Are You Experienced?

I used to love Mike Vick. In the Sugar Bowl against FSU and the game he had, and the way he was making the most athletic team in the country look overmatched by one man, it was beyond sick, and looking back now I'm still like wow.
Guy was electric.
And when this commercial came out it was such a phenomenal concept and was so cool, in that way the Vick was just cool and the commercial still stands up-ideawise.



Sigh, wtf happened? Now it seems the Michael Vick Experience for the next, I'm predicting 16 months, will contain a lot more of this and definitely some sodomy (though that won't necessarily make him gay , sports fans, in case you were "worrying." It's good to see that his jersey is being put to good use though.

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Will This Cause Any Problems with the Music Festival?

Scientists, in that bright and cheery way they do at times, have predicted that the Southland is in for a major major earthquake where there "will be several thousand dead and billions of dollars in damages." Seismologist and others at a conference predicted that the Coachella valley is long overdue for an earthquake: "major temblors have struck the Coachella Valley every 150 years, on average, but for reasons no one can explain, it's been quiet for 300 years." It will move the ground at almost twice as many feet per second as the Northridge Quake (which apparently had the highest ever recorded ground acceleration. Interesting.)

Will it's been a long time coming, both geologically and "personally;" the last Earthquake that I think I actually felt was the Northridge one which woke me up, brought my neighbor's wall tumbling down and broke a mirror in my house (leading to, I just realized this a few weeks ago, the next 7 years including the death of my maternal grandparents, my favorite uncle and his wife and my "dad" getting disabled in a bad car accident; yeah maybe there's something to that bad luck theory.) But it had been such a long while and I would always tell my mom, and almost lament the fact we haven't had an earthquake, like a major one in so long. Earthquakes have always been my favorite natural disaster just because I am too full of California pride, but also because they strike without the week long warning of a hurricane and when they strike its kind of cool to sway and shake; at times when they're weak enough and you're in bed it is a very soothing experience.

But what these scientists are predicting (and it's always a great sign when the word "dire" is used in a headline) is terrfiying like apocalyptic, 70's bad movie levels of destruction and chaos. The end of the world, naturally.

A likely scenario would have a magnitude-7.8 earthquake strike in the Salton Sea, extending north and west toward Palmdale. Jones predicted the shaking could last more than 100 seconds, kill thousands, destroy homes, collapse the I-10 and I-15 freeways, ignite petroleum pipelines and leave untold thousands homeless in potentially searing desert heat. The long-term effects, she said, could be akin to the economic collapse of New Orleans and the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina.

"This will have long-term economic implications across the nation," she said.

It would be even worse should the quake hit during Santa Ana winds, possibly adding fires as another major element to the disaster, Jones said.

Jones said Los Angeles would not be spared. The tremendous forces released by the slipping faults would send shock waves through the earth that could easily collapse tall buildings in Los Angeles the way the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which hit near Watsonville, collapsed the Bay Bridge between Oakland and San Francisco about 50 miles away.

"This is a whole new level of disaster," she said.

Awesome. So I'm taking it that standing in a doorway won't help? And does that make me an absolutely horrible person if this kind of makes me want to stay in L.A. just so I can be in the thick of it all. I mean I would hate to move to like the East Coast just when Arizona gets a new coastline (learn to swim) and California is finally set adrift. I could never forgive myself.

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Overheard in L.M.E.- Intolerance*

