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I hope Honda.com doesn’t mind August 27, 2002

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I hope Honda.com doesn’t mind my directly linking to their image below.

So anyway it’s my new car.

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Crop Circles. We all love August 26, 2002

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Crop Circles.

We all love ‘em.

But are they real? The answer, coming up.

Yes. Yes they are real.

Question: how come if crop circles are demonstrated to be products of human activity, they are dismissed as “hoaxes”? If the person who produced the crop circle deliberately misleads people into believing they are something they aren’t then that is a hoax. But if some people make crop circles and other people make false claims about them, such as that they must be alien in origin — that’s not a hoax. That’s just people being wrong.

I see no reason to believe they are anything other than artefacts of human origin, but that doesn’t mean they are hoaxes any more than any other phenomena of mysterious origin. Is Stonehenge a “hoax”? Are the pyramids “hoaxes”? We know they were made by humans, but we don’t know exactly how or why. So what? That they are almost certainly human in origin doesn’t make them less of a phenomenon, less intriguing, less mysterious.

Yes, maybe there is another explanation — perhaps, if not human or alien, there is an as yet undiscovered natural weather or magnetic force in play. Sure, maybe. But why should we seek that sort of explanation? What specific piece of evidence is there that requires such an elaborate explanation? You have that they are human made — which is perfectly reasonable. Why seek any further explanation unless compelled to by the evidence? Occam’s razor — simplest explanation is the most probable, right? It is far more probable that humans who are known to produce such artefacts and behave mysteriously did this thing than that weather pattern we haven’t discovered has occurred. It’s simpler to say that humans walked, drove or flew a few miles or a few hundred miles to a crop circle site than that aliens flew millions of light years to the same sites.

I’m open to anything, but give me a freakin reason to consider anything other than the simplest explanation. I have yet to see or hear a complelling reason to believe otherwise.

Still, that doesn’t diminish the coolness and strangeness of of it.

So how come, in all the documented crop circle cases, we haven’t seen the really shitty ones, or the obviously unfinished ones? There have got to be some that just don’t make the editorial selection.

“I’m sorry Fred, that crop circle is butt ugly. That goes in the reject pile.”

“You said it, Morty. If aliens made those, I’d say we got nothin to worry about.”

announcing fictoblog, a place where August 11, 2002

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announcing fictoblog, a place where I can drop fictoids, as they emerge. That way, you can believe that anything I say *here* is absolutely the truth, because I’ll only ever lie when I’m being honest about it, in fictoblog.

Several things about Joey Ramone’s August 10, 2002

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Several things about Joey Ramone’s last album that I think are cool.

1) the title. It’s sad Joey passed away, but he tells us not to worry about him. How sweet is that?
2) a punk version of wonderful world. Sure, of course! Wonderful!
3) a faithful rendition of 1969, my favorite Iggy and the Stooges song
4) the song Searching for Something is all about a woman he knows who was all into Gurumayi and the Siddha Ashram and South Fallsburg. Just kind of cool to think of Joey experiencing Shaktipat.

anyways, that’s what I been listenin to lately.

http://www.joeyramone.com
http://www.siddhayoga.org/

more template bloggery

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more template bloggery

All kinds of Hootenannies: > August 9, 2002

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All kinds of Hootenannies:

> http://hootenanny.org/
> http://www.tvparty.com/rechootenany.html
> http://www.hootmedia.com/
> http://www.otaiweb.com/hoo.htm
> http://www.totallyla.com/ConcertReviews/Hootenanny/
> http://www.hootenannyrecordings.com/
> http://www.flipperit.net/tkalliok/flipperi/hoot.html
> http://www.hootenanny.co.uk/
> http://radicalmusic.tao.ca/hootenanny/
>http://www.hootpage.com/

Thanks Mal, Scot from antiweb!

Oh and not to mention Hootenanny Magazine

I post cause I’ve been getting little some feelers from Hoot-related enterprises of various sorts interested in acquiring my domain name, hootenanny.com. So far, hootennany.com is not for sale, but every man has his price, and mine is enough to cover the inevitable expense in real dollars plus time related to buying an alternate domain, funding a campaign to recover any lost traffic due to domain change, and other time-consuming tasks that would be involved. In other words, better just to leave things lie, unless someone wants to make it worth my time, which gets less and less cheap the older I get.