im very disappointed in her

sheeeeet

i dont know what movie to take her to, so if you have any ideas feel free… i was so ready to take a lunch break yesterday at 11am. i was so ahead of the game. but i just kept working. theres something wrong with me. very very wrong.

laist was on fire yesterday. i think we had twenty stories. something like that. i think i wrote something funny. i cant remember.

i do remember that i cooked tonight. tacos. i had some ground turkey from the other day when i went to the store and it was a red tag butcher man discount price of ninety nine cents for a little more than a pound.

i thought i had some helper in there but i was all outta helper/

this isnt drunk blogging this is exahusted blogging. its 450am, im seeing so many things that arent here .

mark and xeni from boing boing gave me top ten lists from 2006 yesterday.

as did the dude who created Post Secret.

you dont need to be funny if youve got all those badasses.

i realized today that in six months ive never felt the urge to editorialize. as in a column or a rant or something. none. not that my opionion doesnt matter, just that theres going to be very little that i could add thats going to be more classic than what the next story or picture or video is gonna be.

if youre an ice skater and you live here in LA you should go down to pershing square (take the subway) and get there around 8pm and you can hear one of the best new duos, The Submarines, and then Great Northern at 9pm. they will play as you ice skate.

its called Spaceland on Ice. it makes me glad i dont do hallucenegines.

if the clippers got allen iverson

id be at those games

night.

hey buddy.

uh, hi, kurt.

i dont really know how to say this to you, so i’ll just come right out and say it. youre dead.

pardon me?

ok, let me put it this way, knock knock.

heh. who’s there?

not you, because you’re dead.

can i ask you a question?

sure.

good, am i on acid?

no, youre dead.

how did i die?

i can tell you, but then i’d have to bring you back to life. ahahahahaha. sorry, little joke we tell.

what’s this hole in my chest?

thats where you were stabbed with a knife.

who the hell would stab me?

lots of people. there are those who are jealous of your hits. there are all the dads of the young girls you kiss. there are the sisters of the girls you kiss. there are the politicians who fear that you might go to law school and then run for office. theres bud selig, dick cheney, pearl jam. or any of the hundreds of criminals you sent to jail.

you know whats funny, kurt, youd think id be sad, but im not sad.

good.

but i will miss all my friends.

they’ll probably miss you too.

and i love the people of Earth.

theres people of Earth where you’re going.

yeah, but i liked life.

you did? you were always bitching about it. you were never satisfied with any of the girls you got. you were never pleased with where you lived or what you did for a living, or what you looked like, or what you wrote, or who you were. dont bullshit me, bro.

hmmm. i did like chris.

too little, too late, cubfan.

and i liked living on del playa.

youre going to a better place.

i am?

maybe.

what!

hopefully.

fuck.

hey i got in and i broke some major rules.

thats right, you killed yourself.

major faux pas, let me tell you.

how did you get in after something like that?

G-o-G.

whats that?

Grace of God. thats how everyone gets in.

what if you were super good?

doesnt matter, without the GoG you dont get in.

so, like, mother theresa?

God isnt crazy about the Catholics. little known fact. especially the ones who know better. they disobeyed the very last line in the Bible, “dont add anything to this text or else you will get all the curses written herein on your ass.”

thats not exactly what it says.

whatever.

damn, kurt, even in your afterlife you’re controversial.

ready to hit the road, pallie?

wow. im really dead?

dead as grunge.

and i have to leave this apartment behind?

you can haunt it if you want, but scaring people becomes dull. it’s pretty easy.

but its sorta messy, i’d hate to leave a mess.

trust me, dude, people are going to make a fortune eBaying your stuff. youve got some great shit here.

yeah somewhere in here i have a ticket stub from your last show in LA.

not anymore,

kurt cobain said and flashed me the stub and tucked it into the breast pocket of his raggedy flannel.

