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Nov 22
Lyndon B. Johnson, as Senate majority leader in 1957, giving Theodore F. Green, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “the treatment.” Johnson relied on two main tactics. The first involved direct persuasion, or “The Treatment.” He didn’t delegate his lobbying to other people. Instead he took on the job himself. When searching for a vote, Johnson confronted colleagues in the Senate hallways. He cornered them and leaned into their face as he explained why he needed their vote. He would pull out facts and figures from his pockets, refusing to budge until he heard that they were with him. (via)

Lyndon B. Johnson, as Senate majority leader in 1957, giving Theodore F. Green, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “the treatment.”

Johnson relied on two main tactics. The first involved direct persuasion, or “The Treatment.” He didn’t delegate his lobbying to other people. Instead he took on the job himself. When searching for a vote, Johnson confronted colleagues in the Senate hallways. He cornered them and leaned into their face as he explained why he needed their vote. He would pull out facts and figures from his pockets, refusing to budge until he heard that they were with him.

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Posted at 11:03am

Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints pwn3s the St. Louis Rams. (via)

Reggie Bush of the New Orleans Saints pwn3s the St. Louis Rams. (via)
Posted at 10:00am

Drinking buddy.

Drinking buddy.
Posted at 12:20am

Nov 21
Liana contemplates her masterpiece. (via)

Liana contemplates her masterpiece. (via)
Posted at 11:02am

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Dream Bitches - Hierarchy Island

You didn’t have to stay with me to kill me in my sleep.

Is this the best song of 2009 that was actually released in 2008? Is that the stupidest sentence of 2009?
Posted at 7:45am

Nov 20
Posted at 12:25pm

Ventura County man arrested for reportedly paying teens to spit on him

“It didn’t take long for word to spread among local teens that they could get paid to spit in a man’s face,” O’Hanlon said.

When I was in high school I just worked at Target.

Posted at 10:07am

IT’S FURIE FRIDAY! Art by Matt Furie.

IT’S FURIE FRIDAY!

Art by Matt Furie.
Posted at 9:08am

Georgia Hardstark at the Mountain Lion Ranch, looking like she’s down to sell you some uppers from her mom’s medicine cabinet. This is before she spilled beer on my car. (flickr)

Georgia Hardstark at the Mountain Lion Ranch, looking like she’s down to sell you some uppers from her mom’s medicine cabinet. This is before she spilled beer on my car. (flickr)
Posted at 8:52am

Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)

Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
Posted at 12:01am

Nov 19
All in the family. Lots of good stuff on the blog right now. laurataylor: missed these guys! ianbroyles: gpoyw: glad i brought donuts edition. laurenlemon: The Wet Shirts. I’ve never really worked in the company of other photographers. This bunch? They’re regulars at it. It’s fascinating - watching other people shoot, work, interact, and light the same exact space you’re shooting, working, interacting and lighting. There’s always something to learn from others, and I’m glad to be making myself step out of my sheltered comfort level. Plus! Turns out they happen to be real good company, and show up to photoshoots with donuts.

All in the family. Lots of good stuff on the blog right now.

laurataylor:

missed these guys!

ianbroyles:

gpoyw: glad i brought donuts edition.

laurenlemon:

The Wet Shirts.

I’ve never really worked in the company of other photographers. This bunch? They’re regulars at it. It’s fascinating - watching other people shoot, work, interact, and light the same exact space you’re shooting, working, interacting and lighting. There’s always something to learn from others, and I’m glad to be making myself step out of my sheltered comfort level. Plus! Turns out they happen to be real good company, and show up to photoshoots with donuts.
Posted at 3:39pm

Hugh Hefner is a big fucking nerd.

“I knew [Hefner] was a comics fan, but he started talking about remembering the day his brother brought home Action #1,” says Bernstein. “He said at that moment he started creating his own characters like Rock Man, Water Man, Cement Man—they weren’t the best. But when he was a teenager, a girl turned him down for a dance, and he was so upset that he wanted to reinvent himself. So he created this character named Hef who was a cooler version of himself—all the characters in the comic were based on his friends, and in the comic he knew how to jitterbug really well, he dressed cooler, he could get any girl—and he said that basically everything he envisioned in this comic character, he eventually evolved into.” The strips, called “School Days”, and later “GI Days” when Hefner fought in WWII, were in many ways revolutionary. “I said to him, ‘who was doing autobiographical comics in the ’40s?’” says Bernstein. “‘You were doing this at least 30 years before I can think of anyone.’” One of his last comics in 1951 was about Hefner starting his own magazine—and in 1952, Playboy was born.

I can’t decide what I love most about this story:

  1. Hugh Hefner remembers the actual day that Superman first appeared, over 70 years ago.
  2. Hugh Hefner made autobio comics to get girls.
  3. Hugh Hefner pioneered the fiction suit, long before Grant Morrison was in diapers.
  4. Hugh Hefner is a big fucking nerd.
Posted at 1:30pm

Whoa. This one was unexpected. BEAST focuses on a struggling young sculptor named Colette. A client known only as Beast wants his portrait carved out of a block of marble and offers her a deal too good to be true. In short order, Beast turns out to be more than he seems and the marble’s true origins are far more sinister than Colette ever realized. BEAST got under my skin. I don’t think you could really call it a horror book…it has a grimy atmosphere and anxiety that’s more subtle and slithery than all that. Churchland is relatively unknown and she draws the hell out of her story. The art is gorgeous…if the last page is to be believed, she did the whole book in pencil and crayon. Uncomfortably inspiring. Preview here.

Whoa. This one was unexpected.

BEAST focuses on a struggling young sculptor named Colette. A client known only as Beast wants his portrait carved out of a block of marble and offers her a deal too good to be true. In short order, Beast turns out to be more than he seems and the marble’s true origins are far more sinister than Colette ever realized.

BEAST got under my skin. I don’t think you could really call it a horror book…it has a grimy atmosphere and anxiety that’s more subtle and slithery than all that. Churchland is relatively unknown and she draws the hell out of her story. The art is gorgeous…if the last page is to be believed, she did the whole book in pencil and crayon. Uncomfortably inspiring. Preview here.
Posted at 10:07am

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T. Rex - The Slider
Posted at 8:13am

Nov 18
(via ianbroyles) YES IAN YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES!!

(via ianbroyles)

YES IAN YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES!!
Posted at 4:18pm

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