I

I am so self-involved
all I can write is
monologues

I am impatient
and I do not know
the value
of hard work

I am an only child
who has spent more
of his adult life
out of relationships
not in them

I am capable
of great deception

I am so self-involved

I am so self-involved

I am so self-involved


what about you?

The morning after the weekend before

Reading about hangovers is better than having them:

It's the taste of stale booze and nicotine and acetaldehyde and whatever this filth is on your tongue. It's the taste of ashtrays swilled out with morning-after dregs - which you don't recall drinking but you couldn't swear.

two quick ones

I.

A hearty to whatever
to whatever I deserve
and a fuck yeah
to what I want

sorry it's just how I feel

I'm sure yr right
and the responsible road
is the one to go down,
but doesn't that shortcut
look nice?


II.

When the last time
catches you by surprise
you find yourself thinking
"if I'd only knew
I would've spent
more time here,
more time there.
I would've
at least
took off
her socks.
I would've
at least
took
one last
long look"
When the last time
catches you by surprise.

today

today has been
the kind of day
that life
is all about

all highs
and lows

hoos from ya to boo



anyway,

first full TDU practice in a long time happening,
uh, right now...

rock on.

Steven Seagal's Lightning Bolt Energy Drink - Xoxide.com - $2.49

Are you stuck drifting through life in a state of existential confusion wandering aimlessly through the multitudes of energy products not knowing which one is the right one for you? Then look no further for the true meaning of life then Master Sensei Seagal?s Lightning Bolt Energy Drink!

If anyone sees this in stores let me know...
I will drink this drink.

friday random ten

1. Watching The Detectives - Yo La Tengo
2. I am Rangers - Dupe
3. Club-A-Gogo - The Animals
4. Touch me I'm sick - Sonic Youth
5. It's All Right - The Velvet Underground
6. The Magnificent Seven (live) - The Clash
7. I Had a Very Good Year - Mobius Band
8. In the Highways - The Peasall Sisters
9. Hideaway - The Electric Prunes
10. Texas Trash - Horseshoe

Eschaton

Eschaton: "NBC did not interrupt its broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade yesterday to bring viewers the news that an M&M balloon had crashed into a light pole, injuring two sisters.

In fact, when the time came in the tightly scripted three-hour program for the M&Ms' appearance, NBC weaved in tape of the balloon crossing the finish line at last year's parade - even as the damaged balloon itself was being dragged from the accident scene. At 11:47 a.m., as an 11-year-old girl and her 26-year-old sister were being treated for injuries, the parade's on-air announcers - Katie Couric, Matt Lauer and Al Roker - kept up their light-hearted repartee from Herald Square, where the parade ends. "


I don't even understand this at all...
it really is 1984 isn't it?
this is very creepy.

Spacetaker| Your Houston Cultural Arts Guide - Envy The Cockroach Gallery

GO! SEE PICS! HERE!

and there is a review too...

This is the kind of play in which the dialogue and the acting seem familiar in their realness and, interesting, in the way the lives of real people are. It is also manages to be darkly humorous?the situations of the character?s lives are so pathetic, and yet so emblematic of middle American society, that you have to laugh at them.

whoohoo!

Covert Satanist Pat Robertson Flashes Devils Hand

"Pat Robertson, the so-called voice of Christian America, has again been caught flashing occult satanic hand signals during his show. During Thursday morning's 700 Club program Robertson could clearly be seen displaying the El Diablo hand gesture towards the end of the broadcast."

that damned Satan!
He's EVERYWHERE!!!

The Dark Side

Just a quick reminder of where to go for quality true crime reportage:

The Dark Side

good stuff.

Monitor Duty: Alan Kistler's Profile On: ZOD!

Monitor Duty: Alan Kistler's Profile On: ZOD!:
"He is a fanatic with Superman's powers, backed up by military training and a cunning mind. He is Zod."

HAIL ZOD!

In case the comic book post wasn't nerdy enough for ya...

Zap2it - TV news - 'Galactica' Battles on at Sci Fi: "The entire principal cast of 'Battlestar Galactica,' including Edward James Olmos and Mary McDonnell, is set to return for season three. Executive producers David Eick and Ronald D. Moore, who developed the show from the late-1970s ABC series, will also remain with the show."

Right on.

NPR : There is No God Penn Jillette - Celebrity Humanist

NPR : There is No God:

"Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around."

I Am NOT The Beastmaster: Multiple Articulation

I was wondering where the smart talk on THE CRISIS!!!!! was happening...
think I've stumbled across some...
I Am NOT The Beastmaster: Multiple Articulation: "Let me explain briefly for those of you who can't name the full line-up of the Justice Battalion or the Inferior Five. The Kingdom was a short 1998 miniseries that existed to plug in one of four quarterly holes in DC Comics' publishing schedule and to cash in on the popularity of Mark Waid and Alex Ross's smash hit Kingdom Come by tying its possible future into the normal DC continuity. The end result was the creation of Hypertime, a Grant Morrison concept never actually written by Grant Morrison, which conceded that all of DC's editorially-annihilated stories, characters, and parallel universes still existed somewhere, somehow. Brooker exalts Hypertime as 'a textbook example of postmodernism, following Fredric Jameson's influential definitions,' although he never gets around to mentioning that those influential definitions are highly critical of postmodernism for its institution of exactly this sort of empty pastiche--or, as Jim calls it in his comments thread, a purely 'gestural multiplicity.' (Incidentally, I'm paraphrasing comments I've already made in a review of Brooker's book for IJOCA--pardon the repetition.)"

which leads me to the fact that I'm enjoying the big two events going on right now.

"Decimation", going through the Marvel books after "The House of M", is turning into an interesting read. But you can't convice me they won't end up undoing most of it. C'mon, no Ice Man? And how long are they going to wait for Hawkeye to show back up?

Now, "Infinite Crisis" is more than just a good read (yes, I am a DC fanboy), it's just the kind of huge narrative shared universe mythology rich comic book story I like. I've been reading ALL the connected books (except the rann-thanagar war lead-in... I know the Green Lantern's ended up involved in it, but I still couldn't bring myself to care. A man's got to draw a line somewhere, right?) and the writer's are doing a GREAT job of really making the DC universe a connected universe again. I've never really cared about Capt. Marvel. Still don't really. But the way the whole Marvel family's story has been told during the crisis and pre-crisis, etc. does have me actually interested in them for the first time.

and...that last page of INFINITE CRISIS #2...
that's crazy.

anyway, said I was looking for smart talk on THE CRISIS!!!! didn't say you were gonna get any here...

REAL ART (and politics and culture)

REAL ART (and politics and culture): "Soon after he assumed command in December 2001, his agency experienced a string of embarrassing episodes, including jail breaks, some orchestrated by guards; the theft of inmate property; drug sales by correctional officers; and reports of sexual relations between jailers and female inmates.

Cantu's top jail administrator was arrested and later accused of grooming a jailhouse ''harem.'"

this reminds me,
have I mentioned that you should come see "Envy the Cockroach"?

damn blogger...

making me do text verification to post...
so none of the e-mails I'm sending to the blog are coming through...
anyone else dealt with this?

anyway, took the day off...
blew my lips out playing with the medicine show last night,
but it was worth it...
very fun night...
got to see one old friend I was expecting,
and another that was a TOTAL surprise...

It seems like one of the original TDU horns is in town for a while and I think we're gonna shanghai him back into the band if'n we can...

whoohooo!

so, what should I do with my day off?

Re: Full Circle review

my e-mail updates haven't been working so consider this a test...
and a YAY!

he doesn't even say, "you'll like it if you like this sort of thing."

Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 8:50 AM
Subject: Full Circle review

The Chron review is out! Although I couldn't find a link for it anywhere -
had to do a website search for "full circle".

Here's a direct link:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/theater/3476220.html

And here's the text:

Full Circle reveals moments of genius
By EVERETT EVANS
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Infernal Bridegroom Productions' lively and provocative Houston premiere of
Charles Mee's Full Circle marks the first time one of Mee's works has been
staged in Houston. So this IBP outing is doubly worthwhile, for the play
itself and as an introduction to a noteworthy contemporary playwright.

Mee's plays have been described as "blueprints for events." He bases them on
earlier works, from Euripides' Orestes to Gorky's The Lower Depths. But Mee
doesn't write adaptations. He tosses essentials of pre-existing works into
the Cuisinart of his imagination, mixing in new ideas and characters,
fictional and historical.

