bottlerocketscience

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Laurie Anderson - Another Day in America

Posted by scott at 9:34 AM No comments:
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Labels: Laurie Anderson, music
Newer Posts Older Posts Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

About Me

My photo
scott
Startup and Entrepreneurship Coach. Windcastle Venture Consulting. Startup Geometry Podcast. Collected Works of Giordano Bruno.
View my complete profile

Join the bottlerocketscience mailing list
for occasional dispatches here:

powered by TinyLetter






Pick up my books here:

Labels

  • adventure (1)
  • advertising (2)
  • advice (30)
  • alchemy (4)
  • anthropology (3)
  • architecture (71)
  • art (191)
  • asshattery (3)
  • Barry Michels (4)
  • Best of (4)
  • Body Mod (5)
  • books (105)
  • Brian Eno (4)
  • Bruce Sterling (22)
  • Buckminster Fuller (2)
  • Buddhism (7)
  • business (121)
  • choices (55)
  • Classics (1)
  • codes (1)
  • Columbus (3)
  • comics (1)
  • cool (8)
  • copyfight (8)
  • crime (54)
  • cute (5)
  • dance (2)
  • David Foster Wallace (7)
  • De Umbris Idearum (7)
  • death (6)
  • disaster recovery (1)
  • Dr Who (2)
  • Dream Journal (10)
  • Dutch Money (2)
  • eccentrics (137)
  • Economics (315)
  • education (27)
  • Edward Snowden (3)
  • Entrepreneurship (76)
  • Euromaidan (1)
  • extreme (5)
  • family (2)
  • film (100)
  • fitness (1)
  • food (26)
  • Fortean (22)
  • games (2)
  • Get Excited and Make Things (2)
  • ghost stories (1)
  • Giordano Bruno (18)
  • Grant Morrison (9)
  • Greece (1)
  • Green (11)
  • Harlan Ellison (2)
  • Harry Potter (2)
  • Helen DeWitt (1)
  • Hinduism (1)
  • history (42)
  • holidays (16)
  • House Porn (27)
  • humor (169)
  • idiots (11)
  • in which I am interviewed (1)
  • India (1)
  • Indivisible (1)
  • innovation (55)
  • Internet (114)
  • Iran Elections 2009 (5)
  • Isaac Newton (1)
  • Jobs (2)
  • Joss Whedon (3)
  • journalism (1)
  • Karl Lagerfeld (10)
  • Kelly Link (1)
  • Kenyon (1)
  • languages (5)
  • Laurie Anderson (1)
  • library porn (19)
  • life (82)
  • links (184)
  • magic (16)
  • makers (1)
  • maps (7)
  • Mariana Gosnell (1)
  • math (34)
  • Medicine (59)
  • memory palace (1)
  • Michael Moorcock (3)
  • music (198)
  • Napa (1)
  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb (22)
  • nature (1)
  • Neal Stephenson (3)
  • Neil Gaiman (12)
  • Neuroscience (13)
  • NSA (1)
  • obits (33)
  • Ohio (1)
  • Oliver Sacks (1)
  • On the Infinite (1)
  • On Wisdom (6)
  • Paul Laffoley (6)
  • people (8)
  • Phil Stutz (4)
  • philosophy (5)
  • Photo (102)
  • Physics (2)
  • podcast (42)
  • podcast. entrepreneurship (1)
  • poem (25)
  • politics (397)
  • Pre-Socratics (1)
  • psychology (175)
  • quotes (125)
  • radical self improvement (4)
  • religion (56)
  • risk (22)
  • Science (211)
  • smut (5)
  • social entrepreneurship (2)
  • Someone Is Wrong On The Internet (2)
  • space (1)
  • sport (49)
  • spying (3)
  • Steampunk (10)
  • Steven Brust (1)
  • strategy (96)
  • stuff (24)
  • style (81)
  • Superheroes (1)
  • Tales from the Meltdown (30)
  • technology (9)
  • The Future Is Now (26)
  • The Gays (40)
  • The Procrastination Project (4)
  • The Tools (4)
  • Thinkers (151)
  • trade (2)
  • translation (2)
  • travel (35)
  • Trent Reznor (2)
  • TV (26)
  • urban exploration (10)
  • Venezuela (1)
  • venture capital (17)
  • war and military (82)
  • William Gibson (3)
  • wine (5)
  • work (7)
  • work in progress (1)
  • workout (9)
  • WOW (1)
  • writers (198)
  • writing material (14)
  • yoga (4)
  • Zeppelins and Dirigibles (5)
  • Zombieboy (5)

