The Lucky Pierre SwearLine
Fabulous Audio but NSFW (surprise!). The Transcripts are hysterical too.

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I Wonder If He Asked Her to Touch His "No-Spin Zone" [via] The Bill O'Reilly sex scandal. Here's a news article about it. I have no idea whether any of it is true, but it sure makes for good reading.

The 3rd and Final Debate Once again, I guess I will be the one to post this. Let's post the running commentaries here.

Dangerous George...Why does it seem that the east side of town is the bad side of town? It's like that here in Vancouver (East Van, Downtown Eastside) and I can think of New York's Lower East Side, London's East End, East L.A., Montreal's East End, I can think of a few southerly bad parts; South Philly, and the Southside of Chicago (is it still bad?) but am drawing a blank on north and west. Now that I think of it, west seems to be the posh part in a lot of places - London, Manhattan, and Vancouver. What's the bad part of your town, and what side of town is it on?

Good Books! Curious GeorgeL Good Books!For the first time in a long while I've found myself with the opportunity to catch up on some reading. I am tackling the large and nebulous field of 'good books I really should have read by now but haven't.' So…suggestions? more inside

Stagolee killed Billy Lyons over a Stetson hat. 100 years of narrative, legend, and myth.

Bush, Kerry and Nader respond to questions posed by youth voters, as part of the Presidential Youth Debate hosted by The New Voters Project. Rebuttals coming soon on October 17. via Slashdot more inside

What's it like, Dubya? [embedded .mpg]

Juris my diction crap A new US Treasury ruling states that US citizens cannot consume Cuban goods anywhere in the world. Full stop. Travel abroad and smoke them there, and you’ll still go to prison.

US to rate its allies on their treatment of Jews. A special office within the State Department will publicly issue a report each year on how foreign governments treat Jews in their countries. State Dept officials feel it will lead to charges of favoritism and ultimately erode the credibility of their other human rights mnitoring. [Telegraph registration]

Painting with light. A small collection of the works of great stained glass artists. more inside

Curious George: Book name I have been trying to find a book I read a while back for years. It's about this woman who is schizophrenic and it's written in her point of view. She goes through the stages of the illness (from childhood) and she even becomes a doctor. I vaguely remember that her symptoms were finally lessened through the use of kindey dialysis. I also remember that one of her recurring symptoms was hallucinating about helicopters. I don't remember if it was a true story, but it was very convincing.

Interactive cartoons: Explore the universe of the surreal with Mr. Furd, help the Beetleboy in his epic pursuit of an albino roly-poly, witness the pathos of the Monoliths of Sog, and dream your xylene dreams. Shockwave and either broadband or load-time-patience required. more inside

Semantic Simian Savannah Sharpen your sense of the surreal and strangle strange sentence structures simultaneously!

My Fellow Non-Americans.... This US election is important to the world, not just the US, and we non-Americans have to sit in absolute frustrated impotence and cross our fingers that there are enough sane, decent Americans to oust the war criminal. Right? Well... this isn't much, but it's something. So attempt to persuade a voter in Ohio!

Hat facts

The "45 minutes" claim was false Well, not a big surprise or anything, I guess. But it did have some rather large ramifications at the time. more inside

Kiwious Jorge: what to get the new citizen? Since there are so many Kiwi monkeys, I have a question for yez. A Colombian friend has finally been awarded permanent NZ residence. What iconic welcome present would you give him?

a monster a day... is good.