Spare us the cutter...
I'm up at Sis's place in Baltimore this weekend for the HFStival. Does the fact that the band I look forward to most is Echo and the Bunnymen too readily reveal my age? Wonder if they'll still have poofy hair...
12 May 2005
Not to be alarmist or anything, but MERCIFUL MOTHER OF GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!!
This article pops up on Yahoo News and the streets AREN'T covered with the end result of millions shitting their pants in fear?? Self-replicating robots, people!! In combination with the home security technology just made available, we're talking about a potential army of death squad robots. And where's the goddamn Department of Homeland Security on this?? Are they just going to wait until Khan or Davros figure a way out of their hyperstasis? Please, call your congressperson now and alert them of this potential menace!
'Cause they've stopped taking my calls...
This article pops up on Yahoo News and the streets AREN'T covered with the end result of millions shitting their pants in fear?? Self-replicating robots, people!! In combination with the home security technology just made available, we're talking about a potential army of death squad robots. And where's the goddamn Department of Homeland Security on this?? Are they just going to wait until Khan or Davros figure a way out of their hyperstasis? Please, call your congressperson now and alert them of this potential menace!
'Cause they've stopped taking my calls...
09 May 2005
С днём победы!
Happy Victory Day to all those who love kicking Nazi tushie all points west from Stalingrad. Please enjoy this clip from one of my fave Russian bands, Auktyon, which has nothing to do with the actual holiday save the title, "Victory Day" (track 2 on this album).
Happy Victory Day to all those who love kicking Nazi tushie all points west from Stalingrad. Please enjoy this clip from one of my fave Russian bands, Auktyon, which has nothing to do with the actual holiday save the title, "Victory Day" (track 2 on this album).
05 May 2005
"Please for you to enjoy, Mr. Bush, this soup without dioxin!"
If Bush wants to call Lukashenko a scumbag, well, no argument there, but using the Victory Day celebration to remind Putin of the Soviet occupation of the Baltics? Ever hear of timing, cretin? If Jacques Chirac visited DC on Independence Day and gave Bush a tongue-lashing about the Japanese-American interment camps, I wonder how that would play on Fox News. And I've been in Russia for a few Victory Days, you just don't mess with them, we as a nation have no idea how sacred this day is to the Russian people. I don't know if it's possible to be even more hated abroad as Bush is now, but this is one way to do it...
And George, just a bit of friendly advice if you can ignore the source. Maybe daddy was in the CIA, but you're out of your league here. Putin might just have you garrotted in your hotel room...
UPDATE: Told you.
If Bush wants to call Lukashenko a scumbag, well, no argument there, but using the Victory Day celebration to remind Putin of the Soviet occupation of the Baltics? Ever hear of timing, cretin? If Jacques Chirac visited DC on Independence Day and gave Bush a tongue-lashing about the Japanese-American interment camps, I wonder how that would play on Fox News. And I've been in Russia for a few Victory Days, you just don't mess with them, we as a nation have no idea how sacred this day is to the Russian people. I don't know if it's possible to be even more hated abroad as Bush is now, but this is one way to do it...
And George, just a bit of friendly advice if you can ignore the source. Maybe daddy was in the CIA, but you're out of your league here. Putin might just have you garrotted in your hotel room...
UPDATE: Told you.
02 May 2005
Man is elected president after saying he will "restore honor and dignity to the White House" and his wife delights America with a joke about how he jacked off a horse.
I'm not kidding...
I'm not kidding...
01 May 2005
So how's by you?
You ever have those weeks? Final papers and exams to grade, combined with various other distractions, have made me lax contributing to THIS distraction...
Not feeling particularly clever today, either, not that that ever stopped me before.
I don't even have a clever title for a Larry-King-esque post like "Odds and sods" (my brother's designation)...
Oh well, let's get crackin'...
* Happy Orthodox Easter everyone! What's that, you already celebrated Easter a month earlier? Well, see you all in hell...
* Don't really have an opinion on the "kidnapping-that-wasn't" story except to say that picture they kept showing looked really creepy...
* Another reason to hate Texas. Republicans blocked a plan to name a stretch of highway after Willie Nelson, citing partisanship. Because the last thing you'd want is to name anything after partisan figures, right, STATE WITH THE FREAKIN' GEORGE BUSH AIRPORT??
Well, enjoy the day...
You ever have those weeks? Final papers and exams to grade, combined with various other distractions, have made me lax contributing to THIS distraction...
Not feeling particularly clever today, either, not that that ever stopped me before.
I don't even have a clever title for a Larry-King-esque post like "Odds and sods" (my brother's designation)...
Oh well, let's get crackin'...
* Happy Orthodox Easter everyone! What's that, you already celebrated Easter a month earlier? Well, see you all in hell...
