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September 29, 2003
For those of you who know Cat Carlton
Our little girl is finally getting hitched!
Posted by Lang Squal at 12:19 PM | Comments (0)
Recommended Movie of the Week
This is an excellent documentary of The Weather Underground, with great archival footage and contemporary interviews with the main players. It even has a good sndtrk with, oddly enough, Aphex Twin and Sonic Youth. It's playing in many cities (sorry Icee, no Alaska). Paul & I were the only people in the theatre last night, but hopefully people are seeing this. Kong I especially thought of you 'cuz you've always been so underground and radical.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Posted by Lang Squal at 12:17 PM | Comments (1)
September 26, 2003
Best Reason To Blow Chunks
Let's see..... Dell has laid off hundreds of Austinites by moving ther customer service support to India and manufacturing to Asia , and Whole Foods actually had to give people raises when the hourly wage went up to $5.15. More tidbits of genius can be found here. The Chronicle can deeply inhale my farts for all eternity.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 01:36 PM | Comments (2)
Attention Matte Black
Enter this for me and win.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 11:21 AM | Comments (4)
S M U in the national news
because we're all first amendment junkies, some of you may want to discuss SMU's blip in the national news radar this week regarding affirmative action and free speech, and you may have questions, reactions, or may want my reaction to same.
but because i'm tired and lazy, you'll have to ask me specifically to do so, otherwise i'll assume no-one cares- an entirely propper response- and i'll go back to sleep.
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:17 AM | Comments (1)
September 25, 2003
Hey Whole Foodsters,
If any of you know how to contact Philip Sansone, previous owner of Austin’s Book People and long-time friend of John Mackey, please send me that address/way to reach him. Even if you think it may be a tangential method of contact, I'd like to try.
This link tells of the murder of Philip’s daughter Kali, who all of us Book Peoplers got to know and love during our/her time there. She was a really sweet, cute kid, so nice and happy, laughed at EVERYTHING.
Having been through a death of a young loved one in my own family this year, I really would like to send Philip a condolence of some kind. Damn what a drag.
Thanks guys!
Posted by Lang Squal at 04:57 PM | Comments (3)
September 23, 2003
Art
I am afraid of art.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 03:54 PM | Comments (1)
For all my punk rock friends
Posted by mccreath at 11:07 AM | Comments (4)
Stuck In My Head
I have Strawberry Letter #23 playing in a slow moving loop in me brane right now.
I remember buying the 45 when it came out; it came in a strawberry scented jacket. Quality.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:40 AM | Comments (2)
Arthur Carlson
Gordon Jump passed away Monday.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 10:23 AM | Comments (2)
September 18, 2003
For the Smartypants Inside All of Us
How to by You - An Experiment in Intuition
Every now and then, a new topic will be posted. It could be anything from 'How to eat peas.' to 'How to build an areoplane.' No answer is wrong and it's up to you, the player, to explain how to do it.
Posted by mccreath at 09:43 PM | Comments (0)
Hey Kong! How's your Kongdom?
Kong-
a glimmer of a shred of a mite of a spec of an atom of memory just dislodged from my tiny brain (such as it is), something I remember you talking about, I think it was a band you saw, or perhaps a fake band from the anals of You & Gibby & Paul:
The Againsters?
Something about, was it The Again-sters, or was it The Against-ers? Does any of this make sense to you?
Posted by Lang Squal at 04:46 PM | Comments (2)
I just got this in my email, weird..
Former Texas Governor Ann Richards, a savvy politician and longtime advocate of civil rights and equal opportunities for women and minorities, will deliver the 6th Annual Louise B. Raggio Lecture in Women’s Studies at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, in Wesley Hall at Highland Park United Methodist Church. A dessert reception will immediately follow the dialogue between Richards and Regina Montoya, attorney and past national president of Girls Incorporated.
SMU students, faculty, and staff are invited to pick up a complimentary ticket to the event with their SMU ID at the Mane Desk in Hughes-Trigg. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, until Oct. 2.
In 1990, Richards -- known for her acerbic wit -- became the first woman elected to the state's highest office in more than 50 years. As governor, she promoted government efficiency by authorizing comprehensive audits of every state agency and was widely acclaimed for her unprecedented appointments of women and minorities to major posts. She also focused on education by introducing site-based management to put more power in the hands of the parents and teachers at the local level. During her administration a state lottery was approved and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed.
For more information on the lecture, entitled “How My Drunken Dyke Ass Loss of the Governor’s Race to a Fucking Retard Has Brought the World to the Brink of Annhiliation”, call 214.
Posted by Lang Squal at 02:33 PM | Comments (2)
Questions about stuff
Hey computer geeks, let me you ask you some questions. How much does a domain name usually cost per year? For example, what if i wanted matteblack.com, a small webpage, and also wanted email , like matteblack@matteblack.com. Do these things exist at a reasonable price? I'm dumb on these matters. Where would I go to initiate such a thing?
