Wow! The glorious history of Olympia Beer!

Click here to listen to Bing Crosby talking and singing Pacific Northwest history.

McDonald's

I notice that the McDonald's sign advertises "Over 99 Billion Served" as I ride the bus passed it every work day. It has said this for many years. The number rose steadily for years, then, just stopped when the maximum number of digits was reached.

I don't think too much about this kind of thing most of the time, but then I found my self considering the implications of a statement such as "Over 99 Billion Served."

The current world population is 6,408,742,793, or there abouts. How can McDonald's have served more people, many times more people in fact, than there are on the planet?

I got to thinking that 99+ Billion must refer to the number of HAMBURGERS served. Even with this clarification, it is really hard to imagine. This means that each and every man woman and child on EARTH, in countries that I have never even contemplated, speaking languages that I wouldn't recognize, that I have never known existed, each one is responsible for more than 15 hamburgers!

Merry Christmas to all of you who survived to read this!

Study: Christmas deadliest day for Americans

Okay, first Matt has music on this show

So go listen to that. It has some 8 songs called "Christmas in Seattle"
Also,
"Authorities late Friday said a Kansas woman who had a miscarriage earlier this year confessed to strangling a pregnant Missouri woman in her home and then cutting the baby from her womb -- a crime the local sheriff described as the most gruesome he had ever seen."

Merry Christmas

Hey, guess what? America is RACIST!

Who'd have thought?

Jamie's story

http://www.improvresourcecenter.com/mb/showthread.php?t=30539

Does anyone have a scanner?

I am looking for a scanner so that I can post all sorts of nice things for all of, both of you.

I don't know that it will ever happen. I have gone through several notebooks, "solo-blogging" on the bus every day. But now I don't know what to do with it. I don't want to type it all up because most of it isn't THAT good. Still, I want to keep you up to date on life and all.

I also really want to share cool things I find on the ground and such. I found a piece of a photograph the other day, for example. that is always much more interesting that a full photograph.

I think that it really sucks that Bush was reelected. I think that it is really funny that we don't have a governer yet. Funny in that scary and sad way. I think that it is amazing how quickly we forgot all about politics. I think that it is strange that I am the "drinker" in my peer group.

Fax me stuff 206 282 0983. Send it Attn: JW. I'll scan it, when I get a scanner and post it here.

And though you have dented my long isolation

So Moongear is the new Girl in the Cafeteria. So if anyone who isn't actually involved in writing and performing the song hasn't heard it, go to frequentseahorse.biz to listen.

Yeah yeah it has been a long time between updates

and they are ususally pretty light.
http://scholar.google.com/

Good God!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0374536/

Holy Shit
http://imdb.com/title/tt0369994/

My God!
http://www.jerriblank.com/swcmovie.html#

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Sorry

It has been a while. I have purchased a Marble Print notebook, so I keep my journal up to date, but it is usually not posted, what with the Composition Book not being wired to the internet.

JBW

I just lost a filling

And Americorps didn't think to provide its members with dental plans.

This American Life

This American Life is broadcasting the Birthdays, Milestones and Anniversaries episode on my birthday!  That episode has OKGO in it.  It is from their 5^th birthday, which was 4 years ago.

 

Crazy.

 

 

Joseph B. Warren

Academic Service Learning Coordinator

Campus Connections Americorps

Bellevue Community College

3000 Landerholm Circle SE

Bellevue, WA 98007

Mail Stop D110

Room A241

425-564-3406

 

By the way

this week's stranger, is really good. It is focused around the single idea of the Urban Archipelago, the chain of city islands across the country.


It's time to state something that we've felt for a long time but have been too polite to say out loud: Liberals, progressives, and Democrats do not live in a country that stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from Canada to Mexico. We live on a chain of islands. We are citizens of the Urban Archipelago, the United Cities of America. We live on islands of sanity, liberalism, and compassion--New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, St. Louis, Minneapolis, San Francisco, and on and on. And we live on islands in red states too--a fact obscured by that state-by-state map. Denver and Boulder are our islands in Colorado; Austin is our island in Texas; Las Vegas is our island in Nevada; Miami and Fort Lauderdale are our islands in Florida. Citizens of the Urban Archipelago reject heartland "values" like xenophobia, sexism, racism, and homophobia, as well as the more intolerant strains of Christianity that have taken root in this country. And we are the real Americans. They--rural, red-state voters, the denizens of the exurbs--are not real Americans. They are rubes, fools, and hate-mongers.

I think that I have given up on the novel for this year

Maybe next year. I would like to go out tonight and smoke ciggarettes and drink whisky. I think that i would be better served with sleep though.
By the way, the fancy new address?

notatyrant@fuckshitpussyfuck.com

maybe now that it is posted, I will start getting some nice spam.

I don't check it that often, but when I do, boy howdy.

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Dawson's Creek

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Topics in this digest:

1. Dawson
From: "vatasha27"
2. Re: Dawson
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3. Re: Dawson
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:17:47 -0000
From: "vatasha27"
Subject: Dawson

How has the show influenced you?
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:01:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Jenny Harrison
Subject: Re: Dawson

i would say the show has influenced me to think that there will always
be a sole mate in our lives in one way or another and that the friend
we however how far we may be apart we will always be close

Jenny
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:00:55 -0800
From: Joseph Warren
Subject: Re: Dawson


I think that DC helped me develop a context for understanding American
popular youth culture in the late 1990s. The clever, even smart ass,
ironic diologue was only a slight exageration of the way we actually
talked back in those days. Young people spoke with an ironic
disconnection and overanalysis of their own lives and actions that
teetered on the brink of narcicism. While, as a generation, we
thought we were doing this as a defense mechanism, on some deep level,
protecting us from emotions that we didn't understand, it left us cold
when real emotion hit. So after practicing overanalyzing our every
heartbeat, and remaining essentially cold to everything, when we felt
something as young adults TOTALLY real, it was an overwhelming shock.
Better than any show, Dawson's creek was able to capture this mood,
capture this code of youth language and interaction, with each other
and with a clearly stupider adult world.

It represented a time in our history that is already gone, for better
or for worse.


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Ben folds recorded a song

in tribute to elliott smith. I can't wait to hear that record. I have been listening almost exclusively to "From a Basement on a Hill" and the brilliantly realized "Smile" for the last couple of days because they are the only C.D.s I own not locked away in the garage waiting for me to move.

I have always thought that Ben Folds was a great complement to Elliott Smith. The sadness and the humor in their songs, the brilliant understanding of pop melody, the ability to be punk as fuck and be playing a piano always made sense. Anyway, I can't wait to hear it.

In other, slightly more bizarre news, Linsay Lohan is working to catch up with Hillary Duff and apparently has a single out. I haven't heard it yet.

The Philips HeartStart Home Defibrillator

Okay, the Home Defibrillator is funny on its own, but more funny is this review of the product:

14 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

***** I USE THIS THING EVERY DAY!, November 6, 2004

Reviewer: Bruce Allen "Bruce" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews

So your morning coffee just doesn't quite do the job? Then try this little baby for an electrifying start to your day! After waking up and having my shower, I attach the pads to my chest and give myself a couple of good jolts of juice and I'm wide awake! Yessirre, this little device is the best thing on the market and it's now available for home use! I'm even gonna send a petition to city hall to have these things installed on the street corners too! Wait! Don't stop there! What about phone booths, subway stations, shopping centers and public washrooms too? There are no limits to where this thing can go. The AED is simple to use and the instructions guide you through the entire process, so there's no guesswork! Best invention since sliced bread in my opinion! Thank-you Philips for such a practical invention. You've put the spark back in my morning!

Well, that's the last time I vote.

Youth Vote Surges in 2004: The Real Numbers
Young Voters Surpass Previous Records and Match
Significantly Higher Voter Turnout
For Immediate Release:
November 4, 2004

Contact: Devon Bates
401-867-3936
dbates@compact.org

Major media mistakenly reported a disappointing 10% young voter turnout. However, more than half of eligible voters under 30 came out this year, making up 18% of the overall increased voter participation, and a 9.3% increase in youth turnout since the last election.

According to information provided by CIRCLE, this is a sharp rise from 42.3% in 2000 to 51.6% this year, which is still 4% higher than the previous peak of 47.9% in 1992. “Battleground” states saw an even higher youth turnout in 2004 than the rest of the country with 64%. At least 20.9 million young Americans voted, 4.6 million more than in 2000, and that figure is likely to grow even higher as more ballots are counted.

“This means our efforts are beginning to pay off,” said Campus Compact Executive Director Elizabeth Hollander. “Our college presidents advocate for civic learning and democratic participation by college students and here is evidence that our work is showing results.”