– a link sorta worthy of all caps
– ucla gets hacked; 800,000 compromised
– the mysterious kosmo card which im still not sure i understand
– thinking about her made me cry on sunday
– Van Halen to David Lee Roth: “‘Dude, get your ass up here and sing, bitch!”
– howard on letterman
– nerf herder to celebrate the Rumor
– how to ruin the best friends with benefits
– eric gagne: gone, eh
– incredible lineup of live concerts including wolfmother (bonus, video)
– LAist Interview: Armin Van Buuren
– Spank Rock pre-write, and bonus video for the song “Rick Rubin”
– i must say my Extra, Extras are getting better
– Analysis of the first 25% of the Laker season so far
– ratatat concert review, palladium

i fell asleep on the couch last night. when i was in orlando we stayed at a five star resort that had won the resort of the year twice, recently.

they were tooting their own horn about how comfortable the beds were, 89million thread count, increadible comforters, etc. and the beds were nice, but i slept all night without even moving probably on my big black leather couch and i woke up this morning perfectly happy. go figure.

watched the hunter s thompson doc on Starz. pretty good. they got everyone you could get. gary busey was pretty good. so was bill murray, but hunter stole the show.

i liked that he would call people at 4am, and wake up at 4 pm. and would always over order like “six beers and four margueritas please.” thats who i want to party with.

so few people know how to party.

i saw some exceptions in canda though.

i watched snoop dogg on directv’s Free channel. ive gotta ask alistair if hes part of that channel cuz it was sorta a bummer that they bleeped the d-o double g.

they could at least have some showings in the wee hours that people could tivo thats uncensored.

speaking of which it was nice to see howard on letterman today although im getting a little sick of the new gwen stefani song. and her outfits arent any good any more.

i ate a half a pound of shrimp today and talked dirty to a girl from kansas who had the wrong number.

once and for all, i have never claimed to be the blogfather of anything. nor am i the father of anything, the grandfather of anything, or grand-nephew of anything. maybe if i was we wouldnt have had to be discussing the same thing all week.

our old pal glenn reynolds is the blogfather.

although i chide him about claiming to be libertarian even though he hardly ever talks about libertarians or announces the support of any libertarians in top level government positions, and then votes for them.

you know, like how a man who describes himself as a cubs fan actually pays money to the club and then roots for them. even when all signs point to the fact that they will probably lose. you know, like normal people.

despite denying the fact that he is a republican, glenn mostly talks about things from a Conservative point of view. not that theres anything wrong with that.

i just dont understand the fear of coming out of the closet.

jeff guckert did it

ted haggard did it

mark foley did it

even michele malkin admitted that yes, she is a proud republican.

i had no problem telling people that i am an independent. i had no problem telling them that i had voted for reagan and bush in the past and clinton and nader in the near past, and now greens and peace and freedoms.

the reason why professor reynolds has a hard time being up front in his blog is

because hes the blogfather.

if he was just some unknown college professor, freaked out by 9/11, he wouldnt have had to keep up this charade of being some libertarian because he thinks weed ought to be legal.

dude everyone thinks weed ought to be legal. that doesnt make you punk rock.

if he didnt have the spotlight on him that comes with being among other things, the blogfather, he could just write a normal blog and keep it real and truly blog instead of being a cellphone repeater.

we’ve got some out here that look like palm trees.

which isnt to say that those things arent useful. anyone at coachella stuck in the madonna tent as the yeah yeah yeahs were across the polo fields would have told their freinds to keep on keepin on with karen o, if they had a cell phone, and thanks to golden voice for wheeling in temporary repeaters.

but glenn should aspire to be more than that. my opinion.

i consider him the blogfather because he gets hella hits and has inspired lots of other people to start blogging, and has inspired this blog and blogger a great deal, and is the chair of pj media (which is a joke organization but so were the chicago cubs for a lawng ass time, so props to anyone who is the chair of anything), and posts 20-30 times a day

he breaks one of the rules of blogging when he apologizes for “light posting”, but we’ll let it slide since most people probably assume hes hunting with cheney and quite possibly might be injured.

i also consider him the blogfather because a long time ago he linked to a list created by one of his baby bloggers of all the other blogs that have said were inspired to start blogging because of reynolds. there were a lot of blogs on there.

maybe people like Kos or Ariana Huffington have actually allowed more unknown bloggers a chance to get read, but to me Glenn is the blogfather, an opinion ive held for a long time, and have pretty much always said.

