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A HREF="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/STRIKE_MAIN.html">ignorance is bliss
(Fri Apr 19, 2002 - 6:57:32 pm)

one more time:
ignorance is bliss
(Fri Apr 19, 2002 - 6:58:39 pm)

Myk Murphy:
my sincerest condolences, mooch. i've seen a lot about the friendly fire accident, but i'm reading different stuff. everyone who knows about it feels awful. unfortunately, we (US citizens) are getting used to "friendly fire" incidents. more often than not, that's how we lose our soldiers. add to that the death a day before of 3 bomb ordnance disposal guys, and you could say that we're a bit numb.
(Fri Apr 19, 2002 - 7:31:53 pm)

Myk Murphy:
in a backhanded way, there's something good that comes out of this: except for the first US deaths in afghanistan, the reporting of all allied deaths has been equally muted to reports of US deaths in the US press. the canadians are seen as partners in this thing, so the US public feels the loss as much as if they were american soldiers. it's just that they assume that we'll lose a lot more allies and our own before we're done. (speaking here from dc, home of the military's central nervous system, i've never seen such a clear focus before. everyone is completely "on mission". everyone has an idea as to what's at stake.)
(Fri Apr 19, 2002 - 7:42:45 pm)

Queenie:
Very sad.
(Fri Apr 19, 2002 - 7:42:57 pm)

Queenie:
I just reported a kiddie porn website based in wash dc to the fbi. Now i have to clear out my cache and history bar and shit. Goddamn, the links people post.
(Fri Apr 19, 2002 - 7:44:54 pm)

m©:
Thanks for that Myk, yeh you're right about being numb it certainly has that effect, I was a bit dismayed that hardly anyone state-side was reporting it on your 'Main media' they seemed to be side tracked and more interested in what colour Robert Blakes underwear is...these guys were sons of families a little too close to home, and the last thing you expect is to be blown up by friends..but thanks for your understanding of this, you're one of the good ones..later
(Fri Apr 19, 2002 - 7:45:59 pm)

Myk Murphy:
i appreciate that, mooch. there's also another piece of this puzzle: when i mentioned that military deaths reported in the news here have been "equally muted," there's a specific reason: the news outlets do not want to be perceived as anti-war when the entire US public knows that this will not end quickly or peacefully. the newsies are unlearning some of their most central instincts, such as to doubt the pentagon and military action at every turn. a full 180-degree turn from vietnam. outrage over friendly fire hasn't been around since the gulf war of '91, when we killed more of our own than the iraqis. finally, neither gov't wants this to be some sort of wedge issue, and so i think most news orgs have been asked nicely not to overamplify it. everyone knows it's awful, but no one wants to grieve too loudly. at times like this, our behavior makes it very clear that we are all at war.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 12:51:15 am)

Queenie:
I'm just tripping out. I was on the porch smoking a cigarette, and the voices of two drunk bums comes echoing over... and I looked and looked but I couldn't see them, but because the echo was glancing off of the building across the street, it sounded as though they were right in front of me. And one of them sounded exactly like Tom Waits. And he was singing. Seriously, dead fucking ringer for Tom Waits. And it freaked me out. Why is Tom Waits haunting me?!?
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 1:23:49 am)

Queenie:
But I just watched a naked and shaved Bjork video, so everything's alright again.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 1:25:01 am)

Heruka:
It's also our goofy news. While watching the local news Thursday evening, they began by mentining that an Am-Track has derailed in Florida possibly killing six, but then they said "more on that later, but first....." and when on to talk about Robert Blake. Our media is terrible here. I don't take it seriously at all. Total fluff.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 2:20:51 am)

Queenie:
The Osbournes is the most watched cable show ever.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 5:48:12 am)

Space Needle takes another victim:
SEATTLE – The lead singer to the Seattle-based grunge rock band Alice in Chains died Friday afternoon.

Kirkland, Wash. native Layne Staley was 34.

A King County medical examiner's investigator said his office collected a body from the address in the 4500 block of 8th Ave. N.E. Friday night and planned an autopsy Saturday. The Medical Examiners office refused to confirm the identity of the deceased.

Alice in Chains was forced to cancel a 1994 tour after Staley admitted his battle with heroin addiction. Unofficial reports suggested that Staley died of a drug overdose.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 5:52:58 am)

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4: Buffalo Bills | Mike Williams | OT | Texas Longhorns

Agent David Dunn represents Joey Harrington and Williams, so he has plenty of work to do. Williams is the best right tackle in the draft and what is important to remember is that he played with a lefthanded quarterback and consequently was the backside blocker much like a left tackle is for a righthanded quarterback. Mike is the best run-blocking tackle in the draft who can get movement on a defensive lineman. He has an outstanding punch which will help him against big left defensive ends in the NFL. There are some issues about his pass blocking against speed rushers from the outside, but they're minimal. This is a solid, safe pick who will start for 10-15 years. Only negative I heard is his ability to take care of his weight. Some think he could become Aaron Gibson and eat himself out of the league. I don't share that view. This is exactly how Tom Donahoe builds a football team. Now, Williams teams up with free-agent signing Trey Teague at left tackle to give the Bills the best tackle tandems in the league. They'll run the ball better and the protection will be better, and the Bills, with 11 picks in this draft, are on their way to a recovery in 2002.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 1:19:50 pm)

