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Twitter posts -- reverse chronological order, October 11 - June 30, 2012
i said the term "climate change" is wishy washy so why do you want to follow me 501c3 no-brain twitbot - BLOCKED - i need another hiatus 11 Oct
"climate change" is wishy washy but so is "global warming" - richard stallman's term is "global heating" 11 Oct
woman on subway platform talking to "the voices" rather than unseen phone companion 9 Oct
it's taken almost 3 decades but Tim Burton finally has the directorial clout to make Frankenweenie into a feature-length movie 5 Oct
googled "dog rear wheelchair" for a visual approximation of the angry cur I encountered yesterday 5 Oct
a poodle with hind legs strapped to wheels barked at me on 55th Street today 4 Oct
Facebook passes 1B active users, says its publicity department - clicking a like button counts as one "active use" but never mind that 4 Oct
Kristof: “I hope Obama is looking distracted because a team of Navy Seals is taking out Zawahiri right now." Lambert: "Ha ha, teh funny" 4 Oct
cloud atlas prereview: interesting novel of self-conscious poMo discontinuity wrecked by sentimental Hollywood need to find "connections" 3 Oct
space opera isn't written in a vacuum (iain m. banks) 3 Oct
Giorgio moroder impersonator for hipsters' kids' birthday parties [idea stolen from @willsimpson] 2 Oct
whom the gods would destroy they first make curmudgeonly 2 Oct
news headlines on comcast's sign-in page kill brain cells: "bristol palin's bad night," "diseases prevented by coffee," etc #owner_of_nbc 2 Oct
Guardian: "After Fox News apologised for its error, the Buzzfeed website posted a clip of the [car chase suicide] on its website" #new_media 29 Sep
when ryder ripps said "philosophy is retarded" he meant "philosophy is retardataire" #universal_rhizome_translator 28 Sep
"ain't" and "be" agree with all subjects, including "I" and "y'all," which gets around not having a contraction "amn't" 28 Sep
a show called pro-am had better have some dirty pictures - lots of them - it should be mostly porn 27 Sep
there's the amateur that gets into professional net art shows and there's the amateur that scares the crap out of people 27 Sep
J. Vernon Shea's atmospheric The Haunter of the Graveyard has the reader yelling at the tv horror host to "stay out of that cemetery" 22 Sep
James Wade's The Deep Ones is dated, w/ references to Lilly & dolphins, hippies & LSD, but nevertheless a twisted tale of man-fish congress 22 Sep
Brian Lumley's "Cement Surroundings" and "The Sister City" describe Old One activity under the Yorkshire Moors, evil & benign, respectively 22 Sep
reading the four stories dropped from August Derleth's Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos anthology when James Turner revised it in '90 22 Sep
mitt romney left a message on my phone! the man who came on afterwards said obama was raising more money 22 Sep
these recent AFC posts reducing art to politics force commenters to awkwardly declare their bona fides @MXEXSXH 20 Sep
Jeremy Bailey's rambling monologue preceding his Lil Wayne animation has "a genuine and apolitical affinity" for cringe comedy 20 Sep
Jennifer Chan's AFC piece on hiphop doesn't discuss music at all: "hiphop" is synonymous with words, images. and lifestyle 20 Sep
Pruitt + Early's 1992 "racist" work wasn't met with bad reviews so much as stony, career-killing silence from the liberal arterati 20 Sep
freestyling poorly over a long-winded and pretentious art animation could show "a genuine and apolitical affinity for hip hop" & still suck 20 Sep
"the best net artists don't call themselves that and the ones who do mostly suck as artists" --bryce poser, 2012 17 Sep
condolences to @glasspopcorn for a shallow critique that should have been aimed at Ryan Trecartin 16 Sep
the sociology of hiphop in the microcephalic world of emerging net art 16 Sep
scientists discover a new species of monkey that the Congolese have known about for years #first_world_news 15 Sep
boy-eating-fresh-boiled-corn-isolated-over-white-background.jpg 15 Sep
Obama also has set his definition for "middle class" as families with income of up to $250,000 a year (AP) 14 Sep
cops out enjoying zucotti park tonight outnumbered civilians 4 to 1: sure hope they aren't being paid 14 Sep
