Thursday, March 31, 2005
Happy 50th!
This year marks the 50th anniversary of The Jim Henson Company and plans are underway to celebrate this milestone at local events around the country and with new projects for the millions of viewers who have been inspired by the organization's work and the vision of its founder.
In 1955, Jim Henson premiered his first show, Sam & Friends on Washington DC's WRC-TV, revolutionizing puppetry on television and redefining family entertainment. From that small beginning, a diverse string of the highest quality productions, thousands of memorable characters and cutting-edge technologies became the standard for the business that bears Henson's name and continues his legacy. - Muppet Central
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
The Top Ten Useless Limbs (and Other Vestigial Organs)
In Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) and his next publication, The Descent of Man (1871), he referred to several vestiges in human anatomy that were left over from the course of evolution. These vestigial organs, Darwin argued, are evidence of evolution and represent a function that was once necessary for survival, but over time that function became either diminished or nonexistent.
The presence of an organ in one organism that resembles one found in another has lead biologists to conclude that these two might have shared a common ancestor. Vestigial organs have demonstrated remarkably how species are related to one another, and has given solid ground for the idea of common descent to stand on. From common descent, it is predicted that organisms should retain these vestigial organs as structural remnants of lost functions. It is only because of macro-evolutionary theory, or evolution that takes place over very long periods of time, that these vestiges appear. - via LiveScience.com
While you're there don't forget to vote for the World's Ugliest Animals.
Crazy Mountain Man
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Jake the Alligator Man II
Jake the Alligator Man
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Summer 65 - Jim Carroll
Deborah Duckster, the debutante, Ned the fag, Marc Clutcher, and I were up bullshitting the night at pal Joey's apartment on East 10th Street. By about five a.m. we were all whacked out from too much dope and too many late show TV ads about buying lots for cheap in some New Jersey swamp etc. that we decide to screw the ride uptown and shack up there for the night. First we plan to make it to RATNER'S for some mushroom soup breakfast. We walk out into the pleasant morning air and what horrible bringdown is there to greet us: out on the sidewalk in front of the next building a totally naked woman groaning in slow pain, blood splashed all over the pavement. Before I know it, in some strange dope flash I'm next to her, and her hand reaches into mine holding tight she mumbles, "I let them..." She must have been about twenty-five and a pretty face under the red and tangled hair all knotted by blood. I can't do anything but hold her hand and look around at everyone else. I spot a long deep gorge in her ankle and it's oozing blood in slowmotion spurts. Deborah half-faints onto a car hood. Joey's hopping steps to call an ambulance and the cops. Ned the fag is zonked on repulsion. She keeps mumbling groan talk; my first thought was she was some junkie hooker from up Third Avenue who crossed a pimp and got hacked up in a car and dumped here. But she's too tan and pretty to be a junkie-whore. I could see the outline of white skin from the strap marks of a bikini. Third Ave. and Fourteenth St. hookers are the cheapest and ugliest around and they sure don't spend their days at beaches getting tans. Then I spot Ned the fag staring horribly up the building's facade and I realized the obvious. The fifth floor window was open to the hilt: this chick had taken a dry dive. Joey nodded as I looked at the window...I was the last one to figure it out. And she's clutching me and I keep letting soft gestures out... What the fuck am I supposed to say? Stoned from the such strong grass we smoked, here in the cosmos holding a suicide case at five a.m.? Now a bunch of morning people surround us and finally a cop car pulls up... I walk over and bum a smoke from the dog walker, my hand shaking badly. The cops toss a blanket over her body and a few questions at us. They want to know why Deborah and Ned keep fainting on each other if we don't know who she is. I explain we're not used to walking out to a dry dive case so early in the morning, dumb ass cops. I float back into Joey's apartment with that pleading face of hers (for who? for what?) on my mind, took a bang of H and went off to a nod, my nerves calmed a bit...it will all come back. These things happen. - From The Basketball Diaries
Armaments
Ideas and understanding. The only weapons we'll ever need in the only war that ever really matters. -Keith Olexa
Tail Of A Whale
Eight Heads, No Dufflebag
Monday, March 21, 2005
Yippee Ti Yi Yay
Thursday, March 17, 2005
LNP Polka
Recently signed up for Vonage "phone" service, aka VOIP. Real happy with the service. So far so good. Except...... Decided to keep our old number cause you can do that now thanks to that there Local Number Portability rule and it seemed like a good plan. Guess my friends at Qwest don't wanna give it up. Vonage said expect this to take at least 20 business days. Tomorrow is the magical day 20 and the number hasn't ported yet. Paying two phone bills now. Asked Vonage if calling Qwest and letting 'em have it would help. They said no, other customers who have done this have had their numbers "accidentally" disconnected which just makes the whole thing take longer. Turns out the FCC thinks this process should only take a couple days. Guess it is time to file a complaint. I'm just simple folk, but in my book paying two phone bills for no reason is worse than seeing Janet's nipple.
