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PAL-a-thon Entry: No Myth, Part 1/? Is it me? Or is LJ being teh sux0or tonight? I've been trying to post this all day! This was written for the PAL-a-thon. Happy April Fool's Day! This is the first half of my PAL-a-thon entry (in two entries). I promise to load the remaining parts in the next couple of days (hopefuly by Sunday night), so I'll be scarce online due to writing. Having looked at the other entries, I suspect that I may have over-thought this. Don't look so shocked. *glares* Anyway, I urge you all to dowload the Mary Sue Soundtrack, mostly because this story gave me the evil idea for it and because some of you contributed songs to it. Plus, it's free. And the download links are good for another five days. So why not? Title: No Myth Author: Lizbeth Marcs Rating: MH (Mostly Harmless) Warnings: Swearing mostly. Definitely violence. Gratuitous use of a Mary Sue. Spoilers: All of BtVS and AtS Characters: Faith, Xander, Andrew, OCs, and a Mary Sue Genre: Humor, Action Alternative Universe Alert: All of the Scoobs went to Cleveland after Chosen. Occurs the summer after Water Hold Me Down, however you do not need to read that story to follow this one. I only mention it because I've plunked it in what I've come to call the Whisper-verse. Summary: Faith takes it into her head that Xander needs to relax and fixates on the idea that a date—a nice, normal date—is a step in the right direction. Before it’s all over, there is a painful makeover, reluctant double-dating, uncomfortable small talk, spying baby Slayers, something that looks like Cthulu’s little sister, a trashed Starbuck’s storefront, attempted murder, Slayage, police involvement, and a trip to the Cleveland Clinic emergency room. What? You expected any date involving Xander and some random Mary Sue to go well?   Prologue: Summertime and the Living Is Easy…Sometimes Buffy took a running leap for her bed and landed with a distinctive belly-first whump on top of her suitcase. “Zip it, zip it, zip it,” she said urgently. “I dunno, B. That sounds wicked kinky. What if someone sees us?” “Faith!” “Keep your shorts on. On second thought, don’t. I wanna hear the talk if someone walked in on us,” Faith snickered as she began the painful process of yanking the zipper on Buffy’s suitcase closed. “Jesus, B! What the hell did you pack?” “Clothes.” “You have too many fucking clothes,” Faith grunted. “You’d think there was no washing machines where you’re going.” “Fine. Clothes. Shoes. Cosmetics. Magazines. iPod. Maybeafewstakesincasedad’snewgirlfriendisevillikeIthinksheis.” “You’re going for two-and-a-half months, not a year.” With a final effort, Faith finished her job and stepped back. Buffy paused a moment, as if afraid removing her body from the overstuffed suitcase would give it permission to spring open. She cautiously stood up and tensed. The luggage threatened to burst at the seams, but remained reassuringly sealed. As the blonde Slayer relaxed, she said, “We’re probably not even going to last a month.” “C’mon. You’ve been cordially invited to spend two-and-a-half months in the south of France by your father…” “My father who forgot me and Dawn existed for almost four years.” “Even if hanging with the fam sucks the big one, plenty of other distractions like hot French men,” Faith pointed out as she flopped on the bed. “’Sides, it’s not like that suck-ass trip you had to take to Rome a few months back to help Robin negotiate for those books with that Immortal guy.” “Please. Don’t remind me,” Buffy rolled her eyes. “Nightmare. He thought he was so Mr. Wonderful with the octopus hands.” “You should’ve just gone with it,” Faith yawned with a cat-like stretch. “Shit. Play for the fun and games, let him treat you right for a little bit, take him for all he’s worth, and then head home with some kickass jewelry for your trouble.” “Good thing I didn’t because then I’d feel even more guilty than I do now.” Buffy bit her lip. “He managed to do a lot of damage while he was running me through the clubs pretending he wanted to help us.” “Yeah. About that.” Faith fidgeted. “I, unh, heard from Spike this morning. He, Angel, and that Illyria chick are licking their wounds and slowly recovering. Still won’t tell me where they’re hiding, though.” “Neither one of them want to talk to me?” Buffy sounded hurt. “B, Angel knows that Wolfram & Hart was playing mind games on them to isolate his crew,” Faith said. “But the shit those guys do to you, you have no idea. He’s still got to wrap his head around the fact that we had no fucking clue what was going down until Willow felt that big shift during their battle. Toss in that he’s lost four of his people in one year and you just know he’s giving himself the big post-battle beat up. He don’t wanna see nobody. Only reason why Spike and Illyria are still around is ’cause they’re both freakin’ stubborn and won’t let him do the fade. But part of the deal is Spike can’t tell us shit until Angel gets with the program.” “I just can’t believe they thought we’d turn our backs on them like that,” Buffy said quietly. “What does that say about me?” Faith sat up. “Ain’t about you, chica, and you know it. It says a hell of a lot more about Angel’s state of mind and the state of mind of his crew than you. He knew he fucked up by even thinking about that Wolfram & Hart deal, so all they had to do was plant the idea that we didn’t trust them no more and their imaginations did the rest.” “They did more than that,” Buffy said angrily. “Fuck yeah. Fake emails, fake phone numbers, a robot or clone or whatever that was pretending to be Andrew…” “Which should have tipped them off right there,” Buffy growled. “I mean we’re going to send Andrew, someone Angel doesn’t even know, to work with him and pick up a dangerous Slayer? Does that even make sense?” “Like I said, I don’t think anyone in Angel’s crew was thinking clearly once they signed on to Wolfram & Hart. They didn’t know whether they was coming or going.” Faith paused. “So how’s it going on finding that chick? What’s her name?” “Diana. No, wait! Dana. And no. We don’t know who has her,” Buffy slumped. “Giles thinks it might be a rival group trying to step into the old Council’s jackboots, so he’s got Robin trying to track down any rumors of a Slayer recruitment drive in Europe, starting with touching base with any Watchers who survived the First’s attack. I’ve put in a call to Riley to see if maybe Uncle Sam didn’t grab her. I haven’t heard back yet, which could mean he hasn’t gotten my message or that Uncle Sam does have her and he’s not going to tell me.” “This is a fucking mess,” Faith commented. “Got that right,” Buffy agreed. “Thank god Angel managed to keep things from spiraling completely out of control in Los Angeles.” “A world-ending event and we missed it,” Faith commented. “Least Wolfram & Hart is scrambling to get its shit together. We got lucky. Not so much Cordelia, Fred, Wes, and Gunn, though. Shit. I’ll never talk to Wes again and that just…” Faith gave her head a shake, as if trying to clear the idea out of her mind that Wes was yet another person with whom she could never make things right. “I don’t want to talk about it. Every time I try I have the urge to start screaming.” Buffy scrubbed a hand through her hair. “Me? I want to go kill a lot of somethings, or at least help figure out what’s going on. And what am I doing? I’m stuck going with Dawn to France because Daddy dearest decides he wants to reconnect.” “Maybe a good thing.” “Oh?” Buffy asked archly. “You’re too emotionally involved, which means the chances of you doing something stupid goes up,” Faith shrugged. “A little time and distance might be the best thing.” “Easy for you to say,” Buffy grumbled. “Nope. It ain’t. Believe me, I wanted to get on that plane to L.A. with Willow and Kennedy last week, but I know I’ll do something fucking stupid once I get there, which definitely increases my chances of going back to prison,” Faith said quietly. “I owe Angel big, but the best thing I can do right now is let our resident braniac figure out the sitch. I’m not great at sitting on my hands, but that’s what I gotta do until we figure out the real deal.” “You’re right. I know you’re right,” Buffy said as she plopped on the edge of the bed. “And I know I have to leave it to Robin to Hardy Boy it around Europe by himself because going out with that stupid Immortal raised my profile too high.” “Look, just go sponge off daddy-o’s guilt. Have a good time, or at least try to,” Faith said. “You’re the only one on senior staff who’s getting the vacay around here, so I say kick back and enjoy and let everyone just do their jobs.” “Sorry you and Xander got stuck with Hellmouth babysitting duty,” Buffy apologized. “We kinda need…” “Yeah, yeah, one senior Slayer and one Watcher hanging around in case things get dicey,” Faith finished for her. “Shouldn’t have anything big happen. Hellmouths usually cool it during the summer,” Buffy reassured her. “At best there’ll be a few random stakings, a minor demon or two, but that’s about it. Plus, our new Watcher, Jonathan Whyte, should be getting here a few weeks, so you and Xander won’t be completely alone.” “So, you and Dawn in France, Robin running around Europe tracking down rumors, Willow and Kennedy on the West Coast trying to figure out what the hell happened and seeing if there’s any long term consequences,” Faith ticked off on her fingers. “Giles and Andrew in Hong Kong,” Buffy added. Faith rolled her eyes. “Why he took Andrew of all people…” “Giles already wants to strangle Andrew and they’ve only been there two weeks,” Buffy giggled. “Still, he needs Andrew’s demon translating skills, so Andrew it is.” “I think Cyclops is a little hurt Giles didn’t invite him along,” Faith remarked. Buffy tensed. “He said something?” “You know Cyclops. Not a fucking word,” Faith shrugged. “But I spotted that look on his face while we were dropping those two off at the airport and Andrew was going on and on about the world-traveling duties of a Watcher.” “Andrew’s not a Watcher,” Buffy pointed out. “Shit, no,” Faith said. “But you gotta look at it from Cyclops’s point of view. Since Sunnydale went to hell, he’s had no vacay and all his trips have been stateside with one of us to help do the Slayer recruitment dance. Hell, everyone on senior staff ’cept me and him has dinged a foreign country at least once.” Buffy winced. “We need him here more. He knows that.” “Did you see the look on his face when he found out that Angel thought he was in Africa?” Faith asked. “He told me that was pretty much the only cool thing about the whole deal; that whoever was running the scam on Angel thought he could handle traveling around Africa all by himself and that Angel and Spike bought it. Said he trade the coolness factor of it if it brought Cordelia back, though.” “He said that?” Buffy startled. “How come he talked about all that with you and not with…” “I’m his patrol and training partner, remember?” Faith pointed out. “Sometimes patrol gets boring and even Cyclops will let things slip if you get him talking.” “I’ll talk to Giles. Maybe we can get him to Hong Kong for a few weeks in August after Jonathan settles in,” Buffy said fervently. “You could, although I think it might be better if you guys waited and just shipped him out on the next foreign trip.” “And if he’s not the right fit for the mission?” Buffy asked. “Send him anyway,” Faith shrugged. “If anything else he could keep ‘the right fit’ a little company and see some sights. Way things are going, I wouldn’t blame him if he was thinking you don’t trust him to do anything important.” “He’s a Watcher and he’s guarding the Hellmouth and running the whole house for the summer with you,” Buffy stated angrily. “I wouldn’t trust anyone else, other than Giles, to hold down the fort while we’re all away.” “It’s summer. When nothing happens. And most of our baby Slayers are off visiting the family or bopping around on vacation. When the population in the Mother House will be him, me, a newbie Watcher, and two Slayers who are locals and actually won’t be living here,” Faith pointed out. “Meanwhile, everyone else is on an important mission, except for Dawn and you, because you’re visiting daddy-o in France, and me, but that’s because we don’t know how rock solid may fake paperwork is now that Angel’s tried to blow up Wolfram & Hart.” “Put it like that, it sounds bad,” Buffy’s shoulders slumped. “Yup. Sure does.” “Okay, next foreign trip it is,” Buffy readily agreed. “Just hope we don’t need him more on the home front at the same time.” “Good,” Faith nodded. “Gotta admit, I’m a little surprised.” “About what?” Buffy studied Faith a moment. “You’re getting pretty good on the Xander read-age, and I’m talking Willow-good, well, Willow when she was crushing on Xander anyway. Anything you want to tell me?” Faith burst out laughing. “Holy shit! You think I’m crushing on Cyclops?” “I dunno,” Buffy said thoughtfully. “You’re spotting things with him that everyone else totally misses, you’re watching his back even when he doesn’t know you’re watching his back, so I have to start wondering…” “Nah. Nothing like that,” Faith easily dismissed the notion. “Like I said, we ended up being working partners, so I’ve been hanging with him a lot on the job. Besides, if he’s bothered he might get distracted and that ain’t good for me, right? Just looking out for my own interests.” Buffy shook her head. “Whatever you say.” “S’the truth. Besides, you’re outta your gourd if you think for one second that…” “I bet I’m going to have to remind you that we had this conversation at some point in the future,” Buffy said confidently. “Then I’m going to dance around and tell everyone that I saw this coming.” Faith resisted growling her annoyance at the other Slayer. B was trying to get under her skin to cover for the fact that she completely missed the boat on Cyclops feeling a little left out, so she changed the subject. “Any last minute advice before you abandon us?” “Nah. Covered everything. Anything I missed, Xander pretty much knows the drill already, so you’re probably good.” Buffy stood up. “Well, maybe one thing.” “Don’t let the world end?” Faith asked sarcastically. “Already know that one.” “World endage never happens in the summer, so nope.” Buffy grinned mischievously. “If Xander goes on a date, be prepared to Slay.” Faith rolled her eyes. “I don’t know if you noticed, but he’s been making like a monk on that front. I’m thinkin’ he must be developing a complex between the one-two punch that is Anya and Cordelia.” “Yup. Noticed the monking. But lately he’s been attracting a few eyes,” Buffy giggled. “Other day some girl at Starbucks was flirting up a storm with him and he completely missed it. Sooner or later someone’s going to club him over the head and drag him on a date and given that it’s summer, I’m betting on sooner rather than later. I’m just telling you to be prepared for badness when it happens.” “Really.” Faith’s voice was hard. “There a reason why you’re telling me this?” “Just to throw your words back at you? Ain’t about you and your issues, chica,” Buffy’s giggle threatened to spin out of control. “This has to do with the Xander mojo. He has the absolute worst luck. Let’s just say there’s a reason why me and Willow associate Xander dating with his head getting eaten.” “His head getting eaten?” Faith asked. “For a second I thought you’d say attempted murder, given this is me you’re talking to.” “Eat his head. Suck his life force dry. Stab him. Okay, yeah, something trying kill him.” Buffy nodded. “Just be ready with a stake, ’kay?” “Unbelievable,” Faith muttered. “Fine. Don’t listen to me,” Buffy cheerfully shrugged. “You’re probably right. Given his current state of cluelessness, Dawn’s more likely to get a date when I’m following her around with a crossbow.” *** Chapter One: Ain’t No Cure for the Summertime Blues Faith’s second summer in Cleveland was shaping up to be just as boring as Buffy promised. She truthfully didn’t count her first summer here as actually being ‘in Cleveland,’ especially since they had just arrived and everyone was still recovering from the destruction Sunnydale. The gang had been so busy finding their feet—not to mention finding a house that could hold all the bedraggled survivors that chose to stick around—that the summer of 2003 flew by at such blinding speed that everyone simply missed it. The quiet of summer of 2004 was a sign that the Cleveland household had finally settled into the greater cycle of evil and not-as-evil that seemed to control the greater rhythm of the Slaying world. Evil—if B, Cyclops, and Willow could be believed—took a holiday, or at least toned it down a thousand or so notches. Since Faith actually had very little experience with this bizarre annual event given that she was either finding out she was a Chosen One, comatose, in jail, or running her ass away from Sunnydale during her previous summers as a Slayer, she had no choice but to believe them. Faith’s inner cynic didn’t trust the quiet one bit. Although she did wonder if maybe she was being a bit too-too about it, especially since Cyclops all but assured her whenever she complained about their situation that she was going to wish for the heady days of summer when the next apocalypse came due in May. By the middle of July, she and Cyclops had a routine. There was training and mentoring the two local Slayers in the early afternoon, random household chores to be done in the late afternoon, and supper. The days ended with the two of them and one of the local Slayers doing the regular nightly patrol. Summertime patrols were somehow the worst, if only because it usually boiled down to a long nighttime stroll through the shadier parts of Cleveland. Faith could count the number of vampires staked since June 21 on one hand and still have fingers left over. Weaving through all of this were messages from the outside world. There were daily postcards adorned with brief notes from far-flung Slayers making the most of summer. There were daily frustrated reports from Willow and Robin as they tried to untangle their respective mysteries. Both were getting nowhere at a snail’s pace, hence the frustration from them, which only served to feed both Xander’s and Faith’s own frustrations that they were tied to Cleveland and unable to help either party. The last thing either of them needed was the bitch-session calls from Buffy and Dawn. Both girls moaned about the awfulness of their father’s girlfriend, complained about the dullness of the pretty landscape, and begged for any scrap of hope that Xander and Faith were drowning in evil so they could hop a plane back to Cleveland. Then there was Giles’s insistence about being kept in the loop for everything, even if the everything in question turned out to be nothing more than a big ol’ goose egg. While Faith was ready to climb the walls—if only because she wasn’t getting any action on either the Slaying or the getting laid front thanks to the fact she was patrolling every night with Cyclops—Xander seemed to incrementally wilt with every arriving postcard, every filed daily report from Willow and Robin, and every call from Buffy, Dawn, Willow, and Giles. By mid-July, Faith could see Xander was sinking into full-blown depression and once again silently cursed everyone for not noticing that maybe Xander wanted to get a little international travel in, even if it meant he’d be working like a dog for the privilege. Even knowing that B and Giles thought they were paying Xander and her the biggest compliment in the world by leaving them in place as the active Council-in-residence did nothing to dim her irritation. The arrival of Jonathan Whyte was cause for a little excitement, if only because it meant an unfamiliar face and news of the outside world. Excitement was quickly dashed, however, once Faith and Xander experienced the whole package. Whyte was youngish—albeit older than either her or Xander—and one of those dudes with a Watcher bloodline reaching back god knows how far. And he wasn’t afraid to mention it. A lot. Faith supposed Whyte was just nervous and was flashing the street cred to impress them, but as he recounted his extensive travels on the “continent” while he “attended university,” and prepared himself for the day when he’d “do his family proud” by making full-bore Watcher, Faith could see Xander’s shoulders slump ever lower. Then it happened. Whyte finally stopped bragging about himself long enough to check out Xander’s street cred. To sum up the disastrous conversation: “Certainly you’ve traveled extensively while recruiting more Slayers into the fold.” “Not really. Pretty much stayed in the good ol’ U.S. of A.” “Yes. Well. I suppose it’s best to get to know one’s own country before traveling abroad. So, what is your specialty?” “Specialty?” “What did you study at university?” “Unh, never went to college. Oh, and I’m kind of a Jack of all trades, I guess. Pretty much fill in where needed.” “Oh. I see. So, what did you do for a living before Mr. Giles recruited you?” “Construction foreman.” And that, as they say, was that. Never mind that Cyclops had fought in and survived at least seven apocalypses, that he had more field experience working with Slayers than ninety-nine percent of the old skool Watchers three times his age, and that in a hand-to-hand fight Cyclops would eat Whyte for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. All Whyte could see was that Cyclops was not to the manner born and didn’t have the right paper credentials to be a Watcher. Whyte was polite, to be sure, but he definitely addressed Cyclops like he was nothing more than the hired help. The situation was shaping up to be worse than when Robin and Xander shared the same roof. While Robin and Xander had been known to butt heads over any number of things, up to and including whether the sky was blue, Robin never doubted for a second that Xander had earned his spot the hard way and respected that. What really threw Faith for a loop was that Whyte’s attitude seemed to knock Cyclops completely off-balance. This was a guy who’d go toe-to-toe with anyone, anything, anywhere if he thought he was in the right, yet a punk like Whyte managed to make Cyclops retreat even further into himself by using just a certain tone of voice. After one week of undiluted Whyte, and Faith was annoyed on Cyclops’s behalf. She even tried giving Whyte a little one-on-one talk about his ’tude. She might as well have been talking to thin air for all it helped. Faith finally decided that what Cyclops needed was a break in the routine. She suggested that maybe he should take off for a while; maybe check out Chicago or Nashville. Nothing doing. He was entrusted with staying put and keeping an eye on things just in case, so staying put he was. Then she suggested that maybe he should give himself a week off from patrolling so he could do something fun with his time and not worry about schedules or getting things done. Again, no dice. His argument was that it wouldn’t be fair if he took a week off when Faith couldn’t do it herself. Faith finally fell into her own brand of brooding on her unhappy situation. She knew that she and Cyclops needed to get out of neutral, she just didn’t know how. She found herself hoping for a little trouble. Nothing big or fatal, but something just exciting enough to make Whyte eat his attitude and so she’d have a great story to tell when everyone returned to the nest. Good thing Xander couldn’t read her mind, otherwise he would’ve read her the riot act after he was done boarding up the windows, making a panicked run on the supermarket, wrapping himself in his ‘Puffy Xander suit,’ and getting himself into crash position. The silent wish was out of the bag, however, and the universe, as it so often does when it comes to Slayers and Watchers yearning for a little bit of excitement, decided to oblige. And is often the case when things like this happen, it started innocently enough. In this particular situation, it started with a trip to the ocularist for Xander’s annual check on his artificial eye. Well, actually, it wasn’t the doctor’s visit itself that was the root of their trouble, but it was the reason why the two of them were in Cleveland Heights near a Borders bookstore. Since B had complained in her last call to the Mother House that she’d read all her magazines and was now officially forced to interact with her father and the girlfriend far more than she wanted to, Xander proposed stopping in and compiling a care package for blonde Slayers in distress who would’ve flunked high school French were it not for red-headed witches helping them cheat. Faith naturally agreed. No skin off her nose to do B a favor. After all, what could possibly go wrong? The short answer? A bookseller named Inez Morningstar with a mellifluous voice charming enough to calm rabid dogs; a sweet disposition that perfectly matched her outward beauty; a pert, upturned, eminently kissable button nose; glorious, flowing blonde hair with strawberry highlights; otherworldly violet eyes that made male hearts pound in their male chests; a fabulous, billion-dollar smile that put everyone around her at instant ease; a bone structure that that made supermodels weep in frustration because she had it and they didn’t; skin that was as translucent as the finest bone china; and the kind of body that Hollywood starlets and porn stars pay big money to plastic surgeons to own. And yes, that is the short answer. Now aren’t you glad you asked? *** Chapter Two: The Mid-West Farmers’ Daughters Make You Feel All Right “She’s hitting on you.” “Wha?” Xander’s head popped up from the latest Terry Pratchett novel. “That girl. She’s hitting on you,” Faith hissed. “What girl?” “Shhhhhhhh,” Faith waved her hands at him. “What the fuck is up with you? Keep your voice down.” “Why?” “Because she might be hiding somewhere close by,” Faith replied, her tone hinting at the kind of conspiracies that resulted in trashed shopping malls and demolished buildings. Xander blinked owlishly, but lowered his voice. “Faith, you do know that I have no idea what you’re talking about. Who might be close by?” “The girl who helped us find the science fiction section.” “What about her?” Xander asked. “She. Is. Hitting. On. You.” Faith hissed in frustration. Jesus. This was going beyond clueless and heading right into no-one-is-that-blind territory. Frankly, in Faith’s humble opinion, everyone needed a little screwing of the guilt-free variety to keep their heads on straight and—Buffy’s bizarre warning about Xander and dating be damned—Cyclops was a little overdue in that department. Xander looked around. There were customers browsing the books in the nearby sections, a few kids running riot among the graphic novels, a few geeks quietly discussing the finer points of the D20 gaming system, but no female-shaped booksellers. He focused back on the Slayer menace standing next to him. “There is no girl hitting on me,” he slowly replied. “Unless she’s invisible, and then, hello! Marcy! No thanks.” Faith sighed and rolled her eyes. “Xaaannnnderrrrrrr,” irritation dripped from her voice, “the girl who helped us find this section, got the book off the shelf, handed the book to you, and then got you in a 20-minute conversation about the finer points of Pratchett was seriously checking out your ass.” Xander blinked, craned his neck to try and get a look at his own ass, and gave up, opting instead to apply his own brand of logic. “One, she was not hitting on me; she was doing her job. Two, we did not talk for 20 minutes,” Xander said, burying his head back in the book. “Hey, I’m thinking Dawn might like this, but I dunno.” “So now we’re putting a care package together for Dawn? Don’t know if you noticed, but little miss language expert can actually read French and doesn’t need English-only reading material,” Faith pointed out. “We’re here, so why not,” Xander absently replied. “Besides, when I talked to her a few days ago she said the whole ‘reconnect with daddy’ mission was now going over about as well as a vampire in baptismal font. I figure some classic Pratchett might at least give her something to laugh about.” “Cyclops, maybe you should stop being the house mom for one frigging a second and…” “I should start her at the beginning,” Xander interrupted. “With The Colour of Magic. Rincewind kills me. Oh! Maybe I should get her started with Granny Weatherwax in Equal Rites. Willow always loved Granny.” “Xander!” Faith barked in an effort to head off more babble she couldn’t quite follow. She ignored the unhappy glares from the other shoppers. “Fine, you did not talk for 20 minutes. It was more like 19. I do own a fucking watch, you know.” Xander sighed, reluctantly closed the book, and replaced it on the shelf. He gave the spine a longing glance. Mr. Pratchett, it appeared, would just have to wait until he dealt with this new crisis. “You are going to ask her out,” Faith ordered. “No, I’m not.” Stunned by this outright refusal, Faith’s mouth hung open. Xander looked like he wanted to reach over and tap his fingers under her chin to get her to close it. Probably deciding that he liked having his hand still attached to his wrist, he opted to go with the wisecrack. “You’re gonna catch flies like that.” “Cyclops, you’re young and you’ve got your whole goddamn life ahead of you. Plus, between the glass eye and the fact you’ve been working out like a gym rat so’s you can keep up with the superpowered chicks, you’re lookin’ mighty fine to people who don’t know you.” “Gee, thanks,” Xander muttered sourly. “You bring backhanded compliments to a whole new level, you know that right?” “You know what I mean. When you don’t make with the goofy-ass jokes you could pass for something resembling hot,” Faith waved it off. “And again with the…” “Awww, c’mon,” Faith interrupted. “I’m tryin’ to boost your confidence here.” “And doing a masterful job of it too, I might add,” Xander said as he rolled his eyes, surprising Faith with the fact that he’d gotten light-years better at matching the movement of his fake eye with the real one. “I’m just saying that there’s no way in hell you’ll be able to stick with living like a fucking priest for the rest of your life. You hate poverty, you hate being told what to do, so I really don’t think celibacy is going to…” “Anya’s been dead only a little over a year and I just found out that Cordelia’s dead. Unlike certain people I can name, the dead people in my life stay dead,” Xander muttered as he angrily shoved the book back on the shelf. Faith rubbed her temples. So that was his problem. “I understand