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		<title>The Forgotten Woodstock:  Seattle Pop Festival, 1969</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drive through Woodinville, Washington today, and it has the glimmer of an Eastside Seattle suburb about to be born.  With its Target, Safeway, and housing developments with names cooked up by marketing departments, Woodinville is fairly unremarkable, a place you&#8217;ve seen a million times before. A scant 20 minute drive from Seattle center, via the 520 floating bridge and up north I-405, Woodinville still retains some of its bucolic charm of yesteryear, such as the Hollywood schoolhouse, expansive fields, and roadside farmer&#8217;s stands.  One remnant of the past is an utterly uncharming white dome alongside the road. But as it turns out, this dome and the land around it are part of rock music history, what I like to call The Forgotten Woodstock. A West Coast Woodstock In 1969, a local promoter named Boyd Grafmyre had the ambitious aim of assembling 25 musical groups over three days. A large sampling of the groups and individuals that played the Seattle Pop Festival are firmly planted as rock music icons.  Others have fallen by the wayside.  The roster: Chuck Berry, Black Snake, Tim Buckley, The Byrds, Chicago Transit Authority, Albert Collins, Crome Syrcus, Bo Diddley, the Doors, Floating Bridge, The Flock, The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Octopussy, By Ian Fleming:  One of the Best Bonds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I picked up Octopussy, by Ian Fleming, sometime in the 1970s at the small-town public library where I grew up.  It was for sale, and I think cost something like ten cents. Being a young James Bond fan at the time, I was delighted to happen upon this book.  But soon after I bought it, I promptly ignored it. Now, of course I spent plenty of time examining the cover.  I wondered why anyone would have &#8220;X&#8217;d&#8221; out the cover.  I felt that the snub-nose revolver that Ian Fleming was holding was very un-Bondlike.  And where was the smoke that he was supposed to be blowing away? It wasn&#8217;t until years later that I cracked open the book.  The lead story, &#8220;Octopussy&#8221; (which is nothing like the movie), is about 50-odd paperback pages.  More a novella or long short-story than a real novel. James Bond is only barely in the story.  The main character is Dexter Smythe: The widowed Smythe lives alone in his palatial, waterfront estate in the British West Indies, spending his days spearfishing in the shallow reefs by his home.  Smythe has taken an interest in an octopus he has named Pussy.  He wants to observe Pussy&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Tea at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only had high tea a handful of times, as I&#8217;m not much of a tea-drinker.  But high tea at a grand hotel is something entirely different.  It&#8217;s not just tea or sweets; it&#8217;s a way of slowing oneself down and savoring the moment. On a Sunday, after a symphony concert at Benaroya Hall, we arrived at the at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle around 3:50 pm, not knowing what to expect, as the hotel operator had told us that high tea at the Georgian Room ended at 2:30 pm (we later found out that she was mistaken&#8211;Sunday is the only day when tea runs to 5:00 pm). As it turns out, high tea&#8211;which they call The Georgian Tea, after the room where it is served&#8211;was available. I felt a bit disappointed that we were nearly the only customers in the cavernous Georgian Room.  One table was leaving just as we arrived, but then another table showed up soon after.  Still, it would have been more convivial if the place had been more occupied (perhaps we were a bit late for tea). The Layout:  Savories and Sweets Tea choices at  The Georgian include eight teas, such as Earl Gray, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BeautifulPeople.com &#8211; Scammy Bullshit or Exclusive Community of International Hotties?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I got a marketing e-mail from a site called BeautifulPeople.com, which purports to admit only &#8220;beautiful people.&#8221; The e-mail was accompanied by a video of a quite homely guy and a handsome guy at a swimming pool.  A trio of hot women comment that Homely Guy (actor Michael J. Sielaff) turns them on for his intellect and other interior qualities.  They are disgusted by the hot guy because he looks like a douche.  The video supposedly makes some kind of point, like:  Hey, don&#8217;t deny the fact that looks matter. BeautifulPeople.com says, &#8220;To become a member, applicants are required to be voted in by existing members of the opposite sex. Members rate new applicants over a 48 hour period based on whether or not they find the applicant ‘beautiful’.&#8221; My radar told me that it wasn&#8217;t truly an exclusive community.  This exclusivity it claims is a marketing pitch.  After all, we all want to be in rarified ranks, don&#8217;t we?  And when we&#8217;re admitted to such an exclusive group, we naturally feel more willing to&#8230;pay the steep monthly fees for the ability to network and date. In fact, the site intentionally whips up controversy.  One executive says, &#8220;We receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Years and Years of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics, Free and Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 17:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all their glorious beauty, well over a century of Popular Science and Popular Mechanics covers.  And all the pages following the covers, too. It always seemed like the covers were the main thing&#8211;blimps, subs, nuclear-powered trains, rotating houses, and all sorts of wonders that we would soon experience. Truly, these things make me wish that I will get the flu, have a strong Internet connection, and a crisp &#38; large screen suitable for looking at these gorgeous magazines.  I could get lost in them.]]></description>
