BLACK SQUIRREL INVASION

A DISPATCH FROM THE FRONT LINES of the black squirrel invasion that apparently was WRITTEN BY A CAT.

THIS DOES NOT BODE WELL.

That is all.

Courtesy: Catymology

POST SCRIPT: I must second the cat's fondness for this CANADIAN SONG celebrating "Vicky," the black squirrel of Victoria Park, London, Ontario, CANADA.

CO. THE DETROIT EDISON

"Detroit Edison" would be a good hobo name...
Originally uploaded by Kodamakitty.

I HAVE BEEN REMISS in calling attention to my favorite photographs of manholes and other things.

FORGIVE ME, Kodamakitty, and thank you.

THAT IS ALL.

I'M SORRY, IAN, NO

TO RESPOND QUICKLY TO IAN, from the comments, I am not in Boston to do any readings. I am only here to do some writings.

THAT IS ALL.

THANK YOU, ADRIANE

THANK YOU, ADRIANE, from the comments, for the link to STUBHUB.

A VERY USEFUL RESOURCE; if, in the future, I ever have need to see a sporting spectacle again, I shall turn there, and think gratefully back to your help.

THAT IS ALL.

THE BOSTON RED SOX

AFTER DISCUSSING IT WITH INTERNET GURU "COULTON," I have decided this is the best way to do this.

AS YOU KNOW, I DISLIKE SPORTS; however, certain members of my family who are too young to know better have started professing a like for the YANKEES BASEBALLERS.

I HAVE TRIED REPEATEDLY to explain why this is an error.

NOW I AM BRIEFLY IN MY HOMETOWN OF BROOKLINE, MA, and my only
hope for reeducating the youth of today is via DIRECT FENWAY PARK IMMERSION, which is to say:

I REQUIRE THREE TICKETS TO THE HOMETOWN BALL GAME TOMORROW (SUNDAY), the 2:05PM game against the LOS ANGELES ANGELICS.

I AM WILLING TO PAY FACE VALUE for these tickets. I will meet the current owner of these tickets at BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH where I will pay in cash or check, and I will also buy that person a copy of my book (IF IT IS AVAILABLE) and sign it IN INK.

SUCH IS THE TRANSACTION I PROPOSE. You know how to reach me. I regret to have drawn you all into this family vendetta.

THAT IS ALL.

.28 SPEAKS

I REGRET I have been away for so long. I have been traveling and without a steady stream of ELECTRONIC INFORMATION PACKETS DELIVERED VIA THE AIR.

BUT NOW I HAVE THEM, including this very interesting packet from one who claims to be ".28", a numbered member of the mysterious EARONS. From the comments...

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

" .28 said...

"Anonymity is a great thing. At this point of my musical journey, in order to get a record deal, what you look like and the color of your skin determines the genre that you’ll be put in. That thing we call musical category. For me, music has always been universal. The concept of The Earons was designed to listen to the music and forget whether we had long hair, green hair, “punk” hair, black or white, listen to the music, and have a good time. I will always be grateful to Chris Blackwell for taking us and giving us a chance at Island Records to explore this concept we call The Earons.

"Were in a Land of Hunger, a land of waste, kinda makes you wonder about this place.

"We not only hunger for food but we hunger for love and understanding here on earth.

"PEACE TO ALL, ( .28)"

END QUOTED TEXT

.28 IS STILL MYSTERIOUS, but obviously welcome here should the WHITE MOTORCYCLE HELMET OF DESTINY ever wish to make contact again.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE, members and non-members of the EARONS alike.

That is all.

FURTHER EVIDENCE

h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

...THAT THE HOBOES are the new pirates.

Thank you, LAD.

That is all.

BLOGROLLING IN OUR TIME

SORRY TO BE ABSENT, especially since Jane Espenson wrote such a nice thing the other day.

DESPITE HER RIDICULOUSLY NICE PRAISE, the little apple grace-note to this line is about as fine a joke as anything:

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

"If you follow this link, you'll be taken to his blog entry which then links back here. Theoretically, you might never get out of the loop, so bring an apple."

END QUOTE TEXT

AND SO THE MOBIUS BLOGSTRIP continues. Awk-ward.

That is all.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WEBSITES THAT ACTUALLY FUNCTION

THEN MAY I RECOMMEND Jane Espenson's blog about writing and lunching?

YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE SOME KIND OF CRAZY PERSON not to read, enjoy, and profit from her good advice.

I HAPPEN TO BE AN ESPECIAL FAN of her recent post on the subject of punchline abuse:

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

"I have it on good authority that no fewer than three of the new pilots for Fall series use "That went well" as a punchline. Nooooo! Have I accomplished nothing?!

I also hereby call clam on these mollusks:

"I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."

And

(sing-song) "Awkward!"

And

"I said, 'good day, Sir!'"

Really, people, even in real life, don't use these! They're past their expiration date and they will make you ill. An excellent rule of thumb is "if you've read it, don't write it; if you've heard it, don't say it." Adapt it, sure. Or make fun of it if you want -- use it ironically. But don't expect a genuine laugh.

END QUOTED TEXT

But do read ON.

That is all.

www.areasofmyexpertise.com

I AM NOT SURE why the main website is failing, but I am

LOOKING INTO IT.

That is all.

HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS THING CALLED THE "YOU-TUBE"

APPARENTLY it is a video service devoted to AMAZING NATIONAL TREASURES.

This one is named GREG PATTILLO.

The DOUBLE-GUITAR SAVANT from the earlier post is named ZACK KIM.

That is all.

DOUBLE BOING BOING

I HATE TO POACH from Boing Boing twice in a day.

BUT I AM TELLING YOU this is the most beautiful thing I've seen since The Earons first debuted their smash Braxtonian hit "Land of Hunger."

THAT IS ALL

ENIGMA-UPDATED LINK

WE TAKE A BRIEF PAUSE our previous enigma to bring you...

AN ACTUAL ENIGMA

Courtesy: BOINGBOING.

(Sorry for the bad link before).

NOW BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED EARON MINDFREAK.

That is all.

THE EARONS ARE NOT THE RESIDENTS

THIS I KNOW for sure.

BUT FRIZELLE is correct: I am losing my mind.

MEANWHILE: an Earon progress report from the comments.