Full Circle typifies his technique. Based on Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk
Circle (and the 14th-century Chinese play that was Brecht's original
source), Full Circle retains the tale of a peasant woman fighting to keep
the baby she has cared for, against the wishes of the child's neglectful
birth mother.

But Mee intertwines this plot with the saga of American socialite Pamela
Dalrymple (based on real-life socialite Pamela Harriman), who is in East
Berlin attending a performance by the Berliner Ensemble when revolution
breaks out and the Berlin Wall comes crashing down. Pamela has stepped out
of the audience to become embroiled in a discussion of art and politics with
Berliner Ensemble director Heiner Muller and his cast when the frenzy
outside their theater overtakes them.

Erich Honecker, head of East Germany's communist regime, flees with his
wife, who leaves her baby in the arms of hapless student revolutionary Dulle
Griet (a figure Mee has imported from Dutch folklore and the paintings of
Pieter Bruegel the Elder!). Kindhearted Pamela takes Dulle Griet and the
baby under her wing, and they flee from officers determined to confiscate
the infant (apparently fearing Honecker's heir somehow will lead to
continuity of his regime).

In their picaresque adventures, the women keep crossing paths with American
tycoon Warren (based on Warren Buffett), who becomes Pamela's love interest.

Mee has written that he does not care for the traditional "well-made play"
and well-made Full Circle certainly ain't. It's unwieldly, often slap-dash,
sometimes self-indulgent. It's also spottily brilliant, full of originality,
surprises, mordant satire, pungent absurdity and feeling. I don't mind a
play that tries my patience a bit here and there, as long as it pays off <
as Full Circle does time and again.

Director Anthony Barilla captures the work's freewheeling spirit and
questioning irreverence in a deftly paced, vividly staged production. A
scene in which Pamela and Dulle Griet teeter across a perilous rope bridge,
represented by two lengths of rope held by extras, demonstrates just how
much suspense Barilla and his cast can summon through skilled use of a
simple device.

Tek Wilson, whom longtime Houston theater goers will remember as a mainstay
of Stages' early seasons, does her best work with a delightful portrayal of
Pamela, seemingly superficial and lah-di-dah, yet revealing layers of
warmth, wit, compassion and surprising resourcefulness. A.J. Ware's wise,
caring and resilient Dulle Griet represents an earthier sort of womanhood.

Paul Locklear is inspired and mercurial as Heiner Muller, especially in a
marathon monologue that dares us to decide it has overstayed its welcome,
but keeps redeeming itself with unexpected insights. Locklear's delivery is
a triumph of sardonic brinkmanship.

Tamarie Cooper is delectably rotten as the child's real mother. Jeff Miller
makes a droll yet somehow sensible Warren, absurdly spouting optimistic
aphorisms. Indeed, everyone in IBP's busy troupe comes through with banners
flying.

With direction and acting that enter wholeheartedly into the revolutionary
spirit of Mee's unique material, Full Circle emerges as IBP's strongest
all-around effort since its memorable 2003 mounting of Ionesco's Rhinoceros.

You Ain't No Picasso: White Stripes' Greenhorns Cover

some of you probably care about this...

You Ain't No Picasso: White Stripes' Greenhorns Cover:
"Jeff Mangum was at Elf Power's show last night. Apparently he sang 'The Arrow Flies Close' with them. Pitchfork reports. Also, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this, but oh well. It's all rumor anyways. There are some rumblings here in Lexington (where Robert Schenider of the Apples in stereo lives) that Robert has mentioned that he, Will Hart and Jeff Mangum might get together and record something in the future. Like I said, it's all hearsay (though apparently I have it third-hand from Robert from two good sources). Just the same, it's kinda interesting."

oh yeah, and you can d/l some new tune from some band called "the white stripes"...

Slashdot | Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source

I happened to be listening to Ella sing "I Love Paris" as I came across this story:
Slashdot | Paris Accelerates Move to Open Source: "the city of Paris is moving to open-source software a little faster than originally intended."

why oh why do I love Paris?

Charlie Brown Pathetic Tree - UrbanOutfitters.com

haven't had a tree in years,
but this is tempting.

Charlie Brown Pathetic Tree - UrbanOutfitters.com

Fw: [BAD SIGNAL]On Drinking

if you haven't subscribed to bad signal I reccomend it...
where else can you read things like this?

----- Original Message -----
From: <WarrenE@aol.com>
To: <badsignal@lists.flirble.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 7:27 PM
Subject: [BAD SIGNAL]On Drinking

> bad signal
> WARREN ELLIS
>
> So I had this dream last night and it's stuck with me all
> day. So much so that I'm now writing it down to try and
> exorcise it.
>
> So in this dream I'm taking the piss horribly out of David
> Mamet. I'm not sure why, except possibly he's drinking
> Budweiser and refusing whisky. And I'm taking the piss
> out of him, his Hemingway complex, his religious bullshit,
> his cheerful keyboard-wankery and his reduction of
> everything to basically chopping fucking wood.
>
> And for no good reason I can see, he shows me his penis.
> And it's square. Well, it's rectangular, I guess. But
> you know what I mean. It has corners. And an oaky
> grain to it. And he tells me that he has to take a tomahawk
> and hack a fresh notch in Rebecca Pidgeon before he
> fucks her each month. Because more than once a month,
> he says, and a man can get to kind of like it, and it's one
> short step from there to wearing a dress.
>
> And the thing is that alcohol has not actually passed
> my lips all week. Haven't been drinking this week at all.
>
> I'm not really sure what to do.
>
> -- W
>
> ...................
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Fw: JFK VIDEO OF MY SONG, LET THEM RISE!

----- Original Message -----
From: "T. Casey Brennan" <tcaseybrennan2002@yahoo.com>
To: <thelonenut@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:29 AM
Subject: JFK VIDEO OF MY SONG, LET THEM RISE!

>A JFK video accompanying my song "Let Them Rise" -- I
> did lyrics and vocals with the band FRANKENHEAD -- was
> on the local Crazy Mark TV music show on Halloween.
> There's a link to it at his site:
>
> http://www.marktv.net/crazy-mark.html
>
> You should be able to get it directly with this URL:
>
> http://www.marktv.net/FRANKENHEAD.mov
>
> Also, "Kitano's Sideshow", podcast in Hebrew from
> Israel, just played LET THEM RISE on the November 18
> episode (#36). Click on the URL below to get to the
> show...next week, they'll be playing SOCIAL WORKER
> BLUES:
>
> http://sideshow.libsyn.com/
>
> Can you put the FRANKENHEAD video on your Page?
>
> Best,
>
> T. Casey Brennan
>
>
>
>
> http://sideshow.libsyn.com http://www.marktv.net/crazy-mark.html
> http://www.music.us/education/T/T.-Casey-Brennan.htm
> http://www.wikipedia.infostar.cz/d/da/dave_sim.html
> http://explanation-guide.info/meaning/T.-Casey-Brennan.html
> http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/warrenworld/Livesp1.html
> http://dmoz.org/Arts/Comics/Creators/B/Brennan,_T._Casey/
> http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/conspire.html#Brennan
> http://onyx.gothicunderworld.com/darkendsoul/Conjurella.html
> http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/l/longuard.htm
> http://www.pacificsites.com/~lakenews/LCFP%20Graphics/conjurella.shtml
> http://www.blonnet.com/2005/10/13/stories/2005101300740900.htm
> http://danielfry.com/index.php?id=1905
> http://paragonfin.net/Gate/LiberationChannel/2005/01/t-casey-brennan_110624909910569458.html
>
>
>
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two star symphony was on fire!

weird long night

distractions during the show
noise
due to art crawl

still went well

good audience
(size and demeanor)

had my first brain freeze on stage
Jen saved me
thanks Jen

art crawl after party
after
next door

TWO STAR SYMPHONY WAS ON FIRE!

best performance of
The Marionette
EVER

unless my ears
are wrong
Chenoa played
some new stuff
in it,
and some
of the other
old tunes,
and it all
sounded GREAT.

then
as I
get ready
to leave

hit with weirdness
personal
artistic
and otherwise
from seemingly
all corners

biked home
in the rain

getting up early
to dance in a suit.


(the audio post below is a sample of Two Star's awesomeness at the show tonight.)

Warren Ellis' Engine Gear : Edison Hate Future File Under: that is a shirt I would wear

Warren Ellis' Engine Gear : Edison Hate Future

wired!

show went great tonight...

 

I have mentioned that you should come see it,

right?

 

and now I'm wired,

and I'll be biking to the galleria area in just about 7 hours...

 

whoohooo!

