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March 31, 2002
Greatest Band EVER!
Posted by Mike at 10:01 PM | Comments (13)
another 'well duh of course that's a great lp'
Posted by tom at 09:41 PM | Comments (7)
March 29, 2002
I'm Having Way Too Much Fun
with this! man, I need to buy a slot car set of my own again....
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 06:24 PM | Comments (1)
Those Wacki Buddhists!
Check it: https://www.tricycle.com/
Posted by Lang Squal at 03:29 PM | Comments (1)
this is better than that Clash album
and it's American!
Posted by Mike at 01:18 AM | Comments (14)
March 28, 2002
And Number Three Would Be
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 06:05 PM | Comments (0)
Hello From
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:10 PM | Comments (2)
holy shit
https://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/28/lyle.lovett.trampled/index.html
Posted by David L at 11:36 AM | Comments (4)
Dr. K is in the house!
Yesterday, Henry Kissinger was on campus to give the keynote address in a forum entitled "Ethical and Moral Dimensions of America's War on Terrorism." Only 25 people, including only 2 SMU students, protested, handing out fliers {with facts regarding his role in escalating Vietnam and Cambodia, in East Timor and in Chile; these fliers also had the following links: www.kissinger.20m.com and https://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/HKissinger.html}
A small number perhaps, but the Daily Campus also ran this Letter to the Editor from a faculty: https://www.smudailycampus.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/03/27/3ca2a620da42f?in_archive=1
[Incidentally, it was only announced Monday that HK would be here, I think that was a deliberate tactic to stifle on-campus protests, for which any group would be required to get a permit 72 hours in advance.. Though it's doubtful that the turnout would have been much bigger otherwise.]
Anyway, I got to thinking, wouldn't it be fun to actively campaign to have Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize rescinded? Impossible? Of course. But it could direct international attention to his war crimes, and it would be funny! Imagine getting signatures on petitions from OTHER winner of the NPP, like Tutu..
So, who's with me? It's not like you're doing anything right?
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:37 AM | Comments (5)
March 27, 2002
Sigh.....Who's Number Three Gonna Be?
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 06:47 PM | Comments (0)
Sigh
Yahoo! News - British Comedian Dudley Moore Dies at Age 66
Posted by mccreath at 05:51 PM | Comments (0)
Slogan of the Week
"You couldn't PAY ME to get paid not enough to do more work without higher pay!"
Posted by Lang Squal at 03:00 PM | Comments (0)
This is a great album.
Posted by mccreath at 01:13 PM | Comments (15)
Do Not Attempt This
with your own tug boat!!!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 11:00 AM | Comments (2)
March 26, 2002
International Year of the Rock
And I don’t mean that wrestling dork, either.
I mean the World RPS Society. Be sure to check the posters in the media archive.
Posted by mccreath at 06:28 PM | Comments (1)
A New Assault
in Afghanistan
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:13 PM | Comments (0)
An Answer To Being Laid Off
Breaking News Headlines from Reuters UK
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 12:33 PM | Comments (2)
March 25, 2002
I'm VERY Sorry, this will be over soon, I promise
https://www.stuffmagazine.com/sex/girls/kylie_minogue.html
and while there, be sure to Watch Kylie in the hottest Agent Provocateur lingerie ad
EVER!
[hanging head in shame]
Posted by Lang Squal at 08:58 AM | Comments (5)
March 24, 2002
Pornolize
Buncha damn geriatric raunchs ...
To be honest, I don't really understand about half of the words offered by the Pornolize service, but then again, I don't read Screw Magazine as much as I should either.
To "pornolize" your favorite site, visit here.
Posted by King at 11:36 AM | Comments (4)
March 23, 2002
mmmmmmm...mmmmayo
i noticed a recipie a lot like this on my jar of mayo. yum!
also the mayo datenut bread you can make in your presto pressure cooker.
