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Goooo Awaaaay (just another weblog.)
This will be the last entry in the Go Away weblog. From now on this stuff will be incorporated into Tourist Information. Because, why should I bother with two blogs? I will try to do lots of updates next year. You deserve to be entertained.
When faced with the responsibility of maintaining two blogs, I often have to resort to stealing from other blogs. It makes me feel dirty.
Here is something I stole from The Reverse Cowgirl, who, incidentally, has a great new design. It is Clifford Pickover's ESP Experiment. I will not explain the secret behind it and ruin the fun.
I got a bunch of free promotional CDs this week. One was The Bagpipes of Latvia, which was a nice pull. An overweight alcoholic former college roommate used to say that all the time when playing cards. "Nice pull."
Other promo CDs which became mine this week included the Dirty South Divas (containing the classics "Play Wit It," "Yo Baby Daddy," "Thug Bitches," and "Play Wit It [Tasmania Version]"), which I redistributed to my little sister, and Here Be Dragons, which includes such hits as "Lock Up Your Daughters" and "I'm Not Drunk." I also got the Ali soundtrack, featuring R Kelly, the Fabulous R & B Pedophile. And Too Short's What's My Favorite Word album. I bet you could get his favorite word in less than 5 tries.
Anyway, Happy Holidays. (And that includes April Fool's Day.)
I sure am sad about this, yes I am.
This guy is one of the greatest writers of my generation.
This is proof that this guy's work is not done in vain.
This is my new favorite site. I will talk about it more later. You will like it.
Auden isn't dead enough for me to republish his poems without permission, so do yourself a favor and head over to the Auden Exhibit at the Academy of American Poets.
For something a little less sophisticated, check out Davey's sister's band's webpage. They are called Salute Your Fate.
Speaking of Davey, he said this recently: "The internet is full of fat chicks to talk to and hot chicks to look at. Now that I think about it, what else do you need really? It's like you can have a decent conversation with someone who actually cares what you have to say while looking at someone much hotter than her. If reality was like that everyone would be happy."
Here's a Sanskrit dictionary.
Here's an old interview with Adam Yauch (Beastie Boys' MCA) from Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. I love that magazine. The Beastie Boys are pretty good, too. And the funny thing is, on that page, there's a picture of Yauch from the cover of Spin Magazine, and on the cover of that Spin Magazine it says "The Secret History," which is also the title of a book by Donna Tartt, who is on the front page of Identity Theory this week.
Buddha wasn't lying when he said that all was interconnected.
Okay, let's see what we've got.
For starters, ask yourself this: Is Dick Cheney Dead Yet?
Perhaps that was in bad taste.
Instead, try, maybe, 2blowhards.com. "In which two graying eternal amateurs discuss their passions, interests and obsessions, among them: movies, art, politics, evolutionary biology, taxes, writing, computers, these kids these days, and lousy Ivy educations."
I don't think I ever linked up with VillainSupply.com. (It's your online source for everything evil.)
Hmm what else.
Dave got some superhot girl's number at a club. It turns out she runs SlateModels.com.
Eric sent me an e-mail called "Irony." It went something like this...
Official Egyptian website photo gallery (note .gov.eg) Look at the eighth
picture from bottom (bloody-faced guy in profile). Note there are some
disturbing pictures in here.
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html2/p31020a.htm
Also reproduced here (faster loading). Picture above "Photo Album"
on
right.
http://www.sis.gov.eg/terrorism/html/etindex.htm
Now read some of this:
http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/reports/The_Photo_that_Started_it_Al
l.asp
Research indicates that Jesus would not drive an SUV.
Robert indicates that "Everyone who's anyone in adult trade publishing" is a hilarious website.
Rowland indicates that RoommateService.com is a really cool website.
That's your Three R's for the week, ladies and gents. And here's a quote to keep in mind as you traverse this bittersweet planet of ours:
"Even if they don't understand the flow, they understand the dough." -Jay-Z
Davey says Seanbaby.com is his favorite site ever.
BigScaryMeanie (1:23:04 AM): there is too much there to talk about
BigScaryMeanie (1:23:15 AM): but i could live there
BigScaryMeanie (1:24:19 AM): jen always has a bunch of good sites
BigScaryMeanie (1:24:28 AM): you should ask her the next time you see
her online
I had this idea, I want to start a website called "Daniel Lesser's Unchecked Egoism." (Or is it egoTism?) Anyway, it's going to be the most self-centered page on the Web, and it's going to be all about some figment of my imagination named Daniel Lesser. It's going to be really great if I ever get around to making it.
