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RANDOM LINKS FOR 9/6/11

September 6th, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

A victim of the war-on-terra hype some folks would like brought back: buskingÂ musicians on ferry boats.
Here’s CNN’s take on the scandal of Border Patrol agents unfairly harassing Latino locals on the Olympic Peninsula. The headline: “Border agent says there’s nothing to do, says money being wasted.” In other words, if it weren’t for the war-on-terra hype, none of this would be happening.
There’s a reason all the local media latched onto the aging Hall and Oates as this year’s big Bumbershoot stars. It’s because they were the only act this year both famous enough and old enough for media people to have heard of. (Apparently, the big name acts now want a cool half million per show. And you were wondering why you haven’t heard many recessionary protest songs by said big name acts.)
The Neptune Theater’s official re-opening, later this month, will include a one-night nod to the U District house’s roots. I speak, of course, of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which played midnight shows at the Neptune for more than a decade.
Recession Sign #1: More parents are discovering public schools are just fine after all.
Recession Sign #2: Realistic novels and stories about the socio-economically struggling are back in vogue.
Adam Doree wants Steve Jobs to finally get around to donate a few buck to charity already.
Sady Doyle really, really hates the Game of Thrones books. And Alyssa Rosenberg doesn’t particularly care for Doyle’s putdowns of the books. The point-O-contention: The novels depict women enduring some of the violent brutalities one might find in a violent, brutal fictional setting.
Elsewhere in genderland, Hugo Schwyzer wants you to define the word “man” to mean not-boy, instead of not-woman.
The Guardian, ever on the prowl for American weirdness with which to addle and astound its Brit readers, has discovered the “muscular Christianity” in evangelical-fringe books such as No More Christian Mr. Nice Guy. The writer seems to have never heard of the Church of the SubGenius and its “real FIGHTIN’ JESUS.”

One Response

Art Marriott writes:
September 6th, 201112:22 pmat

Is anyone surprised that the Times’ piece avoids mention of the Butthole Surfers? (Who, incidentally, I would never expected to be listed on a bill anywhere in juxtaposition with Mavis Staples…)