One thing we can all agree on when it comes to torture

Hitchens.

And Larry David Life is Torture.

The Highway to the Danger Zone

Leads to Kenny Login's House.

Asahito Nanjo and Psychedelic Noise from Japan

Great article interview here.

Chrononauts Unite

Members of Alien Black Market have been on a quest for the past few months attempting to uncover the identities of the Chronoauts who live among us. Perhaps it's you, maybe it's me. But as the TISL state (timeline international security laws-I'm not making this up) it is illegal to state so. So please keep it to your self for safety reasons. However, as this author suggests it is OK to hint at the fact that you are.

Why is it so important to understand and appreciate the noble roles that Choronauts play in society?

"The fact that they live among us give us faith that we will not blow up the Earth anytime soon." Says our ABM Emo correspondent. "As a matter of fact, Chronoauts are already being embraced by our Republicans representatives around the country. Emo is the religion of the future, or so we are guessing by the X's that most Chronoauts tattoo on their arms."

"This is proof that there is no such thing as Global Warning." Says a spokesman from the Young Republicans who asked to remain unnamed. "We can continue to follow the path we are one. We can do what we want because we know that the Chronoauts exist."

As news of Chronoauts is spreading from country to country they refuse to come out in the public afraid to break what are known as the "McFly" rules of time travelling.

"They are afraid of Biffing the future, " our resident Emo explains, "afraid that people will come into power who shouldn't be there. They seek protection of the future by roaming around blindly and curiously in the present, like wandering anthropologists."

Why do they want to nuke India?

Very strange name.

Inspiration for a New Visa...

You can do it.....Good Luck..May the patience of Yoda be with you... I loved the card....Thank you...

Is there anything cooler than a lightsaber phone?

Well, just about everything.


But not really.

DOMP NOW and Forever...

I don't like being the first to blog after Mr. Irwin's praise for his first book. So please scoll down and order it. I am just a humble blogger attempting to aware all of what may be, perhaps, the fist war like incident on Mars. Bleow is NASA's animated short about the MARS Science Laboratory.

Please note how around 2:42 into the wonderful cartoon how wonderfully simplistic their ray gun is used. But what may happen when Europe tries to sink its teeth into the Mars exploration game...
What will happen when the USA's delightful little robot comes across the EU's robot (who looks like a wimp)? Could this be the first chapter in the intergalactic droid wars? EMOS think so.

"We are worried that the initial steps into the exploration of Mars will pivot one robot against another and in the end we foresee two Continental powers facing one another for nothing more than territorial rights over a remote area Mars." says Johnathan Griffith, a said EMO and secrect Hip-Hop fanatic. "I foresee a great danger between two powers unless we see the deweaponization of Mars. DOMP forever, starts now."
It's a beautiful flim but don't let the the simplistic use of the lasers fool you...As Mr. Griffith states, " Why can't we all learn a lesson from Shatner's version of Rocket Man."
Yes indeed, the ultimate EMO anthem.


GO CELTICS!!!

Jason Irwin: Watering the Dead

Jason Irwin's first book of poetry, Watering the Dead is available for purchase for now.

Go to the Pavement Saw Press website to buy it.

There are no aliens or robots in it. You'll have to wait for mine or Kraig's book of poetry for that.

Hey Jerks!

Youjeen rocks. She's Korean, but the next one is from her solo Japanese work:

No revolution for you...

This should scare all who hope to take to the streets in the near future.


Meanwhile, while scientists celebrate the Phoenix landing and Mars and all that it hopes to uncover, please take note of the end of this paragraph from the May 26 article from the Boston Globe (link to full ariticle):

"...Next year, the Mars Science Laboratory, a lander as large as an automobile and equipped with a ray-gun type laser to zap rocks at a distance of 30 feet, is scheduled to follow up on Phoenix's discoveries." The real reason why we are going to Mars? Why does NASA feel the need to "ZAP" space rocks. What is their real goal. Is testing such a weapon on Earth too dangerous. It's not like they are using naplam in Iraq (What's a cock-up? Read the article and find out.). Is there a ray gun ban on Earth. Is Mars the next testing ground for weapons..."

Bottom Line: The weaponization of Mars is soon to occur. Where is a treaty when you need one? The ABM (Alien Black Market) believes this why Alien sighting are now occurring in Denver and not on Mars. They are going to attack us here before we attack them there.