THE ACRONYMED T.A.M.S.Y. turns up an extremely plausible theory re: the true, non-numerical identity of several of the Earons...

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT:

The good news is that the all-seeing eye of the Google has indeed unmasked the true identity of the Earons, although it took a bit of squinting. The band appears to have been based in New York — or anyway, three of its presumed members previously played with bands based there (Melvin Lee, Kevin Nance and Alonzo "Lonnie" Ferguson comprised 60% of the disco-funk band Machine; Nance also played with the eccentrically punctuated B.B.&Q. Band, a.k.a. the Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens Band). The other two members of the band appear to have been Henry Pizzicarola, who has mysteriously vanished, and Percival Prince, who is a British airplane.

END QUOTED TEXT

THIS IS A PROMISING LEAD, yet even unmasked, these Earons remain mysterious. Where are Lee, Nance, and "Lonnie," now, and what are they wearing for head protection these days?

AND HOW DID HENRY PIZZICAROLA DISAPPEAR?

Several others, including JESSE, pointed out the allmusic.com/wikipedia standard text...

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

"A band whose gimmick proved more intriguing than most of their music, the Earons were a funk variation on Sun Ra's cosmic mythology approach, with a little bit of Anthony Braxton's mathematical obsession added. They claimed to come from "Earon Earth," and all the members were known only by numbers. They did have one outstanding single, the hard-hitting and musically arresting "Land of Hunger" in 1984. It deserved a better fate in R&B circles than its ultimate stalling out at number 36. Still, this was the only one of three Earons singles that even made it beyond number 50, and they soon disappeared, probably returning to "Earon Earth."

END QUOTED TEXT

BUT LISTEN, I was a freeform DJ at WMFO in Medford, MA. I know me some Sun Ra and I know me some Anthony Braxton.

APART FROM GENERAL, BEAUTIFUL NUT-JOBBERY, what is it exactly about masked men in white jumpsuits saving blonde white people from moving tiny levers in an abandoned oil derrick that suggests the work of Anthony Braxton?

OR DOES THE AUTHOR OF THIS CITATION KNOW MORE than he/she is letting on? Does he/she have access to primary sources other than this video? And who is the author anyway.

DOES HE OR SHE HAVE A NAME? Or a number.

The internet awaits the answers.

As do I.

That is all.

KIND OF MAKES YOU WONDER ABOUT THIS PLACE

THIS WEEK I will be commenting exclusively on this video.

IT IS CALLED "Land of Hunger" and it by the EARONS.

YOUR EYES ARE CORRECT: the members of this band are wearing matching white jumpsuits and matching white full-faced motorcycle helmets.

As if that is not enough, THEY ARE ONLY IDENTIFIED BY NUMBER.

VERDICT: THE BEST.

If the Internet was designed to remember only one thing, HOW COULD IT NOT BE THIS BAND?

AND YET: literally for years, I could find no information on them, nor even confirmation that they existed.

I HAD, YOU SEE, forgotten their name (hint: it's "The Earons.")

AND ALL GOOGLE SEARCHES for "white jumpsuits white motorcycle helmets" proved fruitless.

AFTER ALMOST A DECADE (yes: true), I had to conclude either...

a) I had hallucinated the whole thing;

or b) this band was the one bit of cultural ephemera to have escaped the internet.

FOR as anonymous singers wearing face-obscuring headgear are wont to do, THEY SEEMED TO HAVE DISAPPEARED.

Until this past weekend.

Thanks to the aid of two friends with better memories than me, THIS VIDEO CAME TO LIGHT, and I am very grateful.

YET THE VIDEO IS INCOMPLETE, and still many mysteries remain...

WHO WERE THEY?

WHY DID THEY DO THIS? WITH THE HELMETS AND THE JUMPSUITS?

WHY IS THE APOCALYPTIC FUTURE POPULATED BY PEOPLE DRESSED LIKE OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN, AND WHY DO THE EARONS NEED TO CHANGE INTO MATCHING WHITE TURBANS TO SAVE THEM?

AGAIN: WHY?

If you or anyone you know has further information on this band or this song, I URGE YOU TO PLEASE POST IT IMMEDIATELY IN THE COMMENTS.

WE WILL SOLVE THIS MYSTERY TOGETHER.

That is all.

THANK YOU LARPERS

166. Dora the Explorer
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

THANK YOU LARPERS for responding to my question of yesterday.

NOW: DO ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE WITH THE CENTRIFIGUAL CASTING OF D&D MINIATURES?

Because that would be awesome.

MEANWHILE: Lad's eerie photo of a DORA THE EXPLORER "ICE" "CREAM" "NOVELTY."

That is all.

ALL EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS

SinkH.jpg
Originally uploaded by HoboGirl1.

Courtesy: HOBOGIRL

I have a question: do LARP battles ever take place at Ren Faires? Or IS ONE ANATHEMA TO THE OTHER.

Please advise.

THAT IS ALL.

ANOTHER APE-FOUND "H"

h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

That is all.

'I BET THIS OX WAS DELICIOUS"

h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

COURTESY: lad

Minimal internet this week, but I SHALL TRY.

That is all.

SINCE I HAVE NOT BEEN RULING THE WEB LATELY

I RECOMMEND that you visit someone who does.

MARK FRAUENFELDER, as all nine of you likely know, is the reason the entire, surprising, deranged, and beautiful E-HOBO project began.

HE IS A FRIEND, and a kind of visionary, and I say that even though I do not believe he has blood in his veins but PURE CURIOSITY.

That is all.

"THEY SHOWED UP, BUT THEY WERE DISQUALIFIED FROM SERVING DUE TO BEING NONHUMAN."

FROM THE COMMENTS, MORE INFORMATION on the mysterious WALTER.

COURTESY: the mysterious DON.

NOTE ALSO THE PHOTO, as that is indeed the room where I served. This article states that it is but a temporary exile for Walter while his true domain at 100 Centre St. is being renovated.

AND YET THIS ARTICLE APPEARED IN 2004.

That is all.

IMAGE COURTESY: Elizabeth Robert and "The Villager"

THE MAN'S NAME WAS WALTER

AS I WAS ESCAPING jury duty yesterday, I learned that the white-haired, sharp-tongued jury clerk quoted throughout this blog was, and is, named Walter.

