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May 13, 2008links for 2008-05-13May 10, 2008May 9, 2008Water in the Desert Festival at Peninsula Park on July 26thA friend mentioned this to me in passing and I wasn’t able to find information about it until last night someone handed me a little flyer for it, so here it is:
Electronic Body Movement: Red-Zone at Mt Tabor on May 30th at 9pmOn Sat, May 30th, there’s a “special electronic erotic ball” with Pan!zen Soundsystem and Subversive Soundsystem in the main hall of the Mt Tabor Legacy, which will have “penty of bass and wood floors to stomp on!” This is part of something called the “Electronic Body Movement: Red-Zone”, but it’s really this “special electronic erotic ball” part which makes me wonder how much electricity there will be and just how they use it to move bodies. Maybe this is an event where wearing something that’s a natural insulator, like PVC, isn’t just a fashion statement, but a safety device? It’s sliding scale from $5 - $15 which is pretty reasonable, since, after all, you’ll probably have spent a whole lot of money on that PVC, won’t you? There’s also live experimental electronic entertainment every 2nd and 4th Thursdays for free in the Mt Tabor Legacy Lounge called the Subversive Zone, with 4 acts each night and a collective jam at the end. (I actually went to this last night, but couldn’t stay for the whole thing. But, it was loud, noisy and fun!) Zombie Prom at Mt Tabor on May 10th at 8pmToo funny for words, because, you know, zombies groan and moan … The First Ever Annual PDX Zombie Prom is going to be tomorrow night at the Mt Tabor Legacy at 8pm. There’s a couple of bands and some DJs but also prom photos, zombie corsages for sale and a costume contest. It’s $10 advance and $15 at the door. More information can be found online. May 8, 2008Super Powers“Ridiculous, of course, but I really was afraid, mostly of my own ignorance and prejudices. I had never been to something like this before, and I didn’t know how to act. I badly wanted to be invisible.” “In the universe there are many energy fields which we cannot normally perceive. Some energies have a spiritual source which act upon a person’s soul. However, this “soul” does not exist ab initio as orthodox Christianity teaches; it has to be brought into existence by a process of guided self-observation. However, this is rarely achieved owing to man’s unique ability to be distracted from spiritual matters by everyday trivia.” “If Keats’s philosophy is correct, then any intense experience — even letting your life rot away after a failed relationship, or enduring the agony of heroin withdrawal, or dying young of tuberculosis — is precious. … Each goes into making you into a unique being.” “… people everywhere have an amazing capacity to accept almost anything as normal …” links for 2008-05-08
May 7, 2008sneaky slithering elephant snakes“I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that’s eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.” “Pleasure itself is an entirely underrated spiritual act …” “… a group of blind men … touch an elephant to learn what it is like …” Gorillas in the midst “Police arrested Kooki the Clown on five felony charges relating to her allegedly defrauding a 90-year-old woman of more than $500,000.” links for 2008-05-07
May 6, 2008ewige NudelkraftMystical magnetic noodles [via] “It makes me have my doubts that the first Pentecost went as seamlessly as I’ve always been taught.” “There’s nothing like making fun to short out the belief circuits and make the dogma howl.” “Oh my God! Are you saying the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is actually an Illuminati front organisation?” Secret Pastafarian Video Exposed “I’m signing this bill because the Flying Spaghetti Monster told me that it’s the right thing to do.” Personally, I belong to an ultra-secret counter FSM movement and proudly, but secretly, call myself a Pestofarian. After all, the secret is in the sauce. May 4, 2008links for 2008-05-04
May 3, 2008links for 2008-05-03
May 2, 2008Apr 29, 2008Home meat delivery logo with J. R. “Bob” Dobbs?The other day, I saw a van with text on the side saying that it was some kind of home meat delivery service that also had a logo with the head of the Church of the SubGenius [also] icon J. R. “Bob” Dobbs with a black bowtie. What the heck? Was this real? Was this someone from the ChickenHed? antsymy ancestors are antsy Oppose the Mortgage Lender Housing BailoutAnother savings & loan bailout? Another chrysler bailout? Why is our society being asked to subside predatory business practices and rampant speculation … again? Boom & bust economic cycles shouldn’t be encouraged by rewarding those that participate in the willfully risky behaviour that makes them happen. There’s a time for real and important economic assistance to people, and there’s times when it’s merely a way to reinforce inequity and merely a subsidy to industry masked as if it were assistance to individuals.
How about this: instead of bailing out another industry, let’s re-visit the bankruptcy laws and make personal bankruptcy a viable and functional option for people in need of protection, instead of making the process another captured regulation? Apr 25, 2008iron and sulphura magical journal fisher kingI have a wound in my side that will not heal Apr 20, 2008links for 2008-04-20
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