Quote For The Day

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

~George Bernard Shaw





saturday morning me//

old ETSU tee/granny panties...it's true/(laundry day)/

can't be expected to wear thongs EVERYday/

high pony tail/straight me/benson&hedges #3/

sounds-audioslave:like a stone/

cuban coffee #2--just whistle, it'll come/

packing up supplies/going to the lake/

how about you?/



Kicking Ass and Leaking Gas.

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::Mississippi Judge Ordered to Remove Twelve-foot Burning Cross From Courthouse - Supporters of Judge Marburger held hands on the courthouse steps and sang choruses of "Amazing Grace" and "My Mammy" during an overnight, cross-light vigil.



::Independent info on the VMA's from the always entertaining Gothamist. But is anybody else sick of Madonna's "Bet I Can Still Shock You" phase? Too, too sad. Sadder still is the lemmings who play along. (Snarky, part of one?)









::Enjoy Your Weekend!



Blogger is totally freaking out---losing my template; I had 1/2 a page for most the day and template was all fucked up, with codes repeated, etc.

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Hello, Friday. Ready for me?





Robert Anton Wilson For Governor [via: stare]





::Operation TIPS-TIPS: Report TIPS informants

To combat this menace called the TIPS Program, turn in the informants that are spying on you. The meter reader, mailman, etc.







"Inspired by the gutsy attitude of a fine lady and her last wish we are working on getting Bush out of office and effect protest dynamics at the same time!" [Maggie also posted about Sally this week.]





Burning Man Bingo, by Lev Johnson. (Right-click on the picture and click on Zoom-In)







::Bushism [via: a changin' times]

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. (Beaverton, OR, Sep 25, 2000)



I'll bet I can piss you off from here.

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Ah, Thursday....one of my seven favorites days of the week.



Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace, by Douglas Rushkoff

Rushkoff, a New York-based journalist, goes west to Berkeley for a look inside Cyberia-the emerging countercultural terrain of computer hackers, "smart" drugs, house music, and a range of alternate "cyberpunk" lifestyles and anarchic philosophies. This largely sympathetic report from the latest frontier will undoubtedly strike many older readers as outrageous, but others (especially those with clear memories of the 60's) may find much of the rhetoric familiar, even nostalgic. In fact, many of the ingredients hark back to the Berkeley scene of nearly three decades ago: the text is full of references to acid trips, pagan rituals, and Grateful Dead concerts, and even Timothy Leary puts in an appearance at a virtual reality demonstration. Go here to read it all online. Very informative. [via (ripping off): the most excellent stare]



::Black Table's Primer on Collegiate Preparedness

A whole summer went by and now it's time to head back to the wonderful fairyland called college, where responsibility is kept to a minimum and partying is a club sport. New shoes, new haircuts, and new book bags -- why leave your penis out on all the fun? Back-to-school time not only means there is massive amounts of homework and studying to do, but also massive amounts of casual, consensual sex. So, dress your little feller up into something nice and comfortable before he goes trolling through the bushes.





100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time - According to Rolling Stone magazine. Not hard to figure out who's number one. I was so fortunate to see him once. And I'll never forget a moment of it.



::MTV VMA tonight. You can still vote for Viewer's Choice award. Nominated are: Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, 50 Cent, & Good Charlotte. Christina Aguilera threatens to wear a Nun outfit. The Sun reports Courtney Love has pulled out of presenting tonight because of a disaster over hair extensions. ("Squauwk! Yeooowww! You Royally Fucked Up My Fucking Hair, You Stinking Cunt--now you must die," Courtney didn't say.)



::Bummer Chinese Fortune Cookies



::Splut Photos - Very nice.



I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Good Morning to you....



::MTV Europe's Burma Campaign

MTV Europe are launching a new campaign urging the release of Burmese human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi. The campaign - which has been supported by Coldplay's Chris Martin, Bono, Macy Gray and Sir Bob Geldof - will feature promos across all the European MTV and VH1 channels from Wednesday. The promos urge TV viewers to visit websites where they can petition UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to refer her arrest to the Security Council. "We have to take a stand against this gross violation of human rights," said Chris Martin. "The world's leaders aren't doing enough to rectify the situation in Burma and this campaign can provide a global call for Aung San Suu Kyi's release." [More >>]



Some days you're the statue and others you're the pigeon.

