~ what are the freaking neighbors doing over there?
~ what are the freaking neighbors doing over there?
~ i must say that it takes a real whiner, a real crybaby, a real biznatch, to take one look at his students’ work, then postpone their first review for three weeks. perhaps an instructor like this is afraid that the critics will see that his students have done nothing, and they will attribute it to the fact that he can’t handle instructing ten thesis students and a vertical studio in the same semester. we at the angry red planet wonder why he and his students don’t take the review and ‘get on with their lives’, as he is so adamant about instructing others to do.
~ this morning, i went to school. well, i tried. when i got there, at 10am, i was told: ‘the school’s closed’. me: ‘can i go to the computer lab?’ them: ‘the school’s closed.’ so, i left. now, this is the southern california institute of architecture we are talking about here: the ‘world’s most intense horizontal laboratory of urbanism’ or something like that. intense though they may be, the directors, guys like neil denari and gary paige, just can’t seem to get their shit together and to get this lab of ours (theirs?) permission to be occupied. i wonder what the national architectural accrediting board [w] would think about this?
~ having returned to my native soil has enabled remarkable progress to the forthcoming releases by the angry red planet zine department. previous ‘coming soon…’ promises expect to be fulfilled by the 13th of the coming october, which is, coincidentally, a friday.
~ the angry red planet has been doing more than just churning out obsolete technology, though. research has continued in the motion picture department: ‘wargames’, ‘tron’, and ‘space cowboys’
~ cnn.com reports that more than a few reporters are upset with the treatment that they received at the hands of the los angeles police department. some technicians and photographers were shot in the back with rubber bullets and bruised in the ribs by billyclubs; these incidents occurred as the cops were trying to shoot protesters in the back with rubber bullets and bruise the protesters’ ribs with billyclubs.
~ a tour of silverlake’s book stores, plastic stores, record stores, and coffee stores brought the angry red planet closer to the thoughts of the common citizens of the united states upon the current circumstances of the presidential ‘race’. perusers of pornography on hollywood boulevard were overheard espousing al gore’s choice of the ‘minority’ joe lieberman as ‘saving his ass’, while the tea totalers on vermont condemned this choice as ensuring his own loss. apart from the discussions of the religious persuasion of ‘republicrat’ lieberman was the warning that bush’s incredible lead must be seen as only the advantage of having had his convention first. see: michael dukakis
~ unsatisfied with reports that puts bush, jr. sometimes 17 points ahead and sometimes dead even with al gore, the angry red planet has held its own poll of the ‘major’ candidates. the results are as follows: 50% ralph nader, 50% al gore, 0% george w.bush, 0% pat buchanan. where are these gallup folks [w] getting their information?
~ if the f.c.c. claims that less than 3million of the 50million u.s. internet users have ‘highspeed’ access [fcc.gov], the only use of having the post office [usps.com] assigning email accounts to every address in the country (presumably including the 250million folks who do *not* have internet access) is that u.s.-approved email would facilitate the operation of the f.b.i.’s carnivore [fbi.gov]. i wonder if ten days is enough time for them to write a dummy code to turn over to epic [epic.org].
~ janet reno muses that a softer name like ‘tea time’ or ‘cinnamon’ might ease concerns over a program which sifts though an isp’s email; perhaps i wouldn’t mind being monitored by ‘vegan’ [w].
~ first we get another citizen beaten by police in philadelphia, and now the u.s. government has just been cleared of its guilt for the waco massacre [cnn] & [l.a.times]. just two more reasons to set it off in los angeles next month…
~ 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]
~ as if there wasn’t enough nonsense at sci-arc [w] these days, someone has decided to repeatedly post someone else’s private emails to the school news folder, using my name as an alias. i didn’t see the posts, as they were posted while i was at work [w] and they were removed by the administrator, but i have been told that the return address was my name @hotmail.com. i am insulted not because someone tried to hurt me or embarrass me with such a childish and thoughtless attack; rather, i am insulted that the best this perpetrator could do was create a hotmail account. hotmail? surely, i warrant some greater degree of creativity, like, star94mail.com or welcometohell.com or blowjob.com. hotmail? clearly we are dealing with an amateur; i would hope that i have mustered a higher quality of enemy. i suppose not. i wonder if it ever crossed their minds to realize that someone who owns a domain, such as www.angryredplanet.org, does not need to go to hotmail for an account, especially an ‘anonymous’ account with my name all over it.
~ it seems to me that only two people have access to the emails which i supposedly forwarded. one of them has no stake in passing along the mail, let alone wasting time bringing me into it, while the other one has proven – publicly and repeatedly – himself to be deranged and untrustworthy. most people i have spoken with seem to have some pretty good theories on how this came about. i need to talk to some folks in the morning, especially one of the parties whose email is concerned; until then, know that if it is not from angryredplanet.org, it can not be trusted.
~ in happier news, i am already leaving – by plane – for atlanta in about 30 hours; the plan is to spend one week there, and then drive to los angeles. i tell my boss this, and she asks if i want to go to new york and pick up her truck. i explain that new york is not on the route from georgia to southern california, and that the extra time driving means extra time away from phobos. however, after hours of negotiations, i leave the office with plans to bring phobos to her studio tomorrow morning, so that i may fly to new york the day after i arrive from atlanta.