Myk Murphy:
i believe i missed that bjork video, queenie. i don't think they're airing it on mtv2.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 2:00:09 pm)

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In the late 1960's there was rumored to be an edition of National Geographic that caused such a stir that it could not be released. There are those that steadfastly claim that it was to present twenty four years of research concerning the mysterious goats of Presto Island. Legend has it that these beasts have the ability to both fly and swim underwater for periods of up to one hour. They are also said to be entirely blue in colour. The research team, led by Dr. Julius Prantzer, was rumored to have spend the better part of a quarter century on the island studying the goats. To this day, no one is quite sure what happened to Dr.Prantzer and his team, but their findings were supposedly discovered, rolled up, in a sealed two liter bottle of Ginger Ale. Having been purchased from cut throat sea pirates, National Geographic had planned to release an issue entirely devoted to Dr. Prantzer and the magic goats in late 1969. For some unknown reason this issue never saw the light of day.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 2:35:16 pm)

Queenie:
I saw it on ifilm Myk. All kinds of nekkid.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 3:18:54 pm)

Detlef Sping:
All I remember is the flashes. Two of them, right on top of one another, no reports. And then I doubled back like I'd been hit in the chest with a hammer. Like I was lying on the floor and someone was trying to hit me so hard that my eyes would shoot straight up and ring some carnival bell. All out of stuffed animals, you're girlfriend's going to have to settle with a piece of my rib cage and a whole lot of black cherry surprise. Everything silent and surreal, the actions of those around me have played out in an almost comical slow motion while I do my best not to frantically giggle at them like some gin induced high school girl. I don't know why I find it so funny, but I do. Lying here, I've been futilely telling myself that I've just been winded and will be alright in a minute. I'll get up and everything will be okay. That, in itself, is humorous enough. Lying in an expanding pool of blood, I find it rather ironic that I got it in the lungs. After battling sarcoidosis and pumping my body full of antibiotics in an effort to keep me well enough to perform my chalk drawings, it's my lungs that have truly been assassinated. And because of that I feel cheated in a way. You see, in the dream I always got it in the head and there wasn't any of this inner monologue bullshit to wade through. So if I've got to wade through it, then you're going to have to put up with my bullshit a little while longer. Tomorrow's another day kids. One in which I'll not be around to remind you that it's nothing more than our irreversible perpetuation of eating shit and being programmed to ask for salt.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 5:52:42 pm)

Decpy:
That's brilliant, Sping.
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 8:01:55 pm)

Decoy:
Anyhoo, its sneak peek time for the new KCQ site!
KCQ
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 8:03:21 pm)

Decoy:
Oops, typeo
KCQ
(Sat Apr 20, 2002 - 8:04:13 pm)

Queenie:
Lovely!
(Sun Apr 21, 2002 - 5:16:44 am)

Queenie:
Some nice pop-ups for the photographs would be nice, imho.
(Sun Apr 21, 2002 - 5:17:13 am)

I thibnk I would. :
I've been watching the Simpsons for 13 years now. What that means I have no idea. If there were a cliff nearby high enough to do away with me by throwing myself over it, I think I would. But all I've got is that dirt pile that the neighbors have left over from escavating for the foundation for their new garage. And all that gave me was some nasty bruises. What the fuck.
(Sun Apr 21, 2002 - 8:38:15 pm)

Heruka:
Fuck me. That was me.
(Sun Apr 21, 2002 - 8:38:50 pm)

Myk Murphy:
the space needle isn't such a nice guy, despite what robyn says. cool bjork video, queenie. like all visual art worth comment, my head will ache for another hour just contemplating an explanation.
(Sun Apr 21, 2002 - 11:18:42 pm)

Queenie:
Speaking of visual art, I took some really lovely pictures yesterday of Qwee, the boy whose website I've been working so hard on. Qwee, as it turns out, really hates having his picture taken. He thinks he's terribly unphotogenic and has only seen about five pictures of himself in his entire live that he's ever liked. "I'll be surprised if I look good in any of these," he told me during the shoot. He is in for one hell of a surprise. And my new technique did amazing things to the colors. Very happy to have created a style all my own! Anyway, I'll post some of them later. I think I succeeded at really making him look like a sweet, sensitive, introspective yet not narcissistic, endearingly tortured boy-poet.
(Sun Apr 21, 2002 - 11:43:57 pm)

Queenie:
entire live = entire life
(Sun Apr 21, 2002 - 11:44:16 pm)

Photographed fecal matter:

(Mon Apr 22, 2002 - 12:18:55 am)

Sorely missed:
Being subjected to the visual arts I have only one complaint, please, next time, please do not notify me of the impending horrors in which I'm about to recieve. The "visual arts" as you refer to them is like having my prostrate examined by an ape. Only not nearly as pleasurable.
(Mon Apr 22, 2002 - 12:32:23 am)

Discount outlet:
It's one thing to sell your soul, it an entirely different matter to sell it to the lowest bidder.
(Mon Apr 22, 2002 - 12:35:18 am)

Disclosure:
To whom it may concern:

The world is no longer responsible for your life. Your behaviour is yours, please claim it. Gather up all your shortcomings, failures, angers, blames, and generally socially inexcusable actions and take them home with you.
Thank You.
(Mon Apr 22, 2002 - 12:48:51 am)

An impartial spectator:
There's something highly, I say highly irregular with that boy.
(Mon Apr 22, 2002 - 12:53:35 am)