The Beast 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004

http://www.buffalobeast.com/66/50mostLoathsome2004.htm

Between this and watching Fahrenheit 9/11 last night -- yes, I gave in -- I am drifting back into Outrage Land.

Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean...

...unwilling to progress any further lest the creatures of the mountain close in. We cannot see them, but we hear their ululations in the near distance, something like a cross between the bone-jarring scream of enraged howler monkeys and the mournful wail of the American coyote. These are angry beasts, charged with protecting the mountain's secrets ( Read more... )

They come from lovely people, with their hard-line and hypocrisy,
There are ashtrays of emotion for the fag-ends of the aristocracy

Just a couplet hanging around in my head.

Dog and cat both simultaneously decided it was time for me to be awake, so I am. I can't remember the last time I had a say in my sleep schedule. So I'm doing this thing while I slurp coffee and try to gear up for the day:

High School Senior MemeWhat year was it? 1984-1985 ( Read more... )

I wrote an obituary for Johnny Carson for PopMatters, in my apparent new career as eulogist for the stars. Forgive a few confusing sentences -- it was edited as hastily as it was written.

http://www.popmatters.com/tv/features/050124-johnnycarson2.shtml

Yoinked from nemo_wistar

'Robot soldiers' bound for Iraq

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4199935.stm

Johnny Carson, late-night TV legend, dead at 79

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/23/carson.obit/index.html

I'd like to take a moment to talk about one of my favorite movies, the much-maligned and unfairly obscure The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the 8th Dimension. I watched it with my kids the other night. Several times I had to stop the movie to explain what the hell was going on, and my son asked if it was possible to get a version with ( Read more... )

I've had eleven days of relative peace. My vacation was filled with music and friendship, some mundane tasks, some slight melodrama but not much, some earnest conversation and some profound silliness. I never left Athens, but it was a good vacation all the same. I feel recharged, and changed, by my days of rest, which I suppose was the point ( Read more... )

'Ghost' jailed for haunting castle

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/16/austria.ghost.ap/index.html

And she would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling kinder!