We spent the day at a beach in Brooklyn. Skyscrapers floated in the distance and my toddler kept handing me cigarette filters she had dug out of the sand. When we got home, I checked my email. I had been sent a picture of a very different beach: deserted, framed by distant headlands with unsullied sands and clear waters. As it happened, I was looking not at a photograph, but at a painting by a man imprisoned at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp.
American zombies, Paradise Papers and sources of rebellion + this day in history w/Reagan reelected and our song of the day by The Pack A.D. on your Morning Monarchy for November 6, 2017.
Mysterious deaths, cowardly cops and powerful pedophiles + this day in history w/Truman defeats Dewey and our song of the day by Aesop Rock on your Morning Monarchy for November 2, 2017.
French-born artist Camille Walala brightens up the streets of London with her signature colourful style
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Impeachment hustle, phony mortgages and the USA Liberty Act + this day in history w/the Kissinger Peace Prize and our song of the day by Langhorne Slim on your Morning Monarchy for October 16, 2017.
From ballet dancing to mountain climbing and from art to athletics, we meet seven older people who prove that later life can be anything but dull
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Taco demolition, left coast lawsuits and baby food blackmail + this day in history w/Jim Bakker indicted and our song of the day by And So I Watch You From Afar on your Morning Monarchy for October 4, 2017.
Tonight-- midnight-- we end the Green Day guitar contest. As we mentioned last weekend, Blue America has a signed Fender Squire Bullet Strat that each member of Green Day autographed for me while I was president of their label. Everyone who contributes here-- any amount-- to Randy Bryce's campaign has an equal chance to win the guitar-- pictured below with Randy holding it. We'll pick one person at random in the next couple of days. If you give $1,000 you get a chance to get the guitar.
In 2015, the Slovenian industrial rock band Laibach performed two concerts in Pyongyang. This is thought to be the first time a rock band of this variety has ever performed in North Korea. Previous western musicians to play in North Korea have included acts as diverse as Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic to Roger Clinton, the blues playing brother of the former American President.
My sister Emma Redmond joins me today to discuss one of our favorite televisions shows, Orphan Black. We begin by giving an overview of the series which deals with a shadowy transhumanist organization called Neolution which is conducting large scale human cloning. We then move onto the basics: our favorite clones, our thoughts on the final season, and some of the overarching themes presented in the show. Emma and I then discuss Orphan Black as a feminist masterpiece.