forest ranger refers to what he calls The Disney Effect, by which he means people attempting to pet vicious grizzly bears (NYT via b. flynn) 14 Sep
the US' favorite mercenary army has changed its name again, from Blackwater to Xe to Academi - the sleaze can be traced in that evolution 14 Sep
you fade out of a hall-passing smile by touching your forehead in a mock-salute accompanied by a brief head duck 12 Sep
Trike Feat. Audiomat, "Electric Day," "Slow and Low" (Intl DJ Gigolo, 2000) #vinyl 12 Sep
success is making the world a demonstrably worse place and then being asked to recommend five books (karl rove in salon) 10 Sep
ah, i see at Vvork the clock is still stopped at 1968: http://www.vvork.com/?p=25276 8 Sep
DFW litmus: david foster wallace or dallas-fort worth 7 Sep
Sarah Oppenheimer at P·P·O·W http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2012/09/06/sarah-oppenheimer/ 6 Sep
your experience of the web WILL be like smooth jazz even if they have to beat you to death with kenny G's sax @WIZARDISHUNGRY 5 Sep
we're supposed to believe that Conde not micromanaging Reddit is by design rather than just neglect or incomprehension 4 Sep
just learned (from the NYT) that Conde Nast's parent co. Advance Publications owns Reddit 4 Sep
the wachowskis were notoriously publicity-shy...until this week's 5000 word fluffy-puffed marshmallow in the New Yorker 3 Sep
Dark Shadows and Total Recall failed at the box office - *whistles happy tune* 3 Sep
review by @mashedpo of Road House, starring julian's idol patrick swayze http://mashedpo.tumblr.com/post/30666970634/roadhouse 2 Sep
this man who wrecked his own family and gets rich from degenerate gamblers is a major backer of the "moral" mitt romney 1 Sep
adelson cheated both sons by buying their company stock and then selling the company for a much higher stock price 1 Sep
adelson's heroin addict sons: depending on the source (i) one died (overdose or suicide?) (ii) one or both were estranged from dad 1 Sep
adelson's first wife: depending on the source (i) a suicide and/or he divorced her (ii) he became a widower after her terminal illness 1 Sep
"klingon hair flippers coming within range, sir" "sensory shields up" http://bit.ly/NRKUW0 -- hat tip @mashedpo 31 Aug
because i bughunted network awesome some dude who is starting some kind of facebook-parasitic "flick service" thinks I give a crap 30 Aug
@NetworkAwesome after 14 minutes this film goes to "private" http://networkawesome.com/2012-8-25/movie-who-aka-robo-man-1973 … :( 29 Aug
dear fellini's ghost, La Dolce Vita is a great movie but 8 1/2 is a self-indulgent rehash, with a pointlessly maudlin ending 29 Aug
dear fellini's ghost, endless starkly-lit closeups of strange-looking people is not surrealist 29 Aug
bryce wolkowitz @lindsay_howard @Nullsleep - "partially digital" gallery where Caitlin Jones worked 28 Aug
"polaroid spectra system SE" and "wmd gamma wave source" @Nullsleep 27 Aug
if the XP shutdown sound's four notes are from Liz Story's "Wedding Rain" let's hope Microsoft paid her handsomely @WIZARDISHUNGRY 27 Aug
us bleeding edge constituents of the cv/gate revival now have a modular synth shop in the NY metro area http://www.ctrl-mod.com/aboutus.asp 27 Aug
i wasn't talkin shit in the 8 Bit documentary but happy to meet @Nullsleep on the neutral ground of analog modular synthesis 27 Aug
news media sprayed facts in all directions as the story changed from "terrorist shootout" to "shitty boss payback / suicide by cop" 27 Aug
young rapper torn apart by seapunk twitter blockage 26 Aug
all mr. market wants to know is if it will get free money from bernanke in this supposed ayn rand-ian, life's-tough capitalist system 25 Aug
mayor stresses that innocents shot in today's midtown police gun freakout are merely wounded 24 Aug
so many websites slo-o-owly load facebook crap for the eventual counting of your presence as a hit for zuck and his failing team 22 Aug
NASA Curiosity Rover disturbed the ancient soil of Mars with wheelies, donuts, spilled motor oil and other parking lot customs 22 Aug
AP: "The NASA rover Curiosity made its first test drive Wednesday on ancient soil of Mars" - ah, the soil, the good earth, etc 22 Aug
