Guess That Group Identity #4

USE THE SIX TETRADS BELOW TO GUESS THAT GROUP IDENTITY

Guess That Group Identity #4

Bull
Whistle
Mike Keenan
The Devil

Penguins

1/2 Ton Pick-Up Truck

The Vikings

Rustler's Rhapsody

 

Red Deer

NHL Entry Draft

Jack Adams

Seven Samurai

Long Island

Blues

John Chapman

Young Guns

Hurricane

Hockey Puck

Dion Phaneuf

Rebel Without a Cause

Brush Fire

Barn

Chief Black Hawk

Six Shooter

additional links

erik hansons backyard twins Family Howe Hulls Stastny

Ref. of the Week: Rick Rubin

Space is the Place

Rick Rubin

Diamond

Cash

Garth Hudson

The Wizard of Oz

 

Michael Fraser Redux

Michael Fraser

 Tiger

Silk Bathrobe

Gary Busey

Richard Jackson of Boogie Nights.

additional posts:

hefner  christopher hitchens delusion cubanismo pepper

Monthly Review

People

Kathlene Vouladakis

Peter Stewart

Richard Long

Michael Fraser 

Michael Schaus

Kim Horning

Genevieve Leia Lacourciere

Jennifer McGregor

Sascha Yamashita

Marshall McLuhan Monday

facebook 

booze 

airplanes 

violence is the quest for identity

Law of the Jungle

Ref. of the Week

lawrence lessig 

gandhi

lewis lapham 

adam curtis 

Guess That Group Identity

  episode 1  
episode 2

 episode 3
 

Specials

the original six 

the media of intoxication

The Mirror Blog

http://brutoniantetrad.blogspot.com/

Marshall McLuhan Monday: Law of the Jungle

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

*all words are links*

Law  of  the  Jungle

The Law of the Jungle Enhanses:

Lawlessness

"nature red in tooth and claw" (Tennyson)

Lynch Law

Kangaroo Court

Kill or be Killed

murder

The Law of the Jungle Retrieves:

artlessness

the noble savage

Power Politics

Off with Restraint

Tarzan's last yell: "Who greased my vine?"

the old west
mob mantality
the vigilante

The Law of the Jungle Reverses Into:

equilibrium

survival of the fittest:  i.e., survival of the survivors

The Law of the Jungle Obsolesces: 

everybody and everything

Guess That Group Identity #3

whodunit?

Use the four tetrads below to sleuth out the identity of the group in question. 

Guess that group identity #3

Apples

Pyramid

Charles Ponzi

Icarus

Natural Gas

Snake Oil

Stephen J. Dannhauser

Atlas Shrugged

Oil

White Collar

George W. Bush

Gordon Gekko

Bubbles

Logo

Arthur Andersen

The Selfish Gene

Ref of the Week: Adam Curtis

ref.

Adam Curtis

Owl

Archival Film Footage

Brian Eno

The Allegory of the Cave

ADDITIONAL LINKS:

THE TRAP THE CENTURY OF THE SELF THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES ERROL MORRIS

THE CAVE BRIAN ENO THE MATRIX 

Sascha Yamashita

A special reminder:  the words are links - including these words.

Sascha Yamashita

Typhoon

Pioneer DJM 700

Stanly Kubrick

Dirty Harry

Spinach

Mechanical Pencil

Sister

Al Calavicci

Marshall Mcluhan Monday on Tuesday

During Marshall McLuhan Monday on Tuesday we will explore one of Marshall McLuhan's favorite aphorisms: 

"Violence is essentially the form of the quest for identity"

-Ray Bradbury

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E
"AQ"

Hitchens
Columbine
Greyhound

martyrdom
Evel Knievel
Alec Baldwin

John Lennon Abraham Lincoln Pope John Paul II Ronald Reagan  Gandhi

9/11 Neoconservatism Islamic Jihad Timothy McVeigh suicide jesus
Glenn Beck  Bill O'Reilly  Sean Hannity  Coulter   Dennis Miller
Jimmy Kimmel  David Letterman  Conan O'brien Jay Leno
Milan Lucic Brandon Prust The Ripper George Laraque
Braveheart Apocalyptico Passion of the Christ oz
Cartel Mafia Corporation Gangs Government
the school yard Jackass rushmore nerds
Tribes Empires  Nation States cities
North  South  and  East West
pirates monsanto   slavery
 Hitler  Pol Pot Nixon
Eisenhower Nuke
gacy manson
Residential
hal  don
e-war
war
W 


This is an incomplete list.  Feel free to post a+ link.

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THE MEDIA OF INTOXICATION

It's Saturday, which means one of the two regular viewers of this blog (my wife and I) won't be exercising, eating well or showering today. This post features some interesting characters in the media of intoxication.  Beware.