 

and when I get there,

 

I'll be filing,

 

well, actually,

I'll be documenting (in two places)

what exactly is in over 50 boxes

of files that I've pulled and boxed in two days...

 

I've also already reorganized most of the file room...

 

I'm working myself right out of work.

 

This is good and bad,

as all are things...

 

OM.

 

 

 

Drones Club: Gamblers Anonymous

Drones Club: Gamblers Anonymous

1. Have you ever lost time from work due to gambling?

As framed, this question quite simply does not stand, as the implication is that man is designed to live as a cog in a 40-hour wheel and that all pleasurable entertainment is secondary.

...

Afterthoughts.

I gamble, and smoke tobacco, and imbibe alcohol, and consume meats, and on the occasion of my hundredth birthday I shall don my slip-resistant booties and dance a brief but vigorous step upon your grave, for I have better places to be and better company to keep, you tired old nag.


with lots of funny stuff in between.

worked my first full day in months...

and there are worse things I suppose...

like working a whole slew of 'em in a row...

 

 

then went to the MFA and saw two star, well saw films and heard two star...

it was amazing...

 

 

gonna bike to work tomorrow.

metro sucks.

 

 

rock on.

 

http://notacompliment.blogspot.com

 

 

Burnt Orange Report - Mapping the Results: Prop 2

Burnt Orange Report - Mapping the Results: Prop 2:
"here is a map of Prop 2 results by County. "

BBC NEWS | Business | Norway in women bosses ultimatum

BBC NEWS | Business | Norway in women bosses ultimatum:

"Norway has said it might close down companies that fail to meet proposed boardroom quotas for women."

right on.

temp job

so, I start a temp job on Monday
filing
$11.00 an hour

on post oak

anyone work near the galleria wanna car pool?

I'm debating between metro and my bike at the moment...

blog | Reviews index

blog | Reviews index:
"At any rate, I'm happy to announce Bookslut's First Annual Man, Is That Dean Koontz a Prick or What? Contest. In 250 words or less, write an erotic, tender-yet-sexy story about Dean Koontz having some sort of hot, life-changing physical encounter with a Japanese guy. Send your stories as plain text in an email to mschaub at bookslut dot com, with 'Man, Is That Dean Koontz a Prick or What?' in the subject line. All entries should be submitted on or before Friday, November 18."

get to writing...

BalloonHQ Columns - Ralph Dewey file under: reseach material

BalloonHQ Columns - Ralph Dewey: "Bring out the balloon so that the smile face is toward the audience. The magnet should be toward the back of the balloon and therefore unseen. Explain that just like this balloon, many people appear to be happy on the outside. But people who don't have Christ as their savior, don't have true lasting joy. Without having their sins forgiven, they will some day go down and suffer in Hell with the devil. Let the balloon drop so that it falls downward, but catch it before it touches the floor. (If it hits the floor, the jolt might make the magnet fall off.) Explain that now you'll let the balloon represent someone that has the Joy of Jesus inside, a Christian. It will represent a person who has repented of their sins and asked Jesus to be their Lord and Savior. Hold the balloon so that your right hand (if you are right-handed) is at the back. Secretly remove the magnet with your right hand and hide the magnet hidden in your hand. Reach into your shirt pocket for your marker and secretly drop the magnet into your pocket as you take out the marker. Draw a halo above the smile face."


this thing is practically writing itself.

clowning tutorial - balloon twisting, balloon animals - file under: research material

clowning tutorial - balloon twisting, balloon animals:

"A few caveats first. Be aware that balloons can, do, and will pop. That's normal. Even though they're made of latex (not standard balloon rubber), and can therefore take a lot more 'twisting,' they will still pop. Never give a balloon to a small child (I use a guideline of three years old or less). If the child bites on the balloon (which small children will do -- taste is a significant part of how they experience the world), the balloon will pop, a piece can then fly straight down the child's throat, and the child will suffocate and die -- you will not be able to dislodge that piece of latex in time to save the child. Don't turn something meant to delight a child into something so horrible. Thank you."

ok...

interesting night...

the clerk at my regular corner store
says the stress is showing on my face
this can't be a good thing

but the preview went great.

so there's that.

Have I mentioned that you should come see the show?

Fw: [BAD SIGNAL]Tonight's Wisdom

bastard.

----- Original Message -----
From: <WarrenE@aol.com>
To: <badsignal@lists.flirble.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 8:46 PM
Subject: [BAD SIGNAL]Tonight's Wisdom

> bad signal
> WARREN ELLIS
>
>
> It's always later than you think.
>
>
>
> -- W
>
> ...................
> UNSUBSCRIBE:
> http://www.flirble.org/mailman/listinfo/badsignal

Off the Kuff: RIP, Gilley's

Off the Kuff: RIP, Gilley's

The demolition tumbled a holdover metal apostrophe and cursive S from the Gilley's lettering on the arena's facade. Moments later, after being struck by one of the excavators, the dusty marquee, bearing the words "WELCOME RODEO FANS," briefly hung in limbo before crashing in a heap of twisted scrap metal.

a sad, SAD day...

Daily Kos: White House Falsifies Briefing Transcript

Daily Kos: White House Falsifies Briefing Transcript:

"Quite simply, the White House has tampered with the transcript of the Oct. 31 press briefing conducted by l'il Scott McClellan. David Gregory of MSNBC argued to McClellan that notwithstanding McClellan's assurances two years ago that Rove and Libby had not been involved in the leak, both Rove and Libby have admitted to taking part in conversations with journalists regarding Valerie Plame. In response, Scottie said 'That's accurate.' But the official White House transcript of the briefing available at whitehouse.gov has Scottie saying 'I don't think that's accurate.'"

And we have always been at war with Eastasia.

EFF: DeepLinks

EFF: DeepLinks:

"But how do you know whether you've been infected? It turns out Sony-BMG has deployed XCP on a number of titles, in variety of musical genres, on several of its wholly-owned labels."

Go check the list and see if Sony has illegaly broken yr machine...

and I was gonna buy the Neil Diamond one day...
gues not now...

I'm gonna go take him off my myspace friends list too...

HoustonChronicle.com: Election Central

HoustonChronicle.com: Election Central
Let's hear it for writing bigotry into the constitution!!!!

I voted.

Did you?

Now we really need to clamor for a constitution convention and just start over...


and Ralph still isn't mayor.

Theatreport.com- Theatre in Houston, Tx - News

Theatreport.com- Theatre in Houston, Tx - News:
"'You sit on your cold, steel mattress-less bunk and watch a cockroach crawl out from under the filthy commode, and you don't kill it. You envy the roach as you watch it crawl out under the cell door.'
-Johnny Cash"

We open this weekend.

You should come see this show.

so, insomnia kind of sucks...

I was falling asleep on the couch at 10...
then I went to lay down...
30 minutes later I was wide awake,
and now here I am...

whoohooo!

I've almost got on my bike 3 or 4 times to go somewhere,
anywhere,
but I've talked myself out of it everytime...

eh...

so...

I can only remember last night in flashes...

I know I ended the night dancing.
at #'s.
wearing my wife beater.
and a red boa.

I suspect
there was
drinking involved.

Hey There Hi There Ho There

I'm as blankity-blank as can be...

anyway,

Two, count 'em two, Mathletes gigs this weekend...
Friday at SuperHappyFunLand
and a super secret show Saturday...
ok, not super secret,
but a private party...
I'm sure I can extend YOU an invitation though if you'd like...
just reach me through the regular channels...

you know,
homing pigeon, myspace, e-mail, smoke signals, whatever...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to the Eight-Hour Workday.

Little Miss Messycovers pointed me over to McSweeney's for the Open Letter to Dick Cheney (read it too, it's good...)

but I found this one particularly poignant...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: An Open Letter to the Eight-Hour Workday.:

"I have decided that, with the amount of people in this country working eight hours a day, this society should be much farther ahead that it is. We should have flying cars that are fueled by used cooking oil from McDonald's. We should have a creative and well-funded education system. We should have universal health care."

