People say prostitute is the oldest profession, schoolteacher is as old by a day

This was very much a thing. The emotions wrapped up in iPods back in the day are incalculable. It was the tool that set us lumpenproles free back in the day

This is an exquisitely beautiful project. I'm reminded of the excellent documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) by Thom Andersen. [it's on Hoopla and Kanopy]

I'd watch that movie

> appeal to the "non-existent" center

This is an insane notion. The center decides all elections in a two party system.

Then why does the US have a far right gov't?

Stretch out the time horizon. There's been a consistent tick tock pattern that stretches back to 1776. The United States vacillates from one extreme to another. It's our defining characteristic. The people who find themselves drunk with power become the caricature that disgusts the non-political center into voting them out of power so that a new cadre of political leeches can take office and become their own kind of disgusting caricature.

There is no political spectrum that makes sense where you could define Biden or Clinton as any kind of "extreme."

Looking to China as a purveyor of laissez faire freedom to do whatever you want is so nonsensical as to be a joke. Both US government and the Chinese government want this newfound power to be on a tight leash.

Closer to the Heart by Rush

this is reminding me of the dearly departed website and news outlet Photography Is Not a Crime. Carlos Miller a name worth remembering.

This is why you always launder, amateurs. Fences and obfuscation.