Entries from June 2005

National Health Care

Date June 30, 2005

So this guy walks in to the doctor’s office, and the doctor says “You look fine, nothing wrong with you.” And the man says, “yeah, but Doc, it hurts when I stick this corkscrew up my nose.” And he sticks a corkscrew up his nose and starts twisting. “Ow! Ow!”
The doctor says “then don’t stick [...]

All the President’s Speeches

Date June 29, 2005

A friend of mine says to me today, “I know the mess in Iraq is bad, but shouldn’t we stay and fix it? Wouldn’t it be worse to leave the job undone?”
Under different circumstances, I’d agree with him. We _should_ stay and do it right. But staying and doing it right is not an [...]

Survey

Date June 28, 2005

So now MIT knows everything there is to know about me.

More movie news

Date June 27, 2005

So, if you’re subscribed to “the Anvil & Sprocket RSS Feed”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/rss.php you’re already aware that a review for the 1969 Telly Savalas / Diana Rigg film “_Assassination Bureau_”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/review.php?rec=166 went online last week. And if you’re subscribed to the “podcast feed”:http://www.anvilandsprocket.com/blog/podcast.php you know our “second review show”:http://www.archive.org/download/AnvilSprocketASRR02/ASRR0201.mp3 has been available for some time.
If you [...]

Random Ten, Early Morning Edition

Date June 24, 2005

# Sugar Free Jazz, _Soul Coughing_.
# Saint Patrick’s Day, _John Mayer_.
# U Can’t Touch This, _MC Hammer_. Yeah, I know. Shut up. It’s cheesy, but since I was out of the country for Run DMC, Hammer was my introduction to rap — and by extension, electronica, trip hop, etc. If it wasn’t for Hammer, I [...]