Proposal: NaGoOvMo

Instead of wasting our time with “National Novel Writing Month” and making up a cute name for it, I propose that we do something useful: overthrow our stupid fucking government, who have proven themselves in their entirety (all branches and both parties) to be wicked, venal, stupid, lazy, arrogant, and dangerous to the entire world. A clean sweep. Replace them maybe with ostriches as Robert Anton Wilson suggested.

I mean, seriously. Even my conservative Republican acquaintances can’t stand these people any more, and those of us on the other side of the aisle would have no problem dumping all the Democrats too. They’ve had their verbal warning and their written warning. It’s time to terminate them and have Security walk them out.

Anyway the thing is, we have to do it together, and we have to do it all in one month. I propose: National Government Overthrow Month, or NaGoOvMo.

Who’s in?

Remembered quote from years ago

Fish are great to have around but they have limits. If you ask a fish detailed questions about philosophy or mathematics it will just look at you and say “bloop”. But if you ask the fish “Could you hum the first few bars of Roxy Music’s 1979 international smash hit single “Dance Away” for me?” the fish will respond with: “bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop” which is both accurate and helpful.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Electuary of Jallap… is a good Phlegmagogue.

  1. The launch command password is “admin”. I’ll write it down for you on this Post-It™. (thanks to trinnit for this one)
  2. GOAT ON TRAMPOLINE!
  3. Further madness from SEMA: tires that make colored and scented smoke.
  4. “Thanks” to eyeteeth for sending me the link to this fabulous book about child rearing. So to speak. The cover is so creepy that I want to leave the planet and not come back.
  5. I have no idea wtf is going on in this site, but it’s flash animation and it makes coffee fly through my nose: 86 The Onions is a very strange diner. Thanks, Aardvark!
  6. I now want to buy a small cow.
  7. Drunks who ask for tattoos in foreign languages often get humorously bad ones. Apparently it’s even worse if you’re a dumbass white supremacist.
  8. Exclusive first photos of the H5N1 bird flu virus from a Norwegian paper! It looks like an evil Mickey Mouse to me:

    virus

  9. I wouldn’t have thought a digital sun dial was possible.

That old time religion.

Nayagarah (Orissa), Nov 4 (PTI) Three persons were today arrested on the charge of killing a seven-year-old girl to appease Goddess Kali on Diwali at Nagajhar village in Orissa’s Nayagarh district, police said. The three – Braja Pradhan, Sudam Pradhan and Akhila Pradhan – were later produced before the court of the First Class Judicial Magistrate, Ranapur, who remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days.

Another person, said to be a ‘tantrik’ (one who performs cult worship rituals to invoke the deity) and wanted in connection with the incident, was absconding.

The girl Susha, daughter of one Biranchi Pradhan of Bimbadharpur village was sacrificed before the goddess at the local Kali temple at Nagajhar under Ranapur police station after being kidnapped.

All the three have confessed that they had committed the crime , the sources claimed.

Susha, had been kidnapped by the accused persons, as guided by the tantrik, while playing with her friends on the evening of Diwali. Her father had lodged an FIR with the police after she went missing.

The body was found floating in a pond yesterday after which the police was informed. A case had been registered and further investigation was on, the sources said.

Local people also staged a protest yesterday demanding the arrest of the culprits.

It was alleged that in the 1980s a young boy had been sacrificed at the nearby Maninag temple, which is located on a hill top.

From NewKerala.com via robotwisdom.com. More disturbing detail in this story.

Sad loss of a musician

Apparently Mana “China” Mishiura has died in an auto accident while on tour with DMBQ. She was also Shonen Knife’s drummer.

She died the same way D. Boon did, ejected from a van on tour. A month shy of 20 years later, too. And their tour manager got a head injury and other crap and is in the hospital without health insurance.

Musicians are always dying of the lifestyle, by which I do not mean drugs and partying. The lifestyle of long exhausting trips in unsafe vans interspersed with long nights working kills. Later on if they’re successful, they get to fly around in rickety little bugsmasher planes and in helicopters, which also kill. And hardly anyone has health insurance.

More info at Todd P’s site.