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Twins Poll Updates Bush & Olsen Twins are neck and neck! 55% of Tao of Pauly readers think Jenna Bush is the better looking Bush Twin. 33 votes cast with 24% precients reporting Which is the better looking set of twins? 36% Bush (12 votes) 36% Olsen (12 votes) 28% Neither (9 votes) Which Bush Twin is hotter? 55% Jenna (18 votes) 30% Neither (10 votes) 12% Barbara (4) 3% Lauren Bush (1) VOTE NOW! as of 6.30.02 11:00pm EST. Polling stops next week sometime. | Permalink | Armando's Boys From Brazil Win PoolCongrats to Armando Huerta and his team, Boys from Brazil! Not only did Armando win the First Pauly's Pub World Cup Pool, his home team Brazil beat Germany 2-0 to win the World Cup. OK, as promised Armando wins an authentic Pauly Painting. Allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Thanks to everyone who played and in less than 2 months, FOOTBALL season starts, see you then!! Top 5: 1 Boys from Brazil (Armando Huerta) 500 2 Harry's Hoods (H. Harry Hood) 475 3 US No-Tel Mo-Tel (Ty Lockhart) 475 4 McGrupp's Hooligans (Pauly #2) 265 5 Rib Boy's Latrells (Derek McGuire) 230 The Rest: 6 Cali Jen's Sunflowers (Jennifer Biaggi) 220 6 Kings County Bollocks (Brian McNamara) 220 8 Big Sal's Bay Brawlers (Salvatore Biaggi) 215 9 Mad Dawg's Englishmen (Dave Simanoff) 175 9 Mia's Green Eggs & Hamm (Pauly #1 ) 175 11 Molly's Pogo Sticks (Molly Daugherty) 170 11 The Israeli Nightmares (Gil Shapir) 170 13 East Village Shenanigans (Spider #2) 135 | Permalink | Twins Poll Update...Best set of Twins: Olsen Twins 9, Bush Twins 8, Neither 6 Hottest Bush Twin: Jenna 12, Neither 7, Barbara 3, Lauren Bush 1 as of 6.30.02 @ 12:03pm EST VOTE NOW! | Permalink | The End of Something is another great article written by Thomas Friedman in today's NY Times Op/Ed. Here's a blurb: "Recent events in the Middle East leave me wondering whether we're witnessing not just the end of the Oslo peace process, but the end of the whole idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." | Permalink | Saturday, June 29, 2002
Twins Poll Update...Best set of Twins: Olsen Twins 7, Bush Twins 7, Neither 5 Hottest Bush Twin: Jenna 10, Neither 5, Barbara 3, Lauren Bush 1 as of 6.29.02 @ 7:40pm VOTE NOW! | Permalink | Twins Poll Early Results...Olsen Twins 3, Bush Twins 3, Neither 1 Jenna 5, Barbara 1, Neither 1 as of 6.29.02 @ 4:10pm VOTE NOW! | Permalink | Pauly Poll 1: TwinsA two part question (for my twins theme). I'll post the results soon! Question 1: Which set of twins are hotter? The Bush or the Olsen Twins? Question 2: Which twin is hotter? Jenna (blonde) or Barbara (non-blonde) Bush? Send your Twins poll answers: Here! | Permalink | Morning News FBI Issues SECRET New TERROR ALERT for July 4th and in NYC there will be EXTRA SECURITY in place for Fourth of July fireworks and festivities as Air Force combat patrols will cover the skies above NYC. City Deploys Radiation Detectors It's the new sign of the times, as a part of the NYPD's new measures to guard against potential terrorism, radiation detectors will be installed outside several city buildings. But not in front of my office building! NY Mets Players in Pot of Trouble From the NY Daily News. Yeah, it's not steroids, but the funky herbs that Tony Tarasco and Mark Corey were inhaling the other night, just before Corey suffered a siezure. Read another article on the Met-ajuana Duo in the NY Post. Pakistanis Upset with Selection of Israeli Doubles Partner Pakistan's Aisamul Haq Qureshi has been condemned by his country's sports officials for partnering an Israeli at Wimbledon, Amir Hadad and together they upset 11th seed Rick Leech and Ellis Ferreira on Friday to make it to the third round of the men's doubles. | Permalink | 4AM Heady News Updates Bronx Bash! Yanks Beat Mets on Posada's 2 HRs at Yankee Stadium for the final round of the 2002 Subway Series. Israeli Troops Blow Up Hebron Police HQ where 15 militants were held up. NYPD Lowers Standards for New Recruits Village Voice Employees Threaten Strike over a change in health and insurance benefits. 4 Killed as North & South Koreans Clash Four South Korean sailors were killed and 18 wounded in a clash with North Korean patrol boats on Saturday in waters off the west coast of the divided peninsula. South & North Korea have technically been at war for 50 years. | Permalink | Night Speaks to a Woman I know a princess With one foot in the fire Two steps from the water's edge She rides three sheets to the winds Who whispers That I know a girl Who's walking on a wire Balanced in the air condiitoned Breeze that blows the wind chimes That tell me That I know a woman With whom I conspire Lawlessness abounds Just listen to the sounds As the night speaks to a woman I once knew I know a queen Who loves me for a week Said more from 1 through 4 But somehow she would hardly speak But through words in a book She never let me see Stashed it high upon my shelf And never let me doubt myself Until reading the words The section that I seek Inside I see A tiny piece of me Spread out on the pages I once knew Lawlessness abounds Just listen to the sounds As the night speaks to a woman I once knew Like water on the breeze The night speaks to a woman LYRICS BY Trey Anastasio & Tom Marshall | Permalink | Friday, June 28, 2002
Afternoon News Updates WAKE UP, SEATTLE!!! You're Next on Al Qaeda's List The FBI revealed that Seattle is seen as an easy target by terrorist groups because of poor policing. Add the fact it's the most populated and closest city from the Canadian border in the northwest and one of the largest port cities in America. Xerox Latest Company to Admit Shady Accounting Yes, first Enron, then Worldcom, now Xerox. Who's next? Thanks, great thanks to these greedy assholes who make MY JOB twice as fucking hard! I spent half my day explaining this bullshit to retarded investors. Bush Won't Rule Out Use of US Forces to Get Arafat as Israeli forces continue their operations in Hebron. | Permalink | Beach BJ Costs Couple A funny story sent to me from Dave Simanoff. The couple's efforts to have sex on the beach will result in an apology in the paper, as ordered by the judge. | Permalink | Classic Martha Stewart Joke Q. How do you make Martha Stewart scream twice? A. Fuck her in the ass, then wipe your dick on her new silk curtains. | Permalink | Dialogue with Bill Maher Tonight is his last show ever as host of Politically Incorrect. Now there's one less forum on free TV that allows diverse political discussions on real and important topics. Check your local listings. | Permalink | Twelfth Night Act I, Scene V CLOWN: Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If that this simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not, what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but calamity, so beauty's a flower:--the lady bade take away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away. | Permalink | Morning News Updates Bush Twins Drinkin Bud's and Chain-Smoking at DC Bar Why? As one twin explains: "Because it's hot outside, duh!" Visit my favorite website: Firsttwins.com for all the info on our favorite twins! Britney Spears Opens Restaraunt in NYC called Nyla which will be a chic combination of Cajun food, Dairy Queen and Hooters. Martha Stewart's Broker to Squeal on the Ice Queen? If he's given immunity, he'll roll on the frigid bitch. Lebanese Jew Charged with Spying for Hizbullah for providing Hizbullah with maps of Tel Aviv, pinpointing the locations of gas depots and electrical power stations, and forwarding classified information about IDF plans. WHO's Bass Player, John Erstwhile Dies in his Las Vegas hotel room, one night before the start of their tour. The OX has left the building. Palestinian May Be Link to Al Qaeda Network in U.S. A Florida man who was recently arrested may be the link between Al Qaeda and their American network. Fresh Violence Rocks Kashmir as Islamic militants, the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen guerrilla group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir pledged to keep up their revolt, a move that could disrupt state elections seen by New Delhi as key to bringing peace to the region. | Permalink | Thursday, June 27, 2002
Nuptials... Congrats to April Towery and Greg Avison who were married last weekend in Marietta, GA. | Permalink | Marth Stewart's Corporate Living A hilarious link to a cartoon that was sent to me by Dave Simanoff. Gil Shapir sent me this blogworthy link: The Floating City. | Permalink | Court OKs Random Drug Tests in HS The Supreme Court approved random drug tests for many public high school students ruling that schools' interest in ridding their campuses of drugs outweighs an individual's right to privacy. Palestinian Newspapers Slurs Condoleezza Rice as "the dark-complexioned lady" Them fightin' words! An article appearing this week in the Palestinian Authority newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, and translated by Palestinian Media Watch criticizes U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Hey have those guys looked in the mirror lately? | Permalink | Coming Soon!! To a City Near You: Al Qaeda Training for Small-Arms Massacre is an article in this week's issue of the Village Voice written by James Ridgeway. Where Have All the Militia's Gone? is a book review written by Seattle Weekly writer Nina Shapiro. The book she reviews, Lone Patriot is written by New York writer Jane Kramer on militia leader John Pitner and his group of militiamen. Here's an excerpt from Shapiro's article: "In the summer of 1996, federal agents arrested eight right-wing Patriots, including Pitner, the putative head of the Washington State Militia, based in the outskirts of Bellingham, WA." | Permalink | Heady News Updates Martha Stewart's Felony Probe by the FBI is to determine whetehr or not she lied to everyone about her hand in the ImClone Stock Scandal. Shares of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. tumbled nearly 24 percent Wednesday, fueled by reports that the decorating maven may be facing possible charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements. Shares of MSO fell $3.20 to $10.40 each on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock has fallen about 45 percent since news broke earlier this month that Stewart's sale of stock in ImClone, the biotech company that was under scrutiny in an insider trading investigation. Knicks Make Draft Day Trade, Knicks Fans Want to Fire Layden Read the article by Frank Isola from the NY Daily News. Here's a bit: "Amid a throaty chorus of "Fire Layden, Fire Layden," the Knicks' beleaguered president revamped his team's front line last night by acquiring Denver's Antonio McDyess, a proven low-post scorer who is as much of a health risk as the player he was traded for, Marcus Camby." MoMA Works Get New Temp Home in Queens as they are renovating their W. 53rd Street space, MoMA moved their classics to a spcae in Long Isalnd City. | Permalink | Wednesday, June 26, 2002
