bloggy: Linkage: July 2008 Archives

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Lady, That's My Skull
This year's best blog name. Definitely.
tags: blog comics humor
Wild Edibles files for bankruptcy protection - Crain's New York Business
This is pretty interesting. A seafood supplier to NYC restaurants was destroyed by a pro-labor campaign.
tags: nyc restaurant food union labor

NYPD Officer Assaults Bicyclist
Most disturbing aspect for me: he had worked at the Union Square Greenmarket in a stall. Obviously the culture of the NYPD is really, really damaged.
tags: bicycle civilrights criticalmass timesup nypd nyc

Urban Affairs 2008
street art exhibition in a former East Berlin brewery, through August 3rd
tags: art berlin streetart germany

Gay Gadget | Gadgets for Gays
This has to be the most transparent "make a blog to get advertising dollars" ploy I have seen this month.
tags: queer gadgets blog business silly advertising
Eyeteeth: Distress Symbols: Starting statistics on the state of the union
The number that most shocked me: "30: Average life expectancy gap between residents of Mississippi and Connecticut, in years."
tags: usa economics politics health

paintings + drawings: This just in.
Timothy Buckwalter reports that SFMOMA just added to their board an AT&T exec whose tenure includes the company's cooperation with illegal government wiretapping,
tags: att wiretapping fisa sfmoma sanfrancisco museum civilliberties

Daily Kos: Crist gets his beard
It's an "open secret" that the governor of Florida is gay. Now that he hopes to be McCain's VP, he is getting married (to a woman).
tags: gop queer charliecrist florida

Adam Sullivan for congress
Adam Sullivan is challenging Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the Democratic primary because Rep. Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, refuses to hold hearings on impeachment.
tags: nyc newyork congress politics impeachment

Art Signal Magazine
The latest issue of this bilingual magazine is available as a free PDF download. It includes an article on the Rubell Family collection.
tags: art magazine pdf english spanish rubell
cobra museum - just different!
this exhibition looks great!
tags: queer art amsterdam
tom moody » Russert: Iraq War Salesman
The man was a hack who sucked up to power, not a journalist. One of the reasons I took a Facebook vacation was seeing people I knew marking themselves as "fans" after his death.
tags: timrussert iraq war
Water Cooler Games - Parents: Sex is Worse than Severed Heads
sex or two men kissing is more offensive to parents than a "graphically severed human head"
tags: videogames violence sex homophobia