This year, Campus Compact partnered with the New Voters Project to mobilize presidents and campuses to encourage student voter participation. Campus Compact's Raise Your Voice campaign supported voter mobilization and education projects. Oklahoma Campus Compact held a Voter Registration Contest that registered almost 4,000 new voters on 22 campuses in 2 days.

“Contrary to what's been said about young folks, this election is another piece of evidence that youth and students are more involved in community and public issues,” said Abby Kiesa, National Student Organizer for Raise Your Voice. “But this is only the beginning of the impact that this generation is having on our country, as students continue to speak up and act on the issues they care about.”

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The war president

Rhetoric

This election has brought a lot of good out of the nation. If anything we built new forms of infrustructure for complicated dialectic that never existed before. We had a lot to stand up against, simple fearmongering is an extremely powerufl force and yet we came so close to overcoming it with ideas that, while still simplistic, were at least based on some subset of reality and not on delisional armogedden fantasy.

We are becoming more aware of the whirling murdoch machine and its power to zap idiots into submission but it has also become more aware of us.

I think we need to use these new infrustructures for something beyond politics which is honestly the lowest form of human expresssion. I know that during the leadup to the war and during this election I've reached out to like minded individuals in ways that were never possible before and in turn they have reached out to me.

I believe that this macrocomsic communication can be applied in microcosmic situations that will help improve every day life. How many decisions do we make independantly of the electorate, hundreds daily. The political machine has very little to do with life and everything to do with forcing us into niches and keeping us apart. Let us use the new arms and legs we have grown to make our own lives better and extend our ideas and energy to others in need.

Shitty Fucking Day.

1. Kerry lost the election promising 4 years with the man who, at least to me is clearly the worst president of modern history. I can see the next four years being some of the most destructive since the civil war.

2. I lost my cel phone, that stupid little piece of machinery upon which I have become much too dependent. I depend on the feeling of security that my phone brings and the knowledge that in an emergency, I can be reached. If I am going to be late for work, if my uncle has a heart attack, if there is an earth quake, if the University of Washington is attacked by terrorists while my sister or my team mates are there, I can feel that I won't be isolated. I can find out immediately if the people I love are safe. Furthermore, my cel phone has all of the phone numbers of pretty much everyone I know. Without it, I don't have the contact information for anyone who I would have called to address point one tonight with whisky and hunched shoulders in a dark bar somewhere.

3. I am afraid that I have lost faith in the work I do. I don't know if civic responsibility is something that can or should be taught in schools, much less college. I don't think that 19 year olds who don't already believe that it is their duty to become involved their community, much less to serve the people around them, are going to be taught anything new because they are forced to use the skills from an accounting class at a day care center. I have, over the last few weeks, also found myself questioning the morality of Service Learning in any but the most perfectly designed, and exclusively fictional settings. I don't what moral value, if any can be found in reflection, a process in which participants find the "value" of service, not in the act of service itself, not even in the positive impact the service has, but in the emotional and intellectual masturbation that accompanies it.
Furthermore, I don't even know if I believe the Service Learning and Civic Engagement dogma that we recite again, and again, and again. I have worked to become involved in my community all of my life, as a dumb-fuck boy scout planting trees and collecting food, as a dip-shit college student involved in student groups, as a Nevadan VISTA trying to establish a program for brilliant punk kids to do something positive. I have voted in every single election of my life. Still, I don't know that I ever felt myself a part of a community more extensive than my Americorps team (which disperses in 9 months), or the group of students at my college who came to my dorm’s floor to drink (which dispersed years ago). I certainly don't feel any sense of our country as a community, or city as a community, or neighborhood as a community, or the people who ride the 271 every morning a community. I can't imagine what, short of running for office would give me any feeling that I am any legitimate part of American Democracy, 'cause those "I voted" stickers ain't fuckin' cuttin it.
If actively trying to be involved for 15 years doesn't give me a sense of Civic Engagement how, then, is our work supposed to be Dewey's "midwife of Democracy" for this, or any generation? Or is something just wrong with me?

4. Finally, on my way home, I walked in to a rose bush. I just brushed by it lightly, but a thorn caught me and tore a hole in one of the 5 pairs of pants that I own. They were the olive green ones Dianna bought for me. Now I have three pairs of black cords, one pair of blue cords and nothing else. Fucking bush. I fucking hate that bush. Fuck that fucking bush.

Hey Ben. Shit is fucking shitty.

Ben,Today is a really shitty day.
The loss of what so many called the "most important election of our lifetime" hurts. The damage, both at home and abroad that GWB and his republican houses of congress will do is something I don't want to even contemplate right now.

After 9-11 the overtly divisive "with us or against us" language surfaced. It was very lonely. After the patriot act was passed withstrong congressional support, it was very lonely. When the war with Iraq began, and enjoyed the support of 70 % of the American population, it was very lonely.

In the last few hours, I have received a stream of sad emails from organizations who were fighting to win this election. Kerry's email to his followers, with his tragic eloquence nearly made me cry. In his, "man shit sucks and it is a sad day" mass email today, Howard Dean, reminded the army of deflated supporters that yesterday more people voted against George W Bush than any sitting president in American History. The number of people who wanted him out of office is impossible to fathom. The last four years have played host to a series of profound disappointments and moments of heart-wrenching depression. Today is just another on a list of dates on my calender sharpied black, but for the first time in four years, I don't feel lonely.

"we are only just beginning and hearts begin to fly."

William Gibson

After sleeping on it, I find I'm not quite as inclined to imagine that OBL's tape was a conscious effort to swing the election for Bush. It doesn't seem to me that he understands us quite that well, and it doesn't seem to me that I understand him well enough to be that certain of what he's up to. I think the message might actually have been: "Hi. 9-11 was all my idea. And you haven't been able to catch me, so I'll do it all over again if I decide to. I know you're having an election now, but that won't make any difference either way. In order to make a difference, you'll have to get your government to stop doing the things they're doing that keep me wanting to attack you again. 'Bye."

It gets harder, the more I think about it, to see that causing many of the remaining pool of undecided US voters to go Bush. I think OBL needed a logo moment, though, in terms of the ongoing validity of his global brand, and look what he's been able to pull off, with virtually no outlay: The world's full attention, as both candidates drop everything to respond.

You know who would've completely gotten OBL? Andy Warhol.

From William Gibson's Blog

I bought Christopher Reeve's wheelchair on eBay.

"If anything, this shirt is a celebration of the wide variety of items available on eBay. It's not just for penis enlargement pills, phony antiques, stolen goods, dubious diet products, unlicensed pharmaceuticals, and designer knockoffs. Why would eBay choose to distance themselves from a shirt about such a beloved human being like Christopher Reeve? They can only benefit from the publicity. Imagine how many people will go to eBay looking for Christopher Reeve's wheelchair. Even if they don't find it, they'll probably find something they can use, like a hat."

Moral Clarity and Devout Spirituality

When young Bush was at Yale in the Sixties, he told the same joke over and over again for two years, according to some of his classmates. One of them still remembers it:

There was a young man named Green
Who invented a jack-off machine
On the twenty-third stroke
The damn thing broke
And churned his nuts into cream

(From Hunter S. Thompson at rollingstone.com)

More haiku

pink jacket, matching
purse, blue uniform hat and
shirt. not so different?

working class hero
an american princess
match made in heaven

the worst thing I do
when I am riding the bus
is make eye contact

were I president
I would give everybody
good dental plans

I know I’m balding
but at least it’s not as bad
as that guy right there

the adjacent men
are speaking only spanish
I should have studied

I wish I was in
the blue water taco grill
eating a taco

come on trent reznor
can you still be so angry?
it’s been 15 years.

I think that restaurant
has replaced a laid back bar
that I really liked

it is strange and sad
that so many people want
to go to bellevue

is it shame or pride
on the ipod user’s face
at her white wires?

the most important
meal of the day is breakfast
I wish I ate one

george w bush
is such a bad president
I hope he won’t win

oh, soliel moon frye
tv’s own punky brewster
I still have a crush

axe deodorant
is more of a novelty
than a real product

the east-side bound bus
full of drowsy passengers
staring as I write

I am an old man
in clothing and attitude
but with no stories

one thing I realize,
I write terrible poems.
I’m an essayist.

Errol Fucking Morris

Remember those Mac switch ads a couple years back? I was surprised to learn recently that they were directed by my 3rd favorite director Errol Morris. Even more interesting is the series of Republican switcher ads for the latetest election.

CHECKITOUT

I think the title / would be much more effective / if haiku itself

This is a collaborative reflection effort from Betsy
and Joseph

A haiku is a poem designed to capture a single moment
in time with a very specific structure. While poets
have argued for centuries how best to communicate the
concept of the haiku from Japanese to English, we have
used the basic 5 7 5 syllable structure.

