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Monday, October 29, 2001 And what goes well with zombie jokes? BRRAAAIINNSSS! Monday, October 29, 2001 And what goes well with zombie jokes? BRRAAAIINNSSS! Sunday, October 28, 2001 Said to be the most unusual haunted house in the world, the Ravens Grin Inn. It's open most of the year, takes over an hour to get through. Run by a guy who may or may not be a psycho, but who does have a twisted sense of humor. See the comic at the bottom of this page for a hint of what's inside. Just west of Chicago. I think I've found our fall vacation destination. Sunday, October 28, 2001 Safety first, freedom second. So, let's run all your email and web downloads through the FBI's central servers. These are, after all, changed times. Note the Fox spin: "Now, though, the country is asking for more, not less, law enforcement on the Internet, and even those who once complained are coming around." We report, you decide! Saturday, October 27, 2001 Saturday, October 27, 2001 You understand sir, this is a national security measure, and we’re going to have to check with the FAA to clear it,” he said. “You know they might not let you back on the airplane. You make people nervous.” “How do I make people nervous?” I asked. “By doing whatever you’re doing.” “What am I doing?” “I don’t know, but whatever it is, you’re going to stop doing it!” “OK,” I said. “But what am I doing?” I wasn’t getting it. He began poking his index finger at me to emphasize the point. “I don’t know what you’re doing, but you’re going to stop doing it!” Wednesday, October 24, 2001 Once again, Hunter S. Thompson's sports column takes a little twisting turn: Last week was extremely busy. I spent most of it doing top-secret surveillance work on some of my neighbors who are obviously up to no good and need to be watched closely. I have always hated Evil-doers, and now that the President has given us a green light to crush them by any means necessary, I see my duty clearly. Dangerous creeps are everywhere, and our only hope is to neutralize them with extreme prejudice. These freaks have taken their shot(s), and now it is our turn. Tuesday, October 23, 2001 Betty Bowers' End Times Newsletter Betty Bowers: America's Best Christian! Sunday, October 21, 2001 Friday, October 19, 2001 Friday, October 19, 2001 Friday, October 19, 2001 Thursday, October 18, 2001 The Boondocks replaced by a hilariously patriotic new offering! Wednesday, October 17, 2001 WWMT has the story now. It was the Planned Parenthood in Battle Creek that got a letter from the Army of God, not--that I know of, anyway--Kalamazoo. Ah... Army of God. Did you see their site yet? I won't link to it. It's simple in design. Simple in its vengeful hatred. I really hope the Rev. Donald Spitz is getting strip-searched right now, full cavity. Don't forget to scrub him down with harsh disinfectants! He might really have some a that antrax on him. Wednesday, October 17, 2001 Army of God sends anthrax to Michigan abortion clinics. Well, it wasn't really anthrax, but somebody thought it'd be funny to send envelopes of white powder right about now. Oh, and acording to the Detroit News, one of the clinics was Kalamazoo's Planned Parenthood office. This has been going on all over the country. Most letters mention the Army of God. On a Plastic thread on this someone posted some helpful info: Organization: Now, don't do anything bad. Don't sink to their level. I'm not encouraging you to do anything. I just think that bright sunshine is the best disenfectant. Tuesday, October 16, 2001 You'll find more at Nothing. But still, you will find something at Something. Monday, October 15, 2001 The script is taken from the New Testament Book of Revelationand from recent headlines . Scary Jesus Halloween. No thanks, I'll spend my Halloween with Satan. Monday, October 15, 2001 For my birthday I would like a quarter-pound of Crazy Aaron's Thinking Putty. Why buy a little blob of "silly" putty when you can buy a big man-sized wad of putty from a crazy man? Monday, October 15, 2001 Oh, joy. The RIAA wants the government to help them help itself fight terrorism. And MP3 pirates. Hey, a pirate is like a terrorist, right? By the way, I saw someone last night download a copy of Whitney Houston singing the national anthem. I'm calling the FBI--that is such a crime against our country on so many levels. Monday, October 15, 2001 Take this quiz on quotes from three radical religious speakers who seem to be threatening our American way of life. Sunday, October 14, 2001 In case you were wondering: Below in the post that