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November 30, 2003


	ancient order: diana and oklahoma Posted by xtop at 10:16 PM

November 29, 2003


	6 am americana Authorities said that Patricia Van Lester arrived at Wal-Mart at 3 a.m. for an early sale on a DVD player for her mother. When the store's doors opened at 6 a.m., Van Lester grabbed the DVD player but was quickly overcome by hundreds of shoppers rushing into the store. The woman was knocked to the ground, slammed her head on the ground and suffered at least one seizure, according to Local 6... Posted by xtop at 02:40 AM \| Comments (1)

November 27, 2003


	for john dillinger, in hopes he is still alive Subject: Secrets of the World Revealed on I-29 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 Dear McSweeney's, My car ran out of gas and would not start again, stuck on the shoulder of a 2 lane highway. I put the "Need Gas" sign in the window and got out and began walking. I debated with the wisdom, but eventually stuck out my thumb, but did not turn around so as to appear more roguish... Posted by xtop at 02:19 PM \| Comments (1)

November 21, 2003


	line the line Posted by xtop at 11:08 PM


	jojo in the stars Posted by xtop at 09:31 PM \| Comments (6)


	the brooklyn daily eagle Holy shit. Half of the entire print run of the Brooklyn Eagle has been scanned, put online and is available for downloading as image fragments or in total in pdf format. This is Phase I of the project, with the rest of the Eagle's life, 1903 to 1955 (and ostensibly including the brief resurrection from 1960 to 1963 imagine their JFK Assassination headline!) coming sooner or later. pointed out by iggy.... Posted by xtop at 06:45 PM \| Comments (1)


	blink Simon Boswell's digital video installation, part of the ICA's whatdoyouwanttodowithit? festival, is an audio-visual exhibition of portraits of celebrities, blinking.... Posted by xtop at 01:23 PM

November 20, 2003


	the passing of brooklyn The following poem was read by Will Carleton at the public observance: Now while the bells of the steeple turn golden, Now as the year has waxed sacred and olden, And the new century clearer and clearer Flashes its headlights another mile nearer And moments are night When the fierce gongs and steam trumpets braying Once more the triumphs of time are displaying, When does a feeling of sadness surround us? As... Posted by xtop at 11:00 PM


	the last mayor of brooklyn On New Year's Eve of 1897, Jamaica, and most other towns to be joined into Greater New York, blew whistles and banged drums. Newtown's minister delivered an oration on the town's history, and Rockaway's fire department held a dance. The Long Island City Board of Aldermen worked right up to the end, passing their tax budget just two minutes shy of midnight. In Brooklyn, the mood was more somber. It was raining.... Posted by xtop at 01:37 PM \| Comments (2)

November 19, 2003


	baby roundup Isabella Leigh Stempleman b. July 26, 2003 Stupidly late congrats Jordan and Marlee Carl George Dahlberg b. November 11, 2003 Somewhat late congrats Gus and Val... Posted by xtop at 11:49 PM


	the volume enthusiasts I'm unnaturally proud of this article and the fact that, as fraction pointed out, I was bylined on a cover with a picture of a midget: . . . Schiller soon found herself up against other volume enthusiasts who'd spent months and thousands of dollars to achieve a speaker setup better than those in most local rock clubs. She took first place -- and did so five more times at contests sponsored... Posted by xtop at 11:05 PM


	I've been loving you too long (to stop now) Otis Redding live at the Monterey Pop Festival, doing one of his staple numbers. Besides the fact that redding has one of the most amazingly hard-edged and soulful voices, oft-imitated but never even approached close enough to not be blinded by its brilliance, this track displays Redding's soul-stirring power to work up a crowd, the joy of his knowledge that he has them all wrapped up and squarely in the palm of... Posted by xtop at 06:17 AM


	cats in heat and what they do My cat, Goon, has exploded into some sort of mutant full-on heat, which may be the most unendurably obnoxious behavior I've ever lived with, and that's counting every irritating roommate I've ever had. My new soundtrack is this low keening noise that sounds off every 10 seconds, a whine half inquisitive and half pain and loud enough to be heard in every corner of the apartment. Combine this with her new... Posted by xtop at 06:03 AM \| Comments (95)

