Reason #4923 to go back to Amsterdam - The John Sinclair Radio Show, the poet’s new internet radio program, broadcast “live” from the cannabis coffeeshops of Amsterdam, can be heard here. And Steve Gebhardt’s full-length feature film biography, 20 TO LIFE: The Life & Times of John Sinclair, will finally introduce this legendary underground cultural warrior to mainstream audiences when the movie hits theatres, TV screens and DVD racks next year. A name from the past I've not heard of in some time. He's certainly in his element doing a radio show in Amsterdam. Will also look out for that film. Nods to wesunruh for the Link

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Good morning, world. Bought another keyboard...Yeah.



Here is a nice art collection I found at Fishbucket. Anne's not been feeling well. Go give her some love.

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Sigh...This horrific disaster has left me feeling so small and helpless. Too bad these countries weren't oil producers. We would have already been over there rescuing, rebuilding, and hoisting flags in record time.



URLs Gone Wild!!!

* IOffer Like Ebay. But not.

* The urinals of The Felix

* Foul Mouth Shirts



"Ah, the mirthless laugh of the damned. Hold your nose Smithers, we're going in." -Mr. Burns

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S**T. * can't t*pe *uck. 4 KE*S NO LONGER WORK ON M* KE*BOARD. Damn.



It's all about cut and paste.

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Merry Christmas!

Hope you enjoy your Christma-Hanu-Festi-Kwanz!

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Guess who sent me a Christmas card? Keith Richards. Jealous? Actually, he probably sent them to tons of people. You can view and send a Holiday Greeting from Keith Richards.com by clicking here.









Lately we've had Buy Blue, Choose The Blue and today I find The List, which is an ambitious compilation of blue stores and companies. Put in your state on the right side to check your stats. I'm still looking this one over and am not sure if all the states are listed or not. It began as an Ohio effort, so Ohioans (?) will find it very useful.

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Enjoy Winter Solstice!

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Did you freeze your ass off yet? We warmed up to a balmy 17° yesterday after setting a record low of 7° with only an inch of snow in the Asheville and Hendersonville area. Many of you are experiencing the same frigid conditions we are here in NC and worse. Some are enjoying summer like Susan in Australia and Kane in Hawaii. I know you guys in the Northeast are miserably cold.



Awesome Christmas light displays here. Compliments of Kim who's trying to stay warm in Canada.



Christmas lights extravaganza. You control them from your computer. link



Check your Magical Message for today.



You may as well read your Horoscope, too.



Bite Me

Have you seen BlogBites yet? Neat concept. Especially since they've featured my foul mouth a few times.



Today's Quote

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow...what a ride!!!



I brake for whales.

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Can I Get An Amen?

A New Mexico church will get to use hallucinogenic tea as part of its Christmas services, despite government objections. The tea contains DMT, a controlled substance and the Bush administration contends the hoasca tea used by the church is illegal and dangerous. [more...]



saturday morning me//

java #2/cinnamon toast crunch #1/splifferoo #1/

listening: River Guerguerian - The Courting/

long indian print skirt/denim shirt/tights/houseshoes/

dog at my feet/daughter asleep/

anticipating: our first snow tonight/

so how about you?/

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White Knuckle Express

This is the time of year that we recovering drug and alcohol addicts will white knuckle it, hoping to sail on through the holiday stress and parties without slipping. The time of year we must steer our car away from the liquor store. This time of year it's best to keep my blinders on when I see old playmates around town; step up the pace, and hit the breeze. Drinking and drugs were used so often to deal with my normal daytoday that it's so automatic to go there. After all this time and even in my dreams.

Sometimes I find that a warm geez or an iced anything with lime still wakes me with a smile and glow. And just when I start looking for old phone numbers and feel I might be the only junkie who feels this way, someone will confide their similar urges to me.

It always helps to know I'm not alone and together we'll get through another day, without singing any tired old platitudes; without any generic stepping going on. Strong in our weakness. Life, although not nearly as lively as before, really is good.

At the end of the day I can dust off the day's demons before turning in. Tick off the times I maintained direction, overcame weakness, kept it between the ditches. And with God/Goddess willing, I'll rise to battle another day.