what you’re saying. I do. But hanging with just me, the newbie Watcher, and our resident baby Slayers? You’re playing it safe and you know it. Go out. Mix a little with some nice, normal people. I’m not saying you have to marry her. Just, I dunno, don’t be shutting new people out. It’s no way to live. Trust me on this.” “Key words in that nice little speech is ‘normal people,’” Xander reminded her. “At what point should I tell some woman who’s been conned into going out on a date with me that my hobbies include vampire-dusting and demon-bothering, and that my romantic evenings seem to consist long night walks with a stake and a bottle of holy water on the off chance that something might try to rip my throat out? And how do you bring something like that up anyway?” “How the hell do I know?” Faith asked. “Because you immediately told everyone you slept with that you were a Slayer?” Xander asked, relieved he was finally getting his point across. “Hell no. I didn’t tell and they didn’t ask. Actually, if there’s talking is involved you’re not doing it right.” “Sounds lonely,” Xander commented as he prowled the aisle in search of another book for Dawn. Which probably goes a long way to explaining Robin’s attraction before the relationship crack-up. He knew. I didn’t have to explain shit, Faith silently admitted. Still, his trying to toss the ball back in her court was a case of the pot fighting it out with the kettle. He’d outright refused every option she proposed to give him a break from the tense atmosphere in the Mother House, but she hadn’t considered forcing him to take only a single night off. And what could be better than a night off while he went on a normal date? True, the bookseller in question didn’t strike Faith as being anything short of extraordinary, but the way she was looking at Cyclops was all Faith needed to know. If Xander asked, he’d have himself one fine-looking date. Tricky, but I bet I can swing that much. Faith took a deep breath and attempted a reasonable tone. “It’s just one fucking date. Dinner. Maybe a movie. Blow off a little steam, I say.” Xander favored her with an angry glare. “And if I suddenly come across a vampire trying to attack someone? I get called a freak—again—and she suddenly needs to take an extended vacation to Pluto.” “I don’t think that’s gonna happen,” Faith stated with crossed arms. “Besides, it’s one date. One. You can’t take one night off for one little date?” Xander groaned. “Faith, I really don’t think…” “Plus, I think you really need to get laid.” That sentiment surprised a laugh out of him. Faith lightly punched his arm, careful to keep any hint of her strength out of it. “I know, your world’s all upside down and inside out that someone that gorgeous might want to rip your clothes off and do you. But the ass is looking mighty fine and it’s a shame to let it go to waste. C’mon. A date with one of the locals, especially a local looking like she does, would do you good.” “Why?” “Why what?” Faith asked. “Why is this so important to you?” Xander asked, a pleading tone creeping into his voice. “I’m fine. Really. No problems.” Time to get ugly about it, Faith figured. While she didn’t know if this was actually true, her many experiences with members of the opposite sex told her that she’d hit a bull’s-eye. “Unh-hunh. Right. Suuuuure you are. And I didn’t hear you jacking off in the shower the other night.” Xander squeaked and turned an interesting shade of red. “Can we get off the subject? Please?” Bingo! “We get off the subject when you ask her out,” Faith said with something resembling a prim tone, well, as prim as she could manage anyway. “That’s blackmail!” “Doing it for your own good. There’s health and sanity involved. You don’t want to be poisoned by your own testosterone, right? Can’t be good when your hot dates pretty much consist of Mrs. Palmer and her five daughters.” “Gah! You win!” Xander winced. “Jesus, I thought when Andrew flitted after Giles for some quality demon-spotting in Hong Kong I’d get some privacy, but nooooooooo.” “That Slayer hearing will getchya every time, sport, and don’t you forget it,” Faith grinned as she grabbed his arm and dragged him away from the science fiction section in search of her quarry. “I’m buying you earplugs,” Xander complained. “What? And deprive me of my fun?” “You enjoy listening to…oh god…you realize that I now need some serious therapy, right?” They didn’t have to travel far before Faith spotted the girl in question—like she could miss this girl even in a crowd of millions—waiting on another customer. Once she located her target, Faith pulled Xander out of sight into a book-lined alcove. “There she is, go get her,” Faith hissed. Xander tried one more time to get out of it. “Go get her? Just like that? Did it ever occur to you that she just might say no? Which there’s a better than 90 percent chance of that happening, by the way.” “And on what do you base that?” “Unh, because that’s what women do when I ask them out. I’ve had a long and intimate relationship with the phase, ‘Back off loser, I have mace.’” “Oh, please. I ain’t buying that shit.” Faith paused to peek around the corner to make sure the innocent creature was still within pouncing distance. “I seem to remember you were dating a cheerleader when I blew into Sunnydale back in the day.” “Cordelia. Her name was Cordelia.” “I know her name, Cyclops,” Faith huffed a breath. “But you’re missing my point. Cheerleaders date football guys, not chronic losers with a taste for mace, so you musta done something right.” “That was a case of hormones attacking during the heat of battle, so there was no actual asking of the out in that situation,” Xander said. “Ahh, gotchya. That’s cool. But still there’s always Anya, right?” “Not exactly.” “Not exactly,” Faith repeated slowly. “She basically walked into my basement abode, dropped her dress, stood there naked, and said she wanted to have sex with me so she could get me out of her system,” Xander explained. Faith was momentarily struck speechless. “I think you see my pattern here,” Xander added. “Nah, c’mon. You’re just yanking my chain because you want out of this,” Faith gave him a friendly nudge with her elbow. “Overplaying your ‘poor helpless me’ schtick there, Cyclops. I know for a fact that there’s someone else besides Cordelia and Anya.” “If you’re including you on that list, which I don’t think you are, yes. If not? No.” Xander’s reward for unvarnished honesty was the rare sight of Faith actually sputtering between laughter and disbelief. “You know?” Xander grinned despite himself. “This is what I’d call flattering, with you going all assume-y about my dating prowess, but as you can see, I’m usually the pouncee and not the pouncer.” “You make it sound like this rocket science and it ain’t,” Faith said. “Just go up, make some small talk, and ask her out.” “And if she says no?” “Then she says no.” “And if she says yes?” “Should I be worried that you sound more worried about the yes and less about the no?” “I’m worried about the yes because it means she’s looking to feast on human flesh and I just offered myself up as an entrée,” Xander answered. “And what scares me is that you’ve got the rep for being the optimistic one,” Faith shook her head. “Hey, if you’re not afraid to explain to everyone why the only thing left of my body is a single chewed-on vertebra, I’ll ask her out.” “Halleluiah, choirs or angels sing. I finally convinced your stubborn ass.” “Yes, Faith. You won. I’d rather face certain death than have to listen to you nag me about my sex life, lack of.” Xander paused. “And am I the only one totally skeeved that you of all people are obsessing about it?” “I’m not obsessing,” Faith protested. “Fine, but you gotta admit the irony levels are reaching poisonous proportions.” Faith winced. “Oh. Hey. Sorry.” Xander’s answering wince mirrored Faith’s. “I know there were axes buried and I didn’t mean to bring up…” “Nah. You got the right,” Faith shrugged off. “Still, the past is the past and I know that it’s just…I mean, this is just a freaksome conversation we’re having,” Xander said. “If someone told me a year ago you’d be blackmailing me into going out on a date ‘for my own good,’ I’d think they were high on magic weed.” “Call it payback for past bad acts, hunh?” “Faith, I said…” Faith looked him right in the face and said, “I know what you said. You may think we’re square, but I think I need some more squaring at my end.” Xander fidgeted uncomfortably. “Tell you what. If my date tries to eat me and you save me from her, you can seriously consider yourself squared, okay?” “Sure, whatever you say.” Although Faith didn’t sound at all like she was prepared to call her past bad acts against Xander anything close to squared even if she saved him from another creature in the Harris Dating Missteps Hall of Fame, “So, you ready?” “Unh, no.” As Faith’s eyebrows lowered in irritation, Xander quickly added, “What I mean is, I don’t actually know how to ask someone out on a date without sounding like an Andrew-level dork. Maybe if you could, I dunno, tell me what works with you so I could try that.” Faith took another peek around the corner before looking back at Xander. “I don’t think that’s gonna work.” “Why not? You’re both female-shaped.” “She’s got perfect taste in clothes.” “So?” “And she looks like she’s never actually ripped the heart out of a demon.” “Looks can be deceiving, especially if she is a demon.” “I dunno, Cyclops. I can’t see her as a relative of that Achoo demon we took out before B hightailed it to France.” “It’s Ashovu demon and why do you think me going out on a date with her is not going to end in tragedy again?” Xander asked. “Plus, I like motorcycles. I don’t see her riding in the bitch seat of bike, not that I don’t think she wouldn’t look hot if she did.” “Don’t know if you noticed, but I don’t actually own a...” “I bet she’d melt wicked hard for a cool car,” Faith mused. “Cool cars are big snatch catchers.” “And again we’re back to something I don’t actually own. Plus, that means you and her would date my Uncle Rory when he had that cherry convertible which…my mind just went to a very terrifying place.” “Guys in bands are also big.” “We’ve moved on from things I don’t own to talents I don’t have, I noticed.” “Look, you’ll do fine,” Faith assured him. “Assuming she has more in common with me than Willow, I’m sure if you go the ‘let’s do coffee’ route, you’ll get a yes.” “In other words you figure that, like you, she’ll go for breathing.” “Hey!” Faith protested. “Actually, that’s meant as a compliment,” Xander said. “And just how is that a compliment?” Faith asked with crossed arms. “You forget I’ve hung with Buffy for years,” Xander pointed out. “Breathing is actually optional for her.” Faith choked on a laugh. “And if you tell her that I said that, we are so unsquared it’s not funny,” Xander said. Faith glanced around the corner again before zipping back into the alcove to give Xander a shove in the girl’s general direction. “She just ditched the customer. Go. Go. Go,” she said urgently. “Faith, this is insane. I think there’s something wrong with you.” “Stop making excuses.” With a final hard shove she propelled Xander out of the alcove. He managed to catch himself before he stumbled right into the target. Faith grabbed a book off the shelf, flipped it open, and stuck her nose in it. It was some computer thing that would probably make Willow excited. She guessed. She didn’t know, since she barely could use a keyboard, let alone do something that required her to type alphabet soup. Her Slayer hearing picked up bits and pieces of Xander’s attempt at small talk. He seemed to be going the Pratchett route, asking the girl in question to recommend a book for a friend who was ignorant of the wonders of this guy. Faith snorted. Clumsy come-on to end all clumsy come-ons, especially given he was trying to pick up someone that wonderful. At least he was going with his strengths. She glanced over the top of the book and saw Xander following the bookseller back into the science fiction section. She grinned. They did actually make a good-looking couple, so she was worried about nothing. Probably would grow into something pretty big. Next thing you know Ms. Perfect and Cyclops would be moving into their own private love nest and… Mental brakes screeched to a halt. Whoa! Where the fuck did that come from? Faith gave her head a hard shake to clear it. She wasn’t at all the romantic type and here she was imagining Cyclops sweeping the girl off her feet. “Guess Cyclops ain’t the only one ’round here who needs to get laid,” Faith laughed at herself as she replaced the computer book on the shelf. Then she remembered why she and Cyclops were actually at the Cleveland Heights Borders. “Crap. B’s magazines.” A quick flag at another bookseller, this one a sour-faced old crone, and she was off grabbing the magazines they were there to buy before circumstances distracted them from the business at hand. *** Chapter 3: A Small Change in the Plan… “Look, what could possibly go wrong?” Faith asked happily as she maneuvered the car down the street. “Pedestrian!” Xander shouted. “I see him, for Christ’s sake. Not going to run him over.” “We passed close enough to see his entire life flashing in front of his eyes!” “My reflexes are good. No one will be hurt in the…” “Slayers and cars don’t mix,” Xander grumbled. “Should’ve never let you drive.” “Hey! Who was the one that said we needed more than one driver in the house for the summer?” She glanced at her nervous passenger. “Jesus. The air conditioning’s on full blast and you’re sweating.” “This sweat is fear. And I mentioned driving thing before Whyte showed up with his shiny international driver’s license. I’ve changed my mind. Three times with you behind the wheel has convinced me it was a stupid idea.” “You’re just being pissy because I made you go out on a date.” “Double-date.” Faith slammed on the brakes, which jerked Xander hard against his seatbelt. The cars behind them took up and angry chorus of squealing brakes and beeping horns. “Oh, did I forget to mention?” Xander asked airily. “You’re joining me on this date.” “You’re supposed to be dating her! Not me!” “Don’t be a sicko. Cousin.” “Cousin!” “That’s right. You’re my first cousin, twice removed, come to visit from Boston.” “Why you little…” “You and a man or woman of your choosing will be my body guards for the evening, although I told your little miss wonderful that you’re nervous about dating your whatever and asked me to tag along. I stressed that she would be saving me from third-wheel status, a fate worse than death. And I mean that literally.” “I can’t believe this!” “Believe it. I’ve been nearly eaten too many times to be taken in by just another pretty face,” Xander huffed with crossed arms. “Besides, her vibe’s all wrong. Something’s up and I don’t like it.” “You’re being paranoid.” “No. I learn from experience. Granted, it took me twenty-three years to catch on, but I’m so caught I’m on fire. I may be slow, but I get there in the end.” “This is absolutely fucking…” Pounding on the driver’s side window interrupted what promised to be a primo Faith-style tirade. Both Faith and Xander startled and realized that there was a very red-faced, fat-necked gentleman glaring at them. “I think we’re blocking traffic,” Xander commented. Faith rolled down the window and the man exploded into a string of profanities and orders that Faith move her shiny ass before he rammed her bumper and shoved her, her car, and her passenger into on-coming traffic. “Can we just move? Please?” Xander pleaded. “Right,” Faith grimly agreed. She floored the gas pedal and car screeched away, leaving their angry motorist coughing in their exhaust. Continued here

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Microsoft Launches New Online Video Service for Windows Mobile-Based Devices (Portable Media Centers) MSN Video Downloads Delivers Food Network, FOX Sports, Children's Programming, News and More for Portable Media Centers and Select Smartphones and Pocket PCs Microsoft Corp. announced the launch of MSN® Video Downloads, which will provide daily television programming, including video content from MSNBC.com, Food Network, FOX Sports and IFILM Corp., for download to Windows Mobile (TM) -based devices such as Portable Media Centers and select Smartphones and Pocket PCs. Since the launch of the Microsoft® Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Center last fall, more than 20 new content partners, including CinemaNow Inc., MLB.com, MSNBC.com, MSN Music, MTV Networks Music, Napster Inc., SnapStream Media Inc. and TiVo Inc., have agreed to make video available online specifically formatted for Windows Mobile-based multimedia devices. "The launch of Portable Media Centers in 2004 began a new era of portable entertainment, and today's announcement solidifies the continued momentum we've seen for portable video," said John Pollard, director of Windows Mobile Applications and Services Marketing at Microsoft. "With content from some of the most recognized brands in entertainment, MSN Video Downloads helps bring this vision to life, allowing people to take their favorite television shows with them whether they are on the train, waiting for a doctor's appointment, or keeping the kids occupied in the back seat of the car." "Readily available digital video content remains a key driver for the portable multimedia player market," said Josh Martin, associate research analyst at IDC. "The proliferation and growth of video service providers will serve to fill the existing video content void and increase adoption of portable multimedia players such as Windows Mobile-based devices." MSN Video Downloads: Keeping People Informed and Entertained Anywhere MSN Video Downloads is available in the United States today at http://www.msnvideodownloads.com . A one-year premium membership to the MSN Video Downloads service with access to all available videos is $19.95 (U.S.). In addition, people can access a limited amount of free content without a paid membership. The MSN Video Downloads service is designed to keep people better entertained and informed, wherever and whenever they want. With great content provided daily, such as sports highlights, news headlines, children's programming, music videos, independent films and comedy shows, MSN Video Downloads is one of the first online video download services dedicated to portable entertainment. In its debut, the MSN Video Downloads service was previewed at the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show in January. People subscribing to the premium service will be able to select the content they want to receive from the Web site. Digital videos are downloaded daily to a Windows Media® Player 10 library, ready to be synchronized with Portable Media Centers and other devices. The video content is compliant with PlaysForSure (TM) devices that play video, and is optimized for Portable Media Centers and compatible with Smartphones and Pocket PCs that support Windows Media Player 10 Mobile. New with the final launch of the service is the ability to select the specific content downloaded to the subscriber's Windows® XP-based PC each day. Subscribers can also activate a new automatic deleting feature that specifies how long video from the MSN Video Downloads directory will remain on their PC, thus avoiding a large backlog of clips. The following programming will be available on MSN Video Downloads: MSNBC.com. News and business headlines updated throughout the day, as well as segments from "Today" BreakTV. Behind-the-scenes footage and exclusive interviews with television's hottest celebrities COOKIE JAR Entertainment Inc. , a global producer and marketer of children's entertainment, offering children's programs such as "Paddington Bear," "Animal Crackers" and many other popular kids' television series DIY Network. Videos about home improvement, crafts, hobbies, indoor-outdoor living, and kitchen and bath remodeling FINE LIVING TV Network. Inspiring programs featuring travel destinations, mind and body enrichment, ideas for entertaining and home design as well as videos for automobile enthusiasts FOX Sports. In-depth news, analysis and unparalleled national and regional coverage of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, the National Basketball Association, and select college basketball and football highlights, as well as FOX Sports Net original programming including "The Best Damn Sports Show Period" and "Beyond the Glory" Food Network. Fun and interesting videos featuring grilling tips, ideas for entertaining, healthy eating, quick-and-easy recipes and pop-culture food specials Fun Little Movies. Specializing in original, live-action comedy content; new "Fun Funny Phone Films" including the following series: humorous headlines in "Comedy USA," sci-fi parody "Spacey Movie," and the "Mini-Bikers," where little people on little motorcycles fight crime, a little at a time Headliners Entertainment Group Inc. (OTCBB:HLEG) , the operator of Rascals Comedy Clubs, presenting a selection of comedy clips from Rascals Comedy Classics, including performances from popular stars such as Tim Allen, Rosie O'Donnell, Drew Carey and Ray Romano; only Rascals can bring viewers comedy superstars, before they were stars, and the breaking stars of tomorrow, today Home & Garden Television (HGTV). Selected programs featuring remodeling, home-building, design and decorating, kitchen and bath to enhance a home's curb appeal IFILM. Movie trailers, viral videos, short films and other IFILM-exclusive content TotalVid. Deep selection of action sports clips including surfing, snowboarding, skiing, windsurfing, street racing, kiteboarding, skateboarding, climbing, kayaking, off-road, Moto X, mountain biking, inline skating, BMX and more Want Media. 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MSN Video Downloads Finally Launches I reported on this site back on January 10, and it has finally gone live (and allayed my suspicion of it being phony). MSN Video Downloads is where you can subscribe to be able to download video for your Windows based mobile devices. From the press release: Since the launch of the Microsoft® Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Center last fall, more than 20 new content partners, including CinemaNow Inc., MLB.com, MSNBC.com, MSN Music, MTV Networks Music, Napster Inc., SnapStream Media Inc. and TiVo Inc., have agreed to make video available online specifically formatted for Windows Mobile-based multimedia devices. Some of the content if free, but most of it is available for just $19.99 a year. That is a great deal, considering the content: MSNBC.com. News and business headlines updated throughout the day, as well as segments from "Today" BreakTV. Behind-the-scenes footage and exclusive interviews with television's hottest celebrities COOKIE JAR Entertainment Inc., a global producer and marketer of children's entertainment, offering children's programs such as "Paddington Bear," "Animal Crackers" and many other popular kids' television series DIY Network. Videos about home improvement, crafts, hobbies, indoor-outdoor living, and kitchen and bath remodeling FINE LIVING TV Network. Inspiring programs featuring travel destinations, mind and body enrichment, ideas for entertaining and home design as well as videos for automobile enthusiasts FOX Sports. In-depth news, analysis and unparalleled national and regional coverage of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, the National Basketball Association, and select college basketball and football highlights, as well as FOX Sports Net original programming including "The Best Damn Sports Show Period" and "Beyond the Glory" Food Network. Fun and interesting videos featuring grilling tips, ideas for entertaining, healthy eating, quick-and-easy recipes and pop-culture food specials Fun Little Movies. Specializing in original, live-action comedy content; new "Fun Funny Phone Films" including the following series: humorous headlines in "Comedy USA," sci-fi parody "Spacey Movie," and the "Mini-Bikers," where little people on little motorcycles fight crime, a little at a time Headliners Entertainment Group Inc. (OTCBB:HLEG), the operator of Rascals Comedy Clubs, presenting a selection of comedy clips from Rascals Comedy Classics, including performances from popular stars such as Tim Allen, Rosie O'Donnell, Drew Carey and Ray Romano; only Rascals can bring viewers comedy superstars, before they were stars, and the breaking stars of tomorrow, today Home & Garden Television (HGTV). Selected programs featuring remodeling, home-building, design and decorating, kitchen and bath to enhance a home's curb appeal IFILM. Movie trailers, viral videos, short films and other IFILM-exclusive content TotalVid. Deep selection of action sports clips including surfing, snowboarding, skiing, windsurfing, street racing, kiteboarding, skateboarding, climbing, kayaking, off-road, Moto X, mountain biking, inline skating, BMX and more Want Media. Music videos, live concerts, Broadway shows, extreme sports and motor sports programs, full-length films from independent filmmakers and underground cinema I'm not saying you should expect Oscar or Emmy-worthy content with this, but for 20 bucks you get some nice little video. Considering that you just paid hundreds of dollars for a device, this is nice way to add a little extra something for your purchase.

Please drink Pepsi …and lots of it! And give me any Pepsi iTunes codes that you can find! I was pleasantly surprised that the Pepsi cups in the movie theater also have iTunes codes and a couple of days ago I’ve downloaded my first two free songs ( link and link). Now if I see a lot of movies or people give me a lot of codes from Pepsi 20oz bottles, I could download a full album. For free. Legally! Now all I need is an iPod, but I’m still reluctant to do the “Free iPods” thingy…

Wanna see my sword? Billmon’s right, this is sick. So far, most of the evidence that the Bush administration is mishandling the domestic side of the “war on terror” has been a matter of omission, that is, what isn’t being done… [Orcinus] DHS is a fraud, a jobs program for vets and social conservatives. It hasn’t made us safer, but it has, through the TSA, done a remarkable job of screwing up our air travel. Wow, when did we pass Swedish style legislation to make US citizens liable for breaking US laws, even while abroad? An 87-year-old man convicted of attempting to travel to the Philippines to molest young girls was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison under a 2003 federal law aimed at fighting so-called sex tourism. John W. Seljan was the first person to be convicted at trial of violating the Protect Act, which made it easier for U.S. authorities to prosecute people for overseas sex crimes, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. [TalkLeft — and good luck with the office move!] Jeralyn disapproves of the sentence, but I think that if you’re sharp enough to travel abroad seeking sex, you’re alert enough to do the time. And I hope the judge in this case ordered a full review of this pervert’s family history to make sure he hasn’t created some new generations of Filipino-molesting pervs. Catch them when they’re young and rehabilitate them. Wait till they’re old, and all you can do is lock them up. Want to debate the age of consent? Fine by me. I’d be cool with 16-optional, with the kid making the decision as to whether they’re grown up subject to some reasonable oversight. The only real crimes are those that impact others without their consent. Sex crimes, by their very nature, always have a victim. Hell, I don’t care if you give them a PC in their cell with download only. Let them look at dirty pictures and jerk off in their cells. But don’t put an ankle bracelet on them and think you’ve won. All you’ve done is given them a free pass to molest one more child. Wanting to molest isn’t a crime. Molesting is. I don’t think you can draw a line more clearly than that. More thought police activity at a recent Bush rally. Raw Story has the entire WSJ DeLay editorial, and Media Matters has the corrections to their editorial. More fact-checking on the right to life lies about Terri Schiavo and the whole mess in Florida. Michael Schiavo should sue the crap out of these liars, and William Hammesfahr should be stripped of his license to practice medicine. Nobel Prize nominee my ass. Last month, the National Association of Manufacturers, led by president and CEO John Engler, a longtime Bush ally, announced that it was getting into the judicial nominee game. NAM, though not an obvious choice for a fight over would-be judges, announced a multimillion-dollar campaign on behalf of Republican efforts to stack the courts and, possibly, the GOP’s “nuclear option.” As Salon reported, “A spokesperson for the business group says that securing approval of Bush’s appellate court nominees is now its top priority.” It’s good to know, therefore, that Dems won’t be fighting the conservative surge alone. Senior Democratic aides will meet today at AFL-CIO headquarters on 16th Street Northwest with top union officials and other interest groups involved in the effort to turn back President Bush’s judicial nominations. Aides and leaders of those groups said the union presence was a big first step forward on an issue labor has been only nominally affiliated with in recent years. Also expected at the meeting are officials from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Service Employees International Union. “We very much want to expand the coalition,” said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, one of the most active groups in opposing Bush’s nominees. NAM vs. the AFL-CIO. You could sell tickets to that fight. The spirit of Noam Chomsky is strong in me, but hence-forth I shall be known as Lazy-assed Samurai. American Idle. It’s No Piss-Christ. Rex was pimpin’ when he posted the link, but the new Bewitched trailer looks like fun despite Will Ferrell. I have a typically guy sense of who the good female actors are. If I’m consistently impressed by their movies even though I’m not physically turned on by them, they must be good. This list includes Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. Jennifer Connelly, Jacqueline Bisset, Helen Mirren, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Virginia Madsen, Gillian Anderson, etc., I’m not so sure about, but I love to watch them. It’s a guy thing. And yes, Jennifer Connelly’s only on the list for her tits, but that doesn’t mean I don’t respect her as a person.

