thanks to all who came out to the pontiac saturday nite. it was good to see all of you. and to those who stuck around for both sets, what can i say but, god bless you!
but now onto more important things. the bears wrapped up their disasterous season, getting shutout by the tampa gay fuckinqueers. a 4-11 season was far worse than the 7-9 record i had predicted in august.
the bears can put together a decent year next year, i think, with some serious adjustments. the team is sending 3 dudes to the pro-bowl, so we all know they have some talent to build on.
but i think you always want to build a team around your best player. my vote for the best bear this season goes to place kicker paul edinger. he was the only guy to show up week after week and get his job done. he scored the most points on the team this season with 95, and he never missed a game.
unfortunately, it's difficult to build a winning team around your field goal kicker.
by the way, does jim miller still think he and drew bledsoe are the same quarterback? i hope ol' noodle-arm miller gets his ass booted, and soon.
see you at soldier field!
peace.
but now onto more important things. the bears wrapped up their disasterous season, getting shutout by the tampa gay fuckinqueers. a 4-11 season was far worse than the 7-9 record i had predicted in august.
the bears can put together a decent year next year, i think, with some serious adjustments. the team is sending 3 dudes to the pro-bowl, so we all know they have some talent to build on.
but i think you always want to build a team around your best player. my vote for the best bear this season goes to place kicker paul edinger. he was the only guy to show up week after week and get his job done. he scored the most points on the team this season with 95, and he never missed a game.
unfortunately, it's difficult to build a winning team around your field goal kicker.
by the way, does jim miller still think he and drew bledsoe are the same quarterback? i hope ol' noodle-arm miller gets his ass booted, and soon.
see you at soldier field!
peace.
by at 10:47 AM
hey knifers!
don't forget to stop by the pontiac (1531 n. damen) 10 pm saturday nite and see the show. this one is not to be missed.
if you've been tired of putting up with lame bands to see the knife of simpson, this is the show for you. it's gonna be 100%, unadulterated k.o.s. up yer ass! we've got goovy new songs to rattle your bongs, along with the old "classics."
so come one, come all, and don't forget your dancing shoes.
see you tommorrow nite, good lord willing!
peace
don't forget to stop by the pontiac (1531 n. damen) 10 pm saturday nite and see the show. this one is not to be missed.
if you've been tired of putting up with lame bands to see the knife of simpson, this is the show for you. it's gonna be 100%, unadulterated k.o.s. up yer ass! we've got goovy new songs to rattle your bongs, along with the old "classics."
so come one, come all, and don't forget your dancing shoes.
see you tommorrow nite, good lord willing!
peace
by at 2:36 PM
Oh man, I read some terrible news yesterday.
A University of Michigan study found that teenage drinking, smoking and drug use are all down from a year ago. This is the first time this has EVER happened.
What's happened to youthful rebellion? Did it get sucked into a Game Cube or something?
I find this news really troubling, especially when you couple it with the fact that record sales are down. So kids today aren't drinking, doing drugs, smoking, or rockin' 'n' rollin'! They're probably not having sex either. What the hell gives?
I have a plea to this great nation's youth. Please, smash your computers, throw out your video game systems and tear yourself away from the television. Let your parents know that you're not like them, and start binge drinking, smoking copious amounts of grass, and do some rockin'! The future of America is depending on you!
Anyway, I'm still on the lam, so I've gotta scram. See ya!
A University of Michigan study found that teenage drinking, smoking and drug use are all down from a year ago. This is the first time this has EVER happened.
What's happened to youthful rebellion? Did it get sucked into a Game Cube or something?
I find this news really troubling, especially when you couple it with the fact that record sales are down. So kids today aren't drinking, doing drugs, smoking, or rockin' 'n' rollin'! They're probably not having sex either. What the hell gives?
I have a plea to this great nation's youth. Please, smash your computers, throw out your video game systems and tear yourself away from the television. Let your parents know that you're not like them, and start binge drinking, smoking copious amounts of grass, and do some rockin'! The future of America is depending on you!
Anyway, I'm still on the lam, so I've gotta scram. See ya!
by at 3:54 PM
Here's a hypothetical situation.
A government spends millions...no, let's make that BILLIONS...on a project that yields no positive results for its citizens.
The program has failed countless times, and has received at least adequate coverage in the national media. Analysts and professionals alike have condemned the program, and for good reason: no matter how the government gerrymanders the criteria for evaluation, there is no way this federal program has ever produced positive, quantifiable results. It is simply an exorbitant boondoggle, a waste of taxpayer resources, and should be disbanded in favor of more worthwhile pursuits.
