Saturday, January 14, 2006



AND NOW THIS GUY IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA
Launching his campaign on Friday the 13th, Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey, – who claims he is a vampire and avowed Satanist – is running for Governor of Minnesota. Absurd? The good people of the state did elect pro-wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and, of course, we do have a alleged chimp in the White House. But as one who has more than dabbled in the vampire business, I confess I find Sharkey a tad gauche, but what can you do? For more on the undead platform...
http://www.jonathonforgovernor.us/Home_page.html

The secret word is Dawn

SHELLEY WINTERS -- RIP
WELCOME TO THE WEEKEND


More later, but, right now, an inspirational message.

Friday, January 13, 2006



"For emergencies, darling, stash some gin in a perfume bottle. It’s perfect to wash down the Nembutal."
(After blogger being out of action all day...)
THE BOOZE IS BACK
The following report came from MSNBC. I must, however, add my own comment. It may of course be rosy hindsight, but didn’t the world run better when everyone went to the bar at lunchtime, sank a few pints or downed a couple of martinis?

An estimated 15 percent of the U.S. workforce consumes alcohol on the job, has a drink before going to work or otherwise is under the influence of alcohol, according to a study by the University of Buffalo’s Research Institute on Addictions. That equates to some 19.2 million workers impaired during the workday via intoxication, withdrawal or hangover.
"Clear policies should be in place regarding alcohol impairment and impairment at work, wrote Doctor Michael Frone, principal investigator of the study. But despite management’s responsibility for the development and enforcement of such policies, managers report elevated rates of consuming alcohol during the workday, working under the influence of alcohol, and working with a hangover," he said.
The institute said that the study, the first of workplace alcohol use to utilize a representative sample of the U.S. workforce, surveyed 2,805 employed adults across the United States from January 2002 through June 2003. Young, single men figured prominently among those who were affected by alcohol, the results showed. Drinking on the job, being under the influence or working with a hangover was more prevalent among men than women, more common among younger workers than older staff, and among unmarried workers than married workers, the study found. Coming into work with a hangover was the most common finding.
The highest levels of alcohol use and impairment were in management, sales, catering and construction. "Of all psychoactive substances with the potential to impair cognitive and behavioral performance, alcohol is the most widely used and misused substance in the general population and the workforce," Frone said.
"The misuse of alcohol by employed adults is an important social policy issue with the potential to undermine employee productivity and safety," he added. The institute said that 10.8 percent admitted they either drank at work, before work or turned up with a hangover but that it happened less than once a month, while 2.9 percent said it was a monthly occurrence and 1.65 percent said weekly.

THIS YOU HAVE TO SEE...
LW says...Folks, jam with youself, this is greeeeeeeeat!
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/7661/R/CFD_101/

AND DON’T WE ALL FEEL LIKE THIS AT TIMES...
http://pics.livejournal.com/slurpee/pic/0009015x/

The secret word is Hammered

AND IN LA CITYBEAT...
I have a riff on TV award shows.
http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=3140&IssueNum=136

Tuesday, January 10, 2006



HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. HOFMANN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. HOFMANN
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR. HOFMANN
DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR BICYCLE?
Dr Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD25, will be a 100 years old today, a milestone to be marked by a symposium in Basel, Switzerland on the chemical compound that he discovered and that famously unlocked the Blakean doors of perception, altering consciousness around the world and giving rise to a lot of guitar feedback and squirrelly dayglo art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann

AND FOR FUN IN A SOMEWHAT SIMILAR VEIN...
http://www.permadi.com/java/biomorph/index.html

OR WOULD YOU RATHER GO BOWLING?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/20057/R/CFD_101/

OR HEAR MORE ABOUT EVO MORALES?
"Meanwhile in Caracas, President Hugo Chavez, a Morales supporter, said Tuesday that he was certain that officials at the US embassy in La Paz had 'already started the conspiracy against Evo Morales. 'I'm sure that the American military in Bolivia is talking, searching for coup plotters' against Morales, he said."
http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/afx/2006/01/10/afx2442112.html

The secret word is Trippin’



"Sebastian, is this really the only way you can hook up with boys? Can’t you go to a gay bar like everyone else?"
MENTAL HEALTH HOTLINE
Hello. Welcome to the psychiatrist hotline
If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.
If you are co-dependant, please ask someone to press 2.
If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6.
If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.
If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.
If you are manic-depressive, it doesn’t matter which number you press. No one will answer.
If you are anxious, just start pressing numbers at random.
If you are phobic, don’t press anything.
If you are anal retentive, please hold.
(From lazzafairy)

WITHOUT COMMENT
"Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism
(MAS) party celebrates during a news conference inside the coca growers'
headquarters after exit polls gave him a victory with close to 50 percent of the
votes
."

What else need be said?

