just another angry prophet

5:53pm: I came really close to having a drink and then I remembered I have a appointment with an acupuncturist at 6:30 this evening.

I have had stiff neck since February. It doesn't hurt very much unless I try to look over my shoulder. I probably not covering my blindspot when I drive as well as I should while driving, but I haven't had an accident. Sometimes, the tightness radiates into my right shoulder.

I am guessing the Krav Maga and the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu aren't helping much, but I have to active and middle age just might mean living in pain to some degree.

I hope this healer can do me some real good.

11:43pm: 1st Day of the Post Dom Deluise Era

4:07pm: Aaaaahhh
How come no one told me that Nurse with Wound is playing TONIGHT at the Great American Music Hall. I only know because I saw it on the marquee on my way to the office this morning. I am assuming it isn't sold out, but I don't even know if I can make it. Grrrr

6:53pm: Spam Analysis
I don't delete my spam folder on my yahoo email account because it automatically deleted after 30 days. Therefore, I have a running 30 day spam total staring at whenever I open up my email. Typically it runs at 1,600 or so, it went up to 2000 right around Christmas and had been drifting down ever since. Today it is 953, it hasn't been this low in years, I think it is a symptom of the economy.

5:41pm: Ha
So I was got kind of a tour of an oil refinery today as part of my job. We drove around in a car but weren't allow to get out because we weren't all suited up. I told the site contact "It's like Lion Country Safari for engineers." This clever quip may be lost on the some of you younger readers.

10:42pm: RIP Lux Interior
No More Cramps?

Sure I have only seen them once or twice since the Kid Congo era (80-83), but the idea of not ever seeing them again saddens me. Songs from the Psychedelic Jungle was genius, and provide the soundtrack of some of the most deliciously debauched nights of my life.

Lux was unbelievably inspired performer, he left it all out there on the stage.

Sorry about the giant image




actually not sorry.

7:14pm: Why?
Have you ever used the "insert" key for any reason at all?

I never have, but I have accidentally hit it a million times and it has caused me nothing but grief. What is the point?

1:49pm: Quintron Saturday Night?
http://culturemob.com/events/5593812-quintron-miss-pussycat-ca-san-francisco-haight-ashbury-94117-independent-the

whose down for this?

7:28pm: Ha
Sarah is funny.

11:26pm: Ouch
I suffered the mother of all leg cramps in my sleep last night. The way to get rid of a calf cramp is straighten you leg and flex your foot. I was curled up in a ball and it took forever to straighten the leg, I could feel the muscles in my leg tearing. It still hurts nearly 20 hours later.

6:35pm: The World Has Gone Mad
the Chrome Box Set on CD for $22 measly dollars

8:51pm: Ancient History



For a long while, everyone thought that Ray-Ban Wayfarers were timeless.

D. Boon's roll at the end lasted a really long time and it faded out before he stopped. I would have liked to have seen him stand up afterward.

10:27pm: Do I Believe Him?
No

But, somehow, I find myself strangely sympathetic to Hans Reiser.

10:12pm: She's an adult now


I hardly ever embed, so no hate.

12:58pm: RIP P. Agee

1935-2008



Phillip Agee was a hero to me. He had huge balls to follow his conscience the way he did. Inside the Company and Covert Action Information Bulletin were on the mandatory reading list for the young lefty.

1:58pm: Field Data Collection
Employment in Northern California down to Bakersfield immediately.

Southern California work coming up in a couple months.

Let me know if you are interested.

8:59pm: Bass
I want to buy the number one son a bass. I would prefer something decent that will not depreciate as buy it. If anyone knows or someone selling one let me know.

8:59am: Update
I have been looking at offices for lease in San Francisco. It is a huge pain. Although there are a lot available, nothing is perfect. Nice spaces are real expensive and cheap places are funky. The question is what level of funk are you willing to put up with to keep the costs down. I am looking at a real funky space on 6th and Brannan, it needs a tenant funded improvements before we can move in. This means more work and coordination on my part to get it together.

My parents got back into their house yesterday. They live in the fire ravaged town of Rancho Bernardo. A house burnt down four doors down. I told them not to move there.

1:40pm: No Hate - Shed a tear or keep quiet
He was a genius.



Marcel Marceau 1924-2007



A lot of people that I thought would never die aren't making it through their eighties. Maybe one should plan to accomplish everything they want to accomplish by 81 or so as to not come up short.

11:01am: Awake
I am coming unglued this morning from a single cup of coffee. I really need to rethink my caffeine dosage in general.

7:17pm: Surreal Moment
I was driving home yesterday evening and the moon had just come up from behind the hills and was a real bright orange. I kept turning my head every few seconds as the moon was behind me and to the left as I headed south on Highway 121. Each turn of the head showed a moon less orange than the time before. As I turned on to Highway 37, I noticed huge plumes of smoke, brush fire smoke, to the West. So I was rotating my head looking back at the orange moon turning white every few seconds, alternating that with looking at the smoke and trying to determine where it was coming from. As I passed Lakeville Highway, I saw the source of the smoke and then very large flames about an mile or two North of me. I wasn't watching the road too well because, you know, flames are hypnotizing. I turned to face the road, travelling ~65 MPH and there was a gigantic owl about four feet from my windshield. It was close enough that I flinched inside the truck and jerked the wheel to the left. After the adrenaline surge lessened, I reflected on just how eerie the first twenty minutes of my evening commute had been.

5:02pm: PTV at the Indpendent on Friday 8/24
The day after tomorrow.



Who is going to Psychic TV?

Can they sell out the Independent?

7:21pm: A True Story
Me:What is in your mouth?
#3: ice cube
Me:Why are you doing that?
#3:I just drank a disgusting liquid
Me:What was it?
#3:Chicken juice, teriyaki and water
Me:Did #2 dare you drink it?
#3: No, I just made it.

4:45pm: when id is unchained
If there were self loathing competitions, tea-totalers would have to play in the minor leagues.

1:15am: Beat
I pulled an all-nighter on a hard deadline funding proposal fixing the work of highly educated and well paid people who have a hard time following simple instructions. Things like this make wonder how are society can function at all.