Oh, and it's not done yet, but I'm going to go 'head & link to the Biggie's Open Wound site, so that Google can find it and get it indexed by the time it really gets kickin'.
So anyway, you might wanna check out Pop Culture Press, an Austin publication (with hallucinogenic initials) that talks about music and...stuff.
You have to spend an hour or two gettin' hypnotized by my new Kato Kaelin site.
Davey Lewis's ex-girlfriend, who goes by the name of Jen and apparently has superb laundry facilities, IM'd me this link to an odd site. Which is not the only disturbing site that former couple has thrust upon me in the last week.
And Birnbaum sent me this Studs Terkel site, which has an excellent design to it.
And I stole Black People Love Us! from Susannah's blog. And I keep going back to it for some reason. Oh, because it's funny.
Blythe is working at a B.R. Guest restaurant in NYC.
And Jessica said, "brb, it's poo time."
From Birnbaum:
So Long, Fellow Travelers (washingtonpost.com) (a Hitchens article)
HotAIR: Rare and well-done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research
The NYPL Picture Collection online
Identity Theory probably would not exist without Gregory Ulmer, the hypertext theorist who taught me HTML several years back.
Here are Dr. Ulmer's pages at the University of Florida and at the European Graduate School.
If you click on enough links at either site you can find my terrible first webpage, which he somehow saw fit to preserve.
I saw a nervous-looking billboard on the highway (I-75, not I-95) asking the question, "Pregnant and Scared?"
Osama Bin Laden (is the Bin capitalized?) wants YOU to invade Iraq.
The Best Page in the Universe. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.
Get advice from people who've "been there" at the Elder Wisdom Circle.
I was surfing for info on high-protein foods when I found a page on How to Use Insects as Food.
As if Hitchens' leaving The Nation weren't bad enough, now Liz Langley is leaving the Orlando Weekly after 10 years or so. (I'm about a month and a half late on this one).
Something to read instead? Flak Magazine's Why They Hate Us:
A record of a few of the cultural and commercial things America does
to bring the distaste and loathing of the world upon our heads.
The Oyster Boy Review -- like Identity Theory -- was started by a graduate of the University of Florida.
The Adirondack Review -- like Identity Theory -- features the poetry of Janet Buck
The New Yorker -- like Identity Theory -- has a slick website.
Krispy Kreme nutritional info.
My last entry is highly ironic now that Christopher Hitchens is leaving The Nation:
When I began work for The Nation over two decades ago, Victor Navasky described the magazine as a debating ground between liberals and radicals, which was, I thought, well judged. In the past few weeks, though, I have come to realize that the magazine itself takes a side in this argument, and is becoming the voice and the echo chamber of those who truly believe that John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin Laden. (I too am resolutely opposed to secret imprisonment and terror-hysteria, but not in the same way as I am opposed to those who initiated the aggression, and who are planning future ones.) In these circumstances it seems to me false to continue the association, which is why I have decided to make this "Minority Report" my last one.
I don't feel inclined to take sides in The Nation vs. Christopher Hitchens, but suffice it to say I'll probably spend more time at the Christopher Hitchens Web than TheNation.com now that Hitchens is departing.
You can read an article about the split at The New York Times online.
The Nation is a gold mine in times like these. Here is an excerpt from their Open Letter to Congress regarding an Iraq invasion.
The genius of the American form of government was the creation of a system of institutions to check and balance government power and so render it accountable to the people. Today that system is threatened by a monster of unbalanced and unaccountable power--a new Leviathan--that is taking shape among us in the executive branch of the government. This Leviathan--concealed in an ever-deepening, self-created secrecy and fed by streams of money from corporations that, as scandal after scandal has shown, have themselves broken free of elementary accountability--menaces civil liberties even as it threatens endless, unprovoked war. As disrespectful of the Constitution as it is of the UN Charter, the Administration has turned away from law in all its manifestations and placed its reliance on overwhelming force to achieve its ends.
And you can always count on Christopher Hitchens for a good read.
My browser is way overloaded with Favorites. I'm going to trim it down a bit to make room for some new additions.
