My truck's brake just shit itself. Awesome. Now I wait.

nothing. this.

all true, but also much easier for "the MAN" to know exactly what yr reading when you read it.

im waiting for my man
26 dollars in my hand

there's no "man" that's after me. the man fingerprinted and photographed me, took my blood samples, interrogated me in front of a camera, and mailed me a green card. if i was going to be paranoid, i'd have bigger things to worry about.

besides, im not reading manuals on making dirty bombs-- fact is, i don't even think amazon sells those, much less through the kindle. if someone wanted to know what books i read they could subpoena amazon and barnes & noble, they have the list of a lot of the books i've bought the past 10 years, including manuals on how to shove beads up a lady's ass. they could also interrogate my local seller of used books-- i live mere blocks away from him anyway and he could pick me out of a crowd. but really, who the fuck cares about what i do?

a few years ago i saw a yellowed copy of abbie hoffman's "steal this book" selling for $40. i laughed.

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ps-- the most "subversive" books i've ever read i've read at library of congress-- CIA sabotage manuals, apologias of the MRTA, and various others. the man gave them to me free of charge!

actually (i just checked), amazon sells abbie hoffman's books, various anarchist cookbook editions, another thing called "dirty tricks"...

ha ha, i wanna buy one now!!!

see this: you can read a bit

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873641868/

one neutron bomb and yr Kindle is DEAD.
drop it awkwardly and it is DEAD
get it wet and it is DEAD
sit on it and it is DEAD
scratch the front text panel and it is DEAD

just talkin trash.

I just like holding books in my hand. Books are far more than just text on a page. None of my beloved art books would be worth shit on a Kindle.

writhing in pain while i wait for my doctors appointment.

I almost just want to go to the hospital, but I will not.

fuck. hope you feel better

damn, is the appointment today? why suffer?

ha ha ha @ neutron bomb

if amazon went bankrupt i'd be fucked too.

now barnes and noble makes their ebooks compatible with a bunch of stuff-- you don't need a kindle, you can read them on computer.

but eh, don't get me wrong, i wouldn't rely solely on a kindle, or on e-books. they don't replace a good library, with its awesome smell. and beautiful artbooks on a kindle are laughable-- impossible really (so far, anyway). and huge atlases? books are awesome. once in a library i held in my hands the 1918 edition of cesar vallejo's trilce, which he had printed in the prison workshop after he got out of jail. a fucking treasure of literature, and it was circulating like it was nothing. and it smelled yummy. it was a fucking glorious day. i have some awesome books in my library that i love. but i can't fucking hump them everywhere, and i live like a gypsy. besides, a lot of books are shit paperbacks that i buy for the content, not as book objects. so those can go on the kindle. so imagine. 1500 books in one device. imagine the possibilities in coming years. imagine access to-- all books-- from a little screen. everything. anything. the library of congress accessible to all.

well in the future future we'll just mainline the books to our brains-- but in between, fuck yes! i'll get a kindle when they make them just right.

kindle is a stupid word.


what am i doing?

i'm brooding.

I am watching Hebrew Hammer.. good shit

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000426311

apple is expected to come up with something next january, you might want to hold on.

or not.

I love closing a book when I am finished with it.

CORRECTION, DAMMIT: trilce is not from 1918, but from 1922. los heraldos negros is the one that's from 1918. i was thinking about this earlier, so here i am to post. fuck factual errors, they multiply like garbanzos evaporate into a fart.


hm, yeah, ebook readers... b&n has its own for pc+mac, plus the iphone/ipod touch and the crackberry. and i have this shitty little white macbook that could be my next library. not sure i could read in the ipod-- i don't like it much and it's tiny and i have FAT FINGERS.

see: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooks/index.asp




barnes & noble has come up with its own version called the NOOK. that word i like. so many good associations.



indeed. it's a terrible movie, but it's funny.

different formats, different purposes.
this is just another format, ffs.

books aren't all the same. think of technical books for example, did you ever got emotionally attached to them?

yes i've seen that, i was just pointing out that amazon is also doing the same thing.

i've gotten used to read on screen.
but my 'library' is mostly pirated stuff, i have to say.

yeah, they're trying to cut each other's throats. amazon as the pioneer could be blown out of the water by imitators-- it often happens.