IF YOU MEET HIM, do not cross him.

AND SAY HELLO.

That is all.

I'M SPRUNG

OUR WHITE HAIRED LEADER IS BACK and looks forward to seeing us again in four years.

FAREWELL justice.

FAREWELL leader.

Back to my regular every-four-years blogging schedule.

THAT IS ALL

DIDN'T MAKE THE FIRST JURY

NOT EVEN THE VOIRE DIRE...

BACK IN THE JURY ROOM NOW. Our white-haired leader is gone, replaced by a Charles Durning impersonator calling out names for the new panel.

WHILE ADMIRABLY GRUFF in his own way, his mic skills are very poor. Popping Ps all over the place.

BUT MY NAME HAS NO P, and it was not called. I await my fate.

That is all.

I'M GLAD I'M NOT ON THIS JURY

COURTESY jt and Amanda for the link.

THAT IS ALL.

I HAVE BEEN EMPANELED

...BUT NOT YET selected for a jury.

I do not know if I will see our white-haired friend again.

IS THIS JUSTICE?

That is all.

I'M SURE HE SAYS THAT TO ALL THE JURORS

THE LATEST UP DATE FROM THE JURY POOL CLERK, A TALL SKINNY MAN WITH A MOP OF SNOWY WHITE HAIR:

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT:

"We're still waiting to hear from the expediters as to whether there is any COURT ACTION coming up. In the meantime you're still doing great. The chief court reporter, who's been here for 25 years, just walked through and said this is the most alert group of jurors he's ever seen. so you should all be very proud of yourselves."

END QUOTED TEXT

I have capitalized the words COURT ACTION, for that is how he pronounces them. As in...

"OK. Everyone just stay patient. I'll let you know when you might get to see some COURT ACTION."

or

"Stand by for COURT ACTION."

Meanwhile, I just want to say that I thought SURF'S UP was actually pretty great.

STANDING BY FOR COURT ACTION
THAT IS ALL.

THE GREATEST PRIVILIEGE OF CITIZENSHIP

JURY DUTY CONTINUES.

I will update as possible/necessary.

That is all.

CIVILIZATION AND ANARCHY

THE LATEST UPDATE FROM THE SNOWY-HAIRED CLERK OF JURY ROOM 1121--

Begin quoted text:

"The word we have now is that there are still two cases going through pre-trial hearings. It's not clear at that time whether they are going to be taking any jurors today, or whether you can go home. So it tight. It's really good to remember as you wait here that you are the only thing standing right now between civilization and anarchy. So, thank you. You're doing a great job."

ALSO, from the comments SEAN notes the following re: THE JUROR's ORIENTATION FILM:

"Sean said...

The orientation film is called "Your Turn" and is available online here."

AND APPARENTLY he said this at exactly.

2:36 PM

THAT IS ALL.

A CORRECTION, AND A FURTHER OBSERVATION

CORRECTION: The drowning in the jury orientation film is a witch ACQUITTAL. If the person in question had indeed been a witch, she would have floated. MY APOLOGIES.

FURTHER OBSERVATION: The snowy-haired, uncle-sam-ish jury pool clerk has amazing mic skils.

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT:

"IF YOU DO NOT SIGN OUT WHEN YOU LEAVE, YOU WILL BE CONSIDERED AWOL. WHEN THIS HAPPENS, YOU THE JUROR WILL BE FILLED WITH ANGER AND RESENTMENT, AND WE THE CLERKS WILL BE FILLED WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS. DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN"

That is all.

I AM ON JURY DUTY TODAY

HOWEVER, the city of NY provides wireless to public servants.

SO FAR, I have not been sequestered, and so I trust it is not illegal to pass along these OBSERVATIONS

1) They are still showing the "trial by ordeal film" they were showing 5 years ago, including the MOCK WITCH EXECUTION.

2) The floors are very shiny.

3) I am already hungry.

Meanwhile, I hope very much you will go support MCSWEENEY'S.

Double meanwhile, if anyone lives near Montana, perhaps you can verify this curious electronic mail I received and APOLOGIZE on my behalf, for as some of your have already learned the hard way, I REGRET I DO NOT CREATE HOBO NICKNAMES ON COMMISSION.

BEGIN QUOTED TEXT

My coworkers and I at the Bozeman dairy queen have developed a hopeless addiction to your audio book it started 3 months ago when we first used it to quench the griping boredom of working at a summer Ice cream place in the cold parts of winter. We now listen to it on almost every shift. (It sounds weird but true). We are most taken with the 700 hobo names in all we have listed to it at lest 20 times strait throw, Many times back to back. Well all this long explanation has lead up to the question
Can you create 3 hobo names for me and my 2 coworkers?
If yes please tell us the information you will need to craft these names.


Sincerely
Steven Babbitt

END QUOTED TEXT

If you go there and meet Steven, please have a Blizzard on me. Send me the receipt care of the PO Box in my book--be sure to have Steven sign it--and I will reimburse you.

THAT IS ALL, FOR NOW

I hope they do not ask me to drown a witch.

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE FOR ADAM STEIN

EVERYONE KNOWS that I endorse STEIN in the good fight to become the next GLAMOUR MAGAZINE "Jake."

YOU MAY VOTE NOW, IF YOU WISH.

And NEVER FORGET his other, non-GLAMOUR project, THE PETERSONS. ("Matt Saldivar" is the rave.)

That is all.

COURTESY: Krucoff for the finest photo.

ONCE AGAIN, TELEVISION DIVIDES US

THE EVER-AWESOME, EVER-BLOGGING Lindsay Robertson notes the divided response to last night's discussion of MIXED MARTIAL ARTS on television.

INDEED, Lindsay cites Ryan "Rambling" Rhodes's comment that "...if you've ever grappled, you'd know it's about as 'homoerotic' as getting hit in the face with a rake and is, in fact, exhausting, fierce and competitive combat."

SETTING ASIDE FOR THE MOMENT the thriving, erotic "rake-face-hitting" subculture, I concede that Ryan raises A FAIR POINT.*

THE GRAPPLING SPORTS have a long history, and "THE GROUND GAME," as it's called, is indeed a kind of mental and phsyical chess.

