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September 29, 2004
Games people play
The countdown to November 2.
History of Rock and Roll in Boston
Here's some chronicling that will make your little cerebral cells churn a bit... and maybe you'll even say, "Wow- Things really were as fantastic as I remembered them. My kids were wrong- My brain isn't totally fried after all!"
The music which is now referred to as Classic Rock was not the prepackaged repetitious crap we now hear on boring commercial radio- and it was not disposable and forgettable, as most current popular music is. The music back then was spontaneous, energizing, and (in many very important ways) the music really was the message... and Boston had the best music, the best musicians and the best radio in the United States for almost two decades.. L.A, New York and Detroit were bigger- but not better.
(not bragging- Fact).
Please go here and read a chapter or two when you've got some quality time to spend- as you would with a good book.
(and maybe lignt up a fatty when you get to chapters fifteen through seventeen. :)
In case you can't get to the above site, the URL is http://www.dirtywater.com/museum/original/index.html. Try that.
TWO CENTS
Once a week, we select your best comments and ideas, and incorporate them into a new feature called TWO CENTS. It will be your writings (edited only if they make no sense as written) and posted here for all in the world of cyberspace to see. Not that this will make any of you a bigger star than I- but it certainly is a crumb that I humbly feel (as a once-mighty media-giant) I should be doing in order to get any of the extra Karma crumbs emanated from this huge and courageous gesture.
Today's TWO CENTS was sent from an off/on blog regular, Choolie. I like it because she shows me in a nice light.
Laquidara on (gulp) Public Speaking
If you're like me, and get knots in your stomach at the thought of speaking publicly (whether it's a wedding toast, a eulogy for a dear friend or family member, your turn to say "grace" in front of 12 dinner guests, or a play which you have somehow been cast in) you might appreciate the advice our Humble Blog Host gave me in a recent e-mail- I asked Charles how to keep it under control in front of a crowd. This is what he replied, and I think it'll help me next time I've gotta stand up there... maybe it'll help you, too.
-choolie
"Choolie:
Anyone who says they are not scared is lying. The best thing I can tell you is the truth. Think about it this way: When you, yourself, are deeply engrossed in a movie, do you give two shits if the actor is or is not nervous? I think not. No one really cares about you and your personal inadequacies or lack of confidence. So, just put your head in the best place you can, and know that everyone out there is not really thinking about YOU- but the character you are playing, and the storyline they are watching unfold, and the movie they are trying to follow. All they ask is that you don't let your scared little ego get in the way of the ride they're on. What was that Nike ad?
"Just do it. "
Then get the fuck off the stage."
-Charles
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September 28, 2004
Top Movie This Week
The Forgotten
Government conspiracy? 
Hallucinations? 
UFO's? 
Evil scientists?
To discover the dark secret lurking within the new Sony movie 'The Forgotten'.
Click here
Why all these hurricanes in Florida?
PLEASE MAXIMIZE THIS PAGE BEFORE READING!
recycled and updated
Rumors circulating the internet say that it's Karma for the fraud elections of 2000- but they are not rumors, and here's the proof.
Now that we've answered that question, shouldn't the next hurricane be named....
CHAD??
(DO-o-o-o!)
September 27, 2004
Estrogen Wednesday
Right Wing Hypocrisy
Show this page to your conservative friends and family members.
Demand a reaction.
Watch them change the subject- quickly.
(It'll go something like this): "B-B- bu-But, wha- wha- wha- wa..."
Testosterone Tuesday
"Give my a dollar and I'll show you my daddy's favorite thing.."
(ka-CHING $)
September 26, 2004
Confessions of an apologetic columnist
This editorial is from the Auburn Reporter, a newspaper delivered by mail to Auburn households, published by Horvitz Newspapers-- noticeably right-wing slanted community newspapers in western Washington state.
Can you pass the third grade?
Probably not. Certainly not third grade geography... Take the test here. You will feel very inadequate, and your normal lack of self-esteem will be even more pronounced. But fret not- The only people that will pass are the nerds that eventually got beat up in sixth grade.
