Hate to hit and run...

            It would have been a much nicer night if I hadn't been hit by a car.

            So I took this notebook home from work (along with about 7 promo CDs).  It’s from some chick in the army, or was in the army.  This thing is nuts!  The information in it is creepy in its level of detail.  Not only does it have information you'd want to remember, but it has details such as the order of targets that pop up during practice.  And the drawings... are scary.  Sharp teeth, slits for eyes.  It's freaky.  But very interesting.  I've been reading the book Found and it's amazing what you can pick up on just by reading a small snippet from someone.  I think it's mostly the content but also the form.  Knowing that what ever they are writing about was important enough to make them write (I'm not going to use the word "inspire") lets you know it was a big enough deal to them to matter.  Anyway, this notebook is strange.  And to read it you can't regard it like fiction or non-fiction.  The mental editor and interpreter has to be completely retooled.  It's strange.  I hope it gets me writing again.  I had the greatest idea for something before I fell asleep two nights ago.  Woke up only to remember how badly I wanted to remember it.  Damnit.

            Next bit: A review of Of Montreal.  They're decent but not the golden-child I was hoping them to be.  They blend ambient tendencies with flaming brit-pop style.  And it works.  And while it doesn't come of as gimmicky (that'd make the writing thin) it does get a little old after a bit.  The same way I can't take more than 7 Aquaduct tracks in a row.  What they have is real good, but it's just a bit abrasive.  Not Transmissions from the Satellite Heart abrasive, but too redundant.  Transmissions from the Satellite Heart had soimething grating in each track, but it was a different something each time.  Of Montreal just sort of play out after a bit.

            If you haven't taken a look at Google Earth then get your browser to it.  It's fantastic.  Oh the places you'll go.  Later I'll post a list of things I've ofund.  Airplanes on rooftops.  A whale surfacing off the coast of Australia.  Nuclear bomb craters.  Oil fields on fire.  It's an amazing world.  At least from space.  Then, once you've tooled the globe a bit head to Google Earth Hacks.  GEwar puts NationStates to shame and the forums are a great way to find the most random stuff.  I think that's it for now.

            Oh yeah.  It's my birthday this week.  Everybody get me stuff.  But not crap, just things I want.  Cash is good.  So are movies.  I'm sure there're other things I want.  Submit to my birth and greed!  Submit!

PETA's got (falafel) balls.

       Everyone who knows me well knows that I hate PETA.  You can click here to read an essay I wrote about how much they are just.... well, wrong about everything.   Anyway, those wacky fools are at it again.  You know what it is now?  Animal cruelty.  Yes, PETA has admitted to killing many, many, many animals.   Fox covers the dumping discovery here, but I can just tell you what happened:        Workers for PETA were found dumping bodies of animals.  This goes against health regulations about dealing with biological waste.  I can see why PETA would ignore these laws.  they are the laws of Man and therefore do not apply to the natural wold.  what I don't get is why they didn't have funerals for the thousands of animals they were found to have killed.  PETA, where's the love?  Many of the bodies that were found at the dumping (in the PETA van) were from a local shelter.        Here's the kicker.  The president of PETA came out and said " PETA has never made a secret of the fact that most of the animals picked up in North Carolina are euthanized."  That's terrible.  PETA is against that.  Except for the fact that PETA (not so openly, but very officially) admits that they do most of the killings.  The shelter that some of the animals were from has a reported kill rate of a little under 5%.  PETA has filed paperwork with the Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services claiming to have over an 86% kill rate.  Yes, PETA has the balls to whine that most animals picked up in the are of the crime are killed and actually filed paperwork showing that they killed most of them!        This means that PETA loses all rights to complain about... anything.  They may no longer claim to have political ideals of any sort.  In fact, PETA, I'm sending you to the corner.  Silent time.  Your talking rights have been revoked.  Nope, quiet!  No more.  Now sit there and stop killing animals until you learn your fucking lesson!  Christ, I knew PETA sucked.  They trivialize a major issue, alienate anyone who's not psychotic about their views on the cause, support terrorist bombers (yeah, we're talking like 60's bombing Patty Hearst type psychos) and now kill animals.  All for the cause of animal rights and welfare.        PETA, you have officially become the equivalent of pro-life clinic bombers.  I don't care how taoist you try to pass it off as, you can't kill more animals than anyone else and then yell at them for having animals die!  The solution?  Remove PETA.  I hate PETA.  PETA, you suck.  And members of PETA: you guys suck too.