December 2007
The Archives
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12.18.07Uncle Sam wants EVERYONE!In a recent NPR interview, John McCain said he would be in favor of granting citizenship to illegal aliens who serve in the military. I had assumed undocumented immigrants are barred from military service, but I did some research into the topic and found quite the opposite to be true. According to a 2005 article in the Village Voice, federal law forbids aliens from serving in the military, but only during peace time. All bets are off when the country is at war. Section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act states: "[a]n alien or a noncitizen national of ...
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12.18.07Busta Rhymes freestyleJust downloaded DJ Whiteowl's new mixtape, Fuck the Rest, I'm the Best: Vol. 3. Check out Busta Rhymes freestyling over Jay-Z's "Roc Boys" beat from American Gangster.
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12.18.07Hell DateThe viewing audience for the big TV networks is shriveling up, but BET has managed to turn the writers strike into TV gold. Their newest program, Hell Date, is a spoof on reality dating shows, and it is fucking hilarious.
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12.17.07ASCII porn and the birth of the webIf you've been networked long enough to remember the days before AOL and Prodigy, then chances are you remember Bulletin Boards. The BBS (as it was commonly known) was a computer server that users could dial into with their telephone modems. BBS servers were largely useless-- they were slow, confusing, and decorated with really lame ASCII art-- but in those early days, they were kind of exciting. There was, after all, no "internet" to speak of yet, and correspondence chess over a computer connection seemed pretty cool. The one useful thing about BBSs was that they offered free ...
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12.05.07Unleash the beastShooting guards beware: Don't bring that weak shit. Garnett will eat your children. Block of the Night: Kevin Garnett (NBA.com 12/03) KG destroys Gilbert Arenas in the Celtics' home opener Top 10 KG Blocks
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- The Election Collection x Chris Piascik
- Meg Catches Up With Sondre Lerche (11/22)
- Preview: Sondre Lerche x Paradise Rock Club (11/22)
- Boston Transgender Day Of Remembrance (11/20)
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- David Johnston Sings x Harvard Square (11/17)
Art
The Election Collection x Chris Piascik»
After being rescued from the brink of extinction a decade ago, the Moleskine notebook has been reborn as the PBR of stationery goods. A marketing campaign from Italian publisher Modo & Modo cast the oilcloth journal as a requisite for travelers, writers, artists and otherwise impoverished people, and the company’s popularity has since mushroomed into [...]
Music
Preview: Sondre Lerche x Paradise Rock Club (11/22)»
I am scheduled to interview Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday. Lerche is in the middle of an east-coast tour, and as the hour arrives, I hunker down at my desk with a magazine, anticipating the usual problems (late phone call, crappy connection, tight time constraints). But just as I settle in, [...]
Words
Breakfast With The MBTA - Volume I»
The yearly clusterfuck that is move-in day brought the city to its knees again this week, and like thousands of other Bostonians, we spent the afternoon cramming a U-Haul truck down one-way streets with the ease of childbirth.
We’ve been stretching out in the new TH headquarters deep in the heart of Allston Rock City, and [...]
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