This Modern World:
"Parade performers will have security escorts to the bathroom, and they've been ordered not to look directly at President Bush or make any sudden movements while passing the reviewing stand."
if you look directly at him you can see he's a reptile.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
today
Well, today I started managing the queue instead of taking calls. Which means I only spend a short time on each case, but I touch every one... So, I'm pretty busy all day. I decided to be the queue manager when they asked because it meant switching to the 9-6 shift. The 9-6 shift means I'll still be able to work with IBP, however after the first day, I don't exactly love the queue gig. It should get better... but today was stressful and crazy. Tonight I've got Mathlete practice after they're done with Medea rehearsal up at The Axiom. If I didn't know we were planning to learn a couple more new songs tonight (one of Ryan's and a Bjork cover) I would be tempted to call Joe and tell him I'm taking the night off. But I know if I get in the habit it'll just be that much easier to skip again when I'm beat. So, it's off to Mathletes practice for me. God I miss unemployment.
There's something to be said for sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. Of course eventually you can't afford food, and the fear of eviction keeps you up nights. All I know for sure is that there has to be something better than working for a living.
So whattaya got?
anything?
There's something to be said for sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. Of course eventually you can't afford food, and the fear of eviction keeps you up nights. All I know for sure is that there has to be something better than working for a living.
So whattaya got?
anything?
blah blah blah
New responsibilities at work will mean much less blogging during the day...boo!had BLP band rehearsal last night...sounding great...really coming together.
no time to say ANYTHING else...haven't even got to do ANY reading today...grr...
no time to say ANYTHING else...haven't even got to do ANY reading today...grr...
Monday, January 17, 2005
the weekend is over
Friday Night - went to see Lydia Lunch perform at The Axiom. I've been a fan for years and it was great to finally see/hear her.There were two shows, and I went to the late one.Both shows sold out and she sold all her merch before the 2nd show even started.The show strated with politics and God...kind of disappointing,if only because, I can pick, at random, any one of my friends and hear almost the exact same thing. At least one great line stood out,"War is menstrual envy". Tony says in the first show the politics stuff was much stronger and segued better into the 2nd half. The second half of the show was all about sex with young men who like to cut themselves, and, oh yeah, cocaine. It was strong stuff with some very powerful images. Although I couldn't relate to the extremity of the situations she was describing, I have dated a cutter and I do understand that desire to SAVE folks. Bottom line: incredibly powerful stuff and I'm glad I went. after the show just did the usual hanging out at the axiom, drinking whiskey and engaging in other indulgences. Talked to Paul and the other BLP'ers about the upcoming show for a bit and left there a little after 2.
Saturday - Got up when Tom woke me up to borrow my keys so he could take Velocity with him to the KTRU kids show. Went ahead and took my shower and got ready to face the day. About 12:30 I decided I'd go down to the corner store and get a snack to hold me over until I Tom got back and I could go to lunch proper. But of course I forgot Tom had my keys, so I locked myself out. Decided to walk down to Luby's which was actually a pleasant walk. Read the paper and had some lunch. FOR THE RECORD: Luby's new waitstaff arrangement SUCKS! I sat through my entire meal before I got a refill on my tea, and I had to tip for that. The old setup with just a couple of tea ladies on shift and a couple of bus boys seemed more efficient. Now the customer is paying more for service he used to get for free, and the service isn't as good. C'mon pappas gang, y'all can do better. Got home and eventaully got together with Charlie.
Worked some with him dropping down the last FOK session to the PC so it could be mastered and burned. Came out sounding pretty good. Look for a bundle of FOK discs to show up on Charlie's Cafe Press page any day now. Think FOK has decided to alternate between small group recordings (charlie and danny, sometimes with a drummer) and large group recordings at my place... real interested to see where this goes... should be fun.
Around 5:30 Aileen came by and we worked on the finale again for a couple of hours. layered in more effects and tightened it up a bit. I feel like I kind of rushed her off before we were done, but we're supposed to get together again this week to touch it up a bit more, and maybe add more to some of the other songs. I'm going to call her tonight and we'll figure out when.
After working with Aileen I rode up with Joe to a beach House that some of the IBP folks had rented. That night I just ate some amazing leftovers (Tamarie is an great cook)... I had pasta AND fried chicken! YUM! then I drank some tequila, played some poker (Joe won) and then fell asleep in a chair. Moved to the floor later, and had a backache Sunday. Sunday we watched some bootleg DVD's Mr. Winscott had brought along...We watched a Kiss show from 77. They rocked. I actually almost liked them live. It was like the MC5 without the politics or the drugs. Just stupid fun rock, and much more rockin' live than on record. Then we watched a bit of a Police show from 80. They were excellent then. High Energy, seemed to be having fun, etc. Mostly what I noticed is that they had a lot in common with Gang of Four, the slits, and many other british bands from that period that I really dig, only the police are better musicians, which for me, somehow, makes them less interesting...go figure. Next up was a CARS show from 84. What I learned from that is that The Cars really sucked in 84. I mean they were o.k. but it was so much more about sunglasses and miami vice jackets. Nowhere near as cool as The Cars from just a few years before. Then Tamarie had breakfast ready. Once again, YUM! Sausage, bacon, potatoes, migas, and cinammon rolls. I ate a lot, and then I got seconds. We hung out and flew some kites, and just kind of relaxed for a while. Then Tamarie made queso and we ate that. Then Joe and I headed on home.
Charlie was waiting on my porch and we started setting up for TDU practice. Bill called and had car trouble and he didn't make it, and Jo Bird didn't show up, but we had a pretty interesting session. Hopefully Charlie will have it dropped down to CD soon. Can't wait to hear it. TDU is becoming a much more keyboard heavy band, and just generally more psychedelic...both good things... Gonna try to setup a show at superhappy soon. After practice we ate some pizza I had ordered during the break and listened back to some previous practices. I did laundry, and then went to bed. Watched the first half or so of a pretty bad movie that I'll talk more about after I've finished it.
and now I'm at work...whooohoo!
Saturday - Got up when Tom woke me up to borrow my keys so he could take Velocity with him to the KTRU kids show. Went ahead and took my shower and got ready to face the day. About 12:30 I decided I'd go down to the corner store and get a snack to hold me over until I Tom got back and I could go to lunch proper. But of course I forgot Tom had my keys, so I locked myself out. Decided to walk down to Luby's which was actually a pleasant walk. Read the paper and had some lunch. FOR THE RECORD: Luby's new waitstaff arrangement SUCKS! I sat through my entire meal before I got a refill on my tea, and I had to tip for that. The old setup with just a couple of tea ladies on shift and a couple of bus boys seemed more efficient. Now the customer is paying more for service he used to get for free, and the service isn't as good. C'mon pappas gang, y'all can do better. Got home and eventaully got together with Charlie.
Worked some with him dropping down the last FOK session to the PC so it could be mastered and burned. Came out sounding pretty good. Look for a bundle of FOK discs to show up on Charlie's Cafe Press page any day now. Think FOK has decided to alternate between small group recordings (charlie and danny, sometimes with a drummer) and large group recordings at my place... real interested to see where this goes... should be fun.
Around 5:30 Aileen came by and we worked on the finale again for a couple of hours. layered in more effects and tightened it up a bit. I feel like I kind of rushed her off before we were done, but we're supposed to get together again this week to touch it up a bit more, and maybe add more to some of the other songs. I'm going to call her tonight and we'll figure out when.
After working with Aileen I rode up with Joe to a beach House that some of the IBP folks had rented. That night I just ate some amazing leftovers (Tamarie is an great cook)... I had pasta AND fried chicken! YUM! then I drank some tequila, played some poker (Joe won) and then fell asleep in a chair. Moved to the floor later, and had a backache Sunday. Sunday we watched some bootleg DVD's Mr. Winscott had brought along...We watched a Kiss show from 77. They rocked. I actually almost liked them live. It was like the MC5 without the politics or the drugs. Just stupid fun rock, and much more rockin' live than on record. Then we watched a bit of a Police show from 80. They were excellent then. High Energy, seemed to be having fun, etc. Mostly what I noticed is that they had a lot in common with Gang of Four, the slits, and many other british bands from that period that I really dig, only the police are better musicians, which for me, somehow, makes them less interesting...go figure. Next up was a CARS show from 84. What I learned from that is that The Cars really sucked in 84. I mean they were o.k. but it was so much more about sunglasses and miami vice jackets. Nowhere near as cool as The Cars from just a few years before. Then Tamarie had breakfast ready. Once again, YUM! Sausage, bacon, potatoes, migas, and cinammon rolls. I ate a lot, and then I got seconds. We hung out and flew some kites, and just kind of relaxed for a while. Then Tamarie made queso and we ate that. Then Joe and I headed on home.
Charlie was waiting on my porch and we started setting up for TDU practice. Bill called and had car trouble and he didn't make it, and Jo Bird didn't show up, but we had a pretty interesting session. Hopefully Charlie will have it dropped down to CD soon. Can't wait to hear it. TDU is becoming a much more keyboard heavy band, and just generally more psychedelic...both good things... Gonna try to setup a show at superhappy soon. After practice we ate some pizza I had ordered during the break and listened back to some previous practices. I did laundry, and then went to bed. Watched the first half or so of a pretty bad movie that I'll talk more about after I've finished it.
and now I'm at work...whooohoo!
Friday, January 14, 2005
del.icio.us
del.icio.us
Here's a great time killer for ya...
if yr not familiar, del.icio.us is a way to categorize and share your bookmarks online...
the front page is a constantly changing list of links people have recently added...
when I'm through with my regular daily sites I hit del.icio.us and spend some time looking at random sites that look interesting...
check it out!
I bet you'll find something on the front page that is interesting,
and that you've never seen.
Here's a great time killer for ya...
if yr not familiar, del.icio.us is a way to categorize and share your bookmarks online...
the front page is a constantly changing list of links people have recently added...
when I'm through with my regular daily sites I hit del.icio.us and spend some time looking at random sites that look interesting...
check it out!
I bet you'll find something on the front page that is interesting,
and that you've never seen.
Battlestar Galactica Blog
Battlestar Galactica Blog
Since Battlestar is on the list of things I'll be talking about here, and I just discovered this blog, and I think tonight is the American premiere on SCI-FI, I thought I'd link to it...
be sure and read the Richard Hatch diary...
it's good.
touches on his struggle to continue rather than re-imagine BG,
and his first appearance as Tom Zarich. It also proves I'm not imagining things. Even he says he's a better actor now, and he attributes it to stuggling for so many years after his initial success on the original BG. Anyway, good strong honest stuff.
Since Battlestar is on the list of things I'll be talking about here, and I just discovered this blog, and I think tonight is the American premiere on SCI-FI, I thought I'd link to it...
be sure and read the Richard Hatch diary...
it's good.
touches on his struggle to continue rather than re-imagine BG,
and his first appearance as Tom Zarich. It also proves I'm not imagining things. Even he says he's a better actor now, and he attributes it to stuggling for so many years after his initial success on the original BG. Anyway, good strong honest stuff.
Have a seat...
RIGHT ON!
this is brilliant stuff!
just discovered this site, and this is the most interesting entry on the front page right now...
I WANT MY GODOT CHAIR!
really though, go to the main page and check out some of the other ideas/products/pieces there...
very cool.
this is brilliant stuff!
just discovered this site, and this is the most interesting entry on the front page right now...
I WANT MY GODOT CHAIR!
really though, go to the main page and check out some of the other ideas/products/pieces there...
very cool.
Today's Oblique Strategy
Oblique Strategies:
"Question the heroic approach"
So today, I'll be asking for help. Whenever I think I might need it. I have a tendency at work to make assumptions and move forward. Today I'll curb that, slow down a bit, and ask questions.
look for The Oblique Strategy of the Day to become a semi-regular feature...
"Question the heroic approach"
So today, I'll be asking for help. Whenever I think I might need it. I have a tendency at work to make assumptions and move forward. Today I'll curb that, slow down a bit, and ask questions.
look for The Oblique Strategy of the Day to become a semi-regular feature...
they don't know what they're missing...
Thursday night-THE BLP POWER HOUR!!
argh!
Blogger just ate a long post about the BLP power hour read-through...
and my theories on Lost, and how pathetic Quaid looked on The Daily Show...
grr...
sum up:
BLP Show: Funnier than even I thought! Kelly sounded GREAT and Wendy Chicago is brilliant!
Lost: Compass? hollow earth?!? Locke didn't give the kid drugs...Island causes hallucinations...manifestations of the Id...echoes of forbidden planet...better be answers in the end....
Daily Show: Quaid looked more like a pathetic middle aged man than I do.
Blogger just ate a long post about the BLP power hour read-through...
and my theories on Lost, and how pathetic Quaid looked on The Daily Show...
grr...
sum up:
BLP Show: Funnier than even I thought! Kelly sounded GREAT and Wendy Chicago is brilliant!
Lost: Compass? hollow earth?!? Locke didn't give the kid drugs...Island causes hallucinations...manifestations of the Id...echoes of forbidden planet...better be answers in the end....