I pledge that we begin DOMP- the Deweaponization Of Mars Priority. Mars should be a weapon free planet. A spokes person from the ABM says, "We must not allow weapons to be used and brought to our beloved red sister planet. If we fail now, we fail the future of our great grandchildren who will no doubt colonize the planet generations from now."
Students have already begun to take to the streets in protest. This is a cuase that the EMO generation have embraced whole heartedly.
"We can't hate Mars. And we're sick of our parents who don't understand our music. It's not like the My Chemical Romance are biting the heads off of bats and sending weapons to Mars. We deplore the weaponization of Mars. That's what the X on our hands stand for. No weapons on planet X. We want peace on Mars."

CHRIST! INVADERS IN DENVER

Kraig--oops--I meant subhino was talking about this. I didn't believe in Aliens before, but after watching this, how can you NOT believe?!?!?!?!?!

Good news everyone!

Everything is going to be okay.

I love Google Ads

Guess what kind of website I was looking at when I got this?

2,284 more days

And I will be forty years old.


Thanks to this site.

Warning! Very bad for clock-brain!

My first neti: The first week

Technique is still sloppy. But it gets the job done. I dislodged the hardball.

That's it. I'm moving to Canada.

Exhibit A.

Boulder sure has changed.

UPDATE: Exhibit B: THONG BANDITS NABBED

I'm not sure if that makes things worse or better for Colorado's image.

Intrigued by the Zohan

Because underneath the weathered facade of every Mossad agent I believe beats the heart of a dandy. No disrespect to dandies.

John Cale, Office Hijinks

Just a little something I threw together.

h/t irwin

Move over DIck...

Carpal Tunnel is no joke. What helps is a set of chinese "boading balls." I don't know if it'll cure you but it'll help...

Yeah, but will it save my arms?

I have long had problems with my arms--as mentioned previously--namely an RSI problem. I should probably be resting my arms right now (I'm officially grading papers online fulltime right now) but before I do, look at the latest MAC toy:

I was a serious naysayer when it came to the iPhone--I thought it was the technological equivalent of Beck (enuff said). But I was really hoping for the new wave of interfaces to address the concerns of my lame-ass, inflamed tendons. Questions, concerns still loom, but I'm optimistic.

h/t zentrout

Embrace the Neti

If Oprah can do it, so can you. Empower yourself through Neti Power!!

It's only uncomfortable the first few times.....

In other news it looks as though a new musical chapter is brewing here on the East Coast. Though I would rather be playing Reich like pieces while exploring tonal modes inspired by b-flat in the hopes of luring alien and trog-like life forms alike, I will be dabbling in formula eco friendly world-rock sounds. No Myspace page yet......Photo of my beloved Ibo....new instrument of choice...although it doesn't record very well (yet)...

Gary Kasparov and the flying penis

Not exactly sure what the message the "Young Russian Pro-Kremlin Activists" were trying to communicate. The thing flies well. Should have had some defense mechanisms on it, though.

h/t erroneous

A New York Holiday-

Pictures taken from ABOVE Howe's Caverns. A dark and hollowed out cavern hundreds of feet beneath the land you see here.....(photograph is of my IBO....)





































The Earth in a cave. A strange anomaly...

From the caves.....Looking for signs of Laogazed.....a scary but beautiful place.





A house in the wild...















Let's pretend I went here...



















Hudson--

The Angry and Sloppymobile

I went to New York- the Catskills over the weekend and though there were no Henny Youngman sightings I did uncover that could become the official car of Angry and Sloppy...more pics to come.....

The 1968 Plymouth FuryIII.

I know nothing about engines, but this one looks like even I could figure it out...

Film geek drrrrroool: Lynch and Herzog Collab

David Lynch and Herzog together.

Just think what kind of shape I'd be in without this blog.

If THIS is true.

h/t sjal

Clinton's assassination remark

This wasn't a knee-jerk reaction of mine, but after thinking about it, I have come to believe that Hillary Clinton should step-down and concede. Jonathan Schwarz says we should be fair and put the remarks in context. There are different opinions at the Unapologetic Mexican, this one (that really got me thinking) and now also this one.

