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April 30, 2004
NEW ALBUMS
I've done a little updating to the
href=?http://www.lexiphane.com/lex/modules.php?name=gallery?>Gallery
> section of lexiphane.com. Feel free to browse around. First up are
some pictures from my nephew Namazzi's
href="http://lexiphane.com/lex/modules.php?set_albumName=album07&op=mod
load&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php">fifth birthday
party that my sister threw at the East River Park almost directly
under the Williamsburg Bridge. It was a little windy, but otherwise a
beautiful day and everyone seemed to have a good time.
Last Saturday I went up to Pleasant Valley, NY for my friend Jocelyn's
href=?http://www.lexiphane.com/lex/modules.php?set_albumName=Surprise-
Party-for-
Joc&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php?>surprise
birthday party at her parents' house. Jocelyn thought she was
stopping off to pick up her parents on their way to a formal ball with
her husband, but--surprise!--we were lying in wait at the top of the
driveway to wish her a happy birthday.
Back in February I headed up to Readsboro, VT with some friends to take
over a
href=?http://www.lexiphane.com/lex/modules.php?set_albumName=album08&op
=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php?>small-town
inn. Kendra's friend Marsha bought the place a few years ago and
has done an incredible job renovating it. It now features an excellent
restaurant run by an enigmatic German who we believe is on the lam from
something or somebody. And the attached bar was a great venue to
socialize until the sun came up. Special thanks to Kendra for the
invitation,Diane and Norm for driving us up there, Dan and Dan for
providing harrowing stories of mountain climbing (and falling), and
Marsha for incredible generosity in letting us turn her inn into a zoo
for 36 hours.
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KILLER STORM
The Washington Post runs a
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54685-
2004Apr29.html?>chilling story today that's begging for a movie
treatment. Last September, as hurricane Isabel lashed the Atlantic
Coast, a plumber with no previous brushes with the law went on a
murderous rampage in Montgomery County, Maryland, killing four friends
in a drug-fueled spree before cops caught him napping at home in his
blood-spattered shoes. Shotgun blasts, a body in a trunk, blood and
tissue splashed on a wall and a missing corpse, and a mysterious call
to the police whispering "Help me" before being disconnected. It's a
grisly story. And police have no idea why the killer who pleaded
guilty did it.
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RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
A Connecticut women was
href="http://www.wnbc.com/news/3253787/detail.html">aquitted
yesterday of 2nd degree manslaughter charges in a case where
prosecutors maintained her boyfriend was killed in a car crash while
the woman was performing oral sex on him. What's interesting is that
the the victim, Neil Esposito, operated a large family trash and
recycling business and was driving a Mercedes when it crashed. Viewers
of
href="http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/episode/season5/episode57.shtml">The
Sopranos will remember that three weeks ago, Tony, who operates
a family trash and recycling business, was driving his Mercedes when he
crashed it avoiding an animal in the road. Through a mobster version
of the kids game Telephone, word of mouth distorted the story to the
point where all of his associates believed that his passenger, Adriana-
-Tony's nephew's fianc?--was performing oral sex on him at the time,
which precipitated the crash. I didn't realize that The
Sopranos writers were cribbing from the news like
href="http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order/index.html">Law & Order.
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April 29, 2004
CH-CHECK IT OUT
To
the 5 Boroughs is the name of the new album from The Beastie Boys, due out June
15th. That's still another six weeks off, though, and I know some of
you must be ready for a little taste. The video for the first single
off the album is now available for viewing over at Yahoo!'s Launch.com site.
The video style will be familiar to anyone who's seen their
Sabotage and Body Movin' videos, as the boys prowl the
streets of Brooklyn and encounter some strange and familiar characters.
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COOL!
