hahahaha. one morning I wanted to run away and join the circus but then started to put my brown, black, tan and green lipstick all over my face and the rest of my battledress uniform there in a barracks in colorado springs in the army, looked in the mirror and realized I was already in.
03/23/2009
03/16/2009
RELEASED: Issue 532 of Zine. (No Embargo)
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03/08/2009
Bruce Sterling Gets It! Cypherpunk Author Knows How 2 Twitter.
So I was NOT surprised that Bruce Sterling would really know how to use Twitter effectively.
Here’s just one great example and then a link or two to some of his earlier works for any who don’t already know him.
Collapsonomics, Econocataclysm, Uneconomy, The Opportunity, Economy 3.0, The Crisis, The Long Emergency, The New Dark Ages
- Great Reset, Global Reboot, Unreal Estate, Wall Street Blues, Uncapitalism, Capitalism Eats Itself, the Deep Economic Wrinkle…
- Housing Crisis, Market FAIL, Global Economic Restructuring, Tsunami, the Enronicom, The Great Ponzi, the Great Fake, Bush’s Legacy…
- Great Restructuring, the Bailout, TEOTWAKI “The End of the World As We Know It,” the Inflection, The Great Disruption…
- Replies pour in: “Compression, Subprimicide, World Economic Crisis aka Svetska Economska Kriza, Economic Debacle, The Great Re-Skilling…”
- I’m hunting neologistic synonyms. “Meltdown, Credit Crunch, Great Recession, Econolypse, Depression II…” Help me here, Twittersphere.
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01/2009_will_be_a_year_of_panic.php
http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/343/Bruce-Sterling-State-of-the-Worl-page01.html
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Bruce Sterling Gets It! Cypherpunk Author Knows How 2 Twitter.
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02/09/2009
What you need to know about the Grammys 51
Here we give you some play by play and chatter during
the Grammys’ 51st ceremony.
Before we get to what they broadcast last nite, I’ll
mention that Leo Fender’ wife accepted his Technical
Award for designing guitars & amps.
And my friend Martha’s Saxophonist, Randy Brecker won
the grammy for best contemporary jazz rekkid.
Daft Punk is a noshow at the Grammys? Dork.
Suddenly NARAS is putting all their extra energy into the non-profit world just as the economy tanks? — Predictable.
The Grammy backing band is earning their salary today – lots of no-shows
Did I just see Winona Ryder dancing in the front row to Heavy D? Bach had 20 children… something about pulling out all the organ stops? No offense dude, but really dumb frickin’ joke.
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones win for Best Pop Instrumental for their Christmas CD – Victor Wooten accepts in a pirate costume
Pete Seeger wins for best traditional folk – $5 if you know
who accepted for him – [ hahaha. was eating. Bruce Stringbean? ]
Watching Coldplay’s CBS interview footage in a plane I
couldn’t help but think about Josie and the Pussycats
with the planecrash intro.
Is Bono making fun of teleprompters and lip syncers??
Al Green is rockin’ it; and jeez, Justin Timberlake is
NOT sucking tonite.
I saw Kid Rock at Harley’s 100th anniversary. He’s very
untalented. Just sayin.
John Corbett’s still doing Applebee’s ads I see. That seems
like quite a gig for him.
Coldplay seem to have nothing to say. Just sayin – maybe
they should’ve said the reason they didn’t steal those beats
was they’d never lift such a horrible sound. Oops.
KidRock, less heroin, ok? Sorry Kid, you’re no Ricky Medlocke.
To his credit, I have to say he’s not sucking like he did at
Harley100 but I do wish he’d amp less. What the HECK was the
clap-4-the-wolfman stuff he put in there with his backing
tracks???
I wonder if the #grammys official AA dry peoples’ room is full
this year?
Is that Billy Ray rockin’ the mullet directly behind Miley there
stage right? I never liked Taylor Swift until New Years, she
impressed me greatly then. She’s helping Miley not suck too.
Miley’s major talent since she was 5 has been reading cue cards
very conversationally as if she’s improvising each every phrase.
Whoever taught her RW&A should B proud
Guitar Hero ad. Well produced. Too affected. Good try though.
Oh no the Jonus Brothers…Mute quickly!
Jonas Bros and Stevie this is like when Clive or someone made
John Denver team up with Pavarotti.or Domingo or someone on a
whole album. Stevie Wonder playing with the Jonas Bros. My mind
cannot fully process the essential wrongness of this.
Blink 182. What’s my talent again?
I’m sure the Obama girls are watching the Jonas Brothers now singing
with Stevie Wonder and I bet they’re tring to find some diplomatic
way to go, “WTF?”
I will never get these minutes of my life back. Damn you Jonas Bros.
