Self-Portrait

From February.

FoI in Calvin Chimes

There was a profile/review of Fields of Industry's new album in The Calvin Chimes.

FoI in The Gig Guide

Fields of Industry's appearance last week at the Dreamland Theater was profiled in The Gig Guide on the website The Palestra -- "where the world goes to college". They got a couple details wrong (like the city and MySpace address), but it's the thought that counts.

1K Questionnaire

Please answer these questions in a new post so that your answers don't get pushed down and lost. You can title it either as "[Your Name]'s Answers" or whatever you want. Only answer the questions that you want to.

1. What is your daily routine like?
2. How do you spend your leisure time? What are your hobbies?
3. Tell us about where you live. Do you have a new favorite restaurant or bar or hang-out spot?
4. What's the last thing that really stuck with you? (Open to interpretation.)
5. What's the last thing that annoyed you?
6. Describe your bedroom or post a picture of it.
7. Describe your work space or post a picture of it.
8. Describe what you look like these days or post a picture of it.
9. Describe one of your co-workers/classmates or post a picture of it.
10. Who is your newest friend? Describe them or post a picture of it.
11. Share a memory that other people may have forgotten.

If you have a question that you'd like people to answer, post it in the comments.

Where mah hogs at?

Who's it gonna be? Where my bloghogs at? Hog it up, hog. Who's it gonna be? Who's the hoggiest of them all? I set it UP, you hog it DOWN.

I smell bacon.

999. This is for the whole hog now.

Four years ago, Dax and I started an action-spoof-environmental thriller screenplay called "Darwinian Velocity."

We had a few good writing sessions and talked about it quite a bit, but we never finished it.

No one has read it, except maybe Justin, who I believe crept onto my computer and read it covertly under the cover of night.

I had the thought that it might make a fun new feature for the blog, to release serialized excerpts of the script, perhaps once a week. Please keep in mind that this script is completely silly, and that there may be spelling errors and gratuitous use of montage.

And so, here we have PART ONE of DARWINIAN VELOCITY!

Are you fast enough...for Evilution?™

Michigan Connection

Ambre Lake, winner of Rock of Love 2 with Bret Michaels, is an MSU alum.

Post #996

Jeepers! We're almost to the 1,000th post! Is everyone comfortable with me coming up with a brief questionnaire? You can email me any questions you'd like to be on it (or leave it in the comments of this post if you don't have my email). Then it's up to everyone to post a current picture of themselves along with answers. Deal?

There's the separate question of a SCSF T-shirt. I have an idea: a map of Michigan with the names of all the towns where people live or have lived since leaving Ann Arbor. So Istanbul would be in place of Kalamazoo, Miami in place of Detroit, Paris in place of Ishpeming, etc. One question is whether or not to include the towns where people currently are living in Michigan (Lansing/EL, GR, and Battle Creek, as far as I know). Thoughts? To an outsider, the conceit would work better if there were no Michigan cities, but it could be explained easily enough. We could also have the old slogan "Conquer the World" underneath, but I like it a little better without.

Alternately, someone could draw a picture in the style of 1800s political cartoons of the Wicked Witch but with all of our heads on her, and she's gazing into the mirror and underneath the caption reads "Mirror, mirror, on the wall -- who's the BLOGGIEST of them all?"

Slang of the Day

1. Don't yuck my yum.
2. Don't not my hot.
3. Don't nay my yay.

Mister D

Graham wanted to see last semester's intern project. It was a fake Pick-Up Artist promo with myself as Mystery.

For the uninitiated, here's a local news profile of Mystery and The Game, complete with fuzzy hat:



And here I am making a fool of myself:

Carter Watch

I'm starting a new little political feature in the blog. Anytime I find a dignitary or public intellectual saying something about Jimmy Carter that I find ridiculous or offensive, I'll make a brief note of it here. Others are welcome to participate as well. And feel free to critique my opinions if you disagree.

Carter Watch #1
Israeli UN ambassador Dan Gillerman: Jimmy Carter is a "bigot." He ''went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas." (article)

My take: Jimmy Carter tries to give some momentum to stalled negotiations regarding important international conflicts by meeting with the people that nobody else will talk to. In the 1990s, for example, he met with North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and helped shut down the North Korean nuclear weapons program for 7 years. He doesn't meet with the Hamas leader because he likes Hamas and just wants to hang out with Mashaal out of respect and admiration. He sees that Israel and the US won't meet with Hamas, so he can do it as a sort of unofficial ambassador and relay messages from one party to another. Even if this doesn't amount to anything, it's still noble that he does whatever he can to try to save lives and bring conflicts to an end. In other words, he's not a bigot.

