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December 31, 2001
heh
koop told me last night that his love for me was so strong it could reach into my mouth and pull one of my teeth out. but it wouldn't.
maybe he won't go into law. maybe he'll go into ... uh.... collections.
Posted by tom at 09:06 AM
December 28, 2001
what it's all about
kids at xmas. koop decided, finally, that since the cookies left out xmas eve were gone, santa must be true. i'm a little worried about the web of implicit lies, but hey. santa. on the 26th, he told me it had been the greatest xmas ever cuz santa gave him fruit rollups in his stocking.
that made it one of my best xmases ever. probably he best ever. he was overjoyed with everything.
Posted by tom at 04:18 PM
No Thanks, I'll Stand....
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:31 AM
December 26, 2001
Kill me. Now.
I'm stuck at work debating the merits of putting Christmas Stollen on sale. Say "Christmas Stollen, Buche de Noel..." ten times fast.
Posted by David L at 04:05 PM
How's my hair, boys?
Posted by Mike at 02:33 PM
December 25, 2001
Merry X-cetera!
And so forth.
Posted by mccreath at 09:55 PM
December 24, 2001
Helllooooo.......
(echo,....echo,.....echo.....) OK, so I'm the only dumbass at work today. Well, Merry Xmas, all!!!
-Hoyt
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:57 PM
December 21, 2001
i'M OUTA HERE
til January 7th, see yall then! Happy HolyWar Everybody!
Posted by Lang Squal at 04:43 PM
Merry Christmas, McDave!!!
eBay item 1043727180 (Ends Dec-11-01 13:46:02 PST ) - Vintage 2 Speed Eskimo Electric Vibrator 750
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 02:13 PM
Idea for post-literate.com
Funny that we've had a few posts about books and music today. I worked on this last night. It's kind of long, but please read it and comment if you have time. I'm going to keep this entry at the top of the page for a few days to make sure that it's available over the weekend and next week.
First, thanks to everyone for playing along on GerPunx.
I would really like to do something with post-literate.com. gerpunx is fun and I don't want that to go away, but post-literate is a good name and we're all smart folks. I think we can do something cool. Here's what I'm thinking so far. Sort of a zine thing, like so many other sites, but it would be ours.
- Reviews
Lots of reviews. Like http://www.medianugget.com/, but not exactly. Potentially longer reviews, and not necessarily daily. We'd probably want to keep the number of categories small and reasonable at the beginning and then decide as we go forward how to grow it.
I'm thinking music, film, print, and tv to start. Looking at medianugget, they also have a 'computer' category. Would you guys like that? What about a wildcard category?
Everyone would do at least one or two reviews a month. Of anything. Out of print, vinyl, advertisements, whatever. Long, short, verbose. They don't even have to be "reviews" in the sense of "this is good/bad because of artistic merit/lack thereof". It could be just "Hey, I found this and it's cool."
What about comments? My inclination would be no comments on reviews, but we could leave that up to each reviewer's discretion.
If we all agree to link the reviewed item to Amazon (provided they sell it), we could use their Associates program to generate a few pennies either for charity or to help pay the server costs for post-literate.com
For now, this would be the core of post-literate.com.
- Personal blogs
Anyone in the crew who wants one can have a blog on post-literate.com, once I get Movable Type set up. It'll support mulitple blogs and they don't take up much room. This would be another fairly simple piece to get going once with the current folks (if any of them are interested).
I would be glad to help with some basic templates.
- Writing
I can't decide whether this should be split up into two separate sections or not (Fiction and other). I think I'd want to start with just "writing" and have subsections for types (fiction, non-fiction, essay) like we would for the reviews.
- Photos/Art/Design
I'm not sure about how to implement this one, but I'm kind of thinking some sort of "gallery" space, where a person can "hang" a new show, whether it's one picture/piece or dozens. Pictures, audio, Flash, Quicktime, whatever.
That's all I have for right now.
I can get 1 and 2 set up next week during the break. They're fairly simple. 3 and 4 will require some more discussion and may not be feasible for a few months.
All of my ideas would probably require adding people to the crew, so at some point we need to decide how we're going to do that. Nominations? Volunteers? Friends only? Group approval or if someone nominates a friend, they're allowed in? Minimum required contribution (so that if we have a slacker, we can boot him or her in favor of someone more productive) or just let the chips fall and if we need someone to pitch in, find someone and bring 'em in?
I don't want to have so many that we can't keep track of who's who, but I'd like to have enough that at any given time there would be something new on the site without having to resort to assignments and deadlines. That would make it not fun. Maybe 10 or 15 people?
If you're not interested in getting in on the planning/brainstorming, that's cool, too. I want this to be a group project, but if you don't have time or interest in the planning part, then keep posting to Gerpunx as you have time, and when we get the Post-Literate functioning, then you can join in there, too.