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.....Good Morning



::Women's Equality Day

Today marks the anniversary of the 1920 proclamation of the Nineteenth Amendment to the USA Constitution, which gave the vote to women in that country. It is also known as Susan B Anthony Day after the feminist.



::Pigasus for President

"...the nomination of the boar hog Pigasus for President of the United States by the Yippies had been the most "transcendentally lucid" political act of the twentieth century…", Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy. This week marks the 35th anniversary of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention and all the surrounding bullshit fiasco, and fun; depending on how you looked at it. [via: Wilson's Blogmanac]



::Throw The Bum Out - Sure are a lot of sites cropping up dedicated to the ousting of Resident Bush lately.



::Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Read your daily Dharma Quotes, too.



::Orgy Blog



::Warren Zevon

The Warren Zevon documentary of the making of his final album Sunday night on VH1 didn't disappoint. The last cut was done at his home under a fog of a recognizable morphine haze as you can see he's fading fast.



::TV Pundits Weigh In

Finally, a candidate who can explain the Bush administration's positions on civil liberties in the original German." ~Bill Maher, on Schwarzenegger running for Governor.



"The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?" ~David Letterman



"They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger." ~Craig Kilborn





::MAY 2003

Dear Parents:

Your little darling is really working my last nerve.

One more month and you get her back.

Sincerely,

Your child's Teacher



AUGUST 2003

Dear Teachers:

She's b-a-a-a-c-k.

Sincerely,

Mom



Some say the glass is half empty, some say the glass is half full. I say, are you going to drink that damn thing or not?

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Hello Monday. Can we just collectively agree that it sucks and move on?



::Care for some Word Chowder? [via: idle type]



::Oh, George

Oh George is dedicated to the proposition that the American people are smarter than Bush thinks we are. [via: idle type]



::1000 Reasons To Dump Bush

Is that all?



::21 Grams

21 Grams is the weight we lose when we die. It's also the name of a movie starring Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro due out Nov 14. Ah, Benicio. Sounds very intriguing.



::Bring It On, Part II

A Democratic programmer has made a bet with Georgia officials: Roxanne Jekot, a 51-year-old computer program developer from Cumming, GA, said she and a few expert friends could crack Georgia's $54 million touch-screen voting system in a matter of minutes. Bring it on, said state election officials. Odds of corrupting the software undetected at 1 billion to one. (Sure like to follow up on this one.) [via: Suburban Guerilla]



Fun Site Of The Day

Arse I Am.



Quote Of The Day

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anaïs Nin



I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.

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Yeah, it's Sunday. Go back to bed.





Ten Year Anniversary of Drums Around the World is an annual simultaneous world wide drumming day. Saturday and Sunday, August 23 & 24 in Amherst, MA.



Stones postpone London gig as Jagger falls ill with flu.



Recall Bush

George W. Bush has failed to provide our country with responsible and effective government. Sign the petition. [via: samizdat]



"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character..." I still cannot see or hear these words without some formidable reaction--- tears, chills, quiet contemplation. August 28, 1963, and now coming up on the 40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech which was celebrated this weekend. Race relations still have a long way to go to make that dream a reality; but the seed was planted with King's influence on that August day in 1963. (Tom Paine site weighs in)



Today's Quotation

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: "I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day." When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

~Epictetus (c. 55-c. 135 CE), Phrygian Stoic philosopher The Golden Sayings of Epictetus



Visiting this site is like one long orgy of euphoric joy.

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I am SO behind in my blog love. Since moving about 3 wks ago, I've been inside a nest-feathering /decorating/ unpacking whirlwind and haven't been online much at all. As soon as things settle down a bit more, I'll be around to hassle visit you again.



::Schwarzenegger's Ties To Ken Lay And Enron - Conceptual Guerilla let's the air out of it. (How'd I miss this site?)



::Countdown to Election Day: 525 Reasons to Dump Bush.



::MTV - The Magazine.



::And MTV's VMA Blog.



::Kafka's Metamorphosis [last 3 links via: fimoculous]



TV News

VH1-Sunday @ 10:00 - Warren Zevon Special

TRIO TV showed Jimi Hendrix's last performance, Cream's Farewell Tour, Neil Young 1971, and more last night. Check listings to see if it'll be on again.





