Saturday, June 30, 2001
But interviews with drug experts and with teenage Ecstasy addicts in treatment programs here show that the drug, known scientifically as MDMA, both a stimulant and a hallucinogen, can be disruptive and expose them to violence.
''We are dancing with danger here, because the kids and their parents think of Ecstasy as a benign party drug,'' said Michele Leonhart, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Los Angeles office. ''They don't see what we see, that it's a neurotoxin with serious side effects, that people die from overdoses and that some of the dances in the desert are no longer just dances, they're like violent crack houses set to music.''
posted at 1:32 AM
Monday, June 25, 2001
A 1926 journal entry of F. Scott Fitzgerald: "Young people wore out early -- they were hard and languid. The city was bloated, glutted, stupid with cakes and circuses, and a new expression, `O yeah?' summed up all the enthusiasms."
posted at 10:41 PM
Wow.
posted at 8:48 AM
Friday, June 22, 2001
LONDON (Reuters) - A class of 11-year-olds says U.S. President George W.
Bush should go back to school after he sent them a letter describing them as
young Americans. Pupils at Oakhill College in Lancashire were thrilled to get
a
signed letter from the president after they sent him congratulations on his
inauguration, assistant bursar Cathryn Robbins said on Wednesday. But their
awestruck silence was soon replaced by gales of laughter when their teacher
read the letter out loud.
-- Edik73
posted at 5:13 PM
The massive, cat-loving wife of Lord Groan and mother of Fuchsia and Titus, Gertrude has no great affection for her family. "She's not vicious or cruel -- merely weary of her royal role. Nevertheless, it is Gertrude who first identifies the threat Steerpike poses to the traditional order of Gormenghast.
GORMENGHAST
http://www.pbs.org/gormenghast
A gothic masterpiece is brought breathtakingly to life in a lavish four-hour adaptation of Gormenghast, based on Mervyn Peake's incomparable Gormenghast trilogy. An epic fantasy in the tradition of Dune and Lord of the Rings, Gormenghast airs in two parts on Wednesday and Thursday, June 27 and 28, 2001 at 9pm ET on PBS (check
local listings).
posted at 4:18 PM
Walking down Bond Street last evening, I stumbled upon a defeat. Remember the incredible warehouse building fronting the Canal just north of the Union Street Bridge, with the beautiful, lugubrious dino-crane on its roof? It is demolished. The wrecking-cranes were finishing the job as I happened by. Some Herb I shot the shit with on the street told me it's a rumored Trump project. My heart sank, overcome with regret that my intention to photograph the ominous, sky-borne seahorse from multifarious angles had been obviated by the fetid Donald, a true sewage-shitter, a man not deserving of a haunch-rest on the banks of the sacred, martyred Gowanus...
-- Strength Through Failure
posted at 3:58 PM
Tee-hee... Funny thing about Pol Pot was that he studied under the likes of
Althusser in Paris in the 1950s. (Don't know if you ever read Althusser, he was
already on the wane current in my college days and was already barking mad -
literally, institutionalized and imagining himself as a dog...) Appropos nothing,
as ever...
-- Tony K.
posted at 3:58 PM
>So,
>today, I started therapy again. With this great woman. She's,
>like, everything I hoped a Manhattan therapist would be -- like,
>straight out of Annie Hall. She's got this homey plant-filled
>apartment, and she has grey-streaked hair, and a knitted cardigan,
>and a big-chunky beaded necklace!
>
>I love her!
>
posted at 3:57 PM
The Billionaire Club now includes 538 members in 46 countries, with an average net worth of $3.2 billion. Is it more disturbing that, for a comparison, the GDP of Afghanistan is a paltry $21 billion (bested by the list's top 5)? Or that the GDP per capita of the U.S. is $36,144?
posted at 3:47 PM
In a fascinating paper published in the 31 August, 2000 issue of Nature, Seth Lloyd argued that some interesting limits on computers can be found from the knowledge of the speed of light, c (2.9979 * 10 8 m/s), Plank’s reduced constant, (1.0545 * 10-34 J s), Boltzmann’s constant kb( 1.3805 * 10-23 J/K), the gravitational constant G (6.673 * 10-11 m3 kg-1 s-2), and the application of some of the basic concepts of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics. As an example, Lloyd explores what effect these limits would have on what he terms an 'ultimate laptop' - a computer massing 1 kg, and occupying a volume of 1 liter.