From Sin City to Pot City? Las Vegas might be a haven for potheads as they are close to passing an initiative that will legalize marijuana to anyone over 21. It's an article written by Jimmy Boegle from the Las Vegas CityLife. Here's an excerpt: "It could be 4:20 in Nevada 24/7 if this amendment gets enough signatures to make the ballot, and is then approved by voters this year and in 2004." Hormones in Semen Found to Make Women Feel Good check out the story, you hvae to read it for yourselves. China's Yao Ming #1 in NBA Draft as he is selected by the Hosuton Rockets. The NY Knicks pull a trade, sending their #7 Pick Maybyner "Nene" Hilario, Marcus Camby and Mark Jackson to the Nuggets for Antonio McDyess and their #25 pick Frank Williams. Europeans Invent Disposal One Day Underwear Yes, it's true. Europe's biggest fashion retailer Sweden's H&M has launched wear-once paper panties just in time for the summer. | Permalink | Trey Anastasio from Phish will be performing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this evening. Check local listings. In NYC, it comes on at 11:35pm, and my guess is that Trey won't be playing until 12:25 (but don't hold me to that!). Tom Green is one of Jay's guests tonight. | Permalink | Today's Blogs to the Tao are deadicated to Girtz! after this e-mail he sent me: "Pauly, Looks like you are slowing down with the updating of the site. Please advise.Concerned Girtz" Dear Girtz (and others who have noticed the slowdown): Thanks for the support. As you know I had a bum hand all last week (it's better now) so I only had one hand to type with and I worked a whopping 80 hours last week in addition to meeting the publishing deadline for Truckin'. So when this past weekend came, after working both saturday and sunday, I was spent and exhausted and wrote just for myself, sorry I wasn't in the sharing mood. This past couple of days, I have had awful meetings and a business trip to beautiful and exciting downtown Willmington, Delaware (yawn). But since the concerned e-mail from Girtz I made a point to not let my loyal fans and readers down! Again, many thanks for your support and daily visits! Salukis, Peaches, Snoodles, and Zedilos! McG | Permalink | Hollywood is a calling, McGrupp! Read this e-mail I got yesterday from a producer in LA. Subj: Bikini Hangout Project Date: 6/25/2002 7:59:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: ABRIS LLC To: Why Pauly Hello Paul, Long time no talk. It's been quite a while since I shared with you our ideas about creating a sitcom around our Bikini Hangout brand. I just wanted to touch base with you and to see if you were working on anything interesting. We are preparing a script right now for our first feature film. We have 50% backin from the distributor which is great. There will also be a theatrical release. I hope to hear from you soon. Shawn A. Roundtree BikiniHangout.com Comment from Jessica on the e-mail from LA-LA land: Paul, you cannot work with anyone who: -Leaves off the "g" in "backing," on purpose OR by accident. -Has no concept of proper grammar -Has no understanding of proper punctuation -Uses the phrase "touch base with you" in a complete sentence. Please! | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Baseball Challenge UpdateWeek 12 Update thru 6.24 @ 8:47am Top 5: 1 Furcal's Phisheads (Pauly#2) 3852 (1) 2 Holla Atmeyoes! (Gil Shapir) 3716 (2) 3 Pauly's Pranksters (Pauly #1) 3653 (3) 4 The Bronx (P. von Urkel ) 3614 (4) 5 JD's McNugents (J D McNugent) 3588 (6) Team of the Week: FURCAL's PHISHEADS (312 points in week 12) Ty's Team Name of the Week: Third Times a Charm... (Last Week: 98 Marlins) For the complete update and standings visit: Pauly's Pub | Permalink | Dave Simanoff blogged a couple of good reviews of Lilo & Stitch and Minority Report on his site, the Daily Dave. | Permalink | McGrupp's Midnight Roundup World's Worse Poet Wins Immortality in his hometown of Dundee in Scotland, where he was often invited to perform just so the audience can laugh and heckle him. Tatum O'Neal Says Ex-Hubby John McEnroe Used Steroids which might true, but then again, she's a know drug fiend, so her word means jack shit. Business Scandals... World.com Admits $3.8 BILLION Accounting Error and fires CFO, in the latest scandal. Martha Stewart would rather concnetrate on her salad, than worry about the $100 Million she has lost this week alone in the value of her company, MSO, Martha Stewart Online Media. Read an article where shes insists that she will be exonerated on any wrong doing in the recent ImCLone Stock Scandal. | Permalink | Tuesday, June 25, 2002
Jon Schanzer wrote an article with Daniel Pipes called Extremists on Campus which appears in today's NY Post. | Permalink | Pauly's Pub World Cup Update The Final Four matchups are Turkey vs. Brazil and South Korea vs. Germany Top 5: 1 McGrupp's Hooligans (Pauly #2) 265 2 Boys from Brazil (Armando Huerta) 260 3 US No-Tel Mo-Tel (Ty Lockhart) 235 3 Harry's Hoods (Harry Hood) 235 5 Rib Boy's Latrells (Derek McGuire) 230 The Rest: 6 Cali Jen's Sunflowers (Jen Biaggi) 220 6 Kings County Bollocks (Brian McNamara) 220 8 Big Sal's Bay Brawlers (Sal Biaggi) 215 9 Mad Dawg's Englishmen (Dave Simanoff) 175 9 Mia's Green Eggs & Hamm (Pauly #1) 175 11 Molly's Pogo Sticks (Molly Daugherty) 170 11 The Israeli Nightmares (Gil Shapir) 170 13 East Village Shenanigans (BB Mac) 135 | Permalink | Monday, June 24, 2002
Sunday, June 23, 2002
Happy Birthday Cali Jen!!Yep, Jen Biaggi, a.k.a.Betty turns 27 today! Send her birthday greetings: Here! Jen also sent me her Personality Disorder Test Results. It's refreshing to know that she's a well adjusted member of our society! Cali Jen's Results: (Disorder: Rating) Paranoid: Low Schizoid: Low Schizotypal: Moderate Antisocial: Low Borderline:Low Histrionic: Moderate Narcissistic: Low Avoidant: Low Dependent: Moderate Obsessive-Compulsive: Moderate | Permalink | Heady News Al Qaeda Brags About Bombing Tunisian Synagogue and warned of fresh attacks against the United States in months. | Permalink | Saturday, June 22, 2002
Cali Jen sent one of those group e-mails, Do you have a Personality Disorder?, and of course I already know how crazy I am but I went to the site anyway to take the test. It takes a couple of minutes, a series of YES or NO questions, but you get your results right away. Anyway, I am posting my results so you can see in blog-format the level of my insanity. Disorder: Rating Paranoid: Very High Schizoid: High Schizotypal: Very High Antisocial: Low Borderline: Moderate Histrionic: Very High Narcissistic: High Avoidant: Moderate Dependent: Low Obsessive-Compulsive: High I always new I was a paranoid, schizotypal schizoid, a histronic, naracisstic, obsessive-compulsive freak! How crazy are you? Take the test at: Personality Test For definitions about your disorders: Disorder Information If you would llike to see Dave Simanoff's level of sanity, check out The Daily Dave where he posted his results. To think we were roommates. How we survived I'll never know!! | Permalink | Darryl Kile Found Dead Baseball player Kile a starting pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, was found dead in his hotel room in Chicago on Saturday, medical examiners confirmed. He was scheduled to pitch Sunday night's game. Today's Cubs-Cardinals game was postponed. | Permalink | Terror Alerts Force Armed Rabbi to Start Citizen Patrols in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, after specific terror threats on Jewish neighborhoods. | Permalink | French 9.11 Conspiracy Theory Book Tops Best Seller List for several weeks in France. The book titled, L'Effroyable Imposture translated means The Horrifying Fraud claims that the 9.11 Attacks on America were a right-wing plot created by a cabal of Americans in order to increase military spending and help thier own selfish oil interests. The book claims that the Pentagon was hit by a cruise missle, not by an airplane and that not one Muslim took part in the attacks. Read the NY Times article for more details on the book. An English version for stupid Americans who don't speak any other languages will be released in America later this summer. | Permalink | Heady News Roundup FBI Says: NO EVIDENCE of JULY 4th ATTACK on Las Vegas, or anyhwere else in the US. But they still continue to issue random terror alerts, so be on the look out for Middle Eastern men driving fuel tankers in Jewish neighborhoods, and avoid hot dog vendors in NYC. Philly Papers Fight Over Porn Tape Made by One-Legged Mobster as two local newspapers fight for publication of the tape, yes, only in Philly as debate stirs whether or not the tape should be made public. The hitman with one leg video taped sexual encounters with 4 different women. Man Escaped from Prison Eaten by Crocodile A Panamanian man who killed a judge in Panama City fled to Costa Rica where he was captured by local police and thrown into jail. He escaped and tried to swim to freedom, only to become a crocodile's breakfast. | Permalink | Friday, June 21, 2002
Russian Nuke Knowledge Pours into Iran A civilian power reactor being built in Bushehr, Iran triggers fears that Russian scientists are secretly sharing missile technology. Wienermobile Pulled Over for Driving Too Close to Pentagon The vehicle was on it's way to the National Capital Barbecue Battle in Washington. It forced the FBI to issue a hotdog vender alert on all East Coast Cities. They are acting on a tip that terror groups will hijack hot dog carts and serve undercooked hotdogs. | Permalink | Palestinian Uprisings Compared is an excellent article written by Jonathan Schanzer. It appears in the 2002 Summer Edition of the Middle East Quarterly. Schanzer compares three Palestinian Uprisings from the 1930s, the late 1980s, and the most recent round of nationalist uprising. In his article, Schanzer writes: "If we are to learn from history, one lesson is glaringly obvious. For the Palestinians to end their misery, they must articulate a forward-looking vision of a Palestinian state built upon the creation of a Palestinian civil society, rather than the destruction of Israel and obsession with the mistakes of the past." Please read the rest of this important piece. | Permalink | Truckin'The June issue of Truckin' has been published. Truckin' is my new monthly E-Zine featuring short stories, travel tales and other sagas. Thanks to all the writers who submitted their stories. Good work. Now it's time for me to start working on the July Issue! In this month's issue: •Subway Quotes by Tenzin McGrupp •The Cheshire Grin by Señor •Desperation by Inasa J. Carter •The WHAT Lounge? by Armando Huerta •Fukuoka, Phishy City by Tenzin McGrupp •The Blandford Sisters Do America by Lori Blandford •How High Can You Try by Señor •The Catch Up Conversation by Tenzin McGrupp | Permalink | Vegas Man Overheard Plans of July 4th Attack on his Cell Phone The FBI is investigating a Nevada man's claim that he picked up a conversation in Arabic on his cell phone during which someone said there would be a hit on the day of freedom. Comment from my brother Derek: "That makes sense to hit Vegas. I would if I were a terrorist... lots of people and lots of money there, very high profile for a number of reasons and very symbolic of western culture. Weren't those guys hanging out in Vegas before 9/11? Maybe they were also doing a little re-con on the side. That hamarabi guy in the news article could also be bullshitting like that hotel guy in downtown NYC who claimed that an arab student had a radio and was speaking to Mo Atta and the gang while they flew the planes into the WTC. It could be an elaborate hoax to throw off the scent from somewhere else in the US... Speaking of hamarabi... that's a real phrase and term. Did you know that? I think that the Iraqi's used that phrase to describe a certain sect of their military." | Permalink | Smoke a Joint and Your Future is McDonald's is a brilliant article from Janelle Brown a writer for Salon. Here's a bit: "America loves a happy ending: The prisoner on the brink of release decides it's time to straighten out and go to college; the addict gets himself off drugs and becomes a community leader; the teenager grows up and gets responsible. Rebounding from a troubled past is a great American tradition, rewarded even with the highest post in the nation: President George W. Bush is a former alcoholic turned born-again Christian turned world leader." | Permalink | Heady News Updates Asteroid Almost Hits Earth A football-pitch-sized asteroid capable of razing a major city came within a whisker of hitting the Earth on June 14, but was only spotted three days later. Journalist Gets 28 Month Prison Sentence A court in Tunisia has sentenced an internet journalist to 28 months' imprisonment for spreading false information. Car Bombs Rock Southern Spain Two car bombs have exploded in the southern Spanish resorts of Marbella and Fuengirola, injuring at least six people including three Brits. Ooooops! Britney Tops Forbes Mag Top Celebs List Dirty old men in suits love T&A, as Forbes magazine crowned pop princess Britney Spears as the world's most powerful celebrity on Thursday, dethroning movie star Tom Cruise from the No. 1 spot he held last year. Ozzy and the Osbournes rank 85. | Permalink | Thursday, June 20, 2002