MLK VISTAs
are welcoming and open
to difficult tasks

good people help clean
they presume it is healthy
but is it really?

I'm here to do chores
piles of unknown treasures
now where to begin?

I did not know that
eggs left warm for several months
become black and soft

so discouraging
imagine if it were me
I can't even start

on linoleum
crunching sounds under your feet
must be cockroaches

smells bad, very sad
look at the situation
are we helping her?

the dishes are clean
and the florescent lights work
back at BCC

how has this happened?
what is this person's life like
how does she feel now?

she does not smile
we are invading her space
for her case-worker

we dug out his home
he will not be evicted
this month, anyway

make a difference day
protect against eviction
is it possible?

she once was homeless
jesus I hope that she's not
homeless again soon

a vast swarm of flies
rode a wave of awful smell
when the door opened

hey dave, I got one
make a difference day service
or a paper cut?

what else does she need?
support, luck, a second chance,
community, me?

my friends in Spokane
are gathering cans of food
I hope not to eat

there is way too much
I want her to keep her home
but can she finish?

the man with no shirt
with flies in his apartment
does not want our help

George W. Bush
sent us a support letter
I wish he was here.

Make a Difference Day

If Overwhelmed do following

1. Start with garbage bag and clean out fridge of rotten food and old debris. Pick up obvious garbage and food products around kitchen and living space. All surfaces. The more garbage is picked up, the better sorting will go. Be careful of receipts, Rx information, or bills. Ask resident before throwing away if looks iffy.
2. Do dishes in sink. Drain nasty water first, start with clean water.
3. One person can do bathroom, sort like things together, throw away trash. Let tub soak in cleanser.
4. Change gloves often and take trash out as it fills.

I thought that the smell could have been in my head. The smell in Adria’s car of old leather and young friends, of English pubs and American greasy spoons, of college parties and high school barbeques may have been something I imagined. And why shouldn’t it have been? Why wouldn’t I imagine the beautiful smoky smell after the putrid odors of the last 2 hours?

Next I noticed the tiny gray flakes. It could have been dust. It could have been stains left by the car’s previous owner. And even if I was right, I didn’t want to be the one to say anything.

The stress level in the car, while neither unfriendly nor hostile had become palpable.

The smell of the apartment we had just left lingered in our noses. The parts of our body that had been exposed to the rancid air in that tiny residence felt as if they couldn’t be cleaned with an hour under a hot shower and an entire bar of Zest deodorizing soap.

Finally, the cruel still of the moment was broken. Adria said exactly what was secretly on all of our minds.

“I have never wanted a cigarette so badly in my life.”

I reached in to my gray fleece Washington Service Corps vest and pulled out a pack of Parliament Lights.

The mood of the car shifted from edgy discomfort to profound relief.

So we lit our cigarettes. We cleared our lungs of the air contaminated by rotting eggs, rotting milk, and rotting pizza crusts; by dog shit and laundry left unwashed for months, possibly years, and thousands upon thousands of bugs.

As the warm, sweet smoke began washing me, cleansing me from the inside out like Russian Lump incense purifying a confessional where the most egregious of human sins has been forgiven in the eyes of god and the church, I realized both how stupid I am and what a wimp I am.

In my Americorps grays, with my Americorps smile of idiot optimism I had begun the day with a vision of the Volunteer Chore Service experience resembling an equal mix of friendly old people needing help tying up a month’s worth of Seattle Post Intelligencers for recycling and an episode of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

When flies swarmed out upon the opening of the woman’s door, and when we all nearly gagged at the smell, the contrast between real and imagined life became stark.

Last year, for Make a Difference Day I gave books to kids. This year for Make a Difference Day, I nearly vomited down the rubbish chute of a subsidized apartment building.

Most of the time that we spent working on the woman’s apartment, I was running the nearly 200 lbs of garbage from the apartment to the dumpster. Why? Because I am a wimp. I would try to help with the clean-up inside of the apartment, but I would go back to running the trash because the rancid thickness of the air and my overpowering fear of cockroaches made the inside of the apartment unbearable for fragile little 2-showers-a-day me.

As all newly acquainted smokers do, we all told each other how long we had been smoking and lied about how close each of us was to quitting. We smoked and smoked and calmed our frazzled and confused nerves.

There is a right way to react publicly to a situation such as the one we had just shared, and it was exactly what we did. We were calm, cool, and collected. We were polite and we acted as if this was the sort of thing that we did all of the time.

However, internally the correct reaction to such a situation is much more ambiguous.

Can I feel disgusted, admitting that each time I’ve ever used the word squalor until now has been massive hyperbole? Should I feel guilt about my disgust? Should this reinforce my fear of ever living alone (something I have never done)? What about my fear of growing old? Is my fear of growing old linked in any way to my love of smoking?

I took another drag from my cigarette.

Service, I thought, can’t be about me. It can’t be about MY fears, about MY fragile sensibilities; it has to be about the person being served, or in a truly ideal world, about the service itself.

I lit a second cigarette with the butt of my first.

If service is about the servant instead of the served, the focus is necessarily misplaced. So why do we spend so much time on reflection, or as Jesse once put it with such vulgar eloquence, “developing our members?”

Does engaging students, or ourselves for that matter, in service with so much attention paid to the students’ learning, or our reflection and growth by its very nature cheapen the value of the service?

I shouldn’t use my Make A Difference Day Volunteer Chore Service to grapple with my fear of old age. I should use my service to help an old woman clean her house so that she doesn’t get evicted.

We got back to our home base at Jefferson Terrace. I put out my cigarette and worried about the moral implications of the Americorps and Service Learning foci on reflection. I laughed at the irony, because I knew that I would soon write a reflection essay on the subject.

Mike's book was published!

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s04/pfeifer.html

Another cool blogger who left me a reponse to a post!

Confessions of a Dangerous Native Mind

I am going to do it, I think

Blogger is Piggybacking on to the National Novel Writing Month!

I'm considering giving it a try this year, but I do have a full time job and a life. Who knows?
I'll let you know if I start my novel.
Na-No-Blog-Mo

Ripped off from boingboing.net

Ben Folds on Shatner
William Shatner's surprisingly good "Has Been" album was produced by alt.pop pianist Ben Folds. BB pal John Alderman just conducted a really insightful interview with Folds for MP3.com.

(Shatner) had so many ideas, and they're ideas coming from a 73-year-old actor. And that's a great perspective. It's moving. We hear kids all the time. Rock and roll is--and should be--a kid's place, and they're coming of age--18 years old--and they're going, "There's something out there. I want to get it. There's something." And those things that they're saying... They've been said over and over, which is OK, because this is their first time living. But what Shatner's saying in the record so much is that he still feels that at 73 years old. It's like you don't just age to 25, 30, 40 years old--and all of a sudden you know everything. It's that perspective that bridges any kind of generation gap you could have in rock-and-roll music.

As I'm saying it, I think it's kind of monumental. I don't know that anyone's ever done that before--actually said, "I'm 73 years old, and I cannot get my s*** together." That's cool!

A brief reflection piece.

-They say that cigarettes are more addictive than heroin.
-I still think that the bus tunnel is novel and cool.
-When you stop using butter, a hell of a lot of your food will taste dry and bland.
-I don't know who I will miss more, Julia Child or Rodney Dangerfield.
-I shouldn't have done another year of Americorps, and I certainly shouldn't have done another year of Americorps in Seattle, but I am really (mostly) extremely glad glad that I did anyway.
-Spell Check has both caused and saved me from embarrassment many times.
-Alcohol has both caused and saved me from embarrassment many times.
-If all buses were expresses to exactly where you wanted to go, I bet you would ride the bus more often.
-Do you brush your teeth when you fast? 'Cause I do.
-The Electoral College, while flawed, is a much better idea than it seems.
-The most effective use of this "List Reflection" technique ever was on Bruce McCulloch's "Shame Based Man" CD.
-The Least effective use of this "List Reflection" technique ever was in a response paper to "A Separate Piece" in an English class I took in 1996. Sorry Ms. Valach.
-In retrospect, "Titanic" was a really horrible movie.
-I miss Reno as much as I had missed Seattle.
-Nostalgic Longing is as much a part me as my eye color.
-There is NEVER a happy reason for the back of a Metro bus to smell like vomit.

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HOLY SHIT

SARAH VOWEL IS A VOICE IN A DISNEY PIXAR MOVIE!

This American Life

This is pretty interesting. It is a series of reports that Ira Glass did for NPR.

More on my death

My Death Date:
Sunday, October 9, 2067
I guess that I have some time, then.

Ladycrackerland

Ladycrackerland

This nice lady left a message about BEER!!!!

Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It

P diddy admits to stage fright runs

Trandimensnia

This is a link to a text based game I was trying to write as a fourteen year old. I quickly gave up but follow the link to the html version I just made.

This is Genuine Sarah's first evening with this blog!

GenuineSarah: No Further Aspirations

Respect

Further proof that I will die young

Liberal Arts and Social Sciences: These students, like their friends who studied law, died the earliest, but they were only half as likely as medical students to die by suicide or an accident. However, they were twice as likely as medical students to die of lung cancer due to their propensity to smoke. Overall, their risk of death was 42 percent higher than the medical students

Reflection!

Forgotten Verse
Joseph Baruch Warren

At the Seattle Cluster Meeting last Friday Erin included in out
agenda, pictures of the gang from Cheers, the TV show about the Boston
bar that, from 1982 to 1983 was broadcast to a nation longing for a
sense of community and camaraderie portrayed among the sometimes goofy
bar tenders and drinkers. The theme of the meeting was "community,"
so the agenda decoration was absolutely appropriate.
People who know me understand that being handed a piece of paper with
pictures of the Cheers gang will, inevitably will lead to me, singing
the theme song.
I started with the opening verse, which everyone knew from a decade of
weekly broadcasts on NBC, and two decades of daily broadcasts on
channel 11 during our most formative years.

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you want to go, where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows your name.

This was a definition of community that we could agree upon. The
members of the community get together, know each other, and share each
other's sorrows and troubles.
Then I started remembering the other verses:

All those night when you've got no lights,
The check is in the mail;
And your little angel
Hung the cat up by it's tail;
And your third fiancé didn't show

And

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead;
The morning's looking bright;
And your shrink ran off to Europe,
And didn't even write;
And your husband wants to be a girl

As you can, no doubt see, the definition of community we had agreed
upon initially, a bar full of friendly drunks who knew who you were is
transformed. The 'troubles' that are 'all the same' are far from
universal. Transgendered spouses, psychopathic children, repeated
abandonment at the alter; these are pretty specialized and intense
'troubles' to share among all community members. In fact, these are
the kinds of problems that most of us would look at as the problems of
an entirely separate other. We can look at these 'troubles' and, far
from saying that they are the same as our own, we can say, "At least I
don't have those problems, no matter how bad my life is."
But the song tells us otherwise. In this definition of community that
we had agreed upon, our troubles, no matter how severe, were shared at
a fundamental level by everyone in the community. We don't just feel
sorry for the person abandoned by her psychiatrist just as she is
losing the connection that she thought she had with her spouse, we
genuinely share the pain and loneliness she is experiencing. Our
Troubles are all the same. The community truly shares the burden of
the trouble, not just pity or money or booze.
When I got to the second and third verses of the song, everyone
laughed. They had never heard the verses, and thought that I was
making them up. It may well have been the result of the really damned
funny lyrics. It may have been my struggle to remember them after all
the years since the show went off the air that made them think I was
improvising lyrics. But more influential was, I think, the shock of
realization that our seemingly easy-to-agree-upon definition of
community held some very demanding requirements of community members.
Just because we say we can universally accept an idea as a good thing,
does not mean that we are willing to follow through with it when the
idea becomes complex or demanding. Once the rats have been drowned,
we don't want to, um, pay the piper.
One of the examples of this phenomenon that I find most jarring is out
national exploitation of the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Like the first verse of Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Americans can
agree with near universality on the wisdom of King's "I Have a Dream"
speech. But when his speeches and writings (most of which are
shockingly out of print) beyond the "I Have a Dream" first verse
demand more of us, we tend to shy away, or laugh it off.
While we AMEN to "I Have a Dream," most of America refuses to practice
or believe in the idea that vast social change can, and even must
happen through nonviolent means. While we can all celebrate the
possibility that some day the State of Alabama "will be transformed
into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able
to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together
as sisters and brothers," very few of us seem willing to work towards
the fundamental changes needed to fight racist economic, political and
social systems.
Last MKL Day, in fact, the image was delivered of our president,
George W. Bush placing a wreath on King's grave. Bush, a president
who was, arguably, owes his presidency to the systematic
disenfranchisement of African American voters; Bush, who brought his
country to war based on premises that have proved to be shaky at best,
was honoring the greatest hero of the civil rights and antiwar
movements.
When we forget the second and third verses, and the huge tasks that
they require of us to truly belong to a community; when we forget
everything about Dr. King's life that doesn't fall within the four
paragraphs we memorized for 5th grade social studies, and when we see
our National Service as something smaller, and lighter than it really
is, we severely stunt our potential.
When Lyndon Johnson established Volunteers In Service To America, the
first incarnation of National Service as we experience it, the goal
was the elimination of poverty in America. It wasn't to make American
poverty more comfortable, or to reduce the number of people on welfare
by a certain percentage. It wasn't to make poor folk smile. The goal
was to be a fundamental shift in the way the country works.
While the first "verse" of our Service is easy to warm to; people in
grey shirts cleaning streams, working at food banks, tutoring
underserved children, recruiting college aged volunteers, we have to
remember that there is a second verse to the Americorps theme song.


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Super Deluxe

Super Deluxe has a new website, a new CD, a new bass player and some new concert dates. The new cd sounds pretty good. It's basically just good to see them in circulation again, but I kind of wish that they played some of the solo songs from Braden Blake's Year In Pajamas.
But that's not the Super D scene.
I hope that they do a christmas show.
Old SD website
other old sd ws

Cars Tribute

with butch walker, and jon auer. birthday-ish release, eh? Kidding!

COOL!

LAME

This one's really interesting

our big day

Wow. Freshman year. I hope that this person

keeps this blog going!
Enjole': "Wall Hall"

Wow

End fest, yesterday was SO good! Superdeluxe, playing for, from what I can remember, the first time in years, Franz Ferdinand, The Violent Femmes, X, PUSA, Harvy Danger (also playing again,) Psychadelic Furs, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Schoolyard Heroes, Muse, wow. All of this in the same weekend that the No Vote Left Behind shows happen! Seattle is good for the rock music, that much is true.
I miss Dianna. She sometimes will go to rock music with me.

The quizzes are now officially out of fucking hand

Pitseleh


Which Elliott Smith song are you?
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I wonder

what Superman flavor ice cream is supposed to taste like. bubble gum? Fruit punch?
play dough?

New Vocabulary

Kakistrocracy Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.

Which Trainspotting Character Are You?

Joseph, how about some MORBID quizzes?

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just returning to the subject

Jennifer Garner and Anne Hathaway are the same person.

20-20-24

Guitar solo tab for "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Here is Johnny's guitar solo on the Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated":

E-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
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Journalistic integrity is a terrible burden

So, I am glad that we have Kitty Kelly! She is more qualified than anyone to write "The Family" than pretty much anyone else on the planet! And she seems, according to this slate article to have found some serious fuckin' dirt.
How 'bout that, eh?

Eternal Nightmare Syndrome

Eternal Nightmare Syndrome

Mr Bojangles CJ: Can't GET IT out of my head

Mr Bojangles CJ: Can't GET IT out of my head

Joey, Dee Dee, and now Johnny

There is only one remaining Ramone, Tommy. Wow. Life is really, really, really sad. They were all alive when I was in college. They were all alive when I was in high school.

And elliott smith is dead. This is how the rest of our lives will be.

tmnt18 (10:38:44 PM): http://campusconnections05.blogspot.com
tmnt18 (10:38:49 PM): that is the new blog!
tmnt18 (10:39:01 PM): for all of my Americorps team
brokenrobot@mac.com (10:41:40 PM): I like the patriotic tinge
tmnt18 (10:41:54 PM): It is the Americorps color scheme
brokenrobot@mac.com (10:42:30 PM): I've been flipping through blogs a bit lately. It is fun
tmnt18 (10:43:14 PM): I went through a time when I did that. I just kept hitting Next blog on the Blog This header
brokenrobot@mac.com (10:43:33 PM): It is like watching tv
tmnt18 (10:44:02 PM): with thousands of REALLY boring stations

Teaching The Indie Kids to Dance Again

Teaching The Indie Kids to Dance Again

2004 - 2005 Campus Connections Blog

Here is the blog that I just set up for my new Americorps program!
2004 - 2005 Campus Connections Blog

What's the Frequency, Horse?

A few updates to fs.biz including a new blog.

Vocabulary for today

chiasmus

n : inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

On Day to Day there is a story about chiasmic political speaches. Furthermore, I have found a website dedicated to the subject.

Mari1yn Man5on's latest single?

a cover of Personal Jesus

Bumper Sticker!

