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Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:45:46 -0800

well they come and pull me from my house
and they drag my body through the streets
and the sun's so hot i think i'll catch fire, and burn up
in the summer air so moist and sweet

and the people all come out to cheer
rocks in the pathway break my skin
and there's honeysuckle on the faint breeze today
with every breath i'm drawing in
i wanna cry out but i don't scream and i don't shout
and i feel so proud to be alive
and i feel so proud when the reckoning arrives

the crowds grow denser by the second
as we near the center of the town
and they dig a trench right in the main square, right there
and they pick me up and throw me down
and i start laughing like a child
and i mark their faces one by one
the transfiguration's gonna come for me, at last
and i will burn hotter than the sun

and i've waited so long, and now i taste jasmine on my tongue
and i feel so proud to be alive
and i feel so proud when the reckoning arrives
-The Mountain Goats "Heretic Pride"

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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:20:34 -0800

when i'm at the pearly gates
this'll be on my videotape
my videotape

when mephistopheles is just beneath
and he's reaching up to grab me

this is one for the good days
and i have it all here in red, blue, green
in red, blue, green
-Radiohead "Videotape"

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Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:35:47 -0700

From H.G. Wells' novel "The World Set Free":
"Certainly it seems now that nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands... All through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the amount of energy that men were able to command was continually increasing. Applied to warfare that meant that the power to inflict a blow, the power to destroy, was continually increasing. There was no increase whatever in the ability to escape... Destruction was becoming so facile that any little body of malcontents could use it... Before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city."

These words were published in 1914, nearly two decades before the nuclear chain reaction was conceived.

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Sat, 09 Oct 2004 14:03:21 -0700

"He told her about the Afterglow: that brief, brilliant period after the Big Bang, when matter gathered briefly in clumps and burned by fusion light."

--Stephen Baxter, "The Gravity Mine"

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Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:53:04 -0700

I lay with you
this velvet morning
Stay with me
for a while
And where we run to
is up to you
Just stay with me
for a while...
-The Smashing Pumpkins "Blue"

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Sat, 10 Jul 2004 20:38:36 -0700

Ben Gazzara http://imdb.com/name/nm0001262/ is the finest goddamn actor I've ever seen. Not only did he play three of the finest roles in cinema history (Jimmy in "Buffalo '66", Jackie Treehorn in "The Big Lebowski", and Lenny Jordan in "Happiness"), but he played them *back to back*. Huzzahs to you, Ben Gazzara, and may history smile more favourably upon this woefully underappreciated artist.

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Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:55:15 -0700

I recently saw a poster for the new "Alien Vs. Predator" movie. The tagline reads "Whoever wins... We lose". Seems like a good analogy for the presidential elections.

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Thu, 03 Jun 2004 20:45:28 -0700

if i get old, i will not give in
but if i do, remind me of this

remind me that
once i was free
once i was cool
once i was me

and if i sat down and crossed my arms
hold me into this song

knock me out, smash out my brains
if i take a chair, start to talk shit...

if i get old, remind me of this
that night we kissed, and i really meant it

whatever happens
if we're still speaking
pick up the phone
play
me
this
song

-Radiohead "A Reminder"

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Sat, 29 May 2004 17:19:54 -0700

Ok...this is too weird. Twice now Slashdot has reported on pages mere days after I suggested them. See: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/29/2242203 and http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/25/1949225

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Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:06:06 -0700

for a love lost, a faded picture
to tread lightning, to ink the lavender skies

-from The Smashing Pumpkins "Where Boys Fear to Tread"