One free hint: The clock starts running as soon as you click "PLAY..." So be ready to point and drag before you click.
Copy and save these tips on your refrigerator (or next to your phone)
By now, most of you know that you can eliminate most annoying telemarketing calls by simply dialing the DO NOT CALL Registry at 888 382-1222..
But- if you're in a playful mood, you can also deal with these unwanted slimes in a less zen-full way:
Click below, and go for it:
Andy Rooney's tips for telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work !!
(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone,you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one
on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone. This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk ! mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before! the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure y! our name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents. The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work----
I have been doing this for years, and I get very little
junk mail anymore.
THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS
September 25, 2004
All right- I'm ready for the surge...
Sox lose Friday night, making it three straight losses to Yankees.
It is time to "Reverse the Curse"
Are you ready? Let's begin.
Step ONE: Red Sox owners and management must categorically decide that- no matter what happens this year- Francoma must go!
Step TWO:
Change the uniform.
John Charles and Cisco saying a warm aloha to all Yankees fans after the Pinstripes go down.
Step THREE:
Fans must get zen-ful- Lighten up! We will win it all; and this will be the year (in spite of Francoma) Homework assignment- Read the following "lighten-upper" and then review the new hit movie, The Rebel Alliance Meets the Evil Empire!:
A Boston Red Sox fan, a Chicago Cubs fan, and New York Yankees fan were all in Saudi Arabia performing military duty for the U.S. Army.
While off base, they were caught sharing a smuggled case of booze. All of a sudden Saudi police rushed in and arrested them. The mere possession of alcohol is a severe offense in Saudi Arabia- punishable by death! With the help of good lawyers, they were able to successfully appeal their sentence down to life imprisonment.
By a stroke of luck, a benevolent Sheik decided that they could be released after receiving just 20 lashes of the whip. As they were preparing for their punishment, the Sheik said, "It's my wife's birthday today, and she has asked me to allow each one of you one wish before your whipping."
The Cubs fan was first in line (he had drunk the least), so he thought about this for a while and then said, "Please tie a pillow to my back." This was done, but the pillow only lasted 10 lashes before the whip went through. The Cubs fan was carried away bleeding and crying.
The Yankees fan was up next (he had almost finished an entire fifth of alcohol by himself), and after watching the scene, said "Okay, please affix 2 pillows to my back." But even 2 pillows could only take 15 lashes before the whip went through again, sending the Yankee fan crying unbelievably.
The Red Sox fan was the last up (he had finished off the crate), but before he could say anything, the Sheik turned to him and said "you support the greatest baseball team in the world. Your supporters are the best and most loyal fans in all the world. For this you may have TWO wishes'"
"Thanks, your most royal highness" the Red Sox fan replied." In recognition of your kindness, my first wish is that you give me not 20, but 100 lashes."
"Not only are you an honorable, powerful man, you are also very brave," said the Sheik. "If 100 lashes is what you desire, then so be it. And your second wish -- What is it to be?" the Sheik asks.
"Tie the Yankees fan to my back."
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Commercial of the Week
Going shopping with Junior
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September 24, 2004
Why all these hurricanes in Florida?
recycled and updated
Rumors circulating the internet say that it's Karma for the fraud elections of 2000-
If that is true, then shouldn't the next hurricane be named....
CHAD??
(DO-o-o-o!)
All right- I'm ready for the surge...
Sox lose Friday night, making it three straight losses to Yankees.
Time to "Reverse the Curse"
Are you ready? Let's begin.
Step ONE:
Change the uniform.
Step TWO:
Lighten up!
A Boston Red Sox fan, a Chicago Cubs fan, and New York Yankees fan were all in Saudi Arabia performing military duty for the U.S. Army.
While off base, they were caught sharing a smuggled case of booze. All of a sudden Saudi police rushed in and arrested them. The mere possession of alcohol is a severe offense in Saudi Arabia- punishable by death! With the help of good lawyers, they were able to successfully appeal their sentence down to life imprisonment.