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Today's Cultural Warfare Update I run a mailing list where I send this stuff out. La. First summaries, then below, stories. Republicans in the Florida House of Representatives's "Choice and Innovation Committee" pass bill allowing students to sue professors for not "respecting" their beliefs - it's aimed at eliminating "leftist totalitarianism" by "dictator professors"; Alabama is trying to ban adoptions by gayfolk; Worthwhile commentary on LJ about attacking marriage in the Terri S. case; Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and others accuse liberals of wanting Terri S. to die, in particular because they hate Christians; Pennsylvania town split over creationism, with the brilliant quote of, "We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture"; Michigan prepares to allow hospitals and doctors to refuse care on "moral, ethical, or religious" grounds - intended targets are abortion rights and gayfolk; Cal Thomas makes Terri Schiavo into part of the Great Religious War the fundamentalists have been creating and fighting; Fundamentalists push bill banning courts from citing non-US sources in judgements - specifically calls out Lawrence v. Texas again, which they are making into a new Roe v. Wade (I posted this one largely because of the push to make LvT into a multigenerational religiously-mandated issue, as was done to Roe v. Wade; any place they can tie something they consider bad into Lawrence vs. Texas, which stopped states from making gay people illegal, they do, and they're quite plain about wanting it overturned); Fundamentalists run training programme to teach other fundamentalists how to get ahead in Hollywood - all the language about infiltration is theirs, which is kind of funny; CWFA attacks Michael Schiavo as "mocking marriage"; World Magazine wonders why more "pro-life" protesters didn't show up outside Terri Schiavo's room - one religious leader calls out the opposition specifically as Satan; Voice of America quotes CWA lobbyists extensively in an article on applying broadcast "indecency" rules to cable and satellite programming; Traditional Values Coalition attacks Dear Abby for supportive response to a letter from the parent of a child they think might be queer; Traditional Values Coalition also attacks the Southern Poverty Law Centre, accusing them of "exploiting" Rosa Parks for the "homosexual agenda"; Traditional Values Coalition also compares Michael Schiavo and his lawyer to Hitler, thus invoking Godwin's Law. ----- 1 ----- http://www.alligator.org/pt2/050323freedom.php Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill that aims to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors” in the classrooms of Florida’s universities. The Academic Freedom Bill of Rights, sponsored by Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, passed 8-to-2 despite strenuous objections from the only two Democrats on the committee. The bill has two more committees to pass before it can be considered by the full House. While promoting the bill Tuesday, Baxley said a university education should be more than “one biased view by the professor, who as a dictator controls the classroom,” as part of “a misuse of their platform to indoctrinate the next generation with their own views.” The bill sets a statewide standard that students cannot be punished for professing beliefs with which their professors disagree. Professors would also be advised to teach alternative “serious academic theories” that may disagree with their personal views. According to a legislative staff analysis of the bill, the law would give students who think their beliefs are not being respected legal standing to sue professors and universities. Students who believe their professor is singling them out for “public ridicule” – for instance, when professors use the Socratic method to force students to explain their theories in class – would also be given the right to sue. [More at website] ----- 2 ----- Bill would forbid gay adoptions By Jannell McGrew Montgomery Advertiser http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/NEWSV5/storyV5GAY0323W.htm Gay Alabamians hoping to adopt children in this state may never get the chance. A group of state lawmakers is pushing a measure to stop them. The Alabama Legislature is considering a proposal that would make it illegal for a person who is gay to adopt a minor. Currently, there is no state law that would prohibit a person who is homosexual from adopting children. However, because of the state's Marriage Protection Act, which only acknowledges marriage as being between a man and a woman, same-sex couples are effectively prohibited from adopting children. Howard Bayless, a gay Alabamian, says he's often thought of adopting a child and is outraged by the proposed ban, sponsored by Sen. Hank Erwin Jr., R-Montevallo. "The government does not need to dictate to us what a family should be made of and what a family should look like," Bayless said Tuesday. "I have three sisters, and every single one of them have children, and they have asked me to raise their children if something happens to them. This would not allow me to raise their children." The 2000 census indicated there were 8,109 same-sex partner households in Alabama, representing about 0.5 percent of all households in the state. There were 554 same-sex households reported in the tri-county area that year. Sandy Holmes, program manager with the office of adoption for the Alabama Department of Human Resources, said that in February, there were 641 children in the state awaiting adoption -- 272 of whom had no family identified to give them a permanent home. Under Erwin's proposed ban, none of these children could be adopted by someone who is gay. His bill awaits action in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Erwin said his measure is consistent with the state's stance on gay issues. He pointed to the Legislature's recent approval of a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage -- a proposal that must be approved by voters in a referendum -- and to Alabama's existing Marriage Protection Act, which prohibits the state from acknowledging same-sex unions. "We need to be consistent," Erwin said in a recent interview. "If we are going to say we are a family-friendly state with traditional family values, then we need to have traditional family adoption policies." [More at web site] ----- 3 ----- http://www.livejournal.com/users/erinlefey/288715.html 11:02 am http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7243574/ "Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D- Fla., who opposed the Schiavo bill, blasted GOP leaders as “particularly hypocritical” because they extol the sanctity of marriage and yet “insert themselves in between a husband and a wife.” When a reporter queried House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Saturday about that point, he replied, “The sanctity of life overshadows the sanctity of marriage. I don’t know what transpired between Terri and her husband. All I know is Terri is alive…. Unless she has specifically written instructions in her hand, with her signature, I don’t care what her husband says.” " Erin Lefey says: Try that a few times for you. Read DeLay's quote out loud many times. "I don’t care what her husband says." Let it roll around in your head. “The sanctity of life overshadows the sanctity of marriage." I've been fighting for marriage rights for a few years now. I'm wondering why, at this moment. All of you who think that being married means something, this Republican just destroyed it worse than any gay panic could. If someone in Congress disagrees with your medical decision regarding your spouse, they could overrule you. That's one of the KEY marriage issues we've been fighting for on the gay marriage front. A same-sex couple could not take care of each other in a medical crisis. Turns out opposite-sex couples lost that right today. Sanctity of marriage indeed. ----- 4 ----- Conservatives claimed that liberals "want" Schiavo to die Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200503260001 In discussing the Terri Schiavo case, several prominent media conservatives have accused liberals of wanting Schiavo to die and have imputed motives to them far beyond the belief, expressed by many liberals, that the courts were right to allow Schiavo's husband to make end-of-life decisions on behalf of his wife. Syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested that liberals "want this woman to die because Christian conservatives want her to live," calling it "payback." MSNBC host Joe Scarborough mused aloud about whether liberals "hate George Bush so much that they are cheering for Terri's death only because the president of the United States and his brother are fighting for Terri's life." Wall Street Journal contributing editor Peggy Noonan claimed that the "pull-the-tube people" -- she specifically named CNN Crossfire host James Carville and the website Democratic Underground -- are "committed" to Schiavo's death. Fox News host Bill O'Reilly singled out New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, stating, "I don't know why some of these left-wing columnists want her to die." Bay Buchanan, president of the conservative advocacy group The American Cause and frequent CNN commentator, asserted that the "only reason" that people "want" Schiavo to die is that "they've decided this woman is the property of her husband and he can do what he wants." Buchanan further accused feminists of "treating this woman like she is the property of her husband." From the March 23 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: A question for those of you who are our friends on the left. Just answer it honestly to yourself: How many of you want Terri Schiavo to die simply because some Christian conservatives want her to live? How many of you have rejoiced when a death row inmate has been saved because of later investigation into DNA? Do you want Terri Schiavo to die because some Christian conservatives want her to live? Is that it? [...] Could it be -- and I suspect this is the real answer -- could it be that you have been so pent up with rage and frustration over the Christians in this country? You just hated the success of The Passion of the Christ. You hated the outpouring of support for that movie, you just despise the red-state, hayseed, holy-roller crowd that you think is steamrollering the country. Maybe this is just payback; you want this woman to die because Christian conservatives want her to live. And, since you don't like Christian conservatives so much you want them to be disappointed. You want them to find out what it's like to be on the losing side. You want them to find out what it's like to not get away with everything they want just because they're Christians. Is that it? Does it really have nothing to do with Terri Schiavo; does it have solely to do with the fact that you want payback? From the March 24 edition of MSNBC's Scarborough Country: SCARBOROUGH: Why is that the same activists who fight to save the whales, the spotted owls, and a snail darter, for God's sake, sit quietly by while the U.S. government helps kill Terri Schiavo? Why do we see the visceral reaction by leftist organizations to the attempts to save Terri Schiavo's life? Do these liberals really hate George Bush so much? And that's all you ever hear about, George Bush. You never hear about Terri Schiavo. But do they hate George Bush so much that they are cheering for Terri's death only because the president of the United States and his brother are fighting for Terri's life? [More at URL] ----- 5 ----- Teaching Darwin splits Pennsylvania town Sun Mar 27, 5:54 PM ET http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=1548&e=1&u=/afp/20050327/lf_afp/uspoliticsreligion DOVER, United States (AFP) - The pastoral fields and white frame houses appear at peace, but this Pennsylvania farm town is deeply at war over teaching Darwin or Christian creationism in its schools. Since last year the school board voted to have high school biology teachers raise doubts about Darwin's 145-year-old theory and suggest an alternative Christian explanation for life. The city has since been deeply riven over the issue of separation of church and state. In January the school board ordered teachers to tell students that Darwinism is not proved, and to teach as well an alternate theory, "intelligent design," which posits that a grand creator, God, is responsible for the development of living organisms. "Darwin's theory is a theory ... not a fact," the school board declared in their statement to the teachers. "Intelligent design is an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin's view," said the report. The command landed in the sprawling, red-brick Dover high school like a bomb. Biology teachers refused to read it, while around 15 students walked out in protest. "Reading it sends the message that it is a legitimate scientific idea or theory," said Jen Miller, a biology teacher who is also a church-goer and daughter of a minister. As news of the dispute spread, the small city of 25,000 found itself the focus of a national battle over Darwinism, creationism and the role of religion in schools. ... "Creation is why we are here," said retired teacher Virginia Doll, defending the introduction of religion into the biology classes. "We have a rather religious town, the God we serve is important in everything we do," she said. ... "If we continue to indoctrinate our young people with non-religious principles, we're headed for an internal destruction of this society," he said. ... "Christians are a lot more bold under Bush's leadership, he speaks what a lot of us believe," said Mummert. "We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture," he said, adding that the school board's declaration is just a first step. "It took 30 or 40 years to eliminate God in school, it will take probably 30 or 40 years to get him back. You take a little step first, a little bite, then another little bite and another," said Steve Farrell, a nursery keeper, who dreams of the return to prayer in class. [More at web site] ----- 6 ----- http://www.proudparenting.com/page.cfm?Sectionid=65&typeofsite=snippetdetail&ID=1204&snippetset=yes#   Michigan Preparing To Let Doctors Refuse To Treat Gays (Lansing, Michigan) Doctors or other health care providers could not be disciplined or sued if they refuse to treat gay patients under legislation passed Wednesday by the Michigan House. The bill allows health care workers to refuse service to anyone on moral, ethical or religious grounds. The Republican dominated House passed the measure as dozens of Catholics looked on from the gallery. The Michigan Catholic Conference, which pushed for the bills, hosted a legislative day for Catholics on Wednesday at the state Capitol. The bills now go the Senate, which also is controlled by Republicans. The Conscientious Objector Policy Act would allow health care providers to assert their objection within 24 hours of when they receive notice of a patient or procedure with which they don't agree. However, it would prohibit emergency treatment to be refused. Three other three bills that could affect LGBT health care were also passed by the House Wednesday which would exempt a health insurer or health facility from providing or covering a health care procedure that violated ethical, moral or religious principles reflected in their bylaws or mission statement. Opponents of the bills said they're worried they would allow providers to refuse service for any reason. For example, they said an emergency medical technicians could refuse to answer a call from the residence of gay couple because they don't approve of homosexuality. [More at web site] ----- 7 ----- Schiavo case matters in symbol and substance Cal Thomas (archive) March 21, 2005 http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050321.shtml Why does Terri Schiavo matter? Why has Congress made a federal case out of her situation? Why did the president of the United States return to Washington from Texas in order to sign a bill created for the express purpose of inviting a federal court to review the case and likely requiring her feeding tube restored while the judge gathers information? She matters, not only because she has an endowed, inalienable right to life, but also because she is a symbol - like Rosa Parks was a symbol when she refused to sit in the back of that Montgomery, Ala., bus; like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who symbolized freedom by defying Soviet authorities and chronicling the inhabitants and victims of the gulags; like astronauts who brave death to explore space. Symbols have meaning. Terri Schiavo is a symbol in the battle over life-and-death issues that inconveniently, but necessarily, confront us. Opponents of federal intervention cry "hypocrisy" because conservatives pushing for a federal court review claim to support states rights on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage and think these matters should be left to the states under the 10th Amendment. [More at web site] ----- 8 ----- Stick to U.S. Law, Judges Told by Josh Montez, correspondent Focus on the Family Family News in Focus SUMMARY: Congress weighs resolution to chide courts for relying on international precedents in their rulings. http://www.family.org/resources/itempg.cfm?itemid=5001&refcd=CE05CCZL&tvar=no Congress is considering a resolution denouncing the citation of foreign legal precedents in U.S. court cases, a move prompted by the Supreme Court's recent nods to international law in ruling on contentious issues. The resolution comes from the office of Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and simply states that rulings "should not be based on judgments, laws or pronouncements of foreign institutions." Legal analyst Doug Kmiec of Pepperdine University said Cornyn has a legitimate concern. "Recent cases dealing with homosexuality, dealing with same-sex marriage, dealing with very sensitive topics, suggest the judges are all too willing sometimes to impose their own views merely because others in other nations agree with them," Kmiec said. For example, the Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas ruling cited foreign law as a justification for overturning U.S. sodomy prohibitions. Another decision the court handed down in recent weeks referenced overseas legal precedent in finding the executions of minors unconstitutional. Judge Robert Bork, an analyst for the Hudson Institute, said there's a strategy behind the high court's international citations, even though their only job is to be in step with the U.S. Constitution. "I think the results they are arriving at, they would arrive at anyway," he said. "And they are using foreign law -- foreign decisions -- as window dressing to make it look like they are in tune with the world." John Drogan, Cornyn's press secretary, said his boss is determined to fulfill President Bush's promise to find judges who will interpret the law rather than make it. "He's concerned," Drogan said of Cornyn, "that little by little the American people may be losing control over meaning of our laws and our Constitution." FOR MORE INFORMATION: Judicial activists are undermining American institutions and culture. It is the gravest threat to American democracy, as they dictate supreme power of political, social and economic policy. Phyllis Schlafly's "The Supremacists" sounds the alarm that our self-government is in peril, but it also presents a plan of action for ending the tyranny of judges. ----- 9 ----- Conservatives Infiltrating Hollywood by Terry Philips, correspondent Family News in Focus Focus on the Family March 28, 2005 Movie ratings and storylines are becoming more moderate as Christian movie makers get into the act. http://family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0035991.cfm A Hollywood project that has successfully trained Christian writers to work from the inside of show business has set its sights on Tinseltown's executive offices. Act One, Incorporated's new executive program offers an MBA-style curriculum with veteran entertainment executives as instructors and mentors, according to Todd Coleman, the new initiative's director. The first class, to meet this summer, will number just 10. The program's goal is to find young Christians who have great management skills and interests and turn them toward Hollywood. "People who might have planned to go into politics, or corporate business in New York," Coleman said, "instead come out here and suddenly get to live out their passion, which is movies and entertainment." While there are now 100 Act One writing graduates in the entertainment industry, the real meaningful decisions still come from studio executives. "There was a realization that there is a need for more Christians behind the desks at the studios and the networks," Coleman said. "People who have the authority to choose which projects get made and which don't." Phil Cooke, a Hollywood veteran and a Christian on Act One's board of directors, said the key is finding the best and the brightest Christian young people with leadership potential -- those who really want to make an executive-level impact in the entertainment industry. "Hollywood is its own religion," Cooke said. "The world revolves around Hollywood as far as Hollywood is concerned." That, he added, is why it is important to include training that deals with the dangers inherent in Hollywood's infamous culture. "We're trying to raise up leaders who know how to be in the world of entertainment," Cooke explained, "but not of it." FOR MORE INFORMATION In the Focus on the Family broadcast "A New Hope in Hollywood" you'll hear from one of Hollywood's own. Quality family programming is hard to come by these days, but Hollywood insider Dave Johnson—co-creator of the PAX network show "Doc"—is working to change that. Listen in as he discusses the pitfalls of the entertainment industry and describes current efforts to encourage traditional values on television. CT463 ----- 10 ----- Family News in Focus Focus on the Family Bob Ditmer [Ed Note: No summary today.] 1. "Drug use is rampant in America. Studies say parents are the best defense against getting hooked." "Survey found that the current generation of parents, who were more likely to have used drugs in their own teen years" aren't talking about it with their kids or discouraging them as much as FotF wants. "Talking and education is an ongoing process, not a one-shot." Says talk about more than just drugs, also sex issues is important. 2. Many parents are unprepared to talk about sex, according to MSNBC poll. "The lack of information leads those wanting to delay sexual activity to feel alone." National Coalition for Protection of Children and Families say that children would talk with parents about sexual issues of parents were more comfortable about it. Abstinence and Marriage Partnership says most teens "respond extremely well" to no sex before marriage. 3. Christian underground trying "to change what Hollywood puts out." Act One, Inc. "It wants to infiltrate front offices now, too." See story above. "There is a need for more Christians behind the desk in Hollywood, who have the ability to choose what projects get produced and what doesn't." 4. "Just Pray No" is an April 2 and 3 prayer effort against drug and alcohol use. Trying "to enlist one million prayer warriors in the effort." "Without prayer and fasting, churches will have limited affect in reaching the afflicted." ----- 11 ----- Destroying Life and Mocking Marriage 3/28/2005 By Jan LaRue, Chief Counsel http://www.cwfa.org/articles/7794/LEGAL/life/index.htm Michael Schiavo has forfeited his right to speak for Terri. Because of Concerned Women for America’s stance in support of saving Terri Schiavo from a court-ordered death by starvation, we have received calls and e-mails criticizing us for “ignoring the sanctity of marriage” and the “right of a husband to speak for his wife regarding her end of life wishes.” To the contrary, our stance in this matter is entirely consistent with our respect for the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage. Terri Schiavo, a seriously handicapped woman, lies helpless and dying from a court-ordered starvation death instigated by the one who still dares to call himself her loving husband. He is grieving, we’re told, over the impending death of his wife. Most of the world now knows that Terri’s husband Michael is living with another woman with whom he has sired two children. Nonetheless, there are those who insist that even in this situation, it is Michael who should make the end of life decisions for Terri as opposed to her loving parents who want to care for her because they believe, as a practicing Catholic, she would never choose suicide over life. Let’s begin by getting a grip on reality. Ask any woman on the planet what she would do if she recovered from what had been diagnosed as a “persistent vegetative state” to find her husband standing at the foot of her bed with a woman and two children. “Who are they?” He then introduces her to his kids and their mother. As she launches a bed pan at his head, he says, “C’mon, honey, I still care about you. I didn’t even divorce you.” And when she learns that some nitwit judge, who knew about lover boy’s adultery, granted his request for an order to pull her feeding tube, she starts looking for a bigger bed pan. Michael Schiavo is an adulterer. He stepped out of the sanctity of his marriage when he stepped out on his wife. To call him Terri’s husband because he hasn’t divorced her makes a mockery of marriage. He claims that he sought the court order to remove Terri’s feeding tube because he is keeping a promise to her that he made years ago. Really? Why does he feel obligated to keep that promise when he hasn’t kept his promise to forsake all others and cleave to Terri through sickness and health? Before you decide to make Michael Schiavo “Husband of the Year,” consider the following: [More at URL] ----- 12 ----- Turnout burnout COVER STORY World Magazine As Terri Schiavo's life ebbed, an expected army of pro-life foot soldiers turned up AWOL by Joel Belz http://www.worldmag.com/subscriber/displayArticle.cfm?ID=10476 PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - They built it—but almost nobody came. From the welcoming entryway to the Woodside Hospice, bright orange snow fence stretched 500 feet to the east on 102nd Street and another 500 feet to the west. The barrier—at some points four layers deep in a town where it never snows—was there not just to protect the hospice complex. Pinellas Park police installed the fence to restrain and control the big crowds they were told might arrive from all over the United States to protest what was happening inside the hospice, where Terri Schiavo edged near death after medical personnel removed her feeding tube on March 18. One policeman told WORLD his department had been warned that as many as 25,000 or even 50,000 people might show up on Palm Sunday weekend. His department, he said, was ready. "We built it," he said, "and they can come." So the Pinellas Park police built their barrier. Bewilderingly, almost nobody came. To be sure, several hundred passionate partisans did show up to protest the state's official treatment of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged—but in the testimony of her parents, by no means "vegetative"—victim of a heart attack 15 years ago. Mrs. Schiavo, 41, had for almost all that time depended on a feeding tube to keep her alive. But soon after noon on the Friday before Palm Sunday, that feeding tube was removed at the insistence of her husband, Michael Schiavo. After some 23 court decisions involving at least 16 judges in different jurisdictions, Mr. Schiavo also had the state of Florida on his side. ... Franciscan Brothers of Peace Paul O'Donnell, Anthony Sweeney, and Hilary McGee came from St. Paul, Minn. They said their order was first established to protest abortion. "But now," said Mr. Sweeney, "Satan has run around to the other end of life and is attacking our older people. If this is allowed, thousands and maybe millions of people will die premature deaths." [more at website] ----- 13 ----- US Moves to Impose Harsher Penalties to Curb Indecent TV Shows By Brent Hurd Washington DC 23 March 2005 Voice of America US lawmakers are turning up the heat against those found to be responsible for indecent broadcasting on American public airwaves.  Higher fines for indecency are intended to curb what some consider a growing trend of sexually offensive material in the American entertainment media.  Some lawmakers are also suggesting that decency standards be applied to private cable and satellite broadcasts. The now-infamous uncovering of Janet Jackson's breast during a halftime show at the 2004 American Football Superbowl championship game sparked a quarter of a million complaints in an organized camapign by conservative American citizens. The government agency in charge of regulating the broadcast industry decided it was time for a crackdown on obscenity.  The US House of Representatives approved a huge increase in fines. Future acts deemed indecent could cost a broadcaster or artist a $500,000 fine, 10 times more than the current fine, if the legislation passes the Senate and is signed by President Bush.   Janet LaRue, legal counsel for Concerned Women for America, a Christian public policy group, says the move is long overdue. "In order to deter violations of our federal broadcast decency standards, broadcast fines have to be high.  When you incur fines of only $32,000 against [American broadcaster] CBS television, for example, it is just pocket change.  Broadcasters have been pushing the envelope, and the lax enforcement hasn't acted as a deterrent.  So the nature of programming has become more and more explicit," says Janet LaRue. Marvin Johnson is a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, a group that defends civil liberties.  He believes the demand for more regulation of television broadcasts comes from a small yet vocal minority of Americans. "I don't think it is the majority of Americans because if you look at the demographics of the people who watch these TV shows, some of them are very popular. A lot of people are watching, even though you have some that find them indecent," says Marvin Johnson. The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, is the government agency that assigns radio frequencies and licenses to broadcasters that in return, pledge to serve the public interest.  That includes meeting FCC decency guidelines, particularly in the hours of 6 AM to 10 PM, a time when children are often watching television.  The FCC defines 'broadcast indecency' as anything that portrays sexual conduct in an offensive way. But John Watson, professor of law at the American University in Washington, says there is no clear-cut definition of indecency and the FCC has been inconsistent in its enforcement.  He says that and the higher fines will have a chilling effect on broadcasters.  He thinks they will err on the side of caution and self-censor programming "They don't want to cross the line that they really cannot see very clearly.  So they will stay far, far away from the line.  As a result, they will not take any risks, they will produce programming that is acceptable for a ten year old," says John Watson. An example could be the November 2004 broadcast of the war movie Saving Private Ryan on the ABC television network.  It contains historic scenes of battle, which include vulgar language that the FCC deemed indecent in other broadcasts. The subject matter was not sexual, but the language prompted more than 60 affiliate television stations not to show the movie.  Later the FCC ruled that given the historical context of the movie, such profanity was acceptable.   Mrs. LaRue of Concerned Women for America agrees with that FCC decision.  But she believes the FCC needs to expand its regulation of cable and satellite. People pay for those services - about 85% of the US households with televisions have them.  "It is time that the indecency regulations apply to cable as well as satellite simply because it is just as pervasive and available to children and is far more sexually explicit in many cases," says Mrs. LaRue. But regulating something people pay for is not that simple.  In 2000, the FCC tried to enforce restrictions on sexually oriented cable channels like Playboy television.  But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this would violate free speech rights based on the distinction that broadcasting over public airwaves is free, while citizens choose to pay for cable and satellite. Legislation could reverse that decision. And recently, several senators introduced a bill that, if it becomes law, would expand government regulation to cable and satellite broadcasts.  Current FCC commissioner Kevin Martin, expected to become the next FCC Chairman, says such a move could be a viable alternative. ----- 14 ----- Advice Columnist Promotes PFLAG And Transgender Confusion Traditional Values Coalition http://traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2192 March 24, 2005 – Abigail Van Buren, who writes the “Dear Abby” syndicated column, was recently asked by a mother how she should deal with her 14-year-old daughter who thinks she’s a homosexual. According to Van Buren, the mother should support the girl and join a chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Van Buren also recommended that the mother download a copy of a pro-transgender booklet produced by the Children’s National Medical Center on “gender variant” children. The booklet was written by three pro-transgender individuals, one of whom is a homosexual. This parent’s guide recommends that parents support their “gender variant” children and work to establish “safe” places in school for these children to be free from harassment. A “gender variant” child is one who thinks the opposite sex. A member of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) has responded to this bad advice from “Dear Abby.” According to Dr. Sander Breiner, “The various mild to major symptoms that are expressed in the many periods of childhood can produce some serious—and sometimes permanent—repercussions.” Breiner says that a child who thinks he’s the opposite sex should be carefully evaluated and treated—but not by a homosexual therapist. TVC’s ministry and counseling list will provide you with additional resources on help for individuals with same-sex attractions or gender confusion issues. ----- 15 ----- Leftists Exploit Rosa Parks For Homosexual Agenda Traditional Values Coalition March 24, 2005 – The leftist Southern Poverty Law Center headed by Morris Dees is working with Rosa Parks, the civil rights heroine, to establish a National Campaign for Tolerance. The goal is to enlisted five million activists to participate in so-called tolerance initiatives in their local communities. One of the goals of the tolerance campaign is for individuals to sign a tolerance pledge that says, in part, “I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity [emphasis added] or other characteristics are different from my own.” Dees is shown at a “gay” pride parade in South Carolina in 1999: Gay Pride Pictures. The tolerance campaign has also created materials for educators to use in public schools. Morris Dees’ fundraising agenda was exposed by Harpers Magazine in 2000. Author Ken Silverstein describes the Southern Poverty Law Center as engaging in a “relentless fund-raising campaign, peddling memberships in the church of tolerance with all the zeal of a circuit rider passing the collection plate.” Silverstein notes that in 1999, this organization brought in $44 million but spent only $13 million on civil rights programs. Dees brags on his web site about suing Chief Justice Roy Moore over the judge’s refusal to remove the Ten Commandments from an Alabama state office building: SPLCenter.org: Why Did Center Sue Judge Moore? ----- 16 ----- Hitler Targeted The Handicapped First Traditional Values Coalition http://traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=2196 March 24, 2005 – The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum features an online display showing how German physicians under Adolf Hitler (and even before Hitler came to power) had created a euthanasia program to kill those deemed “unworthy of life.” According to the Museum: “The victims included the mentally retarded, the institutionalized mentally ill, and the physically impaired.” The Museum noted: “The ‘euthanasia’ program required the cooperation of many German doctors, who reviewed the medical files of patients in institutions to determine which handicapped or mentally ill individuals should be killed. The doctors also supervised the actual killings. Doomed patients were transferred to six institutions in Germany and Austria, where they were killed in specially constructed gas chambers. Handicapped infants and small children were also killed by injection with a deadly dose of drugs or by starvation. The bodies of the victims were burned in large ovens called crematoria. The roots of Hitler’s euthanasia program began in 1920 with the publishing of an essay by Dr. Alfred Hoche and law professor Karl Binding. The essay, “Releasing Persons from Lives Devoid of Value,” recommended a new medical ethic to deal with mental patients and those whose lives were considered worthless. According to Hoche and Binding, useless individuals were to be killed to save money and to release them from the perceived miseries of living a life devoid of value. Hoche introduced the concept of “mental death” to describe the retarded or those who suffered from other forms of brain damage (much like Terri Schiavo’s condition). He described these people as “human ballast” and said that killing them would be useful and allowable act under the law. The idea of “mental death” and killing the handicapped swept rapidly through Germany. In 1931, a group of psychiatrists met in Bavaria to discuss the sterilization and killing of those with chronic mental illnesses. By 1936 the practice of killing the socially unfit was so common that it was mentioned only incidentally in a German medical journal. Dr. Leo Alexander, a Boston psychiatrist, detailed the horrors of the pre-Nazi and Nazi euthanasia program in an essay titled, “Medical Science Under Dictatorship,” published in the July 14, 1949 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Alexander served as a consultant to the Secretary of War during the Nuremberg trials. According to Alexander, the shift that took place among doctors was subtle. It began with the view that there is such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived. “Gradually,” said Alexander, “it led to killing the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, the racially unwanted, and finally all non-Germans.” Robert Jay Lifton writing in The Nazi Doctors describes the Nazi euthanasia program and its eventual use against the Jews. The philosophy of the Nazi doctors lives on today in the minds of federal judges and pro-euthanasia organizations as well as Michael Schiavo and his New Age attorney George Felos.

