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Missed you guys this weekend

For the Fu Crew, don't know why it's so macabre, I'm happy to be back in Boston.

My second favorite johnny cash song:

Ten years ago, on a cold dark night
Someone was killed, 'neath the town hall lights
There were few at the scene, but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran, looked a lot like me

Nobody knows, nobody sees
Nobody knows but me

Yes, but who is she?

Intern of the Week

So, The Sports Guy, my all time favorite sports announcer and personal hero, has somehow conned the ESPN guys into giving him his own page and intern on ESPN.com. I've earlier recorded his ascent to the pinnacle of the working world, so I hope you all know who I'm talking about. If not, go here and here. This is a guy who sits on his ass and watches tv for a living. He's a hero for us all.

And he's sharing the wealth. He's given his intern a freakin' column on his page. And the intern is totally copping the Sports Guy's "literary" style. If they weren't both local boys I'd have to pull some sort of crazed and jealous fan routine just for the sheer injustice of these two getting to put out the drivel I'd love to be paid to produce.

In any case, I thought I'd share some of the intern's favorite links this week.

1. I'm lifiting the whole entry from the intern's page for this one. I post it, because I know the Fu Crew will not let itself get punked like this. All the bus routes in San Francisco in one weekend. Please, the Crew's got your muni right here.

"SF Gate (9/7) -- A group of Bay Area kids decided to spend their Labor Day weekend riding San Francisco's buses ... all of them. If I didn't know of some Wake Forest kids that spent Spring Break picking up a bucket of sand at Myrtle Beach, driving it to the West Coast and dumping it out, this would be the stupidest, funniest quest I've ever heard of."

And the link to the article, http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/09/07/MNGGC8KQNQ1.DTL

2. A little something I found while perusing one of the "links". I'm sure the censors removed this from the intern's list, so in the interest of the public something or other. http://badgas.co.uk/lynndie/.

WARNING! Not Safe for Work (NFSW) No Offense Meant (NOM?)

Check out the rest of the links, especially the spinkstech.com link and the Boston Globe articles about the curse of the Bambino.

It hurts me to be this Pimptacular

Y'all gotta get your pimp on.

Check it out (via Golden Brown Chhavi Dazzle)

Your Most Excellent Keeper in Pimpitude:

Macktastic Robb Slick A.K.A. Sticky Fingers Dog Beautiful A.K.A. The Keeper A.K.A. Rob E. Dogg A.K.A. Mr. Wolfe

(Don't y'all just see Mssr. Violette as a "Pookie"?)

And don't forget to drop your Mack Handle on her pimpness, the freakalicious Chhavizzle Sizzle Sachdizzle.

I miss typography

This is what I'm talking about:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1&topic=

I miss Rare Book Bibliography, and literary circles and handpresses. The Fu Crew needs to put together a compendium and give a reading. I know every single one of you either writes or draws.

And, yes I am extremly jealous of McSweeney's. Have you seen their latest comic book volume?

chhavisachdev.com/blog/

I've spent this early evening helping Chhavi Sachdev get her own weblog up and running. Check her out at http://www.chhavisachdev.com/blog/.

So far we've downloaded Wordpress and installed it on her server. We've just finished editing her stylesheet and templates.

At some point I'll fix the links in her flash files to fit her preferred site architecture.

She's got an awesome airport hub in her house so she, I and her roomate (my colleague from MIT Libraries) are all working wirelessly on our laptops.

Nerd Fu

In commemoration of yesterday's seeming interminable consecutive viewings of Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2.

And in fullfillment of my promise to the Fu Crew, here's a link to a long list of movies the Kill Bill shouts out.

If one were to view every movie on this list I'm sure that one would achieve legendary, near unstoppable powers. I have no idea what those powers would be, but they'd have 'em.

Happy Birthday Rob!

Hey everybody!

It's our favorite blog keeper's birthday today! When you see him, be sure to pinch him and wish him a happy birthday!

More BAZZLE DAZZLE on "The Web"

If Basilia keeps insisting on making appearances on "Metametametadata" we're just going to have to give him his own "Web Log" (heheh, I said "Log").

Go check out his new "Website" to see examples of his artwork. Very cool, Basil.

And thanks, for the link to my site.

Here's the link to Baz's site,

http://www.terracottawarriors.xbuild.com/

People keep talking

But are they drinking?

Just want to throw up this article from the Boston Globe about the renewly popular Martini. I got a kick out of the author's incredulous reaction to the "resurrection" of the sidecar. Who do you know has contributed (in an admittedly small way) to that revival?

Anyway, I prefer the Gibson (replace the olive with a cocktail onion).

Who wants to go to Noir with me?

The article (this link will likely break in a few days) http://www.boston.com/ae/food/articles/2004/03/25/so_many_martinis/

Handgame and Gourd Dance

So whilst you alls wuz gittin ya ski on, and ya bored on, Kenj and I were making a very important, spiritual journey back to my homeland <!-- cue after-school special music -->.

