Monthly Archives: February 2016

Egress!


iPhone

Hey, see the two pairs of windows in the middle, there? And the one on the left side?

Turns out, those aren't up to code. They're not wide enough to meet the fire exit standards. Sweet!

$2500 to purchase windows that do meet code. Plus labor, of course.

If only the first builder had known anything about esoteric things like building codes...

I Am Not A Number, I Am A Free Man

The sovereign citizens movement is a far-right anti-government extremist movement in the US that believes the government — at all levels, local, state, and federal — is illegitimate and has enslaved the American people.

Their belief system is complex and rooted in a series of bizarre conspiracy theories that hold that the original US government set up by the Founding Fathers has been replaced with an evil secret government that has sold all US citizens into slavery by using them as collateral against foreign debt.

As explained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, they believe the government creates a secret alternate identity for each American at birth and sets up a secret US Treasury account — sort of like a corporate "trust" — under that alternate identity. The US government funds these "corporate shell" accounts to the tune of hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.

The Prisoner [1967] - I'm not a number, I'm a free man! [720p]

Look It Up

Someone should ask Mitch McConnell where the Constitution says that black Presidents only get 3/4ths of a term, when it comes to Supreme Court nominations.

Listening To…

Protomartyr - Under Cover Of Official Right. Catchy and angular guitar-based post-punk. A bit like The National, a bit like Disappears, a bit like The Walkmen, a bit like Bloc Party. I like it muchly.

Protomartyr - Come & See

  
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights. Part of the recent retro R&B movement. They're a bit more true to the original 60's and 70's soul sound than most of their peers. Very accessible, still. Fun and funky.

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings "100 Days, 100 Nights"

  
Tommy Guerrero - Lifeboats and Follies. Instrumental, 70's inspired, funky, rock. Reminds me of the stuff the Budos Band currently does, or of some of those dank and funky instrumentals the Beastie Boys did on Ill Communication. Good stuff.

Tommy Guerrero - Cut The Reins

  
Opeth - Pale Communion. This was supposed to be my first peek at the current state of European metal. I'm not sure this counts as metal though. The first and last tunes on this particular album seem like a riff on late 70's prog rock (esp Red-era King Crimson), which I dig. The rest of it is also very proggy, but a bit less edge. It's all very, very, very crisp and tight and technical, very cleanly produced - nothing at all sounds out of place or accidental or spontaneous. It's good when I'm in the mood.

Opeth - Moon Above, Sun Below (Audio)

Y'all groovin on anything groovy?

Radiosensitive

It's one of the dark marks of the U.S. Government in the 20th century — a complete willingness to expose unwitting citizens to dangerous substances in the name of scientific advancement. It happened with the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, with the MKUltra mind control project and with the atomic bomb testing of the 1940s and 50s. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) knew that dangerous levels of fallout were being pumped into the atmosphere, but didn't bother to tell anyone. Well, anyone except the photographic film industry, that is.