Daily Show: Quaid looked more like a pathetic middle aged man than I do.
Thursday, January 13, 2005
THE BIG NEWS!
The Daily Howler
"Note to Gregory (pet name: Stretch): When a president lies in the face of the people, that is the day’s biggest news."
if yer not reading the howly, like daily, then shame on you!
I'm not blogging the social security scam...
suffice it to say folks a lot smarter than me (Talking Points Memo, Atrios, etc) are doing a fine job of documenting the shrub's LIES on this one... They've already taken our present, and now they want our future...
I think the only reasonable response is a hearty, "FUCK YOU!"
Educate yourself on this issue. The facts are out there. Make sure your reps and senators have the same facts. It's important.
And now I'll shut up about social security...
if the crazies are right it'll all be over in 2012 anyway...
"Note to Gregory (pet name: Stretch): When a president lies in the face of the people, that is the day’s biggest news."
if yer not reading the howly, like daily, then shame on you!
I'm not blogging the social security scam...
suffice it to say folks a lot smarter than me (Talking Points Memo, Atrios, etc) are doing a fine job of documenting the shrub's LIES on this one... They've already taken our present, and now they want our future...
I think the only reasonable response is a hearty, "FUCK YOU!"
Educate yourself on this issue. The facts are out there. Make sure your reps and senators have the same facts. It's important.
And now I'll shut up about social security...
if the crazies are right it'll all be over in 2012 anyway...
Wednesday - FOK - MATHLETES - VERONICA MARS
Below you can hear a few seconds of last night's Fist of Kong session.
It was fun, but I had just got home from work and had some problems concentrating.
Playing free improv is great fun, but if you can't get your head in the game it can be VERY frustrating. Every time I would lay out to listen for a bit I'd find my head wandering and being everywhere but in the room, in the moment...
Fist of Kong is usually just Charlie and Danny, but occasionally, and hopefully more often, they expand out to a larger group...it's mostly fire music...high energy free jazz in the "new thing" tradition...Last night we had Rose Lange (viola), Jim Otterson (guitar), Me (tromobone), Tom Zermeno (percussion, voice), in addition to Charlie (sax) and Danny (bass).
Nice group. We recorded the session on the Mini-disc. But we're having a problem with playback right now (hopefully just the headphone cord) so it'll be a while before we drop it to CD.
Next up - The Mathletes - we had our first (short) practice for the BLP Power Hour...
worked up:
"Walk on the Wild Side" which Walt will be singing, as "Biff"
"Brazosport" to the tune of "Galveston"
and
"By the time I get to Sweeney" to the tune of "By the time I get to Pheonix"
tried to audioblog from practice, but I guess I did something wrong...
still playing with that...
it's o.k. cause Joe decided to start playing some danged smashing pumpkins song when I started recording...so I was probably just gonna delete it anyway...
going to keep experimenting with the audioblog feature...
should be able to present y'all with snippets from things I'm working on as they are in progress, or little bits of practices or sessions as they happen...
looking forward to playing around with it.
Got home and watched the latest Veronica Mars before bed...
it's not Buffy, but it's not bad...some advancement on the main story...
some interesting twists...and the cute witty girl saved the day, as usual...
Here's the thing... I think I'm an addict. I'm addicted to narrative. Comic books, TV shows, Novels, doesn't matter how I get my fix so long as I get it... I want convoluted continuity and twists and characters and witty dialogue and the whole bit...I NEED STORIES!!! so I find myself watching a lot of TV (more than when I actually had an antennae or cable hooked up), reading a lot of comics, and getting my fix wherever I can. So far I haven't started pawning stuff to buy narratives, but it's only a matter of time before I'm some kind of story ho...
Is there such a thing as narratives anonymous?
It was fun, but I had just got home from work and had some problems concentrating.
Playing free improv is great fun, but if you can't get your head in the game it can be VERY frustrating. Every time I would lay out to listen for a bit I'd find my head wandering and being everywhere but in the room, in the moment...
Fist of Kong is usually just Charlie and Danny, but occasionally, and hopefully more often, they expand out to a larger group...it's mostly fire music...high energy free jazz in the "new thing" tradition...Last night we had Rose Lange (viola), Jim Otterson (guitar), Me (tromobone), Tom Zermeno (percussion, voice), in addition to Charlie (sax) and Danny (bass).
Nice group. We recorded the session on the Mini-disc. But we're having a problem with playback right now (hopefully just the headphone cord) so it'll be a while before we drop it to CD.
Next up - The Mathletes - we had our first (short) practice for the BLP Power Hour...
worked up:
"Walk on the Wild Side" which Walt will be singing, as "Biff"
"Brazosport" to the tune of "Galveston"
and
"By the time I get to Sweeney" to the tune of "By the time I get to Pheonix"
tried to audioblog from practice, but I guess I did something wrong...
still playing with that...
it's o.k. cause Joe decided to start playing some danged smashing pumpkins song when I started recording...so I was probably just gonna delete it anyway...
going to keep experimenting with the audioblog feature...
should be able to present y'all with snippets from things I'm working on as they are in progress, or little bits of practices or sessions as they happen...
looking forward to playing around with it.
Got home and watched the latest Veronica Mars before bed...
it's not Buffy, but it's not bad...some advancement on the main story...
some interesting twists...and the cute witty girl saved the day, as usual...
Here's the thing... I think I'm an addict. I'm addicted to narrative. Comic books, TV shows, Novels, doesn't matter how I get my fix so long as I get it... I want convoluted continuity and twists and characters and witty dialogue and the whole bit...I NEED STORIES!!! so I find myself watching a lot of TV (more than when I actually had an antennae or cable hooked up), reading a lot of comics, and getting my fix wherever I can. So far I haven't started pawning stuff to buy narratives, but it's only a matter of time before I'm some kind of story ho...
Is there such a thing as narratives anonymous?
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
News from The Roanoke Times -Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition
News from The Roanoke Times -Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition
Next season on Ali G.
via Fark.
Borat is gonna get his ass beat one of these days.
Next season on Ali G.
via Fark.
Borat is gonna get his ass beat one of these days.
Building a solid-state mini-ITX Linux recording studio
Building a solid-state mini-ITX Linux recording studio:
"This simple embedded Linux project builds a dedicated music recording and editing computer that uses a CompactFlash card instead of a hard drive, to eliminate hard disk chatter. The project is simple because it starts with an embedded Linux distribution: a 'Live CD' released last week by the Agnula Project. "
any of you real tech-heads out there want to build me one of these?
I'll even sign a maintenance contract for support...
since I know nothing about linux and probably never will...
"This simple embedded Linux project builds a dedicated music recording and editing computer that uses a CompactFlash card instead of a hard drive, to eliminate hard disk chatter. The project is simple because it starts with an embedded Linux distribution: a 'Live CD' released last week by the Agnula Project. "
any of you real tech-heads out there want to build me one of these?
I'll even sign a maintenance contract for support...
since I know nothing about linux and probably never will...
Daily Kos
Daily Kos: "This morning, the Supreme Court issued a widely anticipated decision on the constitutionality of the federal sentencing guidelines. While details are scarce at the moment, it appears that the Court has declared the guidelines largely unconstitutional, holding that they can no longer be considered mandatory."
This is beautiful news!
Let's hear it for an independent judiciary!
hip hip hooray!
This is beautiful news!
Let's hear it for an independent judiciary!
hip hip hooray!
Tuesday night - car trouble, the mathletes and more
So, I go out to my car at lunch yesterday. Just going to move it to the closer parking lot. But, alack and alas, I left my lights on. So the danged thing won't start. After work my team lead agrees to jump start my car. Well, we try for about 20 minutes and get nothing. Then we wave down the parking lot security guy and he tries. Somehow, this time it works.
I get home just in time to catch Tom watching the new ep of Battlestar Galactica. Another political intrigue ep, very little action. It did however forward some major plotlines and feature the return of Tom Zarek. Tom Zarek is a former terrorist who is now trying to become a legitimate political leader, and he's played by Richard Hatch. That's right. Richard Hatch. And he can act. It's actually amazing how good this show is. Especially when compared with the original. They are playing with some big ideas here, and there are some genuinely interesting characters. Up next in the cue was Stargate Atlantis. They used an imminent wraith attack to give us a clip show. Better than your average clip show I guess. Incredibly cheesy at points, but I laughed out loud at Dr. McKay several times. I was entertained.
Then it was time to load up and head to Mathletes practice. Ya know what? The Mathletes are starting to function and feel like a real band. Last night we whipped through everything we know in about an hour. I haven't had this much fun being in a band in a LONG time. Until recently we hadn't practiced regularly in MONTHS. Joe and I were both in Puppet Liberation Front and Baal and we never seemed to find time to practice. Well now we're playing at least once a week, learning new songs, and trying to book gigs. It's great. Hopefully we can keep it up even when Medea kicks in full swing.
Tonight I've got a session at my house with the extended FIST OF KONG and then more Mathletes practice as we start to prepare for THE BLP POWER HOUR!! WHOOHOO!!!
I get home just in time to catch Tom watching the new ep of Battlestar Galactica. Another political intrigue ep, very little action. It did however forward some major plotlines and feature the return of Tom Zarek. Tom Zarek is a former terrorist who is now trying to become a legitimate political leader, and he's played by Richard Hatch. That's right. Richard Hatch. And he can act. It's actually amazing how good this show is. Especially when compared with the original. They are playing with some big ideas here, and there are some genuinely interesting characters. Up next in the cue was Stargate Atlantis. They used an imminent wraith attack to give us a clip show. Better than your average clip show I guess. Incredibly cheesy at points, but I laughed out loud at Dr. McKay several times. I was entertained.
Then it was time to load up and head to Mathletes practice. Ya know what? The Mathletes are starting to function and feel like a real band. Last night we whipped through everything we know in about an hour. I haven't had this much fun being in a band in a LONG time. Until recently we hadn't practiced regularly in MONTHS. Joe and I were both in Puppet Liberation Front and Baal and we never seemed to find time to practice. Well now we're playing at least once a week, learning new songs, and trying to book gigs. It's great. Hopefully we can keep it up even when Medea kicks in full swing.
Tonight I've got a session at my house with the extended FIST OF KONG and then more Mathletes practice as we start to prepare for THE BLP POWER HOUR!! WHOOHOO!!!
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Monday night - TV NIGHT!!!
yup...caught up on some d/l'ed tv last night...
watched the new episode of "Huff". Great cast, and some funny moments on this show...but it's a real downer...more than "Six Feet Under"... I almost decided to stop watching it after last weeks "Cancer Christmas Special". It's just one outrageous catastrophe after another. When my favorite character on a show is a coked up lawyer, that can't be good. Especially if my second favorite character is an overbearing mother. Watching this for the performances mostly as I can't seem to care much about most of the characters...
next up was "Boston Legal". Caught this once accidentally at my mom's house, and I was hooked. Spader and Shatner! This may be junk food but, mmmm, is it tasty! and this week they added Candace Bergen (Candace is interesting to me not just because she's a great actress with spot on comic timing, but because she is Edgar Bergen's daughter. I went through a ventriloquism phase as a kid and spent many hours studying with my Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen "learn to be a ventriloquist" records...) So, anyway, if you've got time to kill you coul do alot worse than watch this show.
Then I watched the first two eps of this season's "24". Never watched the show before, but it seems like it's going to be quite a ride. I am sure lots of folks have more interesting things to say about it than I do... So I'll let them.
Then I finished watching "Mystic River". Great acting, real complexity, and still didn't really grab me... Eastwood's pictures are always so understated...which is good theoretically, it's just, well sometimes it makes it hard to have the emotional grab the story should have...
that said this could have had a real afterschool special/movie of the week/melodrama thing going so it could have been A LOT worse... If it's in your netflix cue it's worth watching, it's just, well, not that exciting.
all this fine viewing was only interrupted by Charlie and Shari coming over to borrow some drums for a recording project they are working on, that I for one CAN NOT wait to hear...
Tonight is rehearsal for The Mathletes/BLP Power Hour band. Should be interesting...
I'll blog more about the show soon. It's gonna be a hoot.
and if we're done in time I'll be getting my sci-fi fix with the latest eps of Stargate:Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica...
WHOOOHOOO!
watched the new episode of "Huff". Great cast, and some funny moments on this show...but it's a real downer...more than "Six Feet Under"... I almost decided to stop watching it after last weeks "Cancer Christmas Special". It's just one outrageous catastrophe after another. When my favorite character on a show is a coked up lawyer, that can't be good. Especially if my second favorite character is an overbearing mother. Watching this for the performances mostly as I can't seem to care much about most of the characters...
next up was "Boston Legal". Caught this once accidentally at my mom's house, and I was hooked. Spader and Shatner! This may be junk food but, mmmm, is it tasty! and this week they added Candace Bergen (Candace is interesting to me not just because she's a great actress with spot on comic timing, but because she is Edgar Bergen's daughter. I went through a ventriloquism phase as a kid and spent many hours studying with my Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen "learn to be a ventriloquist" records...) So, anyway, if you've got time to kill you coul do alot worse than watch this show.
