Archive for January, 2004

Highly Recommended Diversions

Saturday, January 31st, 2004

The Nation open letter to Ralph Nader not to run for office this year. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2000? But then suppose, perhaps Ralph is actually a Republican undercover drone to begin with…
Reason, concise and on the mark as ever, with Rhetorical Weapons. Great links in that one.
The think tank, Center for [...]

WMDs and Intelligence: The Never-Ending Story

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

What does David Kay’s admission that there are no WMDs in Iraq prove? Interestingly enough, to either side of the political rugby game, it is the damning evidence they sought. For the Bush believers, it’s proof that it was the “intelligence” that was questionable all along, and not the president’s word. To those who doubt [...]

Fantasy Culture

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

You thought you’d seen it all for sale on Ebay. How about imaginary girlfriends? (courtesy of boing boing.)
It’s the ultimate in fantasy culture, in that the fantasy actually interacts with reality, but only in order to [...]

Saddam’s Lost Novels

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

I’d like to get my hands on these pulps…
Mr. Hussein would send Mr. Aziz manuscripts of novels he was writing, even as the American-led coalition was gearing up for war, Dr. Kay said.

Living on MLK

Monday, January 26th, 2004

NPR on all the “MLK” streets in America, some 600 of them. I currently live on MLK, and lived on one in Athens, GA. where amongst other surprises we were often visited by our landlord, sometimes at 3am, wanting an “advance” on rent, because he was low on money. You could say it was “in [...]

Elf Power and the City of the Eternally Young

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

Athens, the eternal sandbox for aging artists, is mixing it up again, and has captured the attention of Pitchfork. Looks like my bro McQ will be mixing it up with Andrew and company…Dude, I can’t believe they didn’t mention The Tom Collins!
Athens, GA’s Elf Power will release Walking with the Beggar Boys on April 6th. [...]

ManUnderStress Has Moved To Atlanta

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

Those of you reading this post are hitting my new server, which is apparently located at 55 Marietta building, downtown Atlanta, GA. I’ve switched to Page-Zone after the problems just kept piling up at Echolima, who are located in Canada. Maybe latency will improve too, for my local audience, you know, fewer router hops and [...]

ATLart

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

I never thought that in one night I would drink so much wine, see so much art in areas of Atlanta so seldomly frequented, attend the grand opening of “Slice,” watch Andy ride a horse for the first time in his life in Castleberry of all places, and end up drinking PBR at the Earl [...]

Back in Action

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

Well I’ll be damned…my website is back up…anyone miss it besides me? Time to change providers. Last excuse what that their internet provider cut them off due to a spammer. 2 day outage without notifying anyone. Where I come from people get hung for 2 day outages. That’s right, the datacenters of the wild wild [...]

Birthdays Suck

Thursday, January 15th, 2004

Goat Ravisher, Atlanta’s premier weblog, reports that Gee Dubya is paying me a visit this birthday, which is today, about right now actually.
Wait, my life is flashing before me…
It begins with a memory of seeing “Star Wars” in the theatre. That buttery popcorn, they don’t make it like they used to. Learning to ride that [...]