Everyone is emailing me (the myriad of MWB fans) about the hurricane; why am I not blogging about it; what about the potshots being taken at rescue workers. Sorry fans, MWB is going to be a respite from that horror, save for the humorous pic of the Voodoo store awning sitting on the ground. News outlets such as FoxNews.com, CNN.com, Reuters.com, MSNBC.com, ABCNews.com can do a far better job. RE: The shootings. I say, shoot back. With bigger guns. We don't hold back with the can of Raid when we see a cockroach, why hold back here. People need rescuing and so eliminate the cockroaches preventing that. It's simple.

One of the hardest things to find is very cool home office furniture. The good desks are usually either these powder coated steel cubicle reject looking things, or something from the latest over-priced Ethan Allen "Goombah Gaudy" Collection, worthy of Carmelo Soprano's dining room. To the rescue? Plummers Home Furnishings, a fairly decent collection of german cool with the posh of a New York City loft. But even better and with a much larger selection is a catalogue company, Topdeq. Visit both: www.plummers.com www.Topdeq.com

Marla brings us Fucking...Fucking, Austria that is... Read all about it "Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that there were no F---ing postcards." Quote by a local guide in Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking", you puritanical but dirty-minded Yanks).

Since the ruby slippers were stolen, we were reminded of our generation's link to the past, courtesy of Pink Floyd, one fo the best rock-n-roll bands in history and Wizard of Oz, one fo the best acid trips of all time. If you play the movie The Wizard of Oz and mute the sound, and simultaneously play Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon, the album's songs and lyrics match, moment to moment, what is taking place in the movie, from beginning to end. This only works when you play the original vinyl album (as, we are told, cd's have a delay between tracks which do not exist on the album). It all starts with the third lions roar... Courtesy of http://www.geocities.com/freebird73717/PINKFLOYD_DARKSIDE_WIZARD_OF_OZ.html

Read the list of synchronicities1. The lyric “Balanced on the biggest wave” coincides with Dorothy’s balancing act on the fence 2. On the Run” starts as Dorothy falls off the fence 3. Chimes and Bells start ringing as the Wicked Witch appears riding her bicycle. 4. During the “Time” guitar solo, the fortune teller’s sign is shown with the words "Past Present and Future." 5. The tornado is shown in the background as the words “I am not frightened of dying” are sung. 6. The drums start right as the wind really picks up and blows the trees from their roots. 7. The singer calms down as Dorothy is knocked unconscious by the window 8. “Great Gig in the Sky” is still playing as the house flies in the tornado 9. Side 1 of the album is exactly as long as the black & white portion of the film. 10. The cash register in Money is heard right as color is seen in Oz (money = color) 11. The ballerinas enter on “Us, us, us, us.” One ballerina seems to lip-sync “ordinary men” 12. Three men enter on “Me, me, me” 13. One kid’s jerking motions are in sync with the music 14. “Forward he cried” is sung as Dorothy turns to face forward 15. The Wicked Witch appears on “Black, black” On “Blue, blue, blue,” the camera switches to Dorothy (in her blue dress) 16. “And who knows which is which and who is who” is sung when the Good Witch looks at the recently killed Wicked Witch. 17. The play on words "which is which" vs. "Witch is Witch" 18. The Witch goes up on the platform for “Up, up” and then walks down on “Down, down, down” 19. As “And in the End” is sung, the Wicked Witch disappears On “Out, out, out,” & the Good Witch of the North leaves 20. “Brain Damage” plays as Scarecrow sings “If I Only Had a Brain” 21. Heartbeat heard at the end of the album is heard as Dorothy listens at the Tin Man’s chest

--Hondas, any model, any make, any engine size. You, YOU right there in that gd underpowered Honda POS, get out of the f-ing fast lane before I drive my German tank up your Japanese arse! --Fubars who are entering the first millenium 1,000 years late, and are starting to use their debit or credit cards at the grocery store instead of writing a check. You get 100 points for migrating from the ridiculous ritual of writing checks (which includes the cursive dollar amount and showing a driver's license, whose data must then be transferred to the face of the check, as IF that makes the check not bounce). But you get -1,000,000 points for squinting and staring at the card terminal and having to ask every step of the way which F-ING button is the correct next button in the sequence. Just have your groceries delivered.

Michela once again thanks PT Cruiser for this one:

Enough said:

Read all about it A princess in Swaziland was whipped, as were many of her friends, for playing music too loud. And Gloria Steinem will STILL stand there and tell you how patriarchal the United States is, with her Chinese Communist star shirt on. She'd probably hold the girls down for the abuse, if she knew they didn't think the way she thinks (if you call her form of hatred "thinking").

Read all about it Now that Israel has done exactly what the Palestinians have said it will take to stop the murder, the murder begins again. I remember an Iranian friend of mine sending me a series of pictures in which it did appear a Palestinian was shot by Israeli police while his arms were tied around his back. I was one of about 50 on the distribution list. I replied (to all, of course) that maybe, just maybe, one of those Israeli soldiers was the one who tried to help a very old woman after the bombing of a Passover dinner in a restaurant, only to find her legs had been blown completely off. A fact even the old woman hadn't known (she only knew she couldn't get up). The soldier knew she would die and had to set her back down while she watched and begged him to help her. Maybe, just maybe, this is how the recursive murder begins. But I suspect the hatred and horror of daily life in this part of the desert is irreversible. And Israel could give Palestine 12 gigillion dollars in diamonds, gold, and Euros and it wouldn't stop. And the Israelis will continue to respond with like brute force (who would stand for the endless murder of one's loved ones). And so it goes on, forever.

Read all about it The stink frogs are at it again. Having paved the streets of Paris with white flags for the Nazis, Saddam Hussein, and any other scary closet monster, and then failing to produce a stunning stud, one as sparkling and pure and fantabulous as Cowboy Lance, they can only play dirty. Dirtier than the sheets of Vichy-soise government officials. With tests that can't be validated (because there are no more samples), urine samples sitting around for 5 years, the possibility of outright sabotage, it doesn't get any stinkier unless your nose is in the armpit of a Parisian on the Metro in July. Go take a shower you Froglettes and call us in the morning. And can anyone spell "Le Car"?