*its not just a Tool song or D.W. Griffith film
from an afternoon in Durham on th 10th of October of the year past

ev livid e: its going to be a crazy season. and hottttt dougray scott's in it!
a dam e: im not sure who that is
a dam e: previous roles...go!
ev livid e: ever after
ev livid e: he was the prince
ev livid e: thats all that matters
ev livid e: he was hottt
a dam e: thats what i thought
ev livid e: he was in some other sci fi crap, not impo
a dam e: and also the bad guy in mission impossible 2
ev livid e: haven't seen any of the mi's yet
ev livid e: i don't like tom cruise
ev livid e: i do know emmanuelle beart is in 2
ev livid e: mi 2
a dam e: im sure you did at some point
ev livid e: nope
ev livid e: i actually haven't
ev livid e: i will only see mi2
a dam e: the first one came out 190 years ago
a dam e: 10
a dam e: not 190
ev livid e: ahaha
ev livid e: i can promise i haven't seen it
ev livid e: i know the them e song. thats it
a dam e: we'll see
ev livid e: whaqt do you mean w'ell see? i know that i haven't seen any of them!
a dam e: we'll see when we play never have i ever after like 15 erica chang's
ev livid e: ahaha
ev livid e: why yht hell would i hide the fact that i've seen mi?
a dam e: your intolerance of scientology
a dam e: bigot
ev livid e: what?!
a dam e: yup
ev livid e: just because i don't support scientology does not mean that i hide my knowledge
ev livid e: you should know me by know.
ev livid e: you west coast people
a dam e: you don't want to admit you once supported and liked a scientologist at any pooint
a dam e: just like hitler and his jewish granddad
ev livid e: i honestly never liked tom cruise
ev livid e: WHAT?!!
ev livid e: don't drag hitler into this!
a dam e: a few good men
ev livid e: and i never likd john travolta
ev livid e: are you a scientologist
ev livid e: he wasn't in it
a dam e: no but i bet you like a scientologist
a dam e: jenna elfman?
ev livid e: hahaha NO!
a dam e: stacy who zak dated at the beach on saved by the bell
a dam e: giovanni ribisi
a dam e: beck!
ev livid e: nope. i was a tiffani thiessen fan
ev livid e: i don't like beck
ev livid e: i don't like italians
a dam e: beck isn't italian
ev livid e: giovanni is
a dam e: so you hate a person because of their nationaity?
a dam e: their heritage?
ev livid e: i don't hate the person. i just prefer the french
a dam e: vichy
ev livid e preference does not draw upon emotions of hate
ev livid e: exactly. spas!
a dam e: wow
a dam e: frau chang
a dam e: german. i don't like german
a dam e: tis okay
ev livid e i wasn't apologizing!
a dam e: its fine sweetheart
ev livid e: what?
a dam e: your racism
ev livid e: its not racism. its patriotism
a dam e: and your subsequent apology
ev livid e: i am never apologizing for my love of france
ev livid e: again, its all preference, not hate
a dam e: you were apologizing for hating germans
a dam e: and its ok
ev livid e: what?!
ev livid e: don't make me angry
a dam e: surrender to your emotions
ev livid e: i have no emotions
a dam e: no, surrender and be french
a dam e: oly germans are emotionless
ev livid e: by surrender, you mean love
a dam e: so thats why the french always surrender
a dam e: they think its a sign of love
ev livid e: its all about kumbaya
ev livid e: not like germany's stomp shoot stomp
a dam e: exactly
ev livid e: i don't like how you're agreeing with me. this is not good.
ev livid e: take it back
a dam e: why
ev livid e: because we are team disunity!
a dam e: everyone hates germany
ev livid e: i don't hate germany
a dam e: only when we paly beirut (hint hint) and you make me drink for you
ev livid e: i liked cologne when i visited, and the beer/meat hall my fam went to
a dam e: hate germans
ev livid e: [REDACTED]'s ancestors are german
a dam e: yeah she hates them too
ev livid e: oh dear
ev livid e: that is not good family dynamics
a dam e: germans are not lovable people
a dam e: just listen to their language
ev livid e: bratwurst sauerkraut
ev livid e that sounds delicious to me
ev livid e: (just the first part)
a dam e: trust me; germans " i love you" sounds like "death to the subhumans"


(and yes I have realized that one of the pseudonyms "a dam e" if it is respaced is the first name and initital (sp) of a guy I had a crush on but that was not the intent at all, i was going more for spacing like "a dame", but whatevs...)

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