By a stroke of luck, a benevolent Sheik decided that they could be released after receiving just 20 lashes of the whip. As they were preparing for their punishment, the Sheik said, "It's my wife's birthday today, and she has asked me to allow each one of you one wish before your whipping."
The Cubs fan was first in line (he had drunk the least), so he thought about this for a while and then said, "Please tie a pillow to my back." This was done, but the pillow only lasted 10 lashes before the whip went through. The Cubs fan was carried away bleeding and crying.
The Yankees fan was up next (he had almost finished an entire fifth of alcohol by himself), and after watching the scene, said "Okay, please affix 2 pillows to my back." But even 2 pillows could only take 15 lashes before the whip went through again, sending the Yankee fan crying unbelievably.
The Red Sox fan was the last up (he had finished off the crate), but before he could say anything, the Sheik turned to him and said "you support the greatest baseball team in the world. Your supporters are the best and most loyal fans in all the world. For this you may have TWO wishes'"
"Thanks, your most royal highness" the Red Sox fan replied." In recognition of your kindness, my first wish is that you give me not 20, but 100 lashes."
"Not only are you an honorable, powerful man, you are also very brave," said the Sheik. "If 100 lashes is what you desire, then so be it. And your second wish -- What is it to be?" the Sheik asks.
"Tie the Yankees fan to my back."
Great Slogans and bumperstickers for November
Click to enjoy "The Great Sloganator"
and click on this ONLY if you want extra credit for this course! For nerds and driven historians only.
September 23, 2004
Hello, Topeka, Kansas- (over) Is anyone out there? Come in, Springfield...Dracut.. (over)..Hello, Woodland...Hello- anybody!
You may have already seen it. The warm and fuzzy e-mail looks something like this:
"Subject: soldier's patch
Check it out...
Look at the black patch under the U.S. flag...
You gotta love them (the soldiers) and their humor.
This SHOULD be on the front cover of Time, Newsweek, etc.
But it won't be.
Let's you and I "put it there" by forwarding this all around the world (so to speak)!
The flags are France, Germany, and Russia -- in case you don't know. "
Luv,
Macountry Moorthan Youdo
So, one gullible person reads this (and doesn't go to snopes.com or urbanlegends.about.com to check out the veracity of the e-mail), and they send it off- to be forwarded on and on and on to a hundred thousand other innocent "wannit-to-be so's")
Anyway, in case you haven't been the victim of the daily, ongoing Iraq-prop e-mail onslaught, or haven't gotten this particular one yet, here's the real story behind the so-called "Soldier's Patch"
How good they are at it! (Makes me want to cry...how really good the machine and its unknowing disciples are...)
Who was it that said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public"....?
....and- since the very beginning of the Bush charade in Iraq- we have all seen that anyone who dares to challenge the invasion is immediately branded a traitor, a liberal tree-hugger or just plain un-American.... for not supporting our soldiers, etc.
So freakin'sad..
The Machine working 24/7:
One of the ten best blogs on the internet
(What you could be missing if you don't subscribe soon):
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Do you feel safer now then you were before 9-11?
Singer Steven (Cat) Demeter (Yusuf) Giorgiou (Stevens) Islam is wicked pissed!
Holy Bouzoukies!
Click here for the latest update!
BUT- (assume, if you will, that it was an actual terrorist aboard)- here's the really scary part: "Airline agents conduct similar checks before flights depart." officials said. It is still not clear why Islam was not flagged until well after the plane was in the air and vulnerable to an actual terrorist.
and now the finger-pointing begins.
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Wait- THIS JUST IN!!
Vengeful Cat Stevens vows to Resume Singing to punish US
Cat Stevens Broadcasts threat on Al-Jazeera
Hours after being refused entry into the United States, 1970’s recording artist Cat Stevens lashed out at the U.S. government today, vowing to resume his recording career “immediately” as the ultimate act of revenge.