Then I watched the first two eps of this season's "24". Never watched the show before, but it seems like it's going to be quite a ride. I am sure lots of folks have more interesting things to say about it than I do... So I'll let them.
Then I finished watching "Mystic River". Great acting, real complexity, and still didn't really grab me... Eastwood's pictures are always so understated...which is good theoretically, it's just, well sometimes it makes it hard to have the emotional grab the story should have...
that said this could have had a real afterschool special/movie of the week/melodrama thing going so it could have been A LOT worse... If it's in your netflix cue it's worth watching, it's just, well, not that exciting.
all this fine viewing was only interrupted by Charlie and Shari coming over to borrow some drums for a recording project they are working on, that I for one CAN NOT wait to hear...
Tonight is rehearsal for The Mathletes/BLP Power Hour band. Should be interesting...
I'll blog more about the show soon. It's gonna be a hoot.
and if we're done in time I'll be getting my sci-fi fix with the latest eps of Stargate:Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica...
WHOOOHOOO!
The New Republic Online: Labor Pains
The New Republic Online: Labor Pains
And yet only Nader would even mention repealing Taft-Hartley...
There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hand of the worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is power in a Union
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
War has always been the bosses way, sir
The Union forever,defending our rights
Down with the blackleg,all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
There is power in a Union
Now I long for the morning that they realise
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise
When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?
Money speaks for money,the Devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
What a comfort for the widow,a light to the child
There is power in a Union
The Union forever,defending our rights
Down with the blackleg,all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand
There is power in a Union
And yet only Nader would even mention repealing Taft-Hartley...
There is power in a factory, power in the land
Power in the hand of the worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is power in a Union
Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mud
War has always been the bosses way, sir
The Union forever,defending our rights
Down with the blackleg,all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far-off lands
There is power in a Union
Now I long for the morning that they realise
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organise
When the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?
Money speaks for money,the Devil for his own
Who comes to speak for the skin and the bone?
What a comfort for the widow,a light to the child
There is power in a Union
The Union forever,defending our rights
Down with the blackleg,all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters together we will stand
There is power in a Union
Monday, January 10, 2005
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea wages war on long hair
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | N Korea wages war on long hair:
"It stressed the 'negative effects' of long hair on 'human intelligence development', noting that long hair 'consumes a great deal of nutrition' and could thus rob the brain of energy" via William Gibson
damned hippies!
I knew there was a reason I preferred short hair...and now I know it's because I'm a good socialist...
YAY!
"It stressed the 'negative effects' of long hair on 'human intelligence development', noting that long hair 'consumes a great deal of nutrition' and could thus rob the brain of energy" via William Gibson
damned hippies!
I knew there was a reason I preferred short hair...and now I know it's because I'm a good socialist...
YAY!
WRAC 130.Section 11 (Spring 2005)
WRAC 130.Section 11 (Spring 2005)
This is a class I would take...
Comic books, Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, Frank Capra...
and PUBLIC ENEMY!
ahhh...
one day I'll go back,
get my PHD and then I'll make kids
read Frank Miller and listen
to the Dead Kennedy's...
well, I can dream, can't I?
This is a class I would take...
Comic books, Le Tigre, Bikini Kill, Frank Capra...
and PUBLIC ENEMY!
ahhh...
one day I'll go back,
get my PHD and then I'll make kids
read Frank Miller and listen
to the Dead Kennedy's...
well, I can dream, can't I?
Monday Mornin' Blues (in the afternoon)
So, had a good weekend...
Friday night The Mathletes played at the axiom...
I really enjoy playing bass, even if I'm not very good at it.
It's all old school punk rock 8th notes on the tonic as far as I'm concerned.
A few of the mathletes tunes have bass lines Joe wrote and makes me play,
but when I don't get any guidance, it's 8th notes on the tonic...
Jenni didn't make it out this time, and it looks like we'll be Jenni-less for a while.
She's taking classes to become a music teacher and it's taking a lot of her time...
but it's going to take her further in the direction she wants to go,
so it should be worth it. I drank a lot of tequila at the show. My role in The Mathletes is "dumb rock guy" so I wore my leather jacket, and drank cheap tequila from the bottle onstage...
it helped...
Saturday I worked with Aileen on some music for her dance piece coming up at SUPERHAPPYFUNLAND in Feb. She did a great tape cut-up of some Harry Nilson songs then I put that in ACID and layered a few other things on it, and edited out some bits of silence...
the result is funny and a little unnerving... can't wait to see what she does with it.
Then I went to John Duboise's wedding... It was a nice short service in a small church with the oldest pipe organ in Texas... Tina looked beautiful, and they both seemed to be having a great day. The reception was at The Firehouse. The Medicine Show played, and I would link to them but I'm being petty because nobody told me we (they) were playing, so I didn't bring my horn...
it's weird always being welcome to play with a band, but not being considered a part of the band...think I'm taking a break from that for a while... I need to concentrate on playing with people who really want to play with me and who consider what I do an integral part of the whole...so no Medicine Show for a while...last monday when I went to play with them it was pretty danged unsatisfying...and not just because there were too many people on stage.
Called it an early night and was in bed by midnight or so...ahhh sleep...
Sunday I went to my folks out in Deer Park to borrow some gas $$$. Despite getting my first real paycheck in a while I'm still broke. That's what you get for paying back rent...well, that and not evicted. When I got home Charlie and I talked about some Last Bastions future plans and then we had TDU practice. Ryan showed up this week, but no Jo Bird...we'll probably never get all our ideal musicians there until we book a gig... Maybe I'll call SUPERHAPPYFUNLAND today and see what we can do... The New TDU is much more psychedelic and less soulful/funky...but that's o.k. We're definitely approaching more of the 70's Mile's feel that we were initially talking about trying to hit with the last line-up...
had my dinner and then went with Charlie to play Poker at Joe Mathlete's. Charlie lost first. He's never played cards for $$$ and looked very confused much of the time. I knew I had to be at work this morning...and I was drinking the tequila again...so I was out next...
We were playing hold 'em and they were allowing re-buy-ins... Which I don't like one bit...makes it less about skill and more about who is starting with the most $$$...not that it mattered to me...I couldn't even really afford the $5.00 I lost...hehe...
so, minus details of girl chasing (unsuccessful as usual) that was pretty much my weekend...
and now I'm at work writing this, because well, it's better than working (and I'm all caught up)
blah...
Friday night The Mathletes played at the axiom...
I really enjoy playing bass, even if I'm not very good at it.
It's all old school punk rock 8th notes on the tonic as far as I'm concerned.
A few of the mathletes tunes have bass lines Joe wrote and makes me play,
but when I don't get any guidance, it's 8th notes on the tonic...
Jenni didn't make it out this time, and it looks like we'll be Jenni-less for a while.
She's taking classes to become a music teacher and it's taking a lot of her time...
but it's going to take her further in the direction she wants to go,
so it should be worth it. I drank a lot of tequila at the show. My role in The Mathletes is "dumb rock guy" so I wore my leather jacket, and drank cheap tequila from the bottle onstage...
it helped...
Saturday I worked with Aileen on some music for her dance piece coming up at SUPERHAPPYFUNLAND in Feb. She did a great tape cut-up of some Harry Nilson songs then I put that in ACID and layered a few other things on it, and edited out some bits of silence...
the result is funny and a little unnerving... can't wait to see what she does with it.
Then I went to John Duboise's wedding... It was a nice short service in a small church with the oldest pipe organ in Texas... Tina looked beautiful, and they both seemed to be having a great day. The reception was at The Firehouse. The Medicine Show played, and I would link to them but I'm being petty because nobody told me we (they) were playing, so I didn't bring my horn...
it's weird always being welcome to play with a band, but not being considered a part of the band...think I'm taking a break from that for a while... I need to concentrate on playing with people who really want to play with me and who consider what I do an integral part of the whole...so no Medicine Show for a while...last monday when I went to play with them it was pretty danged unsatisfying...and not just because there were too many people on stage.
Called it an early night and was in bed by midnight or so...ahhh sleep...
Sunday I went to my folks out in Deer Park to borrow some gas $$$. Despite getting my first real paycheck in a while I'm still broke. That's what you get for paying back rent...well, that and not evicted. When I got home Charlie and I talked about some Last Bastions future plans and then we had TDU practice. Ryan showed up this week, but no Jo Bird...we'll probably never get all our ideal musicians there until we book a gig... Maybe I'll call SUPERHAPPYFUNLAND today and see what we can do... The New TDU is much more psychedelic and less soulful/funky...but that's o.k. We're definitely approaching more of the 70's Mile's feel that we were initially talking about trying to hit with the last line-up...
had my dinner and then went with Charlie to play Poker at Joe Mathlete's. Charlie lost first. He's never played cards for $$$ and looked very confused much of the time. I knew I had to be at work this morning...and I was drinking the tequila again...so I was out next...
We were playing hold 'em and they were allowing re-buy-ins... Which I don't like one bit...makes it less about skill and more about who is starting with the most $$$...not that it mattered to me...I couldn't even really afford the $5.00 I lost...hehe...
so, minus details of girl chasing (unsuccessful as usual) that was pretty much my weekend...
and now I'm at work writing this, because well, it's better than working (and I'm all caught up)
blah...
Friday, January 07, 2005
what do you want from me, anyway?
so, mostly this blog keeps my head from exploding...
I read something online that makes me want to scream,
I link it here, with a short bit from me, and suddenly I'm less likely to explode.
It's almost like doing something.
Unlike a lot of bloggers, I don't have a counter on my page,
and I don't check any stats. The whole appeal of this thing to me
was the opportunity to dialogue. So, my question is,
what would I have to write hear to get YOU to comment more,
or want to come back and read again?
do you want personal dirt?
longer essays on art and aesthetics?
more stuff on comic books?
less political stuff to make you go ARGH!?!?
more poetry?
do you want to know about my medical history?
(which includes at least one very interesting operation
when I was young?)
tales of not being able to handle $$$?
(I ran out of gas on the way to work today,
after my ATM was declined at the pump)?
what is it that you people (both of you) want?
I read something online that makes me want to scream,
I link it here, with a short bit from me, and suddenly I'm less likely to explode.
It's almost like doing something.
Unlike a lot of bloggers, I don't have a counter on my page,
and I don't check any stats. The whole appeal of this thing to me
was the opportunity to dialogue. So, my question is,
what would I have to write hear to get YOU to comment more,
or want to come back and read again?
do you want personal dirt?
longer essays on art and aesthetics?
more stuff on comic books?
less political stuff to make you go ARGH!?!?
more poetry?
do you want to know about my medical history?
(which includes at least one very interesting operation
when I was young?)
tales of not being able to handle $$$?
(I ran out of gas on the way to work today,
after my ATM was declined at the pump)?
what is it that you people (both of you) want?
Salon.com News | Professional ethics in a time of war
Salon.com News | Professional ethics in a time of war
"There was no comment from the U.S. military Thursday, but the article includes comments from the deputy assistant secretary of defense for health, David Tornberg, that suggest the Pentagon believes professional ethics do not apply in a time of war. "
and since we're in a perpetual state of war professional ethics may never apply again...
this could lead us to some very dangerous places...
especially considering this administration's "with us or against us" mentality.
"There was no comment from the U.S. military Thursday, but the article includes comments from the deputy assistant secretary of defense for health, David Tornberg, that suggest the Pentagon believes professional ethics do not apply in a time of war. "
and since we're in a perpetual state of war professional ethics may never apply again...
this could lead us to some very dangerous places...
especially considering this administration's "with us or against us" mentality.
Thursday, January 06, 2005
Salon.com News | The facilitator
Salon.com News | The facilitator:
"But that's not all. Gonzales apparently didn't think his boss needed to know that this star witness and two police witnesses lied under oath at trial, that the state's expert medical witness pleaded guilty to seven felonies involving falsified evidence in capital murder trials, and that the state's expert psychiatric witness, whose testimony provided the jury with a legal basis for handing down a death sentence, never bothered to interview Stoker. By the time Gonzales was supposedly researching the case for Bush, this expert had been expelled from the American Psychiatric Association for repeatedly providing unethical testimony in murder cases. Needless to say, Gonzales didn't think it was worth pointing out that the jury that had sentenced Stoker to death was ignorant of all those facts. "
It's amazing the Bush found someone worse than Ashcroft...but he did...
Gonzales is a yes man. He'll tell Bush what he wants to hear, whether it's true or not.
He's a sloppy lawyer who does not take his responsibility to the law seriously.
We must oppose Gonzales!
"But that's not all. Gonzales apparently didn't think his boss needed to know that this star witness and two police witnesses lied under oath at trial, that the state's expert medical witness pleaded guilty to seven felonies involving falsified evidence in capital murder trials, and that the state's expert psychiatric witness, whose testimony provided the jury with a legal basis for handing down a death sentence, never bothered to interview Stoker. By the time Gonzales was supposedly researching the case for Bush, this expert had been expelled from the American Psychiatric Association for repeatedly providing unethical testimony in murder cases. Needless to say, Gonzales didn't think it was worth pointing out that the jury that had sentenced Stoker to death was ignorant of all those facts. "
It's amazing the Bush found someone worse than Ashcroft...but he did...
