The 2.5 mile wide mushroom cloud and the crater large enough to be seen from a satellite, in a missile testing range area, is just a forest fire. Everything is cool.

Also in the news: Lime jello is a room temperature semiconductor. The game we know now as “Twister” was designed as a fitness regimen for the Swiss military. And Van Halen’s former lead singer, David Lee Roth, suffers from a rare thyroid disease which causes him to be female for between 1 and 4 days each year.

DON’T FORGET TO PACK YOUR WIFE..

POL POT

jwz put it best with the phrase “unbelievable awesomeness”.

Followup on the Parisian Underground Cinema Cult.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/trinnit/29387.html

Almost as good as CNN’s caption feed during the last couple of events in the war on terrism.

redmaenad: Oh, drum circles! That reminds me of college, and trying to sleep!

It was Opening Night for the high school football season and the local bible college’s mating season. This means that the trip to Al’s and back for pizza had to negotiate heaps of spawning teens, including at least one schoolgirl dressed up as a schoolgirl and one Studio 54-style disco queen imitation. Both of which probably cribbed from 20-year-old rock videos.

Back on the patio it was the Vanguard University Fall Festival of Repressed desire featuring mostly a sausage party of uncomfortable and well-scrubbed young gentlemen in button-down shirts and pressed jeans. One ethereal model/bunhead type was cornered by no less than five hopeful future pastors as she shyly gave them her cellphone number, in a Montana area code.

Bible students apparently block SMS messages as I was unable to send homoerotic messages to brianenigma in a timely manner while they were clustering.

JE played his also well-scrubbed songs and some covers. Over this portion of the evening, dear reader, I must draw a curtain. Suffice it to say that genericus went GAAAAAAAAAAH at least twice.

Ever meet someone who was between channels? You know, like he had missed out on what kind of human to be, and was stuck between two variants and spewing static and confused signals? Yeah, like that.

I’m a lot nastier than I want to be. I bet you are, too.

Don’t put another dime in the jukebox
I don’t wanna hear that song no more

PAUL MITCHELL TEA TREE STYLING GEL!!

PAUL MITCHELL TEA TREE STYLING GEL!!

PAUL MITCHELL TEA TREE STYLING GEL!!

bOING.

1. “Drop-dead hot blogger babes with washboard abs”
2. “Blogger and Photogger”
3. OMG IM A JURNALIST

I am now in possession of a 1 gigabyte I-stick, a cute little USB drive that’s about the size of two pennies. For $100 from digi4me.com.

Wow. 1 gigabyte. That’s, like, a lot. In a little space.

genericus and I share a disease. We both have an obsession with early 1980s obscure music that we heard on the ROQ of the 80s in our youth. And we both go around chasing impossible crap like The Humans’ “Get You Tonight” or whatever, because it’s been stuck in our heads since we were 14, etc.

One of my grails was this song “Visitors” by the eponymous band, very new wave robot electronica. Sort of Devo ish. I was starting to think I had imagined the staccato chorus of guys saying “VIZ EE TORS WE ARE, VIZ EE TORS” over and over.

Nope. Found it. The band was called the Rockets, actually, and they were from France. (Nuke France, etc.) They’re most popular in Italy. They’re still around. And some kindly Russian maniacs had the very mp3 I wanted. And much, much more, all in Cyrillic characters.

What’s weirder is that they were sort of called the Visitors, for the album Visitors, on which was the song V-I-S-I-T-O-R-S which I sought. Allmusic is sort of opaque on the subject, but apparently there was a temporary merger with some other band called the Visitors. The whole thing is complicated, and also very Euro New Wave and conceptual (rubber suits, stiff motions, drum machines).

Anyway, here’s the song: visitors.mp3 (6.4 meg).

Opening line in the form of a narrative hook or introductory statement about my day.

A few descriptive sentences about routine things, often very similar to previous entries. Exposition of day’s events, including items or people seen that seemed unusual. Situation or item described here that will be used later in entry.

Plaintive remarks about one or more of the following: work-related stress or overwork; inappropriate impossible crush on woman at least ten years younger than I; illness; social anxiety; poor self-image and loathing of my own appearance and behavior; age and oncoming death.

Humorous aside, with ironic and dark flavor.

Epigrammatic and occasionally lapidary punch line with links both to subject line and item referenced above, usually also tying in opening line.

its made from morans!!!