reads, "You knew this would happen," there's a link that, when we posted it, led to a photo of Islamic protesters holding up signs of the Muppet Bert and signs reading "We Love Bert!" It was all quite amusing, if you've been following the story of the strange Bert-and-bin-Laden poster. But I just found out that the link now leads to a photo of a flabby young male trying to lick his own nipple. So you might've been wondering about why I'd link to that, from the sentence, "You knew this would happen." That doesn't make sense at all. I suppose I shouldn't trust a site called "www.somethingawful.com." Saturday, October 13, 2001 You knew this would happen. Friday, October 12, 2001 "The boy was drinking up to 11 cans of Red Bull a day before the robbery - more than twice the caffeine needed to cause significant toxic effects, the court heard." Friday, October 12, 2001 Thursday, October 11, 2001 "Sesame Workshop, the non-profit company based in New York that oversees licensing of ``Sesame Street'' products, said in a statement it was exploring all legal options to stop unauthorized use of its property." Thursday, October 11, 2001 This is the EC-130, the "Flying PSYOP Platform," or flying radio station, that's been broadcasting psychological warfare programs over Afghanistan. I should send them a tape of SwaG!. Would it destroy the minds of the enemy? Uplift the freedom-starved? Cause mass confusion on the ground? Hmmm... Thursday, October 11, 2001 "WASHINGTON, DC—Responding to the threats facing America's free democratic system, White House officials called upon Americans to stop exercising their democratic freedoms Monday." Thursday, October 11, 2001 The Dutch news site cropped the photo that so freaked me out yesterday. But somebody grabbed it in time and put it up on their site. Wednesday, October 10, 2001 No, it's not a dream. Score one for our side! Wednesday, October 10, 2001 "But we do now feel a need to say something. We feel a need to pile on. Because, for the first time in recent memory, the pile on Michael Jackson suddenly doesn't seem quite deep enough. Because, in the wake of September 11, Michael Jackson is organizing a benefit song. How convenient that he just happened to be in the midst of a juggernaut campaign to breathe life into the crumbling husk of his career -- a campaign he can now seamlessly redirect towards the unimpeachable effort of organizing a benefit for victims of tragedy...with himself ensconced at the centre. Rather than folding up his faltering comeback blitz and retreating back to his Xanadu to cultivate what tiny seeds of dignity he may have left, he's decided to do something that every other celebrity has, for the most part, managed to avoid: he's going to turn this tragedy to his advantage. He's going to rally stars around him -- because, you know, he's the King of Pop, goddammit, and America needs his healing touch..." Wednesday, October 10, 2001 This is all just one weird, messed up dream. You might have thought that when you saw the jets hit the buildings, but this proves it. It's a news page on a Dutch site. Look at the bin Laden poster in the photo. See anything... strange? Tuesday, October 9, 2001 "Once consumers can no longer get free music, they will have to buy the music in the formats we choose to put out." Tuesday, October 9, 2001 Hangover advise. I think the "avoid sugar" rule is something that may be important. My last hangover happened the morning after I stumbled home and ate most of a pint of Ben and Jerry's, then flopped into bed. That morning, and much of the day, I thought I was going to die. But bless [name of bar in my town who's bartenders don't know how expensive Makers Mark is and tend to fill your glass with it], they'th besht. Hick. Sunday, October 7, 2001 I'd just like to share with you all some of the latest search terms through which people have found this page. "punjab gay man sites" Well, that's obvious. This is the spot of hot Punjab man-love. "Bat snacks" Well, I live off of cigars and coffee. And "taco-flavored" Doritos, the taste and smell of which seems to ooze from my pores. "which backstreet boys are gay ripe off song" Well, that's obvious. "largest penis ever recorded scientifically" When you're the master of hot Punjab man-love with the Backstreet Boys, let's just say that you gotta use the right tool for the right job. "Christian Rock Sucks" Yes... and? You need to find a web site to confirm this for you? "bat for coke" I started drinking Coke at my "real" job because they wouldn't allow me to smoke cigars. The Coke pushed my delicate system over the edge, let's