On The Definitive List Of White Music Stolen By Black People
"What A Man"
Linda Lyndell --> Laura Lee --> Salt N Pepa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9hwvoK5OYs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCnD-mb8RNk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-WFNbMohTQ
Or you could make the list a whole lot simpler and more definitive by saying that, until around the end of the first Nixon administration, the production and consumption of soul music was more integrated than the production and consumption of almost any current genre. At least as long as you weren't Linda Lyndell.
In conclusion, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_mKy-a6d1I
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On What Is Up With Austria?
Why The Awl's conspiracy of silence surrounding this weekend's evolutionary developments in British mayhem?
“The assailant can be seen to place his head down by the victim. He starts eating away at his face and his head. The male has had his two ears bitten off, part of his nose bitten off and half of his lip bitten off."
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0824/breaking48.html
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On What's Worse Than Being On Knifecrime Island?
"Why can we no longer think of the British Isles without the word . . . ."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLyLGrbKokI&t=1m08s
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On British Phone Hacking Scandal Almost Too Much To Keep Track Of
@caw_caw People may be feeling wary of attempting think pieces after Will Short's flailing effort left him declaring "the whole embroglio is epiphenomenal." It's like watching your fat bachelor uncle try to dance in public.
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On Murdoch Favorite Finally Jettisoned
@My Number Is My Address The Independent reports that Brooks will receive 3.5 million pounds. Myler got 2 million. The NI lawyers, Crone and Chapman, left with 1.5 million each. The money was not, presumably, the most important or trickiest term to work out in their various agreements to walk away.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/wapping-payouts-16385m-for-departing-executives-2314549.html
(That's The Independent, now brought to you by those princes of print, the peace-loving, incorruptible, upright and not-anything-like-that-bad-man-Murdoch Lebedevs!)
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On Woman Says Word Wrong
@Niko Bellic Those numbers skew even further Scandinavian, German and Polish Protestant and Catholic in the rural section of Bachmann's constituency where my parents live. That's what made her weird "don't worry, I'm not a Jew" dog-whistle so unmotivated and sinister. I would be shocked to learn anybody in those parts would've thought either "-man" or "-mann" could be anything but a solid German name. (The Germans of central Minnesota have not been as careful as she might hope about preserving their racial purity by holding on to their second "n"s.) Outside of Minneapolis in the days before Hubert Humphrey, you'd have a hard time finding a native antisemitism in the state that cared enough about actually existing Jews to be paranoid about policing their difference so rigorously. That stuff came in with the militias and the farm crisis (Louis Malle's great GOD'S COUNTRY documents the shift starkly.) As T.D. Mischke, the true voice of the state (Keillor is strictly for the theme restaurant market), says, "I was born in Minnesota, but the longer I live here, the more I think I'm going to die in Wyoming."
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On Woman Says Word Wrong
A couple years back, my parents, who live in Bachmann's district, returned home to find a very long message on their ancient telephone answering machine. As best as they could tell -- and they never did completely solve the mystery -- Bachmann's campaign had called their number inadvertently and patched it into one of the Congresswoman's periodic conference calls with her supporters in the district. The answering machine preserved an extensive portion of the call. It was devoted to Bachmann explaining the importance of the spelling of her last name. As she was sure her listeners were aware, when spelled with two "n"s, "Bachmann" is a German name, making it a name wholly distinct from "Bachman," whose single "n"-- she also was sure her listeners were aware -- marks it not as German but as Jewish.
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On Still More Phone Hacking Fallout
Niceness up 40%!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9c-QVw-FWs
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On 'News of the World' Shuttered
@caw_caw To clarify, by "NI" I meant News International specifically, not News Corp in general. News International may have a small place on News Corp's balance sheet, but it is crucial to News Corp's hold over policy and public opinion, and -- although I stand to be corrected -- I am not aware that Murdoch's current strategy is to let NI run at a loss in order to retain that influence. Hence my question about whether the News of the World was in fact the most important profit center within News Corp's UK newspaper division.
BSkyB's value has dropped by something approaching $1 billion in the past week. Any other bidders out there?
Here, by the way, is a nice explanation of the situation from the old-time journalist who has caused it all:
http://gu.com/p/3vdgb (video from The Guardian's Nick Davies)
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On Donald "Duck" Dunn, 1941-2012
Most of the amazingly satisfying Stax-Volt 1967 Norway tour footage, in which Booker T. and the MG's are supported by Arthur Conley, Eddie Floyd, Sam and Dave (stupefying set) and Otis Redding, can be found starting here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_mKy-a6d1I
Duck Dunn liked to head bang, and, by the end, they're basically doing it as a pre-punk, if not post-punk, show. It gets so good on the audience that the authorities repeatedly call in the most sheepish unit of the Norwegian military to restore order.