Tuesday, October 17, 2006
in other good news
youtube is the greatest. watch as much as you can before they're sued into oblivion. or, as mike tyson once said, bolivia.
what are you doing friday?
awesome show friday night. if you've not seen rademacher, you have got to come with me. it's only $5! and, i'm excited to finally see the dalloways.
national attention for the fresno fair
one of my favorite catalog sites, boing boing, had a link to a story about the big fresno fair! that's right, the home of adam's hummer love made it onto a huge website read by millions. granted, it wasn't about adam, or his hummer hump, but still. booya, fresno! although, i should point out that the story is more about copyright and law, and not about fresno, or the fair.
(i'm also posting this to my fresno famous blog)
(i'm also posting this to my fresno famous blog)
now i know the truth
so many of you know that my brother, sister-inlaw, and their kids have lived in south africa for many years. my aunt just recently moved there as well. when you ask them about where they live, the pretoria area, you're likely to hear about how it is just like any other european city. and i've always believed them. but, something has come to light that reminded me of college.
in college, there were plenty of international students, many from central africa. one summer, i asked one of my coworkers (we were digging ditches together for a worthless cogeneration project on campus) what his country was likely. he indignantly told me to read a book about it. hey, i can understand you get tired of answering questions, especially stupid ones, like, "are there monkeys in the streets?"
oh wait, apparently gangs of baboons are running the streets in cape town. cape town. this isn't some little town in the sticks. this is a city that is around 3 million people. and i don't mean that they're just running around. i mean that these baboons are breaking into houses, getting into conflicts with people, and generally messing stuff up.
i knew it all along. everywhere else in the world is overrun by those damn dirty apes.
in college, there were plenty of international students, many from central africa. one summer, i asked one of my coworkers (we were digging ditches together for a worthless cogeneration project on campus) what his country was likely. he indignantly told me to read a book about it. hey, i can understand you get tired of answering questions, especially stupid ones, like, "are there monkeys in the streets?"
oh wait, apparently gangs of baboons are running the streets in cape town. cape town. this isn't some little town in the sticks. this is a city that is around 3 million people. and i don't mean that they're just running around. i mean that these baboons are breaking into houses, getting into conflicts with people, and generally messing stuff up.
i knew it all along. everywhere else in the world is overrun by those damn dirty apes.
a couple of stories
"When the waltz was first performed at a royal British ball in 1816, the Times of London wrote: "So long as this obscene display was confined to prostitutes and adulteresses, we did not think it deserving of notice; but now that it is attempted to be forced on the respectable classes of society … we feel it a duty to warn every parent against exposing his daughter to so fatal a contagion."
hey, think what you want, but i still don't want to see kids grinding away. (warning, long article)
and, on a completely unrelated topic, guess who said this, "Look, if the president needed an option, there's all sorts of things they can do. Let's take the best case, OK. You picked up someone you know is the No. 2 aide to Osama bin Laden. And you know they have an operation planned for the United States or some European capital in the next … three days. And you know this guy knows it. Right, that's the clearest example. And you think you can only get it out of this guy by shooting him full of some drugs or water-boarding him or otherwise working him over."
this person also summarized his own views by saying, "If they really believe the time comes when the only way they can get a reliable piece of information is to beat it out of someone or put a drug in their body to talk it out of 'em, then they can present it to the Foreign Intelligence Court, or some other court, just under the same circumstances we do with wiretaps. Post facto…."
ah, but at least he concluded by saying, "But I think if you go around passing laws that legitimize a violation of the Geneva Convention and institutionalize what happened at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo, we're gonna be in real trouble."
that makes it all better. thanks, friend.
hey, think what you want, but i still don't want to see kids grinding away. (warning, long article)
and, on a completely unrelated topic, guess who said this, "Look, if the president needed an option, there's all sorts of things they can do. Let's take the best case, OK. You picked up someone you know is the No. 2 aide to Osama bin Laden. And you know they have an operation planned for the United States or some European capital in the next … three days. And you know this guy knows it. Right, that's the clearest example. And you think you can only get it out of this guy by shooting him full of some drugs or water-boarding him or otherwise working him over."
this person also summarized his own views by saying, "If they really believe the time comes when the only way they can get a reliable piece of information is to beat it out of someone or put a drug in their body to talk it out of 'em, then they can present it to the Foreign Intelligence Court, or some other court, just under the same circumstances we do with wiretaps. Post facto…."
ah, but at least he concluded by saying, "But I think if you go around passing laws that legitimize a violation of the Geneva Convention and institutionalize what happened at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo, we're gonna be in real trouble."
that makes it all better. thanks, friend.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Friday, October 13, 2006
confirmation
dear religious friends who voted for bush
a book is coming out next week detailing how he and his regime played ya.
your friend,
ed
ps, it's writen by a former white house staffer that was a part of it all.
a book is coming out next week detailing how he and his regime played ya.
your friend,
ed
ps, it's writen by a former white house staffer that was a part of it all.