now vote for raymi to win her thingi

i was in a good mood but it only got better when Shepard Fairey and his beautiful wife Amanda climbed aboard the shuttle taking us to the Century Blvd. long-term parking structure.

we had shared some emails a few years ago when CafePress asked me to get his permission to use the photo that graced the cover of How to Blog. what was amazing about him back then was he said yes pretty quickly and simply asked for a short message to appear in the title page of my book. gladly i accepted the “demand”.

the other day we had a pleasant chat about sean bonner, banksy, and his new magazine in which he interviewed banksy.

when i got home my house was super clean because my maid had just left. it was raining so i put some plants outside on the porch. the lovely lady who had been housesitting left behind a little film container of green buds as a thank you.

that is, i think she left it behind. baby if you simply forgot it lemme know, theres a bunch left as that shit is amazing.

tonight i watched the bears destroy the st louis rams. yes the rams were pathetic but the bears totally dominated. the nfl doesnt play and to completely manhandle the rams like that was mighty sweet.

it looks like we were all wrong in criticizing lovie for standing by his man.

although now that everything has been proved to everyone, how about letting griese take over after the first quarter next week. you never know when youre gonna need the dude.

because zona and chokey are trying to reverse psychology me, in wikipedia news, my page was pulled this weekend. the votes were something like 54-27 and the administrator who decided to delete it never gave a statement as to why she did it.

wikipedia is very odd in that it tries to be very free in allowing known trolls and even libelous statements remain on the site, but when things get controversial they bite their tongue.

during the ordeal i read a great deal within the site and never have i seen so much internal politics. whereas most work-based politics is between management and the real workers, wikipedia’s politics seem to be between the the trolls and those who are seriously there to edit the encyclopedia.

although it does look like the wikipedians are beginning to grow weary of the trolls and beginning to tolerate less nonsense, you do get the feeling that every word is measured and when in doubt the people in charge of one of the best communication tools on the internet would rather allow the trolls to delete things and refrain from appearing soft on bloggers.

and over-explaining themselves is something that theyd never be blamed for.

anti and big tanky and i had chinese the other day and anti said something so perfect.

he said, “when i go to wikipedia, i go to learn something. im so happy when they have a good article there about what i was looking for. if i was going there to learn about you, or to read more about what a blog was or what a blook was, i would love to read the entry about you. it makes no sense that they would delete something like that. now if i went there to find out about you, i wouldnt get the answer.”

well mr anti, not only would you not get the answer, but you would think that the #3 tony on google, tony pierce the blogger, is actually tony pierce the world-renown actor.

almost instantly someone challenged its notability, which means tony pierce the actor might get deleted too. and as much as i tried to see both sides on the issue, when anti talked about what wikipedia’s real purpose should be- to give information, period – i cant be totally upset that a lesser-known tony pierce slid in the day after i was deleted, because the truth is both of us should be in there.

whatever. i will get in there some day. and i would volunteer to edit there if there wasnt so much political bs flying around every minute.

lord knows i enjoy sophmoric behavior but the constant infighting and nitpicking thats not based in anything other than noise, makes it not worth it to me. ive got a web site to work on. two, actually.

and i certainly dont want to spend too much time in an organization that allows someone start an Articles for Deletion whose note to the closing administrator basically accuses me of fucking with the votes. the chick said “There appear to be a lot of sleeper accounts being used here, though curiously, they don’t seem to all express the same opinion as one might expect.”

as if simply because its a war on a blog, they expect the blogger to beg his readers to vote on his behalf. even though its not a vote. however if you look at the huge amount of votes against me its clear that people voted on my thing and nothing else. knowing that the trolls use chat rooms to organize and constantly get busted for using sock puppets its the blogger who you expect to stuff the ballot box?

get over yourselves.

i might rerun that bears game every day this week.

of a Wikipedia Editor who writes about why he voted to delete the page about me in Wikipedia. some of you may have perhaps thought that i have been kissing the ass of Wikipedia when i said that i respect those who volunteer there, even most who have decided to give an opinion of delete. you know me well enough to know that i kiss nobody’s ass. plus the “vote” is not a vote, but a discussion that the closing Admin will read before he/she makes up their mind.

hopefully this explanation will convince you why i have such admiration to those who volunteer their time over there. also, if this is the reasoning of the closing Admin then its something that i can totally live with. as ive said before, wikipedia is a living, breathing, ever-changing project, as we all are, so if i dont reach their standards yet as a blogger, perhaps i will later.

either way i truly appreciate this person’s explanation and i hope you all read it with an open mind.

