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It’s well worth the time. (Supplied by Mr MR)
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
It’s a rare
weekend when I can get up on a Sunday morning like I truly deserve a Bloody
Mary and a bacon sandwich because the preceding week was not for once enclosed
in a complete fog of blurred and distorted cosmic anti-matter and I don’t need
to slither illicitly out of bed like a reluctant reptile. Obama was re-elected
and, no matter how he let us down during the first term, at least the Gates of
Conservative Hell didn’t swing open. I know New York and New Jersey are still a
mess but can I be forgiven for being relieved that this time it isn’t happening
to me. I figure we’ll all get our share of doomsday weather in due course. But
can I think about that tomorrow and, for today, go on grinning at how the
Director of the CIA – Bush’s favourite general – has totally screwed himself
and dumped his career by fucking a good looking biographer, and maybe more? And
can I feel all good and smug because three US states have legalized marijuana,
while in Europe the concept that an economy can be saved by the draconian
exploitation of the poor seems to be losing its already spurious philosophical
support and the Bundesbank should be backing off if it knows what’s good for it?
This may all be undue optimism and no doubt paranoid calamity will crash in on
us tomorrow, but will you all allow me a day at the rose-tinted monitor?
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The secret
word is Eternal
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
LEMMY WAS RIGHT
Elizabeth
Warren won her Senate seat in Massachusetts and that makes me extremely happy.
Obama just won a few minutes ago. I’m not cheering like last time, but we’re
saved from Mitt the Monster. Now I’m going to bed.
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The secret
word is Relieved
LEMMY ENDORSES OBAMA
Amazing! This
is the last thing I expected.
“Lemmy has sent an election message to the US, decrying the
Republican presidential nominee as a "fucking monster". In an interview with Rolling Stone, the
Motörhead leader pleaded with Americans: "Please, please don't vote for
Mitt Romney. Fuck him. Repeal abortion law is the first thing he'll do."
Lemmy is not famed for his political involvement, frequently denying any
ideological motive behind his collection of Nazi memorabilia. However, he was
steadfast in his view on the presidential race. He suggested the US had not
been ready for an African-American president in the form of Barack Obama,
"because they're trying to drag him down now. I mean, the poor fucker's
only just gotten rid of all that George Bush shit that he left, or is trying
to. And he's being stonewalled by the fucking Congress all the time. I don't
know how he's gotten anything done. They should be glad. I mean the alternative
is Mitt Romney."
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Then secret
word is Vote
Monday, November 05, 2012
“REMEMBER, REMEMBER…
…the fifth
of November, the gunpowder treason and plot
I see no
reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. “
Ever since
I was a young lad, I always wondered if we were supposed to remember Guy Fawkes
because he failed to blow up King James (of Bible fame) and parliament, or
because he had the audacity to try.
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The secret
word is Bang!
Saturday, November 03, 2012
SUNDAY BREAKFAST
With the
hype for the new Bond movie all over my TV I figured I’d martini my way through
the weekend, then God got in the way. (See below)
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The secret
word is Interrupted
GOD SEZ…
Actually I lifted this from
Tony Norman of the Pittsburg Post-Gazette. (Don’t ask how.)
"I am the god of the 1 percent. You shall have no other gods before me. I help those who help themselves and visit poverty over many generations to those who would redistribute the wealth that I have freely given to those who luxuriate without guilt in my love. I reward the spirit of material excess because I hate poverty and the poor who have rejected my ways.
"I am a vulgar god who never tires of the misery
perpetuated by those who exploit the resources of the planet for tax breaks and
personal gain. The smoke of belching coal plants and runoff from hydraulic
fracturing pleases me. Let those who refuse to rape the earth that I have made
in six days be accursed.
"I am the god of 'In God We Trust.' You shall have no
other gods before me. Give to the poor (if you must) out of your excess and at
your discretion. Don't be compelled by guilt. The poor don't need a safety net
as long as I, the god of the Koch brothers and Ayn Rand, lives in the heart of
every patriotic American. It is money that I love, not mercy for its own sake.
Mercy without conditions offends me.
