Thoughtful Preparations: Media Spin Blog

Long before Paris and Nicky Hilton, there were Daisy and Violet Hilton, San Antonio’s Siamese Twins. According to rattsfreakshow.com the Hilton sisters were pygopagus twins – conjoined at the hips and buttocks. They shared blood circulation and were fused at the pelvis but shared no major organs. In 1932 the twins appeared as themselves in the movie Freaks, which dared to pose the question of whether or not conjoined twins can have a love life. In the case of the Hilton sisters, the answer was yes – they were notorious for their many affairs and allegedly had a strong desire to outdo one another in the area of dating.

If you are a glutton for more Hilton Sisters photos, past and present, go to the jedimaster.

Hello World! GeoSpot, the Internet start-up company where I am Creative Director, made our initial web site public today. I’ve been involved in the development of GeoSpot since April, working closely with the founding entreprenuer and software technology executive. The splash page on the web site is a one minute Flash preview of the big things to come at GeoSpot.

Congratulations to Participant Productions on reviving the spirit of conscience and meaning in filmmaking with two recent releases: Good Night, And Good Luck and North Country. Thanks to the wall of right wing noise, the past few years have seen a mighty counter surge of intelligent, truth seeking documentaries and fact-based motion pictures, such as The Corporation, The Fog of War, and of course the work of Michael Moore.

Good Night, and Good Luck covers Edward R. Murrow’s confrontations with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his Government sponsored investigations and accusations of Communist activities, a Red scare witch hunt that inspired Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. Incredibly, to those of us who truly believed the American psyche had evolved above and beyond those dark days, we now have the likes of Ann Coulter and right wing robot mouths reviving the glories of McCarthy’s delusional deeds. Has she no shame?

Participant Productions was founded in 2004 by eBay philanthropist Jeff Skoll. It is heartening to see capital success put to good use this way. Don’t let the bastards get you down. Keep on fighting the good fight.

P.S. You should definitely support these films by going out and seeing them!

Karl Rove, aka Humpty Dumpty, has fallen off the wall, landed on Lewis Libby. Dick Cheney and the Republican Party can’t put the mess back together again. This is The Great Unraveling. This is Worse Than Watergate, and has only been a matter of time for the Democrats to decide they’ve had enough stalling, secrecy, cronyism, diversion, and avoidance of the truth… and so too it seems more and more American people are seriously up in arms.

An article at The Nation compares the White House pre-war intelligence fraud to the Enron investor fraud.

Happy Halloween! This Tom Delay guy really is scary! Hot Tub Tom!

With the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the unraveling of the tangled web is happening fast. Those of us who smelled a rat a long time ago are having fun with the inevitable implosion of the Right Wing Nuthouse, so I thought I’d join in.

If you are catching up on how we got into this war in Iraq, expect to see a lot more attention on it.

I’m glad it’s over! Especially the Houston games. The post-season baseball games TV broadcast from Houston were oddly distracting with the ever present snowball white hair of Bulldog Barbara Bush constantly behind home plate. I have to give her credit for sitting through game 3 like a vigilant animated George Washington painting for 11 or 12 innings, the longest world series game in history, 5 hours and 41 minutes. Now I know where her son W gets his stubborn tenacity.

I know that I am not alone in this obvious observation because other bloggers are venting also:

Barbara Bush’s shining white mane continues to infiltrate my HIGH-DEF

I am pulling for them not only because half my family is from Chicago, but because George H.W. and Barbara “Let Them Eat Cake” Bush are seated behind home plate at the former Enron Park (now Minute Maid Park, because who doesn’t like orange juice?), both clad in Astros jackets. Last night (game 3) Babs was accompanied by Neil Bush of Silverado S&L scandal fame.

As the Chicago Sun-Times Mark Brown noted, Mrs. Bush’s seat was so close to home plate “you can see her head during every pitch of every at-bat.”

Some interesting buzz in the news today about Google reaching into eBay, craigslist and classified advertising territory with their search technology. Here is the screenshot of Google Base.

That’s the hazy future, but for now I’m bummed that I was not invited to Google’s Zeitgeist forum. This is the kind of smart brainstorming contact high cluster f*ck that temporarily raises my IQ to rare sub-genius levels. Dear Google, please invite me next time. I promise I will not blog about it. Thank you.