Well, I’m sorry to tell you that I argued for deletion. On the bright side, I discovered your blog and enjoy it. I’m heavily involved with wikipedia and I wanted to bring some of that experience here. Specifically, I wanted to say that we’re not discussing your notability as a person. (Well, perhaps some of the more trollish people are, but they’re the typical village idiots). “Notability” for wikipedia generally boils down to having multiple non-trivial sources about the subject. There are several reasons for this, but one of them is that we need such sources in order to write verified biographies. This is especially important when it comes to biographies of living people. Another reason we require “multiple non-trivial sources” is that we don’t trust ourselves or others to confer “encyclopedic value”; we wait for traditional media outlets to do it. Being interviewed multiple times by the media is no small achievement and none of the reasonable wikipedians would say otherwise. The problem is that we cannot keep an article about everyone who has received press attention or accomplished a great deal. In short, ‘notability’ is the wrong word. Unfortunately, nobody has thought of anything better.

Perhaps the grave error is in discounting blog references. Blogs and wikipedia are part of the same culture; we’re intimately related and we’re “making the internet not suck” together. I think the reason many of us typically exclude blogs as references is because we are acutely aware of how easy it is for anyone to write anything on the internet. I suppose both communities are facing the same issue when it comes to credibility. On wikipedia, we’re trying to deal with it by enforcing very strict verifiability and reliable source guidelines (which are obviously unrealistic or flawed in certain cases).

Due to the size of wikipedia, we tend to generalize. We’ve invented a rather complicated set of guidelines, process, and precedent. Fundamentally, we operate by consensus and core principles such as ‘neutral point of view’. I believe that writing complicated, generalized guidelines is a necessary evil to this end. There are so many people editing wikipedia that local consensus is a very poor indication of global consensus. Furthermore, our large community is not nearly large enough! There are so many things going on all over wikipedia that the good, dedicated editors are spread very thinly. All of our guidelines and processes are intended to bring the views of the entire community down upon debates. They give us some solid ground. I think there is some degree of folly in writing a list of items which confer notability, but this is what we came up with. (We are not a democray, but an ad hocery.) Hopefully we’ll come up with something better in due time. It is very difficult to write inclusion guidelines that don’t accidentally destroy worthy articles. At any rate, you’re biography is a casualty of this generalization (if it’s even deleted).

You’ve actually found yourself in the middle of one of the oldest, largest, and most divisive debates on wikipedia. If there were political parties on wikipedia, they’d be “inclusionist” and “deletionist”. There are humorous accounts of this debate on meta.wikipedia.org. Most wikipedians fall somewhere in the middle. Some of us have been pushed into the extreme by varying forces. Those of us who tend towards deletionism have various reasons, but many of us have their eyes fixed on the influx of newpages. (Refresh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spe…pecial: Newpages a few times to see how rapidly they come in). Those who tend toward inclusionism are sick of seeing perfectly legitimate information discarded. Note that deleted pages are still stored in the database, so its not like this is a capacity issue. This is an interesting debate and I don’t think it’ll ever be settled.

Finally, there is no war on blogs. That’d be like the New York Times declaring a war on the New Yorker. Most of us had never seen that ridiculous userpage until it showed up on the main page of digg. As I said above, wikipedia and blogs are complementary forces.

Wikipedia, being free, belongs to everyone. Anyone with an interest should edit there. Well-respected editors can influence the course of these debates, so I would encourage those who are displeased about this turn of events to join wikipedia and get involved. Becoming well-respected in our community is a simple matter of making high quality edits and acting with the core principles in mind.

Cheers!
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