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RANDOM LINKS FOR 6/6/13

June 6th, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

jordan stead, seattlepi.com

The J.P. Patches memorial street sign is a thing. A wonderful thing.
Was an area teen denied entrance to her high school prom because she had large breasts, or because her gown had revealed too much of them?
The guy who took highly unauthorized pictures of himself atop the Space Needle (and not in an approved way) has been found out.
The living members of Alice in Chains were in a web chat, where they offered the following (facetious) advice to young bands:Â “Just quit now. Save yourself before it’s too late.”
A local musician gave an informal poll of his colleagues to determine the best and worst places to play in Seattle.
A moment of silence, if you will, for the career of disgraced now-ex Snohomish County executive Aaron Reardon.
One of those regional speech variants surveys lists, among other differentiating words, the ways people in different parts of the country pronounce “crayon.” The article didn’t list the way everyone in my school said it: “color-cren.”
Ex-Seattleite Lindy West, as some of you know, appeared on a cable talk show to debate the issue of whether rape “jokes” were, by their nature, unfunny. (She essentially said they were.) The usual way-stoopidÂ web trolls showed up on comment boards, claiming that both (1) they’re not tools of “rape culture,” and (2) they wished someone would rape West. What?
Big Pharma has been looking for years for a “Viagra for women.” Now a company supposedly has a “female libido booster.” And (male) scientific observers and pundits are expressing worry that it might work too well, unleashing that long-feared chaotic force that would enflame the planet in unabashed… (Better stop before I start talking like a semiotician.)
Elsewhere, Swiffer thought it would be cool to depict the WWII icon “Rosie the Riveter” as a cleaning-obsessed housewife. Uh, nope.
Michael Lind at Salon asks if Libertarianism is so great, how come no country on Earth has ever tried it? (Of course, the same thing could be said about “real” Socialism, etc.)
CollegeHumor.com offers sample home pages answering what would happen “if all news sites worked like BuzzFeed.” (Or Huff Post, or any of a score of click-whoring aggregation sites.)

collegehumor.com

One Response

Art Marriott AKA "ArtFart" writes:
June 6th, 201312:44 pmat

Am I just weird, or showing myself to be an old fogey, or does anyone else find it rather strange that the cited poll of venues has a specific category for jazz clubs in which there’s no mention of either Jazz Alley nor the New Orleans?