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		<title>1:1 Scale VW Camper Van Tent Keeps You Dry and Groovy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 20:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to make all the other kids jealous at the next summer music festival?  Ditch your Coleman Elite for something far cooler&#8211;a tent modeled in the shape and size of a 1965 VW Camper van (Microbus*). This tent is officially licensed (whew &#8211; I was worried about that) and has doors on the side where a VW van&#8217;s real doors are located.  At 182 cm high, this tent has full standup-ability for four people. Looks like this tent won&#8217;t be available for this summer, though, as it won&#8217;t ship until August 2011.  As a point of comparison, here is a real 1965 VW Microbus. Best of all is the ad&#8217;s disclaimer at the end:  &#8220;This product is NOT an actual VW van!&#8221; * NOTE I know it&#8217;s called a Microbus, because in the authoritative words of C.W. McCall&#8217;s &#8220;Convoy&#8221; (1975): Well, we shot the line, we went for broke With a thousand screamin&#8217; trucks And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus In a chartreuse microbus Article References Firebox.com.  VW Camper Van Tent. VW-Samba.co.uk YouTube.com.  C.W. McCall &#8220;Convoy&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Male Celebrities Who Are So Obviously Gay But Are Not Really Gay</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2011/03/male-celebrities-who-are-so-obviously-gay-but-are-not-really-gay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever notice there is a class of male actors who seem so gay, but really aren&#8217;t? Hugh Jackman John Hurt Jonathan Harris, from Lost in Space Tony Randall The Will and Grace guy Paul Shaffer Dom De Luise Jude Law David Spade Gene Kelly Henry Gibson]]></description>
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		<title>Fred Holland Day:  Photographer, Aesthete, Trust-Fund Child, Pleasure-Seeker, Eccentric</title>
		<link>http://www.InvisibleThemepark.com/2010/07/fred-holland-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last June, after Sebastian Horsley died in Soho at the age of 47 from a heroin overdose, I began thinking about this genre of rich wastrel louches. We in the white, waking world are fascinated by stories of Edies and Huntington Hartfords who have it all and waste it all. Of Horsley, The Guardian put it best: Despite his louche self-destruction&#8211;Horsley attempted his own crucifixion in 2000 in the Philippines&#8211;for the past two years he had got up at 7 am to plough up and down the local swimming pool. &#8230;A quote that, to this day, makes me laugh:  &#8220;Oh, and by the way, he attempted a self-crucifixion.  But!  Now about his swimming routine!&#8221; I was struck by the similarities between him and someone else, another rich-boy aesthete with queer artistic tendencies:  Fred Holland Day. I first became acquainted with Fred Holland Day&#8217;s photography on a hot day in East Africa&#8211;Kisumu, right on the fetid, humid shores of Lake Victoria&#8211;in the British Council Library.  The British Council was a quiet, blessed island of relief from the bush. Paging through a retrospective of early 20th century photographers, my jaw dropped when I first saw F. Holland Day&#8217;s crucifixion series, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Miéville:  &#8220;The Scar&#8221; Opened the Top of My Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first encountered China Miéville via his stunning third novel, The Scar. What I find amazing about this interview with Miéville about his latest novel, Kraken, in The Onion&#8217;s AV Club is that The Scar isn&#8217;t mentioned at all.  Yet so many of the commenters echo my amazement with The Scar. Words like &#8220;stunning&#8221; are cheap and too easy to toss out.  But even then, around 2002 when the novel was published, I was in my late thirties and had tons and tons of books under my belt (as a reader), and you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d be sufficiently world-weary. But I hadn&#8217;t been there, done that&#8211;to use a phrase popular around the turn of the millennium&#8211;enough to be fully prepared for Miéville&#8217;s dark, twisted, baroque worlds of Bas-Lag and New Crobuzon in The Scar and Perdido Street Station.]]></description>
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		<title>The Oozing Sublimity of Zuckerberg&#8217;s Flop Sweat and Hoodie Removal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot get this out of my head.  I had heard about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breaking out in a huge, visible sweat when Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal asked him about privacy problems that Facebook has brought onto its users recently. Mossberg and Swisher, I should mention, did not grill Zuckerberg.  They were simply asking questions.  Yet Zuckerberg was still unable to control himself. He repeatedly says that he&#8217;s okay, and that he will not remove his famed hoodie (he supposedly never removes it).  Finally, Mossberg, as mild-mannered as ever, just says this: Mossberg:  Can you explain this personalization thing you did and why you did it and what&#8217;s the value of it to your users. Zuckerberg:  Maybe I should take off the hoodie. Swisher:  Take off the hoodie. Then about a minute of futzing while Zuckerberg removes the hoodie, complicated by the lapel mic and wires.  Mossberg and Swisher even help him with the removal. Wait, wait.  As if that&#8217;s not sublime enough, after the hoodie is off, Swisher notices a mysterious symbol on the inside-back: Swisher reads some of the words, and then: Swisher:  &#8230;this weird symbol in the middle that is [...]]]></description>
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