leave it at that. "jackass theme tune" It's "Corona" by the Minutemen, I don't have it for you to download, I think it's on "Double Nickles on the Dime" on SST, came out in 1984, so now GO BUY IT ON CDNOW AND LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE. "bat man porn" There seems to be a big demand for it. I get this lots. So there. I've shown you a mirror, do you see yourself? Have I just created more missleading bits of text for those looking for hot Punjab penis bat man porn? Thursday, October 4, 2001 Oh! It wasn't a penis! It was mold! Now we all can get on with our lives. Thursday, October 4, 2001 Australian composers copyright songs made of touch-tone phone tones. How many songs? All of them. Whenever you dial a number, you are probably playing one of their songs and are in danger of violating their copyright. Check the numbers you dial on their site to make sure you're legal. Please, nobody call me. They own the song my number plays. I'll have to arange for a licence agreement with them. Thursday, October 4, 2001 Take a look at the official Afghan.Gov.Af site. Hmmmm... that's not a good sign. For them, anyway. Wednesday, October 3, 2001 I'm going to put this link here, maybe because I like playing with fire, maybe because it might be true, I don't know. Maybe you'll read the 10/2/01 story--that's what I'm talking about here. I'm not saying that I think it's true, but these are strange times. Wednesday, October 3, 2001 Today is Chubby Checker's birthday. To show how much I apreciate his contributions to rock'n'roll culture, I'll have to play Hank Ballard and the Midnighters' original version of "The Twist" on SwaG! tonight. Wednesday, October 3, 2001 In other news: The RIAA gets its lawyers ready to kill Napster alternatives. Monday, October 1, 2001 Monday, October 1, 2001 Hey, ladies! Want to get pissed-off? I mean, really pissed-off? You're so cute when you're angry, my little heart-of-the-family. Now get in that kitchen and cook me my pot-pie! Monday, October 1, 2001 "...A couple of years later, when the The Washington Post pursued its investigation of Watergate, John Mitchell, Nixon's Attorney General, threatened that, "Katie Graham's gonna get her titties caught in a big fat wringer." What did he mean by that? "In January 1973, when FCC licenses of two of the Post's Florida television stations came up for renewal, challenges were mounted from several sources with ties to the Nixon administration. During the weeks and months that followed, the Post's stock plummeted." Sunday, September 30, 2001 Oh, god. Oh, jeeze. The horror. I... I don't think you should read this. But I'll give you the link, just in case you're curious. "Thursday morning, Juan Sanchez-Marchez, 41, a machine operator at Foothills Mail and Supply, was at work, taking his usual sips from a 20-ounce bottle of Ora Potency Fruit Punch. "After he had downed about two-thirds of the bottle, he found something in the opaque red drink." Saturday, September 29, 2001 Hello, Americans! Did you know, that veteran broadcaster Paul Harvey, worked in Kalamazoo, Michigan, during World War II, at radio station WKZO? He was also the Office of War Information's director for Michigan, and In-di-ana. It's true! Now, page... two. "You'd better be right because you sound like God." Detroit-born actor and comedian Danny Thomas speaking to Paul Harvey Saturday, September 29, 2001 "The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public." Oh, boy. You better watch your smart mouth, Mister! "Fleischer used the Maher controversy to issue this creepy Orwellian pronouncement: "Americans need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is." (Creepier still, someone in the White House then took scissors to the official transcript of Fleischer's remarks to make them less chilling.)" Friday, September 28, 2001 Okay, I took the quiz, and my rockstar boyfriend... IS DEAD! OH, misery. How will I find true rock love with a rotting corpse? "Break open the champagne! Your rockstar boyfriend is Kurt Cobain! You and Kurt Cobain are a match made in heaven! You're both very creative people, and have put your creative juices to the test writing music or the occasional painting. You love a guy that isn't afraid to be himself, and both enjoy hanging out with good friends and checking out local bands." Friday, September 28, 2001 For a second, I thought about burning burning these spots on a CD and playing them on SwaG!. But now might not be the time for that. What was once wacky Cold War era nostalgia now sounds like real information. Thursday, September 27, 2001 O'REILLY: Well, we'll let the -- we'll let the audience decide. Wednesday, September 26, 2001 What the nation needs now: The Onion.  