Tech Dose Information - Consumer Watch | Arguments on future of fast Internet Weblog: Tech Dose Information Source: Consumer Watch | Arguments on future of fast Internet Link: http://techdose.blogspot.com/2005/03/consumer-watch-arguments-on-future-of.html If you pay attention to such things, you probably think of your cable company and phone company as bitter rivals, elbowing each other at every turn in their quest for your communications and entertainment dollars. That certainly seems true of Philadelphia's Comcast Corp. and Verizon Communications, which are each reaching aggressively beyond their traditional turfs. Comcast is rolling out phone service transmitted via its coaxial cables, installed years ago to deliver TV channels and lately the leading route to the high-speed "broadband" Internet. Sign up, and you can say goodbye to Ma Bell and her offspring. Verizon already sells broadband: digital-subscriber-line (DSL) service over its copper wires. Its goal is to offer TV and broadband together via newer fiber-optic connections. If it succeeds, you'll be able to cast aside Comcast and still get your MTV (though Comcast SportsNet is another matter). No question, your cable and phone companies are fierce competitors. That's why you should be afraid, perhaps very afraid, when they stand together tomorrow, on the same side in a case being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court - a case that could prove crucial to the future of the Internet and that, chances are, you've never even heard of. Part of the problem may be the case's obscure name: Brand X, which refers to a tiny California company, Brand X Internet Services, that brought the case against the FCC. But its sheer complexity shares some of the blame. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will also hear arguments in another dispute that may shape the Internet's future - a case that could decide, once and for all, whether "file sharing" on Grokster and other peer-to-peer networks equals "fair use" or "stealing." Even reduced to their barest essentials, the legal questions in Brand X are not so easily stated. But they may prove far more important. Think of Brand X as the little guy in a Capra-esque struggle. It wants open access - at a fair, market-based rate - to sell its Internet service over cable-TV networks. Not surprisingly, the cable industry just says no. You might wonder: Why should Brand X - or Earthlink, NetZero, or America Online - have open access? Didn't cable companies spend billions of dollars to lay that cable, and even more to upgrade their systems? Aren't phone companies investing billions in hopes they can compete? The answer, of course, is yes. But a better question might be: Is a tiny number of big competitors, each with a huge head start, enough to foster a vibrant and competitive telecommunications market? Congress didn't think so nine years ago, when it passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. One of its cornerstones was that the Baby Bells - the regional descendants, such as Verizon, of AT&T's old monopoly - had to sell new competitors wholesale access to their networks. In return, the Baby Bells were allowed to compete in new arenas, such as long-distance. In less than a decade, the telecommunications landscape has been transformed. And one of the biggest changes is that cable and phone companies began offering to consumers the broadband Internet access that once was limited to large corporations and universities. Their dominance - effectively a "duopoly," in economic terms - has two big consequences. One is price, which for many remains prohibitively high. Comcast charges $58 a month for Internet access to customers who don't also buy its cable TV, and $15 less a month to those who do. Verizon's $30 base rate for new DSL customers is a relative bargain, though it's less widely available and requires a one-year contract, and customers may be required to also buy Verizon phone service. The other consequence is less plain, but no less important: If only two companies dominate the broadband market - or even three or four, if new technologies come quickly to fruition - those who own the Internet's "pipes" will have enormous power over what passes through them. You may not worry that Comcast or Verizon could limit your access to politically or culturally sensitive content. But that's one of the concerns of the array of consumer and media-access groups that have joined this case on Brand X's side. If that sounds far-fetched, consider a scenario offered by Ben Scott of the nonprofit advocacy group Free Press: "Say I'm Comcast in Philadelphia, and I've just made a deal with Blockbuster to deliver movies over the Internet. There's nothing to stop me from making your Blockbuster downloads really fast and your Netflix and Hollywood Video downloads really slow," Scott says. Unlike simply blocking sites, that kind of content discrimination would be nearly impossible to prove. Brand X owner Jim Pickrell says open access is the answer. He wants to overturn an FCC decree that cable-modem service is an "information service," not a "telecommunications service." In the arcane language of government, that distinction is crucial. If he wins, he may be able to revive his company, which has dwindled to one full-time employee and fewer than 400 customers. 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sdradio media bytes march 25, 2005 The GelderHead digital thought for the day: Never mess up an apology with an excuse. | ~ | Visit the Gelder Head. media bytes for friday, march 25, 2005 | Starlight Express | Katia Emily Newman, is the daughter of Gayle Newman. The morning traffic and news host at KPRI lost her daughter Monday morning. Katia was driving to work in rural San Diego when her car went off the road. SDRadio extends warm wishes and remembrance to Gayle and her family. Services for Katia are today. Steve Yuhas, the focus of Randy Dotinga’s column at the North County Times this week – writes SDRadio about his Sunday show: “We celebrate EASTER with Marines from Iraq and surprise some lucky family members who have not talked to their loved ones in months with phone conversations - BILLIONS of people celebrate the birth of Christ - we will do it too – in our own long distance sort of way. Mark Levin author of Men in Black joins the program to talk about his new book and about the fact that the U.S. Constitution is no restraint on our out-of-control Supreme Court. Do I owe the McCusker family an apology given the fact that the Bishop of San Diego changed his mind about giving John a Catholic funeral? That very well may be the case – so tune in for that.” Hear Steve Sunday night on KOGO at 6 p.m. – perhaps the fastest hour of talk radio in the market. Tom Fudge of KPBS writes in the latest KPBS-FM guide: “Someone should make a horror movie about the Mt. Soledad cross and call it “The Issue that Wouldn’t Die!” I had thought things were settled after years of court rulings and a voter referendum. Now, talk show hosts are talking about chaining themselves to the cross to prevent it from being moved. Four members of the San Diego City Council have jumped on the don’t-move-the-cross bandwagon. I must confess that I am profoundly indifferent on the subject of the Mt. Soledad cross. I really, truly don’t care whether the cross stays where it is or moves someplace else. I just wish we could stop talking about it. But I do believe that the courts have a job to do. In this case, the courts have decided that keeping the Mount Soledad cross on public land, or rigging a land sale to make sure it stays where it is, is a violation of constitutional law. Some people aren’t happy with that decision. But hey… you win some and you lose some. Some people who oppose moving the cross want to transfer the land it sits on to the U.S. government. That may buy some time but it’s unlikely to have any effect on its legal status. It could also lead to many more years of litigation, adding to the 15 years we’ve already spent in court on this matter. In fact you’d probably have to amend the constitution, at this point, to keep the cross where it is. Opponents of gay marriage may succeed in getting a constitutional amendment. But I doubt there’s the same political traction for preserving the location of the Mt. Soledad cross.” Tom is heard on These Days at 89.5. Jefferey Young was the night time host at KPOP. He would hand craft his show and had a loyal listening audience. He is heard every Friday at the true jazz station KSDS during Out of the Box. “That’s at Jazz 88, located at 88.3 on your FM dial,” Jeffrey writes. Thank you for making SDRadio part of your internet travels today and all this week. See YOU on the radio! Enjoy Easter! The GelderHead digital thought for the day: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. | ~ Henry David Thoreau | Visit the Gelder Head. media bytes for thursday, march 24, 2005 | Starlight Express | Compass Points: Where Are They Now? In August of last year when 1360 KPOP dropped its adult standards programming, a music void was created. Sure, the sounds of Frank, Sammy, and Dino, and other favorites can be found – it was the magic and the warmth of Happy Hare Martin, Jerry G. Bishop, Ken and Cynthia in the afternoon drive. Through the years as a music stop on the AM dial, KPOP also had Joe Bauer behind the mic, Ernie Meyers – and Kevin Taylor. Here’s an update: Jerry G. Bishop remains on air – however, it’s the Windy City that hears him on weekends. The host, now noted for his fine pizza, and Greek Island restaurant at Seaport Village, spins wax at WRLL in the Chicago area. You can find Jerry at his Greek Island Restaurant or next door at Assagio – the best pizza in town. Jerry is also the sponsor of the upcoming SDRadio lunch slated for next month. Ken Copper tells SDRadio he’s moving on up to the east side – the east side of the 5 freeway. He is in the process of moving from Carlsbad to nearby San Marcos in a new housing development. Kevin Taylor the Assistant Program Director, and mid-morning host at the station writes: “I moved to Palm Springs one year ago and have been working full time at the Desert AIDS Project in the Resource Development department. I handle fundraising and special event coordinating and it’s very rewarding! I will have been with the project one year this June. I’m also still doing a radio gig out here from time to time at KWXY 98.5 FM / 1340 AM. This station is 40 years old (one year older than me) and has been owned and managed by the same gentleman the entire time. It’s probably the last “Beautiful Music” station still around and believe it or not, they still play music on reel to reel tapes! I am very fortunate in that when I am on, I am allowed to bring in my own music and introduce new music and artists to the listeners! I’m usually on 2-3 times a month and also do lots of voice work for the station. It’s definitely a legendary station here in the Coachella Valley with 50,000 watts on the FM and 1,000 watts on the AM and consistently in the top three in ratings! With a staff of 19 everyone is working and promoting one product and it makes the end result a true winner! I have the pleasure working with a great team at KWXY which include Dave Hull, the Hullabalooer from KRLA and Scott Ellsworth who hosts “Scott’s Place”. Scott was on KFI for many years. Needless to say, this is one of a kind station so next time you’re in the desert, give it a listen! That’s the latest from sunny Palm Springs, CA and I hope you and your readers are all doing well! Feel free to drop a line as I’d love to hear from you!” Kevin’s email address. John Regan, who teamed up with Kevin at 1360 KPOP, can be found at Oldies 540/1260 throughout Southern California. John is heard Monday through Friday from 10 to 3 during middays, Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m., and for two hours on Sunday starting at 10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday’s show is the Finger Poppin’ & doo woppin’ show … Steve Blessing, the producer for the Happy Hare Martin morning show has landed at KECR-AM. The Christian station is run by Family Radio. Stay tuned, to be continued The king of kid’s cowboy music, Buck Howdy, has been invited to sing at the White House again. The Poway resident will be taking his rootin’ tootin’ tunes to the President and First Lady’s Easter Egg Roll for the second consecutive year. He’ll be in esteemed company - at least as far as kids are concerned. Also featured will be Barney the Dinosaur, the Bear in the Big Blue House and others. Howdy, whose debut cd Skidaddle! (MCA Nashville) is one of the top selling kids’ music releases, is currently working with Sony Pictures Television on the new Buck Howdy tv series expected to debut next year. Buck is on line at BuckHowdy.com Last night KOGO’s Mark Larson took the hot-microphone to San Diego City Hall. There, City Attorney Michael Aguirre called for another hearing on the Mt. Soledad Cross issue. Mark, not afraid to go where no radio mic has gone before, did the exclusive last night as he did two weeks ago during the last hearing on the same issue. Larson says San Diegans shouldn’t be puzzled as to why Aguirre is conducting a meeting that seems redundant: “He wasn’t in the Tuesday March 8 meeting for most of the hours of testimony from Mt. Soledad supporters, having someone else from his office sit in for him”. “Why?,” listeners asked Mark during his noon to 3 p.m. broadcast, “does this seem like a waste of time now that the referendary petition drive is in process?” Says Larson, “You’ll have to ask the City Attorney. His office seems full of mysteries these days.” Meanwhile, the Soledad Cross petition drive continues to gather signatures from the City of San Diego voters, and also is seeking your donations to keep the momentum. At 3 p.m., Roger Hedgecock keeps the city’s feet in the fire. After the Cross issue is settled, expect Roger to proceed full speed ahead as the City of San Diego has other issues to answer. Only talk radio is keeping the fires buring on the issue of SEC inquiries, pension fraud, and raising the possibility that America’s Finest City could be America’s Finest Bankrupt Metro as the financial coffers continue to diverted elsewhere. Thank you for making SDRadio part of your internet travels. See YOU on the radio! The GelderHead digital thought for the day: Have faith in your inherant power to acheive; it is faith in yourself that attracts success. Imagine things not as they are but as you would have them and create for yourself in your imagination and hold it steadily. Do not let your heart be troubled nor let it be fearful! | ~ | Visit the Gelder Head. media bytes for tuesday, march 22, 2005 | Starlight Express | KOGO’s Mark Larson and Roger Hedgecock gathered over 5,000 signatures for the Mt. Soledad campaign at last Friday’s remote broadcast/rally at the Cross. More money was raised for the effort as well, including a $10,000 donation secured by Larson and announced at the start of his Friday program. Despite wind and rain, the turnout for the six hour event went beyond expectations. In addition to fighting to save the Mt. Soledad Memorial, Larson continues his on-air (and off-air) fight on behalf of Terri Schiavo. He’s been involved in the issue for several years through National Right to Life. At a past NRTL convention, he met Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri, who’s been a frequent guest on the Larson Show. Next month, Mark’s been selected to emcee the annual “Proudly Pro-Life Award” dinner in Washington, DC (April 20), sponsored by NRTL. Author/Lawyer/Entertainer Ben Stein was originally tapped to emcee, but due to a conflict with his schedule, Larson was chosen for the assignment. Stein joins Mark on Tuesday’s show at 12:35. Honorees at the April 20 event include Richard DeVos, founder of Amway and owner of the Orlando Magic NBA team. Larson is live at KOGO starting at noon. hEAR WAX: Mark Evans of KOGO’s News First was on doing news reports at KFI over the weekend. Cliff Albert said he was filling in….. Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw are making dreams come true with the daily $1,000 giveaway. Monday’s bounty went to a WWII veteran so he can attend a convention here in San Diego this fall ….. The San Diego Union-Tribune has dropped weekly radio coverage in the Arts section. That leaves Randy Dotinga in the print seat at the North County Times on Thursday. (Jay Posner writes about sports talk radio in Friday’s U-T edition) ….. San Diego is home to two well respected radio personalities – and one has a dark secret. Jon St.John & Jodina call North County home – yet their voice is every where, it seems. On hold with the electric utility in San Diego? Chances are you’ll here Jodina either in English – or Spanish – giving you tips on saving electricity. Jon and Jodina stopped by the SDRadio cyberoffice: SDRadio: What is the difference between imaging and just reading liners? Jon: Imaging consists of carefully written positioning statements that are heavily produced to stand out and make the listener aware of the frequency, format, and name of the station they are tuned to. Liners on the other hand are what the PD’s give the jocks to promote station events, programming events, sponsorships, etc. SDRadio:Where can we hear you on the radio – and elsewhere. Jodina and Jon: Jodina is of course, the nightime show host (7pm-12mid.) on KPRI and can be seen nationally hosting various infomercials on TV. You may also recognize Jodina’s voice as the helpful “on hold” voice for SDG&E. Together we both provide the imaging voices of Blue Sky Boadcasting’s KPND and Jon is the imaging voice of Pamal’s WHUD in New York, and as you know, the voice of San Diego’s FOX 6. SDRadio: Jon, there’s folklore your famous in a game … tell us more. Jon: Well, there WAS a time…unfortunately, the makers of DUKE NUKEM dropped the ball when the game was at it’s peak of popularity. But yes, I was quite well known for being the voice of the babe-savin’, alien-killin’ superhero. I’m pleased to still be providing characters voices for many games including HALF LIFE, TWISTED METAL, SONIC ADVENTURES and many more. You can see a partial list of my game credits on our website: JsJProd.com SDRadio: Jodina, night time at KPRI, what is the best thing about the audience there? Jodina: Our listeners at KPRI are true music fans. The emails I receive from my listeners really tells the story… they love everything from classic rock to blues to reggae, we play it all hence the new slogan: Rock Without Rules. I am also pleased that my peers in San Diego radio listen as well (you know who you are…Thanks!!) SDRadio: Radio has changed in the last ten years, what did you do to stay current, develop new avenues for employment, and where is the future heading? Jon & Jodina: With all of the changes to radio over the past decade, we determined that providing production services for radio stations was a more secure and lucrative opportunity for us. However, we do feel there will be a shift in the next few years as huge broadcast corporations such as Clear Channel begin to sell off many of their properties (as is the case currently in Cleveland). This will increase market wide competition and will also improve the quality of programming. It may not be the radio we grew up with but it will most likely head in that direction. SDRadio: Jon, after a hard day slaving being a hot microphone, where do you take Jodina for good food??Jon: Our favorite is The Brigantine in Del Mar. We also enjoy walking through Little Italy and choosing someplace for Italian cuisine. Jon and Jodina have ample samples at the website, JsJProd.com. Jon adds that business has been good. “For a first quarter….business HAS been very good. Thanks to agressive networking, (mostly Jodina’s doing) we have made many connections that lead to various projects. In fact, we will be co-emceeing the San Diego ADDY awards on April 1st at the IMAX theater in Balboa Park,” Jon wrote. Thanks Jon and Jodina, see YOU on the radio! And …. Thank you for making SDRadio one of your stops today. Please! No crowding, there’s enough room for all. Coming up later this week: Where in the world are former KPOPpers; Padres play-by-play in outer space; and tracking down Scot Tempesta. Thank you so much, and what’s on your radio? SDRadio returns on Tuesday. Mark Evans newsing at KFI Jon St.John & Jodina on radio, voice overs, and the industry Where in the world are former KPOPers, and others Baseball kicks it to the stars These and more, plus SDRadio tracking down Scot Tempesta of KLSD, ((in stereo where available)). See YOU on the radio! The GelderHead digital thought for the day: Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving. | ~ | Visit the Gelder Head. media bytes for friday, march 17+1, 2005 | Starlight Express | Sonny West checks in from the KyXy studios: “We celebrated St. Patty’s Day at KyXy by doing a makeover on NBC 7/39’s Bill Menish and Catherine Garcia. We supplied the green St. Patty’s Hawaiian shirts for our crew and theirs. Bill looked great in his although it clashed a bit with his yellow striped tie. We couldn’t coax Catherine to shed her jacket and put the shirt on…but I think deep down inside she wanted to…she’s a sucker for Hawaiian Haute Couture! The KyXy Morning Show got into the “Braddah St. Patrick Day” festivities…the morning was completed by Sonny serenading the radio and tv audience with When Irish Eyes Are Smiling accompanied on his ukulele. Pictured are: Kevin Traffic Dean, Susan DeVincent, Sonny Aloha West, and famed news hound John Q. Lawrence at the KyXy Studios – and yes, they were in living color on NBC 7/39. San Diego AM radio 1240, KSON has air time available. Abraham Vizcarra writes: “We still have airtime available for purchase so we’re spreading the word. If you or anyone you know wants to broadcast in sunny San Diego, please let me know how we can help. Our rates are very affordable and we have prime time slots available. Please call and find out how we can spread your message, views, opinions and more on AM 1240 KSON San Diego today.” Contact the station at 619.293.0104. The KLSD Watch Dog is growling. He writes from his dog-pound: “Saturday marks the two year anniversary of the United States’ invasion of Iraq…Saturday on the “KLSD Watchdog”, we’ll bring you a first-person account of the horrors taking place inside the country…Dahr Jamail, an independent and “unembedded” reporter, spent 10 months inside Iraq, including time in Fallujah and Baghdad. He will be my guest on Saturday, an interview everyone needs to hear…what’s REALLY happening on the ground in Iraq? What do Iraqis think about their occupation? What techniques were used to manipulate the election? And how does the reality of the Iraq war compare to the mainstream media’s coverage of the conflict? These questions and more answered by a young man who risked his life to bring the world the true story inside Iraq. Dahr Jamail, special guest on the KLSD Watchdog this Saturday, 3/19, from 12-2pm.” Thanks ‘Dawg! Today’s the day: rain or shine, Mark Larson heads up the mountain to help deliver the message: Save the Mount Soledad War Memorial and Cross. He’ll kick off a six hour petition signing party, and Roger Hedgecock follows at 3 p.m. Thursday, Roger put his money where his mouth is: his family donated $3,000 to help fund the petition drive and challenged other talk show hosts to do the same. He specifically named Mark Larson and KFMB’s Rick Roberts. Meanwhile, Rick Roberts at KFMB is out on the streets as well. He’s taken his microphone to the surrounding communities seeking signatures for the Mount Soledad association. In all, the committe that is behind the cross saving needs more than 33,000 City of San Diego voter signatures, and would like to have more than 50,000 to send a message to the council. Stay Tuned. AM 1700 and 105.7 FM are playing the same musical loop (in Espanol). It is anticipated that by April, both stations will offer programming full time. Missing from the airwaves: Mike Cook and Hooked On Trivia: The Radio Game Show. Off the air since January from KCBQ-AM 1170. The station has updated their Saturday night schedule and Mike is not there. His fans have emailed and written Mike – and no answer. Stay Tuned. Thank you for making SDRadio part of your internet travels this week. See YOU on the radio today and this weekend! The GelderHead digital thought for the day: Generally speaking, you aren’t learning much when your lips are moving. | ~ | Visit the Gelder Head. media bytes for thursday, march 17, 2005 light Express | Podding away: Long time readers know that for the past ten years, my main mode of transportation from Oceanside to downtown is the Coaster. The train is a relaxing place, and in the past six months, I have noticed something: White cords growing out of many ears of blue and white collar workers. The past two weeks, I asked some of the Pod-People why they are listeing. It’s simple, most tell me, “I have control of what I listen to, and there are no commercials.” Plus, Joe, an engineer at a major telecommunications firm, says, “Pod casting is the way.” Think of it as “Tivo for the radio”. Active feeds can give you homegrown shows and sydicated onces with a couple of mouse clicks. What to hear Al Franken static free? Air America has all of the line up, including their lead star, available for Pod casting. KFI’s Leo Laporte has his weekend shows available for download to listen anytime. Star 100.7 own Jeff and Jer can be downloaded one hour after their showgram completes – and casting in your time the morning show or get those missing elements. Pod casting/time shifting to radio is arriving. It makes sense – The digital video recorder is “shifting” to radio. Tomorrow’s devices will be smaller, and quite possibly the size of deck of cards to “record” or download your shows. Several syndicated hosts have their broadcasts available for download. Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and weekend host Art Bell are yours for a montly fee. Streamlink enables you for $6.95 to time shift the overnight show and download – and listen anytime. Phil Hendrie offers the same service for the same price – and opens the show for the previous 30-days. What about music? The list is endless, it seems. There are no secrets, only information you don’t have yet, is what Adam Curry writes about. PodCast.net and IPodder.org are two of the web portals that offers the world – on an mp3 download. The secret is that the audio and music files on most Podcasts are mp3 – and do not require the IPod. Any mp3 player on the computer or portable unit will “play” the ‘cast. Although it is too early to tell, several people I spoke with have said they have left tradition alternative radio for the most part, and downloaded their music shows from the above two links. While the rating service has not indicated where the listeners have went from 91X and FM94/9, the ratings and cume suggest “the audience isn’t listening” as they used too. Stay Tuned Little Tommy from Star 100.7’s Jeff and Jer Showgram checks in: “Kirstie Alley talks with Jeff and Jer at 8. Her new book is out…….She has a HIT NEW television show on SHOWTIME called Fat Actress and so far by being on JENNY CRAIG, she’s lost 27 pounds! She’ll set the record straight on all the “tabloid” BS (balanced story) you hear about her. It’s her ONLY radio interview she’s giving!” Thanks Little Tommy. Also: The Star 100.7 Fugitive has been caught. Listeners Amanda Fraige collected $20,000 along with her friend Margaret. Dave Mason addresses the Kool 99.3 ‘issue’ at Radio-Info.com: “Since I’m sitting in the driver’s seat, it’s about time I got the chance to answer this. First of all, if anyone wants to know “how long CC will hang on” to the station, I’m on the air every morning from 5-10am. There’s a bank of phones there waiting for your call. 570-1993. (SDRadio note: Dave does answer the phone!) Second of all, the “effort” being put into the station is no different (i.e. no less) than it was when we were at 95.7. No one’s been very specific, but I’ll address the three biggest questions we get from real listeners: A. Why don’t you play more 50’s? B. Why don’t you play more 70’s? C. Why don’t you play more 60’s? The answers are simple. Anyone who’s followed us from 94.1 (in the old KJOY days) to 95.7 to 99.3 knows that we promote “60s’ and 70’s”. That’s pretty much what you hear on 99.3. An occasional 50’s song, an occasional 80’s song. Mostly 60’s and 70’s. Our target is adults 35-54. Many of our listeners were in the shadow of the 95.7 transmitter on Mt. Soledad where the 30kw signal could be recieved in their teeth. The move to 99.3 and Tijuana obviously moved our “main signal” some 20 miles further south. Admittedly (for now) a disadvantage. The South Bay was never a strong point for 95.7. We’ve got a whole bunch of people to indoctrinate into the fact that we exist. Those who have trouble with the 99.3 signal can go online anytime at all. Not quite sure about “not putting much effort” means. Being a Mexican signal, we’re not allowed (by law) to take part in the CC national contests….so what we do locally is exclusively for San Diego. KOOL 99.3 is more local than ever before. Our nighttime programming was heretofore voice-tracked out of Las Vegas. Marty Thompson got a new job with a different company and moved. Now he’s gone, and replaced by Dr. Phil Goode (aka Phillip Gaughen) the KOOL 99.3 Programming Coordinator - who works out of the Granite Ridge facility. Sherry’s on KOOL after her midday Magic shift. But we’re more local than ever. How long will this property be a CC operated station? We don’t know. As you must know, the new FCC rulings are forcing CC to divest some of the 11 station CC cluster. Most (if not all) will be the “X” stations. Whoever takes over the reins of the stations will have the luxury to do what they want with the stations. If they want Hip-Hop to stay on Z90, they can. If they want to put Slovenian Polkas on, they can. Same goes with 99.3. If they see value in the current format, they can keep us all. If not, we’re all looking for new gigs, and you’re hearing police calls, or Al Franken in stereo. That’s the reality of radio in 2005. How long will Infinity hold on to their stations here? Jeff-Pilot? Fact is they could all decide to divest of them tomorrow. Everything’s for sale for a price. Infinity just unloaded KFRC-AM–undoubtedly one of the best AM signals in the country. But you can bet the deal they made was much more lucrative than retaining the simulcast of KFRC-FM was. CC has also taken a lot of it’s oldies stations off the map. It hasn’t and won’t happen (as I’ve been told) here for-at least-a while. There’s your answer. But- the reality is also this. It’s a business. The station has to be a profitable arm of the company - just like KGB and KOGO and the rest. That’s the goal right now. Are the listeners out there? You bet. In November, we saw our Teddy Bear Drive collect 37,000 stuffed bears for Children’s Hospital. (25,000 in 2004.) In February, we helped collect 925,000 dollars for the same thing. KOOL led the pack with $1,000 donations. We had fewer CC stations taking part. (725,000 in 2004.) We set an adoption record for the San Diego Humane Society’s adoptions in 2004. No effort? I’m here from 4:30am to at least 5pm daily. I’m writing, producing, tracking and conspiring to make this the most entertaining radio station it can be. Dr. Phil is here from 4pm-midnight (at least) every day making sure the music is right - for our audience. Radio is such a subjective medium. Some may feel that the format or music mix isn’t right. Isn’t the way YOU like it. It’s always been the case. We’re not going to be another KGB or KPLN. Or, KRTH, for that matter. We’re not gonna be another XESURF. They already exist. Where else will you hear entire weekends devoted to special themes? Nowhere else in San Diego that I know of. Finally, I’ll address Arbitron. When this was “Hot Country” - the numbers sat in the low 1’s. Remember where KBZT was in it’s final year in the Oldies format. Low 1’s. We’re now in the upper 1’s. Realize that this format - mostly the same as it is now pulled a 4.4 share on 94.1. When we moved to 95.7, it dropped below a 2 share, but we got it back to a 3 share before we moved again. We’re dealing with an audience that doesn’t follow each new trend. We’re dealing with people who will take some time to find us. It took 3 years to get 95.7 up to a 3. Can we do the same thing on 99.3? Maybe. Will we get 3 years out of it? Maybe. Remember, back in 2000 when we made the switch to 95.7, MIX wasn’t a factor. “MY” didn’t exist. 99.3 wasn’t a factor. 98.9 wasn’t a factor. KPOP was playing music, and 540 was going after KPOP. Will Macy’s buy Robinson’s-May? Will Sears buy out K-Mart? Will 99.3’s new operators (when and if that happens) let the format continue? Will they change it? WHO KNOWS? Frankly, who cares? That’s stuff I have no control over. Right now I have one job-to keep this radio station going on a day-to-day basis under the directives given me by the company. They’ve been pretty good to me, and pretty good to the stations. THe frequency/format moves? Happened here BEFORE I got here (remember KDEO? KCBQ? KCBQ-FM? Q105?) and will continue long after. We’re doing the best we can to provide our listeners with the best there is. I’ve got a TON of e-mails praising us for what we’re doing. Many more than the posts here. Speculating about the politics and business aspects of what’s going on at Clear Channel (and other radio companies) is pretty futile. They will tell me what’s up, and I have no reason to believe otherwise. They have nothing to gain by making up stories. They’ve been very credible, and very up-front about the goings on here. There are few secrets. But for now, we’re a CC operated station. We will be for quite some time.” Dave Mason is the morning show host on Kool 99.3, and is on every weekday morning at 5 a.m. along with traffic babe Pamela Howe. La Pantera’s new logo, and two job board additions for the station. See the Job Board for more details. Thank you for making SDRadio part of your internet travels. More news as it happens … later in the broadcast day. See YOU on the radio! The GelderHead digital thought for the day: How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? | ~ Unknown| Visit the Gelder Head. media bytes for wednesday, march 16, 2005 | Starlight Express | Freddie B is hitting the airwaves tonight with an exclusive. The Owl 1000 radio show has had a number of interviews lately, and tonight it is Legendary singer/entertainer Brenda Lee. Freddie writes that she “has sales of over 100-million records to her credit, will be the featured guest on “The Freddie B Show,” at 8 PM, on AM 1000 “The Owl.” “Brenda Lee has been a longtime favorite of mine ever since I was a teenager. I couldn’t believe that powerful, distinctive voice coming from such a little girl. I am thrilled to be able to talk to her and have her share her experiences with my audience.” Brenda, whose first charted record was when she was just 13, has such huge hits as “Sweet Nothins,” “I’m Sorry,” “Emotions,” “Too Many Rivers,” and the evergreen song, “Rockin Around The Christmas Tree.” Among her other credits and accomplishments are 29 gold records, performing at the Grand Ole Opry, and an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Although she has cut back her travel schedule, Brenda still performs about 40 times each year. Several of her favorite hits will be played during the half-hour interview which can also be heard online at www.owl1000.com. The celebrity guest segments have become a regular 8 o’clock Wednesday night feature on “The Freddie B Show,” which airs Mondays-Fridays from 7-Midnight.” Thanks Freddie! On-line or over the air, Owl 1000 is making a mark in radio. FM 105.7 is taking shape. Word from Broadcast Companies of America (BCA) is that Krystal Franco, the Senior Account Executive from Univision Radio is now the Sales Manager for 105.7 FM. The station is slated to kick off early next month. The drive to save Mount Soledad’s cross is being spearheaded by one group in San Diego. The SoledadNational.com website is were the petitions can be downloaded. The referendum needs at least 30,000 valid City of San Diego voters signatures. In other words, if you live outside of the city, your signature does not count. The organization will take your money no matter where your are in the world. Mark Larson and Roger Hedgecock will be at the cross Friday from Noon to 6 p.m. Mark kicks it off, followed by Roger. $end your money to: PO Box 720332, San Diego, Ca 92172-0332. Please make the checks out to: SOLEDAD NATIONAL MONUMENT COMMITTEE Stay Tuned. Dennis Prage was on Connected Coast to Coast with Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley on MSBNC on Monday. Dennis is the 9 to noon host at KCBQ-AM 1170. Melissa, the talented producer at US 95.7’s Tony & Kris morning show writes: “Tony & Kris are going to be crowing someone as the CMT Music Awards Superfan! If you think you have what it takes to be Tony and Kris’ Superfan Entertainment Reporter at the 2005 CMT Music Awards, call our Zero Fun line at (866) 13-0-FUN. We will need you to leave a 60 second audition of you practicing your entertainment reporting. Enlist the help of your friends and family to play the “stars” you’ll be interviewing. Be sure to leave us your phone number at the end of your mock interview so we can get in touch with you!! As Tony and Kris’ CMT Music Awards Superfan, you will win round trip airfare for two to Nashville, a three night hotel stay, two tickets to the 2005 CMT Music Awards Welcome Party, two tickets to the CMT Music Awards, and $250 in spending cash! Tony and Kris will also have some fabulous qualifying prizes that you’ll be able to show off to your friends and family. Comedy kingpin Jeff Foxworthy will lead the star studded event as CMT telecasts country music’s only video music awards- and the only fan-voted awards show – the 2005 CMT Music Awards, April 11th at 8pm – Live on CMT! Musical performers include superstars Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Big & Rich, Brad Paisley, Keith Urban and Gretchen Wilson.” Melissa keeps Tony and Kris inline at US 95.7 during the morning drive. Letters to SDRadio You wrote on 3/9 in SD Radio about Hacksaw’s tour of Spring Training and even accompanied it with the image of an advertisement (What the #!*@ are they doing at AM 570?). By doing so, I am led to believe that the ad promotes 570. Outside of your site, the advertisement appears just outside of the studios for KLOS, KABC, KDIS, and most importantly their local competition, KSPN on La Cienega Boulevard. I wasn’t sure whom the ad was promoting. They’ve run the station into the ground since breaking up Steve and Bill’s Loose Cannons show and didn’t do themselves any favors by not resigning Tony Bruno and now they’re starting to air non-sports programming, so I really sometimes do wonder what the #!*@ they’re doing over there. So level with me…is it really an ad promoting the station? Dave (formerly of San Diego) West Hollywood PS: I really enjoy the site. Keep up the good work. Also, I hope you’re feeling better from your accident. Thank you for making SDRadio part of your internet travels today. More news as it happens right here – and in ((stereo where available)). See YOU on the radio! Please, no drinking and internet surfing. The GelderHead digital thought for the day: The GelderHead is thinking! | ~ | Visit the Gelder Head. media bytes for tuesday, march 15, 2005 | Starlight Express | Is it your cross to bear? Passion. There is alot of it in the airwaves. With the City of San Diego essentially deciding to tear down the cross at Mount Soledad (Photo courtsey of KOGO/Roger Hedgecock), talk show hosts have hit the airwaves in a full press court. Forget March Madness – it’s petition signing craziness as Roger Hedgecock, and Mark Larson have started the full court press to keep a simple design atop a highly visable section of La Jolla. At Roger’s website: “We are determined that OUR CROSS will remain atop Mt. Soledad. So determined that we are establishing a “Chain Gang,” to prevent any effort to move or destroy OUR CROSS!! You can volunteer to work a shift – we plan to be chained 24/7 if necessary.” Friday, Roger and Mark Larson take it to the streets and the memorial as they will host a six hour drive through for residents of the City of San Diego to sign to either rescind the city council’s vote – or let the residents of America’s Finest City decide. Meanwhile, Rick Roberts at 760KFMB has started his own drive to save the cross: “We will be starting an initiative process to stop the removal of the cross. We have enlisted the help of Phil Thalhiemer, a former candidate for city council and a great member of the community. Here is another thing you might not know about Phil, he is a devout Jew. This cross issue isn’t just about religion; it is also about honoring our soldiers and history.” Monday, Rick told his listeners his plan to make the change: “A referendum is being accurately and concisely drawn up and approved by city hall. We are going to give City Council an opportunity to save face and correct their mistake. City Council can review the referendum and actually change their vote if they believe that new pertinent information has been made available. The referendum requires 30,000 VALID signatures. This is what is needed just for the referendum. If the City Council refuses to fix their mistake they will have forced us to the next step, an actual initiative. If this happens even more will be required of the memorial’s supporters.” Stay Tuned KPRI morning show host Madison (pictured with Carlos Santana) opened up the phone lines last Friday and sought advice from listeners on how to improve the morning show. Most of the calls centered on one item: Bring in news gal Gayle Newman in studio to be Madison’s side kick. Callers agreed that the on-air fun would be a right mix – and some suggesting that Gayle receive a sizable wage increase too.” Dave and Jeff of ESPN 800 conduct a show that covers all topics sports in San Diego. The afternoon hosts also give out a FU – and SDRadio asked Jeff Dotseth what the FU means. Jeff assured me that its for friends understand. Sure. Hear Dave and Jeff at ESPN 800 afternoons. From Clear Channel San Diego: The highly-rated afternoon duo of “Duncan & Mel” on my 94.1 (KYMI-FM/San Diego) have been filling in on “my mornings” since the departure of Jagger & Kristi in mid February. “Duncan & Mel” now officially make the move from the evening drive hours of 3 to 7 p.m. to the early morning commute hours of 5 to 10 a.m. “my mornings with duncan and mel,” will feature many of the show elements my 94.1 listeners have come to expect during their morning commute including: my traffic, my news, my weather, my kid of the week, information about fun and entertaining activities happening around San Diego, relatable topics and LOTS of my 80s, my 90s, my music. “Duncan & Mel,” who have consistently produced some of the best ratings in afternoon drive, commented, “Up at 4am? Sure - no problem! Seriously, we couldn’t be more excited to wake up our friends in San Diego that we’ve made on ‘my afternoons’ over the past three years. Everyone has made us feel so incredibly welcome and we look forward to spending “my mornings” with them and making a lot of new friends too.” “’Duncan & Mel’” made a terrific afternoon team with ratings proving their popularity. As with most successful afternoon shows, the next obvious challenge is to move to mornings,” said Jim Richards, Regional VP of Programming Clear Channel San Diego. “We’re confident Duncan & Mel will take my 94.1 to the next level!” Duncan & Mel will continue to host “my afternoons,” as well as “my mornings,” until a PM Drive replacement is announced.” Also: hallway buzz at Granite Ridge insists that Mel and Duncan have an option as play-by-play announcers for Chargers football at Rock 105.3….. Jeff Laurence (pictured with Roka), posted at Radio-Info.com all about Kool San Diego. “Everything you hear on that station is 100-percent real. The music was recorded first on tapes, then mastered onto vinyl, then transferred onto CD masters, and finally re-loaded into hard drives. Music that can withstand that much constant abuse must be timeless. ….. You can not hear the history presented with each tune…carefully woven together to unfold a virtual buffet of musical variety If you allow yourself the ability to carefully listen to each song on Cool 99.3 you will hear a movie-in-every-hit. “Southern California is the genesis for much of the music heard on XHOCL. It is part of the region..it tells the story of girls, and muscle cars, and young love. The music beckons the listener to dance the fast steps of the “twist”, and “the monkey”..it purrs in your ear as you slow dance with the long haired blond beach bunny of your dreams..her aroma fresh from a sunny salt-air drive along the PCH in May…” Jeff can be reached at JeffLaurence.com. Thank you for making SDRadio part of your internet journey today. See YOU on the radio!

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And a growing number of companies use feeds to disseminate info internally. “If you’re not reading it in RSS you’re wasting your time,” declaimed Microsoft’s blogging evangelist, Robert Scoble, who says he subscribes to nearly 1,300 feeds. RSS has been called the TiVo of the Web, the first “killer app” of the anticipated automation of social and commercial transactions online using the Web’s second-generation XML (extensible markup language) standard. Alas, you’ll not find the tools for handling RSS in your Microsoft Windows operating system. Not yet, anyway. You’ve got to go out and get them, just like you had to download Netscape or one of its competitors in 1994 when you wanted a Web browser. But the writing is on the wall. And it’s not graffiti; the feeds are spam-free—though advertising may be pumped through some eventually. Yahoo and Google recently embraced Web feeds, and Microsoft is expected to incorporate tools for managing them in its next-generation operating system, code-named Longhorn. Yahoo’s new search engine trolls through RSS feeds in addition to Web pages. And a five-person company called Feedster.com is trying to build a business around customizing searches of 500,000 feeds—and then delivering you the search results in a single feed. RSS feeds vary in length and capability. Depending on how a Web site decides to serve them up and how a given aggregator wants to organize them, feeds can be simple, spare text or bold and multimedia-flashy. And that’s what makes them both exciting and frustrating. First, it’s not simple for the non-techie to configure RSS. If they’re obvious on a Web page, the feeds generally are offered as orange buttons that read “XML” or “RSS.” There’s no uniformity to feeds, though the best include a good headline and a succinct summary. You can choose to have feeds delivered to your desktop or gathered by a Web-based service. “It can be really hard to get people to look at it. I tried to get my father, who is a news junkie, to look at it and he wouldn’t,” conceded blogging guru Dave Winer, who created the Web-based aggregator Radio Userland. Programmers who’ve developed rival versions of RSS since its 1999 invention—primarily by Winer and folks at Netscape—can’t agree on what RSS is supposed to stand for. Winer’s preference is Really Simple Syndication (RDF Site Summary and Rich Site Summary are the other options). At least it’s nothing like the fiasco of 1997 known as “push technology” and incarnate in PointCast, which wrote its death warrant by clogging hard drives and crashing operating systems as it delivered updated information to subscribers. RSS is more pull than push. Your aggregator retrieves the updated material from the feed-offering Web site at set time intervals. For an introduction, My.Yahoo.com offers a dumbed-down beta version. Web-based aggregators including FastBuzz.com and Bloglines.com are popular because there’s no software to download—and they’re free. FeedDemon, a downloadable cross between an e-mail client and a Web browser, is feature-packed and costs $30. NetNewsWire for the Mac, also a download, costs $40. If only the RSS prophets would stop squabbling. Winer is among those who consider the standard complete; others insist it must become more versatile if it’s to be an engine of the next-generation Internet—a smarter, two-way street rather than just a blind delivery vehicle. Anil Dash, vice president of business development for Six Apart, whose Movable Type is among the Web’s leading blogging products, says RSS is broken. He promotes a more robust and flexible alternative called Atom that got a big boost when Blogger.com, Google’s blogging service, began supporting it in January. As with most technologies, the market will settle these scores. But first, the market itself has to develop. Major content providers want to ensure that any feeds they offer drive traffic back to their Web sites. “The benefit to us is we’re distributing our headlines and the users come back to the site,” said Catherine Levene, vice president for business development at New York Times Digital, which has been quietly offering feeds for two years. Many RSS-watchers predict Web feeds will eventually morph into ad-delivery vehicles because it can be expensive to run a Web site that serves up hundreds of thousands of feeds daily, draining bandwidth. Nevertheless, boosters like Jeremy Zawodny, a software engineer at Yahoo who promoted RSS feeds there, are convinced that 2004 will be the year the technology goes mainstream. “Remember when you first starting seeing URLs appear on billboards and at the end of movie trailers?” Zawodny wrote in his blog in December. “It’s going to be like that. One day we’re just going to look around and realize that RSS is popping up all over the place. And a couple years later, we’ll all wonder how we ever got along without it.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bajak can be reached at techeditor(at)ap.org Posted in General | Edit | No Comments » GOOGLE FEEDS RSS FEEDS LINKS February 19th, 2005 RDF Resources tools Dave Beckett’s RDF Resource Guide – http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf/resources/ An extensive and annotated collection of links to RDF documents and software, updated frequently. Extensibility – http://www.rundom.com/extensibility/ Details on this XML, Semantic web, and web services metablog and news aggregator. Hyphen.info – http://www.hyphen.info/ Repository of RDF hierarchies. Introduction to RSS News Feeds – http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/w-rss.html Find out how to create and use RSS files and learn what they can do for you. See why companies like Netscape, Userland, and Moreover use RSS to distribute and syndicate article summaries and headlines. This article includes sample code that demonstrates elements of an RSS file, plus a Perl example using the module XML::RSS. PML - http://iw.stanford.edu/pmldescription.html Proof Markup Language is used to build OWL documents representing both proofs and proof provenance information. RDF Interest Group – http://www.w3.org/RDF/Interest/ The main discussion forum for RDF developers and users. RDF Logic Mailing List – http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-logic/ Provides a forum for technical discussion concerning the design of logic-based languages for use on the Web. RDF Resources – http://www-db.stanford.edu/~melnik/rdf/ Links to various documentation of RDF sources. RDF-DEV : A Site for RDF Developers – http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/discovery/rdf-dev/ Resources database containing links to guides, papers, tools, and standards in addition to the archives of the (now closed) RDF-DEV mailing list. Resource Description Framework – http://www.w3.org/RDF/ Official pages from the World Wide Web Consortium, includes the specification, resources and news, and a links collection. SchemaWeb – http://www.schemaweb.info/ Repository for RDF schemas expressed in the RDFS, OWL, and DAML+OIL schema languages. Posted in General | Edit | 1 Comment » December 31st, 1969 elcome to WordPress. This is the first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! 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3/26/05 SUPERCHARGED *Saved the best for last, no peeking! This post took me about 7 hours to complete, so enjoy!* G4 news, news. Yahoo on Tuesday said it plans to once again boost its free e-mail storage limit--this time to 1GB, the same amount offered by archrival Google. Ohh and the antivirus is something to note as well. That is great now I have a 1GB GMail account and a 1GB Yahoo! account. I still would love GMail because it is in Javascript resulting in faster userability for the high speed user. Yahoo Inc. is quadrupling the amount of storage provided with its free e-mail accounts and upgrading its desktop search software in its ongoing duel with rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. Okay after all those articles and posts you STILL have Windows and didn't bother trying Linux, not even Knoppix, a LiveCD that doesn't even touch your hard drive. Well you can ease my pain by installing some Open Source alternatives for many Windows utilities like notepad, compression, music player, etc. If you ever need to get in touch with several--or several thousand--people at once, Send Word Now has the software for you. Halarious talk with the YIM bot. SOS to YIM That's one cautionary note making the rounds along with a popular new extension for Firefox that lets people customize Web pages they visit without the knowledge or cooperation of Web publishers. The extension, dubbed Greasemonkey, lets people run what's known as a "user script," which alters a Web page as the page is downloaded. Scammers/phishers now have yet another tool to trick home users. The owners of global file-sharing company Kazaa told a court Wednesday they should not be held liable for copyright infringements by network users because the company cannot control how the software is used after it is downloaded. THANK YOU KAZAA A new driver from NVIDIA has improved SLI support and brought new features to the table. Inside we not only test this latest driver, focusing on SLI support and performance, but we also comment on what we would like to see in future iterations of NVIDIA’s SLI. HardOCP Linux on iPods, PDAs, computers, everything! Hey look it's a dead badger to install Linux on! HALARIOUS! Why is Apple's iPod unstoppable? Well mainly because people always want more, more, MORE! I mean who can fill a 40GB iPod with LEGIT music? I mean we can all pirate 10,000+ songs and by the time you do you will either 1) Be caught 2)Have the oldest music in the world. News publishers Gannett, Knight-Ridder and the Tribune Co. have acquired controlling interest in the news aggregation site Topix.net, the latest dot-com target of traditional media outlets. Wikiwax is just like Google Suggest, but for Wikipedia. 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By using the Open Directory's data dump of around 4 million sites, and 302'ing each of those sites, the havoc being wreaked on the Google database could have catastrophic effects for both Google and the websites involved." -Slashdot Macromedia is flavoring its next-generation Web publishing platform with a heavy dose of blog-friendly software. "Following on the heels of Apple closing DVD Jon's end run around its DRM and a British TV station offering DRM'd downloads it seems fair to ask, what DRM would you accept as a consumer? Personally, I take the view that if a song, movie, book, etc. is DRM'd then it isn't truly mine. On the other hand, if a particular piece of digital media is priced correctly (a la' rental fee) would that be satisfactory, or do you feel that DRM in any form is ridiculous?" -Slashdot With MTV and VH1 now crowded with programs like Date My Mom, The Ashlee Simpson Show and Celebrity Fit Club, there's little room for music videos, especially from independent artists. Where do you turn to now? BitTorrent Is Apple planning a high-definition video network? We definitely cannot attest to the reliability of Mac OS Rumors as a, um, rumor site, but they’re reporting that Apple is working on some sort of high-definition satellite TV network. Apparently the US government was going to set up a free eFile tax web site last year. TurboTax threw a fit because they said it would eat into their profits. They compromised, and now TurboTax runs the free eFile site, but they keep it hush-hush. 