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ABC Monday Night Football Sounds Page -- Monday, October 4, 1999
I'm not such a big fan of football, but I am a major fan of coverage of TV sports, and ABC always has the coolest sets, particularly the new one, which forces them to cover the action amidst the tourists and gimmicky appetizers of an ESPN CLUB restaurant. Although recent-years' CBS fanfares have been good, nothing beats the old-school Monday Night Football theme -- the "DAH-Dah-dah-dannnnh" theme song, not today's could-be-a-music-bed-from-anything theme. The old one says "brutal sports action" and "gentlemanly sports history" in the same trumpet bleats, and it is available here in two lengths, both of which are excellent. Also available are four variations on Hank Williams Jr's MNF theme, including a sans-music clip of Bocephus shouting "Are you READY, etc!!!!!!"
Poot.com -- Monday, October 4, 1999
The disappointment you may feel at discovering that poot.com is owned by an airport in Germany quickly dissolves when you see the funny "world of POOT" logo.
Praise Bob -- The Website -- Saturday, October 2, 1999
Praise Bob was a zine that used to pop up all the time around downtown Ann Arbor. The name suggests a SubGenius affiliation but the ministers of Slack were never mentioned in the editorial content... that I recall, anyway.
They're Webcasting part of the Coachella Fest -- Saturday, October 2, 1999
The RealAudio always locks up when I start to really get into it, so I probably won't get to enjoy too much of this. Oh well.
Rumbo Recording Studio -- Saturday, October 2, 1999
If you ever wanted to link Guns-N-Roses to the Captain and Tenille in two steps, this is probably the way: According to Rumbo's "clientele" page, GNR recorded at this studio, which is owned by the aforementioned lite-pop duo.
Captain & Tennille Facts:
*The Captain's real name is Daryl Dragon. He's not really a captain, except maybe a captain of romantic lite-pop.
*Daryl and Toni are currently gearing up for a 25th Anniversary tour in 2000, celebrating the longevity of both their performing partnership and their marriage.
*Toni Tennille is the AMBASSADOR FOR THE ARTS for the state of Nevada.
*The Captain and Tennille will not be performing at Coachella.
White Geeks Play Pimps, vol. MCMXCIX -- Saturday, October 2, 1999
I am tempted some days to create a spinoff of this weblog, a weblog that is a comprehensive list of white-boy geeks trying to come off sounding like Dolemite, when they actually come off more like Kurt Russell in "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes."
I've already addressed several of them previously, but I found these Macromedia-versed dope dogs today while looking for, uh, something else.
The funniest thing of all about this site is that, for all its beautiful Flash animation and its excellent music loops, the text was written in plain english, then piped through the hoary old Unix JIVE filter, which was just starting to get stale when we played with it ten years ago, and which turns any reference to Unix into the phrase "slow mo-fo."
Someday a real pimp is going to open up the browser of his choice and find all these sites. Then the fur(coat)'s gonna fly.
Of Bruce Boxleitner and Oral Euphemisms -- Saturday, October 2, 1999
Somewhere in here, Bruce Boxleitner is humiliated at a European Sci-Fi 'con when he murmurs the name "Buffy" and finds out what it means in Swedish. Tee hee.
Bad Songs of the 70s -- Friday, October 1, 1999
While I was at Burning Man, Godfrey played a tape of various odd moments in radio broadcasting, the highlight of which was a radio broadcast of a crotchety old man berating a liberal talk-radio host, pathetically threatening to write him a nasty letter as the giggling host patronizingly riffed on his anger. The old man finished the call by shouting "HAVE A BAD NIGHT... HIPPIE!" and slammed the phone down.
I figured this had to be archived, or at least referenced, somewhere on the internet, although Godfrey's tape was produced years ago and is apparently out of print. However, searching dogpile.com for the phrase "bad night hippie" turned up many, Many, MANY links to a joke about Bill Gates and a hippie being on an airplane, and this page was tucked in there somewhere.
Spiceboy Wrestling Federation? -- Friday, October 1, 1999
I also found this site as part of the "bad night hippie" search. If you ask me, for pure RASSLIN' thrills, it's hard to top the Texas Backyard crew. Sadly, I never did find any information on the radio tape.
The Best Retro Videogame Site -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
I prefer this one for its distinctly British sense of humour, as well as its great 8-bit-computer-styled opening page.
Mmm, delicious Goblin Froots -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
This poem is funny, but it's even funnier translated into Italian, then back again. (Respect to Bjorn for the translation technique.)
Stuart Little - The Movie -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
A white mouse with tiny sneakers? Who can talk good english? Heck, I'd adopt him, too. Actually, right after I saw this website I found some mice in my house, and we ended up catching them with glue traps, then letting them go outside. I've never been good at killing things, except stomping carpenter ants (destructive little bastards) or cockroaches (and they attacked first, it was self-defense).
How to make a Streaming MP3 Net Radio Doohickey Jobber -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
Live365.com offers a free streaming feed accomodating up to 100 users at a time. Please tell me if you start a station! I will listen at work, at home, and in my car. Okay, maybe not in my car.
Ray Zone's website! -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
Ray Zone (that's his name) specializes in doing the depth and separations for 3-D comic books. His comic books are clearly the best in an admittedly small field. It would be both appropriate and a horrible pun to say that his work really stands out from the crowd.
It's like "Christine," only in reverse. -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
Heaven help me if I ever get on this man's bad side.
X(tian) Windows? -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
If you really believe Bill Gates is Satan, well, there's an OS for you now. But is it a hoax? Or is it not a hoax? "I caution you not to assume that just because I am not entirely serious,
that Jesux is a hoax. You may think this text is a vindication of your belief all along that it was a hoax. I don't think it is." I like that phrase, Mister Jesux, but I scratch my head over your issues with "prominent ho-mo-sexuelles."
The Prurient Secrets of 80s Video Games -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
I am shocked -- SHOCKED -- by the activities going on in this arcade. Round up the usual suspects.
Previously in These Pages -- Thursday, September 30, 1999
Well, what hasn't happened?
A car dispensed beer.
Jokes were made at Tricky's expense.
Andrew fixed pitas.com.
Andrew made diaryland.com -- I'm there now, too!
And I made a mailing list -- sign up, won't you?
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