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I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.~Jay Gould
Mon Jan 09, 2012 at 09:00:00 AM MST
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Did you know that when Howlin' Wolf recorded "Smokestack Lightning" he foretold that the song would one day be used to advertise a pill that gives a man an erection on demand? If you listen carefully that is literally what the song is about so I don't want to hear complaints from the purists anymore I am sick of it.
Wolf was a self-taught hobby chemist and during breaks in the recording studio he would often sip from his jug and muse about the eventual creation of a compound that could provide enhanced erectile function. He believed it would be sold in the form of a pill. Wolf knew he wouldn't live to see it happen but the song as recorded is truly a bit of pharmaceutical prophecy.
In 1970 Chester (Wolf's first given name) spoke about it to Alan de Pres in the journal Ailleurs:
My records are sold all over the world and I ain't got a fucking dime but one day people will realize that I was the inventor of the idea of making a pill that gives you an erection. I recorded 'proof of concept' in 1956. They couldn't stand it, they asked what the hell I was singing. But they'll understand one day and they will remember me. The one thing I know is they bought me a white Cadillac after that record because Dot Records had done the same for Fats Domino when he sang all those songs about a pill that makes you lose weight. The blues are the roots and the pills are the fruits.
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Fri Jan 06, 2012 at 21:32:57 PM MST
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I mentioned a long time back about this old dude I see at the bus stop sometimes. He just sits there waiting except for whenever a young woman walks past he will chuck out some line to her. Here's his new one:
Do you work for McDonald's?
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Because I am lovin' it. I don't know, it seems like something that would be irritating if someone sort of yelled that to you when you walked by. But he is really fucking old so I don't know-- I wonder what it seems like to his targets.
I'm worrying about "they"-- but if I try suddenly the lines-- when thinking various absurd guy things, and anyways, in that certain state of mind if I tried it they might stop suddenly, or what?
The old thinking, various absurd thought lines. I really would hope they'd just go past the stop suddenly and pretend like nothing happened. But later I'd go check on craigslist to see if any one of them mention it. I'm not old enough to get the absurd old guy breaks, not old enough not to look like my state of mind.
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Wed Jan 04, 2012 at 09:00:00 AM MST
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End of the regular season report on my NFL picks against the spread:
I was about 29 points off the pace but still I'm pretty happy with my showing this season. Out of a million-plus entries I can live with a rank of 19,815. 86% correct picks is very good. If I'd been using real money I actually think I would have done better because in the final four weeks I have a tendency to pick who I WANT to win rather than sticking with who I think will win. It's a superstition wherein I believe I create certain results by my picks. You're welcome New York Giants.
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Mon Jan 02, 2012 at 09:00:00 AM MST
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I always feel a little down on the first day of the year and this year was no exception. One gets a little breather as the old year ends and then bang! the new year is already underway; in fact, I have just slept through many hours of it.
And this year is really going to be an ugly, racist bastard. I'm not the kind who can just ignore everything they call "the social construction of reality"-- I can operate parallel to it, I guess, but I still can't achieve total oblivion.
I found two quotes that describe this feeling. One from GK Chesterton:
Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not quite coward enough to admire it.
and this one from Samuel Beckett, with a weird pre-echo of a familiar American voice:
Then the gnashing ends, or it goes on, and one is in the pit, in the hollow, the longing for longing gone, the horror of horror, and one is in the hollow, at the foot of all the hills at last, the ways down, the ways up, and free, free at last, for an instant free at last, nothing at last.
2012! It could be good.
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Sat Dec 31, 2011 at 19:53:42 PM MST
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AS VOTED BY OUR EXPERTS THE BEST HEX WEB POST OF THE YEAR:
Wed Jan 25 2012
Radio 1190 presents...
 | @Larimer Lounge
2721 Larimer Street
Denver, CO 80205
The Howling Hex
Pacific Pride
Doors open at 7pm
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Thu Dec 29, 2011 at 15:13:23 PM MST
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I went to my first NBA game in a really long time. There was no team in New Mexico and prior to that I missed out on seeing the Bullets, Knicks, Warriors and Bulls (Clippers and 76'ers, too, I've been reminded...) on numerous occasions. I just figured I'd always get another chance to go so I could afford to pass. I preferred to keep working. I had that attitude to a lot of things but not now. Anyways, Denver Nuggets looked pretty good and I'm going to go to as many games as I have the money to go to. I can definitely be a Nuggets fan.
