Completely disconnected from reality thanks to encephalon-swallowing (Muum! Not elephant spunk agaaaaiin!) North-African James-Joycean fictional autobiography and days of entrenching in fluffy slug-paced single-player RPG. Unable to hold up half a dialogue. Apologies to appropriately bored parties. Motherfucking, have the brain worms ( Read more... )

Am becoming convinced: the notion that students must cobble together bibliography after works-cited after bibliography exists solely to suck up time that could otherwise be put toward more valuable pursuits, such as drinking heavily. Personally am not much of a drinker. Latter still holds more value ( Read more... )

January 30, 2005
"Nation split on Bush as uniter or divider"

That was the puckish headline over the cnn.com report of a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released recently, which showed that 49 percent of the respondents believe Bush is a "uniter" while another 49 percent said he was a "divider," and 2 percent had no opinion ( Read more... )

Suspect in Calif. Train Crash Charged With Murder
By Kimberly Edds
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, January 28, 2005; Page A14

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27 -- Authorities have filed murder charges against the handyman whose abandoned plan to commit suicide by parking his Jeep Cherokee on train tracks derailed two commuter trains, killing 11 people ( Read more... )

Janet Reno Titan Dance Party

The sound of Saturn's biggest moon rushing at you: http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/huygens_alien_winds_descent.mp3

Radar echoes:

Nearly Half in U.S. Say Restrict Muslims
Posted on Sat, Dec. 18, 2004
WILLIAM KATES
Associated Press

ITHACA, N.Y. - Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil liberties of Muslim Americans, according to a nationwide poll.

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Whistleblower Affidavit: Programmer Built Vote Rigging Prototype at Republican Congressman's Request
December 15, 4:41 AMSome interesting accusations are being made in a strange news story that has been gaining in speed over the past week. An affidavit made by a programmer in Florida claims that Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) asked his company to create E- ( Read more... )

Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database
By JOHN MARKOFF
and EDWARD WYATT
Published: December 14, 2004

Google, the operator of the world's most popular Internet search service, announced today that it had entered into agreements with some of the nation's leading research libraries and Oxford University to begin converting their holdings ( Read more... )

Sean Gullette's piece on hitchhiking to William Burroughs' funeral.
Beware of itchy feet. Relish a good turn of phrase.

The Wizard of Kansas
Sean Gullette
September, 1997

Have renounced nominative pronouns in favor of Cheeverian epistolary style. Also definite slash indefinite articles. Most forms of punctuation ( Read more... )