Links on the chopping block:
Shoutcast Internet Radio
-- The Unconscious
Hypocrisy of Schindler's List -- The
Dallas Morning News Waco Archives -- Glassdog
-- Nirvana
Lyrics -- The Spirit
of Raving -- MC Hawking's Crib
-- "Louie
Louie" as heard by political candidates -- Texas
Environmental Fee Reform Project [pdf] -- Woodstock
1969 Song List -- They
Fuck You At The Drive Thru -- "Learning
to Fall" by Lauren Slater -- The
Free Speech Movement, UC-Berkeley -- Vladimir
Nabokov interview in The Paris Review (1967) -- Interviews
50 Cents -- US National
Archives and Records Administration -- GW
Bush Pictures and Cartoons -- The
Eternal Life Device -- The
Chiapas Media Project -- What
is Scientology? -- Fat
Chicks in Party Hats -- Live
Journal
New link from Ben, aka Guy Who Lives In Matt's Old Room: You're the man now, dog. (requires audio)
"Is honour like pie?" Check out The Everyday Happenings of Weebl (and sometimes Weebl's friend Bob)
Our favorite sex scribe, Susannah Breslin, started herself a blog over at Salon—The Reverse Cowgirl's Blog, wherein a writer tries to justify the enormity of her porn collection. In addition to the smutty links, you can check out her Photos of the Day.
Oh, and you've gotta see these visual quotes from the lyrics of Roger Waters. (All in all, they're just another brick in the wall.)
In Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, one of the low-rent mobsters quotes Flava Flav's song "Cold Lampin":
Live lyrics from the bank of reality
I kick da flyest dope maneuver technicality
Having recently visited San Francisco I should probably tell you about LitQuake, which is going on in a little over a month. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dave Eggers, and Irvine Welsh are among the authors participating in this festival of readings and literary discussion.
I'm listening to the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album, by the way.
Saw a bunch of strange billboards on I-75 on my way to Gainesville, FL this week. One advertised a website that criticizes the FL Dept of Transportation called DumbassDOT.com. For a site that advertises on interstate billboards, it's rather poorly done and hasn't even hit the 30,000 hit mark yet.
Washington Redskins runningback Stephen Davis is rushing for remembrance this season.
Oh, and you don't care about this at all, but I drafted a fantasy football team for my brother, who is currently stationed in the Middle East for Operation Enduring Freedom. It's a league of Air Force people from San Antonio. They made a website. You can follow the team I picked, we're the Sofa Kings.
"Got World Peace yet?" I was asked by a random emailer with a website.
Reason #1 to live on the West Coast: The In-N-Out Burger. (Their logo is sheer genius.)
Alternative to the In-N-Out Burger: Fatburger (The Last Great Hamburger Stand).
At Motel 6 you get free HBO. Right now they're showing a 1987 Christopher Reeve movie called Street Smart, in which Morgan Freeman plays Leo (not Biggie) Smalls, a pimp who goes by the street name of "Fast Black."
You were watching reruns of 90210 today and thought to yourself, "I wonder what ol' Jason Priestley's getting up to these days."
Haven't been doing much in the line of surfing lately. Here are some sites from this week's referrer log:
An interview with Arthur Bradford.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the Plain Jane.
Magazine Minima is worth your time.
Volunteer Match unites do-gooders with good things to do.
TerraServer provides aerial views of just about any home in America. It's spooky.
Dan & Camille by Sven Dali aka the Ron & Alyssa show
The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Network says:
"Cuba is one of seven countries the US state department lists as state supporters of terrorism, while Israel is the biggest ever known state terrorist and is being fully supported and backed by the U.S."
[For serious Pit Bull people only.]
Nanci Kincaid gave a reading at BookPeople today. She writes about Alabama. She lives in Hawaii.
When I said "gave a reading," did you think I meant she was a psychic?
The Texas Review contains some interesting, boldly stated ideas, vaguely political in nature.
Ethan Hawke's second novel, Ash Wednesday, is coming out next month. [That page concerns itself more w/ Hawke's arty film about the Chelsea Hotel, Chelsea Walls].
Parker Posey, she rocks my artwork. Here is an old Index Magazine interview with the former soap-opera actress of whom Hal Hartley is rather fond. We're talking 1996 here. I don't even remember using the Web in 1996. Bri sent me an interview from 1996, this time from Salon, a David Foster Wallace interview. "It's old school Salon, they didn't even re-format it."
"Listen pal, you can't waltz in here, use my toaster, and start spouting universal truths without qualification!" That's from Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire. Parker Posey wasn't in that one, I dont think. It was some short-haired girl with a symmetrical Oriental face.
Hey, go read Joyce Hackett's national-magazine-award-nominated article "The Territory of Trauma."
In this age of global terrorism and botched botox injections it is helpful to know the secrets of survival.
Catch Susannah Breslin in Dirty Stories Volume 3, published by Fantagraphics. "Inspired by many seemingly unnecessary trips to bukkake porn shoots."
Everytime I hear the phrase "Here be Dragons" I can't stop laughing.