(Oh, yeah. We could make a little mascot and call him "p-litty". HA HA HA HA!" Thank you, thank you!)
Posted by mccreath at 02:00 PM
a little koop/xmas story
if you want to read it. i don't want to retype it all here.
Posted by tom at 12:28 PM
I like this word.
Boner.
Posted by David L at 12:22 PM
adCritic is gone!
Posted by mccreath at 11:43 AM
A New List
OK, it's the holiday season, so (hopefully) one will have time to do some serious bad movie watching on the couch. I mean, "clear the room" bad/ or cheesy. That having been said, what will you watch?
Bad
1. "Two Lane Blacktop" -See James Taylor (yes, that James Taylor) play a renegade who races a '55 shoebox Chevy in podunk towns across the US. Also features Dennis Wilson as his trusty mechanic.
Cheesy
1. "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" -Keenan Ivory Wayans, back when the Wayans brothers were funny (and relatively undiscovered). With supporting roles from Huggy Bear and issac Hayes, one can't go wrong! You'll want to rent every blaxploitation film you can find afterwards.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 11:17 AM
Anybody Heard This: ?
http://www.somedarkholler.com/jamboree.php
Posted by Lang Squal at 11:10 AM
ok phil
since you're not doing your self-appointed job, let me volunteer this as my LP of the week. i'm too lazy to scan in the LP cover, so i'm copping the amazon CD cover instead, but for some reason 'bad guy reaction' and 'someone's gonna get their head kicked in' and 'no' from can't stand the rezillos have been haunting my days and nights for the past couple of weeks. started with 'bad guy reaction' and that's the one that's really hanging on, but the other two are also hovering around. this is one of those records that i bought and sold about a thousand times, not sure if i really liked it enough to keep it. but i finally ended up with a copy anyway, that i prolly bought finally and for keeps in 1981. i lost a bunch of other records that way that i wish i'd kept, even though they aren't perfect. like plastique bertrand, for instance. also, there was a single that i didn't buy cuz i didn't have enuf money by jimmy pursey's little brother that i never saw again after that. recently, i finally found a reissue of the buzzcocks' 'spiral scratch' where h. devoto is still with them, another of those i've wished i had all these years, so i have that on CD now.
Posted by tom at 09:21 AM
Boox on Punx
Christ, I quit reading last year so I can spend more time watching porn and now I realize there's like 20 books on American punk that have come out recently.
THE book I want to read when it comes out is the story of the Germs, Lexicon Devil by the drummer Don Bolles and Brendan Mullen.
For instance, is it really true that post-Germs Darby Crash came back from the UK as a convert to Adam and the Ants, dressed in pirate gear regalia, and was massively riduculed by the LA punks for it? Supposedly this led into his depression before the suicide.
But beyond the Germs, there's these books:
We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A.
Punk
American Hardcore: A Tribal History - which I'm quoted in during the Texas section, it's kind of fun but also not that great.
Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk - written in part by John Doe and Excene Cervenka, it looks great.
PUNK '77: an Inside Look at the San Francisco Rock 'N' Roll Scene, 1977
There's other new-to-me punk books out, but really it's the Germs story that I really want to read.
Posted by King at 01:13 AM
December 20, 2001
Odometer watching
That last post was number 500! So the blog's been up for 185 days (starting June 12) and that means we've posted an average of 2.7 sparkling bits of wit and intelligence every day, not including comments.
Go team!
Posted by mccreath at 12:57 PM
Geeky sysadmin humor ...
... but juvenile enough for all to enjoy!
Posted by mccreath at 11:36 AM
December 18, 2001
Worst Christmas Song Ever!
Here's a few to get us started...
1] Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time, Paul & Linda McCartney
2] Snoopy and the Red Baron and Christmas, by the Royal Guardsmen
3] Anything from the John Denver and the Muppets Celebrate Christmas lp
it's gonna be real hard to pick a "winner"...
Other votes?
Posted by Lang Squal at 02:29 PM
Read it and weep
http://www.progressive.org/0901/roth0102.html
and please pass it on
sorry for getting political. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!
HO HO HO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Lang Squal at 12:06 PM
Man. I'd love a donut right now.
Does anyone have one?
Posted by mccreath at 11:58 AM
A Guide to Road Food
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:23 AM
December 17, 2001
Fame Tracker
The Farmer's Almanac of Celebrity Worth
Posted by mccreath at 05:44 PM
Bellyache in the making...
Posted by King at 11:33 AM
Hey! It's cold outside!
Why, yes, the thermometer in the backyard does read -20 degrees. Thanks for asking. Have I mentioned that I live in Alaska?
Posted by mccreath at 09:27 AM
December 15, 2001
All good!
We're live at the new address. Let me know if you see anything that's not working.