the exiled was even more blunt: "it's hard to feel sorry for the fucker responsible for Top Gun" 21 Aug
sorry to be so mean about tony scott but his body of work is a net cultural negative 21 Aug
tony scott's final note: "i have a lot to answer for but feel especially bad about Crimson Tide" 21 Aug
a lifetime of directorial mediocrity, then suicide - the only thing missing is the exciting over the shoulder POV shot of the final plunge 21 Aug
instead of "entitlements" how about "social fairness programs" or "catch a break" programs 21 Aug
Rounders is a movie about a man learning to deal with his nemesis (played by Gretchen Mol; Malkovich was the least of Matt Damon's problems) 20 Aug
hug wars not drug wars 19 Aug
just aggrochillin' 19 Aug
david cronenberg's descent from visionary to craftsman is awful to behold 18 Aug
developer quoted in NYT thinks twitter will thrive - and increase market cap - as "stewards of the open nervous system of the planet" 18 Aug
men of all ages, nice ankle socks! we needed to see more leg but understand that you don't want chafing 16 Aug
rediscovered old michael nyman record, The Kiss, 1985, released before he became a famous film composer 15 aug
twitter is nudging me to "complete my profile page" - they want more data about me so they can sell me stuff - OK - age 999 city shamanville 15 aug
twitter co-owner plans to tear down his historic SF home to replace it with a "green home" 15 aug
bow wow wow's "i want candy" used in verizon cell phone network commercial 9 Aug
apparently the press has decided to treat the taking quotes out of context strategy as just too complicated or intriguingly tactical 9 Aug
painter who switched to pixer @Emilie_Gervais but some prefer "internet provocateur" 8 Aug
gifboom makes videos but calls them gifs; cinemagram makes gifs but calls them cinema 8 Aug
donald wandrei once wrote about a "solid teleporter" who said "i'm going to the bank" and created a person-shaped hole several blocks long 8 Aug
"i'll pass on the flavored oxygen, thanks" 8 Aug
hey twitter please fix the ampersands in my archived tweets - if you don't i'll - i'll - stop reading the promos 8 Aug
some reporters followed sheldon adelson's slug trail from Vegas across the Utah border & right up the steps of the mormon tabernacle. #mitt 8 Aug
america deserves a president backed by a powerful casino magnate who isn't a co-religionist but relishes fanaticism in all its forms 5 Aug
taking a quote out of context and pounding it relentlessly on the campaign trail is a technique endorsed by the church elders 5 Aug
USA is about 1 step away from societies with honor-killings & acid throwing with these celebrity headlines about "cheating" & "tramps" 5 Aug
congratulations to @glasspopcorn for moving up from "ryder ripps project" to "mini-ryder ripps" - soon you will be him, then you 5 Aug
if i was going to re-score surveillance footage of an extra-judicial murder i'd probably want to use carl stalling or spike jones 2 Aug
chris marker http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2012/08/01/chris-marker/ … / more chris marker http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2012/08/02/chris-marker-2/ 2 Aug
a culture fit is just as important as a technical fit when inserting exotic objects; let us be your rubber gloves [promoted] 1 Aug
when twitter first started it was for stuff like poetry not some omnidirectional form of email to incorporate "social" into your crap biz 1 Aug
The Watch is easily the equal of Abbott and Costello... in scenes where the characters stare in disbelief from behind shrubbery (ebert) 28 Jul
Slate's liberal arguments for conservative positions seem scientifically designed to rile readers sufficiently to share angry tweets (J.S.) 28 Jul
jeff sparrow distinguishes cockburn from hitchens and other "trolumnists" because cockburn actually cared about what he was writing 28 Jul
alexander cockburn's death means the fog of delerium we live in just got incrementally thicker - we needed that voice 28 Jul
will self: for us Empire of the Sun was the map we'd been waiting for; for others it was just a story of a boy in an internment camp 27 Jul
"ya'll take a listen - you'll hear a deep sound coming down from Bobby Peru" 26 Jul