Posted by tom at 11:08 PM | Comments (3)
Xenuphobia
Google Yanks Anti-Scientology Sites
Besides the ramifications of being able to sue Google to get anything you don't like removed off their engine, I'm blown away by the "just the facts, m'am" closing paragraph:
"Hubbard's secret scriptures teach that 75 million years ago, an evil galactic overlord named Xenu solved the galaxy's overpopulation problem by freezing excess people and transporting the bodies to Teegeeack, now called Earth. After the hapless travelers were defrosted, they were chained to volcanoes that were blown up by hydrogen bombs -- and their disembodied spirits continue to haunt mankind today."
Posted by King at 10:52 AM | Comments (3)
March 22, 2002
New Game for Fridays
Song Bomb! (or Song Meme, or Meme Bomb Song, etc etc)
Every friday we all post the "hook" to a song that we think will stay in the heads the longest, and/or is most irritating, etc. [I guess it could even be a commercial jingle too]
The "winner" would be the one whose song... well, we'd ALL be winners!
Who wants to start?
Posted by Lang Squal at 10:05 AM | Comments (12)
March 21, 2002
I've found it!
This is the best thing ever online!
Posted by Mike at 04:36 PM | Comments (5)
What's your favorite Hank William (sr) song?
Mine is Ramblin Man. Kaw-Liga is a close second.
Posted by David L at 11:05 AM | Comments (12)
March 20, 2002
I'm excited...
about Star Wars II
Posted by David L at 08:46 PM | Comments (11)
March 19, 2002
Some Interesting Reading
Business 2.0 - Magazine Article - The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:27 PM | Comments (4)
More pictures
I promise I won’t post it every time I take more pictures, but I’m still pretty enamored of my new camera, so here’s another set.
From now on, if you feel like seeing if there are new pictures, just check here.
Posted by mccreath at 08:50 AM | Comments (1)
molded lizard king
har har har
Posted by Mike at 12:10 AM | Comments (3)
March 18, 2002
Somebody blind me...
Posted by King at 07:08 PM | Comments (3)
I can't believe no-one is talking about Kylie Minogue!
https://www.usakylie.com/
Posted by Lang Squal at 12:38 PM | Comments (8)
The Offenders, continued...
Saturday night the Offenders played at SXSW. For those wanting a faithful circa-'83 peformance, the Offenders delivered since JJ was thrown in jail the night before and couldn't make bail for the show. They carried on anyway, with another guy singing JJ's parts.
I seem to recall this happened a fair amount "back in the day", so I was kind of impressed by their attention to detail.
I saw a lot of great stuff this year at SXSW, by the way.
My favorite bands:
High on Fire - kind of like a stoned Motorhead with a ton of distortion. Inspiring.
Acid Mothers Temple - Jim Coffey would call this "acid rock". From Japan
Major Stars - see "Acid Mothers Temple". From Boston.
Kinski - see "Major Stars". From Seattle.
Easy Action - the singer from Laughing Hyenas, bass player from the Necros, punk and blusey and just great.
Cutthroats 9 - the singer and guitar player from Unsane, sounding like Unsane.
Polyphonic Spree - 4th time I've seen them. 25 piece choir and orchestra from Dallas doing kindergarden psychedelia a la Flaming Lips.
Posted by King at 11:37 AM | Comments (7)
Record Snow in Anchorage on Sunday
Craziness. Officially 28" at the airport, but I'm pretty sure we got more than that.
Anyway, here are some pictures.
Oh, yeah. We got an Olympus D-510 Zoom digital camera on Saturday. It rocks. Everyone should have one. Seriously.
Posted by mccreath at 12:33 AM | Comments (6)
March 16, 2002
Noam!
Posted by Mike at 06:24 PM | Comments (1)
March 15, 2002
bush or chimp
Posted by Mike at 12:39 PM | Comments (1)
Hey, Dave L,
The porn filter's temporarily down at WFM. Happy workday to you!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:38 AM | Comments (5)
Spotlight on: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Appreciate her, won't you?!
https://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll
https://www.creative-native.com/ (official site I think, though it never gets updated)
https://www.geocities.com/mouthbow/
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:20 AM | Comments (0)
March 14, 2002
How come
no one's wearin any clothes?!
