…stupid religions. Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting, The soul that rises with us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home. - William Wordsworth (when i visited Houston, i saw Brian, and an old friend - Peter Z - who was just diagnosed with HCM…) (reunions. it makes me think of the borges - Being with you and not…
… But I updated the previous story, and in so doing, our newsifier script bumped the story off of the front page and moved it to the archives, leaving this page bare and lonely. So… I’m getting a Nintendo GameCube tomorrow. As I write this, it’s sitting in a UPS hub somewhere in Kentucky. I would like to thank the brave men and women of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines for making this possible. I think owning a GameCube should make up for missing the meteor…
The haughty and lovely Latvian Alina Lebedeva is my new hero. While Prince Charles was in the Latvian capital of Riga working a crowd of children, our friend Alina reached out and whacked him in the face with a flower. As police dragged her away, she proclaimed, “I’m protesting against Latvia joining Nato and I’m against the war in Afghanistan - Britain is the enemy.” Britpop is on Alina’s side, though; at the MTV Europe awards, Damon Albarn showed up in a CND t-shirt, telling viewers, “You have a…
I imagine that this will prove to be more popular than Am I Goth or Not? or, you know, whatever: Am I a Terrorist or a Member of Al-Qaeda or a Taliban Fighter or Not? Thanks to Dakota for the link. Warning:This isn’t funny at all….
Yesterday Jacob said there was a new Vitesse album out. I told him he must be wrong since I’m an insufferable know-it-all and I did not know this. The Hidden Agenda website didn’t mention anything about it… because it’s actually on Acuarela. Their next album on Hidden Agenda is set for Spring 2002. I mean jeez, you’re my favorite band in the world, but stop to eat, guys. Kate Bush hasn’t put out a record in a zillion years and everybody still loves her, so don’t worry. Go and…