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TWAt: bloggers as enemies

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Say hello to Josh Wolf, the second American I know of to be jailed for blog content (the first was a hapless Middle-American who blithely snapped a photo of the hotel in which Cheney was staying, several years ago. He has since been sprung). Let’s go to the ever-reliable BoingBoing for the report:

Earlier this month, San Francisco-based blogger Josh Wolf was jailed for refusing to hand over video to the federal government. He shot the footage at a 2005 G8 protest in San Francisco.

Details about the video, why authorities wanted it, and why Wolf declined, are here. The incident is the first I know of in which a blogger has been jailed for not relinquishing content on demand.

Violet Blue writes,

There are two benefits coming up; one is this Saturday the 19th at Cafe La Boheme and another is Thursday the 24th at House of Shields — and if you can’t make it to either, donate to his legal fund. Our local politicians are fumbling around with little more than two hands and a flashlight trying to figure out what to do, and SFMike is all over it in his deatiled Civic Center post about the supes trying to pass *something* more than gas in Josh Wolf Rules (Kimo Crossman points us to video of this session here). Interesting to note that the SFPD didn’t bother to show up for the hearing, isn’t it? In case it wasn’t obvious, Josh is still in jail for refusing to hand over the video he shot — but he’s not silent, as pal Jackson West is exchanging letters (analog email) with Josh and transcribing Josh‘s mail into blog posts over at The Revolution Will Be Televised. There’s a wiki, too. Josh would love to get mail, so if you still remember what a pen is, drop him a line at:

Federal Correctional Institution – Dublin
Joshua Wolf 98005-111
5701 8th St. Camp-Parks, Unit J2
Dublin, CA 94568

Link. Photo of Josh Wolf by punkmonksf.

Previously on BoingBoing:

Videoblogger’s protest footage demanded by FBI

Blogger jailed for refusing to hand over video

Hollywood Star o’ the Day: a bi-fecta of Cloris Leachman!

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It appears that no force, however decadent, can resist the sheer human power of Cloris Leachman, in her eighties, giving it her showbiz all. Both the Fuggers and Defamer, two of the most selfconsciously jaded sites around, have fallen for Nurse Rached.

The Fuggers:

If you had said to me a year ago, “Heather, sometime in August 2006, you will see a photograph of Cloris Leachman wearing a foot-eating boho skirt, a strange, puffy white shirt, and a belt made of strips of leather that sits Federline-low — and she will not only look drunk, but she will be holding a keg over her head like she’s about to Donkey Kong that thing through a row of frat boys,” I would have smiled, told you that you looked very pretty in that outfit, and promptly delivered you to the nearest House of Bedlam, where you and your insane babble clearly would have belonged.

Cloris and Keg!

And from Defamer where, for once, no one dared defame the star:

Defamer Frozen Moments: Cloris Leachman Shows The Kids How It’s Done At ‘Beerfest’ Premiere
 At last night’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre premiere of Beerfest, once octogenarian star Cloris Leachman was gently lowered back onto her feet by director Jay Chandrasekhar after completing a potentially life-threatening, five-minute keg stand, she punctuated the unexpected display of her incredible drinking capacity by hoisting aloft the fully drained keg and emitting a belch so powerful that it cracked the slab of concrete in the nearby courtyard containing Judy Garland’s handprints. “Top that, you little bitches,” challenged Leachman as she strolled past her much younger, tragically lightweight castmates and into the screening.

Thus, a Hollywood legend is born.

I’d like to thank the academy…if I thought any of them gave a rat’s ass…

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practical uses for an Emmy

Well, it seems that those who are devalued by having their Emmys split off from the rest and consigned in the middle of a normal Wednesday, without benefit of television coverage, might be a tad bitter about it.

Whodathunkit?

From Defamer (and please excuse formatting weirdness; it’s WordPress’ fault!):

Take this novel Emmy-repurposing as a commentary on how some Creative Arts victors might feel about having their ceremony held in untelevised obscurity a week before the more glamorous primetime event if you must, but we find it a wholly practical use of a glittery eyesore that would otherwise be nothing more than a dust-collecting conversation piece going to waste on a mantel. In any event, we’re glad it’s being deployed as a toilet tissue holder and not a personal hygiene device, as the aureate angel’s pointed wings were clearly not designed to be placed anywhere near sensitive parts of the human anatomy.

Operation Global Media Domination: The Technorati Treatment

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TIABrutal. Brutal.

For the first time in this young blog’s life, it’s been demoted, and that immediately after adding a snazzy “add to Technorati favorites” button in the sidebar.

Is this gratitude? I ASK YOU?!?!?

Breathe, raincoaster, breathe. Find the still centre. And strike from there with your whole being.

So, yesterday it seems there were 50.5 million blogs in the world, and mine was 49,000 and change. Today there are 52 million blogs and mine is Rank: 50,075 (182 links from 51 blogs) . And it’s forgotten all about the links from Liberty Forum and Nastyfuckingporn.com, as if they never existed, as if they never mattered.

NOT THAT I’M FUCKING BITTER!!!!!!

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Oh, Perish the thought! I wonder how long it’ll take me to hunt down and exterminate 1.5 million bloggers?

Harcourt Fenton Mudd, a man after my own heart...and whatever it'll fetch on the open market

Today in Giant Squid News: a special guest appearance on Family Guy

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Everybody loves them some Calamari Grande!