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"Who says they are WOMANS PANTIES??? They are panties!!! What matters is, are they comfortable and do..."

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:25:43 -0400

“Who says they are WOMANS PANTIES??? They are panties!!! What matters is, are they comfortable and do you like them. I myself have been wearing PANTIES for years and I am 49 y/o. I love them and my girlfriend loves them on me too. It’s all about preference. I also wear men’s Hane’s briefs. The problem with some guy’s is YOU have been told all your life that PANTIES are for woman. I say if you like how the panties feel and they are comfortable then wear them? After all they are just underwear!”

- Men wearing womens Panties - fashion Discussion Forum

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

Sun, 24 May 2009 02:59:37 -0400

American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse

Noise In Print on MySpace: demos up, shows to come.

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:50:07 -0400

Noise In Print on MySpace: demos up, shows to come.

1000lolz: ronworkman: Stats… from Meatloaf.

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:58:26 -0500

1000lolz:

ronworkman:

Stats… from Meatloaf.

Theothanatology

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:43:59 -0500

Theothanatology:

dailymeh:

Short story by Daniel Cubias.

Again, God was ruled out of order, but this time he refused to be quiet.

“Don’t give me that shit!” he bellowed. “We all know this is personal. You are all jealous that I’ve created such a smooth machine while most of yours sputter along in the void. You just want some halfwit God who will kowtow to you.”

Before God could be ushered out for his unruly behavior, the chair appealed for calm. The board murmured among themselves as God stewed in self-righteous anger, which was one of his most frequent moods.

dailymeh: Buttersafe.

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:02:42 -0500

dailymeh:

Buttersafe.

"On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat..."

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:02:27 -0500

“On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.”

- Sam Ewing (via affremblequotes)

Since 1972... from $7 to $75,000

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:48:27 -0500

Now here’s a guy who knows how to stay relevant as a musician in a changing society:

Josh Freese: ‘Since 1972’ price list:

$7
Digital Download of ‘Since 1972’ (including 3 videos)

$15
CD/DVD Double Disc Set
Digital Download

$50
CD/DVD Double Disc Set
T-shirt
“Thank You” phone call from Josh for buying ‘Since 1972’. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really Suburban Robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of Dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$250 (limited edition of 25)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
T-shirt
Signed Drum Head and Drumsticks.
Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into.)

$500 (limited edition of 15)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download
T-shirt
Signed Cymbal and sticks
Meet Josh in Venice, CA and go floating together in a Sensory deprivation tank (filmed and posted on youtube)
Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 Steak and “all you can eat” Shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
T-shirt
Signed Cymbal, Drum head and Drumsticks.
Josh washes your car OR does your laundry….or you can wash his car.
Have dinner with Josh aboard the ‘Queen Mary’ in Long Beach, CA
Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on youtube of course)

$2,500 (limited edition of 5)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
Get a private drum lesson with Josh or for all you non-drummers have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or DEVO (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the “Spearmint Rhino”
Signed DW snare drum.
Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
T-shirt
Josh writes about a song about you and make available on iTunes.
Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the youtubes.
Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
Get drunk together. If you don’t drink we can go to my Dads place and hang out under the ‘Tuba tree’
Stone from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on “Since 1972”

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download
T-shirt
Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour.
Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
Twiggy from Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken n’ Waffle in Long Beach for dinner.
Josh takes you and guest to “Club 33” (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above the Pirates Of The Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterwards (preferably the Tiki Room, Haunted Mansion and The Tower Of Terror)
At the end of the day at Disneyland drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours….take it. Just drop him off on your way home though please.

$20,000 (limited edition of 1)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
T-shirt
A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour.
Maynard James Keenan, Mark from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on youtube)
Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd St where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining “Nirvana.” See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted using a Fake I.D. at when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg’s high- school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he’ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.
Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the “Ghosts And Legends” tour. (separate rooms…no spooning.)
Josh writes 2 songs about you and it’s made available on iTUnes and appears on his next record (you can sing back up on em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever….)
Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again…couples welcome and discreet parking available)
Pick any 3 items out of Josh’s closet.

