"There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’
The subject is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Goodbye Mr Rosewater”. Vonnegut died this week and if you’re not familiar with his writing, your life is sadder for it. You’ve seen back to school, the Rodney Dangerfield 80′s piece of shit movie? Remember when he hires a guy to write a term paper about Kurt Vonnegut and the professor says “whoever wrote this paper doesn’t know anything about Kurt Vonnegut” ? The dude who Dangerfield hires to write the paper — that’s Kurt Vonnegut.
So last week I spoke to my lawyer/guitarist friend and it turns out that he and his wife are so freaked out about pet food killing their dogs that she’s taken to cooking food for them and giving him dogfood. I’ll miss you bro — can I have your guitars? Turns out that making your own pet food is perhaps not that hard: http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/03/31/100loc_a8petmeals001.cfm
I found that last link at the ever-”oh-neat!”-inducing site, http://www.lifehacker.com/
Incredibly funny and horrifying at the same time: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/panda_demands_abortion(no it’s not true, it’s satire damn it. i know someone that I’ll email this to will need that explained.)
dumbest legal battle ever: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_fe_st/baby_metallica_6
saddest kermit ever (also a must-see for Nine Inch Nails fans, this means you Robert): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLQRv0RjBBM
Getting off a government watch list: http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/04/watchlist2
“NATURE IS A LANGUAGE CAN’T YOU READ?”, or Continuing a theme, part deux: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFyXk7O419o
(part one is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNN2L-Wh5I)
If you like postsecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ if you don’t know what I’m talking about) then you maybe wanna hit up the live expo here in miami .. http://www.charleeprogram.org/news_detail.cfm?news_id=9
This goes to my neo-hippie peeps (you know who you are,) : http://www.hippy.com/php/article-243.html
Better brains through science: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/0e54d952c97b1110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html
And I’ll leave you with a bad joke: what do vegeterian zombies crave? GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINNSSSS…..
