Yesterday, a girl came into work wearing one of the shirts from my production of Rocky Horror. It still amazes me how successful we were. I am corrupting the youths.

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Death is not normally something I celebrate, but this is a special occasion:

Falwell dead at 73

Finally, that bastard is gone to "God's country." Good luck burning in hell, blimpey.

Chopin!

So I bought a Firebird, today, for $2. Like the really fast car, vroom vroom. Well, I lie, I bought part of a Firebird.... the gear-shifter. It's for the Venus I am building. It's pretty smashed up, but I will make her left eye, half of her skull, and her spinal cord. The logo is the iris. I will post pictures once she is completed (next week).

To quote from Breyten Breytenbach's essay "Cold Turkey":

"For Francooi Viljoen"

there are things one never forgets oh dissemblers--
cat's paws of darkness over closed eyelids
the brief clear gaping of the bullet's cough
car headlamps slitting the night to ribbons
painted white masks of the buffoon and the whore
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A very happy, if belated, Air Kraken Day to all.

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Interesting band I ran across a few years ago, Teargas Plateglass, they now havea video out on YouTube. (They're associated with Chris Vrenna, if you know who that is). It's a very simple video, but I rather like the trippy and downplayed, monochrome style. It reminds me of the films the Dadaists made in the 20's.