Spawn's dad
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Hi Gary, I can't believe your boy is so grown! In my mind he'll always be about the age in the photo!
Crazy, ain't it? And now he's back off to school.
His release is out today
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1273328229?ls=1&app=itunes
Apple Music: http://itunes.apple.com/album/id1273328229
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2AgumlnaL6QewGSC8uOD75
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Been a long time...is this what used to be the random thought thread?
Someone here might remember my son spawn. He was an occasional poster, usually on Christmas talking about waiting for Santa.
He's a sound recording student and vocal student at Syracuse now, and is releasing an EP next week (with a cover of Pick Up the Change). I always said I'd come back here to visit if he ever became a musician.
https://www.facebook.com/noahsteinbergmusic/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
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Who are you again?
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Does anyone give a shit about the Armstrong story out this morning?
I'm conflicted - I'm worried that his Livestrong foundation will suffer as a result. He's raised so much money for cancer research - it's a shame that the fundraising will suffer as a result of the sentence from the USADA.
Also - I've never liked his response to "have you ever doped" - being "I've never failed a test"
His response this time "I'm not going to fight their allegations any more because I'm sick of it"
Just admit it. Personally I don't care that he doped. I always suspected that he did. His achievement in fundraising for cancer research should overshadow any cheating he did.
That's part of the wonders of disinformation. Livestrong doesn't raise any money for cancer research. Their primary mission is cancer awareness. Meaning, primarily, the message that Lance Armstrong survived cancer (testicular) and won 7 editions of the tour de france. I don't know about you, but I already knew cancer existed before Lance got it. The money they raise also pales in comparison to that raised by, for example, the american cancer society or spent by the US government on actual research. The truth is, Livestrong has come under great scrutiny for how they raise money and for what it's spent on.
When this house of cards falls it's going to fall very very hard.
In addition to the New Yorker article there's a long one on outside online.
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For chronological accuracy, the Umm... forum's introduction coincided with the beginning of the end of the glory days.
that sounds about right.
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Didn't see anything on this.
There's a Whole Love hipstamtaic contest.
Spawn's entry is here
http://community.hipstamatic.com/submissions/167204
help a kid out if you can.
full contest here.
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I recently finished Taibbi's new one, Griftopia - and damn if it didn't make me want to pretty much take up arms against these assholes.
Shrug. We watched Gasland last night. I'm over the financial crisis. When people can set their drinking water ablaze as it pours from the tap there are far greater social ills than the raping and pillaging of retirement accounts. Clearly the only solution left is to tear all of society to the ground and hope something better emerges from its ashes.
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Matty T?
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Not so strange. I have friend who's son is battlng a herion addiction and he made it through rehab and immediately relapsed. Sometimes serval rehabs are necessary. Now he is in a day program and doing pretty well, but it is always touch and go. Justin could well do the same and derail his career badly, but so far he seems pretty good. Being on the road is a hard place to stay on the straight and narrow. Plenty of artists have not made it.
I wish Justin only the best. He is a great guy and a talented performer, but he has had these troubles before and could again without lots and lots of support and self control. Rehabs aren't necessarily succussful.
LouieB
Since recovery is a one day at a time thing, there's just a finality to the word 'successful' that struck me as discordant. That's all.
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Actually Justin has an extensive worldwide tour going after a successful rehab. He will be in Chicago at the Metro on February 10. The Bloodshot folks are happy now. And I am sure his fans are also. Not to mention his parents and himself.
LouieB
What an odd expression.
I live right near this so I'll be going for sure.
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I'm not sure I understand what will bring about the change that's sought. From movies to music we're a culture that thrives on violence. Folks have been railing against video games and rap music forever. Does violent language cause horrendous acts like this?
If one could envision themselves pointing a finger at a politician why not a video game? The truth is we've polluted this ground water for a very very long time. Does political rhetoric drive that or does it arise from it? I don't pretend to know what the solution is but the problem is certainly more complex than so and so group of people use language unskillfully. It's used because it resonates with people. So how to stop that?
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Frankly, he looks like any other frat boy waiting to meet Tweedy after a Wilco show.
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http://www.superscholar.org/features/influential-atheists/
Go back a few hundred years, and atheism was very much a minority position. Those who were atheists would have been ostracized by society and possibly even killed (as in burned at the stake, depending on how far back you go). Fast forward to the present, and atheism is far less objectionable, and in some circles even the dominant view.
In the new millennium, prominent atheists abound. One website, www.celebatheists.com, is even dedicated to listing celebrity atheists. Celebrity atheists are wide-ranging and include people like Mark Zuckerberg, Lance Armstrong, and Jodie Foster. Even so, they don’t make it on to our list of influential living atheists. Why? Because they, like so many other atheists, don’t make a big deal out of their atheism. They live their lives without God, but are happy to let other people live their lives with God.
To make it on SuperScholar’s list of influential living atheists, an atheist can’t merely disbelieve in God but also must actively encourage others to disbelieve in God. But even that isn’t enough to make our list. Bill Maher and Penn & Teller, for instance, use their prominence as entertainers to promote atheism. But they do so mainly as popularists, not as scholars attempting to make a considered case against theism and for atheism.
Thus, to make it on our list, an atheist needs not only to be actively promoting atheism but also to do so as scholars in scholarly forums – this is, after all, SuperScholar! All the names below fit that bill. They are notable scholars in their own right and they use their scholarship to promote atheism explicitly or to promote forms of thought that make belief in God untenable.
Many of the scholars listed here have given new life to atheism, inviting the term “neo-atheism” to describe their impact and movement. Since the rise of neo-atheism in the last decade, public acceptance of atheism in the United States has vastly increased. In Gallup polls until ten years ago, those willing to call themselves atheists hovered around 10 percent. It’s now up to just under 15 percent.
Whether this atheistic upsurge in polls indicates an actual increase in the number of atheists or just a greater willingness of atheists to be known as such, it underscores a seismic shift in our culture away from belief in God and toward more secular ways of viewing the world.
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Last I read he is a cabtaxi driver who drove the suspect to the scene of the shooting. Yet another shadowy influence.
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Campus Police
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State Champion - Stale Champagne
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1. Two Cow Garage- Sweet Saint Me
2. Truckstop Darlin' - Self Titled
3. Chase 56 - Allatoona Rising
4. Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
5. American Aquarium - Small Town Hymns
6. John Moreland & The Black Gold Band - Things I Can't Control
7. Joey Kneiser - The All Night Bedroom Revival
8. Glossary - Feral FIre
9. Mat D. - Plank Road Drag
10. Doc Dailey & Magnolia Devil - Victims, Enemies, and Old Friends
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cool beans. congrats.
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kinda yeah
but really, when that theater was designed was tarrytown populated by gnomes?
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I was kinda happy it ended early. The seats sucked and I got to bed at as somewhat reasonable time.
What do you do for a living?
in Tongue-Tied Lightning
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I'm, uh, Spawn's dad.
And a meditation teacher.