Trey Stops Traffic after his show the other night at Radio City Music Hall. Read all about it from today's NY Post. Thanks to Spider for the link! | Permalink | X-Files Team to Probe Animal Deaths in Argentina where farm animals have been found slaughtered and mutilated as local farmers blame aliens. PURPLE to be new M&M Color The people have spoken, and they want Purple M&Ms. This, as trivial as it seems, is the problem with our consumer society. Less candy, more books. Stop eating America and start reading. Israeli TV to Pull Plug on Turner's CNN? after he made some stupid redneck-ian remarks about Israel just days before Homicide Bombers killed 26 Israelis in Jerusalem in the last couple of days. Meanwhile, Oliver Stone says Israel should get out of the West Bank. Gil Shapir sent me this link on The New Spy Museum. Check it out. | Permalink | Truckin' my new webapge and E-Zine will be released upon the Earth, FRIDAY JUNE 21. Wake the kids and call the neighbors! Here comes Truckin'! | Permalink | Midnight News Roundup Troops to Patrol US Borders? Not a bad idea. Trey Anastasio & Band will be appearing on Last Call with Carson Daly next week in New York City. The show airs on Monday night, June 24 on NBC. And Trey will appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday, June 26. Check local listings for showtimes. | Permalink | Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Nuptials... Congrats to Orit Hefetz and Chaim Gilad who were married this week in Israel!! | Permalink | TREY ANASTASIO@ RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, NYC 6.18.02 Set 1: Push On Til the Day, Money Love Change (25 min), Mozambique, Cayman Review, Last Tube Set 2: Simple Twist Up Dave (25 min), Mr. Completely (25 min), Night Speaks to a Woman, Ether Sunday, at the Gazebo Encore: ALIVE AGAIN Encore 2: as Alive Again ends in picks up into a jam with all these random people on stage banging all kinds of instruments and dressed very oddly. Trey leads no less than 60 people off stage into the crowd -- MARDI Gras style of a parade, he walked right past me!!! Everyone was shaking his hand, and the band and carnival freaks all walked out of the venue and into the street with all the band members and the other guests he had for the encore still playing their instruments. The percussionists, drummers started drumming & banging in the middle of 51st Street and blocked off traffic! As everyone that left the show they lingered and played for 5 more minutes as Trey watched from his dressing room window and waved to everybody. NO PHISHY GUESTS (but Fishman played with Trey in Buffalo) Time: Set 1 = 1:10, Set 2 w/ E = 1:35 Will write a review later. For now time to sleep. | Permalink | Tuesday, June 18, 2002
Pauly's Pub World Cup Soccer UpdateConrats to Team USA who blanked Mexico 2-0 for one of their greatest wins ever. Adios, hombres. Bring on the Germans. Guten Dag, das stimmt, Krauts! Top 4: As of 6.17.02 at 10:02pm 1 McGrupp's Hooligans (Pauly #2) 245 2 Cali Jen's Sunflowers (Jen Biaggi) 220 3 Rib Boy's Latrells (Derek McGuire) 210 4 Boys from Brazil (Armando Huerta) 200 For a complete Update and Standings, visit Pauly's Pub. | Permalink | Baseball Challenge Week 11 UpdateTOP 5: Standings thru 6.17.02 as of 10:01pm 1. Furcal's Phisheads (Pauly # 2) 3540 (1) 2 Holla Atmeyoes! (G. Shapir ) 3443 (2) 3 Pauly's Pranksters (Pauly #1) 3415 (5) 4 The Bronx (P. von Urkel) 3371 (3) 5 Senor's Sherpas (Senor) 3348 (4) The Rest: go to Pauly's Pub for complete Standings and the entire Update. Team of the Week: JD McNugent (377 Points in week 11) The Skinny: FURCAL's PHISHEADS hold onto to first place for the third straight week, opening up a nice 100 point lead. But it's the other Pauly Team, THE PRANKSTERS that has been climbing up the ladder, from 10th place to 3rd place in 6 WEEKS, yes basement dwellers, dreams do come true. | Permalink | Jerusalem Bus Bombing Kills 19, Wounds 50 as a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus packed with schoolchildren and office workers during morning rush hour. | Permalink | Monday, June 17, 2002
TC to SPIN SPECIAL DJ SET TONIGHT @ 10:30 especially for all you NYC Freaks and Tao of Pauly readers. Here's an e-mail I got from TC: "On Oseaso.com I will do a special East Coast Edition for you and your friends. Tune in between 10:30 pm EST and 12 am EST Monday night or check the archives -- the set will be named For Pauly." | Permalink | Sunday, June 16, 2002
Pauly Rushed to ERSpecial Thanks to Dr. Robert Bayer an ER Doctor at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He put me back toegther after a minor altercation earlier this morning. Thanks, Doc! And thanks to my brother Derek who came with me to the ER and helped pay for the bill. When I woke up this morning, I had only two things planned today (besides writing, that's always a given): 1) Go to work and 2) Watch the Yankees-Mets game. I forgot to add a few things to my schedule, like: losing my temper, a nasty fight with disrespectful relatives, dislocating a finger, and going to the ER at Columbia. I was just on my way to work (on a Sunday) and somehow I ended up in the emergency room with a dislocated finger, after the follow through and force of an errant punch caused a dislocation of the fifth digit on my right hand. X-Rays proved that nothing was broken or fractured. But there is some ligament and nerve damage. My finger is splinted up, and my hand is still a little numb from the Lidocain (spelling?) that Doctor used to numb the area so he can snap it back into place. And I got some good pharmies and painkillers. It didn't hurt as much as you think. When the nurse asked me if I was in any pain, I had the whole ER in stitches when I cracked, "Not as much pain as I will be in when I get my bill." Actually my hand hurts now more than before (six hours ago when this happened). Plus I have to type with my left hand, and I won't be able to jerk off for at least 3 days. Doctors Orders. I also am not supposed to write with my right hand or type with it for at least a week! I was advised that I need surgery to repair the damage to my pinky finger and hand. This of course freaks me out, becuase I don't have health insurance and I am right handed and as a writer and painter I kind a need full control of my hand(s). Right now, typing lefty has already slowed down my mental process. I can't type as fast as I think, and this already frustrates me. The hardest part is using the MOUSE. Right & Left Clicking has never seemed so difficult to me as it is now. It's taken me 3 times longer to write this than it should have. I came to the awkward realization while I was waiting for hours in the hospital, that I'm proper fucked if I ever lose my hands and fingers. I ain't afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living without being able to express myself. That, it no poetic terms, is far worse that DEATH. Originally I had hurt this hand in 1993 during football practice at Emory, and this injury crops up from time to time. I usually pop the finger back into place, take a few asprin and let it heal naturally, but today I couldn't get the fucker to budge and I realized I needed professional medical assistance. Reluctanty, I went to the ER because I DO NOT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE so you can imagine if I could find a home remedy, I would utilize it. But alas, I had to suck it up and get it fixed. Now it's time to wait for the bill to come, and I quietly use that time to reflect and ponder my actions. I realize that I should have controlled my temper and anger much better because this could jeopardize my career on Wall Street. I also realized my hands are the most important thing to me, so maybe I should get this surgery done. I will post my ER Bill and X-Rays as soon as they come available to me. | Permalink | Heady News Update 4 Shot, Hostage Standoff at East Village Bar earlier this morning as a man with two guns and a sword robbed two couples and shot another guy before a hostage standoff with police ended when he was shot. East Village resident Gil Shapir reported that police helicopters and SWAT teams were called into action shortly after 1:30am. Police Bust Country Club Hooker Ring It's not the new plot of Caddyshack 3 but something that could only happen in Southern California. Bush Orders LETHAL FORCE to bring down Saddam and gives the CIA more tools to undertake a comprehensive and covert program to topple Saddam Hussein, including authority to use lethal force to capture the Wacky Iraqi. Arrests Reveal Al Qaeda Plans Information was obtained from three al Qaeda operatives who were captured in Morocco. They say Osama bin Laden commanded his fighters to disperse across the globe to attack American and Jewish interests. | Permalink | Heady News Andersen Guilty in Obstruction Trial, ENRON SCANDAL Israel Inaugurates West Bank Fence Project as they construct a security fence to protect the porous border in the West Bank. When Robert Frost wrote in a poem, "Good fences make good neighbors..." I didn't think he envisioned this. Senegal STUNS Sweden 2-1 Hey maybe the Frogs weren't that bad after all? And Senegal is this good! | Permalink | Saturday, June 15, 2002
US Military Censors Script for New War Movie Excerpt from the article which explains the scene that the Marines told them to cut out: "In the original screenplay for the new MGM movie Windtalkers a Marine nicknamed The Dentist creeps across a battlefield strewn with the bodies of Japanese soldiers. 'The Dentist bent over a dead Japanese soldier, doing what he does, relieving the dead of the gold in their mouth,' the original script reads. 'The Dentist twists his bayonet, struggles to get the gold nugget out of the corpse's teeth.'" | Permalink | FINALLY! I just got some luke-warm news. I was just accepted at VFS, or the Vancouver Film School in Vancouver, Canada. The admissions board made their decision based on a screenplay I submitted earlier this year. I had been waiting since 1994 to get into film school. I first applied to NYU in January of 1994 and was quickly rejected. I tried 2 other times, and no luck. This is the first time I applied to VFS. Of course the timing couldn't be worse. I wish I found out 2 months ago, before I decided to sign a two year contract with the Wall Street shylocks. Then again, I don't have any money for tuition or to finance a move to the west coast of Canada. Wait, the more I think about this, its making me more and more sad... FADE OUT. | Permalink | Heady News Update GRATEFUL DEAD REUNION SHOWS HITS SNAG read the article from Jambase.com. Here is a bit: "A county highway committee denied a permit to the promoters of a Grateful Dead reunion concert, saying the area could not handle the enormous crowd expected. The Walworth County Highway Committee on Tuesday turned down the request by Clear Channel Entertainment to stage Terrapin Station - A Grateful Dead Family Reunion on Aug. 3-4 in East Troy, Wisconsin." EBOLA OUTBREAK in CONGO The WHO confirms 6 cases of the deadly disease. UNKNOWN Terror Group Claims Responsibility for Karachi Bombing Who are these guys? The al-Qanoon organization hand-delivered photocopies of its statement to the media yesterday. | Permalink | Quote from Richard Linklater: "I say color outside the lines. Color right off the fucking page." | Permalink | Mike Gordon sits in with Trey Anastasio at the encore for last night's show in Mansfield, MA. They played Mike's Song. Can't wait until Tuesday! | Permalink | Friday, June 14, 2002
