In Praise of Kitties

Posted on Thursday, 11/18/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Woman builds church. In lego. For her cat. (Which, by the way, shows a striking resemblence to our feline lodger.)

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Jerry & The Jets

Posted on Wednesday, 11/17/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Cruising with Jerry and the Jets: “Enjoy the teaching and fellowship of Dr. Jerry Falwell, Chancellor of Liberty University and Pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church, on this adventure of a lifetime!”

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Usenet Weirdness

Posted on Wednesday, 11/17/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

> How come most of the Greek sculptures have no arms?
The Journal of Irreproducible Results puplished a study on this some years ago. The conclusion was that the arms were stolen by Indians (Indian Indians form India). Note that many Indian statues have more than two arms.
— Strange Usenet Posts (2, 3)

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SuperBoone

Posted on Wednesday, 11/17/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Pat Boone and Lois Lane are singing a new song about ME! It’s a great tune, but I must use all my super-powers to prevent it from becoming a hit!

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Vandelay

Posted on Tuesday, 11/16/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

When depressed about where this increasingly fucked up world is headed, follow these steps:
1) Purchase this.
2) Optionally purchase this.
3) Shake off nasty taste of consumerist behaviour.
4) Your mantra: “Whatever gets me through the night”.
5) Turn off computer.
6) No really. Turn off computer. Trust me.
7) Two words: Vandelay Industries.
8) Rejoice!

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Masters Of War

Posted on Saturday, 11/13/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

“It’s just Bob Dylan’s song. We were just singing Bob Dylan’s song … If you think it has to do with Bush that’s because you’re drawing your own conclusions. We never conveyed that Bush was the person we were talking about,” said Allysse Wojtanek-Watson, a singer for the band.

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File Under Fruitcake

Posted on Saturday, 11/13/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

My WTF moment of the day:
MacNET: “Care to explain?”
Doug: “Sure. Why not? I am preserving our history. When the world goes up in flames in this jihad against all things Western, music will be one of the first casualties. I want to preserve that. No matter what it costs.”

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Paglia on Zappa

Posted on Saturday, 11/13/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Camille Paglia reviews Miles’ latest biography on Frank Zappa: “Miles calls Zappa a ‘cold nihilist’ who felt no real emotions for anyone. Along with ‘cynicism and misanthropy,’ he detects Catholic guilt and ‘deep-seated problems with women.’ Zappa was ‘stuck in a 50’s time warp’ — yet the bold feminist Germaine Greer was a Zappa fan.”
(NY Times, registration required, bugmenot to the rescue)

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Polling All Readers

Posted on Friday, 11/12/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

KUR is re-instating its long lost tradition of Reader Polls. Check the Polls box right underneath the “Recent Chatter” box and umm, check a box why don’t you.

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Broadband Optimizer

Posted on Friday, 11/12/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Freshly installed at Casa Barry: OS X Broadband Optimizer. Now I can burn up my bandwidth twice as fast!

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Stonybrook ’84 Pt One

Posted on Friday, 11/12/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Gilles has put up a new Friday Boot: Stonybrook, NY, Nov 3 1984 (early show, see also), Pt. One. Haven’t had a chance to give it a listen yet, because erh, well…

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What Is It Good For

Posted on Thursday, 11/11/04 by Dr Sharleena

Lest we forget.

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The FZCDOTM for November

Posted on Tuesday, 11/09/04 by Dr Sharleena

Guitar is The Frank Zappa CD Of The Month (this month) at the gently Chrome Dinette. John also sez he has a couple Gmail invitations left -if it’s not too late… Go get them, Fido!

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Another Zappa Best Of

Posted on Tuesday, 11/09/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Rykodisc - Best Of Frank Zappa
RykoDisc churns out yet another Frank Zappa Best Of. Couldn’t find this at amazon.com or rykodisc, had to search amazon.de for it — go figure…

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TBN November Update: What a Turkey!

Posted on Tuesday, 11/09/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

The Big Note’s November edition! Expect, among other goodies, the usual musical splendor and last but not least: TBN’s archived version of the original Hustler Thing-Fish pictorial!

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