Notes on a Quest....

John Safran vs God....

Just starting watching his shows on cable.  How have I missed this until now?  He takes no prisoners.  He even makes fun of Michael Moore.  Someone should.....  One may also visit his other website here.....

Nixon's Funeral or Ford's? Well, if you ask me.....

the week goes to James Brown. 

I was watching CSPAN this morning (morning being noon) when the ticker text at the bottom announced "Former Pres. Nixon's funeral will be held Tues."  Hmmm.....

Anyway, to my mind, I have never seen such a spectacular and downright joyous memorial service as what CNN broadcast from Augusta, GA.  I turned to my sort-of new boyfriend (we'll call him BISK...Boy I Sort-Of LiKe) and said, "now THAT's the way I want to go!!!!"  BISK promised to make this so if I'm suddenly run over by a bus in the new few weeks.

I met BISK while dressed as Santa at Santacon, btw.  I remember my friends making fun of how unattractive the outfit looked at the beginning of the evening, but whose laughing now?  Hell, I have a New Year's date.

BISK is a musician, I should warn you all.  Yup.  I've dated a few of those.  So far this is fun, but for some fucked up reason, I hate it when someone is almost overly attracted to me.  Like, BISK looks at me and complements me on my eyes and I suddenly want to run far away.  But then again we've only been dating for a few weeks....  Perhaps I'll learn to actually accept a person nto my life who truly appreciates me.

And back to the James Brown funeral.  Here's some YouTube of what went down in my 'hood on Thurs:

Now compare that to Ford (or Nixon if some prefer) lying in state:

Sort of boring in comparision, huh?  I mean, I'm opting for the white horse driven carriage if I get the choice.  Every time I see the aerial shot of Ford's casket on CNN, I feel like I've just ingested 3 sleeping pills.  It pays to have an interesting memorial.  It really does.

And dammit.  I had to be at work or else I would've been right there in line to get into the Apollo and pay my respects.  I certain fond memories of the Godfather and his music and things I was doing when listening to his music.  And well, he was supposed to play tonight at BB King's in NYC and one of my neighbors works as a waitress there and she was going to try and get my roommate and me in on a guestlist.  Oh well.

Oh by the way....Happy New Year.  What is everyone doing?  I think BISK and I will be going to a party.  Then hanging out in Harlem tomorrow for a good old fashioned soul food breakfast.  We might also end up around 2am at my favorite place, St. Nick's Pub.

And btw, did anyone read my stories of my New Mexico road trip (aside from my friend Adam)?  Should I bother with a follow-up? If it's too long and boring, I don't wish to pursue it then (I'm not fishing for compliments here.  I'm acutually curious as I'm more of a poet than essay writer). It may need a lot more work before I start posting it here perhaps.

Ok, start your champagne bottles everyone.  See you in 2007.

The Pope Must Die

Well, slam the Muslims all you want, but hey, at least we agree on one thing:

The Pope must die, says Muslim

I have to say, being a Catholic school survior, I couldn't agree more.  So score one for the Muslims.   That new pope is trouble I tell you.  Trouble.

In other news, I travelled up to Northampton this weekend and paid tuition.  That's always fun.  But I did not trust the Powers That Be to actually credit my student loan against my account and charge me the difference in time for the cutoff date.  Which is tomorrow.  So, I went up, dispelled the rumors among the other grad students that I had dropped out, and accomplished many responsible tasks. 

Then I returned to New York only to be met again with 12 hour work days.  Including an odious Sunday spent in my cublicle until 11pm.

But at least I'm still a full time grad student with an independent study.  Watch for my new blog on The Poetic History of New York.  Soon to come to a blogosphere near you.

The man who constructed part of my imagination....

died today...

Aaron Spelling, a onetime movie bit player who created a massive number of hit series, from the vintage "Charlie's Angels" and "Dynasty" to "Beverly Hills 90210" and "Melrose Place," died Friday, his publicist said. He was 83.

Spelling died at his home in Los Angeles after suffering a stroke on June 18, according to publicist Kevin Sasaki.

Spelling's other hit series included "Love Boat," "Fantasy Island," "Burke's Law," "The Mod Squad," "Starsky and Hutch," "T.J. Hooker," "Matt Houston," "Hart to Hart" and "Hotel." He kept his hand in 21st-century TV with series including "7th Heaven" and "Summerland."

Disturbing and weird?

Warning, I think the photos might be of a graphic nature.  But still I'm confused.  It involves flying dogs, injured cattle and the what looks like dogs shot because they flew and then attacked.  Oh I don't really know how to explain it.... And here I am a writer.

But can someone out there translate the Russian for me?  Because this stuff is strange enough without translation.  Gawd only knows what it will be like with it.

No seriously.  What does the text say?  In quick summary I mean. 

Well, you are welcome to comment or email me at oedipa@gmail.com.

And the World blows up.....

Nothing like fun little flash movies on nuclear winter to cheer you up!

http://www.starterupsteve.com/swf/endoftheworld.html

Dead Amusement Parks....

Defunct Parks:    http://www.defunctparks.com/

Abandoned Amusement Parks and Swedish Villages:  http://suzypoling.com/hiddenvillage.html

Abandoned Japanese Amusement Parks:  http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/t_rando/t_rando1.html

What the hell

happened to the Onion?  I don't like this design. Given the topic, perhaps that's the point.  Still..it's now very slow and has sound to greet you... 

Though, as usual, the headlines are dead on.

Because everyone has a secret of some sort....

And apparently many of those with secrets have written them down and mailed them off to someone who maintains this site:

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/