Pauly's Pub World Cup Soccer UpdateRound 1 is complete. Here are the standings as of 6.14.02 at 11:30pm: Top 5: 1. McGrupp's Hooligans (Pauly #2) 185 2. US No-Tel Mo-Tel (Ty Lockhart) 155 3. Rib Boy's Latrells (Derek McGuire) 150 4. Cali Jen's Sunflowers (Jen Biaggi) 140 4. Boys from Brazil (Armando Huerta) 140 The Rest: 6. Big Sal's Bay Brawlers (Sal Biaggi) 135 6. Mia's Green Eggs & Hamm (Pauly #1) 135 8. Kings County Bollocks (Spider #1) 120 9. Mad Dawg's Englishmen (Dave Simanoff) 115 9. Harry's Hoods (Harry Hood) 115 11. Molly's Pogo Sticks (Molly Daugherty) 110 11. The Israeli Nightmares (Gil Shapir) 110 13. East Village Shenanigans (Spider #2) 95 For a complete update, check out: Pauly's Pub. | Permalink | A New Bouncin' Baby Phi... for Brian Turmail, a fellow fraternity brother from Phi Delta Theta at Emory University just had a son! Here is what Armando Huerta wrote to me: "His name is George David Turmail. I think David is the middle name. George is definitely the first. 22 inches which apparently is long and it took his wife 22 hours or so to give birth. Turmail is stoked and freaked at the same time. I think he'll make a great dad personally." | Permalink | Comment on E-Story 2 from Stephen Adkins: "Dear Paul and Fellow Authors of E-2, I have just finished reading the story and I really must congratulate you all on a very very funny sick and twisted story! Really!! That 8 people who have only the Paulyman in common could write a funny, twisted and to my reading skills, a well written story that was so enjoyable to read, well, I just wanted to congratulate us all and to thank you for allowing me to be a part of such a twisted club. I cherish my membership!! Very Sincerely Yours, Stephen Adkins" Editors note: You are welcome! Thanks for inspiring me! | Permalink | Noon Heady News Update E-Story 2: Ivan the Russian Cab Driver has been posted! Karachi Bomb Kills 11 at the US Consulate, which freaked out investors, and Sent Stocks Tumbling on Wall Street. As I can attest, deep in the trenches, this morning was "fucking brutal." US Soccer Team Adavnces, despite loss to Poland in World Cup play. I will update the World Cup Pool on Pauly's Pub very soon. Stay tuned. US Warplanes Attack Iraq on Friday, as a military air defense radar facility in a "no-fly" zone in southern Iraq was destroyed in response to threats against western aircraft patrolling the zone. Jewel Thieves Vacuum Up Diamonds in Paris Heist who were behind a rash of daring jewelry heists in Paris, have used a bewildering variety of tactics to snatch their precious haul. The latest innovation, a vacuum cleaner! 5.2 Earthquake Rocks Tokyo, so far no serious casualties. | Permalink | Tao of Pauly UPDATES The McGrupp Review has been updated with two film reviews I wrote on Sidewalks of New York and Serendipity. E-Story 2: Ivan the Russian Cab Driver is complete!!! It has been published on a new page aptly called E-Story, where you will be able to read E-Story 1: Dark and Stormy Night as well as future E-Stories. Thanks to all the contributors! E-Story 2: Ivan the Russian Cab Driver was written by myself and Heather Adams, Stephen Adkins, Jen Biaggi, Katarina Biaggi, Keren Gottesman, Jon Schanzer, Dave Simanoff and Brad Singer. Truckin my new literary magazine will debut next Friday June 21, the first day of Summer! Stay tuned. | Permalink | TC to SPIN SPECIAL DJ SET MONDAY NIGHT especially for all you NYC Freaks and Tao of Pauly readers. Here's an e-mail I got from TC: "I am still doing webcasts on Oseaso.com but for the past few weeks I have been archiving my sets with DJ Vegan. I will do a special East Coast Edition for you and your friends next week. Tune in between 10:30 pm and 12 am Monday night or check the archives -- the set will be named For Pauly. Let me know if you have any special requests in the next few days." | Permalink | McGrupp's Midnight News Roundup BOMB EXPLODES IN FRONT OF US CONSULATE IN PAKISTAN, 3 DEAD At least three Pakistanis were killed when a car bomb exploded outside the U.S. consulate in the port city of Karachi on Friday. Teacher beats 19 First Graders with Broomstick Scary, but only in New York! At PS 4 in the Washington Heigths section of Manhattan a sub loses his temper after kids throw crayons. Nude Female Artist Freaks Out Chile A teen-age performance artist known as Baby Vamp sent shock waves through Chile by strolling naked down city streets of Santiago in the conservative South American nation. Alabama Woman Stabs Mississippi Man, Almost Cuts Off Ass Only in Ala-fuckin-bama. A girlfriend was arrested with stabbing her boyfriend repeatedly in the buttocks. According to District Attorney McCool, "The wounds were so severe to the buttocks that they are gone... It's pretty bad." Israelis Betting on Suicide Bombings Israeli police are investing reports that an illegal gambling ring in the country is taking bets on the location of the next suicide bombing. Also check out an article wriiten by Marc Sirois from Alternet.org called The Ugly Truth about Suicide Bombers Canadian Potheads Turned Away at US Border an article from Alternet.org called Crossing the Line written by Jackie Cade from Monday Magazine. | Permalink | Thursday, June 13, 2002
Missing Money! is a link for a website that was sent to me by John Wilkins. He explains, "It is a site that shows accounts of unclaimed $$$ held by state agencies for various reasons (old bank accounts, last paychecks, stock splits, etc.) Yes it is real as I found a savings account held by a deceased relative who died 31 years ago, although no I have not tried to collect it yet. Be forewarned - the administrative paperwork and aggravation spent trying to recover might probably exceed the reward. Happy hunting.' | Permalink | Nuptials... a belated congrats to Mike "Modeski" Weiner and his lovely bride Holly who were married this past weekend in Lancaster, PA. | Permalink | The Daily Dave posted a joke that I wrote regarding a blog from David Simanoff about how Iran has launched a Hebrew-language radio broadcast. Thanks for the ink, Dawg. Check it out. | Permalink | Comment from Yuh Nagai a Tokyo native, on the World Cup: "Yes we got first win in World Cup. I watched that game at home with my family. It was exicited! I believe that Japan Nantional Team will win tomorrow's game and go to final. Many people pay attention to World Cup in Japan. I heard peopole are not much interested in World Cup in America?" Comment from the Editor: Yes, Yuh, America does't get as excited as most other countries for the World Cup. Soccer is not as popular as other sports like Basketball, Football, Baseball, Hockey and TV. But because America is a country of immigrants, there are lots of people who follow soccer, er football religiously. Best of luck to Japan! | Permalink | Heady News Update Attack on Air Force Discovered Terrorists in Saudi Arabia made a systematic attempt to shoot down U.S. Air Force planes operating from one of several bases there. New SCOOBY DOO Flick DROPS DRUG SUBTEXT! It's true, the film has been Hollywood-ized in order to target a younger audience and market merchandising to a wider spectrum of people. Makes me sad! Bring back the random stoner references and silly pot and Velma lesbo jokes. Security Lapse Shows Secret American Spy Photos on TV European satellite TV viewers can watch live broadcasts of peacekeeping and anti-terrorist operations being conducted by US spyplanes over the Balkans. VACLAV: "What's on TV tonight?" PETROVIC: "The Simpsons, Rush Hour, Look Who's Talking 2, and US Military Patrol of the Macedonian-Kosovan border, near Skopje." Man gets 25 years for beating up Trick-or-Treater In California, a man described by a judge as "an evil monster" was sentenced to 25 years in prison for using a baseball bat, metal pipe and golf club to attack a 12-year-old Halloween trick-or-treater on his doorstep. | Permalink | Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Heady News Update CEO BUSTED for INSIDER TRADING Samuel Waksal, the former CEO of ImClone Systems was arrested by the FBI on charges he illegally acted on inside information in attempting to sell ImClone shares and tipping others to do likewise, including Martha Stewart who dumped 3000 shares of ImClone the day before the FDA announced it was rejecting their new experimental cancer drug Erbitux and made a nice $175,000. Subpoena Martha Stewart! and start selling MSO stock! in her company Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Tampa Reporter David Simanoff sent me an article from the Slate.com which says: "Shares in Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia have dropped 10 percent today on news that FBI agents arrested Martha's longtime friend Samuel Waksal this morning. Waksal, until recently CEO of the drug company ImClone Systems, is being charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and perjury... Waksal tipped off two ImClone investors to sell their stock on Dec. 27, 2001—the day before the Food and Drug Administration rejected ImClone's application for a cancer drug called Erbitux... Completely by coincidence, Martha Stewart sold about 3,000 ImClone shares that very day. Stewart's shares were worth about $175,000." ARTIST CHOPS OFF OWN FINGER! Seriously, here's a blurb: "Wielding an ax before a bewildered audience, a French performance artist Pierre Pinoncelli chopped off his pinky finger in a gory show meant to symbolize the loss suffered by the kidnapping of a Colombian politician. Pinoncelli, whose previous stunts include urinating on Marcel Duchamp's work "The Urinal," shocked an art festival audience in the provincial city of Cali with his weekend self mutilation to protest the kidnapping of Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt." | Permalink | A Subway Story from my brother, Derek: "I think some dude died on the subway this morning. I was on the No. 3 Express Train and this guy had a siezure and was drooling really bad at 34th Street. Then, he just stopped and his eyes rolled into the back of his head and then he wasn't blinking or shaking anymore. I got off and jumped onto the local train. I don't know what happened next. I do know that the train never moved. Crazy morning." | Permalink | Debka.com a link suggested to me by Girtz. It contains some good Israeli Intelligence and a fair amount of coverage of America's War on Terrorism. Thanks Girtz for looking out. This is what DEBKAfile has to say about their site: "DEBKAfile is a self-supporting Internet publication devoted to independent, investigative reporting and forward analysis in the fields of international terrorism, intelligence, international conflicts, Islam, military affairs, security and politics. DEBKAfile comes out seven days a week in English and Hebrew with additional language sites planned." Comment from Jon Schanzer regarding DEBKAfile: "Good site. It's run by settlers, you should probably know. One other thing, some of the stuff isn't corroborated." | Permalink | Visit my High School's website: Regis HS. This is an excerpt from the front page... "Regis High School offers a tuition free Jesuit college preparatory education to Roman Catholic young men from the New York metropolitan area who demonstrate superior intellectual and leadership potential." | Permalink | Regis News... On June 10, at Shea Stadium the Regis Varsity Baseball team defeated Salesian 4-2 to win their second consecutive CHSAA "B" Division City Championship. Regis scored two runs in the fourth inning to get the lead, but Salesian rallied for two in the sixth to tie, just as they had done in the NY Archdiocese Championship game. Regis bounced right back to score two more in the bottom of the sixth to regain the lead, then retired Salesian in the seventh to clinch the championship. Once again this year's graduating class has upheld the standard of excellence for which Regis is renowned. The class of 2002 has eighteen National Merit Finalists, thirty-one National Merit Commended Students, three National Achievement Finalists and eight National Hispanic Recognition Scholars. Sixty nine percent of the students have indicated that they have won college or corporate merit scholarships. | Permalink | McGrupp's Midnight News American Terrorists Arrested in Pakistan As many as a half-dozen men "of U.S. origin" have been captured in the tribal areas of Pakistan near Afghanistan and handed over to U.S. authorities. POLL: Majority Palestinians See Israel's Elimination as Goal A majority of Palestinians believe the aim of their 20-month-old uprising should be to eliminate Israel and not just end Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Man Kills Parents with Rat Poison A Vietnamese man has been sentenced to death for killing his parents after lacing their meal. Woody Allen and Old Pal Settle Lawsuit against friend and producer Jean Doumanian. | Permalink | Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Do you know who Abdullah al Muhajir, a New Yorker born as Jose Padilla is? Well you should!! He's been plotting to kill you for months now. | Permalink | To celebrate Denmark's brave victory over Les Grenouilles, it's only proper to pay homage to the Great Prince of the Danes, Hamlet. Here's his quote: Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell. | Permalink | Micks 3, Arabs 0... as Ireland just defeated Saudia Arabia 3-0 to advance to the Sweet 16. The Krauts also advance defeating Cameroon. | Permalink | Au Revoir, Les Grenouilles!Denmark 2, Frogs 0 Read France's excuses from Le Monde in an article: Les Bleus déçoivent une dernière fois. Say Good-bye to the Frogs as France got blanked by the Danes 2-0 (Lord Hamlet would be pleased). The 1998 World Cup Champ is packing it's bags for their flight home to Paris. Man, I haven't seen the French retreat so quickly and defeated that poorly since Hitler walked into Paris on June 14,1940. One British fan confessed, "As I'm watching the Frogs being slaughtered by the Danes, as fun as it is, I almost feel sorry for them at the moment. Almost. Petit who is my most hated player isn't playing and so it makes it a little more difficult for me to muster up that passionate football hatred." Read another article on the France's quick exit from ESPN.com. | Permalink | Monday, June 10, 2002