Blog Archive

  • ►  2020 (6)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (1)
  • ►  2019 (3)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2018 (14)
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (4)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (2)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2017 (30)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ►  October (2)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (2)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (6)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2016 (23)
    • ►  December (1)
    • ►  September (2)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (2)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  March (1)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2015 (58)
    • ►  December (5)
    • ►  November (3)
    • ►  October (7)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  August (5)
    • ►  July (7)
    • ►  June (9)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ▼  2014 (55)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (1)
    • ▼  October (1)
      • Laurie Anderson - Another Day in America
    • ►  September (1)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (8)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (10)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (7)
    • ►  January (9)
  • ►  2013 (95)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (6)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  September (4)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (7)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (7)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (15)
    • ►  February (16)
    • ►  January (12)
  • ►  2012 (166)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (15)
    • ►  October (11)
    • ►  September (15)
    • ►  August (13)
    • ►  July (19)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (18)
    • ►  April (11)
    • ►  March (8)
    • ►  February (22)
    • ►  January (19)
  • ►  2011 (441)
    • ►  December (29)
    • ►  November (25)
    • ►  October (25)
    • ►  September (32)
    • ►  August (52)
    • ►  July (41)
    • ►  June (52)
    • ►  May (41)
    • ►  April (33)
    • ►  March (46)
    • ►  February (30)
    • ►  January (35)
  • ►  2010 (423)
    • ►  December (34)
    • ►  November (30)
    • ►  October (24)
    • ►  September (34)
    • ►  August (47)
    • ►  July (51)
    • ►  June (42)
    • ►  May (25)
    • ►  April (28)
    • ►  March (29)
    • ►  February (41)
    • ►  January (38)
  • ►  2009 (720)
    • ►  December (37)
    • ►  November (35)
    • ►  October (36)
    • ►  September (41)
    • ►  August (64)
    • ►  July (61)
    • ►  June (72)
    • ►  May (71)
    • ►  April (87)
    • ►  March (89)
    • ►  February (63)
    • ►  January (64)
  • ►  2008 (266)
    • ►  December (35)
    • ►  November (18)
    • ►  October (28)
    • ►  September (41)
    • ►  August (38)
    • ►  July (35)
    • ►  June (27)
    • ►  May (18)
    • ►  April (12)
    • ►  March (2)
    • ►  February (7)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2007 (50)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (16)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ►  2006 (40)
    • ►  December (6)
    • ►  October (4)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (3)
    • ►  April (3)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (8)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2005 (85)
    • ►  December (17)
    • ►  November (14)
    • ►  October (18)
    • ►  September (13)
    • ►  August (9)
    • ►  July (5)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (3)