Gonzales is a yes man. He'll tell Bush what he wants to hear, whether it's true or not.
He's a sloppy lawyer who does not take his responsibility to the law seriously.
We must oppose Gonzales!
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
been thinking
I been thinkin'
and I don't think
I mean to say
well
it sounds old
and cliche
but I'm gonna say it
anyway
not 'cause it's important
but 'cause it feels good to say
I don't think
things have to be
this way
and I don't think
I mean to say
well
it sounds old
and cliche
but I'm gonna say it
anyway
not 'cause it's important
but 'cause it feels good to say
I don't think
things have to be
this way
Word on the street... (Axiom Friday Night)
The word on the street is that pop sensation The Mathletes will be playing a private show at the axiom this Friday night...
10pm
BYOB
side door...
This is our first show in a LONG time, and probably the last chance you'll get to see us until,
uh, well, the end of the month when we are the band for the BLP power hour, which is also
at the axiom.
ROCK ON!
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Monday, January 03, 2005
Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog.
Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog.:
"And Giblets is not alone! What has 2004 done for anyone? Democrats got to get whupped by Republicans. Republicans got to completely sell out everything it means to be a Republican. Iraqis got to get tortured, blown up, and shot at. American troops got to get blown up, shot at, and stuck in Iraq underpaid. Doves got a war they didn't like. Hawks got to not like the war. Gays got marriage rights - in Massachusetts - at least a hundred and thirty six years late. The religious right got to stomp all over gays and watch Jim Caviezel get nailed to a cross. Did it make them feel any better? Does anything make them feel any better?
George Bush? Yeah, okay, so he had a fun time. Happy New Year, George."
I think that about sums it up...
"And Giblets is not alone! What has 2004 done for anyone? Democrats got to get whupped by Republicans. Republicans got to completely sell out everything it means to be a Republican. Iraqis got to get tortured, blown up, and shot at. American troops got to get blown up, shot at, and stuck in Iraq underpaid. Doves got a war they didn't like. Hawks got to not like the war. Gays got marriage rights - in Massachusetts - at least a hundred and thirty six years late. The religious right got to stomp all over gays and watch Jim Caviezel get nailed to a cross. Did it make them feel any better? Does anything make them feel any better?
George Bush? Yeah, okay, so he had a fun time. Happy New Year, George."
I think that about sums it up...
Gang of Four Returns
RollingStone.com: Gang of Four : Gang of Four Return : News: "Gang of Four, one of the most influential late-Seventies post-punk groups, are set to play their first shows with their original line-up in over twenty years. Known for their politicized punk-and-funk sound, the Brits will perform five U.K. dates in January, with possible gigs to follow in the U.S. this spring. "
WHOOHOO!
hope they come stateside!
missed the wire reunion shows
but I ain't missing this
Sunday, January 02, 2005
Monlogues for 2 - #1 in a series
I've been thinking
I've been thinking a lot
thinking a lot
about the devil
or maybe devils
I think they're all
just manifestations
on the one
though it's hard to be sure
I get so confused sometimes
but, see, the devil is the reason
the reason I have to keep
I have to keep you
I have to keep you tied up
no,
not the manifestation in me,
no,
the manifestation in you
the devil in you
could make you
could make you do things
make you do things
things you'd live to regret
so it's better this way
trust me
you probably think
you probably think you know
you know about
you know about the devil in me
what he's capable of
they're not all male
but my devil is
he's one for brute force
got trapped in a small man
so there are not as many
not as many
not near as many bar fights
as he would
he would like,
but he finds his outlets...
anyway,
I was saying,
you probably think
think you know
think you know my devil
but I assure you
you haven't met him yet
no,
no,
what has transpired between us
our interactions so far
so far
have been purely human
well, maybe some animal,
but no,
you have yet to meet
yet to meet
the devil inside me
but he's strong and
he's unforgiving and
he knows right from wrong
oh yes he knows
guess which he prefers and
and I don't know how long
how long
how long I can
how long I can keep him at bay
you'll have to help me
you'll help me
but just to make sure
just to make sure
I have to keep you tied up
you understand,don't you?
I've been thinking a lot
thinking a lot
about the devil
or maybe devils
I think they're all
just manifestations
on the one
though it's hard to be sure
I get so confused sometimes
but, see, the devil is the reason
the reason I have to keep
I have to keep you
I have to keep you tied up
no,
not the manifestation in me,
no,
the manifestation in you
the devil in you
could make you
could make you do things
make you do things
things you'd live to regret
so it's better this way
trust me
you probably think
you probably think you know
you know about
you know about the devil in me
what he's capable of
they're not all male
but my devil is
he's one for brute force
got trapped in a small man
so there are not as many
not as many
not near as many bar fights
as he would
he would like,
but he finds his outlets...
anyway,
I was saying,
you probably think
think you know
think you know my devil
but I assure you
you haven't met him yet
no,
no,
what has transpired between us
our interactions so far
so far
have been purely human
well, maybe some animal,
but no,
you have yet to meet
yet to meet
the devil inside me
but he's strong and
he's unforgiving and
he knows right from wrong
oh yes he knows
guess which he prefers and
and I don't know how long
how long
how long I can
how long I can keep him at bay
you'll have to help me
you'll help me
but just to make sure
just to make sure
I have to keep you tied up
you understand,don't you?
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Chekov says your life is bad and dreary!!!
REAL ART (and politics and culture):
"'All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'' "
Ahhh...
a truly fine and noble goal for art...
hold up the mirror in hopes that the folks will see the ugly.
I like it.
"'All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary your lives are!' The important thing is that people should realize that, for when they do, they will most certainly create another and better life for themselves. I will not live to see it, but I know that it will be quite different, quite unlike our present life. And so long as this different life does not exist, I shall go on saying to people again and again: 'Please, understand that your life is bad and dreary!'' "
Ahhh...
a truly fine and noble goal for art...
hold up the mirror in hopes that the folks will see the ugly.
I like it.
Friday, December 31, 2004
blog | Reviews index
blog | Reviews index
Grrr....
just the other day I was thinking about working on a musical multi-media adaptation of "The Trial".
Damn damn damn...
always a day late and a dollar short...
Grrr....
just the other day I was thinking about working on a musical multi-media adaptation of "The Trial".
Damn damn damn...
always a day late and a dollar short...
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Suburban Guerrilla
Suburban Guerrilla:
"Many consumers have developed any number of tricks for reaching a sentient being. Mr. Weinstein and others have discovered a number of techniques for outwitting the automation to reach a human, especially when confronted with the labyrinthine menus that accompany most phone-based systems. "
I always try to tell HL&P that I've just made a payment of over $1,000,000. That gets me to a live person pretty quick.
"Many consumers have developed any number of tricks for reaching a sentient being. Mr. Weinstein and others have discovered a number of techniques for outwitting the automation to reach a human, especially when confronted with the labyrinthine menus that accompany most phone-based systems. "
I always try to tell HL&P that I've just made a payment of over $1,000,000. That gets me to a live person pretty quick.
First Draft
First Draft:
"There's a way to please us both, and that's to make abortion nonexistent. That's the one thing outlawing it will never do. It's the one thing a comprehensive plan to attack the causes of abortion can do. Honest to god sex education. Day care and housing subsidies. Available and effective contraception. Parenting classes and hotlines and resources for struggling newlyweds and single moms and dads and everybody who needs it."
When I interviewed at planned parenthood a while back of course they asked what I thought of abortion...
I said we live in a world where sometimes it's necessary, but I wish it didn't have to be...
when the interviewer asked me to clarify I explained that in a perfect world there would be no unwanted pregnancies.
people who did not want children would not get pregnant,
but we don't live in that world yet...
There are so many viable means of birth control now...
but the anti-abortion folks are the same ones preaching abstinence...which is great, as long as you don't like having sex...
"There's a way to please us both, and that's to make abortion nonexistent. That's the one thing outlawing it will never do. It's the one thing a comprehensive plan to attack the causes of abortion can do. Honest to god sex education. Day care and housing subsidies. Available and effective contraception. Parenting classes and hotlines and resources for struggling newlyweds and single moms and dads and everybody who needs it."
When I interviewed at planned parenthood a while back of course they asked what I thought of abortion...
I said we live in a world where sometimes it's necessary, but I wish it didn't have to be...
when the interviewer asked me to clarify I explained that in a perfect world there would be no unwanted pregnancies.
people who did not want children would not get pregnant,
but we don't live in that world yet...
There are so many viable means of birth control now...
but the anti-abortion folks are the same ones preaching abstinence...which is great, as long as you don't like having sex...
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Fw: About Saudi Arabia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aptimus Confirmation"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 7:37 PM
Subject: About Saudi Arabia
>
> Thank you for subscribing to AboutSaudiArabia.net with a partner of the
> Aptimus Network. Within a week you will begin to receive emails on issues
> that affect Saudi Arabia and its relationship with the United States. If
> you did not subscribe to this service, or wish to change your mind, please
> use the link below to unsubscribe.
>
> AboutSaudiArabia.net provides insight into the Kingdom's fight against
> terrorism, as well as information on current issues such as oil supply and
> the economic, political and social reform taking place in Saudi Arabia.
> The updates are sent once or twice a week, and you can change your
> subscription, or unsubscribe, at any time.
>
> The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington DC maintains the highest
> standards for the protection of your privacy over the Internet. Any
> information you provide is kept private and will not be sold or shared
> with any other organization.
>
> If this is not what you wanted to subscribe to, please click on the
> unsubscribe button below. Meanwhile, if you would like to learn more about
> Saudi Arabia, visit the Embassy's web site at http://www.saudiembassy.net
>
>
> **************************************************************
>
Does every nation have it's own propaganda list?
I can't wait to hear about issues that affect Saudi Arabia and its
relationship with the United States.
Man, the French oughta get themselves one of these internet things.
They'd be a lot more popular.
Burnt Orange Report
Burnt Orange Report:
"The bill by Democratic Rep. Harold Dutton would make possession of an ounce or less of marijuana a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum $500 fine. That's the equivalent of a traffic ticket. "
bout damn time...
fight the real criminals thanks...
like the guys who stole my car
or maybe the guys who broke into my house...
if we can't outright STOP the war on drugs maybe we can dismantle it a little at a time...
"The bill by Democratic Rep. Harold Dutton would make possession of an ounce or less of marijuana a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a maximum $500 fine. That's the equivalent of a traffic ticket. "
bout damn time...
fight the real criminals thanks...
like the guys who stole my car
or maybe the guys who broke into my house...
if we can't outright STOP the war on drugs maybe we can dismantle it a little at a time...
NEWSARAMA - NEW JHONEN VASQUEZ IN MARCH FROM SLG
NEWSARAMA - NEW JHONEN VASQUEZ IN MARCH FROM SLG: " Critically-reviled master something-or-another Jhonen Vasquez has returned from his trip around the solar system and is once again plotting his evil little designs on the world of comics. And how better to set his nefarious plans in motion than with Fillerbunny, a suffering creature originally created to fill a single page and whose existence was mercilessly extended to fill two sixteen-page comics, each one drawn over the course of one day? That'll work, right? Oh, you doubt, but this time, my sweetlings, this time, it is Fillerbunny in My Worst Book Yet!, 24 pages of torment and horrible excretions, two of them in mind-blowing FULL COLOR. And Jhonen took more than one day to finish it! You will see Fillerbunny as you've never seen him before, quite possibly consistently drawn and with fine details that make him seem so real and make his pain all the more pitiful. 'Why?' you will ask. 'Sweet lord of corn, WHY?!'"
WHOOHOO! now that I'm employed again I'm looking forward to hitting bedrock a little more regularly...
definitely adding this to my list...
if yr not familiar with Vasquez check out "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" or watch a few eps of "Invader Zim"...
demented twisted fun!
WHOOHOO! now that I'm employed again I'm looking forward to hitting bedrock a little more regularly...
definitely adding this to my list...
if yr not familiar with Vasquez check out "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" or watch a few eps of "Invader Zim"...
demented twisted fun!
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Motime Like the Present
Motime Like the Present:
"The 'superhero' stories that I'm interested in proceed from the exact opposite assumption--i.e. that there isn't any order except that which we impose upon the world. Moreover, our awareness of our own subjective role in this production of meaning short-circuits our ability to believe in anything as 'absolutely real'. "
I always knew there was a reason for NOT digging Campbell, Star Wars, etc...and I knew it wasn't just elitism...but this, well this really explains it...
We don't discover our place in the world.
We make it.
We struggle with right/wrong, good/evil, etc but we never really know where we stand. There is always room for doubt.
just another example of why you should be reading Motime...
bringing the big thoughts to the little books...
whoohoo!
"The 'superhero' stories that I'm interested in proceed from the exact opposite assumption--i.e. that there isn't any order except that which we impose upon the world. Moreover, our awareness of our own subjective role in this production of meaning short-circuits our ability to believe in anything as 'absolutely real'. "
I always knew there was a reason for NOT digging Campbell, Star Wars, etc...and I knew it wasn't just elitism...but this, well this really explains it...
