On a smog-dark day early in 1972, a bright neon whirlpool of color and sound and movement circulated through and around the former church and convent of Our Lady of Montserrat, a vacant Baroque ruin in a commercial district near the center of Mexico City. Alejandro Jodorowsky was shooting one of the opening scenes...
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Today in Moronia
- Sandia chemists find new material to remove radioactive gas from spent nuclear fuel
- The lowly groundhog: long may they Live
- American Apparel refuses to give prize to woman who won their photo contest
- Huge pythons are wiping out Everglades mammals
- Teach your child how to survive being arrested at school
- Gingrich urges students to get jobs, but his wife and family paid for his school
- Paul Krassner’s Lunar New Year predictions for 2012
- Welfare drug testing bill withdrawn after being amended to include lawmakers
- Coming for science: Why I orgasmed in an MRI scanner
- Miss America: auditioning for center stage
Art & Culture
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Show, 1973
What Google can do to help journalism
By Michael Massing I propose that Google set up a Journalism Innovators’ Fund with an initial annual budget of $100 million—less than 0.5 percent of the more than $20 billion it takes in annually. The fund would seek not to subsidize existing news operations but to support creative ideas and new programs aimed at...
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Working for the Man, updated
Roy Orbison, "Working for the Man," updated.
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Women in art over 500 years — in just two minutes
Faces of women as seen by artists over 500 years merge one by one in an enchanting progression of expressions that take on a new life.
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Look behind you. Brilliant.
Obama pounds McCain using a rearview mirror and highway sign metaphor with a gut-stabbing sound track.
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Sex, drugs & rock 'n' roll made me crazy — thank God!