[ Thursday, January 31, 2002 ]
Ha! ha! ha! Thanks, Morford.
Peter Palermo [10:07 AM]
Cat Woman protester arrested in Shasta Lake after climbing smokestack
The only reason I post this rather mundane tale of everyday environmental nutjobiness is this - I did a yahoo search for this woman's name, hoping to at least see a pic of the Catwoman suit (I mean, afterall, Julie Newmar still sends a current through me, just as she did when I was 10! Meow). Only to discover her listed on some Shasta Arts Council site as a "theatre technician" (the "re" spelling her's, not mine). So, of course, who else but a techie would climb a smokestack in costume? I maintain there is no geek, like a theater geek.
Peter Palermo [10:03 AM]
[ Wednesday, January 30, 2002 ]
Yes, yes.. I've been very slack in my updating lately. But I have a good excuse. I've been loading a show into the Cowell theater for my friend Robert and his company, Robert Moses Kin. It will be my first ever "set design" credit and I'm pretty damned excited about that. I'll try to post some pictures when I can.
Peter Palermo [9:29 AM]
[ Wednesday, January 23, 2002 ]
I was looking for links for Rivieras, so that those of you (if, indeed, anyone is actually reading this) who don't know what an old Riv looks like could see. But, instead I found this. Which is ten times cooler. Check out the backseat.
Peter Palermo [9:43 AM]
Okay, I know this is a Buick. But Goddamn! This car is a cold blooded motherfucker! Check it out. Has all the lines of the great old Riverias, plus the hatchback of a Porsche 928. I want me one!
Peter Palermo [9:39 AM]
this is a sad day for Led Zep fans. Strange bedfellows, Cadillac and Zepplin. Stranger still is the headline.
Peter Palermo [9:31 AM]
[ Tuesday, January 22, 2002 ]
Jewhoo!
Peter Palermo [3:39 PM]
Okay, Morford was really on a roll this morning
**President Of All Tasty Evil**
McDonald's Corp. announced it has named Jim Skinner as president and chief operating officer of the McDonald's Restaurant Group. Skinner, who will be responsible for the company's more than 29,000 hamburger restaurants in 121 countries, will report directly to chairman and chief executive officer Jack M. Greenberg in proper McDonald's ritualistic tradition, which of course entails the daily practice of Skinner kneeling before the roiling cauldron of flaming children's hearts at McDonald's HQ deep in a fortified bunker somewhere in the Nevada desert and offering blood sacrifices and extant Happy Meal toys to the gods of toxic painful death, while a well-greased Greenberg oversees the proceedings from a giant throne shaped like a diseased colon, chanting deep-fryer instructions from the McDonald's employee manual and rubbing raw gelatinous hamburger meat on his face. "I could not be more proud to serve this fine company in this new capacity," Skinner probably said,some sort of green mucous fluid streaming from his eyes as a clump of pimply slumping 16-year-old wage-slaves tattooed the McDonald's corporate logo directly onto what remained of his withered andculture-destroying soul.
Peter Palermo [9:48 AM]
In this morning's mail from Mark Morford's column
**Oh Dear God It's Soup**
An Idaho company is recalling about 6,200 cans of soup that are mislabeled as cans of beans. The Agriculture Department said the
mislabeled soup produced by Chiquita Processed Foods LLC of Payette, Idaho, will not cause health problems if eaten. Soups mislabeled as 15.5-ounce cans of "S&W Garbanzo Beans" actually contain 14.5 ounces of "Wolfgang Puck's Chicken Parmesan with Pasta Hearty Soup." Area Safeways are reporting occasional bouts of screaming and fainting along with scattered gunfire, while some Albertsons are beefing up security to better handle the marauding hordes of bean-deprived patrons who were spurred into a frenzy by the discovery that not only were they not getting canned garbanzo beans, but they weren't even getting the full
15.5 ounces. In related news, the AP writer who was assigned this riveting story has decided that three large shots of rum in his morning coffee is far more effective at numbing the dull karmic ache of unfulfilled dreams and thwarted desires than his usual two.
Peter Palermo [9:44 AM]
[ Friday, January 18, 2002 ]
I love this town.Even the chronicle has a sense of humor
Peter Palermo [9:43 AM]
[ Thursday, January 17, 2002 ]
I want these checks!
Peter Palermo [3:37 PM]
[ Wednesday, January 16, 2002 ]
a letter I wrote today
Dear Mr. President,
I write to urge you to fully fund the U.N. Population Fund. Please to do not withhold the 34 million the US has pledged to give in support of the good work this fund does. Remember, this fund fights for human rights in countries like China, helps stem the spread of AIDS, and does not support or provide abortions.
I think the U.S. has learned that poverty is a tinder box, and when it explodes all of the world's people are harmed. Please do as you and the congress have pledged to do and send our money. Thank you.
Peter Palermo [1:58 PM]
[ Tuesday, January 15, 2002 ]
more of the same, this time from crazy Joe Lieberman.CNN.com
I remember, shortly after 9/11, Sarah and I were watching Jim Lehrer on the tube, and there's crazy Joe. Now, I thought that when Gore put crazy Joe on the ticket it was a sure fire winner. We all know that Gore ended up not even carrying his own state and cursing Nader to the devil, but I still had respect for Joe. Well, here's Joe on the tube saying that we should all go out and line a room of our house in plastic, buy some gas masks and get ready for armageddon. Sarah and I were aghast that a public official would be pushing the panic button quite that frantically. And now, it turns out the Joe is giving Bush the left wing cover he needs to start bombing Iraq. I say again, America, get ready cause here it comes.
