Highgate

Wednesday

Have you ever seen the Rain?

Tonight is Yoga night; But first I gotta blog... Then I can yoga. Things have been kind of busy and fun lately; Mike is back in town for a bit; tomorrow night it the Seamonster Potluck as well as the first ever Homeitems show (or is that breastmaterial....) at the Narthex.
I took the night off from work so I could attend both, gotta think of something yummy to cook. Might even be vegetarian... Probably not though. Steak probably. Wrapped in bacon. Stuffed in a whole pigs mouth, carried in on the backs of 10,000 stampeding, doomed lemmings.

I digress.
I want to take the time to informally introduce a couple of new contributors to this here little clusterfuckparty. Chris and Herb, two of my good friends, who also happen to be my co-workers, fellow musicians, a part time Mime and a fulltime germanophile (respectively), not mention social malcontents and sodomites of the highest degree. They are, however, great writers and extremely intelligent, more so than myself. They will be responsible for adding actual value to Highgate, and it's about time I figure.


Linkspiracy!
-------------I got high recently and ended up in a Philosophical
conversation; I don't much like philosophy; Kant makes
me violently Ill; very little practicality in it
Bertrand Russell explains why: (
Link)The Homeless Hacker Adrian Lamo,
a wonderful read (wired)
Torrent of The Gospel According to
Philip K. Dick (Link)
The real search for the real
Da Vinci Code for real!
(NY times)Ever heard of the Jasons?
Probably not, but they 0wn you.
(Seed Magazine)

18 comments:

emily said...

please don't call us that.

Tanner M. said...

but i just did...

hmmm... sorry Em, forgot i can't make references to mammary glands... how uncouth of me. :)

Anonymous said...

you're busted. big time!

you better stay away from microwaves if you know what's good for you, McCuin!

emily said...

not uncouth, just disrespectful on several points.

it's not just the "mammary glands."

Anonymous said...

Tanner- you're making some powerful enemies!

pretty soon you'll be on the shit list of Hammer & Saw, Home Items and The Smittens!

Anonymous said...

Hasn't anyone learned anything... don't take on powerful bloggers, they destroy huge corporations, they can certainly destroy a few home items. if it wasn't for the mammary glands plug, he may not have even given you the PR

-Jetty

Anonymous said...

like we care if anyone comes to our show. duh, no doi.

Anonymous said...

c'mon people now,
smile on your brother
everybody get together
try to love one another
right now

*kiss kiss*

Anonymous said...

'Friendship doesn't exist to criticize, its function is to inspire confidence'

-Sartre

Tanner M. said...

Wowee, so - lets see here, i think i know on what fronts my joke was aimed at, and i also think that it's just a joke. First of all, Boobies, are my old stand-by... who doesn't like a joke w/ boobies? (all you feminists don't count.)
second if the fact that another group of seamonsters, who also happen to be all female, who also happen to be doing experimental music, can't be made light of than i ask you, dear blog readers, what can? what... can? Have the terrorists won?
But honnestly, Em... if you are offended, than i am sorry. you see,
I never meant to hurt you, i'm sorry that imadeyou crrrryyyyy, i didn't want to hurt you, i'm just a jelous guy.


but i'm still gonna giggle sheepishly to myself.

how bout... No neck boobs band?
;D

Anonymous said...

we regret to announce that the home items show will not be proceeding this evening and will be postponed to another time and place, to be announced.

Anonymous said...

ve ah so vary sorry zat zee bübble güm vill not vock you zees nacht!

Tanner M. said...

Why not!? this is a bummer.

Anonymous said...

Could you please not use that word? Womyn have bums too, and it just disrespectful... Try 'downer' instead of bummer.

emily said...

wow anonymous, you are so funny AND nice!

the le duo said...

Well, I dont know much about feminism, or women in general, and there lady parts are a complete mystery to me, but I dont see why anyone would get insulted by a 'boob' joke. I can understand why the term 'pussy' or calling a man a women as an insult could be insulting to women, but boobs? come on! we're all friends here people!

JB 'its small but its cute' Ledoux

Anonymous said...

DuDE BRO, you like... totally posted at 4:20! GNARRRRRRLY!

Tanner M. said...

Well, actually yes, that does support what i was saying... While i love to read philosophy because it is, like bertrand says, (i'm paraphrasing here) Yogacize for the brainbox. It really has very little Direct application to the day to day except to help keep our minds limber, which is great, but also not what most philosophy purports to be doing.
Take Kants big conundrum of 1) Truth can only be known apriori 2) In order for us to "test" whether our actions are moral, we should apply them as a universal rule, and if they would still be moral, than it's good.

That implies using posteriori, or external information... thus voiding his first rule.

That's all well and fun to mess with, but really... it doesn't help me day to day. Yes my mind is flexed, but no problems of morality truely solved, and even if there was no conundrum, i don't think i would read Kant, and then become moral the next day...