posted at 3:45 PM
Why I hate television. I just heard this on CNN:
"In light of Carol O'Connor's death, you tell us what Archie Bunker taught you. Join us at 'Talk Back Live.'"
posted at 2:55 PM
Thursday, June 21, 2001
Pig From `Babe' Condemned Because of Foot-and-Mouth, Paper Says
London, June 21 (Bloomberg) -- The pig that starred in the motion picture ``Babe'' has been ordered to the slaughterhouse by an English court because the swine may have been in contact with animals that have foot-and-mouth disease, the New York Post said.
posted at 1:19 PM
Well, after my last (admittedly dissapointing) perusal of zipern.com, I have
returned. And the current offernings on your site are perhaps...THE BEST
YET. I was delighted to read your many recent postings-- I almost laughed
out loud!
I saw Hills last night and recommended that she, too, give zipern.com a
'spin'.
So, although you could not have been more dismissive and curt with me on the
telephone yesterday, I kindly let you know that I enjoyed your web site.
(how's that for passive/aggressive?)
-- Scooter P
posted at 12:27 PM
Tuesday, June 19, 2001
somebody get me the fuck outta here this place is driving me crackers today
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-- Strength Through Failure
posted at 3:15 PM
Bill Guthy spends the summer at his beach house in Santa Barbara, Calif. As he gazes across the Pacific Ocean toward Japan, he contemplates his current and planned direct-response campaigns. Greg Renker summers at a lakeside house in Harbor Springs, Mich. As he watches the sun fade to the west over Lake Michigan, he contemplates his current and planned direct-response campaigns.
(Guthy and Renker are the men behind "Tony Robbins, Personal Power")
-- From the biographical information linked to from the Personal Power Web site.
posted at 11:34 AM
Addagio for Strings
Samuel Barber wrote this classical piece for string quartet, and it was first performed in 1938. Now a standard short piece for orchestra, "Adagio for Strings" endures in part due to its appearance in two well-known film soundtracks -- Platoon and The Elephant Man
posted at 2:20 AM
Monday, June 18, 2001
I heard Siberia finally emitted its death-knell fart last Friday. Adios, you great, stinking hole on the #2 line!
-- Strength Through Failure
posted at 11:52 PM
My weekend was pretty good. Yesterday was my cooking class. I had 4 pans of veal chops going at once on thew stove. Boo-yah!
What about you? Are you a mod or a rocker?
-- AllnStrtt
posted at 11:51 PM
A pop star's ritzy home recording studio has sent a popular New York editor to the hospital. Jane magazine editor-in-chief Jane Pratt (pictured) fell violently ill after construction workers removed sound insulation from the apartment of her former upstairs neighbor, Paula Cole, a source tells us. Pratt's skin began breaking out in rashes in March, around the same time that a crew started taking out the fiber insulation, the source relates. Soon, Pratt's hair was beginning to fall out, and she fell victim to bouts of vomiting. Finally, says our spy, "she noticed these shiny-looking fiber things coming out of her air vents," and members of the construction crew confirmed that it was the insulation from Cole's studio. Pratt has undergone treatment at Mount Sinai's environmental-toxin clinic, we're told, and is back in good health. Unfortunately, she's had to get rid of all her infected clothing, books, and furniture and has been living out of swanky hotels for the past three months. The source tells us that Pratt's got a lawyer on the case and has been contacted by several of her fellow tenants, who "want to compare notes." A healthy-sounding Pratt says she's found a new place and is "feeling much better every day."
-- AllnStrtt
posted at 11:50 PM
Thursday, June 14, 2001
Homer Simpson's Phrase in Dictionary
OXFORD, England (AP) -- Homer Simpson with an English accent?
Don't laugh -- the beer-guzzling cartoon dad has hit the literary big-time. His favorite phrase has made it into the erudite Oxford English Dictionary.
The OED's online edition defines Homer's trademark ``doh!'' -- usually accompanied by a Simpsonesque slap to the forehead -- as ``expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned or that one has just said or done something foolish. Also implying that another person has said or done something foolish.''
It's one of 1,250 new or revised entries published Thursday on the OED Web site. They'll all be added to the next edition of the print dictionary, but its publication is years away.
posted at 1:05 PM
look at this site.. .ffound while searching for soemthing for paula. sso
ridiculous
http://www.jonathanandnicole.com/weddingparty.html
-- Vermont
posted at 12:07 PM
?