Tuesday, September 25, 2001 Once again, Hunter S. Thompson puts it into words in a way that makes me giggle like there's a gun to my head. "Osama bin Laden is like a vampire that casts no shadow, yet his shadow is over us all. People call me on the phone and jabber like fruit-bats in heat." Yeah, that pretty much sums up the calls from listeners I get while doing SwaG! lately. Tuesday, September 25, 2001 Remember that list of "banned" songs Clear Channel (a monolithic corp. that owns enough radio wattage to kill most of Ohio's population) sent to all its stations? Well, it was just a crazy Internet rumor. The list was just a suggestion, compiled by program directors, and sent to every station. They weren't banned songs, it was just recommended that they not be played at this time, a recommendation coming from A MONOLITHIC CORP. THAT OWNS ENOUGH RADIO WATTAGE TO KILL MOST OF OHIO'S POPULATION! Sunday, September 23, 2001 Friday, September 21, 2001 "One morning recently he found an older couple in the yard saluting the statue, he claimed." Friday, September 21, 2001 Poem by W.H. Auden from 1939. Poem by Kipling. Lyrics on war from a Marxist propaganda film. Thursday, September 20, 2001 You've got to love the Weely World News. Thursday, September 20, 2001 Interesting discussion on Plastic on if it's okay to laugh now. Yes, I started it. But I'm not the one who put up the list of sick, sick jokes. Wednesday, September 19, 2001 "It is bad business to go into War without a target." I find the words of Hunter S. Thompson to be a strange comfort. Tuesday, September 18, 2001 Tuesday, September 18, 2001 Clear Channel provides list of songs it's stations are not to play. I was thinking of playing Frank Zappa's "Dumb All Over" on this week's SwaG!. Hey, it's not on the list. Monday, September 17, 2001 Idiot ignorant evil anti-American terrorists in Galesburg, Mich. No, I'm not talking about the people who ran the store. Monday, September 17, 2001 Saturday, September 15, 2001 "We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West. "And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program." Saturday, September 15, 2001 Friday, September 14, 2001 And I was worried that I'd get too worked up and do something tacky on the air this week. Thursday, September 13, 2001 We should only be seeking voices of reason right now, but, what the hell, here's Hunter S. Thompson: "This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force." Of course, I couldn't help but to look up his comments on this next. Thursday, September 13, 2001 A blog of comments from and links to NYC and related blogs. Thursday, September 13, 2001 Terrorists still in America. ... oh, wait. These are the terrorists who were born here. Wednesday, September 12, 2001 A long list of links on the attack on Kottke.Org. I just thought, why not just call it The Attack. Wednesday, September 12, 2001 Last night I became petrified--"What the hell am I going to play on SwaG! tomorrow night?!?" If you listen, you know that sometimes your host and the music he plays are both filled with a sort of snide humor, sense of future shock and chaos, and often seems to react to issues the host feels strongly about in current events (the "election"). I think about the usual freakish sets of music I play going on the night after the insane destruction people have been viewing over and over on TV, and I just think, could we just go on as usual? But then, the swine win if we let them change our lives. So SwaG! will go on as the tarnished symbol of American freedom that it is. In other news: There wasn't much yesterday if you were looking on the Web. If you were looking at the big media sites, anyway. Those were so clogged it was impossible to get to them. Even smaller sites like Plastic and Smirking Chimp were out and are still out. But then, there are the blogs. Not exactly reporting news, or if they are, not exactly reporting with a clear understanding of journalism, but they were an interesting forum for those like myself who sat at their computer all day trying to get work done while being unable to ignore the developing chaos coming from others' radios. Here's a few noteables: GuerrillaNews(dot)Org, Boing Boing, and here's links to a couple masses of voices: Blogger, Pitas. Much of the comments are seem to be a mass "What the hell!?!" but they're oddly comforting. I'm glad there doesn't seem to be an outpouring of irrational hatered--though the rational hatered is there. In