* Don't really have an opinion on the "kidnapping-that-wasn't" story except to say that picture they kept showing looked really creepy...
* Another reason to hate Texas. Republicans blocked a plan to name a stretch of highway after Willie Nelson, citing partisanship. Because the last thing you'd want is to name anything after partisan figures, right, STATE WITH THE FREAKIN' GEORGE BUSH AIRPORT??
Well, enjoy the day...
21 April 2005
20 April 2005
Apropos of nothing save my continuing reluctance to grade the first draft term papers on my desk...
...but can someone please take a picture of the new pope that doesn't look like he's about to teach Anakin Skywalker about the advantages to the Dark Side of the Force?
...but can someone please take a picture of the new pope that doesn't look like he's about to teach Anakin Skywalker about the advantages to the Dark Side of the Force?
Господи, дура такая... (Christ, what an idiot).
Condi's got a Ph.D. in Russian Studies. So do I. So does C. Franz. None of us are qualified to be Secretary of State, but at least Franz and I know the difference between "da" and "nyet".
Complaining about the cases? Lord, that's the sort of sh*t I heard when I was a TA in RUS 101. And there are only six; be thankful you didn't study Estonian...
Doesn't anyone ever get tired of our representatives abroad acting like children who found their parents' old clothes in the attic?
Oh, there's a Kos diary on this...
Condi's got a Ph.D. in Russian Studies. So do I. So does C. Franz. None of us are qualified to be Secretary of State, but at least Franz and I know the difference between "da" and "nyet".
Complaining about the cases? Lord, that's the sort of sh*t I heard when I was a TA in RUS 101. And there are only six; be thankful you didn't study Estonian...
Doesn't anyone ever get tired of our representatives abroad acting like children who found their parents' old clothes in the attic?
Oh, there's a Kos diary on this...
14 April 2005
CHARGE THE MOUND! CHARGE THE MOUND!
OK, a bit childish for me to wish this, we don't need to inject politics into something as innocuous as the first pitch of the Nationals game.
And Bush was busy looking busy while using taxpayer money to get perks for the Texas Rangers, so I'm guessing that he's been around enough baseball diamonds to know that those white lines aren't made of cocaine and he shouldn't snort them.
Though you'd think he would know not to pick his nose at a televised game.
I've been out of the baseball loop for a while, but I have been doing some Mets blogging this year.
OK, a bit childish for me to wish this, we don't need to inject politics into something as innocuous as the first pitch of the Nationals game.
And Bush was busy looking busy while using taxpayer money to get perks for the Texas Rangers, so I'm guessing that he's been around enough baseball diamonds to know that those white lines aren't made of cocaine and he shouldn't snort them.
Though you'd think he would know not to pick his nose at a televised game.
I've been out of the baseball loop for a while, but I have been doing some Mets blogging this year.
13 April 2005
12 April 2005
YOU HAVE 20 SECONDS TO COMPLY!
About goddamn time someone decided to deal with the pressing need for home security robots. But only 15 inches tall? I hope they pack some mean firepower, I'd personally prefer the plasma gun, but would settle for laser beam eyes.
Hope they're not as easy to pick off as Trade Federation droids. Hell, even Empire Stormtroopers can defeat them...
After so many geeky references in one post, I'll go off to the corner and hate myself now...
About goddamn time someone decided to deal with the pressing need for home security robots. But only 15 inches tall? I hope they pack some mean firepower, I'd personally prefer the plasma gun, but would settle for laser beam eyes.
Hope they're not as easy to pick off as Trade Federation droids. Hell, even Empire Stormtroopers can defeat them...
After so many geeky references in one post, I'll go off to the corner and hate myself now...
11 April 2005
Just in case you were wondering (and even if you weren't)...
I took advantage of our local music store's liberal "try before you buy" policy to listen to this album...and the singer wasn't suffering from a cold. The band replicated their sound pretty accurately onstage...they just stink.
Just so you know.
I took advantage of our local music store's liberal "try before you buy" policy to listen to this album...and the singer wasn't suffering from a cold. The band replicated their sound pretty accurately onstage...they just stink.
Just so you know.
07 April 2005
Maybe I'm missing the point of opening acts...
I thought the whole point was to excite the crowd and get them psyched for the main attraction, just as when the fantabulous Corn Mo left the crowd at Starr Hill breathless, only to be followed by an even better show from They Might Be Giants. But after witnessing the sorrowful performance of Blonde Redhead, Mrs. Nevskaia and I were tortured for at what seemed like hours as Andy Waldeck cooled down the crowd watching and waiting for David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, billed as "Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker Unplugged". Mr. Waldeck's first song, "Infidel", was a pretty decent folk song I must admit, but the next 83 wore on the nerves. I was a bit annoyed by Waldeck's INSISTENCE we listen to a song under the pretext that the uninteresting first line was clever; if you can't maintain our interest that's hardly our fault (and that line wasn't funny at all). By the time we got to Johnny Hickman's solo set (panned in the comments by the irrepressibleC.Franz) we were thankful for a little bit of energy and humor, esp. since it was 10:30 and we were sitting in the Music Hall for 2 hours...