"I am the god of the morally upright. I abhor
homosexuals, Democrats, mimes and all who believe in global warming. Those who
have AIDS can give all glory to me. It is by my hand that every dread disease
except obesity and cancer is visited upon the earth. Do not be fooled: I loathe
the followers of Lady Gaga. Women who refuse to submit to male authority are an
abomination.
"Those who believe in me know evolution is a lie
straight from hell. The dinosaurs drowned during Noah's day because the ark
couldn't contain them. This is not a mystery if you believe science is evil
with all your heart.
"I am the god of war. I love violence and the mindless
proliferation of guns in every home. Horses and bayonets proclaim my glory over
the whole earth. That is why America is my blood-stained footstool. Guns don't
kill -- I do.
"I am the god of the Invisible Hand. I hate the 47
percent who siphon the productivity of my blessed Job Creators. On Election
Day, I will pour out my wrath on those who receive the mark of the Kenyan
Keynesian. Repent of your idolatrous liberalism, or else."
IN OTHER NEWS I LEAVE IT ALL TO YOUR IMAGINATION
“The Prime Minister thanked Mrs Brooks for letting him ride one of her horses, joking it was "fast, unpredictable and hard to control but fun.".
DOC’S PAPERBACK CLASSICS #105
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Capt. America guitar.)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
A HELL OF A TOWN
The only word
is disturbing. To see long time familiar places on a flat screen TV in a
foreign land that are ruined, wrecked, and under water. These are places where,
once upon a time, I hung with comrades, went about my business, flirted with
New York girls, or stumbled drunk in the dawn. The power is out. Streets are
dark. The elevators no longer function. The subway is a storm drain. The
traffic lights are dead. Automobiles have been thrown about like toys. Ranks of
yellow cabs are partially submerged. The bars and saloons I knew so well are
silent. What has become of The White Horse, The St. Mark’s Bar & Grill, The
Grass Roots, The Park Inn, Dan Lynch’s, Tramps, McAnn’s The Chameleon. Have
they been washed away or were they all ready gutted by yuppies or moved to
Williamsburg. It’s been a while.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the
coin, Hurricane Sandy produces a distinct Godzilla foreboding. A tropical
hurricane, wrapped in an arctic cold front, and driven inland by a rogue
jetstream was the stuff of science fiction or disaster movie, or else a
worst-case horror theory of extreme climate change in action. How long has it
been since Tokyo was simultaneously attacked by super-earthquake, tsunami, and
hard radiation? When the fuck do we get the message?
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The secret
word Inundated
POSTED LATER – Seems I was fooled by the image. It’s mighty symbolic but also Photoshop. I’m leaving it, though, it doesn’t change how I feel.
POSTED LATER – Seems I was fooled by the image. It’s mighty symbolic but also Photoshop. I’m leaving it, though, it doesn’t change how I feel.
Monday, October 29, 2012
STONES ON THE ROCKS
Okay so
we’ve had the Swedes merchandising Motorhead vodka. And now the Japanese are
punting out Rolling Stones scotch. To celebrate the band’s 50th
anniversary Suntory Liquors will release a limited edition Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary
Whisky limited to 150 bottles. The press release doesn’t say how
much the damned stuff costs, but with tickets for the upcoming Stones’ shows in
London priced up to £400 you gotta figure the tab is more than a couple of yen.
I wonder if it’s rock & roll and I don’t think I like it.
“This
whisky is a blend of carefully selected malts distilled and casked in milestone
years throughout the band's 50 year history, including a malt from the year the
band formed that has been long-aged in mizunara
(Japanese oak) casks. Its weighty, complex aroma calls to mind both dried
and ripened fruits, and even cacao and espresso, and its rich heaviness and
slight bitterness expand in the mouth with a velvety smoothness. The aftertaste
is a pleasant and expansive woodiness akin to the fragrance of the finest aloes
wood, and a soft smokiness.”
Yeah,
right.
