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tekena: Kurt Cobain

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:40:00 -0700

tekena:

Kurt Cobain

Cool man.

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 19:30:21 -0700

Cool man.

vicemag: So Long, and Thanks for All the Cocaine Griselda...

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:41:57 -0700

vicemag:

So Long, and Thanks for All the Cocaine

Griselda Blanco (aka La Madrina, the Godmother, the Black Widow, Cocaine Cowgirl, Queenpin) waskilled outside a butcher shop in Medellín, Colombia at 3 PM Monday when two men on a motorcycle fired two shots into her head with a revolver. Despite the location, this was unlikely a beef about beef (zing!), and probably had more to do with the scores of people she ruthlessly murdered throughout the 70s and 80s. Yes, in addition to smuggling tons of cocaine from Colombia into the United States and amassing a personal fortune that would make dot com boomers blush, she is allegedly responsible for ordering upwards of 200 homicides in Colombia, Florida, New York, and California.

Miami-Dade County Police victim list of Griselda Blanco’s organization

For decades, law enforcement and the media have credited Blanco with pioneering the undeniably badass motorcycle assassin technique in Colombia and importing it to South Florida, where it was used liberally. Police say she is single-handedly to blame for Miami devolving into the homicide capital of America in the 1980s.

Her sinister exploits were memorialized in two documentaries I directed, Cocaine Cowboys (2006) andCocaine Cowboys II: Hustling with the Godmother (2008). (You can buy them both by clicking on those links, btw. No pressure.)

Born in the poverty-stricken Medellín mountains—like her childhood friend Pablo Escobar—she grew up during La Violencia, Colombia’s vicious civil war, and didn’t waste any time breaking into the murder business. As legend has it, at age 11 she kidnapped a young boy for ransom. When his wealthy valley parents failed to pay, she killed him.

Later in life, years of prostitution and counterfeiting preceded a series of, shall we say, failed marriages. Her ‘Black Widow’ sobriquet was earned by murdering (or ordering the murder of) multiple husbands. It was her relationship with these men, her notorious temper, and her early connection to Escobar that gave her an advantage in the otherwise male-dominated cocaine trade.

Miami News, June 21, 1972

Miami News, June 30, 1973

Blanco used her feminine insight to her advantage. She opened a women’s underwear factory in Colombia that manufactured undergarments with secret compartments so that mules could smuggle cocaine into the US as passengers on commercial airlines.

Miami News, June 4, 1976

By the mid-1970s she’d established herself in Queens, New York as a significant smuggler. She was allegedly behind the 1976 scheme to transport at least 6 kilos of cocaine to Miami aboard the Tall Ship Gloria, sent by the Colombian government to commemorate America’s Bicentennial in a race to New York Harbor. An apt metaphor for the Colombian cocaine invasion that befell America in the decade to follow.

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Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:55:41 -0700

Video

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:49:33 -0700

theplanetofsound: The Who - Heatwave (“Les Mods”, 1965) -...

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:49:09 -0700

theplanetofsound:

The Who - Heatwave (“Les Mods”, 1965) - Martha & The Vandellas Cover

i have such good taste in music.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:09:46 -0700

i have such good taste in music.

noiseymusic: Trust us, you need to watch the amazing new video...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:29:23 -0700

noiseymusic:

Trust us, you need to watch the amazing new video for High On Fire’s “Fertile Green”.

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:27:57 -0700

honey

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:11:35 -0700

honey

dead luke lives

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:08:29 -0700

Dead Luke- Holy Interrogation Self-released single (2012)

dead luke lives

so into this chick right now. so into this dude right now.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 02:03:44 -0700

so into this chick right now. so into this dude right now.

Life is like a fugazi song. (Taken with Instagram at Superior...

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:48:29 -0700

Life is like a fugazi song. (Taken with Instagram at Superior Court Hall of Justice)

comiccourt: Pussy Riot

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:46:25 -0700

comiccourt:

Pussy Riot

eatsleepstrokesrepeat: my precious

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:25:55 -0700

eatsleepstrokesrepeat:

my precious

vicemag: A Pussy Riot of their own in Washington, DC

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:24:31 -0700

vicemag:

A Pussy Riot of their own in Washington, DC

instagram: Seige of Aleppo, Syria For more photos, search the...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 09:26:24 -0700

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instagram:

Seige of Aleppo, Syria

For more photos, search the hashtag #aleppo.

The city of Aleppo has been a holdout of rebel control since the Arab uprisings spread to Syria in 2011.

Press access and movement has long been restricted within Syria, which makes reporting stories and verifying facts notoriously difficult. The unpredictable violence plaguing Syria also makes reporting exceedingly dangerous.

The photos above, posted by Syrians living in Aleppo, are the latest documentation of the escalating conflict. On Friday, the New York Times reported that government helicopters fired on neighborhoods, and tanks approached the southern end of town.

Beldi cocktail (Taken with Instagram at West Restaurant Bar)

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:34:03 -0700

Beldi cocktail (Taken with Instagram at West Restaurant Bar)

#specificnorthwest (Taken with Instagram at S Pender Island)

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:30:21 -0700

#specificnorthwest (Taken with Instagram at S Pender Island)

Taken with Instagram at pender island

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 08:19:58 -0700

Taken with Instagram at pender island