The Chronicle: 11/4/2005: Harvard Researcher Probes the Minds of Alien Abductees

vi bookslut -

The Chronicle: 11/4/2005: Harvard Researcher Probes the Minds of Alien Abductees:
"Fifteen of those interviewed agreed to take part in lab experiments such as the Deese/Roediger-McDermott, or DRM, paradigm, in which they studied lists of words (e.g., 'sugar,' 'candy,' etc.) all related to another word (e.g., 'sweet') that did not actually appear on the list. They were then asked to recall which words they'd really seen. The abductees were statistically more likely than other groups to believe they had seen the absent words, according to Ms. Clancy. 'I didn't try to change the world with one experiment. ... All I concluded from the study was the alien abductees were more prone in the lab to create a certain type of false memory.' She also found that in tests that measured physical reactions such as heart rate and sweating, the abductees 'reacted similarly to real trauma victims' when reliving their experiences."

none of you

none of you
are less fucked
than I am

this keeps me going

you may not realize
just how fucked
you are
and so
you may
be happier

but,
you are
just
as
fucked.

I know this
as sure
as I know anything

and
I don't
know much

hahaha

ah...
so, after my little thursday night breakdown,
I awoke Friday to a fresh mind and attitude...
I was gonna be positive all weekend,
and after Halloween get off my ass and make some things
happen...

well, the universe gets the last laugh...
my car died today.
dead died.
threw a rod.
dead.

so, now I need a job I can bike to.

WHOOHOOO!!!

hahahahahaha!

oh yeah...

saw "what you've done" (I'll add a link in the a.m.?) tonight as well...
I thought it was great!
I'll post more about it tomorrow...
drunk, tired, and a little giddy right now...

let's hear it for mood swings!

you missed it..

LCD Soundsystem was fantastic...
amazing show...

got to have some great conversation with an old friend
and dance...
who could ask for more?

oh, and you, the beauty who told me she enjoyed reading my blog...
it's true, I don't know you, but I would like to (but you knew that already, right?),
and I do already know some things you probably don't think that I do...

seeya at the two star show?
or atomic sat?

if not, then soon I'm sure...

anyway, all of you should quit yr jobs,
and go dancing...
really...
it's good fr the soul.

friday random ten

1. Earl Of Suave - Thee Headcoats
2. We Seek No Wider War - Phil Ochs
3. Price of Paradise - Eugene Chadbourne
4. Return of the Rat - The Wipers
5. Beat on the Brat - Sonic Youth
6. Symphony No. 3 - Old Folks Gathering - Charles Ives - Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
7. Kanon - Enon
8. Truck Stop - Franz Ferdinand
9. The Method - We are Scientists
10. 'Til I Get - Holly Golightly

o.k.

so,
I'm just gonna keep writing for a while tonight,
and seeing what comes out...

Of all the pieces I've only half finished,
the one that I think is the most worthwhile
would require weeks of workshops and someone
over me with a lot more experience than I have doing
these things...
it's about cell phones,
and so much of the dialogue is abitrary
as long as certain points are hit
that it only makes sense
to let the actors have a hand
in setting the language...
or is that a cop out?

Right now
I'm not
doing the work
required of me,
in any area.

I keep saying,
"tomorrow,
Monday,
Wednesday,
Friday,
tomorrow..."

I am about as frustrated
in every area of life
as I've ever been...
high school...
college...
any of it.


I have
arachaic notions
of the way
things
are supposed
to go



If you ever wonder
what I'm thinking
assume the worst...

if you want to know for sure,
slap me...
if I don't ask,
"what was that for?"
you'll know you were right.


I don't claim
to understand
any of this.
I'm just
pretty sure
that this ain't
the way
it's s'posed
to go.


I have
no killer
instinct.
could never
be a salesman.
it's either
all the same thing
or it's
all nothing.
how
do you
sell that?




I'm not saying
it's all hell
in fact
in spite
of it all
I enjoy myself
quite a bit
drinking
dancing
playing
smoking
eating
thinking

(ah thinking
there's a double-edge
if'n there ever was one,
I mean, really,
don't you just wish
sometimes
that it'd stop
all of it
the words
and all their permutations
just dancin
around yr noggin'?
I know I do

and sometimes
I suppose it does

when I'm dancin'

or engaging
in the sort
of activity
that footloose
says that
dancin' leads to

I reckon
perhaps sometimes
dancin'
might stand
as a substitute
for somethin' else
I don't think
there's much
o' anything
that could stand
as a substitute
for dancin')


I had to waltz
a bit
in the last show

had it in rehearsal

know I did

lost it in performance

pissed me off

everyone else seemed o.k. with it

confusing.



sometimes I think
I'm barely
holding it together
sometimes I think
holding it together
is all I'm doing

the scariest thing I ever heard.
a friend and I.
we're having a conversation.
college.
late.
drunk.
I said,
"I think I'm gettin close to the edge"
he said (and this is it), "There is no edge."
he moved back to Ohio.
became a junkie.
I stayed here and became a pothead.
whatever.
the point.
no edge.
scary.


shouldn't we all be communists by now?
hasn't global capitalism failed yet?
it's failed me.
gotta be a better way than this...

o.k
I guess I should give up
for the night
try to get some sleep

oh yeah,

I did
make an investment
in my future today.

Bought one of them "Job" candles,
and lit it.

I should have a job
by the time
it burns down,
if not before,

and it
was only
99 cents.

so...

I haven't written a conversational update in a while...
still unemployed...
just got my LAST unemployment check...
bummer.
got a job?
preferably one with few hours and a lot of pay?

"Envy The Cockroach" rehearsals are going well...
I just need to get off book. I get to be several variations
on Johnny Asshole this show...
gonna be fun.


I drank a lot of brandy tonight,
thus the previous post...
whoohooo!


uhm,
let's see...
TDU is in flux...
we're trying a new bass player in a week or two,
we'll see how it goes...

The Mathletes (or some variation thereof)
have gigs on Nov 3-5...
and I doubt we'll have a full rehearsal before then.

I think I'm gonna go smoke a j on the porch...
maybe that'll help...

I doubt it.

grrrr...

drunk blogging

o.k.

so, when yr standing
in the kitchen
with a girl you
were only
so recently
crazy about
and she's
talking about
the new boy
and the girl
yr currenly fighting
being crazy about
has just locked
herself away
with another boy
from the bar
it's time
to down yr drink
and go home

ain't no other truth
about tonight
that's as important
as that

PopMatters My Favorite Thing | From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dyin' Day: Schlong's Punk Side Story

PopMatters My Favorite Thing | From Your First Cigarette to Your Last Dyin' Day: Schlong's Punk Side Story:
"However, the Punk Side Story track that represents the greatest improvement over the original is 'Gee, Officer Krupke'. The comedic track -- a bunch of guys joking about their crappy lot in society and the universal detestation of their antics -- ceases to be a joke in Schlong's version, but instead becomes a more sinister expression of rebellion."

I have to agree. It was always my favorite.

Telegraph | News | Dolphin sounds 'aid brain growth in unborn child'

Telegraph | News | Dolphin sounds 'aid brain growth in unborn child':

"Dolphin sounds 'aid brain growth in unborn child'"

damn greys!

Boing Boing: Archie comics discover goth subculture

Via Boing Boing:
A recent Archie comic contains a story called "She's Goth to Have It" in which Betty throws off her preppie look for a goth lifestyle of chai-sipping and black-wearing and book-reading.

that's hot.
no, really.

though Veronica would make a better Goth,
being a brunette and all...

TPMCafe || Saving Davis-Bacon

TPMCafe || Saving Davis-Bacon:
"It was announced today that the President will overturn his Gulf Coast wage cut on November 8. This was a direct result of intense pressure from Democrats and labor and religious leaders."

The tide is turning folks...

Deerhoof: Deermix!

Make Joe Mathlete happy.
Remix a deerhoof song.

Deerhoof: Deermix!

Stay Free! Daily: Saved Fundamentalist Christians Shouldn't Drive

Stay Free! Daily: Saved Fundamentalist Christians Shouldn't Drive: "I'm sure everyone here has been driving and seen the bumper sticker that reads 'In case of Rapture, car will be unmanned.' While this never fails to inspire some very action-movie style daydreams and exciting video game premises, it also brings up a far more practical issue: should saved Christians be allowed to drive?"

Indeed.

Center for Tactical Magic

Via Warren Ellis:
Center for Tactical Magic:
"Like bees making flowers bloom in the draft of their honey-making prep work, what we beckon forth are the spell-binding endeavors, encrypted and preserved in lost arts and artfulness, that leave behind the sensed effects of exchange and reciprocity, whether between individuals, communities, environments, or other systems of existence. Not a single magic flower, but a garden that nourishes through multiplicity and cumulative effect - this is the shapeshifting art of transformation. This is Tactical Magic."

some very interesting stuff...

It's funny, with the Fitzgerald indictments coming down, and DeLay's mugshot showing up, and Frist under investigation I've been allowing myself to look more and more at conspiracy and various other "nutjob" sites... great stuff...

