Saturday, April 03, 2004
YUCK YUCK YUCK [wrench]
that was the sound of me guffawing it up this evening at hermosa beach's comedy & magic club (where tonight show host jay leno tries out new material almost every sunday). went w/ the tribe and saw some great comics - including hysterical opening acts. but the headliner - gabriel iglesias - left everyone in stitches: mexican jokes, fat jokes, sound f/x, impressions from bill clinton to bitches, he shot some majorly needed laugh gas on this matt, and I thank him and his punch-line posse for the dose...
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11:11 PM
REVVED UP BRAINS [coolmel]
this is your brain on Red Bull,
this is your brain on Ritalin,
this is your brain on God.
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8:50 PM
THOU SHALT READ (CHESTERTON). [Meera]
Just finished the awesome G. K. Chesterton book The Man Who Was Thursday. It's one of the most unusual books I've read: it's a short detective/adventure novel involving a worldwide anarchistic conspiracy, numerous twists and turns, and surreal juxtapositions. It doubles as a vaguely nondual statement about the nature of order and chaos, good and evil, and God, with his splendid game of the Kosmos.
Less interesting is the read I've now started, Redfield's well-known The Celestine Prophecy, and I must say, I have no idea how the hell he sold so many copies. I'm reading it for the content, and am only a short way in, so I cant say much regarding that. I can say however that the writing is atrocious. If nothing else, this book gives me Hope. Hope that if this man could succeed, I, beyond a doubt, will bestsell.
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4:52 PM
WHICH PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE USA? [Matthew]
Dissent Magazine Michael Kazin writes a scouring critique of Howard Zinn's popular book, A People's History of the United States. Dissent is generally a leftist journal, and it is often interesting to read a left critique of the left that is done intelligently. I imagine a great many people might object to some of the more striking blows of Kazin. Zinn's book is high on the Amazon.com sales ranking. I think I recall reading a Rolling Stone interview with Dave Matthews, who said this was his favorite book. Anyway, here's a money quote:The ironic effect of such portraits of rulers is to rob "the people" of cultural richness and variety, characteristics that might gain the respect and not just the sympathy of contemporary readers. For Zinn, ordinary Americans seem to live only to fight the rich and haughty and, inevitably, to be fooled by them. They are like bobble-head dolls in work-shirts and overalls-ever sanguine about fighting the powers-that-be, always about to fall on their earnest faces. Zinn takes no notice of immigrants who built businesses and churches and craft unions, of women who backed both suffrage and temperance on maternalist grounds, of black Americans who merged the community-building gospel of Booker T. Washington and the militancy of W.E.B. Du Bois, or of wage-earners who took pleasure in the new cars and new houses those awful long-term contracts enabled them to buy.
Essentially what Kazin argues here is a version of 'take more into account', which is none other than one of the fundamental injunctions of integral. While I haven't done a thorough analysis (which would be required), I tend to wonder when I read this and other such 'left on left' essays whether the author is starting to wade into integrally-intuitive waters, even for a brief moment. Think of it as integral by negation (not to be confused with Art by Negation, a new Chicago integral art salon).
If a view is coherantly-held (very important), yet isn't quite 'liberal' and isn't quite 'conservative', then what is it? My personal question of the morning.
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7:13 AM
Friday, April 02, 2004
ONLY IN BOULDER, ONLY AT THE FOX [coolmel]
i thought that moving away from Chicago meant moving away from ze Blues. imagine my suprise when i saw this flyer on Pearl Street --
Only in Boulder, Only At the Fox - JIMMIE VAUGHAN with The Johnny O. Band
the good: i'm just 3 freakin' miles away from the theater; the bad: it's freakin' $20 bucks that i could really use right now; the ugly: damn you Kosmos for this stupid Kosmic Joke!
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11:19 AM
Thursday, April 01, 2004
ROCK. [Meera]
Wow. This chick Angela Gossow, of the metal band Arch Enemy has me more inspired than I've been by any one person or thing in a long time. Check out under music, samples, the triumphant "We Will Rise", and also watch the video for "Ravenous" in particular. Roaring like that is literally the coolest thing I have -ever- seen a woman do. Thank you Angela, for breaking down gender barriers and uplifting the human spirit.