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)
Signed CD/DVD and digital download
T-shirt
Go on tour with Josh for a few days.
Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story.
Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one.)
Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.
Josh will join your band for a month…play shows, record, party with groupies, etc….
If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a US resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.
Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.

Investigating John Yoo.

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:02:14 -0500

Investigating John Yoo.:

slateinbrief:

…is a good idea. Bush’s Justice Department lawyers are as accountable as soldiers tried at Nuremberg.

dailymeh: Inky put his wallpapers online, which reminds me, I...

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:02:06 -0500

dailymeh:

Inky put his wallpapers online, which reminds me, I was planning on posting my Christmas wallpaper. Like last year, Rob Sheridan has the pleasure of decorating my desktop (wallpaper-size here).

branduponthebrain: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Nicholas...

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:38:23 -0500

branduponthebrain:

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Nicholas Webster, 1964)

dailymeh: A Very Haeckel Christmas: During the Victorian era...

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:32:44 -0500

dailymeh:

A Very Haeckel Christmas:

During the Victorian era Christmas was indeed regarded as a ‘happy’ day, but one of uncanny terror; accordingly, cards and ornamentation featured strange creatures with too many tentacles.

The real “Kunstformen der Natur” on wikipedia.

on sawhorse

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:50:38 -0500

weekendsofsound:

As a blogger and professional music hack — hell, as a human being — my prediliction for self-absorption compels me to tell you who read this himble weblog — hi, mom! — what I’ve been listening to. With that, I present to you Baltimore’s Sawhorse.

I stumbled across the Baltimore sextet the way I stumble across most new bands: randomly, and in an odd place. I happened across Sawhorse on a guitar-gear forum I frequent and gave the band a listen because … well, I liked their equipment. (Which, perhaps not incidentally, is quite reminiscent of Godspeed’s, right down to the aluminum Travis Bean guitar.)

Turns out, Sawhorse treads the same epic build-and-release ground as A Silver Mount Zion and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, hitting the majestic, “Holy. Fucking. Shit.”-inspiring stride of the latter while avoiding the tragic, “Jesus. Fucking. Christ.” missteps of the former. Indeed, it’s nigh impossible to separate Sawhorse from the Canadian post-rock legends. Like GY!BE, the emphasis is on — and, indeed, the strength is found within — dynamic range, and Sawhorse is equally adept at tiptoeing through whisper-quiet passages as it is blasting through thick walls of fuzz. The instrumentation is the same — electric rock instruments paired with amplified chamber strings — and used in virtually the same manner.

So what separates Sawhorse from Godspeed? Perhaps nothing. But in the end, Sawhorse makes absolutely beautiful and, like Godspeed, paints its compositions in fine strokes, filling every nook and cranny of its sonic canvas with melody and nuance. No note, no drum hit, no pedal stomp is off-the-cuff; every move is deliberate and calculated. The end result is nothing short of wonder.

Sawhorse’s debut — Cover It With Asphalt — is due out on Dec. 13 on Blackjaw Records

Jimmy Wales on the Failure of Nupedia

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:47:06 -0500

Jimmy Wales on the Failure of Nupedia:

dailymeh:

I knew there was a precursor to Wikipedia, but until I read this blog post, I didn’t know how bad the state of affairs really was:

Before Wikipedia there was Nupedia, where the articles had to be written by experts and peer-reviewed. After three years, Nupedia had produced a grand total of 24 articles. Then a tiny, experimental adjunct to Nupedia—a wiki-based peanut gallery where anyone could contribute—exploded into the flawed, chaotic, greatest encyclopedia in the history of the world that we all know today.

In this video, Jimmy Wales talks about the failure of Nupedia, and he says:

When I first had the idea for an encyclopedia, there was a prior project called Nupedia, and I’d hired this PhD in philosophy to help me organize it, and he organized a very top-down system, very academic. There was a seven-stage review process and you had to apply and get permission before you could write an article. He was actually having people fax in their credentials — their degrees and things — to prove they were who they said they were. And it failed. It failed because it wasn’t any fun. For anybody.

