Killing In The Name Of...

Photo essay on the continuing genocide in Sudan from a US Military Observer. This and other features can be found at The US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Please Don't Die

All of the recent airline crashes have prompted both France and Belgium to publish lists of airlines that have been blacklisted from their airspaces due to safety reasons. This list scares me because I once flew on an Air India 737 that was hemhorraging some kind of florescent green fluid from the wing just outside the window I sat at. I watched several workers casually attempt to stop the leak right up until take off, at which point they gave up and drove off with the luggage cart. And they didn't even make the French list. Maybe they didn't make the list because their mascot flies on a magic carpet, which is no doubt a superior technology (you think I'm kidding, don't you?). Anyway, I figure its mostly my friends reading this, so I hope you all at least glance at the list and keep it in mind in your travels.

France
Air Koryo, North Korea
Air Saint-Thomas, US Virgin Islands
International Air Service, Liberia
Air Mozambique (LAM), including its subsidiary Transairways
Phuket Airlines, Thailand

Belgium
Africa Lines, Central African Republic
Air Memphis, Egypt
Air Van Airlines, Armenia
Central Air Express, Democratic Republic of Congo
ICTTPW, Libya
International Air Tours Ltd., Nigeria
Johnsons Air Ltd., Ghana
Silverback Cargo Freighters, Rwanda
South Airlines, Ukraine

One Of These Things Is Not Like the Other

Hmmmm.... These news items were posted on the same day by the BBC.

Please Forgive Me???

Two of my most favorite people in the whole wide world are currently hoof-stompingly mad at me right now. They are both exquisite creatures of the Leo-rising variety. Both are upset at me due to stupid misunderstandings hatched at the vile hands of my wretched inability to communicate with verbal words. What a fucked up way to end Leo's month on the merry-go-round. What would I do without you???

Dinah Shore's Portal To Hell

Can anyone tell me exactly how one manages to vomit up 10-20 whole cashews at a time? I mean, since I moved back to San Fran I have seen some vomit on the sidewalk, believe you me, but seriously folks, whole cashews??? Forgive me for painting such a revolting ~tableau~, but that really blows my mind. See people, this is why my policy is NO SHOES in the house. Seeing things like that really doesnt help in the battle with a mild case of OCD. I'm not saying I have it, I'm just saying if somebody did it wouldn't help.

Anyway, I spied said cashews on my way home from the video store tonight where I rented "Dinah Shore's Portal to Hell". Figured I might as well try someone else's; my portal is in the shop at the moment. I mean, kudos to my video store around the corner for even having this little nugget in the first place (Lost Weekend Video in the Mission). Talk about original. The people that put this thing together could patent original. I mean, its no Daredevil or Scream 3, but all in all I'm giving it a shout out because of Chuck Woolery's cover of Neil Diamond's "I Write the Songs that Make the Whole World Sing" and that Dee-plane! Dee plane! midget guy from Fantasy Island singing... some unintelligble love song; Telly Savalis smoking a cigarrette and "singing" a song called "If".




And when, my love, my life is running dry

You come and pour yourself on me.

If a man could be in 2 places at once

Well, I'd be with you - tomorrow and today

Beside you all the way.

I mean not only can this large, bald hunk of man sing while smoking but he can *also* violate the boundaries of space and time to be with his woman. Also, nobody ever told me that John Travolta was a girl in the 70's. I have to say, though, his song wasnt quite as good as some of the others; he seemed just as bored with it as I was.



But overall, I'll just say this, ladies: they don't make 'em like they used to.