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  Saturday, February 24, 2007
Faded Beauty

Faded Beauty, originally uploaded by m/a/z/e & Molliwogg.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
The Earth is Flat























WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday.

The squid, weighing an estimated 990 lbs and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said. - Yahoo/AP

Remember when these things didn't exist?

(Just one of a hundred thousand things more interesting than Brittney.)

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Composting Facts
Interesting stuff. (Cross-posted to Edible Foods)

  • Approximately 1/3 of the nation's landfills are filled with organic kitchen and yard waste. Likewise, 1/3 of the average family's household waste is made up of compostable material.
  • Close to 60 percent of the municipal solid waste generated in the United States is compostable material. (This statistic includes paper products.)
  • According to the Environmental Protection Agency, each person in the United States generates approximately 4.3 pounds of trash each day, equalling 195.7 million tons of waste each year. (This statistic is from 1990 - how much has the population changed in 17 years?)
  • In 1998, the United States created 22 million tons of food residuals and composted only 2 percent of that waste.
  • Of the total amount of municipal solid waste generated in 2003, 12 percent was yard trimmings and more than 11 percent were food scraps.
  • If the amount of food residuals generated each year were composted instead of being sent to the landfill, the resulting reduction in greenhouse gases would be the equivalent of taking more than 2 million cars off the road.
  • Nearly 56 percent (approximately 16 million tons) of yard clippings were composted in 2003, representing a four-fold increase over 1990.
  • Burning leaves, brush, and vegetation releases a number of hazardous pollutants into the air. Some of these pollutants can cause cancer and other health issue.
  • Grass clippings contain nutrients that can generate up to 25 percent of your lawn's total fertilizer needs when left on the lawn.
  • There are more than 3,200 yard trimmings composting facilities nationwide.
  • A compost pile can reach 150 degrees Fahrenheit as a result of the decomposition process.
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Saturday, February 17, 2007
What are you laughing at? By Simon Pegg
You could spend a lot of time exploring the differences between British and American comedy only to reach the conclusion that, ironically, they're pretty much the same. Back when director Edgar Wright and myself were writing our debut feature, Shaun Of The Dead, we were certainly banking on a comic universality in the story of a suburban waster battling the living dead. We had every confidence that the humour would translate. Indeed, we made only one subtle dialogue adjustment during the writing process, changing the word "pissed" to "drunk", so as to avoid any confusion between the conditions of being munted and mardy. The film went on to enjoy surprising success in the US, suggesting that surmounting the supposed gulf between our respective senses of humour requires nothing more than a light skip. - More at Guardian UK

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Friday, February 16, 2007
All You Need Is...

All You Need Is..., originally uploaded by m/a/z/e & Molliwogg.
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Thursday, February 15, 2007
Second Best Headline of the Year
Report of Batman Forces School Lockdown

Three schools in a northern Phoenix suburb were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campus, jump a fence and disappear into the desert. - RGJ/AP

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Generation Landslide - Alice Cooper
Please clean the plates, dear.
The Lord above can see ya.
Don't you know people are starving in Korea?
Alcohol and razor blades and poison and needles,
Kindergarten people - they use 'em, the need 'em.
Over-indulging machines were their children.
There wasn't a way down on Earth to cool 'em,
'Cause they look just like humans at Kresges and Woolworths.
But decadent brains were at work to destroy.
Brats in battalions were ruling the streets,
Sayin' generation landslide closed the gap between 'em.

And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies
Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies.

Militant mothers hiding in their basement
Using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.
Molotov milk bottles heaved from pink high chairs,
While Mothers' Lib burns birth certificate papers.
Dad gets his allowance from his sonny, the dealer,
Who's pubic to the world but involved in high finance.
Sister's out 'til five doing banker's son's hours.
But she owns a Maserati that's a gift from his father.
Stopped at full speed at one hundred miles per hour.
The Colgate invisible shield finally got 'em.

And I laugh to myself at the men and the ladies
Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies.
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Sunday, February 11, 2007
They Grow 'em Big in Oregon
In what has to be the greatest headline of the year so far...