Moving in the opposite direction of the RIAA, some bands are using
technology to enable their fans to easily distribute their music
digitally. One of the latest developments in this trend harkens back to the
days when The Grateful Dead and its fans had a well-established network
to disseminate bootleg copies of live shows. The storied rock club
href=" http://www.maxwellsnj.com/index.html">Maxwell's in Hoboken
is the setting for the latest incarnation of this practice. Shows at
the club will now be digitally recorded in real time and afterwards,
fans will be able to plug key-chain-sized USB hard drives into a kiosk
and download the recording on the spot. The 128 MB USB drive will cost
$20 and will be reusable. It will cost $10 to download the recorded
live show. There will be no restrictions on the transferability of the
music once it's been purchased, meaning that fans will be able to burn
it on CDs, download it to their iPods, or e-mail tracks to friends. I
think this is brilliant. I own a 128 MB key-chain drive and find it
invaluably useful. Being able to download a live show I had just seen
is a great application and one I'd probably take advantage of. Special
shout out to Maxwell's for being the first to adopt this technology.
It's a great little club on the south-east corner of 11th and
Washington in Hoboken. Here are some upcoming shows there and . .
. what do you know . . .The
Bigger Lovers are going to be playing there Thursday May 6th!
They'll be appearing with The Push
Stars, who I happen to have seen a few times many years ago when
they'd play a bar on Main Street in Poughkeepsie during my summer
vacations. I'll be recording this show for sure.
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ANTI-SADR INSURGENTS
This is interes
ting. A shadowy resistance group is distributing fliers around the
holy city of Najaf telling members of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's
Mahdi Army to get lost. To make their point, they've killed at least
five militiamen over the past four days.
The group calls itself the Thulfiqar Army, after a twin-
bladed sword said to be used by the Shiite martyr Imam Ali, to whom
Najaf's vast central mosque is dedicated.
Residents say leaflets bearing that name have been circulated in the
city in the last week, urging Sadr's al-Mahdi army to leave immediately
or face imminent death.
The article points out that there is something of a political struggle
between the more moderate Imam al-Sistani and the upstart Muqtada al-
Sadr. Also, the uprising by al-Sadr's violent faction has greatly
disrupted the lives and livelihoods of ordinary residents of Najaf,
generating resentment against al-Sadr in the general population. I
think this would be a great boon to Iraqis and coalition forces if al-
Sadr's forces were crushed by Iraqi resistance and regular fighters.
[via Instapundit.]
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PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF STUPIDITY
UMASS grad student Rene Gonzalez demonstrates how little higher
education can be worth by writing in the school newspaper that Ranger
Pat Tillman--killed
href="http://www.lexiphane.com/lex/modules.php?name=News&file=article&s
id=457&mode=&order=0&thold=0">in Afghanistan last week--was not a
hero, but a pendejo, or idiot. The whole piece is floor-to-ceiling jackassery of the vilest sort,
but here's a particularly salient piece of mental decrepitude:
Tillman, probably acting out his nationalist-patriotic fantasies forged in years of exposure to Clint Eastwood and Rambo movies, decided to insert himself into a conflict he didn't need to insert himself into. It wasn't like he was defending the East coast from an invasion of a foreign power. THAT would have been heroic and laudable. What he did was make himself useful to a foreign invading army, and he paid for it. It's hard to say I have any sympathy for his death because I don't feel like his "service" was necessary. He wasn't defending me, nor was he defending the Afghani people. He was acting out his macho, patriotic crap and I guess someone with a bigger gun did him in. [Emphasis mine.]Talk about short memories! The author apparently forgets that almost three years ago, our East coast was invaded by a group of foreigners who killed thousands of people. Hmmm, where were they from again? Oh yeah, Afghanistan, where they were hosted by a fanatical religious regime called the Taliban! I suppose in the author's mind, we should have overlooked Pearl Harbor in 1941 and waited until the Japanese were wading ashore the California coast before we took any defensive action. If one wanted to construct the ultimate strawman to mock the stupidity of a certain political element, it could not be done better than by relying on the real-life idiocy of someone like Rene Gonzalez. Tagged:
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April 28, 2004
AIR AMERICA CRASHING
The Washington Post reports today that the upstart
liberal radio network Air America is faltering, with two of its top
executives departing and the station being kicked off the air in the
very conservative markets of Los Angeles and Chicago. I've listened to
Air America a few times and am not surprised. From The O'Franken
Factor to Morning Sedition, Air America is simply derivative
at heart. It's actually kind of sad. The purported flagship station
in a move to take back the airwaves from right-wing demagogues can do
no better than lamely parrot in reverse what their foes are saying.
