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August 31, 2005

Modernism

While discussing philosophy with someone online today when I should have been paying attention in my criminal procedure class, I discovered that I am a “modernist”, which describes those of the art movements before post-modernism. I was making a philosophical explanation of a theory of mine, and the other person informed me that my idea sounds like modernism, and I realized that my inclination towards these sorts of ideas is exactly why I love 19th and early 20th century literature and philosophy (though the other person accused me of arrogance when I said that James Joyce was rubbish). Theories that propel people and civilizations forward are the best, but today's art world is unbearably whiny and miserable.

Posted by andrewanissi at 08:56 PM

August 30, 2005

Howl! Festival pictures

CLICK HERE FOR A FEW PICTURES FROM THE FESTIVAL.

Posted by andrewanissi at 07:23 PM

Oakland man detained by sheriff for carrying a camera on a public sidewalk

by Andrew A. Anissi
Winged Earth

In Oakland, CA, this sheriff detained a man, Thomas Hawk, for carrying a camera and shooting pictures of warehouses. Hawk and Boing Boing depicted the incident as police harassment, but a power plant and some trains were in the immediate area. Hawk said he was "detained", but it seems he was merely questioned for 20 minutes, and his ID checked. Getting stopped and questioned can surely be annoying, but I wouldn't say the sheriff was in the wrong. After all, these annoyances are a small price compared to having a train loaded with a bomb and headed for San Francisco. There is a reason we pay taxes to this guy to stop people and ask questions. We need our security. If, after the questioning, the sheriff had taken the camera (or the film) away, the analysis would have been different. I don't think the present scenario would dissuade any photographers from carrying cameras.

See the full story HERE.

Posted by andrewanissi at 07:11 PM

August 29, 2005

Evidence of 9/11 Pentagon Attack Cover-Up

Click here for the video.

Posted by andrewanissi at 08:29 PM

August 27, 2005

City Councilman Unearths Magical Zoning Amulet

Click HERE for the article.

Posted by andrewanissi at 08:02 PM

August 23, 2005

Evangelist Robertson Says U.S. Should Kill Chavez

Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Television evangelist Pat Robertson told viewers of ``The 700 Club'' program that the U.S. should kill Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop the Latin American country becoming a ``launching pad'' for extremism.

Chavez, 51, has repeatedly accused U.S. President George W. Bush of backing efforts to topple his government, a charge the U.S. denies. The U.S. has alleged Venezuela is using its oil to undermine democracy in Latin America. Venezuela, the U.S.'s fourth-largest oil supplier, has threatened to cut off supplies.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 09:57 AM

EVANGELICAL SCIENTISTS REFUTE THEORY OF GRAVITY WITH NEW "INTELLIGENT FALLING" THEORY

SOURCE: The Onion

Below: Rev. Gabriel Burdett (left) explains Intelligent Falling.

KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.

"Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, is pushing them down," said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 01:05 AM

August 22, 2005

Police Attack Outdoor Music Event in Utah

CLICK HERE TO WATCH QUICKTIME VIDEO OF POLICE RAID

by Parker Pinette Monday August 22, 2005 at 04:30 AM
ppinette@gmail.com

Numerous accounts from attendees of an outdoor electronic music event in Utah county indicate excessive force used by Sherrif and SWAT officers. A video has surfaced depicting officers dressed in full military fatigues raiding the main stage of the event. Local news stations side with police in initial reports.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 08:13 PM

August 21, 2005

The Howl Festival, in the Wich of the East

Posted by andrewanissi at 12:01 AM

August 17, 2005

NYC Medical Homes Experiment On HIV Positive Children Without Their Knoweldge

Toxic and sometimes lethal drugs are being fed to HIV Positive children under foster care in New York City. See the BBC story here.

Posted by andrewanissi at 02:59 AM

August 11, 2005

CBGB wins round in court

BY GLENN GAMBOA
STAFF WRITER

August 11, 2005

CBGB's battle to stay alive received a major boost yesterday, as Manhattan Civil Court Judge Joan M. Kenney ruled that it does not owe its landlord, the Bowery Residents' Committee, any back rent and declined a request to evict the club. However, the club's future is still uncertain until the BRC grants it a new lease.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 01:01 AM

August 07, 2005

History of the Green Wich, PART II: GREENWICH VILLAGE IS BORN

( Originally Published in the early 1900's, Antiques Digest)

"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb down Greenwich ways"
- THOMAS JANVIBR.