Here's a pull quote from the NYT blog:

Mrs. Clinton had been saying that some in the Obama campaign and in the media were trying to push her out of the race and she didn’t know why.

“Historically, that makes no sense,” she said, “so I find it a bit of a mystery.”

Question: “You don’t buy the party unity argument?”

Mrs. Clinton: “I don’t because, again, I’ve been around long enough. You know my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know, I just don’t understand it and there’s lot of speculation about why it is.”

By all rights, it shouldn't just be a very bad day, but the worst day of Clinton's political career. The day that killed it. I don't care how long she's been fighting; I don't care how much slogging against the misogynist culture, the misogynist media, against the Cult of Obama, against her advisors, against her legacy, her own ambition--whatever it is that is keeping her going--she was in no position to make such an unconscionable, base, insensitive remark. Insensitive is not strong enough a word. Etherized, cynically nihilistic, I don't know. She is a product of our age; she is pure ambition, and I would forgive her if she stepped down now. But if I am to believe in the system, if I am to believe in democracy, if I am to uphold liberal ideals, then I cannot say anything but that she has gone beyond the pale. She has lost all credibility with me; she is not fit to represent us.

False Dichotomies

False Dichotomies...who are they? Where are they going? What do they have to do with me? Since my mother introduced the concept to me, they haunt, they haunt, they haunt.

Essentialism and Materialism? False Dichotomy?

Individualism and Collectivism?

Abstract and Concrete?

Morality and Aesthetics?

Mind/Heart?

Country/Western?

Do you have some answers, oh internet? And don't give me that Derrida shit.

anarcho-capitalism

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The spoon you dropped on the floor at the resturant was not your spoon in the sense that you own it, but rather your spoon in the sense that you are permitted to use the resturants spoon for the duration of your meal. If you walk out of the resturant with that spoon, then you are guilty of theft. Try telling the resturant that the spoon they bought and took care of is somehow your property because you used it for 30 minutes. Mixing your labor with the spoon is not enough to lay claim to it.
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That is because the spoon is owned by the restaurant because of property laws which are protected by the government. That doesn't mean the restaurant justly owns it, only legally. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is moral. Technically it was illegal to vote in opposition to the Nazi party under Hitler.
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OK, imagine the scenario without government.

It's still not your damn spoon.
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"OK, imagine the scenario without government.

It's still not your damn spoon."

Says who? Who determines that? Who enforces that?

RIP U. Utah Phillips

Moose turd pie:

An American Hero that will be missed. It's all downhill from here.

Pitchfork TV: Steve Reich

Bruce Springsteen, "the band Suicide," the heinous Eighties

I was born in 1974. When I was coming of age there was this guy called Michael Jackson that everybody was listening to. Some of the cooler kids listened to Rick Springfield, or a satanic band called Queen. And who the hell knew what those criminal stoners were listening to. I listened to what my parents had. I really liked the Tchaikovsky violin concerto in D. And also the Beethoven Symphonies. I also really got into the early Beatles albums. Eventually I got addicted to top 40 radio. I grew up in Aurora, Colorado, that was best experienced in movie, Over the Edge, not actual form. (It has improved, I think. Though not a good place to live when you don't have a car.) Anyhow, when I was growing up, everything evil came from the 70s. Disco, Nixon, The Vietnam War, Jimmy Carter. (I didn't think Jimmy Carter was evil, but it seemed as everybody in Republican Aurora did.) And Nixon was still in disgrace, it took George Bush Jr to make Nixon look cool again. So that was far off.

Anyway, my point is, the 70s were ANATHEMA. And then somewhere around the time of Nirvana, the 80s became the new 70s. There's nothing cut and dried here. But the general trend seems to be that people were looking at the 70s for fashion and music and not outright gagging themselves on their spoons. But the 80s were bad news, dude. Everything from the 80s was bad. That awful synth music, horrible hair, acid-washed jeans etc. etc. Look at this 2002 Pitchfork list of top albums of the 80s:

It's said that the 1980s are responsible for the worst fashion, fads, and music of any decade of the 20th century. But as we see the decade recycled and updated with post-millennial minimalism, it's becoming clear that the 1980s had more to offer than we've given them credit for. As the calendar left the classless earthtones and polyester of the 1970s behind, musicians looked to the future for inspiration in new genres. With this feature, Pitchfork seeks to prove that, amidst the smooth-jazz of Kenny G, the vanilla soul of Hall & Oates, and the white-trash hair-rock of Warrant, lay a revolution in sound. It is to the vision and perseverance of many of these artists that we owe the roots of hip-hop, synth-pop, and most notably for this publication, alternative and indie rock. Respect is due.