REAL ART (and politics and culture)

REAL ART (and politics and culture):
"...the political establishment is stuck in a dynamic such that examination of American citizens-as-workers is all but impossible. That is, there is no public discourse about how people are being continually raked over the coals in terms of their employment or lack thereof. Nobody in polite society even thinks to fault the system. Nobody dares suggest that business' attitude toward workers is unjust, and such a problem might be solved by (gasp!) regulating business."

As usual, Ron gets it.

Wampum: Starting at Center, number 43, from SMU, Harriet Mieeeeeeeers

Wampum: Starting at Center, number 43, from SMU, Harriet Mieeeeeeeers:
"Conservatives are getting desperate to find a way out of the Harriet Miers fiasco. Earlier today, I noted Charles Krauthammer’s idea to gin up a dispute over the production of documents in order to find a way for the nomination to be withdrawn while allowing all Republicans to save face.

Rush Limbaugh has an even crazier notion:

My idea is this: The solution to the Harriet Miers issue. The president announce that he's withdrawing her from nomination to the Supreme Court because he's decided to appoint her to succeed Alan Greenspan at the Federal Reserve. He trusts her. She has filled out her own income tax forms all of her life, and she has done her personal banking all of her life. She knows banks, she knows tax reform, tax policy, and the president trusts her, so she could go to the Federal Reserve."

I'm one of those nutjobs that says let's get rid of the Federal Reserve System. However, until we wise up and return to the gold standard Big Boss at the Fed is one of the most important positions in our world. Greenspan becomes more and more hackish all the time, but he is still a smart and powerful hack. This is the stupidest idea I've heard in a long time...
congrats Rush!

Dohiyi Mir: Worse Than 'MMM Bop' - File Under: an example of this blogs motto

Dohiyi Mir: Worse Than 'MMM Bop':
"They may remind you another famous pair of singers, the Olsen Twins, and the girls say they like that. But unlike the Olsens, who built a media empire on their fun-loving, squeaky-clean image, Lamb and Lynx are cultivating a much darker personna. They are white nationalists and use their talents to preach a message of hate."

PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF ANYTHING.
this is not a compliment.


However, if I were a Nazi pedophile, I would think they were hot shit...

character?

Miers received 10 times the market value for a small piece of land she controlled from the state of Texas, awarded by a panel stacked with friends and allies. A mediator ordered Miers to repay $26,000 but she has failed to do so.

via Atrios.

the dolphins

there's always been folks
mostly hippie types
what say
the greys are related
to dolphins

I always thought
that was some kind
of crazy hippy talk
like beating
the reptiles with love

then I saw this thing
at the end of the daily show

a moment of zen

with some news ladies
talking about
how listening to dolphins
was good for unborn babies

now I don't know what to think

but even if the greys are related
to the dolphins
I don't think
that necessarily
means they're good people

The Love Bite

The Love Bite:
"The Love Bite is the title of my recent book 'The Love Bite: Alien Interference in Human Love Relationships'"

I only wish I could blame my love life on the aliens.

Abduct my wife, please!

(o.k,
that doesn't work on many levels...)

Amazon.com: Who Built the Moon: Explore similar items

Amazon.com: Who Built the Moon: Explore similar items:

"Scientifically speaking, the moon should not exist. It doesn’t obey the rules of astrophysics and no theory of its origin explains the known facts."

FUCK YEAH!
This is the kind of crazy I'm talking about here people...
the rest of you loonies?
amateurs!

Icke - I'm looking at you!
Reptiles are quaint
compared to
WHO BUILT THE MOON?

Alien Implants and Foreign Bodies

Alien Implants and Foreign Bodies:

"Once Ms. Damly was prepped and ready, Dr. Leir made an incision in her left big toe. It took him almost an hour to find the object. When he located and touched the object with his probe, Ms. Damly spasmed, almost jerking her foot off the table. Dr. Leir found this surprising, yet hypnosis is an unreliable method of anesthesia (which is why hospitals use drugs). After an hour, the local was probably wearing off. Dr. Leir seems to think Ms. Damly's sensitivity to his probing was preternatural."


o.k.

if this thing
this thing
this thing
up my nose

this thing
they tried
to warn me about
the last time
I was in the hospital

the reason they
could only
put the oxygen tube
in one nostril

well promise me
if this thing
if we think it might be
could be
some kind of
alien implant...

if it's up my nose
it could be directly attached to my brain
so please
please

knock me the fuck out
before you try to extract it

THE DAILY DELAY: Arrest Warrant File Under: I'll drink to that!

THE DAILY DELAY: Arrest Warrant

yes,
yes I certainly will...
and with the fitzgerald indictments coming down it may be time for a party...
soon!

Fw: [CTRL] EIGHTY PERCENT OF ALL GASOLENE IS WATER

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael B.Clark" <michaelb@BLUEBONNET.NET>
To: <CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] EIGHTY PERCENT OF ALL GASOLENE IS WATER

> -Caveat Lector-
>
> I just found out from another researcher that the
>
> SECRET OLIGARCHY has been adding WATER to GASOLENE for
>
> over 60 years. In fact the OLIGARCHY has had a
>
> SECRET CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY since 1946 to add enough
>
> water to REAL GASOLENE so that EIGHTY PERCENT of
>
> todays gasolene is in fact water.
>
>
> The SECRET OLIGARCHY of course is hundreds of years ahead
>
> of us in technology. Technology that we are not supposed
>
> to know about.
>
>
> They ( the SECRET OLIGARCHY ) have a chemical so small
>
> that it is nothing put a pill that they add to a mixture
>
> of WATER and REAL GASOLENE so that the WATER COMBINES
>
> CHEMICALLY with the pill and is able to be burned in our
>
> automobile engines.
>
>
> The reason I'm not surprised to hear this is because a
>
> a chemical known as BERRYMAN'S B-12 CHEMTOOL does
>
> exactly the same thing. Lawnmowers can develop
>
> water condensation in gas tanks. By adding a few
>
> ounces of BERRYMAN'S the water is bonded chemically
>
> and goes right through the carburator and burns in the
>
> engines cylinders.
>
> http://www.midwayautosupply.com/detailedproductdescription.asp?11386
>
>
> A FREE ENERGY SCIENTIST found this out back in 1996. His
>
> name was STANLEY A. MEYER and the paper was entitled
>
> BIRTH of a NEW TECHNOLOGY: WATER FUEL TECH. BRIEF.
>
>
> Of course. The SECRET OLIGARCHY had him MURDERED.
>
> They've actually MURDERED THOUSANDS. And have THOUSANDS
>
> INCARCERATED in SPECIAL PRISONS and MENTAL INSTITUTIONS.
>
> Many have been LOBOTOMIZED.
>
>
> http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1998/mar/m29-005.shtml
>
>
> http://www.stanleymeyer.com
>
>
>
> We ladies and gentleman are being S.C.R.E.W.E.D. on a
>
> collosal scale.
>
>
> The SECRET OLIGARCHY is charging us $3.00 a gallon for
>
> GASOLENE that is EIGHTY PERCENT WATER.
>
>
> My question is HOW MUCH LONGER are we going to take their
>
> MURDEROUS OPERATIONS and ABUSE.
>
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Fw: [CTRL] Henry Kissinger on T. Casey Brennan

----- Original Message -----
From: "T Brennan" <bankruptparanoiamagazine@YAHOO.COM>
To: <CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:31 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Henry Kissinger on T. Casey Brennan

