JWZ nicely summarizes the maze of bureaucracy involved to webcast legally. If you want to do something different than what I described above; for example, if you want to let users choose the songs to download, or you want to … Continue reading →

Soviet pulp novels? The daughter of a Volga fisherman becomes a sniper with a Red partisan detachment. She misses her 41st vicitim (a White officer), then winds up stranded with him on a desert island, where they fall in love. … Continue reading →

So did they really *just* find these files now? “Vatican documents have come to light showing that the wholesale massacre of the Knights Templar in the Middle Ages for alleged “heresy, idolatry and sexual perversion” – an episode still shrouded … Continue reading →

I guess I’m not the only one who notices just how, well, fascist-looking the new 37 cent stamp is? Between the stamp and the “Imperialness” of the World War II Memorial will the Praetorian Guard follow fnord. [via The Null … Continue reading →

And this one too

Kinda like this Exploding Dog cartoon…

Folks… Regular updates might be off for awhile because I just tracked down a copy of David Cavanagh’s book on Creation Records which is the funniest, unbelievable, amazing tell-all music industry book I’ve read in recent memory. 200 pages in … Continue reading →

Interesting essay on what would have happened had Germany won the First World War. What would have happened had Germany won the war? For starters, the most philo-Semitic nation in Europe, Germany, would have remained so. Six million Jews would … Continue reading →

From the current Onion. Beautiful, genius, and so very very wrong… Now, don’t get sore if you don’t land one of the lead roles. There’s work for everybody on this avant-garde production! Virginia’s a demon with a needle and thread; … Continue reading →