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Friday, September 08, 2000

This Van Flandern guy, high priest of pseudo-science, is all over the place suddenly. Why are we giving this guy airtime? It's people like this that cause School Boards to outlaw things.
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Since Schwartz and I have been pitching funny Al Gore pics. back and forth, I thought I would display a few other Pols I found around the net in similarly compromising poses. Enjoy... I certainly am.






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Ladies and gentlemen... I give you, his majesty... Matthew Henry Sandler!!!

Note that with babies, as in all other thing things, Lars gets the "shit" work.


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Someone just came up to me and asked if they could have a client list... I told them "only a man whose heart is pure may wield the client list. And if you are such a man, then you shall have it."

I felt like the comic book store guy saying "Question the first..."
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There's been a flurry of doomsaying lately about global warming... but before we jump off the cliff with the rest of the lemmings and start shouting that the sky is falling, shouldn't we wait until this passes to see if things go back to normal. I mean, I'm no meteorologist, but this seems like a potential culprit to me.

Alright, maybe not, but I gave you some interesting stuff to read didn't I?
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Thursday, September 07, 2000

This article is mostly bah-bah-boolsheet, but down at the bottom there is a very interesting bit on advanced torpedo technology.... specifically, the "supercavitating" torpedo and the underwater sound barrier. Cool.
posted by LT2 11:26 AM ET | discuss | link

Wednesday, September 06, 2000

Today is a day of milestones:

1) Adam and Stephanie produced a healthy baby boy named Matthew Henry (named after me I can only assume)

and

2) For the first time, perhaps ever, It is possible for me to touch my two top front teeth, with my two bottom front teeth.
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Tuesday, September 05, 2000

From Reuters:

Head Found in Giant Cod May Be Missing Fisherman's

BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) - A human head found inside a giant cod probably belonged to a man missing from a trawler which later caught the huge fish, police said Thursday.

Police believe the head discovered in the stomach of a 97-pound Morgan cod Tuesday was that of fisherman Michael Peter Edwards, 39, missing from a fishing trawler off Townsville in the far north of Australia Sunday.

``In our view it is too much of a coincidence for the head not to belong to the missing man,'' said detective sergeant Peter Wright of Townsville police.

The head was found by workers at a Cairns seafood plant when they were preparing the 5.2-foot fish for sale.

Edwards fell from the deck of the fishing boat Loray near Slashers Reef, 56 miles northeast of Townsville.

His colleagues continued to fish in the area after alerting police that Edwards was missing. They later landed the fish and police called off an extensive air and sea search after the head was found.

Police said DNA tests may take up to six weeks to establish whether the head belonged to the missing man.

``The cause of death will never be clearly established simply because we only have the head,'' Wright told Reuters. ''There are hundreds of little reef sharks in the water which could end up in a feeding frenzy and destroy most of a body which was in the water, and the cod is renowned for being a scavenger.''

Police say investigations continuing.

Morgan cod grow to great length and are common in waters around the Great Barrier Reef but do not have sharp teeth.
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Many people ask me if we get a lot of strange requests to read all sorts of weird scripts here at my company. The answer is yes. And while the following was forwarded to me by Tony, it is illustrative of the kinds of things many of us in this nutty business have to deflect on a daily basis:

"I wrote a movie based on my experience and my federal slavery civil rights suit that exposes the alien agency that is occupying America. My websites are all being censored? So it is difficult for me to pitch my story. Also, since I'm on the streets in an CESS Psycho alien agency(Cincinnati, OH) it makes things even harder(I'm being taken down unfairly).

I would like you to assist in getting the production studios interested (maybe they already stole my script idea and that's why the sites are censored?) Feed back is difficult since my email and voice mail is being censored.

I want front money and involvement in finishing the script (we can talk details later). If you find a studion that thinks the story is hot, wire me funds and I'll fly to LA(I was a homeless guy on the streets in LA back in 1994--part of the story). The story is in the X-Files genre and has Mulder investigating me and when I dissappear___the federal investigators fly to Chicago looking for me. They are in for a big surprise when they get to Chi-town and find out that the people there aren't!

