~ yes. the angry red mazda made it through the second smog check. last month’s ‘nox’ emission was 1873; today’s was only 5. the bastard at ‘rocket smog’ tried to charge me for another test, though i was entitled to a ‘free’ one, since the last one was a failure. in the end, i had to pay $8.25 for something about which i am not sure; i didn’t get anything in return. damn this arcane system. despite my daily use of one of them, cars are still abominable.

~ today’s mail also brought issue number 12 from ‘the assassin and the whiner’. i suggest that you immediately send $1 to carrie for your copy; find carrie’s address in the ‘zine contacts’ page of the angry red planet.

~ after $400 worth of ‘repairs’, the angry red mazda is minutes away from being taken in for its second smog check.

~ forget about any ‘problems’ with the menu. roll on…

~ this morning, there seem to be netscape+javascript problems with the navigation bar; it shouldn’t affect the ‘user interface’, though. i have to go to work before i can fix it…

~ you’re in version 5; yesterday was version 4 (*link removed).

~ in celebration of the grand opening of a few stops on its ‘red line’, the los angeles m.t.a. was gracious enough to let the citizens ride the red line for free. the angry red planet was there, ready to document every stop. after the first two stops, however, the frustration of being pushed around by the m.t.a. staff who assume that only imbeciles would show up for the train rides was enough to turn us away from the metro. i wonder what they expect people to do in the future, when they are not there to ‘help’ people exit the train or walk up the steps.

~ either the folks in the neighborhood are getting an early start on the fourth of july festivities, or a gang war has erupted. for the past three days, pistol shots have rung in the distance about every half hour. while the small arms fire is of little immediate concern, the shotguns which are now being fired in the street by the angry red offices are becoming unnerving. all the freaking cops must still be busy keeping people from breaking in line at the metro stops, though, for the ghetto birds have not been watching the scene.

~ red line.

~ i hope i never get accused of a crime in george w. bush’s texas. n.p.r.[w] states that there will be one execution per week between now and the united states’ presidential election.

~ don’t mess with texas…[w]

~ www.votenader.com

~ another entire weekend has gone to waste. the only moment we were out of the house was foolishly spent on ‘titan a.e.’ we assumed that any animated movie involving spacecraft and the destruction of earth (ie, ‘starblazers’) couldn’t go wrong. this particular film was partially penned by ben edlund, of ‘the tick’ fame, which gave it even more promise. for this kind of embarrassing loss of money and time, we should have saved our time for ‘heavy metal 2000’.

~ the angry red log has not been kept up to date, due to a week of ‘work’ for the man. ‘free time’ was wasted on the latest scene report, which is an ongoing look at the los angeles dingbat and needs to be reformatted immediately, if not sooner.

~ after more than a week, the angry red planet is happy report that its new television has not been activated once since its discovery on the sidewalk. plans for its sale are beginning to be laid.

~ i never go to the beach in los angeles. i don’t think that i have been there once this year, except maybe to try to steal a poster from a phonebooth. when i have out-of-town guests, like i did this weekend, however, i have to entertain them with trips to the ocean. as my wretched body is not conditioned for the sunshine, though, the sun quickly wreaked havoc upon my skin. my legs in particular are too freaking sunburned to be moved. the best i can do is wobble like frankenstein’s monster and yell for my roommate to bring me coffee and tortillas and salsa verde. maybe that’s not so bad…

~ i finally got to see ‘dinosaur’, but it wasn’t quite what i expected. it was pretty soft; there weren’t any gory battles, no one got killed, and there was this crazy love story. worse, there were ‘monkeys’ running around the place. i think that it may be a movie that is more for kids…

~ laugna beach. sunburn. coffee. ‘east is east.’ parking ticket. broken cd drive. coffee.