prereview: hollywood's cloud atlas will confuse clever writerly connections with "connection" in the sense of new-age spiritual bonds 26 Jul
Chris Brogan: text-and-pic memes convey emotion; emotion is good; this is the new web. This was right after the lobotomy. 26 Jul
chris brogan's "junkweb" and james bridle's "new aesthetic" could have a diet-coke-and-mentos-like synergy of glib prognosticating 26 Jul
for trailer park boys fans http://dump.fm/images/20120726/1343277969375-dumpfm-tommoody-tom_moody_philcollinsbest.gif 26 Jul
chipotle was playing some dub thing with horns - pretty good - spring reverb forever 24 Jul
"we have ways of making you talk with pictures" 22 Jul
"dueling with media theorists twice his age": "have at you!" "you are blocked, sir" 22 Jul
am using seamonkey composer to clone old "homepage" pages originally made in netscape composer #nerd 22 Jul
dear diary, these constant promoted tweets in my timeline are destroying my will to live but capitalism is still the best system 21 Jul
distributed culture is fine in theory, what's maybe not so good is balkanization resulting from thousands of failed tries to own the net 19 Jul
40 Over 40 - not hot, not sexy, these formidable dons rule the art world with ancient connections and prideful determination 19 Jul
"coding insights with michael manning & tom moody" could work if we take turns saying aargh and using block capitals 18 Jul
we are boring @PerMertens, @mirrrroring but since my Flash plugin plays GIFbooms I'll call it Flashboom rather than MP4boom 18 Jul
Any Web Tool Can Be Used or Repurposed into an Elite or Popular Medium but some are still more odious than others 18 Jul
there's some disagreement about the cause or consistency of a 1-second pause in gifboom or Flashboom gifs http://gifboom.com/x/c6c617d6 18 Jul
recently learned that gifboom gifs are hidden behind an Adobe flash facade so you can't easily right-click and save them - Flashboom! 18 Jul
my recent image that wasn't mine and wasn't recent finally disappeared 15 Jul
for what does it profit a dude to gain 1K+ followers and become an asshole 14 Jul
i came up with an algorithm to imitate Chuck Close; he told me to stop and my whining made me world famous 14 Jul
my wilderness report of living outside facebook, day 2200. another has joined me; i call him Friday but he insists his name is Man 14 Jul
“No one can make you successful, the will to succeed comes from within, like an alien bursting out of your stomach" [promoted] 14 Jul
i'm a searcher like bodhi (minus murder, kidnapping, robbery, surfing, and patrick swayze) 13 Jul
we advise our clients not to use irony in any of the four spheres of social media engagement because it "screws the pooch" interactionwise 11 Jul
another henry cow-ish Sunaba performance from 1990 surfaced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP26DdDyqhg 8 Jul
discovered more of those "Kornhaber Brown for PBS" shows covering 6 year old trends in a way that makes you want to jump from a bldg 8 Jul
my indie haircut does not have blue streaks, that's just the instagram filter 8 Jul
ya I made some mistakes and trashed some reputations but hey, I thought it was a good read and the real problem is your negativity 8 Jul
"but enough about me, what did *you* think of my show?" 6 Jul
Raging Bull II: The Beatening 6 Jul
your problem is you haven't unleashed your florida side 6 Jul
higgs bosun - the "third mate" particle 4 Jul
100 yrs ago business wanted waves of immigrants (cheap labor) & started a campaign to "americanize" them, undermining u.s. unions 4 Jul
origins of "4th of July" as anti-labor propaganda http://exiledonline.com/yves-smith-the-hidden-history-of-the-independence-day-holiday/ 4 Jul
higgs boson discovered in old copy of Quark 4 Jul
questions re: AFC story on new Rhizome director: http://www.artfagcity.com/2012/07/03/breaking-heather-corcoran-appointed-executive-director-of-rhizome/ 4 Jul
didn't realize i was the leading edge of a CV/gate revival 2 Jul
3 Questions Corporate Marketers Must Ask When Managing Social in Distributed Networks 1. what is social 2. is god good 3. click for pizza 1 Jul
actual wikipedia editor to use as a model for @Hypothete's proposed "wikipedia editor" halloween costume http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/JEon3003.jpg 30 Jun
