word for the season:
havelock �
The cloth that hangs from the back of a hat to protect the wearer's neck

word for the moment:
paynim

How about Debris from Oklahoma, then? Starting out in 1974 as Victoria Vein & the Thunderpunks, they played in suburban shopping centres to no applause whatsoever and howled/stuttered songs of urban alienation over a skeletal backing of scratchy treble guitars, uncontrolled cheap monophonic synths and proto-X Ray Spex shit-sax. Intriguing, 1975 photographs of them in lab coats and aircraft goggles playing white-noise TV sets say they should have been brilliant. Unfortunately, their recordings nowadays sound way too clear to hide a total lack of catchy songs. Really short songs, which is dead punky. But all shit! Unlucky!

Full of great songs and looking 20 times better than Debris were Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell's Neon Boys. Their 1974 proto-Velvets All Night Workers stance was also buoyed up by Hell's pre-Rotten spiky hair, but everything else was unessential retro, from the Beatles-in-Hamburg B photos to Verlaine's choice of a stage surname.

{Julian Cope's Headheritage
music reviews with no commercial timeline and a surfeit of diddy wah love and knowledge.}}

The result galvanizes other experimental groups around the world to confirm it, and pressures theorists to better understand it. The rate of wobble is sensitive to a strange sea of virtual particles that pop into and out of existence everywhere. The unexpected wobble rate may indicate that this sea houses virtual particles that include nearly invisible supersymmetric counterparts to known particles. If so, a nearly invisible universe of real supersymmetric particles might exist all around us.

Tomorrow's picture: Hamburger Heaven
apod

Professor Lessig's bloglike node

I won't be reading or linking from or to metafilter again

map of light and sound transference in Asia

.....an Earth
inside of Earth, and we uncover
its temple columns, weapons, scrapers, coins,
and marvel as if this were Mars.
And we've been told...


Albert Goldbarth

...Not some mad mentalism then but something simpler yet more frightening about love
that the man has negated in him not only the world but his most precious sentiments
what's dire is that the story denies and so promulgates the notion that one can deny
the belief no the conviction that some experiences love most of all can must be exempted...

C. K. Williams
The Georgia Review
Volume LXI, Number 2
Summer 2002

Verity Stob is quick, has depth and access to an extensive vocabulary, and at some time in the last millenium evidently purged herself of any shreds and bits of reverence remaining from her surely once existant innocence.
{ I cringe at each mispelling}

{brit mom articulate and real from a link at this guy who did this which I personally think is pretty noblesse oblige}

Thousands of tons of U.S. emergency food aid destined for crisis-stricken Zimbabwe has been diverted to other countries, and a new shipload may be diverted within days, because the donations include genetically modified corn that the Zimbabwean government does not want to accept.
If some of the corn seeds are sown instead of eaten, the resulting plants will produce gene-altered pollen that will blow about and contaminate surrounding fields.
That could render much of the corn grown in Zimbabwe -- a nation that in most years is a major exporter -- unshippable to nations in Europe and elsewhere that restrict imports of bioengineered food, because of environmental and health concerns.
"The U.S. is using its power to impose its view that modified maize is not a danger," said Carol Thompson, a political economist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, who has spent much of the past 10 years in Zimbabwe.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/pan/6a28000/6a28100/6a28111r.jpg

picturing DNA. artists and ideas about the genome

{it must have been, for the kids, when it was first built, like walking into the back of a five-dollar bill}

"We need to choose a tactic that will put us on the moral high ground to gain international support and enlist support within the Israeli ranks.�

Shaath stressed that the Palestinian Authority was unable to contain armed groups such as Hamas due to �the destruction of the PA security capabilities� by Israel, which has bombed a large number of police and security offices in the Gaza Strip and attacked others in the West Bank.

�We tried then to resort to dialogue � with armed groups � but Israel did everything to render our task impossible,� he said, pointing to the July 22 killing of Hamas' top military leader Salah Shehada in an air raid just as Palestinians said they were about to secure a truce among armed groups.

jordan times
Monday, August 5, 2002

Japan (Reuters) -- Shares in fast-food giant McDonald's Holdings Co (Japan) hit a record low Monday on concerns that aggressive cuts to its hamburger prices will not be enough to reverse dwindling sales.
.....
On Monday, the Japanese unit of U.S. fast-food giant McDonald's Corp began selling plain hamburgers for 59 yen (49 cents), down from 80 yen, and cheeseburgers for 79 yen instead of 120 yen -- their lowest prices ever in Japan.

dan piraro has a job to do, and he does it to the letter

Finnish animation guy helpful tips and upful intent

Lemme explain something here. Just because a song is written in the first person doesn't mean THE ARTIST IS THAT PERSON. In fact, 99 percent of the time he's likely to NOT be that person. If it were any other way, we'd have to exhume the body of Robert Browning and test his DNA for Multiple Personality Disorder.

Randy Newman doesn't REALLY wanna kill short people.

I hope Johnny Cash didn't shoot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

Clint Eastwood didn't really kill anybody the year he won the Oscar for "Unforgiven" -- a movie about a cop killer, released the same year "Cop Killer" came out.

And Steve Earle didn't run off to Vancouver to escape the draft when he wrote "My Uncle." Steve Earle was never even drafted. It's called artistic license. If you're sitting in the CNN studio audience, it's called, "He was just PURTENDIN' to be that guy!"

joe bob briggs has a web site