Month: September 2001 (Page 6 of 7)

Did you know they have internet kiosks in some Illinois highway oasis McDonald’s restaurants? I didn’t either, until I stumbled on them on the way to the family reunion last weekend. $1 for 10 minutes, which I actually think is a pretty good deal. Since it only took me 5 minutes to check my email, I just left ‘words mean things’ on the kiosk screen, hoping some random travelers would stop and read it.

I need validation, clearly.

My entry in Arthur’s first photo treasure hunt assignment. I think I did OK considering how hard it is to find squirt guns after Labor Day. You can also see a higher resolution version.(600 x 600, 79K)

Bony supermodel Kate Moss had an accident Thursday in her chauffeur-driven Range Rover on the way to a fashion shoot. Her looks are unharmed. The world breathes a sigh of relief.

I was having a conversation recently with Dan Benjamin of When I Am King about the Commodore 64. We both owned these computers, and I think we both looked back fondly on them. For me, it’s my favorite old computer I’ve owned. It had good graphics, great sound, played fun games and even did boring stuff like word processing – I typed all my college papers on mine (shows how old I am), when all my friends were struggling with typewriters in their dorm rooms. And the C64 did all this with 64K (yes, K) of RAM. Are you listening, Bill?

I wonder if anyone else who reads this had one of these gems. I’ve even tried several C64 PC emulators, but they tend to crash my already unstable Win98 system. I do this because of my obsessive love for Jumpman, one of the most fun computer games ever.

UPDATE: You can download a PC port of Jumpman, called Jumpman Lives! It’s fun.

As usual, yes, I will be seeking treatment. Thanks for your concern.

Call me Celestia

She could heal people. She spoke with the dead and with God, in a language only she and God understood. (Although we got a little taste of it, thanks to Barbara Walters’ prying.) She had an alternate personality named “Celestia” who lived “in the Fourth Dimension.” She was waiting for a spaceship from her home planet to bring her home. She had “the best sex of her life” with Ellen Degeneres, on the night they met, her first lesbian experience. She maintains she was molested continuously from infancy to age 12 at the hands of her closeted gay father, who died of AIDS in 1983. She was “insane” for 31 years. Then, suddenly, after wandering into a stranger’s home in Fresno while on Ecstasy last year, she was magically healed of all her mental and emotional problems. And voila, she marries the cameraman who filmed the documentary she made on then-lover Degeneres. Plus, now she’s pregnant!

Oh my sweet lord.

Translation: Her relationship with Degeneres was totally opportunistic. When it didn’t go the way she hoped, she was depressed and wandered off, high on Ecstasy. In order to explain her off-the-wall behavior and bring the spotlight back to her, we get the Celestia Defense. And far be it for me to question her abuse claims, but I’d love to know the statistics on how many closeted gay men sexually abuse their daughters. Anyway, he’s been dead for years and can’t speak for himself. (Nice B-roll footage of a gay disco, with writhing men in tank tops, when her father was mentioned. Classy.)

I guess I have nothing to criticize about this interview, considering that I watched it, taped it, and even made a video collage of it. But it’s this sort of thing that makes me think we should just nuke the whole society and start again. Anyone want to scope out bunkers with me?

New consumer product addiction: Edy’s Whole Fruit Lemon Sorbet

Still reeling from the Anne Heche interview on 20/20 tonight. Will post more later (I’m sure you’re on the edge of your seat), but first up, Xkot’s Cliffs Notes for the interview, in case you need the executive summary:

“My dad was gay and my mom hung up on me, and it made me crazy.”

Well put, Xkot.

Inspired by Arthur, I’ve added some new photos to the photo page. Some are new, others are from other parts of the main site you might not have seen, and others I’ve posted in the body of words mean things in the past. In traditional weblog style, all the new pics are at the top of the page. Hope you enjoy them.

Arthur has thought up a cool online photo Treasure Hunt game. Why not give it a try? I can’t wait to play, but do you know how hard it is to find a squirt gun after Labor Day? Go there now! (© miguel)

The movie wasn’t that good, was it?

“I spoke a different language that God and I spoke together,” Heche said. “I could see into the future. I could heal people. I did (the 1997 film) ‘Wag the Dog.’ ”