TINY MINDS

Archive for February, 2006

I recently encountered a paragon of self-loving-ego-driven bloviation over at the Anti-Semitic Cartoons Blog, who goes by the name of Tony Malone. There’s a link to his blog imbedded in his name, and he’s posted many thousands of words over a couple of days no doubt intended to offend Jewish people but more likely just causing everyone to skip over his drivel.

In one post, he claimed that he wrote such long screeds because he’s a “writer”. So, being curious, I googled him and found that, indeed, he IS a writer. No doubt self-published, his 2-volume masterpiece is called “The Bible for People Who Hate the Bible”

According to Tony’s publicist (no doubt the same fellow he looks at in the mirror each morning): “In the end, Judaism and Christianity are left in tatters and the reader is challenged to think, and to question everything that we have been taught for millennia about “God” and religion.”

I’m sure you’ll all join me in trembling in fear at the incoming demise of the Judeo-Christian ethic.

EDIT: An example of Tony’s superlative bloviating can be found as the lead comment to this post. While I’m just screwing around, one gets the feeling that to Tony, this internet stuff is deadly serious.

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Real Ugly wants to know what I’m listening to lately. I listen to a LOT of music, in any number of genres, so this selected 7 are just some that come to top-of-mind:

1. Warren Zevon — Lawyers, Guns and Money
2. Oingo Boingo — Capitalism
3. Larry Norman –6 O’Clock News
4. Garth Brooks — Standing Outside the Fire
5. Peter Gabriel — Book of Love
6. The Who — Cut My Hair
7. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy — Zoot Suit Riot

For the record, I own them all. As tempting as p2p is, I don’t bother. There’s so many sources of good music out there now, there’s no reason to risk the wrath of the copyright lawyers. See www.pandora.com.

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Pandora, an offshoot of the Music Genome Project — is BRILLIANT. I’m hooked.

It creates an internet radio channel for the music you like based on an artist’s name or a song title. So far, it’s been spot on for me.

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… another entry in the category of Headline of the Week:

“Injuries Spike Amid Dutch Dart Craze”.

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BELLEVUE – A 25-year-old man died when he fell down an elevator shaft Monday night as he tried to climb out of an elevator stuck between floors at a new shopping and entertainment complex, a Fire Department spokesman said.The victim of the accident in the North Tower at Lincoln Square was not immediately identified by name. He lived in nearby Kirkland, Fire Department spokesman Lt. Bruce Kroon said.

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