Snorkeler Shot, Mistaken for Rodent

EUGENE, Ore. - A snorkeler who was shot in the head after he was apparently mistaken for a swimming rodent was in good condition after surgery, a hospital said Saturday.

John William Cheesman, 44, of Springfield, underwent eight hours of surgery Thursday to remove shrapnel and bone fragments from his face, said his wife, Shelley Cheesman.

"He's doing really well," Shelley Cheesman said. "The bullet hit in front of his right ear, where the bone is the most dense. It just fragmented and didn't go into his brain."

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Friday, February 09, 2007
Reading Disorders?
A couple of days ago I mentioned I had a reading disorder. While I'm not sure if that is clinically accurate, something does go all wonky when I read - three things to be exact.

For the first two quirks I'm going to use the following paragraphs from Code of the Samurai: A Modern Translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu as an example.

"One who is supposed to be a warrior considers it his foremost concern to keep death in mind at all times, every day and every night, from the morning of New Year's Day through the night of New Year's Eve.

"As long as you keep death in mind at all times, you will also fulfill the ways of loyalty and familial duty. You will also avoid myriad evils and calamities, you will be physically sound and healthy, and you will live a long life. What is more, your character will improve and your virtue will grow."

Quirk # 1

I'll be happily reading along when for some reason I start picking up words from the paragraphs below the one I'm currently on and inserting them into what I'm reading.

So the first paragraph above will read something like this, "One who is death supposed to be a warrior myriad considers it his foremost concern..."

Get the idea?

Quirk # 2

Sometimes when I'm reading my eyes, for lack of a better word, fall down the page. Say I'm on the first paragraph, all of a sudden my eyes will drop to the second or third in mid-sentence.

Using the paragraphs above, it reads something like this, "One who is supposed to be a warrior considers it his foremost concern to keep death in mind at all times, you will also fulfill the ways of loyalty and familial duty."

If the sentence doesn't blend together properly, I can usually spot what happened right away. But more often than not, the sentences combine relatively logically and I won't realize it for a page or two when it dawns on me that I missed something.

Quirk # 3

This is the one that drives me bonkers. Thankfully it doesn't happen as often as the other two. It did happen last week though, so I'll use that as an example. I was reading a book that had a lot of dates in it. On one page I was reading, the date read 1887. Reading further, the next page mentioned something that happened four years later and gave the date as 1991. Wondering if it was a typo, I flipped back to the previous page and double-checked the date - still 1887. I flipped back and forth probably five or six times, rereading the passages when on my last pass, the date magically became 1987. Obviously it was 1987 the whole time, but it took six tries or so for my brain to register it.

Like I said, the third example is rare, but the other two happen all the time. In an average book, I'd say the first two quirks happen between twenty and thirty times, if not more.

Has anyone had anything like this happen to them? I've done searches on dyslexia, lazy eyes and reading disorders but nothing seems to match up. I can't be the only one this has happens to can I? Am I just crazy?

Who knows, once the search engines spider this page, maybe someone out there will know what's up and fill me in. If I ever find anything out, I'll post it.

Until then, why not have yourself a flavored coffee to celebrate this moment in your life?

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Wednesday, February 07, 2007
100 Things About Me (76-100)
I realized I never finished my little 100 Things About Me posts, so here's the last batch.