Appearing on the Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera, a visibly angry Mr. Stevens threatened to attack the U.S. with the full force of his insipid folk-rock music.
Brandishing an acoustic guitar, the erstwhile pop star warned that “no one in America would be safe from my insidious melodies” before launching into a spirited rendition of the song “Peace Train.”
A spokesman for the CIA said today that experts need more time to study the chilling video, but that it appears to be authentic: “We do not believe that anyone but the real Cat Stevens remembers the lyrics to ‘Peace Train.’”
On the campaign trail, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry blasted President Bush for the Cat Stevens incident, saying that the President’s reckless actions had resuscitated an irritating singer’s long-dormant recording career.
"When George Bush took office, Cat Stevens was not a problem,” Mr. Kerry told a rally in Akron, Ohio. “Through a successful policy of containment, his music had mainly been limited to classic rock stations. But now, thanks to George Bush’s misguided decision to provoke Cat Stevens, we may be subjected to renditions of not only ‘Peace Train,’ but also ‘Morning Has Broken’ and ‘Moonshadow’ for years and years to come,” Mr. Kerry said.
Moonlighting fans- Want to feel- like- really old?
Is it Little Red Riding Hood's granny?
or is it Cybill Shepherd on a British talk show?
You decide....
( but first- click here to get all the skinny.. and several savage, heartless comments!.)
Opposing-Point-of-View Billboard
New RNC Logo
The Republican National Committee announced today that the
Republican Party is changing its emblem from an elephant to a condom.
Committee Chairman George Allen explained that the condom more clearly
reflects the party's stance today- because a condom:
• Accepts inflation,
• Halts production,
• Destroys the next generation,
• Protects a bunch of pricks, and
• Gives you a sense of security while you're actually getting screwed.
Fattie Time-Out
First Take the Color Test
Click Here
Quick intermission....
Okay- intermission is over; now please follow the instructions below:
Do Not Click Here until you pass the Color Test
Good. Please move on to the next post.
Estrogen Wednesday
Late entry:
"LET ME OUT"
New Feature !!
Once a week, I will select (from your e-mails and blog comments) the best of your written thoughts and ideas, and incorporate them into a new feature which we'll call TWO CENTS. It will be your writings (edited only if they make no sense as written) and posted on this blog, for all in the world of cyberspace to read and to mull over. Not that this will make any of you a bigger star than I- but it certainly is a crumb that I humbly feel (as a once-mighty media-giant) I should be doing in order to get any of the extra Karma crumbs emanated from this huge and courageous gesture.
Here's the first TWO CENTS by a Ken Needel of Las Vegas, (who hasn't quite grasped the internet etiquette concept of Upper Case = Rude Yelling):
"SALUTATIONS....LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT TRUE TERRORISM IS. AFTER WATCHING THE RED
SOX WIN LAST NIGHT, MY FINGERS SLIPPED ON THE WAY TO CHECK ON THE ANGELS,
FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES ONLY. THE FOX NEWS NETWORK HAD THIS COMMENTARY THAT
EVOKED HITLER'S WWII WARM UP SPEECHES WITH A SMATTERING OF MCCARTHYISM. THE ANNOUNCER BASICALLY SAID THAT IF YOU WERE NOT A BUSH SUPPORTER AND A TRUE REPUBLICAN, THEN YOU WERE PART OF THE PROBLEM IN THE WORLD TODAY. IF BUSH IS RE-ELECTED, IT IS MORE THAN OBVIOUS THAT THAT WOULD BE AN ENSUING MANDATE TO SELECTIVELY CIRCUMVENT THE CONSTITUTION, OR REINTERPRET IT TO MEET THE " MY COUNTRY SO FUCK YOU" ATTITUDE WHICH PERVADES THE WORLD TODAY. I'M ACTUALLY THINKING ABOUT MOVING TO A NEUTRAL, NON POLITICIZED COUNTRY LIKE HAWAII. BESIDES, IF HITLER WAS ALIVE TODAY AND KILLING ARABS, WOULD HE BE GETTING US SUBSIDIES? AS WILLIAM HURT SAID IN THE BIG CHILL, 'I'M JUST TRYING TO KEEP THINGS LIVELY'. "
Ken Needel
Las Vegas, NV. 89109
September 22, 2004
Do you feel safer now then you were before 9-11?