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Is it still morning? Well, Good Morning! So what's new with you? I got an early start today running around. Teen daughter's (Skyler) last day of school is today and then she'll have a lovely 3 weeks off. Pass the eggnog, will ya? Okay. I'll behave.



Choose The Blue is another helpful tool that shows specifically where you money goes. Right off I see that I'll be using Barnes & Noble a lot more than I did previously. I should keep a list of these Blue-friendly companies in my wallet.





Earth First! We'll fuck up the other planets later.

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FOXBlocker is an innovative new product that filters out the FOX News network. Simply screw the filter into the back of your TV and never be exposed to right wing propaganda again (at least through FOX News). Using a proprietary technology, the FOXBlocker works to filter out FOX News from your cable lineup. Protect yourself and your family, or send one to a misguided right wing friend. [more...]



Farscape star Ben Browder will join the cast of SCI FI's original series Stargate SG-1. [more...]



ZeFrank's Create and Send your own Christmas Cards. These honking elves left me seriously bent.



Next mood swing in five, four, three......

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Five things that are definitely no longer manly.

Ahhhh the good old days, when rocker Tommy Lee was Pam-ramming in what's still the only sex tape worth watching, Michael Jordan was in the middle of a six championship, seven mistress run, and most of the bombs our President was dropping landed on his intern's dress. Good read found @ Gorilla Mask



On a typical night, Geissert will see about forty walk-ups. There are stats kept for grant purposes, and according to those figures, the typical person who arrives at the table is generally aged 35 to 40, white, and there to pick up on behalf of himself and another five friends. The most common needle size requested is the .28-gauge full barrel. Needle Exchange program in Berkeley and a fund raiser.



"Gay marriage will be completely legal in Canada very soon. It's been oddly ignored in much of the U.S. media and hasn't really been much discussed among those in the terrified red states except when, deep in the night, from their respective lumpy twin beds, they whisper to each other across the room as they pop their Ambien and stroke their portfolios and curse their very genitals: oh my God what's wrong with those freakin' Canadians? ..."

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Be the media you wish to see in this world.

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Gary Webb, 49, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from the San Jose Mercury News made America hold its breath in 1996 when he showed us proof of direct CIA involvement in drug trafficking, was found dead by two gunshot wounds to the head Saturday. more »



Buy Blue for Christmas. Companies divided according to corporate donations to the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. Do you think Amazon is red-loyal or blue-loyal? What about Starbucks? Go see for yourself.



Christmas Spirit Level 1: The Christmas Spirit at this level is somewhat like smoking marijuana for the very first time. You think that maybe you feel something, but you aren't quite sure. Either way, the holiday fudge tastes extraordinarily good. Kane's Seven Levels Of Christmas Spirit is worth the visit.



Gotta run - I've got some evergreen, a glue gun and 3 cups of espresso under my belt.

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Sunday Driving



A mixed-race, bisexual outsider who was socialized in the club culture of her small English town, Helen Walsh fled to Barcelona, Spain, at 16, where she worked fixing up prostitutes and johns before moving to Liverpool, cleaning up her act and sitting down to write a novel. Considered one of the raciest tales of British sex-and-drug culture since Irvine Welsh's "Trainspotting," "Brass" has earned Walsh a lot of hype and, because it's so well written, possible staying power as well. Worth looking into. more »



Crystal Ball Stolen - The crystal, used as a tool by mediums and for curing disease, belonged to maverick philosopher, mathematician and astrologer John Dee, a consultant to Elizabeth I. Fine, comprehensive post with graphics by DW on Dee @ Invisible College; more »



Santa got drunk yesterday. He cursed. He smoked. He took off his clothes in public. It was Santacon, an annual gathering of nasty Santas, in which some 500 naughty Clauses marched through the city, shouting, drinking, raising gentle mayhem. Santarchy; more »



Roald Dahl's Charlie & The Chocolate Factory directed by Tim Burton is looking mighty nice. Film Pics; seen @ Jenn's



Sunday Quote - In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me lay an invincible summer.

