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...with my lost hobby. Considered toys or flimsy oddities just a decade ago, the latest generation of collapsibles--bikes that, thanks to a few strategic hinges and latches, can pretzel themselves down to the size of a suitcase--combines hipness and high function, not to mention the ability to fit easily into a closet. "I won't ride a standard bike anymore," says Channell Wasson of Foldabikes.com who has been selling folders for more than 15 years, and riding them even longer. "We call them cumbersomes...
...Snake Moan Celluloid Gold This is two minutes and twenty five seconds of pure, hard-core, home-cooked, old, weird Americana. An overweight Samuel L. Jackson, a severely beaten Christina Ricci, and a looooong iron chain. There is absolutely no precedent for this trailer. It doesn’t fit any trailer paradigm you’ve ever seen. It doesn’t show any of its cards, vis a vis who’s going to be the villain and who’s going to be the hero. All morality is up in the air, and really...
...Marx Brothers, and hit it off. Before Comedy Central signed them for their first season on television, the pair developed the show live at a small club in Los Angeles, where they still regularly perform. The show features material largely imported from the stage show but cropped to fit within the constraints of television blocking. The improvisational parts of the live show were cut back, though they’ve kept the occasional musical interlude, which they perform with their group, the so-called “Dickaround Gang.” Though the two aren’t famous...
Unfortunately, not all boycotts fit this mold, and often they are founded on illogical premises or myopic hatred for “big business.” For now, my goal remains to avoid supporting questionable corporations, and hopefully other people feel the same way. One person’s boycott is a drop in the bucket, but a collective protest might be enough to make it overflow...
...with Iran. The Saudi cooperation with Iran over Lebanon and its engagement with Hamas in the Palestinian territories reflects the reality that Iranian influence in Iraq and in the wider region - and Hamas's centrality in Palestinian politics - are inescapable facts. And some facts can't be altered to fit a new U.S. theory of how it would like the Middle East to work...