Heady News Brazilian Journalist Killed by Drug Dealers Tim Lopes disappeared last week while investigating drug trafficking and the sexual abuse of young girls in one of Rio's slums. Rookie hits HR in MLB debut off of Randy Johnson as NY Yankees rookie, Marcus Thames hit the first pitch he saw from Johnson to deep left-center field for a 2 run HR. He is only the second Yankee to ever hit a HR in his first at bat. Marcus Thames, from Mississippi, was called up from the minors earlier in the day because rookie Juan Rivera was placed on the DL for hurting his knee while running into a golf cart this weekend. Booze or Breasts? Voters in Prague are beeing wooed by competing political parties. The Christian Democrats offering free shots to woo voters and the Communist Party had topless girls handing out flyers. Gotta love the Czech Republic! British Police Hunt for Monkey Burglar London police are on the look out for a guilty looking chimp that has robebd two London homes. Chimp? or just a drunken midget who hasn't shaved in a while? | Permalink | From the Tao of Steve: "Doin' stuff is overrated. Hitler did alot of stuff and doesn't eveyone wish he had stayed home, did nothing and just smoked alot of pot? | Permalink | Afternoon News American Arrested for Planning DIRTY BOMB Attack Here's an bit: "Attorney General John Ashcroft said today that American authorities had arrested an American citizen involved with Al Qaeda who was part of a plot to launch a radioactive-bomb attack." Godfather Gotti Dead as John Gotti died in prison today of cancer. Ariel Sharon's Op/Ed from the NY Times titled, "The Way Forward in the Middle East". Thanks to Gil Shapir for the article. | Permalink | Monday mornings are always odd in NYC. Before my alarm went off, I had a strange dream where I was hooking up with Sandra Bullock of all people. She's a bad kisser by the way. Avoid her in you slumber wanderings if you can. Now I cannot explain it, but I suddenly have this desire to see the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. If I don't, I'm afraid that Sandy Buttocks won't stop calling my voicemail at all hours, without leaving messages and start to stalk me! So my morning wasn't a total loss. I ended up cutting the shit out of my face while shaving this morning. I cannot recall a cut like this in years, maybe a decade! Just call me Scarface. And it's not even 7am and I already have 2 odd twisted stories. But I haven't even mentioned the guy on the subway who shit his pants! Bad enough the train had no air conditioning, but some guy wearing flip flops and a orange tank-top had a serious case of the shits. Mondays in NYC. | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Baseball ChallengeWeek 10 Update (as of 6.10.02 @ 7:28am) Top 5 1. Furcal's Phisheads (Pauly #2) 3227 (Last Week: 1) 2. Holla Atmeyoes! (Gil Shapir) 3184 (2) 3. The Bronx (P. von Urkel) 3086 (3) 4. Senor's Sherpas (Senor Sheer) 3068 (6) 5. Pauly's Pranksters (Pauly #1) 3059 (5) Team of the Week: Big Sal's Goodefellas (359 points in Week 10) For standings and a complete update of Week 10 check out: Pauly's Pub | Permalink | Truckin'Coming Soon! I am happy to announce that on June 21 I will be launching a new E-Zine called Truckin', which will feature short stories, sagas and tales from the road, an excellent site for travelers. This month's issue will feature the debut of Senor as an author, as he clues us in on his Southeast Asian travels. Get ready... in 11 days. Truckin'... | Permalink | Sunday, June 09, 2002
The GUY SMILEY BLUES EXCHANGE is a new band that you should check out via their website. From Nashville, TN, theGSBE consider themsleves Funk-flavored Groove. I agree. Definitely sound alot like Galactic and Medeski, Martin & Wood and yeah even a little Phishy. You can read a blurb about GSBE from Atlanta's Creative Loafing. Can't wait until these guys bust out in NYC. | Permalink | Weekends like this weekend are rare in the cosmos, but when all the stars line up just right, magical things can happen in this chaotic cluster of gelatinous energy at the end of our galaxy. Alexander Pope said it best, "What mighty conquests arise from trivial things." And as the sun rose and set on the world, wars were fought, rebels terrorized the stability of their home nations, men died and women cried. As the internal strife's and struggles of the sordid masses overwhelm the dismal individuals in the darkest corners of the planet in the war torn countries of Sierra Leone and Kashmir, and in other more glamorous places, where war and famine is just something you hear about perhaps muttered in casual conversations by the locals, the likes of Paris, and Memphis and Belmont and Yokohama Bay, where spectators gathered, sports enthusiasts flocked, bettors tensed up, and the media watched and recorded the events of this weekend, the cosmic weekend, when all these "trivial contests" that Alexander Pope mused about, had taken hold of the attention of the rest of the world. Indeed the glory of competition and the depravity of the underground evil that cunningly lurks behind the imperialistic organization of professional sports do eventually collide, and release abundant waves of energy upon the world, as the ripples trickle and topple everything sane within their paths. Yes, weekends like this spring up like an unexpected oil geyser in the middle of a wide open dust field in central Texas and keep us all watching in amazement and disbelief. The sports world had gathered up the best of the best. Horses from around the world raced on the sandy tracks of Belmont Park to see if history would be made. Men on skates played three extra sessions to determine the outcome of Lord Stanley's infamous Cup. Sisters Williams were pitted against each other on the clay courts in Roland Garros. In The Bronx, a slugger named Bonds walked into the House That Ruth Built, the sanctuary of all stadiums, Yankee Stadium, proved why he is one of the best in the game, as opposing fans, cheered and applauded his feats, a rarity indeed. Across Southeast Asia, teams of the best soccer/football players from the corners of the world were organized to decide the dominant nation in kicking around a spherical object without using their hands, and in the shadows of Memphis, two met battled to prove to the overanxious sadistic audience who was really the best boxer in the world. Amidst all this glory and honor of the spirit of competition, so too did the vultures awaken to the energy and rapidly swoop in to feast on the left-overs, they are the money mongers who lust after and compulsively masturbate over days like this, let alone a weekend filled with tremendous economic opportunity, whether it be from merchandising or from illegal sports betting. The gamblers and the shylocks crawled out of their deranged compartments and wandered into the sunlight to fleece the masses to make a huge score on anything and everything. Indeed. THE FIX WAS IN! at Belmont as a 70-1 shot wins the Belmont Stakes and upsets a possible historical event, a Triple Crown bid. In the city on the river, where Elvis flourishes, we founded oursleves drawn to the Pyramid where a somber and quiet Tyson got a good beating from Lewis, as no limbs were bitten and no major rules broken to everyone's dismay. The carnival like atmosphere was tamed, and I began to wonder, wow, Tyson had us all fooled, a salesman, as well as a thug, the guy is a lot smarter (and yes dangerously insane) than we expected. And in the end he took his beating like a man. As the jape was on us. Con men. Salesmen. Sportsmen. Gentlemen? Amen. | Permalink | McGrupp News Roundup Monkey-Pox! Coming Soon! It's not a bad sci-flick, but a horrible reality as Ruskie scientists messed around with a strain of a cousin of small pox and might have leaked it to various terrorist groups. Nerve Gas found on US Base near Uzbekistan. Araft threatens BIG EXPLOSION! Is the old man shit talking or does he have something up his sleeve? Where the Buck Stops another Middle East bit by Thomas Friedman. An article from today's NY Times. Palestinians Planned Attack on Beaches The Israeli army says two armed Palestinians tried to swim along the Mediterranean coast to attack civilians on the beaches of southern Israel. Scope of Al-Qaeda Eluded U.S as intelligence officals missed and underestimated signs, clues, symbols, and lot's of other information. Police Spy on All E-Mails... Fury over Europe's secret plan to access computer and phone data, as plans are being drawn up by Europol. MAGNUS FRATER SPECTAT TE! R. Kelly SEX VIDEO! thanks to Dave Simanoff for the link. Man Killed with Umbrella in duspute over manners, as man stabs another man to death near Tokyo. Japan beats Russia 1-0 and makes soccer history for the co-host with their first win ever in World Cup play. Sadly enough in Russia not so good news for their fans. One fan was killed and 20 injured as losing fans went on a rampage in Moscow. | Permalink | Saturday, June 08, 2002
Dave Simanoff wrote an article: For Soccer Fans Losing Sleep Is a Net Gain, which appears in today's Tampa Tribune. He writes about deadicated soccer fans who get up at odd hours to root and watch their favorite teams. In other World Cup news: Italy upset by Croatia 2-1 and South Korean President is advised NOT to attend US and S. Korea match for Security reasons. Huge Sports Weekend: French Open (Serena just beat her sister Venus), World Ping Pong Championships, Belmont Stakes (War Emblem tries to win the Triple Crown), NBA & NHL Playoffs, the World Cup, first weekend of interleague play in Baseball (Giants return to NY to play in Yankee Stadium) and the freakiest show this side of the Mississippi as Mike "I'm Gonna Eat Your Kids and Rape Your Dog" Tyson takes on Lennox Lewis, where almost anything can happen. My prediction: Lewis handles Tyson's early barrage of caged up anger and hostility only to frustrate him in the middle rounds, and then Tyson snaps, and begins to systematically chew parts of Lewis' flesh and gets DQ'd in the 5th round. | Permalink | Another Seattle blog from Stephen Adkins: It would seem perhaps the folks who commented have not spent as much time on the streets at 5:30-6:30am as I have these past two years. Or maybe as a recovering person, I have become more aware than I have ever been before. Yes, Seattle is a beautiful city, yes Seattle has twice been a rape victim by corporate greed but we have a very vibrant community that is multicultural and in the past has been very helpful to artists, and creative people. However, with the greed of landlords the cheap artists' studio is all but extinct. Grunge music? Well, that was just a phase and perhaps it was engineered by record executives and MTV. MTV. Man it amazes me that that channel could have any effect upon people. It is just a stupid music tv channel. If people don't like it, turn it off. Now, I know as a 43 year old sober person, who is balding and unhip as a leisure suit, my opinions are not tof the