BBC kicks ass -- check the link
The rarest phenomenon in the animal kingdom: human completes sexual favour to secure freedom from grizzly. : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3667399.stm
flicker, blast, dissipate, flare
2005/12/20
2005/12/17
Listening to Xiu Xiu in between Simpsons -- Knowing I'm a fuck-up and proud of it.
---Looking for the answer to life's mysteries by indulging in various sweets: including marshmellow hot chocolate mix, and sipping some tea with my honey. What better to do than rerun old episodes of the Simpsons all day. They belong to us all. They are us. They critique us. They have influenced us. Memo to self: Simpsons is the memo. Anyways, across my desk passed this report that I thought was too interesting to deny. Apistat Commander (Xiu Xiu) blared like the marshmellows in my hot chocolate mix from that warm sound case I call a speaker and reminded me these are bass ackward times.
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2005/12/6
"Verily I say unto you: They don't want you to know!"/All Hail our Saviour Kevin Trudeau!
There's nothing that makes my life brighter than a new infomercial installment from natural health activist Kevin Trudeau. He's a warrior in the fight against corporate America and their culture of quick-fix drugs that do more to cause problems than they do to solve them. He takes mainstream culture to task with his book Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (and the accompanying infomercials for the book). What more could you want from a media personality? He's got media cred -- he's done time like Martha Stewart. And he makes late night television interesting. No more fabulous country CDs thank you! His face is so honest. He could make a good used car salesman. Of course he wants to make money. Of course he's probably exaggerating. But the fact that the FTC has been going after proponents of an industry that stands to hurt theirs (for legitimate reasons or otherwise) adds a little salt to an already sizzling dish. A superstar book seller, if nothing else, he's brough a certain irony of American culture to the surface: freaking out at the monster they've created by buying so much...these people are only too happy to buy more.
So is Kevin Trudeau just a get-rich-quick schemer or a Dahli Lama in the world of Big Pharma. Here's what we know so far:
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