76. I have conservatively been hired for a hundred or so jobs. I haven't worked at hundred jobs, but I've been hired for them - some I never showed up for, some I went through training and bailed, others I just wanted to see if I could get the gig. It sounds like a large number until you take into account I've been working more or less since I was 14. I'm 35 now, so that averages around five gigs a year.
77. I'm seriously thinking about going to culinary school.
78. The logic behind culinary school is if I get a gig doing something I actually like doing, I might go through fewer jobs.
79. Still, I kind of enjoy being a jack-of-all-trades. I don't have a great deal of experience in any one thing, but I can do a little of everything.
80. I don't believe in regret.
81. My favorite TV show to date is Northern Exposure. Props to Universal HD for airing reruns.
82. Twin Peaks is a very close second.
83. I always thought it was ironic that my two favorite shows were filmed miles apart from each other.
84. I've been to both filming locations.
85. Speaking of Twin Peaks, when the hell is Season Two going to come out on DVD? (Okay, I just checked Amazon and found out it's coming out in April... about time!)
86. I live in perpetual fear of bad air. I can't eat Whoppers anymore and when opening Pringles, I hold the can as far away from me as possible then poke it with a knife to avoid inhaling any canned air.
87. This paranoia is a major source of entertainment for my daughter.
88. The paranoia is made even more ironic by the fact that I smoke.
89. I'm trying to quit... for real this time.
90. I like to blame John for lots of stuff, he's like a pusher. Garth Brooks 'Friends in Low Places', American Chopper, Flickr. Fuckr.
91. For some reason I left Phoenix, Arizona from the number one entry on this list. I lived there for a couple months back in '89. I was attacked there, harassed by cops and temporarily arrested for a mob fight I had nothing to do with. Fun town.
92. I think there should be a law requiring any movie with narration to be narrated by Morgan Freeman. In a separate bill, all movies not requiring narration shall have Morgan Freeman providing the DVD commentary tracks.
93. Along with a friend, I tried to steal an entire hospital piece by piece. Over time, I managed to get a small suitcase worth of loot - stethoscopes, tongue depressors, etc.
94. I've always wanted a telescope. I'd love to get into astronomy, I just haven't gotten off my ass to pursue it.
95. And a submarine. Every year I ask Santa for a submarine, but never get one.
96. I have some kind of reading disorder. I used to think it was dyslexia, but after doing some research, I don't think it is. I'll do a post explaining it in a day or two, maybe someone out there will know what it is, if anything, and can fill me in.
97. I've been obsessing on the Beach Boys lately. I always like Good Vibrations, Kokomo, etc., but I never realized just how mind-blowingly amazing they are until just recently.
98. I'm making sourdough bread as I'm typing this.
99. I made a sourdough starter a few days ago. I wish I realized how nauseating that stuff smells.
100. This space intentionally left blank.

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Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Love Lost
I was rummaging through some old poetry for a project I'm working on and came across this. I wrote it sometime around 93-95.

7 am
Up all night being down
Dawn slowly fades into view
Thoughts of you race through a mind
Already clouded with insomnia

Past and present blur into one
Focus on the now
That's all there is

You left last week
Goodbyes never do me well
Like withdrawal
Just not as pleasant
You'll be missed
Life is your memory

Love tattooed across my body
Exposed too long to the sun
Faded and blurry
But the stain never goes away

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Monday, February 05, 2007
Echols' Attorney: "Results... to shed significant light on the case"
The lawyer for Damien Echols, one of 3 West Memphis teens convicted of killing 3 little boys in 1993, says new DNA evidence will be presented soon.

Echols, who's on death row, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelly were all convicted for the murders of Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch and Michael Moore.

Today, Echols' attorney, Dennis Riordan from San Francisco California, told KARK 4 News by phone, the results of new DNA evidence are "significant."

"Mr. Echols was someone from day one pushing very hard to get these DNA testing done because he thought it was important to his case and he was always a proponent. I think we have results that are going to shed significant light on the case," says Riordan.

Stay tuned to KARK 4 News for more developments on this story. - Via WM3.org

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Sunday, February 04, 2007
Old Journal Entry - 10.07.1999
From a Devil's Tower postcard: One day some Kiowas were camped by a stream where there were lots of bears. Seven little girls were playing some distance from their village and were chased by some bears. The girls ran towards the village and just as the bears were about to catch them they jumped on a low rock about three feet tall. One of the girls prayed to the rock. "Rock, take pity on us, rock save us." The rock heard her and began to push itself up and out of the ground, raising the children higher and higher out of the reach of the bears.

Wouldn't it be great if at the moment of prayer the members of Night Ranger, Motley Crue, and Judas Priest appeared on the horizon and just started kicking ass towards the bears?

"We have heard your prayers little ones, and Rock has answered."

Then they could hold a massive concert from the top of Devil's Tower.

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Thursday, February 01, 2007
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