Looking forward to the Giants v Cowboys on Sunday night, winner goes to the playoffs. Eli Manning is 8-5 all-time against the Cowboys. Even better is that Eli Manning is 4-1 against any team wherein the brothers Ryan are employed as coaches. His only loss came in 2004 (rookie season) against the Baltimore Ravens where Rex Ryan was the defensive line coach at the time.
I am a vestigial Giants fan from having lived there during the Phil Simms era-- but my real team (since 70s and childhood) is the Oakland Raiders. They are playing San Diego, whilst Denver and Kansas City play one another. If Denver loses and Oakland wins Raiders make the playoffs. Also, as you may know, The Chiefs will have Kyle Orton at QB. He was released by Denver after Tim Tebow took over the starting job.
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Wed Dec 28, 2011 at 09:00:00 AM MST
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A recap of this week's top announcements includes this piece from the Howling Hex website about a show in Denver, CO on January 25th, 2012, at the Larimar Lounge, 2721 Larimer Street:
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Thu Dec 22, 2011 at 09:00:00 AM MST
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I fixate on 'models' or 'forms' too quickly. I always rush to create categories from first observations. I could spend my time imagining 100 better appliances than the latest technology but I could never create it. Being amongst those who rush to be the first users of each new technology, just being in that crowd, is as close as I'll ever get to articulating whatever conception I might have of an amazing and surpassing appliance.
It's that shared humanity that has converted these appliances to innovations. For such things our reaction beseems the moment as it is truly a gesture of respect for whatever it is that we each, personally, venerate most highly. It could be love, strength, the recognition of simultaneous desire, or a future where imagination reigns.
I know this all depends on who gets to market under just the right circumstances &c. and who most controls those circumstances. Even with so much effort going into control, even if I've been limited over time to recognize only 3 or 4 forms, being always able to gather in this way is something I would fight for.
When I see people who are incredibly drunk or high do things that are crazy or dangerous, talk their way out of fights they instigated or ride on the roof of a car on a highway, I get impressed by it in a jolly sort of way. However, when I did things like that I just felt terrible at the time, like I had a death wish, and I felt really bad the next day when I remembered what I had done.
Once we were on tour in Europe and a friend of mine had 3 bottles of red wine, a pasta casserole and a chunk of hash. Back at the hotel after a while they got up off the floor and started heaving into the bathtub-- tub all filled with red and food &c. It was funny as fuck. I liked the person even more after having witnessed this, we'd shared a hilarious moment. They were not pleased, though, they didn't like everyone laughing and they were sick all of the next day. We had such high esteem for them but we were connected in only a primitive way that technology has since corrected.
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Mon Dec 19, 2011 at 08:39:27 AM MST
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Pitching a lit class to the home school families I work with that will be half sci-fi and half topics in philosophy. Does anyone have suggestions of: 1) science-fiction (any length) that precocious high school-aged kids could handle, esp. post-70s, 2) theoretical works that deal with issues covered in same, 3) romance (esp. "classic"), comics or horror (esp. "classic") works with sci-fi elements?
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Fri Dec 16, 2011 at 09:00:00 AM MST
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A production still from Drag City's new computer animated video for The Howling Hex:
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Thu Dec 15, 2011 at 17:39:25 PM MST
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For Catholics, 15-20 December are days of Feria. These are days when people, especially slaves, are not obliged to work, there are no ecclesiastical court sessions and no saint's day is required to be celebrated.
The 1895 schism between the laws of rugby union and rugby league football is temporarily lifted, kids play tiddley-winks with the bones of Saint Boniface of Dokkum, every movie theater in America shows a triple-bill of "Tomb Raider," "Prince of Persia," and "Resident Evil: Afterlife" at three in the afternoon, surgery for corns is traditionally discounted by 20% on days of Feria.
On days of Feria it is legal to jailbreak your neighbor's iPhone yet it is forbidden to consume Spinnenkäse, a cheese made from quark and produced using the action of cheese mites. On days of Feria South Padre Island is closed to men so that women can sunbath freely but tanning beds throughout 17 states are legally required to serve only men over the age of 60. On the first day of the Winter Feria, registration for the Santa Elena International Pageant of the Flowers opens while nominations for the Dutton Animal Book Award close.
On days of Feria your lucky numbers will be: 15, 16, 28, 33, 38, 23. Amicalola Falls State Park will be closed. Production of natural sweetgums will commence. Stark white, decadent red, deep orange, and sage green are the colors of Feria.
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