An imaginary place in a reactionary time
a reminder:
tonight is the opening of the Pilsen artists Holiday show. 6-10, all over the place. everyone you know is showing or will be there. www.pilsen-art.com for more details.
this is a M$ free friday. no M$ software was used in making this blog…
FFEJWORLD ADIVISORIES: WE NO LONGER RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWING EXCEPT FOR TARGET PRACTICE.
M$ Optical mice, all types including Intellimouse and Intellimouse explorer. these mice are ill behaved under Mac OS X on powerbooks and iBooks. they fail to be recognized after the machine goes into sleep mode, and can only be used again after a reboot. you can not hot swap them, which is a bummer when you have 2 usb ports and 7 usb devices. we deem this stupid and worthless. use older non optical logitech usb mice
Redhat Linux. their sins are many, their usability is limited, upgrades are a hassle, security information is hidden under things they want to sell you, their website blows, and their avarice is annoying. Use debian or Mandrake.
let’s say you live in a country that censors internet porn sites. let’s say it’s late at night and your lonely and horny. let’s say your more then a little computer literate, so you hitch a ride on a foreign proxy server, in a country that doesn’t ban porn. so you aren’t looking at the blocked sites directly, you are looking at my server which is getting you your porn, to the censors your looking at little web page about a neurotic failure in pilsen. and let’s say you feel much better after seeing your porn routed through through “your” proxy server. so good that you tell two friends.
and they tell two friends. who tell two friends…till there isn’t very much bandwidth for the server to do things like serve websites or email. or even login.
the internet routes around damage. the internet users see censorship as damage. some people who routed around their localized sillyness created mail bounces and lost web pages for us. so we consigned them to their own localized sillyness. hopefully they find another proxy server, and one with sufficient bandwidth to meet their growing, throbing, pulsing, ooozing, steamy needs. because otherwise the oligarchy in that silly locality is in for a rude awakening. you can’t cram anything back in the box once you open it. not even internet porn. it’s just a matter of time before they’re confronted by a nation of horny foot fetishists who want it NOW.
another day flat on my back.
i really don’t have a goddamned thing to say that doesn’t involve bodily functions or griping about someone’s behaviour, including my own, and i’m tired beyond belief of all three topics. i can honestly say the most importent thing to me right know is the growing mes in my place, especially the ever increasing pile of power cords and wall warts under my desk, which i can’t bend over to straighten or arrange. that and where all my hard drive space went this month. not exactly hot topics for conversation.
We’re back. So what. Keep those cards and letter coming in. We’re also in excruciating pain, so this will be a short entry. Real short.
For those of you too lazy to hit the lamprey page, we present the weeks happenings.
BRADY AND VIANNEY’S
BABY SHOWER!
DEC 2, 11am
AT
ERIC AND SANDY’S
1359 w.16th
.
NAT’S PARTY
DEC 1, 10pm till whenever
1932 s. Halsted #303
AND DON’T MISS
LOVECHAOS
Friday December 7th Gallery opens at 9pm, performances start @10pm
The Hothouse, 31 e. Balbo 312-362-9707
Featuring performance, music, dancing, poetry, projection, improvisation and much more
Featuring Our Own Dan, Dawn, Alan, Katherine and too many more to mention!
(special to Ben: Please stay off of Airbusses. Please?)
We had the privelege of spending most of the holiday week and end with Ben and his family, at least the portion of the week and end we weren’t flat on back in screaming agony. Best meals of my year, as usual, hats off to the extended Stoltz/Castle/Holmes clan. Amazing how the kids grow up. Amazing what silly things they decide to do. Pity i was such miserable company. Ben and I did manage to upgrade Anson’s computer to OS X, as well as teach him a few tricks on how to use it. And i managed to loose a memory card. I’m finally inured to lose of physical objects, the eviction took care of that. I might post pictures, but then i still have to do the dragon…
SPECIAL THANKSGIVING UPDATE:
KENNETH IS FINE>
KATHERINE IS IN TOWN>
JOHN TAKES ^ STITCHES IN HIS HAND>
SOMEBODY TELL KIM TO CALL ME>
IT”S TOO COLD FOR SHORTS>
HOLIDAY DINNER AT CHELA JOES TONIGHT>
DEAN IS MISSING>
here’s my week end in a nut shell:
(phone rings or person grabs elsbo)
hi, i’m (insert name)
i got your (number, description, cafe) from (some person i don’t remember)
listen, you gotta help me!
i just turned on my computer,
and (it’s dead, on fire, won’t dial out, is making these noises, has this blue screen)
listen, it’s really importent because
(my {brotherinlaw, sister in law, mother in law father in law, aunt uncle brother sister girlfriend ex girlfriend exwife mother friend kids boyfriend friend cousin step mother step father})
is coming to town for the holliday and they need to
(telecommute, check their email, get their porn fix, get their assignments)
and i promised them they could use my computer!
listen i don’t have any money,
but you gotta help me!
(alternate ending)
{i took it into [some store name]
and they charged me [50-100] dollars just to tell me it needs
[a new hard drive, monitor computer, video card]
and they want [100-500]
to fix it,
listen, can i just borrow one of your computers for the [week, month]?
then there was the calls i recieved from people who promised they’d have the labor or memorial day video footage edited for thanksgiving, only to discover that they didn’t have the hardware or software to do video editing, or hardware horsepower to actually perform the edits (ok, s/he was trying to use a 133 mhz pc) or couldn’t figure out what they had, or needed 8mm or 16mm transfered to video and they of course were all too broke to pay.
my personal favorite of all the calls was the guy who had “this brand new mac,” and needed all this software, and had tried to load the windows software from work and it didn’t work. outside of stupid, the guy kept trying to tell me how much money he had lost investing in the dot com bubble…
so here’s the deal. i don’t work for free. at all. don’t tell your friends, relatives or bar aquantences that i do, because i’ll tell them i gave you a special deal for sexual favors or nude photos of you for my website. don’t even tell them i work cheep, let them go to cicuitbestcomputerbuymicrocity. and i don’t have loaner equipment. i don’t even have enough computers for me. and i don’t do barters at all, except for the aforemention sexual favors and pictures, and only if you or your sig. other is really cute. and you let me borrow your car and dv camera for the rest of the month, and let me come over and take showers everyday.
we’ll be working on trying to compress the lamprey movie all day, it seems.
the weather will be cooler.
and we finally figured out the cryptic instructions to editing richards site. Eric and lonnie and eno have been spottedin the cafe. which means the torrents of former residents and road junkies should begin to pour in. the site rebuild is on hold, since i had a simple newbie error and destroyed my install of bryce and have to reload it.
So i check the Yahoo mailbox, the backup box. And I find there wonderment galore, life’s teaming majesty, a mad dream, and THE DRAGON BOAT WEBSITE!
Neil was put it up, including some of my pictures, and his narrative of the darned, check it out!
This year’s DRAGON.
Both dragon trips.
And don’t forget to check out Neil’s co conspiretor and chief mad poet/sculptor’s web page, John’s Pop Vernacular, which is more then just pretty javascript. Ever so much more….
