Thursday, October 23, 2003
Another One Bites the Dust
When I started seeing the reports last night, I figured this was on of those internet hoaxes. Apparently it's real. Oh well, okay.
Folk-punk singer/songwriter Elliott Smith has died, an apparent suicide, according to the Los Angeles County Department of the Coroner's office. Smith's body was found in his apartment, in the Silverlake section of Los Angeles, by a female friend, who took him to a local hospital at approximately 12:18 p.m. on Tuesday.
He was pronounced dead at Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center just over an hour later. He was 34.- VH1
Monday, October 20, 2003
Paul is dead
Am I the only one who has really vivid images of murder and despair every time Simon & Garfunkel comes on? We're talking full-on Tarrantino meets American Psycho (the book, not the film) meets Hannibal Lecter. I need to write about them one day in all their eye-popping glory, they're really quite sick. I don't know if it's me, or Simon & That Other Guy. I'm leaning towards them, because, face it, they look like psychos. That and the first step to recognizing a problem is to blame someone else. I might get a creepy collection of short stories out of the deal thought, so why fight it?
Friday, October 17, 2003
72 Times Fast
How many sights would a website cite, if a website could cite sights?
Monday, October 13, 2003
Columbus Day
"Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity," the populist president told a meeting in Caracas of representatives of Indian peoples from across the continent.
"We Venezuelans, we Latin Americans, have no reason to honor Columbus," he added.-Yahoo
Dead Peasants
"During the past twenty years, companies including Disney, Nestle', Procter & Gamble, Dow Chemical, JP Morgan Chase, and Wal-Mart have been secretly taking out life insurance policies on their low- and mid-level employees and then naming themselves-the Corporation-as the beneficiary! That's right: When you die, the company-not your survivors-gets to cash in. If you die on the job, all the better, as most life insurance policies are geared to pay out more when someone dies young. And if you life to a ripe old age, even long after you've left the company, the company still gets to collect on your death. The money does not go to help your grieving relatives through hard times or to pay for the funeral and burial; it goes to the corporate executives. And regardless of when you croak, the company is able to borrow against the policy and deduct the interest from its corporate taxes.
Many of these companies have set up a system for the money to go to pay for executive bonuses, cars, homes, trips to the Caribbean. Your death goes to helping make your boss a very happy man sitting in his Jacuzzi on St. Barts.
And what does corporate America privately call this special form of life insurance?
Dead Peasants Insurance."- From Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore.
Dead Peasants Links:
Arkansas Times
Union Voice
Teamster's Online
Sunday, October 05, 2003
Exposed
George W. Bush's Secret Revealed.
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Hmmm...
On Wednesday the Iraqi council, in a testy exchange with the occupation administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, challenged an American decision to spend $1.2 billion to train 35,000 Iraqi police officers in Jordan when such training could be done in Iraq for a fraction of the cost. Germany and France have offered to provide such training free.-Yahoo
Couldn't be cause that's not where the money is actually going could it? Looks like Iraq is getting another lesson in American Corruption 101.
Perspective
Osama Bin Laden - 3,000
Saddam Hussein - 512
Jefferson Davis - 360,000
How could you possibly claim to be against traitors like John Walker Lindh, yet want to publicly display the battle flag of the most murderous, anti-American betrayers on history? No offense to my Southern readers and fans, but I don't get it.
I was talking to a Southerner about this the other day, and he said, "The Nazis were bad. But we drive around in Volkswagens."
I said, "Yeah, but we don't put a Volkswagen on top of the state capitol."
-From Lies & The Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
Blade Runner
"I am the Nexus One, I want more life fucker I ain't done"-More Human Than Human by White Zombie
Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled about their shores... burning with the fires of Orc.
Batty: Morphology? Longevity? Incept dates?Hannibal Chew: Don't know, I don't know such stuff.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
For the record, I'm firmly in the Deckard was a replicant camp.
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