We attended the 50th anniversary doings for my Uncle Lorenzo and Aunt Eva Stabler. We played handgame, I broke my mourning for my mothers death and we gourd danced. We also talked to my Dad's family about coming out for the wedding.

And we've got video! So enjoy. Home video watching being the favorite pasttime of the Fu Crew, at some point we'll bring the whole tape to Marlon's and you'll all have to sit through it.

BAZZLE DAZZLE HITS "THE WEB"

Tahia Halim, Basil El Halwagy, 2004

Congratulations Basilia

on your recent publication to the internet. If I may partake in some hypertextual social networking, here's the link to Basil's friend's site where you will find Basil's art and words.

Skeleton No Skill

The Theory of the Derive

My studies of esoteric traditions and counter cultures has led me recently to the writings of the

SITUATIONIST INTERNATIONAL

good name, eh?

Anyway, I found in the Situationists a shared appreciation for the formation of a particular relationship with the city one lives in. That formation occurs through the undertaking of a "derive," or drifting. You should read the Theory to get a better sense of the concept, but for the most part one wanders without personal motive, allowing the city to lead you, while you listen to what the city and her denizens have to tell you about themselves. I don't follow the standard operation procedure Debord lays out. I like to take my derives on the weekends between 11pm and 3am. It actually drives The Kenj nuts. I'll walk all over the damn town for about four hours. She worries, the dear. It's part of how I have a good mental map of Boston, how I know where everything is and who goes where. I'm making a mental map, not of the physical territory, but of the mental territory of the other people who live in the city with me. It's easy to be walking and just start following college kids to a party of a club, or dog walkers down the boulevard, or Sox fans to the T.

Anyway I want to invite the Fu Crew and sundry to start making derives with me this summer. They're awesome. It just starting to Spring and I can already feel the wanderlust come over me. That sounds disgusting.

Here're the refs,

The Theory of the Derive explained by a founder of the Situationist International, Guy Debord.

I'm currently reading the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. Here's a not so great translation, that's at least free. If you want, you can borrow my copy.

You can find an introduction and definition of Dada, Lettrism and Situationism here.

Here's a compendium of english translations of Situationist work.

Here's an article from the Economist, trying to explain the heyday of the Situationist to current day capitalists.

Ice Fisheth

Good brisk day yall,

Excited I am, but not as excited about myself schlepping 80lbs of kielbasa, fleece and batteries. It is because I looketh liketh a tard. Ray Todd. My dingle of a dangle sleeping bag nearly touches the sidewalk when I parade from place to place. The left hemisphere of my body is conjoined with a 40lb EMS duffel. My right hand grips several pounds of frozen potato hash. I expect kind folk to hand me some change. My co-workers let it be known that I share a semblance to a homeless person. "I am going Ice Fisheth," I say proudly. "With Joshy!"

Did I tell you the time when I was sitting on the ground in front of a music store waiting for a friend to get off work and someone gave me $2.00?

Stay tuned for the Mun-day report illusatrating the perilous adventures of Josh Dastardly and Pilgrim Pitstop.

Shaolin Softball

Greetings to my dear friends. There will be a time soon that we should commence our softball training, led by Coach Wolfe. Sifu has even said that he would comply to a summer beer league event perhaps just one or many. At any rate lettuce think about lettuce.

What do you think?

My First Post

He (guess who) is making me do this. To demonstrate that I know what I am doing, and can do it again later when I have something interesting to say. Hard to be interesting when he is standing over my shoulder. No doubt he will have something to say about this, but he will have to post his own comment later. This is my post. Mine.

J Commander Salute

All Hail Commander J!

Welcome, Commander, to our humble vessel. I'm sure that you will provide a steady hand at the helm and will mainain a full log.

I am posting your comment re the Information Architecture entry so as to incorporate the html elements.

This site--which hasn't changed a <tr> or <td> in, like, 8 years--is kind of a primitive, human-filtered version of an aggregator that also incorporates a compelling link/topic heavy design: www.aldaily.com (I know some of your are already aware of it). Now you must be willing to accept their article choices, but I swear by it for lunch breaks and Saturday morning cereal. So does Edward Tufte, I hear. So there.

Commander J, thank you very much for your comments. We all look forward to your future contributions.

Note to self(Fu crew)

I(you) need to see Zatoichi by Takeshi Kitano. This is a remake of a classic martial arts movie about a blind samurai.

I've already put the original series of movies in my netflix account. As soon as the remake is available we'll have to schedule a screening.

And you all need to check Broog: Alien Film Critic. Thank you Broog for raising my martial arts movie awareness.

Two posts in twelve hours, now that's what I'm talking about.

Ladiez in da Haus!

Once there was this lady, she lived there too.

Oh, look at me, I'm making blog! Ooh la la, la la, la la, la la!