2009nov26. Friday Freeday. Early But Late Edition. Some of it I squirreled away in June as a hedge against the harsh winter. Now I have unearthed these treasured electronic acorns and we will feast in earnest. Except the ebay auction. Ebay is sitting on untold riches with their humongous archive of Photos/Text About Stuff That’s Being Sold but like most larger companies they wander around the Cash Forest blind, occasionally bumping into a dollar tree. Ebay hears the rustling! Oh, to have eyes. Well, at least the Killing Joke video is still there. Ebay I will be your eyes! Okay ... it’s like the band is playing in front of these billowing swaths of fabric, and there are occasionally fade in-out shots of stern-looking peasant folk holding various farm implements and delicious stalks of wheat ... I think it’s supposed to represent on some level the 1931 overthrow of the Spanish Republic monarchy which was replaced by the creatively-named Second Spanish Republic which was then replaced by a five-gallon tub of spackling paste. Does that help, Ebay? I don’t know why the drummer both looks and is dressed like Dexter of the TV show “Dexter” mid-serial killer elimination, Ebay. I just don’t know.
- Video: The Rings of Earth. Seems like a rip-off for Ecuador.
- 27blash6: An exchange of letters between David Thorne and Simon Edhouse, potential yacht owner. Simon responds here. Simon also has 135 points on “Naymz,” which means something to someone I’m sure.
- Delhi’s Blue Line Buses
- Death Race
- F A B R I C A: Art archives. So much good stuff. I don’t know what the “2005-2007” thing is, it auto-adds that LIKE A DUMBO.
- Straight Dope: WW2 scrap drives
- Killing Joke: Love Like Blood
- Ebay’s Unavailable Auction Series #1: 1885 Automatic bank punch perforator
- Volvo makes a funny.
There are just so many things wrong with this idea. So there are going
to be fleets of “professional drivers” on the road? Who’s paying them?
Who’s paying for the gas their cars consume? Who’s buying the cars?
Who’s choosing the routes? Sleeping in my car ... so that means I’m
going on a long journey. We’re all going to stop at
the same time for bathroom breaks? A car that’s in the middle of the
train can break out of it and the train will re-join itself no
problem smooth as butter? This is an
insane proposal that sounds like something a can-do
clueless marketer from the 1950s cooked up to ensure more car sales.
- Cigarette vending machine facial recognition. “Some neighbourhood machines even leave a card dangling from a piece of string.” Skynet takes two steps back.
- Excerpts from Getting Out: Your Guide To Leaving America