Five Utterly Classy Sci-Fi Masterpieces

5. March of the Robots by Leo Brett


4. The Makeshift Rocket by Poul Anderson


3. The Day They H-Bombed Los Angeles by Robert Moore Williams


2. The Kingdom of the Cats by Phyllis Gotlieb


1. Machine Sex . . and Other Stories by Candas Jane Dorsey

Song Of The Day

Deconstruction - L.A. Song

Blue screen water
It's not an ocean anymore
It's just a backdrop
Now come on

La la brae bones walk west
Bring your water
Plant your scenery Ramona
Map out the dream
And make the desert grow

Move out flat don't rise up
One neighborhood
Kraft cheese and a cup of joe
Raw fish in a burrito
Game show, straight to video
In the land of the setting sun

Psychotherapy
Sci-fi religion
Tit pigs
Bikini barbell
Chakra
Gridlock
Don't think just talk
Jog don't ever walk
Weight loss
Talk radio
Roll up your windows

Private home securities
Take the streets while the LAPD become blue machines
Cop copter spotlights down
Premiere klieg lights up
None of your business buildings
Gonna keep you out and keep us in
There's a hope downtown
And a mission that feeds
En pocas palabras de espera un duelo [A duel is imminent]
This is no place
This takes place

(Does your horizon burn?)
I have lived here my whole life
I don't need more stories
(Does your horizon burn?)
About your broken midwest boulevard dreams
Stars also lie down that street
(Does your horizon burn?)
Stars also lie down that street
You pretty little town
You sad flower in the sand
(Does your horizon burn?)
You pretty little town
Give me some of you
Give me, give me
Give me some of you
(Does your horizon burn?)
Give me, give me
Give me some of you
Give me some of you
give me some of you
Venus and a silver moon
Give me some of you
(Does your horizon burn?)
Give me some of you
Give me some of you
(Does your horizon burn?)
Give me some of you
Give me some of you

Universal Rallying Cry

Jews out of Palestine!
Turkey out of Europe!
Poland out of Prussia!
Maple out of syrup!

Cuba out of Florida!
Thailand out of Siam!
U.S. out of Iraq,
Afghanistan and Guam!

Cola out of the East!
Manga out of the West!
The conquered out of suits
And back to tribal dress!

Saxons out of England!
China out of Tibet!
Humans off of Gaia!
And now I think we're set.

Wilford Brimley Trivia Hour

After Korea, Brimley drifted though the western states working as a ranch hand, blacksmith, wrangler and bodyguard for Howard Hughes.

Had to quit job as rodeo rider due to weight gain.

Spent three years in the Aleutian Islands

Brimley is a dyed-in-the-wool Mormon.

Is diabetic (rumoured).

Quote: "Look, I like people very much. I'm not very good with people, but that doesn't mean I don't like them. I do like them. Because we actors are on that great big screen and so many people see us, we become familiar. People speak to us as if they've known us all our lives. That just tickles me to death."

Thespian-friend Robert Duvall urged Brimley to pursue acting as a career.

Was founding member of Los Angeles Actors Theater.

Outside of film and advertisements, Brimley is also known as an activist opposed to the banning of cockfighting. He has campaigned in Arizona and New Mexico against laws banning cockfighting.

He played Noa Briqualon in George Lucas' 1985 made-for-TV movie Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.

Quote: "I just try to be myself." (on his acting technique)

Appeared in homosexual-themed film comedy In & Out.



See also: Diabeetis.com

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

I saw his body thrashing round,
I saw his pulse rate going down,
I saw him in convulsive throes,
I said, "I'll have one of those."
- (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River, TISM

The Many Richard Nixons

Richard Nixon is my favourite modern President to study because he was human. Inconsistent, paranoid, troubled, and he loved his mother. Okay, there's Watergate, but who would you rather have helming the United States in a crisis, Bush or Nixon? People forget China and his war on cancer. As Joni Mitchell intoned, You don't know what you got till it's gone.

Manic Street Preachers - The Love of Richard Nixon:

The world on your shoulders
The love of your mother
The fear of the future
The best years behind you
The world is getting older
The times they fall behind you
The need it still grows stronger
The best years never found you

The love of Richard Nixon, death without assassination
The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you
The love of Richard Nixon, death without assassination
Yeah they all betrayed you
Yeah and your country too

Love build around the sandy beaches
Love rains down like Vietnam's leeches
Richard the third in the White House
Cowering behind divided curtains

The world is getting older
The times they fall behind you
The need it still grows stronger
The best years never found you

Ah, the love of Richard Nixon, death without assassination
The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you
The love of Richard Nixon, death without assassination
Yeah they all betrayed you
Yeah and your country too

The love of Richard Nixon, death without assassination
The love of Richard Nixon, yeah they all betrayed you
People forget China and your war on cancer
Yeah they all betrayed you
Yeah and your country too

In all the decisions I have made in my public life,
I have always tried to do what was best for the nation.
I have never been a quitter

The Man In His Own Words:

"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
- Nixon, the Phenomenologist

"You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up."
- Nixon, the Cleaning Lady

"The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time — it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd. I can't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco."
- Nixon, the Glad-hander

"Decorators. They got to do something. But we don't have to glorify it. You know one of the reasons fashions have made women look so terrible is because the goddamned designers hate women. Designers taking it out on the women. Now they're trying to get some more sexy things coming on again."
- Nixon, the Fashion-plate

"This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation."
- Nixon, the Hyperbolizer

"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects."
- Nixon, the Cool Cucumber

"North Vietnam cannot humiliate and defeat America — only Americans can do that."
- Nixon, the America-Firster

