Daydream Lab: Media

“Early Christians transformed the world by thinking different and living different, not by complaining about everybody else’s morals.”

—Alan Wilson

“‘You are destroying yourself,’ he cried. ‘You have the inclination to be alone and to dream and you are afraid of dreams. You want to be like others in town here. You hear them talk and you try to imitate them.’”

—Sherwood Anderson

“On earth we are wayfarers, always on the go. This means that we have to keep on moving forward. Therefore be always unhappy about what you are if you want to reach what you are not.”

—St. Augustine

“In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.”

—2 Chronicles 31:7 (ESV)

“There would so much less laughter in the world if evil people stopped talking.”

—MadPriest

“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry…”

—Ecclesiastes 8:15

“Did they teach you how to question when you were at the school? Did the factory help you grow? were you the maker or the tool?”

—Ewan MacColl

“Happiness happens when you are not thinking about it, when you are inhabiting your body comfortably…when you feel at peace with yourself and the world. When we live overprotective, overstimulated lives we expect more all the time, we find it hard to be unself-conscious and just do what we do; we overanalyse.”

—Rowan Williams

“You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate—poverty, disease, ignorance, et cetera….I think people are beginning to realize that you can’t have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think that you can have a stable and secure world.”

—Desmond Tutu

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

—Edward Abbey

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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from Doctor Who (26 March 2008)

“God delivered me from the evil that is Dr Who, materialism and alcoholism.”

(via Exploring Our Matrix)

Prayer is better than rioting (13 February 2008)

Several newspapers in Denmark have republished a cartoon showing a negative depiction of Muhammed (pbuh).

Edgy for network television.

A comment on a Wikipedia discussion page explaining the phrase “whadfxup” in an anti-smoking PSA:

Rock Out

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The cover for Latrinalia’s debut album, Humanity in the Higher, which comes about as a result of this formula. Here are the band name, title, and cover image.

Rigid Bavarian structure

Reuters tells us “Italian film and opera director Franco Zeffirelli is offering his services to Pope Benedict as an image consultant, saying the German pontiff comes across as cold and needs to review his wardrobe.”

M-Fer, I want more iced tea. (22 September 2007)

Apparently some Negroes acted like normal human beings in front of Bill O’Reilly recently, and it blew his M-Fing mind.

(via Feministe)

Go, Dan. (19 September 2007)

Dan Rather has filed a $70 million-dollar lawsuit against CBS, claiming breach of contract.

Only taking shit from the President (23 August 2007)

Language Log on the New York Times‘s handling of “shit,” “fuck,” “nigger,” “wetback,” and “chink.”

Under Attack (23 August 2007)

“Moore did not return requests from the Guardian for an interview about his response to Manufacturing Dissent.”

Like totally dysfunctional (17 August 2007)

Like, oh my God, like, gag the President of the United States with a spoon.

Men [sic] (17 August 2007)

Alas, dear reader, this is what was said.

Glad they cleared that up. (15 August 2007)

“‘Nappy’ is an antiquated term referring to coarse, curly hair and ‘ho’ is slang for whore,” explains a helpful Daniel Trotta for Reuters, reporting on a settlement between Don Imus and former employer CBS.

Bad Gods (9 August 2007)

Like watching a free clinic worker vigorously scratch her crotch.

McCarrots taste better (6 August 2007)

Food tastes better to toddlers when it comes in McDonald’s wrappers, according to a recent study which strikingly demonstrates the power of advertising, particularly to young children. (via adfreak)

AP Headlines Said Are Weird (29 July 2007)

Zwicky Says Found Unusual Headline English Usage

That Ain't Gangsta (23 July 2007)

50 Cent is still whiny over the last time he got shot (“The musician [sic] was shot nine times in a rap feud seven years ago,” reports the BBC). Now he’s suing an ad firm for a MySpace ad which depicts him (or, rather, a generic rapper who—like all generic rappers—resembles him) getting shot. With a camera.

He wants a million dollars and a permanent injunction against the use of his image, now that his handlers pointed the offensive flash game out to him.

Spanish cartoonist may be jailed for mocking royalty (21 July 2007)

A Spanish cartoonist faces possible jail time for a (frankly, hilarious) cartoon mocking the royal family.

The Artist Formerly Available in Record Stores (15 July 2007)

Paul Quirk of the Entertainment Retailers Association is ranting against Prince, who is giving away copies of his latest album, Planet Earth, but “Prince’s only aim is to get music direct to those who want to hear it.”

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (7 July 2007)

“The lyric, the metre, the rhythm, they’re identical,” says Tommy Dunbar, of the Rubinoos, of a suspicious resemblance between the band’s 1979 single to Avril Lavigne’s song “Girlfriend.”

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