Shirking?

When capitalists optimize they call it efficient, when workers optimize they call it "shirking."

Karthun Dad Jokes

The hover-text for this comic inspired me to make this thing:

The road not taken

Delicious:

. . . this is pure Brooks, a seemingly epigrammatic heap of nonsense, structured to give him both the appearance of gnomic wisdom and plausible deniability.

For bonus snark click on over to Charlie Pierce and Driftglass.

Had some fun on the radio last night....

Playlist for Stürm und Drang, April 12, 2015:

Track	Artist	Album	Label	Date	Time	Source
Aton I	The Ceyleib People	Tanyet	Drop-out	1968	0:10:00	mp3
Dawn	The Ornette Coleman Trio	At the "Golden Circle" Stockholm Volume 1	Blue Note	1965	0:08:30	cd
Meadow Meal	Faust	Faust	Polydor	1971	0:08:02	yt
Son of Mr. Green Genes	Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention	Olympia Theatre, Paris France, October 26, 1968		1968	0:07:47	cd
Hallogallo	Neu!	Neu!	Brain Records	1972	0:10:07	mp3
Dirty Boots	Sonic Youth	Goo	DGC	1990	0:05:29	yt
Love on a Real Train (Risky Business)	Tangerine Dream	Risky Business Soundtrack Album	Virgin Records	1984	0:03:19	mp3
It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl	Faust	Faust So Far	Polydor	1972	0:07:31	yt
The Robots	Kraftwerk	The Man Machine	Capitol Records	1978	0:06:11	cd
Outside My Door	Can	Monster Movie		1969	0:04:11	yt
The Model	Kraftwerk	The Man Machine	Capitol Records	1978	0:03:38	cd
Neon Lights	Kraftwerk	The Man Machine	Capitol Records	1978	0:08:56	cd
The Girl You Want	Devo	Freedom of Choice	Record Plant Studios	1980	0:02:59	yt
Innocent When You Dream (78)	Tom Waits	Franks Wild Years	Island	1987	0:04:15	cd
Autobahn	Kraftwerk	The Mix	Elektra	1991	0:09:27	cd
Phaedra	Tangerine Dream	The Virgin Years 1974-1978	Virgin Records	2011	0:17:39	cd

sincerely, DJ Zerstörung.

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MST3K: best show ever?

Mrs. AL and I were listening to Peter Aaron's show last night on WGXC, to which you should immediately donate some money, when he played a recording of a radio interview with the Slits. Although that was interesting and chaotic enough all by itself, it also naturally lead Mrs. AL to recall what may be the best skit ever done on Mystery Science Theater 3000:

If you kidz are wondering why this makes us olds laugh, the reason is to be found in this 1970s beer advertising campaign:

The combination of the joke, done in the style of a Bergman film and in the form of a Sven and Olie joke is just too much (at least for olds like me). Genius.

No customers for Authority's power - Times Union

No customers for Authority's power - Times Union


This story, although about an underwater power line between New Jersey and Hell's Kitchen, is not unrelated to the big power line project being proposed for upstate New York, for a couple of reasons.