Scritti Politti: April 3, 2009

It's Friday, and I'm feeling generous and mercurial, so here's a fun and shameless plug! Los Angelenos in the house? This Saturday, enjoy the dynamic visual art of Kelly Towles, a Washington D.C. street art "wunderkind." Towles was instrumental in helping to bring the Shepard Fairey/Manifest Hope show to Washington, D.C. during Inauguration weekend. Now, he's taking his own dynamic visuals on the road in a show called Sneak Thief: The Art of Kelly Towles. This Saturday, from 7-11pm at Pool Warehouse at 2900 Rowena Avenue. Facebook it here.

And in D.C. next week don't miss the Ten Miles Square new photography exhibit, I'm With The Band, featuring the photos of Nestor Diaz, Kyle Gustafson, and Martin Locraft. It's April 9, from 6-9pm at Dahlak, 1771 U Street, NW. Facebook that here!

Culture, to enjoy, why not?

The Sporting Life Of Our Modern Day Torture Enthusiasts: Vanity Fair went looking for a topic, any topic, to discuss with a John Yoo who was "desperate to discuss anything but being a war criminal." So, they talked about Yoo's affection for squash! Hey, John Yoo! These squash courts at the La Manga club in scenic Spain sound like a beautful place to play! Why not take a trip to Spain and get your squash on? Better yet, why don't you get roofied, bound, blindfolded, and shipped to these squash courts, unexpectedly?

Keeping Them Honest: I love the thinking behind Wrong Tomorrow, which pits the predictions of pundits against the slow and pitiless march of time. Upload your own, and keep track of who gets it wrong.

Oh, Dear: The Drudge Report suffers this week's most major contextual web advertising fail.

How To Dismantle The Unitary Executive, A Regrettably Ongoing Series: President Obama may be full of regrets over the way the White House demands a temporary loss of "privacy and anonymity," but I still don't see any fracking reason why he's got to take it out on the rest of us.

In Our Prayers...: Send some kind thoughts this weekend to CBS White House correspondent Chip Reid, whose father passed away this week. FishbowlDC has news of the memorial arrangements.

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Comments

[hegdehog]

Please. Read the filing prior to making any moronic and/or completely uninformed, knee-jerk statements:

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/alharamainobama.pdf

Oversimplification is a disease.

[jordan3189]

Kind of like the h. post advertising the international korean dating site on the" north korea launches missile" story.

[stevi]

Are we sure this was an "unfortunate placement"? I'm not to sure of that, seem very drudge-like to me..

[candlepower]

And we know what the "national front for guns and bullets" is gonna say don't we, something like:

'If all the immigrants at the center were armed then not so many woulda died.'

More guns is always the solution according to them.

"If kids had guns there'd be no child abuse, they'd just shoot their abusers."

[TakLoufer]

Ahh, Matt Drudge: that paragon of virtue and good taste!

Not.

[NTexasHillbilly]

Drudgery: dull,irksome, fatiguing, uninspiring, menial.

[Yoharold]

Every day I see ample evidence that FOX has not hired all the neanderthals in the US. Drudge, Vitter, Sanford, Palin, Cramer, Boehner, and on and on. The media gives these retros all the attention they need to spill their vile messages. Vitter calls for a tea party, venal personified Bachman calls for citizens to arm themselves because the fundamentalist republicans are no longer in control, wonder if this prompted the NY massacre yesterday. Coleman won't give up his right to be an idiotic, shallow senator, guess it is the only job he can get. In the meantime, polls show that the majority of Americans are not buying all the BS. But, as they keep nibbling at Obama's ankles and the media keeps peddling the crap we cannot hide from the poison completely. And, who knows when this venom will spill over to more rational people. The book "Absence of Reason" comes to mind. Pass the tums please.

[tomasedison]

republicans get hysterical for a reason
it stirs the base into a frenzy

[slithers]

Ban Alcohol....every year drunk drivers kill more people than guns.

Ridiculous isn't it.

[liberalrebuttal]

Just ban drunk driving. Oh yeah, we do.

[aercolini]

The real story is that people need guns to prevent illegals from shooting their children.

[thisoldbroad]

Poor taste!

[talkitreal]

Drudge report is a joke!

[AnalyzeIT]

Drudge has been sending subliminal messages for months - the people he wanted to reach could not understand them, (but we did and do) so he has to post pictures for "them" to understand his message.

He's moving smart but not wise.

[VOTER]

Drudge knew exactly what he was doing.

[markinaz]

It's not unfortunate to the gun lovers of America. Most of them will refuse to make the distinction.

[TJCole]

Until we place greater value on human life than cheap political convenience these massacres we see almost daily will continue..!

We won't even license hand guns...that how sick a society our nation really is..!