31 August 2005

Calling Marcus Garvey...Calling Mr. Marcus Garvey!!!

It's 2005, folks! Transcend your prejudice and stereotypes or perish in the flames of the revolution!
Take a look at this Boing Boing entry and follow the links. Objective journalism, where art thou?!?
Too bad Katrina failed to wash the earth clean of the white devil. When will the evil end...think of the children!!!

25 August 2005


Gary may not be the best lookin' bug at the lake, but he's got what the ladies like........ Posted by Picasa

23 August 2005

Get off the grid in the belly of the beast


That's right, in the middle of Energy Consumption Central is this Zero Energy House featured on the blog Inhabitat.
Some of you may know that one of my favorite websurfing pasttimes is visiting the design sites out there and Inhabitat, being focused on sustainable design is one of my favorites.
As soon as I figure out how to imbed my firefox bookmarks file onto this blog, I will and you, too, can share in the enormous undertaking that is viewing every corner of the web from work....

Psycho Killer

A friend tipped me off to the following articles:

Go to this one first

Now go to this one and take the time to assess George W. Bush's behavior based on the eight criteria.

Scary, ain't it?!?

17 August 2005

Why not?!?........because your cake kills!!!














Morning Edition had a little piece today about hybrid vehicles in Kalifornia. Apparently, hybrids getting 45 mpg or greater can use the car pool lane, even if there is only one occupant. Finally, some real world incentives! The "A" students are reaping some benefits! The national energy bill, just passed, may undo the justice. Some asshole interviewed for the piece states that the Federal statutes may overrule the state's more stringent requirements, allowing the Ford Escape "hybrid" and the Lexus "hybrid" in the fast moving lanes! You want to own an SUV?!? You want your precious Lexus?!? Well, don't complain about getting stuck in traffic, jackass!! Let the folks who are making an effort to significantly reduce their environmental impact have their traffic free lanes and be done with it. If you get in that lane with your 29 mpg Ford Escape Hybrid (a 50% increase in fuel efficiency from the standard Escape) you should be shot. My Nissan Sentra Crapmobile gets better fuel economy and I wouldn't get in there, so stay out.
Hopefully, those of you who can afford or even find a decent hybrid out there are actually car pooling when you are in those lanes, 'cause we wouldn't want a bunch of rich, wannabe hippies abusing the priviledge, would we?

12 August 2005

When ekoms gets in your seye....

I've always derived mild amusement from watching the new smoker; awkwardly drawing on a fag only to immediately exhale the smoke that seasoned addicts so vehemently covet.
Whipping through cigarette after cigarette as they work on developing their personal style; how to hold it between your lips, how to hold it in your hands, finger-tap ashing or flick ashing etc.

Today, it wasn't so pleasant. The new smoker that I watched at a stoplight this morning was a male that was in his mid fifties at least. Not as charming when someone who should know better is just starting up a habit that has a good chance of offering him an excrutiatingly painful death and increasingly less pleasure as the addiction deepens. Not to mention the fact that nobody wants to suffer the spectacle of a fifty-something guy desperately trying to be cool in the act of learning how to smoke.
Dawg, learn to whittle....there's a smaller learning curve!!!

10 August 2005

Sorry we lost touch, guys.....

Last night, as I was fixing a study for work (on call this week) I got a wild hair and decided to listen to TV On The Radio for the first time in quite a while.
Well, as Staring At The Sun was playing, I recalled the all too brief love affair I had with their music a couple of years ago when a copy of their Young Liars EP found its way into my hands.
Well, the obsession has been renewed!!! I don't know if these guys are still producing any output, but the full length and two EPs that I have are amazing!!!
They are sure to comprise the bulk of my listening pleasure for the next few weeks.

08 August 2005

Mommy...Daddy, where are you?!?

Alright, alright already! Heard a snippet on NPR about teens abusing over the counter (OTC) drugs. Apparently, five teenagers in the United States have died from snorting the powdered form of the common cough suppressant, Dextromethorphan. Well, now the FDA is considering more stringent warnings and possibly lock-down measures on the drug.
This stuff is in everything folks!!! Don't make me talk to some ostentatious pharmicist to get my Tylenol Cold and Flu Nightime just because some teenagers are too stupid to figure out how to get their hands on the sacred herb (that's the evil marijuana to all of you government-brainwashed sheep!)
No, seriously, Mom, Dad, teach your little sociopathic offspring to stop opening the capsules and cutting lines with the contents! Talk to your kids about drugs! First lesson, the man-made ones will kill you, the God-made one's are there to assist in glimpsing the divine!

Uncle Sam, stop insertin' your thingie in my bidness, dig?!? I don't want you regulating what I do to myself as long as I am not placing an undue and/or unwanted burden on others. Please?!? Don't force me to start gettin' real up in here!