That’s really interesting. It’s also a bit ironic, since there is in fact a peer-reviewed free encyclopedia out there which is doing excellently. It’s the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I think it’s safe to say its system is designed by PhDs in philosophy: the footer even says “Copyright © 2008 by The Metaphysics Research Lab”. The content is truly excellent for the topics it covers — there really aren’t any sites out there that can match it.

And yet, this didn’t work at all for Nupedia. It was a total failure. Wikipedia is an extraordinary success, despite its flaws. What is it that makes SEP a success, despite using more or less the same model that doomed Nupedia to failure? Is it simply the subject matter?

If you compare Wikipedia to SEP, when both have an article on a topic, SEP’s almost always comes out far ahead of Wikipedia. But Wikipedia has a whole other breadth, both within the subject (philosophy) and outside it (the rest of knowledge). Clearly both models can work, and I’d say that under ideal conditions, the peer-reviewed process produces superior results (which is to be expected), but ideal conditions are hard to produce, as Nupedia shows.

Later in the clip, Wales talks about his decision to keep Wikipedia open, after seeing Nupedia fail:

In the early days I thought, I’m just gonna keep everything as open as possible for as long as possible, but I assumed that that was gonna be about two weeks. I actually had a hard time sleeping at night, because I figured someone was gonna come and wreck the wiki over night. That never happened. And if people did come in over night when there weren’t many people around and they did some vandalism, we just cleaned it up in the morning and that was fine.

Wales says this isn’t surprising if you think about it, because most of us are really decent people, and for most people, the moral ground rules of Wikipedia resonate pretty strongly. The people who are out to purposefully vandalize are really quite few. Maybe that’s so, but I think he’s wrong to attribute Wikipedia’s relatively low rate of vandalism to people’s common decency. After all, we know from experience with other sites that trolls are abundant. Even if internet trolls are a very small minority of internet users, they’re very effective. Their small numbers don’t stop them from spreading their shit far and wide. I think the reason Wikipedia is relatively clean and free of this kind of crap is a bit more complex than simply, “People are basically decent.”

suddenly: romeojulietsierra: WASHINGTON – President-elect...

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:46:55 -0500

suddenly:

romeojulietsierra:

WASHINGTON – President-elect Obama’s advisers are crafting plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and prosecute terrorism suspects in the U.S., a plan that the Bush administration said Monday was easier said than done. Under the plan being crafted inside Obama’s camp, some detainees would be released and others would be charged in U.S. courts, where they would receive constitutional rights and open trials. But, underscoring the difficult decisions Obama must make to fulfill his pledge of shutting down Guantanamo, the plan could require the creation of a new legal system to handle the classified information inherent in some of the most sensitive cases.

Obama plans US terror trials to replace Guantanamo

this is the real sweater league. paulscheer: Look at all these...

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:13:48 -0500

this is the real sweater league.

paulscheer:

Look at all these Cosby Sweaters I got on Black Friday. They are awesome. Normaly these guys sell for hundreds of dollars but I totally lucked out and got them all off this homeless guy for five dollars and an old issue of consumer reports.

I love shopping!

Dropbox - Screencast - Secure backup, sync, and sharing made easy.

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:51:15 -0500

Dropbox - Screencast - Secure backup, sync, and sharing made easy.:

this is dopetastic. get it and let me know cuz.

"When you are well, you must be able to live on a piece of bread while you are working all day, and..."

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:12:53 -0500

“When you are well, you must be able to live on a piece of bread while you are working all day, and have enough strength to smoke and to drink your glass in the evening, that’s necessary under the circumstances. And all the same to feel the stars and the infinite high and clear above you. Then life is almost enchanted after all. Oh! Those who don’t believe in this sun here are real infidels.”

- Van Gogh (via yesyes) (via hangmanblues)

suddenly: i-s: !!! David Ho Giblets!

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:12:49 -0500

suddenly:

i-s:

!!!

David Ho

Giblets!

"Those who do not want to imitate anything produce nothing."

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:12:41 -0500

“Those who do not want to imitate anything produce nothing.”

- Salvador Dali (via syntheticpubes) (via hangmanblues)