Well, you'll have to read the script and find out the rest! Contact me promptly if your interested!"


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I keep a bag of beef jerky in my desk for those long afternoon food droughts. Now, I didn't think beef jerky could go bad, but my current bag is moulding. What's that all about?
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For those of you who have lived in Los Angeles long enough to remember, and miss, KNAC, I finally got around to going on-line and tracking down the live web-feed. You can link to it here. This is a heavy metal/hard rock station that went all-Latino on the actual radio about five years ago. Just having listened to it for about ten minutes, it sounds like they've moved a little more towards the KROQ side of the hard rock scene and away from classic heavy metal. Oh well.

But hey, at least you don't have to worry about radio edits.
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Well, I had this great plan for a video segment to include with an application for ABC's The Mole. But, since it has since been rejected by my friend's bosses over at TPIR, I feel it's now safe to reveal my idea to the world. Here's the script I wrote last week:

INT - DARKNESS

We can't tell where we are just yet, it's dark, and the camera seems to be lying on the ground, pointed at a wall. cables run along the linoleum tiled floor. the wall is cinderblock.

Suddenly, rough hands grab the camera and spin it around. We see LARS. The hands are his. He sets the camera on a box so we can see his face, framed in the lens. Behind him we see a brightly lit stage. Lars holds up a stack of CUE CARDS and starts holding them, one after another, in front of the cameras. EACH SENTENCE APPEARS ON ITS OWN CARD. THIS IS THE ONLY WAY HE WILL SPEAK THROUGHOUT THIS VIDEO:

LARS (VIA CUE CARD)
Hi, my name is Lars Theriot. In order to show how I would make a good candidate
for ABC's The Mole, I've decided to sneak backstage to a taping of The Price is Right.

Lars leans to one side and points over his own shoulder. Now we can see that BOB BARKER is standing on the stage shouting COME ON DOWN!!! The familiar PRICE IS RIGHT MUSIC plays as a prospective contestant goes ape-shit.

LARS (VIA CUE CARD)
Now, some statistics on how I got here. Number of lies told 17; Number of misdemeanors
committed: 14; Number of felonies committed: 2; Number of twinkies stolen from CBS
commissary: 2

Lars holds up a packet of Twinkies.

LARS (VIA CUE CARD)
And I did it all for you, the good people at ABC.

Lars runs out of cue cards and dons a huge shit-eating grin.

A HAND moves into frame and hands Lars another CUE CARD. Lars holds it up to camera, his smile disappearing.

LARS (VIA NEW CUE CARD)
Security is coming.

Lars pulls another, smaller card from his pocket which reads:

LARS (VIA LAST CUE CARD)
I must flee. Avenge me!!!

He runs off camera. Seconds later, six uniformed pairs of legs run past the camera. In the background, BOB BARKER looks over his shoulder, distracted by strange sounds off-stage.

THE END
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Monday, September 04, 2000

Well, CBS's plans have backfired earlier than expected. Somebody with a bullhorn spilled the beans to the houseguests. They didn't catch the amount, though, and all pretty much decided they wouldn't do it for $50K, but Curtis or George might do it for $100K. So, you can imagine the reaction that the offer of $10K will get now. Again, the real show is going on inside the production offices right now.
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Are you all tired of me going on about that show I love to hate, Big Brother, yet? Well, too bad, because here's an interesting New York Times article that talks about some of the differences between Americans and Europeans and why the American BB has turned out so differently from the other versions. It also talks about the antics that the producers are up to to try to spice up the show. This Wednesday they're going to make an offer to the hamsters that one of them can take $10,000 to leave the show then and there. If one of them bites, they've got a new houseguest, the "very attractive" Beth, ready to take their place. Given the way this group sticks together at all costs, though, I'd be very surprised if any of them takes it. Chalk up another victory for the Boring and another loss for the producers. At this point, I think they should put cameras and mikes in the Big Brother control room and meeting rooms so we could see the producers' reaction every time one of their tactics fails. That would be entertaining!
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