least bit of interest to anyone except to respond to. I'm glad that people do respond. It makes me feel as if I belong and am participating. Peace to all the McGrupps... Stephen Stephen Adkins is a photographer from Seattle. | Permalink | McGrupp's 3AM Heady News Update... Next al-Qaida Attack? Subways on July 4th on the East Coast. A new Terror Alert states that "this activity is allegedly intended to bring America to its knees on its Independence Day." I have been expecting this since 9.11. I hate to admit this but the entire NYC subway system is extremely vulnerable. And I would think it's easier to walk into a subway station, when all you need is $1.50, than to buy a plane ticket, take hostages and then hijack a plane. England blanks Argentina on a penalty kick by Mr. Posh Spice in the World Cup. US Hostage killed in Phillippines during a random rescue attempt, in jungle shoutout bewteen the Abu Sayyaf Terrorists and the local army. Letter From Israel by Sylvana Foa from the Village Voice column about The War on Non-Combatants, Targeting Toddlers. Here is a bit: "Less than 5 percent of all Palestinian casualties to date were female... while 30 percent of Israeli casualties were women.... Do the math—132 Israeli female civilians compared with 40 Palestinian women... That's more than three Israeli women killed for every one Palestinian." Two Israelis Killed in Attack on Jewish Settlement: The two gunmen slipped into the settlement before dawn and opened fire on a cluster of trailer homes just inside a perimeter fence, an army spokeswoman said. Pakistan shoots down an un-manned spy plane from India as fighting intensifies. Skakel Guilty of Murder Kennedy kin going to the slammer 25 plus years after his crime. FISHY COUPLE BUSTED for smuggling SMACK as they tried to smuggle heroin into Vietnam from Cambodia, stuffed in fish. Ex-CIA Chief to lead Aggies Robert Gates, former Director of the CIA will become President of Texas A & M University in College Station, TX. Thanks to Heather Kay Adams for the article. Solo J. Lo? rumors of a split between Jennifer Lopez and her husband, what's his name? Falun Gong banned from Iceland in a bid to prevent a large demonstration against Chinese President Jiang Zemin when he visits the country next week. Wild Fires in North LA County burn a couple of homes. Stieglitz Show a Snapshot of Photographic History Alfred Stieglitz was instrumental in introducing the works of some of the biggest names in 20th century European painting, like Picasso and Matisse, to New York. Reknown for his marriage to painter Georgia O'Keeffe, she insisted that his photography was "the most important part of his legacy." Her painstaking collection of Stieglitz's work, organized after his death, formed the basis for the exhibition of 102 photographs, which began on Sunday (June 2) and runs through Sept. 2 at the National Gallery in Washington. | Permalink | Trey Anastasio played a solo acoustic version of Chalkdust Torture > Wilson > Chalkdust Torture during the encore of his show in Chicago on Thursday night. | Permalink | Friday, June 07, 2002
Blogworthy Birthday Greetings from Armando Huerta: My Dearest Molly, It fills me with immense joy to salute you on this momentous day when you came bursting forth into this world, rosy pink and beautiful. I remember it well... the clouds opened up as the sky took on a glorious golden hue. Grown men wept, dogs began to whimper and walk on their hind legs. Dwarves in drag paraded down the streets playing triumphant marches on miniature French horns. It was on that day that my faith in God was restored my precious Molly... I wish you nothing but the best on this, the grandest of days. Forever yours, Armando | Permalink | Happy Birthday Molly!Molly turns 20 today! Best birthday wishes to a groovy lady! Send her birthday wishes: Here! | Permalink | Hunter S. Thompson has come to fear and loathe Las Vegas these days, 31 years after he wrote his infamous novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. After I read F & L, I knew I wanted to become a writer. Check out the Las Vegas City Life Interview with Hunter, where he states: " I like the old Las Vegas a lot better... The city's frightening now... It's not the same city I wrote about. It's not the same place at all. I just wondered if that was one of the reasons you were drawn to the book and to Vegas, through a drug ID or gambling or sports betting or all three." | Permalink | McGrupp's Midnight News Update... US Military Prepares for Attack on US Embassy in Kabul as soon as the completion of the loya jirga, the Afghan tribal council that is supposed to determine the country's political future later this month. 9.11 Hijacker Atta tried to buy plane with US loan... to use for a chemical attack. Ted Turner sells more Time-AOL stock, as the super merger of AOL and Time Warner looks as stable as Drew Barrymore and Tom Green's marriage. Dee Dee Ramone found Dead... the co-founder of The Ramones was found dead in his Hollywood home of a possible drug overdose. Tao-Starbucks Conspiracy uncovered by a Tampa Bay journalist. Did Wall Street panic on fear of a nationwide boycott of Starbucks? Under the Nuclear Cloud living on the border of destruction, from Alternet.org Reese Witherspoon wins MTV Movie Award for best comedy performance for her film Legally Blonde. See the list of other winners. My favorite line from Legally Blonde: "Hello, I'm Elle Woods, and this is my dog Bruizer Woods, and we're both Gemini Vegetarians." Need a Job?... work for the US Government. England to play Argentina in one of the most anticipated matches in the First Round of the World Cup. Yesterday Ireland tied the Germans 1-1 and the Frogs are not looking to good, playing a 0-0 tie with Uruguay. The Frenchies are on the brink of elimination. Salutorian Gets Hook During Chris Farley Imitation. From the San Francisco Chronicle: "The character on the "Saturday Night Live" skit gave sweaty inspirational speeches to at-risk teens by telling his audience they could end up like him, eating government cheese and living in a van down by the river." Woody Harrleson goes ape-shit in London Taxi as he gets chased by no less than 14 policemen. From The Sun. | Permalink | Thursday, June 06, 2002
Comment from Dave Simanoff about Starbucks: "You first mentioned Starbucks on the Tao at 1:20 p.m. At 1:30 p.m., the company's stock price, which had stabilized around 1pm at $24.70, began sliding downward again. It closed at $24.35. Down $0.63 for the day. Coincidence ... or are Wall Street Insiders reading the Tao of Pauly?" Conspiracy? Coincidence? You decide. Proof of the Tao-Starbucks Conspiracy thanks to the latest blog on The Daily Dave. Editor's response: Dawg, I wish I could manipulate and influence stock prices by my rants and ramblings, but alas, I think it was just a coincidence here. No coffee conspiracies today. However, my advice to you and all investors, start SHORT SELLING Starbucks stock. Wink, wink. | Permalink | A letter from a grandaughter to her grandfather, a WW II Veteran by Jen Biaggi Dear Grandpa Joe: Today is the 58th Anniversary of D-Day, and I wanted to write you to say, "Thanks" for your bravery and courage and deadication to your country. Your example inspires me everyday and I am eternally grateful for all the amazing work that you have accomplished in your life. I know what you must have seen 58 years ago in France still haunts you to this day, but I just wanted to say that you are my hero bceasue I do not get to tell you that everyday. I remember in 1994 when you took Grandma and about 10 of us to Normandy for the 50th Anniversary of D-Day. It was a scene just out of the movie Saving Private Ryan how we walked among the rows and rows of graves of Americans who died in World War II, and you would ocassionally stop and stare off in silence for minutes on end. I didn't realize how uncomfortable just being there must have made you felt, but after the events of September 11, I can only now begin to realize the horrors of war and the intense mental anguish that you suffered then, and suffer now. It is now that I can try to understand the difficult decisions you must have made to keep yourself and your men as safe as they can be. I am so happy that you made it home safely and helped create and insure a safe world that our family lives in. Thank you, Grandpa Joe for being my hero. Your loving grandaughter, Jennifer Captain Joseph H. Donnelly, Jr. was a Second Lieutenant in the US Army's 101st Airborne Division when he parachuted behind enemy lines in France early on the morning of D-Day, June 6, 1944, hours before the invasion of the Utah and Omaha beaches of Normandy. He enlisted in 1942, and volunteered to join the Paratroopers. He fought in France, Holland, and Germany and received two Purple Hearts during his tour in Europe. After the war ended, on his way back home, he met a young woman in London named Brigitta a 19 year old refugee from Norway who fled to London with her family after the Nazi Invasion and Occupation of Norway on April 9, 1940. Two weeks after they met, they were married and moved to California. Captain Joe went to law school and eventually started his own practice just outside of Sacramento. He was elected to the California State Senate in 1974 and served 2 terms as a state senator. He is retired and still lives with his wife of almost 57 years, Brigitta, in Sonoma, California. They have 4 children, 12 grand-children and 3 great-grand-children. | Permalink | Comment from Jen Flowers about my Starbucks Boycott: "Thank you for your amazing numbers on Starbucks. I always knew I drank too much coffee, and your shocking numbers have convinced me to join your boycott. I have easily spent over $3000 in the last 3 years on Starbucks becuase I know I would stop there on the way to work everyday and even on weekends! I'm cutting down for health reasons too, but the money is the real incentive. And I think it's sad that there are more Starbucks than schools in NYC, and I see the same kids on the subways with Starbucks cups! Good work keeping your eyes open in such a big city. Sincerely, Jen Flowers, former Starbucks Coffee Junkie Comment from Jen Biaggi about Starbucks 348, NYC Schools 162: "With all the money you are saving on your Starbucks boycott, you can eventually afford to send your kids to private school." | Permalink | Egypt gets 24 NO-DONG missiles from North Korea in violation of a pledge to the US saying they would not get the medium range missiles, which would be used as deterrence against Israel. Egyptians insist the no-dongs are just a shipment of oversized dildos. | Permalink | I almost forgot to blog this fact: There are at least a dozen Starbucks located in the same buildings that have schools in them! Oh and for the record, I don't have kids, nor drink Starbucks. In fact Starbucks is on the top of my list of companies that I boycot. (I haven't offically boycotted kids, but that is open to debate). I hope all of you that do have kids realize the impact of corporations on our society and how our cities and politicians allow huge tax breaks for these multi-national companies and at the same time, NYC is ready to ax $500 MILLION in education cuts. Maybe if we taxed all the STARBUCKS franchises in NYC an Education Tax, it could make up for the money that will be cut for next's years city budget. UGLY STAT: For every kid you have thats more money that he or she will be giving Starbucks over the course of their lifetime. Think about this: if you give $5 to Starbucks every week for 20 years, that's $5,200. What if your child decides to drink alot of STARBUCKS? Let's say your child's habit is $20 a week for Lattes. Over 20 years of his life, he would spend $20,800 of his hard earned money on coffee alone. And this is 2002 dollars I'm talking about. I imagine Lattes will be $10 sometime within the next decade. What if you have twins? $41,600 on Starbucks coffee. That's more than most Americans make in one year, and your kid will spend that on coffee alone. So the next time you decide to have kids, just remember you are also breeding under-educated consumers for corporate America. But hey they might be dumb as shit, but there will be plenty of