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7:45 PM
A SEXIER WHITE HOUSE [.j.evonne.]
When Dick, Karl and Donald drove down the fuckometer at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, GWB knew he needed to bring in a little feminine energy, someone who could woo international leaders with a wink and a smile. Enter Condoleezza Rice, Maxim Magazine's Girlfriend of the Day.
This pent-up hottie from Alabama has more brains than Paris Hilton and a rack that puts most White House interns to shame. Even Colin Powell, man of conviction, has often admired Ms. Rice's ability to wiggle her words just right to suit any situation.
Condi likes to play coy with reporters, investigational commissions and the public alike. "'Oh, stop nudging!' Colin tells me. The president says that I play mother hen."
Good luck dodging the commission Condi. The Rice 2008 Campaign is counting on you.
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7:11 PM
WOLF BEGS CU ACTIVISTS: 'STOP DRESSING LIKE ANIMALS' [coolmel]
from Colorado Daisy, April Fool's Special --
A North American wolf at a CU press conference Monday begged local environmental activists to "stop dressing like animals" saying the activists "really suck as animals" and "aren't convincing."
"All of us in the forest think you're lame," said the wolf, who identified himself only as "the wolf." (more to this story)
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4:01 PM
SPEAKING OF JEWS AND F-BOMBS.... [Paul]
I just found an interview from January on boring lefty news site Alternet.org with uber-comedian David Cross, the nerdy foul-mouthed ultra political stand-up empresario and current star of Fox's Arrested Development who once referred to 9-11 as "The Day Football Stopped." Turns out that David's going on a "get out the vote" comedy tour this summer to drum up support to oust the Bushies--you go David! If there's an integral comedian anywhere out there, David's about as close to it as it gets (along with the late Bill Hicks). A quote:I think whenever you sit down with another human being who would absolutely disagree with you on every issue, you learn about them as a person and you relate, in human terms, and it's much more difficult for either side to dismiss out of hand, like that person's a freak, that person's a Nazi. You really do see these people as people and understand where they're coming from. That would really do more to help all of this. I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.
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12:55 AM
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
WHEN YOU GOTTA GET YOUR FOOS ON.... [.j.evonne.]
Foosbars.com has the lowdown on the best foosball playing locations across America. With pictures, prices, even notes on who has the most quality tables, this site has everything you need to get a little game.
Two chickadees rocked the table with me all night long last night. Think we can get one for ye olde drinking hole?
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10:57 PM
I'M A GOY, YOU'RE A GOY [wrench]
from an adrian brody flick called dummy...
"are you jewish?" the mother asks.
"no, italian."
"ah, same thing."
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9:24 PM
SHALOM MOTHERFUCKER, SHALOM [Paul]
Now I've semi-officially seen everything. Heeb Magazine may have made it cool to be Jewish, but jewcy.com makes it kitsch-cool. With "Shalom Motherfucker" T-shirts, logo hats, and pink thongs, the lifestyle website certainly lives up to its definition of having "much kosher-like fabulosity." Now if I could only reclaim my own Jewish roots. (Thanks to Eitan for this one).
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2:50 PM
EVERY MAN'S DILEMMA [coolmel]
"WHO cares if you go blind? An Australian study has found that frequent masturbation may protect men against prostate cancer in later life."
but...
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7:00 AM
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
GET YOUR GAY ON... [wrench]
and watch w/ horror, fascination, and delight as five gay men from bravo's queer eye for the straight guy deconstruct and rebuild an aesthetically challenged heterosexual male every tuesday. in the fab five's own words: "out to make over the world, one straight guy at a time."
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7:15 PM
SUNSHINE, STDS, AND MYSTERIOUS BREASTS [coolmel]
you get crappy news when you use a crappy home page. everybody knows all the good stuff can be found @ My Yahoo --
Sun May Increase Chance of Certain STD
the moral? ditch Netscape home page, invest in condoms and suntan lotions, and never-ever talk dirty to the mysterious breasts of Britney -- that's blasphemy!