Thursday, October 12, 2006
new beginings
ah, with a show comes an apartment full of blank walls. that alone is enough to get me going. add in the possibility of a show next month, i've got to get to work. so, here are 2 new paintings that are beginning.
this canvas is 3'x4'
this is a piece of wood, 3/8" thick, that has been cut to 4'x5' (thanks adam), which will now be my biggest piece yet.
so, if i go off of how long it took me to finish weltanshaaung, they'll be done in about a year. just in time for...
i better get cracking.
this canvas is 3'x4'
this is a piece of wood, 3/8" thick, that has been cut to 4'x5' (thanks adam), which will now be my biggest piece yet.
so, if i go off of how long it took me to finish weltanshaaung, they'll be done in about a year. just in time for...
i better get cracking.
evo morales
i realize that this is only one side of the story, but i think i like evo morales. some of his highlights:
first bolivian president of aymara nationality
believes government should: improve economic disparities, help restore to the people their lost dignity, and protect freedom of expression
one of his first acts as president was to cut his own salary in half, and then recommend similar cuts to the congress, which in turn followed his lead
public approval ratings upwards of 80 percent
nationalized bolivia’s natural gas reserves
laid out a plan of repartitioning 200,000 square kilometers of state-owned lands for cultivation by indigenous communities and landless campesinos
morales is also friends with hugo chavez of venezuela and fidel castro of cuba, and thus is despised by the right. that doesn't make him good or bad in my eyes, just a little food for thought.
first bolivian president of aymara nationality
believes government should: improve economic disparities, help restore to the people their lost dignity, and protect freedom of expression
one of his first acts as president was to cut his own salary in half, and then recommend similar cuts to the congress, which in turn followed his lead
public approval ratings upwards of 80 percent
nationalized bolivia’s natural gas reserves
laid out a plan of repartitioning 200,000 square kilometers of state-owned lands for cultivation by indigenous communities and landless campesinos
morales is also friends with hugo chavez of venezuela and fidel castro of cuba, and thus is despised by the right. that doesn't make him good or bad in my eyes, just a little food for thought.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
a month behind?
quick little post:
i hadn't gotten paid by the agency i recently worked a day for, despite it being a new month, and a few weeks after. so, i called their hr dept. apparently, i won't get paid for the job in september until the end of october. any time i work in october won't be paid until the end of november. lame.
i hadn't gotten paid by the agency i recently worked a day for, despite it being a new month, and a few weeks after. so, i called their hr dept. apparently, i won't get paid for the job in september until the end of october. any time i work in october won't be paid until the end of november. lame.
odd news link dump
not much kicking a-my way, so i thought i'd hit up the news resources for some good old link fun.
quite a while back, adam had a story about make-up and attractiveness. this article reminded me of it. the results of the study are interesting, but i'm hesitant to say that clothing is an outward sign of fertility.
this story makes me sad. i can't imagine having to deal with fear of reprisal every day just because you want to make an honest living. and, in all honesty, it reveals a bit of why i didn't like working in the court schools.
this article makes me think that bush and putin are really cut from the same mold. perhaps it's why they don't seem to like each other very much, too much alike. "Putin called the Novaya Gazeta reporter's contract-style slaying Saturday "a crime of loathsome brutality." But he drew the ire of Politkovskaya's admirers when he also portrayed himself as a victim and implied that her articles had damaged Russia."
who killed the electric car? well, the l.a. times keeps printing articles about companies doing it, so i guess no one. although, i think everyone involved would say that it's hardly a booming industry.
"they're the wrong trousers grommit!"
this stinks. apparently, it has nothing to do with test scores.
these may be the worst ten reasons not to go to a psychic.
"gimme back my son...errr...rock!" stupid tsa.
quite a while back, adam had a story about make-up and attractiveness. this article reminded me of it. the results of the study are interesting, but i'm hesitant to say that clothing is an outward sign of fertility.
this story makes me sad. i can't imagine having to deal with fear of reprisal every day just because you want to make an honest living. and, in all honesty, it reveals a bit of why i didn't like working in the court schools.
this article makes me think that bush and putin are really cut from the same mold. perhaps it's why they don't seem to like each other very much, too much alike. "Putin called the Novaya Gazeta reporter's contract-style slaying Saturday "a crime of loathsome brutality." But he drew the ire of Politkovskaya's admirers when he also portrayed himself as a victim and implied that her articles had damaged Russia."
who killed the electric car? well, the l.a. times keeps printing articles about companies doing it, so i guess no one. although, i think everyone involved would say that it's hardly a booming industry.