The government is setting up face recognition machines at the Statue of Liberty. The machines compare facial data of tourists with that of terrorists in their database. "To have such a system in place near the Statue of Liberty...is both ironic and disheartening," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program. Here are some facts about facial scan technology.
Yesterday someone asked me, "Who died and made you king?" I replied, "I died and made myself king. Just like Jesus."
It looks as though my old neighbor Pete Minda has some new songs up at mp3.com.
Jessica doesn't have much in the line of favorites in her IE browser. There's The Oxygen Channel. And Bluefly: the outlet store in your home. Oh here's a good one -- The Webtender, an online bartender. Most of the other bookmarks head to some department at the University of Texas. Hook 'em, Horns.
Yo La Tengo has launched their own official website.
Stephen Jay Gould finally succumbed to cancer after 20 or so years. Here is an article he wrote about his experience with cancer and statistics. Okay that's not a very good description. Just read it.
"Progress is ambiguous, isn't it?"
Maybe ask Greenpeace.
Eric's been reading slashdot again. But he hasn't been reading comic books. Unlike this physics professor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Are you finished? Well, then, allow me to Retort.
Today is Cinco de Mayo, and all their praises are still false.
Saw Spiderman last night. It was not a waste of $7.50.
Did I tell you to go to Jonathan Franzen's website yet? How about Ratha (Arhat) Grimes?
It has been ten years since the Rodney King riots in LA. It's funny, the only reason I remember the exact date is the Sublime song "April 29, 1992."
The New Yorker has a Cartoon Channel on its website. They display a new cartoon every 30 seconds. It's all the rage.
Hyperizons looks like a dandy spot to observe and theorize about hypertext fiction. It's maintained by a guy at Duke who has linked up to a slew, slue, whatever, of original hypertext fiction works. He also has a handy theory page. The only downside is: lotsa dead links. It hasn't been updated in about five years.
(Strange to think that the Web has been around long enough to contain sites that have not been updated in five years.)
Hey, look! Brian Wilson has an official website. "But you know it's just your imagination." He's doing a Pet Sounds Tour 2002. A World Tour. Europe. Japan. The whole nine yards.
Green Mountain Gringo. It's salsa from Vermont. I've been eating a lot of it lately. On bagels even.
What was I going to say. Oh, It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time! (Now with an even bigger banana).
More from the inbox. A Village Voice story on "New Skool Versus Old School in Greenwich Village." Someone thought I cared. Amazingly enough I actually read the whole article. The thesis was something about residents not being able to sleep because of all the riotous homosexual drug dealing on Christopher Street. Edgy.
Hmm what else. Oh I saw Mulholland Drive. David Lynch's new movie. Which just came out on video. DVD actually. David without the vowels. Most of the other films I've seen lately have been such styrofoam trash that this movie actually seemed really good. It was well made and thoughtful, at the very least.
What is the REM song where Stipe mentions Mulholland Drive? "Your eyes are burning holes through me..."
"If I ever want to fly. Mulholland Drive. I am alive...Hollywood is under me..."
I think that's "Electrolite." Yes. Here are the lyrics. They coincide with Lynch's movie really well.
As a former Austinite I found this photo essay on the H.E. Butt Grocery Co. rather majestic.
"Most folks spell out the name when they say it--aitch ee bee"
Just linked up The Ruckus Society in our politics section. This civil disobedience training group has instruction manuals on "How to Hang Yourself from an Urban Structure," among other helpful documents for those who like to save rainforests. (In a roundabout way, they got $100,000 from Ben & Jerry's...)
Speaking of ice cream, I sure do fancy the Marble Slab Creamery. Is it weird to like gummy bears in ice cream? I don't think so, at all.
Purchase your indulgences at ThePope.org.
Virgin in the City. It's what everyone is ranting & raving about.
"H.H. is an alien.
His imagination leaps aeons ahead of mere mortals, which is why some may
feel confused."
— Inside Out
A Cleveland priest killed himself.
Nora Okja Keller is on the cover of Poets & Writers Magazine this month.
If you place the word "Productions" after just about any other word, it makes the other word sound so much cooler. I am thinking of this because of Traffic Productions. Which has a Windermere, FL, address. The traffic cops in Windermere are like the Malibu cops in The Big Lebowski.
"How to Kill Abuse and Violence." I'm such a pushover for people who email me links to their websites.
Here are some websites from fliers (flyers?) at guinevere's Coffee House in downtown Orlando: Triskadekaphilia and Broken Speech.
