THE JO-TEL … illegal blog downfield

Andrew Keen, discussing his new novel The Cult of the Amateur, on NPR:
Web 2.0 and the proliferation of web-based media worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer. It suggests that everyone — even the most poorly educated and inarticulate amongst us — can and should use digital media to […]

 
The thrill is gone It's gone away for good Oh, the thrill is gone baby Baby its gone away for good Someday I know I'll be over it all baby Just like I know a man should
You know I'm free, free now baby I'm free from your spell I'm free, free now I'm […]

 
Having been listening to the various Otis Redding albums that done been Pando'd recently, I've been looking into the life and times of the late, great Sultan of Soul.  Otis would've celebrated his 66th birthday last Sunday.  Unfortunately for all of us, he died in a plane crash almost 30 years ago, his body gruesomely […]

Gout-ridden Lord Lyndon on his little cart. 
 
from Barry Lyndon (d. Stanley Kubrick) 

How to prepare a turtle in five bloody steps:
The Indian braced his feet and swung [the turtle] up dripping from the river and onto the rocks and it squatted there watching them, its baleful pig's eyes blinking.  It was tied through the lower jaw with a section of wire and the Indian took hold of […]

If you are in a rush in the morning and put a small amount of syrup on a toasted Eggo waffle thinking that you can take the Waffle to go without on a plate, eat it carefully, and not spill any of the syrup, you are wrong — you will spill lots of syrup on […]

A conversation:
PATSY: I hate poetry. SHARK: What do you like more: poetry or sex up the butt? PATSY: Sex up the butt ………. if I'm drunk SHARK: What about if you're sober? PATSY: Poetry. 

I think CNN really blew the lid off of the whole concept of what sort of women men are attracted to when they dropped this bomb on the public this morning:
 
(The image is linked to the story.) 
It's just this sort of intense research featuring nearly four dozen research subjects that pushes the accomplishments of science […]