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True metal and a classy song.

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:46:59 -0400

True metal and a classy song.

I just like this mix…

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:44:36 -0400

I just like this mix…

I blew a stormtrooper

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:28:03 -0400

a straight stormtrooper

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:26:00 -0400

So glad to see MMJ has found their sound. I could hear it...

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:19:48 -0400

So glad to see MMJ has found their sound. I could hear it coming in the older stuff but this is a complete idea from the band all in this song.

Out Raging Rage? These lyrics are sick.

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:18:04 -0400

Out Raging Rage? These lyrics are sick.

I love these Brooklyn boys… fucking hilarious videos on...

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:14:11 -0400

I love these Brooklyn boys… fucking hilarious videos on YouTube of them all over the world.

This video was these two doing a show for the fans at South By Southwest in the Urban Outfitters parking lot.

Right away I know I love this band by the desperation of Nathan...

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:06:53 -0400

Right away I know I love this band by the desperation of Nathan Williets. Also love the transition to the laid back voice and the back and forth between those two voices in the song. BTW he is saying during the last part…

Crash into the people who’re
Sleepin’ late into the evening
Reach behind they can hardly find their spines

Great name, from Los Feliz (yeay), I like how the guy in the...

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:56:05 -0400

Great name, from Los Feliz (yeay), I like how the guy in the video (the loser) actually leaves the bar as the song describes him leaving.

I read that the lead singer was diagnosed with an autoimmune desease, lost his girlfriend to a breakup and learned his mother had cancer in the same week. He quit writing the novel he was working on and started this band.

Thus I don’t think the meloncholy in the song is cheese. Quite warranted.

The Empire On A Welsh Beach

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:52:08 -0400

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All Cats must Die

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:49:00 -0400

‘Cat Lady’ Conundrum, The

By REBECCA SKLOOT

Published: December 9, 2007

Here’s a little-known and slightly terrifying fact: According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 60 million people in the United States are infected with a parasite that may migrate into their brains and alter their behavior in a way that — among other things — may leave them more likely to be eaten by cats. New research into this common parasite — Toxoplasma gondii — may offer clues to the phenomenon known to the unscientifically-minded as “crazy cat lady” syndrome.

The basic facts: Toxo can infect many species, but it undergoes sexual reproduction only in cat digestive tracts. Once the parasite reproduces, the cat passes it in its feces, where the next unwitting host picks it up by digesting it (intentionally or unintentionally). Then the cycle starts again. In the long run, Toxo must find its way back to a cat’s stomach to survive. So the parasite has evolved a complicated system for taking over its hosts’ brains to increase the likelihood that they’ll be eaten by cats.

How? Scientists are still figuring that out. Research conducted this year by Toxo expert Robert Sapolsky of Stanford, and also by Joanne Webster, professor of parasite epidemiology at Imperial College London, has found that Toxo actually causes rats to become attracted to the smell of cat urine.

Might Toxo explain why some humans develop an unhealthful attraction to cats and apparently become immune to the smell of their urine? And might that explain the mystery of crazy cat ladies? “That idea doesn’t seem completely crazy,” Sapolsky says. “But there’s no data supporting it.”

Not yet. But Jaroslav Flegr, an evolutionary biologist at Charles University in the Czech Republic, is looking into it. He has spent years studying Toxo’s impact on human behavior. (He found, for example, that people infected with Toxo have slower reflexes and are 2.5 times as likely to get into car accidents.) He won’t have results of his study for a while and refuses to speculate. But Joanne Webster says the connection isn’t much of a stretch: “In our evolutionary past, perhaps we were eaten by cats, too,” she says.

To me…

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:21:01 -0400

To me…

...from Defamer...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:02:00 -0400

Brilliant commenter JudgeFudge has me smiling still with his comment on this posting regarding the new Al Pacino/Robert DeNiro crime drama Righteous Kill.

JudgeFudge at 01:50 PM on 08/26/08

I’ve never heard the words “badge” and “gun” used more times than in the preview for this movie.

Literally, Pacino’s voiceover in the trailer goes something like,

“Where I come from, you make a choice between a badge or a gun. You respect the gun? You hate the badge. You love the badge? You fear the gun. Sometimes a gun looks like a badge. And sometimes, well a gun, it looks like a gun. But there’s no mistaking, that a badge is more powerful than the gun. When I wake up in the morning, I find my hand on my badge, when it should be on my gun. I ask mysefl, What came first? The badge or the gun? The difference between a badge and a gun, is that a badge knows that he’s a badge, but a gun- a gun don’t know he’s a gun. If you got a badge, and gun, all you really gots a gun. And a badge. One fish, two fish, badge, gun, badge, gun. Knock, knock? Who’s there? Oh, a badge? I though it would be a gun. Good one.”

China can eat the peanuts out of my Shiiiiiit

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:02:00 -0400

Computing gold medals presented to each athlete on teams in men’s and women’s basketball, men’s volleyball, women’s rowing, beach volleyball and relay teams in track and swimming, among others, the U.S. claimed 125 total golds to 74 for China. In total medals awarded, the United States scored 315 to 186 for China.

Video

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:47:23 -0400

1996-97. Only 3 years out of high school, 1st apartment (2nd...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:39:00 -0400

1996-97. Only 3 years out of high school, 1st apartment (2nd floor on the right).

1990-93. Down Klatt Rd. I lived in Anchorage… for a long...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:35:00 -0400

1990-93. Down Klatt Rd. I lived in Anchorage… for a long time.

1990-93. Service High School. Nighmares to this day.

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:33:00 -0400

1990-93. Service High School. Nighmares to this day.

1988-90. Lincoln High School. The actual annex where my 9th...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:26:00 -0400

1988-90. Lincoln High School. The actual annex where my 9th grade classes were.

1986-88. Lived in Venetian Bridges Apartments. (The one all...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:23:00 -0400

1986-88. Lived in Venetian Bridges Apartments. (The one all the way down the end of the driveway, bottom floor, on the right.)