Archive for October, 2010
Music Video: Ania Soul – Eagle
Some soothing acoustic soul for Sunday. Directed by Chris Strikes. On a side note: this girl looks so much like an ex-girlfriend of mine, it’s scary.
[via City on my Back]
AP Video: Tests Warned of Troubles Before the Gulf Blowout at BP’s Deepwater Horizon
AP on Oct. 28:
“Tests performed before the deadly blowout of BP’s oil well should have raised doubts about cement used to seal the well, but the company and its cementing contractor used it anyway, investigators with the president’s oil spill commission said.”
Halliburton again??! F-ck ’em!
Video: Moveon.org’s CNNBC says Vote Tuesday or Prepare for a President Palin Future!
I posted this to Facebook with the message, “Technically creative and humorous but rhetorically way over top (or is it??!)” One of my friends responded, “Yes, rhetorically over the top, in the spirit of the times” to which I responded, “Also in the spirit of these times, the Right will probably attack this clip as harboring closet ‘sympathies’ for the insurgent position in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq instead of as the homage to the Terminator films it really is!” Life in 2010.
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Why Rhymefest Is Running For Alderman on the Chicago City Council
I posted the original video about the news announcement earlier in the week. Now comes a more detailed explanation by Rhymefest as to why he’s running.
Hit the jump to read it and also his explanation as to what it means to hip hop for what is supposedly the first rapper to run for city council anywhere in the US and for a gallery of ‘Fest’s official campaign publicity pics. (more…)