Though that's partly my fault, because I can never figure out the goddamn Time Doors Open to Main Attraction formula...
I thought the whole point was to excite the crowd and get them psyched for the main attraction, just as when the fantabulous Corn Mo left the crowd at Starr Hill breathless, only to be followed by an even better show from They Might Be Giants. But after witnessing the sorrowful performance of Blonde Redhead, Mrs. Nevskaia and I were tortured for at what seemed like hours as Andy Waldeck cooled down the crowd watching and waiting for David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, billed as "Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker Unplugged". Mr. Waldeck's first song, "Infidel", was a pretty decent folk song I must admit, but the next 83 wore on the nerves. I was a bit annoyed by Waldeck's INSISTENCE we listen to a song under the pretext that the uninteresting first line was clever; if you can't maintain our interest that's hardly our fault (and that line wasn't funny at all). By the time we got to Johnny Hickman's solo set (panned in the comments by the irrepressibleC.Franz) we were thankful for a little bit of energy and humor, esp. since it was 10:30 and we were sitting in the Music Hall for 2 hours...
Though that's partly my fault, because I can never figure out the goddamn Time Doors Open to Main Attraction formula...
27 March 2005
"You make me want to pick up a guitar, and celebrate the myriad ways that I love you."
Blogging from the DC area this morning, as I traveled to my sister's place in order to catch Interpol last night at the 9:30 Club. A solid, professional show (give that guitar player a Quaalude, though), but the real revelation was the opening act, Blonde Redhead. Might have been the absolute shittiest performance ever from a group I paid money to see. And I'm including De La Soul's horrible '93 performance at Bates College. It was all the more offensive to me because I normally like this sort of crap: shoegazer guitar chords powerfully strummed for two-three minutes with heavy use of the ol' flanger pedal, with either a skinny male mumbling incomprehensible lines about a cruel world or an ethereal female ready to protect you in her moist mother-earth embrace. But the illusion was destroyed every time Kazu Mikano opened her mouth, thus turning their performance into high comedy. After every painfully out-of-tune line she insisted on doing a dance that resembled a cross between Axl Rose and a drunk Olive Oyl. I'm still in shock from the stunning lack of self-awareness. Sis and I killed time waiting for the Interpol set up with various theories concerning BR's ability to score a gig like this (they all involved Mikano being someone's girlfriend), but a quick Amazon search reveals they've been around for a while. Judging from their song titles, their hilarious pretensiousness isn't limited to concert performances, and remember, this is coming from a guy with two Slowdive albums.
Maybe she was just getting over a cold.
I almost want to buy their album just to find out how production masks her voice, she CAN'T sound like that on disk, can she? Oh well, the drummer was good (I'm such a softie, I have to say something nice about everything).
Didn't say much about Interpol, did I? Certainly not enough to justify the use of a song line as a subject title. Didn't realize the bassist was so angular. And kudos to Sis for finding a great spot to watch the show (balcony in the right corner affords a great view of everything).
Blogging from the DC area this morning, as I traveled to my sister's place in order to catch Interpol last night at the 9:30 Club. A solid, professional show (give that guitar player a Quaalude, though), but the real revelation was the opening act, Blonde Redhead. Might have been the absolute shittiest performance ever from a group I paid money to see. And I'm including De La Soul's horrible '93 performance at Bates College. It was all the more offensive to me because I normally like this sort of crap: shoegazer guitar chords powerfully strummed for two-three minutes with heavy use of the ol' flanger pedal, with either a skinny male mumbling incomprehensible lines about a cruel world or an ethereal female ready to protect you in her moist mother-earth embrace. But the illusion was destroyed every time Kazu Mikano opened her mouth, thus turning their performance into high comedy. After every painfully out-of-tune line she insisted on doing a dance that resembled a cross between Axl Rose and a drunk Olive Oyl. I'm still in shock from the stunning lack of self-awareness. Sis and I killed time waiting for the Interpol set up with various theories concerning BR's ability to score a gig like this (they all involved Mikano being someone's girlfriend), but a quick Amazon search reveals they've been around for a while. Judging from their song titles, their hilarious pretensiousness isn't limited to concert performances, and remember, this is coming from a guy with two Slowdive albums.
Maybe she was just getting over a cold.
