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Anyone know if there is a drinking game for The Breakfast Club? I was able to find one for Better Off Dead, but I can’t seem to find one for The Breakfast Club. Links to other 80s movie drinking games would be welcome as well.

Vagabonding.com is the travel log of Mike Pugh who is in the middle of a one year, round-the-world journey. Lots of great photos. I haven’t had a chance to dig into many of the stories, but they look promising too.

WAY! TOO! FUNNY!

The first 66 seconds of I had a weird dream… are FAN…TAS…TIC. After that it falls apart and never quite lives up the the promise. It’s actually kind of disappointing in a way. Still, thanks for the point Amberglow.

Kinky’s video for “Mirando De Lado” is outstanding!

I’d link you to it, but a brief search didn’t turn it up. Now here’s what I don’t get. They must have spent some cash producing the video — as long as they’re going to do that, shouldn’t their label host it on their web site? I mean why just hope that MTV2 is going to play it once or twice on 120 minutes? What good is that?

Anyway, here’s a link to their “media” page which only has some crappy 30 second Real Player sound clips.

Update: I guess they are on a split label or something, and Sonic 360 does have some videos, but based on the first one, they aren’t as good as the one for “Mirando De Lado”. Maybe that one will show up there eventually though.

BIMBO looks like an interesting idea:

BIMBO, apart from being an extremely contrived acronym, is a computer program which, roughly speaking, reads the web so that you don’t have to. It gathers links from a set of sources — mainly, web logs and news pages — and invites a group of moderators — the oligarchy of the title — to vote on whether or not they are interesting.

Too much news content for my tastes, but as I randomly go from blog to blog, it is amazing at how many of them have content that is of no appeal to me. That is of course the beauty of niche publishing. I think we do need more collaborative filtering and trusted editors though to hi-light the stuff that each individual is interested in finding.

I really don’t like Vegas very much. But, I really do like my friends, so what are you going to do? You know other than take lots and lots of photographs.

I am a giant ball of pain. I may need to take some time off to recover from my time off.

I’m Sorry
I’m Sorry
I’m Sorry

I sincerely hope that you and everyone you know and anyone you don’t know will be OK. If I could stop it. If I could do anything.

I’m really, really sorry.

I awoke this morning at about 4 am, not a bit hung over, and feeling surprisingly refreshed and present. My car has needed an oil change and a tune up for … well, let’s just say forever. So, I figured, as long as I’m up…

Now, last night, all I wanted to hear was The Pogues. Some lame-ass Celtic band was truly mangling their way through a set, and I just wanted some refreshing sherbet (or should that be day-old coffee with cigarette butts floating on top) to cleanse my auditory palette so to speak. Well, when I climbed into my car today, I had to throw on Rum, Sodomy and the Lash.

It was as you might expect just what the doctor ordered at 6 in the mother f’n AM. And, all kidding aside, I was digging it as I drove to find a restaurant where I could wait for the garage to open at 7:30. I got to the diner at about 6:40 which was a problem since it turns out they don’t open until 7. I didn’t want to wait, so I decided to go somewhere else.

That was my first mistake…

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The science of flirting:

“It’s not entirely surprising, given the levels of ambiguity and deception to which they are subjected, that males tend to become confused.”

So then not my fault. Excellent. Now, how can I turn this knowledge to my own nefarious purposes?