From the early days of the Russian Revolution through the space race and Cold War, a small but dedicated collection of communist UFOlogists believed in and sought out signs of extraterrestrial life, believing that discovery aligned with their goals of raising up the worker. Read the rest
Germy Shoemangler sez, "On the Kraft Music Hall, Harpo plays the clarinet (and blows bubbles out of it), accuses Milton Berle of using cocaine, and holds up seven fingers on one hand when asked how long he's been playing the clarinet. A surreal moment in late '50s TV.
Harpo was over seventy years old when he made this appearance, and he was younger than ever."
It's true: Harpo was always the embodiment of anarchy: funny, relentless, and steadfastly unserious. If I can't honk, I don't want to be a part of your revolution!
Harpo Marx & Milton Berle 1959 Kraft Music Hall
(Thanks, Germy Shoemangler!)
Harpo Marx on the origin of the "Gookie" - Boing Boing The Essential Groucho - Boing Boing Groucho to Warner Bros: Get Bent - Boing Boing Read the restMarxist sociologist David Harvey gave a great presentation analyzing the econopocalypse in Marxist terms at London's Royal Society for the Arts. The talk is animated with high-speed whiteboard doodles from Cognitive Media, a treatment that is really a top notch of augmenting complex lectures (I was so impressed with it, in fact, that I just stumped up for another year's membership at the RSA).
Communism and the financial crisis, cartoon edition
(via Making Light)
Chart showing policies that led to the econopocalypse Michael Lewis's THE BIG SHORT, visiting the econopocalypse through ... tv Update: Econopocalypse, Julie Amero, Holiday Gifts ... Hidden Econopocalypse Admonition in Chinatown Sign Newspaper box graveyard and other images of the econopocalypse ... Why the EVE Online industrial espionage econopocalypse is "fun ... Econopocalypse worse for economy than 9/11 Read the rest