Even Air America's ads--which are plastered all over New York's subway
system--feature the blocked-out-but-recognizable faces of Rush
Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and other ogres of the right. I
guess that's better than having to look at Al Franken's smug mug while
commuting. But in the end it's the fact that Air America is barely
tolerable to listen to. Its unexciting mix of the shrill, pedantic,
and frustrated elements of left-wing politics either puts one to sleep
or makes one's ears bleed. It's the network of the times for Democrats
I suppose. Lacking any sort of positive agenda, the left is running on
the emotional fumes of "Bush Sucks!" It's a petulant platform lacking
any real meaning other than "We are the party of crybaby losers."
Great message if you're hoping to appeal to non-voting 5-year-olds.
I'm listening to Air America right now and have to turn the volume down
every two minutes because I am unable to think while two self-satisfied
women babble absolute nonsense from my computer's speakers. If I was
listening while on the road I think I'd have to steer my car into the
nearest bridge abutment. Apparently I'm not alone.
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April 26, 2004
STORM CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON
The New York Times has an
href=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/26/international/europe/26EURO.html
?hp?>alarming story today about openly seditious Muslim British
citizens eager to wage a terror war on European soil. Incited by
radical clerics, these mostly young men are being groomed to use
suicidal tactics if necessary to disrupt Western civilization in hopes-
-very thin hopes at that--of establishing radical Islamic states in
England and the Continent. This is a small minority to be sure and
they've garnered the ire of more mainstream Muslims, who accuse them of
generating anti-Islamic sentiments. But only a small minority is
necessary to create havoc, as the March Madrid bombings demonstrated;
and Britain only narrowly averted the same fate when several terrorists
were arrested before they could construct a massive ammonium nitrate
bomb a few weeks ago. Presently, these so-called holy warriors and the
clerics that are goading them into murder are protected by the U.K.'s
liberal immigrant protections and tolerant religious liberties. But
liberal western values should not be construed as a suicide pact.
Perhaps a truck bomb will have to detonate in Trafalgar Square before
these warnings are taken seriously, but the open incitement of sedition
and terrorism should not be tolerated.
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April 23, 2004
MARY, QUEEN OF YACHTS
Queen Mary 2 arrived
in New York Harbor yesterday, just barely squeezing under the
Verrazano Bridge before docking at Pier 92 on 53rd St. and 12th Avenue.
I went over there yesterday evening to take a look, but security is too
tight for one to get close enough to get a decent view of her, as she
is blocked by the pier terminal and a traffic overpass. If stood stem
to stern, the QM2 would be higher than the Chrysler Building and
is three times the size of the Titanic. Those interested in
seeing the largest passenger ship in the world leave the harbor can
watch from Battery Park or almost anywhere on the West side Sunday
evening. The QM2 embarks for England at 7:30 p.m., shortly
followed by her sister ship the Queen Elizabeth 2 at 7:45. This
is the first time two Queen ships have traveled in tandem across the
Atlantic. The Grucci family will be shooting off a fireworks display
at 8:30 to celebrate the occasion.
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IN MEMORIAM
Nearly two years ago [7/9/02, unarchived], I wrote about NFL football
player Pat Tillman, who exited a three-year $3.6 million contract with
the Arizona Cardinals to enlist in the Army in hopes of becoming an
elite Ranger. Like almost everything he set out to do in life, Tillman
accomplished that goal. Yesterday, he was killed in a battle in
Afghanistan while hunting for al Qaeda and Taliban fighters. The
New York Times has the
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/23/sports/23CND-NFL.html">bad
news on the death of a remarkable man.
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PARDON THE INTERRUPTION
Apologies are in order to readers of this site, as the vicissitudes and
vagaries of work and life made it unreasonable for me to devote much
time to lexiphane.com; and rather than do a half-assed job, I allowed
the site to go dark. Things have been slightly better recently,
however, and I decided to light her up again. Perhaps it's the spring
season that got me thinking about rebirth and renewal and all that
jazz. Anyway, immediately below there are some scribblings I managed
while on hiatus. Check back soon for an updated Gallery section,
because I've been working the digital camera pretty hard. Lately I've
been contemplating a complete site redesign that might necessitate a
short interruption in lexiphane.com's future availability, but that
would not happen without forewarning and last only a brief time.