Last Call

Alright, we've got eight teams now. That's enough to start, but the more the merrier. If you're thinking of joining the league, do it now! Don't be shy. I'm going to flip the switch and start the league up 3:00 PM Eastern Time on Saturday the 26th. See the instructions a few posts down and let me know if you have any problems.

So far, we have Brian, Stefan, Tricia, Claire, myself, and some scary Pirates fans. My brother should be joining soon. Be one of the cool kids.

Snob: the Brand

I love the new Russia!

"Bad-boy oligarch" Mikhail Prokhorov, who at 42 is Russia's fifth-richest man and the country's "most eligible bachelor," is investing $150 million in a new lifestyle media brand called Snob. The brand will include an exclusive social networking site, magazine, and TV station, all aimed at upwardly mobile young Russians.

Prokohorov, who made his fortune by investing in nickel and gold during the 1990s, is a kind of poster boy for the champagne-drinking, Mercedes-driving set that Russians derisively refer to as "new Russians." His motivtion for this project, he says, is to reclaim the word "snob" from its connotations of unearned privilege and make it a kind of rallying cry for Russia's nouveau riche:

"Snob to us means a person who is a 'self-made man', a person who has gained a right to snobbishness," he said emphasizing the main difference with the British meaning which he said referred to inherited wealth.

The Snob media empire aims to focus on "lifestyle features, business news and travel." If Prokohorov's personal hobbies are any indication, the snob lifestyle also includes skiing, art collecting and upscale prostitution rings.

This is from perhaps the most useful blog on the Internet (other than our own).

Book Club

I know there's lots cooler happenings in music and sports and Youtube, but I thought we could all post our summer reading lists. I don't usually make one, but I'm so fucking charged to be out of fucking school for 4 months that I had to sublimate it somehow. I made a list of books to read this summer. It's still a bit of a sketch, but I put the more vague items towards the end.

Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Dubliners by James Joyce

Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff

Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek

Light in August by William Faulkner

a few stories by Chekhov

Last Night by James Salter

a book by Stanley Elkin

a few stories by Raymond Carver

a book by E.T.A. Hoffmann

a book by Ilse Aichinger

Totally Awesome Fest 4

If anyone is around Ann Arbor or Ypsi tonight and through the weekend, come check out the 4th annual Totally Awesome Fest. Fields of Industry is playing at the kickoff tonight at the Dreamland Theater, doors at 8:00pm

Also Reagan Sova's new band (ex-BMP) Long Whisker is playing on Sunday. Their new EP is gonna be up on AvE soon. It's really good.

(By the way, Lucas' new band in Dayton, Hospital Garden, has a demo up on AvE now. It's just Lucas on the recording, but the songs are going to eventually be released as a full band recording).

A full (but apparently tentative) list of performances and venues is here.

Joshua

the story.

Question of the Day

Backyards are like time portals. Agree or disagree?

Quote of the Day

Tough times don't last. Tough people do.

Sports for Dorks

Hey, after the rousing success that was the Swim Club Football League, I thought our little online community could engage is something even more beautifully American - yes, fantasy baseball. The season has already started, but we can throw a little league together and see who can manage the best team in the streaky and unpredictable world of our nation's pastime. As was the case with the football league, you don't actually have to do much at all to field a team. You sign up, create a witty team name, and you're all set. You can choose to perform only the most minimal maintenance of your squad during the season, or you can obsess over your lineup every day. It's up to you.

What's in it for you? The winner will get a baseball autographed by as many SCBL team managers as possible, as well as the undying respect of the Swim Club community. You will also enjoy a season's worth of trash-talking.

How do you get crackin'?
1. Go to this page: http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/register/joinprivateleague_league_select You'll need a Yahoo account if you don't already have one, but you can just make one and just use it as an auxiliary junk mail account.

2. Enter the League ID# 294666 and the password swimclub4life
3. Follow the directions.

You can pre-rank players before the automated draft, or you can just leave the default rankings. Pittsburgh types might want to load up on hometown talent (but the Pirates suck, ha!) and we all may have our sights set on some favorite Tigers. Once we get enough teams, I'll set the switch to "on" and the draft will begin. Every week, you'll face off against another team, competing in a bunch of statistical categories. Basically, whoever has the better stats wins that week's matchup. You can offer trades, sign free agents, and do all sorts of shit throughout the season.

