Tuesday, January 30, 2007

air cannister does not mean NOS

I did not mean to assume that what I heard off the street was the truth!
I do not know if the air cannisters were nitrous oxide.
sorry.

"they've turned Third Street into Fallujah"

Last night the Hells Angels Club House was raided by the NY Police after a woman was found badly beaten and unconscious in front of the club house.
People on the street said that the woman was beaten after ingesting nitrous oxide.
Kevin the Hell's Angel I am friendly with, told me today that they are being set up by NY Law frat boys who beat the woman up in a near bar where she had been drinking, and when the woman fled the frat boys, she knocked on the Hell's Angel's club house for help.
The NY Post reports that someone from the clubhouse let the woman inside, and this is where she was allegedly beaten, then thrown back out onto the street.

The police did recover 20 odd nitrous oxide canisters from the club house during last night's raid.
This incident is making me feel like I am living out a sequel to BLUE VELVET.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Analog dreams

I woke up today from a dream so obvious to everyone but me, but hey, I'm the dreamer. I have been getting rid of old things in my life, and the dream was about being back in the house I grew up inside. In the dream, I've found a vast collection of lp's - record albums. Everything from my entire family's collection: everything from my grandfather's Dean Martin, to Dad's Johnny Cash (ring of fire which is Johnny's sexiest album cover- HOT!), to my sister's Muppet Christmas Album, to my gay dj uncle's Sylvester, to my early Phil Collins, yes, I used to bust out to "in the air tonight."

As the dreamer walks past the wall of albums, fingering tracks, she realizes she could save money if she would digitize all these lps, so she runs to the apartment building's basement and puts an album on the turntable left behind by Frankie Knuckles when he lived here. The needle drops and the album is spinning, she has forgotten how much of a mechanical spark one could find in the analog world! The dreamer opens her ears- yes, you can do that in dreams- stretching to Volare through the static and scratches. This sucks, it's old, no one wants to hear static.

I woke up.

Cut to real life:

This week, I
a) sold my car.
b) disconnected my land line.
C) all of the above

wiki how

i came upon wikihow.com (who knew) and, after reading "How to Build A Snow Cat," which is also excellent, found this:

http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-What-Kind-of-Thinker-You-Are.

How to tell what kind of thinker you are. Isn't that like 20% of all forwards you've ever gotten?

It ends with recommended physical exercises, which may have a political agenda ... it's unclear.

but wikihow is great. you can browse by popularity of search. It's heartwarming to see How to Make a Paper Snowflake up there with How to Get By in Prison.