Plastic People of the Universe
Plastic People of the Universe Music Starts:09/10/2008 - 7:30pm Doors Open: 7:00pm Plastic People of the UniversePrague's Plastic People of the Universe, and the band they later became, Pulnoc, remain one of rock & roll's great stories of triumph and how great music can be produced and survive even in the most hostile of environments. The band was founded in 1968 soon after 500,000 Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia. With the Kremlin not being particularly fond of Western-style rock that
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From The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence, by Martin Meredith (PublicAffairs, 2005), pp. 245-248:In September 1976 the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP), drawing support from the labour unions, teachers and students, all vehemently opposed to military rule, embarked on a campaign of urban terrorism against the Derg and its civilian ally, the All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement, usually known by its Amharic acronym, Meison. An assassination attempt was made on Men
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Here's a brand that is new to me and maybe you- Dermelect Cosmeceuticals. I had not heard of this brand before but I am so glad that I had the chance to test a few items. Now I can highly recommend two fantastic products that give immediate results. And we are all about the instant gratification especially when it comes to beauty, aren't we? The Detoxifying Oxygen Facial Commission can be used as a cleanser or a masque. It releases oxygen molecules and wakes up the face. It is applied as a c
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As I've been on the road this week, Steve Heller (a.k.a. the "Diebold Document Whistleblower") was kind enough to step in for me during my regular Friday guest stint on the Peter B. Collins Show. While it's perhaps a bit of a busman's vacation, I made the mistake of quickly checking out the podcast of yesterday's hour from my motel room after I got off the road last night, and though I've heard (and even told [PDF]) Heller's remarkable and heroic story a million times, I couldn't stop listenin
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We Angelenos love things easy. We wait for the DVD rather than going to the trouble of a movie. We’ll order-in much more often than we get snazzed up to go out and when we do bother to pick up a book, it's paperback over hardcover every time. Then there are the things that deserve the effort and extra packaging: a premiere at the Arclight, the omakase at Matsuhisa and if you found yourself at Alpha Male and Coco de Mer on Thursday night for Taschen's Big Penis Book release party, you'd know t
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Homer, Alaska, United States Dave and Val decided to take me on a fishing vacation to Homer, Alaska. It was just awesome. It took us two days to get there because we stopped overnight in Anchorage in order to take the truck to a Chevy dealership on a recall notice. Val did some shopping at Wal-Mart while Dave and I rested in the trailer waiting for the truck to be fixed. As soon as it was fixed we hooked up and headed south. The trip south out of Anchor read
Jump to the full entry & travel map Juneau, Alaska, United States Wow, these were some of the best memories! During my summer break in college my freshman year, I went to Juneau Alaska to work at Broken Arrow Bible Camp. I worked as a horsemanship wrangler and sometimes a camp counselor. What can I say, they were some of the most amazing times of my life. Living there day and night. Riding bareback along the ocean shore. Seeing wild bears off in the distance. Watching whales splash their read
Along with the extreme weather which has plagued much of the world population over the last few seasons comes extreme consequences. Many people are left without electricity or running water, which of course, leads to some pretty awful circumstances. More and more the word of disaster preparation and awareness is being spread. It’s always better to be safe than sorry, as has been proven from disasters from the past. The Denali 5-Piece Outdoor Utility and Emergency Kit is a basic set of tools read
In three years of editing stories for the American Alpine Journal, no one I'd been working with had died in the mountains. That's remarkable, given the difficult and dangerous routes many of these authors attempt. But last month this happy streak ended. I had been working this spring with Tatsuro Yamada from Japan on a feature article for the AAJ about the three new routes he and two companions completed in the Ruth Gorge last year. We had mostly finished the story when Tatsuro went back to Alas read
This is my 700th post... Yesterday we left Tolsano and drove down the Glenn Highway finishing the big circle, stopping in Palmer to find Dave's old house, then on to the Seward Highway, Turnagain Arm, Portage Lake and Whittier... The glacier above was along the Glenn Highway, it was huge, the blue color is scene for miles... This picture was taken at Portage Lake, the ice builds up like a traffic jam at the mouth of the river leaving the lake, the water was the most amazing shade of turquoise an read