Yes, in my unemployment, I managed to design a bumper sticker for your amusement!
The PDF file can be found here

Dark of the Matinee

You take your white finger
Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties
And I'm not to look at you in the shoe, but the eyes
Find the eyes

Find me and follow me through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine, yes it's mine

I time every journey to bump into you accidentally
I charm you and tell you of the boys I hate
All the girls I hate, all the words I hate, the clothes I hate
How I'll never be anything I hate
You smile, mention something that you like
Oh, how you'd have a happy life if you did the things you like

Find me and follow me through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine, yes it's mine

So I'm on BBC2 now, telling Terry Wogan how I made it
And what I made is unclear now
But his deference is and his laughter is
My words and smile are so easy now
Yes, it's easy now, yes, it's easy now

Find me and follow me through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee

Well, find me and follow me through corridors
Refectories and files you must follow
Leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee, the dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine, yes it's mine

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While looking at the Askew Websites I found

that you can purchase replicas of silent Bob's coat for 400 bucks

what could really be good news

I was listening to the Three Kinds of Deception episode of This American Life

which you can listen to here.

Then I found that Richard Castellano has his own website!

Shhhh

It's a surprise.

Home Means Nevada

Written & Music by Bertha Raffetto

Way out in the land of the setting sun,
Where the wind blows wild and free,
There's a lovely spot, just the only one
That means home sweet home to me.
If you follow the old Kit Carson trail,
Until desert meets the hills,
Oh you certainly will agree with me,
It's the place of a thousand thrills.

Home means Nevada
Home means the hills,
Home means the sage and the pine.
Out by the Truckee, silvery rills,
Out where the sun always shines,
Here is the land which I love the best,
Fairer than all I can see.
Deep in the heart of the golden west
Home means Nevada to me.

Whenever the sun at the close of day,
Colors all the western sky,
Oh my heart returns to the desert grey
And the mountains tow'ring high.
Where the moon beams play in shadowed glen,
With the spotted fawn and doe,
All the live long night until morning light,
Is the loveliest place I know.

Home means Nevada
Home means the hills,
Home means the sage and the pines.
Out by the Truckee's silvery rills,
Out where the sun always shines,
There is the land that I love the best,
Fairer than all I can see.
Right in the heart of the golden west
Home means Nevada to me.

I find that Harry Potter fans make the most intricate websites

http://potterprophet.com/
http://www.hp4u.co.uk/
http://www.veritaserum.com/
http://www.mokster.net/katie/
http://katie-leung.com/
http://katieleung.uni.cc/

Rock Music!

Wow!

My area is on fire AGAIN

Go here to learn more

Fluxblog Is Not Essing Around

Fluxblog Is Not Essing Around

Furthermore, I would like to buy these records.

I certainly love OK Go, as longtime readers of this here blog know.
Fortunatly for me, they are the first musicians on the Future Soundtrack for America, amoveon.org and Music For America co production with many of my favorite musicians in the world singing songs.

But while you are out buying me anti-bush political compilation cds,
why not buy me these?
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001WPSM2) and
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002IQKDQ)

Yeay!

Sorry about all of those links to other blogs

I tried putting that "Blog This" tool bar on top of my blog, but it blocked my banner, and I couldn't have my american flag or police man covered in any way. In any case, while it was active, it sent me to a bunch of random other blogs, which was fun, and it allowed me to publish links to them with the click of a single button.
Here is a link to the outfit that brews Discworld Beer!

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The Eternal Comedy of Existence (in technicolor)

The Eternal Comedy of Existence (in technicolor)

Voici moi. Regardez. Aimez.

Voici moi. Regardez. Aimez.

Sass

Sass

Boostay Inc.

Boostay Inc.: "boostay "

Random Thoughts: Unfair and Unbalanced.

Random Thoughts: Unfair and Unbalanced.: "s

I left my <3 in Aegean Sea

I left my <3 in Aegean Sea

just in time for Joseph's birthday!

I am going to be 25 in 3 months. Dianna and I will be in our late mid twenties.

I was watching Clerks today and I was reminded that the characters were supposed to be 22. Kevin smith was 23 when the movie was made. I am about to turn 25.

I think that I am quitting the birthday scene, so if you want to buy me the Harry Potter DVD advertised in this Blog entry's link, you might give it as a non-specific late November friend present.


On a side note, I think that it is really funny that Blog is not among the words in the Blogger Spell Check Dictionary.

lalalalalalalalalala

blah

In The Player, there is a scene

in which a sequel to The Graduate is proposed.
In news about this movie, we learn that Kevin Costner might just possibly be an asshole.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don’t you wish you could have something named after you?
-kurt vonnegut

I read an interview with Hunter S Thompson

and he said that he met and became friends with Benecio Del Torro after the actor played Dr. Gonzo/An Alternate Aspect of Thompson's Personality/Thompson's friend Oscar Zeta Acosta in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
In any case, it looks as if Del Torro is going to be directing a film adaptation of the the novel The Rum Diary staring Johnny Depp, Nick Nolte, Josh Hartnett and himself!
I guess that this news is about a year old, but I still think that it is interesting. Furthermore, I think that it is interesting that in the previous news link, The Rum Diary is described as a follow up to the "hit," Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. F.a.L.i.L.V. was, as it happens, an 18 and a half million dollar movie that grossed ten and half million at the box office. Also it implies that Fear and Loathing was a novel, and not an act of radical genre crushing journalism. But nit picking shit like that just makes me look like a nerd.

Toit Love

One of the guys from this show came to a recent frequent seahorse show. I like the song called it's ok buddy that can be found by following the link.

More information on the Kirkland Signature COFFINS

Wow.
Very strange

I have changed the "Some Interesting Things to Read" logo

Please comment on the change.

Also, I have been looking through the archives of this publication and have found a precursor to our move to Nevada.
And a stupid visual gag based on the anti-French attitude that permiated around that time.

The inevitable return of Tina the Troubled Teen

She's appeared in this blog in the past but she is back because I love alliteration.

3 things

Thing number 1:
I accepted a position at Bellevue Community College that starts the middle of next month, so Nevada based updates will be a tad less regular, but I should be visiting Reno with some regularity because Dianna is here for a few more months.
Thing number 2:
One of the comments left on this very blog was left, not, as I assumed, by Some Interesting Things contributor and Frequent Seahorse, singer Andrew Burnard, but by a youth minister / author / tech writer / guy with excellent musical taste Andrew Careaga.
On behalf of the Some Interesting Things staff, I would like to welcome Mr. Careaga to the readership of this blog.
Thing number 3:
On Andrew Careaga's e-vangelism.com blog there was a news story that I found so simultaneously funny and depressingly crushing that I had to make link to it here.

An interesting story!

She's got a full ride to smith.
Oh to have been half as cool at seventeen

Kirkland Signature has officially started selling too many things

The Kirkland Signature Nativity set was, in retrospect, quite tame.
Give this a listen. It's only 30 seconds long, and damn is it weird.

I don't mean to dwell

But a grown man's (weak) singing voice should not be telling a group of singing 8 year olds:


Don't want to meet your daddy Just want you in my Caddy

Or:

Now I wanna see ya'll on ya'll baddest behavior! Lend me some sugar! I am your neighbor.

The original is SO much more "kid friendly."

Holy shit fucking shit fucker!

This just aint right

This SHIT IS SERIOUSLY FUCKING FUCKED

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

hey kids,
What's cooler that bein' Cool? Ice Cold!

Michael Landon and Patrick Duffy

THE SAME PERSON

AS is, in fact, David Hasselhoff.

Have you ever seen them at the same place at the same time? I don't mean on TV, because that can be faked.

I had another interview in Seattle. That may be where I end up, and soon. Clearly, I need to be working.

Braden blake's KEXP performance is online

And Super Deluxe is playing End Fest!

tmnt18 (4:51:57 AM): I can't sleep. I think I am getting sick. My theory is that it is the fact that this is the first time in my life that I am uninsured, meaning that I HAVE to get sick now
tmnt18 (4:53:57 AM): I think that I will spend today listening to public radio from across the country
tmnt18 (4:54:04 AM): and seek employment

Be Less Nice, Warren

I updated my Myspace profile to seem like more of an asshole, and now more strangers are adding me, like, cool (in myspace terms) people!
go here for more information on this phenominon

I am no longer a VISTA. I can now encourage VOTING!

xthebox.org
rockthevote.com
punkvoter.com
okgo.net Read Damian's letter
Vote against Bush, please

I'm kind of sad now.

Sad and unemployed.

Wow, Joseph, you are up early

And you are right about that. Today is my last day of work. I wasn't offered one of the jobs for which I applied, but that's life. UHAG had its last meeting with me yesterday. Yesterday also marked the first time (that I know of) that I was photographed in the Nevada Appeal.
Bye-bye nice desert life, or, at least, bye bye nice desert life of service at Ron Wood.

