I am a consumer whore…

…and how! I have Space Invaders Shoes now. They are invading your space. Please note the sole, which imprints an invader and “One Point” as I walk.

I found these after my original quest for the limited edition Space Invaders Vans shoes ended in failure; they were apparently a Japan only very limited thing.

Space Invader Shoes: Sole

Space Invader Shoes.

midget afro chickens?

  1. The brave souls at Losanjealous attended a Steven Seagal show so that you don’t have to. Their report amuses. …I mean a certain type that seems not to have evolved in at least fourteen years. It’s the same white-haired guy in white jeans and an orange shirt from the Macy’s Young Men’s Department and his cougar girlfriend. They haven’t changed at all. She still wears her hair in ringlets and has breast implants that look like fire hydrants. And he still makes angry premeditated spins on the dance floor. And she applauds them like an elementary school teacher. It just hasn’t changed.
  2. A formerly high-ranking law enforcement intelligence officer for the State of California has alleged that his demotion was retaliation for not going along with questionable intelligence-gathering. According to him, there were plans to bug the offices of Muslim clerics and infiltrate college animal rights groups.
  3. With a name like Zachary Nicodemous, what else are you going to do but join a sex slave cult called the “Kaotians”?
  4. Like Tom, the U.S. Government is everyone’s friend. Again..
  5. This collaborative project mapped the city of Barcelona for and by disabled people with mobility issues.
  6. The next Pet Sematary movie will have to include a mad taxidermist whose animatronic experiments have been all too successful.

The Prescription

This is the story about how refilling one generic prescription that I have been on for more than a year has taken the whole week so far and is not done yet. I present to you the combined effects of: tightly coupled systems; similar numbers; incompetent yet confident clerks; persistent computer errors that are not corrected; supply chain mishaps; and poorly handled mergers. Ladies and gentlemen, come with me on a fantastic voyage to: THE PHARMACY!

cut for length, this was so crazy

“I can sum her up in one word: pleather”

  1. xtreme_pr0k, pbd, and other motorcyclists may be interested in Yamaha’s new CROTCH AIR BAG.
  2. Ben Metcalf dares to ask: Am I allowed to write that I would like to hunt down George W. Bush, the president of the United States, and kill him with my bare hands?
  3. I want a WIG plane!

    wig

    I’d heard of the Soviet one, and I think I posted about it before, but this shit is amazing, especially the newer Soviet one and the Boeing Pelican.

  4. Watch your rear view mirrors, NASCAR drivers: The ENTURBULATOR‘s gonna bump ya into the wall!
  5. Today’s APOD is the best picture of a volcano I’ve ever seen, I think.
  6. Hey all you ex-girlfriends in black Jettas (and other jettazens), take the Jetta Report survey! Or something.
  7. In other auto news: 0-100 mph is a good measure of your acceleration. But if you want to know how good your car really is, how’s your 0-100 and back to 0 again? Once again Ultima wins this one. Power is good; power to weight plus braking is better.

Don’t blame me, I voted for Zombie Joseph Beuys

And I did! Our comically corrupt and incompetent district attorney, Tony Rackauckas, was running unopposed so I wrote in ol’ Zombie Joe.

There was also a candidate named Martin Luther Church but I did not vote for him.

I ran into AJ Reznor tonight and we talked about books, which was nice. I think he’d like Lem so I was trying to get him to read some.

In ten minutes just now I found three four Christian Myspace clones: http://xianz.com/ http://www.holypal.com http://www.5loaves.net http://www.jcfaith.com/

Please panic now about everything and do as we say

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/05/terror/main1683852.shtml

It starts:

U.S. officials believe Canadian arrests over the weekend and three recent domestic incidents in the United States are evidence the U.S. will soon be hit again by a terrorist attack. Privately, they say, they’d be surprised if it didn’t come by the end of the year, reports CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart in a CBS News exclusive.

Then they go on to say that terrorists are committing robberies in order to finance terror attacks, and list a couple of incidents in which various bad guys had what seemed to be political terrorism objectives.

The fun is all in the last sentence, though:

The next attack here, officials predict, will bear no resemblance to Sept. 11. The casualty toll will not be that high, the target probably not that big. We may not even recognize it for what it is at first, they say. But it’s coming — of that they seem certain.

Okay. So, they’re now reserving the option of pulling out any Very Bad Day that might have some tenuous connection to Islamic extremists and calling it a terrorist incident. If some career criminals who got Muslim names in prison rob a store in a mall and there’s a big ugly shootout, or if some mentally unstable loser with a connection to Islam runs over a lot of people on a sidewalk, or if any number of medium-spectacular crimes occur that they can tie to “terror” in any way, it will be more evidence that we should be afraid and that we should give up yet more liberty.

And the news calls this an “exclusive” and runs it unchallenged. Bleah!