Afternoon Amazon shopping with the last of the birthday money.
More cheerful collapsarian reading by Orlov and his acolytes here: e.g.
“Obama is the new Gorbachev, the smiling face behind the crumbling imperial façade, the personable, non-threatening loser. Gorbachev got his Nobel Consolation Prize in October 1990; a little less than a year later the USSR was no more and he was unemployed.”

Afternoon Amazon shopping with the last of the birthday money.

More cheerful collapsarian reading by Orlov and his acolytes here: e.g.

Obama is the new Gorbachev, the smiling face behind the crumbling imperial façade, the personable, non-threatening loser. Gorbachev got his Nobel Consolation Prize in October 1990; a little less than a year later the USSR was no more and he was unemployed.”

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"American pop music used to be full of white middle-class Anglo kids who had taken some LSD and gotten all “weird.” Nowadays we’ve got pop music by extremely dissociative, utterly globalized networked kids who enjoy backpacking in the Hindu Kush while contemplating Italian Futurism. With ProTools. And they can cook."
Bruce Sterling.
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jhnbrssndn:

Links found in this tweet:http://tinyurl.com/ydln2yf
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jhnbrssndn:

Links found in this tweet:
http://tinyurl.com/ydln2yf

(posted with tweetshots.com)

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"The blues ain’t nothing but a good man feelin’ bad"
Leon Redbone.
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Memphis Minnie

Memphis Minnie

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Memphis Minnie: ‘Lean Meat Won’t Fry’

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Blind Willie Johnson: ‘Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground’

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Blind Willie Johnson.
Yep - it’s Blues Day on the tumblog.
and no Jake, Ellroy or that knob Eric Clapton - guaranteed.

Blind Willie Johnson.

Yep - it’s Blues Day on the tumblog.

and no Jake, Ellroy or that knob Eric Clapton - guaranteed.

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Bessie Smith: ‘I’m Wild About That Thing’

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Bessie Smith
“Bessie Smith was a rough, crude, violent woman. She was also the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s”.

Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith was a rough, crude, violent woman. She was also the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s”.

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Dutch art pop for Sunday.

Gruppo Sportivo explain the rules of The Blues: ‘I Shot My Manager’

1 - Lose a leg

2 - Don’t stay white

3 - Remember, blues is black

4 - Go blind

5 - Try to see

6 - A lot of misery…”

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Lenora Carrington. Surrealist painter and Max Ernst’s ‘Bride Of The Wind’
‘Bird Bath’ (1978)

Lenora Carrington. Surrealist painter and Max Ernst’s ‘Bride Of The Wind’

‘Bird Bath’ (1978)

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jhnbrssndn:

sovietfrequency:

“Here they make excavators”, “Here they make turbines”, “And here they make noise.”
After the NEP period and during/following collectivization, many bureaucrats were needed to administer the new socialist economic system. The Soviet government abhorred the bureaucrats in principle, but required them in practice; to vent some if its frustration with bureaucrats, the Soviets allowed for the criticism and general ridicule of the bureaucrat class, this comic from the magazine Krokodil is an example of this.

We could do with some of that nowadays

‘General ridicule of the bureaucrat class’ - some of us face that on a daily basis…

jhnbrssndn:

sovietfrequency:

“Here they make excavators”, “Here they make turbines”, “And here they make noise.”

After the NEP period and during/following collectivization, many bureaucrats were needed to administer the new socialist economic system. The Soviet government abhorred the bureaucrats in principle, but required them in practice; to vent some if its frustration with bureaucrats, the Soviets allowed for the criticism and general ridicule of the bureaucrat class, this comic from the magazine Krokodil is an example of this.

We could do with some of that nowadays

‘General ridicule of the bureaucrat class’ - some of us face that on a daily basis…

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Funky Sheff disco - No4

Pulp: ‘Common People’

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Funky Sheff Disco - No3

ABC - ‘How To Be A Millionaire’

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