Hi, I’m Mark.Forbes · Clips · LinkedIn · Email Tweet TweetOpinions are very much my own. And they are mostly about Stephen Malkmus.My hair just does that.Tumblr (3.0; @rustbelts)http://www.markhbergen.com/<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/18126907244/tumblr_ltahdrPgXl1qd7qh0&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://punkzappa.tumblr.com/post/18126818561/slow-education-by-silver-jews-when-god-was-young" target="_blank">punkzappa</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Slow Education by Silver Jews</strong></p> <p>When God was young, he made the wind and the sun, and since then it’s been a slow education</p> </blockquote> <p>Oh, oh, oh.</p>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18126907244http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18126907244Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:49:37 -0500bermanthursday<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzu25jspaR1qb5wzno1_400.png"/><br/><br/>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18119596957http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18119596957Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:32:07 -0500birthdaysdubois<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzt91zKdib1qb5wzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18083431812http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18083431812Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:03:32 -0500jobscomplications<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzswnry1QN1qb5wzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>She corrals the boys out the door. Left in the room is her main posse, a distinctly weird mix of 22-year-old girls who could be the ensemble cast of a TV show about misfit teens. There’s Avian, her soft-voiced childhood neighbor, positioned across the pillows, head propped up by her dark skinny arm, like she’s posing for a cheesecake pinup. Kreay’s personal assistant and roommate, Isabel, a giggly Filipina wearing a gigantic sun hat keeps looking in the mirror and proclaiming herself “<em>sooo</em> L.A.” Then there’s a Mohawked videographer in an oversize jeans jacket, Lady Tragik (not her given name), who I probably could have guessed was a lesbian, but she also screamed, “I’m gay and I love Jesus Christ!” down in the hotel lobby earlier. She’s just inserted a giant gold grille over her top front teeth and keeps shining her camera light directly in my eyes asking, “Does this hurt?” It does.</p> </blockquote>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18072205923http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18072205923Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:35:51 -0500bravo banspeople i otherwise wouldn't care aboutprofiles<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RAMm5qn50VA?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Did you know that Tricky sang “happy birthday” to Duke Ellington?</p>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18052626681http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18052626681Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:50:51 -0500one good manand one not so goodcommanders in chief singing<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hhO1DnNKYbo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Not quite Al Green. And yet. (<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/Alex_Ogle" target="_blank">via</a>)</p>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18048423882http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18048423882Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:45:00 -0500againobamasingssweet home chicago<iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rr62vsKD3Cg?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://cordjefferson.tumblr.com/post/18042751208/trick-question-the-sea-and-cake-is-the-only-band" target="_blank">cordjefferson</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Trick question: The Sea and Cake is the only band that ever truly lived.”</p> </blockquote>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18043228056http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18043228056Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:29:07 -0500reblogatoryyes yes yes<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/02/13/120213fa_fact_franzen">did i mention that she was a woman born in 1862 America and so had basically no rights? no? huh.</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://amandahess.tumblr.com/post/18021237351/did-i-mention-that-she-was-a-woman-born-in-1862-america" target="_blank">amandahess</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“No major American novelist has led a more privileged life than Wharton did … To be rich like Wharton may be what all of us secretly or not so secretly want, but privilege like hers isn’t easy to like; it puts her at a moral disadvantage … She was … opposed to … woman suffrage … [Wharton] did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.”</p> </blockquote>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18025629459http://www.markhbergen.com/post/18025629459Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:52:05 -0500franzenfreudehave at 'im<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzqa0pXIiU1qb5wzno1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17997287408http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17997287408Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:31:37 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzq1xpLnyF1qb5wzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Happy 50th.</p>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17995774151http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17995774151Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:05 -0500dfwbirthdayswouldabeens<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/17994516278/tumblr_lzq7foirZy1qb5wzn&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>I remember when it didn’t use to be so hard.</p>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17994516278http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17994516278Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:35:48 -0500jasonthat neil homage at the 6:00 markalmost<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzq29mqCQn1qb5wzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17987841816http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17987841816Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:44:10 -0500some of these work quite well!androgyny<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzpw0mKaJw1qagc5yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17981086362http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17981086362Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:55:02 -0500this works<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzpu5whiCE1qb5wzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17977015505http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17977015505Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:49:08 -0500trickyholiday<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzp5o7RrJc1qz82doo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hman.tumblr.com/post/17946755046/goodness-knows-i-am-easily-amused-but-i-think" target="_blank">hman</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Goodness knows I am easily amused but I think there’s something endearing about George Will saying ‘methinks’.</p> </blockquote> <p>Vladimir Ilyich Lemon.</p>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17947249444http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17947249444Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:13:30 -0500happilygod what if O actually was a Leninist?<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzo7ocaJdb1qzsuffo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://oldfilmsflicker.tumblr.com/post/17922686906/hable-con-ella-2002-dir-pedro-almodovar" target="_blank">oldfilmsflicker</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Hable con ella</strong>, 2002  (dir. Pedro Almodóvar)</p> </blockquote>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17933455992http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17933455992Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:01:37 -0500“Serious questions emerging about the behavior of Representative Michael Grimm, Republican of New York, deserve a thorough inquiry by the Office of Congressional Ethics and the Department of Justice. Mr. Grimm, who highlights his previous service in the military and the F.B.I., denies any wrongdoing. But a detailed tracking of his campaign fund-raising activities by The Times has uncovered a pattern of donations that, as described by donors, would be illegal for exceeding federal limitations, or being paid improperly in cash, or coming from foreigners barred from giving.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/opinion/questions-for-and-about-congressman-grimm.html?_r=1" target="_blank">New York Times Editorial</a> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">soupsoup</a>)</p> <blockquote> <p>Hey Grimm, not sure if you know how this works, but the <em>Lady</em> won’t let up until you step down or get beat. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/huffpost-hill---republica_n_1283318.html" target="_blank">Sorry guy</a>.</p> </blockquote></em>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17933260580http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17933260580Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:57:32 -0500shaolinousters<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lznl8hvfDu1qb5wzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17894208817http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17894208817Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:41:04 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzm1jxiB5M1qb5wzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17846442388http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17846442388Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:38:20 -0500japanflatulenceart<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzlvaemlGr1qb5wzno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>At their best, Lambchop’s records are like kind friends who know how to sugarcoat hard truths.</p> </blockquote> <p>Preach.</p>http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17838954007http://www.markhbergen.com/post/17838954007Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:23:02 -0500getting around to thingskurt