Monday, July 13, 2009

WEB BOHEMIAN (Monday, July 13, 2009)
(1)- CYBER-SCARE -- The age of cyber-warfare has arrived. That, at any rate, is the message we are now hearing from a broad range of journalists, policy analysts, and government officials. There's a comprehensive White House report.

(2)- CHANGES IN FASHION -- Goodbye "fashionista" brands, where neither the price nor the planet counts. The recession has made recycled "recessionista chic" a hit at Berlin Fashion Week - some of it even organic and free trade.

(3)- MOVIE NOVELISATION -- Prequels, sequels, junior sequels, semi-official junior prequels to penultimate graphic sequels ... Joe Queenan unravels the baffling, tangled world of the movie novelisation.

(4)- DISQUALIFIED -- The grand final of the National Rhinoceros Beetle Sumo Championship suffered a shock upset on Sunday after one "wrestler" flew out of the arena and subsequently the room, earning an instant disqualification.

(5)- FINISHED -- It's a real end of an era: According to Radio-Info's Tom Taylor, radio legend Casey Kasem ended his final countdown show, the Adult Contemporary-targeted "American Top 20," on the July 4th weekend.

(6)- FELONIOUS FELINE -- A cat that has twice raced out from its south Minneapolis yard to attack passing dogs and their owners was returned home Tuesday after Animal Care and Control impounded it for the second time in two years.

(7)- MAHLER -- Saturated with lachrymose melodies and the ghastly, fatal oompahs of sad waltzes, the music of Gustav Mahler prophetically mourns the victims of 20th-century catastrophes the composer died too soon to witness, or even imagine.

(8)- PURE GOLD -- It may not have been quite Periclean Athens or Florence under the Medicis, but the eruption of creativity that constituted ascendancy of the Little Golden Books was dazzling, a convergence of artistic and commercial genius.

(9)- MALCOLM GLADWELL VERSUS CHRIS ANDERSON -- Two of the world’s leading thinkers are in the middle of a spat. Admittedly, it’s all very polite and considered - but a good, old-fashioned bust-up is what it is.

POLITICAL COMMENTARY

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