November 17, 2003


	quoth ray charles (On his 17 year heroin habit) "No one made me do it. No one hooked me. I hooked myself. And I have no horror stories about it. I don't recommend it to a soul. I know it kills a lotta people. Maybe most people. But it didn't kill me. I stopped when I had to stop. And when I was doing it, it didn't stop me from making my records." "I'm the... Posted by xtop at 08:44 PM \| Comments (0)

November 15, 2003


	false starts: santa parade Wherein I tackle the age-old question: What the hell do you say about a Santa Parade in a mall? Call us ignorant, but we never knew Santa lived in a mall. In the movie Im Gonna Get You Sucka, one ghetto superstar remarks to his younger counterpart, Every superhero needs theme music as a soul group follows him down the street, wah-wah pedaling his every strutting step. Now just re-imagine that scene... Posted by xtop at 01:44 PM

November 11, 2003


	brilliantly crackers Jurors who on Tuesday acquitted eccentric New York millionaire Robert Durst in the killing of his 71-year-old neighbor, Morris Black, said they had to put aside the defendant's admission he dismembered Black's body and then fled because it was not part of the question they were told to decide. Prosecutions said Durst, who admitted walking around Galveston smoking marijuana and dressed as a woman, wanted to become Morris Black as a way... Posted by xtop at 06:35 PM


	relouped The Loupe returns irregularly. Welcome back, Todd.... Posted by xtop at 06:12 PM

November 10, 2003


	false starts: the volume enthusiasts False starts on a long sidebar about the upcoming International Autosound Competition. A convention of people with tricked out rides bumping the funk in each and every one of their trunks to win the big tall trophy and the respect of other future owners of inner-ear implants. Some are born to make beautiful music, others are born to play it. Among we the untalented are those not content to just listen. They... Posted by xtop at 10:30 PM \| Comments (1)


	Wiretap Wiretap is a small, free, simple program that can record all audio feeds coming through your Mac. Lets you tinker with sound quality and compression and is easy enough for the average cretin. I've been looking for something like this for years now, a frustrating effort as Mac is continually subject to the vagaries of the lopsided nature of programs and platforms. While I still search in vain for a decent song-stealing... Posted by xtop at 09:12 PM

November 06, 2003


	BTK Strangler: Bind 'em, Torture 'em, Kill 'em The last confirmed BTK Strangler incident took place on April 28, 1979, when he waited inside a house in the 600 block of South Pinecrest for the 63-year-old owner to come home. When she did not show up, BTK became angry and sent the woman a note along with one of her scarves. "Be glad you weren't here," he wrote, "because I was." research lead me down this particular primrose path. there's... Posted by xtop at 03:28 PM \| Comments (92)

November 05, 2003


	subversive crossstitch Posted by xtop at 11:49 PM \| Comments (1)


	one cold fish Ridgway had been a suspect as early as 1984, when the boyfriend of victim Marie Malvar reported that he last saw her getting into a pickup truck identified as Ridgway's. But Ridgway told police he did not know Malvar. Later that year, Ridgway contacted the King County sheriff's Green River task force ostensibly to offer information and passed a polygraph test.... Posted by xtop at 08:59 PM \| Comments (2)

November 01, 2003


	the time travel fund Q: How does this work? A: Current scientific theory states that Time Travel may be possible, however the technology is a long way off, perhaps hundreds of years in the future. Now, assume it does become possible in say, 500 years. As with any technology, Time Travel will get less expensive as time goes on. Just as the price of a VCR has dropped to less than $70 from the several hundred... Posted by xtop at 12:50 PM \| Comments (2)


	mark ames vs. chuck klosterman Klosterman and his type are one of the reasons why I went into exile (Im writing this from Moscow). I wanted out of a paradigm in which his type dominated the narrative when in fact his type should be rotting in a death camp, begging for a clump of grass to suck on. I understood 10 years ago that fighting against the Klostermans in America is utterly pointless: Klosterman is the metaphor,... Posted by xtop at 02:43 AM \| Comments (6)

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