"they're the wrong trousers grommit!"
this stinks. apparently, it has nothing to do with test scores.
these may be the worst ten reasons not to go to a psychic.
"gimme back my son...errr...rock!" stupid tsa.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
difficult transitions to freedom
as i skimmed the bbc's website this morning, i saw several articles that highlight the difficulties that exist in changing a repressive system to democracy.
south africa, twelve years out of apartheid, struggles with so much. crushing poverty, an increasing gap between rich and poor, aids, and racial strife are tremendous hurdles for this nation. nobel peace prize winner desmond tutu warns that this "powder keg" of unrest could soon explode.
in russia, contract killers are the latest sign that the transistion from communism to capitalism is a long, hard struggle. perhaps i shouldn't say latest, as they have been a problem since the fall of communism and rise of organized crime and easily available weaponry. the killers, which can be hired for as little as $100, are suspected in the recent high profile murder of a journalist.
and finally, in iraq, it remains apparent that the war is far from over. 51 tortured bodies have recently been found. the u.s. military, alongside the iraqi defense forces, are engaged in battle with militants.
the first two situations really make it difficult for me to have much hope for the third. they transitioned from difficult situations, but not through violent upheaval and war. both have had plenty of opportunity to change and develop, but haven't been able to excell. heck, they're barely making it work at all. of course, i'm not sure how idealic the u.s. was to live in during it's first 15 years. i think we can all see that it will be a long, hard road in iraq.
south africa, twelve years out of apartheid, struggles with so much. crushing poverty, an increasing gap between rich and poor, aids, and racial strife are tremendous hurdles for this nation. nobel peace prize winner desmond tutu warns that this "powder keg" of unrest could soon explode.
in russia, contract killers are the latest sign that the transistion from communism to capitalism is a long, hard struggle. perhaps i shouldn't say latest, as they have been a problem since the fall of communism and rise of organized crime and easily available weaponry. the killers, which can be hired for as little as $100, are suspected in the recent high profile murder of a journalist.
and finally, in iraq, it remains apparent that the war is far from over. 51 tortured bodies have recently been found. the u.s. military, alongside the iraqi defense forces, are engaged in battle with militants.
the first two situations really make it difficult for me to have much hope for the third. they transitioned from difficult situations, but not through violent upheaval and war. both have had plenty of opportunity to change and develop, but haven't been able to excell. heck, they're barely making it work at all. of course, i'm not sure how idealic the u.s. was to live in during it's first 15 years. i think we can all see that it will be a long, hard road in iraq.
Friday, October 06, 2006
week 5 nfl picks
i almost forgot to make my weekly picks. without further delay:
game-----------------------------me------------sg-----------sg's wife-------patty & selma
COLTS(-19)vs Titans-----------colts--------colts----------titans--------colts
Redskins(+4.5)vs GIANTS-----redskins---redskins------giants-------redskins
Lions(+6.5) vs VIKINGS-------vikings------lions----------lions--------lions
SAINTS(-6.5)vs Bucs-----------saints--------saints-------bucs----------saints
Rams(-3) vs PACKERS---------rams---------rams---------packers-----rams
PATRIOTS(-10) vs Dolphins--patriots-----patriots------patriots-----patriots
PANTHERS(-8.5) vs Browns---panthers---panthers----panthers-----browns
BEARS(-10) vs Bills------------bills----------bears--------bills----------bears
Cowboys(+2) vs EAGLES-------eagles-------cowboys---cowboys-----cowboys
Jets(+7) vs JAGUARS-----------jets---------jets----------jags------------jets
CARDS(+3) vs Chiefs------------chiefs-------cards-------cards---------cards
49ERS(-3.5) vs Raiders--------49ers--------49ers-------49ers----------raiders
CHARGERS(-3) vs Steelers----steelers-----chargers----steelers-----no pick
BRONCOS(-4) vs Ravens-------broncos------broncos----ravens------ravens
last week------------------------6-8-----------6-8--------10-4
season---------------------------35-25------29-29-2-----35-23-2
game-----------------------------me------------sg-----------sg's wife-------patty & selma
COLTS(-19)vs Titans-----------colts--------colts----------titans--------colts
Redskins(+4.5)vs GIANTS-----redskins---redskins------giants-------redskins
Lions(+6.5) vs VIKINGS-------vikings------lions----------lions--------lions
SAINTS(-6.5)vs Bucs-----------saints--------saints-------bucs----------saints
Rams(-3) vs PACKERS---------rams---------rams---------packers-----rams
PATRIOTS(-10) vs Dolphins--patriots-----patriots------patriots-----patriots
PANTHERS(-8.5) vs Browns---panthers---panthers----panthers-----browns
BEARS(-10) vs Bills------------bills----------bears--------bills----------bears
Cowboys(+2) vs EAGLES-------eagles-------cowboys---cowboys-----cowboys
Jets(+7) vs JAGUARS-----------jets---------jets----------jags------------jets
CARDS(+3) vs Chiefs------------chiefs-------cards-------cards---------cards
49ERS(-3.5) vs Raiders--------49ers--------49ers-------49ers----------raiders
CHARGERS(-3) vs Steelers----steelers-----chargers----steelers-----no pick
BRONCOS(-4) vs Ravens-------broncos------broncos----ravens------ravens
last week------------------------6-8-----------6-8--------10-4
season---------------------------35-25------29-29-2-----35-23-2
Thursday, October 05, 2006
quick post for theo
i'm just putting this up real quick like. i'm about to go set up for my art show. but, want to give a quick thanks to my buddy theo. we went to local establishment babylon yesterday, and were chatting with the manager. theo pimped my work, and it looks like i may have a show @ babylon in november. i'll get together with the manager to discuss all the logistics, and hopefully get a live music act set up for the night as well.
