New Story- Marshmallows in; "Trouble With The Law"

I don't know why I took so long to write this one, unless maybe I already wrote it and forgot about it. Enjoy.
I got busted shoplifting when I was a teenager. Read all about it here.

A Fight!

Flame on. Follow the fight at the erection site here:
www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/60345

and at my site here:
www.rockass.net/allmyjobs/2005/08/all-jobs-in-order-even.html
(Scroll to teh comments at the bottom.

MAD for LIFE, Yo!

What Me Worry?
I'm about fourteen in this picture. I'm dressed as Alfred E. Newman for Halloween. I loved MAD Magazine, ever since I was a little kid, and I never had any peers who were into it, which made me like it even more. When I found the official Alfred E. costume kit in the $1 clearance bin of Ross or some such place I was most stoked. It came with ears, tooth black, temporary red hair dye and a freckles pencil. My mom helped me fashion the costume. Those are my real life favorite pants. I wore them with my Echo and The Bunnymen T-shirt. I was very cool.

Note the tiny pumpkin. I love miniatures. I really wanted minature pets. I tried to be satisfied with Sea Monkeys and Hermit crab, but I really wanted miniature lions, and miniature gazelles each living in their own miniature habitats, and once a week or so a gazelle would have to switch tanks, 'cause lions gotta eat. Mini penguins would of course live in the freezer, and that would be the coolest. No mini polar bears though, 'cause I couldn't stand to have anything eating my penguins. Penguins are cute, gazelles, not so much.

I did an informal survey, and most of my guy friends either wanted mini pets at some point in their lives, or started wanting them as soon as described the lion/gazelle scenario. Most women I talked with thought I was nuts and did not want mini pets!? I also noticed most of my aquarium geek friends were male!? Any psychology students out there want to help me understand this?

That's James, my little brother, with me in the pic. He's not dressed for halloween. That's just what he looks like. There was nothing the surgeons could do.

Thanks to my cousin Tracy for sending me this picture.

Jackass; a guilty pleasure

Why should I be ashamed to admit that this idiocy makes me laugh out loud? Sure these guys aren't always the most sensitive of fellas, but god damn they crack me up in the most delightful low-brow sorta way. I can't wait to see Number Two.

G. Love - Lemonade

Brushfire Records

G. Love did amaze us by mixing hip-hop, blues and a bit of folk in a way that actually worked. Unfortunately, his newest solo effort has one wishing he’d stick with the Special Sauce instead of sluttin’ around with famous friends like Jack Johnson and Ben Harper. There are a few great tracks here, like “Can’t Go Back to Jersey,” with that old G. Love charm, and the straight hip-hop “Banger,” with guests Blackalicious and Lateef the Truth Speaker, comes through. But at least half of the album sounds like a musically proficient but creatively stagnant blues band showing off some heartless chops. Even G’s lyrics, normally a guaranteed treat, seem this time around like clichés. Ever seen an aging blues act bring a bad rapper onstage in an attempt to keep up with the times?

As printed in The News and Review.

Updates

Sea Monkeys: Three are alive and well but the whole second generation disappeared? Eaten by the older ones? Hmmm?

Book: Still working on the latest rewrite, and selecting the fifty pages to present to the agent who has agreed to look at it.

Dreams: had some wild ones lately.

No Petrol: Biking to work and school. Driving once a week to edit video for panhandling film.

Film: The Panhandling documentary is coming along. We've actually marked out the plot points and we're piecing the film together. I'm taking a class in video editing so that I can do more projects.

ICBINC: We have a show booked with Brent Weinbach's comedy troupe, Boom Time. Details soon.

Lots More Photoshop Contest Entries

Multiple entries from two guys who've already submitted. They're hooked I tell you. I'm gonna get sued for the cost of their recovery I just know it. That Betty Ford clinic aint cheap. Francois Fly will add his comments to each pic tommorow. He's got a show tonight.

Five from Bret Wilson











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Read the rules here.
See the first days entries here.

Factotum Comes Through

Factotum, based on the writing of Charles Bukowski, is GREAT! I went in with low expectations. "Dillon's too pretty to play Hank Chinaski" I thought. Within the first ten minutes of the film Matt Dillon had my respect and for the rest of the movie I got lost in Bukowski land. The pacing, the awkward silences, the hillarious though subtle humor all makes for a fantastic movie, for Bukowski fans and, I would guess, for those unfamilliar with his work.

Inside Deep Throat

Without knowing it's history and even without putting it in the grander historical context, Deep Throat is one amazing movie. After all, it is a comedy, musical, porno detailing the adventures of a woman whose clitoris is in her throat. I have long been a fan.

The documentary "Inside Deep Throat" is an amazing look at how the film came to be, the impact it had on our society as it drew responses from hollywood, the feminist movement and even the country's highest office occupied at that time by Richard Millhouse Nixon before he had another Deep Throat to worry about.
Interviews from such diverse personalites as Hugh Hefner, Bill Maher, Camille Paglia, Harry Reams, Gerard Damiano (the director of Deep Throat) and Norman Mailer along with tons of old newsreel and press clipping doing a great job of letting us get a feel for what this film meant when it was unleashed in 1972 and what it's come to mean in the years since.

Inside Deep Throat also explores the stranger than fiction stories of the parties involved, before and after Deep Throat sent their lives on a roller coaster course. Linda Lovelace's story in particular will amaze. She went on to become a born again Christian and a feminist poster child, participating in anti-porn hysteria and claiming to have been hypnotized and coerced into making the film with threats of violence or even death. A decade or so later she posed for adult magazine's again, figuring she might as well be making some money off the name that would not stop following her around.

I was glad to see the filmmakers, while taking a look at the tabu's surrounding sex, did not wimp out. What I mean to say is, they didn't try to look Deep Throat without looking at Deep Throat. Yes, this documentary is rated NC17.

I give it a thumbs up (um, in this context that may sound dirty, and that's fine with me.)

Read more about Porno here.

The New York Dolls

The New York Dolls
One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
Roadrunner Records
Buster Poindexter becomes David Johansen once again, changing his name back and donning a tiny T-shirt and tight jeans. He’s even grown his hair out--all so he can try to squeeze a bit more cash out of the New York Dolls’ legacy with a reunion album. Sylvain Sylvain, the only other Doll of old still among the living, joins Johansen here, as does Hanoi Rocks bassist Sammi Yaffa. One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This sounds like the worst of Johansen’s solo efforts--that is to say great, simple rock ’n’ roll backing awkward, self-indulgent vocals that grate on the nerves ever more with each track. If you’re looking for a new take on the Dolls, you’re better off checking out Morrissey’s brilliant cover of “Human Being,” released earlier this year.

As published in the News and Review