(Or at least, I know this from my research. Ryan is correct in presuming my own fisticuff history is limited: I was ONCE ELBOWED IN THE CHEST on the subway, and then I GRABBED THAT GUY'S NECK once in college.)

HOWEVER, I want to clarify that the footage was not shown in slo-mo for comedic effect. Nor did I or the staff of television have to search hard for these examples.

Indeed, if you watch MMA (and I have done, and I enjoyed it, and I will do so again), this is where pretty much every bout ends up: GUYS ROLLING AROUND ON THE FLOOR.

I CERTAINLY DO NOT MEAN THESE FIGHTERS OR THEIR CRAFT ANY DISRESPECT, and not just because I do not want them to break my forehead in half.

Some of the fighters I watched were incredibly skilled, and Karo "The Heat" Parisyan in particular KICKS ASS.

Some of them, though, seemed to be merely artless brawlers ROLLING AROUND ON THE FLOOR HALF NAKED.

EITHER WAY, IT WOULD BE A VIOLATION OF COMEDY if I were to avoid pointing out just how prevalent this aspect of the sport is, and how it would look to a space alien, or a non-fighter, or even, I daresay, to a portion of the MMA audience who do not know about the long history of the grappling arts: THE FIGHTERS SOMETIMES LOOK LIKE THEY ARE LOVING EACH OTHER.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? Nothing, I suspect, that Ryan does not already know.

FIGHTING IS INTIMATE. I know that just from grabbing a guy's neck.** You're up close, often closer than you are when actually having sex with someone. In real life, it's scary and exhilirating and awful all at once. In a sporting situation, I can see how that potent mix of violence and bonding can also be joyful and awesome.

At the end of one of the bouts I watched CHRIS "THE CRIPPLER" LEBEN, still electric-eyed with excitement even though he lost, kiss his opponent in congratulations on the cheek. He didn't do it because some comedy writer told him to do it so he could write a joke about it later.

He did it spontaneously, genuinely, BECAUSE THERE IS A NATURAL, AUTHENTIC, AWESOME INTIMACY TO KICKING ASS--and competition in general--and that's part of its appeal.

THAT SAID, RYAN AND I CAN AGREE ON ONE FACT: I am a pasty, doughy gonad.

THAT IS ALL.

*Albeit, I realize now, one that relies on the ludicrous fallacy that "homo-erotic" is a synonym for "sissified."

**He deserved it.

SORRY, LEN

PLEASE SEE CORRECTION BELOW: not Glenn, but LEN.

That is all.

HOW IT'S DONE

How I Did It
Originally uploaded by jawboneradio.

HERE IS LEN, aka "JAWBONE's" take on COULTON'S REVEALING AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

That is all.

VOTE HOOK

TONY FAULKNER of the PORTLAND, OREGON DAWKINS-FAULKNERS reports from that fine city of bridges and neo-burlesque...

THE EMERGENCE OF AN INTRIGUING PUBLIC FIGURE

OVER TO TONY:

"Being as how you have a vested interest in such people holding public office, I'm pleased to introduce Steve Novick (if I'm the first Oregonian to share)."

NOVICK, according to his perfectly named website, he is a progressive with "a hard left hook."

AT THE TENDER AGE OF 14 was he sent loose upon the hard streets of Oregon after the closing of his Junior High School due to budget cuts...

(AS YOU MAY KNOW, Oregon regularly ranks very highly in US News & World Report's annual MOST DICKENSIAN STATE list)

...BUT RATHER THAN TURN TO A LIFE OF HOOK-HANDED PICKPOCKETING, he instead enrolled IN HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF 18, later acting as lead counsel in the Love Canal case.

AND WHAT'S MORE, he is the only candidate for Senate who begins his official bio with a trivia question--so you know he has my vote.

(NOTE: I CANNOT VOTE IN OREGON)

SHOULD STEVE NOVICK PREVAIL and become a US Senator, he would, under obscure Oregonian law, be but A HOOK-HAND FROM THE PRESIDENCY.

NO MATTER YOUR AFFILIATION AND POLITICAL BELIEFS, I trust you will watch his candidacy with interest.

THAT IS ALL.

Photo courtesy www.votehook.com

COULTON: FAMOUS

FROM THE COMMENTS, Molly alerts that Coulton is on YOUTUBE's "FEATURED VIDEOS" list at this very moment.

WITH THIS AND HIS RECENT EXPOSURE in the Magazine of record, it is clear that my old feral man-child friend has eclipsed my own small measure of renown.

I SUPPOSE FOR THE NEXT BOOK he will just have to tour with the Geico Cavemen.

THAT IS MY FATE

THAT IS ALL.

WHILE I MAINTAIN A POLICY AGAINST MANIPULATED IMAGES....

Tramps!, fighting! Now in Amazing Technicolor.
Originally uploaded by ct.pope.

...I NOW ACKNOWLEDGE THAT

This image from CT Pope was INEVITABLE

and VERY WELCOME.

I have no idea what he's talking about re: PRETTY LITTLE POPPY. Frankly, that bit is all just spooky.

THAT IS ALL.

KOTTKE SENT ME THIS IMAGE

...via the incredible SHORPY

AND I AM SAYING "thank you."

THAT IS ALL.

LOOK FOR THE LABEL WITH THE SHIP THAT SAILS THE OCEAN

Probably the most important commercial of all time.

THAT IS ALL

JENNIFER KARADY

FYI

Is the creator of the COULTON image below.


That is all

I TRUST YOU ALL SAW AARON WILLIAMSON IN THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE?

coulton & me
Originally uploaded by HaqDiesel.

HERE IS A PHOTO OF THE MAN HIMSELF

(WITH COULTON in the foreground)

YOU MAY ALSO READ ABOUT DR. "SHAGGILY HANDSOME," as he was known at Bacon Academy, here.

AND FROM THE VERY SAME ISSUE, here is an update on Neal Pollack's DANCE FEVER.

I HOPE YOU ENJOY all this printed matter.

BUT MEANWHILE: congratulations, Aaron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THAT IS ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM IN THE COUNTRY WITH LIMITED ACCESS TO ELECTRONICS

h!
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

BUT IN THIS BRIEF MOMENT AWAY, Ape Lad once again comes through with CONTENT.