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Twitter posts -- reverse chronological order, October 11 - June 30, 2012
i said the term "climate change" is wishy washy so why do you want to follow me 501c3 no-brain twitbot - BLOCKED - i need another hiatus 11 Oct
"climate change" is wishy washy but so is "global warming" - richard stallman's term is "global heating" 11 Oct
woman on subway platform talking to "the voices" rather than unseen phone companion 9 Oct
it's taken almost 3 decades but Tim Burton finally has the directorial clout to make Frankenweenie into a feature-length movie 5 Oct
googled "dog rear wheelchair" for a visual approximation of the angry cur I encountered yesterday 5 Oct
a poodle with hind legs strapped to wheels barked at me on 55th Street today 4 Oct
Facebook passes 1B active users, says its publicity department - clicking a like button counts as one "active use" but never mind that 4 Oct
Kristof: “I hope Obama is looking distracted because a team of Navy Seals is taking out Zawahiri right now." Lambert: "Ha ha, teh funny" 4 Oct
cloud atlas prereview: interesting novel of self-conscious poMo discontinuity wrecked by sentimental Hollywood need to find "connections" 3 Oct
space opera isn't written in a vacuum (iain m. banks) 3 Oct
Giorgio moroder impersonator for hipsters' kids' birthday parties [idea stolen from @willsimpson] 2 Oct
whom the gods would destroy they first make curmudgeonly 2 Oct
news headlines on comcast's sign-in page kill brain cells: "bristol palin's bad night," "diseases prevented by coffee," etc #owner_of_nbc 2 Oct
Guardian: "After Fox News apologised for its error, the Buzzfeed website posted a clip of the [car chase suicide] on its website" #new_media 29 Sep
when ryder ripps said "philosophy is retarded" he meant "philosophy is retardataire" #universal_rhizome_translator 28 Sep
"ain't" and "be" agree with all subjects, including "I" and "y'all," which gets around not having a contraction "amn't" 28 Sep
a show called pro-am had better have some dirty pictures - lots of them - it should be mostly porn 27 Sep
there's the amateur that gets into professional net art shows and there's the amateur that scares the crap out of people 27 Sep
J. Vernon Shea's atmospheric The Haunter of the Graveyard has the reader yelling at the tv horror host to "stay out of that cemetery" 22 Sep
James Wade's The Deep Ones is dated, w/ references to Lilly & dolphins, hippies & LSD, but nevertheless a twisted tale of man-fish congress 22 Sep
Brian Lumley's "Cement Surroundings" and "The Sister City" describe Old One activity under the Yorkshire Moors, evil & benign, respectively 22 Sep
reading the four stories dropped from August Derleth's Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos anthology when James Turner revised it in '90 22 Sep
mitt romney left a message on my phone! the man who came on afterwards said obama was raising more money 22 Sep
these recent AFC posts reducing art to politics force commenters to awkwardly declare their bona fides @MXEXSXH 20 Sep
Jeremy Bailey's rambling monologue preceding his Lil Wayne animation has "a genuine and apolitical affinity" for cringe comedy 20 Sep
Jennifer Chan's AFC piece on hiphop doesn't discuss music at all: "hiphop" is synonymous with words, images. and lifestyle 20 Sep
Pruitt + Early's 1992 "racist" work wasn't met with bad reviews so much as stony, career-killing silence from the liberal arterati 20 Sep
freestyling poorly over a long-winded and pretentious art animation could show "a genuine and apolitical affinity for hip hop" & still suck 20 Sep
"the best net artists don't call themselves that and the ones who do mostly suck as artists" --bryce poser, 2012 17 Sep
condolences to @glasspopcorn for a shallow critique that should have been aimed at Ryan Trecartin 16 Sep
the sociology of hiphop in the microcephalic world of emerging net art 16 Sep
scientists discover a new species of monkey that the Congolese have known about for years #first_world_news 15 Sep
boy-eating-fresh-boiled-corn-isolated-over-white-background.jpg 15 Sep
Obama also has set his definition for "middle class" as families with income of up to $250,000 a year (AP) 14 Sep
cops out enjoying zucotti park tonight outnumbered civilians 4 to 1: sure hope they aren't being paid 14 Sep