So everyone is invited. Just go ahead and make a team if you're interested. I'd like to have as many teams as possible, but so long as we have at least eight we should be fine. If you make a team, it would be nice if you could also respond to this post so people can see who is participating.

Detroit Rock City

The Magic Stick made Rolling Stone's shortlist of best rock clubs in the USA.

Crystal Stilts

My friend's friend's band is featured on Pitchfork. I've seen them at a few loft parties ("I live in Brooklyn and go to loft parties, gah!") and they're pretty good.

Korean Central News Agency Report

Kim Jong Il Sends Birthday Spread to Centenarian

Rason, April 19 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il sent a birthday spread to a centenarian Yu Man Gum who resides in Anju-dong, Rason City.
Yu, born into a fire-field peasant's family, had to undergo all sorts of maltreatment and contempt with the sorrow of a ruined nation during the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule. It was not until the liberation of the country by President Kim Il Sung that she could lead a worthwhile life.
She is still doing housework in good health, leading an optimistic life.

Lega Nord

This is a poster of the separatist, anti-immigrant Lega Nord, which had a surprisingly strong showing in the recent Italian elections and represents a significant part of the winning coalition. I like the subtle imagery here. Who do you think is holding the dagger - the Muslim or the African?

From the Land of the Lily-Livered

Ok guys. I promise all my posts won't be stupid frenchie shit. Unfortunately, I'm exposed to it all the time, so bear with me...
This is a clip of a French TV show called "Les Guignols de l'Info" (Puppet News). I think I told Graham and Nicole about it when they were here. It airs every weekday night for about 15 minutes. Regardless, I think the puppetry is really well done, it's rather elaborate and I recenty saw a behind-the-scenes documentary about how they do it all. They have people standing under each character and moving the hands and everything. They have really good face molds for a lot of people. For any American soldier or personality, they always have a burly Sylvester Stallone puppet and they have George Bush and Condaleeza Rice and everything.
This is not the best clip but I couldn't find many, I just wanted to show you guys the puppets. It's from 1998 and it's about a French Deputy named Philippe de Villiers who was apparently anti-gay. In the video, they are depicting him as a closet homosexual projecting his fears on the world around him. He's hallucinating and spinning into a delirium that every person who walks down the street is a anti-gay and calling them a bunch of names.

Michigan Connection

Terry O'Quinn is a Yooper from Newberry. He went to Central Mich for college.

So, Tristan, don't you want to watch Lost now?

Political Commentary from DMX

DMX on Barack Obama

I thought of a better term than blog bully -- blog hog!

Michigan Connection

The now-defunct Rogers Sisters (sexy Jennifer and sultry Laura; ignore the Japanese guy) are from Detroit.

Andrew WK on Encore Records

Sorry to be a blog bully and post so much, but I gotta stay current. I actually have a backlog of posts that I have restrained from posting especially at those times when other people are active.

Today's Record Store Day, and Andrew WK has something to say:

One of the most amazing places in the world is a record store called either Liberty Street Recordings or Encore Records. It's located in the great town of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Many of my friends worked there and I spent a lot of time there during high school. One time I went in, and this woman who I think owned the place was listening to Black Sabbath's, "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" very loudly. She was probably the same age as my Mom and looked like a librarian, and after the album side finished she said, "God, I just love what that man's voice does to me".

Learning to Read After Decades Brings Joy

I found this story pretty moving.

Schlub-Hottie Double Standard

From the NY Times ("I read the Times, gaah!") review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I think it neatly sums up the problem with the Apatow camp, which most people seem to have an opinion on. The last line should be a call to action for Tina Fey (who's so goddamn hot I can't stand it).

But the schlub-hottie pairings that have become ubiquitous on screen lately also reinforce a dreary double standard. Guys are permitted to be flabby, lazy emotional wrecks, but as long as they crack jokes, some action will come their way. Girls, ideally, should have a sense of humor — mainly so they can laugh at those jokes — but for the most part they should look good in a bikini and like sex (though not too much and not anything too weird). Maybe someday, though probably not under Mr. Apatow’s aegis, a relatively ordinary-looking woman will have a sex comedy of her own.