Starbucks jobs for them to get. | Permalink | Starbucks 348, NYC Schools 162 Hey Sarah, I checked the NYC Board of Education's website and there are 161 Public High Schools in NYC and a new one will be added next year, so that's 162 High Schools in NYC's 5 boroughs (Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens & Staten Island). According to STARBUCKS website and there are currently 348 Starbucks and/or Starbucks related stores in NYC's 5 boroughs. And I know that there will be more than 1 Starbucks added within the next school year. Shit as soon as you finish reading this, a new Starbucks will have opened somewhere in the World! My advice to America: less coffee and more education for our kids. | Permalink | Comment from Sarah about my Starbucks remark: "I think you are exaggerating the impact of Starbucks on New York. And I just want to say for the record, that Seattle is not filled with corrupt people, and old dirty hippies and people who bitch about the rain, and are not just coffee drinking cyber billionares, and pot smoking, heroin shooting runaway kids and anarchists." | Permalink | Editor's comment on Sarah's comment, Seattle is NOT SMACKTOWN, USA: Sarah, thank you for explaining the bright and sunny side of Seattle. Yes, it's true, Seattle is an amazing city one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. I have made many great friends and shared some of the warmest memories while I was there. I also wrote the majority of my second novel and one screenplay while I lived in the U Disctrict. I definitely tapped into the creative energy pool that Seattle has an abundance of. I am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of an amazing community of warm hearted people. However, I chose to write directly about the dark side of Seattle, the side we don't get to see in Hollywood, or MTV, or on Fraser in order to spur commentary about the problems our urban areas have to deal with on a daily basis, and how the media either exploits or ignores these daily plights. Bottom line, Seattle is rampant with corruption, from the cyber geek Billionaires who own the local politicans to the protest-beating, trigger happy Police, to the marijuana farmers who buy off the crooked cops. There is a huge homeless problem, crime issues and a dire drug problem, not just on the streets and dark alleys of downtown, but to the suburbian havens of cul de sacs on Mercer Island and Bainbridge Island. And yes, I agree Seattle has been raped and pillaged by corporate America twice in the last decade and yes, MTV has ruined as many lives as it has sold records. But let me remind you of Karma. All that negative energy released upon Seattle has returned to infect the rest of the world. I cannot turn down one street in NYC without seeing another FUCKING STARBUCKS!!!!!! I think by the year 2010, there will be more STARBUCKS in NYC than schools. Now that's fucking sad. I assume that Seattle is just returning the inavsion in a more subtle and caffeinated manner. | Permalink | Comment from Sarah about Smackdown, USA: "Pauly, I think u unfairly criticized and portrayed Seattle as a city of drug addicts and greedy yuppies. I have lived here my whole life and I love Seattle. I think it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with some of the most beautiful parks and the nicest people. Not everyone in Seattle is a junkie. Most of us are hard working, community minded, socially concsious people. Seattle is known for its enviromental activism and on many social issues. Behind San Fran and New York, Seattle has one of the strongest and most vocal gay and lesbian communities in America. I was upset by your comments. I don't want anymore more runaway kids showing up in Seattle just because of the drugs and the great pot or if people think it's cool to live here. I had to watch my city be invaded TWICE in the last deacade by floods and floods of people who didn't care about Seattle and just showed up to make money. Overnight Seattle went from a sleepy little town in the Northwest to the most popular place to live. I blame MTV and the record companies for exploiting and trying to market Seattle as a hip, cool and grunge community. What the fuck does grunge mean anyway? I've lived here my whole life and I've never seen or heard grunge music. The local music scene was ruined overnight. Seattle is filled with thousands of musicans and songwriters that were all ignored. Unless you looked or sounded like Pearl Jam or Soundgarden, the record companies didn't want to hear your tapes. My city was ruined by MTV in the mid 90s. And then in the last part of the decade Seattle was over run by high tech companies, which helped drive up rent prices and over all cost of living prices, and now all these companies are broke and have left Seattle and my rent is still twcie is what it was just 3 years ago! Please let people know that Seattle is NOT SMACKTOWN, USA. Seattle is a wonderful, peaceful place with amazing creative beautiful people, that has just been ruined by external evil forces and negative energy." Sarah is a musician and activist from Seattle. | Permalink | Comment from the editor, that's me, on Smackdown, Seattle Style: I lived in Seattle at the end of the 1990s, during the middle of the glorious Dot.com Revolution, where pimpled faced 20 somethings were pullling in Millions and Millions of dollars with their multiple internet companies. Among all this prosperity (equal to the Alaskan goldrush in the late 19th Century) there was an equal and opposite scene just as energetic and vibrant and dark. Unfortunately, I speak of the under belly of the local drug scene. As thousands of would be dotcommers flocked to Seattle and Silicon Alley to cash in on the latest cyber gold mine, so too did the cluster of drug addicts and freaks, who by word of mouth (not by a Wall Street Journal article) found out that Seattle was the crossroads of the Northwest drug trade. Seattle, a port city, located less than 2 hours from the Canadian Border, where in British Columbia the local Cannucks grow the majority of the consumed marijuana in America, is a perfect place for smuggling and dealing, as it is the crossroads of two major US Interstates. The quality of marijuana flowing through Seattle and Bellingham is on the same level of world hotspots (or potspots) the likes of Amsterdam, Jamaica, and Thailand. A favorite strain of marijuana by the local Seattle populous was the infamous G-6 or the Glucoma Strain which was rumored to be grown by the US Government in labs on the University of Washington campus, specifically for Glucoma patients and other medical marijuana users. The crime situation was very bad. It still is very bad. I felt safer taking the subway through Harlem in the middle of the night, than walking some random streets in Seattle. The street kids, runaways from all over America were some of the most aggressive panhandlers I have ever encountered, and would often follow you home and threaten violence if you ignored them and or failed to give them the proper money for their pharmie addictions. And the yes, there is a huge heroin scene and problem that has plagued Seattle for decades. I met 14 year old kids snorting heroin and they would say to me how it's safe because they are "not shooting up like a junkie." I wanted to smack these smacked up kids. I don't know what the offical stance from the Seattle Police is, but I do know that all the hotspots that Stephen Adkins mentioned are known places to score smack. If he knows, and I know, and all of you know, shouldn't it seem normal that the Seattle Police would also know this and do something about it? Is it corruption, apathy, or just a problem that overwhlems not just the local law enforcement agencies, but infects our entire society as a whole? Or is Seattle just a city of addicts? Is it the rain, the constant mist which causes depression? Is this the reason why Seattle folk drink more coffee than any other city? Forget Starbucks, or Grunge music, or the Seattle Supersonics, these are all media hyped buzzwords to describe Seattle. I think Adkins said it best in his blog. Welcome to Smackdown, USA. | Permalink | Smackdown, Seattle Style a blog by Stephen Adkins Seattle 2002. The street heroin scene is gaining ground in more than just the Downtown Area. Layne Stayley, lead singer for Alice in Chains was scoring in the University District, near his home before his recent death. Kurt Cobain scored on Broadway in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. The Downtown Area, on Pike Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenue is a Junkies' Supermarket... anytime, day or night. Early in the morning, its the Belltown area, from Bell Street to Olive Street, where syringes are very rarley seen on the ground as they are too precious (to their users) to leave them laying about. It seems that the reputation of Seattle as a heroin hotspot has not abated. The Hispanics supply the black tar heroin, the most common brand of smack on the street. If you've got money, well there is always the China White from Vancouver, British Columbia, if you can get it over the border. So as a recovering person, it makes my heart tear a bit that heroin is such a huge drain on the talents and lives of people everywhere, especially in Seattle. So, I bid all members of the McGrupp Group peace, success, and prosperity. Stephen Adkins is a photographer from Seattle. | Permalink | Boston Weekly Paper Publishes Graphic Pearl Video LInk see why and what the editor had to say. Bubba Clinton Picks Irish Name for New Dog. Clinton chooses Seamus for his new dog. | Permalink | Comment from Dave Simanoff: "Hey, have you ever read Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong? It's a tiny book, well written but not necessarily fun to read, and it does a pretty good explaining how the religion emerged and the various trends that it nurtured. Anyway, when I was reading the NY Times column you mentioned on the Tao, it reminded me of what Armstrong wrote about how the Middle East was forced to modernize by the European nations. Essentially, the Europeans forced the Arab world to make wholesale societal changes overnight, to benefit trade and political interest, instead of letting those changes progress naturally, which could have taken decades. So, in effect, you have very Western way of thinking about politics, business, etc. grafted artifically on top of Islamic social systems -- and that's why things are so screwy right now in the Middle East, and why most activists call for a return to pre-Western ideals instead of pushing for democratic reforms. Not really related to the column ... but the NY Times piece just reminded me of all this." Dave Simanoff is a writer with the Tampa Tribune. | Permalink | Arafat Compund surrounded once again as Israel retaliates for the latest suicide bombing in Megiddo, which killed 18 yesterday. Israeli Intelligence say Hezbollah bombed bus & are planning a new "unique" attack in Northern Israel. Article from The World Tribune. India plans invasion within 2 weeks of the Pakistani side of Kashmir. Murderer arrested in Central Park, Richard Markham wanted in England for the brutal murder of another man last week, was reading an article in the newspaper about himself when NYPD found him sitting on a bench in Central Park. He had spent the last few days in NYC sightseeing, stopping at the Museum of Natural History and even catching Spider-Man. Utah Girl abducted from home... sad story. McDonalds to pay out $10 Million to Vegetarians & Hindus for not disclosing it used beef flavoring in its fries. Now that's why they taste so good?!? I heard a rumor that McD's uses bone marrow from random animals in their oil to cook fries. Student Savenger Hunt Shocks Newton Locals... Here's a bit of the article: "Police are planning to bring misdemeanor criminal complaints against 12 to 14 students for allegedly stealing signs and highway barrels, vandalizing property, and possessing marijuana. And police and school authorities say this year's hunt tested the limits for raunchy and inappropriate behavior." | Permalink | Wednesday, June 05, 2002