THOSE DARN BUREAUCRATS
"Space tourists must be screened to ensure they are not terrorists, according to proposed regulations from the US Federal Aviation Administration."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4589072.stm

AND TALKING OF SPACE...
More sci-fi pulp covers than you ever dreamed of.
http://www.coverpop.com/visco.php

The secret word is Saucer

Monday, January 09, 2006



ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR
WE DON’T WANT YOUR FUCKING WAR
The Pentagon are wondering why Army recruiting numbers are soooo down, and they decided it was all the fault of war opponent Rep. Jon Murtha, not considering for a moment that it might be the prospect of being shot, blown up, maimed, mutilated or killed – not the mention they way that the brass have been screwing around with extended tours of duty. Some girl sent over this report...

"Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during a news
conference Thursday that Murtha's remarks about Iraq are damaging to troop
morale and to the Army's efforts to bring up recruitment numbers. Pace, the
nation's top general, was asked specifically about an ABC News interview this
week in which Murtha, 73, said if he were eligible to join the military today he
would not join, nor would he expect others to join.
"That's damaging to
recruiting," Pace said. "It's damaging to morale of the troops who are deployed,
and it's damaging to the morale of their families who believe in what they are
doing to serve this country
."

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,84687,00.html

The secret word is Disaffected

Now I’m messing around with color and images, I naturally wonder what the merry visitors to Doc40's Online Funhouse think about all this. Plus I’d welcome all bizarre, subversive, or devious images. (byron4d@msn.com)


WHO REMEMBERS MY LAI?
WHO REMEMBERS VIETNAM?
MrMR sent over this piece by Richard Goldstein from the NYT.
"Hugh Thompson, an Army helicopter pilot who rescued Vietnamese civilians during the My Lai massacre, reported the killings to his superior officers in a rage over what he had seen, testified at the inquiries and received a commendation from the Army three decades later, died yesterday in Alexandria, La. He was 62.
The cause was cancer, Jay DeWorth, a spokesman for the Veterans Affairs Medical Center where Mr. Thompson died, told The Associated Press.
On March 16, 1968, Chief Warrant Officer Thompson and his two crewmen were flying on a reconnaissance mission over the South Vietnamese village of My Lai when they spotted the bodies of men, women and children strewn over the landscape.
Mr. Thompson landed twice in an effort to determine what was happening, finally coming to the realization that a massacre was taking place. The second time, he touched down near a bunker in which a group of about 10 civilians were being menaced by American troops. Using hand signals, Mr. Thompson persuaded the Vietnamese to come out while ordering his gunner and his crew chief to shoot any American soldiers who opened fire on the civilians. None did.
Mr. Thompson radioed for a helicopter gunship to evacuate the group, and then his crew chief, Glenn Andreotta, pulled a boy from a nearby irrigation ditch, and their helicopter flew him to safety.
Mr. Thompson told of what he had seen when he returned to his base.
"They said I was screaming quite loud," he told U.S. News & World Report in 2004. "I threatened never to fly again. I didn't want to be a part of that. It wasn't war."
Mr. Thompson remained in combat, then returned to the United States to train helicopter pilots. When the revelations about My Lai surfaced, he testified before Congress, a military inquiry and the court-martial of Lt. William L. Calley Jr., the platoon leader at My Lai, who was the only soldier to be convicted in the massacre.
When Mr. Thompson returned home, it seemed to him that he was viewed as the guilty party.
"I'd received death threats over the phone," he told the CBS News program "60 Minutes" in 2004. "Dead animals on your porch, mutilated animals on your porch some mornings when you get up. So I was not a good guy."
On March 6, 1998, the Army presented the Soldier's Medal, for heroism not involving conflict with an enemy, to Mr. Thompson; to his gunner, Lawrence Colburn; and, posthumously, to Mr. Andreotta, who was killed in a helicopter crash three weeks after the My Lai massacre.
The citation, bestowed in a ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, said the three crewmen landed "in the line of fire between American ground troops and fleeing Vietnamese civilians to prevent their murder."
On March 16, 1998, Mr. Thompson and Mr. Colburn attended a service at My Lai marking the 30th anniversary of the massacre.
"Something terrible happened here 30 years ago today," Mr. Thompson was quoted as saying by CNN. "I cannot explain why it happened. I just wish our crew that day could have helped more people than we did."
Mr. Thompson worked as a veterans' counselor in Louisiana after leaving military service. A list of his survivors was not immediately available.
Through the years, he continued to speak out, having been invited to West Point and other military installations to tell of the moral and legal obligations of soldiers in wartime.
He was presumably mindful of the ostracism he had faced and the long wait for that medal ceremony in Washington. As he told The Associated Press in 2004: "Don't do the right thing looking for a reward, because it might not come."


The secret word is Again

Sunday, January 08, 2006



A vignette for Elvis



HAPPY ELVISMAS
Elvis Presley would be 71 today except that he’s dead. Left is a drawing of Elvis by the 15 year-old Jimi Hendrix. (Courtesy of Ben.) Yukiko wonders how such a item was ever preserved. I don’t have a clue. Maybe I’ll ask Ben.

The secret word is Cadillac