Benny Lava

This is funny on multiple levels. The dancing is crazy, the made-up lyrics are funniest when they're obviously just going with it and not trying to make a joke.

crayons

I know I never post anything here, but this little video has been getting me through the dark and lonely end days of winter in Chicago. So I thought I would share. Take particular note of the amazing outfits and hilarious faces all the workers are making.

Projekt 8

Does anyone remember our idea to make short films called "Project 8"? I wrote a script for one and I found it today. Here's an excerpt:

BRENNAN: John, I’m normally a very calm person. I’m normally easy to get along with and the most difficult thing to do is get me angry.

Finnegan sits up and starts to squirm.

BRENNAN: Do you really want to make all these jokes? It’s not funny after a while. These people want to talk about their suffering seriously. They don’t want to laugh at it. Do you even want to?

FINNEGAN: I tried being serious. Everyone shot me down. They didn’t want to hear about it.

BRENNAN: Because you don’t seem serious. How could you be serious after all these jokes?

FINNEGAN: Father, sir, these jokes help me.

BRENNAN: They don’t help anyone else, John. You should check yourself out of here.

Finnegan looks down at the floor. Brennan sits down and sighs. Everyone is silent.

Laughter is heard in the hallway.

ARNY’S VOICE: That fucker’s funny, I got to give him that.

Arny and Macy burst through the door laughing and bumping each other.

ARNY: Hey, John! I just heard this fucking joke you told Mace! You are a funny fucker!

Finnegan smiles a little but it is obviously forced.

Arny and Macy sit and keep laughing.

MACY: Humping his leg. (whispered)

They continue to laugh and Finnegan is shown looking at Pastor Brennan.

Scare Tactics - Human Rat

Me and Dax saw this while I stopped by VH1.

trapped in an elevator

Scary!

1,000th Post Celebration

Here are some ideas to celebrate this threshold.

1. Mock Awards
2. Everybody post a photo of themselves so we can update our mental picture. And it would give an idea of where they are.
3. Have a giant conference call that spans the globe as we make the historic post.
4. Giveaway Contest -- iPods, tickets to see Kid Rock, erase college debt.
5. Everyone write a post on a theme: "What friendship means to me".

Michigan Connection

James Lipton is from Detroit.

Heart of Darkness

I got a kick out of this article:

"Jimmy Carter is an evil man. [...] Carter is a notorious anti-Semite and an even more notorious terrorism- enabler. In particular, he is a huge supporter of Palestinian violence. [...] Carter's ardent hatred for Israel translates into a Jeremiah Wright-esque hatred for the United States -- the country he has never forgiven for throwing him out on his ear in 1980 in favor of Ronald Reagan. [...] Jimmy Carter is all about Jimmy Carter. During his presidency, he gave up the Panama Canal and allowed the Ayatollahs to take power in Iran -- all for the praise of the international community. [...] Does all this make Carter evil, or just a useful idiot? By all accounts, Carter is highly intelligent -- perhaps the most intelligent president of the last 50 years. It would be foolish to write him off as simply naive. He is quite willing to be used by dictators from Venezuela to Cuba to North Korea, so long as helping them polishes his legacy. For almost three decades, Carter has pandered to enemies of Western civilization, shielding his treasonous behavior with the title of "ex-president." His Hamas-hugging is just the latest entry in a political diary that would make Osama Bin Laden proud."

La Mala Rodríguez - Nanai

AHHHHHH!!

"Critics have contended that the machine could produce a black hole that could eat the Earth or something equally catastrophic."

Article.

Eddie Van Halen Shreds

There's a whole bunch of these "shreds" on the 'tube, this one's the best I've seen.

We're almost to a thousand posts! Any ideas for how to celebrate?

Inside Joy Middle School

Photos from a closed public school in Detroit.

Quote of the Day

Haste delays the fruits of love.

Sheed

Here's a nice little article about Rasheed Wallace. It talks about how, despite his image as a crazy monster, he's actually one of the smartest players in the league. Chauncy Billups said that Wallace "is so good he gets bored playing against some guys who aren't up to his level."

"Though he has more money than even wealthy people can grasp, Sheed has been seen walking down the street with holes in his sweats—hence the nickname Homeless Harry. And when teammates wear fancy clothes, he has been known to remove the apparel from their lockers, hang them on the dry-erase board, draw an arrow to them and write in mock disgust: "Are you serious?!" [...] He refused to be photographed for this story, saying he'd rather share the spotlight with the team's other stars, and during the 20 minutes he gave for an interview, he hardly made eye contact."

