random quotes ... to amuse, inspire, enrage:
  The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? Okay, it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that."

tagged: religion
  —Frank Zappa

Archive for February, 2005

women in rock

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

good point:
it’s 2002, for pity’s sake - don’t you think that “Women have brains” is slightly stale news?

xrrf [no rock and roll fun]

licensing trivia

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

how bad songs get recorded:
“Wes Anderson is asked about the way he uses film in music, and reveals that when he was making The Royal Tenenbaums, George Harrison was too ill to enable the clearing of rights to Hey Jude. So then he decided to get Elliot Smith to cover it. You might think [...]

social security crisis! the FAQ (from fafblog)

Thursday, February 10th, 2005

o god this is just so fabulous: Social Security Crisis!: The FAQ! [link from cf]

comment spam freedom

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

holy shit, i will be so happy if indeed the WP AuthImage plugin finally works correctly for me. thank you, thank you, gudlyf. i’ve been getting approx. 30 to 100 spam comments a day. almost all for p0k3r! grrr.
update 2/8: emerging briefly from the hole that is bar review to [...]