Remember Simon the muppet from Sesame street? Blue, round head, kind of balding and middle-aged. He would talk (like most muppets) but also had the ability to pipe out a bit of music straight out of his mouth if he…

I don’t get this at all. I always wanted to be ‘big in Japan’ but this isn’t exactly what I had in mind. I keep expecting a doppelganger (except with japanese letters on his t-shirt) to walk through the door,…

Audiophonicly I’m rockin’ out to – DJ Shadow – walkie talkie, that Beastie Boys track ‘in a world gone mad’ (it’s so hard to make a song political and fun to listen to, but this one’s doing it) … and…

“It’s funny, I recently attempted explaining trackback to someone and after a half-hour with no luck I tried the ‘fingers as shadow puppets on the wall’ method but to no avail. Now today I find this – those Trotts must…

Cooly detached? me? Nah. Thinking about it through the day and I suppose I consider the internet (and webloggen) to be a lightweight medium for conveying a message — particularly in this case where the issue is huge and I…

Was great to see an snippet of Michael Moore taking advantage of the mic. handed to him at the Oscars and slamming little bush. They’ll never invite him back after that. Moore still gets on my nerves a little but…

Another of these weird flow-on things. A few days back I mentioned old-time horror and then last night the movie The Body Snatcher popped up on ABC. I didn’t know anything about it but the guide said it had Boris…

1. A hippie is in the park. 2. A hippie is in the church. 3. A hippie is in the bank. 4. A captain is in the park. 5. A captain is in the church. 6. A debutante is in…

I tell ya, I get frustrated if i don’t take myself to rallies, and I get frustrated if I do. Ah juss cain’t wayn. “Howdy. Howdy-doody from Geelong, Alabama.” What I’m trying to say is that this town is terribly…

I changed my (g)AIM identity. Was tired of doing the virtual equiv. of crossing to the other side of the street when I saw old aol aquaintances were on. There’s just no common ground there anymore. But also, I’ve always…