Today is: Gay Utah finds a new prom queen, Non-Gay Utah hates freedom, Sahara continues to hemorrhage money, Twilight newz!!, and frigging Octomom. The Sundance Film Festival has a new director. John Cooper, a 20-year veteran of the festival who worked in programming, has been moved up to the top sp...

Minns ni 99? Det känns ganska avlägset, eller hur? Året då Napster gör fildelningen folklig, tidningarna Pop och Sound Affects läggs ner och Curtis Mayfield dör. Det var också året då dagensskiva.com tog sina första stapplande steg. Under februari/mars började redaktionen formeras och i ...

Jag väljer att lämna resonemanget kring huruvida det är bättre med texter på svenska eller engelska och konstaterar bara att Dundertåget är Thunder Express med svenska texter i mångt och mycket. Det finns nämligen intressantare frågor att resonera kring när det kommer till Skaffa ny frisy...

King Mohammed VI of Morocco announced today that he would not be attending any Arab summits on Israel's offensive in Gaza because "they will not do much to help the Palestinian people." A number of Arab states have been waffling over holding a summit in Qatar, demonstrating the deep rift amongst Ara...

The words "Venezuela" and "embassy" sure have been a fruitful producer of news stories lately. Try to keep up... 1) As has already been mentioned on Kabobfest, Venezuela has severed diplomatic ties with Israel. After the break-up there were rumors of a "friends with benefits" type situation, but thi...

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced he plans to appoint US diplomat Christopher Ross as his new special envoy to Western Sahara. The previous envoy Peter van Walsum was seen as favoring Morocco after making comments that Western Saharan independence was "unrealistic." It seems tha...

Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. Nej det är inte Steven Van Zandt som pratar om E Street Band. Det är Silvio Dante som gör sin sköna imitation av Michael Corleone. Ett av mångsysslaren Little Stevens många ansikten, kanske rent av det mest kända. Trots att många inte ko...

How to Measure al Qaeda’s Defeat Dr Walid Phares In an article published in the Washington Post on Friday May 30th,CIA Director Michael V. Hayden is quoted as portraying al Qaeda movement as “essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest o...

“Let’s dance, Tom.” In the dizzying sinkhole of modern remakes, enough time has passed with 1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon to dampen fanboy squabbles over a new studio effort. Of course, the sci-fi horror reboot still needs to impress, and that responsibility falls wit...

We’re back in Essaouira after, all told, about 1000 km of driving in and out of the desert. I’m catching up on email and such, but I wanted to post to say that we’d survived, and to point to our 88 photos from the trip (here’s a slideshow, if you prefer). In honour of my Aunt...