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NEW YORK FAUXST
I supposed the New York Post is attempting to be timely today
[4/22/04] by linking a
href="http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/19199.htm">front-page
story on a seized shipment of AK-47s in Italy to yesterday's five-
year anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado.
The authors attempt this stretch by claiming that the AK-47 was the
"weapon of choice" of the Columbine shooters. Too bad that's not even
remotely true. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris not only didn't use AK-
47s in their massacre, they didn't employ a gun even remotely similar
to it while on their killing spree. Their "weapons of choice" were
handguns, shotguns, a rifle, and several home-made bombs. Blatant
fabrications of easily fact-checked items placed in the middle of
front-page stories will do little to enhance the Post's dodgy
association with the truth.
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THE PILL-POPPING PRESS
Maia Szalavitz has an
href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2097786/">excellent article in
Slate today [3/25/04]detailing the misrepresentation of
prescription drug abuse in the press. The media are addicted to
stories that emphasize accidental addicts, or people who are prescribed
painkillers and wind up junkies. In reality, the large majority of
opiate addicts already have histories of drug abuse and only a small
percentage of patients that didn't have prior histories develop
addictions. In addition, opiates are not nearly as dangerous as the
press makes them out to be, with most fatalities associated with them
the result of drug mixing and intentional abuse. The so-called
OxyContin addicition epidemic is outlined as a phenomena largely
created by the media and prosecutors who basically told addicts of
other drugs how to manipulate the time-release version of Oxycodone to
get high (you crush it and snort it.) In a climate of fear fueled by
overzealous prosecution and callous disregard for patient welfare, the
real victims are people who actually suffer from chronic pain and the
innocent doctors who might want to help them.
There is a story that needs to be told about
prescription opiates: Good drugs and good doctors are being defamed by
reporters and prosecutors based on conventional--and discredited--
wisdom about addiction. Opiates don't grab most people. Addiction isn't
an accident. Drug companies aren't always wrong. Unfortunately, America
seems to be hooked on the bad-companies/bad-doctors/innocent-victims
narrative: The Bush administration recently announced that this year's
national drug strategy will focus on prescription drug abuse by pushing
prescription registries and physician prosecutions. Where is big
pharma's clout when we need it?
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APROPOS OF NOTHING
The marketing posters currently displayed in NYC subways for the DVD
release of
href=http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0342172/maindetails>Capturing the
Friedmans--a documentary about the possibly dubious prosecution
of a Long Island man and his son for serial child abuse--contain two
ellipted quotes of a non sequitur nature:
". . . we were an educated middle class family . .
."
. . . where did this come from?"
Ostensibly, this is suppoed to appeal to the reader's belief
that child molestors just don't spring from such stock. As we all
know, the majority of child molesting occurs in Dickensian poor houses
and the super-luxe private compounds of mega-millionaires. Right?
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HERE'S A PENNY, A SHINY NEW PENNY or WELCOME TO ANDALUSIA
Maybe this is one of those cases [3/15/04] where national character
really makes a difference. Days after terrorists set off a number of
bombs simultaneously in Madrid commuter trains, slaughtering nearly 200
people and injuring hundreds more, Spanish voters elected a Socialist
government whose first move was
href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040315/D81ASG4G0.html">to
capitulate to its citizens' murderers and promise to remove its
armed forces from Iraq. Please excuse my espanol, but what a bunch of
pussies. Spanish citizens can expect to reap a whirlwind of the same
type of terrorism now that it's let itself be known as a nation of the
easily cowed. This certainly raises the question of what kind of
people experience mass murder of their own and electorally respond
"Oops, our bad!"? Basque terrorists, are you listening? Bomb at your
leisure.
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AL FRANKEN IS A BIG VIOLENT IDIOT
Al Franken recently [1/27/04]
href="http://nypost.com/news/nationalnews/16692.htm">showed off his
love of nuanced political debate and commitment to free speech when he
picked up a protestor from behind at a rally for Presidential candidate
Howard Dean and then body-slammed the man to the ground. No word on
whether the blind-sided victim will pursue assault charges against his
celebrity assailant. Next week: Michael Moore pistol whips welfare
mothers at an anti-war rally.