> -Caveat Lector-
>
> At the following URL is posted a letter of support
> from Henry Kissinger:
>
> http://danielfry.com/index.php?id=1905
>
> Some know me by my JFK work, some from the 1970s comic
> books I wrote. I was hit by a car; I need an
> attorney.
>
> Page about my JFK allegations from University of Rhode
> Island JFK researcher, Professor Kenneth Rahn:
>
> http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/Conspiracy_theories/Brennan--Conjurella/Brennan.html
>
> This is my newest book (I receive no royalties):
>
> http://store.vampirella.com/vamcrimchron1.html
>
> I was hit by a car on February 1, 2003 in Ypsilanti,
> Michigan. Though seriously injured, and diagnosed
> with bleeding liver and post concussion syndrome, I
> was put out of the hospital the following morning,
> because I am homeless.
>
> Celebrity Homeless List w/my name...
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/lists/homeless.html
>
> (1) I just received this from my latest attorney, who
> is dropping my case...I MUST have a new attorney
> immediately. I have no home, no income, and my
> hospital bills are not even paid:
>
> From: "Peter John Collins"
> <peterjcollins@ameritech.net>
>
> Dear Mr. Brennan, April 3rd, 2005
> I have again reviwed your file. You were
> hospitalized fro a few hours.
> The injuries you suffered do not, to my mind, met
> the No-Fault automobile
> injuries that would allow you to bring suit against
> the driver who hit you as you were walking.
>
> Should you find another lawyer you MUST file suit
> before the third anniversary
> of the auto accident.
>
> I wish this could have been more favorable for you.
>
> I recall at our meeeting at the coffee house we
> reviewed the facts of this
> case together,
>
> Regards,
> Peter John
>
> (2) This was my PREVIOUS attorney, Ray Kohlman, who
> worked on the Martin Luther King assassination; the
> contact was arranged by ex-CIA agent, Leutrell
> Osborne. Kohlman called me, emailed me, then dropped
> all contact:
>
> : "Ray Kohlman" <raykohl@hotmail.com> Add to Address
> Book
> To: Leu@WashingtonDCmetro.net,
> tcaseybrennan2002@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: Help me to connect- Leutrell Osborne
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:25:13 -0500
>
>
> Mr. Brennan,
>
> My e-mail address is above. I can be reached by
> telephone at (646)
> 785-0869.
> My address is 575 Madison Ave., Suite 1006, NY,NY
> 10022
>
> I would be pleased to discuss the situation with you.
> Ray
>
>
>>From: Mr.Leutrell Osborne <Leu@WashingtonDCmetro.net>
>>Reply-To: Leu@WashingtonDCmetro.net
>>To: "T. Casey Brennan"
>><tcaseybrennan2002@yahoo.com>,Leu@WashingtonDCmetro.net,
> "RAY
> KOHLMAN"
>><raykohl@hotmail.com>
>>Subject: Re: Help me to connect- Leutrell Osborne
>>Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:43:01 -0800 (PST)
>>
>>
>>Dear Ray and TCB:
>>Ray this is an electronic handshake and request that
> you follow
> through
>>this intro with Mr. T.C. Brennan and determine
> whether your legal
> skills
>>may assist him. You may send him your contact info
> so that he can
> follow
>>through per our telephone conversation today. Suggest
> you visit the
> webs
>>first so you have an idea of his background. I asked
> that he send info
> to
>>you so you can have an idea of his injury and case.
> Leutrell
>
> (3) This is from the Ypsilanti, Michigan police woman
> who handled the investigation:
>
> Subject: RE: 03-1874
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:22:10 -0500
> From: "Connie Koski" <CKoski@cityofypsilanti.com> Add
> to Address Book
> To: "T. Casey Brennan" <tcaseybrennan2002@yahoo.com>
>
> Mr. Brennan,
>
> Thanks a bunch for the email. I have not yet had a
> chance to review
> the websites you included, but it was fascinating to
> meet you and am glad
> to hear that you are up and about. I have no comment
> on your legal
> pursuits, but best wishes for a complete recovery. I
> look forward to
> checking your work out at the sites you forwarded to
> me. Have a great day.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Officer Connie Koski
> Ypsilanti Police Department
>
>
> (4) I receive no assistance from any relief agency
> because my family was tortured and killed. Social
> workers at the Ann Arbor homeless shelter issued that
> directive, however inexplicable it may be to anyone
> else. This is from the Port Huron, Michigam TIMES
> HERALD:
>
> Father, son tortured, robbed
>
> From the Times Herald, 12/4/75
>
> By John F. Brown
>
> An Avoca man and his son, who were beaten and robbed
> of more that $1,400 then bound and
> gagged and set on fire, were left to die in a
> flame-filled bathroom of their old farmhouse about
> midnight Wednesday.
> William J. Brennan, 72, of 4238 Bricker Road, and his
> son, Terrance Casey Brennan, 27,
> bound together with a pair of police handcuffs,
> electrical cord and tape, managed to free
> themselves to telephone a Michigan Bell operator for
> help.
> Sheriff Norman D. Meharg said Brennan and his son were
> admitted to Yale Hospital for
> treatment of second- and third-degree burns of their
> hands and arms and head and facial injuries.
> Young Brennan had been stabbed in the head several
> times by his attackers.
>
> Both men were reported in fair condition today at the
> hospital.
> Meharg said there have been no arrests made and so far
> there are no suspects. He has assigned
> Detectives Robert V. Quain and Donald E. Tuthill to
> the case.
> Meharg said the torture bandit were both white, armed
> with hand guns and had dark ski masks
> over their faces when they forced their way into the
> Brennan home about 9 p.m.
>
> "One of the thieves knocked on the door and when Mr.
> Brennan answered he told Brennan he
> had ran out of gasoline, then pulled the ski hat over
> his face, pointed a gun at Brennan and
> pushed his way into the house," Meharg said.
>
> "The Bandits used a pair of handcuffs to lock the men
> together. They set paper on fire and held it
> under the hands of the two men. Their hands were
> baked," Meharg said.
>
> Deputy Sheriffs James VanConant and Orrin Burgett
> arrived at the scene less than six minutes
> after the operator called the Sheriff's Department.
> "You could smell burning flesh when you entered the
> house," VanConant said.
> Brennan and his son told the officers their attackers
> pushed them into the bathroom of the
> six-room farmhouse after they had taken the money.
>
> They said sheets and bedding were put around them on
> the floor and the men poured them on the
> floor and the men poured some type of flammable liquid
> over them.
> One of the men tossed a lighted match into the sheets,
> closed the bathroom door and ran from the
> home.
>
> Brennan said he and his son managed to get the rope
> and cord off their feet and stamped out the
> fire with their feet and hands, which were free of the
> handcuffs. They forced open the door and
> stumbled to the telephone.
>
> "My dad thought it was a joke at first. He even tried
> to brush the gun aside from the man at the
> door, but I told him not to," Casey said.
> Every room in the house, except the kitchen, was
> ransacked as the robbers searched the house
> for money.
>
> Neighbors of the Brennan's heard nothing, deputies
> said.
>
> However, VanConant and Burgett said there were
> footsteps leading from the Brennan home
> through freshly fallen snow for about a block to an
> area where a car had been parked.
>
> The Brennan's were described by their neighbors as
> quiet people who "bothered no one."
> Neighbors said the Brennans had few visitors
> Brennan's wife, Mrs. Alice Brennan, was killed in a
> car accident two years ago in Ohio.
>
> (5) This is from Lee Harvey Oswald's ex-girlfriend,
> Judyth Vary Baker, who was the subject of a History
> Channel documentary, advising me to leave the country:
>
> From: "Judyth Vary Baker" <elect63@xs4all.nl>
> To: "T. Casey Brennan" <tcaseybrennan2002@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: Are you okay?
> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:10:36 +0200
>
>
> Dear Casey,
>
> I have produced so much proof of that now that nobody
> argues it
> anymore.
> They are now at the stage of saying so what if we had
> an affair, that
> does not mean he told me anything, or if he told me
> anythig, that it
> would be the truth. So they are having to back off.
> McAdams and his
> groupo are looking silly now.
>
> I believe everyuthing you're saying as I had an FBI
> employee compolain
> and lost my teaching job. I was hit twice and had two
> brain
> concussions.
> I'm lucky to be alive.
>
> GET OUT OF THE COUNTRY. Get a passport and get out
> and start over.
> It's
> over unless you do.
>
> ===J==
>
> "Either the world can be an influence on you, or you
> can be an
> influence
> on the world."
> Lee Harvey Oswald, explaining his choice
> to go into military service for his country,
> rather than to become a Mafia soldier.
>
> (6) These are two emails from New Orleans mob boss
> Carlos Marcello's grandson, Steve Marcello, echoing
> word for word the threats made on me by social
> workers, regarding my statements alleging my own and
> my late parents unwilling involvement in the JFK
> assassination:
>
> This is the first email; I did not solicit him; he
> solicited me:
>
> From: omerta64@...
> Date: Wed Feb 7, 2001 3:32 pm
> Subject: Please Reply
> To: tcaseybrennan@... omerta64@...
> Send Email
>
> Reply to omerta17@... I want to know what you have to
> say
> about JFK's death. Carlos, Steve, & Tricia Marcello
>
> This is the second email from Marcello:
>
> From: Tricia or Steve Marcello <omerta17@...>
> Date: Wed Feb 7, 2001 6:06 pm
> Subject: Re: Please Reply
> To: "T. Casey Brennan" <tcaseybrennan@...>
> omerta17@...
> Send Email
>
> You are insane, the only thing I'm setting you up with
> is a visit from the feds,
> You need to be in a locked psychiactric ward. My
> grandfather is none of your
> business. I
> suggest you stop being a "wanna be" before you hurt
> yourself. Go take some
> fucking Thorazine, you fucking psycho.
>
> (7) Other JFK pages about ME;
>
> http://www.darkelfdesigns.homestead.com/conjurella.html
>
> http://www.popimage.com/industrial/conjurella092204.html
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/me/carcano
>
> http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/tc/tcasey.html
>
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/0brennan.htm
>
> Now, will someone please help me find an attorney?
>
> -- T. Casey Brennan
>
>
>
> http://store.vampirella.com/vamcrimchron1.html
> http://www.darkelfdesigns.homestead.com/mkultra01.html
> http://tcaseybrennan.knows.it
> http://tcasey.inri.net http://www.angelfire.com/me/carcano
> http://www.muuta.net/Flo/WarrenFlo/AstrologyFLO.html
> http://www.anomalog.com/conjurella.html
> http://www.answers.com/t+casey+brennan&r=67
> http://www.muuta.net/Flo/WarrenFlo/GoldenSunDiskFLO.html
> http://onyx.gothicunderworld.com/darkendsoul/Conjurella.html
>
>
>
>
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Daily Kos: The Katrina Aid That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Daily Kos: The Katrina Aid That Dare Not Speak Its Name:

"This morning at the clinic I was paged to the phone to take a call that meant bad news for any low-income woman in this very large state who needs an abortion. Because of the huge additional burdens on its resources since the first part of September, the Lilith Fund has been completely wiped out and will no longer be able to offer help to any woman in Texas for at least the next one to two months. Nothing like this has ever happened before, because the Lilith Fund is a well-managed and extremely responsible organization, but providing care for the women of Katrina has overwhelmed us all, funders and providers alike. "

Give.

Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog.

Fafblog! the whole worlds only source for Fafblog.:

"FB: I bet Superman could stop a hurricane.
GOD: He could not.
FB: Could too. He can spin the earth around so time goes backwards. A hurricane’s nothin for Superman.
GOD: Well, y'know, I can do plenty of stuff. I can turn women into salt. I can make loaves and fishes - loaves and fishes like you wouldn't believe.
FB: Are you worried about the Draft Superman movement?
GOD: The what? There's no Draft Superman movement.
FB: Sure there is. They got like a blog an everything.
GOD: Huh.
FB: So did you ever tell the president to do anything about Valerie Plame? Cause I hear you got subpoenaed to testify in front a the grand jury.
GOD: I won't answer that without the advice of my attorney. Look, there's a ton of inconsistencies in the Superman gospels, ever notice that? One day he's got a fortress of solitude and a bottle city of Kandor and the next day he doesn't. Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?
FB: Pretty much everybody thinks you gotta resign if they indict. Does the line of succession make Jesus the Acting God then or does the Vice-God take over?
GOD: I mean, people aren't gonna pray to Superman! You can kill the guy with a freaking rock!
FB: It's been great to have you here, God! Stop by anytime."

YAY! FAFBLOG! YAY!

BLP! BLP! BLP! BLP!

WHOOHOOO!

the movie went over GREAT...
good turnout and evrybdy laughed.
alot.

also got my DVD copy of "Sound Piece"
a Pauline Oliveros composition I played on
a while back (2003?)...
it's amazing too...
yeehaw!

hope yr weekend was as good as mine...
if not,
sucks to be u.

M

Public Editor's Web Journal (Forum/Message Board) - The New York Times

Public Editor's Web Journal (Forum/Message Board) - The New York Times:
"The lifting of the contempt order against Judith Miller of The New York Times in connection with the Valerie Wilson leak investigation leaves no reason for the paper to avoid providing a full explanation of the situation. Now."

right on.

Literature 2005 - Pinter wins Nobel - File Under: I'll drink to that!

Literature 2005

Pinter restored theatre to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue, where people are at the mercy of each other and pretence crumbles. With a minimum of plot, drama emerges from the power struggle and hide-and-seek of interlocution. Pinter's drama was first perceived as a variation of absurd theatre, but has later more aptly been characterised as "comedy of menace", a genre where the writer allows us to eavesdrop on the play of domination and submission hidden in the most mundane of conversations. In a typical Pinter play, we meet people defending themselves against intrusion or their own impulses by entrenching themselves in a reduced and controlled existence. Another principal theme is the volatility and elusiveness of the past.

You'll find more HERE.

We made a movie! and I didn't even have to take my clothes off this time!

C'mon down to the axiom saturday night and see BLP's big screen medium length debut!!!

or something like that...

 

I'll be at the 11:00 show.

Hope to seeya there...

 

M

 

 http://www.infernalbridegroom.com/macbeth.html

 

 

 

 

BRAZOSPORT LI'L PLAYERS PRESENT WORLD PREMIERE OF MACBETH -- Houston area theatre troupe pushes red button on camera and makes movie --

(HOUSTON) September 28, 2005 . . . Experimental theatre troupe The Brazosport L'il Players (BLP) will present its movie version of Shakespeare's classic play Macbeth at the Axiom, located at 2524 McKinney, on Saturday, October 15, with showings at 9 and 11 p.m. The price of admission is $5.

"Sure, we made a few changes," says Paul Locklear, who wrote the script and directed the approximately 50-minute-long movie. "We had to, cause we didn't want to bore the audience to death with all that Shakespeare business."

Locklear admits that the script follows the basic plotline of Shakespeare's classic tale of greed and tragedy, but with a few changes. "We wanted to place it in a setting that our limited fan base could relate to, so Macbeth works at the Wal-Mart in Brazosport."

Walt Zipprian, a Houston area theatre veteran who grew up in Brazosport, plays the title role. "This role is perfect for me. If I hadn't left town when I did I'd probably really be working at the Wal-Mart in Brazosport and plotting my pathway to the top."

Those in search of production values won't find any here; BLP made Macbeth for a little over $200. "Everyone worked for free and the only expenses were for digital videotapes, food and beer for a couple of scenes," says Locklear. "It took us a year to finish it though. I have the good fortune to know a lot of performers, but the down side of that is that because they are performers, they would go off into rehearsals for a show and sometimes we had to wait long periods before they were free to finish. Later when you're trying to sort through everything and remember how things are supposed to go together, it helps to have a boy genius in your camp."
 
Locklear is referring to Joe Folladori who served as director of photography and editor for the movie.

"Joe saved our butts," says Locklear. "I'm technologically challenged, and Joe just swooped in and took care of all at, which was a great weight off my shoulders."

Zipprian heads a cast that includes BLP regulars Kelly Manison as Lady Macbeth, Mike Switzer as Banquo, and Noel Bowers as Macduff, with cameo appearances by the Leopard Boy and Batman and fast-rising Houston-based classical music combo Two Star Symphony, who appear as the witches.

BLP was launched in 2002 when the troupe formed to present a 10-minute scene from the Glass Menagerie for the Slump Theatre fundraiser. They have gone on to perform at fundraisers for Mildred's Umbrella Theatre, dos chicas theatre commune and Theatre Illuminata, and appeared as featured performers in Jack Babylon's Cabaret. They performed the original piece Voices of America as part of Diverseworks Footfalls series and presented their first full-length play 32 Short Stories About Brazosport at the Axiom in January of 2005. The troupe's series of short customized movies include; Day in the Life of Two-Star; Actorman: Day in the Life of Jmiller; Thomas Goes to Brazil and Tamalalia 11.

For reservations or further information call the BLP Hotline at (713) 869-2294.

http://notacompliment.blogspot.com

 

 

gang of four last night

it was great...
was gonna write more about it,
but I think it's naptime.

Warrenellis.com � John Peel Day

Warrenellis.com � John Peel Day:

"October 13 is John Peel Day."

I'll go ahead and celebrate ahead of time...
tonight at the Gang of Four show.

The Globe and Mail: The world according to Kurt

The Globe and Mail: The world according to Kurt:
"But life is a series of cosmic disappointments and absurdities, which Vonnegut knows from first-hand experience. He saw his father's dreams of becoming a great architect foiled by fate and the Depression. His mother, who suffered from her own depression, killed herself on Mother's Day in 1944, when he was only 21. Nine months later, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the firebombing of Dresden, which he later immortalized in Slaughterhouse-Five. His older sister Alice died of cancer at age 41, within 24 hours of her husband being killed in a train crash, leaving Vonnegut and his wife to adopt three of their children. After his son went off to British Columbia during the Vietnam War to start a commune, Mark went crazy and Vonnegut had to retrieve him and place him in an institution (which thankfully cured him). One of his daughters was briefly married to Geraldo Rivera. In the mid-1980s, Vonnegut himself attempted suicide, but failed. Who wouldn't see the world as a cosmic joke?"