Elsewhere on the Internets

  • The Renaissance Mathematicus
    Astrology in the age of Newton - My Annus Mythologicus blog post was recently retweeted on Twitter in response to an inane tweet from Richard Dawkins and somebody questioned the reference ...
    37 minutes ago
  • Marginal Revolution
    Do algorithms collude? - Yes, in short. Emilio Calvano, Giacomo Calzolari, Vincenzo Denicolò and Sergio Pastorello cover this topic in the latest issue of the American Economic ...
    2 hours ago
  • lesswrong
    Holy Grails of Chemistry - Published on September 30, 2020 2:03 AM GMT This is a linkpost-slash-suggestion to check out https://www.chemistryworld.com/holy-grails/. In 1995, the jou...
    2 hours ago
  • Wired: Beyond the Beyond
    Trump-Biden Debate Twitter Recap: Politics Is a Metaverse - The first 2020 presidential debate was a series of interruptions and half-thoughts—like the internet IRL.
    5 hours ago
  • Shorpy
    Egg before chicken - In reply to Frozen: 1943: Slightly over half of Americans owned refrigerators before the war, and freezer sections were just large enough for two ice cub...
    6 hours ago
  • Greer Gilman
    Oddments - One of the last Botticellis left in private hands is up for sale. I'll take it. Beauty and austerity. Can anyone name that saint.? Why can't we can h...
    8 hours ago
  • kottke.org
    Two Quick Links for Tuesday Afternoon - Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning is an upcoming book in which Tom Vanderbilt teaches himself 5 new skills (chess, singing...
    11 hours ago
  • Apartment Therapy
    Before and After: A Closet-Turned-Office Makes Use of Every Inch—for Under $1000 - This redo proves that you can squeeze a work space in anywhere. *READ MORE...*
    11 hours ago
  • Altucher Confidential
    Ignore the “Idiot Issues” of This Election - Scientists and companies are creating vaccines, creating solar panels with four times the efficiency of current solar panels, making rockets, and creatin...
    12 hours ago
  • LinkMachineGo
    Why a Jack the Ripper Mural in Whitechapel Got Painted Over - [london] A Jack the Ripper mural – are you serious? How the Eastenders hit back … A look at why a Jack the Ripper mural got painted over in Whitechapel. ‘T...
    15 hours ago
  • Washington Center for Equitable Growth
    Do Unemployment Insurance Benefits Improve Match Quality? Evidence from Recent U.S. Recessions - Authors: Ammar Farooq, Uber TechnologiesAdriana Kugler, Georgetown UniversityUmberto Muratori, Georgetown University Abstract: Unemployment insurance ben...
    15 hours ago
  • things magazine
    Cult heroes - Critics regret getting it wrong. The web is awash with ‘one star reviews of the classics‘, and it’s a natural human tendency (at least for this human) to s...
    16 hours ago
  • Dangerous Minds
    Brown Acid: Drop a tab from ‘The Eleventh Trip’ - I like to think of the infamous Brown Acid compilations as “Nuggets for heshers,” and we’ve got a preview of the upcoming installment. Lance Barresi, ...
    18 hours ago
  • O'Reilly Radar
    Four short links: 29 Sep 2020 - When Coffeemakers Demand Ransom — So he then examined the mechanism the coffee maker used to receive firmware updates. It turned out they were received fro...
    22 hours ago
  • Schneier on Security
    Hacking a Coffee Maker - As expected, IoT devices are filled with vulnerabilities: As a thought experiment, Martin Hron, a researcher at security company Avast, reverse engineere...
    22 hours ago
  • A VC
    Tabs - Our portfolio company Helium started shipping a new product called Tabs last week. Tabs competes with Tile and a bunch of other Bluetooth trackers and smar...
    22 hours ago
  • Weird Universe Weblog
    Where Would You Hide Two Elephants? - Source.
    1 day ago
  • Cory Doctorow
    Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 16) - Here’s part sixteen of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I...
    1 day ago
  • Daily Speculations
    Final Prediction - Stefan Jovanovich writes: On election day Trump will be behind in every battleground state by a margin of at least 4 points. The public polling numbers w...
    1 day ago
  • In the Pipeline
    Interferon and the Coronavirus - Here’s a potentially important paper that’s out in Science and is getting a lot of attention. The wide variation in severity of coronavirus infection has b...
    1 day ago
  • A Daily Dose of Architecture
    Being the Mountain - *Being the Mountain* PRODUCTORA (Carlos Bedoya, Wonne Ickx, Victor Jaime, Abel Perles) Actar Publishers/IITAC Press, May 2020 *Hardcover | 6-1/2 x 9-1/2 in...
    1 day ago
  • russell davies
    This week - [image: ATM area] [image: Eau de Port Talbot] [image: 21st Century power] [image: "As soon as a pipeline is built, the balance of power shifts from suppli...
    2 days ago
  • Charlie's Diary
    All Glory to the New Management! - Today is September 27th, 2020. On October 27th, Dead Lies Dreaming will be published in the USA and Canada: the British edition drops on October 29th. (Yes...
    2 days ago
  • Steve McCurry's Blog
    Everything We Are - Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your gr...
