Tag: Texas
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Know Your History Part 4: Bushwhacked
Thanks to Boris B a bit of important cutup/mashup history has been now added to the Bootleg Archive one of the first political mashup compilations, 2004’s Bushwhacked against Bush and the Iraq war. I recently added Twinkleboi who put this together to the Archive and asked him if he still had it – he said…
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Bottom line not people at the bottom
Reflecting on the distasteful news that Nike is again cashing in on Pride month with their #BeTrue campaign, after their lack of any action over Sochi and the LGBTQ abuses in Russia. It’s one thing to flog rainbow gear made in coutnries where the locals aren’t free to express their seuxality and gender to people…
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Neal D Retke For President!
When Facebook suggest someone you don’t know from the other side of the world, can you *really* be friends? This documentary takes that to extreme, where Victor Van Rossem and Bram van Bree to Austin Texas to find Neal D. Retke when he doesn’t add them, and it ends up being a weird yet sweet…
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New Orleans – why Kanye West is so right…
An event that just gets bigger and bigger, the disaster in New Orleans I don’t know exactly what to say or write; it seems too sad, too bizarre, too surreal, and too wrong. Bush’s response was way off; the evacuation was useless (leave in your car? Boy does the authorities in NOLA and the US…