So it's Friday, here we are again. What's new? Well, my sister is now out of jail. That's good news. Although I felt safe with her in there, it was sad seeing her like an animal at the pound. I found another reason not to ever break the law: they strip you, bend you over and make you cough so they can check in your cavities for weapons or drugs. Then they stand you naked in a cell for awhile until they get you the uniform. Wow....

Reading a great book by Richard Metzger. It's a book of interviews you can buy here from the great site at www.disinfo.com. A few of my favs are the interviews with Joe Coleman and Robert Anton Wilson.

Saw an awesome show last night on the History Channel called "Superheroes, unmasked." If it's on again, I suggest setting the Tivo or VCR or whatever you use to burn stuff in your memory. I never knew a psychiatrist from Germany was so concerned that comics were destroying the youth of America that the comic industry had to come up with a code, like the censorship currently used in filmmaking, which almost destroyed the comics of the 40s and 50s. Fucking psychiatrists......

My boss is interviewing a new female appraiser right now. I want to run in there and drag her out to save her from the years of self-doubt and pain she is about to cause herself. However, I'm currently feeling quite apathetic about the whole situation, so fuck it.

If you have TNN, watch the new Ren & Stimpy's on Thursdays at 9:00. I've never seen a rat's asshole so beautifully animated.

"A few years ago an American President was put through the 18th century ordeal of impeachment, a vast, expensively-staged comic opera of white manes waving and grave baritones intoning, over a dribble on a dress and the lie he told to save himself embarrassment. Today we have a President who has hurled the world into two dirty, pointless wars after what undoubtedly qualifies as the longest sequence of public lies ever uttered in a free society, and yet in his homeland he remains popular and is collecting enough campaign cash to rival the Swiss bank balances of the Russian Mafia."

- Believe it or not, this essay by John Chuckman gets even better.