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Gail Collins Named Editorial Page Editor of New York Times
boogie master John Lee Hooker, dead @ 83
everybody loves whitey
now that the yankees plan to launch their own network theyll need some programming to fill the gap between the yankees nets and devils games. espn has a preview of possible shows.
Pork chop?
"Babe" faces the ax.
You'll need to make an entry on your site every 30 minutes for 24 hours. We all begin at the same date & time: July 28, 12:00pm PST.Just imagine the edge of your seats excitement: 48 davezilla posts in one day. The good times just keep rolling.
Feel free to pre-write, but please don't set up a script to do your updates. Everyone should be live.
I'm going to try to be on AIM the whole time. My handle is frytopia. Feel free to keep me awake.
This is gonna be fun!
the Lady's Flatus Inhibitor, circa 1864, and other inventions of michael flannigan...
Just Ask Alex--summer is almost here cause my favorite stinky tree is in bloom (what tree is that again good doctor), and is it possible i saw a baby pigeon on my window sill??
PORNADO REPORT :
" As you know the Bada Bing Girls from the Soprano's will be appearing in the
August Issue of Playboy.
On June 28th they will be on the Winstar Radio station from 9 to 10 A.M. to
promote the Issue. They will also be appearing on the RON & FEZ Radio Show
at 2:15 PM.
ELEKTRA and the other girls will be appearing at Tower Records in Manhattan,
sometime in midday. And in late afternoon they will be appearing at Tower
Records in Paramus, New Jersey in late afternoon.
Then it's off to the BADA BING (aka SATIN DOLLS in Lodi, New Jersey) for a
HUGE PARTY from 9 to 10 PM. Phone Number is 201-909-8983.
Also at this Party besides the BADA BING GIRLS will be the PLAYBOY CYBER
GIRLS, and cast members of the SOPRANO'S. The age requirement to get into
Satin Doll is 21. Elektra told me there should be a great time had by all.
More news will be available soon."
the ekpyrotic universe - SO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS THAT THERE WAS A UNIVERSE OF 3-DIMENSIONAL MATTER THAT WAS EXISTING BEFORE THE UNIVERSE WE ARE IN THAT WAS SLAMMED BY ONE OF THESE 5TH DIMENSIONAL WAVES. AND THEN SETS OFF AGAIN WHAT WE HAVE BEEN CALLING THE BIG BANG WHICH WAS THIS ENORMOUS, RAPID EXPANSION OF HEAT AND ENERGY BEFORE THE CURRENT MATTER UNIVERSE.
I think I'll wait for Alex's confirmation before I believe this, but apparently,
...[a] slithering, evil-eyed alligator is lurking where New Yorkers least expect it - in an otherwise peaceful lake in Central Park.And like all great media stories, this one provides local New Yorkers with an opportunity to show off their amazing grasp of historical events.
"It was hysterical - like Napoleon crossing the Delaware or something," one source said, chuckling.Indeed.
according to a TV show linda and i were watching the top 3 illicit trades are 1) drugs 2) endangered animals 3) arms
Mermaid Parade gets packaged.
NY Post article.
But do they have a vibrate mode?
Doh : OED
Unhappy people make the best workers. Boy, that really makes a lot of things clear. (via plastic)
dave on strike?
Richard Helms's niece and the Taliban.
After all, the American Right and Islamic Fundamentalism have a lot of common ground.
Wren's Nest
Pagan weblog.
Marijuana after age 45 harder on heart than sex
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
June 12, 2001
New York (dpa) - Smoking pot after age 45 puts more stress on the heart than strenuous sex, leading to a five-fold increase in the likelihood of a heart attack for about an hour afterwards, Canadian and U.S. scientists said in media reports Tuesday.
JIMWich has a bunch of links to treehouses. (That's not really a permanent link. I'm guessing that this will be the permanent link after the end of this month.)
"Dave's Not Here !?"
Decent article on the Tolkien phenomenon from the Voice.
The importance of the material must be recognized. LOR drew the template for virtually every epic fantasy since. It may appeal to adolescents, but they represent the last, best, hope of the imagination, before the compromises of adulthood. Such compromises may be the subject of "grown-up" literature, but the unstoppable spring of Tolkienesque fantasy evidences a basic facet of our being. The template fits sci-fi futurism just as well as medievalism: the generality of a truly mythic chord being sounded. Tolkien does not fall into the typical cliches of pulp-fiction type fantasy. Violence, sex, and magic are central, but are consistently underplayed. His overwhelming nostalgia and melancholy are alien to Hollywood's understanding of the heroic epic. Scale is different than size, and this is where many followers have lost the way. The vastness of his tale is not so much a matter of length, as it is the implication of an entire world of untold tales, fleshed out by the extensive pseudo-scholarly appendices. This presentation of the material as some sort of discovered text links the work to things like Borges and Pynchon, and even Poe's early detective stories. It seems to be a gloss on a larger truth, which supersedes the author.
And the reader. Unlike the comic books, and other fantasy forms I've enjoyed over the years, Tolkien never fed my ego-fantasies, but served to weave me into something larger; a frame of reference in which the ego was but the focal point of loss. In this sense, his work is about as serious and adult as stories get. It triggers a nostalgic pain so acute that growing up becomes the escape. The sixties, the heyday of Tolkien-mania, has often been similarly critiqued, and I'd make a similar defense. I always think of Tolkien when I hear this song by the Incredible String Band, exemplars of the Hobbit-swilling hippies of yore.
You Know What You Could Be
by Mike Heron
Read your book and lose yourself
In another's thoughts.
He might tell you 'bout what is
Or even 'bout what is not.
And if he's kind and gentle too,
And he loves the world a lot,
His twilight words may melt the slush
Of what you have been taught.
You know what you could be.
Tell me my friend,
Why you worry all the time
What you should been.
Listen to the song of life.
Its rainbow's end won't hold you.
Its crimson shapes and purple sounds,
Softly will enfold you.
It gurgles through the timeless glade,
In quartertones of lightning.
No policy is up for sale,
In case the truth be frightening.
You know what you could be.
Tell me my friend,
Why you worry all the time
What you should be.