Nice ties, fellows
Sarah, I love you!
Slow page
These people look fucking old
-- Strength Through Failure
posted at 12:03 PM
Ugh...So wierd. Who's the chickie with the breasts and
the tattoo? I want commentary...Who was the popular
girl? Who was the slut? Who was the nerdy dude? Blah,
blah, blah...
posted at 12:01 PM
Tuesday, June 12, 2001
A sunny spring lunch hour in Union Square. Juvenile butterflies alighting on the shoulder blades of the unsuspecting. U= nseasonably warm, unseasonably bright...unseasonably sexy! Time for an oily bevy of Brazilian-waxed bikini vixens to tur= n this urban siesta into a hot tub fiesta! In fact, conditions could be right for a Guiness-World-Record-setting hot-t= ub-pile-on, hosted by Carmen Electra, right here in New York City, the Cancun on the Hudson!
Or so we thought.
Perhaps our friend Darren best described today's BIG RED (tm) sponsored hot tub blowout in Union Square when he said that= he'd "seen Bingo games that were more exciting.."
Anyhow, the 2 of us waited for 20 minutes in front of a platform which was flanked with sagging inflatable palm trees, an= d within which a barrel-shaped above-ground pool was embedded. Production assistants with bulbous headphones scurried ab= out the stage.
Enter Electra herself. So uncerimoniously did she greet the crowd, we were utterly uncertain it was actually the former = Mrs. Rodman. Modestly, almost dowdily clad in a BIG RED (tm)-emblazoned one-piece bathing suit and shorts, she looked li= ke an extra at a "Baywatch-in-Dultuh" shopping-mall-opening of some sort.
While a seemingly endless line of pasty dudes slipped into the pool with no pomp whatsoever, Electra underscored the lame= ness of the event first by counting the hottubbers as they 'joined the party' (she got to 6, and then stopped) and then b= y punctuating the silence with an unenthusiastic "Aw Yeah.." every 15 seconds or so.
As the folks in the audience shifted from side to side in anticipation of something (anything!), Carmen declared that it was time to announce the winners of the raffle for a trip "with her" to Pu= erta Vallerta. After 20 minutes of dim-witted navel-gazing (her navel, not ours) it soon became clear we were simply wait= ing for one thing -- for Carmen herself to get wet. But after hearing her struggle through a few more raffle ticket numb= ers ("0-0-9-4-8-2-6-5... Aw yeah!"), it just didn't seem worth it.
In sum, thanks to the sponsors, at least we got to have cinnamon-fresh breath the rest of the afternoon...
-- allnstrtt
posted at 7:01 PM
Monday, June 11, 2001
On Friday morning they did a ten-minute story about Red Hook. Gag me with a spoon.
Wonder how long it'll take Vidal to write about the McVeigh experience.
On one side of me there is an asshole chanting "Let's go Lakers" every five minutes to the delight of a bunch of other assholes. On the other side of me there is an asshole sing-songily yelling "Master Brand!" to the delight of a bunch of other assholes.
-- Strength Through Failure
posted at 11:18 AM
Saturday, June 09, 2001
Hey Girlfriends!
The plan is to get started with hair & make-up around 11:00 am. My mom will
have champagne beverages and food for us to nibble on. The photographer
will be there by 1:15pm. The limo will pick up the guys in Edison at 2:15 pm,
take them to the church, and then come pick us up.
After the ceremony, we will have a receiving line and then go back inside
for photos. Family photos will be taken at the church. Photos of Sean & I and
the bridal party will be taken at the Olde Mill Inn.
See you soon!
posted at 11:23 AM
Thursday, June 07, 2001
A sex-mad monkey is attacking girls and flirting with female dogs and cats in a Sri Lankan town.
The monkey has been jumping on women in Kundasale and refuses to let go until it is chased off by villagers.
After failing to attract human females, the monkey has started making advances on female dogs and cats.
The Daily News says the monkey has also been stealing chocolate from shops. The paper says the chocolate is adding to its high sex-drive.
-AllnStrtt
posted at 11:59 AM
Turn buried bodies into organic soil - scientist
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SWEDEN: June 4, 2001
STOCKHOLM - A Swedish scientist investigating the most environmentally friendly form of burial has found a way of quickly recycling corpses into soil enricher, the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet reported on Friday.
posted at 11:57 AM
Friday, June 01, 2001
posted at 12:26 PM
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