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"Adobe Acrobat has long included a toolbar plugin to automate PDF Making from Office Products. Those who found the toolbar an eyesore, or just used it infrequently could always hide it from view. Not so in their new versions, (6, and 7 apparently.) Their new take on the PDFMaker toolbar is getting some users riled up, since it is harder to Move/Hide/Delete/Uninstall this new toolbar than many forms of malware!" -Slashdot "The BBC has an interesting article about spam and why it's still around. According to a survey, nearly 1/3 of users have clicked on spam messages and 1/10 have bought products advertised therein. "If no-one responded to junk e-mail and didn't buy products sold in this way, then spam would be as extinct as the dinosaurs."" -Slashdot "With all the noise about Ubuntu, and no sarge release in sight, we haven't heard much from UserLinux in recent times. Even Bruce Perens has admitted that the "lack of a Debian release is becoming a critical problem". Now, Ubuntu has invited UserLinux to combine forces. More distro consolidation -- without a corporate buyout in sight!" -Slashdot Google Inc. pampers its employees with free food and many other perks, but the online search engine leader is more stingy when it comes to rewarding the trio of billionaires who run the company. If you're thrifty and you use an office suite, it's hard not to like OpenOffice.org, the open-source set of office productivity tools. Version 1.0, which first appeared in 2002, does most things Microsoft Office can do (including smoothly trade files with users of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint). Plus it's free. So what's to improve in version 2.0? Admit it: you use the same password for all Web sites. There's no use denying it. Okay okay I do for most, but for the critical information accounts like PayPal or eBay I always have a hard to crack password. Yahoo! has a review on Password Managers. "In what is described as yet another example of how patents can kill or inhibit standards, a patent has come to light that was granted to Microsoft in the year 2000 that looks surprisingly similar to IPv6 (the next-gen IP standard that is starting, slowly, to be taken up in some parts of the world). And several Microsoft engineers, named on the patent just happenned to be part of the IPv6 group for the IETF..." -Slashdot It looks pretty legit right? Well it is a really well done Photoshop picture. Kotaku College life is random. Apple is giving chance a chance and giving away an iPod shuffle every week through September 30, 2005 to college students. So whether you're rockin’ the night away or pulling an all nighter, Apple wants to give your life a random soundtrack. Screw Apple! Life is NOT random, you shape your path; stop filling students with nonesense! Since it is news I will include the link. Coming to Australia: New pay phones with color touch screens and high-speed Internet connections for sending text, photo and video messages. Optical camouflage is a kind of active camouflage. This idea is very simple. If you project background image onto the masked object, you can observe the masked object just as if it were virtually transparent. SWEET!!! Use of peer-to-peer systems like Kazaa for sharing music and other files online has dropped as more Americans who use the Internet turn to such alternative methods as downloading files from a friend's iPod, a new study finds. Ah HA! I told you iPods promote piracy! Next thing you know there are RIAA cops in person at every corner. "The Inquirer is reporting that in it's ongoing battle with Microsoft, the European Commission is investigating the possibility that the Vole has sneakily sabotaged the Media Player-free versions of Windows it is obliged to ship to the EU. A report (subscription required) in today's Wall Street Journal suggests Microsoft has fiddled with the registry in its stripped-down Windows offerings and the result is that video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly, for example." -Slashdot The CD player, cruise control and heated seats are standard features on many new cars — is the satellite radio far behind? Yahoo has added a feature that lets people search content that's been licensed through Creative Commons, a nonprofit group that specializes in copyrighting material so that it's available for some reuse. IBM has nearly doubled the performance of its Blue Gene/L supercomputer from the 70.7 teraflops it did in November to a whopping 135.5 teraflops. The increase in power is thanks to the increase in size of Blue Gene/L from total number of racks doubling to 32 from the 16. The final size of Blue Gene/L will consist of a full 64 racks which house 1024 dual-core processors. Expected peek performance of the final configuration should be in the neighborhood of 270 teraflops. -Anandtech CNET's Perspectives show that blogger's have rights too, well of course me do :D Funny how these guys are all in their college years. How many of them are true geeks? 100% of them. CNET's gallery It took Red Hat 16 months to produce the newest version of its premium Linux product, which went on sale in February for as much as $2,499 per computer per year. It took a group of programmers less than two weeks to release a free clone. But the move could help Red Hat as much as it appears to hurt it. As honeypots are being deployed more and more often within computer networks, blackhats have started to devise techniques to detect, circumvent, and disable the logging mechanisms used on honeypots. Technical data Mod your Windows to a slick looking interface, not that it will be any better because it is Windows, with LiteStep. Grab some skins for it here, here, and here. IBM has announced the results from its 2004 Global Business Security Index Report and provided an early look at potential security threats in 2005. Nintendo's GameCube console is far from dead, but that hasn't stopped the company from announcing that it is underway with a next-generation successor, codenamed "Revolution." Fans of Halo 2 could have a multiplayer expansion pack to look forward to this May. After appearing on and then disappearing from Microsoft's Korean Xbox website last week, the Halo 2 X-Pack seems to have been demystified by another errant webmaster - this time on EBGames.com. "Australian company Cybersource says it's currently talking to two domestic banks about providing Knoppix-based bootable CDs to consumers to ensure Internet banking security. The company says at least one bank will probably use the CDs in at least one sector of its operations. Cybersource envisages that banks will re-brand its product and provide the CDs alongside other marketing material." -Slashdot Content over source? Wired has an article Got that smoking nice PSP? Dead pixels Liquid nitrogen is cold. So cold that if a drop falls on your hand, it feels like fire. So cold that it can turn a fresh flower into a thousand shards of broken glass. So cold that it can make half a gallon of ice cream in 30 seconds flat! As Apple Computer's chief designer from 1989 to 1996, he oversaw the design of the PowerBook line, among other hit products. But while he may have left the company, Robert Brunner is still busy envisioning the future of Apple's designs. Portrait mode is especially interesting for people working in design and has been on the top-wanted list for some time. This Apple monitor running in portrait mode has been spotted at Nexpo 2005. This mode works only with the upcoming Mac OS X "Tiger" rumored to be released in April. Neowin interview with PyMusique coder Cody Brocious, DRM means nothing to PyMusique! A high school student photographed the school's principal smoking on school grounds, in violation of state law and posted it to the web. He also passed out fliers around the school pointing to the website -- which seems to be the argument the school is using to suspend him. Sony's Connect PSP page just launched. It covers how to get videos on your PSP and has a few downloads. From his tiny Ottawa apartment, the Carleton University student has spent the past month debugging a homemade piece of software called PSP Video 9. Microsoft plans to release version 2.0 of its iSCSI initiator next month, and the software giant has added features that could make Windows-based IP storage more attractive for high-end users. Make 2.4GHz parabolic mesh dishes from cheap but sturdy Chinese cookware scoops & a USB WiFi adaptor! The largest (300mm diam)shows 15-18dB gain (enough for a LOS range extension to 3-5km), costs ~US$5 & comes with a user friendly bamboo handle that suits WLAN fieldwork- if you can handle the curious stares! Wow I have a wok!! "If you ever aspired to be the next Jerry Seinfeld instead of the next American Idol. Maybe the product featured by Wired is just right for you. Joke-e-oke, basically a karaoke with stand-up comedy material. Joke-e-oke is a laptop rigged to a video projector allows you to choose from a list of stand-up comedy icons to perform. A built in laugh track is added, timed perfectly to accent punch lines. Obstacles are programmed in so participants onstage get a taste of what real comedians go through by firing off heckle lines for the bar crowd to yell in unison at the Joke-e-oke participant." -Slashdot "Linguists say not to worry too much about Netspeak, otherwise known as the language of choice in chat rooms and IM clients. According to this Yahoo! article, linguists say that terms like "cya", "brb", "afk" are a healthy way of exploring the power of the written language. They went on to say "FYI, RTFA"!" -Slashdot PSP debut news flash In a move to expand its Internet security footprint, IBM has introduced a new anti-spam application aimed at corporations. Called "FairUCE," (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email), the application helps filter and block spam by using identity management technology at the network level to analyze the domain identity of an e-mail. Pentium M to Pentium 4 adapter by Asus, reviewed by Anandtech Mithun's house takes energy from the sun and uses spinach protein to generate electricity for neighbouring homes and street lighting infrastructure. Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software maker, signed an agreement allowing its biggest mobile phone software rival, Symbian Ltd, to deliver e-mail stored with Microsoft's Exchange program to customers' phones. And you thought you were a huge fan of Halo! VERY SEKSI! Yahoo said Thursday it will spend $3 billion over the next five years buying back its stock. Toshiba America's Digital Solutions Division (TAIS DSD) announced Thursday it is offering a total IP telephony solution consisting of its new Toshiba Strata CIX pure IP telephony system along with networking, security, and wireless products and services from Peak Technologies, SMC Networks, and SonicWALL. Pretend-pets from the Web are headed for the big screen. Neopets! I remember playing this when I was a little kid, don't you? "Google OS by 2010? Wishful thinking? Yes, but let's consider the possibilities. The last couple years have seen significant advances in hardware production and design. One of the more interesting (and potentially revolutionary) developments to take place this past year is the announcement of a new CPU, the STI (Sony, Toshiba, IBM) Cell processor." osnews Photoshop work? Nope. It is a transparent LCD The music industry argued that owners of the Kazaa file-sharing software must be liable for millions in lost sales because their program is like putting a photocopier in a library where it clearly will be used for piracy. Political bloggers and other online commentators narrowly avoided being slammed with a sweeping set of Internet regulations this week. Veejay is a great software to do video mixing/editing, with great real time video effects that would put Hendix to trip like never before. Best of all, it is open source! Alienware said it has sold over 100 of its Area-51M 7700 notebooks to the US Army for simulation planning. All I can say is overpriced. "There is now one less thing for Windows and Mac users to point to when claiming desktop usability superiority. While not officially listed in Adobe's download page, you can get Adobe Reader 7.0 for Linux from the company's FTP server according to this article at The Inquirer , which also has a review. The upshot is that Reader 7.0 for Linux is as bloated as its Windows and Mac siblings, but it loads much faster and is more useable than version 5. I imagine that this will get loads of comments about how Reader for Linux headed downhill after version 4. Or was it 3?" -Slashdot "If you have trouble waking up, try this: MIT media lab has created an alarm clock that, when you press the snooze bar, runs off into a corner, a different hiding place every day. Try hitting the snooze bar again now!" -Slashdot How to guide for transferring personal movies from your computer to the PSP. Also DVDs The European Union (EU) can now make a name for itself on the Internet, following this week's approval to include .eu as a country code top-level domain (ccTLD). "The Local reports that a 27-year old man who allowed people to download a film from his PC has become the first Swede to be charged with illegal file sharing, after a tip-off from the country's notorious Anti-Piracy Bureau. It's a critical test case, as prosecutors say that anything less than a prison sentence would make future prosecutions unlikely." From the article: "The case was brought after a tip off from Antipiratbyrån (APB), a lobby organization set up by the media industry to combat illegal downloading in Sweden. Since the man was reported APB has found itself in hot water, with an Internet company accusing the organization itself of illegally downloading films and games. -Slashdot What if the internet extended beyond computers and high-speed connections, with web pages expanding down city streets and onto the sides of buildings? Some developers are concerned that the introduction of the third version of the GNU General Public License could split the free software world - but the FSF is confident these fears are unfounded. A deeply divided Federal Communications Commission suspended on Friday state rules forcing phone providers to offer "naked" DSL, in the commission's first serious look at the controversial issue. Wildcat Realizm 800: 3Dlabs MultiGPU First Look by Anandtech How much are the companies who implement spyware making? Ohh somewhere between 7-90 million dollars annually. The new service, which is being tested by more than 25,000 users, most of them from the group which previewed ver. 5 of Windows Update last year prior to the release of Windows XP SP2, has been delayed several times, and now should debut mid-year. Blue Vertigo is an excellent site to have in your bookmarks. It boasts a huge collection of design resources. Including vector logotypes, stock photography, fonts, brushes, sounds and more! Throught that spending $60-70 for monster cable was too much, then this isn't for you. Crystal Cable. Here is a ultra-thin silver cable encased in a translucent outer Teflon jacket. No more huge bulky cables. But the Price WOW. $400 for a iPod connection cable. Brad Fuller put together a tutorial on how to turn your old PC into an internet-enabled jukebox using Linux. Knoppix MusicBrainz analyzes your digital music collection and fills in missing artist and song title information for your MP3’s and CD’s. Freeware A video with an interview of the creater of the Soul Calibur series and some game footage! Overclocked Pentium 4 reaches speeds of 5 GHZ at a temperature of -190 Degrees Celsius. Old news AMD is sharpening its dual-core chips for blade servers in hopes of hacking away at Intel's majority market share. A new phishing attack has been launched against Yahoo Messenger users, according to security firms Akonix and IMlogic. For now, the scheme appears to be limited to the Yahoo's IM network. As eBay prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Internet giant is having perhaps its roughest stretch since the company founder launched the site as a way to help his wife trade Pez dispensers. Amazon.com Inc. has one potentially big advantage over its rival online retailers: It knows things about you that you may not know yourself. "Alex Veiga at the Associated Press has a good story on indie artists voicing support for file sharing networks. While not a new topic on Slashdot, it's great to see musicians speaking out about the value of p2p as an alternative channel for reaching audiences. Choice quote from Veiga's article, on what it's like to pass muster before a mainstream media company: "For Sananda Maitreya... online music distribution gives him the freedom he says he lacked when he was signed with a major label in the 1980s under his former name, Terence Trent D'Arby. Back then, Maitreya recalled, committees had to sign off on any music released. 'The Beatles could not have faced that criteria and come up with anything other than the most mediocre, conservative music,' said Maitreya."" -Slashdot Top 25 Innovations in 25 years, #1 The internet. From the deepest darkest reaches of space it came – prepared to unleash its dark power on unsuspecting desktops the world over. Introducing Alienware Darkstar, our most dangerous and mind-blowing experiment to date. Sweet but we can already skin Windows. Learn howto hack your Tivo! A whole collection of useful links and hacks! "TechWorld is reporting on the latest attack on open-source software by the Microsoft-backed Alexis de Toqueville Institution (ADTI). Many here will remember ADTI's previous assertion that Linux Torvald was NOT the true father of the Linux kernel. Taking the stance that OSS is in conflict with IP law, ADTI president Kenneth Brown states, 'After a brief glance at much open source software development, it becomes readily apparent that a number of open source practices directly conflict with best practices associated with protecting intellectual property.' With references like 'open sores software,' it's easy to believe that ADTI might be somewhat biased." -Slashdot "Being a bit of a hypocrite, I sometimes whine about privacy in my blog. I do, however, try to be careful about not letting anyone get information about me they shouldn't and I rarely, if ever, use a credit card online. This is why I was surprised to find out one morning that identity thieves had racked up thousands of dollars one two of my credit cards. By early afternoon, I caught them and the police arrested them." -Slashdot, This guy is one of the best troll hunters ever! Macromedia has a complete lineup of interactive tutorials that go with their products. Very educational and easy to follow! TV is doing it. Cellphones have made the transition. Music players, cameras and binoculars have taken the plunge. Now U.S. radio stations are finally stepping into the Digital Age, and radio has never sounded better. Hi Def Radio You wanted a crazy, in depth review of the Sony PSP? Well Bjorn3d.com has it, they rated the PSP a 9.5/10! MUST READ One of the questions that people have been asking a lot is, "can I use my older Memory Sticks with my PSP?" The answer to that question had traditionally been "no." Until today, that is; here is a simple, low cost way to use non-Duo sized Memory Sticks in your PSP. "In my lifetime, I have made nearly 15,000 credit card transactions. I purchase almost everything on plastic. What bugs me about credit card transactions is the signing. Who checks the signature? Nobody checks the signature." Be sure to check out part 2 as well. 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SF events 3.25 Toronto Launches New Chemtrails Initiative http://www.airapparent.ca/activities_media/mar25_05_taaborn.htm How Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age http://www.opednews.com/hartmann0104_global_warming_could_lead_to_ice_age.htm Iraq's New Govt ready to charge Bush with War Crimes http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-03/23/article01.shtml Mercury Study Stripped from Public Documents http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/032305EA.shtml Senate Bill Voids State Laws, Prohibits Health and Safety Warnings and Undermines Your Health Rights Senate Bill 3, the "Protecting America in the War on Terror Act," uses emotionally charged homeland security language to undermine our health rights. If passed this law would: 1) nullify state laws related to the regulation of drugs and vaccines – such as existing laws banning mercury in vaccines; 2) bar states from warning their citizens about drug or vaccine safety issues; 3) gift drug and vaccine makers with a financial windfall; and 4) invade health privacy by establishing a national electronic surveillance program to collect and analyze a wide-range of your health data. Click Here To Take Action! http://www.healthactioncenter.com/ctt.asp?u=3723891&l=83669 learn more http://www.healthactioncenter.com/ctt.asp?u=3723891&l=84317 NEW RAW ORGANIC VEGAN CUISINE COMING TO UNION SQUARE!!!PA~RAW~DISE!!! Yes located at 587 Post Street @ Taylor, RAW is coming to UNION SQUARE! PA~RAW~DISE Raw Organic Vegan Cuisine that is the most delicious on the Planet! http://www.Rawinten.com for ALL the photos and info and also new Recipe Book too! Full moon today~ Friday, March 25 2005 - Saturday, March 26 2005 12:45 PM Next Full Moon 5 degrees 18 Mins. In Libra March 25, 2005 12:58:29 PST Until saturday-when the moon goes into scorpio..meow For the whole weekend! 08:27 Moon sextile Pluto 18:26 Moon enters Scorpio home.online.no/~kafox/VOC_E.html JUPITER OPPOSES MERCURY Entering Mar 25 2005 Lacking tact and diplomacy during. Danger of being opinionated and blunt. It would be useful to think before you speak. A little restraint could go a long way. the month of march says~ The 4th –8th time frame augurs the possibility of big tides, flood, storm and seismic risk. Mercury conjunct with the Sun on the 14th portends political correctness: smart but not wise, leading edge but wrong. People say what they mean only when they let something slip at times like this. Venus being conjunct Neptune the following day, sweet lies and crazy notions abound. Watch for these entertaining trends to be an undercurrent from about the 12th through the 18th. The 18-27th showing electrical storms, damaging winds, hail and flash floods or mudslides look like newsmakers. Peril at sea, storm-tossed airplanes, power outages due to downed lines . That said, analysis may offer a few pointers as to the most vulnerable locations. Southern California, the Baja Peninsula and eastern Nevada up into Idaho and western Montana make up one such zone, while the Pacific Northwest coast from northernmost California into British Columbia comprises another. Stormy weather. # Fri Mar 25 FULL MOON # Fri, Mar 25 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Join us for a MEMORIAL & PROTEST VIGIL outside the Colombian Consulate 595 Market St (at 2nd Street, near Montgomery BART) SF http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php # 3/25: Muir Woods by Moonlight (mill valley) Explore the magic of Muir Woods under a full moon, learning about the secret nightlife of an old-growth redwood forest. Dress for the weather and bring a flashlight. Children under 8 years not advised. Less than 2 miles, flat and paved. Limited to 30 people. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Reservations required: (415) 388-2596 NOTE: this program often fills quickly, so make your reservation early! http://www.craigslist.org/eve/61987245.html # Fri 3/25 - San Francisco Critical Mass bike ride. Gather 5:30pm @ Justin Herman Plaza, SF. Ride leaves at 6pm. http://critmasssf.tribe.net Ride will end up at 225 Potrero: Anarchist Cafe! ( see below ) # Fri 3/25 - 8th Annual Anarchist Cafe, SF. (benefit for the Attica to Abu Ghraib Conference) $5 donation. None turned away. 6pm - Midnight at 225 Potrero Ave. at 16th Street in San Francisco. Performances, videos. Dinner: 7 - 8pm. All ages. Kid space! # ***please forward***** The 8th Annual *****A N A R C H I S T C A F E***** Vegan dinner!! Music!! Spoken Word!! Surprises!! Friday, March 25, 2005 6pm on "The Kitchen" 225 Potrero Ave., at 16th St SF $5 - $15 donation requested No one turned away VIDEO by Video Activist Network dinner 7 - 8 performers indoors 7-10:30 video 8-9 all ages! kid space! drug and alcohol free space. indoor/outdoor wheelchair accessible. volunteers needed to help volunteer, email anarchistcafe2005@yahoo.com This year’s Anarchist Café is a benefit for The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, which supports and promotes individual and collective resistance to war and preparations for war http://objector.org; and for From Attica to Abu Ghraib: An Organizing Conference on Human Rights, Torture, and Resistance, sponsored by the International Human Rights Initiative http://www.attica2abughraib.com http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php http://www.craigslist.org/eve/62189960.html # No Confidence Movement here: http://guvwurld.blogspot.com Election Reform Workshop - The No Confidence Movement Friday, March 25 @ 7:30pm SF Green Party HQ - 1028 A  Howard Street, between 6th and 7th # Ggreg's List Bonfire   WHEN: Friday 25 March, 8:00pm til midnight  WHERE: Ocean Beach at the end of Fulton HOW MUCH: Well FREE of course  http://ggreg.com   # Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot and Carol Queen invite you to… $pread Magazine Release Party-An unapologetic evening of hedonistic art, music, burlesque, and other erotic delights The Center for Sex and Culture 398 11th St. 3rd Floor at Harrison in SF Friday, March 25th 8-11pm Suggested donation $10-100 (no one turned away) Free copy of the magazine with all $10+ donations! Featuring: Lip Stick Conspiracy Best SF Girl Band in 2004! (SFBay Guardian Best of the Bay) Clever, Cute and Kinky Cabaret! Kitten on the Keys Erotic Readings by Melissa Gira and Yalith Fonfa Burlesque Performances by The Lollies, Stigmata Hari and Miss Julep Roky Roulette The World's only Pogo Strip Tease Artist Branding and Saddling with Urban Cowgirls Kick and Rain Cosmic Sound by DJ Seofon Special Appearances by: The Vagina Lady Carol Leigh aka Scarlot Harlot Erotic Art by: Ruby Pearl David Steinberg Dorian Katz Craig Scoffone Helen Khlystova This event is brought to you by $pread Magazine http://www.spreadmagazine.org Sex Workers Outreach Project http://swop-usa.org http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php # This friday night, at the Center for Sex and Culture, located at 398 11th St. at Harrison, in SF, Spread Magazine is having it's release party. AND, some figurative art will also be on display. This should be a hoot. Lots of 'sex workers' will be in duh house. 