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Popeye Rollins!

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The Homeless Wanderer - Tsegue Maryam Guebrou

My favorite jazz pianist who is also an Ethiopian nun. 

Even if you don't like jazz, give this a listen. It's gorgeous. 

#Tsegue Maryam Guebrou #jazz #music

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Demdike Stare - Hashshashin Chant

#Demdike Stare #Hashshashin Chant #Dark Ambient

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An 18-year old Patti Smith. 

#Patti Smith

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(Hat tip: DangerousMinds.net)

#Cool. #Wrassling

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Weird Beatles rarity - Crude animated music video for 'I Feel Fine', c. 1966. 

#beatles #I feel fine #animation #stephen verona #john lennon

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Atman - Toshio Matsumoto (1975) 

(Warning: Gets strobe-y.)

Trippy Japanese Avant Garde short. Cool, drone-y music. 

#Atman #Toshio Matsumoto #Avant Garde #Japanese

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Wow! Hello Mike, nice seeing you today! (please don’t take this seriously, it is a joke) 

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Free checking! Praise Jah! And dem given I and I a free t-shirt wid a logo! Jump Niyabinghi! Babylon has fallen!

#Jah #rasta #free checking

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Sadly, we're going back to Cali for the holidays. Wish I was staying here. 

Christmas in Detroit

#Detroit #Xmas

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Rita. Oof. 

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Great expectations for the in-progress rebirth of Corktown. This is great news. Congrats! Astro is my morning fix, but if you plan to be open on Mondays, I'll be there. And my afternoons could always use a tea-break.

Heroic AND cool. 

Check out the above in-depth blog post that we wrote for our former high school’s blog (University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe). We were invited to guest write a feature on our arts and culture tea house we hope to open in Corktown Detroit. It was a real honor to be asked by Alumni Relations Manager, Savannah Lee, to share our story. The blog post gives you a lot more insight as to where we are in this process.

However, funding is a concern. We have a limited budget to start on and are applying to a number of potential funding sources. We hereby invite anyone interested in funding this venture or would like to offer any services, please contact Catherine Watson or Sabra Skutt-Morman at [email protected]. 

#detroit #corktown #cool people

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#Tusken raiders #sand people #jebus

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Under Allende, Chile attempted 'cybernetic' economic planning: real-time tweaking of production and distribution, via constant data gathering and analysis (via telex!). They even built a fly-looking Logan's Run eyrie where the planners could sit in molded plastic chairs and stroke their chins and discuss cooking oil supplies and paper pulp distribution, thoughtfully.

Arpanet (AKA the fucking Internet) was like five computers at this point, so this sort of data network was wildly ambitious: there would be hundreds of terminus points all over Chile. Crazy! And... like I said above, this whole thing would be accomplished via telex: people typing in data, transmitting, then other people reentering that data to the giant computers in Santiago. At the time, this would have been a tech feat comparable to the Apollo program. 

Then the CIA killed Allende. So, you know, that sort of put an end to things. 

Note that the 'screens' are really transparencies: GUI wasn't quite a real thing yet.

#science! #data #cool looking shit #socialism #70s

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The War on Christmas will not stop until we water our warhorses from the skulls of Rankin and Bass.

#War On Christmas #Total Fucking War

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I need the pot cookies I got at the dispensary to help me with my crippling fear of bongs.

#compassion #weed #bongs

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Professor Badass!!

#professor bad ass #Kevin Stewart