Not A Speck of Cereal

Platform Diving: Half Gaynor With A Twist

Ballin' That Jack and Drinkin' My Wine

Billy Zoom When You Need Him!

'Eternity in an Hour': Video of a Chobe Trip

"We're the Flowers in the Dustbin"

Yer Cheatin' Heart Annat

"More rednecks in Scottdale, PA than in all Dixie."--R. Graves, 1999

MST3K: More of My Favorite Things

"La Jetee" par Chris Marker...enfin

Charles Mingus Sextet Live in Oslo, 1964

Au Revoir Vieille Europe!

Bow Wow Wow!

No one Bull Dog yet could eat,
Every other Bull Dog's meat.
If you have a good-sized bone,
Let the other Dog alone.

'The Cathedral Bell Won't Ring Tonight Since The Bishop's Got The Clapper'

DeGaulle of Our Generals

April 23, 1961
An insurrectional power has set itself up in Algeria by a military pronunciamento. Those guilty of this usurpation have exploited the passion of officers of certain special units, the inflamed support of one part of the population of European origin, misguided by fears and myths, the impotence of authorities overwhelmed by the military conspiracy.

This power has an appearance: a quartet of retired generals. It has a reality : a group of partisan, ambitious and fanatical officers. This group and this quartet possess a limited and expeditious ability, but they see and know the nation and the world only as deformed by their fanaticism. Their venture cannot but lead to a national disaster.
Charles de Gaulle, St George's Day 1961

Kahore Ia I Konei

Harvey Tries Atkins

"Some of Us Are Looking At The Stars"

"Deus venerunt gentes," alternating
Now three, now four, melodious psalmody
The maidens in the midst of tears began;
And Beatrice, compassionate and sighing,
Listened to them with such a countenance,
That scarce more changed was Mary at the cross.
But when the other virgins place had given
For her to speak, uprisen to her feet
With colour as of fire, she made response:
"'Modicum, et non videbitis me;
Et iterum,' my sisters predilect,
'Modicum, et vos videbitis me.'"
Then all the seven in front of her she placed;
And after her, by beckoning only, moved
Me and the lady and the sage who stayed.
So she moved onward; and I do not think
That her tenth step was placed upon the ground,
When with her eyes upon mine eyes she smote,
And with a tranquil aspect, "Come more quickly,"
To me she said, "that, if I speak with thee,
To listen to me thou mayst be well placed."
Purg. XXXIII.i-xxi

The Big "If..."

The Garden called Gethsemane
In Picardy it was,
And there the people came to see
The English soldiers pass.
We used to pass -- we used to pass
Or halt, as it might be,
And ship our masks in case of gas
Beyond Gethsemane.

The Garden called Gethsemane,
It held a pretty lass,
But all the time she talked to me
I prayed my cup might pass.
The officer sat on the chair,
The men lay on the grass,
And all the time we halted there
I prayed my cup might pass.

It didn't pass -- it didn't pass --
It didn't pass from me.
I drank it when we met the gas
Beyond Gethsemane!

Rudyard Kipling

The Blues and Royals

Kind Hearts and Cornets in the Household Cavalry

Cheeta Say Get Off My Lawn!

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) - Cheeta the chimp, star of a dozen "Tarzan" movies in the 1930s and 1940s, celebrated his 74th birthday with sugar-free cake. Although healthy and active, Cheeta is diabetic. "He had a good time. The party went real good," said keeper Dan Westfall, operator of the primate sanctuary Creative Habitats and Enrichment for Endangered and Threatened Apes - or CHEETA.

He shares a birthday with hoofer Joel Grey and Meshach Taylor of 'Designing Women.'

Yehoshua

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes.
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
The right hand of the LORD is exalted: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.
I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.
The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD. from Psalm 118

Nemo Me Impune Lecessit

from The Worldwide Socialist Website
"A 61-year-old commercial real estate broker, Harry Taylor, spoke for millions Thursday when he told George W. Bush that “I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened by my leadership in Washington.”

Bush was in Charlotte, North Carolina to speak and answer questions at a forum sponsored by the World Affairs Council at Central Piedmont Community College, where he was assured a generally warm reception. During the course of his address, Bush repeated ad nauseam the lies and platitudes with which his administration has justified its colonial-style invasion and occupation of Iraq."

For rebuttal, click on the Latin above for another North Carolina viewpoint.

Tattoo You

Zim Life Expectancy Lowest in World

LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) - Life in Zimbabwe is shorter than anywhere else in the world, with neither men nor women expected to live to 40, World Health Organisation statistics showed on Friday.

The WHO's World Health Report for 2006 said the average life expectancy in the AIDS and poverty-stricken country was 36 years -- less than half of the 82-year life span in Japan, which lies at the top of the table with San Marino and Monaco.

Chainsaw Fury of Magazine Browser

Staff at a Japanese convenience store got a shock when they asked an elderly gentleman to stop reading magazines without buying them, media reports say. The man, 70, left the 7-Eleven store in the Ibaraki prefecture north-east of Tokyo - and returned with a chainsaw, police told AFP news agency. After threatening to cut staff to pieces he left the chainsaw outside the shop and carried on reading. "He was still reading when I called the police," the manager told AFP.

Staff were fed up with the man, who they said arrived at the store every day to read magazines for hours. The manager lost patience after a three-hour stint on Wednesday and asked him to leave. Police said the man returned waving the saw and shouting: "I'll cut you to pieces!"

Baaa Baaa Baaa

Armagideon Time?

Dit Someone Say 'Pre-fent-ive' War?

We will need a million MREs, 5000 cases of Chivas, and a copy of Swank sent to the Greenbriar care of--er, ahh--Teddy K.

Prof threatened after 'Drudge Report' publishes his views on population control

The strange case of the man who took 40,000 ecstasy pills in nine years

But Episcopalians Don't Want To

Churchgoers Live Longer
from Science Direct
There are many things you can do to increase your life expectancy: exercise, eat well, take your medication and ... go to church. A new study finds people who attend religious services weekly live longer. Specifically, the research looked at how many years are added to life expectancy based on:

* Regular physical exercise: 3.0-to-5.1 years
* Proven therapeutic regimens: 2.1-to-3.7 years
* Regular religious attendance: 1.8-to-3.1 years

Hynde Quarters, Or RSVP '86

Hey-O, Way to Go Ohio...Looks like Time the Avenger.

Hook 'em Horns

Austin--A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead.
And we love you too, Professor Malthus.

Born To Be Hanged

"It's not unusual to kneel down before you, M'am."

The Hungry I's of the World

Cut-and-paste for the show in Eugene,OR on June 23, 1990. Great fidelity, great set.

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/gd1990-06-23.asx

The White Goddess Recherche

Ysonde of heighe priis,
The maiden bright of hewe
That wered fow and griis
And scarlet that was newe.
In warld was non so wiis
Of craft that men knewe
Withouten Sir Tramtris
That al games of grewe
On grounde.
Hom longeth Tramtris the trewe,
For heled was his wounde.

Click title for more voices from the Graves.

Cheaper By The Pound

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Click to hear the poem straight from the mouth of the Sibylline Oracle.

There I saw one I knew, and stopped him, crying: "Stetson!
You who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
'Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?