it's just the motion

Had a good dinner with A, sushi and catching up. As usual she's pursuing two careers at once and, and this time she was was down here taking fitness instructor classes. Apparently to become a fitness instructor you go through fitness classes with extra yelling, as far as I can tell.

The yellowtail and toro at Sushi Wave were really good.

Jeremy Ed showed us his small, red, wrinkly new infant. The hat was larger than the baby.

I made the mistake of blathering about my problems and made people uncomfortable. Oops. I felt disapproved of and shut up.

Stopped by Tower on the way home and got some discount crap. I'll only buy CDs if they're cheapass on sale. Got an odd import Marianne Faithful folk record I'd never heard of for $10, coupla greatest hits records for $8, Dresden Dolls for $10.

I don't feel lately like I have anyone in my corner. Like, if I do "get better" I should leave town. It's not how I want to feel, and I'm not sure what's up with it. My view of other people is blurry and dark, and I don't know who likes me and who's sick of me. Nor do I know really how to be a friend to half the people I know and like. Lately I always seem to be doing or saying the wrong thing. It's the social equivalent of motion sickness.

Something that has not changed since last night is that Balvenie Port Wood 21yo is still really smooth and lovely stuff.

gratuitous cute animal link

AWWWW!

Oh hey great

yet another reason to hate the White Stripes

I like advertising that breaks the fourth wall

Sad loss of a musician

Apparently Mana "China" Mishiura has died in an auto accident while on tour with DMBQ. She was also Shonen Knife's drummer.

She died the same way D. Boon did, ejected from a van on tour. A month shy of 20 years later, too. And their tour manager got a head injury and other crap and is in the hospital without health insurance.

Musicians are always dying of the lifestyle, by which I do not mean drugs and partying. The lifestyle of long exhausting trips in unsafe vans interspersed with long nights working kills. Later on if they're successful, they get to fly around in rickety little bugsmasher planes and in helicopters, which also kill. And hardly anyone has health insurance.

More info at Todd P's site.

what

From the Religious Tracts pool on Flickr.

Edit: I just realized what this picture reminds me of: "The Village" in The Prisoner TV series. Brr.

That old time religion.

Nayagarah (Orissa), Nov 4 (PTI) Three persons were today arrested on the charge of killing a seven-year-old girl to appease Goddess Kali on Diwali at Nagajhar village in Orissa's Nayagarh district, police said. The three - Braja Pradhan, Sudam Pradhan and Akhila Pradhan - were later produced before the court of the First Class Judicial Magistrate, Ranapur, who remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days.

Another person, said to be a 'tantrik' (one who performs cult worship rituals to invoke the deity) and wanted in connection with the incident, was absconding.

The girl Susha, daughter of one Biranchi Pradhan of Bimbadharpur village was sacrificed before the goddess at the local Kali temple at Nagajhar under Ranapur police station after being kidnapped.

All the three have confessed that they had committed the crime , the sources claimed.

Susha, had been kidnapped by the accused persons, as guided by the tantrik, while playing with her friends on the evening of Diwali. Her father had lodged an FIR with the police after she went missing.

The body was found floating in a pond yesterday after which the police was informed. A case had been registered and further investigation was on, the sources said.

Local people also staged a protest yesterday demanding the arrest of the culprits.

It was alleged that in the 1980s a young boy had been sacrificed at the nearby Maninag temple, which is located on a hill top.

From NewKerala.com via robotwisdom.com. More disturbing detail in this story.

Electuary of Jallap... is a good Phlegmagogue.

1. The launch command password is "admin". I'll write it down for you on this Post-It™. (thanks to trinnit for this one)
   
   
2. GOAT ON TRAMPOLINE!
   
   
3. Further madness from SEMA: tires that make colored and scented smoke.
   
   
4. "Thanks" to eyeteeth for sending me the link to this fabulous book about child rearing. So to speak. The cover is so creepy that I want to leave the planet and not come back.
   
   
5. I have no idea wtf is going on in this site, but it's flash animation and it makes coffee fly through my nose: 86 The Onions is a very strange diner. Thanks, Aardvark!
   
   
6. I now want to buy a small cow.
   
   
7. Drunks who ask for tattoos in foreign languages often get humorously bad ones. Apparently it's even worse if you're a dumbass white supremacist.
   
   
8. Exclusive first photos of the H5N1 bird flu virus from a Norwegian paper! It looks like an evil Mickey Mouse to me:
   
   
   
   
9. I wouldn't have thought a digital sun dial was possible.

DICK VAN PATTEN IN A TUTU HAS A POSSE

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Remembered quote from years ago

Fish are great to have around but they have limits. If you ask a fish detailed questions about philosophy or mathematics it will just look at you and say "bloop". But if you ask the fish "Could you hum the first few bars of Roxy Music's 1979 international smash hit single "Dance Away" for me?" the fish will respond with: "bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop" which is both accurate and helpful.

— Robyn Hitchcock