drat fink

Friday, February 16, 2001

shirk sleeves

one nation under groove

heart of darkness

in my email to kausfiles i worried in jest that clinton in harlem would end up like kurtz in the heart of darkness stumbling around with a stale box of krispy kremes muttering something about mending bridges and the definition of is.

Armando Marquez, who works in the building where Clinton will have his office, said Harlem was perfect for the former president.
``No white group is going to come here to picket and no black group hates him,'' he said.

more power to you

just a random blog --

San Diego American Nuclear Society

shoe fetish

"Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos will open a museum showcasing part of her collection of several thousand pairs of shoes left behind at the presidential palace when she and her husband bolted during a revolt. The museum, to be opened on Friday, will be housed in a 300-year-old Spanish adobe-and-brick structure at Marikina City, the country's shoe-making capital in an eastern Manila suburb, according to a spokeswoman for the city's mayor Bayani Fernando. The government had allowed some 200 pairs of Marcos's sandals, pumps, boots and slippers previously kept at the Malacanang presidential palace museum to be moved for safekeeping and display at the new site, a statement from the mayor's office said. Dictator Ferdinand Marcos was overthrown in 1986 after a popular revolt. The Marcos family was forced to flee to Hawaii where the ex-president died in 1989. The several thousand pairs of shoes left behind by Imelda Marcos became big news, confirming reports of her extravagant, jetsetting lifestyle despite her country's poverty. According to the statement, Imelda Marcos "generously contributed her time in assisting" to set up the shoe museum. She also donated more than 50 pairs of shoes from the thousands she has received as gifts since February 1986. Among the historical pairs on display will be the black canvas espadrilles which Imelda wore when she fled Malacanang palace on February 25, 1986 until she reached her exile in Hawaii. - AFP"

raw is war

Al Martin Raw: Criminal Govt Conspiracy

mr resident

"Bush Is NOT the President. George W. Bush is the Official Resident of the United States of America. FUCK HIM and HIS CRONIES!"

clown prince

BBC News looks at the us election in retrospect

bush gets layed

california energy "crisis" exposed

screaming to the media

building that houses dotcoms in silicon alley stresses the alley and not the silicon. home to screaming media, inside, etc.

Thursday, February 15, 2001

powell doctrine

as noted before, one of the main fault lines in the conservative movement lies between those espousing a free market libertarian ethos vs those that wish to control the flow of goods/content. i think rupert murdoch embodies that contradiction but perhaps his conservatism is merely fiscal. clay shirky thinks newly appointed fcc chairman powell leans in the direction of an open exchange of ideas to foster greater accumulations of wealth.

maybe he could teach guiliani a thing or two about freedom of speech while he is at it. of course, guiliani would say that as long as the institutions housing the "inappropriate" works of art receive public money, then "the public" has a right to control what is viewable. didnt we already have this lawsuit during the sensations show at the brooklyn museum?

heres a link to the presently offensive artwork. and a link to the discussion thread on plastic.

nipped in the bud

Cat Power Lyrics

surfin usa

three clipped from surfjones --

nike wont print sweatshop on sneakers

richard jewell update(washingtonpost.com)

More ejections on tap for beanballs

retreads

BANANA REPUBLICANS

nude as the newz

Wednesday, February 14, 2001

vice vise

media channel backs up my claim that classes should be a mediafree zone.

nelson riled

when i was in college someone once accused me of being lifeless when i was without someone to vilify. how much more illuminated it would have seemed had he rendered a diagnosis of congenital schadenfreude. i guess had i studied more diligently in high school i could have attended a college where id be dressed down with more precision but no less derision.

Tuesday, February 13, 2001

the bridges of mendocino county

60 minutes 2 story on the state of marijuana in the state of california

runt for cover

well. made a little dent in the world today. i noticed both kausfiles and medianews had credited jonah goldberg with floating the idea that clinton should get office space in harlem. seems his article ran in 2/9 washington times, the same day as his appearance on c-span. but as i had quoted earlier russert asked rangel on 2/4 meet the press essentially the same thing. whether or not russert came up with it or was just parroting someone else i couldnt say. anyway. kausfiles ran an update based on my email and then added an interesting article about rangel and the harlem empowerment zones. and medianews added my email to their letters page. i even got a free edit. i always dreamt of a cosmic proofreader who would descend from on high and scrub my prose squeaky klean. mostly because i didnt want to take the time and do it for myself. i just hope jonah goldberg doesnt get sore and send me a picture of anna kournikova then i wont have to send him a picture of linda tripp.

rock bottom

two spirited dialogues this week at slate --

the book club delves into the vagina monologues while the guests at the breakfast table are science writers from the ny and la times.

freeks and geaks

MITs Technology Review gets a facelift and is looking good.

patrons of the arts

"Frustrated by turning on their televisions and settling down in front of a good movie, only to have the best parts interrupted by commercials, members of Russia's lower house of parliament decided such petty annoyances must stop. "A movie is a piece of art," Anatoly Greshnevikov told his Duma colleagues. "Advertising is an intrusion into art, a violation of it.""

chaos theory

"It's hard to explain how the other guys dunking on you can be a good thing," Arseneault says. "But for us it's all about controlling tempo and maintaining a sense of chaos."

Monday, February 12, 2001

space cowboy

Riding shotgun with William Gibson

its a hell of a town

the new yorker enters the digital age today! i guess i can cancel my subscription again. how about bill clinton in damage control mode again. looks like hes bowing to the pressure on the office dilly and actually planning a move to harlem. maybe hell sit in on some of gores classes at columbia. now if he could undo his pardons....not that i care. kausfiles wants to know if clintons numbers in the polls are slipping in light of his recent indiscretions. my guess is not appreciably. those that are disgusted by him and those that are willing to put up with his nonsense have likely entrenched their positions. and how lame are the network news shows? the napster story coverage today was awful. if that were your only source of news you would think that napster had shut down. even the cheerleaders at access hollywood explained the situation with less disinformation. how pathetic. its still going and will continue until they figure a way to turn those 50 million users into paying customers. napster didnt lose today, just a temporary setback. the last word? nbc has given that australian guy from animal planet that everyone loves an hour of prime to delve into AFRICAS DEADLIEST SNAKES. wait, i thought kabila was dead?

brit hume

Pseuds Corner

qatmandu

Yemenis defy president and keep chewing

brownshirts

bushnazilinks

chamber music

Scientists See Clues to the Cosmos in the Echoes of the Big Bang

no money, no honey

California Lacks Resources for Law on Drug Offenders

Sunday, February 11, 2001

say it aint so

Giuliani Internalized

walk this way

Revealed: why so many Americans are fat (it's not the food)

butt ugly

"thats his business. i would never get a tattoo there." -- allen iverson when told on meet the press that former sec of state geo schultz has a princeton tiger tattoo on his butt.