FCF CULTURAL EDITOR

FCF CULTURAL EDITOR
CHIDES BOSS OVER ANIMATIONS
TREE GODDESS BOPS BACK!

LATE NIGHT CAVORTINGS after an unsuccessful attempt at fine-tuning the feed gripper wheels on the Blue Barn’s printing press resulted in the near blindness of the FCF Cultural Editor, Wm. “The Blade” Theobold. Prior to the injury he had engaged in chastising the publisher for overuse of “uncool” animations on the FCF web log. Later in the evening, while camping near the goat shed he also insulted the Goddess of Oak Trees by claiming that a bottle of Old Crow was meaner than “any f**king oak tree.” She responded by releasing said tree branch he was pulling at and by his own hand poked said left eyelid and damn near his naked eye ball pictured above.

IN CONSEQUENCE, the following morning while parading his bloody nose and eyelid around – it was decided that “Cyclops” might be a more appropriate name for the cultural editor. The press ran better for it, and the oak tree flourished from the pruning. The wily publisher continued posting animations on the net.

THE BUSHEVIKS
VS.
THE BLOGGERS

MEANWHILE IS IT “BUYERS REMORSE” IN PHOENIX? It may have happened last Friday, Ariana Huffington the debutante darling of the reality based community of bloggers, posted a report of a dinner there with Bill Keller’s caustic comments to the National Association of Advertisers:

“No word on how many in his audience choked on
their rubber chicken. I'm sure his therapist would have something to say about
the timing, because Keller made this assertion just as the blogosphere was at
its best -- diving into and carving up the latest developments in the rapidly
unfolding Plamegate saga: new Miller notes, an old Rove email, Fitzgerald's "welcoming" letter
to Libby and his call to Joe Wilson, Rove's follow
up to his follow up to his follow up to his grand jury
testimony, Miller's upcoming Tuesday sit down with Fitzgerald.

As The Note put it this morning: "If you aren't spending 90% of your waking time
thinking about this, talking about this, and doodling on your jeans about this,
then you aren't a member of the Gang of 500, and you probably never will be." In
other words, this is THE story of the moment... and the blogosphere is an
utterly indispensable tool for following and understanding it.
Yes, some intrepid reporters in the mainstream media are providing
key reporting and analysis -- Mike Isikoff at Newsweek, Greg
Mitchell of Editor &
Publisher, Murray Waas at The
National Journal and The
American Prospect, and Anna Schneider-Mayerson, Tom
Scocca and Gabriel
Sherman at the New York
Observer are all doing great work. But if you're
not reading emptywheel at The Next
Hurrah, Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake, Tom Maguire, TalkLeft, Jay Rosen, Mickey
Kaus, and, dare I say it, the Huffington Post, you're not
really getting the full story.”

And she is correct because the mainstream media isn’t about to stoke the coals on the bonfire burning near the Busheviks goat shed at the White House. The domesticated animals in the White House “press corps” have been herded around so much that even an Irish lassie had to teach the graduates from the Corporate School(s) of Journalism on how to go about an interview and not slap our fearless smirking leader in the face. Note that while Huffington praises some above in the MSM, bloggers win hands down on the “full story.”

BLUE BARN STUDY GUIDE
DELIVERS THE NEWS!

“WE TOLD YOU SO,” with the Blue Barn’s “Pandemic Study Outline” three weeks ago and look at how the news story has bloomed all over the place. The critical source of that study guide cited was the same Michael Osterholm who made the presentation at the Wilson Center in DC linked at the end of the report. Now he is sounding the alarm that it is too late for drugs to be manufactured and instead gigantic (Maoist Chinese) mass mobilizations are needed. Therefore it will not happen among the tens of millions of rugged cowboy Americans. When the bird flu comes, many rugged individualists will die on the roads in their monster vehicles transporting televisions, pets and relatives, in that order, out of clogged and jammed interstate highways from the sprawling suburban centers. Mass mobilizations can’t compete with “Reality Television”

It is not too late to learn the history of this coming pandemic and learn some of the remedies posted (buried) within the links. Email us and we will re – transmit it to you in all haste. We will be posting a revised copy of it on the FCF web log this weekend.

Look for another study guide outline from the Blue Barn in Kansas on the hotly debated subject of “Peak Oil” this week. A cheap copy of the award-winning documentary, “THE END OF SUBURBIA” has been circulating among us for weeks, get your copy and start learning about it as it happens.

And what was the funniest satirical piece to appear recently?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/101005F.shtml