The playoffs will soon be here!

Poop Back and Forth, Forever

Radiohead - Bodysnatchers

My cousin animated an unofficial music video for the Radiohead song "Bodysnatchers". Check it out!

Yeah, I hate him but still...

LeBron

Korean Central News Agency Report

Deputies to SPA Enjoy Concert

Pyongyang, April 9 (KCNA) -- Deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly who are attending the 6th Session of the 11th SPA, appreciated a concert of the Mansudae Art Troupe at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre on Wednesday on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission.
Put on the stage of the concert, which began with female vocal solo and chorus "Song Devoted to Comrade Kim Jong Il", were such colorful numbers as male vocal solo "Thunder on Jong Il Peak", female folk solo "Longing for the General", female chorus "Song of Mangyongdae", violin solo "To the Road of Decisive Battle", mixed quintet "My Motherland under the Songun Policy" and chorus "General on a Galloping White Horse".
The performers ardently sang of the undying exploits of leader Kim Jong Il who has put the dignity and the strength of the DPRK on the highest level with his great Songun idea and guidance while ushering in the great heyday of prosperity unprecedented in the history of the nation.
The audience deeply felt again great happiness of being the nation of the sun that has covered the road of victory and glory while being blessed with illustrious leaders generation after generation.

Dear Madonna

My friend from Alabama wrote this to Madonna via Myspace:

Madonna,
Your music from my childhood remains a barren memory of you exalting such values as materialism, gold-digging, and narrow self-interest. You are not a feminist despite what you may have heard. You are a female business woman and entertainer. Catherine the Great was not a feminist either. You see, you have to advance the cause of women to actually qualify for this label. I know, I know - you thought it meant trying to appear powerful via sluttiness and bringing out the worst elements in immature men. Well, I don’t have any diamonds for you but good luck with that cause. One day modern medicine won’t be able to keep nature from exposing your age to the world and when that day comes I hope you remember that you could always do something meaningful with your mind and money rather than pretending you’re a early 20s diva drunk on your own pathetic sexuality. Making out with the latest wash-up isn’t gonna stall the grim reaper either. Learn to play an instrument and dress your age. Your material world is post-menopausal.
Regards,
John

Vanity More Than Love

She left, as they all did. For of all the women who passed through his life, many of them for a few brief hours, there was none to whom he had even suggested the idea of staying. In his urgencies of love he was capable of changing the world in order to go to them. Once satisfied, he was content with the illusion that he would keep them in his memory, give himself to them from a distance in passionate letters, send them extravagant gifts to protect himself from oblivion, but, with an emotion that resembled vanity more than love, he would not commit the least part of his life to them.

You Know Who You Are

Solo Set

Hi all.
I played a solo set in Spring Arbor this past Thursday. If anyone is interested, there are (too many) videos of it up on youtube. Here's the first.

Call

Ok. I have never done this before.
I love all of you guys. I'm in a tight
spot right now. If any of you can call
me, my phone number is 512.940.7875

More James Brown

Father Of Soul His Own Self

I am seek a screenwriter to adapt a deeply person story of a man who seeks to resolve a profound experience from his past through creating a film that speaks the truth about the, negative and positive, unseen and intangible forces behind human relationships and human behavior.

Michigan Hardcore

"I’d like to think we just left a big nasty skid mark in the underpants of punk."

For those with an interest, here's an article on the early 80s Michigan hardcore scene.

Katyusha

Mack The Knife

no words for this.

why was James Brown so crazy? it was the PCP...

From the April 2008 GQ:

On Brown’s sexual habits:

“You’d have to grow up in a whorehouse to understand how James Brown felt about women,” one of his confidants says, which is apt because Mr. Brown did, in fact, grow up in a whorehouse. His mother walked out on his father when he was 4, and two years later, he was sent to live in his aunt Honey’s brothel in Augusta. He shined shoes for the soldiers from Fort Gordon, danced for nickels and pennies they’d flip at his feet, watched them shamble into Aunt Honey’s to fuck the women, watched them shuffle back out.

