get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape

[regular tom]

speaking of Tantric, shelley and i saw a band going by that name last night on the tonight show and we were dumbfounded.  "is this a joke?" shelley asked in her best unintentional butthead impersonation.

no, i said.  no it isn't.

[flecton big sky]

you should've explained it to her over the course of 3 hours.

[regular tom]

the kundalini express wasn't on the rails last night.

[regular tom]

so instead, i put the teevee on mute and lectured her for an hour on the thought of T.W. Adorno regarding popular music:

People want to have fun. A fully concentrated and conscious experience of art is possible only to those whose lives do not put such a strain on them that in their spare time they want relief from both boredom and effort simultaneously. The whole sphere of cheap commercial entertainment reflects this dual desire. It induces relaxation because it is patterned and pre-digested. Its being patterned and pre-digested serves within the psychological household of the masses to spare them the effort of that participation (even in listening or observation) without which there can be no receptivity to art. On the other hand, the stimuli they provide permit an escape from the boredom of mechanized labor.

[captqitn]

Speaking of rails, apparently Jimmy Winchell is going to sober up long enough to actually play a show on Sunday..



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[Tripp]

Did anyone catch a band on Conan the other night ....it was a bunch of bros and they were doing a real nice 'neo-soul' thing. they had a white girl playing keyboards? I think it was just the lead singer's name.

Anyhoo, I'd buy it if I knew who it was.

[Tripp]

I'm sorry. Did I just 'honkify' the proceedings?

[regular tom]

aw naw.


i was just momentarily off escaping the boredom of mechanized labor.

so, you were saying a group of black men abducted a white girl for the purpose of ivory tickling?  and they showed this on television?  

i'ma call the FCC.

[brainfiber]

man i'm just amazed you can stay up for Conan.

[Tripp]

I don't usually go to bed til 2am. Then I get very little sleep and drag my unshaven, unshowered butt into work.
Which is nice because, since I smell bad, no-one hangs out in my office very long.

[flecton big sky]

i like the art on that poster - kind of reminds of a Dr. Suess book

[brainfiber]

I worked in an office with the world's smelliest man once. Over a year this kid had "the funk" as the 4 of the others in the room refered to it. It was downright foul. Just thinking about it now closes my olfactory nerves.

Sometimes my wife doesn't understand how i can change the baby's diaper without gagging. I tell you, after a year working with this guy i learned to turn my sense of smell off. Had to. People complained, but they wouldn't do anything about it...for fear of employment rules. I didn't know smelling like death was included in the EOE laws.

I actually think the guy either had some rotting flesh or something worse. But even so, he was dirty.

hey what's for lunch...

[captqitn]

i like the art on that poster - kind of reminds of a Dr. Suess book

yeah. i love his stuff.   He just finished a big ad campaign for Lego.   And now he's doing a campaign for something called "mighty beans".   Apparently they are small street-wise beans with super-powers.  They look like choking hazards to me.

He's got some really fun cartoons at http://www.drewsystems.net

[flecton big sky]

just got out of a staff meeting to learn that we may be implementing a pledge of sorts when you sign onto your computer in the morning ... it would come up on screen and say something to the effect of using the internet for work related purposes only - you'd log on on a monday and it would track your whereabouts.

i'm hoping this doesn't come to pass.

what's everyone listening to? (i'm asking for work purposes    )

i'm spinning the orso/califone 3 song single

[Tripp]

Found it.  His name is Van Hunt.

this computer is acting like it's trying to swallow a pot roast. I'm gonna restart it.