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Friday, November 02, 2001 :::

grand royal's out of business. sad sad. reminds us how risky it is to run a label -- even permanently hip ones like grand royal are vulnerable.

::: posted by kevin seal at 11:17 PM

random bits of interest:
* new and improved exquisite corpse!
* next year's Halloween costume.
* I think my roommate Romi must have helped write this... :)
* a scary timeline about the attacks.
* Last night I went to see Schrodinger's Girlfriend, an awesome play about the physicist and a cabaret singer who seduces great thinkers in her quest for truths about sex and the universe. Here's a fun description of the Schrodinger's cat thought experiment.

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 5:02 PM

new and improved otogai world!

the spam filter on hotmail is so odd. it lets in bushels of crap, but doesn't recognize my own name. i sent something from kseal@h to kseal@h, and it was filtered into the junk mail folder.

so is true that the bridges -- lloyd bridges, beau bridges, and jeff bridges -- are in danger? will this affect the opening-weekend ticket sales of K-PAX?

::: posted by kevin seal at 2:00 PM

Thursday, November 01, 2001 :::

alura, did you or other franciscans see people playing capture the flag in the castro last night? i heard talk of a huge game planned, with market street as the border.

kurt introduced me to his friends jeremy and jim last night -- they live in this huge warehouse space near downtown cincinnati, with swings secured in the rafters, drywall separators, couches on risers, fog machines, lasers, and a dozen rottweiler pups looking for homes. good old-fashioned warehouse. gorgeous, giant space, for $425 a month.

jim was showing off the drum n' bass programming he'd been doing on freaky loops. made me hungry to hunt down some sequencing software. anyone have any good'uns?

meanwhile, rob's given me a job answering phones here at my dad's office. 'tis a bit weird sitting at my dad's desk, though. it feels like he's still working here.

::: posted by kevin seal at 1:38 PM

As our gov't keeps telling us, we need to support our economy and go shopping!

Was checking out the web stats for colonelknowledge.com yesterday and found a fabulous list of search terms people had used to get to the site, including:
big booty women dancing pics, huge boys testicles photos, sweaty women in heat pics, master lizard, prosthetic arm designs, kung fu the legend continues, hidden messages in song lyrics, chicks smoking marijuana, and yakuza hokkaido. I can figure most of them out, other than refs to marijuana and prosthetics.

Wednesday, October 31, 2001 :::

I feel OK about blogging this now because it officially has posts that aren't me and Kevin testing it (which are now knocked off the front page) (and hell if I know who those current posts are from)...the Colonel Knowledge Message Board, complete with "garish" colors which may be changed when something better occurs to me. Anyway, feel free to add your opinion of CK, show reviews, lusty missives, whatever.

p.s. my memory of the Alex b-day tape has someone in the crowd crying "He's three!" when asked Alex's age...but I may be wrong...

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 12:01 PM

Yes, the 21st birthday was a quiet affair at the Old West Pub in Bologna, Italy. In attendance: myself, Jody Ray Forbeck, and several mannequins dressed as cowboys and hung from the ceiling with nooses. We drank Texas Longhorn beer, and listened to Italian country western singers singing Patsy Cline tunes phonetically. As Kevin rightly noted the night that recording was made (and what, is it circulating?) was my 19th birthday at Carrie and Nikki's house in 1993. I don't remember it very well, as you can probably imagine having heard the tapes. For those of you who haven't, here's a transcript:

Kevin (from stage): This next song is for the birthday boy, Alex Mogens Galt. How old are you, Alex?

But thanks for the birthday wishes, I spent the day here in Chicago, had some food and some beer with Justin and Dave.

Tuesday, October 30, 2001 :::

Suck...

I'd offer up some contract work for you, but we just lost our primary client and are hurting a bit as well. I'll let you know if you need to look for me in the unemployment (some call it networking) line.

::: posted by Rogue Designer at 3:03 PM

Well, it had to happen sooner or later, and what better timing than right before I head back to Ohio for a few weeks: bing bing, I'm laid off. (Or, rather, my freelancing contract is not being renewed.)

::: posted by kevin seal at 2:34 PM

The Invisible Library and Easy Reader (a good costume for the literate yet TV-loving Seal). Speaking of words, in a study of nuns and Alzheimer's, "The nuns whose sentences were grammatically complex and packed with ideas when they were in their 20s remained sharp of mind when they were in their 80s. In contrast, almost all those whose sentences were simple and comparatively devoid of complex grammatical constructions were demented six decades later."

Monday, October 29, 2001 :::

not to be contrarian, alura, but you heard his 19th. so you heard not only a trashed boot, but an illegally trashed boot. he was living in bologna for his 21st.

i'm not sure how i would up here, but i did: i was spanked by linda ronstadt. the story of one man's rise (and/or fall) from child actor to rodeo clown to porn sub.

hey, if you happen to be on a fast connection, check out what roesing ape did with his poesies, particularly the manifesto. (and be sure to have the sound on.)

::: posted by kevin seal at 4:38 PM

Happy birthday, indeed. I remind you that I've heard a recording of your absolutely trashed self on your 21st. ;)

PR-lissa, here's some self- and cross-promotion...the CK CD is out! Link for crass commercialism to come next week, but here's what the cover looks like. Or, uh, looked like before they screwed up one of my fonts. Whatever. The whole package ROCKS. The Kelvmore-Allumeuse design team is pretty fucking fabulous. And just wait, there'll be more in upcoming months!

::: posted by Alura Allumeuse at 11:07 AM

happy birthday, boot!

in honor of your 27th, a rousing, whiskey-soaked rendition of "burning down the house."

also, for those who know the cardozos: teatro cardozo.

::: posted by kevin seal at 10:54 AM

The linky blog reads very well, Zarbet. (hoots and hollers from the gallery of peanuts.)

::: posted by kevin seal at 10:34 AM

Sunday, October 28, 2001 :::

After Laura's experiences editing Dummies' guides, this ditty about a self-helpless guide strikes me as amusing.

I've been encouraged by Laura herself to post this interview with Jim Mason, who I found in front of me in line for the can at a party at The Ranch last night. Jim is also the director of The Rosetta Project, preserving our linguistic diversity as part of the interesting efforts at Long Now.

And I must say I have created my linkiest blog yet, just to see if it would read well. Hm.

::: posted by Zarbet Rabbit at 7:06 PM