We don't discover our place in the world.
We make it.
We struggle with right/wrong, good/evil, etc but we never really know where we stand. There is always room for doubt.
just another example of why you should be reading Motime...
bringing the big thoughts to the little books...
whoohoo!
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | What good friends left behind
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | What good friends left behind: "Today, Samar lives in constant fear for her life. She has two fearsome bodyguards with automatic weapons. One is at her office door, the other at her gate. She travels in a blacked-out van. 'For the past 23 years, I was not safe,' she told me, 'but I was never in hiding or travelling with gunmen, which I must do now... There is no more official law to stop women from going to school and work; there is no law about dress code. But the reality is that even under the Taliban there was not the pressure on women in the rural areas there is now.' "
so, there are a lot of things I could bring up that would point to our massive failure in Afghanistan...but this is the one I ran across today. We've really screwed up.
It's obvious to anyone who's paying attention. Afghanistan is not a "free" country. It is not a "democracy". It is hell, and maybe it was hell before, but now it's hell and our responsibility...
so, there are a lot of things I could bring up that would point to our massive failure in Afghanistan...but this is the one I ran across today. We've really screwed up.
It's obvious to anyone who's paying attention. Afghanistan is not a "free" country. It is not a "democracy". It is hell, and maybe it was hell before, but now it's hell and our responsibility...
Monday, December 27, 2004
This Modern World
This Modern World: "Now I believe the Founding Fathers wanted religion in the public marketplace as a behavior deterrent because they knew they couldn't control the population, and they felt that a faith-based population would be more likely to behave. Very practical. "
Wow. So, Bill is saying the founding fathers didn't believe in religion themselves, but thought it would be good for social control and engineering...
well, duh! that's why us thinking folks are less than enamored with it...
If you want to make the "right" argument regarding the FF's and religion you SHOULD say that they believed in Christ the King and wanted a Christian nation because Jesus is the way the truth the light, etc...
saying, in effect, the elites push religion cause it makes you schlubs easier to control doesn't exactly make me wanna say, "Merry Christmas!"
Wow. So, Bill is saying the founding fathers didn't believe in religion themselves, but thought it would be good for social control and engineering...
well, duh! that's why us thinking folks are less than enamored with it...
If you want to make the "right" argument regarding the FF's and religion you SHOULD say that they believed in Christ the King and wanted a Christian nation because Jesus is the way the truth the light, etc...
saying, in effect, the elites push religion cause it makes you schlubs easier to control doesn't exactly make me wanna say, "Merry Christmas!"
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Jesus' General
Jesus' General:
"But one boy sitting alone at the edge of campus Tuesday told a different story. The 13-year-old stared at his lap and nervously plucked the grass while he talked about the popular 'fundies' who regularly push him and his friends around.
'They're in your face, kind of rude about it, saying 'You're going to die, you're going to burn in hell,'' said the boy, dressed in all black. The Camera is withholding his name out of concern for his safety. "
I was gang saved once...
In a teen club.
I was at "Fast Times"
(the teen club on fairmont in Pasadena...
owned at least in part by Sherwood Cryer,
or at least he was having some
$$$ kicked up to him or something...
long story...ask me and I'll tell ya sometime...)
and found myself surrounded by five older boys with mullets.
They followed me to the bathroom and made me pray with them.
I felt threatened, and a little weird,
but went along with it thinking they would leave me alone.
It worked for the most part...
They tried to talk to me once or twice more during the night...
but mostly left me to my sinning.
"But one boy sitting alone at the edge of campus Tuesday told a different story. The 13-year-old stared at his lap and nervously plucked the grass while he talked about the popular 'fundies' who regularly push him and his friends around.
'They're in your face, kind of rude about it, saying 'You're going to die, you're going to burn in hell,'' said the boy, dressed in all black. The Camera is withholding his name out of concern for his safety. "
I was gang saved once...
In a teen club.
I was at "Fast Times"
(the teen club on fairmont in Pasadena...
owned at least in part by Sherwood Cryer,
or at least he was having some
$$$ kicked up to him or something...
long story...ask me and I'll tell ya sometime...)
and found myself surrounded by five older boys with mullets.
They followed me to the bathroom and made me pray with them.
I felt threatened, and a little weird,
but went along with it thinking they would leave me alone.
It worked for the most part...
They tried to talk to me once or twice more during the night...
but mostly left me to my sinning.
Monday, December 20, 2004
Click opera
Click opera:
"Sterling introduces his concept of the spime: an archive of data about the space-time co-ordinates of objects. 'In the future there will be millions of small histories for billions of small objects.' This is the central metaphor of his way of looking at objects, and I think you could say that a spime (the narrative accumulated by technologies 1-6, as well as others that Sterling doesn't talk about, like cell phones, peer-to-peer and bluetooth) is like a novel; it's an inventory, a narrative of all the events which happen to an object, and it also produces the object."
See, it's just this kind of crazy talk that makes me yearn for grad school. Somehow when I'm fighting with HL&P for a few more days of electricity I can't find the proper amount of enthusiasm for these ideas. But really, it's quite brilliant...
"Sterling introduces his concept of the spime: an archive of data about the space-time co-ordinates of objects. 'In the future there will be millions of small histories for billions of small objects.' This is the central metaphor of his way of looking at objects, and I think you could say that a spime (the narrative accumulated by technologies 1-6, as well as others that Sterling doesn't talk about, like cell phones, peer-to-peer and bluetooth) is like a novel; it's an inventory, a narrative of all the events which happen to an object, and it also produces the object."
See, it's just this kind of crazy talk that makes me yearn for grad school. Somehow when I'm fighting with HL&P for a few more days of electricity I can't find the proper amount of enthusiasm for these ideas. But really, it's quite brilliant...
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Websnark.com
Websnark.com:
"You want to fuck around with the cultural mythology of the last sixty years? Go right ahead. But don't lie about it in the metacommentary."
Bingo...
I was along for the ride...
Enjoyed parts of it,
but man,
what a crap ending...
they were playing with some cool ideas,
but ultimately they didn't even matter...
grrr...
"You want to fuck around with the cultural mythology of the last sixty years? Go right ahead. But don't lie about it in the metacommentary."
Bingo...
I was along for the ride...
Enjoyed parts of it,
but man,
what a crap ending...
they were playing with some cool ideas,
but ultimately they didn't even matter...
grrr...
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
BBC NEWS | Americas | Missile defence shield test fails
BBC NEWS | Americas | Missile defence shield test fails:
"A Pentagon spokesman told Reuters news agency the test had not been tied to the question of when the national missile defence system would be declared operational."
of course not, why should it be?
I mean when we decide it's ready, it's ready, right?
no matter what the "tests" show...
who needs facts, when we've got faith!
"A Pentagon spokesman told Reuters news agency the test had not been tied to the question of when the national missile defence system would be declared operational."
of course not, why should it be?
I mean when we decide it's ready, it's ready, right?
no matter what the "tests" show...
who needs facts, when we've got faith!
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Monday, December 13, 2004
Click opera
Click opera:
"Japan has negotiated not only the most modern landscape of any 'advanced' nation (there it goes, flicking by silently outside my shinkansen window, buildings as raked and recent as the train itself), but also the least toxic. "
They do everything better than us.
It's true.
They even rock harder.
damn them.
damn them all.
pass me another cheeseburger
and a lungfull
of whatever
that gray stuff is...
"Japan has negotiated not only the most modern landscape of any 'advanced' nation (there it goes, flicking by silently outside my shinkansen window, buildings as raked and recent as the train itself), but also the least toxic. "
They do everything better than us.
It's true.
They even rock harder.
damn them.
damn them all.
pass me another cheeseburger
and a lungfull
of whatever
that gray stuff is...
Sunday, December 12, 2004
Majikthise : Ransoming the poor
Majikthise : Ransoming the poor:
"the new rules are morally wrong. Gays pay the same taxes as straights, but under the new rules, they may be eligible for only a fraction of the social services offered in their communities. The same would be true for blacks, religious minorities, atheists, and anyone else whom a faith-based organization might wish to exclude. Relaxing the preaching rules is effectively a regressive tax. Proselytizers would be paid with poor people's time in exchange for dolling out the government's money. Nice."
this should be the last word regarding "faith-based" initiatives...
"the new rules are morally wrong. Gays pay the same taxes as straights, but under the new rules, they may be eligible for only a fraction of the social services offered in their communities. The same would be true for blacks, religious minorities, atheists, and anyone else whom a faith-based organization might wish to exclude. Relaxing the preaching rules is effectively a regressive tax. Proselytizers would be paid with poor people's time in exchange for dolling out the government's money. Nice."
this should be the last word regarding "faith-based" initiatives...
Friday, December 10, 2004
Rummy
O.k. one quick comment on the whole Rummy thing...
you've read about it everywhere, but I haven't seen this response.
"You go to war with the Army you have..."
Yes, that's true if you are FORCED into war.
You guys were preparing to go into Iraq from day 1 of your administration.
The TRUTH is that you didn't build the army you needed for this invasion
because you completely miscalculated what it was going to take to do the job.
Bottom line. It's your fault. YOU OWN IT!
If we were attacked by the Iraqi Army then yes, we would HAVE to go to
war with the army we had on the day we were attacked...
When you KNOW for months, maybe years, that the war is coming, cause
it's a war you're CHOOSING then you have NO effin' excuse for sending
that army anywhere unprepared...
Grrrr...
you've read about it everywhere, but I haven't seen this response.
"You go to war with the Army you have..."
Yes, that's true if you are FORCED into war.
You guys were preparing to go into Iraq from day 1 of your administration.
The TRUTH is that you didn't build the army you needed for this invasion
because you completely miscalculated what it was going to take to do the job.
Bottom line. It's your fault. YOU OWN IT!
If we were attacked by the Iraqi Army then yes, we would HAVE to go to
war with the army we had on the day we were attacked...
When you KNOW for months, maybe years, that the war is coming, cause
it's a war you're CHOOSING then you have NO effin' excuse for sending
that army anywhere unprepared...
Grrrr...
Thursday, December 09, 2004
James Wolcott
James Wolcott:
"As a playwright (Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Designated Mourner), Wallace Shawn is more subversive and brain-worming than a petty sadist like Neil LaBute, but as a social conscience he's softer, vulnerable to attack and ridicule."
anyone have/or seen a copy of "Final Edition"?
sounds great to me...
"As a playwright (Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Designated Mourner), Wallace Shawn is more subversive and brain-worming than a petty sadist like Neil LaBute, but as a social conscience he's softer, vulnerable to attack and ridicule."
anyone have/or seen a copy of "Final Edition"?
sounds great to me...
die puny humans
die puny humans: "Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane.
The scientists hope that their research will lead to hybrid computers with organic components, allowing more flexible and varied means of solving problems.
One potential application is to install living computers in unmanned aircraft for missions too dangerous for humans."
We're one step closer to Ceylons!
YAY! anything we can do to further the machines taking over I'm all for!!! C'mon SKYNET! BRING IT ON!!!
I mean they couldn't do a worse job than us right?
and if we're lucky they'll decide to use us as batteries and then we can go kick ass in the matrix.
ah, there's nothing quite like playing god, is there?
The scientists hope that their research will lead to hybrid computers with organic components, allowing more flexible and varied means of solving problems.
One potential application is to install living computers in unmanned aircraft for missions too dangerous for humans."
We're one step closer to Ceylons!
YAY! anything we can do to further the machines taking over I'm all for!!! C'mon SKYNET! BRING IT ON!!!
I mean they couldn't do a worse job than us right?
and if we're lucky they'll decide to use us as batteries and then we can go kick ass in the matrix.
ah, there's nothing quite like playing god, is there?
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Henry Ford Lives!
so, here's a follow-up to the last post...
how many of you had to have background checks for your current job?
drug tests?
how much private info are you willing to give up for a job?
if they wanted your measurements?
your cholesterol level?
your sexual history?
I mean, realistically speaking all of those are as relevant as a
credit report to determining say, how well you could sell theatre
tickets or support cisco hardware, right?
Where do we draw a line as a society? why are we all so quick to give
up our personal data, our personal history, just to collect a
paycheck?
It's only a matter of time before Mr. Ford starts sending pinkertons
by the house to make sure you're in bed on time, or reading to your
kids, or whatever other idea Johnny Employer gets in his head...
grrr!!
how many of you had to have background checks for your current job?
drug tests?
how much private info are you willing to give up for a job?
if they wanted your measurements?
your cholesterol level?
your sexual history?
I mean, realistically speaking all of those are as relevant as a
credit report to determining say, how well you could sell theatre
tickets or support cisco hardware, right?
Where do we draw a line as a society? why are we all so quick to give
up our personal data, our personal history, just to collect a
paycheck?
It's only a matter of time before Mr. Ford starts sending pinkertons
by the house to make sure you're in bed on time, or reading to your
kids, or whatever other idea Johnny Employer gets in his head...
grrr!!