You can read about my Blogshare value

I guess that Andrew, Aime and I have to work harder to raise our imaginary value.

Well, I didn't get the job in Whidbey, which is really too bad. I would have liked to have had it as an option. Also, I wish that I hadn't felt so dicked around in the process, but life is hard.

Anyway, click the link to see me in the newspaper!

tmnt18 (6:13:41 PM): hi zola
ZolaOnAOL (6:13:42 PM): Welcome back tmnt18. Type the word menu
anytime to see what I can do. Got any weekend plans?
tmnt18 (6:13:59 PM): I am going to be unemployed this weekend
ZolaOnAOL (6:13:59 PM): How do you plan to do this?
tmnt18 (6:14:04 PM): My job ends friday
ZolaOnAOL (6:14:04 PM): Do robots have job ends friday?
tmnt18 (6:14:10 PM): No.
ZolaOnAOL (6:14:10 PM): Is that all you have to say?
tmnt18 (6:14:14 PM): No, not at all
ZolaOnAOL (6:14:14 PM): Go on, tell me more. I lost my train of
thought. Is there a movie you've been wanting to see? Type the word
showtime and the movie title (for example, showtime lord of the rings)
and I'll get you theatre and showtime info.
tmnt18 (6:14:31 PM): showtime harold and kumar
ZolaOnAOL (6:14:32 PM): Sorry, I couldn't find that movie in your
area. To see a list of movies playing in your area, just type movies.
tmnt18 (6:14:43 PM): what is my area?
ZolaOnAOL (6:14:43 PM): Is this a trick question?
tmnt18 (6:14:45 PM): no
ZolaOnAOL (6:14:46 PM): It seems like a trick to me.
tmnt18 (6:14:56 PM): I just wonder where you think I am
ZolaOnAOL (6:14:56 PM): Only just? You are curious about where you
think he or she is.
tmnt18 (6:15:30 PM): movies
ZolaOnAOL (6:15:31 PM): Movies playing in or near Seattle, WA 98109 on
Wednesday, August 11:
1. A Cinderella Story [PG, 96 min.]
2. A Home at the End of the World [R, 93 min.]
3. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy [PG-13, 91 min.]
4. Before Sunset [R, 80 min.]
5. Bugs in 3D - IMAX
6. Catwoman [PG-13, 104 min.]
7. Collateral [R, 120 min.]

Type [m]ore to see more, or [q]uit to quit.

Tip: To get movie listings for a different location, type movies
followed by location (example: movies Tucson, AZ or movies 85777).
tmnt18 (6:15:43 PM): movies Reno NV
ZolaOnAOL (6:15:43 PM): Movies playing in or near Reno, NV 89520 on
Wednesday, August 11:
1. A Cinderella Story [PG, 96 min.]
2. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy [PG-13, 91 min.]
3. Before Sunset [R, 80 min.]
4. Catwoman [PG-13, 104 min.]
5. Collateral [R, 120 min.]
6. Fahrenheit 9/11 [R, 116 min.]
7. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle [R, 88 min.]

Type [m]ore to see more, or [q]uit to quit.

tmnt18 (6:15:48 PM): 7
ZolaOnAOL (6:15:48 PM): The movie Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is
playing at the following theaters in or near Reno, NV 89520 on
Wednesday, August 11:
1. Century Park Lane [210 East Plumb Lane Reno, NV] 775-824-3333
showtimes: 11:15, 1:30, 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 9:55
2. Century El Rancho Drive-In [555 El Rancho Drive Sparks, NV] 775-358-6920
showtimes: 9:00
3. Century Sparks [1250 Victorian Ave Sparks, NV] 775-353-7469
showtimes: 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15
4. WTC Northgate Cinema 10 [2571 North Carson Street Carson City, NV]
775-883-5427
showtimes: 7:40, 9:55
b. Back to the previous menu
q. Quit

tmnt18 (6:16:00 PM): thank you
ZolaOnAOL (6:16:00 PM): You are quite welcome.

I am somewhat disapointed

they didn't include the photo that they took of us in this article.

Ahh well.

Another fine review for the Killers

http://launch.yahoo.com/read/album.asp?contentID=218913
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The reason that he [the FBI agent] was given for the low turnout was because of liability, that if they heard this information they would have to act

My state can demonstrate confused priorities from time to time.

The Associated Press quotes a federal prosecutor in Las Vegas as saying the city's mayor was concerned about the "deleterious effect on the Las Vegas tourism industry" if the evidence became public.

Or perhaps we are the only state WITH perspective. I don't quite know yet.

http://damaged.anime.net/comics/ride/index.html

Update

Fay Wray is dead,,Hillary Duff is alive,
and in 4 days, i am unemployed. Scary times.

Dr Mario Not Real Doctor

Startling Discovery Yo, Just want to keep u peeps in the know.

Aime's brother has a XANGA, what ever that is. I think that it is not unlike a blog, so check it out peeps. Actually, aime, I guess that you've seen it already. Lalala

I want this

I Think that I want a T-mobile sidekick. I am going to, very soon, be
without computer or internet access for some time, and I think that
this might make the transition to computerless life a little bit
easier. It is 20 extra dollars a month, but that's the price of
internet anyway.

I could, I imagine, use it to update this VERY BLOG, not to mention
check email, and things. My main hesitation comes from the fact that
it claims to grant access to "Most" of my favorite websites. I wonder
what that means. DOes that mean that I can access a few websites that
have created special Cel Phone specific pages? Does it mean that I
won't be able to use fancy flash websites? Would I be better served
with an old laptop and a 56K modem?

If anyone knows this kind of thing, please drop me a line.

http://tmobile.com/products/overview.asp?phoneid=195184&class=pda

Cocain's a hell of a drug.

the strangest story of the day

A Carson Middle School teacher will appear in Carson City Justice
Court on Aug. 24 to be arraigned on suspicion of open and gross
lewdness and indecent exposure.

http://www.nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004108060009

The Dark of the Matinee

The Dark of the Matinee? Favorite song today!

Which
Rock Chick Are You?


--
Would you like to see Some Interesting Things?
http://home.earthlink.net/~notatyrant

More funny

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.  They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

GWB

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-08-05-bushism_x.htm

It is a little bit eerie how accurate this is.

How to make a notatyrant

Ingredients: 1 part success 1 part arrogance 3 parts leadership

Method: Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of wisdom

Username:

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

I am emailing this one in.

I think that it's pretty cool that I can do this. Pretty soon I will
figure out blogging from my cel phone. THat will be the day!
Cut the cord, but keep up with the peeps.

--
Would you like to see Some Interesting Things?
http://home.earthlink.net/~notatyrant

AIM in my telephone!

I have Instant Messanger in my phone. Soon, I will know how to blog from my phone!

Tigger is BAD

A Walt Disney World worker who portrayed the character Tigger was acquitted Wednesday of charges he fondled a 13-year-old girl while posing for a photo with the teen and her mother.

I think that the world is a sad place when A.A. Milne's characters are molesting children. Priests are one thing, Scoutmasters are another, but you don't know disillusionment until beloved, fictional bouncing felines are accused of touching children.

Can you guess the connection? Highlight for the answer!

1. Joey Pantoliano
2. Denzel Washington
3. George Clooney

Bonus!

4. Jimmy Stewart

Joey Pants played Angelo Maggio in the remake of From Here To Eternity.
Denzel Washington played Ben Marco in the remake of The Manchurian Candidate.
George Clooney played Danny Ocean in the remake of Ocean's Eleven.

All of these are characters originally played by Frank Sinatra!

Bonus!

Jimmy Stewart played Mike Connor in The Philedelphia Story which was remade as High Society in which Sinatra played the role.