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:51 AM | Comments (3)
September 17, 2003
Happy 80th Birthday
Hank! 
And to celebrate, buy this box set!
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 08:14 AM | Comments (1)
September 16, 2003
Book of the Year, Record of the Month
Just take my word for it and get this book and this cd. Here are some links:
Modern Pagans book
Killing Joke cds and stuff
DO AS I SAY!
Posted by Lang Squal at 08:17 AM | Comments (1)
September 15, 2003
how smart would jesus be?
From the Creation Science fair.
1st Place: "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)"
Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them. Cassidy has conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey.
Honorable Mention:
"God Made Kitty" - Sally Reister (grade 3)
"The Bible Says Creation" - Aaron Kent (grade 5)
>"Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False" - Paul Sanborn (grade 4)
Posted by tom at 11:11 PM | Comments (3)
Keg Vultures World Tour (of Austin)
Hello friends,
We really need your support this coming week with our humungous world tour of austin.
Please fwd this to interesting parties.
TWO HUGE SHOWS next week.
$2 Real Ale Pints
TUESDAY 9/16/03:Room 710
Toof
A Featherweight Burden
Keg Vultures (10:00)
@
Room 710
710 Red River
476-0997
https://www.texassherry.com/
FRIDAY 9/19/03:Texas Mist
Zero Skills
Toof
Keg Vultures (10:00)
@
Texas Mist
1119 Old Bastrop Hwy (near ABIA, see website below for map)
385-3553
https://www.austintexasmist.com
these will be awesome...you just need to show up!
we love you.
And for the love of pete, somebody buy something!
https://www.propellerrecords.com
samples etc...
Keg Vultures
https://www.propellerrecords.com/prop007/index.html
Toof
https://toof.nounandverb.com/tfSounds.htm
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 09:56 AM | Comments (0)
September 12, 2003
The Man In Black
So long Johnny, we'll miss you.
https://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/12/cash.obit/index.html
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 07:42 AM | Comments (7)
September 08, 2003
Re: RE-TG re:
First of all, our pal Genesis P, who has fueled several discussions here in our fair and balanced community, not only has a new and much better website, but has apparently also invented a third gender for hermself, to which I say right on to that!
But let’s get down to business:
and revisit the topic of the Throbbing Gristle reunion show in a serious way, i.e. as persons seriously considering attending this weekend event. [previous discussion link]
The tickets are sold not as individual general admission like your normal rock show, but as resort chalets, for 5, 6, and 7 occupants. The cost, in british pounds, for these chalets are £665, £798, and £931, respectively.
Now let us suppose that Kong, Matte, Icee McFreeze, Hoyt, and Dick Spetic all decide they want to go. The total cost, in dollars, for their chalet would be $1,054.55, or $210.91. That is entirely affordable it seems to me, and an amount that I could spend TODAY.
Of course there are other expenses, notably roundtrip tickets, passport, food, rail pass and/or other transportation. Another issue, if we continue or pretend playtime game of supposing that the above named are going, is that the full amount would need to be charged to one credit card. I for one could NOT charge this amount, but I wonder, are there any of you that could/would? Perhaps someone has a cc that would award them frequent flier miles equal to the dollar amount…I sure wish I did! I would gladly paypal any of you my portion of that amount at a moments notice.
Anyway, this seems “doable” or affordable I think, and it is my hope that by breaking it down this way, I could perhaps convince four of you to get as stupidly excited as I am about the whole RE~TG fiasco!
So... any takers?
Posted by Lang Squal at 04:05 PM | Comments (0)
Buy My Old Car
This just makes me laugh. The engine is actually only running on five cylinders, the interior is carpetless and torn (you can see my handy duct tape door panel in one of the pics), the body is trashed and will need LOTS of rust repair and straightening to paint, and the floorboards are about to rust through in places. I donated this car to the Salvation Army about three months ago because it wouldn't sell, and this guy apparently hasn't touched it.
Maybe I should contact him and let him buy all of the stuff I stripped off of it before I donated it?...
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 02:24 PM | Comments (1)
i fucking hate being invisible!
Posted by Lang Squal at 02:08 PM | Comments (1)
Sad To Hear
Warren Zevon died Sunday.
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 12:19 PM | Comments (0)
September 05, 2003
More important than any religion
Posted by Lang Squal at 03:42 PM | Comments (0)
Speaking of Giger and Biomechanoids,
here's a yummy picture of my post-surgery arm
(click for a much larger and yummier version)
Posted by Lang Squal at 11:11 AM | Comments (2)
Get Your Credit Cards Out...!
Posted by Lang Squal at 09:26 AM | Comments (0)
September 02, 2003
RIP, Auggie Doggie
Posted by mccreath at 10:46 PM | Comments (3)
September 01, 2003
pakyuh!
!
Posted by tom at 10:44 PM | Comments (0)
So Long, Charlie
Posted by Krayon Scribbel at 11:15 AM | Comments (0)