Posted by Lang Squal at 04:04 PM | Comments (2)
Gimmee!!!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:43 AM | Comments (4)
March 13, 2002
Silly Toy
The Dialectizer
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 02:38 PM | Comments (5)
Who'd'a Thunk It?
eBay item 1713210851 (Ends Mar-19-02 23:02:02 PST ) - Rare GAY DARTH VADER print in Leather Frame!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 11:48 AM | Comments (2)
Urban Legend-eering
Ok we all love urban legends- you know, spiders in the cactus, bloody hook on the door handle, "terrorist" attack on the world trade center, etc, and I'm sure there are several great websites dedicated to this study, debunking of same.
Here's one such site, the Urban Legend Research Center; basically one dude with a sharp looking site and a sense of humor. His "caseworker/researcher" style is funny I think.
ANYWAY, allow me to direct your attentions to this page, https://www.ulrc.com.au/html/report.asp?CaseFile=ULRR0088&Page=1&View=Request , one of the many ULs based on the Sept 11 tragedy. In the FAA response to his queries, that agency says "There are many charities and volunteer organizations around the country which would appreciate donated time and effort. This would be a more productive enterprise than creating hoaxes."
I certainly agree, but I also am left to wonder about the nagging feeling that creating hoaxes IS an important part of a balanced cultural/social diet. But I'm at a loss to articulate why..!
Any takers?
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:30 AM | Comments (3)
Lame
Me, that is, for not seeing the Offenders reunion show last Friday. King, Tom, did either of you go? Heard any reviews?
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 08:02 AM | Comments (7)
Phil
Hey Phil, go see a movie or go for a walk, will ya?
The rest of you, come in here, will ya?
I'm worried about Phil. Should I tell him?
Posted by Mike at 12:26 AM | Comments (6)
March 12, 2002
President Bush tried to get Stevie Wonder's attention...
...by smiling and waving at him.
Harper's (again.)
Posted by David L at 01:14 PM | Comments (9)
Can't remember if somebody already posted this
but, make sure to fill out your patriot declaration.
ps. I'm at home now and can use the ctrl-shift-a thingy.
Posted by David L at 01:08 PM | Comments (0)
damn!
woulda found a sitter to go see the dictators at emos last week had only i known!
handsome dick manitoba in the flesh!
damn it.
Posted by tom at 12:38 PM | Comments (0)
I just like to look at Tom Ridge...
https://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/12/rec.threat.alerts/story.ridge.jpg
Posted by David L at 10:44 AM | Comments (2)
question
A blind leader of the blind...
I would say I have alot of personal interests, in music-literature-art, in social & "political" issues, buddhism, camping, other things, but sometimes i just get bored with it all. Or maybe i just get bored with HAVING INTERESTS AT ALL!
Just curious about others...
Posted by Lang Squal at 10:12 AM | Comments (12)
How to get arrested for autographing a book...
Sorry for th e cut and paste link, but I'm using the dinky work computer, and it doesn't support the ctrl-shift-a doohiggy.
Anyway, look at this. Then cry.
https://www.michaelmoore.com/diaries/book_diary_2002_0311.html
Posted by David L at 09:06 AM | Comments (3)
March 11, 2002
So Simple...
One of the better products I've seen marketed lately...
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 03:47 PM | Comments (0)
How to keep people from fucking with your blog
You can disable everything but links, bold, and italics, or you can disable all HTML in the comments. Of course, if you just have a little group blog for your friends to use, you can hope that they wouldn't do anything like bomb the comments section, but then you never know, do you?
Of course, if it's really important to you, you can pretty easily go in and close an entry that somebody has rendered unusable by inserting a big wad of JavaScript.
Not that I would do that or anything.
Posted by mccreath at 03:16 PM | Comments (6)
pardon me while i test something whoreish
if this works you can bomb people's comment sections with amazon crap.
Posted by Mike at 02:53 PM | Comments (5)
top of the right column
Posted by tom at 10:32 AM | Comments (3)
Mati Klarwein died
maybe not the best obit, but
https://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000017803mar10.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dobituaries
Posted by Lang Squal at 08:28 AM | Comments (0)
Play Some Quarters With
your virtual drinking buddy!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 08:05 AM | Comments (2)
March 09, 2002
I feel so guilty
Can the cats ever forgive me?
