THE JO-TEL …believes some of what Nathaniel and John say, but believes England is still our sovreign

A tip of my hat to the photo editor at The Economist for his part in this week’s article on the abortion rights debate currently taking place in Mexico. No doubt there were thousands of frames shot by their photojournalists depicting the two sides of the debate, from which he could choose only one […]

A gasoline tanker truck crashed and burned on Sunday morning on a section of tangled freeway interchanges called The Maze.  The tanker, carrying 8600 gallons of gas (worth $33,454 on the street) blew up and continued to burn for twenty minutes, burning hot enough to cause the section of freeway that passes over the crash site to collapse onto the road beneath.  […]

Pitchfork: How long were you down there [Galapogas]?
JM: It was just a couple of weeks. The thing that I was really excited about was that I found a dead adult Striated Caracara, the bird that I study. I don’t why she had died. I think it might have been some some kind of internal […]

This lying imbecile was third in line to be the most powerful man on the planet:

Keep marijuana out of medicine cabinet
To legalize it would be risky and irresponsible

April 26, 2007

A short email exchange between Jo-Tel friend Jake Kloberdanz and me. Jake is the president of some company that does something or other involving travel—sort of a face book meets expedia—that will most likely make him very rich if one of his other numerous ventures don’t work out. It will make him rich despite being […]

Hey, whoever broken the window and entered my car and trunk while it was parked in the Tenderloin, thanks for taking care of the mess in my car by stealing some of my stuff. Those two full cases of CDs, running shoes, softball mit, brief case, office key, bottle of beer, and reimbursement check […]

This just happened on Jeopardy!:
Trebek: “This is another name for the 1890s.”
Contestant: “What is ‘gay’?”
Trebek: “Correct!”
If you find this on YouTube, PLEASE let me know.
- The Quail

Battles
Mirrored
(Warp Records; May 1, 2007)
Rating: 8.8
A disjointed series of topical conversations featuring:
Gertrude Stein (homely poetess)
Richard Dawkins (pesky British atheist)
Daryl Dawkins (authoritative NBA dunker)
King Ludvig II (flamboyent king of Bavaria)
Martin Heidegger (German philosopher and probable Nazi sympathizer)
Homer (Greek epic poet)
T-tops with a Saddle (exhibit at creationist museum)
Setting: Cavernly dancefloor of the Arrow Bar (telluritic naval of […]

“There was not anybody that I can remember that was black,” she said. “The white people have theirs, and the black people have theirs. It’s nothing racial at all.”
- The Quail

Bjork looks hot in her techincolor squash suit.