Holy Bouzoukies!
Cat Stevens gets branded, bandied , banished and banned*
The whole story
*BUT- (assume for a moment that it was a real terrorist aboard)- here's the very scary part: "Airline agents conduct similar checks before flights depart; it was not clear yesterday why Islam was not flagged before he boarded.")
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September 21, 2004
Charles and everybody- Stop whining and Shut the F__ Up!
For liberals, lefties, tree-huggers and Pinkos- line up now and get your spanking from Michael.
Charles Laquidara Obituary
Charles John "Ballsy" Laquidara died Wednesday November 24, 2063 when he reached the Constitutional Age Limit of 125 years. A patient-pioneer in the Self-Cloning for Spare Parts movement, Mr. Laquidara was a survivor of four heart transplants, two liver transplants, five double-testicular transplants (for which he earned his nickname), and a transplant of both wrist joints. (Common to island dwellers, this last "shaka transplant" is needed when wrist joints are worn out by many years of giving the thumb-and-pinky-out, "hang loose" sign.)
Famous for his sixty years of blogging on RadioWaveX.com, Charles was also a pioneer in broadcast radio before it was replaced with Netcasting. His Big Mattress radio show caused much excitement in its time, and although it wound up being just a footnote in a long and varied career, it was this show which first made him a household name, and foreshadowed his later entree into serious political activism.
The Presidential Elections of 2004 were the true catalyst to Laquidara's political endeavors. With George Bush's highly contested defeat of John Kerry, Laquidara joined with billionaire George Soros to start the Uproot Bush movement which turned into secession proceedings for first Hawaii and eventually every state in the union except Texas and Florida, leading to Bush's resignation in November of 2006.
With the ensuing election of President Hilary Clinton came Laquidara's appointment as Ambassador to Rangoon, and his success there led later to his appointment as Czar of All That is Supremely Fucked Up, an office created for and designed by Laquidara to address issues too controversial to be addressesd by elected officials. His ten year reign as the nation's first CATSFU is regarded by many as a golden era of bipartisan cooperation, passing landmark anti-smoking, anti-pothole, and anti-annoying-waiters-asking-if-you-need-change initiatives and creating the Childbirth Pill, a prescription required by couples wishing to conceive, which ended the abortion debate forever.
Laquidara's lifestyle and diet books are consistently on the best seller list, his line of healthy, instant foods are ubiquitous and his yogawear for men is popular in European cultures which don't mind leaving little to the imagination.
He will be missed.
J.D. Brummer
(Other obits are welcome. Please put your real e-mail address on the comment section, as that is kept confidential, but you can use a pseudonym, if you prefer for the visible portion.
the F-Word should not be used lightly
Especially when it invades our America
Going into these last days with an open, courteous, non-hysterical philosophical dialogue
Sadly, I feel that John F. Kerry is going to lose this- the most important Presidential election of the last 50 years. With that said, please read and send this to all of our friends on the Right. (I would like to have more conservative opinions represented on my blog, and this may be a good way to do it.)
If they take the time to read it thoroughly- and if they are capable of responding objectively (not to repudiate it point by point to support their own agenda, but to ponder, absorb and weigh-as if it were a college reading assignment)- If they will respond with that kind of mind-set and objectivity, I will rethink and re-evaluate all of my previous political thinking. I can do it. I will do it.
Give it a try.
Testosterone Tuesday
Back by popular demand:
September 18, 2004
I always wondered if I was cool..
Now I know I am! I got a perfect 100 score on this REAL or HOAX? quiz.
How did you do?
A movie to watch, as you take your spliff break this weekend
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Step Right Up, Ladies and Gentlemen! It's the One, it's the Only:
Fabulous Freakin Brothers!!!
