Here’s a great account of how two “semi-employed, middle-class (at best) activists with only thrift-store clothes and no formal economics training” posed as spokespeople for the WTO. Among their proposals: a 3-foot phallus for administering electric shocks to sweatshop employees. Their site, which sparked the whole prank, is still up.
Month: April 2004
Tune In Drop Out
(From the Inbox:) Next April 18th USB Radio will be hosting a twelve hour celebration of Frank Zappa’s music along with John Tabacco, Nigey Lennon, Greg Russo (author of Cosmik Debris) and a bunch of others. The whole show will be streamed via the web.
Snarky Title Here
Behold my mighty blog, calloo and callay.
The Little House I Was Evicted From
Via affz, an update on Carl Zappa’s current predicament: it would seem he has effectively been evicted from the house, and the name of the landlord would appear to be… Gail Zappa. (Rumours, rumours! Please don’t shoot the messenger! ;-)
Let’s play that
Some news about the man with the horn. Or maybe you prefer a violin… Oh, no?! You are a guitar virtuoso! (Well, I’m just starting. Someday I will be like Barry! And then you will have some fine cool msgs from me too)
Help Carl…
Since the passing of his mother earlier this year and his eviction from their home, Carl Zappa, who works part time at a fast food restaurant, has found himself with unforseen living expenses.He hopes that someone would enjoy owning a coat that once belonged to him and will bid accordingly. Hang in there Carl…
Subservient Chicken
Tell it what to do and Subservient Chicken will do it for you!
George says…
Good Friday
It’s that time of the week again where I gloriously fail at conjuring up a funny way to introduce the Friday Boot.
So there. How’s that?
Night of the Zappapologist
Benny Hill with Guitar Solos: Night of the Zappapologist! (thanks Montana Wildhack :)
Whippin Bunny
“It was very disturbing,” Norelli-Burke said. “I could not believe what I saw. It wasn’t anything I was expecting.”
Do Re Mi…
Heresy! It’s The Sound of Music Drinking Game, just in time for Easter. Which reminds me: do Americans/Brits use “do re mi fa sol la si do” for chart notation, or do they use letters (A, B, C, D, E, F, G)? Or both?
Porn Wars II
Forget the War On Terror, enter The War On Porn: “Lam Nguyen’s job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other “computer forensic specialists” like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department’s operation to rid the world of porn.” Mmm, weapons of mass distraction…
The Shy
“Normally, relationships progress by way of a reasonably paced flow of self-disclosure that is reciprocal in nature. A disclosure process that moves too quickly–and computer anonymity removes the stigma of getting sexually explicit–doesn’t just destroy courtship; it is a reliable sign of maladjustment. Shy people tend either to reveal information about themselves too quickly, or hold back and move too slowly.” — Group hug! (via cup of chicha)
Reality Bites
There’s an article on The Onion today that I think we can all relate to: Frank Zappa Fan Thinks You Just Haven’t Heard The Right Album.