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VIDEO/TV: Eric Berlin's pick of the week
The Duke On Constantine by Duke de Mondo, June 12
Another heaping spoonful of Duke brilliance this week. To paraphrase Coming to America: If loving The Duke is wrong, I don't want to be right!
If you've never as yet experienced The Duke, get a wee sample right here:
Sure enough, soon as Hellblazer got the green light, soon as the chain-smoking cancer-suffering exorcist Constantine, a low-down motherfucker from the back-streets of Liverpool, (a low-down motherfucker who made his first appearance in a Swamp Thing comic, so I'm told), soon as that part was handed to Keanu Reeves, the folks from off the internet forums merged at the nucleus, a heaving mass of spiteful digital abandon dedicated to nothing less than the annihilation of Constantine - The Motion Picture, which, they assured one and all, would suck all sucking fuck.
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POLITICS: Lisa Iannucci's pick of the week
Dick Durbin - Bad For America by Jeremy H. Bol, June 17
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CULTURE /TECH: bhw's picks of the week
This week, a little cultural debate:
A Culture of Idols, by gypsyman, June 16
A look at our secular gods and those of us who put them on the pedestal.
And on the flip side:
Defending Pop Culture, by Chip Ross, June 19 (Yep a little early but didn't want to forget it and it fit nicely).
Turn on your TV and start using your analytical thinking skills.
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Article comments
1 - Temple Stark
If you want the html for this to post the whole thing over at your own sites, let me know. (Or at least the linked articles, not word for word).
Trackbacks are fun too.
2 - Aaman
Nice picks - linked to it - we need a master post of Editors' Picks in the sidebar.
3 - Temple Stark
Cool. And there is a master ... ooooh, do you mean of ALL the picks. Well each week at the top I try and link to the week before. So readers can skip back as they go ...
4 - Josia
A Culture of Idols is truly brilliant and well written - thanks for pointing it out - this desire for attaching ourselves to something larger is the whole point of our being here - because what we are really aspiring to is achieving the sensation of the upper world - which is what our soul is craving:
"Thus there is not an item of reality, or an occurrence of reality that you will not find its likeness in the world above it, as identical as two drops in a pond, and they are called “Root and Branch”. There is no difference between them, merely a different degree, perceived in the substance of each world’s reality. The substance of the items of the first, uppermost world is purer than the substance of the lower ones. And the substance of the items of reality of the second world is coarser than that of the first, but purer than all that is of lower degree. It continues similarly down to this world before us, whose substance of the items of reality is coarser and darker than all the worlds preceding it. However, the shapes and the items of reality and all their occurrences come unchanged and equal in every world, both in quantity and quality."
taken from:
http://www.kabbalah.info/engkab/matan_torah/essence_of_kabbalah.htm
5 - Eric Olsen
beauteous stuff - this was a great idea nad I love the way it's being implemented. Thanks!
6 - Bill Wallo
I am deeply honored and I want to thank the Academy . . .
Okay, anyway, thanks Dr. Pat. I appreciate being the "pick o' the week." :)
7 - uao
Thank you kindly, Temple; I'll also link up when I update my blog tonight.
I'm very happy people enjoy the artist overview series. If someone actually investigates some artist or genre on my recommendation, or even if they just revist old memories, I'm very gladdened.
Blogcritics really is what got me started writing these things; I couldn't have done it without the excellent input, info, corrections, and encouragement I've received from the regulars and visitors here.
So, thanks again. I'll keep trying to make 'em better.
8 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
thanks, Editors!!! a fella feels all chuffed an such!
9 - DrPat
You deserve it, Bill...
10 - berkeley joe
gracias for the nod.
after consulting with my attorney I've decided to take "It draws you in before you realize it's too late" as a tentative compliment...
har har. alooooha.
11 - Temple Stark
Your attorney needs to slap you around :-)
It was funny. The rest was a great read to, if for no other reason than I got to figure out who Luke Fair was and why he, ah, muses you.
12 - Jeremy
Thanks for the vote of appreciation Lisa! For somebody this new to BC it's a real honor!
13 - gypsyman
Wow, You like me! to quote old whats her name...yeah Sally Field that's it. Thanks, even if this thanks is belated it's heartfelt. Things like this really boost the confidence in my abilities.
Temple, I loved your little graphic, I was having a hard time posting it to blogspot and so had to convert it to a jpg from a btm O.K. While I was at it my wife and I modified it slightly. She's the graphics queen and I had her add the title of the piece so I could make a perma-link back to the article. It's now stuck fast in my blogs template. hope you like the.
14 - gypsman
Good lord am I iliterate or what, I just read my comment! Any way Temple I home you like the modifications we made to your badge of honour. I appreciate the effort you put it things like that.
gypsyman
15 - Temple Stark
It twas bhw recognized your brilliance. I'm just rounding them up, as well I pick the music best. Another one up later today (Sunday).
I'd rather the graphic wasn't changed but I also have been thinking of making it clear it is for a post, not the site itself.
The extended version your wife made doesn't look too bad, though. I'll get one made for you tomorrow - er today. - with the correct font and typeface.
Also you bastard (LOL) you made me work to check out your site. Your link in your name says "squeek" instead of "squeak."