California’s 2 Longest Rivers Called Nation’s Most Endangered: The Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers have been named the country’s most endangered waterways because of outdated water management and poor flood planning. ‘Bucket Brigades’ Carry Migrating Amphibians Across Busy Roads: The black salamander with yellow spots sat on the roadside in the dark, ready [...]
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Endangered Rivers, Roadkill, Oil Sands, American Prairie
Limbaugh, Bees, The Daily Me
Rush Limbaugh Gets Pwned by Caller: ‘You, Hannity, Hewitt, and Levin are all brainwashed and you know it.’ Southern California Is For Suckers: Behind our house was a towering tree, just loaded with bees. The Fall of Newspapers, Rise of The Daily Me: There’s pretty good evidence that we generally don’t want good information—but rather [...]
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‘[Limbaugh] Was That Cartoonish’
I had a dream about Michael J. Fox last night, so I must’ve been destined to post this clip today.
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Man Man - Rabbit Habits
O&B favorites and interviewees Man Man have just released the above video, a romantic and surreal homage to 1930s Universal horror films. SNL’s Fred Armisen stars as the bumbling beau who loses his girl to a more hirsute suitor (played by Freaks And Geeks‘ Martin Starr).
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Mitchell Hurwitz Says, ‘Sit Down, Shut Up’
Particle accelerators take things like protons and electrons, pack them into a device, and then launch the particles into an unwavering collision course with one another. Though this sounds like a lot of fun (like crash-testing cars), the goal is actual results, which the observers hope are significant and not a waste of time.Television sets, [...]
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Download: A.C. Newman - KCRW 2009 (FLACs)
A.C. NewmanKCRW 2009Soundboard (FM)README01 Intro02 There Are Maybe Ten Or Twelve03 Like A Hitman, Like A Dancer04 Submarines Of Stockholm05 The Heartbreak Rides06 Interview07 Profits08 The Changeling (Get Guilty)09 Young Atlantis10 All of My Days and All of My Days Off11 Talking12 Miracle Drug13 OutroLink
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Bob Talks Barack
In anticipation of his surprise new album Together Through Life (out April 21), smart-crazy (crazy-smart?) coot Bob Dylan talks to the TimesOnline. In the interview, he touches upon Barack Obama, U.S. Grant, and Civil War ghosts, among other things.Well, a number of things [have struck me about Obama]. He’s got an interesting background. He’s like [...]
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‘The Best Damn Job in the Whole Damn World’
Roger Ebert is still hanging on (after surviving salivary gland cancer and having his jaw removed), and in his online journal over at the Chicago Sun-Times, he recounts a pretty hilarious story about innocence, legendary columnist Mike Royko, and the eye-opener place:At about 8 p.m. on New Year’s Day of 1967, only two lights on [...]
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Blake Miller to Release ‘Burn Tape’ April 21 (MP3s)
We were right. After listening to 2006’s rough-but-really-good Together With Cats, we predicted that Blake Miller’s sophomore effort would altogether astonish and impress. Okay, maybe we didn’t write those exact words, but that’s exactly what happened.Frankly, we were a little concerned that Burn Tape wouldn’t happen at all. When Miller’s home-recorded debut Together With [...]
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The Owl and Bear Podcast vol. 115
I can see the calm pull chaos and the worldly body wilting.Subscribe to the podcast by adding this link to your RSS readeror in iTunes (Advanced menu > Subscribe to Podcast):http://feedproxy.google.com/owlbearpodcastTime Passes Slowly - Bob DylanAnother Saturday - Stuart MurdochPapa Was A Rodeo - Bright EyesBlack Rainbow - St. VincentOh, Lonesome Me (Live) - M. [...]
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Real vs. Fake News, Sexting, Gun Sales, Bill’O, Newt, Messing With Your Drug Life
Former CNN Anchor Moves to The Onion: In yet another sign that the line between real news and fake news is getting thinner, one of CNN’s main anchors during the 1980s and 1990s, Bobbie Battista, has taken a step through the looking glass and can now be seen anchoring reports online for ONN, The Onion [...]
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Turtles, Carnivores, Alien Invaders, Carbon Trading
To Meet Asian Food Demand, U.S. Turtles are Harvested to Extinction: Surging demand for turtle meat in southeast Asia has prompted a huge jump in American turtle harvesting, leading to concerns that populations of the reptiles could suffer permanent damage. Is It Possible to Be a Conscientious Meat Eater? You may have noticed an onslaught [...]
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100 Abandoned Houses
Photographs by Kevin Bauman.
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Buy Neko Case For Three Dollars
No, you can’t buy Neko herself for three dollars, though I’m sure all of you lovestruck pervs are already reaching for your wallets. Amazon MP3 is currently selling Ms. Case’s amazing 2006 album Fox Confessor Brings The Flood for the ridiculously low price of three bucks.If you’ve never heard Fox Confessor, you now officially have [...]
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Bunny Gets 8.9 (MP3)
Red Red Meat’s Bunny Gets Paid, easily one of my favorite albums ever, has been remastered and re-released by SubPop as a two-disc deluxe edition. Pitchfork recently reviewed the re-release and gave it a glorious 8.9. The deluxe edition contains a number of rarities, including a dub version of the song “Mouse,” as well as [...]
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