RT: @PnutButter downturn really hit me 2day when I saw a lady w/ sign
in front of Wholefoods: “Will work 4 organic arugula & pinot grigio.”
Katy Perry kinda doesn’t sing good.
OMG. Just gave kudos 2 a talented chubby person! [Adele] I think
Mario Lanza was the last time NARAS allowed something like that!
Todd Rundgren for Carnival Cruise Lines. Surreal. I think I’ll
take drugs now.
Tribute to Bo Diddly – Couldn’t you have done that when he was
still alive and everyone was stealin his beats???
Paul, promise me you won’t sing that “Freedom” song you hacked
to pieces? I hid for 5 days. Wow, he’s still got that high G
falsetto thing going on. It’s like watching Beatlemania with
25% of the real deal.
Christian Bale rant was possibly staged. Says Hollywood catching
on 2 how 2 use social media: http://tinyurl.com/csgle9
Oops, more Silverlight rebuffering\sync problems again. I thought
Microsoft worked that out a couple major events ago! Wow, someone
simply playing a guitar really well, and someone singing really
well. Is it that hard for everyone else???
OMG I’m gonna buy a Sugarland rekkid just ’cause of this. Don’t
think I’ve done that since I was like 10 & Roger Miller swept
or something
I bought the Radiohead album when it was free. That felt safe
and warm.
Well we found something new that Silverlight doesn’t handle
well. Bleeping. >:| !
PARAPHRASING THE PREZ “In times like these people turn to us
for hiding their gross income on a tax dodge,” No one’s demanded
more cowbell yet. Alright. Lemme be the first. Just sayin.
Oh no he didn’t. did NARAS president say “yes we can” to suing
the pants off preteens who Napster??? Neil Portnow is so last
Millenium. Woah, so is Neil Diamond. Where’s screech when you
need him? http://tinyurl.com/c5ro3d
And who remembers when C. Michael Greene abruptly resigned
in the wake of sexual harassment allegations? Oops.
And the Grammy for most murder charge acquittals goes to
Phil Spector
Seeing 5 seconds of Odetta made me sooo happy. Imagine if
the Grammys gave her a minute or 2; especially seing as
how she died last month before her #inaug09 gig. I can’t
help but think about how much Odetta wanted to sing at Obama’s
inauguration – and she almost made it
News Reports coming in that Chris Brown did in fact beat up
Rihanna.
Is lil wayne wearin’ uggs? OK, they’re BKs or something.
I thought they uggs! Hahaha
Great. CBS is recycling this embarrassing forever young
pepsi jingle. wil i am and bob dylan are prolly squirming
with heavy groans like me! Should I be happy that Dylan
is still relevant enough to headline a Pepsi ad, or sad
that vintage Dylan is in a Pepsi ad? I’m feeling both.
(happy/sad about the Dylan renaissance…)
So Chris Brown beat Rihanna nearly to death. Who does he
think he is JAMES Brown??? Small-brained coward
Page and Plant wrote this? It sounds like they stole it
from Roy Orbison!
RT @postrock Oh no, the Dylan/will.i.am. commercial that
makes me reach for the Grey Goose. And it’s EMPTY!!!!
T-Bone Burnette is the GE Smith of the Grammys tonite.
Plant and Krauss deserve this one just for putting up
with his hairdo.
“…and Rounder Records who are working against all kinds
of stuff that is terrible.” Understatement of the Millenium.
Thanks Mr. Plant!
You’re running perfectly on time and still feel the need
to put music over Robert Plant and T-Bone Burnett? C’mon,
producers.
The following twitterers contributed to this report:
@ShannonRenee
@FolkAlley
@andylevy
@PnutButter
@crinkle_LC
01/31/2009
Twitter Breaks Google-Epic-Fail Story In Realtime
So this morning I didn’t even try to “Google” anything yet. I checked my Twitter as part of my new daily routine, right?
Everyone’s complaining that everything they’re searching for is being labelled as “harmful” to their computer. Google seems to have torqued up their malware thingamabob to the highest setting and all their searches are showing every single hit as malware.
Now I know the zine I’ve been publishing since 1988 (ati, activist times, international) is harmful to your mind, but to your computer???
I think not.
So it lasted less than an hour.
Here’s some of the twitter chatter I saw in realtime while this story was breaking:
OK true. Twitter broke the Google story first – as with pretty everything. Twitter is the new place to go when you need to know.
TechCrunch broke the Google story first: http://bit.ly/igUF Note to self: This is why it pays to have a Belgium bureau.
ok, google is busted. somebody google the address for altavista.
FLASH: Google is no longer harmful. Play on.
HAHA: @joeshaw woo fixed. those 20 minutes without google were the darkest of my life.
Great to know that Google Search has been fixed!