MSN just said, "You have received an email from David Lewis." The email from David Lewis (a forward) said, "Visit our Web site at: http://www.tonysanchez.com." Tony Sanchez is running for Texas Governor. He's a Democrat. Apparently Dr. John Coppedge supports Tony Sanchez.
"I'm on like Dr. John." That's a Beastie Boys lyric.
"You know who I am. You've stared at the sun." That's a Leonard
Cohen lyric.
I'm wondering about the exegesis of the name 3ammagazine. Wait, I think I mean etymology. Yes, etymology.
Here's a definition of exegesis.
Here is the etymology of the words "heresy" and "inquisition."
Remember that guy who got on stage at a Bob Dylan performance a couple of years ago (the Grammys) with "Soy Bomb" written on his chest?
Here is the Soy Bomb Manifesto.
Very Low Sodium. Eric told me to blog it months ago, on the basis of its "irrational exuberance." Happy, Eric?
Eric sent me this, too, but I didn't read too much of it. Something about a jet-powered beer cooler.
Free Will Astrology, p.k.a. Real Astrology, that's what it's all about, mang.
New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network presents the history of the future. Now that's deep.
"A forum for rational and scientific debate and discussion," that's Truth Tree.
It's time again for SXSW, aka South by Southwest, the annual festival of music, film, etc. held in Austin, TX. Bang the Machine will be shown @ SXSW. Here is The Idiot's Guide to Bang the Machine.
If the Ninjas with Real Ultimate Power [see the 2/6/02 entry] weren't enough for you, Eric recommends Happy Ninja.
But the Real Ultimate Power ninjas are better. Just ask Snackpants.
Gary Snyder answers some questions from Portland-based Caffeine Destiny, candidly responding to the eternal literary question, "Can poetry change the world?"
Another Northwestern publication, The Evergreen Review, features war photography from 1944-45 China in its latest issue.
Of Unknown Origin is a rather low-quality film starring the man who played Robocop and the commonly bare-breasted woman you know as Shannon Tweed. It was based on a novel called The Visitor, by my buddy Chauncey G Parker III.
You will find a broad range of content on Identity Theory, but I think we might be missing something. Something every website should have. An uber-popular phrase. Oh yeah...how about...Anna Kournikova!
They're loyal. They're protective. They're intelligent. They're Doberman Pinschers.
Back in the day, I used to hang out in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and watch the cars pass Ha Ha Pizza and Ye Old Trail Tavern while students from Antioch College littered the main strip of town. Maybe if I had read The Antioch Review instead of checking out the hippie chicks wearing Pierre's tattoos, I'd be a little bit wiser today. It seems to have worked for Clifford Geertz.
But why would someone want to waste time reading heady lefty literature when they could go get ice cream down the road at Young's Dairy instead?
Or chill with dead Indians?
Or chase tornadoes?
Yup, there's a lot to do in Southwest Ohio.
Andrew Sullivan is Kayla's favorite homosexual conservative. So put your blue star in the window.
Remember Miss Sullivan?
She didn't work for Burning Press.
Some people are afraid of the Indian Point nuclear power plant near NYC.
Get Underground.
The official ninja
homepage. By a guy named Robert who can't stop thinking about ninjas.
"These guys [ninjas] are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet,"
he says. The site has a wonderful soundtrack to go along with its compelling
insight about the ninja lifestyle.
It's been 5 minutes, and I still haven't made $100 yet...
Stephen Matcalf analyses standardized testing and the Bush educational objectives in his article "Reading Between the Lines."
Picture hunting. Object not found.
Steve Spurrier is leaving the Gators after coaching 150 games. I would feel sad about this if I didn't sympathize with him. College football is dumbshow now with the BCS and terrybowden corporate-media politics ruining its integrity. You go, Steve. Here is the Gainesville Sun's Steve Spurrier Resignation Page.
"The sufferings of the Russian people under Bolshevism are indescribable. This Jewish terrorism must be radically eliminated from all of Europe. That is our historic task." - Diary of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, 1942
More Nazi
Propaganda by The Mighty JG
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project monitors the activities of hate groups in America.
The Darwin Awards: Where Evolution Hits the Pavement
Contract with the Planet is either a rational solution to some of the world's problems or "a bunch of hippy crap." You decide.
Find the ghost of Fox Mulder at the CIA's Electronic Document Release Center.
Not sure what I think of The Baffler yet.
Michael Moore is kind of interesting sometimes, but his website could use some work.
"Paper Roses" is a cool song, and what's even better is, The Shaggs sang it.
I had a dream that I became rich by investing on Datek, but that was just a dream. That was just a dream.
Thanks for reading,
[imagine my signature here]
Matt Borondy
