DEVO ON SNL '78

goddamn this is sweet

BLAST FROM THE PABST

From the Petting Zoo archives:

I have no idea who that dude is.



Who the hell is that chick

What?

NL'S LAST POST REMINDED ME OF THIS POSTSECRET POSTCARD

Zen and the Art of Volvo Maintenance

Two of my great loves? In one New York Times article? I'm in middle-class liberal heaven.

LINK

My favorite line:

I asked Cara what people did at Shambhala [meditation retreat]. “Mostly,” she said, “we just hang around, meditate, and walk in the woods — and get boozed.”

SARKOZY TO FRANCE: THINK LESS, WORK MORE

President Nicolas Sarkozy is taking some heavy criticism from France's intellectual class for calling on the population to put down those books, roll up their sleeves and get to work. He's also taking some hits for practicing the "vaguely American" and "undignified" act of of jogging:

LINK (NY Times)

This article stuck out for me because I've taken up running recently.

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Jam band fan or Taliban?

jambandfanortaliban.blogspot.com/

Hindu Prayer Shouted Down in US Senate

Thank (the Christian) God that someone is on guard against the encroaching Hindu menace. Just look at this guy:


His people worship cows, for Christ's sake. Click here for a link to the video.

These are fun:

1. Paul McCartney is or has ever been dead.

2. Stevie Nicks’ assistant had to blow coke up Stevie’s ass due to Nicks’ destroyed nasal passages.

3. Mama Cass died after choking on a ham sandwich.

4. Angie Bowie caught her husband in bed with Mick Jagger.

5. Mark David Chapman was an assassin programmed by the CIA.

6. Members of Led Zeppelin pleased a teenage groupie using a red snapper/shark as their sex toy of choice.

7. Jim Morrison was killed by members of the Nixon administration/faked his own death/died from a heart attack brought on by masturbating in a Parisian bathtub.

8. Deborah Harry was once abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy.

9. Keith Moon drove a car into a Holiday Inn pool on his 21st birthday, knocked out a couple of teeth and got the Who banned for life from all Holiday Inns.

10. Gene Simmons had a cow tongue grafted onto his own tongue after a car accident.

11. Rod Stewart/Lil’ Kim/Jordan Knight had to get their respective stomachs pumped after ingesting a gallon of semen.

12. During a drug bust on Mick’s place Marianne Faithfull was once found with a Mars bar between her legs.

13. Marilyn Manson had his lowest set of ribs removed so he could blow himself.

14. Alice Cooper and Frank Zappa attempted to gross each other out by shitting onstage, then eating it.

15. Bob Marley was assassinated/given cancer in his toe by the CIA.

16. Phil Collins’ tune “In the Air Tonight” was written after Collins witnessed a gruesome incident in which one man let another man drown.

17. Keith Richards routinely has in the past/continues today to get full-body blood transfusions.

18. Jack and Meg White are brother and sister.

19. “Hotel California” is about a Christian church that was abandoned then taken over by Satan worshipers, the Eagles are Satan worshipers and Satan him (or her) self appears in the window on the album jacket.

20. Bob Ezrin, who produced Lou Reed’s Berlin, got the anguished children’s cries you hear on “The Kids” by telling his own children their mother was dead and recording the sounds they made.

21. Pearl Jam was named after a peyote-infused jam Eddie Vedder’s grandmother used to make.

22. Charles Manson auditioned for the Monkees.

23. Marilyn Manson played Kevin Arnold’s friend Paul Pfeiffer on the Wonder Years.

24. Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his guitar-playing gifts.

25. Roy Orbison was an albino and wore dark glasses because he was blind.