This is one of the most elusive songs that I have ever heard. I think that it provokes strong emotions by the very act of not voicing them. Be sure to check out the original version by Guided by Voices. It’s very different from mine and features a mini biopic of Beatle Bob.

Some of the most frightening lyrics are delivered quietly. I am going to try to record a few songs that I think of as scary over the next week or so.

What better way to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace than by purchasing a video game that is so graphically violent that the UK banned it outright?

In a video game review that uses the word Christmas in its title, the pasty-faced writers have the following to say about Manhunt II:

…you will be shocked, you will be amazed, you will want this game.

I have two things to say about this thing. Nobody should ban it. Nobody should buy it.

In the following video, a man who is favor of banning violent video games accuses the industry run rating agency of fraud. He says that the rating of this game was changed from Adults Only to Mature so that kids could buy it. The movie industry is rated by an outside body. I think it is time for a change in the video game industry. I am suspicious about the UK ban, I think that Rockstar may have welcomed this as free publicity for the much larger American market.

I recently spent some time trying to comprise a list of big name celebrities who choose to live in small towns. I am not finished, but I decided to ramble on a bit about it anyway. I didn’t have much luck with regard to effective search engine queries for this topic, so I resorted to asking people. I would go to the Internet to verify what people had told me and more than half the time I would find out that the actors or singers have either moved out of the small town or else they ‘divide their time’ between the small town and New York or LA.

If Perez Hilton had just shut up about Rumer, she might be happily hanging around in Idaho. the shopping in Manhattan apparently pwns the shopping in Taos, New Mexico in the eyes of Julia Roberts. Brad Pitt loved the relaxed attitude in post flood New Orleans, but he has to keep his life moving really fast otherwise his relationship might suffer, I think it’s like a shark.

I think Demi and Ashton actually do spend a lot of time living away from Hollyweird.

There is a piece of garbage that I very much want to bring home with me to incorporate into a piece of art. I cannot bring myself to pick it up because it is lying in a vacant lot beside a busy parking lot. I am afraid that I will be seen by my accountant or the police or that guy that always talks to me.

The object is actually just around the corner from a shop filled with decorative art and furnishings. I am talking about cherubs and gilded naked lady lamps. I think I might just kick the object over and take a digital photograph. I can then use the magic of MS paint to make an unreasonable facsimile of what I had planned to do.

I am going on a holiday in Italy in about a month’s time. I am starting to get excited. I have just been informed that we will be drinking Chianti quite liberally while we are there.

I hope we don’t mess up our palates in such a way that we can no longer make do with our cheap table wine. The fiasco is that bottle that is encased in woven straw. You know, those ones that you dripped melted candle all over when you were in college?

I am not wearing lip gloss for this Self Portrait Sunday. I had just left the breakfast table and I took the picture without realizing that my lips were a bit buttery.

I had taken my picture in front of this door light with the intention of photochopping some scenery. I did an image search using the word ’scenery’ and I was rewarded with a half hour of entertainment in the form of bizarre model railway scenery. Those crazy Europeans

By Martin Higgins BSc. et al.

This diagram illustrates the downward spiral of Britney Spears. It clearly proves that big sunglasses make you crazy.

References: teh internets, the voices in my head

You have probably heard the term ‘good fences make good neighbors’ before, right? I think something as substantial and yet removable as this metal bollard has a lot of potential to make people behave in a neighborly fashion if it is put to it’s proper use. These can be used to prevent strangers from parking in your driveway. Strangely enough, strangers sometimes do this. TrafficGuard.net has a variety of options that serve this basic purpose, but which slightly different functions and pricing. You can get ones that are designed to collapse when someone runs into them without sustaining damage. If you are looking for an extremely inexpensive option, they have your basic yellow post. You would want these for cordoning off a larger area as well.

I was waiting outside the home of my son’s tutor the other day with nothing much to do. It was raining. I had planned to get my hair cut while he was having his lesson, but the shop was unexpectedly closed.

I was bored. I had accidentally broken the speaker wires with our boogie board late this summer. I found a pencil and a scrap of paper, but I had no flat surface to write on. I decided to do a rubbing of the emblem on my steering wheel. Tonight I was wondering if there were any virtual rubbing applications online. That is how I discovered the virtual rubbing section of VietnamWall.org. It’s not as much fun as I thought it would be.