local news... As vigils were held and people made plans to donate blood, the WMU students (I assume) who live in the house behind ours cranked their stereo to maximum volume, began shooting off fireworks while yelling and screaming like assholes. What were they doing, celebrating the fact that the crisis gave them a day off from school? Did they not know that the riot of last weekend (see Monday post) left some of us who live in town pissed off with the little assholes? (We're not including all WMU students in this last comment, just an awful lot of them.) Anyway, calls were made to the building's owner and to the cops. I was a little keyed-up from the day, so I resisted the urge to discuss the matter personaly with the young men. And in other news... Just before the rocket launch began at the house next door, I had rushed out to get gas. Word had spread that gas had shot up to $3 a gal in someplaces here. Saw one station, it was up to $2.07 ($2.99 for premium), saw the lot full of cars waiting to fill up. I didn't bother waiting. So late last night I hear that there'd been "gas panics" around the country. This morning there were reports of it being up to $5 a gal, and that it had begun to rise just a couple hours after the planes started crashing. This pisses me off on a whole other level. What is the excuse? Did they get advance word that bombs would start falling on Middle East oilfields? Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Well. All the news-oriented sites I usually check in the mornig are down or not responding. Of course I've been watching and listening to the news. TV and radio still work. This is just f---ed up. But we have to remember that we can't freak out. That's just what they want us to do--I guess. What do "they" want us to do? Do they really think that we'll just say, "Okay, you made your point. What do you want?" They aren't really down with American history, aren't they. Monday, September 10, 2001 Suddenly Kalamazoo remembers: "Oh, this is the weekend of the Lafayette street party." So, WMU students riot because... what, their neighboors want to take away their freedom to piss on their lawns? (see Aug. 22 post below) Sunday, September 9, 2001 We're suddenly getting hits from bizilians of people looking for Microsoft's Monkeyboy Ballmer because of the link to this video. This is from our post of Aug. 31, but here it is again. It's just that good. Yes, all of the SwaG! Web empire is made on a Mac. Sunday, September 9, 2001 Sunday, September 9, 2001 Sunday, September 9, 2001 Copy-protected CD's--the recording industry's new test of a method to cripple the "fair use" laws with technology--hit their first speed-bump. Saturday, September 8, 2001 You realize, don't you, that these are the end times? Friday, September 7, 2001 Revealed at last: The Definition of SwaG!. Why we get hits now and then from Australia. "Did you ever take 'the wallaby' along some dreary track/With that hideous malformation, called a swag, upon your back?" Wednesday, September 5, 2001 Remember that time when you were 5 years old and you went to Disneyworld in Ohio, and you met Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny and Bart Simpson, and Bart hit Bugs and kicked Mickey in the crotch, and then started urinating on them like that time Calvin whipped it out on Hobbes... you remember that, don't you? Wednesday, September 5, 2001 So, now we find that NASA's Viking missions found life on Mars? Or is this just more '70s nostalgia? Note: Tonight on Swag: "Hocus Pocus" by Focus. As you listen to it, stare up at the Christmas tree lights on your ceiling and think about robot arms sniffing Mars dust and microbes and BLOW YOUR FREAKIN' MIND, DUDE! Wednesday, September 5, 2001 Visit the new White House site. Tuesday, September 4, 2001 Who speaks and writes more good, a community college student or a graduate of Yale? Friday, August 31, 2001
Tuesday, August 28, 2001 Journalism students: this story has one of the best headline-photo combos I've ever seen. Just look at it and you don't need to read the story. But, you will read the story. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry, it will make you cry some more while giggling as you look for your medication. Tuesday, August 28, 2001 Commie Sci-Fi: The men then call for reinforcements, intending by sheer numbers to defeat us. But I am a veritable Hercules compared to these weak, flabby Americans. I can pick them up a dozen at a time and hurl them out of the way. So we start to battle our way out of the apartment, through this sea of weak capitalists. Friday, August 24, 2001 I know there's a lot of you out there who're thinking, "I'd like to see how Microsoft Windows works, but I just can't find a computer that has it installed." Well, just go here for a free demo of this innovative operating system. Wednesday, August 22, 2001 It's just about that time of the year. Here's what I want all you punks coming to WMU (and you K snobs) to remember: Getting drunk is okay, but that doesn't mean that you're forgiven if you act like an asshole. It's okay if you have caring, rich parents who give you a brand new car/SUV, but that doesn't mean that you're forgiven if you drive like an asshole. (New students only) Your music sucks now. It also sucked when you were in highschool. But it really sucks now. So try something new. If you piss in my yard, I will hit you in the kidneys with a baseball bat. Just some loving words of advise. Tuesday, August 21, 2001 She never saw the streets of Cairo, Monday, August 20, 2001 Reviews of Ghost World. Monday, August 20, 2001 From the Ghost World site. This is a movie I have to see. I must also get the soundtrack. Monday, August 20, 2001 Goddamnit, I hate Microsoft! From a Plastic post that also has a lot of info on how to fix the "fix": It seems that Microsoft has come out with a patch to Internet Explorer that secretly removes support for browser plug-ins. So, now IE users won't be able to view Quicktime (made by Apple, imagine that) or RealMedia files. Or, I guess, Flash files such as the lovely thing up there at the lefthand corner of the page giving you beautiful background music as you enjoy the bitchings of SwaG!. Sunday, August 19, 2001 I just got back. So I have an alabi: Bra-wearing suspect sought? BATTLE CREEK (NEWS 3) - Battle Creek police are searching for a brassiere-wearing man who chased a jogger in the Minges Creek Plaza shopping center last Friday. The woman was jogging through the parking lot area when a man began chasing her. She ran from the man and when she looked back, he pulled up his shirt to reveal he was wearing a white padded bra. The woman went into a Target store and called police. She was not touched. The suspect is a white male in his 30’s. He’s approximately 6-foot tall with a stocky build. He has dirty blond shoulder-length hair in a mullet style cut. He may also have a moustache. He was last seen driving a red pick-up. Anyone with information is asked to call Battle Creek police at 616-963-3353 or Silent Observer at 616-964-3888. Thursday, August 9, 2001 Daddy's going away for a while. Of course I'll be back. Here's something to play with while I'm gone. No. No it isn't a substitute for my affections. No, you can't come with daddy. Daddy's going to play with adults far away. Here, have a "cigarette." Now you can be just like a grownup! Bye, now. Thursday, August 9, 2001 Observing Obscure Culture, an interesting online mag for SwaG! listeners. Thursday, August 9, 2001 Could Michael Powell become the first black president? Well, the chairmanship of the FCC could give one a good head start, as long as you become the hero of the communications industry. From the story: "At the same time, Powell has been an outspoken critic of providing low-power radio licenses to community or religious groups, citing the "cost ... to existing stations that provide equally valuable service to their communities." He did not elaborate on how one of Clear Channel's vanilla Top 40 outlets can provide service on a par with that of an independent, or how a station relegated to the FM dial's nether regions could possibly harm the bottom line of a Dave Matthews-playing titan." Wednesday, August 8, 2001 "Survivor" Skupin will not run for Senate. This is the same guy who I saw on a public beach trading autographed glossies of himself for people's souls. If you signed a "spiritual decision card" then you got an autorgraph of a "Survivor" drop-out and got to sit on the right-hand side of Jesus! Wednesday, August 8, 2001 ... so Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch escaped the Planet of the SwaG!. They crash-landed their space pod on what seemed to be good, old PopEarth. But something wasn't quite right. They walked up the steps of the grand monument and (SPOILER ALERT) saw... "DAMN THEM! DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!!!" Tuesday, August 7, 2001 Sunday, August 5, 2001 Funny, disturbed Canadian not from Canada. (in funny forigner voice) I put this here now to read it later. You read it, too. Heh! Saturday, August 4, 2001 Friday, August 3, 2001 Movie a hit, despite lack of hot human-ape sex. Thursday, August 2, 2001 Pro-tap-water forces