Posted by David L at 12:12 AM | Comments (1)
March 08, 2002
today's obsession
this painting: https://tigtail.org/M_View/TVM/B/NAmerican/a.%20pre%20WW%20II/curry/M/curry_the_tragic_prelude_john_brown.1942.jpg
titled "Tragic Prelude" (some sites call it "Tragic Prelude - John Brown"), a mural painted in 1944 by John Steuart Curry (but apparently not finished until 40 years after Curry died in '46). I'm not real up on my slavery/abolitionist history, but I've read that this painting is of radical aboltionist John Brown, who killed 20 pro-slavery-ites in the rush to claim Kansas territory as "free" or "slave".
That's all; interesting painting about interesting historical moment.
(and yes, it's on the first Kansas lp cover! sheesh!)
Posted by Lang Squal at 05:00 PM | Comments (1)
heh
so someone from the MIT Media Lab just came by to pick up 10 Baudrillard T-shirts that she's taking to France (long story) and I mentioned the Gavin McLeod/Chomsky shirt.
"That's funny. I see Noam all the time at MIT."
cue lightbulb over my head.
"You think Noam would wear a Baudrillard shirt?"
"Oh, absolutely!"
There's a Baudrillard shirt on its way to Noam Chomsky.
I rule!
Posted by Mike at 03:14 PM | Comments (5)
texas. ah, texas.
no really. her lawyer says she's not a coldblooded bitch. really. you can believe her lawyer. right?
Posted by tom at 12:18 PM | Comments (4)
um
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It's a settling of grievances between the present and the past.
The more powerful the nostalgia, the closer you come to violence.
- white noise , delillo
Posted by tom at 09:44 AM | Comments (6)
March 07, 2002
INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK Coolest thing on
Coolest thing on the internet without boobs.
Posted by Mike at 09:13 PM | Comments (10)
the game of concentration that's sweeping the nation
yall have probably all got this thru email already, but in case you havent..
visit this site and see if you can tell what's wrong with the picture. It will take you several minutes, so stay focused on the picture, keep staring, and you will see it. Also, there's audio, but you may not hear it at first so turn your speakers up.
Good luck, here's the link https://www.stonetable.org/files/whatswrong.swf
Posted by Lang Squal at 11:11 AM | Comments (2)
I STILL have my tonsils..
and I'm LOVIN' em!
What about yall, tonsils or no-tonsils? And if so, how many?
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:04 AM | Comments (4)
March 06, 2002
in the great tradition of mike's wonderful...
in the great tradition of mike's wonderful... baudrillard, :
paglia
Posted by tom at 09:49 AM | Comments (9)
March 05, 2002
The darkest recesses of my mind
AdFlip, a print ad archive.
Posted by mccreath at 07:29 PM | Comments (3)
country online revisited
yes spinner.com:classic country is great, but allow me to pitch www.khyi.com again...
khyi plays stuff you'd never hear on "classic" or "new hot" country stations, but a good mix of everything; singer/songwriter type stuff, outlaw country, rockabilly, plus classic, a few clunkers here and there. plus they have a "local" sound that ive grown to like. (early this morning they played some john hiatt song, some guy called in to complain- he thought it waw kenny rogers! HAAAR har har har har har! [knee slap!])
anyway their website uses the dreaded word AMERICANA which i hate; to me that's just a word some staffwriter at Billboard made up, and the people who still use it are afraid to say they like COUNTRY or FOLK music, and consequently some good stuff gets hung with that tag. (but it seems like only a few years ago that we all still used the term BLACK records, so...) Oh well, that gives yall an idee what they're like, yall should tune in.
in closing, if any of yall daves or kings wanna move back to ther metryplex, im thinkin we oughta start a country band called The DFWers! [pronounced DEE EFF DUB'YERS, ok!]
