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Sexist Billboard

So when I drive down Keystone, there’s a billboard I pass every day, advertising a brand of beer, which I won’t mention. “Never interrupt a man who might buy you a beer” the billboard says, with a picture of a man and a woman in a bar. The man is holding forth on some subject, and the woman is standing with her hand on his arm, looking adoringly up at him, rapt at his very words.

Fuck that! I’d rather buy my own god damned beer and talk all I want. And I *will*, too.

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one who hated this billboard, because here’s an account of someone who vandalized a similar one.

Sexist Billboard

Interestingly, this is a different name of beer than the billboard I saw.

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A-Team Dreaming

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I speculated the other day that I would, now that I’m working in XML directly in the tags, start having XML dreams like I used to about HTML. But no.

The dream I had last night was about the new A-team. The team was me and a bunch of carny workers, driving around in a weird, beatup delivery truck, solving crimes. And the details that were upon later reflection truly bizarre: This wasn’t a TV show, but a real happening, and I mentally referenced the original A-Team as though it wasn’t a TV show either. Also, I had a “flashback” to “high school” (not my real high school, BTW) where I had attended class with much younger versions of the SAME carny workers, who were all friends back then, too, but not friends of mine.

“In 2001 a group of carny workers was kick out of town for being too bizarre. These people promptly escaped from the midwest to the Los Angeles underground. Today ignored by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem. If no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire: THE A-TEAM.”

And my trajectory towards burnout on XML corrections is reaching critical mass right now.

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My Cat Hates You

Considering my cat Idgie, you would think this website [mycathatesyou.com] is actually by me. But it’s not. Although my cat will probably be on it soon, when I send in a photo.
I thought it might be true, but it’s nice to have facts and figures to support your personal observations – a study by professor John Cowley indicates that beautiful people are paid more than people who are “ugly” or considered overweight.

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Personalized Action Figures

Now, not only can I have an action figure made of myself, I can have my very own trading cards, as well. My superhero dream is finally coming true.

And it turned out to be a complete weekend of big bangs… we did fireworks, the city blew up a building, and then [insert diety of choice] decided to chime in with his/her own pyrotechnics. The power was out for three hours yesterday during the big storm. And ironically, I couldn’t find the matches (we used them all), and the lantern batteries were burned out. I had planned to mow the lawn, do web work, and go shopping, but couldn’t do any. So I layed around and read a book by candle light. Cool. I just started the complete, unexpurgated version of The Arabian Nights. Appropriate bedtime reading, no?

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Phantom of the Opera

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Well, nothing like a night at “Phantom of the Opera” to make you lose your melodramatic, overly emotional mood. 🙂 Sometimes I feel just like that Phantom Guy, with people just taking stuff from you and then running away with the hot guy at the end, and leaving you alone with all your gothic decor….. it’s so sad, I feel I should break into song. “all I ask of you……”
ahem.

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Ennui

01 – Origin of Love – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack
02 – Sugar Daddy – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack – Hedwig and The Angry Inch Sountrack
03 – In the Jailhouse Now – The Soggy Bottom Boys – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – 3:36
04 – Dora Goes To Town – Andrew Byrd’s Bowl of Fire – The Grandeur – 3:03
05 – Boogie Woogie #5 – Puffy Amiyumi – cmj new music july – 4:10
06 – Baby Please Don’t Leave Me – Buddy Guy – cmj new music july – 3:54
07 – I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow – The Soggy Bottom Boys – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – 4:18
08 – I’ll Fly Away – Allison Krauss & Gillian Welch – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – 3:57
09 – Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby – Emmy Lou Harris, Allison Krauss & Gillian Welch – O Brother Where Art Thou? Soundtrack – 1:58
10 – Mrs. Steven Rudy – Mark McGuinn – 3.26
11 – Underdog (Save Me) – Turin Brakes – cmj new music july – 3:34
12 – Stop (cover of Madonna’s Don’t Tell Me to Stop) – Joe Henry – cmj new music july – 4:40
13 – I’m So Open – Cowboy Junkies – cmj new music july – 4:09
14 – Night Shift Guru – Cash Brothers – cmj new music july – 4:15
15 – Najala’s Lament – Yma Sumac – The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection – 3:17
16 – Squares – The Beta Band – cmj august – 3:46
17 – “Fuzzy” – Incredible Moses Leroy – cmj new music july – 3:07
18 – Pretend to Be Nice – Josie And The Pussy Cats – Josie And The Pussy Cats Soundtrack
19 – Lover Please – Melissa Etheridge – Skin
20 – Hot Topic – Le Tigre – Le Tigre – 3:42 – 21 – Bang Bang – Le Tigre – From The Desk of Mr. Lady

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