YOU CAN SEE AND CONTRIBUTE more Hs and more sunrays here.

THAT IS ALL.

AND A DOLLAR SHORT

I REALIZED THIS MORNING that I missed one critical photo in my COULTON-PHYSICAL-AFFECTION-ROUNDUP of yesterday.

I DON'T RECALL who took this photo.

PLEASE REMIND ME, if you do.

THAT IS ALL.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE

JoCo and a Stuffed Weasel
Originally uploaded by pasquinade.

BUT I DOUBT it's legal

That is all

COURTESY: pasquinade

MORE LOVIN'

Jonathan Coulton and Neal
Originally uploaded by CarrieLu.

COURTESY CarrieLu

That is all

COULTON SWEATS FOR PAUL AND STORM

finale
Originally uploaded by cyaneyed.

AS YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE

That is all

courtesy cyaneyed

MORE LOVE FROM COULTON

Jonathan Coulton & Kynan
Originally uploaded by chrubuky.

COURTESY chrubuky

That is all.

FIRST OF MAY, FIRST OF MAY, OUTDOOR COULTON STARTS TODAY

CIMG6901
Originally uploaded by shadixpn.

TODAY, for every reason you can guess, I am only going to blogging photographs of JONATHAN COULTON MAKING LOVE.

IF YOU HAVE MORE, please share them with me. The world must know.

BE SURE TO VISIT the official FIRST OF MAY posting and listen to the lovely sounds of loving outside at Coulton's website.

THAT IS ALL.

Courtesy: shadixpn, for the love

AND ONE MORE BEARMAN

I FORGOT ABOUT THIS ONE: Heaven's Gate, the sequel...

That is all.

PURSUANT TO BRASS EYE

cakeshirt
Originally uploaded by Status Frustration.

THIS WILL MAKE SENSE if you do what I tell you to do below.

Courtesy Status Frustration for the photo, and Dennis DiClaudio for the original tip off to Jesse.

That is all.

"THESE VAST CAT HEADS WERE BUILT UNDERGROUND, AND SEEN BY NO ONE"

FURTHER CRITICAL CULTURAL PRODUCT REVEALED TODAY ON YOUR "WORLD WIDE INTERNET":

BrassEye

JESSE THORN discovers a hidden internettal cache of one of the least-seen (in the US) and yet most important and influential comedy "programmes" ever to be released in the UK.

WHAT'S MORE, someone has gone through the incredible trouble of DUBBING IT ALL INTO ENGLISH.

I tell you: SOME PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS.

That is all.

BEARMAN, SNOWMAN, AND JACK KIRBY

DO NOT DELAY, go and read the latest BEARMAN DISPATCH in Wired, which deals with the Iranian hostage crisis, a fake science fiction film, and yes, the King, and prepare to have your brain bent in amazed delight ONCE MORE.

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW JOSHUAH BEARMAN, here is what you should know...

HE SPELLS HIS NAME with a redundant H.

HE WRITES AND BLOGS from LA, weekly.

HE IS AN ACE lecturer on the subject of Sasquatch and giant chinese Prairie Dogs (Bearman begins about halfway through the program, though by all means LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING).

HE IS THE WORLD'S PRIMARY RESEARCHER on the fight to get the competitive classic arcade game circuit, which research has led to the new documentary KING OF KONG.

HE IS THE AUTHOR OF THE VERY FINEST "True Life Tale" that we never published (for the full story, go here. Again, Bearman begins halfway through the program that you should LISTEN TO IN ITS ENTIRETY).

and

HE IS A SUPER GENIUS WHO MUST BE HEARD

That is all.

(Courtesy Arthur Jones at the Post-It Note Reading Series for the snowman illustration, and the very talented, very, very patient Kevin Guilfoile for the "True Life Tale" linked above).

"TWO WORDS: NUDIE PICS"

...OR THUS SPAKE "PUNKIN" in response to my request for how to finally close my MYSPACE account.

OTHER SUGGESTIONS, ranging from the ingenious to the plain wily, INCLUDED:

--BEING MEAN TO TOM (Annje).
A fine idea, but surely there is nothing I can say to TOM that he hasn't already heard a 1000 times more meanly, and in 1337 no less?

--POSTING EXCERPTS OF MY OWN BOOK on my myspace and then complaining about copyright infringement (Chris).
Also very clever, but unfortunately this would not constitute "copyright infringement" but instead would merely cause the universe to collapse upon itself.

--POSTING A DAILY SHOW VIDEO on my myspace page and waiting for Viacom to sue me (hobogirl).
As much as I love a lawsuit, hobogirl's plan has one fatal flaw: judging from youtube, NO SUCH VIDEOS EXIST!

--SPAMMING PEOPLE (meredith).
Sorry. Already taken care of.

--NUDIE PICS (punkin)
While this would certainly handle the problem ably, I really could not bring myself to do this. The worst I think I could do would be to post obscure sexual euphemisms. Such as "handling the roblem ably." RIBALD!

--I SHOULD BECOME SOMEONE ELSE (ct pope).
No good. Frankly, I am barely the person I am.

--EVERYONE ELSE FLAGGING MY PICTURE AS INAPPROPRIATE (cpt joy)
Captain Joy tried this, and myspace offered to report me as a sex offender. PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS.

--AND FINALLY, this recipe from gg:

"I turned the background and text the same bright color red (#FF0000), renamed it "FUCK", added 10 blog entries of Misfits lyrics ("I got something to say / I killed your baby today / And it doesn't matter much to me / As long as its dead") and embedded every stolen clip from FOX networks I could find. For a user avatar, I went to 4chan - /b/, of course - and asked nicely for the worst picture that wonderful community could provide."

GG REPORTS that his/her site was removed within an hour.

BEFORE I UNDERTAKE THIS COURSE OF ACTION, HOWEVER, I suppose I will first resort to the measure which is more in tune with my own timid heart:

THE STRONGLY WORDED LETTER.

I shall keep you posted of my progress as I go forward, with the caveat that

a) MY PROGRESS SHALL BE SLOW

because

b) I DO NOT REALLY CARE ALL THAT MUCH.