As could only be expected of any collective of critics, Pitchfork is really behind the curve here. We've already got new new wave via Ladytron and Fischerspooner; and Nirvana unearthed for many of us (including myself) a whole secret history of music that is best described in Michael Azerrad's Our Band Could Be Your Life, and investigated in the long out of print Spin Guide to Alternative Music.
So the 80s were cool in the 90s, but only the alternate 80s. I'm not trying to make dogma, or even a thesis out of this. I'm just trying to examine it. It's interesting because retro 80ism had become a dominant cultural force circa 2002. I know because I was living in New York at the time. New Wave Mullets, Mascara, guitar solos etc. I'd hear college girls scream with glee "that's SO 80s."

What throws my world upside down is that Bruce Springsteen was influenced by electric proto-punks Suicide. That really screws up my carefully coveted and nurtured geekhipster worldview. Oh, and it's okay if I like a little bit of prog-rock. (No it's not. Oh, how times change.)

Science Fiction and Fascism

This is a good post about Sci-Fi Fascism, which is something I'm interested in and wish to explore. I made a New Year's Resolution a few years ago to stop calling people fascists. But sometimes I have to. Heinlein could tell a story; but he was a damned fascist.

What Liberals are good for

We're fantastic devotees of the Prussian Monarchy, for one.

Mr. Obama: Get yourself some GOOD lawyers

Eric Alterman on the 2000 elections:

Shortly before the September 11 attacks, a Gallup Organization poll found that nearly half of Americans surveyed remain convinced that President Bush either "won on a technicality" or "stole the election." They were right, though this would have been difficult to discern based on the coverage the eventual release of the recount report received. The headlines read: "Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote" (New York Times) and "Florida Recounts Would Have Favored Bush" (Washington Post). These were misleading at best. What the NORC researchers really discovered was the Gore legal team's incredible incompetence. The lawyers happened, it turned out, to choose just about the only counting argument that would have lost Gore the election even had the court ruled in his favor. Lead member David Boies had explicitly ruled out a more inclusive recount of Florida's votes -- one that not only would have elected his man, but would have been immeasurably more fair to the people of Florida. Instead Boies asked the court to count "undervotes" but not "overvotes." Using that method, Bush did indeed outpoll Gore and the court's intervention did not ultimately make a difference. It was, perhaps, a perfect coda to a perfectly awful campaign.

How walkable is your neighborhood?

This is a nifty site called walkscore that scores your location on walkability, found it on Atrios via Yglesias. My mom's house is 55 out of 100; not sure how it scores that, but it sounds about right. It could be a lot worse (it's about a 20 minute walk from the light rail), but it could be a lot better (it's about a 20 minute walk to anything other else except other suburban houses.) You can also see how walkable other things are, such as The Space Needle. (It scores a 94.)

Too Much Kinski and Not Enough Kink

Need a date..... This article gets very interesting.... might cause a revolution.... A swinger in the White House would change America's image in a positive way.  

The referred to comic

It's here. But it's NSFW. For those who W.

I found it and lots of other time-wasting stuff at popurls.com

A good place for a 7-11?

I found this article interesting. It's from 6 years ago - a private company was going to send someone on the moon. Did they do it? Seems like I have to contact the ABM and find out what really went down. In the meantime ,we may very well be having some folks sent to the moon sooner than we think...Could you pass the test? Imagine the music you could create holed up in there...

Morning Neti was tough. I had been slacking the past few days since I hadn't been home and felt as if a dam had been built at the top of my right nostril. So much pressure...it hurt my eyes, but after about 15 minutes after I Netied everything was empty. No allergic symptoms since I have begun my adventures with the Net. I don't know if that's the cause but everyone else seems to be suffering.

The cartoon from this morning was awesome...wow! Thanks for passing it along....

Kinski on Aguirre.....It's cute.....where is this from...from his autobiography?