Today is devoted to beautiful things I’ve owned being rudely taken away from me by an uncompassionate god.
My 300d, aka, “The Ambassador.” December 2003 - February 2004. Shine on you crazy diamond…
I mourn in agony, listening to the only anthem that adequately expresses my hopeless rage, “First it giveth, then it taketh away…” -QOTSA

Funny thing about Ash Wednesday…
After a really bad day at work, consisting of bitter corporate email wars between people who have never met yet hate each other’s fucking guts with a passion unheard of, I crashed my goddamn new-old Mercedes on Monroe. Same road I totalled my Civic on 4 years ago. Fuck fuck fuck. […]

Over the years I’ve been piecing together a fantasy world to include things such as jetpacks and really funny non-lethal weapons (bubble wars, tickle machines for dictators, etc). Well, I have to admit I have always had a soft spot for catapults, one of the most ancient WMD, and within my lifetime just might try […]

Hilarious, repulsive and just plain surreal: the image art of Margot Knight. It’s proof that photoshop has purposes other than just making us laugh. Like this one:

UPDATE:
Come to think of it, the most recent photoshop scam we’ve seen shows how dangerous this stuff can be. And don’t forget about the infamous Iraq war photo.

IHT with a now and then of punk rock.
Many of New York’s original ’70s punks sprang from comfortable backgrounds: Debbie Harry and Patti Smith came from the New Jersey suburbs, the Ramones from Forest Hills, Queens. The difference is that back then, young punks ditched school, ran away, and moved to ramshackle apartments on […]

Together with my programmer/barber Mahesh in New Delhi, I bring you some exciting new changes to Man Under Stress. As you may or may not know, I don’t actually do the programming on this site, I outsource it overseas where it saves me zillions in funny money annually.
First of all, I have retired AutoBloggerTM, for […]

The peculiar trend of philosophico-political analyses that have become so popular since 9/11 and the Iraq war, bringing us “Straussian Neoconservatives” amongst other ideologue political think tanks, continue with Bush re-imagined as a Platonist. Wow, we’re getting out there huh? The article contends, based on Bush’s Meet the Press performance, that Bush perceives and knows […]

Just in time for V-day…does she love you or not? Find out without hiring a personal investigator. But my cynical intuitions on this beg you to abstain. Rather, repeat to yourself, the truth is not important, Iraq was an imminent threat, Frodo lives. We’re much happier in the dark, and secretly, we know we are.
And […]

I watched The Fog of War at Landmark Theatre tonight. Not at all the “anti-war” piece the trailer half-heartedly suggests, this film is pretty much McNamara’s life in McNamara’s words, with very little exchange with the director, Morris. Of course the focus is war, particularly McNamara’s service as Secretary of Defense dealing with the Cuban […]

This weekend, get your break dancing freak on at Breaklanta, out in Stone Mountain, which is apparently the hip-hop mecca of Georgia.
Other upcoming and ongoing International happenings in metro Atlanta.
My faves:

Georgia Perimeter College. “Africa in Latin America: Images from Havana, Cuba, San Jose and Peru”
Feb 12: Emory University. “Toward a New Middle East: The […]