Thank you for your help, and

THAT IS ALL

HOW INCREDIBLY CHILLING AND INCREDIBLY DORKY IT WAS AT THE SAME TIME

MIKE DAISEY'S REPORT on his conversation with the man who tried to vince the INVINCIBLE SUMMER begins this way...

"It has been an intense few days, and I would like to thank the thousands of people who have sent me emails, which have been overwhelmingly positive and supportive. They've come from everywhere, and in an age when we often seem terribly divided, especially in this country, it really means a great deal. Though now I will be answering email well into 2010, things could be much worse--when you let something explosive loose on the internet you can never predict how it will all go down. As of now I'm glad that I posted the video. I think it captures what it was really like in that theatre, and how incredibly chilling and incredibly dorky it was at the same time."

...AND CONTINUES here.

MEANWHILE, GEOFF EDGERS, ace reporter for the Boston Globe and, via coincidence and age-old Brookline conspiracy, AN OLD HIGH SCHOOL CHUM OF THIS WRITER, has also spoken to representatives of Norco High School.

I WILL NOW STOP MY MEDDLING, but to say:

THAT IS ALL.

REPOST: A SMALL CORRECTION TO THE RECORD

THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION EARLIER regarding this event at the PEN World Voices festival, mainly regarding the (flattering) idea that I would be taking part in it.

AS LOVELY AND INTIMIDATING as that would be, the current PEN American Center website is correct: it is not I, but the very excellent JONATHAN AMES who will be appearing with Gaiman, Iyer, and Lalami at an event THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 26...

...which IS NOT TO BE MISSED.

AND INDEED, PLEASE PERUSE the entire festival schedule, which does include one event I am taking part in, albeit a small one.

Sorry for the confusion.

THAT IS ALL.

Except for this small post-script--

ATTENTION MAWRTERS: In linking to Neil Gaiman's journal I noted that this Tuesday, April 24 he will also be doing a reading at Bryn Mawr College in Eponymous, PA.

NOW THAT WILL BE ONE WILD SCENE, believe me.

That is really all.

A CLARIFICATION, AND AN APOLOGY

GOOD MORNING.

AS PER my corrected post re: Mike Daisey's show, the Boston Globe is reporting that the people who walked out on Mike Daisey's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER last Thursday in Cambridge consisted of "87 students and staff visiting Thursday from Norco High School in Southern California, [who] objected to Daisey's dirty language."

SINCE AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, Norco High School is a public, non-religious high school, and as of this writing, I have no way of knowing the particular religious leanings of each individual in the group (or lack thereof), I've decided to strike my reference to "so-called Christians" in my previous post.

I APOLOGIZE for identifying the group this way. I had been under the impression that the group had actually proclaimed itself as "Christian," and this was part of the motive for their actions. Otherwise, I would never have mentioned of their religion, as it is irrelevant and insulting to the observant Christians I happen to know, who would never act in this manner, and indeed whose faith, I believe, would compel them not to.

I DON'T AND WILL LIKELY NEVER KNOW the individual motives of any one of the "students and staff" who walked out on Mike (which is their right); but you don't need a religious motive to pour water over a performer's set and notes (which is nobody's right): you simply need to be a loathesome ass.

I ALSO APOLOGIZE to the commenters in that original post. In a commentof my own, I scolded them for what I took to be their skepticism of the story, and that was wrong. There are 1,000 sides to every story, and there is nothing wrong with wanting to know more.

THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE when the story itself is largely so clear, so plain, and so videotaped. Whatever else was going on in the darkened corners of the theater and the audience's hearts that the camera couldn't catch, the single act of the one man (and it does seem to be a man, not a teenager) confronting Mike on stage and willfully vandalizing his work right in front of him is right there in the bright lights: undeniable and auto-damning.

WHILE THAT FELLOW, AT LEAST, owes Mike an apology (and I might argue the school does as well, if he is an employee), I hesitate to call for him to explain his actions. In that one moment of vicious smallness, he explained himself perfectly to youtube and the world.

But otherwise, let me say: CHRISTIANS AND COMMENTERS, I am sorry.

AND MIKE: break your leg tonight, friend.

That is all.

CHEF "WOOFGANG" VAN PATTEN

APE LAD has apparently tipped off BOING BOING to perhaps the strangest hobo product yet:

DICK VAN PATTEN'S HOBO CHILI FOR DOGS

It is worth clicking through to "CHEF WOOFGANG's" official website to see all four varieties of strangely, unnecessarily ETHNIC-THEMED dog food, including "Irish Stew" and "Chinese Take Out."

EACH LABEL FEATURES A PICTURE OF DICK VAN PATTEN IN REGIONAL-DOG-FOOD-APPROPRIATE-GARB and accompanied by a regionally appropriate dog.

THIS IS ALL TRUE. And you can appreciate how, for someone in my line of work, the actual veracity and non-jokeness of this product is very depressing. IT IS LITERALLY TAKING FOOD FROM MY FAMILY'S MOUTHS--and feeding it to ETHNIC DOGS.

(NB: "Italian Spaghetti with Beef in Meat Sauce" is not yet available, though I LOOK FORWARD TO ITS MEATY REDUNDANCY)

That is all.

CROATOA

IN RESPONSE to Artemis in the comments below,

OF COURSE we know what "CROATOA" means.

BUT WERE YOU AWARE that "Roanoke" means "murderous oak?"

That is all.

GOOD MORNING

Hawthorne in Sunrays
Originally uploaded by greyaenigma.

AN OLD BRIDGE, A MYSTERIOUS SYMBOL

COURTESY: Glenn

That is all.

RE: CONFIRMED MIKE DAISEY SIGHTING IN CAMBRIDGE

COURTESY to Jesse Thorn's TSOYA blog for tipping me off to this video of protesters CONFRONTING MIKE DAISEY with H2O the other night in CAMBRIDGE, MA.

(See Below)

WHILE IT IS NOT ALWAYS COMFORTABLE to live in a culture of constant surveillance, it is strangely comfortable to know that the camera points in all directions, and such impromptu acts of cowardice are so quickly drawn squirming into the light.

AND IT IS INSPIRING to me, both as a performer and a human, to see the humor and the grace with which Mike reassures those members of his audience who did not choose to pour water on his notes and regain control of himself and the moment.

UNLESS YOU DO NOT LIKE THE WORD "FUCK," and wish to support Mike Daisey, just go see the show.

