Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Some rare Zappa mp3’s, featuring a promotional version of “Lumpy Gravy”, instrumental “My Guitar” version, plus “Ancient Armaments” and “Falling in Love Is A Stupid Habit”.

Everything you always wanted to know about giving the finger.

Nina Simone dies in France.

“Hello and welcome to my little corner of the world wide web. This page isn’t about me so much, it’s more about my hobby. I collect second-hand photographs of women and dogs. That’s right, both women and dogs together.”

Can’t help but link to Tim Robbins’ speech at the National Press Club: As we applaud the hard-edged realism of the opening battle scene of "Saving Private Ryan," we cringe at the thought of seeing the same on the nightly … Continue reading →

You sure you wanna push that button? People’s anxieties and fears over e-mail etiquette and the inescapable phenomenon of digital blunders has given rise to a new term—pre and post mail tension (PPMT).As many as half of us fail to … Continue reading →

Ten Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers.11. Bloggers telling me how to run my blog.

Here’s an undoubtedly interesting essay on “Zappa’s answer to the musical language crisis of the begining of the 20th century”. It would be even more interesting, if it weren’t in Portuguese.

Got this spam email today from a certain babygurlxxx@hotmail.com: “Barry, sick of spam? Presenting Spam Remedy. The powerful, effective and intelligent anti-spam tool. It automatically cleans spam messages out of your mailbox before you receive or read them.” So it’s … Continue reading →

I’ve been posting links to Gilles online boots for quite some time now. Today, Gilles got a bum wrap with his ISP, resulting in him no longer being able to upload tracks to his webspace. Which is where I jump … Continue reading →

One. The whole damn thingamabob is called “Iraqi Freedom”. No no no. It should be called “Bomb Iraq To the Middle Ages And Subsequently Grant American Companies Huge Contract Deals, So We Can Get Our Economy Going Again”. Two. Weapons … Continue reading →

Spam We Will Never See.

Gilles is offering part two of Chicago 3/3/88. It’ll probably be up for a week or so, get it while it lasts etc…

The Smoking Gun: “The folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network’s web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, and a few other prominent figures“. Heheh!

Talk about negative dialectics: “My name is Tanya Headon and I hate music. All of it. The purpose of this weblog is a simple one: to detail, week on week, the failings and infinite wretchedness of the stuff, building into … Continue reading →