timouse

have fun everyone! dr evil and deb, wish we were going with you, think of me and niffermouse as you dance your a$$e$$ off

indeed. too soon gone....RIP Richard...

i read a quote this past week...

"LSD and UNIX both came from Berkeley. We do not believe this is a coincidence."

it was 40 years ago today, when the bear taught the band to play...

many of my favourite dead tunes are covers, and they really changed my way of thinking about covering someone else's songs. if you taka a song that you dig by an artist that you respect and can twist it a bit and make it your own, then covers are the sincerest form of flattery. if you are making a "major label world wide release" with a cover, it had damn well better be good and obscure. if you're just going to do a reading of a cover tune and nail it exactly as written, then it's already been done.

many contemporary cover tunes make me want to climb the nearest bell tower with a high powered rifle

hmmm...thanks uncle sam for your tireless efforts to improve quality of life. britney spears, pain weapons, network tv, the list goes on

i wish i could unlearn what i just learned about advances in "crowd control."

heaven help us all.

arcane and mercenary...these things are never easy, but knowing that you have the support of a whole community may lessen the pain. snuggles and rest are the best

i see. again, a quick google will provide.

and no offense meant, i actually thought that you must have tried a lot of those requests!

Bill is about to get whacked again for speaking his mind. Never mind that what he had to say makes total sense...

If god truly wants the religious right in charge, then she must be truly pissed with us as a species and is pouring evangelical gasoline on the fire

the fact that esau had the time to compile the list of acceptable chicken commands floors me way to keep the weird level up!

pssshaw. jeeves is a corporate shill. (~)

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=my+dad&word2=your+dad

apparently my dad Can beat up your dad.

the things you can learn on the internet...

okay. if dr evil would give me a ride to the free roger daltrey show i'm there. as far as pete, i'm happy to trudge with the crowd through the hurricane thanks.

happy birthday roger. sorry about the abuse, but it's all i can afford

bokonon, check out the virtual human video i posted earlier. you'll see that cross-sectionally we look just like porkchops.

people. the other white meat.

that was disappointing. i told the cicken to rise up and overthrow it's mammal overlords and it just stood there pecking at the ground.

and the fact that this page is put on by burger king is particularly disturbing....

ahhh, i would love it, but yoga finishes at 9 and my sweetie and i go home, have dinner, watch the simpsons & go to bed.

if i can swing another night for yoga next session i will though, sounds like the gypsy jam is a blast!

besides which better weather's (hopefully) coming!

this sounds like it's an excellent evening...sadly yoga classes are also monday night... *sigh* so many cool events, so few mondays in a week...

heheheee...george, you're much quicker on the draw here than in real life.

construction worker (ok a bit obtuse, think village people...i make no apologies for the information slurry that slops out of my head)

this links to a mpeg video of a cross sectional trip through a person.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/mpeg/umd_video.mpg

here's an overview of the project.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/

pretty wild stuff...so much of a human x-section looks like steak

thank you niffermouse for finding this!

bar b q

jimmy bowskill has been all over the cbc recently. he's amazing, some kind of prodigy. be worth seeing him if you can get there early enough!

don't click the...ummm..i mean...do! Do click the above link! graaaahhhh......

well okay then. verry sorry about referring to you as one of the [word deleted]...i'm still new at this married thing and am discovering the best use of marital language. i cherish both my balls and am unwilling to give one of them up over semantics

looks like we're going to need a bus to get everyone out to bc...

wow. great thread.

very interesting to get stories about e. i have always been skeptical of pharmaceuticals, but was willing to dose once in a blue moon. i have only recently learned about e and went from thinking it was likely a bad news drug (thanks tv!) to thinking it was the best thing ever (thanks deb!) to now being not entirely sure.

nobody fully understands brain chemistry, we're really playing with powers beyond our control every time we dial in to the electropshychedelic power grid. e is wonderful, but it's square wave power...eventually it will damage some of your meatware. maybe we are preparing a generation of serotonin deficient seniors

not to come down against it, i will hopefully be doing e and a until i'm old & gray, but i'm more and more mindfull of the toll to be paid.

timouse

i can empathize with your plight. i have gone on a number of short media fasts when it all gets too much...

i think that you can channel all the unfocused rage that the news induces into figuring out how to live your life in a way that the underlying sadness in the world has it's least impact on you.

if you feel that you can make an impact on the current state of affairs, pick up a sign (or a rock) and make yourself heard.

or say to heck with it and get away.

that's my personal hope/plan. utah phillips talks about the evil of coercive combinations. you are forced to dance with the devil every day at work, when you go shopping, when you turn on the tv, paying your taxes, dealing with cops, etc...phillips advocates getting out from under these coercive combinations and setting up voluntary combinations with like minded people, sort of a DIY government.

fwiw, me and dr evil and our wives are planning an eventual escape to the interior of bc, there's room on the bus still

hope this helps

timouse