It's the weekend. Whatcha going to do? Order a Quick Condoms Official Product Tester T-Shirt. Or you could go for the Two Fer One Sale - on Play-Safe Thongs; you also get a condom in the pocket. Or spring for a 'glow in the dark' condom.



Types of condoms:

Latex

Polyurethane

Ribbed

Thin

Small.........SMALL? Who in the hell would order a SMALL? Even ol' ThimbleDick would ask for at least a size Large.



[Play-Safe Thongs via: kane blues see what you started?]



saturday morning me//

cappuccino #2/oatmeal cookie #?/grapes/

marlboro #3/coughing up a lung/

captain reading the paper, rolling his own/

sweet daughter's spead out in bed/

sweet chow's head on my toes/

navy tee/navy sweat shorts/flip-flops/

hey, how about you?/



Kevorkian for White House Physician.

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Good morning to you. I'm so glad you stopped by.



Portraits - Century Project by Frank Cordelle His respect and caring for women is very much a part of each photograph. [via: Shirl's]



SoBig.F Virus - I just put together that the SoBig virus was what jammed up my email box Wednesday. When I pulled up my email, I saw I had 238 emails and they were still coming in as fast as they could. With subject lines like, Your details, Thank you!, Re: Thank you!, Re: Details, Re: Re: My details, Re: Approved, Re: Your application, Re: Wicked screensaver or Re: That movie. And with 238 emails, I had them all. Luckily, I deleted all those emails. I never open anything if I don't recognize who it's from.



edited to add: Rock Stars and their Parents, 1971. Grace Slick, Frank Zappa, Ginger Baker, etc.



The smoke I’m blowing up your ass is also good for the environment.

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Good morning to you.



While Attorney General John Ashcroft distracts us by parading around the country touting the Patriot Act, the equally dangerous, overly broad Victory Act bill is making the rounds through Congressional offices. The full name of the bill is the Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act of 2003. [via: talk left]



"Did a young woman every think you were homosexual just because you wouldn't have sex with her? Be serious! Were you ever taunted and made to feel bad or 'uncool' because of your choice? But most of all, be real. Kids can sense a phony a mile away." Inquired Al Franken of John Ashcroft recently to include in his upcoming book. [more]



BlogTV - Still trying to figure out exactly what this is used for. [via: 601am]



Dalai Lama-palooza? The Dalai Lama comes back strong in September, with the hype of a concert tour.



Phish's Mike Gordon arrested for taking pictures of 9-year-old girl in a secluded boathouse after Jones Beach concert. The girl's father is described as a "Hells Angels leader." Are pervs more rampant now, or are we just more aware of them with all the media saturation?



Photo Portal to the Art, Technique, History and Culture of Photography for my photo blogging friends. [via: iconomy]



Today's Quote:

"They're still at it, so I'm still at it."

Daniel Ellsberg, American peace activist

Source: Late Night Live, August 20, 2003



I still miss my ex-husband. But my aim is improving. {Hi, Jamie.}

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Good morning to you.



Thas right. Keep smiling while Blogger's fucking me yet again. And he's never once taken me out to dinner.



'Dirty List' exposes companies who are directly or indirectly helping to finance one of the most brutal regimes in the world," said John Jackson, Director of Burma Campaign UK. An updated 'Clean List' of companies who have pulled out or have policies not to trade with Burma is also released today.



Fun Gender Genie tool that determines your gender based on your writing. It guessed my writing correctly as Female. [via: 601am]



Oh yea, the kiss is free .. .. but ya gotta give me $5 for the antidote.

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Good Tuesday morning to you.



Have you seen Pirated Sites? It lists an original designed site and the rip-off site. [via: tenth muse]



New Wave Photos 70s & 80s -A Flock of Seagulls, Psychedelic Furs, Kid Creole, BLondie, Thomas Dolby, etc.



Guess The Age - See photos and guess the age; then see how far you're off. (Remember to duck unless you have a pop-up blocker--flying pop-up invasion.)



Rerun: Ze's Page



Happy Birthday to former President Bill Clinton today. I read where he'd recently slimmed down after following the South Beach Diet. There's been many favorable reviews about it.



