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"Clef Palate" is a new video podcast from Brooklyn filmmaker and tech freak Craig Schober and two of his pals. It
deals with a subject long taboo in our culture -- the splendor, the spectacle and the tragic heroism of young American males
attempting to cook for themselves.
Subscribe via iTunes or go here:
Clef Palate
Check out Xeni Jardin's report on Boing Boing about the opening of George Lucas's new studio in San Francisco. Lucas, like
most of the film establishment, attributes the precipitous decline in box office receipts to piracy. He should know better:
The Empire's New Digs
Just in time for the last Star Wars installment -- Craig Schober's demented protest against the whole damn phenomenon. Check
out the trailer for his film and order a copy here:
DIE, LUCAS, DIE!
Hyper-cool Xeni Jardin, Internet frontier scout, was recently profiled by the "Los Angeles Times". The newsprint
scans available at the link below are quaint and touching -- like reading an illuminated manuscript about the moon landings:
"Los Angeles Times" Profile Of Xeni
BOING BOING
There's always something cool on Boing Boing, the Web's one indispensible blog, co-edited by Xeni Jardin [see above.]
Below is a link to a current posting about the removal of cigarettes from historical images of literary and pop culture
figures:
The Cigarette Police
As a kid I remember being horrified to learn that the Soviet government would rewrite the "factual" content of encyclopedias
to reflect the current political climate. Now Western corporate entities are tidying up history to reflect current policies
of social hygiene.
You may see a big difference between these two forms of historical revisionism but the phenomena are intimately related
in principal -- large state and corporate interests are appropriating history and changing it at will. They are, in other
words, staking a claim to the ownership of history.
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