Wednesday, February 4, 2004
| Only 212 days until Burning Man |
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(photo: Steven Fritz)
You can tell it's only seven months until Burning Man, San Francisco's annual alt.culture answer to the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade. The local neo-hippies are all abuzz with the excitement, the unimplementable project plans, and most importantly the social back-stabbing and tribal pissing contests that are necessary (so they tell me) to foster real Art and launch the Revolution against people like ... well, like me.
But if you haven't been before, just go and ignore the whining of jaded seven-timers like myself. The first time is always a memorable experience for everyone. When you get there, just tell everyone you're a psytrance DJ. Trust me on this: No one will ask you to prove it by actually playing any of that stuff. They'll just offer you free food and drugs. But don't take them - bring your own for safety. Tickets go on sale March 1.
P.S. Anyone got a spare flame thrower for this guy?
Link to this entry Posted on 2/4/04; 5:59:18 PM
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It's become a regular Friday thing. This Friday at 5:30, 16th Street BART station in San Francisco or any station north of there until Berkeley, at which point it turns around and comes back. I'm trying to recruit a bunch of over-30 yuppies in the name of diversity. http://partycar.tribe.net for details.
Link to this entry Posted on 2/4/04; 5:18:47 PM
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| Slate reads Eszterhas so you don't have to |
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Bryan Curtis, who edits me once in a while, gets paid to read Hollywood Animal. I'm missing all the gravy at Slate.
Link to this entry Posted on 2/4/04; 3:31:12 PM
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Note to other old geezers: The Tubes with Fee Waybill are touring again. I'll be at the SF show on the 8th.
Link to this entry Posted on 2/4/04; 2:57:04 PM
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| My new best friend Ken McLeod |
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From The Early Days of a Better Nation:
I wouldn't be surprised if Margaret Thatcher was quite sincere in condemning ZAPU as a terrorist organization because it shot down a civilian airliner, and in supporting one of the mujahedin factions, despite the fact that it had deliberately blown up a civilian airliner. Sometimes our moral justifications can blunt our moral sense.
Link to this entry Posted on 2/4/04; 2:50:18 PM
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Columbia Journalism Review claims the "record high" deficit isn't a record.
As a percentage of the gross domestic product -- which many economists consider a better measure than simple dollar amounts -- the currently projected deficit, at 4.2 percent according to the Congressional Budget Office or 4.5 percent according to the Bush administration, is equal to or smaller than those recorded in six years during the 1980s and 1990s (6.0 percent in 1983, 4.8 percent in 1984, 5.1 percent in 1985, 5.0 percent in 1986, 4.5 percent in 1991, and 4.7 percent in 1992).
Link to this entry Posted on 2/4/04; 11:27:13 AM
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| Cuban mechanics cruise Florida Straits in tailfins |
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CNN: "A floating vintage car chugging toward the Florida Keys from Cuba was piloted by two of the same men who tried to sail a converted truck to the United States last year." Can we make these guys honorary Americans?
Link to this entry Posted on 2/4/04; 9:58:27 AM
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