I almost want to buy their album just to find out how production masks her voice, she CAN'T sound like that on disk, can she? Oh well, the drummer was good (I'm such a softie, I have to say something nice about everything).
Didn't say much about Interpol, did I? Certainly not enough to justify the use of a song line as a subject title. Didn't realize the bassist was so angular. And kudos to Sis for finding a great spot to watch the show (balcony in the right corner affords a great view of everything).
24 March 2005
Classic 2 + 2 = 5 post of the day!
As we look back at one year of blogging, which was of course absolutely necessary and vital and not at all redundant, repetitive, or superfluous, I think the one unique trait of this blog, the one that keeps halves of dozens coming back for more, is the Nostradamus-like prescience exhibited by the author. Here's a chestnut you'll no doubt remember...
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11 May 2004
Now that I got my free crap, I can say with enthusiasm...
VOTE FOR JOHN KERRY!
Thanks for the bumpersticker Johnny, you're going on right under Howard, because when I drive I want to convey the message, "Sure, Howard Dean would have probably been a better president and beat up Dubya like a schoolyard bully, but when push comes to shove, Democrats are cowards and pick the 'safe' candidate, but you can certainly take solace in the fact that Kerry will also give Dubya a few kicks as we throw his cracker ass out of the White House."
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This has been a 2 + 2 = 5 moment, brought to you by me when it's not a socially acceptable time to drink and I'm too lazy to joylessly masturbate.
As we look back at one year of blogging, which was of course absolutely necessary and vital and not at all redundant, repetitive, or superfluous, I think the one unique trait of this blog, the one that keeps halves of dozens coming back for more, is the Nostradamus-like prescience exhibited by the author. Here's a chestnut you'll no doubt remember...
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11 May 2004
Now that I got my free crap, I can say with enthusiasm...
VOTE FOR JOHN KERRY!
Thanks for the bumpersticker Johnny, you're going on right under Howard, because when I drive I want to convey the message, "Sure, Howard Dean would have probably been a better president and beat up Dubya like a schoolyard bully, but when push comes to shove, Democrats are cowards and pick the 'safe' candidate, but you can certainly take solace in the fact that Kerry will also give Dubya a few kicks as we throw his cracker ass out of the White House."
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This has been a 2 + 2 = 5 moment, brought to you by me when it's not a socially acceptable time to drink and I'm too lazy to joylessly masturbate.
23 March 2005
Bloggerz still trippin' over shit I said last year...
You know, the gruesome flesh fetish parade going on in Florida distracted me from a somewhat important personal milestone.
This blog had its first birthday this past Saturday.
And in its honor, I give you the first "classic" post...
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19 March 2004
Everyone else is doing it, so why can't I?
Greetings, all. You may remember me from such blogs as Thoughts That Get Stuck in My Head. But why inflict my thoughts on CmdrSue's webspace when it is just as easy (and cost-effective) to create my own little nook? And so I have. Howdy!
And now that I'm here, any suggestions to improve the look while my blog is still in its gurgling infancy?
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See, even back then I didn't have much to say and you could see the desperation emanating from your monitor. *snif* The good ol' days...
You know, the gruesome flesh fetish parade going on in Florida distracted me from a somewhat important personal milestone.
This blog had its first birthday this past Saturday.
And in its honor, I give you the first "classic" post...
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19 March 2004
Everyone else is doing it, so why can't I?
Greetings, all. You may remember me from such blogs as Thoughts That Get Stuck in My Head. But why inflict my thoughts on CmdrSue's webspace when it is just as easy (and cost-effective) to create my own little nook? And so I have. Howdy!
And now that I'm here, any suggestions to improve the look while my blog is still in its gurgling infancy?
--
See, even back then I didn't have much to say and you could see the desperation emanating from your monitor. *snif* The good ol' days...
"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
Anne Frank wrote that, not me. I don't think I believe it, at least, watching the way a depraved lunatic fringe is taking advantage of a mother and father's refusal to face reality in order to indulge its sick flesh fetish is strong evidence to the contrary.
All the same, articles like these allow me to remember that there are generous people in this country who truly do try to help one another and make sacrifices for the greater good. This can be hard to remember given the spiritually bereft, materialistic culture being promoted by the current administration, but Americans can still be capable of such gestures.
Anne Frank wrote that, not me. I don't think I believe it, at least, watching the way a depraved lunatic fringe is taking advantage of a mother and father's refusal to face reality in order to indulge its sick flesh fetish is strong evidence to the contrary.
All the same, articles like these allow me to remember that there are generous people in this country who truly do try to help one another and make sacrifices for the greater good. This can be hard to remember given the spiritually bereft, materialistic culture being promoted by the current administration, but Americans can still be capable of such gestures.
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