Tuesday, November 15, 2011

White Flight/White Heat

The possibility of a 2011-2012 NBA season is growing slimmer by the day writes Ian Thomsen in Sports Illustrated as charges of a plantation governance dog commisioner David Stern. Does anybody really care? Doesn't the NBA season start on Christmas anyway? Alas, the lockout does have a discernible effect on thousands of low paid arena workers who now sit and wait in abject poverty as this  blogger/Trail Blazers usher points out.

Alleged sicko Jerry Sanduskey issued an awkward denial of the pending sexual abuse charges last night on NBC's Rock Center. So let me get this straight: Sanduskey admits to showering with ten year olds but insists nothing happened? Why are you in the shower with a ten year old? What inexplicable and  benign series of events has to occur for a 54 year old man to be showering innocently with a ten year old boy? This shit is nuts, Sanduskeys nuts, Paterno is Cardinal Bernard Law with a clipboard, and Penn State should just go back to being a backwater agricultural school.

Speaking of Rock Center, it's actually quality viewing that strikes a decent balance between gumshoe 60 Minutes style reporting and breezier fare such as post Hugh Downs 20/20. Though certainly a vanity project for talking head honcho Brian Williams, it at least tries to present important stories that are flying under the 24/7 news radar. On that note click here to watch "Harvest of Shame", the great Edward R Murrow documentary on the plight of America's farm workers.

Remember those long lazy days at Bull Moose sifting through stacks of used cd's? Well bargain tunes are not dead just yet as a Boston based company is launching a platform to sell your used digital downloads.A noble idea but not sure if it'll replace the rush of finding a copy of the Kinks Muswell Hillbillies for two bucks or the Chuck Berry Complete Chess Recordings for a measly $12.

The internet has claimed its share of victims including video stores, travel agencies, record stores, newspapers, camera stores(somewhat complicit), shoe stores(Zappos), stag mags, atlases, textbooks, the Yellow Pages, and now it's fixing it's beady little cursor on publishing houses reports copylaw.org.

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