Apathy

+------------[Limping by without water or wine - 05/23/2000]-=-- | Ehhhhh? Warning, today is useless-er -- err, more useless | than usual. | | [Are you still listening, Cowboy Dan?]-=-- | Yes, this new Modest Mouse record is going to own everyone | upon release. I didn't know it was Deck from Red Red Meat | at the boards, but he really did a quality job capturing | this massive trio. The album is a full experience, | intended for listening in order in one sitting. The | closer, "What People are Made Of", frightens me. | | What why is who life? | | Gravity's Rainbow [frames] is certainly not affecting my | left work thought patterns. Nup! Impossible. Can't be. Not | home left happening to this here fwweellaza. | home work | That Brian Deck comment reminds me, I have some Red Red | Meat with me today. Yay! | | /--/----------------[Verwehlen]-=-- | Ostrich meat -- it's better than beef! | chewy, dry, | and Had me an ostrich burger down the block last week. It was | stringy odd. Every time I think about it, I picture climbing off | like the mount in Joust and chowing down. Rarrr. | squirrels | | +--------------------------------[Kill your memes, meta-kid]-=-- | Kllyrblg: 22% - I'm off to hang myself now. | | [Just kidding, cripes... I'm fine... *sob*] | heh heh | Oddly, this latest in the batch of useless tests is done | by G Freeman of the oh so Virulent Memes. VM was the log | that forced me to start. Glad to see the return, but | please; no more tests. Well, okay. | | A unique voice gathers no moss, or some such. | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "Wenn man lange genug an einem Ding herumpfuscht, | einmal wird es brechen." | - Murphy's Gesetze | | +-----------------------------[...yes indeedy, thanks petey]-=-- +-----------------------[Resurrected from bits - 05/22/2000]-=-- | Not nearly enough time. Stayed up late late late playing | lost time sheepshead, very much a native Wisconsin card game. Well, | lost money actually it was Schafkopf in the eighteenth century in | lost Deutschland. | | "The game was developed by peasants who were fed up with | their government and expressed their discontent by giving | the King card a lower rank. To this day, Sheepshead has a | very strange order ranking of cards." | | /--/-------[Before I forget...]-=-- | Seriously, anyone want to fill in the blanks for a few | it will be days starting Thursday? Elsewise, I shall have to get my | fun! posting-robot working post-haste. | | | +------------------------------[The truly engaging archives]-=-- | Notes on the Origins of American Animation, 1900-1921 | egad | We have certainly seen resources like this in the past, | but this one is terrific with downloadable video of the | tracks. Words cannot express my gratitude to Judith @ | Calamondin for constantly pointing me in the direction of | new and interesting things. | | Hadn't previously heard of Mary and Gretel with Motoy | scary puppets. Check that rabbit! | seeming | puppetry | +-------------------------[A heart-rending racial statement]-=-- | Leonard Grossman put my search skills to the test here. | He points out this First chapter of Strange Fruit - Billie | Holiday, Café Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights | by David Margolick. Link to NY Times, "free" registration | required. | | Now, what Leonard was seeking was audio. Took me a | tricky try while... | it yourself | The publisher's page lists an odd way to listen: via toll | phone. | | The university here in town has a class covering this era: | Music 309. They've even got a bunch of sound clips! | However, access is restricted since they are "licensed". | What junk. | | You'd think NetRadio would include a sound clip or two on | their Holiday page, but nope. | | Finally, here we are: English 253 at Cal Polytech includes | MP3 HERE an mp3 of Strange Fruit and a few other songs. Sheesh, | that was quite a search! | | For more information on Lady Day, see The Unofficial | Billie Holiday site. | | To track down recordings of the song [including those done | by other folks], see Jazz Vocals Find a Song. | | | +----------------------------/--/----[Completion of obvious]-=-- | Mature viewers only? An entity known only as Kitsune989 | I'm all emphasized that Leisuretown is really exceptional in the | caught up realm of the comic. Yes yes, if you have not seen this | twisted take on twisty toy animals... waste your life | wandering in the archives. | | | +----------------------------/--/--[Mmm... mighty good soup]-=-- | But anyway, back to last week for subtext, funny headgear, | comics, crazy sounds, weird meat, obsessions with Sigur | Rós, wordplay, more comics, undsoweiter. Boo! | | | +----------------------------/--/---------------------[MOTD]-=-- | "LOOK-IN' FAWR A NEEDLE IN A HAAAAAY-STACK! | Sssss--searchinfrasomethin' fulla moon-beams, | (Something) got ta have yoooou!" | - Thomas Pynchon | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top +----------------------------/--/-------------[Older things]-=-- | This is the hand/drawn listing. Full pita listing. | | comp conc: Computers and consciousness | / mp3 normalizing: Mess with mp3s | ///// silly queries: How not to find this page | /// useless sky: Staring at old links | / legos and robots: Designing electrical nonsense | / grid puzzles: Waste time with boxes + their brethren | / chip music: Listen to the sound of the FUUUUUTURE | / lewis carroll: Charles dodgson wrote some happy tales | / opinionation: How do you do, capitalism? how do you? | //////// defunct rock: Eventually all things die | // ascii games: To quote salon, @ - you are here | / voicemail: Automated telephone systems | / bach and tone: The endlessly rising canon of links | / eigenspace: Eigen wha? | /// | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- +----------------------------/--/--------[Possible tangents]-=-- | Feel free to suggest or help out. | | vinyl stuffing: the long playing past | WFMU hunt: scavenge a radio site | sound and fury: chanting and composing in mobs | buddies: personal perception and the net | team battles: the packet wars | demoart: art disks, ansi conversion, zoomscopes | stupid cartoons: sg, c+c, r+s, brak | collage: photographic and non-digital | | /--/------------[Side projects]-=-- | pita wrapper: perl posting app for pitas | bad art: clean up old gallery | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- The link section has been disabled until I can come up with something more interesting. Please feel free to try the portal if desperate for escape. Also, the mp3 portion of my babbling is gone. If you hunger for music, please visit mt and let me know. +----------------------------/--/---[Explanation in C minor]-=-- | This is the log of a faceless entity. I wander around the | web, and point out what are most likely completely useless | things for you to visit. If you know me in real life, | then you will probably hate this. Where I have been, what | I learned there, and what I plan to figure out in the | future. Ahh, the healing power of links. | | Technically this is a "web log". You can find many more | of these in the links section, but if none fit your tastes | you can always follow the monkey and get an easily updated | site with Pitas. | | /--/---------------[Disclaimer]-=-- | There are no guarantees. This site is not affiliated with | anything else I do. If you have been linked or mentioned | and would like to be removed, just let me know. Stop | looking at me like that. | | /--/------------------[Contact]-=-- | D Fitch dgfitch@yahoo.com ICQ:363803 AOL:dguyfitch | | +----------------------------/--/----------------------------=-- Back to top