Excite News: "The T-shirts and pajamas are meant to be funny, with cartoon captions like 'Boys Are Stupid - Throw Rocks At Them.' But some protesters, encouraged by a fathers-rights talk show host, are unamused and have pressured three retail chains into dropping the merchandise."


aahahahah...i have that sticker! the 'boys are stupid, throw rocks at them' one. i've just been waiting to find the right thing to stick it on...

god help me, i'm looking at them again...but damn, that's a nice velvet suit.

yay!

tearsforfears.net: "Tears For Fears founding members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, reunited after more than a decade, have announced the completion of EVERYBODY LOVES A HAPPY ENDING, their first album together since 1989's RIAA platinum The Seeds Of Love. The new album is scheduled to arrive in stores on April 6th, and will be preceded by its first single pick, 'Closest Thing To Heaven,' which goes to triple-A and Adult radio on Monday, February 9th."

oooooooooo depeche mode 101 is out on DVD!

by the way, DAMN is it snowing here. it started about...sometime between 7 and 8 pm, i'd say. i went out at 10 pm to clean off my mom's car, and there was a good 2, 2 and a half inches. when she left at 10.45, it looked (from our third floor window anyway) like there was another almost-inch on her car already. damn. it's snowin.

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhkay. because something really fucked up was going on with my blog earlier, i changed templates because i thought that might be the problem. i don't think it was...but then again, i really don't know what WAS the problem. anyhow, it's working now, and i have this boring template. and i think i only saved a copy of that nice pink one on my computer at work. and i'm at home now. oh well.

American Dialect Society: 2003 Words of the Year.

i heard a story on this on NPR last week...just hearing the oh-so-intellectual public radio folks snickering while they "seriously" discussed the word "ass-hat" for 10 minutes...it was wonderful.

ok, where the fuck did my blog go?

from weather.com: "Today: Cloudy with some light snow. Some sleet may mix in. High 26F. Winds NE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 60%. Snow accumulations less than one inch.
Tonight: Snow. Snow will be heavy at times this evening. Some sleet may mix in. Low 22F. Winds NNE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 80%. Snow accumulating 4 to 6 inches."

in related news: Calvin and Hobbes snow art.

Eeggs.com - TV : Shows : Angel : Numfar - The dancer of emotions!: "When Angel is accepted into the host's family, due to him saving one of the cousins, a demon named 'Numfar' is ordered to do 'The Dance Of...' (An example of this is 'The Dance Of Shame')
The actor playing the demon is none other than the producer of the show, Joss Whedon! "

ooo...wonder if that's true...very funny, if it is.

yeah. slow work day today.

The Brick Testament.

why are there so many weird (but, as i've said before, genius), um, interpretations of the bible on the web?

El Nino is spanish. It is the spanish word for child. Like all things spanish, it is dangerous.

funny, funny shit.

(in case you can't tell, i'm trying to up my cursing. because i'm feeling old, and having a foul mouth makes me feel young again, i suppose.)

adam, a.k.a. gibson and probably some other names i don't know about, once from columbus ohio, maybe not anymore, who knows, if by some off chance you ever see this, or if someone who knows adam sees this...please ask him to email me (e at killingjar dot org). i want to say 'hi' and such, and you are a difficult little fucker to find.

woke up this morning with the unflinching feeling that the entire planet, and everyone on it, is completely fucked. yay for pms.

ooo, big shock...not.





what decade does your personality live in?


quiz brought to you by lady interference, ltd

rollerskatin monkey!!

The IRC Bible.

an excerpt:

<Adam> ASL?
<Eve> newborn, female, eden!
<Adam> omg! me too, but male
<Eve> omfg! you're nekkid!
<Adam> so what! your too!
<Eve> lol
* Jehova sighs
<Jehova> bbl
* Jehova has left #Eden
* Serpent has joined #Eden


man. seriously, this is stuff that makes me love the internet. think of the TIME someone put into writing this! it's genius!

a good thing all around: "Bono...lead singer of U2, and Coretta Scott King...widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., pose at the end of a news conference in Atlanta, Saturday, Jan. 17, 2004. Bono accepted one of The King Center's highest awards later at the annual Salute to Greatness Awards Dinner, part of the annual King Holiday observance. Bono wrote a U2 song about the slain Civil Rights leader, a 1984 hit called 'Pride (In the Name of Love).'" (though i'm sure the song alone was not why he got the award...admit it, you may think Bono's an arrogant rock star, but he really is a humanitarian and doesn't make a big deal about it, which leads one to think that he doesn't just do it for publicity. yes, maybe a rock star can't really change the world, but you've gotta give him credit for trying, don't you?

