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OK Communicator: September 2008
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Friday, September 19, 2008. The Defense of Mortgage Act. I'm more than a bit freaked out by the fact that our banks are going Chernobyl right now. Further, it seems as though the bailouts proposed by the Fed set an unfortunate precedent for protection against the consequences of unchecked greed and incompentence on the part of august financial institutions who really ought to have known better. I think this a pretty appealing argument. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Worth A Closer Look. Shape of a room.
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OK Communicator: Fun with Economics
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009. This passage in New York. S article on Bernie Madoff stopped me in my tracks:. It sounds like he ran a collective money pool in which funds were shared and profits were delivered. I wonder how much longer it could have gone on, given that he had what every bank requires from its customers: trust. My question to you is: from a purely conceptual, theoretical standpoint, how was Bernie Madoff's operation any different than a bank? A girl that's too sad to give a fuck.
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OK Communicator: January 2009
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Saturday, January 31, 2009. I've long known that the line between genius and insanity is hazy and grey. The few true geniuses I've witnessed in my life always seemed to move inside a fog between clear-minded thought and irrational action. But in 1974 a Frenchman named Philippe Petit walked through that cloud on a 450-pound cable suspended between the towers of the World Trade Center. His story, Man on Wire. Thursday, January 29, 2009. The Decline of Western Culture. Was your average janitor reading a lot?
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OK Communicator: November 2008
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Monday, November 10, 2008. I think that the quality of satirical and iconoclastic elements of our pop culture thrive during the dominance of inept, corrupt and/or oppressive political movements. I guess I'd label this the Fodder Index. With love, and not a little bit of regret,. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Worth A Closer Look. Shape of a room.
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OK Communicator: August 2008
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Monday, August 11, 2008. Things Not To Say To An 11 Year Old (Who Is Riding In The Car With You). 1 Oh, turn this up.do you like Lil' Wayne? 2 OK, we just need to make a quick stop at the liquor store and then we're done with our errands. 3 (per item 2) I'm $4 short. Did mom give you your allowance yet? I'd like to thank my little sister for hanging out with me today. Friday, August 8, 2008. Dear HuffPost: Thanks for Nothing. A quick tour of the "Institute" web-site. What I love about random capitalizati...
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OK Communicator: Our Man in Tehran
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Saturday, April 4, 2009. Our Man in Tehran. I've recently started up a dialogue with an Iranian musician. I've been fascinated by Heavy Metal Islam. Because of bureaucratic problems. artists, authors are open minded and it's a dangerous problem for a dictator government.do you understand? And now, Iran is one of the worst countries from human rights viewpoint? My hope is that some day Iran might be able to follow the example of Czechoslovakia, which overthrew its hardline rulers in 1989's Velvet Revoluti...
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OK Communicator: February 2009
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Friday, February 27, 2009. Fear of the Other, or Why Dave Matthews Really Sucks. I would wager that those who openly hate on a particular artist or genre are, like my grandmother, simply afraid of the people who listen to that music. The same goes for the genres. Country-pop? You hate people who wear boots and hats, dip Skoal, watch NASCAR and go line dancing. Metal? You hate nerdy kids grasping for some kind of power in their otherwise sad lives. Gangsta rap? You hate an underclass who are so poor that ...
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OK Communicator: The Industry of Cool and The Spirit of Radio
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Saturday, April 11, 2009. The Industry of Cool and The Spirit of Radio. I actually find radio more impressive than the Internet, because the Internet is made of wires. Radio is made of air. It's in the air right now. Passing through you at this very moment: a car dealership commercial in Spanish, the Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction," a talk show about camshafts, a weather report, and "Stronger" by Kanye West, among many, many others. In the words of an MTV writer covering SXSW 2007:. Without industry promo...