8pm - Midnight. # Have a Freaky Good Friday Fri Mar 25 8:00pm $7 21+ Pets are Wonderful Support (PAWS): dedicated to preserving the human-animal bond. PAWS representatives will also be attending. Performers: Lily LeRouge is a gothic princess burlesque performer. She has been performing old fashioned styled striptease shows with a modern gothic twist all over town for a couple of years. http://www.lilylerouge.com The Amazing Omer most annoying street musician in Frisco. Ever. Freedom Rock is a spastic guitar duo who play psychedelic, retarded noise ballads about hippies, prayer rabbits & psych meds. http://www.freedomrock.com Eric CornForth is a pretty-boy singer-songwriter who's very sensitive. The ladies dig him. He's been described as "Kurt Cobain meets Burgess Meredith". Actually, he's never been described like that by anyone. I just made it up. Sorry. The Turks feature members of the legendary punk cacophony Alice Donut & Heavy Hindenburg which, oddly enough, is a Zeppelin cover band. PAWS assists people with AIDS in keeping and caring for their pets, and recognizing their mental and physical therapeutic value. http://www.pawssf.org About Kat's Kradle: Kat's Kradle is an experimental film, some would just say incoherent, about a demented, if not psychotic, cat seeking to escape the cold cruel comforts of domestication & return to his wild origins. Kat's Kradle was filmed entirely at some of San Francisco's most spectacularly seedy locales: The Tenderloin, 6th & Mayhem, Toxic Beach, Dogpatch, Hunter's Point & Bill's apartment. For more info check out http://www.piktograf.com Varnish Fine Art is a gallery that deals contemporary fine art with a beer & wine bar & a library & a really cool dog named Hector. Varnish is also a meeting place for everyone who loves fine (& not so fine) art & believes that galleries should be fun. Varnish Fine Art is located in the heart of downtown San Francisco 77 Natoma Street (between 1st & 2nd / Mission & Howard) right by the overpass where people go pee-pee. http://www.varnishfineart.com # (pix from the last one: http://whichever.com/gallery/youbigdummy Sockpuppet Soundsystem says: It's Spring Again! djs sir thx-a-lot, k-mac, and jaybee bring you the old-school hip-hop, funk, and soul heat -- free of charge and free of reggaeton. tonight yr gonna party like it's 1989! Friday March 25 10PM - 2AM Free! 21+ w/ID StudioZ Gallery 1515 Folsom @ 11th St, San Francisco 415.252.7666 http://www.StudioZ.tv # Fri Mar 25 Opulent Temple and Get Yer Freak On presents A First Step into the Mind's Eye The Opulent Temple will rise again this year on the playa for more shared good times, sacred dance, incredible music, and much more. Celebrating it's 20th incarnation, Burning Man this year is looking to be a cut above past years, and the Opulent Temple is poised to bring greater joys and more beautiful moments to Black Rock City. But only with your help. The camp will blow psyches to the extent the community can help make it happen. Here's a first step.... with... El Papachengo (El Circo) Laird (Get Yer Freak On / Lush Camp) Golidlox (djgoldilox.com / Brass Tax) Syd Gris (Opel / Opulent Temple) Felix the Dog (Groundscore) Deep Eddy (House of Lotus) Donna Matrix (Newsbreakz / Space Cowboys) Kevin Knapp (Opulent Temple / Momentum) Nathan Vain (Opulent Temple) Laron (Psychofunkdiscodelic) 8 Ball (Space Cowboys) + Table selling CD's from the Opulent Temple 2004: Hybrid, Scumfrog, D:Fuse, and more. The first 50 people through the door who ask will receive a FREE copy of Syd Gris's set from BM2K4. : ) @ Mighty 119 Utah @ 15th, SF $10-$15 sliding donation 10pm-4am 2 rooms of big Mighty sound + more goodies tba... # Friday, March 25 Nuin Moon Esbat Intention and Fruition – Cause and Effect What seed will you plant? with DJs: Polygroover (house) Terrac (techno) -db- (techno/electro) Red Stickman (downtempo) ~ Coast Side Location, 12-6am ~ Call the voicemail *night-of* for directions: 415-705-0600 # Mar 25-27 Fri, Mar 25, 2005 - Sun, Mar 27, 2005       EYES WIDE OPEN: THE HUMAN COST OF WAR San Francisco Civic Center and on Sunday, Union Square SF Eyes Wide Open traveling memorial of military boots and civilian shoes WHO: American Friends Service Committee, SFUSD School Board, American Muslim Muslim Voice, Archidioces of San Francisco Commission of Public Policy and Social Concer, Bay Area Pax Christi, Veterans for Peace, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Quaker Meetings, Military Families Speak Out, and other organizations in the Northern California region WHY: To honor fallen US military personnel (1499 +) and Iraqi civilians (est. 100,000) and to see the human cost of war For More Information: 415-565-0201 x 12, http://www.afsc.org or smcneil@afsc.org Pictures available at http://imageportal.afsc.org/ Log in as "visitor" with the password afscafsc Search for "Eyes Wide Open A traveling memorial exhibition, Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War is coming to the Fresno Courthouse, San Francisco Civic Center and Union Square, All Wars Memorial at Capitol Park in Sacramento, March 22 through 31. Organized by the American Friends Service Committee, this exhibition honors fallen US military personnel a: 415-565-0201 x 12, http://www.afsc.org or smcneil@afsc.org http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php Sat Mar 26 # 3/26: Wildflower Hike on Mt. Tam (mill valley) Join a Muir Woods ranger for a 5-mile somewhat strenuous hike experiencing the colorful wonders of spring. Meet Ranger Jim MacDonald at the Muir Woods Visitor Center. Wear sturdy shoes, bring water and a snack. Rain cancels. Limit of 25 people. 10 am to 2 pm Please call 415-388-2596 for reservations. For more information, visit the Muir Woods website at http://www.nps.gov/muwo/programs http://www.craigslist.org/eve/61987575.html # Sat 3/26 - 10th Annual Bound Together Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair, SF. Free. 10am - 6pm @ SF County Fair Building, near 9th ave & Lincoln Way in Golden Gate Park, SF # ? Golden Gate Park ? Stanyan @ Waller / Kezar Pavillion ? 10th Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair March 26th Speakers confirmed so far include: Barry Pateman - archivist at the Kate Sharpley Library, and senior editor at the Emma Goldman Papers. The most recent volume of Emma Goldman - A Documentary History Of The American Years Volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909 has just been published by University of California Press,and he has authored introductions to both the new edition of Alexander Berkman's 'What Is Anarchism' and The Voltairine De Cleyre Reader Ward Churchill - reknowned scholar activist and troublemaker is the author and editor of numerous books and audio CDs. His latest work is On The Justice Of Roosting Chickens Eric Drooker - legendary graphic artist whose work has graced a thousand walls, posters, t shirts and book covers. His seminal novel without words, Flood! is now available again in a new elegant edition Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - pioneering feminist, and perennial activist is the author of two (to date) autobiographies - Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, and her memoir of the 60s, Outlaw Woman Peter Werbe is an editor of Fifth Estate, the longest-running anarchist journal in America today. Chris Carlsson spent 13 years stealing office supplies to produce Processed World, a zine that chronicled the drudgery of 9-to-5 desk jobs. He helped bring Critical Mass into being, and created SHAPING SAN FRANCISCO: The Interactive Multimedia Excavation of the Lost History of San Francisco Entartete Künst (German for 'degenerate art') is an anarcho-electro/hip-hoppers put out political electronic music that fuses low- and high-brow culture (think dark, slow hip-hop with Noam Chomsky samples) into a potent mix that challenges the status quo. Sat 3/26 - 2nd Annual BADASS (Bay Area Direct Action Soccer Series) Tournament 2005 West Bay vs. East Bay All-Star Anarchist Soccer Showdown! @ Golden Gate Park during the Anarchist Bookfair. Match time to be announced on http://www.indybay/arts # Hello SF Living Foods! I'll be at Rainbow Grocery Co-op next Saturday offering a tasting of our Brownie Bite and Coconut Ginger Bite: Saturday, March 26th 11am-2pm Rainbow Coop - 1745 Folsom St http://www.smartmonkeyfoods.com I'm guessing these are for humans. They also make raw foods for non-human animals. Our dog is actually 100% raw vegan. She is a Rhodesian Ridgeback (we did research and found that this breed does well on a vegan diet) We adopted her, and she was very ill: kennel cough, was loosing chunks of fur, was skin and bone (45 lbs!), and very depressed. We converted her diet over a 2 month period, and now she just eats nuts, seeds, fruits and veggies, and weighs 90lbs. So often we are stopped on the street and people want to touch her because her fur is amazingly silky soft and super shiney, and no shedding and no oder! She has her own favorite pate recipe, which we have in our uncookbook: The Art of Raw, which is available on our website: http://www.smartmonkeyfoods.com # Sat Mar 26 11am http://wiseasswisdom.org THEY say that of Cheap, Fast, and Good, you can pick two, but you can't ever have all three. THEY are wrong. My friends have put together an amazing day-long event with great speakers and teachers to share their wisdom on a variety of fantastic topics (Good). They have condensed what they are sharing to get you several experiences in different areas all in one day (Fast). They're offering it all for less than the price you'd often pay to work with just one of them (Cheap). Get signed up now while there are still openings left. Here's the deets: What's next for you? What do you really want? Wha-th'hell you waitin' for? What's with all the questions? Many of us are seeking new relationships with work, money, creativity, spirituality, sex, love…''' So a dozen freaks of different trainings in various wisdom sources are bringing a day-long experience to our San Francisco scene. Through discussion, exercises and interactive games we'll share with you how we've poked and prodded our passions awake. After an introduction we'll offer over four hours of sessions throughout the day, with several classes to choose from in each session. Including an hour for lunch, we'll provide breaks with different options to connect and reflect. Then a new relationship/sexuality improv troupe will bring the day to a, uh... climax. Let’s tinker with spirituality despite the confusion of organized religion. Let’s translate empowerment from the new agey dialect. Let’s shoplift transformation from the self-help sales craze. Regardless of what stand up comedians mock, let’s cobble together tools from the fascinating mind-fuck of self-awareness to create whole new lives for ourselves through each other. The event will also serve to collect books, tapes and discs – inspiring source material you would like to share – to create a communal library or donate to a cause. http://www.wiseasswisdom.org Go there. Click on WHAT. Choose from the fascinating courses and discussions offered by fellow freaks. Sign up for times ASAP to ensure your favorite classes don't fill up without you. WHO: Find out here: http://wiseasswisdom.org/who.html WHAT: Find out here: http://wiseasswisdom.org/what.html WHEN: Saturday, March 26th from 11am to 6:30pm. WHERE: Center for Sex and Culture: 11th St / Harrison St., SF COST: $25 in advance. $30 at the door (if space is still available). $5 cash back for arriving with ponderings written in crayon. Details will be emailed to registered participants. Wise-ass Wisdom will: --unsnag the snaggletoothed. --octane boost the pyromaniacked. --wow even those who think they are wowier than thou. --perpetuate the practice / continue the inspiration of the teachers, producers, staff and attendees. Questions? Just write us at wisasswisdom@yahoo.com # Saturday Jams @ Xenodrome continue March 19th & 26th ~ 12 noon till 3 pm. Musicians coming together, just to make music...What a concept! http://Xenodrome.com ?, 1320 Potrero @ 25th & Cesar Chavez # 3/26: Time to End the Outrageous Secrecy of Our Police (sunnyvale) Between 2 and 4pm, at Sunnyvale Public Library, I will lead a demonstration showing the compelling need for our police departments to start mandating technological monitoring of themselves (concerning contacts between suspect and officer), to ensure factual evidence of what takes place between these two parties. Endless people go to jail, and have their lives entirely ruined due to misleading, false, or otherwised altered police reports in this country. And this must stop. Check out the following website: http://Policewatch.org Rich # The Ethical Slut, with Dossie Easton and Janet Harding Sat Mar 26 2:30 PM $10 245 8th St http://www.sfcitadel.org OK, so you want to have lots of sex and lots of S/M with lots of wonderful people ... who wouldn't? But the realities are often challenging: even the most joyous slut may experience insecurity, feelings of clumsiness and/or incompetence, guilt, and, of course, jealousy. Dossie and Janet will discuss lifestyles that go beyond the traditional monogamous model. Can you maintain supportive relationships in a world where the only sexual boundaries are the ones you set yourself? How do you feel secure when your partner has a date (with someone cuter than you)? What is jealousy, and can it be overcome? Come listen, talk and learn about how to build the lifestyle you want. Admission: $10 per person Janet Hardy (aka Catherine A. Liszt and Lady Green) is the president of Greenery Press Inc. Under her various pen names, she is the author or co-author of ten books on sexuality, polyamory and BDSM. Janet is a bisexual, polyamorous, gender-flexible SM switch who has shared her lifestyle knowledge at workshops and conferences internationally. Dossie Easton is a San Francisco therapist who specializes in helping couples, triads and groups to navigate the tricky byways of slut lifestyles. An active sex radical since 1961, Dossie is a well-known bottom who also tops, and has taught dozens of classes on S/M techniques, skills and philosophy. She was one of the first members of the Society of Janus in San Francisco. The two women have co-authored five books, including "The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities" and "Radical Ecstasy: SM Journeys to Transcendence." # HOLI ka DANDIA- Sat March 26- Cubberley ( 4000 Middlefield )Palo Alto Join in the fun! Come party and dance with scintillating Bay Area Performer Ms. USHMA VAHIA & Party! Welcome Spring or HOLI season.on Saturday, March 26,2005 at the Cubberley Auditorium in Palo Alto- 4000 Middlefield Road. 7:30PM to 11:00 PM This event highlights DANDIA RAAS a traditional PARTICIPATORY Stick dance from India - with a Line/Circle of Dancers engaging in the Community Stick Dance. The Music is Pulasating, Rthymic and "Jhoom" means to SWAY IN Rhthym. Come Dance with or without partners. Free Dance Lessons provided. No Color Powders allowed. Only Dancing. Snacks and Dandia Sticks will be available for purchase. More details and Photos from past events: Tickets online till sold out http://www.indian-american.org # Closing receptions for two shows, Red Ink Studios: Paul Hayes, 'PaperWork' 989 Market @ 6th. sat 3/26, 7 - Midnight. # Bunny Jam 5: Adventures in BunnyHOPolis! Saturday, March 26th, 8pm till 6am 1919 Market St, Oakland (2 blocks South of West Grand) $10 FullBunny; $15 SumBunny; $20 UnBunny Join the mass EGGsodus! Hop from HARE to absurdity! Tumble through the RABBIT hole and discover a congrEGGation of bunnies in BunnyHOPolis, an EGGstrordinary city sprawling with EGGsistential questions: Will you take the red jellybean or the blue jellybean? Is BunnyHOPolis a physical state or state of mind? HOPpiness itself? Or an EGGsercise in FURtility? Oh hippety hoppers of harebrained HOPpenings, HARE we go again!!! ART • PERFORMANCE • PROJECTIONS • FURIGINAL BUNNY MUSIC • HOPPING! Abu Bunny De-humanization Station - The Golden Carrot Cabaret & Egglight District - The Dreamland HOPstacle Course - A HOPolopalicious Ho-down in The Bunnydrome - Oracle Forest & HOPpy Haunty Cemetary - The Hopalopolis Egg Hunt! - The Bunny Hole Express to Blacklight Briarpatch - The Bunny Arts District - Dr. Frankenpeep’s Recombinant P(eep)NA Lab - Bunny Boingers - A Midnight Bunny Toss - Maypole Polkas & InEGGural Balls - Kali Bunny Shrine & Buddhabunny Temple - Hare Apparent Projections - 18 Carrot Mango & Bubbleberrybop Punches - The Annual FURshion Show (featuring U!) - Hippety Puppety Theatery - The Evolution Carrot Committee Presenting Fluph-in! - Easter Egg Scramble for Bunnyside-ups ++ Including the incomparable talents of the Bay Area’s finest bunnyflippin’ artists, VJs, DJs, and perFURmers: Dr. Furiendly - Dr. Wabbitkiss (feral-minded cartoon jazz) - Mein HARE! - RunRabbitRon Harebert - Spoonish Bunny - Furtographer - DJ NeonBunny - GoofeRABBIT (purveyors of hippety hop euphonics) - Carrot Lewis - Starbunny - Shimmery Bunny - Kharmabunny - Bunny Fodder - Marcia Crosbunny - Little Bunny John - Los Lunch Bunnies - DJ Helgabunny - SugarBunni - Jackie Jackrabbit - The Evolution Carrot Committee (ECC) - Jenny Peep - John Mosbunny - Simbunny - Nambla the Bunny - Marin Bunny - Holcomb Bunnylite - The FUR Arts Collective (carrot spinning) - Skibit - CameraBunny - Ether Bunny - Justin YoungBunny - Dr. Boris Rabid! - Dr. Frankenpeep - Superspacebunny - Mobunny Molitov - Bunnies with Chainsaws! +++ Sponsored by the Department of Hareland Security, BJ1, BJ2, etc and so what! Hooray! Also join us April 1st for a Billion Bunny March as part of the St. Stupid‘s Day Parade! See http://www.saintstupid.com/event.html for details http://www.bunnyjam.com Please enter and exit vewy vewy quietly! # YOGA TAI-CHI COLLECTIVE PRESENTS FERTILE In celebration of the spring equinox Saturday March 26th At STUDIO RASA 933 Parker St (8th & 9th) Berkeley Ca 94710 8:30pm DOORS 9:00 YOGA DANCE with TENLEY 10:00 Tai-Chi with PATRICK KING 11:00 The DJ?s Fire it UP DJ?s: MAXIMILLIAN (TFEP) El PAPA CHANGO (El Circo) CLAY (Yoga Tai-Chi) MOONDOGGY (yoga Tai-Chi) $10 before 10pm $15 After This is a shoe Free event ? Please bring your yoga mat All ages welcome # Rapture: Living in Love SpiralMuse House Party and Fundraiser** Saturday, March 26 9 pm to 2 am http://www.spiralmuse.org/events_event_Rapture.html DJ’s:: Soulsalaam (future juju)::Syd gris (opel)::Shanti (triple power) Swami (the community)::Chakka (02 bar)::Yehudit (mysticscave) DEEEELIGHTS:: * First 100 guests receive Living in Love 3CD music set  * Two floors of luxuriantly lush chill * Sumptuous healing and massage * Treats & elixirs to titillate your senses * Fabulous silent auction – (want to contribute?  See how: http://www.spiralmuse.org/silentauction.htm * Candlelight ceremony at midnight $20 donation requested* ~ pre-sale only ~ This event will sell out, so buy early.  To purchase Tickets online:  http://www.spiralmuse.org/events_event_Rapture.html  To purchase Tickets by hand:  elana@spiralmuse.org # Sat Mar 26 10pm fireside concert at the "interval" 1284 W. Grand ave. @ poplar st. in Oakland $5-$20 (no one turned away for lack o $) http://markgrowden.com # BOUNTY Sat Mar 26 10:00 PM Infinite Kaos 136 Taylor Street @ Turk / Eddy http://infinitekaos.com Celebrate abundance with Infinite Kaos & El Circo. Featuring a cornucopia of musicmakers: Geeno (IK), a midnight performance manifesting abundance and transition as Infinite Kaos changes its name to ?????? At 12:15 Oo-ah (LABA) & Dorfex Bos (FSCK) work their dynamic duo. El Papachango (El Circo) returning from Miami to bless this house. Kitty D (Kitty-ology/El Circo) slows it down 33 1/3 stylie. And Chris Sia (IK/El Circo) brings in the dawn. You can bet Desiree will be there with her fan! Phidelity (Organic Light Industries) and Andres (IK) handling the chill chamber all night long! Refreshments of all kinds served to keep you here all night long! And Kitty D and Chris Sia bring you Tobiko Freako Sushi Lounge the next night, Sun March 27, 10pm-2am, at Ryoko's Restaurant & Bar. Cuz you know how good fish is when you're cracked out after the pahtee. Come for the groovin' ethnoslut sounds and slowed down grungy breaks, slam down some sake and maki. Always, no cover and under the covers. MEOW!!!!!!! # $$$ LIQUIDATE $$$ Saturday, March 26 43 Norfolk St $10, all night http://www.false-profit.com/events/liquidate As you may know, ownership of FPHQ has recently changed hands, and The Company is moving to new a new, soon-to-be-announced location in San Francisco. So on March 26, False Profit is saying goodbye to 43 Norfolk with LIQUIDATE, the last party ever to happen at that location! The Company is clearing out all the old late-night entertainment to make room for the new models - all the fun must go! - Tung - Donna Matrix - Kraddy - Smoove - Laird - Kap'n Kirk - Joe Encarnacion - ALXNDR - benchun - more TBA... Learn more about our new Memorable Moments technology and get up-to-the-minute information about the line-up at: http://www.false-profit.com/events/liquidate The Life You Enjoy May Be Your Own! # For those not going to Miami this year, you're in luck. False Profit has a great deal for you: http://false-profit.com/events/liquidate Final Sale; Best Deals of the Millenium! As you may know, ownership of FPHQ has recently changed hands, and The Company is moving to new a new, soon-to-be-announced location in San Francisco. So on March 26, False Profit is saying goodbye to 43 Norfolk with LIQUIDATE, the last party ever to happen at that location! The Company is clearing out all the old late-night entertainment to make room for the new models - all the fun must go! A Memory Good Enough To Buy Do you remember the time when you came to the party at FPHQ and had to step over the sewage water to get to the porto-potty? Or when you heard that DJ set at 43 Norfolk that made you start rubbing yourself? How about the time when the cops shined a Maglite right in your huge pupils? Or that hilarious time when your friend took just a little too much to be at a warehouse full of people? And when you met that extreme hottie and never got their number? Now you can come reminisce about these good times - and many more - using False Profit's exclusive new life-enhancement product: Memorable Moments. At LIQUIDATE, partygoers will have access to licenses* for Memorable Moments - with each license, you can go to the scene of one of your favorite memories at FPHQ and think about it once! Make them count! Share them with friends!** Now, how much would you expect to pay for a license for one Memorable Moment? Guess lower. Still lower. No, fool, even lower! That's right, you get three Memorable Moments absolutely free with your donation at the door! You will not want to miss this special, one-time offer. So you get the fun, the dancing, the Corporate love, and the Memorable Moments, all for the suggested donation of $10 ... With a spectacular all-star DJ lineup including: Donna Matrix / Kraddy / Smoove / Laird / Kap'n Kirk / 8Ball / Joe Encarnacion / ALXNDR / benchun / halon / and more TBA... * Note: The licenses are not physical, tangible, or in any sense real. Guests are expected to use three at maximum. Company agents will be watching. Re-selling of licenses is expressly encouraged. ** Note: in a group recollection, each participant must use one Memorable Moment license. http://false-profit.com/events/liquidate _______________________________________________ false profit : invest yourself http://lists.false-profit.com/listinfo/investors # Sat 3/26 - Anarchy Magazine benefit show at 924 Gilman, Berkeley. Resist and Exist, Takaru, Gather, Resistance Culture, Killdashnine $5 # Tantra Surround presents: Saturday, March 26th 10pm-6am, 18+ The Blue Cube 34 Mason St., San Francisco IN THE LAB (Psychedelic) DIGITAL TALK (Acidance Records, France) - Luc and Julien are really excited to be coming back to SF and promise lots of rocking new music. Live and DJ set. GHREG ON EARTH (Wirikuta/Mistress of Evil Records) celebrating his upcoming (April 2005) debut release: SigilWeaver, "a mysterious and ominous themed mystical journey captured in trance, taking the dance floor and listener on a quantum leap into the future of sound" Liam Shy (Tantra) Barratt (Synchronize) KJ (Tantra) IN THE CUBE (Melodic) Akasha (Auracle Resonance) Spook (Phoenix Family) Mayur (Spectra, NYC) Sentient (Thump, Synchronize) Helios (Magic Glasses) Sound by KV2 Audio (http://kv2audio.com/) Gourmet vegetarian foods plus full bar Visuals by Chaos Consortium Tickets $20 at the door or online at http://www.tantrasf.com 415-820-3201 # "Donating garden plants...SF Port bulldozers coming April 1, 2005" http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/listing/ef9fa237-34e8-499e-b33b-28fd4599f102 Because the "bull dozer coming/donating garden plant" posting has resulted in nearly 200 responses, I have chosen to respond with this simple letter to all, due to my lack of time and typing skills. The donation times will start at 10 AM and end around 5 PM this coming Saturday and Sunday, March 26th and 27th. I hope to rent a small Bobcat to excavate the larger bushes and trees, but hoping one of you is a more proficient operator than myself. Please bring your own tools, pots or burlap to wrap root balls, albeit, I have a few here. Heavy duty trash bags or 6 mil plastic are also useful. The Muwekma Ohlone Park is opposite 1884 Illinois Street,here in San Francisco, near Marin, and closest intersection is Cesar Chavez and Third Street. Here is a Mapquest link: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&address=1884+Illinois+St.%0D%0A&city=San+Francisco&state=CA&zipcode=94124 Should you get lost, I will have my cell: 415 902 7700 Thanks in advance for all your love for things green and living. David Erickson Park: http://www.islaiscreek.org/ Radio Show last week about Port Bridge and other related issues: http://www.enemycombatantradio.net/ecr/ecr-hi/ecr-hi_2005-03-14_18:55:41.mp3 http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/listing/ef9fa237-34e8-499e-b33b-28fd4599f102 Because the "bull dozer coming/donating garden plant" posting has resulted in nearly 200 responses, I have chosen to respond with this simple letter to all, due to my lack of time and typing skills. The donation times will start at 10 AM and end around 5 PM this coming Saturday and Sunday, March 26th and 27th. I hope to rent a small Bobcat to excavate the larger bushes and trees, but hoping one of you is a more proficient operator than myself. Please bring your own tools, pots or burlap to wrap root balls, albeit, I have a few here. Heavy duty trash bags or 6 mil plastic are also useful. The Muwekma Ohlone Park is opposite 1884 Illinois Street,here in San Francisco, near Marin, and closest intersection is Cesar Chavez and Third Street. Here is a Mapquest link: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&address=1884+Illinois+St.%0D%0A&city=San+Francisco&state=CA&zipcode=94124 Should you get lost, I will have my cell: 415 902 7700 Thanks in advance http://www.islaiscreek.org/ Radio Show last week about Port Bridge and other related issues: http://www.enemycombatantradio.net/ecr/ecr-hi/ecr-hi_2005-03-14_18:55:41.mp3 Sun Mar 27 # Sun 3/27 - BASTARD Anarchist Conference @ UC Berkeley. 10am - 6pm http://sfbay-anarchists.org/conference # BASTARD Conference Sun Mar 27 10 am - 5 pm $2+ donation Come to the fifth annual BASTARD (Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory And Research and Development) conference and develop anarchist theory in a comfortable and non-sectarian environment. The conference will be held from 10-5 at Barrows Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. There will be an hour break for lunch. Some of the highlights this year will include a panel discussion on anarchism and spirituality, a performance of the shadow puppet play 'John Z's Vision Quest' that has only been performed once before (at this summer's Black and Green gathering), and a workshop by Bob Black and many other anarchists. Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley Campus - South end, Berkeley At the end of Telegraph (where it meets the campus) head about 2 buildings NE to find Barrows. conference@sfbay-anarchists.org http://sfbay-anarchists.org/conference/ # Sun 3/27- Anarchist Pride Month Parade in SF. 11am. Dolores Park. 18th @ Dolores. March towards Civic Center at noon. There will be a free punk show post-parade. # Indulgence in the Park '05 Sun Mar 27 11:00am - 4:00pm FREE!! Continuing their mission to promulgate Universal Joy, the San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. are proud to announce "Indulgence in the Park," an Easter picnic and celebration. This very San Francisco event brings together children, families, friends, artists, and community activists all on one lawn to celebrate the Sisters' 26th Anniversary and enjoy a day in Dolores Park. The event is free to the public. "Indulgence in the Park" promises to be lively and vivacious incorporating stage performances, children's activities, and two cash-prize contests. On this year's performer line-up, Sister Selma Soul adds, "This year's Easter stage will feature the venereal... I mean venerable... talents, of Kitten on the Keys and Trauma Flintstone, as well as those rising stars of the silver screen The Ethel Mermen Experience, taking time out from their Craig's List: The Movie promotional tour. Hoping to get a rise out of the crowd, we will be joined by one of our favorite local bands Polkacide, celebrating their 20th anniversary." At 1:00pm, participants will line up to parade across the stage in their Easter finest for our Bonnet Contest. Later at 3:15pm, this year's "Hunky Jesus" will be chosen. Both winners will receive $100 cash prize. In addition to providing an afternoon of merriment for the community, the Sisters also hope to raise money for a whole year of grants awards. "Our cherished San Franciscans have always been very generous, and over the past 26 years have donated half a million dollars to Sisters' Grants recipients, often one dollar at a time. The Sisters just love to give as much as we get, and we dig it when you dig deeply. Contributing to our Grants fund makes your gift last all year long," adds Sister Roxanne Roles. http://www.thesisters.org Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. March 27 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Dolores Park (20h & Dolores), San Francisco http://www.craigslist.org/eve/63534857.html includes sisters/bunny photo! # Sun Mar 27 2-5.Bay Area Hula Hoopers @ cellspace annex: 2955 18th street between florida and alabama bah-subscribe@yahoogroups.com # Sun, Mar 27 1:30 pm Town Meeting on Counter-Military Recruitment and Conscientious Objection Options Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall 1924 Cedar St. (at Bonita) Berkeley Panel: Cindy Sheehan of Gold Star (Military) Families for Peace, Isa Shaw-Gulf War vet, Steve Morris of the GI Rights Hotline, and Berkeley High School Student Robert Reynolds. Discussion will be moderated by Craig Scott-UU minister, lawyer and Viet Nam vet. Find out what life in the military is like, options and alternatives to being drafted. Young people and parents are especially welcome. What better way to spend Easter afternoon? "Dear George, When you sent me a letter offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Qustin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis....I do have a big mouth and a righteous cause, which still mean something in this country....The 56,000,000 plus citizens who voted against you and your agenda have given me a mandate to move forward with my agenda...." --Cindy Sheehan, broken hearted mother. Preceded by 1:00 pm press conference, open to the public. Relevant Films afterwards, at 3:30, for those who can stay. Information tables too. $10 requested, $5 student/low-income, NO ONE TURNED AWAY for LACK of FUNDS Benefits the Central Committee on Conscientious Objectors and Alternatives to War A project of the Berkeley Fellowship of UU's Social Justice Committee, who voted to prepare easy action(s) to take at these events. Yes, get informed AND TAKE ACTION! http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php lesser version http://www.craigslist.org/eve/64671016.html # Ostara Egg Hunt Sun Mar 27 3-4pm FREE! Change Makers 6536 Telegraph Ave Oakland Ca 94609 view map http://www.changemakersforwomen.com Children of All Ages are encouraged to join in this egg hunt in our garden to Celebrate Spring's Arrival. FREE! (donations of small prizes for inside the plastic eggs are appreciated!) What to Bring: A small basket, a potluck item to share RSVP/Info: 707-761-7781 or faerieceilidh@hotmail.com # Sun 3/27 - Iron Maiden Party (benefit for Critical Mass sound system). Maiden tribute band: I Yearn 4 Maiden. Eddie look-alike contest. Trashy Metal Vixen Contest. Maiden karaoke. 8pm. $5 donation. Berkeley location. Call 1-800-GUN-NUMB for directions. http://www.spaz.org # Iron Maiden Party benefit for Critical Mass sound system Sunday, March 27 8:00pm - 11:30pm $5 Watch out all you metalheadz (and non-metalheadz)... Iron Maiden Party (benefits the Berkeley/SF Critical Mass bike sound system) Live on stage: I Yearn 4 Maiden (Maiden tribute band) Eddie look-alike contest Best Trashy Metal Vixen Contest Best Headbangin Metal Dude Contest Maiden karaoke. Berkeley location. Call 1-800-GUN-NUMB on the day of for directions. http://www.spaz.org soydog@spaz.org 1-800-GUN-NUMB Mon Mar 28 Monday, March 28th at 10:00 am Getting Commuter Rail on Track: Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey Presents A Community Forum on Transportation & Rail with Special Guest Governor Michael Dukakis, Former Vice Chair Amtrak Reform Board Participating will be Mayor Robert Jehn, Chair and Mayor Al Boro, Vice Chair - Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit Please join Congresswoman Woolsey, Governor Dukakis and Local Transportation Leaders in a Lively Discussion About Multi-Modal Traffic Relief Marin County Civic Center Board of Supervisors Chambers 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael Please call (415) 507-9554 for more information # SF Rope Bondage Peer Workshop Mon Mar 28 7:30 PM SF Citadel 245 8th St http://www.sfrope.org/ Mar 28, 2005, the Fourth Monday SF Rope Bondage Peer Workshop @ SF Citadel www.sfcitadel.org 245 8th Street, San Francisco 7:30pm - 9:30pm Look for the Big Red Heart on the building. Hosted by Rae $5-10 rec'd (but not req'd) donation to help cover venue costs. host @ sfrope.org http://www.sfrope.org/ Tue Mar 29 # 3/29: Ecuador's Indigenous Resists Big Oil Exploits (san rafael) Reply to: colleenrose@citycom.com MARIN INTERFAITH TASK FORCE ON THE AMERICAS PO Box 2481, Mill Valley CA 94942 Dale Sorensen 415-924-3227 geodale1@earthlink.net Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas will sponsor a Film and Slide presentation by Kevin Koenig, Amazon Watch and Marisa Handler, San Francisco-based writer and activist. Having recently visited the Amazon region of Ecuador, they will report on their work in support of the indigenous community of Sarayacu, where the people have been successfully resisting oil exploitation. The event: Tuesday, March 29, 7:30pm, First United Methodist Church, 9 Ross Valley (at 4th St.) San Rafael. Benefit for the Sarayacu people, $5-10 donation, wheelchair access. Info: 415-924-3227. http://www.craigslist.org/eve/63520376.html # Also, you might be interested in some free movie screenings SF IndieFest is co-presenting with a club called Drunken Monkey, Tuesdays at the Cat Club, 1190 Folsom at 8th. Doors are at 9p, movie starts at 10p, DJ spins 12a till close at 2a. Cats is 21up: March 8: Fight Club, March 15: Airplane, March 22: Boondock Saints, March 29: Repo Man Wed Mar 30 # Wed, Mar 30 7pm JUDI BARI'S VICTORY TRIAL Humanist Hall 390 27th St. @ Broadway & Telegraph, Oakland http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php # TATTOO-A-PALOOZA! Wed Mar 30 9:30 PM Glas Kat (aka The Troc) 520 4th Street @ Bryant http://www.bondage-a-go-go.com Thu Mar 31 # Thu Mar 31Raw Food book booth at the SF Tunk Show, ART, Fashion, music and more: http://www.pomelocreative.com http://www.rawinten.com # March 31 National call to action No Draft, No Way! On March 31, the Selective Service System (SSS) will report to President Bush that it is ready to implement the draft within 75 days. Right now, the SSS is staffing local draft boards, training volunteer registrars to work on high school and college campuses, and streamlining its induction process. They have also gained access to the Department of Education's computer files, to ensure maximum registration. It is clear that the Bush Administration is preparing for a draft. They are desperate for new soldiers to continue the occupation of Iraq and to prepare for new wars against Iran, Syria, and elsewhere. At the same time that Bush is looking to youth to supply cannon fodder for his wars, he is busy cutting financial aid and slashing social programs. The same young people that Bush wants to use to fight his wars are finding it harder to pay for their education, find jobs that pay a living wage, or obtain basic necessities, like health care or affordable housing. It is time for young people, who are already under attack from the Bush Administration, to take a stand. On March 31, the same day that the Selective Service System is reporting that the draft is ready to go, youth all over the country will report that they will refuse to go. Local No Draft, No Way organizers and other anti-draft activists are planning protests, walkouts, and direct action at recruiting centers, selective service offices, and other sites. We call upon students, youth, and antiwar activists to organize local actions on March 31 to say "No Draft, No Way!" http://www.nodraftnoway.org # "Writers Vs. Ryders" @ FIFTY24 SF Mar 31 Free Art opening 7- 9:30 248 Fillmore @ Haight April 2005 # SECOND ANNUAL National "I'm Embarrassed by the pResident" Day, April 1st, 2005. WEAR A BROWN RIBBON, official button, brown clothing in protest of all the BS coming out of the White House http://www.democracymeansyou.com/brown # Sat 4/2 - Reclaim The Streets (RTS) street party: a comMUNIty mutiny against fare hikes hits in SF noon @ Dolores Park. Its a masquerade ball, so D r E s S t O I m p R e s S. We'll hit the streets at 1pm sharp in search of fun and mischief... # a comMUNIty mutiny against fare hikes hits SF in the form of a reclaim the streets (RTS) street party on SATURDAY @ NOON, APRIL 2, DOLORES PARK. Its a masquerade ball, so if you dont want to hang for it later, you better D r E s S t O I m p R e s S. We'll hit the streets at 1 pm sharp in search of fun and mischief... Download publicity (or make your own) at http://sfrts.tribe.net or http://www.rts-sf.org and put them up anywhere and everywhere. # **SPRING VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT TOWN MEETING & POT LUCK** Sat April 2 12 PM - 3 PM at the historic Swedish American Hall above Café DuNord, 2174 Market Street (at 15th Street) http://www.swedishamericanhall.com/index.html http://burningman.com # I'm forwarding this, which I think is important because Amy Goodman is one of the mainstays of Left Gatekeepers, tiptoeing around 9/11 and the stolen 2004 election. She interviewed David Ray Griffin on the May 26 2004 DN show, and ambushed him with "attack dog" Chip Berlet. Chip steered the interview to the no-jetliner-hit-the-Pentagon and used it to discredit The New Pearl Harbor, even though it's only one part of one chapter. -Jim of http://wtc7.net - here are sites that could teach Amy Goodman a thing or two - 911 - inside job: demand investigation into cover-up! http://wtc7.net - http://911visibility.org - http://911truth.org http://oilempire.us - http://dieoff.org - http://peakoil.net http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/index.html http://globalresearch.ca - http://cooperativeresearch.org http://deceptiondollar.com - http://911review.com http://communitycurrency.org - http://septembereleventh.org http://cooperativeresearch.org - http://911visibility.org * Amy Goodman in San Francisco, CA: Fri, April 1 * TIME: 12 PM Working Assets Lunchtime Speakers Series FRB Auditorium 101 Market Street, 1st Floor SF 94105 This event is free and open to the public. Attendees must RSVP by calling 415-369-2150, leaving the names of everyone in the party (spelled out), and a contact phone number. Places are reserved on a first-come first-serve basis. The free lunch begins at 11:30 am http://www.workingassets.com * Amy Goodman in San Francisco, CA: Fri, April 1 8 PM Palace of Fine Arts Theater 3301 Lyon St. @ Lombard, SF http://www.palaceoffinearts.org $12 in advance, $15 door http://www.kpfa.org or call (510) 848-6767 x611 # DUSTFISH CIRCUS and FUNDRAISER   4/2/05   @NIMBY in Oakland Every year we hear complaints about not enough LIVE MUSIC on the Playa, and every year, DUSTFISH goes to the Playa, builds a stage and bar, plugs in the lights and PA, and presents HOT LIVE MUSIC, and DJS...last year we presented a Stilt Ballet and the searing music of KAN'NAL, among other things.   Here's your chance to support LIVE ART on the Playa and have a Blast doing it! Whether it's live music or djs or just a fun good vibe you're after, you'll find it this night... LIVE (inside stages)  *DR. ABACUS*  *GOOFERMAN*  *FUNKY BEULAH*  *ECC (Evolution Control Committee)*  *ALT TAL*  *ARTEMIS*  *KURT WAHLBERG*  *LA MALINCHE (Flemenco)*  *GROUNDCHUCK*  *FIRE ARTS COLLECTIVE*   and believe it or not a *FLASH & LORD HUCKLEBERRY DUET* and, should you feel like dancing your booty off around the fire: DJS (outside)  *OOAh*  *SMOOVE*  *NoMe*  *LARON aka SWAN*  *DAISY CRAVE*  *SHRIMP*  *LEO* Plus: * INTERACTIVE SMUT by DR. FRIENDLY*  *ART INSTALLATION by JOE MANGRUM*  *VISUALS by SATSI*   and Games: WHIP OR WHIPPED RING TOSS (Suffer the Lash if you Fail)  *NONO THE NAUGHTY NAKED APE (You Be The Monkey)*  *BOOTIE CHECKPOINT #11 (Free Your Bootie)* Raffle:  WIN A TICKET TO BURNINGMAN! Plus:  *PORN KLOWNS*  *STILTERS*  *HOOPERS*  *CAGE, ROPE, GOGO, AND FIRE DANCERS*  and more.... @NIMBY  ( http://www.nimbyspace.org ) for directions...(just over the Bridge if coming from SF) 4/2/05    9pm-??? (you might wanna bring your sunglasses?)    $5 b4 11pm   $10 after   http://www.clubego.net for changes, more (yes, more!) and updates...Festive (Playa) Attire Highly Encouraged...now, I'm laughing my ass off....... and, many, many thanks, in advance...DUSTFISH LOVES YOU!  (now, bend over and crack a smile!) THE PARTY IS IN YOUR HEAD      {SPICE MUST FLOW} DUSTFISH FUNRAZOR at NIMBY 4/2/05 28th @ Peralta, Oakland. details at http://www.clubego.net # War Tax Resistance Workshop- Berkeley Sun Apr 3, 1-4pm 3122 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA (1 block East of Ashby BART) Unhappy about the U.S. policy on militarism, stop paying your taxes.  More than half of our federal income taxes are being used for war. Find out more about this form of conscientious objection at our introductory workshop.  Topics will include: -- Creative legal protests -- Refusing to pay all or part of federal taxes and the possible consequences of this form of civil disobedience -- Living below the level of taxable income -- Phone tax resistance -- Redirecting resisted taxes to local alternative funds and/or community organizations -- Local support networks for war tax resisters Northern California War Tax Resistance (510) 843-9877 http://www.nowartax.org Thank you for working for peace! # Comcast is coming to town. Come and protest April 3rd at 2 pm! The big cable companies will be having its annual meeting in San Francisco Apr 3-5. Communications Workers of America and Media Alliance are planning to welcome Comcast with a protest rally on Sunday April 3rd at 2 pm. Come to the rally and bring others with you. We are looking for organizational endorsements for this event. Please contact me at this email if you have any questions or if you can give us your endorsement. For more information about the rally, go to http://www.media-alliance.org/article.php?story=20050310231129497 Thanks to your calls, we won! Thanks to everyone who called the San Francisco's Public Utility's Commission on Tuesday. Despite industry lobbying, the PUC approved the money to study the feasibility of municipal broadband in San Francisco. http://www.media-alliance.org/article.php?story=20050309192522624 Comcast gets an earful in Marin The big corporations have money and power, but our communities have people. Check out what happened in Marin County when 200 crowded in San Rafael's City Hall to vent their frustration about Comcast. "It is extremely unusual to have this many people show up on a weeknight for this meeting," Supervisor Susan Adams said. "I don't recall ever having this many people at one of our Board of Supervisor meetings, and for every person here, I'm sure there are dozens more who feel the same way." Read the whole article at http://www.mediasf.org/index.php/news/150 -- QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? SUBSCRIBE? SUBSCRIBE? Contact Sydney Levy at sydney@media-alliance.org or at 510-832-9000, ext 303 San Francisco Media Advocates' Coalition http://www.mediasf.org --> Check our website for updated information! # MONEY IN - FAVORS OUT That’s what Arnold’s all about! Governor Schwarzenegger has raised more political contributions than any governor in California history. Join the growing group of nurses, firefighters, teachers, public service workers and others who are protesting this governor’s incessant fundraising and delivery of favors to his donors at the expense of working families. TUESDAY APRIL 5th 5:00 PM MEET-UP Ritz Carlton 600 Stockton Street/Pine SF Cable car: Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason lines (direct stop) Beware of Ritz Carlton Parking Fee: $45. Hi all, We have gotten word that the Governor will be in San Francisco On april 5 at 5:00 p.m.  We are joining in with the CNA, teachers, fire fighters, and others to protest the governor's fundraising practices and his policies that favor his corporate donors.  Tell everyone to come out and protest and make their voices heard.  Last night the protest in Orange County drew more than 2,000 people!  San Francisco should be able to do at least that much. An SEIU flyer is attached.  I will also be following up with phone calls.  # 4/6 Benefit for the Forest Defenders' Pepper Spray Q-tip lawsuit. Bay Area premier of Bernadine Mellis' "The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari vs. the FBI", a new documentry about Judi Bari and her successful lawsuit challenging the FBI repression of local forest activists. WHEN: Wed April 6 2005 7pm  WHERE: La Pena Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley (near the Ashby BART). Meet Plaintiffs and Lawyers in the upcoming Pepper Spray By Q-Tip Trial starting April 11 at the SF Federal Building. Admission $10 no one turned away for lack of funds. Info: (510) 658-9178 THE FOREST FOR THE TREES Judi Bari v. the FBI 54 minutes directed by Bernadine Mellis In 1990, environmentalist and union organizer Judi Bari's car was bombed.  Within three hours of the bombing, Bari was accused of transporting the explosives that had nearly killed her.  Still in the hospital, she was arrested, and labeled a terrorist in the national media.  "The Forest for the Trees follows" Judi Bari's story, culminating in her First Amendment case against the FBI.  At the heart of the film, made by Bari's lawyer's daughter, is Bari, a folk hero with an electrifying on-screen presence, and the legal battle against law enforcement that few believed she could win. Bernadine Mellis'  first film, Born,  is an experimental short that has screened at galleries and festivals in San Francisco (recently at The Lab's "Inside of Inside" and Madcat International Women's Film Festival) and New York City (including Galapagos Gallery, the Pioneer Theater, and Lady Fest East). The Golden Pheasant, an Orphan's Tale, a children's story Mellis wrote and directed, has also screened in museums and schools nationally , as well as on public television. Her father's role as lead attorney in Earth First! activist Judi Bari's civil case led Mellis to make The Forest for the Trees , her first documentary. -- Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH) 2530 San Pablo Ave. Berkeley, CA  94702 phone: 510 548 3113 email: bach@headwaterspreserve.org http://www.HeadwatersPreserve.org # Mon Apr 7 What The Bleep Group (“Bleepers' Anonymous”) Intense, informative, fun! Do you have a passion to find out …”What The Bleep It’s All About?” Then this group is for you. It combines a focus on deep ideas as well as direct experience. Bob Eige is the group leader. His life’s focus has been the study of cosmology, Zen, healing and art*. Each meeting is unique and creative. Participants share their ideas and experiences regarding, “What The Bleep” and related subjects. Learning how to be more effective in creating our own realities is an important objective of group. The next meeting is Monday evening, April 11th at 7:00 PM, in San Rafael - bring your humor and your wits! Check out the new, “What The Bleep Study Guide”! http://www.whatthebleep.com/guide *To check out Bob’s unusual art visit: http://www.homepage.mac.com/rabirdx # COMMEMORATE APRIL 7, 2003 OAKLAND DOCKS ANTI-WAR PICKET & SUPPORT ONE OF THOSE INJURED BY OAKLAND POLICE A Benefit for Willow Rosenthal’s Medical Needs; Willow was permanently injured by the Oakland Police on April 7th, 2003. Thursday April 7th, 7 p.m. Café Van Kleef (21 and over) 1621 Telegraph @17th, Oakland (19th Street BART) MUSIC: · Andrea Pritchett (of Rebecca Riots), Shelley Doty (East Bay Express called her "the complete performer in her use of cranked emotions in her singing, edgy rock energy and swinging jazz guitar rhythms." ) & Friends · Henri Ducharme with TaraLinda – New French music and beyond (accordion & vocals) · Spoken Word Performance VIDEO: · “Shots on the Docks” the documentary depicting the events at the Oakland Docks on April 7, 2003 by Steve Zeltzer of the Labor Video Project will screen. SPEAKERS: · Jack Heyman, ILWU rank and file activist who was arrested by police April 7, 2003 and fought and won bogus charges against him. · Antonia Juhasz, winner of the Project Censored Award for her article on the corporate invasion of Iraq, co-author of Alternatives to Economic Globalization (2nd Edition) and antiwar educator and organizer. · Member of Campaign for Community Safety and Police Accountability HORS D’OEUVRES WILL BE SERVED On April 7 2003 hundreds of Bay Area anti-war, labor and community activists picketed corporate war profiteers at the Oakland docks. The Oakland Police Department (OPD), after meeting days before with maritime bosses, opened fire on nonviolent people with wooden bullets, shot-filled sacks and concussion grenades and charged people with motorcycles for two hours. Their actions injured 60, including 7 long shore workers and 3 members of the press, in the most violent attack in recent history on the anti-war movement, and was denounced by the UN Commission on Human Rights. Picketers caused the docks to shut down on April 7, 2003; and a month later on May 12 and one year later on April 7, 2004. Those arrested and facing bogus charges won their cases and there have been some reforms to police practices won in civil suits in the aftermath, but the OPD and Mayor Jerry Brown (who may run for California Attorney General) remain unaccountable and dangerous. Willow Rosenthal, urban farmer, community organizer, and anti-war social justice activist, sustained permanent injuries on that day. We are a group of friends of Willow and local activists who are raising money to assist her with her medical expenses, as she has not received any compensation from the city of Oakland. In the event that her case settles, any unused funds raised will be diverted to anti-war organizing. HOW YOU CAN HELP · Forward this email to your lists and friends · Donate money in any of the following ways 1. On line with a credit card at actagainstwar.org 2. Send a check to Willow Rosenthal PO Box 611 Berkeley, CA 94701 3. Or come to the benefit on April 7th and make a donation in person. Sponsored by friends of Willow and the Transit Workers Solidarity Committee Contact: Dorrit 510-981-1967 dorrit@riseup.net # April 8-11 Make Radio, Not War! - Hands-on Radio Camps, Build an FM Broadcast Transmitter - 2005 Schedule A four day hands-on workshop session sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley. During the 4 days you will learn how to build FM broadcast transmitters (and other related items such as antennas) and set up a low power (5-100 watt) community radio station capable of covering a broadcast radius between 3 and 15 miles depending on power, terrain and antenna height. The workshop tuition is $150-$200 sliding scale. Transmitter kits are provided for assembly experience. These may be also purchased during the workshop session so you can walk away at the end with an assembled and tested transmitter. Average cost for a broadcast station kit package (transmitter, antenna, cabling power, supply) is just $300 to $700, depending on kits and power level chosen. Radio Camp sessions, which run Friday through Monday (10 am to 6 pm), will be held at FRB’s Oakland location on the following dates: April 8-11, 2005 May 27-30, 2005 July 1-4, 2005 August 5-8, 2005 September 2-5, 2005 Make Radio Not War! Break the corporate stranglehold on the free flow of information, ideas, art and cultural expression with your own radio station Contact Free Radio Berkeley for further information or to register for the radio camp Free Radio Berkeley, 1442A Walnut St., Suite 406, Berkeley, CA 94709 510-625-0314 xmtrman@pacbell.net http://www.freeradio.org # Please join singer/songwriter/activist Margie Adam for a facilitated labyrinth walk to mark the occasion of BCA's fifteenth anniversary. BCA activists will re-energize and reaffirm their commitment to the work ahead by walking the labyrinth together, a unique act of community-building. This event is BCA's way of thanking people like you who have been generous participants in BCA's work over the past fifteen years. I hope you will join us for this very special occasion. With gratitude and appreciation, Barbara A. Brenner Executive Director Saturday, April 9, 2005, 1-4 p.m. Women's Building Auditorium 3543 18th Street, San Francisco Light refreshments will be provided RSVP : Sarah Lightfoot at 415.243-9301 ext. 17 or via email at slightfoot@bcaction.org http://bcaction.org Breast Cancer Action, New Montgomery St, SF # Apr 9 RAW IN TEN MINUTES is now available in SF at: Valencia St Bookstore 569 Valencia St Thank you Amanda for putting all the books in the Window!  Support Valencia Bookstore! My booksigning will be April 9th there! http://www.rawinten.com # http://www.sfvs.org April Potluck & Free Lecture by Dr. Rick Dina (D.C.) Saturday, April 9: Socializing & Appetizers at 6:00 p.m.; Dining at 6:30 p.m.; Lecture at 8:00 p.m. Location: IOA. 3600 Geary Boulevard (see March 6 potluck for direction details). $1 suggested donation for members, their guests, and students bringing food for potluck, $2 for non-members bringing food (add $8 to each category without food). Following the potluck, there will be a lecture on ?A Vegan Diet for Optimum Health.? Dr. Dina has been studying and practicing optimal vegan nutrition for 18 years. After earning his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Life University in Atlanta, GA in 1997, he joined the staff at the True North Health Center under Dr. Alan Goldhamer. In addition to his clinical duties helping patients recover from diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, etc., he conducted informative weekly presentations on pertinent health and nutrition topics. In 2001 he moved to Seattle, WA where he also taught nutrition and natural hygiene principles at Bastyr University, the leading 4-year school for Naturopathic Medicine. He now practices nutrition counseling and chiropractic at the Vitality Health Center of Marin in San Rafael with his wife, Karin, a 15-year vegan who just completed her Doctor of Chiropractic degree in March of 2005. Check their website, http://www.vitalityhealthmarin.com or call them at 415-472-7070. Also, he and Karin just returned from their vegan raw food retreat on the Big