India Pale Ale

Hops

Russian River Brewing Company

Michael Jackson

Dionysus

Joint

Cannabis

Rolling Paper

Woody Harrelson

Up in Smoke

Mushroom Tea

Psilocybin Mushrooms

Tea Cup

Paul Stammets

Alice in Wonderland

additional links:

hotdog uh? hammered frank zappa bill hicks herb is a plant The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Chomsky McLuhan Nancy and Ronny errol morris robin williams sarkozy caveh zahidi

time lapse  poison to know and not to do is not to know brain damage

lemurs and millipedes animals getting drunk driving on salvia  writing a letter to congress on salvia

teeth meth garcia/kesey snoop snoop at hockey game george jones country

Q&A with Tommy Chong HST Demonized thanksgiving nancy

punky brewster animal house dazed and confused MJ more michael jackson

nerds

please feel free to leave a link or a comment

GUESS THAT GROUP IDENTITY

Use the two Tetrads to figure out the group identity.  As usual, the words have a link selection for your viewing pleasure.

British Bulldog

Steamboat

Refridgerator Perry

The Sandman

Brown Bear

Demolition

Ayatollah Khomeini

The Incredible Hulk

ref. of the week: Lewis Lapham

"cigarettes are life itself."

ref.

Lewis Lapham

tobacco plant

essay

Mark Twain

Mephistopheles

Jennifer McGregor

*the words are links*

Jennifer McGregor

Strawberry

Pink Pyrex

Amber Tamblyn

Nala

marshall mcluhan monday on tuesday : Airplanes

A road is a flattened-out wheel, rolled up in the belly of an airplane.

 Airplanes

*the words are links*

Aiplanes Enhanse:

Vertical and horizontal locomotion

equipoise, balance

Airplanes Retrieve:

Aerial perspective

levity: works by vacuum (above the wings); glide and float

icarus

Reverses Into:

Projectile

Air into ocean, flying into swimming

Airplanes Obsolesce:

The wheel and the road

Stasis, four-legged (wheeled) equilibrium

next week, plastic water bottles.

Genevieve Leia Lacourciere

**the words are usually links**

Genevieve Leia Lacourciere

Hummingbird

Contact Lenses

Erin Lacourciere

Princess Leia

Genevieve Leia Lacourciere

Volcano

lipstick

Christina Ricci

Little Red Riding Hood

The Kim Horning Double Deuce

(click on the words - they are links)

Kim Horning

Clouds

Bathtub

Ronny James Dio

Little Miss Bossy

Kim Horning 2

Mule

Post it Notes

Loretta Lynn

Thumper

GUESS THAT GROUP IDENTITY

Using the two tetrads below, it should be easy to guess which group this is, but next week it will be impossible.  The words are hyperlinks, just like the rest of the blog.

Apple

Suit

Buddy Holly and the Crickets

The Soercerer's Apprentice

Beetle

LSD

Maharishi

The Walrus and the Carpenter

ref of the week: Gandhi

Be the change you want to see in the World.

ref.

Gandhi

Sea Salt

Sandals

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jesus of Nazareth

Michael Schaus

Michael Schaus

Bee

Tuning Fork

Tom waits

Bawdy Woman

MARSHALL MCLUHAN MONDAY

JOKES ARE GRIEVANCES   

BOOZE

Booze Enhances

Private Outlook

energy and zest

aggressiveness

Booze Retrieves

group sentiment

maslow's rule: 

 "...the closer  a need

comes to being satisfied, the

larger an increment

of additional

gratification will be

required to produce

the same satisfaction."

songs

Bavarian Purity Law, 1516

Booze Reverses Into

depression

hangover

puking

slurring

clumsiness

Booze Obsolesces

integral sensibility

The Rudder

private inhhibitions

Michael Fraser

Mike Fraser

Big Bang

Saxophone

John Lennon

Newton

ref. of the week: Lawrence Lessig

seize the bull

ref.

Lawrence Lessig

bald eagle

Copyright

jack white

clockwork owl

Marshall McLuhan Monday

This weeks MMM features the ubiquitous
social networking site Facebook.
Using Marshall McLuhan's Media Tetrad, 
we will explore a different medium each
week, with accompanying links
and other things to add pizazz.


FACEBOOK 

Facebook Enhances:
nostalgia
memory
rate of retrieval
community
guilt

Facebook Retrieves:
a wave hello
high school popularity: "Look at all my friends!"

publishing/self invasion of privacy

phone books

and now, a general announcement

telegrams

petitions

peeping toms/stalkers

"Look what I found!"

community theatre

photo albums

the invitation

soliloquey

rearview mirror

cooler talk

the fishbowl

book shelves

cave art

parascope

business and care cards

"Just thinking of you!"

Facebook overheats and Reverses into:

escapism

switch off

"Stop, you're making a scene!"

Facebook makes Obsolete:

privacy

communicating in person

Borders/Nation States

autocracy

spelling and Grammar

Closed Court

Richard Long

Richard Long

Japanese Macaque

Penny Farthing Bicycle

Victor of Aveyron

Chronos, The Personification of Time