That's some catch, that catch-22!
so, here, in a nutshell is where I'm at...
lost "good" job I applied for ran a credit check, and then wouldn't
hire me. When I lost my last tech-job the first thing to lost out was
my creditors. It's true! I chose to eat and keep my utilities on
rather than pay my credit card debts. So, they all show up on my
credit report... If I ever really recover (which I still haven't) I'd
be happy to take out a consolidation loan, or work with my creditors
to start paying these debts off. Can't do that till I get a decent
paying job, and I can't get hired for a decent paying job because of
the debt...
so, I just got the call about a new job yesterday...
I start Monday...
but I'll probably end up getting fired again AFTER they finish the
background check and discover that yes, while unemployed, I was
FREAKIN' POOR!!!!
so, until I get a decent job I can't even think about cleaning up my
credit report, and because of my credit report I can't get a good
job!!!
WHOOHOOO!!!
I've already given notice at my part time gig, which means I'll either
by fully employed, or fully unemployed by the end of next week!!!
YAY!
lost "good" job I applied for ran a credit check, and then wouldn't
hire me. When I lost my last tech-job the first thing to lost out was
my creditors. It's true! I chose to eat and keep my utilities on
rather than pay my credit card debts. So, they all show up on my
credit report... If I ever really recover (which I still haven't) I'd
be happy to take out a consolidation loan, or work with my creditors
to start paying these debts off. Can't do that till I get a decent
paying job, and I can't get hired for a decent paying job because of
the debt...
so, I just got the call about a new job yesterday...
I start Monday...
but I'll probably end up getting fired again AFTER they finish the
background check and discover that yes, while unemployed, I was
FREAKIN' POOR!!!!
so, until I get a decent job I can't even think about cleaning up my
credit report, and because of my credit report I can't get a good
job!!!
WHOOHOOO!!!
I've already given notice at my part time gig, which means I'll either
by fully employed, or fully unemployed by the end of next week!!!
YAY!
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
Jesus' General
Jesus' General:
"Our Leader knows better. He knows there's no tomorrow. That's why He's spending like He's His brother, Neil, at a Bangkok men's club. He understands that our children and grandchildren will never see the bill. They'll be raptured long before it ever comes due."
"Our Leader knows better. He knows there's no tomorrow. That's why He's spending like He's His brother, Neil, at a Bangkok men's club. He understands that our children and grandchildren will never see the bill. They'll be raptured long before it ever comes due."
I would give this guy money!!!
http://www.diepunyhumans.com/archives/001055.html
in fact, I've been saying for some time that if we're serious about
fighting terrorism we need to start training all citizens in Kung
Fu...and the earlier we start the better...
Jackie Chan's planes never get hijacked...
in fact, I've been saying for some time that if we're serious about
fighting terrorism we need to start training all citizens in Kung
Fu...and the earlier we start the better...
Jackie Chan's planes never get hijacked...
Monday, December 06, 2004
Michael Paulus :: Skeletal Systems
Michael Paulus :: Skeletal Systems
I want your skull.
I need your skull.
ahh, just beautiful stuff...
I want your skull.
I need your skull.
ahh, just beautiful stuff...
the war on wars
not going to get into this whole hawk/dove thing going on between
atrios and matt yglesias...
just gonna quote this from pandagon:
http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/004135.html#more
" the danger for the left was always that it would go well and we'd
have been on the wrong side of liberation,"
and then say if that was the only danger then there was NO DANGER!
Look at who was in charge of the war effort and try to say again that
there was any danger things would go well...i wouldn't let rummy tie
my shoes much less lead a war...when liars who have no interest in the
truth make plans they make them based on lies therefore they are
doomed to fail.
That said I'm a pacifist...
any war that happens is going to have to happen without my support...
atrios and matt yglesias...
just gonna quote this from pandagon:
http://www.pandagon.net/mtarchives/004135.html#more
" the danger for the left was always that it would go well and we'd
have been on the wrong side of liberation,"
and then say if that was the only danger then there was NO DANGER!
Look at who was in charge of the war effort and try to say again that
there was any danger things would go well...i wouldn't let rummy tie
my shoes much less lead a war...when liars who have no interest in the
truth make plans they make them based on lies therefore they are
doomed to fail.
That said I'm a pacifist...
any war that happens is going to have to happen without my support...
Friday, December 03, 2004
Stuck in the 50's tonight...
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/12/03/abstinence/index.html
"Just as a woman needs to feel a man's devotion to her, a man has a
primary need to feel a woman's admiration. To admire a man is to
regard him with wonder, delight, and approval. A man feels admired
when his unique characteristics and talents happily amaze her."
ARGH! o.k....old folks, I know you're nostalgic for your childhood
when men were men, sheep were sheep, and mensturation was still called
the curse...
but c'mon...it's the 21st Century and y'all are throwing out years and
years of progress here...
If any of you ladies regard me with "wonder, delight, and approval"
well, I want some of whatever you're taking...
"Just as a woman needs to feel a man's devotion to her, a man has a
primary need to feel a woman's admiration. To admire a man is to
regard him with wonder, delight, and approval. A man feels admired
when his unique characteristics and talents happily amaze her."
ARGH! o.k....old folks, I know you're nostalgic for your childhood
when men were men, sheep were sheep, and mensturation was still called
the curse...
but c'mon...it's the 21st Century and y'all are throwing out years and
years of progress here...
If any of you ladies regard me with "wonder, delight, and approval"
well, I want some of whatever you're taking...
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Eschaton
Eschaton:
"Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit;
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
That brushes your heel as it turns going by,
The man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.
Now you are only giving food to that final pain
Which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,
But to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
Is the work; start there, turn to the work.
Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,
Don't turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
And do not let the past weigh down your motion.
Leave what's alive in the furrow, what's dead in yourself,
For life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds;
From your work you will be able one day to gather yourself."
DO THE WORK!
"Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit;
Sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
That brushes your heel as it turns going by,
The man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.
Now you are only giving food to that final pain
Which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,
But to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
Is the work; start there, turn to the work.
Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,
Don't turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
And do not let the past weigh down your motion.
Leave what's alive in the furrow, what's dead in yourself,
For life does not move in the same way as a group of clouds;
From your work you will be able one day to gather yourself."
DO THE WORK!
Linus Pauling Quartet
Linus Pauling Quartet: "Clinton: Mournbong and Stonebringer are twin bongs, forged by a forgotten race on a distant planet. When the planet was destroyed, a few refugees escaped, bringing the bongs and seeds from their best hydro to Earth, where they fought an eon-long battle with the Bug People, the earth's protean inhabitants. Both races were nearly destroyed and their remnants driven into remote places, but the aliens passed their legacy, and the Twin Bongs of Power, to humanity as they slowly emerged from apedom. The bongs have been carried by many of the masters of the human race: brought back from the far east by the Greeks during the time of Alexander, they passed into the hands of the Roman Emperors, but were separated from one another during this time. William the Conqueror brought Mournbong into England at Hastings, for example - even as Stonebringer languished in the hands of the Popes. Supposedly Hitler had a plot to obtain both bongs, and fulfill the medieval legend that stated the apocalypse would occur when a single man wielded both at the same time - conquering both time and space, as it were, in the Great Singularity: an event where man himself becomes omnipotent and thereby destroys the universe in his ignorance. This was thwarted, but almost came to pass again recently when my high school dope buddy Mike Gunn obtained both bongs through a series of chance occurrences. Fortunately, Mike's mom confiscated his bongs and his stash prior to the planned smoke-in, and thereby the human race narrowly avoided the apocalypse. We think the bongs are probably in the control of the NSA at this time, though rumor has it that Mike managed to keep Mournbong and still uses it occasionally."
Go Linus!
check it out!
Go Linus!
check it out!
Monday, November 29, 2004
Eschaton
Eschaton:
" In 1996, when 40 percent of Americans based their votes on 'moral values,' they re-elected Bill Clinton. Now that the number of Americans who base their votes on 'moral values' has been cut almost in half, they selected George Bush."
we need to make sure THIS bit of info is quoted everywhere...
" In 1996, when 40 percent of Americans based their votes on 'moral values,' they re-elected Bill Clinton. Now that the number of Americans who base their votes on 'moral values' has been cut almost in half, they selected George Bush."
we need to make sure THIS bit of info is quoted everywhere...
Eschaton
Eschaton:
" In 1996, when 40 percent of Americans based their votes on 'moral values,' they re-elected Bill Clinton. Now that the number of Americans who base their votes on 'moral values' has been cut almost in half, they selected George Bush."
we need to make sure THIS bit of info is quoted everywhere...
" In 1996, when 40 percent of Americans based their votes on 'moral values,' they re-elected Bill Clinton. Now that the number of Americans who base their votes on 'moral values' has been cut almost in half, they selected George Bush."
we need to make sure THIS bit of info is quoted everywhere...
Tuesday, November 23, 2004
They Will Know Us By Our T-Shirts: Melting My Faith
They Will Know Us By Our T-Shirts: Melting My Faith:
"Jesus Warms My Heart. Stop to think about that from the perspective of a snowman."
"Jesus Warms My Heart. Stop to think about that from the perspective of a snowman."
Monday, November 22, 2004
Friday, November 19, 2004
Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.
Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.:
"...Herbert may be on to something: this administration, especially in terms of its foreign and defense policy, may be a big exercise in saying screw you to, in addition to most of the world and nearly half the country, the administration members' own elders, mentors, and parents."
so, it's like the 60's? only evil?
"...Herbert may be on to something: this administration, especially in terms of its foreign and defense policy, may be a big exercise in saying screw you to, in addition to most of the world and nearly half the country, the administration members' own elders, mentors, and parents."
so, it's like the 60's? only evil?
AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth
AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth
via Atrios...
Do I look at more porn now than I did pre-internet?
not sure...though I'm sure I look at a wider variety...
the worst thing about most porn is that it is actually
somewhat dulling to imagination...
but sometimes, well, it can give you ideas you'd almost
never come up with on your own...
(and no, I'm not providing a link...)
via Atrios...
Do I look at more porn now than I did pre-internet?
not sure...though I'm sure I look at a wider variety...
the worst thing about most porn is that it is actually
somewhat dulling to imagination...
but sometimes, well, it can give you ideas you'd almost
never come up with on your own...
(and no, I'm not providing a link...)
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Dick Cheney - the picture
Eros Blog: The Sex Blog -- By Bacchus
Cheney was talking as he paced around me, "I could stuff you and mount you like a jackalope and call you a two legged dear. Or I could stuff you with this (he unzipped his pants to reveal his oversized penis) right down your throat, and then mount you. Which do you prefer?"
Cheney was talking as he paced around me, "I could stuff you and mount you like a jackalope and call you a two legged dear. Or I could stuff you with this (he unzipped his pants to reveal his oversized penis) right down your throat, and then mount you. Which do you prefer?"
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
[CTRL] Photo corroborates Cheney/sex-slave story
> -Caveat Lector-
>
>
>
>
> [http://www.milwaukeemagazine.com/122004/pressroom.html]
>
> Milwaukee Magazine December 2004:
> Joining Vice President Dick Cheney's motorcade in Green Bay, Milwaukee
> Journal Sentinel photographer Dale Guldan hoped to capture a unique
> image during an otherwise scripted campaign visit in September.
>
> Did he ever...
>
> Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr convinced Cheney to
> make an unscheduled stop in Glendale to visit local favorite Kopp's
> Frozen Custard, according to New York Times reporter Rick Lyman.
>
> When Cheney ordered a decaf coffee and sat on a concrete ledge
> outside, Kopp's manager Scott Borkin graciously brought him a sample
> of frozen custard...
>
> The normally serious Cheney flashed a winning smile for Borkin, and
> Guldan snapped an attention-grabbing photo that would later be chosen
> for the front page of the paper's September 11 Metro section.
>
> Guldan got a call from a reader the next day. "Did you notice anything
> unusual about that picture?" the reader asked.
>
> Upon closer inspection, it seems the vice president's smile was not
> his biggest, ahem, asset. Is that what we think it is?
>
> "You're not imagining it," Guldan says of the unintentionally revealing
> photo.
>
> Let's just say the snugness of Cheney's pants left little to the
> imagination...
>
> One Journal Sentinel reader pointed out the blooper in an e-mail to
> WKLH-FM radio hosts Dave Luczak, Carole Caine and Kevin Brandt, who
> had a hoot talking about it during their popular morning show.
>
> "It's nice to have someone of that magnitude in the White House," Brandt
> joked.
>
> "He's got a porn career right there," Caine snickered.
> [...]
> Want to see the picture for yourself? Catch it while you can at your
> public library's periodical desk because chagrined Journal Sentinel
> officials are not in a sharing mood.
>
> You won't find it on jsonline.com ...
>
> Meanwhile, Mark Hoffman, deputy photo editor, suggested we try the
> paper's Photo Sales Service. Don't bother. To check its availability,
> we ordered and paid for a color copy of the Cheney photo, only to get
> a call the next day voiding the deal.
>
> Journal Sentinel: "That photograph is not for sale."