Desperation prose by Inasa J. Carter I go outside... I need to see him. But he's not there. And desire creeps in heavy, weighted. I smoke in desperation, wasting and hungry for a glimpse, a glance. A flicker between us. Eye candy becomes a solid, scraping addiction... something I must have, even if for a second. The last smack, one line, one drag, one tiny sip of presence before me... I think about the things I'd say if I had to say something, which I don't, because he knows as well as I that there's nothing between here and there. Just a glance, the density of the moment always hangs between us like the thick and shimmering icicle just about to snap. Inasa J. Carter is a writer from New York City. This is her first submission to the Tao of Pauly. | Permalink | Bomb Blast Kills 14 in N. Israel near the town of Megiddo, where a suicide attack injured over 45. US upsets Portugal 3-2!! in America's first World Cup match. Writers withhold bylines in the Washington Post as journalists withheld their names from articles, artwork and photographs to protest management's contract proposals. Thomas Friedman wrote an article in today's NY Times about Egypt, called, The Land of Denial. Here's a blurb: "Egypt is the center of gravity of the Arab world. It has the biggest middle class, the best-educated population and the people with the most potential. Egypt should be the Taiwan of the Mediterranean. But it is a country that has been stagnating..." Ex-Tyco Chief pleads innocent in tax evasion charges after it was made public that Dennis Kozlowski owes over $1M in sales taxes on several high priced paintings (including Renoir and Monet). He denies such charges. Go to Holland Before It's TOO LATE!! Get lit, before the newly elected right-wing government in Holland vows to follow through on their promises to shut down Hash Bars & Cafes. Article by Peter Brady of Cannabis Culture. Woody Allen testifies in Court as he is suing his former partner, Jean Doumanian, and others fo rmore than $10 Million that Woody believes they owe him for eight films they have made together. | Permalink | Tuesday, June 04, 2002
Police manhunt continues for killer in NYC as they look for Richard Markham who dismembered a man in Hampshire, England on June 1. Police say he flew from Heathrow to JFK over the weekend, and might be in NYC. | Permalink | Hip-Hop Artists join Teachers in Rally against a proposed $500 Million in education cuts. | Permalink | Comment from Senor reagrding the students killed in Thailand: "The Karens are Burmese who are fighting against the militant Burmese government for independence. It does not make sense that this group would attack the Thai. There is great tension between Myanmar and Thailand because the Burmese government has accused the Thai government of arming and harboring these rebels. So why would these rebels attack their benefactors? Unless they are trying to make it seem like it was the Burmese government who did this, thus intensifying the tension. I don't buy it. Anyway, I really don't know... the little I do know comes from what I read in the Bangkok Times. What I do know is, both countries are beautiful filled with sweet wonderful people, who wish for peace and are victims of corrupt governments." | Permalink | CIA creates Secret Hit Team to target terrorists aboard from Matt Drudge... not that this is newsworthy material, it came from a news source in India, but I am hoping that the CIA decided to do this 8 or so months ago, and just now its getting leaked to the press. Kashmir... oh Kashmir is still hot, as the possibilty of war with India increases, so do the massive shifts of Pakistani troop movements from the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to the Pakistan-India & Kashmir border. This means the already pourous Pakistani-Afghan border will become more so, allowing Al-Qaeda and Taliban (and possbly Bin laden, if you still believe he's there) to slip through undetected. Alot of the terrorists fighting in Kashmir were sent there by Pakistan's Dictator Musharraf to watch the border. They are the ones responsible for the recent terror strikes in Kashmir against India. According to Salman Rushdie, these men were trained in camps in Afghanistan in the last few years. As Musharraf arrests these men (as a show of good will and cooperation to the US and the Western media), he quietly lets them go when no one is watching. Dare I say, that we have been hoodwinked all along, and this recent (but not old) con-fight with India & Pakistan is a huge diversion, a smokescreen to get American troops out of Pakistan and Afghanistan (with impending fears of a nuclear war, it's safer to be wrong than sorry and get our boys to a safer place) and allow Bin Laden and other high ranking officials to escape undetected. | Permalink | Congrats to Eial Girtz and Orange Claxton, who recently announced their engagement. Salukis to Girtz & OJ! | Permalink | Students killed in Thailand and 13 wounded after an attack on a school bus near the Burma border. Tensions are rising between Thailand and Burma (Myanmar), as another war in the region could break out. The KNU, the Karen National Union denies any involvement. The KNU or the Karen Militia has been fighting for independence from Burma since the British left in 1948. Dallas writer leaves newspaper acknowledging inaccuracies were published in her articles. Winona Breaks Arm in Court during a media blitz as Ms. Ryder was entering the courtroom for her trial. | Permalink | MEET THE PRESS: Wartime Corruption of Journalism by Ted Rall, a war repoter in Afghanistan, writes about bribing locals for newsworthy material, inaccurate reporting by editors regarding civilian casualities, and the overall corruption of the media outlets during wartime. Thanks to Dave Simanoff for the article. Egyptian President says he warned US of an Al Qaeda plot while US Intelligence officals deny this claim. Check it out in this NY Times article. | Permalink | Monday, June 03, 2002
NEW PAGE: Pauly's Pub, a fourth blog page has been added to serve as an archive and forum for Pauly's Pub Fantasy Games, Updates and Information and all Sports related topics. I will continue to post general fantasy games and standings and info on here this page, but be sure to bookmark Pauly's Pub for more in depth info and sports related stories. As you can tell the Tao has been expanding everyday and I will be adding a couple of more blog pages in the near future, featuring Poems, Short Sories, and Travel Journals. In additon to the McGrupp Review which features reviews of all kinds. Pauly's Pub World Cup PoolThe World Cup has begun! France lost it's first game to Senegal last Friday. The finals are on June 30th. The Teams: Mia's Green Eggs & Hamm, (Pauly Team 1) McGrupp's Hooligans, (Pauly Team 2) Cali Jen's Sunflowers, (Jen Biaggi) Kings County Bollocks, (Spider Team 1) The Israeli Nightmares, (Gil Shapir) Rib Boy's Latrells, (Derek) Harry's Hoods, (Harry Hood) Molly's Pogo Sticks, (Molly Daugherty) Mad Dawg's Englishmen, (Dave Simanoff) Boys from Brazil, (Armando Huerta) East Village Shenanigans, (Spider Team 2) US No-Tel Mo-Tel, (Ty Lockhart) Big Sal's Bay Brawlers, (Sal Biaggi) | Permalink | Pauly's Pub Baseball Challenge... Week 9 Update (as of Mon 6.3.02 @ 9:28am EST) Top 5: 1. Furcal's Phisheads (Pauly #2) 2913 (2) 2. Holla Atmeyoes!, (G. Shapir) 2865 (1) 3. The Bronx, (P. von Urkel) 2800 (4) 4. Ty The Cobbster, (T. Lockhart) 2795 (3) 5. Pauly's Pranksters, (Pauly #1) 2791 (6) The Rest: 6. Senor's Sherpas, (S. Sheer) 2762 (5) 7. Rib Boy's Latrells, (D. McGuire) 2697 (7) 8. Big Sal's Goodfellas, (S. Biaggi) 2861 (9) 9. Dick's Weed, (Dick Weed) 2653 (10) 10. JD's McNugents, (J D McNugent) 2638 (8) 11. Long Island ADERMEISTERS, (S. Ader) 2530 (11) 12. Subway Rats, (B. McNamara) 2485 (12) Team of the Week: Big Sal's Goodefellas (343 points in Week 8) Team of the Month: Pauly's Pranksters (were 302 points out of first, in 10th place a month ago) | Permalink | Terror NEWS... CIA tracked 2 Hijackers for 2 Years and everyone is poitning fingers at them for failing to share vital information. Yes, the CIA dropped the ball, but in all honesty, if they did tell the FBI and INS, would that have really mattered? Probably not. The FBI would have ignored the report (like many others) and the INS would have lost the report as it would have easily got caught up in their massive knots of red tape, only to resurface later in their outdated compuer system from the 1970s and eventually mistakenly issue Green Cards to the highjackers. WE ARE COMING!... sounds like a line from a bad amatuer porn video, but it's the latest warning from Al Qaeda, who issued the statement on www.alneda.com. News flash to Al Qaeda, "No shit, sherlock." Inda & Pakistan exchange fire on tense border and Inda & Pakistan close to all out war... 2 articles on the Kashmir troubles. CIA pushes for Palestinian reform... CIA director George Tenant arrived in the Middle East today as the militant Islamic group Hamas rejects offer to join Palestine's cabinet. Out of the 60 or more suicide attacks on Israel during this current con-fight, the majority of them have been from Hamas. | Permalink | Washington Post Writers Protesting their expired contract by possibly pulling their bylines in upcoming issues. Another round of Big Business vs. Writers. Hollywood writers got the short end of the stick in the last few years. The recent barrage of reality TV shows and game shows in Hollywood, aren't as much as a trend as it was a cold and calculated maove to squash the Writer's Strike of 2000. "Who needs writers? When all we need is a camera, a few good looking chicks and stupid Americans will watch!" an unidentified network TV executive was quoted as saying. And now with the summer barrage of cartoons and comics and television shows getting made into films, the job market for television and screenwriters has gotten even more scarce. | Permalink | Larry Miller's article from the Daily Standard titled, Whoever Blesses Them, a humorous, yet serious take on the Israeli-Palenstian con-fight (my new word: part fight, part conflict). Here's an excerpt: "Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals. Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding." Larry Miller is an actor and comedian, recently playing Julia Stiles' over protective father in the film: 10 Things I Hate About You. | Permalink | Buckingham Palace caught fire. Is Prince Harry Pothead to blame? Yesterday during the Queens Jubilee celebration, fire broke out in the Palace. An unidentified Palace spokesman was overhead saying that Prince Harry Pothead had left the celebration early, and was "last seen in the attic with his bohemian University mates, smoking funny smelling cigarettes and listening to Pink Floyd records." | Permalink | Congrats to the New Jersey NETS on beating the Boston Celtics to reach the NBA finals. | Permalink | Trey Anastasio @ Thomas and Mack Center , Las Vega$ , NV The Roots & Antibalas opened. 6.1.02 SETLIST Set I: Cayman Review, Mozambique, Money Love and Change, Thunderhead, Alive Again Set II Sidewalks of San Francisco, Mister Completely, Ether Sunday E: Gotta Jibboo Saturday Highlights: Sweet Cayman to open & Alive Again to close. Mr. Completely was almost 36 minutes. Jibboo encore was groovin. NO PHISHY guest, nor Oysterhead reunion this weekend. Lots of long groove-ilicious jams. Friday Highlights: Push on Til the Day and Page sitting in on First Tube & Bug, plus the solo jam between Page & Trey was very phishy :) Forgot to mention, the opening act of Los Lobos, when Trey came out to play Not Fade Away > Bertha, in a very Dead-like tribute, that was delicious. | Permalink | Saturday, June 01, 2002
1/2 of Phish Reunion as Trey Anastasio Band played Las Vega$, NV... Spearhead & Los Lobos opened. Highlights: Page and FIRST TUBE, which smoked. 5.31.02 SETLIST, Thomas & Mack Center, Las Veag$, NV Set I: Simple Twist Up Dave Noodle Rave Daddio Push On 'Til the Day Night Speaks to a Woman Small Axe I Want to Take You Higher (w/ guys from Spearhead & Los Lobos) Set II: Last Tube Flock of Words Burlap Sack and Pumps At the Gazebo Pebbles and Marbles First Tube (w/ Page McConnell!!) Bug (w/ Page) E: Sultans of Swing | Permalink | HOME
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