Posted by Lang Squal at 03:34 PM | Comments (3)
Pour A Little Bit
I used to close downstairs (WFM) with Earl, he was a hell of a nice guy. let's all take a knee and po' a little bit...
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:56 PM | Comments (0)
funny?
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:38 AM | Comments (7)
for those DFW oldtimers out there...
Check this out:
https://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/030502dnmetbridge.71d2e.html
weird huh?
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:00 AM | Comments (4)
March 04, 2002
What I Do
for a living. Someone please kill me.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:30 PM | Comments (1)
I've lost track. Is this funny or sad?
Harding, Fisher prepare for 'Celebrity Boxing'
Posted by mccreath at 09:43 AM | Comments (6)
March 03, 2002
Phil's my favorite.
Phil's my favorite.
Posted by Mike at 08:26 PM | Comments (5)
So, I'm taking Mandarin1A this semester,
and we are given the assignment of writing dialogues with a partner. My partner and I introduce ourselves to one another, and exchange phone numbers and e.mail addresses. He's this real quite kid who looks like he is just happy to have survived high school. Extremely quite.
Later that night, after working on my part of the dialogue, I found the peice of paper with his e.mail address on it, and for the first time I realized how brilliant this kid is. His address is:
biowarfare666@yahoo.com
Good god, that's beautiful; he told me he's had it for years. I'm beginning to have faith in this next generation. (ps. don't bug him with mail, I don't think he would appreciate me blabbing his address to a bunch of 30-somethings)
Posted by David L at 10:36 AM | Comments (0)
March 02, 2002
More on the Electronic Distribution of Intellectual Property
All the talk about ripping MP3s and how it was taking money right out of the mouths of the artists who created the music got me to thinking...
Has anyone here ever stolen a font? i know i have; i'm guessing most of us have. Has anyone here ever offered anyone a font? Even a font that they had paid for? I have. Either of these instances is theft. Fonts are created by artists (typographers) and licenced by foundries.
There was a time when the creation of a workable typeface was an incredibly expensive process. There was design of the actual face involved, then molds were created, the forms were cast, the individual blocks were sanded, polished, oiled and purchased for a very expensive price. Presses prided themselves on the amount of typestyles they could offer a customer.
'Ye Olde Type House--Home of 6 type styles!'
With the birth of digital typography that all went to pot. All of a sudden ANYone could design a font, ANYone could copy and distribute a font, and worst of all ANYone could manipulate, distort, mangle and crucify hundreds of years of craftsmanship.
Your Aunt Betty can use Trajan, a face commisioned 2000 years ago to grace the tomb of Augustus, to write invitiations to her poodle Dupree's birthday party. She can even shape the text to look like Dupree! Augustus rolls over.
The carefully created work of master typographers was being distributed in giant software collections under wonderful names like Hermetica, New Cavalry Schoolbook, and Garamonderful. Words like kerning, leading, m-dash and descender were as misused and misunderstood as a soccer mom at a bathhouse.
Foundries responded by going digital, easing up on prices and relaxing on licenses. I'm not sure how succesful it is. I'll be more than happy to pay $39.99 for a face if I can; but a lot of people can't and won't.
True; we're talking about a vertical market here. Most people are happy with the 15 fonts that come wth XP. But the electronic distribution of intellectual property in ANY form is theft, right?
Posted by Mike at 05:19 PM | Comments (10)
March 01, 2002
A Fun Site
https://www.vectorlounge.com/04_amsterdam/jam/wireframe.html
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:49 PM | Comments (3)
Yall ever have one of those days
where you just wanna chew out your own eyes? you know when your teeth chew backwards up thru your jaw, thru the back of your brayn and finally chomp up your eyes?
i'm having that day, all month long
Posted by Lang Squal at 01:41 PM | Comments (8)
Call me "Aryan Fuck Toy Shawasha Cofje Lefor of the planet Xanax"
Oz Prison Bitch Name Generator
Louis Farrakhan African Name Generator
Posted by King at 12:08 PM | Comments (3)
a little too new york
but funny none the less.
Posted by David L at 12:42 AM | Comments (1)