- Molliwogg
Sprung
Serial Killer
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Two-Headed Calf
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Tina's Rules of Life
- If you know a person, you know them.
- If you're out with folks and you don't talk, they're not going to trust you. You gonna get shot; you gonna get cut up over bullshit.
- When a man gonna buy you something, don't get no Coke, and don't get no soda water. Ask for hard liquor. Then he won't have the change for it. He'll take out his wallet and you'll see how much money he got on him.
- When you see what kind of drug somebody put on, you know what kind of mask to put on.
- If you listen to a motherfucker and he care about every little thing that everybody say about him, then he's a dangerous motherfucker, because he lives in FEAR.
Words of advice from The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann
Too Much Coffee
Jake The Alligator Man (Statue)
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Current Vehicle Playlist
- Tom Waits - Used Songs 1973-1980 (Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just god when he's drunk.)
- Moby - Animal Rights (Perfect soundtrack to a night of sex.)
- Ice Cube - Greatest Hits (Pushing rhymes like weight.)
- Dr. Dre - 2001 (Not nearly as brilliant as The Chronic, but still miles ahead of the competition.)
- Various Artists - Just Say Noel
- Eminem - Encore
- Dr. Dre - The Chronic
- Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster (Permanently engraved on my forearm.)
- Soundgarden - A-Sides (Funny thing is, I never really liked Soundgarden until recently. I still think Spoonman is one of the worst songs ever made.)
- Sinead O'Connor - So Far, The Best of (I see plenty of clothes that I like, But I won't go anywhere nice for a while, All I want to do is just sit here, And write it all down and rest for a while.)
- Ministry - Houses of the Mole (The first Ministry album since Psalm 69 worth buying.)
- Jerry Reed - Greatest Hits
- Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (I still have the lyrics to Paul Revere memorized.)
- Van Halen - 1984 (Still my favorite Van Halen album.)
- Ween - Twelve Golden Country Hits (Featuring ten songs of course. "My dinner's on fire while she watches tv, and if you ever wondered what it's like to be me, she takes all my money and leaves me no smokes, yells at my buddies and insults my folks, I'm breaking my back doin the best I can, she's got time for the dog and none for her man, well I'm no dope, but I can't cope, so hit the fuckin road and piss up a rope")
- Minor Threat - The Complete Discography (You tell me that I make no difference, At least I'm fuckin' trying, What the fuck have you done?)
- Elvis Costello - The Very Best of Elvis Costello & The Attractions (My second favorite Elvis.)
- Bloodhound Gang - Hooray For Boobies (Fun records, surprisingly boring in concert.)
- Arlo Guthrie - The Best of (I've seen Arlo Guthrie twice now, once at the Portland Zoo, the other with the Portland Symphony. Awesome.)
- Pailhead - Trait (Alien Jourgenson meets Ian Mackaye. I watched a single rude boy take on fifteen skinheads in a mosh pit to I Will Refuse. I don't think I've had that much respect for anyone since. Shortly after I walked out to the parking lot and saw about forty-five gangbangers waiting in the parking lot, the skinheads never stood a chance.)
- The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (I'm half-Irish, sue me.)
- Dwight Yoakam - Come On Christmas
- Dandy Warhols - The Dandy Warhols Come Down (Portland's favorite punching bags.)
- Eminem - The Eminem Show
A little top heavy towards rap and greatest hits, but hey.
Thursday, March 03, 2005
Quote of the day...
"While I will admit to a certain cynicism, the fact is that I am a naysayer and a hatchetman in the fight against violence. I pride myself in taking a punch, and will gladly take another because I choose to live my life in the company of Gandhi and King. My concerns are global. I reject absolutely revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."-Albert Rosenfield
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