Peter Palermo [10:33 AM]
get ready America, here it comes...
"We must make this a war of decisive confrontation, and the theater for that is Iraq. The U.S. made a serious mistake in failing to consummate the Gulf War. We lost the first round when we called an end to the engagement before uprooting the prime instigator of the aggression."
–William F. Buckley, Jr.
Peter Palermo [10:08 AM]
[ Monday, January 14, 2002 ]
Today, I'm thinking about Dubya and his messed up face. Does it seem that "I choked on a pretzel and woke up on the floor." sounds a lot like "I fell down the stairs."? Maybe Laura fucked him up. Or... even more likely, ol' Dick was let out of his bunker for the weekend and showed up to kick some weasel ass. As he clutched Dubya's throat, spittle flying from his clenched teeth, face turning turgid and purple as his pacemaker sent mild shocks through his nervous system, he spat out "you tell 'em you fell off the couch, ya hear me?". Of course, later that night it was all, "I'm sorry baby, you know I love ya. Sometimes I go a little crazy, you know how it is, right baby? You're the only one for me, George. It’ll never happen again.. This time, I mean it."
Peter Palermo [3:05 PM]
[ Saturday, January 12, 2002 ]
A quote, stolen from Plastic.com, attributed to the new Afghani justice minister.
The stadium is for sports. We will find a new place for public executions... the Taliban used to hang the victim's body in public for four days. We will only hang the body for a short time, say 15 minutes... Those who refuse to confess their wrongdoing and are condemned by a judge will have their hands and feet bound so that they cannot run away. They will certainly be stoned to death,... but we will use only small stones.
Peter Palermo [9:30 AM]
[ Friday, January 11, 2002 ]
This comes from honan.net. I try to lift his links very often, as it just seems lazy. But I don't read so many blogs, and Mat seems to have a really consistantly interesting site.
As for coincidence design? I love it. I wish I had thought of it.
Peter Palermo [4:12 PM]
You may not understand all the reasons I hate SUV's (see below link), but as a motorcyclist, I have many. Here's a news story about one SUV driver and a lot of angry motorcyclists.
Peter Palermo [10:46 AM]
Yes! I need to shake the hand of the man who thought this up.
Peter Palermo [10:35 AM]
[ Thursday, January 10, 2002 ]
holy shit
Anyone who doubted this administration was not steeped in evil need look no further. This is business as usual for these boys.
Peter Palermo [9:07 PM]
a great way to kill a half an hour.
Peter Palermo [11:43 AM]
[ Wednesday, January 09, 2002 ]
Leni Riefenstahl
Peter Palermo [1:55 PM]
Amazing, Leni Riefenstahl has a new film. It's a tremendous acheivement for a woman of 99 years.
My college film instructor was the first to introduce me to the works of Riefenstahl. He clained to be a correspondent of hers. I believe she shot remarkable film and happened to be in the wrong place at the right time when it came to Nazi Germany. She made the Nazis look like gods and codified their symbolism and imagery. This seems to me more of a testament to the power of her film making then to the power of Nazism. At any rate, she is a remarkable woman.
Peter Palermo [1:49 PM]
What the hell is up with Blogger? I mean, I know it's free and all - but I can still winge about it. Right?
Peter Palermo [11:48 AM]
From Mark Morford
**Everybody Must Get Stunned**
An Arizona stun gun company announced that it will expand marketing to the general public of a scaled-down version of a weapon used by police. Since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Taser International Inc. decided to try to expand sales by next month, said company President Tom Smith. "It's fun to be part of the package of solutions that's helping people who are scared since Sept. 11," Smith said. "It's fun to play on people's shallow paranoia and unfounded fears and sell a nasty debilitating $300 weapon to mostly angry morons so they can fend off all those scary Koran-spouting men in beards who are right this minute
planning to convert them to Islam and fondle their daughters and make them grow really skanky facial hair and never bathe," he did not add, repeatedly zapping himself in the crotch with a special low-voltage rapid-pulse version of his company's stun gun and moaning softly. "Mmm, that's it, Mrs. Cheney, just like that."
Peter Palermo [9:51 AM]
[ Tuesday, January 08, 2002 ]
Found this at the Onion.
Peter Palermo [5:43 PM]
Dennis Miller bugs. In his latest HBO promo, he uses the word sisyphean - the promo makes much out of this nearly magical use of vocabularly. Apparently, we are supposed to prostrate ourselves in abject humility at the sight of such titanic wordsmithing. Giving me a fucking break. Better yet, a thesarsus.
Peter Palermo [10:05 AM]
[ Thursday, January 03, 2002 ]
this is so damn creepy.
Peter Palermo [10:17 PM]
Okay, I've been pretty lax for the past few weeks, and I promise to do better. Firstly, let me state that Lord of the Rings rocked really fucking hard. Seen it twice already and am prepared to drop further drachmas. It's big, it's got emotional content, it's true to the source and it looks terrific! When Sauron walks down the mountain, mowing down elves like a titanic reaper, it gave me the chills. Everything a fantasy movie should be, and the best fantasy movie made since...hmmmm, how about Empire Strikes Back.
Peter Palermo [4:25 PM]
