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This is ridiculous: NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York's busy Penn Station returned to normal on Friday after a rush-hour false alarm caused by a suspicious substance found in a soda bottle near Amtrak's ticket counter, authorities said. CNN article

Go Billy, Go! Yahoo News

I've been watching for the past week. What the fuck is wrong with both the local and federal govts??! Everyone knew the storm surge was going to overwhelm the levees on Sunday, yet the local government didn't have a contingency plan for the levees bursting other than to bring people to the Superdome? Holy Crise! Where's Rudy??! Bush didn't send out ships until Wednesday??! What the fuck? Those ships should have been sent out Sunday night. At least compassionate cities like Houston and San Antonio have stepped up to the plate. But what about the corporations? Like GreyHound can't send a few hundred buses to help bus people to these relief cities??! What the hell?! I gave some money to the Catholic Relief fund, but it is total madness that Bush can throw ALL our money away on IRAQ and not give a shit about the poor folks (and they are poor) who made the unfortunate choice of waiting out the hurricane. These folks paid taxes ALL THEIR LIVES to have no suppo...

Well this sucks. http://www.undercover.com.au/news/2005/aug05/20050822_bobmoog.html

Great stuff, boys. I will try to get the audio bytes out tonight for yas. UPDATE : Jam is now available: http://www.stormpigs.com/sounds/20050720.mp3

http://www.solio.com/html/index.html

Bush Regales Dinner Guests With Impromptu Oratory On Virgil's Minor Works

Sorry I've been taking a while with the bites, lads. I've been ripping my infrastructure apart for the last month and have gotten it somewhat stabilized. First should be the 5/24 jam and then the 6/23 jam. Snoofed

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I was in a Van Halen mood over the weekend and stumbled on this site with some great, albeit poor quality, old videos of them: http://www.classicvh.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Video_Archive/Live_Videos Check out Ice Cream Man for some serious David Lee stupidity and Hang Em High for speed rock. Michael Anthony is a great bassist and backup singer and Eddie is incredible. As much as DLR gets goofed on, the band is just so hot. There is a classic interview in Japan on the home page of the site, too.

I was in the mood to do some graphics, so here's what resulted:

Here's an amusing little site I came across the other day: http://www.buckfush.com Also, check out this animation from another Johnson, no less! How's that for the lattice of coincidence, Stu? http://www.jameswjohnson.com/movies/bushman.htm

This tickled me fancy today: from artist Jeff MacNelly

Hey Pigs, Well we finally closed the deal & are the proud parents of a 270 year old home. A wonder to behold & a true getaway for those so inclined. House comes complete with its own swim pond, rapids, waterfall, doctor & chef. Plenty of room & just a wee 2 hour jaunt up 87. The Catskills are in bloom & summer is beckoning. Quite busy movin in as one might imagine. Come one Come All!!!! Onions aplenty Photos Trebor

INDEPENDENT LENS / END OF THE CENTURY / THE RAMONES & JOE STRUMMER ROCKS AGAIN! / Tuesday, April 26th at 10 PM The Ramones defined punk rock and inspired generations of musicians. But behind the scenes, the hardest-working punk band was falling apart. The second part of this program, JOE STRUMMER ROCKS AGAIN!, follows the frontman for The Clash on a comeback tour of America and Japan before his untimely death in 2002. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/

Need sound for this. Amusing. http://members.cox.net/ladysarakat/piggy.swf

Bush: 'I Don't Want You Reading My Personal Stuff' WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush said on Thursday he does not send e-mail, not even to his twin daughters, because he fears "my personal stuff" would be made public. "There has got to be a certain sense of privacy," he told the American Society of Newspaper Editors. For more.. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050414/wr_nm/bush_email_dc

Get a load of Pig right cheer ya'll: http://www.stormpigs.com/sounds/20050405.mp3 (right-click on the link to save the file) that's 124MB now..

Did you guys catch this Metallica doc? I watched it Saturday night on VH1. It's like a true to life Spinal Tap. Basically, Metallica became a big money machine for the record company. There was a bunch of infighting, so the company hired a psychologist to hang out with them over a period of a couple years. Check it out if you have the time. Note: Lars' dad is one scary Dane.