Yet, its champions in government tell the people WE REALLY NEED THIS. They indefatigably proclaim victory and success after every glaring public failure and setback, and manage to secure another round of funding to keep this dubious program afloat for years to come. Their uncritical support and belief in this program borders on the theological.
Another case of government waste that's so typical of socialist regimes, right? What is this program, and who are the brainwashed ideologues who keep supporting it?
It's not a labor MP defending public ownership of utilities against privatization in the UK.
It's not a hardline Maoist fighting off agricultural reform in China.
It's not a northeastern liberal desperately trying to keep a New Deal/Great Society program alive.
It's National Missile Defense, America's Maginot Line. Its supporters are Republicans--usually the most vocal critics of the Welfare State and wasteful federal spending.
The "Party of Smaller Government," my ass.
For years we've heard nothing but the evils of "the gubbimint" from these slugs. Social spending is ALWAYS a waste...never mind, of course, our bloated Defense Budget, byzantine Pentagon bureaucracy, the sheer number of useless and dangerous weapons systems we've been sold over the years, or how many dirty little CIA wars have been funded in our name through our tax dollars.
NMD is just the latest fraud to be perpetrated in the name of national defense, and it very well could initiate another global arms race.
What was it that Saint Ronnie Raygun--NMD's brainchild, supposedly--said about "subsidizing failure?" This is nothing more than welfare for defense corporations and the al-Dubya network's crooked business connections. When you also figure in the Enron-style accounting that goes on at the Pentagon and Transportation Department to fund the CIA's worldwide chess game, you have a neat little perpetual motion machine.
Aren't conservatives happy with naming every square inch of America after their beloved St. Ronnie without trying to build his tower of babel as well?
By the end of 2004, the Little Bush says we will have an operational missile shield. Meanwhile, thousands of workers lose their jobless benefits by the end of this year. It's nice to see the USA has its priorities in order.
Merry Xmas, motherfuckers.
A government spends millions...no, let's make that BILLIONS...on a project that yields no positive results for its citizens.
The program has failed countless times, and has received at least adequate coverage in the national media. Analysts and professionals alike have condemned the program, and for good reason: no matter how the government gerrymanders the criteria for evaluation, there is no way this federal program has ever produced positive, quantifiable results. It is simply an exorbitant boondoggle, a waste of taxpayer resources, and should be disbanded in favor of more worthwhile pursuits.
Yet, its champions in government tell the people WE REALLY NEED THIS. They indefatigably proclaim victory and success after every glaring public failure and setback, and manage to secure another round of funding to keep this dubious program afloat for years to come. Their uncritical support and belief in this program borders on the theological.
Another case of government waste that's so typical of socialist regimes, right? What is this program, and who are the brainwashed ideologues who keep supporting it?
It's not a labor MP defending public ownership of utilities against privatization in the UK.
It's not a hardline Maoist fighting off agricultural reform in China.
It's not a northeastern liberal desperately trying to keep a New Deal/Great Society program alive.
It's National Missile Defense, America's Maginot Line. Its supporters are Republicans--usually the most vocal critics of the Welfare State and wasteful federal spending.
The "Party of Smaller Government," my ass.
For years we've heard nothing but the evils of "the gubbimint" from these slugs. Social spending is ALWAYS a waste...never mind, of course, our bloated Defense Budget, byzantine Pentagon bureaucracy, the sheer number of useless and dangerous weapons systems we've been sold over the years, or how many dirty little CIA wars have been funded in our name through our tax dollars.
NMD is just the latest fraud to be perpetrated in the name of national defense, and it very well could initiate another global arms race.
What was it that Saint Ronnie Raygun--NMD's brainchild, supposedly--said about "subsidizing failure?" This is nothing more than welfare for defense corporations and the al-Dubya network's crooked business connections. When you also figure in the Enron-style accounting that goes on at the Pentagon and Transportation Department to fund the CIA's worldwide chess game, you have a neat little perpetual motion machine.
Aren't conservatives happy with naming every square inch of America after their beloved St. Ronnie without trying to build his tower of babel as well?
By the end of 2004, the Little Bush says we will have an operational missile shield. Meanwhile, thousands of workers lose their jobless benefits by the end of this year. It's nice to see the USA has its priorities in order.
Merry Xmas, motherfuckers.
by at 12:33 PM
I'm going to post the top things that are pissing off Savage Cochryde right now. I will make it a top ten list later, but I have to go to work soon, so here ya go!
