Where is my left foot?

Scientists Find Gaping Hole In The Universe

Three snapshots from part of what constitutes my job. The purpose is to make the toy look like it’s doing what it does, but better:

(witness the Tongue of Concentration in action)

Albert Lee, “Country Boy”

Today I gained a bit of insight into my recent illness. Despite whatever life circumstances has placed in your way, The Path is The Path, and if you, for whatever reason, are unable to follow its urgings, there will be consequences. Despite having work, family, personal and financial obligations that were utterly unavoidable, there was somewhere I was supposed to be, and I wasn’t. For that I suffered the consequences. This is my current understanding.

A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of “deterring potential protestors” from President Bush’s public appearances around the country.

(Ipecac is an extract used to induce vomiting.)

Looks like fun, lots of fun.

(See here) A few nights ago, for example, we witnessed the death of one American soldier and the critical wounding of two others when a lethal armor-piercing explosive was detonated between an Iraqi Army checkpoint and a police one. Local Iraqis readily testified to American investigators that Iraqi police and Army officers escorted the triggermen and helped plant the bomb. These civilians highlighted their own predicament: had they informed the Americans of the bomb before the incident, the Iraqi Army, the police or the local Shiite militia would have killed their families.

Eight days in, and still the thing will not leave. It has peaks and valleys, surely, but there is no doubt as to its presence. Now, as of last night, I am not alone, and it seems to have infected Susan. Ickyness reigns.

This was left on one friend’s answering machine about 13 years ago by Mr. Johnson, a representative of a rural septic tank operation.

http://www.barrystock.com/audio/drain_rooter.mp3

I haven’t seen this in twenty years, and it’s still one of the best videos I know of:

Renaldo and The Loaf