TangleBones

Dear Chris Matthews,

Nice work. Now do this to the rest of them like the media should have been doing for years. Hint: none of these Republicans know their history or they wouldn’t be Republicans. Heck, anyone who has been paying attention for the last 7 years ought to have a hard time being a Republican.

Sincerely,

Everyone

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It’s nice that places like Amazon and Ruth’s Chris steakhouse figured out enough about me from my past experiences with them to send me notifications about upcoming sales and specials associated with the calendar that they think are appropriate, but I do so wish I could tell them to stop with the jewelry and mother’s day specials. Not quite a stab-in-the face sort of pain, but certainly an uncomfortable moment.

Just to emphasize why he gets paid to speak at conferences and I don’t, Clay Shirky decided to piece together all the things that make participatory culture great, and put them into one short presentation:

Transcript.

Songs in my iTunes Library lasting exactly 2 minutes and 42 seconds:

• Elvis Costello: “Little Triggers”
• Chuck Berry: “Around and Around” 
• Ray Charles: “Mess Around”
• Dee-Lite: “You Sexy Thing”
• Bruce Springsteen: “Fire”
• Patsy Cline: “Crazy”
• The Ramones: “I Just Want To See Something To Do”
• Pearl Jam: “Oceans”
• Otis Redding: “Shake”
• Arlo Guthrie: “Highway In the Wind”
• Muddy Waters: “Trouble No More”
• Johnny Cash: “Folsom Prison Blues”
• John Lennon: “Oh my love”
• Messiah: “Destroyer”
• Elton John: “Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock & Roll)”
• Muddy Waters: “The Same Thing”
• Hole: “Celebrity Skin”
• Go Home Productions: “Juicebox Rock”
• No Doubt: “Oi to the World”
• Stevie Wonder: “Have A Talk With God”