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Yesterday I sat around waiting for the phone company to send a repairman, and looks like tomorrow I'll be doing it again. Yesterday they restored the dial tone, but there's still a loud hum on the line. This happens on the average of once every 3 months. The phone poles behind my apt. are old and decrepit and whenever it snows (or the sun shines too hard) my phone goes out. They never really fix the problem. The repairman does some kind of patch and then the phone's OK for a while, then the cycle starts again. I'm supposed to sit and wait from 8 am to 7pm and if they don't show up (which they often don't) I go through the whole thing on another day. According to one of the repairmen, the company had several million marked for infrastructure repair and it all went to CEOs in the last merger. I totally believe it. Anyway, the company's name is VERIZON (stupid name--like a ten year old's idea of clever: "vertical + horizon"? gimme a break) and they SUCK.
im working this one (truck driiver) Recomended
Trent-chant Commentary
Just when I thought I had this war-blogger thing figured out, 2nd generation neocon John Podhoretz comes along to explain what's really going on in cybersville. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy and, you know, powerful, ha ha ha…
froogle your holiday shopping.
From the (extended) family:
Bird artist Jonathan Alderfer talks about the new edition of the National Geographic Field Guide.
nudie suits
for the first time in a long while i didnt have to work on a saturday so i took the time to cook, nap and be a couch potatoe......to get in the spirit of the holidays i watched the following 4 movies in a row 1) No Mans Land (Bosnian War), 2) Pearl Harbor (WW2), 3) Full Metal Jacket (Vietnam War), and 4) ???title?? CNN news team in (Iraq/Kuwait) War.....
bird blogger
robert redford's great op-ed on energy independence from monday's LA Times
New (to me) get your war on page.
DISINFORMATION: THE INTERVIEWS
Robert Anton Wilson
Grant Morrison
Norbert H. Kox
Paul Laffoley
Douglas Rushkoff
Howard Bloom
Genesis P-Orridge
Joe Coleman
Peter Russell
Duncan Laurie
Kembra Pfahler
They're back! Late hummingbirds, that is. We don't know if it's climate change, or just more people noticing, but more and more western hummers are showing up in the east after fall migration should be over. Last year they were in Yonkers and at Fort Tryon Park; this year they're even closer. There's been a Selasphorus genus bird (almost certainly a Rufous) in Central Park for over a week now, and I just got word that there is a probable Calliope downtown at Battery Park City. Must go take a look…
(And don't forget the Yellow-breasted Chat that's been hanging out in Bryant Park.)
They saved Meinhof's brain, and now it's going back. New strategy against terrorism: autopsy first, then trial!
Harry Potter jellybeans. Mmmmm... Earwax.
Maybe you read about the LaughLab in last week's New Yorker. Finally checked out the site. A few laughs, and some interesting international differences in what people find funny. If you really want to knock 'em dead, 103 words about a necrophiliac duck should do it.
This wasn't what I was looking for, but it came up on two unrelated searches, so I'm posting it. Besides, you've got to love a blog called eschaton, though if you think you know where the name came from, you may be wrong.
here's some happy news...the earth's polarity is going to switch, and everyone's gonna be screwed.
This'd be a biggie for Osama and the Bush Administration.
When the gods want to punish you they deliver not one but two post election newspapers to your house, which feature the smiling? Trent Lott front page and center. So I have an extra one if anybody wants one. Actually two extra. Going once...going twice...gone with Monday's trash. On the bright side, I had a bit of good luck at work on Friday.
Steve DiBenedetto's show which close's today 11/9, is brilliant and one of the finest art shows I have seen in years (I dont get out much:>).....Derek Eller 526-30W25
"The Magic Garden," a favorite of millions of children in the 1970s and 1980s, returns to television with a one-hour retrospective program to be seen on WPIX Channel 11, the station where it was originally seen. "The Magic Garden: Still Growing" will be seen on Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, November 2 at 1 pm. It will be followed, between 2 & 3 pm, by two original episodes of "The Magic Garden" not seen on TV since 1984. The one-hour retrospective will be repeated Sunday, December 1, at noon. WPIX Channel 11 (The WB11), a Tribune Television station, is the New York affiliate of The WB Television Network.