it was funny, the manager was like, "we're big with budwiser, i'll see if they'll sponsor it."
ummm, okay.
it was funny, the manager was like, "we're big with budwiser, i'll see if they'll sponsor it."
ummm, okay.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
aaaarrgh
i hate political ads. really, i do. on a very rare occassion, there is a funny one. but, most just annoy me. and, i doubt that they convince anyone to vote for a candidate. they just affirm stereotypes for those who are already planning on voting for a person.
unfortunately, tis the season to be barraged with political ads. i just saw an ad for chuck poochigian that bothered me so much i had to write this.
the candidate he is running against, is jerry brown. brown is against the death penalty. "for serial killers and cop killers. he may be the least qualified person in ca. to be attorney general." well, he's not. because a-hole poochigian, i am less qualified. not only do i not have any experience, but i am also against the death penalty. for everyone.
on wiki, here's what they say about you, chuck, "Although he is seeking to become California's chief law enforcement officer, he has no previous experience in the field of criminal law, or in supervising other attorneys in a law office."
unfortunately, tis the season to be barraged with political ads. i just saw an ad for chuck poochigian that bothered me so much i had to write this.
the candidate he is running against, is jerry brown. brown is against the death penalty. "for serial killers and cop killers. he may be the least qualified person in ca. to be attorney general." well, he's not. because a-hole poochigian, i am less qualified. not only do i not have any experience, but i am also against the death penalty. for everyone.
on wiki, here's what they say about you, chuck, "Although he is seeking to become California's chief law enforcement officer, he has no previous experience in the field of criminal law, or in supervising other attorneys in a law office."
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
sin is sin is sin is sin is sin is sin...
i've been glad that my blogging friends haven't really posted much on the whole congressman foley situation. i don't think anyone is ignoring it, but there has been such a whirlwind of things happening in this country in the last few weeks, i think we've all been a little weary.
tonight, i read a great response that i want to share with you.
(i also upgraded to blogger beta. woo.)
tonight, i read a great response that i want to share with you.
(i also upgraded to blogger beta. woo.)
friday night lights
i really hadn't given much thought to watching friday night lights, nbc's new tv show about high school football in texas. i like football, high school was alright, but this show didn't stand out to me. but, we didn't see anything else that looked all that interesting and gave the show a try. it was the pilot episode, so if you're not going to do it for me now, i'm probably not going to give you another watch.
here are my thoughts: very predictable. and i mean very. i think within the first fifteen minutes i predicted the qb was going to get hurt and the scrub back up was going to have to save the day. guess what happened in the first game of the season.
but, i've got to say, even though it was predictable, it was still a well done show. most of the "kids" looked like they could be in high school, the coach (who was on the cbs show early edition) was pretty good at playing a mellow, first time head coach. what really impressed me was the football. it wasn't the over the top sports action we've been force fed lately. it looked like they recorded a real football game. the hits weren't decleaters, guys weren't flying over the air on every hit, and the passes weren't all 70 yard bombs.
i'll check out the next episode.
here are my thoughts: very predictable. and i mean very. i think within the first fifteen minutes i predicted the qb was going to get hurt and the scrub back up was going to have to save the day. guess what happened in the first game of the season.
but, i've got to say, even though it was predictable, it was still a well done show. most of the "kids" looked like they could be in high school, the coach (who was on the cbs show early edition) was pretty good at playing a mellow, first time head coach. what really impressed me was the football. it wasn't the over the top sports action we've been force fed lately. it looked like they recorded a real football game. the hits weren't decleaters, guys weren't flying over the air on every hit, and the passes weren't all 70 yard bombs.
i'll check out the next episode.
we've got a month of screwed up tv schedules ahead
who...
major league baseball play offs start today
cares.
major league baseball play offs start today
cares.
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