forest ranger refers to what he calls The Disney Effect, by which he means people attempting to pet vicious grizzly bears (NYT via b. flynn) 14 Sep
the US' favorite mercenary army has changed its name again, from Blackwater to Xe to Academi - the sleaze can be traced in that evolution 14 Sep
you fade out of a hall-passing smile by touching your forehead in a mock-salute accompanied by a brief head duck 12 Sep
Trike Feat. Audiomat, "Electric Day," "Slow and Low" (Intl DJ Gigolo, 2000) #vinyl 12 Sep
success is making the world a demonstrably worse place and then being asked to recommend five books (karl rove in salon) 10 Sep
ah, i see at Vvork the clock is still stopped at 1968: http://www.vvork.com/?p=25276 8 Sep
DFW litmus: david foster wallace or dallas-fort worth 7 Sep
Sarah Oppenheimer at P·P·O·W http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2012/09/06/sarah-oppenheimer/ 6 Sep
your experience of the web WILL be like smooth jazz even if they have to beat you to death with kenny G's sax @WIZARDISHUNGRY 5 Sep
we're supposed to believe that Conde not micromanaging Reddit is by design rather than just neglect or incomprehension 4 Sep
just learned (from the NYT) that Conde Nast's parent co. Advance Publications owns Reddit 4 Sep
the wachowskis were notoriously publicity-shy...until this week's 5000 word fluffy-puffed marshmallow in the New Yorker 3 Sep
Dark Shadows and Total Recall failed at the box office - *whistles happy tune* 3 Sep
review by @mashedpo of Road House, starring julian's idol patrick swayze http://mashedpo.tumblr.com/post/30666970634/roadhouse 2 Sep
this man who wrecked his own family and gets rich from degenerate gamblers is a major backer of the "moral" mitt romney 1 Sep
adelson cheated both sons by buying their company stock and then selling the company for a much higher stock price 1 Sep
adelson's heroin addict sons: depending on the source (i) one died (overdose or suicide?) (ii) one or both were estranged from dad 1 Sep
adelson's first wife: depending on the source (i) a suicide and/or he divorced her (ii) he became a widower after her terminal illness 1 Sep
"klingon hair flippers coming within range, sir" "sensory shields up" http://bit.ly/NRKUW0 -- hat tip @mashedpo 31 Aug
because i bughunted network awesome some dude who is starting some kind of facebook-parasitic "flick service" thinks I give a crap 30 Aug
@NetworkAwesome after 14 minutes this film goes to "private" http://networkawesome.com/2012-8-25/movie-who-aka-robo-man-1973 … :( 29 Aug
dear fellini's ghost, La Dolce Vita is a great movie but 8 1/2 is a self-indulgent rehash, with a pointlessly maudlin ending 29 Aug
dear fellini's ghost, endless starkly-lit closeups of strange-looking people is not surrealist 29 Aug
bryce wolkowitz @lindsay_howard @Nullsleep - "partially digital" gallery where Caitlin Jones worked 28 Aug
"polaroid spectra system SE" and "wmd gamma wave source" @Nullsleep 27 Aug
if the XP shutdown sound's four notes are from Liz Story's "Wedding Rain" let's hope Microsoft paid her handsomely @WIZARDISHUNGRY 27 Aug
us bleeding edge constituents of the cv/gate revival now have a modular synth shop in the NY metro area http://www.ctrl-mod.com/aboutus.asp 27 Aug
i wasn't talkin shit in the 8 Bit documentary but happy to meet @Nullsleep on the neutral ground of analog modular synthesis 27 Aug
news media sprayed facts in all directions as the story changed from "terrorist shootout" to "shitty boss payback / suicide by cop" 27 Aug
young rapper torn apart by seapunk twitter blockage 26 Aug
all mr. market wants to know is if it will get free money from bernanke in this supposed ayn rand-ian, life's-tough capitalist system 25 Aug
mayor stresses that innocents shot in today's midtown police gun freakout are merely wounded 24 Aug
so many websites slo-o-owly load facebook crap for the eventual counting of your presence as a hit for zuck and his failing team 22 Aug
NASA Curiosity Rover disturbed the ancient soil of Mars with wheelies, donuts, spilled motor oil and other parking lot customs 22 Aug
AP: "The NASA rover Curiosity made its first test drive Wednesday on ancient soil of Mars" - ah, the soil, the good earth, etc 22 Aug
