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Set phasers on “flange”

The other day at the bookstore I met this guy because we both showed up simultaneously at the information counter to ask what the music was. The music was the soundtrack to The Triplets of Belleville and it’s all this crazy French cabaret stuff that you don’t expect to hear in a chain bookstore. The other guy was a stereotypical geek: hunched forward and bony, bowl haircut, oddly fitting clothes, and the intense shifting stare of someone full of divine madness. I said to him “It’s odd to hear that kind of music here at all, isn’t it.” He looked about carefully and pronounced in an emphatic way that “Well I had to MAKE SURE as I thought it sounded like MAURICE CHEVALIER but wasn’t entirely DEFINITIVE”.

I ran into him again at Diedrich. He was fighting with the pay phone so I offered the use of my cell, for which he was elaborately grateful. We then struck up a conversation and he revealed to me his plan to produce a set of science fiction guitar effects with sounds reminiscent of classic old sf movies. He was looking for people who were good at analog synth stuff because this is expensive, etc. Quite an interesting convo.

While we were talking, odradak showed up and looked uncomfortable as he sat down. odradak often looks uncomfortable so I didn’t think anything of it.

SF Guitar Effects Guy, who seemed to have a breadth of knowledge and the classic geek social awkwardness, but was very nice, then left. odradak said: “That’s the guy who hung out at Ruba. The one with the crickets all over him.” Crickets? Apparently, yes. He had crickets all over him at the other coffee house.

His name is Linus, by the way.

ACME Pants

Man charged with meth manufacture after pants explode

Associated Press

LaFAYETTE, Ga. – A Walker County man was charged with manufacturing methamphetamine after his pants exploded while he was talking to social services workers outside his home.

Daniel Gabriel Doyle, 39, met the social workers at his front door Tuesday, walked to their car and sat down to fill out some forms, said Patrick Stanfield, commander of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force.

“Finally, while he was sitting in the back seat, the front of his pants exploded,” Stanfield said Friday.

He said Doyle apparently had mixed red phosphorous and iodine in a film canister and stuck it in his pocket.

The chemical reaction caused second- and third-degree burns to Doyle’s testicles and leg, Sheriff’s Maj. Hill Morrison said. He was treated at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tenn., before being jailed.

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Information from: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, http://www.ajc.com

cos mic BOWL

I tagged along with redmaenad and friendly_bandit as they bowled tonight. odradak and I were spectatoes.

This was rock ‘n’ roll (COSMIC!) bowling with lasers and a DJ. The DJ was a core hairband rocker who played all his favorites for the first hour and then gave in and played dance party hip-hop.

I don’t think anyone there recognized Iron Maiden except like 3 of us old people.

I have developed a new scale for the marketability of music, which I call the “Teenaged girl dancing at the bowling alley scale”. There was this gal maybe 15 years old who was occasionally dancing and doing sort of cheerleadery routines spontaneously to the music. She especially liked the Usher and the Tupac and some of the newer hip-hop, even doing a spinaround and a little hop. The hard rock, not so much. You could basically tell how much money the music was making this week by her dance routines.

I shot a lot of pics at the COSMIC BOWL, some of which I’ll post later.

I have been listening to a lot of early sixties Miles Davis, and so should you.

I got matched on Yahoo! again with the woman who is “chilaxin’” and “down for whatever’s cleaver”. Hassan CHOP!