Category Archives: podcasts

take this job and…

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…give it to someone else.

Oh, fine. I obviously had some issues with the whole work-for-no-pay-yet-be-taxed-on-it thang. Next!

Leaving the Psychoanalyst, by Remedios Varo

I’m funny that way. Maybe Guido has at last made a Capitalist of me?

Nah.

Here, listen to some rousing folk rock about the military-industrial complex, creeping fascism, and the IMF. I always find that cures it.

And by the way, there’s already a fat, ripe emergency for the new hiree to deal with and no, I didn’t cause it. So for that reason alone I’m glad I didn’t get the job.

Also, oh god how I love that painting. “Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst’s Office” by Remedios Varo.

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maslow’s hierarchy of needs, megalomaniacal blogger edition

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Maslow's Hierarchy of Writer's Needs, click for full size

Found via a loopy stagger around and off sulz‘s blog. Cross-posted to running through rain.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is more well-known than well-understood, but now any old Myspace slacker still straight enough to click a quiz without having to close one eye and move his lips while watching YouTube can find out how self-realized s/he may be without all that icky “reading for comprehension” stuff that just slows us down.

The internet moves at the speed of thought. Which explains why it takes this blog so long to load, eh?

Maslow's real hierarchy of civilian needs although who cares about the plebes, eh?

 

Maslow Inventory Results
Physiological Needs (80%) you appear to have a deficiency in your basic needs.
Safety Needs (50%) you appear to have an adequately secure environment.
Love Needs (57%) you appear to be semi-content with the quality of your social connections.
Esteem Needs (37%) you appear to have a high level of personal competence.
Self-Actualization (55%) you appear to have an average level of individual development.

Take Free Maslow Inventory Test
personality tests by similarminds.com

Monstrously detailed analysis over the jump…as I may be, if it’s not too cold to walk to the Lion’s Gate. Have a happy!

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happy bloggiversary to me!

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Happy Bloggiversary to moi!

Yeah. So. Given the technical issues over the past couple of days which I have not mentioned here strictly out of my concern for your joyful blog-perusing experience (because lo, we are all about thee on the ol’ raincoaster blog, I tell ya), I am not quite as thrilled and indeed substantially more downcast than I should be to be celebrating the first bloggiversary of the ol’ raincoaster blog.

Maybe that’s because I’ve had two hours of sleep. Maybe it’s just because I can’t afford anything less virtual or more celebratory than a jpg.

I know: I have a $1 gift certificate for Timmy’s, so tomorrow we paint the town chocolate-glazed! < /whine>

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conspiracy 911: the real reason it happened

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Another video from apeman, the twisted Canuckistani genius who brought Hinterland’s Who’s Who’s Crack Spider into being.

Again, I’m sticking the video and lyrics over the jump because I was told that it was kinder to the people on dialup and also because I hope this way I won’t have to do a bloody restart every time my cache fills up.

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Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme performing Black Hole Sun

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Steve! Eydie! Soundgarden!

Yes, really. Here is the immortal Vegas lounge duo Steve and Eydie putting their silken throats to that heroin-laced grunge classic Black Hole Sun, from the album Loungeapalooza. And this time no chipmunk effects. Lyrics over the jump.

And by the way, Eydie‘s got a blog.

Loungeapalooza, baby!

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