In "FedEx Arrivals During Thunderstorms"

I live about two miles north of Memphis International, between runways 36R and 36C. Every night serves up a slice of the spectacular as these planes come in 2 to 3 abreast spaced a minute apart.

In "I really CAN'T go home again."

Personally, I'm relocating to Pittsburgh. It's a slice of heaven.

I'm from Memphis. Memphis has a very large gay population, the only bars that last are either gay bars or Beale St. tourist trap white boy blues dumps. The gay population tends toward bears rather than the urbane and stylish. We have no subway, and a subpar bus line. The population is friendly and rather tech savvy, although the economy doesn't support many high paying tech positions. Companies locate here to exploit the vast techie crowd, paying $10/hr where in other metro areas they would have to fork over $25/hr or more for equivalent expertise. Fedex, International Paper, and Autozone pay very well for tech workers though. As for the arts, they're here, but the scene isn't as thriving as it could be. Memphis is a friendly but cliquish city, so your experience would vary depending upon the filter of friends and aquantances you make. Midtown is generally the most appealing area of the city, where you would find all of the qualities that you desire. As for areas outside, only the University district is at all appealing.

In "Curious George - The Occult in Islam"

A primer on Sufism.

In "A Cotton Candy Autopsy"

I came across my well read and coverless copy of this while packing yesterday. It's one of the best things ever.

In "Dave Chappelle speaks from S Africa, not in asylum"

Yeah, wow. So, Hawthorne, do you have a body covered with scars from bar fights and your stint in the French Foreign Legion, or just those incredibly well-lived fingertips?

My very short mom walked face first into then-heartthrob Patrick Swayze's crotch accidentally while not watching out for what loomed ahead. As he is a not quite too distant relative, that makes it all the funnier.

In ""

To me the O brings to mind o-ring, which brings to mind the sphincter.

In "Eddie van Halen saw this and started spinning"

Kaki's playing is no more gimmicky than blues riff shredding, and not much more difficult and infinitely more tasteful. She exists as the refutation to every girl who thought that their hands were too small to play guitar.

In "Curious George: Supermarket poppies."

bluehorse: if you use a large amount (say, a quarter pound per serving) of unwashed seeds for a serving, yeah. if you boil the seeds first, no. if you're just sprinkling seeds on rolls, no. And those seeds you get in the jars have already been washed. There won't be more than a trace of opiates in it. It's the bulk seeds you have to be concerned about.

The poppy seeds that come from McCormick's jars come from the same harvest as the non-thebaine pods in Tasmania. Tasmainian poppies are the most potent around. Oh, and those seeds? They're generally not from drilled pods. They get them out by crushing the fresh opium rich pods, smearing that wonderful sticky latex all over the seeds in the process. The frequent claim that poppy seeds have micrograms of opium per ounce is absolute poppycock. Try 100-500 mg a pound if they're bulk and unwashed from Australia. This wide variation in potency, along with the facts that they fester with fungus and that sometimes you'll get high-thebaine seeds makes them way too risky to play with. Thebaine acts like strychnine, and seizures aren't fun.

In "We're taking over the world"

Commodore Rock - Ladytron Scenic Pastures - Archers of Loaf Moya - Godspeed You Black Emperor! Farmer in the City (Remembering Pasolini) - Scott Walker Hate the Christian Right - Team Dresch

In "News photographer snaps picture of a bloody face in a mirror"

It's just Scottish comic book writer Grant Morrison floating by in his astral form.

In "The Grateful, and Sexy Dead"

Olive Thomas.

In "Will comics be the next evolution of the novel?"

Grant Morrison's The Invisibles is the greatest work of fiction of the late 90s regardless of medium.

(limited to the most recent 20 comments)