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johnjcook

  1. @samfbiddle @BrianJMoylan @hamiltonnolan Qaeda! You're all Qaeda! 2:03 PM Mar 4th via TweetDeck in reply to samfbiddle
  2. @joeljohnson @irincarmon @BrianJMoylan I'm no longer running music. But the struggle lives on! 1:41 PM Mar 4th via TweetDeck in reply to joeljohnson
  3. @BrianJMoylan There is no revolt, only addled youth on hallucinigens. The people love Tom Waits. I will never relent. 1:27 PM Mar 4th via TweetDeck in reply to BrianJMoylan
  4. "I don’t know why people in music seem to want to squat down." http://nyti.ms/gZnnyF 11:15 AM Mar 4th via TweetDeck
  5. FW de Klerk describes Mandela's imprisonment (jokingly) as "resting for 27 years while I was working very hard." http://bit.ly/i1Qm7E 10:06 AM Mar 4th via TweetDeck
  6. Marines won't explain why Manning was stripped naked for 7 hrs because it would "violate the detainee’s privacy." OK! http://nyti.ms/fxWcb4 6:53 AM Mar 4th via TweetDeck
  7. "Generally speaking, what’s best for human beings...is what’s best for the machine." #skynet http://bit.ly/dHGbE7 7:15 AM Mar 3rd via TweetDeck
  8. Blogs are totally dead, but LIVEBLOGs are still kicking around: http://gizmo.do/g71pkg 10:22 AM Mar 2nd via TweetDeck
  9. Alito just invented a "right of any parent...to bury his son in peace." Abortions tho still aren't in the constitution http://bit.ly/gdfUh4 8:21 AM Mar 2nd via TweetDeck
  10. RT Who said CBGBs was dead? @tommy_stinson: Gonna be playing acoustic show at John Varvatos in NYC tomorrow. 6:37 AM Mar 2nd via TweetDeck
  11. "We trust that AT&T will not take it personally." http://nyti.ms/gXliTx 8:22 PM Mar 1st via TweetDeck
  12. New chief of military special ops is named McRaven. Which I think was on at 9pm after the A-Team from 1984-85 http://bit.ly/dT2II5 2:19 PM Mar 1st via TweetDeck
  13. @felixsalmon I'm not entirely clear on that myself, but I'm glad I was given leave to find another place to put it. 12:28 PM Mar 1st via TweetDeck in reply to felixsalmon
  14. @Adrianchen Don't we all? 11:28 AM Mar 1st via TweetDeck in reply to Adrianchen
  15. Scenes from the Rupert Murdoch script no one wants to produce: http://gaw.kr/dKRjpl 11:28 AM Mar 1st via TweetDeck
  16. The Reporter from Scientology http://bit.ly/fkI58e 11:07 AM Mar 1st via TweetDeck
  17. @Adrianchen "I am going to reveal a secret--there is an operations room in Tel Aviv with the aim of destabiliz… (cont) http://deck.ly/~dXlk6 10:37 AM Mar 1st via TweetDeck in reply to Adrianchen
  18. Epistemological headache: "Chinese police prevent reporters from covering protests that are largely nonexistent. " http://nyti.ms/fWb9ws 6:58 AM Mar 1st via TweetDeck