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wow, dave's getting daring. Can't wait to hear the outcome of this one (and I hope it doesn't involve an RIAA holding cell.)
Even the New York Post is having a hard time standing up for the administration, after the latest coptrocity. These two columns display the difficulty, even for the hard right. Personally, I suspect a big problem that I don't think has even been brought up yet: police steroid abuse. Lots of cops have that mutant football player/gym rat look, and uncontrollable 'roid rage is a documented side effect. Any chance these guys are just a
little too pumped?
Uh, my name is bill s. and I'm an artist. HI
BILL ! well, not really an artist. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BILL ? I'm not really sure anymore, but i'll try to explain later. THANKS FOR THE WARNING
BILL ! no really, thank you all friends ! thank you.
Robin Williams is going to sing "blame Canada" at the oscars. This might actually get me to watch the show.
Welcome to Bill Schwarz, our newest friend to join the tree. He's got some interesting stuff up his sleave, so stay tuned for a new page (or two or three.) Hopefully we'll see him popping up in this ill-defined and rambling discussion as well. Thanks for the interest Bill.
Alex has a new page although the changes are all under the surface. He is the first to brave the new digital media tree publishing system. I can only guess what might happen with his new 64k posting limit (take that blogger.)
Maybe we should move the catpower discussion out here. Are there still tickets? Do you already have yours Linda? MB and I want to go.
On the Today Show this morning, MN governor Jessie Ventura was asked whether he would be able to support one of the major party candidates. He responded in the negative, by quoting Jerry Garcia: "Choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
Who says Christians are no fun?
This one's got me tied up in knots.
Steve - did you see that Speilberg is going to direct AI? (Kubrick's big unfinished project) Here's the story if anyone is interested.
Agent-based modeling at Sugarscape develops complex systems from basic fact-of-life parameters. This is good science, working towards understanding everything, from the ground up, instead of working backward from symptoms. They're promising a Java program that will allow you to run your own experiments; for now, you can see QuickTime movies of their results.
I gave this link to Steve, and he said I should post it. I didn’t think it was of general interest, but, of course, he’s right. The idea is to connect everything, or at least make it available. Even if you’re not interested, you can learn a lot about the poster from the post. It’s the apotheosis of the editor; the post-modern form of identity. To wit: the Silver Age Marvel Comics Cover Gallery. Images like this one, by the late, great Jack Kirby, made an indelible impression on me, and the Marvel style has become ingrained in our culture. The Silver Age is basically the 60s, when Kirby and Stan Lee transformed the kiddie comic book through the power of cosmic radiation, inflating it to mythic proportions. Actually, they were middle aged hacks, but they had the zeitgeist something fierce. Kirby is (justly) more celebrated today; scripter Lee was also the boss, and hogged the credit$. I’ve done a lot of Kirbyesque drawings in my time, but these days it’s Stan’s influence I recognize in my work. His verbosity remained consistent as he swung from epic drama in King James cadence, to Jewish burlesque comedy. He teetered on the brink of irony, but the good guys won (though not without complications). I should write half so well. Not to mention he was churning out something like ten titles every month! I have a hard time posting once a week. He also taught me about alliteration, the history of which will eventually be an Arboretum topic (bet you can’t wait). Which brings me to this fine rhetoric site (note the tree style) where we can see that alliteration is just one of the many wonderful forms of repetition we have at our disposal. This bit of edification is offered to cover the fact that the real reason I didn’t want to post was that, after 30 years, I’m still embarrassed by my comic books, even though academia has by now embraced pop culture, easing the shame of perpetual adolescence. These kids today don’t know how easy they’ve got it.
The BBC has a story about a new breakthrough in cloning which has resulted in the birth of 5 new pigs.
In light of Linda's fondness for the pink creatures I won't mention the need these little guys have been created to fill.
Jesse James Garrett (formerly of jjg.net fame) has a new page called weblognation. Basically he just reposts other webloggers posts that he finds interesting. Sort of a K-Tel best of the weblogs compilation. Pretty good if you want to keep up with the blog world, but are a little short on time.
Oh, come on, Dave. Are you saying this is not a progressive scene? (at least I didn't go looking for nudes)
They moved in 500,000 years ago, and the rent is nothing!
I'm not familliar with Bullitnuts or the label "pork" Are they good?
I think there is a band named Pork which is currently popular with the under 30 crowd.
During my brief stint in art school some fellow classmates had a band named "porkey carcass"
Nice one Alex!
just ordered some music from pork recordings (UK)- steve are you familiar with bullitnuts or anyone from this label?
Reading a book wherein Robert Thurman proposes to "coin" the term psychonauts (1994) in re tibetan monks. This is from 1994 - can this be the first usage of this term? Mr. Wilson? Anyone?
avocadolite.com is a cute blog++ with emphasis on design which i found while bloggerin through stuff and rot.
Nasa comes through with some more great pictures. Here's a giant sandstorm off the north African coast:
And here's a beauty (taken from the ground) of the Sombrero Galaxy:
As usual, these pictures are shamelessly stolen from one of my favorite sites: BBC News Sci/Tech. I guess being able to do this sort of thing is one of the advantages of having a low traffic site.