I found a wild and crazy Tuesday Is Chooseday meme at Jen's today. It's one of those: "Would you rather....Or....?"



And then there's the guy who moved in after he left - One-Term pResident



listening: The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Joan Baez



I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.

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Happy Monday morning, dahlinks.

Let's hope Blogger can hang onto my template this week. My Friday post also got lost.



Susan is the #8 most common female name. How common is your name? Not the first time I've been called common. Believe it.



Tish got her nose pierced this weekend. I didn't do anything nearly that exciting. And Shirl is back from her Montana trip.



Still Rotten After All These Years - Johnny Rotten blasts Avril and Kelly Osbourne. Find more here. The Sid and Nancy movie (with Gary Oldham) has been on this weekend again.



Throw Your Ching.



Quote For Today

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

~Xenocrates



I love the way you stick to your guns, as long as you don't point 'em at me.

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Good morning.

Blogger somehow misplaced my template Friday, so I had to reconstruct another one.



::Pot charge may lead to huge tax bill If a Haywood County man arrested this week is convicted of a marijuana-growing charge, he'll owe North Carolina $130,000 in taxes for the 30 plants. The excise law allows North Carolina to tax people convicted of drug charges based on the amount of drugs linked to them. Well, that just about sucks.



::Man Cuts Off Own Penis to Cure Sex Addiction

Police said the man did not want his penis to be reattached but were unable to say if doctors had complied with his wishes. I wonder if he left any heart-broken women behind because of his newfound surgical skills.



::The list of Fair and Balanced Web Sites continue to grow. What you going to do about it, Fox? Blah, Blah, Blah, is keeping score. Over 300 Weblog sites and counting.



::Carry On Together - Neil Young has joined David Crosby's CPR side project on the entertainment lineup for the 2003 Santa Ynez Valley Music Festival, which will take place Sept. 28 in Los Olivos, CA. I'd love to see them altogether again. The first thing I always play when I pick up a 12-string is "Helplessly Hoping".



::Oscar has a fun Anger Hostility Quiz on his site.



::A panel of critics has chosen the 50 worst artists in music history. All these tone-deaf pud pullers that have the gumption to rate musicians really amaze me.



::Voices From The Underground - features old images of issues from the Berkley Barb (Berkley, CA), The Great Speckled Bird (Atlanta, GA), Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC), and more.



Haiku

no way I can stop

smoking is my only vice

that and the whoring



Quote For Today

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. ~Oscar Wilde



Stop fucking with my power chor....

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Good Morning.....



::Coming soon - Twister Duvet. I played that without the duvet, but we called it Kama Sutra.



::The Original Blogger - Presidential Candidate Bob Graham "Do my 4,000 color-coded, laconic notebooks over the last 30 years count?" And the sheep go marching on...



::Hosted by Billy Bob Thornton, Inside/Out: Warren Zevon follows the songwriter through his personal journey with this terminal illness and chronicles the development, production, and impact of his album The Wind. Sunday, August 24.



::blog finds

Thought Blog

London Mark



Quote For Today

I have to be the Zen master when the soldier at the gate gets condescending. ~Salam Pax, Baghdad Blogger



Too namby-pamby new-age tofu-licking pro-sex liberal for ya?

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::Does This Blog Make My Ass Look Fair And Balanced? Fox News filed suit against humorist Al Franken, and Lisa at Ruminate This decided to go with a new tagline on her website. I may change my tagline from "Does This Blog Make My Ass Look Big?" to "Does This Blog Make My Ass Look Fair And Balanced?" This exercise is reminiscent of Davezilla and a company that sent him the 'cease and desist' letter for using a picture similar to Mozilla's logo on his site. Soon blogtopia was inundated with "zillas" in his support.



::Miss Lola Belle- A blog from Beverage Manager Lola on Rocco DiSpirito's reality show, The Restaurant. Behind the scenes - Lola Style. [via: gawker]



::Antiquities Of The Iluminati - Networking the higher learning.



::Can't get your site to pull up, Theo. Yesterday OR today. Going to go investigate more...



