Posted in Creative Writing, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop, Quote of the Day, Random, Rock, Thoughts, alternative music, articles, babbling, media, misc, music, oldies, parody, pop music, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, usenet, video, tagged 1980s, Cocteau Twins, Indie Rock, Lyrics, Rock Music, usenet on June 22, 2008 | No Comments »
These lyrics to Fotzepolitic (or a close facsimilie) had appeared on a newsgroup some years ago. The approximate lyrics are below. I was convinced that these were the actual lyrics, but recently I have looked at some “lyrics” websites, and they all post more or less the same “approximate” lyrics, but to my knowledge, none [...]
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Posted in Linux, QOTMFD, babbling, computers, geekdom, geeks, hardware, internet, media, ramblings, usenet, tagged liberation, computers, usenet, nntp, freedom, taxpayers, corporate welfare, war-on-terror, neocons, newsgroups on June 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Usenet has been, and continues to be, a great source of information, where technologies that push product can easily be pushed aside using filters. There are more than 10,000 newsgroups on nearly every topic that delienates our human existence, all hierarchically arranged. The major hierarchies are known as “The Big 8″: comp.*, humanities.*, misc.*, [...]
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Posted in Celebrity, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Popular Music, Random, Rants, Thoughts, amusement, articles, babbling, hip-hop, humor, humour, media, misc, music, pop music, ramblings, random thoughts, rap, tagged Rock, william shatner, henry rollins, punk, Has Been, leaf-blower, futile, hawaii 5-0 on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
I Can’t Get Behind That — William Shatner and Henry Rollins
Never charted anywhere
From the album “Has Been” (2004)
See/Hear it here, if you dare. You hear it, but you only can view muppets lip-syncing to the song. You can also get the mp3 and the rest of the album from EMusic. My understanding is that no [...]
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Posted in Aphorisms, Domestic Life, Healing, Life, Miscellaneous, Musings, Opinion, Pop, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Random, Rants, Thoughts, amusement, babbling, comedy, daily life, humor, humour, media, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, rednecks, tagged Pop Psychology, Psychology, psychiatry, religion, Ethics and Morality on June 1, 2008 | No Comments »
“Excessive text messaging and email” is now proposed to be included as new mental illnesses in an update to the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV). These are not the only silly classifications they have.
One proposed mental illness that I have heard from that seminal magazine, the Journal of Polymorphic Perversity, is “Consensual Validation Disorder”. That [...]
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Posted in Creative Writing, Miscellaneous, Pop, Pop Culture, comedy, computers, entertainment, fiction, humor, humour, lampoon, literature, media, misc, parody, satire, video, writing, tagged comedy, computers, Creative Writing, entertainment, fiction, humor, humour, lampoon, literature, media, misc, Miscellaneous, parody, Pop, Pop Culture, satire, video, writing on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Some updates to the story I wrote.
There are some minor changes to my story. (link above)
The Chris Crocker video in question.
His imitators (parody, of course, and not all male). Many of these stray far off the topic of Chris Crocker: 1 2 3 4 5 (Israel?) 6 7 8 9 10 (a hockey player?) 11
There [...]
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Posted in Linux, Miscellaneous, babbling, computers, design, fashion, geekdom, geeks, media, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, satire, tagged Aphorisms, articles, Creative Writing, Family, Fortune Cookies, Funny, humour, Jokes, Life, One liners, Phrases, Proverbs, QOTD, QOTMFD, Quote of the Day, Random, random thoughts, Rants on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
There is a certain set of color values somewhere in the visible spectrum that do not seem to have a category. These colors seem to go with nothing in your house, and do not seem to come from anything in nature.
The commonest of the ugly colors appear to be (by their RGB values — it [...]
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Posted in Cartoons, Celebrity, General Comments, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, Random, Rants, amusement, articles, babbling, entertainment, factoids, media, ramblings, random thoughts, video, tagged amusement, articles, Cartoons, Celebrity, entertainment, factoids, media, movies, Musings, Opinion, Pop Culture, Popular Culture, ramblings, random thoughts, Rants, statistics, top 10, video on April 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It is difficult to believe that this junk constituted the highest and most original and imaginative output of Western Civilization over the past 23 years.
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Posted in Pop, Popular Music, Rock, media, music, pop music, tagged media, music, Pop, pop music, Popular Music, Rock, Rock and Roll on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Something that is currently under high rotation on my iPod (actually, it’s an el-cheapo SanDisk that does the same thing) is a song called “Calling on Mary” by Aimee Mann. Aimee Mann has had a few good tracks after she parted from ‘Til Tuesday. But for some reason, this one, from what must be one [...]
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The longest-running soap opera took a bit of looking around. I had believed it was likely to be the British soap opera Coronation Street, which has been running for over 47 years (since December 1960 according to a fan site) and is still running in the UK and in several other countries in Europe and [...]
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Posted in Life, Musings, Opinion, Random, Rants, Sprituality, Thoughts, christian, christianity, church, faith, god, inspiration, jesus, media, misc, ramblings, random thoughts, theology on March 2, 2008 | No Comments »
I have a tape of John Vanier giving a lecture on CBC Ideas regarding the concept of Forgiveness. I have played it to death, and still I find what he has to share with us humbling, and very deep.
I listen to it and imagine an ideal world where the guilt of rejection for either real [...]
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Posted in Academe, Random, babbling, comedy, computers, folklore, internet, media, quotes, ramblings, random thoughts, software on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have a “foggy” essay generator that just did the following, for an essay on folklore:
Of course, the characterization of critically co-optive criteria adds explicit performance contours to the profound meaning of “The Raw and the Cooked”. Conversely, a constant flow [...]
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Computer Gique Chic - Unknown who the model or photographer is, but the main attraction is, is that darned computer!
I saw some images, professionally shot, of these stylish models in front of this mostly glass computer monitor with a glass touch keyboard. There were two problems I had with this: 1) there is no such [...]
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