i have no problem reading on teh computer, or reading briefly on the ipod touch. i actually read a whole novel on my palm PDA circa 200..1? but i wouldn't use a tiny screen for a long book again. a 13" laptop screen however is sufficient.

i'd say the only serious threat to amazon is google.

i dont know here in the u.s., cuz a lot of book people go to barnes and noble-- they have the stores AND the online store, and amazone has no store.

in the 90s all independent bookstores were gobbled up by borders (an original minnesota bookstore chain that was eaten by kmart) and barnes & noble. the rest was destroyed by amazon. so in terms of going to the bookstore (a great pleasure always), borders & b&N have the market cornered. and i think barnes & noble might win that, cuz borders sucks a bit.

then again, who knows. i don't know the relative size of b&n vs. amazon's book-only business. cuz amazon is HUUUGE. oh yes and they are semi-global, the fuckers. like ms vs. apple? eh, you never know.

google i dont know. they seem to have a lot of cool shit that never makes an actual good product. their android phones haven't exactly become the latest hot shit.

that's true, but android is just starting and it will probably get an extra push now that they've broken up with apple.
have you heard about google voice and google maps navigation?
they are making a lot of companies tremble.

actually, android is probably what will be running on most e-book readers.
that b&n reader runs android.

this market is going to be google vs apple vs amazon.

and you know who's global? not amazon, not apple.

i always said that google is gonna take over the goddamn world one day

drinking wine, watching sesame street videos on you tube with lennon, and waiting for my canadian dream girl to reappear online. I also have a show to plan for on Friday the Thirteenth, but motivation is not my strong suit at the moment. time to go check my email again...

so, still in pain. all my tests (so far) are nothing nothing nothing. He gave me some dealy for IBS and if it doesn't go away I get to have more tests. YAY.

whatever makes the pain stop, really.

aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnd. I just started making really really really mild tandoori chicken with rice/asparagus for dinner. It might make me feel worse, but I crave the spicey foods. :(

I also bought nori so I think the rest of the week will just be plain sushi/avocado and porridge at breakfast. awesome.

God stomach pain is the worst. So sorry to hear. I had some issues with that, but it turned out (and I figured it out without help from the doctors) that I was just eating too much and not exercising enough (I have a high metabolism so it didn't make me obese, though when I fixed things I did lose 40 pounds...) I doubt that's your problem though. Doctors are so clueless about this stuff though. At least that's my experience.

It is fucking crappy! I've not slept well the last two nights because of it. :(

As far as I am concerned, I have a fairly healthy diet ( sometimes I get a sweet tooth and eat junk like cake but it isn't TOO often) and I do a fair amount of exercise.. so yeh it's a bit out of the blue. If anything I am underweight, but I've always been that way.

I did have a bout of random IBS in 2003(apparently) and my doctor has given me the same thing I was given back then. For the moment it seems to have helped, I still have some pains but I feel much less bloated and as if I'll 'splode any minute.. but I'll see how I go in the next week.

I'll spend some more time making an effort to relax and not spaz/skitz out and have put han solo on probation ( he encourages me and eggs me on when I am already in a bad mood ). + will book in hippy junk like a reiki session/healer session and massage I think.

get well soon phoenix

coughing up a goddamn lung

get your lungs together soon too, satan ;)

thanks hun

minced as ey

drinking warmed up vanilla soy


thinking about going through my wardrobe to throw things out
thinking about needing to buy new shoes for work before next week
thinking about buying some new t shirts online
thinking about how much $$ I have in my bank account (not much)
listening to musak
enjoying the lack of tv electro humming in my house right now

thanks slavo. i'm alright now.

post stoned
post first beer
surfing web and drawing
i can hear my Indian neighbors jamming above me

indian music?


JEALOUS

if i were you..id be jealous too

thats way too rad to even comprehend. i love indian music.


right now im making a cake. bfs birthday.

i'm having various kinds of daydreams right now.
very vivid and mostly very nice, actually.

going to bed

Watching old Sesame Streets w/ Lennon and realizing this shit is as much for me as for him. Feeling incredibly moody today, probably the weather. It's as foggy outside at the moment as the inside of my head. I've got today off for Veteran's Day. That's odd, but any excuse.