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Articleman is doing the things an article can. What's he like? It's not important. But Articleman is a photographer, a Democrat, a lawyer, a cancer survivor, a guest Wednesdays at 8:05 am Pacific talking current events on www.krxa540.com, famously intolerant of anger for its own sake, a co-founder of dagblog, and like Bob Dole, just a man.

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Orlando Motel: Get Your Kicks

by Articleman 8/12/2009 - 9:02 pm   |

The saying is that a picture is worth a thousand words.  Or Rod Stewart says that every picture tells a story.  Well, now it can be told:  This Orlando Motel is located on old Route 66 in northern Arizona, on the segment that runs north of Interstate 40 between Seligman and Kingman.  I'm doing a photo project about old Route 66, and while driving this segment a few weeks ago, saw this particular ruin while driving out of a small town.  I couldn't pass up the chance to take this seedy motel (even seedy kind of understates it) and send the result to O, which I have since done. [Read more]

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Best Star Trek?

by Articleman 8/2/2009 - 4:51 pm   |

This website is about Important Things.  About Discussions That Matter.  About the Debates That Move People.  If persistence of a discussion is any marker of its broader significance then, my friends, there is little more important than a considered analysis of Which Star Trek Is Best (and which Captain, and which villain, and so forth).  Because I am all about the Big Issues, I am here to explain it all for you.  Short answer at the end; you have to wade through the Weighty Analysis to get there. [Read more]

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Orlando Is Better Than Genghis

by Articleman 7/18/2009 - 11:57 am   |

This is an opinion site, so I have to use this forum to share a point that burns within me, and the reasons why I think it.  You see, upon careful, studied reflection, and after close consideration of this important issue, I have concluded to a reasonable degree of scientific certainty that Orlando is better than Genghis.  There are many reasons this is true, and as usual, I am pleased to share them with you. [Read more]

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Articleman's Top 100 Films of All Time

by Articleman 2/22/2009 - 12:37 am   |

 

 

Welcome to my Top 100 films of all time.  I have not included stalwarts of such lists like Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, or, most heretical of all omissions, Citizen Kane.  My favorite directors?  Kieslowski, Ferrara, Scorsese, Peckinpah, Eastwood, Penn, the Lee brothers (Spike and Ang), and Kubrick are all over my list.  As to subjects, lots of vampirism, Westerns, absurdism, antiheroes, and a bit of romance.  What are your top ten flicks of all time?  For mine, simply read on... [Read more]

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'Guez Show: A-Rod Comes Clean, Van Doren Style

by Articleman 2/10/2009 - 1:43 pm   |

Fifty years ago, a New York-based American icon came clean about his history of cheating on the national stage.  Columbia University Professor Charles Van Doren choked up and admitted to the U.S. Congress that he had participated in a rigged quiz show, that he really wasn't the infallible genius our nation and our youth mistook him to be.  This week, another New York-based American icon, home run king Alex Rodriguez, came clean about his use of steroids during the 2001-03 baseball seasons.  Both confessions are eerily similar.  I hope -- but doubt -- that our reactions to them will be eerily similar. [Read more]

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Witnessing History: Attending Obama's Inauguration

by Articleman 1/20/2009 - 6:48 pm   |

I was lucky to stand (with family) in the Silver Section today and to witness Barack Obama's inauguration.  I held my four year old aloft during Barack's oath, telling him before and after to remember it, and kissing him and telling him I loved him.  It was that kind of moment.  A dad trying to impress a moment on his son.  Some fascinating things I saw today, and some thoughts:

Overture (the Mechanics)  [Read more]

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Hurricane Obama and Other Thoughts From Obamafest

by Articleman 1/19/2009 - 7:08 pm   |

The National Mall has morphed into Obamafest, the greatest assemblage of human beings, portable toilets, and political history ever organized.  The densities on the Mall on Saturday and even Sunday have nothing to do with today.  The Mall is thickening with people by the hour.  The fact that more humans are entering the District tonight is amazing, given how many are here now.  Yesterday before the concert was that day before the hurricane when the sky is blue.  Well, it's not blue anymore, and the winds are 60 miles an hour.  There is no way to know what it will be like when the force of Hurricane Obama hits the Mall tomorrow, but it will be amazing, I know this. [Read more]

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January 18 DC Diary: Mallrats

by Articleman 1/18/2009 - 11:06 pm   |

I don't know if you ever saw the Kevin Smith film Mallrats, a sequel of sort to Clerks, but today I was one of the Inaugural Mallrats, the horde of camera-toting lunks ranging up and down the National Mall.  And boy, it felt good.  Started the day with a cab to the House of Representatives office building in which I was to pick up swearing-in tickets.  I had been hoping against hope that they would not be in the Silver Section, which is past the reflecting pool facing the Capitol. Office staff told me:  your tickets are in the Silver Section.  Still felt very lucky.

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The Last Chicago Cardinals Fan

by Articleman 1/17/2009 - 7:00 pm   |

On Sunday, the last Chicago Cardinals fan is going to see something he's waited sixty years to see -- a Cardinals game that matters.  He grew up in Peoria, Illinois, and was ten years old in 1948 when the Cardinals won an NFL championship as he listened on the family radio.  This hooked him.  He followed the Cards until Bears owner George Halas chased them from the Chicago market, followed them through lean years in St.

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I Got the High Score on Prius, And So Can You!

by Articleman 12/29/2008 - 10:21 pm   |

There are those who mistakenly think the Prius is a car -- a tool to get you from one place to another.  Others think of it as a tool to improve energy conservation.  Whatever.  I am here to tell you that in the hands of a true connoisseur, it is so much more than either of those two things:  it is a game, on which you can get a really, really high score.

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