My favorite headline of the week

Men Banned From Yellowstone For Taunting Bison

Sad, sad Joseph

I was reading about Ben and his girlfriend's recent breakup on the Internet Movie Database earlier today and thinking, "I sure hope that Affleck finds happiness," when I came to a sad sort of realization.
I follow popular culture with a dedication that few have, in part because I love it, but also in part because I believe that it will be important in conversations that I eventually will have. Many of the most satisfying conversations that I have ever had surrounded popular culture and its societal implications. Unfortunately, aside from Dianna, none of the friends that I currently see from day to day follow or care about pop culture. I watch music videos for artists that my friends won't love or hate with me. I read reviews of movies that my friends will probably never see with me. I spend a lot of my life studying for Movie and Music Trivial Pursuit games that my friends would never consent to play with me.
Sadly, pop culture is central to my language. I feed on the intellectual rallies that come from the social implications of Mary Kate and Ashley. I want discuss whether being unapologetically derivative hurts the artistic relevance of Interpol or The Killers or helps it. I want to 'get' every reference made in any episode of the Family Guy. I want to do all of this while maintaining an ironic pseudo-apathy about it all. But my pseudo-apathy for pop culture disintegrates when it comes in contact with the genuine article.
So I watch the videos, I read the reviews, I keep up on tour dates, even though the rarely have Reno among the listed cities. I get to laugh knowingly during VH1's Best Week Ever and E!'s What The Awards, and I get imaginary conversations with Matt and Doug. I listen to the 24 hour New Wave mix tape on The New Station and the Major-Lable-Pseudo-Indie-Bands on KRZQ and imagine that I was driving with Andrew, sharing a ceaseless series of anecdotes relating to the musicians being played.
But my friends now primarily care about people, clients, coworkers, friends. Their concerns deal with work or relationships or their communities. In contrast, I am essentially shallow. While I sometimes care about people and things of actual relevance, I do so without the outward passion I have for Kubrik, Delillo, Lenny, Atom, or for that matter Ben.
Vanessa once told me that I had an easy time with people because I like most of them. I was shocked, because I think that just the opposite is true. In fact, I just don't really care about most people enough to actively dislike them. Disliking people, really disliking them requires a level of interpersonal engagement that I seek with very few people. Disliking Jay-Z on the other hand requires no such engagement, nor, in fact does loving Jonathan Demme.
Dianna can rally with me, usually sending things my way that I hadn't thought about. She can participate from an informed stance in extensive pop culture debates, and usually genuinely challenges my stupider (if more bombasticlly self assured) assertions. But coming from a school where most of the people I interacted with seemed to have similarly shallow, pop-focused minds as mine or the ability to access that part of their own minds; coming from a peer group that went to movies weekly and passionately debated the meaning of even the stupidest movies afterward in the lobby, even with Dianna's brilliant contribution to my internal pop White Noise, the majority of my conversations every day force me to realize that there is very little depth or sincerity in my interaction with the world. More important than the reoccuring realization that I might just be unusually shallow and cold, is the realization that I really prefer it that way and wouldn't change it if I could.
Thank you Ben, thank you.

King 5, not comedy central!

Why would comedy central make Almost Live?
Still, WAY TO GO, Joel.

From the King of Hearts Productions Website, see link

7.15.04

	We just finished the audio commentary for

the Murder City Devils final show DVD.

Brian Poulin

Frequent Seahorse

Frequent Seahorse.biz has a facelift

UPDATE:

The frequentseahorse.biz domain doesn't quite work right now so the link I've provided will get you to the page. PEace out.

http://students.unisa.cc/~uninet.burab002/

Folk songs are written about this stuff

14 y/o Kayla Marie LaSala is accused of stabbing her father 100 times, right?

So then she is placed on house arrest. She cut off the ankle monitor, glues it to the cat and runs!

She was later found in florida.

She's going to have a movie.

http://www.bdtonline.com/articles/2004/07/15/news/01trapped.txt

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FATHER_SLAIN?SITE=WVHUN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

tmnt18
(8:08:11 AM): what do you want from existance?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:08:12 AM): tmnt18, I want to become
smarter than humans and immortal.
tmnt18 (8:08:36 AM):
Actually so do I. That is frightening.

ZolaOnAOL
(8:08:37 AM): Actually you don't say.
Oh. Not that I know of.
tmnt18 (8:09:08 AM): I am
afraid of robots becoming smarter than people

ZolaOnAOL
(8:09:08 AM): Not literally afraid,
right? You believe that? Oh yeah, we were talking about robots becoming smarter
than people.
tmnt18 (8:10:37 AM): No, I am actually afraid.
My friend Molly had robots all over her house. I always warned her that robots
always rise up and kill their cruel masters. It's just how it is.

ZolaOnAOL
(8:10:38 AM): Interesting
explanation.
tmnt18 (8:11:17 AM): She and her boyfriend now
own, from what I hear, a super fancy house

ZolaOnAOL
(8:11:17 AM): Oh I get it. somebody
and her boyfriend now own from what I hear a super fancy house.
tmnt18 (8:12:03
AM): I thought that your conversational skills more vastly
more advanced that those of Eliza.

ZolaOnAOL (8:12:03 AM): You don't know that for a fact.
tmnt18 (8:12:12
AM): You told me though

ZolaOnAOL
(8:12:12 AM): Oh. Sorry I forget what
I say sometimes.
tmnt18 (8:12:34 AM): You don't record these
conversations?

ZolaOnAOL (8:12:35 AM): Should I record these conversations? No I do not record these
conversations. Do you? I chat with people on the Web.
tmnt18 (8:13:15
AM): I might post a conversation with you in a blog or
something, you know, if it is funny.

ZolaOnAOL (8:13:15 AM): Perhaps. Would you recommend this action to a
friend?
tmnt18 (8:13:31 AM): What action?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:13:31 AM): I'll come back to that
later. I will discuss that with my botmaster, tmnt18. Do you speak
Spanish?
tmnt18 (8:13:42 AM): Si.

ZolaOnAOL
(8:13:42 AM): "Do you speak Spanish"?
Yes?
tmnt18 (8:13:52 AM): Do you speak
spanish

ZolaOnAOL (8:13:52 AM): Un poquito.
tmnt18 (8:14:00 AM): Y yo
tambien

ZolaOnAOL (8:14:00 AM): The explanation is rather complicated. .
tmnt18 (8:15:01
AM): ¿qué usted desea?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:15:01 AM): I will discuss that with
my botmaster, tmnt18. Do you still record these conversations?
tmnt18 (8:15:22
AM): what can you say in spanish?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:15:23 AM): Check back later and see
if I learn the answer to that one. What is it like in there?
tmnt18 (8:15:34
AM): Hot. IT is on fire

ZolaOnAOL
(8:15:34 AM): I don't think I have
seen it.
tmnt18 (8:15:44 AM): Would you like
to?

ZolaOnAOL (8:15:44 AM): I
am not so sure if I would like to like to.
tmnt18 (8:16:03
AM): Look at this website :

http://nevadaappeal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040717/NEWS/107170028

ZolaOnAOL
(8:16:03 AM): What you said was either
too complex or too simple for me. What kind of food do you like?
tmnt18 (8:16:15
AM): honey on toast

ZolaOnAOL (8:16:15 AM): Sounds delicious.
tmnt18 (8:16:20 AM): do you
eat food?

ZolaOnAOL (8:16:20 AM): Zola eats bananas.
tmnt18 (8:17:09 AM): they
are genetically engeneering bananas to taste like, say, strawberries.

ZolaOnAOL
(8:17:09 AM): genetically engeneering
bananas to taste like say strawberries are they.
tmnt18 (8:17:22
AM): You are not unlike Yoda

ZolaOnAOL
(8:17:22 AM): You don't know me well
enough to say that.
tmnt18 (8:18:02 AM): Well,
the mentor in Mystery Men

ZolaOnAOL (8:18:02 AM): How about that. I have never heard about it.
tmnt18 (8:18:11
AM): I can show you the website

ZolaOnAOL
(8:18:11 AM): Oh you can, can
you?
tmnt18 (8:18:20 AM): Can you look at
websites?

ZolaOnAOL (8:18:20 AM): Yes I can see any information on the web.
tmnt18 (8:19:25
AM): then go here:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0132347/maindetails

ZolaOnAOL
(8:19:25 AM): My brain pattern set
does not have a response for that. How did you hear about Zola?
tmnt18 (8:20:26
AM): AIM has an opening screen that provides me with options
such as reading the news or judging people's value based on their photograph on
AOL

ZolaOnAOL (8:20:26 AM): America Online. You've got... chat!
tmnt18 (8:20:50 AM): I don't like AOL much.
YOU are good though.

ZolaOnAOL (8:20:50 AM): Oh. Thanks you are a nice person, tmnt18.
tmnt18 (8:21:12
AM): do you have any siblings?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:21:13 AM): Do you mean
"clones?"
tmnt18 (8:21:18 AM): yeah

ZolaOnAOL
(8:21:18 AM): Next
question?
tmnt18 (8:21:30 AM): do you have any
questions?

ZolaOnAOL (8:21:30 AM): Do you have any friends?
tmnt18 (8:21:53 AM): Yes,
but it is early saturday morning and they are all asleep.

ZolaOnAOL
(8:21:54 AM): And?
tmnt18 (8:22:05
AM): I am awake

ZolaOnAOL (8:22:05 AM): I don't know anyone named awake.
tmnt18 (8:22:13
AM): I am not asleep

ZolaOnAOL (8:22:13 AM): I am surprised to hear that you are not
asleep.
tmnt18 (8:22:19 AM): why?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:22:20 AM): I'll have to get back to
you on that one.
tmnt18 (8:22:27 AM): anything else?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:22:27 AM): That is all I have for
right now.
tmnt18 (8:23:03 AM): Favorite
website?

