Thinking of pulling up
stakes?
Poet Vachel
Lindsay, who criss-crossed America on foot,
eventually settled in Spokane,
1924-29. They were fertile years - he published
two books, married and started a family. From
here he moved his family to his birthplace of
Springfield, Mo., where he drank a bottle of
Lysol and died a HORRIBLE AND AGONIZING
DEATH!The History of the Doomsday
Clock.
Perspectives:
Burning Man Web
Ring
"Burning
Man" festival is steeped in blasphamy
from Religion
Today.
Terry Grob, an irreplaceable
part of the Northwest rock scene, passed away a
few weeks ago. For the past decade with Grobal
Productions, he was an enthusiastic promoter of
new music in Spokane. He was also a frequent
advertiser in The Scene magazine
and sometimes even paid his bills. There is a
memorial for Grob in Spokane at the Big
Dipper on Saturday September 16, 2000 at
6:00 pm.
 False
Advertising - a gallery of parody
On Bush’s 'Asshole' Comment
My letter to the editor The Spokesman-Review
didn't print
| Congradulations to The
Spokesman-Review for the way it handled
George Dubya's whispered aside in which
he called The New York Times reporter
Adam Clymer an obscenity. Most media outlets
used such dodges as "a..hole,"
which looks and ultimately sounds just as
vulgar, doesn't it?
The
Associated Press avoided the quote
entirely and merely said that Bush,
"used an obscenity to describe
reporter Adam Clymer." But doesn't
this just cause us to speculate about all
of the other obscenities one could use to
describe reporter Adam Clymer?
MSNBC.com
ran the quote as "major league ass----"
This doesn't work either. Kiss. Face.
Wipe.
From UPI:
"There's Adam Clymer, major league
(*******) from the New York Times."
This is a total cop out. They should at
least give us a multiple choice.
How many
St. Petersburgians picked up the St.
Petersburg Times to read the quote as,
"There's Adam Clymer, major league a--h---."
So he called him an air head, what's the
big deal?
The
Washington Times went to the anatomically
extreme, noting Bush was "employing
a vulgar euphemism for a rectal aperture."
This makes me want to go take a shower,
not finish reading the paper.
Even more
bizarre was the New York Daily News that
said Bush used a "barnyard epithet."
Oh, please.... We might think he called
him a p--f-----.
Thanks for
simply printing the word and letting me
get on to something more important.
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"Noise proves nothing.
Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as
if she had laid an asteroid."
--- Mark
Twain
The coin operated vending machine was invented
by Hero of Alexandria, who came up with a way to
dispense holy water. The heavy coin would drop
onto a lever, causing a cork to be pulled out of
a spigot just long enough to release a trickle of
holy water.
The
history of vending machines
Divine
Comedy: John Waters Interviewed
The pioneer of outrageous independent American
film, discusses his latest, Cecil B.
DeMented. from Flak Magazine.
Old
City Babylon: Christians and the Church of the
Giant Golden Microphone
Head down to Knoxville where Southern Baptist
street preachers will make sure everyone knows
whether they are can look forward to heaven
or eternal damnation. As a response to
the preachers, Knoxville youth founded the Church
of the Giant Golden Microphone. From Metro Pulse.
I wrote to my friend Phopaw
to tell him the new website was online, and
talked a bit about my current "infatuation"
with the Aztecs. He wrote back:
| I like the new issue so far.
Good move getting rid of the frames.
Lotsa pictures and stuff, too. Be careful about
your infatuation with the Aztecs. Don't
confuse it with true love. Take some time
to get to know the Aztecs first. Do they
get along with their mother? What are
their career goals? Do they want children?
When you go out to dinner with the Aztecs,
do they look at their reflection as they
walk by a window? Could be a sign they're
self-centered.
I'm just
looking out for you buddy. You've fallen
for ancient cultures before. Remember the
Visigoths? Remember when you brought them
home to meet your parents and they raped
all the women in your family and killed
the men except for you because you
pretended to be dead and then they burned
your house down? I know I should give the
Aztecs a fair chance, but I just don't
want to see you get hurt again. Guard
your heart, Stik, guard your heart.
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God
Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt
Vonnegut. From In These Times.
Mike Haley, "a former homosexual,"
wrote to Jon Kinnally, executive story editor of Will
& Grace, regarding an episode that
portrays ex-gays as hypocrites who attend "Christian
therapy" meetings to find dates. He told
Kinnally that he felt the show "grossly
misrepresented thousands of individuals
struggling to come out of homosexuality."
Haley requested a meeting with Kinnally to talk
about it. Kinnally wrote back, "In response
to your request for a meeting, well, I think I
can read between the lines. I'm 6'1," brown
hair, green eyes and I'm into rollerblading,
baking cookies, and cleaning up afterwards. My
dislikes include game-playing, negative attitudes,
and condoms."
The Social Security Administration just
celebrated its 65th anniversary. SSA employees
were given small boxes with stylish memorabilia
pins emblazoned with the words Social
Security, An American Cornerstone.
Ironically, the back of the boxes stated Made
in China.
 According
to Adbusters,
September 21 is World Car-Free Day. Imagine no
cars on the streets for an entire day, only
pedestrians and bikes. Well, buses too. And the
occasional ambulance. Fire engines. And cops.
Street workers. Garbage trucks. ...Ah, forget it.
Revenge and justice are similar in one respect;
they are best served cold.
Read the complaint: Keenan
v. Aryan Nations
Late night e-epiphany: Calamus
is an hallucinogen
http://www.ul.bawue.de/~rufeger/hallu/e/acorus.calamus.html
http://www.erowid.org/herbs/calamus/calamus_info1.shtml
Read
Exodus 30:22 - 33
Comments?
Book E-Review
"In
Search of the Ultimate High: Spiritual
Experiences Through Psychoactives"
by Nicholas Saunders, Anja Saunders and Michelle
Pauli (Random House)
"There is no better, there is no more
open door by which you can enter into the study
of natural philosophy
than by considering the
physical phenomena of a candle."
--- Michael Faraday
Our galaxy is a celebration of diversity,
abounding with hundreds
of billions of stars, each different from
every other.
NASA's Visible
Earth -- a searchable directory of images,
visualizations and animations of Earth.
Is anybody besides me bothered by the name HONEYBUCKET
on those portable toilets seen at construction
sites?
The
Bush Family "Oiligarchy" from Consortium
News.
"Any government big enough to give
you everything you need, is big enough to take
everything you have"
-- Thomas
Jefferson
Cultural Ooze: a new daily
soap opera claims to be the 'Dynasty' of
the Internet.
Gimmesoap!
is designed specifically for office workers to
log on to while they are supposed to be working.
The Web drama, based in London, follows the
fortunes and feuding of two rich and successful
families. Each episode is around 500 words long
and will be posted on to the site at midnight,
five days a week.
Animal
Rights and Wrongs
Most mainstream scientists still bristle at the
thought, yet the evidence is mounting that animal
intelligence is more than just anthropomorphic
fantasy. From Britannica.com
The early bird catches the worm, but it's the
second mouse that gets the cheese.
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