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Believe it or not. Snapped this yesterday in The Australian.

Dear Reuters:

Please check the IDs of idiot computer programmers before you interview them. You just think you're journalists when you pull this shit. Go back to J-school before it's too late.

Love and cupcakes,

Tom.

Among other things I didn't supposedly do on the weekend was try to join the Australian Society for General Semantics. Calling people shouldn't be that hard. I'm still dying of the black lung disease. Its very cold outside. I am liking the new Weezer album too much. My heart says that The Greatest Man That Ever Lived is the best song ever written, but my head has put up yet another one of its characteristic fight-to-the-death resistances again. Curses. A thousand curses and poxes on both your houses!

And now I'm sitting here in this rather splendid sports jacket, all dressed up with absolutely nowhere to go. No coffee, no beer, no cigarettes...and the line is still busy.

Don't Care About Much

Job please. I need one. I need one now. I could always sell drugs to kids. I've always been unscrupulous like that.

Robert Anton Wilson's New Inquisition is just the ticket! Its basically a book about advocating agnosticism in all forms - be it science or otherwise. Hey, there's fundamentalist Christians, why not fundamentalist Scientists? (Oh, but Tom, they're just committed to the scientific method...right?) Like that fucknut Martin Gardner. Infallible empiricism my arse.

This day hasn't been the best. But it will end soon, this is something I am almost (always almost!) certain of. And I finally have In at the Death by Harry Turtledove. Fucking mint.

Soft Head, Hard Heart

After five days straight of partying, my cirrhosis and black lung disease hasn't killed me, so I guess that can only make me stronger.

Behold - the greatest music video of the 21st Century - absolutely brilliant! Weezer are the kings of sincere power-pop rock. I'm beginning to appreciate them much more. Especially when the lyrics are so cheekily self-referential you can't help but smile.