Oh, also — Steve interrogated my computer’s file structure while he was staying with me a couple of weeks ago. Among all the pron on my hard drive, he found this picture that he thought was funny, damn if I know why. He’s a pretty twisted individual, you know. He said I should post it here sometime.

Since I’m a frail old man, with no will of my own, I’m doing it just to please him.

Tonight, I have three major essays fighting it out in my head. They’re seriously intentioned, and will require more research if I’m going to be honest in talking about them. And there’s the Starship Troopers / Heinlein thing still hanging fire in my brain.

I’m not unwilling to do the work, because the topics interest me a lot, but there’s been talk among us Brainiacs regarding the pros and cons of logorrhea in blogging. It seems that, sometimes, the longer and denser and more complex a post we post, the less commenting. I’m guilty of wanting to slurp up more comments. So I’m going to experiment with brevity, which goes against my nature.

Instead of my usual explorations of wisdom and insight, here are a couple of questions.

Just how much do you despise those people who talk on cell phones while they drive their SUVs over your motorcycle?

How about the ones who talk loudly in the booth behind you while you’re trying to have a quiet meal with meat-space friends.

How about in the bookstore? Or even in the library, which, as we know, is a holy space?

If you could SHUT THEM UP, would you?

Check out the nifty Personal Cell Phone Signal Blocker Device, which is illegal in the US. Especially in Alabama, because it doubles as a sex toy.

If you could get away with it, would you buy one? Are there limits on how you would use it?

Personally, I think there should be a bounty on cell-phone junkies. Say, $50 a head.

But that’s just me…

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Tonight we have some more trans-Atlantic rock and roll from Pure Reason Revolution. They’re a relatively young band, and I like their bombastic high-skill symphonic-style prog. They cheated in this vid by laying the studio sound track on top of the festival performance video.

You might surmise that they listened to some Pink Floyd while they were growing up. Click the pic for a ten-minute vid with several songs in it.

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