[CanYoAssDigIt] Are you worried yet?

Here's more evidence that my perception of a rightward drift (or rush)
at NPR is just paranoia. No bias at NPR, no sirree!

from www.democracynow.org

Former RNC Chair May Head Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Now to the fight for freedom of the media. A former co-chair of the
Republican National Committee is the leading candidate to take over
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That is the US-tax payer
funded agency that funds public media in this country. Patricia de
Stacy Harrison is reportedly the favored candidate of the CPB's
chairm, Kenneth Tomlinson. Harrison is currently a high-ranking
official at the State Department. She was co-chair of the RNC from
1997 until January 2001, helping to raise money for Republican
candidates, including George W. Bush. In her State Department role,
Harrison has praised the work of the department's Office of
Broadcasting Services, which in early 2002 began producing feature
reports, some coordinated by the White House, that promoted the
administration's arguments for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
The reports were distributed free to domestic and international TV
stations. In testimony before Congress last year, Harrison said the
Bush administration regarded these "good news" segments as "powerful
strategic tools" for swaying public opinion.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Plan B features Lulina

From Luciana's Blog, "Idiot Potato" (which would not be a bad band name):

"My Matt friend wrote pra Plan B asking where edition has Lulina,
because it wanted to buy back in states. From there it copied and he
sent me the reply of them: "I'm happy you confirm she is interviewed
in issue 6. On pages 34+35. And there's picture of to her wearing very
nice bright stripey T-Shirt ". How happy this! It wanted to see later
which was the photo that the Eugênio ordered. Perfect Pra to be, alone
lacked to be in page 13, or 26, or 49...:: P"

It is absolutely true, if not grammatical (and I think we have to
grant Google translation tool the assist, she is very literate in
Portuguese, and writes pretty darn well in English) - Luciana is
interviewed in a very hip music magazine published in London (yes, the
one in England). I don't have it yet, but I'm really looking forward
to seeing it. Of course I emailed her and told her "I am so happy for
you" but what I really thought was "Bah! How did you arrange THAT?!
This fame is rightfully mine."

These kids today (which seems to mean everybody under 30, or in
Calvin's case, everybody under 90) - you just can't stomp them.

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Rafael Sabatini scripts VlAGGRA ad copy!

Hey, I just want to thank Kizzy Minor, Yvain Lane, Orba Duffy, Glenna
Gilchrist, Floris Mendoza, Carwyn Harper, Tatianna Matson, and
Giuliana Sykes for making the Alex Carr list
(alexcarr-subscribe@yahoogroups.com for those of you that have been
missing out on the fun) the home of using text from Captain Blood by
Rafael Sabatini to sell VlAGGRA. My gosh, it is wonderful to that you
are giving people a chance to read about the good Captain's
swashbucking derring-do. And I love the cut-up William Burroughs,
Kathy Acker-like post-modernist sensibility you bring to the text
(examples collected below). Marvelous. I love you guys, I really do.

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rounded the head, and stoode disappointed!

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the Captain rapped out a nasty on your drrugs?

The PHARMunfortunate gentleman left under the thief and pirate she
accountsACY-BY-MAlL SHOP offethere was a suspicion of moisture in
those clear hazel eyes. Withrs you a great deaI

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Wolverstone, lessivery
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Bridgewater,ntiaIity

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Along thiswill not be disappointed!

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Fwd: Linguistic Question

BE MORE FUNNY!!!!

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Geoffrey Nunberg <nunberg@csli.stanford.edu>
Date: Jun 8, 2005 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: Linguistic Question
To: Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>

My guess is that this pronunciation has been
standard in the American military for a long time.