Why all these hurricanes in Florida?
If the rumors that are circulating amongst the new-age community are to be believed- that it's Karma for the fraud elections of 2000- then shouldn't the next hurricane be named....
CHAD??
(DO-o-o-o!)
September 17, 2004
The Fox Hole
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To N.Y.Yankees fans everywhere
the What's Up Chuck Schwag Gallery
Prize for furthest away entry! Offer ends September 30. 2004.
Person e-mailing us from the furthest distance from Hawaii wins one item of their choice from the Schwag Gallery. Email me with your snail mail address and phone number and if you are the furthest away entry you get to choose any item in the Gallery free. You only pay shipping. Enter now!
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Some of the biggest names in celebrityville have already jumped on the RadioWaveX bandwagon!!
Kerry could lose big time in November
It is an amazing story of how the media is manipulated so brilliantly.
Folks, face it- the Dems are up against an incredibly adept, clever and professional machine- which could be unbeatable..(At least this time around)
By the way, if you are one of those who has a "Mean People Suck" bumpersticker on your car, you may not want to read this.
Which Candidate is the biggest mudslinger?
This is totally objective and unbiased, but I think you need to be one of those geeks who used to get beat up in 7th grade to figure it out.
September 16, 2004
IMPORTANT NOTICE from the WEBMASTER
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My Grandmother used to date Charlton Heston
and she also drives fast cars! So, back off, buddy-boy!
the son's big conference
"Dad-
It's Official:
9/19 has just been proclaimed by Mayor Michael Sullivan of Cambridge as Dr. Ilchi Lee day. Not sure how people will know about this proclamation..but it's still cool anyway."
September 14, 2004
Testosterone Tuesday (well, maybe not..)
Do you like to watch...?
September 13, 2004
The Fox Hole
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If Bush ran against Jesus...
Also, ponder this "What if"
more scurrilous accusations below:
a.. His assistants--not one of them was a woman!
b.. He went out of his way to turn water into wine--sounds like a drinking problem to me.
c.. His dad got him the job.
d.. He said he walked on water--yeah, it's called "ice."
e.. He mispronounces his name to hide his Hispanic heritage.
f.. He hurt the local economy by driving the money changers out of the temple.
g.. He said he walked on water. Of course! He had to--his dad flooded the earth!
h.. His policy is full of judgmental speech
i.. Call Jesus' office now, and demand that he stop holding your soul hostage for political purposes!
Estrogen Monday
I know how much you love the animals.... How about a warm smile, and a great little make your day movie short?
the Lie Clock
A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him.
He asked, "What are all those clocks?"
St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move."
"Oh," said the man, "whose clock is that?"
"That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she never told a lie."
"Incredible," said the man. "And whose clock is that one?"
St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life."
"Where's Bush's clock?" asked the man.
"Bush's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan.
September 11, 2004
To N.Y. Yankees fans everywhere
Remembering September 11
Remember....Remember.. Remember..
September 10, 2004
the Joni Mitchell you never knew
Back in the early days of Underground Radio I was working at KPPC in Pasadena CA, (now K-ROCK), and I remember (I think) the record company guy bringing in a fresh copy of an album from "this new chick from Canada." It was Joni's first album, and still has some of my favorite JM songs on it.
She didn't hit the big time until a few years later, but this- from her first album ever- blows me away to hear again. Thought I'd share it with you. It's called Michael From Mountains. from her debut LP Joni Mitchell (aka Song to a Seagull)
Hear it now (pause it for a moment to let it load fully) as you read some of the other blog entries today, and read this great review of Joni and this first album, which everyone should buy and have in their music collection.
Joni still smokes like a chimney, so I figure I'll pay her the tribute before she dies. (get her some extra spending money for the Winstons)
Roberta Joan Anderson born Nov 7, 1943 in Ft. McLeod, Alberta, Canada
Oh- And I forgot to tell you: David Crosby produced this debut album of hers!
