Where's the Outrage?
______ "who receive electric shocks carry the device around in a backpack and wear the electrodes 24 hours a day; some are also monitored at all times by at least one Rotenberg Center employee."
Wes Phillips
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Steampunk, God Help Us
I love this stuff. If I was rich beyond dreams of avarice, I would so collect it.
Elvis in the Dark
<I>Living in Stereo</I> has promoted this Daniel Wolff essay on "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" since its publication in <I>Threepenny Review</I> in 1999. I read it on the occasion of Elvis' 72nd birthday and I agree that it's a fine piece of writing—and well worth linking to.
Bonnie and Clyde Aren't Rivers
Forty years ago, <I>Bonnie and Clyde</I> blew away Hollywood's attitude about bloody violence. <I>The Observer</I> looks back.
Sex and Drugs and Opera?
First Netrebko's <A HREF="http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live… placement tip</A>, now this.
Pronouns Aid Brain Function
Self would have never guessed that.
Return of the Son of Web Radio
Digital Music Association (DiMA) and Sound Exchange (SX) announced on August 23 that they had reached an agreement to "cap the Internet radio '$500 per channel minimum royalty' at $50,000 per service, signaling the start of productive negotiations and bringing resolutions to three important music industry issues," according to DiMA's press release.
Tweeter Twists in the Wind
It has been a fraught week for Tweeter Newco LLC, the A/V specialty chain acquired by Shultze Asset Management in July. On August 17, the company trimmed its corporate staff by "half," approximately 80 staffers at the home office in Canton, MA. It was the second corporate re-structuring since January, when 20% of the corporate staff was laid off.
Microphone Placement Tip
<I>Hint to recording engineers:</I> Anna Netrebko gives it to you in the second sentence of graf 8.
Modern Art
"I'm an abstract expression," Huckleberry boasts. "Bold, vivid, active—wait, what was that middle thing again?"