Passport photos of a young Alan Moore, prior to his growing a beard. SOURCE: THE EXTRAORDINARY WORKS OF ALAN MOORE (TwoMorrows Publishing, 2003)
More than 20 shipping containers line the south side of a Navy base in Gulfport, Mississippi. They’re not there to transport goods, but instead stand as a silent marker of the gun violence afflicting the state’s second-largest city.
The hulking boxes were put in place last fall, after gunfire at a subsidized apartment complex across the street damaged five homes inside the Naval Construction Battalion Center; no one was hurt. The base responded by increasing patrols around its perimeter and making one of the most fortified areas of Gulfport even more so.
Can we get one that has the Talking Moose on the uppermost layer in MacOS6 and 7 desktop?
Parking violations.
The 2005 Radio Scandal Was a Glorious Mess
A little-remembered scandal back in '04-'05 gave a revealing and hilarious look into music industry corruption. Dozens of popular bands, from Pearl Jam to Norah Jones, relied on a playbook of unscrupulous tactics in order to get their songs played on the radio. “Gifted” playstations, six-figure payola schemes, hiring college kids to make phony song requests: These were among the tricks employed just to stay on the Billboard chart an extra week.
The 2005 radio payola scandal is a disturbing reminder how much the mainstream music market was, and continues to be, fixed. It’s also, in retrospect, really, really entertaining.
For some reason Youtube’s algorithm thought that I wanted to watch Jamiroquai memes all last month.
Help it get a water break?
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941
A submersible that takes tourists to the Titanic shipwreck has gone missing off the North American coast in the Atlantic