I've loved Vonnegut longer than any other writer.
I can still go back and read the first things I ever read of his and be filled with that same wonderful combination of joy and despair.

Gallup: Americans Now Support Interracial Dating

Gallup: Americans Now Support Interracial Dating:

"Gallup: Americans Now Support Interracial Dating"

I go further and support the Bullworth position:

All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color.

alicublog - File Under : I'll drink to that!

alicublog: "Fuck Columbus. If it weren't for him I'd have government healthcare and seven weeks' vacation a year now."

Government Keystroke Loggers Hard-Wired Into All New Laptop Computers!

Any of you smart folks wanna debunk this one?

Government Keystroke Loggers Hard-Wired Into All New Laptop Computers!:
"I called the police, as having a keylogger unknown to me in my laptop is a serious offense. They told me to call the Department of Homeland Security. At this point, I am in disbelief. Why would the DHS have a keylogger in my laptop? It was surreal."

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS - Turn me on, dead man.

TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS:
"
'The critics were asking questions like, 'Why is there so much red in the garden... and on the beach? It's macabre.' Call it art psychoanalysis, but the 'Paul is dead' rumour has started to spread."

If they were capable of replacing a Beatle,
don't you think they would have replaced John?

my weekend

Friday
4-6 : Mathletes practice - Joe, Jeff, Gie Gie and me.
6-7 : Dinner and getting ready for Bog o' Cats.
7-10:30 : Bog O' Cats
10:30-3:00 or so : Playing trombone with Pearl Laughlin and the Gutbucket Serenaders
3:00 or so - resist temptation to go to Andy's for enchiladas - go home and to bed.

Saturday

2-6 : Mathletes practice - Joe, Chris, Cathy, Me till 4, then replace C&C with Gie Gie and continue
6-7 : Dinner and getting ready for Bog o' Cats.
7-10:30 : Bog O' Cats
10:30-12 : House Warming Party (drinking Jameson's)
12-2 : The Dicks at Rudyards
2-4 : Octoberfest Party (missed the hostess in her bavarian beer wench outfit)

Sunday
10-11:30 or so - load up for Mathletes gig
11:30 - 11:45 or so, figure out what we're doing for a p.a. and have chris load his mixing board...
11:45 - on the road to Trader's Village
12:30 - Arrive for "noon" mathletes show and set up
1-3 : Mathletes rock the Village.
3-4 : eat corndog and fries and begin the drive back
4-5 or so : drive back
5-6: watch and episode of "smallville" - get back to Brainiac!!!
6-8: supposed to be TDU practice, ends up being more like a meeting...Charlie shows up after Ryan gave up and left, so me, Jim and Charlie sit around and talk about TDU, finding a new bass player (Joe has left to concentrate on The Mathletes and finding a job), and maybe a full time keyboardist, etc...

then it was just the usual insomnia gig...
whoohoo!

morning comes too early

yes it does.

The Dicks were fanfuckingtastic last night...
really unbelievably rockin'


and now I'm up and preparing for a mathletes gig...
we just discovered yesterday that we're supposed to provide
our own P.A....
this is going to be interesting.

Alternative Tentacles - Bands

Alternative Tentacles - Bands:

I love all of you,
but tonight I'll be at Rudyard's...

"The Dicks, a Commie Faggot Band, emerged during the halcyon days of Austin, Texas punk. The scene centered around the local dive bar Raul's frequented by local freaks, artists, and soon-to-be punk rockers. The band was the creation of Gary Floyd, a 26 year old from Palestine, Texas who had been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War and was openly, flamboyantly gay."

I just played...

the best show I've played in maybe years...

at least since the last Last Bastions show...

Played with Pearl Loughlin and the West Alabama Candy Store Serenaders

at Helios tonight and it was truly magic...

 

If you ain't heard Miss Pearl singin' you don't know what yr missin...

it was inspiring and made me play like a monster...

yahoo!

 

 

 

 

HoustonChronicle.com - Review: Bog of Cats demands attention

HoustonChronicle.com - Review: Bog of Cats demands attention:

"Other players are variable"

HEY!!! THAT'S ME!!!

haha...

anyway, Everett gave us a positive review, and so did Walt...
what else ya want?

Here's the real highlight from the Chronicle review:

Mildred's Umbrella's Houston premiere is a rough-hewn, no-frills rendition, never as atmospheric nor tightly knit as it might be. Yet director Randy Symank and his cast capture the play's intensity and willful eccentricity, rising to its peaks of bleak humor, fierce confrontation and desperate lamentation.

Most crucially, Michelle Edwards anchors the production with her very strong performance in the marathon role of Hester. She's a maelstrom of bitterness, rage and despair, with an occasional calm of quiet desolation.

Michelle rocks!
It's true.

No Garlic Please � Blog Archive � Chameleon lamp

No Garlic Please � Blog Archive � Chameleon lamp

"All you have to do is pick up any other coloured object, hold it to the sensor on the lamp stand and the colour will be projected onto the inside of the shade automatically."

Wow...
the future is here,
and it's a lamp.

Body and Soul: More on Orleans Parish Prison

Body and Soul: More on Orleans Parish Prison

During Katrina I wondered what they had done about the jails and prisons in the area...
well, it turns out not much...

"We had no phone lines, no electricity," she said. "There was raw gas in the water ... If it wasn't for the deputies, a lot of people would have died."

She believes many drowned anyway, including inmates housed on the first floor of the Templeman 3 building, where Barnes said that in the chaos, some inmates may have remained locked inside.

Stay Free! Daily: Medication vs. Meditation

Stay Free! Daily: Medication vs. Meditation:

"I lay awake in bed at night. My mind wanders, sometimes for hours, and I don't sleep. I think about what happened that day, what I will do tomorrow, the past. Sometimes my mind just runs full speed going nowhere, but more often it's helpful (the concept for my last gallery show came to me just as I was going to sleep). In fact, I find these times are when I am at my most creative.

Finally, there's a drug to make this go away. I learned about it last night on TV. It's called Lunestra. It's touted as a prescription sleep aid for people with 'restless minds.' "


Hmmm....
maybe Tom Cruise is onto something.
"Restless mind" is a gift and a curse and wouldn't want a "cure"
so much as just an occasional nap.

Warrenellis.com � Actor Names Child After Superman, Somehow Does Not Get Child Taken Away By Social Services

Warrenellis.com � Actor Names Child After Superman, Somehow Does Not Get Child Taken Away By Social Services

Kal-El?
KAL-EL?!?!?

drunk blogging

instead of e-mailing all the amazing women I know
and saw tonight
I figured I'd blog instead...
haha...

had an interesting medicine show gig tonight,
after the pay what you will "bog of cats"...
Most of the fellas were still outta town,
so it was the Geoffrey show...
although Sheri sang a bit with us,
as did one other beautiful girl whose name I did not catch...


shifting gears...


I'm an impatient bastard,
which often leads to me being a bitter bastard...
but I'm working on it...

(edited for egotism and obnoxiousness,
here's for staying awake till ya sober up a bit!)

and on that note,
I go to roll a j,
and watch "Rome"

DeLay Faces New Charges in Texas

DeLay Faces New Charges in Texas:

"AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas grand jury indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on a new charge of money laundering Monday, less than a week after another grand jury leveled a conspiracy charge that forced DeLay to temporarily step down as House majority leader."

I'll drink to that.

. . . Copyfight . Music (Download) Money Muddle . . File Under: Some of your friends are probably already this fucked.

. . . Copyfight . Music (Download) Money Muddle . .:

"Also, 'an artist needs to sell in excess of 1.5m units before they can show a profit.' Well, let's see. Who was it put the artists into this forced indentiture where they have to pay up front for production time, tour costs, etc? That would once again be the Cartel. Last time I looked, iTunes wasn't dictating the terms of artists' contracts."

This seems like a fine time to link to Albini's - The Problem With Music

Music on a certain level similar to all the big games,
in that, it is rigged.

Has been.
At least since there's been a "recording industry"
probably a lot longer.

Someone is getting rich off Itunes, but it's not artists.
in fact most of them will not see any more $$ from itunes
than they will from the various p2p services.