Stephen King, of Douchebaggery:

Time: I'll pass your suggestion along. So you're a news junkie?
SK: I got hooked by my wife. You'd be surprised, or maybe you wouldn't
be surprised, being that I'm around John Mellancamp a lot - he and I are
doing this play. But it's the news 24-7. Always on.
Time: What's this play?
SK: It's called Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. It's a musical.
...
Time: What's the gist of the story?
SK: [Mellencamp] had bought a place in Indiana by a lake, and he said
that the person had told him the place was haunted. Well, you hear that
- when you buy a place that's been around for a while in the woods,
people are going to say it's haunted. [Apparently], there was some kind
of tragedy that involved two brothers and a girl in the fifties - one of
the brothers shot the other one apparently in some kind of a drunken
game. Killed him. So the other brother and the girl jumped in the car
to take the kid to the hospital, because they thought maybe they could
save him. They ran into a tree and they were both killed. So apparently the
ghosts haunted the place. So John asked me, "Do you think we could turn
this into a play?"
Good lawdy, somebody please stop him.

Some wonderful spitting from Mr. Grigg.

-Brenn

oh note: here's a purdy firearm recently acquired by a friend of ours to his significant other, another friend

...

Most of you're familiar with this story via your own means, or me ranting about it throughout the end of the week:

For those not in the know, NORFED, minter and distributor of American Liberty Dollars (ALDs), is a competitive currency/barter company that encourages the voluntary exchange of silver and gold over the passing of Federal Reserve Notes. Propaganda aside, this last Thursday morning the FBI and the Secret Service raided the NORFED office and vaults, taking all of the computers (including pending, paid orders), gold/silver/copper coinage, and anything else the SS and jack boots could get their piggy little mitts on. This raid included the (Sunshine Mint) warehouse where NORFED stored all of the bullion that is held and numbered to correspond with the paper warehouse contracts that are also circulated, effectively stealing the metals owned by possessors of ALD bills.

An outrage I can't describe. One doesn't need to wonder very long to draw the corollary of NORFED also having minted bullion rounds depicting the Representative Ron Paul this year.

Note that CNN is referring to the currency as "illegal" here in their headline, though both the US Treasury and Mint have previously said that ALDs are legal exchange, as long as they don't claim to be "legal tender".

I had plenty else to bitch about, but you know what? Carpe Fuckum.

Elizabeth, Sax, Rex, Luke and I played Monopoly last night, and somehow I beat Rex. Now *there's* nooz to report about.

To close, I'd like to introduce you all to a new drinking game I am terribly fond of. Make sure to have plenty of alcohol within reach, and you'll need a copy of any single Red Hot Chili Peppers album. This can be played alone, or with friends: put the album on a music-playing device (duh), and every time they sing or mention "California", drink the bottle of liquor, eat all of the pills from every medicine cabinet in the house, scrawl "Anthony Kiedis must die" on the wall in red lipstick, and crawl under the bed to pray for a cold, slow death.

-Brenn

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Nancy Grace, who gave birth to twins earlier this month, has been hospitalized with blood clots in her lungs, a complication of her recent pregnancy.

Some of that vile goo coursing through her veins must have leaked. Hey, Nancy, why don't you prosecute some of those coagulators? "I think thrombus should fry!"

In down-side news, Ira Levin passed away this Monday. He penned the most excellent dystopian novel ever, "This Perfect Day". I pray the publisher who is responsible for pulling that book out of print died before Levin did.

Smart Kart

Are you giggling already?

Meet the Smart car: An ultra-compact, Mercedes-designed, head-turning little vehicle that's been negotiating traffic and squeezing into impossibly tiny spaces in Europe for almost a decade.

Luke and I, carpooling (and if I do my maths properly, getting better gas mileage per-capita), see some hepcat putting around in one of these from Dale and 94 into downtown Minneapolis every other day. You hate SUVs now? Raise your hand: who wants to be in the silly little eggshell when some puckered sphincter barreling down with their Humvee squishes them all over 94's Thunder Road? Do you think you'll just lose a balloon and get your vengeance with a red turtle shell later?

*putt putt putt*
-Brenn

Well, hoorah for Ron Paul's 4M+ Federal Reserve Notes yesterday. I know Luke, Rex and I took part.

This article needs no introduction or commentary. Yes, friends, it is real.

AUSTIN, Texas—State agencies issue too many reports, a new 668-page report says.

Oh, and that bill I mentioned a couple posts ago? It passed.

I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm monitored!

And the soldiers who killed people different from us who gave that right to me!
And I gladly SUBMIT, or go to prison and defend her still today,

'Cause there ain't no doubt I love my Empire! God Bless the U.S.A.


Mr. Grigg, Grigg, Grigg.

And since you did last Friday, don't forget to come and see the Jacobins perform this coming Thursday at Stasiu's in Northeast. They're on first, so you sallies can get home and to bed on-time. To wet, there's some footage of Nate making his first mistake ever last Friday.

And here I plug an adorable photo of the lovely Elizabeth and Wet Spot of Rollergirls janitorial fame. :)

Seeing all this comin' Thursday,
-Brenn

Look what Rex and I did!!