When Mr. Brown grew up, when he was a famous performer touring the world forty, fifty weeks a year, he fucked a lot of women. That is a deliberate term, fucked, because Mr. Brown was not a man who made love or even had sex. Mr. Brown fucked. “He did not know about the soft,” a longtime friend says. A lot of times, he’d let one of his cronies deal with the preliminaries, make small talk with a girl, get her a drink, keep her company. “She ready?” he’d ask. “I ain’t got no time now. Make sure she ready.” He’d hop on, roll off. Straight missionary, straight to the point. He never saw a reason for much else. “Why’s a white man eat a woman?” he once asked a white friend. “What’s he get outta that?” Hell, the man was in his sixties before he discovered doggy style on the Playboy Channel. He called up Roosevelt Johnson at three in the morning to tell him about it. “You sittin’ down, Mr. Johnson?” he asked, which is what he always said when he had an astonishing new fact to report. “Black man don’t know nothing. Black man don’t know a damned thing. A white man, he get up in his woman from behind.” Johnson pretended to be surprised by that. (“You had to go there with him,” he says, “because you didn’t know anything Mr. Brown didn’t know.”)

So how many women? How high can you count? Mr. Brown always kept a few girlfriends on the side, some for decades, and he always found a woman or two in whatever city he happened to be playing. “There’d be times, literally, when one would be coming in the front door while another one was going out the back,” says Buddy Dallas.

Naturally, some of them got pregnant.
---

Gloria Daniel, Brown’s former mistress, on his paranoia and drug use:

To be fair, Mr. Brown did, on occasion, lapse into utter lunacy. He was terribly paranoid, convinced the government had bugged the armoire in the den, placed tiny cameras in the curtains, pointed satellites through his window, even wired up the yard. “See them trees,” he’d say when the wind blew and the branches swayed. “That’s them. They watching me.” And he would occasionally flat out lose his mind. “Motherfucker was crazy,” says Gloria Daniel, a girlfriend he kept on the side for forty years. “It was the drugs.”

Mr. Brown smoked his drugs—PCP, until that got hard to find, then cocaine—mixed with tobacco from his Kools. “You sitting there rolling tobacco out of a cigarette—that’s a woman’s job—and you sitting there naked so he can look at you ’cause he getting ready to fuck you,” she says. “Yeah, right.” She rolls her eyes. The drugs, to say nothing of the diabetes and the prostate cancer, made him impotent. “He tried like hell, though,” she says. “He’d wear you out. That man died trying to come.”

One night in the summer of 2001, after he’d slathered her in Vaseline (“He liked you all greased up,” she says. “Like a porkchop”) and wore her out trying to come, he gave up and left the room, and Gloria dozed off. When she woke up, Mr. Brown was standing at the foot of the bed in a full-length mink coat over his bare chest, a black cowboy hat, and silk pajama pants with one leg tucked into a cowboy boot and the other hanging out. He had a shotgun over his shoulder and a white stripe of Noxzema under each eye. “I’m an Indian tonight, baby,” he announced. “C’mon, let’s let ’em have it.” Then he dumped a pickle jar of change on the floor, told her to get a machete, and went out to the garage. He took the Rolls, drove ten miles to Augusta, weaving all over the road, clipping mailboxes, smoking more dope, and screaming about being an Indian. Gloria kept thinking she should flag down a cop, say she’d been kidnapped.

http://men.style.com/gq/blogs/gqeditors/2008/04/papa.html

A2 scouted for Cera flick

Story here.

April Foolery

Some of the April fools jokes from around the web.

Gmail: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/customtime/index.html

Google(Thanks Joel): http://www.google.com/virgle/index.html

GoogleCalender:http://www.google.com/googlecalendar/new_wakeup.html


YouTube/Virgle:


IGN(Chris I'm sure will like):



Explanation of Rickrolling (Seemed to be a lot of jokes around this):

Quote of the Day

A man who knows how to embrace is a good man.

Amigo en el Baño

M83 + SKATING + EXPLOSIONS

Naughty Doings

Since everyone's talking about what they've been doing, I thought I'd share this assignment with you. It was for one of my classes here at Emerson.

All My Ink

by Ian Singleton

This pen of mine has run out of ink;

there's nothing left, throw it to the floor.

All I can do is sit still and think.

Though what I write down may become rank

I have gobs of saliva to spare

for my pen that has run out of ink.

From my loins I could draw out some gunk

to replenish this valuable store—

all I need do is sit still and think.

On my chair, neck through noose, I could yank

forth desperate gushes of sweat and tear

to fill my pen that's run out of ink.

With blade to wrist at my bathroom sink

I could makeshift a pen to endure

and never have to sit still and think.

As long as the paper is not blank

I'll wring out every bit of my gore.

This pen of mine had run out of ink

I undid all and sat still to think.