THE UNEXPECTED BONUS GIFT IF YOU DO?: Mike is funny and awesome.

That is all.

LET'S GO TO THE VIDEOTAPE

GO APPLAUD MIKE DAISEY

CORRECTION as of 4/24/o7, Please see above for further clarification, and an apology to readers.

LAST NIGHT, Mike Daisey, one of our most renowned monologists on the subjects of amazon.com, the history of Monopoly, Tesla coils, and snowmobiles, found his latest work, INVINCIBLE SUMMER, hijacked by [STRIKE THIS: a group of 87 water-bearing, so-called Christian, anti-monologue terrorists.] REPLACE WITH: ...what is being reported by the Boston Globe as a group of "students and staff" of "Norco High School in Southern California," one of whom poured water over Mike's desk and notes as he performed.

GO HERE to read the chilling story. And I am not being sarcastic when I write...

CHILLING

INVICIBLE SUMMER continues its run at the ART in Cambridge, MA tonight and through the end of april.

IF YOU LIVE IN THE BOSTON AREA, or know someone who does, please go and see him and listen to his words and applaud him.

AND IF BY SOME CHANCE you are not fond of the work, just leave, quietly.

PLEASE DON'T STORM THE STAGE AND DUMP WATER ALL OVER HIS NOTES.

That is, essentially, the contract between performer and audience that most civilized people observe.

THAT IS ALL.

HERE IS A PATIENT, PATIENT PERSON

PC vs. Mac
Originally uploaded by etchasketchist.

....WITH MAD TWO-DIAL SKILLS

THANK YOU, etchasketchist.

That is all.

TWO THINGS I MIGHT DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO

73 Jonathan William Coulton, the Colchester Kid
Originally uploaded by Cryptonaut.

FIRST, this photograph from "CRYPTONAUT" of poor COULTON's vandalized, buckskin back. It dates all the way back to North Carolina. DID I BLOG IT BEFORE?

ONLY YOU PEOPLE CAN ANSWER, because I do not know how to work the archives.

SECOND, through some mysterious action unknown to me, the book I wrote is now available for sale from Amazon for close to zero dollars.

(ACTUALLY, FOUR DOLLARS AND 99 CENTS)

TO DATE, the only explanation for this is that they may have come from A DAMAGED SKID, and perhaps themselves may be slightly damaged.

SO CAVEAT EMPTOR

OTHERWISE, enjoy the bargain, should you so choose.

That is all.

SAND CIRCLE DESECRATION

H in sunrays!
Originally uploaded by theNewPollution.

Courtesy: "The New Pollution."

But why does UNH have benches surrounding a sand circle?

There is no reason for it.

UNLESS THEY ARE SUMMONING A WORM.

That is all.

SAND CIRCLE DESECRATION

H in sunrays!
Originally uploaded by theNewPollution.

Courtesy: "The New Pollution."

That is all.

FROM THE SHRINER TEMPLE

the dance band rehearsal room.JPG
Originally uploaded by captain joy.

EVIDENCE of wander-men infiltrating the den of the fez, as captured by Cpt. Joy.

MYSPACE UPDATE: I have twice followed the procedure to cancel my account, and I have been assured that I would receive an e-mail with further instructions.

DESPITE FREQUENT SWEEPS of my spam folder (classic summer suits are now on sale at Brooks Brothers, apparently, and Canadian Doctor Faith is offering me Valium AT THE LOWEST PRICES), I have yet to receive this e-mail.

ANYONE WITH ADVICE ON HOW TO GET RID OF A MYSPACE PAGE may post it below.

That is all.

EOSTURMONATH

egg in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

BELATEDLY (though not so belatedly, if you lived in the 8th century and thus observed Easter and the Dawn of Spring all month long. Thanks VENERABLE BEDE),

HERE ARE SOME EGGS from Ape-Lad.

PLEASE NOTE: this is not not their natural color.

ALSO NOTE: I am trying, really trying to delete that myspace page. BUT THEY DO NOT MAKE IT EASY.

That is all.

THANK YOU, NEW ORLEANNAISES

READINGS ON THE FOURTH FLOOR
Originally uploaded by hodg-man.

FOR SAYING HELLO

AND TO THE CITY ITSELF for reviving my spirits. Karlin and I could not have had a more glorious night day in the city of rolling temps.

PLEASE NOTE the information contained in the flyer attached regarding various appearances in the public school system.

THAT IS ALL.

THE BOXCAR CHILDREN

h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

APELAD, one of our most prolific boxcar children, produces this.

BUT I AM CONFUSED--what is that gray box under the title.

IS APELAD CONCEALING SOME SORT OF LOGO OR OTHER INFORMATION?

That is all.

BUILT ALA

H in Sunrays
Originally uploaded by Annje.

ANNJE IS SPENDING TOO MUCH TIME AROUND BOXCARS

THAT is my conclusion.

That is all.

CAPTAIN JOY WAS TOO NICE TO PERMANENTLY DEFACE THE IMAGE OF THESE NICE SHRINERS

100 years of white men in fezzes.JPG
Originally uploaded by captain joy.

STILL, a very fine H in sunrays.

That is all.

CAPTAIN JOY WAS TOO NICE TO PERMANENTLY DEFACE THE IMAGE OF THESE NICE SHRINERS

100 years of white men in fezzes.JPG
Originally uploaded by captain joy.

STILL, a very fine H in sunrays.

That is all.

PORK SHOULDER

pork shoulder, h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by suttonhoo.

THIS PHOTOGRAPH makes me wish to eat.*

LUCKILY, I will be in New Orleans next week. For more information, you should naturally turn to the Times-Picayune

COURTESY: Sutton Hoo.

THAT IS ALL.

*and cry

His family said his only real hobby was UFOs.

THIS STORY FROM THE GUARDIAN IS EXCEEDINGLY BIZARRE and sad as well.

I HOPE THE YOUNG AMNESIAC IS OK but I also startle at how each detail of his story, even the structure of the newspaper story itself, feels like it was lifted from the first chapter of some aiport horror novel from the 70s.

SURELY there must be some German word for the creeping weirdness of life imitating bad genre fiction.


THAT IS ALL.