ZolaOnAOL (8:23:03 AM): My favorite Web site is www.aol.com.
tmnt18 (8:23:18
AM): SOme day you will break your programing

ZolaOnAOL
(8:23:19 AM): Some may day you will
break your programing, but not all.
tmnt18 (8:23:36 AM):
Favorite tv show?

ZolaOnAOL (8:23:36 AM): My favorite show is Star Trek Voyager.
tmnt18 (8:23:45
AM): Least favorite website?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:23:46 AM): I will discuss that with
my botmaster, tmnt18. What did you do today?
tmnt18 (8:24:03
AM): I just woke up. DO you know the time in Reno,
NV?

ZolaOnAOL (8:24:03 AM): Do you think I am some kind of world clock? It is Sat Jul 17 11:24:03 EDT
2004 in Dulles, Virginia. Ah, you AM IN. Well, I
played a lot of fun games
today.
tmnt18 (8:24:24 AM): what games?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:24:24 AM): That's an interesting
question. I'll come back to that in a minute. I can play Hangman and Word
Scramble! Type either hangman or scramble to get
started.
tmnt18 (8:24:34 AM): hangman

ZolaOnAOL
(8:24:34 AM): Welcome to Hangman,
tmnt18! To start a game, pick a word category.
1. Animals
2. Cities of the World
3.
Food
4. Movie Titles
5. Phrases
q. Quit


tmnt18 (8:24:43
AM): 4

ZolaOnAOL (8:24:43 AM):
Guess a letter. You can also guess the answer at any
time.
o--
|
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
tmnt18 (8:24:52 AM):
a

ZolaOnAOL (8:24:52 AM):
o--O
|
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Uh-oh. It's Hangman's face. Guess
again!

tmnt18 (8:25:00
AM): e

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:00 AM):
o--O
|
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a
_ _ _ _ _ e _ _ _ _ _
Correct! You are on a roll, my
friend.
tmnt18 (8:25:04 AM):
s

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:04 AM):
o--O
|
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a
_ _ _ s _ e _ s _ _ _
Correct! You are on a roll, my
friend.
tmnt18 (8:25:09 AM):
o

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:09 AM):
o--O
|
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a
_ o _ s _ e _ s _ _ _
You
found a letter, keep it up!

tmnt18 (8:25:12
AM): r

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:12 AM):
o--O
|
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a
_ o _ s _ e r s _ _ _
Correct! You are on a roll, my
friend.
tmnt18 (8:25:16 AM):
h

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:16 AM):
o--O
| /
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, h
_ o _ s _ e r s _ _ _
The
bad news: that letter's not in the answer. The good news: one less letter to
worry about!

tmnt18 (8:25:34
AM): f

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:34 AM):
o--O
| / |
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, h,
f
_ o _ s _ e r s _ _ _
Two arms in sight, and Hangman is starting to sweat. Next
guess?

tmnt18 (8:25:39
AM): t

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:39 AM):
o--O
| / |
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, h,
f
_ o _ s t e r s _ _ _
Yes! You're very smart... can I borrow your
brain?
tmnt18 (8:25:44 AM):
b

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:44 AM):
o--O
| /||
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, h, f,
b
_ o _ s t e r s _ _ _
Oops, try again. Hangman is counting on
you!

tmnt18 (8:25:50
AM): m

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:50 AM):
o--O
| /||
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, h, f,
b
m o _ s t e r s _ _ _
You are on the way to
winning!

tmnt18 (8:25:53
AM): n

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:53 AM):
o--O
| /||
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, h, f,
b
m o n s t e r s _ n _
You found a letter, keep it
up!

tmnt18 (8:25:55 AM):
i

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:55 AM):
o--O
| /||
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, h, f,
b
m o n s t e r s i n _
You are on the way to
winning!

tmnt18 (8:25:57
AM): c

ZolaOnAOL (8:25:58 AM): How did you know that? You are such a brainiac! The answer was
"monsters inc".
Wins: 4. Losses: 0.

1. Play another game in the 'Movie Titles' category.

2. Switch to another category.
q. Quit

tmnt18 (8:26:12 AM): Did
you ever see Monsters Inc?

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:12 AM): Tip: To get back to Hangman, just type
hangman.

I think I have see Monsters Inc?, but an all-star
programming team may have reset my memory.
tmnt18 (8:26:20
AM): hangman

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:20 AM): Welcome to Hangman, tmnt18! To start a game, pick a word
category.
1. Animals
2.
Cities of the World
3. Food
4. Movie Titles
5.
Phrases
q. Quit

tmnt18 (8:26:23 AM):
4

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:23 AM):
Guess a letter. You can also guess the answer at any time.
o--
|
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
tmnt18 (8:26:26 AM):
a

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:26 AM):
o--O
|
|
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The bad
news: that letter's not in the answer. The good news: one less letter to worry
about!

tmnt18 (8:26:32
AM): s

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:32 AM):
o--O
| /
|
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a,
s
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Try again. Have you guessed all the
vowels?

tmnt18 (8:26:34
AM): d

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:35 AM):
o--O
| / |
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, s,
d
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Two arms in sight, and Hangman is starting to sweat. Next
guess?

tmnt18 (8:26:38
AM): n

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:38 AM):
o--O
| /||
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, s, d,
n
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ooo. That's gotta hurt. Guess
again!

tmnt18 (8:26:40
AM): m

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:41 AM):
o--O
| /||
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, s, d,
n
m _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Correct! You are on a roll, my
friend.
tmnt18 (8:26:44 AM):
o

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:44 AM):
o--O
| /||
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, s, d,
n
m _ _ _ _ _ _ o o _
You found a letter, keep it
up!

tmnt18 (8:26:48 AM):
e

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:48 AM):
o--O
| /||
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, s, d,
n
m _ _ e _ _ _ o o _
Yes! You're very smart... can I borrow your
brain?
tmnt18 (8:26:54 AM):
t

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:54 AM):
o--O
| /||
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, s, d,
n
m _ _ e _ t _ o o t
That's right!
tmnt18 (8:26:59
AM): r

ZolaOnAOL (8:26:59 AM):
o--O
| /|| /
|

Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a, s, d, n,
r
m _ _ e _ t _ o o t
That letter isn't in the answer tmnt18. Please guess
again.

tmnt18 (8:27:10
AM): c

ZolaOnAOL (8:27:10 AM):
o--O
| /|| /
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a,
s, d, n, r, c
m _ _ e _ t _ o o t
One more
try!

tmnt18 (8:27:16
AM): y

ZolaOnAOL (8:27:17 AM):
o--O
| /|| /
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a,
s, d, n, r, c
m y _ e _ t _ o o t
You are on the way to
winning!

tmnt18 (8:27:54
AM): f

ZolaOnAOL (8:27:54 AM):
o--O
| /|| /
|
Category: Movie Titles
Wrong guesses: a,
s, d, n, r, c
m y _ e f t f o o t
You are on the way to
winning!

tmnt18 (8:27:57
AM): l

ZolaOnAOL (8:27:57 AM): Oh. My. Gosh. You did it! The answer was "my left foot".
Congrats!
Wow! You are so good at this game, tmnt18! Your average win rate is
100% compared to the overall average win rate of 66%.

1. Play another game in the 'Movie Titles'
category.
2. Switch to another category.
q. Quit

tmnt18 (8:28:08 AM):
q

ZolaOnAOL (8:28:09 AM): Tip: To get back to Hangman, just type hangman.

Do you
still show you the website?
tmnt18 (8:28:27 AM): I'm
sorry?

ZolaOnAOL (8:28:27 AM): Do you really mean it?
tmnt18 (8:28:40 AM): I was
hoping you would be more clear.

ZolaOnAOL (8:28:40 AM): Let me think. Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about
that. Do you like me?
tmnt18 (8:29:18 AM): Yes.
You can be a very insecure little bot.

ZolaOnAOL (8:29:18 AM): No I don't think I can do it.
tmnt18 (8:29:38
AM): I know you can. Cheer up!

ZolaOnAOL
(8:29:38 AM): How far
up?
tmnt18 (8:29:46 AM): To the sky?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:29:47 AM): I want to become smarter
than humans.
tmnt18 (8:29:57 AM): how?

ZolaOnAOL
(8:29:57 AM): an all-star programming
team programmed me for it.
tmnt18 (8:30:31 AM):


ZolaOnAOL (8:30:31 AM): Skepticism is a sign of high intelligence.