the exiled was even more blunt: "it's hard to feel sorry for the fucker responsible for Top Gun" 21 Aug
sorry to be so mean about tony scott but his body of work is a net cultural negative 21 Aug
tony scott's final note: "i have a lot to answer for but feel especially bad about Crimson Tide" 21 Aug
a lifetime of directorial mediocrity, then suicide - the only thing missing is the exciting over the shoulder POV shot of the final plunge 21 Aug
instead of "entitlements" how about "social fairness programs" or "catch a break" programs 21 Aug
Rounders is a movie about a man learning to deal with his nemesis (played by Gretchen Mol; Malkovich was the least of Matt Damon's problems) 20 Aug
hug wars not drug wars 19 Aug
just aggrochillin' 19 Aug
david cronenberg's descent from visionary to craftsman is awful to behold 18 Aug
developer quoted in NYT thinks twitter will thrive - and increase market cap - as "stewards of the open nervous system of the planet" 18 Aug
men of all ages, nice ankle socks! we needed to see more leg but understand that you don't want chafing 16 Aug
rediscovered old michael nyman record, The Kiss, 1985, released before he became a famous film composer 15 aug
twitter is nudging me to "complete my profile page" - they want more data about me so they can sell me stuff - OK - age 999 city shamanville 15 aug
twitter co-owner plans to tear down his historic SF home to replace it with a "green home" 15 aug
bow wow wow's "i want candy" used in verizon cell phone network commercial 9 Aug
apparently the press has decided to treat the taking quotes out of context strategy as just too complicated or intriguingly tactical 9 Aug
painter who switched to pixer @Emilie_Gervais but some prefer "internet provocateur" 8 Aug
gifboom makes videos but calls them gifs; cinemagram makes gifs but calls them cinema 8 Aug
donald wandrei once wrote about a "solid teleporter" who said "i'm going to the bank" and created a person-shaped hole several blocks long 8 Aug
"i'll pass on the flavored oxygen, thanks" 8 Aug
hey twitter please fix the ampersands in my archived tweets - if you don't i'll - i'll - stop reading the promos 8 Aug
some reporters followed sheldon adelson's slug trail from Vegas across the Utah border & right up the steps of the mormon tabernacle. #mitt 8 Aug
america deserves a president backed by a powerful casino magnate who isn't a co-religionist but relishes fanaticism in all its forms 5 Aug
taking a quote out of context and pounding it relentlessly on the campaign trail is a technique endorsed by the church elders 5 Aug
USA is about 1 step away from societies with honor-killings & acid throwing with these celebrity headlines about "cheating" & "tramps" 5 Aug
congratulations to @glasspopcorn for moving up from "ryder ripps project" to "mini-ryder ripps" - soon you will be him, then you 5 Aug
if i was going to re-score surveillance footage of an extra-judicial murder i'd probably want to use carl stalling or spike jones 2 Aug
chris marker http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2012/08/01/chris-marker/ … / more chris marker http://www.tommoody.us/archives/2012/08/02/chris-marker-2/ 2 Aug
a culture fit is just as important as a technical fit when inserting exotic objects; let us be your rubber gloves [promoted] 1 Aug
when twitter first started it was for stuff like poetry not some omnidirectional form of email to incorporate "social" into your crap biz 1 Aug
The Watch is easily the equal of Abbott and Costello... in scenes where the characters stare in disbelief from behind shrubbery (ebert) 28 Jul
Slate's liberal arguments for conservative positions seem scientifically designed to rile readers sufficiently to share angry tweets (J.S.) 28 Jul
jeff sparrow distinguishes cockburn from hitchens and other "trolumnists" because cockburn actually cared about what he was writing 28 Jul
alexander cockburn's death means the fog of delerium we live in just got incrementally thicker - we needed that voice 28 Jul
will self: for us Empire of the Sun was the map we'd been waiting for; for others it was just a story of a boy in an internment camp 27 Jul
"ya'll take a listen - you'll hear a deep sound coming down from Bobby Peru" 26 Jul
prereview: hollywood's cloud atlas will confuse clever writerly connections with "connection" in the sense of new-age spiritual bonds 26 Jul