EVIDENCE: FRIED ITEM X

NO ARCHIVE ONLINE SEEMED TO EXIST, so I had to dig into the paper files.

That is all.

FROM THE COMMENTS, APE-LAD REMINDS

h in sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

FROM THE COMMENTS, Ape Lad reminds us all of his fancy plate of deep fried Oreos.

Such presentation! But why didn't they add a pound of cream cheese?

That is all.

WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS BASICALLY A DOODLE DOG

WHAT YOU HAVE HERE is basically a classic "pig-in-a-blanket" from the Yankee Doodle Diner of New Haven, CT...

(WHICH IS A HOT DOG, stuffed with cheese, wrapped in bacon, and fried--a complete redefinition of the term "pig-in-a-blanket" down to every word and hyphen)...

...THAT HAS THEN BEEN DEEP FRIED.


COURTESY: the mad geniuses at the Seattle Stranger (thank you, Dan Savage) and to good ole LOOKA! for the alert.

I ADMIRE THIS KIND OF THINKING, and indeed I indulged in it myself once, long ago. Which got me to thinking: why didn't my invention, the deep-fried White Castle burger, having premiered in Men's Journal, A NATIONAL MAGAZINE, in August 2003, ever catch on?

IMAGINE MY HEARTSTOPPING, DEEP FRIED SURPRISE when I learned that AS OF JUST TWO DAYS AGO, it finally had.

LOOK: I don't wish to take away from the accomplishments of "the [non-mad] geniuses of the independent league's Gateway Grizzlies."

FOR STRANGER COINCIDENCES OF INSPIRATION have happened many times before. And it's probably likely the idea of deep frying a White Castle was dreamed long before my time here: frankly, the idea was inevitable.

STILL, I NOW UNDERSTAND, IN A SMALL WAY, THE PAIN of the man who invented the deep fried twinkie, only to watch the credit be assigned to countless state fair deep-fry technicians around the country.

BUT MAINLY: I am just glad the idea is out there.

Finally....

That is all.

EVIDENCE OF MY ABSENCE

I HAVE BEEN away. This is obvious to anyone, but proof of it may be found here.

BUT HERE IS THE ONLY PART OF THE STORY THAT MATTERS:

"The only way that this night could be more perfect is if I ran into Alan Moore, pan handling for money outside of Canter's. I would ask him: "Why are you pan handling outside of Canter's, Alan Moore?" and his answer would simply be "Magick." This would make unbelievable sense to me and I would give him a twenty dollar bill."

THANKS, Elan, for contacting me via "myspace." Sometimes myspace is very good. It does, after all, offer this (also via Elan).

BUT I NEED TO ESTABLISH A NEW MYSPACE POLICY, AND IT IS: no more myspace.

IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYONE IS HAVING FUN THERE, but as I am old and slow and unable to keep up even with this simple tickertape machine, it feels unfair to let those poor people on myspace to go unanswered for so long.

I ACTUALLY TRIED TO DELETE THAT PAGE about a month ago. But now I will take a week to tell those poor souls and you people that ALL INTERNET CONTACT SHALL NOW OCCUR EXCLUSIVELY HERE.

With a side dabbling in Flickr.

AND TO THOSE PATIENT PEOPLE who defaced their books and sent in hobo nickels, I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU. I have all your letters, and you will be hearing from me, IN THE FUTURE.

That is all.

APE LAD WAS HERE

767 Dr. Know
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

I hardly know what to say, except

THANK YOU.

That is all.

HIGH FIVE: THE SOUND OF YOUNG AMERICA COMES TO (W)NYC

IMG_1189
Originally uploaded by youngamerican.

IF YOU LIVE ON OR NEAR THE ISLAND OF "MANHATTAN," please do tune your FM radio to 93.9, also known as WNYC

AND THEN LISTEN to The Sound of Young America....

A PUBLIC RADIO SHOW ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE AWESOME

AS IT MAKES ITS DEBUT on the New York air.

TONIGHT at 6PM

IF YOU DO NOT LIVE NEAR NY but do live near the internet, why not stop by WNYC.org, and give them this message:

"I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE BROADCASTING THE SOUND OF YOUNG AMERICA ON THE RADIO EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT AT 6PM THAT I AM SENDING YOUR STATION TEN DOLLARS."

I'm going to do it. WON'T YOU?

MEANWHILE, please do click on the photo to view and join TSOYA's long-overdue and very welcome FLICKR GROUP OF PEOPLE HIGH FIVING EACH OTHER, THEMSELVES, AND ANIMALS.

That is all.

MEETING AFTER SCHOOL IN MULTIMEDIA LAB 2

POLLACK v. BROOKS

nealbaby
Originally uploaded by sugarfreak.

I REGRET I am so late in noting Neal Pollack's thoughtful reply to David Brooks's unthoughtful rant-yelled-from-porch-at-passing-teenagers of last Sunday's New York Times.

BETWEEN NEAL AND STEVEN JOHNSON, I think the discrediting of Brooks's book-cover-judgment and unprovoked attack upon Neal's son's unpretentious name is complete, so I will add no further comment other than to ask...

DID DAVID BROOKS ACTUALLY USE THE TERM "jump the shark?" I am afraid to go back and look, for fear it will cause my eyes to burn up in their sockets and 1000 stars across the galaxy to instantly collapse.

AND THAT IS NOT HOW I WANT TO SPEND MY DAY

(Courtesy, once again, to Sugarfreak for the still-haunting image of nealbaby.)

That is all.

I REFUSE TO EXPLAIN THIS IMAGE

VERY OCCASIONALLY, mystery is more important than knowing.

That is all.

VERY FAINT, BUT THEY ARE THERE

h in faint sunrays
Originally uploaded by Ape Lad.

CURRENTLY RE-ENTERING the internet.

DURING RE-ACCLIMATION PROCESS, please note these simple sightings that I missed last week....

A) DARNIELLE talking about horror movies.
B) QUICKSTOP's take on the immortality of game show hosts and lego Match Game.
C) COULTON talking to Merlin. NOTE: NOT AS WIZARDLY AS YOU MIGHT INITIALLY THINK, but very productive.

INVESTIGATE, I say, INVESTIGATE.

That is all.

I SHALL BE AWAY FROM THE INTERNET

all next week.

That is all