An overcast, bleak Thursday, August 27th of 2009. AT&T CEO Randall Stevenson, bloated to morbidly obese in excess of ham-sized foie gras wrapped in thousand dollar bills, wheezes atop his leather throne at the summit of the AT&T Tower, downtown Minneapolis.

"NO," he snorted, "NO, NO!" in fury, pounding his pudgy, cigar-clutching fist on his mahogany desk, his other soft sausage-digits perching his top hat in place. Through his monocle he squints in contempt at the CWA protesters marching in a circle on Ninth and Marquette, outside of the
atrium door far below. Leaning forward, he could hear the faint, distant echoes of their chants,

"AT&T, THIS IS YOU! AT&T, THIS IS YOU!"

"NO SHIT SANDWICHES, NO VITAMIN GUMMIES!"

"AT&T IS MUTATING SWINE FLU!"

"THEY TURK ERR JERBS!"

A red and gold-caped man, fist in the air, lead their proletarian cries of freedom with a megaphone, "Give us our Fair Contract Now or we'll pass out more rubber gloves as protected by NRLA Federal law!"

Randall Stevenson winced with contempt, jabbing his cigar out on his silent Tibetan slave boy. "ARGH, let them have their contract! I cannot stand this shouting!" he stood, a meaty tuxedo sleeve sweeping a solid gold statue from his desk, "My plans to take away their health insurance and outsource their jobs to Bangalore have been foiled again!"

I've been hooked on this comic since Chopsy linked it many years ago, but a particularly good one here (I'd embed it, but shit if it don't leak over into my links on your right).

an addendum to my last post, at Meryl's suggestion,

The new GM Boxica.

Mercedes-Benz R&D

Doktor 1: Frau Kraut, let's make one of those silly box-cars, like the
Scion XB and the Honda Element.

















Doktor 2: Ja, und then people can show their superiority by driving a
more expensive ugly box. Brilliantenheimer!










Nissan R&D, marketing,

Hamoshi: We need to get in on this box-car action. Except we will
remove all of the sharp edges. What should we call it?

Ryeohoto: CUBE.

Hamoshi: Good call. That's why you make the big bucks.

back in my 04/29 post I made reference to Agent 0682288. This weekend Mister Stern sent us all a link to the web site with all of the voicemail recordings and some her very unusual web pages. Check 'eem oot.

a new addiction

the PhotoSwap iPhone app. Here is the first of five (linked) from the German-end of a photo conversation I had today:

wat

here's some scrumptious copypasta for you to stuff in your maws. This reminds me of the Agent 0682288 (#?) that used to leave voicemails at the LC back in the day from her Kansas State batty-ward.

Terry Wagar | April 25, 2009, 10:46am | #

Eric Carlson and Joan Wagar, A,K,A, Doubleclick and Mrs Dash,( yes those are there nicknames they gave each other.) admitted to poisoning me while I was a plasma donor back in 2005.
Eric Carlson pedofied me behind prison walls and then framed me as a pedophile on march 26th 2007, I caught the crime on a audio recorder I put in Joan's purse.
there were people in authority helping them with this and nobody in authority will help they pretend nothing happened and refuse to investigate this.
Eric Carlson changed his hair color and his name to Gashel and Clackamas Walmart was hiding him from my Family by pretending He's someone else but this is not hidden, only ignored by the authority's and media
I'm disabled from being poisoned and the hospitals refuse to admit I'm poisoned.
My Family is in danger from these people and I have no other recourse but to make these charges public.
My name is Terry Wagar,Im from Portland Oregon and I'm backing up these charges.
I have been threatened with harassment charges by a Sargent Walker, She is a Portland Police officer stationed at the OHSU hospital, for the non crime of reporting a multi murder conspiracy within that hospital.
They dont give a s4!t Joan and Eric was poisoning a plasma donor!
And how many god damn John Ray's in authority are there in portland oregon!
You damn serial killer.
Where did Mrs Dash keep her stash? in A Garlic Salt Shaker!
What did Doubleclick do with his Dick? You Pedo!
Why you hiding A body double for Clackamas Walmart?
Cover this up Sgt Walker!

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2008/11/382778.shtml

This comment apparently having nothing to do with the URL it links at the end, the latter URL's circumstances are pretty recoiling in their own different right. I will render no opinion on those.