>
> The Konformist September 2000:
> For those who have received Doctorates in Conspiracy Theory, the name
> Dick Cheney (George W. Bush's pick for Vice-President) brings up the
> humorous image presented in Cathy O'Brien's notorious "non-fiction"
> tale, Trance Formation of America. In her auto-biography, Cathy
> describes her supposed victimization during her years as a CIA sex
> slave. One of her more vivid tales is her abuse by Mr. Cheney, who
> apparently goes by the name "Dick" thanks to his overly large penis.
> Cathy describes Most Dangerous Game inspired human hunts turned sex
> romps involving Cheney and sex slaves, including herself.
>
> Later on, George Bush, strung out on heroin, tries to convert Cheney
> to pedophilia on Cathy's daughter, Kelly. However, "Upon seeing
> Cheney's unusually large penis, Kelly reeled back in horror."
>
> For more on Cheney's "Most Dangerous Game" hunting trips, see Of
> Scalia, orgies, Cheney, and 'hunting trips'
>
>
> --
> www.total411.info
> www.libertythink.com
> www.total911.info
>
> www.ctrl.org
> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
> ==========
> CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing
> propagandic
> screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceâ?"not soap-boxingâ?"please! These are
> sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'â?"with its many half-truths, mis-
> directions and outright fraudsâ?"is used politically by different groups
> with
> major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and
> thought.
> That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
> always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
> credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
>
> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
> ========================================================================
> Archives Available at:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/
> ctrl
> ========================================================================
> To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
> SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
>
> To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
> SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
>
> Om
One day I'll find a way to stage parts of trance-formation...
it's an amazing book...
Tuesday, November 16, 2004
Monday, November 15, 2004
Daily Kos :: Face it, Howard Dean is not the problem, we are the problem
Daily Kos :: Face it, Howard Dean is not the problem, we are the problem:
"So, what was/is the real problem with Howard?"
Can't trace his bloodline back to Charlemagne?
not a reptile?
I give up, what?
"So, what was/is the real problem with Howard?"
Can't trace his bloodline back to Charlemagne?
not a reptile?
I give up, what?
Salon.com Politics
Salon.com Politics:
"And I hope that you die / And your death'll come soon / I will follow your casket / In the pale afternoon / And I'll watch while you're lowered / Down to your deathbed / And I'll stand o'er your grave / 'Til I'm sure that you're dead. "
Masters of War-a-thon anyone?
"And I hope that you die / And your death'll come soon / I will follow your casket / In the pale afternoon / And I'll watch while you're lowered / Down to your deathbed / And I'll stand o'er your grave / 'Til I'm sure that you're dead. "
Masters of War-a-thon anyone?
Sunday, November 14, 2004
The Legend of Jack Daniels
The Town Talk
I drink it because I like the taste.
I could care less about awards, longevity, legends, etc...
I like it, and it gets me drunk.
I drink it because I like the taste.
I could care less about awards, longevity, legends, etc...
I like it, and it gets me drunk.
Wu Tang Clan Co-Founder O.D.B. Dead at 35
Yahoo! News - Wu Tang Clan Co-Founder O.D.B. Dead at 35
If only this were surprising.
sad, it is.
but not surprising.
If only this were surprising.
sad, it is.
but not surprising.
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Salon.com Life | Tex ed
Salon.com Life | Tex ed:
"Hey, kids! Want to know how to avoid contracting a sexually transmitted disease?
'Get plenty of rest.' "
I've been watching a lot of old sex ed films...
we are entering the 50's everyone...
and while beatniks are cooler than hippies,
it's still gonna be ugly, overall...
"Hey, kids! Want to know how to avoid contracting a sexually transmitted disease?
'Get plenty of rest.' "
I've been watching a lot of old sex ed films...
we are entering the 50's everyone...
and while beatniks are cooler than hippies,
it's still gonna be ugly, overall...
Salon.com | The Texas chainsaw massacre
Salon.com | The Texas chainsaw massacre: "The paucity of tax revenue also means that Texas lags behind other states in virtually every health and human services category. It has maintained a permanent underclass for decades. In 1980, it ranked 39th in the percentage of citizens living in poverty. Last year, Texas tied for 47th in that category. Among the 50 states, Texas ranks dead last in the percentage of poor children with adequate health insurance and last in the percentage of citizens who have high school degrees. It's first in the number of people killed by handguns, first in the number of people executed, and first in the number of people in prison. "
The eyes of Texas are upon you.
I gotta get the hell out.
The eyes of Texas are upon you.
I gotta get the hell out.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Fw: Flash Flood Warning for Harris County
I'll swim to the polls in the morning if I have to...
and this isn't even a swing state...
----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:05 AM
Subject: Flash Flood Warning for Harris County
> Issued at: 2:01 AM CST 11/2/04, expires at: 5:00 AM CST 11/2/04
>
> The NWS in league city has issued a
>
> flash flood warning for: matagorda county in southeast texas galveston
> county in southeast texas brazoria county in southeast texas chambers
> county in southeast texas jackson county in southeast texas wharton county
> in southeast texas fort bend county in southeast texas harris county in
> southeast texas
> Until 500 am cst
> At 155 am cst, doppler radar indicated and local law enforcement officials
> reported flash flooding from thunderstorms along and south of a line from
> baytown to league city to angleton.
> Flooding is expected in or near, alvin, anahuac, angleton, bacliff, bay
> city, dickinson, friendswood, kemah, league city, palacios, seabrook,
> sweeny, webster, west columbia, rosharon, and wallisville.
> Between 145 am and 200 am cst law enforcement officials reported
> widespread flooding in league city. Thunderstorms producing the rainfall
> were becoming more widespread. Radar estimates of rainfall since 7 pm have
> been widespread 1 to 2 inch amounts with some locations receiving upwards
> of 4 inches. Additional rainfall of 1 to 3 inches is possible by 5 am cst.
> Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall may cause flooding of land adjacent
> to small creeks and bayous. Additionally, frontage roads, highway
> underpasses, farm-to-market, and other secondary roads may flood.
> Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the depth
> and speed of flash flood waters. Act quickly if flash flooding is
> observed. Do not stay in areas prone to flooding when water begins to
> rise.
> Avoid locations where water covers the ground!
> A flood watch remains in effect for the warned area through this
> afternoon.
> Please report severe weather to the county sheriff, local police, or
> department of public safety. They will relay your report to the national
> weather service.
> Lat, lon 2987 9485 2988 9439 2955 9439 2949 9467 2888 9537 2839 9638 2841
> 9640 2862 9599 2856 9623 2869 9622 2864 9632 2872 9642 2873 9665 2908 9694
> 2933 9648 2962 9605 2981 9583 3009 9567 3017 9556 3009 9542 3002 9528 3018
> 9509 3000 9509 2987 9501
>
>
> Track Approaching Storms To See If Your Personal Locations May Be In Their
> Path! Sign Up Today!
> http://treets.click2weather.com/svc/lnk.cfm?l=43736999&t=1
>
> +...........................................................+
>
> Want to unsubscribe? Click here:
> http://svc.ibsys.com/unsub.cfm?u=2655319555813-wx_svr_houwx_txz213
>
> Got questions? Please drop us a note: houwxnews@ibsys.com
>
> You are receiving this message because you requested it
> from click2weather.com. This message contains advertisements
> from our sponsors.
>
> Copyright 2004 Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.
> All rights reserved. http://ibsys.com/
> Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.
> 1333 Northland Drive
> Mendota Heights, MN 55120
and this isn't even a swing state...
----- Original Message -----
From:
To:
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:05 AM
Subject: Flash Flood Warning for Harris County
> Issued at: 2:01 AM CST 11/2/04, expires at: 5:00 AM CST 11/2/04
>
> The NWS in league city has issued a
>
> flash flood warning for: matagorda county in southeast texas galveston
> county in southeast texas brazoria county in southeast texas chambers
> county in southeast texas jackson county in southeast texas wharton county
> in southeast texas fort bend county in southeast texas harris county in
> southeast texas
> Until 500 am cst
> At 155 am cst, doppler radar indicated and local law enforcement officials
> reported flash flooding from thunderstorms along and south of a line from
> baytown to league city to angleton.
> Flooding is expected in or near, alvin, anahuac, angleton, bacliff, bay
> city, dickinson, friendswood, kemah, league city, palacios, seabrook,
> sweeny, webster, west columbia, rosharon, and wallisville.
> Between 145 am and 200 am cst law enforcement officials reported
> widespread flooding in league city. Thunderstorms producing the rainfall
> were becoming more widespread. Radar estimates of rainfall since 7 pm have
> been widespread 1 to 2 inch amounts with some locations receiving upwards
> of 4 inches. Additional rainfall of 1 to 3 inches is possible by 5 am cst.
> Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall may cause flooding of land adjacent
> to small creeks and bayous. Additionally, frontage roads, highway
> underpasses, farm-to-market, and other secondary roads may flood.
> Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the depth
> and speed of flash flood waters. Act quickly if flash flooding is
> observed. Do not stay in areas prone to flooding when water begins to
> rise.
> Avoid locations where water covers the ground!
> A flood watch remains in effect for the warned area through this
> afternoon.
> Please report severe weather to the county sheriff, local police, or
> department of public safety. They will relay your report to the national
> weather service.
> Lat, lon 2987 9485 2988 9439 2955 9439 2949 9467 2888 9537 2839 9638 2841
> 9640 2862 9599 2856 9623 2869 9622 2864 9632 2872 9642 2873 9665 2908 9694
> 2933 9648 2962 9605 2981 9583 3009 9567 3017 9556 3009 9542 3002 9528 3018
> 9509 3000 9509 2987 9501
>
>
> Track Approaching Storms To See If Your Personal Locations May Be In Their
> Path! Sign Up Today!
> http://treets.click2weather.com/svc/lnk.cfm?l=43736999&t=1
>
> +...........................................................+
>
> Want to unsubscribe? Click here:
> http://svc.ibsys.com/unsub.cfm?u=2655319555813-wx_svr_houwx_txz213
>
> Got questions? Please drop us a note: houwxnews@ibsys.com
>
> You are receiving this message because you requested it
> from click2weather.com. This message contains advertisements
> from our sponsors.
>
> Copyright 2004 Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.
> All rights reserved. http://ibsys.com/
> Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc.
> 1333 Northland Drive
> Mendota Heights, MN 55120
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
blues in the grass
a match
a glass
green
the taste of sulfur
a late night
what might as well be
speed
in a can
tomorrow's a big day
decides a lot of things
and I can't sleep
can't sleep at all
nobody to call
the sound of the rain
the rising waters
parked a block away
got wet
then played
two blues
too punk
pie place closed
so I came home
and here I am
busting open roaches
lighting matches
and wishing I could sleep
Monday, November 01, 2004
cabaret tonight and tomorrow 10 and 12pm...the axiom...c'mon down...
to Jack Babylon's Heat City Cabaret of Politics, Horror and Hats (hats?)
10pm
and
12pm
both night...
songs, dancing girls, humor, puppets...
you know the drill...
M
Saturday, October 30, 2004
I think I prefer Joy Division.
New York Post Online Edition: gossip:
"a cousin of Kerry's, Michael Paine, was a close friend of Oswald who fre quently had the assassin as a house guest. Paine even stored the rifle Oswald used to shoot Kennedy at his house."
heads or tails folks...either way we're shortchanged...
remember Neil Bush and Scott Hinckley's connection?
So, when Nader says there's no difference between Bush and Kerry in some ways he's right...
they are both reptiles from the same genealogical line...
they are both connected to the intelligence community...
they are just warring factions of elites lording over us...
Kerry understands we'll make better drones if we're taken care of just a little...that's the difference...
it's all "thesis-antithesis-synthesis"...
Bush is making extreme moves enacting "the agenda". He knows it will push us towards Kerry and the Dems that will then make other extreme moves towards enacting "the agenda"....
Bush stirs up the middle east, Kerry finishes the job.
Bush brings down our standard of living,
Kerry brings us back into the world as a weaker actor.
All moving towards...wait for it...
THE NEW WORLD ORDER!
"a cousin of Kerry's, Michael Paine, was a close friend of Oswald who fre quently had the assassin as a house guest. Paine even stored the rifle Oswald used to shoot Kennedy at his house."
heads or tails folks...either way we're shortchanged...
remember Neil Bush and Scott Hinckley's connection?
So, when Nader says there's no difference between Bush and Kerry in some ways he's right...
they are both reptiles from the same genealogical line...
they are both connected to the intelligence community...
they are just warring factions of elites lording over us...
Kerry understands we'll make better drones if we're taken care of just a little...that's the difference...
it's all "thesis-antithesis-synthesis"...
Bush is making extreme moves enacting "the agenda". He knows it will push us towards Kerry and the Dems that will then make other extreme moves towards enacting "the agenda"....
Bush stirs up the middle east, Kerry finishes the job.
Bush brings down our standard of living,
Kerry brings us back into the world as a weaker actor.
All moving towards...wait for it...
THE NEW WORLD ORDER!