i was thinking this morning that i didn't write anything on here yesterday about Martin Luther King day. i had off of work, and as i had joked to my neighbor, i did spend a portion of the day thinking about 'peace and love.' really, i am a huge admirer of Martin Luther King, but kind of think that anything i could write about him would be...well, nothing newer than what you can read about him anywhere else. so i'm just going to say that i hope that everyone will think about this, which is from The King Center:

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is not only for celebration and remembrance, education and tribute, but above all a day of service. All across America on the Holiday, his followers perform service in hospitals and shelters and prisons and wherever people need some help. It is a day of volunteering to feed the hungry, rehabilitate housing, tutoring those who can't read, mentoring at-risk youngsters, consoling the broken-hearted and a thousand other projects for building the beloved community of his dream.

i personally did not spend yesterday volunteering, but i did spend some time researching volunteering, and i'm coming up with a plan, which if i carry through with it, i will write about at a later date. i'm not saying that everyone should be a volunteer, but, on a personal level, everyone can help another person, every day. literally help an old lady cross a street. if the stranger standing next to you in the grocery store drops something, pick it up for them. go out of your way a little bit. think about any occasion where some stranger has done some tiny but nice little thing for you, and think of how nice it felt. think of how easy it would be to make someone else feel that way.

maybe it's too idealistic, but i believe that if we were all just friendlier to each other in general, the world would be a better place.

anyway. that's enough disjointed rambling. go read some of the stuff at The King Center website (linked above). it really is inspiring.

rock on Johnny, ya big sell out: 'To the dismay of aging punk fans, a British television company announced Monday Jan. 19, 2004, that [John] Lydon the angry punk icon has agreed to appear in...reality TV show 'I'm a Celebrity ... Get me out of Here'.'

Yahoo! News - Oasis Fires Drummer Alan White:
'Alan White has been asked to leave Oasis by the other band members. There are no plans to replace Alan. The band's scheduled recording sessions remain unaffected.'

because we're Oasis and we don't need no fucking drummer!

interesting: this page has links to graphics for the food guide pyramid for different ethnicities, such as asian, native american, and...vegetarian. cause we all know they're from a planet all their own. hehe.
anyway it really is kind of interesting. i'd never considered that there may be different guides for different ethnicities.

ahh shit:

"Carol Moseley Braun pulled out of the Democratic Party's presidential battle leaving eight men to fight for the nomination but frontrunner Howard Dean was under pressure to bolster support.

The only woman contender withdrew four days before the party's first caucus vote in Iowa state as the Democrats try to narrow down the field to find a flag-bearer to take on the Republicans' George W. Bush in the November 2 presidential election."

the boy's got quite a selection of kilts.

ok that's the last one. really. i'm leaving work now.

oooo and another one.
yeah yeah. i know.

ooOOOoOOOOOoooooo...Pippin wearing a kilt!

yeah ok so i'm looking at Lord of the Rings pictures. sue me.

build-yer-own face. wacky!

i just inadvertently came across lyrics for a sarah mclachlan (who i really for some reason can't stand anymore...i loved her to death for a year or two, in college, but then perhaps a lot of young women in college in the early 90s loved her to death for a while) called 'train wreck,' and it made me think of glen phillips' 'train wreck,' which is not only better than sarah's, it is just better, period.

i love this song. i think about it often, actually, because it makes such fantastic use of extremely extended metaphor. no...simile. i think. well, either way, it's good.

there's an audio sample of it on glen's site, under the 'Live at Largo' cd, though it does not include much of the metaphors/similes.

here's the lyrics, anyway, just for the heck of it:

She looked just like a train wreck
That could've been avoided
In a third world country
By a long stretch of farmland
Where the waters had run high
And the topsoil down the river
So that next year there would be no crops

She was as desperate as a salesman
At a company that's folding
But they haven't told the staff yet
That they're bankrupt and backordered
And they're funneling the pensions
To the CEO's back pocket
So in one week they'll have nothing

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

She's the girl from central casting
Always played the sweet young orphan
Or the hooker with the heart of gold
But she got her SAG card pulled
And turns tricks now on Cahuenga
She tells herself it's research
For her next and greatest role

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye

She'll call you up just to hear you say she's fine
Then she's gone away
And you know there's only one more time
You'll hear about her again

Well it's life informing art informing life again
Like every stupid kid
That thinks that they're the first in pain
The first to rip themselves apart
The first to try and live without a heart

I miss you girl, I hope you're fine
Good luck, love
Or goodbye
I want to see your face, even hear your lies
Good luck, girl
Or goodbye
Goodbye

speaking of Apple products, i really really really want to buy one of their refurbished powerbooks. they've got one (G4, 867MHz, 256MB ram, 40GB hard drive [my powerbook now has a 6 gig hd...i don't know what i'd even DO with 40], 12" screen) for $1199. that would pretty much take care of the money i got as a holiday bonus at work. which kind of rationalizes it for me--you know, spending my bonus on something i otherwise might not buy.

but then again, i could spend my bonus on, say, paying off some of my car loan, or entirely paying off my one remaining student loan. which sounds so much more satisfying to me than buying a new laptop. which must mean that i am now officially Very, Very Old.

