a short musical interlude



Bit busy in this stretch of two weeks, but legal hilarity has ensued and I’m mostly sane. In the meantime, as I try and get refitted and retuned, I found this fun little medley of songs. Using what probably is the most used I V vi IV chord progression of all time you should recognize a lot of the lyrics. It’s fun! And it’s… well I’ll be honest with you, it’s Journey. Journey should be synonymous with Kryptonite!

jail, avocado butter and brains



My life continues to emulate really bad television, but I persist. I wonder if I don’t just sabotage myself sometimes and when I eventually end up in jail for something inane, I end up spinning it as research for my crimey writings. Delusion- it’s a good thing!

In the Wolfe book I’m reading right now Archie eats griddlecakes with avocado butter- and despite the fact that I concede Fritz is a genius, it sounds like pancakes with guacamole… But Fritz is awesome and someday if presented with the opportunity I will not balk at griddlecakes with avocado butter. Man I wish I had a Fritz.

Read an absorbing essay on institutionalized education in America entitled “The Seven Lessons of a Schoolteacher” by John Taylor Gatto which is making the blog rounds. It hits a lot of abstract thoughts I’ve had in the past about the process of growing up that kids face today, that I went through, that may not be an improvement on the process that generations past have- rural, urban, whatever. Not everyone used to go to college, and they weren’t complete morons, right? Now people do go to college and are complete morons, so obviously something is off. Not that I have any solutions, and not that the essay lays any specifics out, but some quite interesting food for thought.

Back to the Future Week



Savvy members of the pseudo-scientific community will recall that yesterday, November 5th, marks the annivesary of Doctor Emmett Brown’s first and second successful tests of his implementation of time travel- the flux capacitor. His assistant Martin McFly arrived in 1955 on November 5th and successfully returned November 12th.

In recognition of this accomplishment, this week is dubbed the official* “Back to the Future” Week.

Celebrations have already commenced:

designmonkey78 says “I believe [I] will celebrate this week by calling all of my friends “Doc,” all of my enemies “Butthead” and describing every situation by saying, “Great Scott!” or “Whoa, this is heavy.” “

You too can participate by wearing anachronistic clothing, using temporally displaced lingo and slang, and showing appreciation for the genius of Huey Lewis!

For your clothing needs, you might purchase a lenticular hat which seem to be so hip with the youth of Hill Valley circa 2015. Or you can solicit Nike to get started early on the production of the sweet ‘McFly’ kicks of the future!

You can even throw some snazzy BTTF-ness into your powerpoints and business reports this week by incorporating the Back to the Future font availble from dafont.com!

Maybe you need an excuse to wear the Cowboy hat and boots in your closet, or something to justify drinking TAB again, or a legal defense for climbing a tree to spy on your neighbors (not that I’m volunteering to testify, mind you)… In any event, Back to the Future week celebrates all fun things 4th dimensionally!

Some recommended reading for the week:

• The Original Draft of Back to the Future in which Doc Brown builds the time machine out of an old refrigerator. Rewrites subsequently avoided a mass outbreak of school children suffocating to death when trying to extend their weekends.
• The works of Doc’s favorite author, Jules Verne.
• The works of Kilgore Trout.
• Robert A. Heinland’s By His Bootstraps.
• The adventures of John Titor!!! With extra conspiracy and Kevin Costner ‘The Postman’ flavor!

So pass the word, kick back, try not to kill your own grandfather and relax! If you have any more recommendations be sure to add your comments.

EDIT: Al Cabino, who runs the Nike petition, stopped in to mention the Nike McFly commercial which is up at the Youtubes.

*official in the loosest sense of the word.

X-rays be damned



Didn’t enjoy the 11/1 episode of LOST. If there’s a sure cure to obsession, it’s infusing what I love with suck and there was plenty of suck to go around in ‘The Cost of Living’. So no review/recap this week. And now I’m wondering if putting the Dharma logos on all my t-shirts was a mistake…