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October 31, 2003


	the butcher of kansas city Just two blocks down from my apartment is the house that Bob built. 4315 Charlotte is where Bob Berdella murdered six young men, dismembered them in the tub and then put their bagged remains out on the curb for Monday... Posted by xtop at 11:16 PM \| Comments (14)

October 30, 2003


	fox logic According to Groening, Fox took exception took a Simpsons' version of the Fox News rolling news ticker which parodied the channel's anti-Democrat stance, with headlines like "Do Democrats Cause Cancer?" "Fox fought against it and said they would sue the... Posted by xtop at 09:10 PM \| Comments (11)

October 29, 2003


	figure 8 From the Japanese version of 'Figure 8,' a short little Elliott Smith number. Cover of the Schoolhouse Rock meme driven into every brain that came of age within 20 years of its existence, it's disquieting, melodic, entrancing and sad. For... Posted by xtop at 08:53 PM \| Comments (1)

October 28, 2003


	my life in fishing: success When the guy you're fishing with comes out of his house brandishing a 10 gallon white bucket and you don't flinch, don't even regard it as something strange, you know that something has changed for both of you. On the... Posted by xtop at 07:33 PM \| Comments (1)


	language removal services "Given the fleshy character of speech (or what is erroneously called 'spoken language') the myriad whistling of air through secret pockets of flesh; the suck and hum of life below the workings of social whim and commentary it... Posted by xtop at 05:17 PM

October 27, 2003


	the family tie Teaser for The Family Tie, Matt Glasson's newest forthcoming feature, filmed in the halcyon days of 1998. Those with pipe encouraged to click the picture, all others encouraged to click it and wait awhile. Also, that mic you see... Posted by xtop at 07:51 AM

October 26, 2003


	false starts: pink floyd New feature. Freelance assignment for the Pitch asks that I write about the upcoming Pink Floyd Laser Show: "125 words (of mockery if you wish, but far be it from me to assume)." With any of these pieces, I usually... Posted by xtop at 09:56 AM \| Comments (9)

October 24, 2003


	let me go A guy I knew once told me about the concept of Fortune's (pronounced For-two-nuss) Wheel. He even drew it out on a blackboard. It's a ferris wheel, basically, and like the ride, sometimes you're riding the crest and sometimes you're inches from the bottom position. The mind blowing point being that the wheel is ever-turning and though you might be on the top right now, everyone has to serve some time on the bottom. Hence the last two months of my life. Posted by xtop at 05:12 PM

October 23, 2003


	timmy fisher My friend Timmy, he makes the art.... Posted by xtop at 03:48 PM

October 22, 2003


	you fucking idiot good luck.... Posted by xtop at 09:37 AM

October 21, 2003


	25 years in the east bay Posted by xtop at 12:33 PM

October 20, 2003


	three truths "There's three truths. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I always thought there was just one truth." "There are three sides to every story: Your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is... Posted by xtop at 11:37 PM


	born died reborn I'm starting this on a Sunday morning. Who knows when it'll actually see the light of day. Sometime around noon on Monday (9/13) I lost thoughtpeach. It went down in the midst of trying to get my vanishing email dilemma... Posted by xtop at 11:27 PM \| Comments (3)

October 19, 2003


	hunting the hunters The easiest way to remove a gallbladder from a black bear, according to hunters, is to start a deep slit from just above the waistline and cut straight towards the lowest rung of the rib cage. But first, one has... Posted by xtop at 09:54 AM \| Comments (5)

October 17, 2003


	tibor fischer vs. martin amis So jettisoning [my former agent] Wylie was very much the right decision. It still gives me a satisfying glow to think of it. But I did wonder, what does Wylie actually do all day long? Is he still writing poetry?... Posted by xtop at 10:14 PM


	my archnemesis I just wanted to be special.... Posted by xtop at 09:58 PM \| Comments (1)

October 16, 2003


	closing the loupe one of my more regular stopping points as far as blogs go was the loupe. it was well done, well-written and its simple but busy layout was a big virus of thought that shaped my redesign. so after a... Posted by xtop at 12:43 AM \| Comments (2)

October 15, 2003


	booker prize fights Predictably enough, there were a couple of sticky moments. The extended discussion that saw Martin Amis's Yellow Dog squeezed on to the longlist by the width of its collar ended with one judge, avid to clinch the argument, reading aloud... Posted by xtop at 01:29 PM

October 12, 2003


	the world isn't fair Oh god, here I go. My friend Timmy rolls his eyes when I start talking about Randy Newman, which I've been doing with a lot more frequency these days than I ever in my most self-doubting moments assumed I... Posted by xtop at 11:57 PM \| Comments (3)


	progress First 12 sets of photographs are up here. This now renders the navigation bar up top legitimately useful rather than abandoned decoration. Expect all buttons to work by the end of the week.... Posted by xtop at 11:09 PM \| Comments (2)

October 09, 2003


	Jonathan Lethem & Me this is a long one, bear with me So I interviewed Jonathan Lethem a few weeks ago, an event that filled me with as much exuberance as it did abject flopsweat. Lethem is way up in my pantheon of great... Posted by xtop at 08:43 AM \| Comments (2)


	it's all happening (again) American intelligence recruited numerous top Nazis to spy on the Soviets during the Cold War. Many established connections to the Bush family that had helped finance their original rise to power. In 1988 Project Censored, in its top award, noted... Posted by xtop at 12:01 AM

October 08, 2003


	Free Keo! From NY Newsday. Oddly, no mention of Jonathan. A big break may have turned into a big bust for a Manhattan graffiti artist who created a backdrop for presidential candidate Howard Dean's visit to Bryant Park this summer. Blake Lethem... Posted by xtop at 07:48 AM

October 03, 2003


	lee marvin is afraid Thanks Fraction.... Posted by xtop at 12:58 PM


	the falling man There is, however, one fact that is decisive. Whoever the Falling Man may be, he was wearing a bright-orange shirt under his white top. It is the one inarguable fact that the brute force of the fall reveals. No... Posted by xtop at 01:58 AM \| Comments (0)

October 02, 2003


	ancient order: manson two-fisted manson action featuring our hero charlie as he is psychically manhandled by dr. laser ray and his mendelivium scourge and driven to kill without compassion, helpless against the ancient order. click for big and legible.... Posted by xtop at 11:48 PM \| Comments (1)


	electoral archiving The focus of other collectors is in cyberspace. Employees of the California Digital Library here in Oakland and the Online Campaign Literature Archive at the University of California at Los Angeles are working to capture snapshots of the election as... Posted by xtop at 08:48 PM

October 01, 2003


	the toolmaking behavior of new caledonian crows In the experiments, a captive female crow, confronted with a task that required a curved tool (retrieving a food-containing bucket from a vertical pipe), spontaneously bent a piece of straight wire into a hooked shape -- and then repeated the... Posted by xtop at 10:52 PM

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