Know Your Product, after (I’m) Stranded, is what people remember The Saints by. Those that are grounded in their culture anyway. No, Your product is the real depth. Awesome. A beast that burned too briefly.
January 26, 2012
No, Your Product
Posted by franc hoggle under art, culture, music | Tags: antibaboons, Chris Bailey, Ed Kuepper, The Saints |[26] Comments
January 19, 2012
Pig Du Jour
Posted by franc hoggle under great idiots of the world, hyperreality, misandry, new new atheism, pseudo-skepticism, yellow journalism | Tags: freefromthoughtblogs, kill me now, mariana trench cunts, Rebecca Watson |[14] Comments
Yeah. It’s a slow start for the new year. But this is kinda like Caligula wanting to make his horse a consul -
http://freethoughtblogs.com/blaghag/2012/01/the-most-influential-female-atheist-of-2011/
Seriously. It’s like a south American junta pinning medals on each other. Nauseating. And they believe it. 233 votes ::cough::
ManPersondate for all of godlessness.
What a sorry fucking state we’re in.
January 18, 2012
Don’t Stop With SOPA: Destroy Hollywood, Destroy RIAA
Posted by franc hoggle under censorship, copyright, culture, file sharing, film, free culture, internet, MafIAA, media, moral panic, music, piracy, politics, shrieking hysteria, surveillance, use it or lose it | Tags: PIPA, SOPA, they want to destroy your internet |[5] Comments
Destroy SOPA
Seriously, what is at stake is your right to interact; to criticise; to parody; to discuss.
SOPA/PIPA wants to give carte blanche censorship powers to the corporate sector.
No accountability. No responsibility.
The real target is you.
React or submit.
Hollywood creates nothing. Neither does the RIAA. Ask them – have they ever returned a cent to artists by suing dead people and single mothers? They will not answer. They are parasites. Dinosaurs that natural selection is removing from the biosphere. They have no function other than to serve themselves. Herein lies their desperation.
Destroy them.
They are worthless.
So are the politicians that are selling you out.
Register to vote – and remember who’s who.
January 16, 2012
Why Doesn’t The Whole Damn Planet Default? – Addendum
Posted by franc hoggle under economics, media, politics | Tags: debt, default, GFC, globalization, imaginary money, inflation, John Ralston Saul, no farts, Solon |[21] Comments
Solon - rhymes with colon, the original defaulter
Apologies in advance. This is another dry and unamusing entry via the serendipity of my private reading and google. Just one of those things that if I don’t do right now, I will never do.
The earlier entry ruminated on the derangement of imaginary money that is not offset by actual capital creation, and the modern heresy of debt default – drilled into us as an unmentionable evil we are prohibited from even thinking about by the Mandarins of Globalisation.
I found some rather relevant blog posts, all revolving around the writings of one of our finest, and appallingly undervalued, contemporary minds, John Ralston Saul (website). This is to extend the previous discussion. These items expand far more competently than I could hope to and I have little to add – (more…)
January 9, 2012
Marijuana Never Did Anything To Me
Posted by franc hoggle under culture, drugs, education | Tags: 1972, album, Bill Cosby, kids, War on Drugs, what to listen to when you're ripped off your tits |[3] Comments
You have to be stoned to fully appreciate it.
The last high/low-light was a testament to the joys of the ubiquitous $2 shops that largely support the bulk of sweatshop labour in the third world. Ma pulled apart a crassmass bonbon with my 3 yo nephew and it exploded with an anticlimactic pop and the usual tissue paper hat and junk gift fell out which junior gleefully grappled and pulled apart. The “gift” fell out – a flimsy plastic case full of sewing needles. I thought one of the others was a bit dangerous for kids, a cork screw. But fucking sewing needles? In children’s crassmass crackers? Those wacky Chinese sweatshop entrepreneurs. No harm was done in this case – Ma was paying attention. But the lesson of the day is never trust anything you buy at those junk shops, especially where kids are involved.
Another gem fell into my lap a few days ago in digitised format. A copy of Bill Cosby’s contribution to the War on Drugs – the 1972 Grammy Award winning (best kids album) Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs, which I actually do possess on vinyl. (more…)
January 3, 2012
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All these people are dead bar the singer. They lived a richer life than you’ll ever hope to, especially if you’re a baboon. Back when music had real venom. When the neighbours could get told to get fucked and the cops were too scared to interfere. The carpets were sticky and there was a faint stench of vomit in the air that was blue with cigarette smoke. There was a real chance if you entered, you might not leave. The gutters of Sydney punk circa 1980, I present X, still the greatest rock-n-roll band ever. Weep at what you will never experience -
December 30, 2011
Why Doesn’t The Whole Damn Planet Default?
Posted by franc hoggle under economics, government, politics | Tags: bailouts, corruption, debt, default, finite systems, GFC, greece, infinite growth, printing money, usury |[42] Comments
Caveat: I’m not an economist. I’m a scientist / engineer. I think that gives me an advantage.
I’m sick of this financial crisis. All of us, each and every one of us, bar the financial Mandarins that are “fixing” the mess they created, are being butt-fucked into the ground. “Austerity measures” are sold as some kind of panacea. Our wages are frozen. Inflation outstrips any miserly “indexed” gains grudgingly granted. Meanwhile, reports of “performance bonuses” to our financial overlords are back to pre-meltdown levels, often lump sums far in excess of what any of us will earn in a lifetime.
The approach to remedy this status quo seems an absurdist black comedy. It’s like watching a sinking ship being bailed out with teaspoons. As one example, the poor long suffering Greeks, where “austerity” measures are biting the hardest and, as always, hitting those already on a subsistence existence the worst. (more…)
