Marla’s Slippery and Sexy:
https://www.slashtmp.iu.edu/public/download.php?FILE=cwestnea/41583P5aJjO

Pat’s drum solo recording got messed up, so me and Ryan just fucked with it for a while. The actual drum solo will be less insane and more awesome. Appart for that and a few tweaks (Saxes are a little loud in the verses and the bass drum is a little low), this is the final mix. Exciting!

A big thanks to everyone who threw down comments thus far!

You all really make my day to know that I´m still swimming around up in your heads somewhere! First some clerical things:

I found my alarm clock. My apologies if you have sent it already Mom and Pops.

The powder is indeed dry.

This was me last night at Buzz:

http://www.brookings.edu/fp/saban/iraq/index.htm

A huge amount of data on Iraq, found via Dick Lugar’s website.

So I was at Dick Lugar’s website because I wanted to find out what his position on the military tribunals is. It’s interesting that Lugar has been working with Obama on both energy independence and the reduction of unsecured weapons in former Soviet countries. Indiana’s an odd state in that we are strongly Republican, yet we have a tradition of moderate senators. Also a surprisingly internationally focused group of Congressmen. Lugar is chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, Bayh is the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance, and Lee Hamilton, the former Rep., was chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, in addition to being the vice-chair on the 9/11 commission. Also Dan Burton is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee, in which Burton currently serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and as Vice-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

All the time:

The question: “On Monday, a Seattle web developer named Jason Fortuny started his own Craigslist experiment. The goal: “Posing as a submissive woman looking for an aggressive dom, how many responses can we get in 24 hours?”"

The answer: “He took the text and photo from a sexually explicit ad (warning: not safe for work) in another area, reposted it to Craigslist Seattle, and waited for the responses to roll in. Like Simon’s experiment, the response was immediate. He wrote, “178 responses, with 145 photos of men in various states of undress. Responses include full e-mail addresses (both personal and business addresses), names, and in some cases IM screen names and telephone numbers.”

Next month with clean prostitutes:

I´m with my host family now, and I´m sorry to say that I will be very, very busy for the next 10 weeks.  Apparently this will be the most busy I will ever be during my Peace Corps service.  Allow me to go through a description of my day:

Spanish from 8-12
Lunch 12-1

In a moment where the forces of dictatorship and tyranny seem to be pushing back against democracy, the common thread that has successfully aligned nations such as Iran, Russia, Venezuela, China, and Sudan have been the supply and demand of energy. While it is encouraging that the relationships forged seem to be more based on Machiavellian pragmatism then aligned ideologies or long term goals, problematic occurrences and diplomatic realignment have debilitated the West’s efforts to act against undemocratic forces. Increasingly, the ability to act as a geopolitical actor has been taken away from the United States and the UN as powers forge alliances with lesser but energy rich nations, specifically China and Russia with Iran and China with Sudan. Ultimately, the resources are finite and so is the tolerance that the rest of the world should and will have for these deleterious and reciprocally empowering relationships among undemocratic forces.

Just another month:

In one scene Borat insists on driving to California rather than flying, “in case the Jews repeat their attack of 9/11.” As he tours the South, he becomes terrified when he learns that an elderly couple who run an inn are Jewish. When cockroaches crawl under the door of his room, he becomes convinced the innkeepers have transformed themselves into bugs, and throws money at them.

In another scene Borat returns to his home village and participates in an annual ritual, “The Running of the Jews,” complete with giant Jew puppets that the villagers beat with clubs.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060906/pl_nm/eu_usa_poll_dc

The part I found most interesting was that the French were slightly more likely to support an invasion of Iraq than America. They have the stereotype, I think, of being pussies, but perhaps that is not deserved. Actually after the way they intervened in the Ivorian Civil War, I thought it was pretty clear that they would attempt to kick ass if they thought the target deserved it. They were right about Iraq in the end, but maybe they were against it because of commerce? Maybe not?

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My kind of work at my kind of place:

Description=Cool, fun, unique ROBOT store on Upper West Side
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Little bunny fu-fu, and I’ve got something in my front pocket for youuuuuuuuuuu:

If you were an African country where 5 million people had Aids, a pretty simple solution to your Aids problem would be to tell people ‘garlic and beetroot.’ Now, this is a pretty darn good remedy, if you lived Ancient Rome and were also a voodoo priest. But if you’re the Health Minister in South Africa, it’s a little bit of a different story:

More than 60 international experts on HIV/Aids have called for the resignation of the South African health minister because of her stance on Aids.

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