Sometimes it's hard...

...to say goodbye.

Apparently, Geocities, the free webhoster, is closing. (Thanks to lastplanetojakarta for the linked tip).

I am not particularly depressed about this, but It takes me back and makes me feel a little weird about how in my first computer class (possibly my first point of contact with my lord and savior, the internet) we had to make geocities pages. Mine failed terribly. I am not tech savvy.

So yeah, something foundational in my experience with a daily use tool is now kaput.

I think that the third comment on the linked article, brought to us by "lazycat202" best expresses my sentiments.

"Geocities was a good web service. At the end, every body have to die."

Actually, the second sentence is fucking deep.

Every body have to die.

-kevtoncity

hey! i can't find that darn radio...

...(mouth noise) yo, turn it to that station.

This is just the briefest of announcements. Through a little bit of random personal effort, I've landed a 2 hour spot on my local college radio station, WUOG.

My shift is from 10 to Midnight, Eastern Standard Time, this Saturday, October 24th (holy shit it's already October 24th).

online listening happens here:

http://wuog.org/live/

this could be really cool. or it could suck.
-kevjay

i'm at the pizza hut...

...i'm at the taco bell.

the title of this post really doesn't do justice to its real subject matter. soooo unfortunate when two notable events one kinda-sorta awesome, the other REALLY AWESOME occur pretty much simultaneously.

to finish off the first note (inspiration for title), it's a really catchy song about combination restaurants that you can download here. Thanks to overcompensating.com for that (i know it's cooler to find out about this shit on your own, but i didn't, nyah nyah nyah jerk.

THE REAL NEWZ!

Sister's getting murried! She's ENGAAAGED (thanks to Ranger) for that.

As far as I know, she and her beau ben is not getting married in a combination taco bell and pizza hut.

ANOTHER RAD NOTE: I get to be all the bridesmaids. By myself! I R Made of Honour!


Jungle Paradise!

iiiii'm every WOman, it's all in miiiiiiiiii,
-kevsmaid

basta! ya...

...basta!

Lou Dobbs is most definitely a human manifestation of the way "news" is increasingly an entertainment-based industry designed to evoke negative emotions (a-la horror film) while purporting to be an accurate depiction of reality. Then people act on these fantasy horrors and we end up with general hate, hate speech, and (at very very worst) hate crimes.

Anyway, I won't write a treatise on all that here. There are plenty of media/movement people who dedicate much of their lives to this very cause and those people write about this much better than I could. Also, I expect that most of you already know that Lou Dobbs is a huge tool.

Nonetheless, I would like you to:

A) Watch this video:



B) Go this website:

www.bastadobbs.com

Sign the petition, get him off CNN. He'll probably move to Fox News soon. Still horrible, but at least Fox News has very little in the way of a veil of objectivity.

ya basta con el odio,
-kay

R-a-a-a-a-d...

...yes it is!

The Manhattan Experimental Theater Workshop (mxtw), which was a staple of my teenage development. It made my summers worthwhile. It made me a thinker! It made me a man (or something). In the parking lot of the Manhattan Arts Center I made some of my long-term friends and wrecked my car.

And now, there is a website. It is:

http://www.mxtw.org/

At this website you can read about a program you should send your kids to. And see some portraits of yourstruly as a young man. in black pants. and ill-fitting t-shirts. and you can read all the weird shit i wrote and helped to direct kids to write.

ooh this trip down memory lane is giving me th' cheelz,

-kevexteedublyu

fuck...

...columbus day.

why on earth would we celebrate the most visible of a group of dudes who committed genocide in the name of adventure and a bunch of rich europeans who really weren't particularly bad off? guy wasn't even a very competent asshole set on conquest, as those guys went.

fuck that.

let's celebrate Dikembe Mutombo instead. he's awesome.

-Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo (kevin) Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo Day

i don't....

...know why i read anymore.

Fortunately: I finally found something that was interesting in one of my academic text.

Unfortunately: It only served to upset me and further devalue the topic of study for this graduate course (national intelligence).

According to admiral stansfield turner, former director of central intelligence and intelligence historian, in 1961 the CIA dispatched an agent to execute Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. This failed, though, as Lumumba had already been assassinated by political rivals. In turner's estimation, the CIA very likely cooperated in this as well.

I knew about and respected the historical legacy of Lumumba prior to reading this. Either I never knew about the U.S.' involvement in his assassination or I had forgotten about it. Regardless, I am incessantly reminded that the United States is party to projects that result in catastrophe for millions with devastating frequency.

I don't know how to react to this idea...it strikes me that publishing this on an open forum without question undermines any ambition to pursue leadership such that i might change what i despise. The incredible capacity of intelligence to gather information about people almost totally guarantees this (i suppose i owe this knowledge to my class).

i feel gross,
-kevin

kayperv! I coulda sworn you...

...wuz a nerd!



i is a nerd.

Linearity! Constant Variance! Normality! Independence! Fixed X!

-kevin of least squares

ps. Emily!