DID you know that " Greenwich Village" is tautology? That region known affectionately as " Our Village " is Greenwich, pure and simple, and here is the " why " of that statement.

The word wich is derived from the Saxon wick, and originally had birth in the Latin vicus, which means village. Hence, Greenwich means simply the Green Village, and was evidently a term describing one of the first small country hamlets on Manhattan. Captain Sir Peter Warren, on whom be peace and benedictions, is usually given the credit of having given Greenwich its name, the historians insisting that it was the name of his own estate, and simply got stretched to take in the surrounding country-side. This seems rather a stupid theory. The Warrens were undoubtedly among the earliest representative residents in the little country resort, but by no stretch of imagination could any private estate, however ample or important, be called a village. But Greenwich was the third name to be applied to this particular locality.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 05:32 PM

History of the Green Wich, PART I: The Dutch Settle Manhattan

( Originally Published in the 1930's, Antiques Digest)

LIFE is a progress in misapprehensions; history, a process of correcting some misapprehensions and creating others for good measure.

Verrazzano, as we have seen, took slight interest in the land he glimpsed here, beyond surmising that there might be minerals in its rocks. Hudson saw in Manhattan only a pleasant shore bordering a strait opening into an illusory ocean beyond. But the latter did report the presence of fur-bearing animals, whose skins could be bought with "trinkets and stuffs of the coarsest kinds." This was enough to rouse the interest of shrewd Dutchmen in the region, for the European market absorbed furs endlessly.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 05:29 PM

August 06, 2005

The Quest

by Aleister Crowley

A part, immutable, unseen,
Being, before itself had been,
Became. Like dew a triple queen
Shone as the void uncovered:
The silence of deep height was drawn
A veil across the silver dawn
On holy wings that hovered.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 11:17 PM

The Optimist

by Aleister Crowley

Kill off mankind,
And give the Earth a chance!
Nature might find
In her inheritance
The seedlings of a race
Less infinitely base.

Posted by andrewanissi at 11:10 PM

August 05, 2005

I a-dore Thee, Evoe! I a dore Thee, I A O!

by Aleister Crowley

1. O Thou golden sheaf of desires,
That art bound by a fair wisp of poppies!

CHORUS: I a-dore Thee, Evoe! I a dore Thee, I A O!

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Posted by andrewanissi at 09:25 PM

August 04, 2005

Cybertron

August 4th, at Pyramid, on Avenue A

Posted by andrewanissi at 09:00 PM

Rendezvous Racer: The most reckless, irresponsible film you’ll ever see

Click the picture to watch the movie.

Or so a quote goes about a 9-minute short film called “C’était un Rendezvous” in which a man drives like a maniac through the streets of 1970’s Paris with only an engine roaring and tires squealing for a soundtrack. The single-shot film, made in 1976 by French director Claude Lelouch, employs no special effects and was created using only a front bumper-mounted camera. No one knows what type of car was used or whether Lelouch was the actual driver. The legend goes that at the film’s first screening the director was arrested on the spot and after that the film went underground. It has since resurfaced and been restored and is now even available on DVD. Or you could just go here to watch the whole thing. Search for “Rendezvous Racer” on the main page and enjoy.

Posted by andrewanissi at 12:34 PM

August 03, 2005

Downtown renewal stirs streetcar memories

By Wallace A. Krapf
Published by the Democrat and Chronicle, Aug. 3, 2005

(August 3, 2005) — As I listen to the plans for a renewal of downtown Rochester, my mind drifts back to 1940, when I was a boy of 8 growing up in Rochester, and how the downtown was alive with trolley cars. We called them streetcars, and they monopolized the city landscape, clanging down the middle of every major street right to the city limits on a shiny double set of steel tracks, partially buried in beds of cobblestones with macadam lanes at either curb side for automobiles.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 04:12 PM

August 02, 2005

Every Euro Banknote Infringes a Rochesterian Patent; alleges lawsuit

Document Security Systems Inc., a Rochester, NY company, has filed suit against the European Central Bank, with the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg, seeking unspecified monetary damages, claiming that every euro banknote in circulation infringes on its anti-counterfeiting patent. The complaint alleges that by 2006, the European Central Bank will have produced more than 34.9 billion notes, worth more than $1.5 trillion, that violate the patent.

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Posted by andrewanissi at 10:17 AM