In commemoration of this Holiest of weeks. A song off of our 5print III Outtakes Mixtape, released last year. Performed by ipoet d/b/a sintax.the.terrific and playdough (collectively deepspace5). Music produced by Alex Goose. Today’s song blog here: [wpaudio url=”https://thefreshjunket.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/98dbc-02-rise-1.mp3″ dl=”0″ text=”Rise“]
Author: The Fresh Junket
NBA Playoff Preview 2011
Man, I love the NBA Playoffs. And, the first weekend delivered. I called the Mavericks in six back at the beginning of the year, while Caron Butler was still a functioning human. There is no way in Shaq’s calf strain they are winning the whole thing at this point. But, I’m a man of my […]
Over the Moon
I missed covering this news item a couple months back at the last launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. But, NASA’s recent announcement concerning the final resting place of its remaining space shuttles has given me occasion to address it. NASA is discontinuing its space shuttle program. Why exactly NASA has to wholesale abandon entire […]
Backyard Battle Reenactments
Tomorrow, April 12, is the sesquicentennial of the start of the Civil War. As a resident of South Carolina and having been formerly and now, again, presently employed in Charleston, the memorial seemed appropriate. The first shots of the war were fired in Charleston, on Fort Sumter, then a failing Federal stronghold in the putative […]
WE ALL GONNA DIE!!
Look, I’m horrible with my own money. Nation-state budgets are preposterously complex. Debt is a real and permissible leveraging tool for towering economies. All the same there is surely some balance. Paul Ryan (R) has proposed one such compromise. He and his confederates see this impasse as a fiscal and ideological “cause” and not simply […]
Côte d’Ivoire
The Ivory Coast has recently been engulfed in renewed violence over elections had some five months ago. The former president Laurent Gbagbo refuses to evacuate office after losing the election to the man that the international community recognizes as the legitimate winner and president, Alassane Ouattara. Ouattara’s Republican forces have seized large portions of the […]
A View
The room of a future serial killer: I was sitting on my son’s bed this weekend and became disturbed by what had been apparently accumulating on his wall over the months. Schematics are always a red flag. You can click for a more horrifying close up. I’m not sure that there will be a song […]
Hitting the Snooze
President Obama spoke yesterday regarding his goal to reduce our reliance on imported oil by a third, in the coming decade. The vision is largely predicated on increased domestic drilling and production. As anyone would concede, the concept is a stop gap. It does not, in fact, improve our ability to separate from the very […]
50 Year Emergency
Man, this one was a near miss. Some difficult personal tragedy yesterday. And then I had to travel. Wrote a bit in the car. Punched it out about 2 am. Pretty exhausted. Soft protests in Syria have led to the lifting of 50 years of emergency law, which suspended whatever normal legal “protections” existed for […]
Open Eyes
A difficult story in the first U.S. face transplant, performed on a Dallas Wiens. 25 years old and a father, Dallas lost nearly the entire topography of his face in a work related accident involving a high voltage line. The generosity of a donor has given him a miraculous shot at some semblance of human […]
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