Geoff Nunberg

>Dear Professor Nunberg,
>
>Why do all the announcers on NPR pronounce Guantanamo as
>"G'wantonamo"? It seems to me that in general English speakers in
>this country used to pronounce it correctly. Now it's pronounced
>incorrectly nearly 100% of the time. It makes our public radio
>broadcasters sound like a bunch of hayseeds.
>
>It occurs to me that maybe Caligula started the trend, and rather than
>allowing him to look like an idiot (sort of like how they cut the part
>of his response the other day when he said that the prisoners were
>"disassembling" ­ that is, he says, not telling the truth ­ about
>their treatment) they started pronouncing it the same way as he did.
>
>Or perhaps it is more along the lines of when Claudius started
>pronouncing Saddam Hussein's name "Sad damn" to make it sound like
>sodomy ­ something everybody hates, except those of us that do it. It
>could be that it serves some kind of propaganda function, like "We
>ain't a bunch of pansies like them Spanish speakers, that can't even
>muster a hard 'G' sound. When we say 'Gitmo' it means 'Do it our way
>and git out of our way, or do it your way and git "hit")!'"
>
>I'm depending on you to tell it to me straight.
>
>Your fan,
>Matt Love

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Linguistic Question

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matt Love <matt.mattlove1@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 8, 2005 2:02 PM
Subject: Linguistic Question
To: NUNBERG@csli.stanford.edu

Dear Professor Nunberg,

Why do all the announcers on NPR pronounce Guantanamo as
"G'wantonamo"? It seems to me that in general English speakers in
this country used to pronounce it correctly. Now it's pronounced
incorrectly nearly 100% of the time. It makes our public radio
broadcasters sound like a bunch of hayseeds.

It occurs to me that maybe Caligula started the trend, and rather than
allowing him to look like an idiot (sort of like how they cut the part
of his response the other day when he said that the prisoners were
"disassembling" – that is, he says, not telling the truth – about
their treatment) they started pronouncing it the same way as he did.

Or perhaps it is more along the lines of when Claudius started
pronouncing Saddam Hussein's name "Sad damn" to make it sound like
sodomy – something everybody hates, except those of us that do it. It
could be that it serves some kind of propaganda function, like "We
ain't a bunch of pansies like them Spanish speakers, that can't even
muster a hard 'G' sound. When we say 'Gitmo' it means 'Do it our way
and git out of our way, or do it your way and git "hit")!'"

I'm depending on you to tell it to me straight.

Your fan,
Matt Love

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[CanYoAssDigIt] Sexy, strong, loving Tim McGraw really is your fantasy man.

More evidence that people are getting twice as stupid every 18 months.
I have been treating you people to the lyrics of Tim McGraw (of the
bull named Fu Manchu fame). I have discussed the marketing of country
music to women, and the sickening touchy-feely new-agey lyrics that
appeal to the modern country chick (liberally mixed in with
boot-up-the-ass patriotic anthems for those wonderful "defense moms"
that helped put Caligula back onto the imperial throne).

Without further ado, I saw it with my own eyes: A cover (story) photo
of TIM McGRAW adorning REDBOOK's June issue is captioned "You voted
him #1 sexy, strong, loving. Tim McGraw really is your fantasy man.
Plus FAITH HILL on their powerful bond."

Here's some more lyics form the sexy, strong, loving Tim McGraw. If
you think they are bad in print, you ought hear them when they are
sung. Sugarzareh has. I hope he gives a report.

Indian Outlaw

I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

All my friends call me Bear Claw
The Village Cheaftin' is my paw-paw
He gets his orders from my maw-maw
She makes him walk the line

You can find me in my wigwam
I'll be beatin' on my tom-tom
Pull out the pipe and smoke you some
Hey and pass it around

'Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

I ain't lookin' for trouble
We can ride my pony double
Make your little heart bubble
Lord, Like a glass of wine

I remember the medicine man
He caught runnin' water in my hands
Drug me around by my headband
Said I wasn't her kind

Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

I can kill a deer or buffalo
With just my arrow and my hickory bow
From a hundred yards don't you know
I do it all the time

They all gather 'round my teepee
Late at night tryin' to catch a peek at me
In nothin' but my buffalo briefs
I got 'em standin' in line

Cause I'm an Indian outlaw
Half Cherokee and Choctaw
My baby she's a Chippewa
She's one of a kind

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die

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