Apple - iPod - iPod mini: "Oh, one other minor detail, you can choose your iPod mini in one of five trend-setting colors: silver, gold, green, pink or blue. (All shiny.)"

i *heart* Apple. they know we like the shiny things.

anyway, cute little things, these mini iPods. not sure of their usefulness, but surely cute. 4GB drive, holds 1000 songs...not bad. but i already have a 10G, why would i want another 4G? Oh yeah...because it's SHINY!

are you a hipster?
thank god, i scored 57%, which means (by these people's scale) i am not a hipster. however, 57% hipster is about 57% more hipster than i'd like to be. ugh, i can't stand those cynical, smug, moby-loving, ridiculous clothes-wearing, more-obscure-than-you, Williamsburg-invading film school rejects. feh. yuck.

i wake up this morning and notice that i've lost another nosering. (it's actually a stud, not a ring, but let's just call it a nosering, because that's just what they're called.) fell right out of my nose while i slept. i don't know how this happens--they just fall out during the night sometimes. which is weird because they don't fall out any other time.

anyway, it's so tiny i decide not to even bother looking for it. however, the only other nosering i have on hand is one that has a spiral back--convenient because this one NEVER falls out, as it's screwed into my nose, but, annoying because when i wear it, i constantly feel like i have a nose full of--well, you know what noses fill up with sometimes. but i wear it anyway, as it's the only one i can find in my stash, except for a couple of REALLY ugly ones that came in a pack with some other, more attractive ones that of course i have already lost.

so i get to work and it starts bugging me. i go to blow my nose, just in case it actually is full of something, and accidentally hit my nose with my hand. not even too hard, but apparently hard enough to knock the screwback into my septum and make it bleed profusely.

so i'm sitting in my office with my nose leaking blood. i have tissues, no problem. i check my email and wait for it to subside. but then, the sneezing starts. i guess the disturbance in the septum area was too much, and once i start sneezing, often it's hard to stop, even under normal conditions. so i'm reaching for tissue after tissue in an effort to not spray blood onto my monitor or corkboard or anything. it's at this point that i finally think, fuck the nosering and take it out. i feel much better and can sneeze and such with no barriers.

then the woman in the next office says, 'who is that?' and i say quite exasperatedly, and with my nose clamped shut, 'it's me.' so she comes over to my office and asks if i'm ok. i explain that i hit myself in the nose and have a nosebleed. she asks if i want a paper towel (??); i say no, i have tissues and i'll be fine. she goes away, and, i learn a couple of hours later, tells my sister that i have a nosebleed. which sister comes in a good two hours later and tells me she has alcohol swabs if i need them. gee, thanks.

so. my day is off to a great start so far.

"Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...[his] first marriage was to his second cousin, so when the couple fell out of love, the Catholic Church granted an annulment."

oh, rudy...for being so anti-adult entertainment (strip club crackdowns, etc.), he's got a little kink goin on there, doesn't he. hm.

Vitamin Q - a temple of trivia and lists. not kidding. a TEMPLE. my new favorite site.

my GOD the weekend went fast. despite its relative speed, though, i did manage to get a rather nice haircut, knit a peppy little scarf, and put together a big honkin desk for my mom. pictures of 2 out of 3 of those will be posted later. up to you to guess which 2.

Yahoo! News - Court Rejects Lewinsky Request for $1.16 Million: "Lewinsky, whose affair with Clinton ultimately led to his impeachment..."
uhhhhhhhhhhh...now i know i don't pay attention to news that well sometimes, but...he wasn't impeached, was he?
was he?

in related news (to the tim berners-lee thing above), David Bowie says no sir to knighthood.

according to yahoo news...

limp bizkit was named by guitar world magazine as the worst band of the year.

barry manilow, on the other hand was included on the 'in' list in the washington post's style section.

2004 will be a good year, that's my prediction.

Yahoo! News - W3C head Berners-Lee to be knighted.
he's the guy credited with inventing the world wide web by coming up with a way for people to work on a project collectively through the use of hypertext. (yes, i knew who he was before i read this article. i did learn one or two things of a bit of importance when i worked in the web biz.) anyway, yay for tim berners-lee!