Hammer Mill Days

Hmmm. Looks like a good place to pound some stakes into the ground. No, sFshzenKlyrn , not that kind of steak. The pointy kind, typically made of wood. Wood . A hard, fibrous material that comes from large plants, like... like... Hey! Put the man-sized tuber down!! Oh, hi. Jeezus christmas - this is like herding cats! Worse... herding cats on Neptune , except without that nice comforting methane atmosphere. Well, anyway... your various Big Green type amigos have taken a slight detour on our way back from Mars... very slight... about 25 light-years off course, thanks to president Lincoln, in point of fact. In a fit of uncontrollable curiosity, Lincoln navigated us over to the solar system of Cancri 55 in the constellation Cancer. Far off the beaten path, to be sure, and here we are on a very tight budget for this trip. (No petty cash... just a stack of pre-signed checks from our label, Loathsome Prick records, in a galaxy that only takes cash or plastic). So much for the Lincoln navi...

The holidays are upon us, and the news outlets are obsessing about "Black Friday" - good thing? bad thing? - to the point where no other news really seems to matter. It was a lead story on NBC and PBS evening news, I'm certain, and my morning newspaper is chock full of nuts waiting in long lines at 6:00 a.m. for the doors to swing open on the cultural utopia that is Best Buy. Just doing their patriotic duty, as defined by our commander-in-chief. It's not really just about fighting and dying... They also serve who borrow and spend, right? Float the economy for Dubya. Fight a short, sweet, victorious war for Dubya. (Hurry up... only 14 months to go.) Still the pavlovian networks pump out the pabulum, and if you don't listen too closely it can almost seem like things are just as right as they need to be. War is over (if you want it), NPR - just don't report on the sucker and it will go away. Fact is, it's really more about how the story is reported on. Fo...