Why is google showing all of my naked facebook pictures???
hahaha @leolaporte is calling it an internet blackout. It’s funny watching people try and grasp this in realtime.
ahhh looks like Google search is not harmful anymore
@grader WARNING! “Google May Harm Your Computer (#GOOGMAYHARM)†http://bit.ly/GKvA — Please RT and help spread the word.
@rabble @kellan jeez now Google’s image search quality is worse that Cuil’s first offering.
HAHA: @natfriedman:I was thinking about switching to Yahoo!search,but Google just warned me it’s not safe. Better steer clear!
This is the equivalent of an Internet blackout. I never asked Google to “protect me.” I bet Carol Bartz did this.
I guess I know what the number one topic will be on the radio show today.
Something is seriously wrong with Google.
@grader Searches for ‘google’ gives a full page of “this site might harm your computer” errors – something tells me they’ll fix this quickly
Their page that explains is a server error page. http://bit.ly/1wJ05K
Ridiculous. Google says scripting.com has malware. http://bit.ly/QMPn
@atizine @rabble @grader google seem to be afraid of the entire web this morning. even google.com is coming up as bad. (which today it is)
Google/Firefox is throwing up Malware warnings when I attempt to visit answers.yahoo.com. I know the answers are bad, but malware, really?
@godfoca Google thinks ruby blogs / sites are malware? it’s a conspiracy by the pythonistas at google me thinks!
01/19/2009
24 hours at Sundance; Watching Irina; Punking Shira
Did you watch or participate in Ashton Kutcher’s Gameshow Reality Show thingamabob?
I did.
My favorite thing to watch was when my friend Irina built an igloo on a curb (right in the road!!!) and invited two people into it to watch a premiere using the back side of their new swag Nikon CoolPix as their movie screen.
Click this pic to watch it…
Asking them to come out and give a movie review on their way out of the “theater” was precious!
But my favorite thing to do was when I punk’d Shira Lazar. (http://qik.com/video/878860)
At 2:35 mins you see her blink three times and try to figure out a phone call I sent her through http://www.wakerupper.com — Yup, that’s me on the other end. Sorry Shira, I punk’d you!
[TO BE CON’T]
12/21/2008
Bragging Rights11/28/2008
11/14/2008
I LOVE My Hat!
I’m wearing my White House Communication Agency hat again today.
I have to remember not to wear it in the rain though because I’ll probably only get another few months out of this thing before it’s too tattered. And you know I’ll never get access to another one anytime soon, eh?
So this young sailor walks past me where I’m telecommunicating at my laptop and drinking coffee and he does a quick turnaround and I can tell right away he’s going to ask me something.
I thought it was going to be about my http://www.blackfire.net bumpersticker on the laptop. Or perhaps my Richard Stallman GNU bumpersticker in the same place (one guy pointed at that once and said, you know? Richard Stallman DOES kind of look like a Yak doesn’t he?)
But no, he goes, does that hat say “the white house?”
“Yeah.” I tip my head down a little so he can read the rest more clearly. He looked at how else I’m dressed and I can tell he was making another one of those broad generalizations where I can’t possibly have ever worked for the White House press corps, right?
etc.
So there’s where I got to tell the first part of my favorite joke these days.
“Yes,” I said, “after signal corps I joined the team that had to acquire new ‘W’s” for all the keyboards and install and troubleshoot them.”
I let him off easy though. Right away there I told him I actually didn’t get to work directly for the White House ever, just all over DC as a freelancer, etc.
Usually if someone still believes me I go on to tell them that I was the one who had to assess security when Baby Bush insisted on moving his email computers OFF Solaris/Apache/PINE/LYNX and onto PC/XPPro/Outlook/Explorer.
And if someone still doesn’t realize I’m joking I go on to tell them that even though I’m neither Republican nor Democrat, I had to quit my job AND the republican party when I walked in on Bush, Mark Foley, Jeff Gannon and Ted Haggard doing the nasty.
09/12/2008
I Figured It Out; Sarah Palin Is A Ghost!
I just figured it out.
Sarah Palin is not really there.
She’s a ghost.
Yes. She is NOT present.
She’s “there” but she’s not really there.
When you’re talking with her, she’s talking just a little bit louder than
most people talk to you. It’s like she’s talking to someone about a
foot and a half behind you, not you.
Have you ever seen/felt/heard that? I have.
Some people just cannot connect with other people at all.
I finally figured Sarah out. She’s one of those people I call (for
lack of a better term) ghosts.
She’s there, but not really there.
She was talking AT Charlie Gibson in his ABC interview and that’s
where I figured it out. I’d seen that site, heard that sound and felt that
feeling before.
She’s fully disengaged. Permanently unhinged you could say. Disconnected.
To quote Zombie from the album Zombie Heaven:
“She’s not there.“