Posted by mccreath at 06:43 PM
December 14, 2001
Get Your War On
pages 5 & 6 are posted: http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html
Posted by Lang Squal at 02:25 PM
Update this weekend. The blog will be down.
Okay, I finally figured out the issue with moving the blog, so that's going to happen this weekend. So that means no blogging this Saturday and Sunday! I'll send a piece of email to everyone when I'm done. There shouldn't be any changes other than the address and you'll have to update your bookmarklets if you use them. I'll post new versions of those, too.
Posted by mccreath at 08:39 AM
December 13, 2001
The mind boggles
There's so much bizarre stuff on this site that I can't even pick one thing to point to. You just have to dig through it yourself. Do take the time to look at the "Products" page.
Requires Flash.
Posted by mccreath at 12:26 PM
The Most Useless
thing I have ever seen! Perfect for the workplace!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:54 AM
really dumb.
Posted by tom at 08:16 AM
December 12, 2001
items of dis(info)interest
I just learned today that next week Disinfo.com will stop its free email service, which I have been using for over a year.
Do any of yall recommend another free email service, perhaps one that is "cool" and "hip", as opposed to the yahoo/hotmail services?
King, does buttholesurfers.com have free email?!
second in my used KILLDOZER finds: their dbl cd 12 Poin Buck / Li'l Babby Bunting..
godblass Killdozer!
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:33 AM
December 11, 2001
I'm terrified...
You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink...
Posted by Lang Squal at 11:22 AM
Increase Your System's Performance!!!
How to increase system power by almost 10 times!!!!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 08:25 AM
Not Even Out Yet,
and I'm already fucking sick to death of it. Or maybe I just need to lighten up and persue that lifelong dream of crafting and selling wizard bongs at Ren Fairs....
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 08:20 AM
December 10, 2001
Hey! Another Yahoo! celebrity photo link ...
It's been a long time since I thought about it, so I'm glad that this picture's captionreminded me that Pamela Anderson named her boys after characters on Beverly Hills 90210. I do wish that she and Tommy would get back together so they could complete the whole cast.
Posted by mccreath at 03:46 PM
New Thing I Have
A coworker friend returned from Germany today, he brought me DMM: in the language of GERMAN. Godt bless Kraftwerk!
ok, just thought I'd share..
Posted by Lang Squal at 10:08 AM
December 07, 2001
How The Hell
have I done without one of these?!?!?!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 04:06 PM
YOU WANT CHRISTMAS?
Oh, I'll give you fuckin' Christmas
Posted by mccreath at 12:48 PM
And this porridge ...
Posted by mccreath at 12:27 PM
Ouch
Is Farrah Fawcett using the same plastic surgeon as Michael Jackson?
Posted by mccreath at 12:25 PM
December 06, 2001
"... a boner the size of Florida"
A quote from a fan letter to Mariah Carey, found in the Mariah Carey section of The Smoking Gun.
Posted by mccreath at 12:14 PM
Sometimes
I get some extremely odd things forwarded to me.My Son Peter
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:22 AM
December 05, 2001
help me out my pagan brothers
Can anyone recommend some sites that detail the pre-christian, pagan origins of xmas and its symbols, like the xmas tree, etc?
i'd love something "scholarly" and "authoritative", rather than a pagan site by some dude talking about how paganism is better than xtianity etc.
Thanks!
Posted by Lang Squal at 10:24 AM
Laid Off.....
http://www.westboy.com/funnystuff/laidoff.swf
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:12 AM
December 04, 2001
A Fun Game
to hurt your head.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 06:49 PM
December 03, 2001
Slippery when wet.
Posted by David L at 11:54 PM
Good morning everyone...
I know, it's stupid, but I laughed.
Posted by David L at 11:48 PM
Top 10 Things Men Know About Women
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10. They got boobies!!!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 12:02 PM
OOOOOOO ...
I'm so completely underwhelmed.
An Inventor Unveils His Mysterious Personal Transportation Device
"Thank goodness! Now I don't have to do all that pesky walking!"
There's no way that Kamen could have produced anything that would have supported the hype generated, but a scooter? Revolutionize transportation? Pf.
Posted by mccreath at 09:43 AM
December 02, 2001
All "Jeffersons" and shit ...
I spent some time this weekend getting GerPunx set up at post-literate.com. There are still a few things to get sorted out, but I'm hopeful that next weekend I can finish the move altogether. I'll let you know when everything is final and what the change will mean for posting.
Posted by mccreath at 08:26 PM
December 01, 2001
Saving America Through Shopping
In all the excitement of Thanksgiving, I forgot to brag about our new appliances: The refigerator is a bottom-freezer model (props to Tom for showing me the light on those) and the range has a large-capacity oven, with the broiler in the main cabinet instead of in a tiny drawer on the bottom. They kick ass.
Posted by mccreath at 03:28 PM