1. Bush Administration 2: The Rebirth! There's so much that can be said about this that I don't even think I'll be able to put it all down here. I mean shit, picking Henry Kissinger to head an investigation of 9/11? Ignoring the incredibly violent and shady shit Mr. Kissinger has personally been responsible for in the lasst half century, I wouldn't be surprised if pages from the Al- Quida training manual were taken directly from Kissinger's autobiography! It's like hiring a bank robber to be the head of security at a bank. (Which apparently happens too!)
What's more infuriating is that there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it. All you have to do is to read back in the archives to find out how much this administration is pissing us all off, and many items on my list directly flow from this. All that I know is that most of my friends and relatives feel an inescapible sense of doom for their lives and their futures right now. I knew it was going to get bad, but sheesh!
2. The New Anti-Drug Ads - I had to write about this one. Have you seen the commercial where the 12 year old kids are smoking marijuana, and one of the kids picks up a gun and BLOWS THE OTHER KID'S HEAD OFF? What the hell is up with that? Naturally, I can agree that it's a bad thing when 12 year old kids smoke pot and that bad things can happen to kids who do it, and I realize that anti-drug agencies are going to have to use a certain amount of scare tactics to get their point across. But nothing in this commercial brings attention to a glaring question: What the FUCK is a handgun doing lying on a table in this house? Isn't that a little more disturbing? Or is it completely normal in this country to have loaded handguns sitting in plain view? Apparently if no marijuana is present, nobody will ever get hurt. THAT pisses me off. That's the kind of thinking that has placed us in this Columbine culture we live in, and it's frightening. I suppose all of the "friendly fire" casualties in Afghanistan were caused by marijuana too.
3. The Red Eye and Red Streak Newspapers - Just when you thought it couldn't get any dumber out there, the Tribune decides that young people can't be bothered with actual information and non-public interest stories, puts out a watery thin paper in tabloid format and calls it the Red Eye. Naturally, the Sun-Times decries it as a bad idea, BUT JUST IN CASE THEY'RE WRONG, they rush their own paper in tabloid format called Red Streak that will exist simply to put the Red Eye out of business. A waste of time, effort, and money on all fronts, with the news value of a Jerry Springer episode. Also a waste of paper: take a walk downtown and notice the piles of still-bound, unread Brown Eye and Brown Streak papers in the trash cans. By the way, you know those Red Eye paper boxes with the big globes on top of them? They're made of plastic, so you could probably take them out with a cinderblock or a well-placed blow with a baseball bat. If you're into that sort of thing.
4. Stupid Bands - Someone should tell The Vines that there's no sense trashing your stage during rehearsal. Even Kurt Cobain knew that!
More later! Also, I'm having a party Saturday night! Email me and tell me why you think you should be invited!
1. Bush Administration 2: The Rebirth! There's so much that can be said about this that I don't even think I'll be able to put it all down here. I mean shit, picking Henry Kissinger to head an investigation of 9/11? Ignoring the incredibly violent and shady shit Mr. Kissinger has personally been responsible for in the lasst half century, I wouldn't be surprised if pages from the Al- Quida training manual were taken directly from Kissinger's autobiography! It's like hiring a bank robber to be the head of security at a bank. (Which apparently happens too!)
What's more infuriating is that there doesn't seem to be anything we can do about it. All you have to do is to read back in the archives to find out how much this administration is pissing us all off, and many items on my list directly flow from this. All that I know is that most of my friends and relatives feel an inescapible sense of doom for their lives and their futures right now. I knew it was going to get bad, but sheesh!
2. The New Anti-Drug Ads - I had to write about this one. Have you seen the commercial where the 12 year old kids are smoking marijuana, and one of the kids picks up a gun and BLOWS THE OTHER KID'S HEAD OFF? What the hell is up with that? Naturally, I can agree that it's a bad thing when 12 year old kids smoke pot and that bad things can happen to kids who do it, and I realize that anti-drug agencies are going to have to use a certain amount of scare tactics to get their point across. But nothing in this commercial brings attention to a glaring question: What the FUCK is a handgun doing lying on a table in this house? Isn't that a little more disturbing? Or is it completely normal in this country to have loaded handguns sitting in plain view? Apparently if no marijuana is present, nobody will ever get hurt. THAT pisses me off. That's the kind of thinking that has placed us in this Columbine culture we live in, and it's frightening. I suppose all of the "friendly fire" casualties in Afghanistan were caused by marijuana too.
3. The Red Eye and Red Streak Newspapers - Just when you thought it couldn't get any dumber out there, the Tribune decides that young people can't be bothered with actual information and non-public interest stories, puts out a watery thin paper in tabloid format and calls it the Red Eye. Naturally, the Sun-Times decries it as a bad idea, BUT JUST IN CASE THEY'RE WRONG, they rush their own paper in tabloid format called Red Streak that will exist simply to put the Red Eye out of business. A waste of time, effort, and money on all fronts, with the news value of a Jerry Springer episode. Also a waste of paper: take a walk downtown and notice the piles of still-bound, unread Brown Eye and Brown Streak papers in the trash cans. By the way, you know those Red Eye paper boxes with the big globes on top of them? They're made of plastic, so you could probably take them out with a cinderblock or a well-placed blow with a baseball bat. If you're into that sort of thing.
