So, Timmy. Do you like movies about... bloviators?

1. The Condoleeza Hairdo Alert System has been activated. Please make a note of it.
   
   
2. You may not have to constrict your anus 100 times in a row. Try improving your brain function with a cellphone ringtone! Ah, the Mysterious East.
   
   
3. North Korean dictator/space alien Kim Kong Il remembers all the nation's phone numbers, according to his press agency. Then again, there's maybe 8 phones in the country. It could be a trick question.
   
   
4. Here's a weekly collection of misleading blurbs that may explain why a huge steaming pile of dog poop gets some good reviews.
   
   
5. Extra multilink bonanza roundup: The captive audiences media industry is growing like crazy. Asshole companies who trap you in elevators or at the gas station are doing great. The next frontier is TV covering the floor too: FLASMA!
   
   
6. To cheer you up from all that, here's an unusual cat.

You're welcome.

brainz

Saw the M.D. today. Since I'm doing about as well as purely medical intervention is going to get me, I'm not seeing him for another six weeks, and if things continue to be stable then at increasingly long intervals.

I bitched a little bit about what I perceive as some cognitive problems still: I feel slower to get concepts, have trouble at times finding words, and I "lock up" trying to perform a task more than I used to. It's not as bad as I had before, but still noticeable.

He recommended B Complex or B12 vitamins in small one-a-day quantities if it's mild, and we agreed that we'd watch that to make sure I didn't become a drooling idiot or get Alzheimer's at 40.

The chemical end of things is at least temporarily nailed down; I'm no longer swinging or diving so abruptly that I can't deal with my issues in psychotherapy.

And here the real work begins...

cue ball head

I got the #1 buzz with shave the dumb stuff on top option again this time. Remind me to keep it this way; feels so much better than tangly greasy fringe.


Aerial View
( A couple more, some salad, and then dessert. )

I use ordered lists for these although they are not in order.

1. Best typo on a product I've seen (Flickr). "When automated piracy goes wrong".
   
   
2. Maciej Cezlowski Ceglowski neatly summarizes why the Shuttle is stupid.
   
   
3. Oh shit, mp3s of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Workout Tape are available. AIIEEE
   
   
4. Apple putting DRM in their future platform: Is it happening, or not? (TUAW)

I cannot stop the links.

1. Single white female college student seeks travel companion and lover for Costa Rica trip. Hey, this shouldn't be a problem? Just as long as he meets stringent personal and political guidelines: "He should be intelligent, ethical, healthy and fit, monogamous, kind, generous, very affectionate and sexual. No married men, smokers, STDs, or religion, and must be pro-choice and pro-gay rights. For long-term compatibility he should be a libertarian and share a lot of my interests and hobbies." Unfortunately Robert Heinlein is dead, and he probably wouldn't have shared her admiration for Blink 182.
   
   
2. Let's go play in the carwash! Before and after pictures demonstrate the problem.
   
   
3. The science folks are finally finding out that the mad old sea captains were right about the giant waves that kill ships.
   
   
4. Here's a freakin' hilarious Toyota ad (mpeg video).
   
   
5. Get your vexations on with Satie & Co.!

Soul Flower Mononoke Summit

A while ago, someone I didn't know died. He was an LJ person that some friends of mine here knew and liked. I read back through his journal and kinda liked him too.

He was a serious left winger, and someone posted an MP3 of "The Internationale" that was his favorite. I downloaded it and loved it too! It sounded very klezmer, but I couldn't pick out the language, and there wasn't any artist info in the file.

I was reminded of it the other day by seeing this huge collection of versions of the Internationale in 20 languages, so I went on a search for "klezmer Internationale".

Found it! It is, of course a Japanese Klezmer Internationale done by a group called Soul Flower Mononoke Summit, from their album "Levelers Ching Dong". And it's on that big page, too, as I noticed when I went back to see if the Internationale collector had it.

So anyway that's my Obscure Japanese Communist Klezmer-Ish Folk Music story for the day.

Can you hear us, Kansas?