~Albert Camus

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Producer Don Was has said to Billboard that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have been writing together and that what they have come up with is magic and they hope to release an album in mid-2005. Was said: "Mick and Keith are writing songs together in a collaborative fashion that probably hasn't been seen since the late '60s. Getting better with age, you know. more »



Today's Quote

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.~ Maori Proverb



saturday morning me//

hazelnut coffee #2/vitamins/

½ krispy kreme cheesecake dognut--too rich/

drawstring pants/olive henley/black long vest/yoga flats/

my christmas tree looks so lovely/

if only someone would bring it in from the porch/

listening: kashmir by led zeppelin/

so how about you?/



Everybody who's ready for the holidays, please form a line on the right and wait for your spanking.

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Sundance Film Festival - January 20 - 30, 2005

Just a few of the films I'd like to see next year.



Strangers With Candy / Director: Paul Dinello; Screenwriters: Stephen Colbert (From The Daily Show), Paul Dinello, and Amy Sedaris. Absolultely LOVED the television series which was cancelled after three years, and can't wait for the movie. more »



This Revolution - Director: Stephen Marshall is a topical story about Iraq and the relationships involving protesters, soldiers, photogs, and more. Synopsis and video can be found on GNN.



What Is It? / Director & Writer: Crispin Hellion Glover. What Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film from the visionary mind of Crispin Glover that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes. Fairuza Balk does a voice in the film.



Reefer Madness (The Musical) / Director: Andy Fickman; Screenwriter: Dan Studney and Kevin Murphy. (A remake of the classic which has been a recent play and was released on DVD this year). We all know the story by now of how someone ends up at the house of evil, takes a hit from a funny cigarette and freaks out.

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America's Biggest Dick - Dramatic Shorts Category, Director: Bryan Boyce. Unable to find any info on this one, but if it's about somebody named Richard, I'm going to be ill.



Sundance Festival

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One, Two, Three



* Outstanding piece on the twentieth anniversary of the Bhopal disaster by Matt Taibbi. more » It's still painful to read about Bhopal. And Chernobyl, and Rwanda, and Darfur, and on and fucking on, but just feeling uncomfortable when reading about it still makes me feel mighty small.



* KarmabanQue - "...hit offending companies not with sticks and stones, but where it really hurts --their stock prices." "This is brilliant" - Lawrence Lessig. (KarmabanQue gives boycott advice, not investment advice. Still perusing this one.)



* Steven Speilberg's remake of H G Wells' War of the Worlds, starring Tom Cruise, was filming recently in Brooklyn. They're currently filming in upper New York state. The release is scheduled for Summer 2005 with this tagline "They're already here". So are the Martians already on Earth? Very intriguing and different. imdb link

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Too funny. T-Shirt Hell has a complete range of slogans on shirts. From the merely funny to the totally obscene.







Just because your gift sucks, doesn't mean your wrapping paper has to. T-Shirt Hell features gift wrap, as well. Gang-Bang Elves wrapping paper and other styles.

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Weekend Webtrail



New article on Chilean-born director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who is best known for his psychedelic, violent movies (El Topo, The Holy Mountain), but he has also been, at one time or another during his 75 years on Earth, the mime protégé of Marcel Marceau, a surrealist performance artist, an esoteric comic-book author, and a tarot card reader. He recently spoke about "Psychomagic," a healing practice developed by Jodorowsky that "uses the language of the subconscious to undo our deepest knots, phobias, fixations, and obsessions." more »



Keith Richards and Johnny Depp hire CREEM hacks to polish first draft of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Treasures Of The Lost Abyss? more »



How to use a hand puppet to get dates. Hey, guys, you may have been doing it all wrong. Link via jwalk



Watch Me Turn 30 - is a photo documented blog that's nicely executed.



James Lee Burke - One of my favorite authors with a new article in January Magazine. more »



Pool betting on Dylan's setlists. 60 Minutes interview Sunday night was good. link



Haiku For You

I've been abducted

And replaced by a geezer

Though she wears my clothes



Today's Quote

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. ~Nietzsche



Finally. My server was down over the weekend to move from MA to NY and is due to be up and running today by noon.

