UPDATE: MP3 links have expired. There seems to be a lot of ‘unhappy love’ music circulating around the web today for some reason. For instance, you might want to check out the WilL YoU BE MinE? post at the Mashup Of The Week Podcast. Even better is Jamie S. Rich’s post today, which has a brilliant set of lyrics, and… Read more →
Day: February 14, 2006
Black Valentines
When I was in my early twenties, I used to celebrate Valentine’s Day by sending out my annual “Black Valentines” messages to a select group of like-minded individuals. At the time, this was more about protesting too much. You know the story–I was single, and I hated the pressure of V-Day, so I would kick against it and act like… Read more →
Number 11
Source, via Number eleven, of course, is “bust a shell up in your face, yo”. Or, as WikiNews puts it: U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter on Saturday during a bird hunting trip at a south Texas ranch. The victim, 78 year-old Harry Whittington, is an Austin lawyer who was accompanying the Vice President on a… Read more →
Krewe du Vieux
I follow the online journals of a lot of authors. One of them is Poppy Z. Brite, onetime wunderkind of the flash horror set, but lately the author of some really excellent New Orleans food porn novels. I really didn’t have much use for her early horror works, but both Liquor and Prime were excellent, both at portraying “the life”… Read more →
Don’t bring your anti-science baloney around here…
…or we’ll shoot your ass off! OK, maybe that’s not quite what they’re saying, but the news is out that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, repository of all kinds of cool science, is protected by a bank of guns that can shoot 66 rounds a second over a radius of a mile! The guns, which the lab unveiled to much… Read more →