Quote For Today

As human beings, we share what is real. Joy, sorrow, care, courage, and tenderness are real. Tears are real, and so is laughter. These are the currency of the heart. They are meant to be exchanged.



Pull up a dryer and sit a spell.

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You are "Uncle Black"



Which Mark Ryden Painting Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

[via: very black]



By the way, for any Blogger users out there, I saw on their homepage that they'll be down at 12:00 PST (midnight) tonight for about an hour while they work on the site.

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Linkslut Rides Again

Good Morning....



::There's a website called Clean Flicks where you can order videos and have them "clean" it first before they send it to you. By "cleaning" it, they'll take out the profanity, nudity, excessive violence, etc, and send it to you.



::How to easily and quickly change your text size. Saw this little trick on J-Walk. Hold Down the CTRL Key and the Mouse Wheel Will Zoom Text Size in Internet Explorer, most of the time; and Mozilla all of the time.



::Blatant Right Wing Fox News Channel sues Humorist Al Franken over slogan. Franken's upcoming book is titled, "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right," which is a take on Fox's slogan "Fair and Balanced". (Fair and Balanced Right Wing Conservative News, would be the more appropriate slogan for the Fox Network.)



::"Everytime you masturbate, God kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens."



::Six Degrees Of Johnny Depp.



::VH1's "I Love The Seventies" show is coming soon. I loved the seventies, too. Though most of it was pretty much a blur.



Quote For Today

The more you search for Truth

outside yourself,

the farther away it gets.



Can I trade my job for what's behind door #2?

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::I wonder how Warren Zevon is getting along. He wasn't feeling very well in April and sadly, living with a terminal disease has got to drag you down pretty quickly.



::Do penis enlargement pills work? One weblogger is documenting his experience with the pills. Sorry, no pictures.



::White House For Sale - Tracking the special-interest contributions to President Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign.



::US admits it used napalm bombs in Iraq - The more we uncover about the war in Iraq, the dirtier it gets.



::"Its time to social engineer the texting, blackberry-checking, cell-phone sheep that promote this waste of public space. Flash Mobs: Your 15 minutes are over. Disperse now."

Now there's Anti-Mob site and an Anti-Mob Project, and Flashhack. Or for info or to sign up for Flash Mobs in your area, go here, here, or here.



Quote For Today

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return.

~Mary Jean Iron



Fond of dead flowers, spiders, nipple rings--- all the usual girlie stuff.

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Good morning. It's a lovely morning. Now any morning qualifies for lovely if it's not raining. Overcast is good. Hazy and misty is still good. I'm in mourning for the sun and this too much rain action sucks out loud.



::"My saints aren't in the self-abnegation category," he says. "They're lusty, hard-drinking, partying saints." View Josh Gosfield's art in his Saint of the Month club. [via nytimes]



::EGad-Connecting shopaholic shut-ins with the opportunists willing to bleed their bank accounts dry.



Fun pic of the day. Too much? Yeah, I thought the bow was a little much, too. There's also a picture of the mister. [via: anne]

{i feel a 'theme week coming on...' next, i'll show you how to make your own 'spotted dick'.}



::Quote For Today

Your vision will become clear when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. ~Jung



Plays with matches.

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Good morning.....



::Jane's Addiction's guitarist Dave Navarro and Carmen Electra to marry in November after a 2 yr engagement.



::An exhibition containing many Rolling Stones photos previously unseen by the public will go on display Aug. 30 in a London gallery. "The Rolling Stones: An Unseen Diary" features candid snapshots of the band taken by photographer Christopher Simon Sykes in 1975. I've not seem Mick jump that high lately.



Strangest thing I've seen on the web lately. Testicular Implantation For Pets. After neutering, give Fido that natural look. All sizes available. And get yourself a keyring.



::Queen stage musical We Will Rock You opened Thursday in Melbourne, Australia. Robert De Niro is one of the financial backers of the musical.



::Fox Edits Out Comment by Bryant on Show - Fair and balanced my aching ass.



::Quote For Today

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. ~Anäis Nin



saturday morning me//

camo capris/black tank/barefootin'/

espresso/cheerios/grapes/

daughter lurking/captain tinkering/

sounds: sirens & refrig humming/

#2 marlboro betwixt my teeth/

how's about you?/



Pull my finger.

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