Me & Baby Brother

Coates was born exactly 4 years after I'd heard this

"We were asking back in 2008 how it was possible Sullivan even held a writing job - a fact we still don't understand. Well we do, kinda, now that we're familiar with the mindset of those who hold the unique position in American business known both as 'management' and/or 'Human Resources', but - other than that - no, we don't get it."

- The Crack Emcee, nailing Andrew Sullivan, December 21, 2010

"You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, explaining Sullivan's success in a way I saw and can understand, December 23, 2014

I Left The Ghetto (Only To Find One In White's Minds)

It's kind of shocking to see this in print, even if the writer does try to put a positive spin on it:  

Not everyone loves meditation, but most people generally see the benefit of quieting the mind. I was surprised when a yoga student in a workshop I was leading told me very passionately that she thought meditation was part of a brainwashing cult. As she launched into a tirade about the experience of being brainwashed at a meditation retreat, a light bulb clicked on in my head. I had to interrupt her, because I suddenly realized she was right. The whole spiritual path is a brainwashing.

Hey - after years of denials that anything of the kind was happening - I'll take these two NewAger's half-truth, over everybody else's lie, any day. It's not lost on me their meditation discussion - about what happened at a retreat - took place in a yoga workshop because, as I've said many times, those are all cult interests and gathering places. As is The Huffington Post, where the article appeared, being owned and run by a cultist, Arianna Huffington. There's hardly any escaping it. "The whole spiritual path is a brainwashing"? Please - two people who've been conned, attempting to tell the truth out of everyone else? The band War got it right:

 The world is a ghetto,.. 

 

"Race Music" Appreciation,...Done In Reverse

I love all that drama hanging on, and swooping around, that simple-assed beat - it's hardly a "song" at all. More like a slice of life, or a feeble construction that, somehow, attains power. And the way two separate vocals start at once, each one distinct yet complimentary, setting up a pattern for the others which overlap throughout. Wicked smart. Simply amazing. A "masterpiece" of deception.



War had this way of making the simple sound so complex, and vice versa, while also giving you the impression they came up with the shit while smoking on somebody's back porch. What are they laughing at? And whose idea was it to tell the story of the Cisco Kid and Poncho Villa in the first place? Doesn't the detail that they'd "eat the salted peanuts out the can" come across as bizarrely you-are-there authentic? (And can you imagine an artist, today, going that far off the boy/girl/sex plantation - this was the '70s! - to land a hit?) Genius don't follow no rules but to get there.



There had to be time when white folks heard what black people were doing and they were sure we were crazy. The don't-make-no-sense orchestration, the wailing, the sheer out-there construction, with a hint of slave songs, gospel, and doo-wop, all plopped on cheap plastic with the drunken Jackson Pollock-like abandon of a late night jazz session. Who cared what white folk thought? O.K., it's insane - insanely good, insanely original, and insanely effective. There was just nothing else like it. So it had to be made. We were finally free. And this was our music.

The Nightmares Of America's "Dream Factory"

1. The Crazed Vet/Soldier
2. The Professional Bitch
3. The Evil Christian
4. The Stupid Dad/Male
5. The Magical Minority (aka “Magic Negro”)
6. The Pedophile Priest
7. The Traditionalist Hypocrite
8. Evil Republicans
9. Wise Trashy People
10. Flyover Losers

-- James Hudnall, listing "10 Cinematic Clichés That Must Die!" (read the whole thing) on Big Hollywood.

Welcome To The Common Sense Club

"The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures and religions for reasons of tolerance."

-- The Labor Party, the Netherland's largest left-wing political group, finally abandoning being Punk'd (after events like the assassination of the filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, above) in a new position paper that declares TMR as the way to go, shocking the International Herald Tribune.

The Tortured Soul's Newest Male Baby Daddy Original Mongoloid Cancer Tax Time Collection

Tom Waits - "Chocolate Jesus"



Queen - "Tie Your Mother Down"



DJ Kentaro - "Loop Daigakuin"



The Specials - "Gangsters"



Mocean Worker - "Shake Ya Boogie"



Jurassic Five - "Swing Set"



The Butthole Surfers - "The Lord Is A Monkey"



Chuck Missler's Creationist Education Film - "Peanut Butter, The Atheist's Nightmare!"