Today's Maui Times
Wyoming Deer Bell
(But what the hell is the gadget on the left? A beer opener? A clip-holder? Is that a church across the street?)
September 9, 2004
See me rot
Not for the faint-hearted... but pretty interesting. (Perhaps you will want to add this to "Favorites" in your browser, and check it out every few weeks...) Perhaps not.
STATES GONE WILD
September 8, 2004
Which paper do you read?
The WALL STREET JOURNAL is read by the people who run the country.
The WASHINGTON POST is read by people who think they run the country.
The NEW YORK TIMES is read by people who think they should run the country, and who are very good at crosswords.
USA TODAY is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand the Washington Post. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
The LOS ANGELES TIMES is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time, and if they didn't have to leave LA to do it.
The BOSTON GLOBE is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.
The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country, and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.
The NEW YORK POST is read by people who don't care who's running the country, as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
The SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE is read by people who aren't sure there is a country .... or that anyone is running it; but whoever it is, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs, who also happen to be illegal aliens from ANY country or galaxy as long as they are Democrats.
The MIAMI HERALD is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.
The NATIONAL ENQUIRER is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store
Did he really say that?
No- he didn't really say tha- Well, I guess he... ("Hold it- TAKE 2!")
A real sign on Rte 1 in Edgecomb Maine
September 7, 2004
Tree Huggers come out! We know you're in there....
Are you sick of the back and forth, "It's their fault!" " No- It's their fault !" banter that has been dividing the country for the last four years? Before you throw in the towel totally, here's the definitive response to the hackneyed and old right-wing rhetoric you have had to endure for more than two decades.
Keep this in a safe place and send it back to them next time they begin chanting their anti-liberal mantras.
September 6, 2004
Testosterone Tuesday
Starship Troopers, one of the great all-time cult films... What happens when everything you thought you knew about this movie was wrong? You light up a fatty with a friend who hasn't seen it; and then you suddenly realize that the horrible flying monster-bugs are really the good guys trying to defend themselves and their families against our heroes- the real storm-trooping villains of space? Rent the movie again if you didn't pick up on that. (Is there a correlation to present-day events here?) But I digress...
Here's a deleted scene with Denise Richards from the original classic.
Boston Sunday Globe Magazine
This is page number 15 in the Boston Globe Magazine dated 9.5.04. The right side of the page is just ads.
E-MAIL FROM A SUBURBAN HOUSEWIFE
"You know, speaking of my parents, the more I think about it, the more confident I feel that my folks would not be Bush supporters now. Their conservatism was rooted in two things: libertarian belief in individual rights, and belief in supply-side economics (You don't tax the crap out of the little guy so he has money to spend on goods and services which helps businesses which can then hire more of/pay more to the little guy.) Their libertarianism would be offended by the abuses in the Patriot Act, and their economic righteousness would be offended by the lack of controls which allows the Walmarts to undercut and destroy small businesses while paying their employees just little enough so they can only afford to shop at Walmart. And then there's foreign policy...
My folks hated Bush the Elder. They said he was a spook-- he was head of the CIA and that's never a good thing. They said that he was a treasonous bastard who secretly negotiated with the Iranians to keep the hostages until after Reagan was elected. They suspected everything he did, to the point that they believed Ross Perot when he claimed that Republican operatives had sabotaged him and threatened his family during his campaign for President. It's the same band of evil-doers surrounding Bush the Son. I'm sure my father would be out of his mind with conspiracy theories (including suspecting the Florida election and Jeb Bush) and while he probably wouldn't be able to stomach voting for Kerry, I'm sure he'd at the very least be voting 3rd party.
Others close to me have bought into the jingoism. (My parents never would've fallen for that.) Look at Pat Buchanan, he's as conservative as you can get but he was on Meet the Press yesterday railing against Bush. I don't see this as a liberal versus conservative election. I think it's a jingoistic-ulterior-motive administration versus the-thinking-community-on-both-sides-of-the-aisle election. We're looking down the barrel of World War III and we've gotta decide, do we want to go it alone, or do we want to stand with the rest of the world? The problem is that it's "us" versus them, but the "us" part isn't united. This is really fucking frightening.
