I tried to write something about how my friends and I should go turn an island people into a cargo cult. (If you were here yesterday or the day before, you may have seen it; this morning I downgraded it to "draft.") I proposed that if we go to one of these places and furnish it like we do our apartments, and feed the people the food we eat, play for them the music we like, and allow them only to watch the stuff we've worked on, to look at the photos we've taken, etc., that those things would then become the basis for the peoples' way of life.

When it came time for us to retire, I suggested, my friends and I could return to the island, where the world we're currently making for ourselves would by then be the overwhelming culture of that land. It'd be everything, would it not?, we ever wanted!

And somehow this would relate back to stupid people, and how they're ruining things for everyone else.


Maybe one day I'll sit down and try to write it again. Right now though, I got a ton of laundry to do, else I wear a suit to work tomorrow.




Tom, February 26, 2006, 12:12 PM
                                                  

Meanwhile, on the Trinity Broadcasting Network.



Tom, February 18, 2006, 10:20 PM
                                                  

The front doors of my grocery store suck to open. When it's windy, they weigh about a hundred pounds. It was too much for one woman to take this morning and she made her feelings known to a guy standing in the store's entrance.

"Isn't there something you can do about these awful doors? They're unsafe! I hate them! You're lucky you don't get sued! Someone could get hurt! This is ridiculous! And for a fancy grocery store, I mean, puh-lease!"

The man's response: "I don't work here."


And that was that. The woman didn't go find someone who actually worked there, she just said, "Oh," and got on with her shopping, perhaps thinking now that the grocery store might be an anarchy, and that those doors aren't so heavy that she should want to fix them herself.



Tom, February 12, 2006, 2:27 PM        (link here)
                                                  

CHECK OUT Clean&Nasty.

They're a blues trio recently assembled by Modern Arthur's honorary siren, Susan Hwang. They're actually a quintet, when you take into account Susan's vocal cords. Her songs aren't about break-ups--at least not all of them. Her latest, if I'm not mistaken, is about a girl following a boy who is carrying an ice cream cone that looks like it's about to drop.

There aren't any Clean&Nasty shows scheduled at the moment, but that's no reason not to shoot an e-mail, begging them to play.



Tom, February 1, 2006, 10:44 PM        (link here)