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May 31, 2005


	one last note for may Things are quiet for now. I'm unsure how much I'll be posting between now and when my flight leaves for London at the end of the month. This much is confirmed and set, I am going to Europe, where I will sleep in hostels (I'm happy to note I'm still in the hostel age range), gawk like a moron, curse the tumbling dollar and fake my death off the side of a... Posted by xtop at 11:54 PM \| Comments (2)

May 29, 2005


	sunday morning coming down Posted by xtop at 08:00 PM \| Comments (0)

May 25, 2005


	anton newcombe's history of rock "People talk about Eric Clapton. What has he ever done except throw his baby off a fuckin' ledge and write a song about it?"... Posted by xtop at 06:42 PM \| Comments (4)

May 19, 2005


	gone fishin' People who fish are, by and large, single-minded creatures, devoted to their pursuit with a tunnel vision interrupted only by sunstroke and the cooler of beer. With rare exceptions, no fisher we've dragged out of a solitary reverie has considered introspection, sport-as-meditation or bonding with friends proper reason to fish. At Swope Park's Lake of the Woods -- as the hot sun mercifully sets behind the trees and traffic -- sits... Posted by xtop at 11:44 PM \| Comments (1)


	lost buildings Ira Glass and cartoonist Chris Ware decided to co-report a story together. Ira does the sound. Chris does hundreds of drawings. The result is a 22-minute story, with sound and images, now on DVD for the first time. This story has never been on the radio. It was presented in pieces as it was completed on This American Life's May 2003 "Lost in America" tour, and at Royce Hall in... Posted by xtop at 12:48 PM \| Comments (3)


	revenge of the 12:01 screening Saw Star Wars last night at the drive-in at midnight. Which, I have to say, is probably the only place in the United States that was only half-full for a premiere screening of Episode III. Of the capacity of the Boulevard's lot, maybe 1/3 of it had cars. Waiting for more cars to show up was a pointless exercise and eventually the lights went dim, the guy who reads the Glow Pop... Posted by xtop at 08:22 AM \| Comments (7)

May 18, 2005


	"why won't you die?" not dead yet Originally uploaded by xtopalopaquetl. I knew it was a special day when, after reneging on a decision to not fish, I found my feet slipping out from behind me and going ass over teakettle on the muddy footpath that winds around Lake of the Woods. As I stood up, fresh mud all over my ass, images of laying prone on my couch with a book tented over my... Posted by xtop at 01:41 AM \| Comments (1)

May 17, 2005


	vinny's gentle madness People see my collection and inevitably ask, Have you read all of these? They want me to say no more than they want me to say yes, as perhaps that will make them feel less guilty about not having read very much. I certainly feel as though I have read very little, but this is based on the vast amount of material there is to read. Walking into a shop stuffed with... Posted by xtop at 10:58 PM \| Comments (0)

May 13, 2005


	wherever you are, there you go So I'm going to Europe in 6 weeks or so. Should be a pip. Or I'll have my eye sucked out by a hooligan. Either way, I'm going. At this point, I'm just about done booking the flight (premium economy! -- which means footrests and a glass of champagne.) and I'll be flying into Heathrow. But I'm still working on the whole where do I go aspect of it. Anyone have any... Posted by xtop at 11:42 PM \| Comments (9)

May 12, 2005


	bradbury on productivity Why do you think Bradbury has had such a prolific career? His career is the career that other writers hope for. He has never stopped writing and being published. Why has he succeeded where so many others have floundered? Its hilarious because he often says, I wonder what other writers do with their time? People are always asking him, "How did you get so much accomplished in your 83 years?" In reality... Posted by xtop at 11:09 AM \| Comments (0)


	interrobang whimsy!... Posted by xtop at 10:38 AM \| Comments (0)


	notes from the laughing academy I work for a company that has something to do with Ann Coulter, so we tend to get lots of letters and lots of phone calls regarding the foul things she often says. This one came this morning and instead of going in the trash, it came home with me.... Posted by xtop at 12:23 AM \| Comments (5)

