fingers

2007-04-30T06:02:00.000-07:00

sky blue sky

2007-04-09T14:33:00.000-07:00

...because the brother-in-law's best friend is a subscriber to the wilco website, he was able to stream the new album, on some special streaming day recently. and now I have it and it's good. you'll all be happy to know it's another fine collection of songs. they are pretty mellow though.

I will succeed where he has failed

2007-04-02T06:18:00.000-07:00

We're going to Vietnam in May.

2007-03-26T10:34:00.000-07:00

I've found a new website for music that I quite like. http://hypem.com - basically it scours sites and blogs for music and then lists whatever it finds. Or maybe people upload the songs themselves. Whatever. The point is you don't have to download them to your hard drive if you don't want. It's pretty good. Like, today I had a really strong urge to listen to Harry Nilsson - Jump Into The Fire. There it was in like, 2 seconds along with about 35 other Nilsson songs. Zero load time. It's good stuff, especially when you're in a "driving around in your old 70's Plymouth listening to mixed tapes" mental space.

Whatever song or artist is the most "in demand" that day is quick-linked on the homepage too. Just an fyi.

From The Register (UK)

2007-03-05T12:19:00.001-08:00

A man who was found dressed in latex and handcuffs brought a donkey to his room in a Galway city centre hotel, because he was advised "to get out and meet people," the local court heard last week.
Thomas Aloysius McCarney, with an address in south Galway, was charged with cruelty to animals, lewd and obscene behaviour, and with being a danger to himself when he appeared before the court on Friday. He was also charged with damage to a mini-bar in the room, but this charge was later dropped when the defendant said that it was the donkey who caused that damage. Solicitor for the accused Ms Sharon Fitzhenry said that her client had been through a difficult time lately and that his wife had left him and that his life had become increasingly lonely.
"Mr McCarney has been attending counselling at which he was told that he would be advised to get out and meet people and do interesting things. It was this advice that saw him book into the city centre hotel with a donkey," she said. She added that Mr McCarney also suffered from a fixation with the Shrek movies and could constantly be heard at work talking to himself saying things like "Isn't that right, Donkey?"
Supt John McBrearty told the court that Mr McCarney who had signed in as "Mr Shrek" had told hotel staff that the donkey was a family pet and that this was believed by the hotel receptionist who the supt said was "young and hadn't great English."
Receptionist Irina Legova said that Mr McCarney had told her that the donkey was a breed of "super rabbit" which he was bringing to a pet fair in the city. The court was told that the donkey went berserk in the middle of the night and ran amok in the hotel corridor, forcing hotel staff to call the gardai.
McCarney was found in the room wearing a latex suit and handcuffs, the key to which the donkey is believed to have swallowed. He was removed to Mill St station after which it is said he was the subject of much mirth among the lads next door in The Galway Arms.
He was fined €2,000 for bringing the donkey to the room under the Unlawful Accommodation of Donkeys Act 1837. Other charges were dropped due to lack of evidence.

here's some fun...

2007-02-16T11:03:00.000-08:00

it's a website with your old favourite stand up arcade games. http://www.1980-games.com/

...just like 1986!

2007-01-22T11:01:00.000-08:00

working for a nuclear free city

2007-01-17T10:46:00.000-08:00

oh E!

I stumbled across this and it reminded me of old Maclean and Maclean and MAD TV Elvis sketches. Oh what a silly, fat man he was.

tagged

2007-01-08T10:37:00.000-08:00

I've been beaned by LILY. And now I have to list 5 things people don't know about me. (Not that they'll be that exciting, but here goes...)

1- I was once arrested (in grade 8) for flicking paper clips at passing cars with an elastic. Apparently I (or one of my friends) caught the driver of a Hostess Potato Chips truck in the neck. He flagged down the town police cruiser, which just happened to be passing by. We had to go to the cop shop to be harrangued by officer Henry about the importance of public safety and not being "little dickweeds." Our dads had to leave work to come pick us up. They were not impressed. I've been "clean" every since.

2- I once played nerf-football in the halls of my old job (radio station) with the late great Joe Strummer. Then he bummed a cigarette from me. I was all aflutter.

3- I often dream of planes crashing in abandoned fields. I suspect it might be a holdover from my college days when I lived near the airport. No, I'm not Al Qaeda. It's just that 2 years of loud jet engines have imprinted something onto my sub-conscious.

4- There's a certain recipe of gore in movies that will lead me to faint, guaranteed. It usually involves needles and bruised, emeciated, junky people. So I don't see too many movies that include those two ingredients, as arty as they might be.

5- At the tale end of highschool I was growing my hair long, hoping it would go wavey like the guy from Pearl Jam, or that other guy from Mudhoney. It didn't. So I secretly got a perm. Yes, a rock hair perm. I had to wear a hat or a bandana for awhile so that when I unleashed it, it wouldn't be too obvious a job. Funny thing is that a couple of years after the perm, it did start going wavey on it's own. But by then I didn't care because I wanted to be early out of the gate with the new "short hair" thing.

battle of the bees

2007-01-05T17:19:00.000-08:00

Hornets from hell

ask a bee

2007-01-05T12:05:00.000-08:00

ASK THIS BEE.

2007-01-05T12:01:00.001-08:00

giant pet bee

starting a whole new thing...

2006-12-30T08:49:00.000-08:00

The lost blog....meh....not enough giant bees. Starting a new one.

Merry holideez everyone. Many good times in the country. More to come.