:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Saturday, June 12, 2004 ::

I threw a party and nobody came. Am I the only one that thinks Reagan was an asshole? Am I the only one who wishes he could get a taste of his own medicine and had a death squad come to his house to rape his wife and children before he died of something painful? Am I the only one who finds all the pomp and glory a bit over the top? Where were the state funerals for the 70,000 political killings in El Salvador, the 100,000+ in Guatemala, the 30,000 in Nicaragua? Am I the only one who thinks that we didin't win, rather the Soviets lost the cold war? What the fuck is wrong with people. I must be hardwired wrong...

:: Jim Nichols 6/12/2004 09:45:00 AM [+] ::
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Bay Area Council decries lack of affordable housing - 2004-06-11 - Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal:

"The president of the Bay Area Council on Friday said one of the drags on the region's economy is lack of affordable housing. "

:: Jim Nichols 6/11/2004 08:36:00 PM [+] ::
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The long lines of nothingness. The silent pain. The double feature no go zone. Its all a song. Its all nothing. YOu go until you can't and then you go some more. Controlled the voice of a silent prisoner. A magic ride, a perfect slide, a falling down set for more falling down. You go until you can't go, and then you go some more. A man sits at a park bench. He dreams of being somewhere else, anywhere but here. This isn't a salvation story. This man, he doesn't win. This man he dies. I can't help but think you're disappointed, we all like salvation songs, story book proms, a life line to nothingness. I wanted to make this seem like something worth your time, but its just a story of a man on his last day on earth. He gets up from the park bench and begins to do summersaults, summersaults and candy dishes full of sweets, this is your life and there's nothing you can do about it. So rest. Rest and be merry, be Mary, be my sweet young thing. The song keeps going but you can't tell, you're still looking at the man doing summersaults, Marysaults, somethingsaults. Like little red editing lines on a story that didn't go anywhere. This is experimental. This is me trying to show you inside my mind. Breath. Breath. Find your salvation as this man dances in a park.

:: Jim Nichols 6/07/2004 02:28:00 AM [+] ::
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There is an Adams Family 48 hour marathon on TVland. Its every single Adams Family ever made all in a row for all your insomnia tastes.

:: Jim Nichols 6/06/2004 04:36:00 AM [+] ::
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Am I the only person who doesn't have a problem with cameras at intersections?

:: Jim Nichols 6/05/2004 11:53:00 AM [+] ::
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New Major... new major...

TECHNOCULTURE STUDIES > WELCOME:

"The Program in Technocultural Studies (TCS), a new addition to the University of California at Davis, is based among the fine and performing arts, literature and cultural studies in the Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, and is designed to be open to a diverse range of interests from across the campus.

We concentrate on transdisciplinary approaches to artistic, cultural and scholarly production in contemporary media and digital arts, community media, and mutual concerns of the arts with the scientific and technological disciplines. In contrast to programs which see technology as the primary driving force, we place questions of poetics, aesthetics, history, politics and the environment at the core of our mission. In other words, we emphasize the 'culture' in Technoculture."

:: Jim Nichols 6/05/2004 11:51:00 AM [+] ::
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Laudanum:

"Laudanum was a wildly popular drug during the Victorian era. It was an opium-based painkiller prescribed for everything from headaches to tuberculosis. Victorian nursemaids even spoon fed the drug to cranky infants, often leading to the untimely deaths of their charges.
Originally, Laudanum was thought of as a drug of the working class. As it was cheaper than gin it was not uncommon for blue-collar men and woman to binge on laudanum after a hard week's work. Use of the drug spread rapidly. Doctors of the time prescribed it for almost every aliment. Many upper-class women developed habits.
The outbreak of tuberculosis may have been another factor in the drug's rising popularity. For a short period of time the tuberculosis 'look' (very pale skin and frequent fainting spells) was quite in vogue. Victorian women went to great lengths to emulate the look, often taking arsenic to pale the skin (slowly poising themselves to death).
Laudanum's biggest clam to fame however was its use by the romantic poets. Many of the Pre-Raphaelites (Among them Lord Byron, Shelly and others) were know to indulge. The image of the romantic poet, pale, morose, drunk on absinthe and laudanum is a common one. The film Gothic portrays the stereotypical image of that society. In reality, most of the PRB were heavy drinkers first and formost."

:: Jim Nichols 6/05/2004 07:25:00 AM [+] ::
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Dmitri Shostakovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (Russian ??????? ?????????? ??????????)(September 25, 1906 - August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. His greatest works are generally considered to be his cycles of symphonies and string quartets, 15 of each. Since his death, his response to life in the USSR has been the subject of political and musical controversy."

:: Jim Nichols 6/05/2004 07:13:00 AM [+] ::
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Sitting up in the middle of the night is more than a hobbey for me. Its a lifestyle. Writing is more than a goal for me, its a dream. And my dreams are the only reason i'm still alive.

:: Jim Nichols 6/05/2004 04:07:00 AM [+] ::
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I've been checking out creative writing programs. I wonder if you magically become a writer if you have an MFA? Nahh probably not.

:: Jim Nichols 6/04/2004 11:28:00 PM [+] ::
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