Annie Moore Southgate With Her Italian Greyhound Zöe

Portrait of Annie Southgate with Zöe, her Italian Greyhound. Portrait was taken at the Shelburn Studios in Durham, North Carolina.

Gravel Road Through Trees (Eastern Kentucky) Photo By William Gedney

Gravel road through trees
Collection: William Gedney Photographs and Writings
Category: Photographs
Category: Kentucky, 1964 and 1971
Type: Photographs
Box Number: 63
Negative Number: 7901-23
Exposure: 1972
Year: 1972
Print: Unknown
Photographer: Gedney, William Gale, 1932-1989
Mark: None
Subject: Eastern Kentucky
Item Number: KY0939
Duke University Library-Digital Collections

Girl And A Dog Sleeping On Bed, William Gedney ca. 1967

Collection: William Gedney Photographs and Writings
Category: Photographs
Category: Miscellaneous, 1958-1982
Type: Photographs
Box Number: 39
Negative Number: 5040-22
Exposure: ca. 1967
Year: ca. 1967
Print: Unknown
Photographer: Gedney, William Gale, 1932-1989
Mark: None
Subject: Daughter of a Composer
Item Number: M10154

Duke University Library-Digital Collections

Foolproof Star Trek Plot Generator Design By Stephanie Fox

The original Star Trek only managed to make 80 episodes before running out of Dilithium.[Crystals] Not enough! So we mixed up the show's most frequent plot twists, to create a foolproof Trek story generator.

Design by the amazing Stephanie Fox via:  io9.com     [Graphic 25% larger at link]

William Elliott Whitmore ANTI Records Debut: Animals In The Dark-17 February Photograph By Chris Strong

Image: Photograph by Chris Strong

William Elliott Whitmore - "More Soulful than a Graveyard" (Daytrotter) - Set to Release Animals In The Dark February 17th, 2009

ANTI- Records Debut Marks a More Expansive Sound and Worldview for Iowa's Son of the Soil

Tour with Murder By Death Begins 10/23

From the first lines of "Mutiny," the opening track on William Elliott Whitmore's ANTI- Records debut Animals In The Dark, one can see that this is decidedly not simply a continuation of his Southern trilogy that spanned his last three releases. Rather than a reflection of life and loss and the world surrounding his Iowa horse farm on the banks of the Mississippi, "Mutiny" finds Whitmore's focus turned outward, to the state of the country and the missteps of the government. Conveyed with ire and humor, Whitmore sings over a martial beat:

Well it's a goddamn shame what's going down
How we got to this I do not know
There's a sick sick wind that is blowing ‘round
And the captain's got to go
(...)
ANTI Records: WEW Animals In The Dark/Release date: 17 February.

RT @AntiRecords new William Elliott Whitmore song "There's Hope for You" downloadable on Spinner: http://tinyurl.com/d63xs6

Nice to hear a friendly voice.

Neko Case PSA For Best Friends- Middle Cyclone "Blog For Charity"

The promotion will run from January 13 to February 3, 2009. Five dollars will be donated for every blog post and one dollar for every user of iLike that adds the song to his/her profile. Details and instructions after the break.

People Got A Lotta Nerve - Neko Case


Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2009, Best Friends Animal Society is one of America’s foremost animal rescue organizations. Founded in 1984, Best Friends advances nationwide animal welfare initiatives by working with shelter and rescue groups around the country. On any given day Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the nation’s largest facility for abused, abandoned and special needs companion animals located in southwestern Utah, is home to approximately 2,000 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds, and other animals. The society also publishes Best Friends magazine, the nation’s largest general interest, pet-related magazine with approximately 300,000 subscribers. For more information, visit www.bestfriends.org.

* I am beginning my 3rd year as a member of Best Friends, and I can tell you that it's pretty amazing. From taking 1/3 of Michael Vick's sick and abused fighters, to buying used-up Italian Greyhound breeders by the dozen at auction- They are there to take the animals that have nowhere to go. A sanctuary and a home for life. This is a very Neko-type of charity. Al you have to do is post the link or the imeem player. Bingo. $5 for Best Friends.

Punk Rock Brain Surgery- Photograph By Aaron Farley (Los Angeles)

I reckon I'd get a Mohawk too.

Aaron Farley Photography

Monty Python Puts Free HQ Videos Online; Sells 23,000% More DVDs

Ministry Of Silly Walks


Monty Python started a YouTube channel with tons of their sketches streaming for free. They included links to their DVDs at Amazon. The result was a whopping 23,000% increase in sales.

For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands.

We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.

No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing - HQ videos delivered straight from our vault.

What's more, we're taking our most viewed clips and uploading brand new HQ versions. And what's even more, we're letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there!

But we want something in return.

None of your driveling, mindless comments. Instead, we want you to click on the links, buy our movies & TV shows and soften our pain and disgust at being ripped off all these years.

GIZMODO QUOTE VERBATIM: (as much as I admire it, it's not mine).
Are you paying attention, MPAA and RIAA? A controlled release of free material keeps people from resorting to piracy and keeps them in your controlled ecosphere, which can include, yes, ways for fans to give you money. But when you're a bunch of pricks, people go to The Pirate Bay and think of you as the enemy, and then you don't get any money. Take notes, you idiots. via: gizmodo

1968 Inauguration of Nixon, And What a Year For an 8 year-old

Washington, D.C. --- 1968- Preparing for inauguration -- David Brinkley and Chet Huntley will form the anchor team when NBC News covers the inauguration of President-elect Richard M. Nixon, Mon., Jan. 20, in full color on the NBC Television Network (10 am till conclusion NYT). The special coverage will bring NBC-TV viewers all the activities and ceremonies of the inauguration during the day, as well as the inaugural ball during the evening. --- Image by © Bettmann Archives

You notice the caption reads "the inaugural ball"- Singular.

Some Habits Are Hard To Break. Obama Just Can't Give Up The Blackberry

New York Daily News

Ben "Son" Johnson Rodeo Performer, Ranch Hand, Stunt Double, Oscar Winning Actor

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"Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo preformer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California. He decided to stick around (the pay was good), and for some years was a stunt man, horse wrangler, and double for such stars as John Wayne, Gary Cooper and James Stewart. His break came when John Ford noticed him and gave him a part in an upcoming film, and eventually a star part in Wagon Master (1950). He left Hollywood in 1953 to return to rodeo, where he won a world roping championship, but at the end of the year he had barely cleared expenses. The movies paid better, and were less risky, so he returned to the west coast and a career that saw him in over 300 movies."

Ben Johnsonimdb