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Entries from December 2002

Airport Privatization

December 4th, 2002 · No Comments

Here’s something that might make sense. Atlanta is holding some informal work sessions to investigate possible methods and thoughts behind privatizing Hartsfield International Airport.
As background, one needs to understand that Atlanta’s airport is the busiest airport in the world. The stats are staggering: 77,939,536 transfers, landings and departures; over a quarter-billion dollars [...]

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Tags: Atlanta

Naked Chef Rocks!

December 4th, 2002 · 6 Comments

Jamie Oliver rocks!

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Tags: Food and Cooking · Life

The Poor Starving Artists!

December 4th, 2002 · No Comments

A Finnish court has ruled that cabbies must pay a licsensing fee for “broadcasting” music to their fares via the act of playing the radio. Seems to me that the radio station is already paying the fee for this, but it goes to show you how ludicrously powerful and insane the music industry has [...]

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Tags: Music

Trivia Spanking

December 4th, 2002 · 4 Comments

Last night, Trav and I, as David Bowie’s Marrakesh Cab Ride, spanked all comers at UJ trivia for a first place finish.
Boo-ya!

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Tags: Life

Joy of Merzbow!

December 4th, 2002 · No Comments

Everybody go to Target and buy a couple of boxes of 90 minute cassettes because Georgia Tech’s WREK, one of the best radio stations in the nation, is set to broadcast the entire Merzbow boxed set between December 18-20.
That’s right, Music Fans! You get some 50 hours of nothing but noise!
For those of you [...]

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Tags: Music

Sex for Peace

December 3rd, 2002 · 2 Comments

Y’all may have already seen this, but an article about an Italian porn star, who used to be an MoP and who is now offering Saddam sex in exchange for peace, just had to be posted.

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Tags: Sex

Magic Wand 4 Katie

December 2nd, 2002 · No Comments

Be an Activist!
Help Katie get what she has earned!
Katie Surrence vs. Dan Savage

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Tags: This is Weird

Photolog: Elsa Von Facebiter Amidst The Lantana

December 2nd, 2002 · No Comments

Elsa Von Facebiter Amidst the Lantana

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Tags: Pets · Photos and Photography

Cow Poets

December 2nd, 2002 · 2 Comments

Artist Hopes Dairy Herd Makes Poetry
Mon Dec 2, 2:13 AM ET Add U.S. National – AP to My Yahoo!
By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer
PURCHASE, N.Y. (AP) – Any artist can paint cows. Nathan Banks paints ON cows.

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Tags: Writing

Hurts So Good

December 1st, 2002 · No Comments

My hips, having never flexed in any direction remotely near the directions they were torqued doing Bikram Yoga, feel like flaming rivers of rigid sludge.
I took my first-ever Bikram (or any type) Yoga class on the Friday after Thanksgiving. It was unbelievably difficult yet, at the same time, extraordinarily cool.
But I don’t [...]

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Tags: Exercise · Life

This is Flight Fear

December 1st, 2002 · No Comments

This is what a late-night pizza and a constant, ever-present flight anxiety problem will get you: blogging at 3:30AM WDT. One must simply love shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and Colorado flying weather.
Oh yeah, I’m also worrying that my Blackberry is filling its memory with shit for me to do at work this week.
What is wrong [...]

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Tags: Life · Travel