    3 days ago
  • Craig Mod
    [ridgeline] Disaster, Averted? - Ridgeline subscribers — Let me try to explain how I’ve felt these past few weeks by way of pained or overreaching metaphor: It was as if we were all walkin...
    4 days ago
  • Brad DeLong
    Briefly Noted for 2020-09-25 - Well, a decade late and many dollars short, we seem to have become the conventional wisdom! Would only that the _Economist_ had listened to our arguments, ...
    4 days ago
  • Ben Casnocha: The Blog
    What I’ve Been Reading (September, 2020) - More books. 1. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo A gripping, hard-to-put down narrative nonfiction close up account of three women and their romantic and sexual d...
    1 week ago
  • kung fu grippe
    ryannorth: Listen: I’ve been lucky enough to help adapt Kurt... - ryannorth: Listen: I’ve been lucky enough to help adapt Kurt Vonnegut’s amazing SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE into a graphic novel, and it’s finally out!! ...
    1 week ago
  • A Continuous Lean.
    Things to Read and Listen to. - The newsletter is running smoothly and it’s been a joy to write regularly — feels like the old days. Though, sending an email feels more personal and has b...
    2 weeks ago
  • Mericale, Hughes, Scheheraz'Odd & Touchshriek, Inc.
    "Angharad used to call them antiseed. Plant one and watch something die." - Sunny today. Currently, it's 88˚F, with a heat index of 92˚F. This will always be the lost summer. For most of the world, not just me. Last night we start...
    3 weeks ago
  • The New Inquiry
    Incomplete, Visionary, Non-Utopian - The last time we met, it was at a Thai place on Front Street, just north of where the Chenango and the Susquehanna rivers meet,…
    4 weeks ago
  • amanda palmer
    don’t get comfortable. - [image: minigirls]{public post} no. don’t get comfortable. greetings from my rental in hastings, aoteraoa new zealand. the althing/state of all things was ...
    1 month ago
  • Both Sides of the Table
    How Valence Aims to Provide Better Access and Funding for Black Founders & Executives - “I gotta say it was a good day.” I’m so fricking pumped today. Really, truly. Yeah, Valence announced > $5 million in funding led by GGV and Upfront. Tha...
    1 month ago
  • Neil Gaiman's Journal
    Susan Ellison - RIP and love - I met Harlan Ellison the day before his wife, Susan, met him, in 1985, in Glasgow. I interviewed him. I didn't get to meet Susan until 1989, when I went t...
    1 month ago
  • Noahpinion
    Rabbit = Good Friend (or, how to take care of rabbits) - Rabbits make great friends. Unfortunately, rabbits are not as popular of a pet as they ought to be, thanks to two big misconceptions. Let's start out by ...
    2 months ago
  • Agnus Dei
    Gay men are openly persecuted and wrongfully put in FB Jail all the time for simply being gay men. - Here are the examples of the times I've personally been put in FB Jail for simply being a gay man: #1 - Standing by a pool in a speedo... This one is crazy...
    3 months ago
  • Daily Kos
    Top Republican isn't quite ready to remove Capitol monuments glorifying slavery and the Confederacy - Democratic Sen. Cory Booker Thursday made an effort to pass a bill by unanimous consent that would have removed all Confederate statues from the U.S. Cap...
    3 months ago
  • Cryptomundo
    Sinister Swamps: Monsters and Mysteries from the Mire - Join me on another exciting journey as I examine legends and sighting reports of strange phenomenon in some of North America's most notorious swamplands.
    3 months ago
  • The Steampunk Workshop
    Rat Welder Mods and a Mold Bench - I cover some of the recent mods to the #ratwelder and build a bench for preparing molds for metal casting.
    5 months ago
  • paperpools
    Lives of Astronomers - In summer 1997 I went to Oxford to do research on a character I thought should be an astronomer. I went to the Radcliffe Science Library and began reading...
    5 months ago
  • Economist's View
    32+ Years... - [image: image from pbs.twimg.com]
    9 months ago
  • NoFo
    Pay no attention to the junk piled behind the tree that I didn't notice you could see when I took this picture with my phone - Well hello, long-hibernating tabletop tree that I bought for Shoebox Manor—my first elfin Chicago apartment—and that eventually became our dining-room tre...
    9 months ago
  • A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
    What’s The Important Thing, that is powerful enough to override all your deficiencies? - Do you feel the crushing weight of disadvantages facing every new company? No brand, no features, no customers, no money, no distribution, no search engine...
    10 months ago
  • Words Words Words
    Progress report - Staring at the screen went pretty well today. I squinted a couple of times, and cocked my head once at the last sentence. I thought about changing it, but ...
    11 months ago
  • Daniel Keys Moran
    .CBR > .CBZ conversion in Calibre. - OK, and now for something completely different.... Buddy offered to sell me his comics library. About a thousand Marvel titles in cbr format. I turned him ...
