Ten Post Round-Up: Fortunate Friday

October 19, 2007 by Dizzy Dezzi

I’m calling this Round-up “Fortunate Friday” because ya’ll are fortunate that Dizzy is even posting on a Friday (I’m usually recovering from work on Thursday and prepping for more work on Friday…but, I’m off tonight). Next week, ya’ll may not be as fortunate.

Let’s jump in, shall we:

At Americablog.com-The Haters convene this weekend at the Values Voters Summit to hear from GOP candidates:

Big weekend in DC for the ultra-right wingers. They’re having their “Values Voters Summit” at the Washington Hilton, conveniently located in the gayest neighborhood in the city.All the GOP presidential candidates are going to be here to kiss the butts of the religious right.

(Dizzy sez: Gonna be an awful lot of chapped lips…maybe a “wide-stance” or two…)

At Reason Magazine-Hit & Run:

The Heart of Whiteness:

Over the course of a long, punchy New Yorker essay, Sasha Frere-Jones asks why popular music—the music he follows, at least—has become so self-segregated. There’s some worthy, overdue bashing of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (synthesizer squeaks and echoey feedback… fail to give shape to the formless music), and there’s this theory about how anti-sampling lawsuits clipped the rock-rap umbilical cord.

Standing in the Place Where He Was; He Stands Accused, Refuses to Stand and Lose; But He’s Still Standing, Better Than He Ever Did; Won’t Stand Up for Falling Down:

It’s apparently a crime to stand still on the streets of Manhattan:

(Dizzy sez: Oh, Come On!)

At BuzzFeed.com:

Couple’s Costumes:

Style Buzz Some cute/clever/horrendous ideas for couples to dress up as for Halloween. We call dibs on the Abbott and Costello costume! It should double as a very fun bedroom role-playing get-up in the off-season.

Urine Therapy:

Science Buzz Using your own urine as a holistic form of healing. Cheers to your health! Yeah, it’s weird, but don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it. Believers claim that urine can miraculously cure a variety of ailments from acne to ear infections to a sore throat.

(Dizzy sez: Ewwwwww!)

At Brilliant at Breakfast-You’re not paranoid if they really ARE out to declare themselves dictator-for-life:

When a president repeatedly makes “jokes” about being a dictator, and about staying on when his term is over, isn’t there a point at which it stops being laughworthy and becomes a statement of what he would really like to do?

(Dizzy sez: Yeah, I stopped laughing when the Supremes declared Bush president).

At Get Your Own-Boogie Woogie:

Found this youtube of a really great and talented blues/boogie-woogie musician Deanna Bogart, that John and I have been lucky enough to see live several times. We went to school with the drummer Mike and we always enjoy seeing them jam. If they are ever in your area check
them out. You won’t regret it.

(Dizzy sez: What the hell are you waiting for? Click the link, already!)

At The Huffington Post:

E.A. Hanks: Q & A With Joe Hall Of Ghetto Film School:

In 1999, after a 10-year career as a community social worker in the South Bronx, I was trying out my moviemaker dream at the prestigious School of Cinema and TV at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. I knew from the first day at orientation that the graduate production class was lacking some diversity (e.g., no Hispanic or African-American males in a class of 45), but it would come in workshop discussions later in the semester that this would hit me in a more profound way.

(Dizzy sez: Sometimes we need some heart-warming news…You know, accentuate the positive?)

Dispatches From The Penis Emporium(Dizzy sez: Ummm…you just gotta go read this one for yourself…*wink*)

Big Citigroup Bail-Out Fund Already In Trouble:

Several banks with troubled fixed income and mortgage securities are making the rounds to raise $80 billion to $100 billion to build a fund to buy some of this distressed debt. Citicorp (C) has the largest pool of these instruments, so it has the most to gain, or lose, if the fund has any problems.Well, it appears that the work to build this pool of capital is already fraying at the edges.

(Dizzy sez: The sh!# will hit the fan in 1…2…3…)

Until next time…

(Gracefully crossposted at Dizzy Dayz and The Katrinacrat blog and The Sirens Chronicles)

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