Chris Brogan: text-and-pic memes convey emotion; emotion is good; this is the new web. This was right after the lobotomy. 26 Jul
chris brogan's "junkweb" and james bridle's "new aesthetic" could have a diet-coke-and-mentos-like synergy of glib prognosticating 26 Jul
for trailer park boys fans http://dump.fm/images/20120726/1343277969375-dumpfm-tommoody-tom_moody_philcollinsbest.gif 26 Jul
chipotle was playing some dub thing with horns - pretty good - spring reverb forever 24 Jul
"we have ways of making you talk with pictures" 22 Jul
"dueling with media theorists twice his age": "have at you!" "you are blocked, sir" 22 Jul
am using seamonkey composer to clone old "homepage" pages originally made in netscape composer #nerd 22 Jul
dear diary, these constant promoted tweets in my timeline are destroying my will to live but capitalism is still the best system 21 Jul
distributed culture is fine in theory, what's maybe not so good is balkanization resulting from thousands of failed tries to own the net 19 Jul
40 Over 40 - not hot, not sexy, these formidable dons rule the art world with ancient connections and prideful determination 19 Jul
"coding insights with michael manning & tom moody" could work if we take turns saying aargh and using block capitals 18 Jul
we are boring @PerMertens, @mirrrroring but since my Flash plugin plays GIFbooms I'll call it Flashboom rather than MP4boom 18 Jul
Any Web Tool Can Be Used or Repurposed into an Elite or Popular Medium but some are still more odious than others 18 Jul
there's some disagreement about the cause or consistency of a 1-second pause in gifboom or Flashboom gifs http://gifboom.com/x/c6c617d6 18 Jul
recently learned that gifboom gifs are hidden behind an Adobe flash facade so you can't easily right-click and save them - Flashboom! 18 Jul
my recent image that wasn't mine and wasn't recent finally disappeared 15 Jul
for what does it profit a dude to gain 1K+ followers and become an asshole 14 Jul
i came up with an algorithm to imitate Chuck Close; he told me to stop and my whining made me world famous 14 Jul
my wilderness report of living outside facebook, day 2200. another has joined me; i call him Friday but he insists his name is Man 14 Jul
“No one can make you successful, the will to succeed comes from within, like an alien bursting out of your stomach" [promoted] 14 Jul
i'm a searcher like bodhi (minus murder, kidnapping, robbery, surfing, and patrick swayze) 13 Jul
we advise our clients not to use irony in any of the four spheres of social media engagement because it "screws the pooch" interactionwise 11 Jul
another henry cow-ish Sunaba performance from 1990 surfaced: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP26DdDyqhg 8 Jul
discovered more of those "Kornhaber Brown for PBS" shows covering 6 year old trends in a way that makes you want to jump from a bldg 8 Jul
my indie haircut does not have blue streaks, that's just the instagram filter 8 Jul
ya I made some mistakes and trashed some reputations but hey, I thought it was a good read and the real problem is your negativity 8 Jul
"but enough about me, what did *you* think of my show?" 6 Jul
Raging Bull II: The Beatening 6 Jul
your problem is you haven't unleashed your florida side 6 Jul
higgs bosun - the "third mate" particle 4 Jul
100 yrs ago business wanted waves of immigrants (cheap labor) & started a campaign to "americanize" them, undermining u.s. unions 4 Jul
origins of "4th of July" as anti-labor propaganda http://exiledonline.com/yves-smith-the-hidden-history-of-the-independence-day-holiday/ 4 Jul
higgs boson discovered in old copy of Quark 4 Jul
questions re: AFC story on new Rhizome director: http://www.artfagcity.com/2012/07/03/breaking-heather-corcoran-appointed-executive-director-of-rhizome/ 4 Jul
didn't realize i was the leading edge of a CV/gate revival 2 Jul
3 Questions Corporate Marketers Must Ask When Managing Social in Distributed Networks 1. what is social 2. is god good 3. click for pizza 1 Jul
actual wikipedia editor to use as a model for @Hypothete's proposed "wikipedia editor" halloween costume http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/JEon3003.jpg 30 Jun
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