4. Stupid Bands - Someone should tell The Vines that there's no sense trashing your stage during rehearsal. Even Kurt Cobain knew that!
More later! Also, I'm having a party Saturday night! Email me and tell me why you think you should be invited!
by at 11:03 AM
looks like sen. trent lott (r-miss) is eating some jim crow these days.
i love it.
how is it that a man who is to become the senate majority leader in january thinks saying we could have avoided a lot of problems if dixiecrat and segregationalist strom thurmond was elected president in 1948? what a jackass!
i'd love to read a copy of lott's written apology. i wonder what it says. "sorry i was IGNORANT of the tastelessness of my joke"? or more simply, "sorry i'm nazi"?
i wonder if lott's comments had anything to do with the fact that mississippi was the only state thurmond carried in his presidential run?
anyway, thanks trent for showing the nation what pig you are. fuck you in the face!
i love it.
how is it that a man who is to become the senate majority leader in january thinks saying we could have avoided a lot of problems if dixiecrat and segregationalist strom thurmond was elected president in 1948? what a jackass!
i'd love to read a copy of lott's written apology. i wonder what it says. "sorry i was IGNORANT of the tastelessness of my joke"? or more simply, "sorry i'm nazi"?
i wonder if lott's comments had anything to do with the fact that mississippi was the only state thurmond carried in his presidential run?
anyway, thanks trent for showing the nation what pig you are. fuck you in the face!
by at 12:48 PM
Howdy, y'all. Hope you and yer kinfolk had a pleasant Thanksgiving weekend. KoS took advantage of the holiday break to clear our heads and salt the earth, for we've been busy writing a massive batch of new tunes that are destined to please yer ears or soil yer shorts. Rusty and I were talking about playing a Quenchers show this month to debut only the new material, with a regular balls-out show later in the month. We'll definitely keep you posted.
The better half & I saw "Solaris" over the weekend and I gotta admit we were not disappointed. Much love to Steven Soderbergh for being as bold & daring as any American filmmaker in a great while for offering the most cerebral & artistic (though at times highly derivative) "commercial" film to be released by a major motion picture studio. Though I still recommend first seeing the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky original, this pic willl either polarize or stun you, no middle ground. Not the greatest film of all time but probably the best of the year (at least among the drek I've subjected myself to in 2002). And George Clooney delivers a performance in which his head doesn't wobble uncontrollably the entire 90 minutes! (Just kidding, George. I have friends in H-town who have worked with & for you and said you were aces, a real stand-up guy).
But no love to J-Lo, who's so self-centered & self-obsessed & apparently fretting herself silly over her PR image that she has decided to offer the world public a trite musical assurance that she's "still Jenny from the block" and has not "forgotten where she comes from (the Bronx)" while galavanting in willowy though absolutely pricey hootchie-wear with her likewise "down to earth" Horatio-Alger-story pal, Benny Whofleck. Fuck these people. Seriously, fuck them. Let us now ignore them. But I can't get that damn chorus outta my head!!! It's like crack!!!!
The better half & I saw "Solaris" over the weekend and I gotta admit we were not disappointed. Much love to Steven Soderbergh for being as bold & daring as any American filmmaker in a great while for offering the most cerebral & artistic (though at times highly derivative) "commercial" film to be released by a major motion picture studio. Though I still recommend first seeing the 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky original, this pic willl either polarize or stun you, no middle ground. Not the greatest film of all time but probably the best of the year (at least among the drek I've subjected myself to in 2002). And George Clooney delivers a performance in which his head doesn't wobble uncontrollably the entire 90 minutes! (Just kidding, George. I have friends in H-town who have worked with & for you and said you were aces, a real stand-up guy).
But no love to J-Lo, who's so self-centered & self-obsessed & apparently fretting herself silly over her PR image that she has decided to offer the world public a trite musical assurance that she's "still Jenny from the block" and has not "forgotten where she comes from (the Bronx)" while galavanting in willowy though absolutely pricey hootchie-wear with her likewise "down to earth" Horatio-Alger-story pal, Benny Whofleck. Fuck these people. Seriously, fuck them. Let us now ignore them. But I can't get that damn chorus outta my head!!! It's like crack!!!!
by at 6:33 PM