Comments! New template! LA!

Finally figured out how to put comments back in the new template.

I'm in LA freelancing still for WongDoody (see below). Should be here until at least the 15th, which puts me into my i'm moving away from Portland time. I will *NOT* be in Portland during the winter months. it's 60/40 on LA/SF.

So much to talk about since the last post. Instead, I'm going to go watch pigs race.

Much love.

Comments! New template! LA!

Finally figured out how to put comments back in the new template.

I'm in LA freelancing still for WongDoody (see below). Should be here until at least the 15th, which puts me into my i'm moving away from Portland time. I will *NOT* be in Portland during the winter months. it's 60/40 on LA/SF.

So much to talk about since the last post. Instead, I'm going to go watch pigs race.

Much love.

sphagetti wrestling. not as erotic as i thought.

Ivan's projected path

Shit.

This isn't looking any better. It might as well say, 'Mom's house for lunch on Tuesday.'

weather.com - Projected Path

ESPN.com: Page 2 - The NFL and 'Goodfellas' Part II

My team names in fantasy football are 'The Sammy Farha Experience' and 'i'm with ricky'. The first is an homage to my favorite poker player (he's the one with the unlit cigarette in his mouth) and the latter is an homage to my favorite (ahem, former) football player. Running back Ricky Williams, who quit 5 weeks before the preseason to head off to Asia for a while.

ESPN.com: Page 2 - The NFL and 'Goodfellas' Part II: "
The NFL's greatest reality show gets new life this season.
30. 'Today everything is different. There's no action. I have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food. Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.'
To Ricky Williams, who should be pulling a Bison Dele and changing his name to something like 'Atticus Bongman' any day now. Let's just hope he doesn't take up sailing."

ESPN.com: Page 2 - My NFL Preview, via 'Goodfellas'

Nononononnono, wait. This isn't a sports post. You can follow this to the Sports post, but this bit is actually funny.

ESPN.com: Page 2 - My NFL Preview, via 'Goodfellas': "While we're here, a complete list of my favorite gangster names from 'Goodfellas:' Sally Balls, Nicky Eyes, Fat Andy, Frankie the Wop, Freddie No-Nose, Pete the Killer, Jimmy Two Times, Johnny Roast Beef. At gunpoint, I think my favorite one was Frankie the Wop, since 'Wop' is an old-school nickname for Italians -- not quite derogatory at the time, but not complimentary, either. (And yes, my Mom's whole side of the family is Italian, so I know these things.) And yet, everyone in Paulie's extended gang was Italian or at least half-Italian. So for someone to be nicknamed 'The Wop,' I mean, you had to be REALLY Eye-talian. That's like if Bird and McHale had nicknamed Greg Kite 'Honky' on the '86 Celtics. It's almost a tribute."

Hotmail - Expedia intenecine cyberBeef

Hotmail just put an email from Expedia into my junkmail pile.
Interesting.

That's prettu much how beefs start in the rap world.

This site is pretty comprehensive.

Hip hop rivalries: "Hip hop rivalries
Feuds and rivalries have always existed in hip hop, which arose in 1970s United States. Originally, it came to block parties, where DJs would play records and isolate the percussion breaks for the dancing masses. Soon, MCs began speaking over the beats, usually simply exhorting the audience to continue dancing. Eventually, MCs began incorporating more varied and stylistic speech, and focused on introducing themselves, shouting out to friends in the audience, and boasting about their own skills, and criticizing their rivals'. While this is often done in good humor, it occasionally develops into offstage feuds that occasionally become violent. Many observers have claimed that the media feeds on rivalries for headlinings and escalates otherwise minor conflicts, especially in the case of the East Coast-West Coast rivalry."

WONGDOODY

Just got at least 2 weeks of work out of WongDoody LA, starting Sunday. Which, unfortunately, means that I won't be able to go to the wrestling Pay-Per-View here in Puddletown on Sunday night.

And damnit, there's going to be a ladder match.

WONGDOODY

The Stone Roses DVD!

The Stone Roses double DVD gets a proper American release on October 5. Mom can start my Christmas shopping there.

Side note. On a phone call with my mom whilst driving home from Burning Man, I had this portion of my phone call.

Me: One of the days I got really sick and barely moved from the bed for 24 hours except to battle what might have been dysentary.
Mom: Too much drinking?
Me: No, drugs, if anything.

My friend Joanna was shocked by this disclosure.

The Stone Roses Discography - DVD

New Seasons Market Deli Online Ordering Interface (Main Menu)

Just ordered lunch online to be picked up at New Seasons. That'll save me about 20 minutes in which I can goof off.

With a little luck, this whole Internet thing just might succeed.

Very fucking cool.

New Seasons Market Deli Online Ordering Interface (Main Menu)

New Seasons Market Deli Online Ordering Interface (Main Menu)

Just ordered lunch online to be picked up at New Seasons. That'll save me about 20 minutes in which I can goof off.

New Seasons Market Deli Online Ordering Interface (Main Menu)

the temple burn

this'll take a while to load, but it's worth it.

thank you, David Best.