    1 year ago
  • BLDGBLOG
    Have Clock, Will Travel - [Image: From *The Hunt For Red October*, via Quora]. There’s a throwaway line in *The Hunt For Red October* where a submarine navigator jokes, “Give me a s...
    1 year ago
  • Seeing Both Sides
    Reminder: Seeing Both Sides is at a New Location - I just posted a new blog on Product Market fit and it reminded me to remind you that my blog moved a ways back to Seeing Both Sides so if you're still gett...
    1 year ago
  • Kevin Kelly
    Lie Detection - There is no absolutely infallible way to detect a lie in the present. We can only reliably detect lies retrospectively, in the frame of history. So the onl...
    1 year ago
  • Venture Hacks
    How to get rich - For the last few months, Naval and I have been publishing a podcast on “How to Get Rich.” It’s based on his chart-busting tweetstorm. I’ve embedded the fir...
    1 year ago
  • chris dixon
    Strong and Weak Technologies - During a media tour in 2007 in which Steve Jobs showed the device to reporters, there was one instance in which a journalist criticized the iPhone’s touch-...
    1 year ago
  • Global Guerrillas
    The Long Night is Coming - Written by an anonymous friend who also ...
    1 year ago
  • Lone Gunman
    Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
    1 year ago
  • Rantings of a Civil War Historian
    Interesting coverage of cavalry actions during the Tullahoma Campaign - The following article, by a correspondent embedded with the Army of the Cumberland’s Cavalry Corps, appeared on page four of the July 8, 1863 issue of *T...
    1 year ago
  • rejectamentalist manifesto
    A Note of Warning[Originally posted 27 October 2017]For years, I’ve been subject to a campaign of... - *A Note of Warning* [Originally posted 27 October 2017] For years, I’ve been subject to a campaign of stalking, harassment and online defamation. This ...
    2 years ago
  • 3quarksdaily
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’ - Lisa Allardice in The Guardian: At a PEN lecture in Manhattan last weekend, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie took Hillary Clinton to task for beginnin...
    2 years ago
  • Paul Krugman
    The Blog Moves On - But the show goes on.
    2 years ago
  • Tyler Brûlé
    The Fast Lane: A tale of two skyscrapers - Two tall stories that take place up in the clouds, high above two dazzling Asian cities
    2 years ago
  • Whedonesque | a weblog about Joss Whedon
    So farewell then. - 15 years is a long time and a lot of water has flowed under the bridge. But now it's time to say goodbye. No more threads after this one, we're closing d...
    3 years ago
  • SFGate: Mark Morford
    Top 12 pre-impeachment collectibles – Hurry before Trump is gone! - Image 1of/13 CaptionClose Image 1 of 13 You read it right: three grand for a "yuge" gold coin with Trump's face on it. Goes perfectly with your "Real House...
    3 years ago
  • Sean Ellis
    What are the Best Articles on Growth Hacking to Product/Market Fit? - This question was posted to GrowthHackers.com today. I provided a short answer on GrowthHackers and wanted to share an expanded version here. Many people ...
    3 years ago
  • John Crowley
    jenlev - Longtime readers of this journal will remember the constant follower who called herself jenlev -- a person I always sensed was a good and gentle nature, th...
    3 years ago
  • BibliOdyssey
    Viridarium Novum - *A Little Book of Nature* *'New little book of flowers, in it all kinds of beautiful flowers, also fruits and little animals, which are very useful to pain...
    5 years ago
  • David Galbraith's Blog
    Venture Design and the Anthemis Foundry. - Not just another incubator Creating an incubator within many companies, today, is no more news than creating a marketing department is. In fact for our typ...
    5 years ago
  • Warren Ellis
    Warren Ellis - Warren Ellis is the award-winning writer of graphic novels like TRANSMETROPOLITAN, FELL, MINISTRY OF SPACE and PLANETARY, and the author of the NYT-bestsel...
    5 years ago
  • CarrollBlog
    CarrollBlog 6.1 - Finally finally-- I'm delighted to announce I've finished a new novel entitled BATHING THE LION. It will be published in Poland by Rebis October, 2013 and...
    7 years ago
  • Coilhouse
    Dimming the Lights and Locking Up at Coilhouse - Illustration by Star St. Germain. (Larger version here.) Five years ago, we launched Coilhouse Magazine + Blog: A Love Letter to Alternative Culture. Six b...
    7 years ago
  • Woman on Fire
    Untitled - Untitled, originally uploaded by (ToT) Auriea.
    7 years ago
  • Emanuel Derman
    More from Prost, a fictional work in progress - Late in life, when his roots should have held him steady, he became unmoored, and it seemed inappropriate. But who determined what was appropriate?
    8 years ago
  • Dmitri Maksimov
    - [image: 321.33 КБ]
    8 years ago
  • Not a journal.
    -
  • Technology Review
    -
  • this isn't happiness.™
    -
  • [ sturtle.com ]
    -
  • prolific.org
    -
  • Design Observer
    -
  • grinding.be
    -
  • AMERICAblog
    -
Travel theme. Powered by Blogger.