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."
- Nixon, the Sop

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
- Nixon, the Strategist

"I would have made a good pope."
- Nixon, the Papist

"I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint — no matter how distasteful to the majority."
- Nixon, the Free Speech Advocate

"You know what happened to the Romans? The last six Roman emperors were fags. Neither in a public way. You know what happened to the popes? They were layin' the nuns; that's been goin' on for years, centuries. But the Catholic Church went to hell three or four centuries ago. It was homosexual, and it had to be cleaned out. That's what's happened to Britain. It happened earlier to France. Let's look at the strong societies. The Russians. Goddamn, they root 'em out. They don't let 'em around at all. I don't know what they do with them. Look at this country. You think the Russians allow dope? Homosexuality, dope, immorality, are the enemies of strong societies. That's why the Communists and left-wingers are clinging to one another. They're trying to destroy us. I know Moynihan will disagree with this, [Attorney General John] Mitchell will, and Garment will. But, goddamn, we have to stand up to this."
- Nixon, the Historian

"I have the greatest affection for them but I know they're not going to make it for 500 years. They aren't. You know it, too. The Mexicans are a different cup of tea. They have a heritage. At the present time they steal, they're dishonest, but they do have some concept of family life. They don't live like a bunch of dogs, which the Negroes do live like."
- Nixon, the Negrophile

"People react to fear, not love — they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."
- Nixon, the Sunday School Teacher

"The power was nice, but frankly I could've used more power."
- Nixon, the Underpowered

"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."
- Nixon, the Indomitable

"Many Jews in the Communist conspiracy. ... Chambers and Hiss were the only non-Jews. ... Many thought that Hiss was. He could have been a half. ... Every other one was a Jew — and it raised hell for us. But in this case, I hope to God he's not a Jew."
- Nixon, the Philosemite

"In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose."
- Nixon, the Media Critic

"The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time."
- Nixon, the Weapons Analyst

"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"
- Nixon, the Educator

"So few of those who engage in espionage — are Negroes. ... In fact, very few of them become Communists. If they do, they like, they get into Angela Davis — they're more the capitalist type. And they throw bombs and this and that. But the Negroes. — have you ever noticed? ... Any Negro spies?"
- Nixon, the Racial Sociologist

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
- Nixon, the Sinophile

"Nowadays, If a news report does not tie up loose ends as neatly as 'The A Team', it is considered a flop."
- Nixon, the Media Critic #2

"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists."
- Nixon, the Philosemite #2

"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."
- Nixon, the Zionist

"Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation."
- Nixon, the Realist

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.
- Nixon, the Feminist

"I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic. And emotional."
- Nixon, the Anti-Feminist

"I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks! Homosexuality destroyed them. Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates."
- Nixon, the Gay Rights Activist

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."
- Nixon, the Psychologist

"Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war."
- Nixon, the Pragmatist

"I am not a crook."
- Nixon, the Denier

Apt Analogy Of The Day

"Like the evening breeze stirring a limp imperial flag over a commissioner’s hut, the proper circulation of air around the male genital area is regarded as a vital contribution to the moral and physical welfare of the tropical traveller."
- Jeremy Harding in London Review of Books

Is Paris Burning? Soundtrack To A Sex Tape

Full Tracklisting:

1. "Baby's On Fire" by Brian Eno
2. "Celebrity Lifestyle" by Swans
3. "Hollywood Babylon" by Killing Joke
4. "Sex Bomb" by Flipper
5. "Nutz on Ya Chin" by Eazy-E
6. "I Parade Myself" by Gang of Four
7. "The Passion of Lovers" by Bauhaus
8. "We Luv Deez Hoez" by Outkast
9. "Big Dumb Sex" by Soundgarden
10. "Zoo Music Girl" by The Birthday Party
11. "Whisper Song" by Ying Yang Twins
12. "Touch Me I'm Sick" by Mudhoney
13. "Orgasmatron" by Motorhead
14. "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Revolting Cocks
15. "(She's A) Universal Emptiness" by Swans
16. "Last Tango in Paris" by Herb Alpert

Depressing in All the Wrong Ways

Ill. student gets detention for hugging

She got off too easy.

Playing In The Ruins: The Forgotten Eighties

1919: Post-War Migration March

23 SKIDOO: Ritual Alley Funk

AUSWEIS: Francopalypse

CRISIS: New London Blitz

COMSAT ANGELS: Alone in Orbit

CRISPY AMBULANCE: Gaslight Street Crawl

MARCH VIOLETS: Serpentine Bacchanalia

MODERN EON: Liverpool Twilight

MINIMAL COMPACT: Levantine Labyrinths

THE MOB: Proles Bearing Arms

PLAY DEAD: Tombstone Shadowplay

PSI COM: Voice in the Peripheral

RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY: Down Misty Boulevards

S-HATERS: Last Days Sooner

SAD LOVERS & GIANTS: Archetypes Entwined

SEX GANG CHILDREN: De Sade's Modern Spawn

SIEKIERA: Warszawa Beat

THE SOUND: Nervous Breakthrough

STOCKHOLM MONSTERS: Underbelly Lullabies

THEATRE OF HATE: Howitzer Trench Drama

THIS HEAT: Nuclear Tension Meltdown

TWISTED NERVE: Dark Rattle & Roll

WORLD DOMINATION ENTERPRISES: Ultracrush Hammer Funk

Top 5 Least Creative Spice Girls Album Titles

5. Greatest Hits [Deluxe Edition]
4. Greatest Hits
3. Forever
2. Spiceworld
1. Spice