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traffic outtakes? no, california in the 20s.
William F. Buckley weighs in on Traffic.
from lemonyellow, the invisible library, books that only appear in other books.
this list looks alot better than that one from from RIAA. all hail elvis
Nice new comment feature on drat fink's page.
Spring must be close when your office building issues a
BULLETIN like the one I just received from the PA @ for WTC :
"You may remember that last year, The New York Audubon Society contacted us concerning the dangers migrating birds face in large metropolitan areas, specifically high rise buildings. At that time, The Society advised us that the fall migration pattern was from August through November and the spring migration pattern was from mid-March through mid-June. As mid-March is approaching, we are requesting once again that you turn off all office lights in the evening hours or, at the minimum, close the blinds. We realize this is difficult as many of you have employees who work late into the evenings and it is difficult for us too as the house keeping personnnel are cleaning the offices. However, we would appreciate it if you would ask your employees to turn off your lights once they leave for the evening. Thank You........"
- This request might also apply to the last person leaving Detroit.
Marianne Nowottny will be performing @ Tonic this Saturday
@ 8:00 pm. I hope to be going.
Marianne Nowottny at 8:00pm, $10
"New Jersey teen Marianne Nowottny returns to Tonic this evening
with her torchy resin voice, off-kilter harmonics and Radio Shack
keyboard. Nowottny is able to glide through scale modulation
seemingly effortlessly, stopping at random quarter-tones and angular
intervals that are unique and hyper-personal. Her song compositions,
which explore multi-layers of sound and textures, can be compared to
the early electronic music experiments of John Pfeiffer or the pop-
music simulations of Brian Eno. "Marianne Nowottny is a delicately
balanced combination of warped teenage nihilism, otherworldly
visitation and sheer joy-in-creation."
- David Keenan The Wire
TONIC
107 Norfolk Street
(Between Delancey & Rivington)
212-358-7501 / http://www.tonic107.com
I am in the process of switching over the picture handling system. I'm moving all the pictures out of the database and into the filesystem. Hopefully you will not notice anything about this change (everything will work exactly as before, although theoretically a tiny bit faster.) If you do notice anything is amiss with any photos please let me know here ASAP. I'll keep the old system in place (but not operating) for several days just in case I need to switch back. Thanks.
This site may be known to some of you, but Bill said he hadn't seen Fabulous Ruins of Detroit, so I'm posting the link. It's definitely worth a look.
ebay question (bill): how do i not get items for which "bidding is closed" in my search? i must say, i am not a happy first-time user thus far.
Can anyone with IE on Windows (or just anyone that was having these troubles) comment on the formatting on the discussion pages? Is it still bold? Otherwise screwed up? Thanks.
Just heard something on the radio about a prosecuter named Jordan trying to convince the justice department to go after promotors at "rave clubs" (are there such places?) for creating a culture which supports drug use, specifically extacy. He is arguing that they can bust them for the posession and sales of bottled water. It being "harmless and legal" on it's own but since it is needed by the drugged out, dehydrated raver it can be classified as drug paraphanalia. In addition, the report mentioned something about him also considering the baby pacifiers which are sold at the clubs as paraphanalia. (This one I do support) I didn't hear the whole report and hadn't had my cup of Typhoo so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details (what's new?) And I haven't seen anything on the net about it. So I can't claim a scoop. Dave? Jim? Heard anything about this?
And you thought it was Tinky Winky.
I think it was last night I read Dave's iditarod post, cruelty to animals and whatnot, and it was no doubt the seed for the dream I had this morning in my sleeping bag on the floor at Rocheblave which had me harnessed to a pitbull puppy being dragged about the mundane chores of my life except the pitbull wasn't much of a mule and he had to stop and play every few minutes, and then pee on something.
this is kind of interesting. check out your name transliterated into chinese. im figuring my name dai wei to mean great guardian.
what happened? did she go nuts?
as long we are talking wacky packs, check out the latest -- people cards.
Cinefiles is up. Go crazy. Let me know what is broken.
I know there are some problems cropping up with our increase in usage. Particularly on the discussion pages. The way I am making the indentations to show the nesting of comments is not scaling. My guess is this is particularly apparent in Navigator (which doesn't like so many nested tables.) On the really long threads it might even seem like your computer crashed, but it's just thinking. (Remember, if you get into trouble on the mac - command-option-escape will force quit Navigator, and then you can start it right up again.) Anyway, I now see how to do it without nested tables (which aren't really a good idea, I now see why.) Hang in there. Help is on the way. One thing you can do in the meantime is to try to post comments from the top link on the comments page so that there aren't so many levels of nesting going on.
drat fink references a Malcolm Gladwell New Yorker piece about McDonalds, which I had seen earlier today via Arts & Letters Daily. I couldn't quite believe what I was reading: Gladwell's proposals for "better junk food" include using Olestra (of "anal leakage" fame) to make McDonalds fries, and reviving the McLean burger (the processed meat was good, he says, all it needed was better promotion). The piece reads like an advertorial for scientifically-enhanced food: it made me wonder who's paying the New Yorker's bills these days.