May 10, 2005


	i should go to bed now ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Posted by xtop at 01:39 AM \| Comments (2)


	false starts: poet laureate Got this one down pretty quick, thus the lack of starts: Somewhere out there, poets are fuming. While comic books and video games are optioned every day by Hollywood, no one is rushing out to buy the rights to T.S. Eliots The Wasteland or turn Ezra Pounds Cantos into a Brad Pitt vehicle. Every day, poetry is ignored while more and more poets are born. But, according to Jonathan Holden, Kansas first... Posted by xtop at 12:03 AM \| Comments (2)

May 09, 2005


	the shame of fishing the $103 bass Originally uploaded by xtopalopaquetl. We had it all planned out and everything happened just as it should have. I picked up Sanders from his house at 10:30 on Saturday morning and we whipped around back towards KC, heading up to the G&W Bait Shop to buy minnows. The place was crowded and I had my minnow bucket in hand, handing it over to the nice white-haired lady, who... Posted by xtop at 09:07 PM \| Comments (2)


	monday morning in america Of all the ways you could wake up on a Monday morning, being woken up by a phone call from the first Poet Laureate of Kansas isn't such a bad way to start the week.... Posted by xtop at 10:46 AM \| Comments (0)

May 06, 2005


	talk talk Shame Week gets long-winded and creepy: For a year now, on and off, I've listened to conservative talk radio. There I said it. To tell the truth, in the last few months, ever since Terry Schiavo hit the news circuit, I've been listening to the entire line up of 710 AM here in Kansas City. Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Alan Colmes and the one who got me started, the absolute worst of... Posted by xtop at 11:53 PM \| Comments (1)


	330 photos uploaded to Flickr. Including the Shellac show I went to at noon on a Saturday in Chicago.... Posted by xtop at 10:48 AM \| Comments (1)


	radosh v. landesman Daniel Radosh calls a fellow journalist on the credibility issues of his article about white slavery in America. Said journalist shows up on Radosh's site and unloads both barrels of juvenile behavior. The he said/he said goes on in equal parts measured disagreements and schoolyard insults. Radosh responds in kind. The only thing better than people arguing on the internet is two professionals arguing on the internet, especially when it's decided from... Posted by xtop at 02:11 AM \| Comments (1)

May 05, 2005


	one last time with feeling Carry on, my Week of Shame: There was no denying I was in trouble when I brought it up at dinner last weekend, to people who obviously would never care nor understand. But brought it up I did, because I needed to talk to someone about the fact that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was over and I was not happy about it. In fact, uh, I was kinda sad. And yes, I... Posted by xtop at 11:43 PM \| Comments (14)

May 03, 2005


	"hey, buddy" Kicking off the week of shame: In my stint at the Pitch, I've spent a lot of time interviewing people indistinguishable from myself besides some particular bent: a black cowboy, a lady who collects things solely with images of rabbits dressed in clothes, rehabilitated street racers and oh so many local band members. On the other hand, I've interviewed famous people, people I admire, people I would namecheck as being heroes of... Posted by xtop at 11:48 PM \| Comments (8)


	Week of Shame! Since I already had a Buffy entry planned and I had to cop to my shame in the aftermath of the Peter Max interview, I've christened this the week of shame, wherein I will open my awful soul and let all the black things come crawling out. Enjoy! P.S. No more smoking in KC come June. Anywhere. I for one don't look forward to a world where I walk into a bar... Posted by xtop at 10:59 PM \| Comments (0)


	fixed? Apparently this site looked like blowtorched shit to people on Internet Explorer. That should be fixed now. Can someone confirm either part of this story? Anyone?... Posted by xtop at 02:13 PM \| Comments (4)

May 02, 2005


	where i'm calling from So you know how it's like you're busy like a sonuvabitch and you can't even seemingly stop to relax because you're too busy thinking 22 steps ahead to the weekend when you can (ostensibly) get some extra sleep and slamming an energy drink once a day just to stuff 2 or 3 more hours into the sack of life and your hands get all trembly and it's suddenly 3 in the morning... Posted by xtop at 01:50 AM \| Comments (16)

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