via metafilter:

http://projects.c505.com/ascii_index.html

breakin’ the law! breakin’ the law!

so fine, so very fine.

• One long paragraph.
• http://www.rrholidayescape.com/
• The “christian rock” and insane right-wing preacher the tile guy is listening to right now. So glad to have an iPod today.
• http://www.marketmy.com/blogging-tools/blog-in-a-box.htm
• “Lifestyle drugs”
• Series fantasy novels
• That thing where people put “In memory of” their dead relative with the dates on the back of the SUV
• Ellipses used between each phrase
• Golf

Feel the love. (Quicktime movie)

“I Left my Aunt in Vegas”: Left Vagus nerve goes Anterior descending into the thorax.

• ITEM! I have no floor. Specifically, the floor in the dining/living/kitchen area of my house is being removed and replaced. This means that this space is now a cavernous echo-filled furniture-free Weirdness Zone. There are deep furrows and cracks in the slab which people are filling with orange goo. Later, tile will be put there.
• ITEM! I have ordered, from Powell’s, one of the great books available about Opera. I eagerly await my reeducation.
• ITEM! I’m bitter about almost everything. Not quite everything. But almost.
• ITEM! There is no force, however great / To pull a wire, however fine / Into a horizontal line / Which shall be absolutely straight.
• ITEM! I mean really fucking bitter.
• ITEM! null

In a nucking futshell, here.

Boy that brought back a flood of erm.. um.. memories. Yeah.

Specifically of trying to dun an “editor” named Yayva out of $75 and her not wanting to pay me because I spelled the name of someone wrong when that was the way it was spelled in the press kit. And being told that I had to pay to get into the show I was reviewing because “we need to keep the guest list spots for VIPs”. And having to sit through 8 bands with names like Bloody Rosehips and Fyre and Jackass 101 to see the headliner to get paid $25. And interviewing such musical luminaries as “King” and the Unforgiven.

Okay. Whew. Better now, I think.

worth it just for the headline

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.07.04/king-arthur-0428.html

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