Saturday, April 23, 2005

RHINO'S WEEKEND BLOG - April 23rd & 24th THE CARTOON: The Trojan Pig AT: http://cagle.slate.msn.com/working/050412/hulme.gif PROVOCATIVE FUTURISTIC WEB MOVIE OF THE WEEK In the year 2014, the New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate's fortunes have waned. What happened to the news? And what is EPIC? From the Museum of Media History (8 minutes) AT: http://www.idorosen.com/mirrors/robinsloan.com/epic CATCHY TUNE MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK: "You're An Asshole" by Jim's Big Ego Compliments of filmstripinternational.com AT: http://filmstripinternationalcom UNDERDOG VICTORY STORY OF THE WEEK La Vida Robot How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship. MORE: http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/robot.html To donate to a scholarship Fund for these techno-underdogs: GO TO: http://wired-vig.wired.com/wired/archive/13.04/donate.html THE QUOTE: "A word to the wise isn't necessary -- it's the stupid ones who need the advice." - - Bill Cosby THE HISTORY: April 24, 1971 -- Half a million people converge on Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War. This morning's traffic bringing demonstrators is backed for 20 miles into Maryland. The all-day procession starts at the ellipse then fills Pennsylvania Avenue from one end to the other with marchers. The rally at the Capitol will last five hours. This evening, homeward-bound demonstrators stall their cars on the New Jersey Turnpike, halting traffic for four hours. Abandoning their vehicles, they dance in the northbound lanes & start a bonfire in the southbound lanes. State police arrest more than 100 people. (o/)(o/)(o/) The Rhino was so grateful to catch the one and only Vatican gossip columnist, Father Guido Sarducci (AKA Don Novello) on Friday night on KPFK's "Pocho Hour of Power" with cartoonist & host Lalo Alcaraz, creator of the toon strip "La Cucaracha." On the show, Father Sarducci said that with the choosing of Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope can be compared to Dick Cheney becoming President. He said this development signals a new age of the Catholic Church in which all people should consider themselves their own pope and therefore choose their new pope name. Lalo declared he was now to be called, "Pope John Paul George Ringo." Father Guido also warned that everyone should be dissuaded from putting their hands in the holy water since there's no knowing how many people through the winter with sinus infections have put their hands in. He said he was considering starting his own sect to be called, "Saints With Cellulite." And then there's this, sent in by Rhino's Blog reader & Native rights attorney Steve Moore. There has been a Vatican joke told about Ratzinger for years as follows: Ratzinger and two other theologians all die at the same time and appear before Saint Peter (some versions have God instead of Saint Peter throughout the story). The first theologian goes off with Saint Peter for a long time - when he comes back, he looks very distraught, and says wearily "How could I have been so wrong?!?!?" The second theologian goes off with Saint Peter for an even longer time - when he comes back, he looks very distraught, and says wearily "How could I have been so wrong?!?!?" Then Ratzinger goes off with Saint Peter for an even longer time - finally Saint Peter comes back, looking very distraught, and says wearily "How could I have been so wrong?!?!?" (o/)(o/)(o/) 8:54:09 AM    comment

RHINO'S WEEKEND BOTTOM LINE - TIME Shampoos Attack TIME Shampoos Attack by James Wolcott, JamesWolcott.com It's not worth wasting any more outrage on the subject of Ann Coulter. We all know what she is, and can hear in the brief quiets between her brash pronouncements the squeal and squeak of mice running wild in the messy hayloft of her mind. She's an empty uproar with long legs and long shiny hair and a reputation for extending the cocktail hour indefinitely that casts her with what Paddy Chayevsky emphemistically "an aura of availability." Middle-aged men and younger can daydream that if they met her under under auspicious circs, as they say in Bertie Wooster novels, they might have a shot, a reverie harder to entertain about Wonkette, whose wedding ring is powered with a special wolf-repellent ray. Coulter may have female fans, I wouldn't know, but her media stardom is primarily a male fantasy that is both sexist and racist. She is the pinup pundit of White Prerogative, her arrogant vanity perfect for a country and a media-political culture that refuse to recognize its postindustrial decline and decay. A country that still thinks it can whip the world into obeying its will. But as I say, she is what is synthetically is, and is unlikely to change or deepen. Why should she, when mocking a Max Cleland or spouting anti-Muslim hate brings her such reward? No, it's the editors of Time who should hide and hang their heads as they perp-walk from corporate HQ to a rented bus. They should go off on a corporate retreat and stay there. Just not come back. Let the junior staffers and interns and messengers put out the magazine--it would probably be an improvement, and even if it weren't, the end-result probably wouldn't gleam with jaded calculation. It might have a smidgen of hones! t conviction... MORE: http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/04/time_shampoos_a.php (o/)(o/)(o/) Rhino's Blog is the responsibility of Gary Rhine. Feedback & requests to be added or deleted from the list are encouraged. (rhino@kifaru.com) See The Latest Greatest Political Cartoons      While You Read Rhino's Blog AT : http://www.rhinosblog.info Rhino's Other Web Sites: http://www.dreamcatchers.org  (Indigenous Assistance & Intercultural Dialog) http://www.kifaru.com  (Native American Relations Video Documentaries) Articles are reprinted under Fair Use Doctrine of international copyright law. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html All copyrights belong to original publisher. Tell a friend about Rhino's Blog 7:56:43 AM    comment

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