Tom Waits - "I Don't Want To Grow Up"



War - "Cisco Kid"



Unknown - "Big Mouth"



Kollaboration 2001 - (Electro Breakdancing Exhibition)



Elvis Presley - "Blue Suede Shoes"



DJ Kentaro - "Peace"

Caught In A Hippie Cult Of Liars

"It wasn't true,...we just decided to make it a bit more romantic."

-- Janis Raven, public relations person for the, recently deceased, English entrepreneur, Anita Roddick (above) who deceived everyone - including people in Third World countries - after she stole her concept for The Body Shop.

"Among the major corporations which have enlisted these firms are AT&T, GM, Ford, IBM, Calvin Klein, Westinghouse, Dupont, Scott Paper, Campbell Soup, Lockheed, RCA, Procter and Gamble, All State Insurance, NEC, Boeing Aerospace, General Foods, GE, and McDonald's in-short, approximately 20% of the Fortune 500 corporations, plus innumerable smaller companies,...

...The IRS, CIA, the Army, Navy, and Air Force have all engaged these training companies. Many of the trainers, however, use techniques and promote philosophies at variance with the moral and religious convictions of employees,...Most often, these techniques and philosophies arise from the broad and variegated matrix of the so- called New Age Movement (NAM). And this fact has caused a great deal of controversy,...The core of the controversy is highlighted by Arthur Johnson's statement that 'There's a fine line between corporate culture and corporate cults.'"

-- Lawrence A. Pile giving a breakdown of some of the many companies that hired Werner Erhard (above) est, and/or The Landmark Forum, and other '70s cult-inspired groups, to "motivate" their employees. These teachings, which have now saturated Western culture and are now accepted as fact by some, were found to be deceptive and dangerous, resulting in massive lawsuits.

"I am still doing the same thing as in 1968."

-- Joel Rosenman (above) one creator of the Woodstock festival, who is now caught in Norman Hsu's pyramid scheme of Democratic fundraising.

"Dolphins, penguins, who gives a shit,...?"

-- Sting (above) the supposedly-socially conscious Sting (above) whose chef testified he is married to a woman with a "grandiose ego"; from an article called Superstar Hypocrite, which details his many deceptions, "green" pronouncements, and various ethical issues.

"Fads like astrology and be-ins, free love, newfangled drugs, the Hare Krishna movement,...dropping out,...generally thumbing the nose at the Man".

-- Charles Isherwood, describing the themes behind Hair - "one of the last Broadway musicals to saturate the culture" - which is returning to the stage for another run at ruining it, in The New York Times.

"At the heart of [Carlos Castanada's] movement was a group of intensely devoted women, all of whom were or had been his lovers. They were known as the witches, and two of them,...vanished the day after Castaneda's death,...A few weeks later, Patricia Partin, Castaneda's adopted daughter as well as his lover, also disappeared. In February 2006, a skeleton found in Death Valley, Calif., was identified through DNA analysis as Partin's."

-- Robert Marshall, in an article on "The Godfather of the New Age" for Salon.com.

"One afternoon, a young Malaysian woman had a psychotic breakdown, attacked ashram workers and was dragged away by police. I later found her at the police station, half-catatonic, mumbling 'darshan, darshan, darshan' over and over again. At dinner another evening, [my friend] pointed out a wan Austrian woman tugging around a listless little boy. She was frenzied because she'd had a dream in which Sai Baba instructed her to abandon her 7-year-old son and live on the streets as a beggar, and she didn't know whether she had the 'strength' to do it."

-- Michelle Goldberg, with an article on Sai Baba (above) the pedophile Indian guru who sells incense all over the San Francisco Bay Area, also in Salon.com.

"If he sidles up to someone who loves Tito Puente, he’ll be quick to say, 'Oh, I’ve been listening to him for years!' If he meets someone who hates Tito Puente, he’ll shed a single tear and bite his lip that he just couldn’t get Puente’s albums banned, because of that awful Republican-controlled Congress,...you can sometimes catch the duplicity.

With Hillary it’s much harder. She plans everything. Her notion of spontaneity is changing her brand of day planner without having a meeting about it first.

Bill could speak with a forked tongue on the fly. Off the cuff he said he agreed with the minority but would have voted with majority when it came to the first Gulf War. He tried pot but didn’t inhale. Monica Lewinsky had sexual contact with him, but he never had sexual contact with her.

What Bill says with rakish bluster, Hillary pulls off with schoolmarmish fog."

-- Jonah Goldberg, on Bill and Hillary Clinton (above) the '60s generation's first White House couple.