Listening Post

Damn how this guy just rules.

It's Frank Ocean -- Thinking About You.

Black To the Future

Hot off the presses -- your first geek hard-on of the day.

Mark your calendars, kids.

Tweet of the Day

Sunday Smackdown

My latest piece for the Daily Banter is now up -- it deals with Rachel Maddow's deft smackdown of vaudevillian hack Alex Castellanos on Meet the Press this past weekend, and why we don't see more of that on network and cable television but should.

Here's the opening shot:

"In case you missed it, Rachel Maddow handed Alex Castellanos his ass this past Sunday morning. It happened on Meet the Press during a debate over whether the Republicans are currently engaged in a legislative 'war' on America’s women. While I’m not a big fan of calling what the GOP is doing an all-out war — only because I feel like that term has been run into the ground — there’s no doubt that what we’re seeing from the right at the moment is the latest fusillade in an ongoing push to turn back the clock to time when women were largely free to come and go as they pleased but were also fully aware of their place beneath the white guy power structure. They were often highly regarded, but their rights were still little more than the largess of the real people in charge — which is the definition of condescension."

Read the Rest Here

Listening Post

New Offspring is always a welcome thing -- and yes, before anybody says the obvious, it does sound quite a bit like the Foo Fighters. I just can't see that being a bad thing.

Plus, remember -- their drummer Pete Parada's a really great guy. So do the world a favor and show some love for great guys -- they're tough to come by.

Here's Days Go By.

...Before the Dawn

With my excitement for The Avengers and Prometheus consuming my summer movie jones lately, I had kind of pushed The Dark Knight Rises to the back of my mind.

This final trailer for it fixed that problem nicely.

Holy hell does this look excellent.

Quote of the Day

"Sexual conduct encouraging an individual to engage in a non-abstinent behavior."

-- The definition of "Gateway Sexual Activity," according to a bill passed by lawmakers in Tennessee last week intended to promote abstinence-only sex ed in schools and to prohibit teachers from promoting actions that could conceivably lead to sex

The more I read about laugh-out-loud shit like this, the more I think that the push for absolute abstinence came along about two generations too late in places like Tennessee.

Also, this: