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05.18.06
Newsiness: Operation Unicorn, S.Lyon. Marissa Cooper, R.I.P? Coach. And, Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards leave each other shitty voicemail, the Smoking Gun. Fave TV beat writer Lisa de Moraes, NBC Promises No Musty TV This Fall.

iPod shuffling to work the past two mornings, in order...

• Pusherman Curtis Mayfield, from Superfly.

• DJ Shadow and Mos Def, Six Days (and video by Wong Kar-Wai)

• Wilco, Heavy Metal Drummer

• John Vanderslice Exodus Damage, Pixel Revolt

• David Benoit, Linus & Lucy

• Chet Baker, Oh, You Crazy Moon

• Between The Bars, Elliott Smith cover by Madeleine Peyroux.

• China Doll, Elliott Smith

• Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box, Radiohead, Amnesiac

• Tear Stained Letter, Johnny Cash

• Velocity Girl, The All-Consumer (from S.Lyon's Happy Pop Mix)

New web projects by old web friends:

• Jeff Simmermon, of and iamnotlyingforreal is co-authoring a blog on GAYAOL: Straighten Out.

  Jeff says, Many of you know that I have been working in the GLBT Community at AOL for a good while. While it's really fun, exciting, and rewarding, I haven't been able to completely connect until recently.

  This week marks the launch of a new column in AOL's GLBT community co-authored by myself and my esteemed colleague, Kenny Hill. He's gay and partnered, I'm me. The idea is to talk about social and cultural issues through, over, and underneath the membrane seperating the gay and straight worlds. Sometimes that membrane is wet kleenex, other times a granite wall...

  I digress. This link will take you to our first column, and while I am proud of it and hungry for compliments, what we really need is critique. Is it too cutesty? Too canned? Lame? Lukewarm Dan Savage? Creating content for major corporate media is not without is unique hassles, and it's really important to me that this thing be "good." So if it's not, let me know. Either write me directly, or leave a comment on the message boards -- be considerate, but don't pull your punches.

• Darci Ratliff, more famously known as Kittenpants, is co-authoring Junkiness, with Matt Tobey (City of Floating Blogs) and some other people it looks like. Rebongaz notes that is "full of truthiness," while BWA thinks it's a little superficial.

More later. For now, here is a hamster. And check out Nancy Marion's cat today on Cute Overload.

05.16.06
It's rip-off other bloggers week.

What Google Says Jenny Looks Like
after Zulkey
(Guess which four are from L Word recaps)

Jenny looks like she'd rather be just about anywhere else; she doesn't know whether she wants kids and doesn't know what's going on in general.

Jenny looks like she is ready for a little more than a plasma sword.

jenny looks like a drag queen

Jenny looks like a beach bunny – with her bright smile, her sparkling eyes and her athletic body, she should apply for a role in the Australian version of "Baywatch" instead of inhaling the vapors of the hot wax and breaking her finger nails on the sharp edges of her skis.

They're hot and heavy and Jenny looks like she's never wanted anything more in her whole life.

jenny looks like a desperate housewife!

Jenny looks like a deer in the headlights.

Jenny looks like a snail in hers as she's only 5' tall.

Jenny looks like she could be a character in a cartoon on Nickelodeon.

Jenny looks like the most miserable person on earth.

Jenny looks like she's wondering whether anyone there has seen her strip show, and also whether she remembered to turn off the coffee pot this morning

Jenny looks like she is playing with herself.

Jenny looks like she is going to be the "crazy ex"

Jenny looks like her Dad!

05.15.06 - King Latifah Returns for Wife.

Monday Afternoon Report
in the manner of Sherman

My motorcycle was stolen again, and this time I can't find it.
In preparation for Thursday's Bean Bowl I, house residents have collected every variety of canned bean.
My dad and Jules found the Holocaust Museum to be depressing.
Shelly graduated and was presented with a vegan sheetcake for 75.
Another unbearably awful lesbian movie was watched.
Ed's brother James brought Parker over to the house, and everyone cooed at her.
We got a hot tub!
Brian, Edward, Troy and Jaime met virtually to play World of Warcraft, in which Ed plays a hot lady elf.

Says Brian,

jaime's character is also a lady night elf, but she is not nearly as hot.

here's some sociological data for your researches

Theories for male gender-bending [in Warcraft] I have explored in the past have included:

-- Social gender boundaries more stringent in real-life for men, and in an anonymous space, men are more likely to explore gender roles.
-- Female avatars receive more "freebies" and are treated "better" than male avatars.
-- Male gender-bending is another form of dominating the female body.
-- In PvP games, female avatars are perceived to be weaker and this might give the player a psychological edge against unsuspecting chauvinistic players.

one can only speculate on edward's psychological motivations
probably that domination one

love...

brian

05.12.06
I saw the best minds of my generation writing ad copy, and making video game "art". Says Keri, "Besides seeing all the emergent technology & entertainment from E3 every year, I've always enjoyed seeing pictures of the booth bunnies. My favorite this year is #42."

Overheard in the Library, from house librarian, S.Lyon:

little girl: we're trying to get our uncle to download Ice Age 2 on the computer for us.

me: (trying to impart a lesson) oh...isn't that illegal?

little boy: no. he's a police officer!

Race Baitin' -- Also from Ms. Lyon, "If you don't like rap, are you racist?" Um, let's check our dictionaries. "RACISM: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race." I'm with my favorite curmudgeon on this one: Is Stephin Merritt a racist because he doesn't like hip-hop? at Slate. The man's written exactly one encomium to any artist besides himself, and that was to Billie Holiday. I can only find a sample of that one right now, but here are a whole bunch of Magnetic Fields songs. I can't believe I just discovered Alta Vista's mp3 search. Duh.

Gay Baitin' -- Don't you love it when some far-right wingnut turns out to be an ex-Marxist/gay pornographer? ME TOO! 'Gay porn' movie raises ripples on far right, Guardian U.K. From Ernie and Coach, who adds, "my fave line: 'Open-mouthed, I shall dream of altar boys.'"

Space-wands with glowing knobs -- I'm pretty sure it was Bob who first told me about He-Man's He-Homoeroticism. Also from team Ernie/Coach, "even though it’s old news that he-man seems light in the loafers, this passage made me snort:"

To become He-Man, Adam harnesses what he calls "fabulous secret powers": His clothes fall off, his voice drops a full octave, his skin turns from vanilla to nut brown, his giant sword starts gushing energy, and he adopts a name so absurdly masculine it's redundant. Next, he typically runs around seizing space-wands with glowing knobs and fabulously straddling giant rockets. He hangs out with people called Fisto and Ram Man, and they all exchange wink-wink nudge-nudge dialogue: "I'd like to hear more about this hooded seed-man of yours!" "I feel the bony finger of Skeletor!" "Your assistance is required on Snake Mountain!" Once you start thinking along these lines, it's impossible to stop.

By the Power of Grayskull! Rediscovering the heroic cartoon beefcake of my youth, Slate.

Roundup: Be sure to check out Sherman's Facto-Fantasy in Four Parts. See also, living or dying a matter of dumb luck: Lost Va. Hiker's Point of Despair: A Year After Adventurer Disappeared in Calif., A Couple Saved by His Campsite Also Uncover The Thoughts of a Man Preparing for the End, wapost. And, here's something really stupid: THE WORLD'S FIRST COMMERCIAL SOUND-RESISTANT CELL PHONE BOOTH. A phone booth, Who'dathunkit?

My dad and Julie are in town this weekend, so come on over and have a beer on the porch with us.

05.11.06
Booo, Defamer. Ellen Degeneres likes her women with a little nonanorexic meat on their bones. "Ellen offers her strength, warmth and wit, and in return Portia looks hot, though just plump enough to diminish the chances of her running off with any penis-having cameramen." Right, that's what will keep cameramen from stealing Portia away - her plumpness. Jackasses.

More support for my popular post-birth abortion stance: One Thing They Aren't: Maternal, nytimes.

Coach Varlas on the language beat: The origins of Woot! And, "this spawned from a convo ernie and i are havin about th' linguistics o' leet: Leet.

Wow. From Bob: Leaving the Wild, and Rather Liking the Change, nyt.

Since time immemorial the Nukak-Makú have lived a Stone Age life, roaming across hundreds of miles of isolated and pristine Amazon jungle, killing monkeys with blowguns and scouring the forest floor for berries.

But recently, and rather mysteriously, a group of nearly 80 wandered out of the wilderness, half-naked, a gaggle of children and pet monkeys in tow, and declared themselves ready to join the modern world.

While it is not known for sure why they left the jungle, what is abundantly clear is that the Nukak's experience as nomads and hunter-gatherers has left them wholly unprepared for the world they have just entered.

The Nukak have no concept of money, of property, of the role of government, or even of the existence of a country called Colombia. They ask whether the planes that fly overhead are moving on some sort of invisible road.

05.10.06
I'm reading Motherless Brooklyn:

"Homosexual men were harmless reminders of the impulse Minna was sure lurked in all of us — and 'half a fag' was more shameful than a whole one...Lesbians were wise and mysterious and deserved respect, but could still be comically stubborn and stuck up."

Well, we can't help it: New study says lesbians' brains similar to straight men's.

WE FEEDBACK:

#1: From housemate Maegan, who writes the band blurbs for the Black Cat:

"finally.....someone pays attention to what i do at work all day. and, in a roundabout way, i even get some credit for it..."

from DCist - >> We're not familiar with Pelican, but the Black Cat's description of the band makes it seem like a really bad idea to be anywhere but there this Thursday:

"The first time I listened to Pelican - I mean, really listened - I laughed out loud for the sheer joy of it all. Here are four dudes from Chicago who decided that the guitar solo was the highest form of musical expression. So they chucked the idea of the lead singer, strapped on their axes and picked up their sticks, and went for it, full speed. It's loud, it's soft. It'll make you cry and make you bang your head. Sometimes all in one song. If you've ever claimed to love rock'n'roll, I double-dog-dare ya not to come to this show. Yeah, you heard me."

#2: From former housemate Brian, who formerly wrote Bears Will Attack:

1. yay for scrapbook! do one every week!

2. edward looks cute with his shaggy indie-boy hair

3. rebecca looks kind of hot with blonde hair

4. "Lesbians were wise and mysterious and deserved respect, but could still be comically stubborn and stuck up."

that is excellent. and so true. another excellent quote from that book:

"And Court Street, where it passed through Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill, was the only Brooklyn, really -- north was Brooklyn Heights, secretly a part of Manhattan, south was the harbor, and the rest, everything east of the Gowanus Canal (the only body of water in the world, Minna would crack each and every time we drove over it, that was ninety percent guns), apart from small outposts of civilization in Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, was an unspeakable barbarian tumult."

i liked this because it's the part of brooklyn where i lived
but then i moved out toward coney island
so now i am right in the heart of the unspeakable barbarian tumult

love...

brian

05.09.06

05.08.06
Architect Ed says, "These are quite rare. Some people still debate whether atlatls were commonly used."

Boyd and his crew have once again found a cool artifact! I have attached some pictures, but feel free to come by the lab if you want to check it out. This is a prehistoric artifact called a bannerstone. It is made from steatite and is unfinished (the hole would have gone through the whole artifact). The generally accepted definition of its use is that it was a weight on an atlatl, which is a spear throwing tool (see pictures). You can check out Wikipedia for a longer definition.

Headlines of interest from Marlz: At the cutting edge of gentrification... Emerson House in Brightwood: Contest Winners Bear Witness to a Shifting Washington. I still have the domain, thejesusandmarycheney.com, if anyone wants it. Mary Cheney's Step Forward. From Bob: The Nitpicking Nation, nytimes. "Craigslist provides a view of what Americans look for. The operative word is "no": for starters, no pets and no smoking."

At right --> A Sphynx kitten is held before a referee while being evaluated at an international cat beauty contest in Bucharest Romania Sunday May 7, 2006. Rare breed cats sell for prices ranging from 300 to over 1,000 euros ($US380/ $US1,270). The average monthly income in Romania is around 150 euros. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda). From RT and Underblog.

What a nice weekend it was. For me and Matt Leinert. Mr. Bigshot California Quarterback dropped to tenth in the NFL draft, reportedly because teams feared he was getting "too Hollywood." I just learned that means *honking* Paris Hilton. Jokes so far are of this variety: "Wonder what they'll name the herpes," 411 fan forums, and "Leinart said his affair with Paris has made him realize he should actually be proud of the fact that, at the NFL draft, only nine guys went ahead of him," washington post. Ba-DUM!

I coulda been a contender.

Mayo de Cinco
Instead of updating yesterday, I decided to introduce RANDOM PHOTOS to the northeast corner. It's a little screwy, since they all have to be sized to the same width, and I don't know what all is in there, so tell me if anything naked pops up.

Maegan read this to us over breakfast: "A 'Supermax' Cell: At the federal prison in Colorado where Zacarias Moussaoui is likely to serve out his life sentence, inmates are kept in their cells 23 hours a day in the first year." Alcatraz of the Rockies, wapost.

From SSB: here's a kitten story
Identities have been concealed to protect people from their own silliness:
A person we know was visiting a relative of ours. She was in town attending a class to learn how to move energy fields around for animals. One items she was trying to learn was how to locate energy lines that are all around us using a bent piece of wire. The point of the exercise was to locate where they touch down and create negative energy vortexes and then to send those forces away. Most animals do not like to be where these negative vortexes are, but cats and ants do. The visitor asked our relative where her cat liked to hang out, because that might be one of these places. Where does the cat like to sleep? On our relative's head."

From Marla: how really, really tall people get drunk. " so, you like sports. i thought you'd appreciate this little story. so i mentioned to my brother yesterday that manute bol was at the darfur rally on sunday and that he had a speaking role. my brother said that he had once met him after a bullets game back in the day. he was in the bar with my dad after a game (typical place that my father would think to bring his children on a family outing) when manute came in and ordered 6-8 heinekens and arranged them in a row on the bar and *shot them back*, one by one, as if they were shooters. that must have been an awesome site to see."

From Ranger Ted: "The home of Christopher Seekins in Winsted, Conn., with marijuana leaves painted on the side. Seekins, who was arrested for growing marijuana, may avoid jail time if he removes the bright green images of marijuana plants spray-painted on his home. (AP Photo/Republican-American, Bryan Sundie) Hemp House.

Ernie says, "madeleine albright can kick condi rice's ass." Did you laugh when you read former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's claim in the New York Times to leg-pressing 400 pounds? Well, she knew you would. So the day after the interview, Albright rushed to her Definitions gym in Georgetown and tagged her trainer, Margo Carper, loaded up the weight on the leg press, and completed 10 reps. "I got a little nervous after I had said that," she confessed. "So I got off the red-eye...Thursday, and I went to my place and I said, 'OK, Margo, we have to do this to prove again that I could do it.' And so I did." She adds, "Yes, I do leg-press 400 pounds. To what end I don’t know. I could make a vulgar comment."

05.03.06
Yousend Youtube.

Video	Supplier	Supplier's Comment
Heart - These Dreams	Coach	"i propose that the prom theme be 'these dreams.'"
VD is for Everybody (1969)	Les	"Just in case you didn't know."
3rd Indigo Girl	Coach	"i didn't kno they had video cameras when you were in college. member the great ani vs. indi debate of 112 panorama drive? it's the most divisive thing to hit d's since braided belts."
QVC - I like my Dell prank call	Bob	"Porno"
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH	Les	"Repeat it after me, B*tch!"
L word fan art	Coach	"why did i just watch this whole thing?"
The Atheist's Nightmare	big dave	"Our boy Kirk Cameron takes on the hard issues, proving the existence of God using a banana, the most phallic of all fruits." whole episode here

I'd like to blow your mind with a mind blowing update, but I'm very busy hating my job right now. I had a great time in L.A. And the American Airlines flight out there was just exactly like this. Ahhhh.....

PS. Get your flowers while they're still legal.

05.02.06 - Quickie.
Dr. Sbaitso Was My Only Friend, from X-Entertainment, complete with Dr. Sbaitso download. From Joel. The full video of colbert at the white house correspondents dinner from Annie, "seriously amazing."

"then you write 'oh they're just rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.' first of all, that is a terrible metaphor. this administration isn't sinking! this administration is soaring! if anything, they are rearranging the deck chairs on the hindenburg."

04.27.06 - Flower chucker, by Bansky.

1. Art: Xo showed me Bansky who makes amazing stencil graffiti art.

2. Movies: Three excellent reviews of Silent Hill and one of United 93:

a. Silent Hill

i. Dave: "The movie was fantastic. Fantastic! The gore scenes were awesome. The story overall was interesting but not particularly cohesive. But whenever there was a demon or a hallway full of faceless nurses, it was scary as shit. I got exactly what I wanted out of it, but if I had to give it a rating I'd say 3 1/2 stars."

ii. Ed: "Aside from all the burning and cutting and tearing and pulling off of skin it was really just a movie about the unconditional love between mothers and daughters... which is still present in the unimagineably horrible afterlife."

iii. SLyon: "Unspeakably awful. if blair and i had been there by ourselves we would have walked out, but it was too awkward to crawl over dave, ed, and danielle to get to the aisle. it was like 'hellraiser haunted house!' unintentionally funny and gross."

b. United 93

i. Bob: john travolta and sylvester stallone stop nicholas cage, in his most challenging role ever as osama bin evil, the hijacker from satanistan...

osama! i'm coming to get you! you'll never fly this plane into the freedom orphanage tower if i can help it! meanwhile, travolta jumps from the wing of one 747 to another, gains entry. in it osama's even eviler twin, hillary clinton, is raping pilgrim school teachers and forcing the elderly to sodomize puppies with mantle-sized replicas of the statue of liberty. hillary's vagina, a dirty bomb, is meant to destroy disneyworld and the surrounding communities. a heroic but ultimately deferrent pair of lips, tits, aids travolta in distracting hillary by making out with another woman for 5 full onscreen minutes. travolta disarms hillary's vagina using the bible.

3. Musical Happenings About Town:

a. Tonight at the Black Cat: Come on out to enjoy the sweet tunes and celebrate MB+Trmnls triumphant return from their East Coat tour. Meredith Bragg and the Terminals $8 Thrusday, April 27.

b. Tomorrow at the Black Cat: First Ladies DJ Collective Presents DJ Rekha Fri Apr 28 Mainstage Doors at 9 pm $10 Can she kick it? Hell yes she can. 'Cause Rekha is one of the best bhangra djs in the country. The founder of NYC's long-running Basement Bhangra night, DJ Rekha is credited with bringing bhangra - traditional Indian dance music - to the masses and mixing it with everything from hip-hop to dancehall to Bollywood disco. This will be Rekha's fourth Girl Friday appearance, and if you were at any of first three, you know you don't want to miss this party. Also featuring FLDC resident K La Rock and special guests DJ Roulette and Miss Modular spinning old-school party classics, baile funk beats, and Desi-style riddims.

4. We Love the Internet

a. The Old Professor. Yesterday I found this delightful old dude. He is hilarious. Check out his non-blog site, too: The Old Professor's Home Page. Example entry: Brazil and Women's Beach Volleyball. I don't feel any further comment is necessary.

b. Austin Scarlett, as you've never seen him before, c/o Rebongaz

c. 1968-1974 Alcoholics Anonymous comic strips, from big dave.

Goodbye until Tuesday. I'm going to LA. Photo: Yesterday at Whole Foods, Arlington.

04.26.06
From the mail beg:

How meta can we get?

1.) OLD JOKES, UPDATED TO MAKE THEM EVEN OLDER, McSweeney's. From Ms. SLyon.
2.) Have you fetishized your military today? From Ranger Ted: Female Soldiers from Around the World. Helloooo, Finland. Grandma Croatia. Stylee Italians. The Israelis are the cutest, which is why they have their own site, from Matt, hot israeli army chix.
3.) Bob says, Ana Marie Cox is really everywhere these days:

Predictably, the show [MTV's My Super-Sweet 16] has its share of critics. "Their blingy flings are not celebrations of accomplishment; they're celebrations of self," Ana Marie Cox, a Time magazine columnist, wrote in this week's issue. "What used to mark the end of childhood now seems only an excuse to prolong the whiny, self-centered greediness that gives infantile a bad name." Ms. Cox compared watching the show to eating an entire sheet cake, "wax decorative candles and all."

HK Exclusive Mayoral Campaign Coverage:
Sallypants reports from the field, "Adrian Fenty is so good looking, and after 8+ years of Senior Bowtie, I think we need a little glamour in this town. (A clearly jealous) [bf] claims Fenty looks like american idol contestant, daniel powter, who sings the super gay song, 'bad day.' Didn't Bon Jovi release a song about having a bad day? Or was it a nice day? Golly, America is so deep."

The Sex and Food Beat: What Kind of Sex is Your Food?, Failed Southern Lady.

Heck's, International: In additon to dcblogs, we've also made the pages of female single combat club, an apparently Russian concern, whose Site News reads, "THE SITE IS DEDICATED TO WOMEN. We love and respect every woman, no matter if she is strong or weak, combative or not, feminist or not too much..." Hee. Also, this is a good one, Mira y Calla: Descubre otra internet mediante los enlaces que aquí te propongo, which Babelfish translates to "Sight and Shuts up. Discovers another Internet by means of the connections that I propose to you here." And from exotic Oregon, meggiecat.

04.25.06 - in memory of Spooky Varlas, R.I.P. 1989 - 2006.

Politics Light Edition
Scotty, the Joke Was on You, Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette), for the Post. By the by, Ms. Cox just can't stay away from blogging.

Heck's Kitchen officially endorses Adrian Fenty for D.C. Mayor. After careful analysis, we've concluded Mr. Fenty is the best candidate, based largely on these two points: 1. He got our alley repaved, and 2. One of his cousins is a lesbian.

Bob says:
dig these pictures of the iranian pres and our pres, who both gave speeches yesterday.

There's something fishy about this photo...

JM says:
what's up with the iranian. he oughtn't act like such a nutcase, since obviously our nutcase is itching to totally shock n awe

Bob says:
he knows he can get away w it. plus, it would probably suit him, such a war.

Bob says:
we're not going to invade them.

JM says:
we arent?

Bob says:
no way. don't have the money or the firepower. and iran knows this.

JM says:
hm

Bob says:
note how we're all 'referring it to the UN'
that means we're not going to attack them. they'd have to do something REALLY provocative

JM says:
i didnt know we were acknowledging the UN

Bob says:
we do when it suits us, i.e. when we don't want to go to war.

Bob says:
i mean, i could be totally wrong, but i don't think so.

Bob says:
it seems iran is trying to gain power regionally by standing up to the US. but they wouldn't do it if they didn't know they could get away w it. it's acutally pretty smart. and kind of a page from the book of kim jong il (sp?), cept it didn't work too well for him.

JM says:
i am making a picture of leila ali and a kitty cat

Bob says:
sweet

04.24.06
I'm in the process of tearing down and rebuilding the crumbling old romance comics site. It refuses to age gracefully. The first step was going through the stack and finally getting all the covers scanned. Here they are. Can you find the gay in My Personal Problem?

Last night Julie Comnick sent me three of her new paintings to post. I think they're amazing. But, don't take it from her childhood friend, #1 non-paying collector and grand master of web doings. Go see for yourself.

Brian and Meredith Bragg and the Terminals continue to "rock" the South.

04.21.06 - at Sherm and Underblog's place.

Heck's Kitchen presents...
Stuff I think is good, volume 1.

Product: Origins No Offense™ Alcohol-free deodorant Notes: Recommended by housemate Annie, by way of JaimeHotdish. I don't know how it works, but after a three week trial period, I am cautiously optimistic it will continue to do its job. Cons: Costs $11. Must be purchased from Origins. Rumors of possible discontinuation abound. I think this is a trick to make people (Annie) panic and buy a bunch at once. Pros: No animal testing. No scent. Why do some people want to smell like their deodorant? (Even more mysterious, deodorant tampons? EW.) Possible avoidance of anti-perspirant-related cancer. (The American Cancer Society says there is no truth to those claims, but who are you gonna believe, them or unsolicited mass chain emails?)

Product: Morningstar Farms® Meal Starters™ Steak Strips. Notes: On occasion, last night being one such, the Emerson House taco chefs substitute the usual Crumbles (which my roommates insist on calling Grillers, which they are not) with these tasty Steak Strips. Cons: Packed with delicious sodium. If you weren't so lazy, you could make these yourself, like great grandma did. Pros: dehydrated green and red bell pepper! Lots of protein. Good consistency. Contains no animals bred and birthed to live a short and violent life before repugnant slaughter. Kosher!

Product: Brianna's Home Style Poppy Seed Dressing (Amazon really does list everything now, doesn't it? Also, what kind of dork reviews a salad dressing for Amazon?) Notes: This dressing elicits strong reactions. I have turned a statistically significant portion of my house, as well as non-resident friends and family, into Brianna's Home Style Poppy Seed Dressing enthusiasts. Annie says you can put it on anything, so two nights ago I poured some onto my fried swordfish steak. Mmmmm....decadent. On the other end of the spectrum is Maegan's mom, who ordered "that devil dressing out of my house." Her main objection seems to be the note on the bottle which reads, "DOES NOT CONTAIN PEACHES." True, it is disheartening to realize that enough morons complained that the product they'd purchased was actually dressing and not a peach, as depicted on the label. Still, it's not Brianna's fault that we are a stupid country. (And while I'm trashing on my nation's people, please America, can we stop glopping Ranch dressing on everything? Do you know what I mean? Ranch is trashy. It's made with an unholy trinity of buttermilk, sour cream, and mayonnaise. Hey, let's dip some chicken nuggets in it! There is, however, some disagreement in this matter.) Cons: Common side effects include dependency, prosthelytizing. Contains just a little bit of fat. Pros: This is the world's greatest salad dressing. And it's delicious on fresh peaches!

ETC. Our favorite Zulkey has a Q&A at Beaver Dam French Club. Claire also interviews Michelle Tea today, who apparently is a lesbian. PURPLE FRIDAY! featuring, BLOODBATH!. From Maegan, the tale of a true warrior: Heavy metal fan hit by some serious metal. And over at Debcentral, please enjoy the Pity Party.

04.20.06
Three things: Where has Brian Minter *really* been? We caught him on Public Access TV 75 Community News!

1. Brian on Dance Connection - Old Skool , as captured by house television videographer, Les.

2. Our kittens are better than your kittens.

3. I posted another comic, featuring A Dangerous Decision!

04.19.06
Today I'd like to draw your attention to Isle of Lesbos: historical poetry, classical art, and vintage images of lesbians, by one Alix North, who managed to snag the URL sappho.com (and for a site that's no longer updated!). Anyway, check out the postcards and photos. We'll have a gay old time.

More later. Thanks to La Gringa for the link.

04.18.06
1.) Pig Olympics in Moscow, sent by pretty much everyone.
2.) "EPHEMERA! LOOK IT UP!" Eric Sturdevant has a sweet collection of Pulp Fiction, Old Children's Books and more on Flickr. Thanks Jill.
3.) A song I like: Love Love Love by the Mountain Goats.

And now for this week's Housemate Event Plug:

Hey!
Marx Cafe has a new owner & we need people to show up or our night might get cancelled, which would be sad since we've been at Marx for almost 4 years now. Come by even for a drink or two.

X,
Les

This will almost read like a re-write of last month's announcement, since we yet again welcome another new shining light of indiepop DJ talent to accompany the usual. A real "every man," it's our good friend John Rickman, who resultingly shall be known as DJ Jackson. Just call him Jackson.

Jackson currently resides behind the drum kit of local indie pop mavens The Antiques. He also boasts a long association with the Teen Beat and DC indie scene of the 90s (remember the band Eggs?). And then he does other stuff too, but enough of Jackson.

The night is called Taking the Piss, a vague Anglo-philic reference that for us now really just means the best in independent indiepop music. If I say to you simply 'the world before, during, and after Belle & Sebastian,' that's probably the most descriptive I can get.

As always, brought to you by DC Soundclash.

WHERE: Marx Cafe, 3203 Mt. Pleasant St, NW
WHEN: Friday, April 21, 2006, from 10 pm to 3 am

NO COVER

Hope to see you all there.

04.17.06
Things I did this weekend, in reverse chronology:
1. Watched Night of the Living Dead at Bob's. NOTLD, as it is acronymed by nerds, was the first zombie movie, which helps to explain why we'd seen it all before. It was mostly funny, with the one major moment of horror occurring during the opening credits, as Bob realized he'd accidentally rented the colorized version. "How do they color it?" I asked, being dumb about such things, to which Dave, by virtue of his seat nearer the television could answer, "With crayons, it looks like from here."

2. Attached a mirror to my motorcycle, Bitty. Of course, this required that I remove one 40-year old grip, the mirror mount and clutch lever, the horn and headlight switch assembly, then open the headlamp case and disconnect the wires, so that the wire housing could be pulled through the handlebars, and then later pushed back through. All I needed for this simple job were 3 screwdrivers, utility knife, ratchet set, vice grips, pliers, electrical wire, duct tape, two hours, and Dave.

3. Finally went to one of the only restaurants in our neighborhood, the Colorado Kitchen, famous for fancy comfort food and bad service. Xo and I ate some super buttery eggs, hashbrowns and biscuits. The service was just fine. The infant seated at the next table had a distractingly colossal head.

4. Extended porch sitting, scallop grilling, fish market shopping. Text messaging with Brian as he toured Ohio. Listening to my grandma talk. New Yorker reading. Accidental deletion of entire iTunes library. Rose watering. Napping. Shaking fist at tourists. Sleeping. Snacking, and resting.

Things I avoided this weekend:
1. The gym
2. Taxes

Ed says, "Here's some frogs. Just let me know if you're tired of ed's wild kingdom." Never!

From: C. Geist
Subject: Frog survey

We had a great night surveying at Cedar Run 10. One interesting note is that the toads (a combo of Fowlers and American) were calling again. We heard the American toads during our last survey- calling at the same time as the wood frogs. An unusual event. So there is really a mix of toad age classes in the pods now. Good news is that even though we had that dry spell, we did observe a few wood frog tadpoles still alive in the pods- indicating that there was enough moisture somewhere during that time for them to survive.

So here are a few pics and great video taken by J. Critchfield. As I mentioned before, we are always interested in more volunteers to help survey.

1- cluster of toad larvae (above)
2- gray treefrog (right)
3- video of toad calling
4-Gray Tree frogs singing
Peepers are the loudest, there are toads too, and the gtfs sound like a kid giving raspberries (sort of).

04.14.06

- Friday Artifactory! -

with house archeologist Ed W. Johnson

From co-worker Kelsey: "If you haven't seen it, here are some pictures of the lead artifact from Boyd's site. So far I have talked to a few people at the Smithsonian and another museum in New York. They seem to think it is some kind of printing type, but they are checking around and doing a little more research for us."

From someone at the National Museum of American History: "Your piece does seem to be type-like, but certainly not your average base for a piece of type. The letter seems to be an elaborate italicized letter (t?) design and seems to have been set up to sit on a cylindrical printing surface, because of the rounded base."

From: Joan Boudreau
Deputy Chair, Division of Information Technology & Communications Curator, Graphic Arts Collection National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution

Kelsey - Good news. Stan Nelson our emeritus expert on type has discovered the type face for the piece of type you've found - and it is a piece of printing type.

Our type specimen book with images attached includes a very similar type face; The book title is "Specimens of Printing Types cast by Geo. Bruce & Co. at 13 Chambers Street, New Chatham Street, New York. 1848." The main foundries in the early 19th century were located in Boston, New York and Philadelphia.

"Eight-line Pica Ornamented" is the name of your piece's type font and the letter is a lower case italicized "t". George Bruce & Company may be the maker, but it's also possible that another foundry created this somewhat different type face. Stan tells me this type style was used in America primarily in the 1820s and 1830s. We don't have examples of American type specimen books earlier than the one mentioned/pictured.

This kind of type has a bridge body with a cored mold. Foundries used less lead or lead/alloy with this system to save money and create a lighter piece of type. The type was set the same way a traditional piece of type was set - in a flat bed where it was inked with the rest of the copy and pressed with paper.

Hope this helps and be glad to attempt to answer other questions and hear any further news on your site.

Sincerely,
jb

Bus rider Anisha reports from the field:

overheard on the 42 bus at 8:48 am yesterday:

woman to man: my daughter once asked me 'mommy, why they don't make nunchuk barbie?'

man to woman: wow, your daughter's amazing . . . ha ha ha ha, nunchuk barbie (slaps knee)

woman to man: then she asked me why Spiderman couldn't wear flowers in his hair.

man to woman: ha ha ha ha, she's so cool.

Not only am I in total agreement, but I thought about this brilliant child's imagination so much that I proceeded to seriously risk losing my shitty job to make the attached image of the Nunchuk Barbie I would most like seen on the market, so enjoy :)

Sally on the spaghetti-in-a-can beat:
"You probably saw this, but just in case! I know your always keen to hear some news on your most famous relative." The Real Chef Boyardee, wapost.

Finally, why do the terrorists hate freedom?
James says, "Happy Easter everybody! Here are some pictures of Parker dressed up like freedom."

04.13.06 - Baby Xo. Awwww.....
We have a very exciting show for you today.

What are the people doing.

1.) Brian: Committing very little sin to speak of on Meredith Bragg & The Terminals' Great North American Rock Tour 2006. Look, here are pictures from when they were on the TV.
2.) Zulkey: Wrote An Elegy For ElleGirl for The Huffington Post. Fancy. Back at home, find out if you're a Brat. Take the Online Quiz: Are You Spoiled?
3.) Sherman: Happy belated Wednesday Magazine! Also, coming in July, I'm Not a Baby!
4.) La Gringa: Happy palindromic birthday!
5.) Les and Oscar: Bedroom/workshop Photo gallery.
6.) Dave: Emerson St Summer 2006 Porch Lecture Series inaugural topic: The meaning of Randomness.

What are the people sending.

Stuff from house librarian S.Lyon
1.) "Family Fun at the White House," Gay, Lesbian Families to Join American Tradition En Masse, wapost
2.) Subject: D.E.A.R. please tell your loyal subjects to Drop Everything And Read! happy birthday, Beverly Cleary.

Stuff from Dave (this is amazing)
1.) Someone may be spilling the beans at the White House, Daily Kos/Something Awful

Stuff from Ranger Ted
1.) Stupid Comics

Stuff from Marla
1.) Flight 93 transcript, CNN
2.) Boy rescues box of kittens

Stuff from Ed
I make fun of Ed's music, but he knows what I like. Sad, anthemic, indie pop by bands with dumb animal names? Check check check check. Here is The Funeral , by Band of Horses. Listen to them live today on kexp at 3pm.

04.11.06 - Special Double Issue! Deez meatheads sat in front of us at the game. They make deez Nats shirts.

Two sites I'd like to be when I grow up:

1.) BibliOdyssey - Cliopatra (History blogs) Winner. From George Mason's History News Network, "BibliOdyssey has only been on-line since September of last year, but has already amassed a significant following for the dramatic and thought-provoking historical images and books featured there. This unusually visual blog by 'PK' brings together a wide variety of on-line materials and original scans, and will provide teachers and researchers and hobbyists alike with rich graphic and bibliographic sources." From La Gringa.

2.) Maopost.com - Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters. From Ranger Ted.

Double-Tongued Word WresterDictionary records undocumented or under-documented old and new words from the fringes of English. It focuses upon slang, jargon, foreignisms, loanwords, rare words, Englishes and English dialects. From La Gringa

Robert Brumfield to me
Subject: wonderful slideshows! From friends with money, history of working relationship between Nicole holofcener and Catherine keener on the times wonderful new website today—not to mention Jennifer aniston and frances mcdormand. It really is like someone made a porn directly for you, then cut out all the sex scenes and just left the camera to follow the stars around to their houses.

Bova's Chevy Tahoe ad and Bova's sister's Chevy Tahoe ad. (She lives in Vermont.)

More catching up tomorrow. Now Bob has something to say.

This Easter Sunday: they're coming to get you, Barbara.

As it has become an Easter tradition among my people, again it is time for a screening of that classic holiday tale of ruin and resurrection, George A. Romero's, Night of the Living Dead (1968).

Bob's house
Easter Sunday, 04.16
bitchfunky2000@yahoo.com
around 8.30 PM

A few fun facts about Zombies, George A. Romero's film, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Zombies were characters first adapted from wild-eyed, sensationalistic, late-Victorian Era Caribbean travelogues. These documents featured Western writers describing "true VooDoo rituals" in which medicine men would bring their victims back from the dead toward Satanic ends. It is interesting to note that, in this way, the zombie is the only major figure in horror cinema to rise not from a literary tradition (as with Frankensteins or Draculas), but from a tradition of "journalism," loosely as we may be using that term to describe the documents on which these early cinematic zombies were based.

Before NOTLD established for audiences what would be the definitive Zombie (capital "Z"), the cinematic zombie's behavior was by no means established absolutely. The zombies of early horror cinema were basically employed for atmospheric purposes, usually Black islanders working as slave labor and security in support of a racist mad scientist or perhaps raping a white woman under the tutelage of some greater evil. In fact, Romero himself originally conceived the creatures in his movie as people-eating, "ghouls" of the Lovecraftian variety. It was the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema that dubbed them "Zombies." The director has said he just went with that critical designation.

It was by this happy instance of miscommunication between artist and critic that Romero set in stone the characteristics that have made the Zombie perhaps the most versatile figure in Vietnam/post-Vietnam Era horror: its ravenous appetite for human flesh that runs in direct opposition to the rapid entropy of its physical and intellectual capabilities. One other important advancement in Zombie lore that Romero instigated was to transport the creatures from the islands and place them in a graveyard outside Philadelphia, thereby transforming the Other into Us. Remero also established that the Zombies' main mode of attack is to swarm their prey relentlessly, until victims cannot avoid joining them in a state of undeadness.

NOTLD is one of the first American films ever to feature an African American hero as leading man. This was nothing short of revolutionary in 1968. The film itself is a very thinly-veiled meditation on the violence of the Civil Rights movement and the general cultural schism that defined the Vietnam War Era. Something of Romero's opinion as to Western society's ability to recover from those inherent conflicts is suggested in the film's final moments-just as it appears our hero will escape with his life. The director's skepticism that humans will never amount to much more than the ignorant creatures acting out of violent compulsion that they cannot fully grasp seems only to become truer every Easter.

To better underline his parallel to world events contemporary to the moment of its filming, Romero intentionally made NOTLD in black & white, though color film had become the norm, even for indie filmmakers pulling together their wares on the cheap. His reasoning: the newsreel of the era was shot in B&W, so his film would have the immediacy of the evening news, which daily showed the carnage of domestic street protests and foreign war.

The Zombie genre has witnessed a resurrection of its own since the events of September 11, 2001, and the beginning of the Iraq War. The reason for this is quite simple: we again have too many bodies for them to remain buried. And you thought Zombies were just for Easter!

Though NOTLD is not technically an "Easter Movie" in the same way that The Passion of the Christ isn't technically a "children's film," it's no surprise that Romero's movie has become nearly synonymous with the holiday in the same way that Mel Gibson's flick has become nearly synonymous with … I dunno, whatever it's about. NOTLD's central theme that that cooperation among outsiders in the interest of continued survival and positive change will always be met by an angry, willfully ignorant mob hell bent on the demise of that which it doesn't understand in the knee-jerk defense of established economies of power is as Easterly as goddamn chocolate bunnies and crucifixion. Though, it should be pointed out that Jesus was not a classic Romeroan Zombie. Christ could talk and perform miracles, which is sort of like using a tool, which Romero's Zombies didn't really figure out until 2005's Land of the Dead.

So we'll see you on Sunday, 04.16. Please bring beer, snacks (fleshy or otherwise), the person with whom you're sleeping, and whatever else you think you might want. I'll bring some, too.

04.10.06
I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. I will not neglect my blogging duties. Except for sometimes, when I have other stuff I have to do. Like work. You think your bartab from last night paid for itself? Meantime, many thanks to Ms. Zulkey for this little picture of paradise:

For real update, coming soon.

04.06.06 - The shed atop Ed's secret cellar.
Brian's in town, lodging in the Emerson House guest facilities and hacking up phlegm chunks in anticipation of Meredith Bragg & the Terminals North American Tour. Take in some soft rock and great lungfulls of smoke Sunday night at the nation's Galaxy Hut.

This is sickening, but I'd be remiss not to follow-up the case of the Duke Rapists. From Larva (en route to Costa Rica) at THE SMOKING GUN: Duke Rape Case E-mail Shocker: After alleged assault, player wrote of killing, skinning strippers. Real nice. In light of this new development, Duke Coach Resigns, School Cancels Season, wapost.

Bob on the adman beat, Chevy Tries a Write-Your-Own-Ad Approach, and the Potshots Fly. "the ad using a sweeping view of the Tahoe driving through a desert...'ur planet's oil is almost gone,' it said. 'You don't need G.P.S. to see where this road leads.'"

Let's stick with today's theme of Bad Guys. From Marls, Boortz Issues apology over McKinney smears. Summary: Neal Boortz issued an apology for his remarks that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) looks like "a ghetto slut," saying, "I've known Cynthia McKinney for a long time, and there is no way in the world that that word should be used to describe her or her hairdo or any woman."

And....Feds suspend official facing child sex charges. "Authorities said Doyle, in his first online conversation with the 'girl,' told her his name and his post with Department of Homeland Security." Very bright.

Republicans. I seriously don't know how they live with themselves. Our ten favorite quotes from Tom DeLay, at Campus Progress. “So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself.” – Houston Chronicle, repeating DeLay’s rationale for not serving in Vietnam.

Critter Report:
Hindi textbook says a loyal donkey is better than a wife, la gringa.
Incredible Two-Legged Dog . Thanks marla!
Baby shower brawl, slyon.

The Matchbox Sized Sculpture Report:
Opening reception on FOUR/TWENTY at Flashpoint: Micro-Monumental. Opening Reception: 6-8pm (Juror's Talk at 7pm). NOW (April 20) until May 27.

04.05.06
Post photo gallery: Terps come back from 13-point deficit to BEAT DUKE IN OT FOR FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. Ha! Story by Kathy Orton. Front page story by Eli Saslow. UMD in flames, but .70 cents to the dollar compared with riots for the mens. True quote: "Shea Hoxie, 21, a senior majoring in government and politics and criminology, said: 'I was disappointed we didn't flip over the bus. We rioted for the women's basketball team, which is out of character for us. We needed something to cheer for.'" Fear the Turtle, people. Point guard Shay Doron rides a camel at Hornbake Library.

New additions to the South Park Photo Album! Please join the collection.

Michael Bova reaches the magical age of 33! We lived to be this old no thanks to one another.

Birthday related something from Marla: What was No.1 on the day you were born? Also, the Dictionary.com word of the day for Wednesday April 5, 2006:

cum \KUM; KUHM\, preposition:
With; along with; combined with; -- often used in combination.

Sherman wants to know, WHO DID YOU WANT TO BE?

A check in with Danielle's kids at YARG. Entry #1. PASS THE DREAM ACT NOW and Entry #2. Latin Rappers that I think deserve more Respect.

The Golden Bears Salute You

"Today, the time will be 01.02.03.04.05.06 at some point, and that will never happen again."

Actually, that will be tomorrow. But a heads up from Bob - make a little mental note tonight at 1:02AM.

Alma mater alert: Tonight at 8:30 on ESPN, Fear the Gurtles.

inbox hotdish

From Bob: subject: science answers everything and more.
"You, my friend, are one big chemical reaction. I can never decide if that's more mysterious and fascinating or less mysterious and fascinating than gods and shit." The answer is MORE. Living on Impulse, nytimes.

From Annie: Subject: myspace!
teens face child pornography charges

From Anisha: Subject: Worst Album Covers Ever
Probably from the Museum of Bad Album Covers. Not to pick on the Christians but....the God squads are the best.

From Edward: subject: Oh crap
Today at work I'm being lowered by a rope down into a stone cellar about 20 feet underground. I'll have a tiny flashlight to keep me safe. All we can see down there is a dead rabbit. I'm seriously a little scared. Wish me luck.

From me to Dave:
i just got some good news. we're moving offices up to Ballston the weekend of July 4, which i've not been looking forward to, but apparently there are no cubes there, just all individual offices. which means naps and books for me....
From Dave to me:
You could decorate it with a series of artwork from Louis Wain.

More good news, from SLyon (Happy Library Week!)
1. Snakes on a Plane, the Children's Story
2. TVW/OP Recaps The OC: The Secrets And Lies

04.03.06
Monday Morning Report, no home-like place.
The Top 100 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time, SSB.
Alternative Movie Descriptions, kittenpants. And...hahaha... I'm Giving You Da Gold.

03.31.06

03.30.06
Often people complain to me that they don't know the folks on the zonkoard. Thus I bring you the first part in HK's new series, Know Your Fellow Barflies. Today: meet Mr. Underblog, also known as Eric Webster, and our resident librarian, Sarah Lyon.

Zoology Beat, with Ranger Ted, Underblog, and SLyon:
1. Northern California has first Condor sighting in more than century
2. Hooters 1 and 2
3. Cat Terrorizes Connecticut Town

Sporting:
1. Plushenko is the SEXBOMB!
2. Hating Duke never felt so right
3. The UMD women are in the Final Four, Connecticut and Tennessee are not.

Music:
What's BWA been up to, besides making masts for HK, and abandoning his second project? "Meredith Bragg & The Terminals have a new website, created by myself. Feel free to share this information with your readers." Brian the Terminal tours with Meredith & company the entire month of April, with stops at the Black Cat on April 9 and 27. Check the highly transitional Bears Will Attack for promised tales of the road.

Culture:
1. Two Hipsters Angrily Call Each Other 'Hipster'
2. The Bring it On writer had writ us another, Stick It.
3. Televsion Without Pity recaps are a far greater thing than The O.C. itself. Journey To Nowhere.
4. Zulkey say DO NOT GET PLASTIC SURGERY.

03.28.06
It's nice to see Steve Winwood back in the highlife again.

From: Les
Subject: Getting Fit
I wish it was like this at Results The Gym, then I wouldn't have quit.
Eric Prydz - Call on Me

Lila Brownlock of Overhill asks, What is your hobbit name? c/o Bonga. CG's new pickup, Bitch, has some pretty interesting pics and a tour diary on her site.

What the nerds are talking about today: Supreme Court argument archival recordings. From the Post, Bound by Words And Much More: Va. Memoir Class Draws Kids and Parents Closer, Easing Both Into Writing.

Here are a couple songs from this '99 comp called The I-10 Chronicles. I think I've got California on the brain lately.

• L.A. Freeway , Bill & Bonnie Hearne.

• New Mexico Rain , Bill Hearne. For Mr. Underblog and Ms. Sherman.

• Black Magic Woman , Charlie Musselwhite. For littlest sister Mandy.

Our friend Michelle Bellici says, "I have added a Second Gallery of not yet seen Paintings, Drawings and Photographs also for sale giving 50% of all Sales to The South Dakota Action fund, which is supporting Planned Parenthood of South Dakota, and The Women's Medical Fund, Inc."

Love,
Pearl Gamwich of the Bree Gamwiches

03.27.06 - Doppelganger.

This just in: Live Simpsons Intro, c/o lagringa.

Marla sent me this from Tits Lagoon...FOUR people out of 3 million correctly picked the Final Four. MASON! MASON! MASON!

Three more weiners:

1. Smithsonian Archives of American Art - Digital Collections
2. Wikipedia - All your base are belong to us
3. New York Toilets, a noble undertaking by Deb's cousin.

City Paper Editors wanted.

"The tomato, havarti, and avocado burger, cooked medium rare, is a knockout. Blanketed in cheese that's melted and cooled to the transparency of a condom..."

From SLyon: "The word CONDOM should never appear in a column about food. EVER."

Bob is Smrt. "i would like to point out that i've been saying this since september 11. i am smaaaaart." Market for Zombies? It's Undead (Aaahhh!): In films, books and video games, the undead are once again on the march, becoming the post-millennial ghoul of the moment.

Received: 5:47 AM.

It
Is
In the Morning
Sunrise

Beautiful ocean

Drusg

03.24.06 - chocolate chicks, from RT.
Danar writes:

Hey there, Glad to see that ol' Heck is back. I have something to add about the South Park bruhaha... It looks like Fox news broke the story that this whole thing about Isaac Hayes getting offended about the scientology episode and quitting South Park may not be true. Maybe this is not worth sending traffic to Fox News, but it's such an interesting twist! Did his "Scientology Representative" start speaking for him once he went to the hospital? Is the whole thing a prank by the SP guys for a big 10th season opener? But whatever, I watched the episode and it was good. The splicing of Chef's voice was so bad on purpose - hilarious. D.

This is cool, as cool as 3D can be. From Joel: Amazing Sidewalk Artistry. From Bob: Wife to be charged with pastor's murder. From Marla: Colgate buying control of Tom's of Maine.

At no home-like place, it's Purple Friday. And Debcentral says, Please consider adopting a New York City Government Houseplant.

Housemate Plug:

It's officially a trend - we are introducing new indiepop DJ talent every month to compensate for the grizzled and worn look represented by myself and Les. Well, just myself.

Last month it was the wildly successful Annie and Nick show. This month it's DJ Bob, who comes with all the requisite indiepop imprimaturs you can think of - band member in Lil Hospital, impresario of the yahoo indiepop list for DC, and just generally an unrepentant jangle freak. As we speak, he's coming up with an even more creative DJ name...As always, brought to you by DC Soundclash.

WHERE: Marx Café, 3203 Mt. Pleasant St, NW
WHEN: Friday, March 24, 2006, from 10 pm to 3 am

03.23.06
Let's begin today with Dave's mom.

Dave: "My mom had wrist surgery recently. She sent me this email over the weekend."

My first attempt to type with boxer glove cast. It will come off on the 29th, then splint for 4 weeks. Under the influence of Percoset, I dreamed you kn itted a sweater for a cat. It looked pretty good; the cat was wearing it. Hope you have fun and snow in Vt.
Love, Mom

Dave's super quick movie preview:

Subject: Have you heard about this? It's the new Samuel L Jackson movie, where there's snakes, and they're on a plane, and SLJ has to save the day. It's going to be over the top crazy. Here's the sweet logo they came up with.

Jenny's super quick movie review:

Subject: Walk the Line.
Reese is cute. The music's good. The story's dumb and heavy handed and the angelic woman saves the wounded, self-destructive man, again. Snooze. C+

Jenny's super quick television review:

Subject: South Park bids adieu to Chef
It comes as no surprise that Chef was let go in the least-dignified manner possible.

RideAccidents.com, "...the world's single most comprehensive, detailed, updated, accurate, and complete source of amusement ride accident reports and related news," c/o Bobbay, who hails from Huntingon, WV.

SuSuBelle, "Jaw Dropping Piece on Anti-Abortionists Who Have Abortions." The only moral abortion is MY abortion, Daily Kos.

World Test Card Gallery, from Deb D., of ROVER the WATCHDOG. Update: Philadelphia police admit to spying on activists planning protests at the Republican convention.

From resident librarian S.Lyon: Library Career Romances. "..less well-known today is the 'career romance'or 'career girl novel' that appeared during the 1940s through the 1960s, as women entered the workplace in increasing numbers."

03.22.06
Guess what I just did! I accidentally overwrote my backup file for this page. Damn. Maybe it's because I just gave blood, and the woman who poked my arm said, "Girl, you look just like Ellen Degenerate. She be boogying through the crowd. You get that all the time, I bet."

So, I have to work, and then I'll populate this space with all the junk you've come to expect. Meantime, enjoy the Barong, from the Indonesian embassy, where my girl played some gamelan the other night. This guy's got some pretty good photos. From Indonesia proper.

Oooh, look what coach dug up: Ladies of the Canyon: For Nina Garduno and Leisha Hailey, life is one big art project.

These are the People in my Neighborhood: Robber Kills Man in NW After Failed Pizza Heist.

Parts of what the the cat dragged in:

• Cat Gives Birth To Mouse-Like Kitten?, Ranger Ted.

• Warehouse 23 Basement, from Joel.

• Slyon sez, all you need is some land...and you can start that EmHo commune! Houses of Steel: What it Takes to Save One of Quantico's Lustrons

• Sherm: deJENNeres

• John Davis's new band: Georgie James. John, formerly of Q And Not U.

• Cat Evicted From 10 Downing Street Dies

• Astrofiammente, across the pond: "This was published in The Observer (Sunday newspaper) today - and I guessed you might like to read it. It's Morrissey being interviewed - or, sort of. Or not - by Douglas Coupland. Douglas Coupland is a big favourite author of mine so this was a bit of an event. Anyway. Hope you enjoy it too." Papal attraction.

• Florida/Germany: German Leaves Wife's Head at Gas Station, Marla.

At no home-like place, Wednesday Magazine.

03.13.06

more spam poetry.

bothersome checkup buddhism

and dizzy on brothel may inasmuch -
but ruben on kneecap be abelson,
some depth! some balcony!
exasperate not hebephrenic and sinful! oatmeal.
not demoniac the steele, it turban.
! airspace, not lilt
and bifocaltry freshen and
sturm a pulaski.

Happy Birthday, Marci! Hee.
1. Sherman's Monday Morning Report
2. Zulkey: Obama in Prime Form at Gridiron Club Roast

I Found Your Bra Inside Your Pocketbook , John Saylor.

I'm sorry to report that Bob is trapped forever in West Virginia, due to a misunderstanding regarding someone's little sister, and a stolen pair of pants.