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MadV, hacked???

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As our regular readers know (at least, those who read the blog, not the feed, and can watch our discerning and brilliant assortment of YouTubes) we around these parts are big fans of the mysterious, magical MadV. A pseudonymous agitator and artist of the very best kind, he has evolved from a simple kid doing magic tricks in his bedroom into a true thought leader. Naturally, in the current, prank-laden and Anonymous-heavy atmosphere, we take the below announcement with a grain of salt; it could be that he’s been hacked; it could be that he’s playing an elaborate, multi-partite game on us; it could be that the Thetans have got the better of him.

We don’t know.

Nonetheless, we present the following video for your analysis; think of it as the Dramatic Prairie Dog, for Anarchists.

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Cougar News

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Welcome to my world.

Capilano Reservoir

(This is, in fact, the reservoir from which I get my water, a few miles north of here. The North Vancouver city bus goes right there and past, up to the ski hill. This reservoir’s dogs are called Timber Wolves)

This is not the first time cougars, those sleek, troublesome Big Cats have made the news around these parts, and not just because we’re so self-referential. No indeed, cougars, however gorgeous, are often newsworthy for the sheer havoc they leave strewn behind them.

Drunken television hosts enjoying a triple serving of the breakfast of champions.

Why the Today Show waited so long to combine massive martinis, Meredith Vieira and Martha Stewart into a segment is beyond us. After watching two of the most regal small screen dames tip back an early morning stiff one, we’re ready to hand the producers a Daytime Emmy.

Warm text messages and red-hot felony charges.

A Mississippi teacher admitted to cops that she had sex with a 15-year-old male student to whom she sent explicit text messages and trysted with in her Jaguar, which bore the license plate “GRRRRR.”

The rapidly-cooling corpses of the utterly defeated Lee Meriwether and Eartha Kitt.

It’s the original Catwoman, “unretouched & unretired,” in an ad scanned from the back of this week’s AdWeek. She’s ready, at 74(!), to be your brand’s spokesperson.

The shattered hopes and dreams of Ashton Kutcher’s last age-appropriate girl(?)friend.

Wanted: rich older women interested in hot younger guys. Applicants must be over 35, earn at least $US500,000 ($A564,365) a year or have a minimum of $US4 million ($A4.51 million) in liquid assets, entrusted assets or divorce settlement.

That’s the basis of a speed-dating event organised by a New York entrepreneur bringing together 20 ”sugar mamas” and 20 ”boy toys” vetted by an elite New York matchmaker.

”Symbiosis has allowed ugly rich men to attract young, gorgeous, money-hungry women for centuries; it’s now the women’s turn,” proclaims pocketchangenyc.com, the Web site that Jeremy Abelson is using to promote the event.

Ooooh, that reminds me to talk Raj.

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Banksy caught in the act!

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Banksy’s bouquet

One of the great mysteries of the Twenty-First Century has been revealed: the identity of the secretive “Banksy,” perhaps the most (in)famous of all guerrilla graffiti artists. Banksy, whose politically and socially critical works sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars to collectors around the world including the Pitt-Jolie family, is notoriously reclusive. The artist has never been publicly identified, and no previous photos of Banksy at work are known to exist. As you will see from the picture behind the page jump, the patron saint of taggers everywhere has good reason to have kept quiet about that highly inconvenient “day job.”

Banksy Thug for Life

Click onward for the shocking photo evidence.

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the salt mines

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Coal MinersWorking for a living. Yeah, it sucks. The long, monitor-lit hours, from the very moment your afternoon coffee is ready right up until it’s time for cocktails, it is a gruelling, bone-crushing slog. The nightly thrashings from the trolls. The technical difficulties. The next-morning regrets when the boss asks why you posted the decapitation story on a mommyblog.

While some are fortunate enough to get iFreebie after iFreebie, some of us must content ourselves with only a token collection of, say, Viggo Mortensen videos, jewelry, international trips, and squid-themed clothing sent by various well-wishers from across the planet.

Honestly, what’s a humble anarchist squid/parenting/gossip blogger to do?

If you only knew the thousands of twisted, revolting things I have comb through every day just to find you something of the quality of Baby Toupee, show you a scientific video as breathtakingly beautiful as It’s Full of Stars, or compose a symphony of intertextual meaning such as Linkabilly Roundup, you’d bow your head and solemnly click the SUPPORT OPERATION GLOBAL MEDIA DOMINATION Paypal donation button near the

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In any case, as I have recently been asked “How do you know this stuff” I thought I would give you a sample, however small, of the revolting masses of teeming Hollywood effluent through which I must wade day in and day out, slaving away for my crust and a bowl of scummy, tepid water.

Without so much as a Fish Head to gnaw on.

Go on. Click. But be warned: this stuff will fucking break you. You can’t handle it. No one can for long, and retain their sanity. Just be thankful that there are a legion of us bloggers out there protecting you from coming into contact with such things directly. It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it.

You’re welcome. You’re warned.

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the subprime mortage crisis, explained, plus bonus Jérôme Kerviel details

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The Long Johns, John Fortune & John Bird, explain in interview just exactly how the subprime mortgage crisis really happened. Realer than you’d think (stolen from Valleywag)

My current favorite banking scandal-related fact: Jérôme Kerviel, the mild-mannered French rogue banker who lost over €4.9 billion in one month and may have thereby perpetrated the current market cliff-jump, had eleven friends on Facebook.

Parenthetical: Richard Milhous Nixon probably has more friends on Facebook and he’s for reals dead, not just career dead!

But the best part is, after the news broke, one by one as the day continued those eleven friends de-friended him while the journalists of the world watched and snickered. Justice in action! The internet’s revenge is swift, ruthless, and public.

Jérôme KervielFrom the Guardian:

There was speculation he could have been trying to prove himself to the bank, to create his own spectacular method of making profits or simply prove the system could be broken. Union officials warned he might have been caught in a quest for a good bonus…”If he was a genius, then we didn’t spot it, ” said Dominique Chabert, his university tutor. He was “not a student who made an impression on his year, either in a good or bad way”.

Apparently France’s tolerance for tragically mediocre Walter Mitty figures is less than its tolerance for Mickey Rourke.

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