Saturday, June 12, 2004
SCARING THE BEJEEZUS [coolmel]
this one could make me laugh and piss in my pants at the same time. i still remember those juvenile sleepless nights after watching the original gore. but now that i'm a grown up, this thing scares me more.
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11:42 PM
TERROR WITH A SMILE;) [Chris]
Who said post-modern thought and sensibilities were bad???
I never did like Elmo anyway...
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9:12 PM
Friday, June 11, 2004
"SHE'S MY EX" [wrench]
Here's me belting a tune by one of my favorite rock n' roll bands, ALL! It's acapella, into the phone, and a little hampered by not wanting to be too offensive to my folks in the other room. You can read the lyrics and hear a sample of the original track from the album Allroy's Revenge..., circa 1989.
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8:46 PM
HMMM, LASAGNIA.... [coolmel]
who cares about nine lives? if she's my Vet, then i'd be Garfield."I thought I'd be wearing jeans and a T-shirt. But once we got into the comic-book world and I got my new haircut, Liz became a little hottie,"
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11:34 AM
Thursday, June 10, 2004
THIRTY HELENS AGREE... [wrench]
Speaking of long-awaited DVD releases, the Kids in the Hall complete season 1 (1989-90) is finally available. Yep, this cross-dressing Canadian troupe (their name an omage to the Jack Benny show) has grabbed audiences with their searingly smart comedy since the mid-'80s. Who could forget classic sketch characters like the Chicken lady? Cabbage head? Hecubus? Cancer boy? Buddy Cole? And produced by SNL's own Lorne Michaels, too. Plus, the show had one of the best opening theme songs around thanks to the surf-pop punch-out of Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet...
All of which leads thirty Helens to agree with the New York Times in crowning the Kids "the comedic hope for the '90s."
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11:21 PM
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
SEMEN A[R]T WORK [coolmel]
beats painting using enema. "I mixed my semen in some acrylic gel medium and I painted it in the right hand corner of this piece of art," said the note found at the Guggenheim. "It is an artistic reference to the silent power of the biological sciences."
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9:49 PM
IF YOU HAVE A SPARE 20 MINUTES [Matthew]
I found a transcript of a fascinating televised exchange been Senator Bobby Kennedy and then Governor Ronnie Reagan, from May 15, 1967, called "The Image of America, and the Youth of the World".
Much of the dialogue centers around the Vietnam War, with excursions to civil rights, US-China relations, communism, USSR, the Berlin Wall, and other topics. It ends with Kennedy and Reagan giving rather poignant final remarks.
Kennedy
But the world is so close together now because of technology, because of a lot of different things, that it's so important that we have these kind of exchanges, and particularly as the world belongs to you, that what we do and the decisions that we make have an effect on your lives, that you continue where you see that we make mistakes, that you continue to criticize. But, as I said earlier, that you examine the facts. And that all of us, whether we here in the United States, or elsewhere, examine the facts and try to deal with them.
Plato once said that all things are to be questioned - and all things are to be examined, and brought into question - there is no limit set to thought, and I think that has to apply for all of us, particularly those who have the advantage of an education.
Reagan
The very fact that we have discussion and differences, I think, brings me to the point being the oldest one here, I can take the liberty of giving a little advice to the young people.
I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual, that there is a sacredness to individual rights. And I would like to say to all of the young people as they pursue their way, and this has been very stimulating, I think you should weigh everything that is proposed to you, everything in the line of government and law and economic theory, everything of that kind and weigh it on this one scale--that it should at all times not offer you some kind of sanctuary or security in exchange for your right to fly as high and as far as your own strength and ability will take you as an individual, with no ceiling put on that effort. Plenty of room for a floor underneath so that no one in this world should live in degradation, beneath that floor, but you reserve the right for yourself to be free.
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10:24 AM
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
NORTHERN EXPOSURE IS HERE [Matthew]
Finally the first season of the classic TV show is available on DVD. If you order it now, you actually get the DVD packaged in the orange parka like below. And for you Spiral Dynamics Integral fans out there, the early episodes of this show are cited in the SD book as examples of a 2nd tier, Yellow value structure. By the end of the 5 year run, the show did exhibit its share of Boomeritis and self-absorption. Okay, everyone got whiney.
But at least it was still funny. The show assembled one of the best ensemble casts ever, in my opinion. Holling, Maurice, Shelley, Fleischman, DJ Chris, Marilyn, Ruth-Ann, Maggie and all her dead boyfriends -- too funny, and too engaging. And let us not forget Ed Chigliak (the leather-clad American Indian filmmaker who hallucinated as a Fellini movie), who might just be one of the best character American television has ever manifested.
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12:25 PM
AUDIOBLOG 101 [coolmel]
audioblogging is now free! imagine the possibilities...
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11:43 AM
Monday, June 07, 2004
VENUS [Chris]
Venus/sun transit -- whatever, bloody cool picture though!
Transit 
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7:14 PM
HALLELUJAH! [coolmel]
it's about time we have Bible-inspired diets around here. beat that, Organic Wholefoods!
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12:01 AM
Sunday, June 06, 2004
SURELY IT'S NOT AN ELECTION YEAR? [Chris]
I can't believe most of the media in Australia missed so much of Dubya's big day out -- but capcoincidence didn't -- meeting with the Aussie PM, personal attacks on the Aussie opposition leader, a d-day memorial, giving awards to the Pope... and then being called nasty names! Man, what a schedule!
Who's the right hand of God?
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5:45 PM
WHY, J.LO, WHY??? [coolmel]
JENNIFER LOPEZ has done it again! ET has learned that the former runaway bride married newly divorced Latin MARC ANTHONY in a surprise wedding late Saturday afternoon.
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10:34 AM