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Big Media Clamps Down on Free Speech

CBS and NBC are refusing to air an ad produced by the United Church of Christ (UCC) because it advocates religious inclusion. The ad shows bouncers turning away a variety of people at the door of a church – including ethnic minorities and two men who may be a homosexual couple. The announcer says, "Jesus doesn't turn people away. Neither do we. No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey you are welcome here." (You can watch the advertisement here). In a letter to the UCC, CBS is refusing to air the advertisement because the commercial "touches on the exclusion of gay couples and other minority groups by other individuals and organizations." Also, CBS found the ad "unacceptable" because "the Executive Branch has recently proposed a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman." NBC similarly declared the ad "too controversial." The ad has been accepted and will air on a number of networks, including ABC Family, AMC, BET, Discovery, Fox, Hallmark, History, Nick@Nite, TBS, TNT, Travel and TV Land. Email CBS and NBC and tell them to air the advertisement because everyone in this country – not just the Bush administration – should be able to freely express their opinions.

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Trio TV has been cancelled by DirecTV, (satellite tv service) beginning at the first of the year. My husband and I were just discussing that injustice last night when we saw a commercial for an upcoming Christmas Special with Jessica Simpson and her husband.

Said he, "Who in the hell put them on TV to entertain the masses?"



"The same people who voted for Bush for president," said I.



"You can't be serious. Are there that many people who actually like this crap?"



I motioned toward the window. "See all these houses up and down the street? 51% of them are entertained by this kind of crap."



Shaking his head, "...boggles the fucking mind."

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Santacon

Are your Christmas traditions becoming banal? Does tree-trimming seem trite, caroling too commonplace, roasting chestnuts a little too warmed-over? Santacon began in San Francisco in 1994 as an event orchestrated by the local chapter of the Cacophony Society.



Santarchy, (or Santacon,) is the annual Santa Claus hell-raising, pub-crawl, celebration held each December in various cities around the world. In Toronto, about fifty people dress as Santa and cause trouble on a pub crawl. Their Toronto Rampage, is planned for Dec 18th. The Washington,DC Santarchy will be held this Saturday, Dec 4th. Detroit is finalizing their plans.



Take a look through these 2003 archives. Other Santarchy's can be researched further on Yahoo Groups Santaconvan, or LiveJournal Santarchy, or Google your town + Santarchy for your local event and go get yer Ho on.

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Canada prepares for Bush's visit today in Ottawa and in Halifax tomorrow. But Canada hasn't completely refused Bush with regards to the US/Iraq war. I read that Canadian government sources say Ottawa will eventually commit military instructors to help train Iraqi army officers, provided it's done in neighbouring Jordan.



"Hey, Canada, if you just help us train Iraqi soldiers in Jordan, it's not like you're really helping us with the Iraq war effort."



Although Bush has Canada's blouse off and is rounding third base heading for the big score, Canada won't give up the big prize. (of sending troops to Iraq) They have a "No To Bush!" Committtee ready to greet him today to show him just how the majority of Canada stands.



(Here's the "Bush Arrested" Indymedia parody link ». Another comprehensive protest site contains a live cam. More goodies link »)

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Boycott Christmas? I'm for many boycotting ideas, but I'm going to pass on the boycott Christmas one. I abhor the pillaging atmosphere in the stores and some other aspects of this joyous season, but boycott Christmas? Count me out.



How obscene is that Greedfest that tv's Oprah Winfrey has on each Christmas? Where they all squeal like stuck pigs when they see shiny stuff coming their way? That whole scene really chaps my ass. I try to understand and appreciate what the holiday season is really about, but I see Christmas through new eyes since my sister, Robin's close call last year.



She was admitted to the hospital on December 23, 2003, and in ICU for 9 days, discharged to a step-down unit for a few weeks, and later to a rehab facility for a few more months. She's my only sibling and is two years older ok, younger than me. For the first 5 days, we didn't know if she'd live or not.



During her hospital stay I remember seeing our family Christmas trees decorated beautifully, with presents still unwrapped under the tree after Christmas. You recall the guerilla gift giving, heirloom ornaments, frenzied wrapping, fighting for parking spaces, fretting about back orders and shipping delays and you gotta question why it all seemed so damned important a few short weeks ago. What good is trying to have a great Christmas if you've no one there to share it with?



I DO enjoy the holidays and the gift giving, the family gatherings, the smiling faces, the decorating and baking and all the cooters (Southern for accoutrements) of Christmas. But my heart is in a new place as I maintain a new holiday perspective. More than she can ever know, this year Robin is Christmas to me.

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