(Britney's NOT ugly. you drink pee.)
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5:32 PM
THE BITTER TRUTH [Paul]
I have to stop reading my stupid Netscape News home page. For the last fucking time people, Britney Spears is ugly! Sexiest Woman in the World my ass!
-Cranky Paul
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7:12 AM
Monday, March 29, 2004
SHAKE THAT SHAKTI-MAKER! [wrench]
r. crumb - postmodern cartoonist and master of comix aimed at the root/sex chakras...
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9:48 PM
ROAD RAGE MINIONS [.j.evonne.]
It'd be awfully nice to have one of these lil monkeys....
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4:46 PM
'SUP WITH GOOGLE? [coolmel]
there are a lot of stuff happening at Google. i find the two ongoing Betas -- Google Local and Froogle -- very useful. as always, i like the simplicity of the interface and the power under the hood. Google had mastered the Zen of information search. watch these masters as they play...
(now checkout these search results)
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8:39 AM
WHO SHAKES YOUR BOOTY LIKE YHWH? [.j.evonne.]
It's a rough time to be a Jehovah's Witness in Moscow. The former Soviet republic only recognizes four religions (Russian Orthodoxy, Judaism, Islam and Buddhism) and has now refused to allow Witnesses to practice in the city.
Luckily the followers of JHWH believe that an end to evil is coming soon. The Watchtower website makes it very clear that mankinds' problems are soon to end:
"Many stunning steps forward" have been made in humanitarian efforts to help oppressed humanity. (The State of the World's Children 2000) Yet, the most stunning step will be the imminent intervention by Christ Jesus and his associate rulers in the heavenly Kingdom government. They will address completely all the root causes of conflict and all the other evils that beset us. They will bring to an end all of mankind's problems.—Revelation 21:1-4.
They're lucky to have some vocal rulers in their own heavenly tribunal who will find new ways to share the message that there is only one word for the one god who reigns eternal...sexymuthafuka.
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3:31 AM
Sunday, March 28, 2004
BACK FROM A BROKEN MODEM ... [Meera]
Well, this picture is fairy funny.
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7:54 PM
MAN, HOW MANY DRINKS DID WE HAVE LAST NIGHT? [.j.evonne.]
Posted by evonne from Flickr.
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5:35 PM
CHURCH OF ZOMBIE ROCK [wrench]
pass the popcorn, too, cuz it looks like God's reign at the cineplex is also capoot. this weekend, one gore fest unseated another as dawn of the dead remake took away the passion's long-held spot at box office number 1. to paraphrase indie actress and dead star, sarah polley:"It makes sense that we beat 'em out. I mean, we've got thousands rising from the dead. They've got one."
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12:26 PM
GOD'S DEAD, PASS THE BEERNUTS [Paul]
Sometimes I get tired of the flakey "Kosmos" talk of the integral scene here in Boulder. Sometimes it gets to be all talk and no action, and anything but "post-metaphysical." That's why I hang with the Knot Magazine kids--they keep it real. Take this latest editorial (for the "Talking to God" series) by Knot managing editor Jim Casey, "Beer Nuts for Bertrand." Not only is it unflinchingly honest, and not only does he give religion its proper due in the developmental process (Jim grew up Lutheran, and honors it), and not only does the author express a desire for a "universal worldview," but he name-drops Spaniard Miguel de Unamuno, a controversial Christian thinker during the Spanish Revolution who carried God so deeply "in the marrow of his soul" he had no need to believe in him. Good shit.
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10:54 AM
NOAM CHOMSKY: A PASSIONATE BLOGGER [coolmel]
let's face it. The Drinking Hole maybe cool,
but philosopher bloggers are much cooler --
Noam Chomsky @ Turning The Tide
now if only this guy would join the blogwagon... nah.
(thanks to the thunder from downunder for the heads up).
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