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{ Monthly Archives } January 2012

another week closer to the eschaton…

Next Up: Enemy Expatriation Act; Would Strip Americans of Citizenship For "Hostilities Against the United States" – When they took the fourth amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t deal drugs.When they took the sixth amendment,    I was quiet because I was innocent.When they took the second amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t own a gun.Now they’ve [...]

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we’re gonna be on television! 8)

we don’t know that 100% fer sure yet, but the probability is exceptionally high… i went to the big bois with poise rehearsal/filming last night, and despite the wind and rain, i got “dressed up” in my duck kilt and buckets and spun fire with the rest of the bois, in front of a camera. [...]

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FKB parade &c.

so i was recruited to play sousaphone for a parade this afternoon, which was to drum up publicity for the Flying Karamazov Brothers shows at ACT theatre starting on february 2nd. it was rather like the time, a couple of years ago, when i played sousaphone for the fighting instruments of karma and discovered that [...]

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aparajita again again again

so the guy from india (is name is sugam dhall) hasn’t responded to my email message concerning the discrepancy in quantity between what i ordered and what i was delivered, so i stripped out the domain name from his email address and plopped it into my browser… and it didn’t work. if the domain doesn’t [...]

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aparajita

170 boxes of aparajita arrived today… but i ordered 240, and i haven’t heard anything from the guy in india since he said he would send me the tracking number three weeks ago… which he never did… at this point, i’m satisfied that the incense i’m getting is the authentic aparajita, but if the guy [...]

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pictures of chaos

bush collapsed, tree down, driveway blocked… closeup of the collapsed bush… every single needle was encased in about half an inch of ice.in our back yard… the chainlink fence and weeds encased in icethe bush, free of ice, for comparison.

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<gong>SPAMMMMMMMMM!</gong> (and not the fine potted meat food product)

so i got this fine potted meat food product spam message today, which read: Hello, We are in the process of promoting a website about drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Would you be open to the idea of placing a text link ad on this page: http://www.hybridelephant.com/K2.php, or were they just trolling for pages whose titles [...]

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it’s OVER!

FINALLY our power was restored about 9:30 pm last night… now i’ve got a week’s worth of ketchup to complete (going and getting my (repaired(!!!)) shoes, and the template made from them, going and getting the leather to make a new pair of shoes from the template, various different things related to the sousaphone that [...]

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another week closer to the eschaton…

The U.S. Government Funded the Iranian Terrorist Group Which “Found” The Documents Upon Which the Warmongers Are Relying – hmmm… this sounds vaguely familiar… and the US does have a long history of using forged documents as an excuse for war… SOPA Shelved Indefinitely, Obama Succumbs to Pressure, Issues Official Veto Threat – while obama [...]

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and this is the reason why… 8/

tuesday i posted that when it snows around here, EVERYBODY FREAKS OUT… and this is the reason why: wednesday morning, around 5:00, our power went out, and has yet to return. thursday, our neighbour’s sixty-foot evergreen tree took a header into our front yard, narrowly missing my car and blocking the driveway up to the [...]

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snoo!

it doesn’t snow that often around here, which means that when it does, EVERYBODY FREAKS OUT. i grew up in buffalo, new york, where they have up to seven feet of snow, from october to may every year… i learned to drive in the snow before i could actually legally drive… and i don’t mind [...]

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another week closer to the eschaton…

My Guantánamo Nightmare – Lakhdar Boumediene was a childrens’ humanitarian aid worker with the red crescent until the united states government decided that he was a terrorist, kidnapped him, and held him in gitmo, where he was tortured for seven years until somebody noticed and he was released… and that was before the president signed [...]

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oh yeah, today is friday the thirteenth…

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hobo nickels

i’ve mentioned hobo nickels before, but i figured i’d give you an idea of how they are made, since one of the first things everybody says to me when i give them one is “oh, did you make this?” this is how i made them. enterprising people among you who may not be willing to [...]

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SAAS

i had my first, tentative experiences with SAAS over the past couple of days, and i can say, without hesitation, that if this is the direction computing is headed, i’ll get off the train here, because SAAS SUCKS!! i was using the RVSiteBuilder that comes with my cPanel-powered web-hosting package. while cPanel does a very [...]

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another one

i don’t really know why anybody would be tempted to try kopi luwak, but if anybody was ever curious, there’s a new-ish article from sprudge that says that it’s not anywhere near as good as people claim it is, which includes a coffee judge saying things like “One of four cups was moldy and another [...]

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another week closer to the eschaton…

NYPD Arrests Anyone Who Speaks: This Would Be Used as War Propaganda if NY Was Foreign and Had Oil – OWS protestors are arrested for speaking in public… seriously, where’s my country? Why the NDAA Now? – 1) They are saying that the military/corporate complex is in charge, and electoral politics mean nothing; 2) They [...]

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another week of performances finished

we’ve got one more week of panto left this year. i say this every year, but this year’s show is probably the best show we’ve ever done: the jokes that are supposed to go over the kids’ heads do so with much more accuracy than they ever have, and the fact that there are more [...]

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Kopimism

The Church of Kopimism is recognized by the state of Sweden – For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament. Information holds a value, in itself and in what it contains, and the value multiplies through copying. Therefore, copying is central for the organisation and its members.

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oh. my. GAWD!

i have never liked paypal, and i have been trying for quite a while, to find a way to get around having to use their services for ANYTHING… and this is exactly the reason why: PayPal Requires Destruction Of Antique Violin I sold an old French violin to a buyer in Canada, and the buyer [...]

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what have i been doing the past few weeks?

after the panto ended for 2011 (it starts again on saturday, and runs for two weeks. get yer tickets now ’cause they’re selling out fast!) i got started making some hobo nickels. they’re not classic hobo nickels, of course, but they’re in a similar vein… and, hey… they’re only a nickel… and, as long as [...]

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dead people

Ronald Searle – i have been influenced by his cartoons, particularly, ever since i was very small… one of my all-time favourite books is Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer with Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle… what a way to start off the new year…

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another week closer to the eschaton…

TSA ‘Spot Searches’ Expand To Union Station When they took the fourth amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t deal drugs.When they took the sixth amendment,    I was quiet because I was innocent.When they took the second amendment,    I was quiet because I didn’t own a gun.Now they’ve taken the first amendment,    and I can say nothing about it. [...]

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Vajra Sattva Yab Yum

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