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YEAR OF THE MONKEE
New York Post helpfully points out
attractions not just in Manhattan's Chinatown, but the Chinatowns
in Queens and Brooklyn as well. Here's an interesting site with some details about the Chinese New
Year, including supe
rstitions and taboos. As for the Chinese zodiac, which designates
this the Year of the Monkey, it shows that both my sister and her son--
who attends a Mandarin Chinese language pre-K program--were born in the
Year
of the Rabbit, which seems to be a good thing:
People born in the Year of the Rabbit are articulate, talented, and ambitious. They are virtuous, reserved, and have excellent taste. Rabbit people are admired, trusted, and are often financially lucky. They are fond of gossip but are tactful and generally kind. Rabbit people seldom lose their temper. They are clever at business and being conscientious, never back out of a contract. They would make good gamblers for they have the uncanny gift of choosing the right thing. However, they seldom gamble, as they are conservative and wise. They are most compatible with those born in the years of the Sheep, Pig, and Dog.I was born in the Year of the Ox:
People born in the Year of the Ox are patient, speak little, and inspire confidence in others. They tend, however, to be eccentric, and bigoted, and they anger easily. They have fierce tempers and although they speak little, when they do they are quite eloquent. Ox people are mentally and physically alert. Generally easy-going, they can be remarkably stubborn, and they hate to fail or be opposed. They are most compatible with Snake, Rooster, and Rat people.Ox people kind of sound like a-holes, so I think I'll stick with my Scorpio designation.
In a coincidence that could be filled with portent, last Thursday I bumped into Mickey Dolenz in the lobby of the building where I work. So on the morning of the Chinese New Year of the Year of the Monkey, I came face to face with the drummer for The Monkees. I don't know about you, but that kind of freaks me out. Tagged:
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GENDER BENDING
The future may hold some uncomfortable quandaries for feminists
interested in reproductive freedom. This week's [1/28/04]
Newsweek features a story about a relatively low-cost way to
choose with almost 100% accuracy the gender of your child. The
href=" http://www.msnbc.msn.com/Default.aspx?id=3990134&p1=0">example
given in the story is about a family with several sons and no
girls. The wife underwent a procedure in which several of her eggs
were fertilized in vitro (out of the womb), the sex of each embryo was
determined through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and three
of the determined female embryos were then implanted in the womb. The
other 14 fertilized embryos were discarded.
I'm a big fan of technology offering increased choices to
society, but I find this development somewhat troubling, and so should
feminists. While other cultures' preference for male children over
female children is widely documented and even goes as far as to
encourage infanticide on the occasion of a female birth, it's a
phenomena of which Western cultures are also guilty. The Atlantic
Monthly recently featured
a study by economists Gordon Dahl and Enrico Moretti that showed
that in the U.S., parents of girls are more likely to divorce than
parents of male children. They also found that males are more likely
to marry single mothers with a son than single mothers with a daughter.
Additionally, men are more likely to marry a woman if their unborn
child is determined to be male than if it is female.
Given fairly reasonable evidence of a bias towards having boys
rather than girls, are we facing a future in which women are reduced as
a proportion of the population through technology? This is something
I've also brought up regarding homosexuality in the past. Many gay
activists have rested their entire "civil rights" agenda on the fact
that homosexuality isn't a choice, but a biologically determined
condition. I definitely lean towards the latter explanation, but the
argument for determination is still moot. Still, the increasing
sophistication of reproductive technology might someday lead to the
pre-implanation genetic diagnosis of homosexuality, and then what? If
society is sub-consciously biased towards male children rather than
female and act upon that bias, what will become of unborn homosexual
embryos?
This seems counterintuitive, but liberals of the future
interested in an equitable and humane society may be the ones arguing
against unlimited reproductive choice.
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- NEW ALBUMS
- KILLER STORM
- RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
- CH-CHECK IT OUT
- COOL!
- ANTI-SADR INSURGENTS
- PLUMBING THE DEPTHS OF STUPIDITY
- AIR AMERICA CRASHING
- STORM CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON
- MARY, QUEEN OF YACHTS
- IN MEMORIAM
- PARDON THE INTERRUPTION
- NEW YORK FAUXST
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