have forced Coke to remove their pages on the H2NO project. But you can find them here. I hear some people think it's "refreshing" to drink the hot black fluid from boiled ground-up beans. Eww! Thursday, August 2, 2001 Drink Think: "There are two areas I don't see Coke going into. I don't see them going into alcoholic beverages; I don't see them going into tap water." TAP water?!? HELL no!!! Wednesday, August 1, 2001 In our culture, it's all about choices. You go to a restaurant, and there it is--that glass of dull tap water. Yes, they give you a menu that points out various beverages, but you see the dull, boring tap water, and you feel like that's what you should be drinking. The thought might not even come across your brains that you could have a nice, refreshing Coke. Because Coke is It. And It is about time It slapped up that bitch Water. Read the responce from the public on Plastic. Wednesday, August 1, 2001 There was once a time, long long ago, when... LPs Roamed The Earth! Wednesday, August 1, 2001 Add N to (X) is now a porno band. Monday, July 30, 2001 Review of James Ellroy's "The Cold Six Thousand." I've stopped, for now, reading Ellroy. Maybe I'll start again. I don't know. I now know the smell of blood, and why good American leaders are taken down while the mundane are put up in their place, and about the evil ... the evil... Sunday, July 29, 2001 A New Yorker review on a book on the history and the cultural impact of caffeine. From the review: by the end of the eighteenth century coffeehouses numbered in the hundreds—most famously, the Café de la Régence, near the Palais Royal, which counted among its customers Robespierre, Napoleon, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Théophile Gautier, Rousseau, and the Duke of Richelieu. Previously, when men had gathered together to talk in public places, they had done so in bars, which drew from specific socioeconomic niches and, because of the alcohol they served, created a specific kind of talk. The new coffeehouses, by contrast, drew from many different classes and trades, and they served a stimulant, not a depressant. "It is not extravagant to claim that it was in these gathering spots that the art of conversation became the basis of a new literary style and that a new ideal of general education in letters was born," Weinberg and Bealer write. Sunday, July 29, 2001 Story on The White Stripes. They got played on SwaG! last Wednesday. I'd ignored them for a long time because their rumor didn't interest me and they and their CD's artwork looks like they do just the same-old "pop" "punk" which I hate, Hate, HATE! Christ I'm so sick of that crap. But they actually sounded pretty garagey. Like the stuff Detroit should be producing. Thursday, July 26, 2001 I've just begun a faith-based organization to help find host-mother volunteers to carry the 3,234,283,376 embryos to fruition that would otherwise be destroyed by stem-cell research, or tossed in the can if stem-cell research is forever banned. Are you interested? Send me an e-mail! Thursday, July 26, 2001 The strangest page of public posts on the Web. Some are sick and obscene, and some sincerely think that it's an acutal tribute/fan page for Donny and Marie. By the way, this is the REAL tribute site for Donny and Marie. And all the Osmonds. Why would Google lie? Wednesday, July 25, 2001 Once again, I'm a sucker for doing what I do on the air FOR FREE!!! Somebody give me a dollar; I need me a copy of the WSJ. Then again, I'm free to not have worries over who's ass to kiss, or how to operate in a multi-leveled system of kiss-ass in a media-outlet family of content providers. (Actually, that would be quite simple: When in doubt, kiss Dubya's ass.) Tuesday, July 24, 2001 Payola! Everytime I hear about this, it makes me feel like such a sucka DJ-MC for playing stuff on the air for free. Monday, July 23, 2001 NOOOOO!!!! Popo Bwana! I think the BBC took way too much delight in being able to use the verb "polling" in this story. Thursday, July 19, 2001 Well, as you know by now, Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat did not make it to Kalamazoo Monday night. If you didn't know, they had to cancel their tour when a drunk rear-ended their van. There's no major injuries, but I got an update last night that Quintron feels a bit hurt. Much of their equipment was damaged. They really want to try playing here again--it seems Quintron called Harvey's at about 2 a.m. Tuesday morning to say how sorry they were that they weren't there--so the show will be reschedualed, but we don't know when. Thursday, July 19, 2001 |