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The secret
word is Exploit
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
THIS FOOL CLAIMS GOD CONDONES RAPE
This
is Richard Mourdock. I guess he’s a reminder of that they’re out there and they
mean it. Mitt Romeny and the Republican Party are tailoring their appeal to the
bigots, the ignorant, the fearful and the dangerously stupid.
WASHINGTON -- Indiana GOP U.S. Senate candidate Richard
Mourdock declared Tuesday night he opposes aborting pregnancies conceived in
rape because "it is something that God intended to happen." Debating
Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) in their final Senate race showdown, a questioner
asked them and Libertarian candidate Andrew Horning to explain their views on
abortion. All three said they were anti-abortion. But Mourdock went further,
putting himself in territory near Missouri GOP Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin,
the anti-abortion congressman who infamously asserted that women don't get
pregnant from "legitimate rape." "The only exception I have to
have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother," said Mourdock,
the Tea Party-backed state treasurer. "I struggled with it myself for a
long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. I think that even
when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that
God intended to happen." (Click here for more)
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The
secret word is Monster
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
WHALE TALK
You talkin' to me? You
talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you
talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're
talking to? Oh yeah? OK.
“A Beluga whale named Noc learned to warble in a human voice that was so
convincing it fooled a diver into thinking someone was shouting at him to get
out of the water, US researchers have revealed. Handlers at the National Marine
Mammal Foundation in San Diego heard mumbling in 1984 coming from a tank
containing whales and dolphins that sounded like two people
chatting far away. It wasn't until one day, after a diver surfaced from the
tank and asked: "Who told me to get out?" that researchers realised
the garble came from a captive male Beluga whale. For several years they
recorded its spontaneous sounds while it was underwater and when it surfaced.
An acoustic analysis revealed the human-like sounds were several octaves lower
than typical whale calls. The research was published
on Monday in the scientific journal Current Biology. The authors wrote that Noc
was even able to be trained to
"speak" on cue and
they were able to study how he adjusted the pressure and "phonic
lips" in his nasal cavities to make sounds much lower than ordinary whale
squeals and clicks. "The whale was exposed to speech not only from humans
at the surface – it was present at times when divers used surface-to-diver
communication equipment. The whale was recognised as the sources of the
speech-like sounds when a diver surfaced outside this whale's enclosure and
asked: 'Who told me to get out?' Our observations led us to conclude the 'out'
which was repeated several times came from Noc. "We interpreted the
whale's vocalisations as an attempt to mimic humans." After four years of
copying people, Noc reached maturity and apparently either lost the capacity to
make human noise or lost interest in doing so. He went back to sounding like a
whale, emitting high-pitched noises, and died five years ago.
Dolphins and parrots have been taught to mimic the patterns
of human speech, but it is rare for an animal to do it spontaneously. The study
is not the first time a whale have been identified making human sounds.
Scientists who have studied sounds of white whales in the wild sometimes heard
what sounded like shouting children.
Caretakers at the Vancouver Aquarium in Canada once claimed
they heard one of the white whales say its name, Lagosi. His other utterances
were indistinct and described as a garbled human voice, or someone speaking in
Russian or Chinese.”
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The
secret word is Moby
SELF PROMOTION CAN ONLY BE SHAMELESS
No
matter how one pretends to be ivory towered above the fray, the writer with a
book out, even a slim novelette, has get down in the marketplace and shill with
the rest. (Johnny de Luxe will probably have some snide comments.) My good
friends at Dangerous Minds just ran an excerpt which I really appreciate…
“Doc had been set up like a
bowling pin. Sub-space gossip about GS-AS Pentecostal Fire Boys with snitches
in tow, shaman mumblings from the jungle hinter world of insurrection and
planned cannibalism, while much closer to home the ominous silence that follows
and envelopes a pariah left him in no doubt that he was being fingered far and
wide for Huxley Hahn’s Roman butchery at the notorious Cardinal’s fuck pad. Doc
had no idea why he’d been chosen to take the fall – or if the motel interlude
at the Red Barn had been a part of a long term setup – but it had clearly been
decreed somewhere on the higher floors of Golgotha, and, in consequence, he was
royally fucking screwed.” Click here for more
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