Monday, March 29, 2004

Cleveland Ain't It Fun

A downloadable "CD" (of course you have to burn it yourself) of Cleveland area bands. There are currently two CDs that are available from the site.

Cleveland Ain't It Fun

Friday, March 26, 2004

Smoking Gun: Richard Simmons Assaults Motorcycle Salesman

Richard Simmons Assaults Motorcycle Salesman

"MARCH 25--Richard Simmons was arrested yesterday and charged with assaulting a Harley Davidson salesman during a confrontation at a Phoenix airport. No, that is not a joke. The 54-year-old fitness guru (5' 7', 155 pounds) laid the smackdown on one Chris Farney, a 23-year-old Mesa man (6' 1' and 255 pounds) who happens to cage wrestle in his spare time. According to the below Phoenix Police Department report, when Farney spotted Simmons (whose real first name is Milton) walking through the Sky Harbor International Airport, he said, 'Look, Richard Simmons. Drop your bags, let's rock to the 50's.' Farney told cops he was referring to an old Simmons workout tape. The diminutive star responded by walking over to the strapping Farney and saying, 'It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.' He then slapped Farney's face. The motorcycle salesman, who was not injured, called cops, who cited an 'emotional' and repentant Simmons for assault."

electrocore.com

electrocore.com

Five Geek Social Fallacies

Five Geek Social Fallacies

My Stupid Dog

My Stupid Dog

"To paraphrase James Carville, it's the zombies, stupid. In the remake, they're first-rate badasses. They act as if they were on a constant adrenaline high. They have extra speed and super strength. They are powerful. They're much like the beefed-up, overcaffeinated, perpetually angry 'infecteds' in Danny Boyle's recent 28 Days Later. And they're all wrong."

Dead Run - How did movie zombies get so fast? By Josh Levin

Dead Run - How did movie zombies get so fast? By Josh Levin

"For years, the fast zombie was by definition an oxymoron. The word itself can be traced to Creole and West African Bantu and the legend that a voodoo priest could hypnotize a corpse to obey his commands. In Hollywood's not-so-culturally-sensitive early zombie flicks, magically induced catatonia was featured more prominently than reanimation. Bela Lugosi's evil sorcerer 'Murder' Legendre hypnotizes Haitian sugar harvesters in White Zombie (1932) so that they grind cane into the wee hours without complaint. Jacques Tourneur's I Walked With a Zombie (1943) centers on a woman who's either the victim of island voodoo brainwashing or just really, really frigid and unresponsive."

News

Wow. That's not extreme or anything...

News

"PORTLAND, Oregon, March 23 (Reuters) - In a new twist in the battle over same-sex marriage roiling the United States, a county in Oregon has banned all marriages -- gay and heterosexual -- until the state decides who can and who cannot wed."

Thursday, March 25, 2004

In The Realm of the Unreal

I saw the documentary about Henry Darger last night...what a trip. If it comes to your area, or if it ever comes to video you really should check it out.

Realm of the Unreal

"Realm of the Unreal: A Page About Henry Darger"

Edit: This site has some better links to his art than the one above, some bigger pictures that allow you to see them better.