! And Cher started out cool but hey.