okay, so Andy and Eric, here's the lowdown:
Tickets are $5, I'll get them today, and Douglas Coupland is reading at the Paramount (?) on Monday the 10th. I'll have the full details for you this afternoon sometime, but I thought I'd post at least that right now. and apparently you have to be soft spoken to work at Audrey's...

Tay should I read Robert Heinleins's Starship Trooper? I hear from the mecha enthusist that it is a must read book. It is supposedly the earliest story written with powered battle armour. Also I hear the military strategy and society is well developed and written about. The only negative I hear is that the weapons are vaugely described and are not put into much detail.

but that's half the fun.

Rufus is my favourite gay musician (at this moment at least) - and no, not because he's gay, because he sings beautifully, and he's just plain beautiful... but you have to remind yourself now and again that it's not even worth having a crush on someone if they're that happily gay (and sing about it so wonderfully in all their songs). And some of you might know him better as Rufus Wainwright. His mom's one of the McGarrigle Sisters (folk singing group) and his dad's Loudon Wainwright III (another folk singer). If you need more of an explanation than that, check out this link.

Sorry, Tay, it took me a while, but I put up the link, but it's there now.

Beck, if you want MPlayer, install the 'xfree86-devel' package from YaST and recompile the MPlayer source. It should work (it worked for me.) I had a similar problem to yours when I first installed it, but that package seemed to make the difference.

COTDQ:

you know, it would be funny to get this t-shirt, if only for the shock value... from everyone...


that and it's Rufus.

shit. When'd it get to be 5 AM??? good fuckin nite already.

SHIT. This is a HELLA long txt file!!!

I just finished reading a short story called "Carrier" by Robert Sheckley. I'm very familiar with most major pre-1990 science fiction authors, and yet for some reason I've never heard of this guy before. However, his short story was nothing short of fantastic. Oddly enough though, its story bears more than a passing resemblance to Otomo Katsuhiro's classic manga AKIRA. It's very similar. I checked the back of the anthology to see when this story was written, thinking that the author must have obviously been more than influenced by its japanese counterpart. Whereas Akira was first published in serialized form beginning in 1981, I was surprised to find that Sheckley had first published his story in 1954... which makes me think... maybe Otomo Katsuhiro was not the influencer but rather the influencee.


I wonder.

I didn't know it was possible to go any lower than Glitter, but Lohan pulled it off with flying colors. For those who missed the end, and want to know what happens... tough shit, that was probably the longest 45 minutes of my life. I'll give you all a hint, it turns out she does have a good singing voice (wow! She should release an album or something) and steals the show, with steamy results!!

As for the rest of you, I have it for 7 days, so you still have a chance to see it.

awwsweet. LO-HO night's gonna be awesome!