Friday, October 29, 2004
Off the Kuff
Off the Kuff: "Thirty years ago this Halloween, a man living in the Houston suburb of Deer Park murdered his 8-year-old son by spiking a package of Pixy Stix with cyanide. Halloween has never been the same since."
ahhh...
my home town...
I remember it well, or well, I don't really...
I guess I was 4 at the time...
but I do remember going to the church or the school for some kind of fall festival and not trick or treating as a kid...
sure do like pixy sticks though...
ahhh...
my home town...
I remember it well, or well, I don't really...
I guess I was 4 at the time...
but I do remember going to the church or the school for some kind of fall festival and not trick or treating as a kid...
sure do like pixy sticks though...
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix:
"Weird Halloween factoid (insert your own 'bloodsucking politician' joke here): George W. Bush and John Kerry are ninth cousins twice removed and can each trace their lineage back to Vlad II Dracul, the 15th century Transylvanian warlord who inspired Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (Ancestry.com, via Rush and Molloy) . "
fucking reptiles.
we're catching up to them.
think I'll go have a heart attack now.
"Weird Halloween factoid (insert your own 'bloodsucking politician' joke here): George W. Bush and John Kerry are ninth cousins twice removed and can each trace their lineage back to Vlad II Dracul, the 15th century Transylvanian warlord who inspired Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' (Ancestry.com, via Rush and Molloy) . "
fucking reptiles.
we're catching up to them.
think I'll go have a heart attack now.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
John Peel dies
Legendary radio DJ John Peel dies
Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru.
Peel, whose radio career spanned 40 years, was on a working holiday in the city of Cuzco with his wife Sheila when he suffered a heart attack.
He was BBC Radio 1's longest-serving DJ and in recent years had also presented Home Truths on Radio 4.
Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt said Peel's contribution to modern music and culture was "immeasurable".
'Hugely missed'
He added: "John Peel was a broadcasting legend. I am deeply saddened by his death as are all who work at Radio 1. "John's influence has towered over the development of popular music for nearly four decades.
"Hopeful bands all over the world sent their demo tapes to John knowing that he really cared.
"His commitment and passion for new music only grew stronger over the years. In fact, when I last saw him he was engaged in a lively debate with his fellow DJs over the state of new music today
"He will be hugely missed."
Mr Parfitt told Radio 1's Newsbeat that Peel had been on a holiday of a lifetime when he died.
'Irreplaceable'
He added: "He had gone on holiday with Sheila to a place where he had always wanted to go."
BBC director general Mark Thompson said: "We are all very shocked and saddened by the news of John's death.
"He was one of the giants of radio and will be missed, not just by everyone at the BBC, but by millions of listeners of all ages."
Tony Blair's spokesman said the Prime Minister was "genuinely saddened by the news".
He added: "His view is that he was a unique voice in British broadcasting and used that voice to unearth new talent and different subjects and make them accessible to a much wider audience."
Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley, who presented coverage of the Glastonbury Festival with Peel, paid tribute to her colleague and close friend.
She said: "John was simply one of my favourite men in the whole world - as a music fan and presenter he was simply an inspiration."
Mainstream music
Peel was born in Heswall, near Liverpool, and after completing his military service in Britain in 1962, went to the US where he began working for a radio station in Dallas.
| It was because of him I got to hear some of the most obscure but influential music I ever heard James Dean Bradfield, Manic Street Preachers |
He joined Radio 1 at the launch in 1967, and established himself with the late night programme Top Gear.
He became one of the first DJs to give exposure to punk, reggae and hip-hop, before they crossed over into the mainstream.
Peel's programme built up a reputation around the world, and in addition to his Radio 1 programme, he could also be heard on the BBC's World Service.
James Dean Bradfield, lead singer of the Manic Street Preachers, paid tribute to Peel.
He told BBC News Online: "It was because of him I got to hear some of the most obscure but influential music I ever heard.
"He was a lifeline to hearing music I would never have heard otherwise. The service he provided was getting to hear music that you couldn't buy in Cardiff. He was a portal to a whole new world."
| He always had his finger on the pulse of the music industry Michael Bradley, Undertones |
Blur lead singer Damon Albarn said John Peel's patronage was "one of the most significant things that happened to us in our careers".
"The world is going to be a poorer place with his sudden departure. I will miss him deeply," he added.
"I want to send my heartfelt sympathy to his lovely family. John's memory will never be forgotten because he had the spirit of music in him."
Favourite record
After announcing Peel's death on Radio 1, the station played his favourite song, Teenage Kicks, by the Undertones.
Michael Bradley, bass player for the Undertones, spoke of his shock on learning of Peel's death.
He said: "He was a very funny, very warm man and we will always be grateful for what he did for The Undertones.
"Personally, I find it incredible what he did for the band and we always got huge pride out of the fact that he said Teenage Kicks was his favourite single.
"He always had his finger on the pulse of the music industry and the fact that Radio 1 played the Undertones, the White Stripes and the Strokes today showed just how relevant he remained throughout his career."
Monday, October 25, 2004
thinking too much...
leads to thoughts like this...
I live in a country where a man who woke up on his 40th birthday and decided he'd try not being a drunk is President, but I can't get a job with Clear Channel because I have bad credit.
Grrr....
on another note I think I'm gonna give NANOWRIMO a try this year...
lord knows I'm not busy enough...
I know how I'll start, but I have no idea where it will go...
and I'm staying true to my nature and tackling the first draft without an outline...
50,000 words by december 1st...
whoohoo!
anyone care to join me?
I live in a country where a man who woke up on his 40th birthday and decided he'd try not being a drunk is President, but I can't get a job with Clear Channel because I have bad credit.
Grrr....
on another note I think I'm gonna give NANOWRIMO a try this year...
lord knows I'm not busy enough...
I know how I'll start, but I have no idea where it will go...
and I'm staying true to my nature and tackling the first draft without an outline...
50,000 words by december 1st...
whoohoo!
anyone care to join me?
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
news @ nature.com�-�How to build the Universebreaking science news headlines
news @ nature.com�-�How to build the Universebreaking science news headlines: "First, the theory of relativity must apply within each individual tile (so that nothing can travel through it faster than light) and second, the assembly must preserve causality. This means that a piece of space-time cannot be constructed in such a way that an 'event' - some change in the Universe - precedes its cause."
I've always been a Hume kind of guy...
you know, constant conjunction...
this is very troubling to my worldview...
hmmm....
HELP ME!
I've always been a Hume kind of guy...
you know, constant conjunction...
this is very troubling to my worldview...
hmmm....
HELP ME!
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Halley's Comment: Komodo Dragon Cheney
Halley's Comment: Komodo Dragon Cheney
"Cheney reminded me of one of those lizards that lie in the sun by the riverbank and don't seem too dangerous, in fact, look barely able to move their big languorous body, but every now and then can whip out their poisonous tongue and take down their prey. John Edwards was a barefoot boy in farm overalls, going fishing with a happy face, bamboo pole and a can of worms. I wanted to scream, 'Watch out!'"
Saw what you will about David Icke, but I love that the whole reptile thing is catching on...
"Cheney reminded me of one of those lizards that lie in the sun by the riverbank and don't seem too dangerous, in fact, look barely able to move their big languorous body, but every now and then can whip out their poisonous tongue and take down their prey. John Edwards was a barefoot boy in farm overalls, going fishing with a happy face, bamboo pole and a can of worms. I wanted to scream, 'Watch out!'"
Saw what you will about David Icke, but I love that the whole reptile thing is catching on...
Friday, October 08, 2004
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix: "'No individual, regardless of race, gender, age, intelligence or athletic ability, can or should be deemed a loser,' "
umm...what if they lose?
I used to wear my "LOSER" shirt proudly...(SUB POP not ABercrombie & Fitch)
anyway, sorry about all the links to salon...even if you're as broke as my you should think about subscribing...you get a million print mags subscriptions with your paid salon subscription...everything from Maxim to The New York Review of Books. I've found it more than worth it...
umm...what if they lose?
I used to wear my "LOSER" shirt proudly...(SUB POP not ABercrombie & Fitch)
anyway, sorry about all the links to salon...even if you're as broke as my you should think about subscribing...you get a million print mags subscriptions with your paid salon subscription...everything from Maxim to The New York Review of Books. I've found it more than worth it...
Salon.com News | Bush's mystery bulge
Salon.com News | Bush's mystery bulge: "Suggestions that Bush may have using this technique stem from a D-day event in France, when a CNN broadcast appeared to pick up -- and broadcast to surprised viewers -- the sound of another voice seemingly reading Bush his lines, after which Bush repeated them. Danny Schechter, who operates the news site MediaChannel.org, and who has been doing some investigating into the wired-Bush rumors himself, said the Bush campaign has been worried of late about others picking up their radio frequencies -- notably during the Republican Convention on the day of Bush's appearance. 'They had a frequency specialist stop me and ask about the frequency of my camera,' Schechter said. 'The Democrats weren't doing that at their convention.' "
Does anyone have a copy of this CNN broadcast?
If our President can't even be bothered to remember some talking points and occasionally think on his feet...ah...jeez...this is just sad...
Does anyone have a copy of this CNN broadcast?
If our President can't even be bothered to remember some talking points and occasionally think on his feet...ah...jeez...this is just sad...
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Article: Device translates spoken Japanese and English�| New Scientist
Article: Device translates spoken Japanese and English�| New Scientist
via Warrren Ellis over at Die Puny Humans!
this is just about the coolest thing ever...
now if they can just shape it like a fish and have us insert directly into our ears!
via Warrren Ellis over at Die Puny Humans!
this is just about the coolest thing ever...
now if they can just shape it like a fish and have us insert directly into our ears!
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
New York Post Online Edition: gossip
New York Post Online Edition: gossip
I've only ever drank 86 proof Jack...
I didn't even know it was originally 90 proof...
damn...
""We researched it and decided the majority of people wanted a less potent drink."
and those people, the ones who want a less potent drink are not gonna drink JD anyway...
damn....
I've only ever drank 86 proof Jack...
I didn't even know it was originally 90 proof...
damn...
""We researched it and decided the majority of people wanted a less potent drink."
and those people, the ones who want a less potent drink are not gonna drink JD anyway...
damn....
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Off the Kuff: Craddick's turn
Off the Kuff: Craddick's turn
Off the Kuff has everything you need to know about the Craddick/Delay scandal...
Off the Kuff has everything you need to know about the Craddick/Delay scandal...
Thursday, September 16, 2004
ex-lion tamer
ex-lion tamer: "anarchist communitarianism is a lot of fun to fantasize about and practice as much as possible in one's personal life, but when you live in a culture pretty much crowded by people intoxicated by sex, drugs, violence and the latest fashion and technological gadgetry, the only hope for any kind of awakening is some serious, serious pain."
I picked that cause I liked it...but damn!
go read the whole thing...
it makes sense and it works.
but the question is, how does a misanthrope like me get involved in the community infrastructure?
I picked that cause I liked it...but damn!
go read the whole thing...
it makes sense and it works.
but the question is, how does a misanthrope like me get involved in the community infrastructure?
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix
Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | The Fix: "Also: Richard Linklater has signed on to direct the remake of 'The Bad News Bears,' starring Billy Bob Thornton "
I didn't think they could do this and possibly improve on the original in any way...
now I only think...WOW! I can't wait...bad santa and school of rock are actually two of my favorite recent movies...
I didn't think they could do this and possibly improve on the original in any way...
now I only think...WOW! I can't wait...bad santa and school of rock are actually two of my favorite recent movies...
Monday, September 06, 2004
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: September 05, 2004 - September 11, 2004 Archives
This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: September 05, 2004 - September 11, 2004 Archives
Another scary story from Gitmo on the Hudson...
this is so wrong and unamerican...
Another scary story from Gitmo on the Hudson...
this is so wrong and unamerican...
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Daily Kos :: Ahnold the Lienator
Daily Kos :: Ahnold the Lienator
And some people said Ahnold wasn't really a Republican...
He sure can lie just like one...
And some people said Ahnold wasn't really a Republican...
He sure can lie just like one...
Monday, August 30, 2004
Daily Kos :: Something for Bush to talk about
Daily Kos :: Something for Bush to talk about:
"All hail Bush the economic wonder! "
Well, the republicans may be warmongering freedom haters, but at least they're bad for the economy...
"All hail Bush the economic wonder! "
Well, the republicans may be warmongering freedom haters, but at least they're bad for the economy...
The All-New All-Different Howling Curmudgeons: Curmudgeonly Comments: Spoiled
The All-New All-Different Howling Curmudgeons: Curmudgeonly Comments: Spoiled: "UFF: I think Marvel stopped pretending the Ultimate line was for new readers long ago. This is for the same old readers, who apparently really do want to read the same old stories, only with irony and cannibalism. Who knew?"
Best summation of the ultimate line I've seen so far.
follow the link if you want to read an in-depth discussion about Warren Ellis and the Fantasticar.
Best summation of the ultimate line I've seen so far.
follow the link if you want to read an in-depth discussion about Warren Ellis and the Fantasticar.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
Posts