And if you'll allow me one more paragraph, you know what really steams me? This if-you-don't-support-the-war-you-don't-support-the-troops thing. At the same time, those bastards pulling the strings at the Pentagon call the abuses at Abu Ghraib "the work of a few bad apples." As if those 24-year-old reservists from Dubuque dreamed up the hooded, testicular-electrocution torture techniques on their own. Few bad apples my ass. Talk about not supporting the troops. They are just so fucking evil. It makes me want to puke.
Okay, I'm going to my happy place now. I'm dreaming of a little hut next to a palm tree. Om.. "
-cb
September 3, 2004
How's your memory?
Does anyone remember, how (back in the Clinton days) Rush Limbaugh mercilessly ridiculed (then young teen-ager) Chelsea Clinton? At one point even putting a picture of Chelsea on the screen, and referring to her as, "the White House dog"?
a children's health care worker speaks out
Post Convention reaction:
"Nothing showed us how organized, how slick and how malevolent the
Conservative Republican Party is, and will stop at nothing to win- regardless
of who, or how, they take the path of destruction. It's obvious to me how this
....plan...included the campaign to "show the public" how the media is
liberal, biased,....blah, blah, blah. Hence, the birth and success of Fox,
which makes no bones about its allegiance, and has managed to win over the
disenfranchised, the curious and the confused, who have bought into the whole
media-bias thing.
Well, the curtain's off of Oz, and I think that it's time for the media to do
the right thing, and fight back- Republican style. Fuck them. You want to
call us biased, fine- then that's what we are, that's what we will be and
that's what we 're gonna give you. Hell- It works in England and Italy. I think
that the media has a moral obligation to report the news and push that "Get
out and Vote, discharge Bush et al" voraciously. This is a dogfight,
whether it makes us vomit or not.
At some point, you've got to stop boxing when the other guy is kicking."
Heidi C.
Give us this day Our Daily Bread...
September 2, 2004
Testosterone Tuesday (Part 3)
Switzerland Drivers' Exam.
Final question: A bicyclist is in front of your car. The road is narrow. The road is long. You are late for a meeting. There is barely enough room to pass. You see a police cruiser in your rear-view mirror. What is your decision?
Testosterone Tuesday (Part 2)
What's the Opposite of "Four More Years"?
Not Work Friendly!
Testosterone Tuesday (9/7)
Not the Beach Boys and Not Work friendly !
Estrogen Monday (9/6)
"I'll be right with you- Just let me finish typing this paragraph...."
Going fishing
I have been on the computer for several hours today. I know I once said that I think of this blog as a kind of radio show, but it is starting to take up too much of my time. From now on, I am going to work on the blog one morning a week, maybe Saturdays. This means I may put together a lot of stuff on that one morning, and then just shoot it out there for everyone to read- either in part, or all at once.
I'll take any suggestions you may have that will keep the blog entertaining and energized,. Please feel free to comment at will. (I forgot when that article in the Globe Magazine mentioning this site is coming out, but it should be within the next two weeks. Maybe after that I will do something totally different).
Meanwhile, I really wish I had written this Time magazine piece.
If you don't feel like reading today, you can please let me know exactly how many people are in this picture- my eyes are too tired to count:
Bogart the Chipmunk
This is just wrong!
ArabONICS
News report from Iraq (Click here for the hearing-impaired)
September 1, 2004
the Great Biscuit Fire
(For high-speed only!) Please go up to your menu and open this page in a new window. In the new window click here and enjoy the music as you read other entries on this blog.
HOW MANY MORE TIMES WILL SACRILEGIOUS ICONOCLASTS DEFILE THE EDVARD MUNCH MASTERPIECE BY POSTING MOCKING LAMPOONS??! ? HOW MANY MORE TIMES??!!??!!
