Archive for August, 2003

So it turns out living in cities might be good for you after all.

Thinking about putting my support behind Guns and Dope party’s Robert Anton Wilson for governor. His positions on social issues sound pretty good: –guns for everybody who wants them; no guns for those who don’t want them. –drugs for everybody who wants them; no drugs for those who don’t want them –freedom of choice, free love, free speech, free Internet and free beer. Although his plan to replace one third of the state legislature with ostriches seems troublesome.

Ishmael Reed gives a nice tour of Oakland in the New York Times.

Monkeys for the multitudes.

A bunch of dirt on Ahnold in this 2001 article in Premiere Magazine.

Flying into a hailstorm can really do a number on a jetliner.

Okay, the rest of the summer I’m not going in the water.

Getting gas in Oregon is a hassle. There’s no self-serve and you gotta wait for some snot-nosed kid to quit picking his nose before sauntering over to ask what you need. Um, gas, dude. And the ‘tude you get if you ask for quick a squeegee on the windshield, sheesh. But thankfully here in California gaspumping is much quicker. All you gotta do is hold your watch up to the gas pump and do your own damn squigging.

The British Guardian offers Father’s little helper, a guide to what the progeny of the ‘Stones are up to.

Try out this exhaustive virtual tour of Barcelona.

Despite assurances by the World Health Organisation that their notions about condoms are untrue, The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by AIDS not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them.