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local adoption speech friday

From the Oregonian. This kinda fits in with part of what I get out of Burning Man and the Temple. Also with an art piece I hope to do for next year's Burn (it was thought that the art this year was lacking. I intend to help change that.)

Oregonlive.com: Search: "Brown often counters charges that she groups adult adoptees as somehow 'dysfunctional,' which she calls 'absurd.'
'They're great people with great lives and jobs and families,' she said. 'They are not walking around as the crazed walking wounded. But they're functional people who are angry about what they experienced because their parents didn't know.'
She sighed. 'Our children adore us. There is no question about that. They love us as much as they love the parents they were born to,' she said.
'It's just that most would prefer not to have lost a set of parents first.' "

Wired News: Bright Lights, Burning City

There's a slideshow at the left sidebar halfway down the page.

I think I got dysentary at Burning Man this year. Went down for the count for 24 hours didn't get up from bed except to run to the portapotties.

Wired News: Bright Lights, Burning City: "Man, the annual art festival and bacchanalia held on Nevada's remote Black Rock Desert, is a 24-hour-a-day event. During the day, participants with sarongs, sunglasses, outrageous hats and often, no shirts, are ubiquitous. But to many, Burning Man is best experienced at night. "

Ivan

Having my parents home inundated (though safe and sound), my football games delayed, and the state generally put under 10 gallons of water, I have one piece of advice for Hurricane Ivan:

Go West, Young Man!

weather.com - Projected Path

Temple Image

SF Gate: Multimedia (image)

Google Search: 'the shroom' burning man paper

The Shroom was Aaron 'Scoop' Mahoney and Miguel 'Magellan' Caballero's art project at Burning Man.

Articles included 'The Man Escapes!' 'Counterfeit Haiku Ring Busted', '
Three More Burning Man's And I'm Gay', 'S&M Burner flock to Abu Ghairab Prison Camp', 'Chocolate Actually Just Chocolate' and so much more.

This is just here as a google place holder until we can get the paper up and running online.

Email me at ideateller hat comcast.net for a pdf, or send me your street address, and i'll mail you a copy.

Thanks for the positive feedback!

magellan

Google Search: 'the shroom' burning man paper

ESPN.com - NCF - Maisel: 'It's bigger than football'

Great article on Sylvester Croom, the SEC's first black head football coach.

ESPN.com - NCF - Maisel: 'It's bigger than football': "STARKVILLE, Miss. -- They handed out T-shirts, 50,000 of them, Saturday as the ticketholders passed through the gates of Scott Field. On the front, it says 'Maroon Is All That Matters.'
Maybe Sunday. Maybe every day after that in the Sylvester Croom era at Mississippi State, which began with a 28-7 victory over Tulane before 52,114 fans. But not on Saturday, the day that Croom became the first African-American to coach a Southeastern Conference football game."

Edmonton Journal - canada.com network

I love that they list the location as 'Black Rock City'.

I like this article for the 2 shots of the man, but more for the talk and description of the Temple.

It's not your fault. It really isn't.

Be good. More soon.

Edmonton Journal - canada.com network: "THE JOURNAL
Latest News

False idols stoke their passion
Crowd sifts ashes, hoping to find seeds of a new human age

Todd Babiak, Greg Southam
The Edmonton Journal

Monday, September 06, 2004

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada -
It's clear why spiritual movements begin in deserts. The landscape and climate nurture them...


To find it, you have to walk a bit farther, to the north end of the playa, where David Best's majestic birchwood temple stands. At the east entrance of the massive structure, the beginning of a long boardwalk leading to a bridge and a series of altars, a burner has scrawled, "God is here, spread the word."

This is the first of thousands of messages, written to lost fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, grandparents and friends. For the past several years, Best's contribution to Burning Man has been a monument to the dead that goes up in flames Sunday night, a more sombre and reflective event than Saturday's mass catharsis.

At any one time this week, hundreds of people passed each other in silence or near silence as they walked through the temple, many of them weeping. The messages of love written on the wood and the photographs pasted to the altars are heartbreaking.

Best is nearly always at the temple and burners know him. They follow him around, hug him and kiss him.

They cry and tell him stories about children or parents they've lost, and what his temple means to them. Mostly they just thank him.

"In this environment, people lose their barriers," Best said during a break in the last phase of construction. As always, a large crowd of burners gathered to hear him speak. He wore jeans and a white cowboy shirt, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

"Every new dust storm breaks you down just a little bit more. A man came up to me after last year's temple burn and he said, 'How can it be that I can't cry in church yet I can cry here?' Well, you're battered. You're battered by this place, and that opens you up."

The largest work on the playa is called The Temple of Stars, fitting with this year's theme, Vault of Heaven. But Best thinks of it as the Temple of Forgiveness.

"When I light the temple I walk around the perimeter to tell people it's not their fault," he said.

"I feel really embarrassed to have to do it, and most people don't know why I'm going around telling them it's not their fault. But I do it because I know there's a handful of people out there who blame themselves."

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