Shite miscellany

1. I have been trying for days to think of a way to encapsulate my misery/joy caused by the Bret Easton Ellis think piece on Charlie Sheen [remember him? Seems an earthquake and a war ago !] a couple of weeks back in the new Tina Brown-helmed Newsweek...but there is just no way to summarize such glorious vapidity. Go find it and look it up. You''ll be sorry you did! Also, new paperback covers for all the BEE oeuvre, including this one, which is really good, actually (the cover, not necessarily the book)...: 2. Ian had a good idea for Motel Beds to cover "Shocker in Gloomtown," then shoot a video wherein both GBV and Breeders peep into Kim's garage watching the band play. Genius! 3. This would be a terrible start to a novel:

After he died, she remembered how he had tried to get them both to call fish sauce "name plates," because the Vietnamese name, nam pla, started the same way as "nameplates."

4. Quite enjoying the new Veils e.p. 5. It's weird having enough clothes. 6. Oh, excellent juxtaposition just now: Deftones "Change" into Style Council "The Blue Cafe."

Best line in the Vanity Fair "Stuxnet" article

"Mossad could not be reached for comment."

Also, here is a pic of our Cheryl at 20, when, she claims, she was in the US Navy on Okinawa but anyone can tell she was really doing red-hot "wet work" for the Israelis. Hubba!

Also: Sigue Sigue Stuxnet. Have I mentioned this?

A miscellany of posts that will not appear

1.) That air force commercial I see during the NFL, where some sort of hovercraft swoops into a disaster, all CGI/Cloud City-like, and the implication is that this is what it's like right now, not eleventy-three years in some future we won't live to see.





2.) The girl I saw last week in a tee shirt that said "THERE'S NOTHIN' LIKE A CLOGGIN' GIRL!" There probably isn't, actually. While I'm at it, the APT FOR RENT sign around the corner I will likely not have time to get a picture of that says the place is "CLEAN - QUITE."


I want to be generous and think it's some UK emigre doing the renting and that they are trying to impress just how clean it is.



3.) Manure tea! Have been excited about this and have failed to share. If you have insufficient nitrogen in your soil, fill a burlap sack with manure and put it in your water barrel. The nutrients will steep in the water, making a "tea" that can then be poured in a garden bed and enrich the meagre dirt. Rock!



4.) skip bombing



5.) the mighty How to Cook Everything cookbook

6.) Pulp Hits

7.) "Oh, that was an accident, but nobody got hurt." - Duvall in The Godfather