* {blogging pays} - Did you get your big fat check for $13.86? It was a settlement payment on a class action suit about overcharging for music cd's. Thanks to our blogging community for initially talking it up last year, I got mine a few weeks ago.



* March For Women's Lives - April 25, 2004



* Linda Bucklin's Fractal Art. [via - burp]



* Miami Herald columnist and research editor, Liz Donovan, has spent some time in the NC mountains as well as in New York and London, and keeps a weblog at the paper slap full of bi-weekly link love. Research editor for a major paper? That would be a neat job.



* How long is your morning commute to work? New York is #1 with an average 38.4 minutes. See how your city ranks here.



Don't Be Sexist - Bitches Hate That.

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THE UNDERGROUND PRESS

Did you ever read/see any of the great underground newspapers of the late 1960's - mid 1970's in the US? There was The East Village Other (NY), The Great Speckled Bird (ATL), Black Panther, Berkeley Barb (Berkeley, CA), LA Free Press, The Paper, of East Lansing, Michigan, and many more?

I was a faithful Speckled Bird reader. We bought these most of the time from people on street corners in Atlanta; on the corner of 14th St, where all the other freaks hung out. As surely as you'd see a Bird vendor around there, you'd also see someone selling flowers for a small fee to wear in your hair or wherever. And you knew who was selling "what" "where". And someone was in a doorway playing guitar; a few bumming spare change passing by. All waiting for the next musical, sexual, or pharmaceutical experience.

Receiving The Last Whole Earth Catalog was a spiritual experience. Sort of a hippie Sears catalog and was one of the very few books we had at Peace Tree (a lakeside commune in Tennessee) when we first began. It was all about survival, metaphysics, learning to grow organic, live natural, how to build a shelter-- how to build or make just about anything. Stewart Brand (Burning Man) was the founder. We've still got one around the house someplace.

Many college libraries have some of these newspapers on Microfilm. Some are for sale on Ebay. Why are there no equivalent newspapers/websites? "Where is that one great progressive balls to the wall website that has it all?" Music, protest and boycott info, in-depth interviews, sex (& relationships), drugs, literature? more»

from the archives

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Sore Loser? Rumours are flying about Bill Murray's sour public response to Sean Penn's win in the best actor category. "If I knew this was going to happen, I wouldn't have bothered coming."



Molly Ivins on the Haiti issue.



Excellent photos of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) in Iceland. Click on link for the thumbnails. [via email]



Rolling Stone, Ron Wood, off the wagon, again. Damn, at 60 years old when is he going to get it? So uncool.



Apathy, party of one? Edwards is out. Lurch vs the Cowboy. Guess I'll be voting for and supporting Kerry and I couldn't be more complacent about it.



{Quote For Today} (let's hear if for normal days...)

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



Moshes to Yanni.



thanks for all the healing vibes....my head is much better today.

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The Girl Found To Be Alive story is such a great testament to Mother's love and intuition. I want to see this story play out and expect a made-for-television movie next year.



Forecast for today is light blogging. Migraine overcast with thunderous headache developing. Chance of misery... 100%.



Bush to stimulate economy with magic dildo.

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ARISTIDE SAYS 'I WAS KIDNAPPED'

Multiple sources that just spoke with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide told Democracy Now! that Aristide says he was "kidnapped" and taken by force to the Central African Republic. Congressmember Maxine Waters said she received a call from Aristide at 9am EST. "He's surrounded by military. It's like he is in jail, he said. He says he was kidnapped," said Waters. She said he had been threatened by what he called US diplomats. According to Waters, the diplomats reportedly told the Haitian president that if he did not leave Haiti, paramilitary leader Guy Philippe would storm the palace and Aristide would be killed. According to Waters, Aristide was told by the US that they were withdrawing Aristide's US security. Didn't we install him to begin with? And now we kick him out? Although the situation is deeper than I can comprehend, I'm still more than a little tired at the US's global bullying. [via: Democracy Now, and Infoshop]



* Jimmy Page house not for sale, fuck you very much.

* Andre 3000, is set to play Jimi Hendrix.

* Neil Young's Greendale, the movie.



{today's quote}

He who know he has enough is rich. ~Tao Te Ching



Please remain seated until this ride has come to a complete stop.

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