In the featured photo in this blog post, Moby is seen wearing a t-shirt that appears to read “King of Fools Drunken Style Kung-Fu.” It is an homage to the classic New Japan Pro Wrestling shirt.
Still trying to figure out what King of Fools is. I assume some kind of band. Google searches reveal a blog called King of Fools dot com, but he doesn’t sell merch [and he doesn’t seem like the puro type anyway], as well as a Christian band called delirious who released an album called King of Fools and who sell a variety of cool Union-Jack inspired merch, but no New Japan knockoffs.
I am thinking King of Fools is one of those Christian indie bands that Dave would have played on his radio show BAKK N THA D-A-I-Y-E. Especially since the last words of the liner notes of every Moby disc are “Thanks to Christ.” But your guess is as good as mines.
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Let me tell you what I really want for my web site. I suspect there are others out there who want this same thing, but they don’t know how to go about it either. These are people who, like me, love books and music, and would love to have offsite links to them, but don’t want to turn every page of their site into a shill for Earth’s Biggest BookEverythingstore.
I’m not a camgirl or a professional columnist, and the miniscule amount of money I could potentially make if someone clicked the links is not worth as much as this space being devoid of commericals or shilling apart from the occasional Mac freeware.
Maybe you know where I’m going with this. I want to be able to code a link that I can code that takes the clicker of that link to a listing not for a store, but for a library of their choosing, whether it be nearby, down the highway, across the plains, or in, well, ??stfold County, Norway.
I have thought a bit about how this would work. Although it seems clear to me that there are more than one but fewer than a billion ways for libraries to make their catalogs available and accessible, I don’t see them suddenly standardizing their URI methodology — not because of bpdw.commentary demanding it be so — I think some sort of server would have to be put in place to do the translating. I fear that it would take lots more work than I have time or brainpower for, to make this a useful technology, so I would like to put An Evening of Drinking up as the prize for such a technology. [Winner can not have already been working on such an infrastructure; bpdw.commentary reserves the right to use the evening as blog fodder.]
Okay, now that I’ve gotten all that onto a page, time for bed.
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A person at work recently commented that she’d seen me wearing many different jackets since joining the company. It caused me to think for a moment. I do own many jackets. I don’t know why. I usually only tend to wear maybe two or three in any given season. Maybe that’s a lot. To be truthful, I never really notice how many jackets other people have. Anyway, she has a point. I probably do own more jackets than I need. But for the love of Steve, none of them contain a built-in remote control for my iPod. BRITAIN WANTS! BRITAIN WANTS A LOT!!!
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Me either. Here’s some advice. Don’t google “how to wrap presents.” If you must google it, be sure to add “-cat” and “-puppy” to avoid the silliest meme I have yet discovered, the “How to Wrap Presents with a Pet in the House” humor piece. It’s times like this I remember that those people who buy electric Santa figures that do lascivious dances and play “Shake Your Groove Thang” or somesuch — those people all have webpages too now.
The only remotely useful piece you will find is this one, and it’s a little thin on basics for people like me who usually just buy a shiny bag and stick whatever it is in there.
My wife is great at wrapping gifts, but these are gifts for her, so I can’t very well go and ask her to do it. P.S. Don’t tell her I wrote this. She says she doesn’t read this.
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So cool. Were I still a library employee, I probably would have bought at least half the collection [in men’s XL, naturally].
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Authorized or not, I really want this shirt.
[EDIT: Link is dead now. It was a "Barry Jive and the Uptown Five" t-shirt, a reference to the pop band Black's character fronted in the film adaptation of "High Fidelity.]
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This is my favorite
pair of sneakers ever. My pair were size 8 1/2 and cost $55 on sale
at State Street Sports [now Bivouac] in Ann Arbor in, oh, about 1989 or
1990. One of the things that keeps me going balls-out,
everybody-to-the-limit, 110%-percent-every-day is that there may be a
warehouse somewhere in Thailand full of these in about
HREF="http://www.rakuten.co.jp/icefield/432380/456235/456459/">a size 11,
maybe 11 1/2, and when they are discovered, I will have the chance
to buy about 50 pair of them and just wear them for the rest of my life.
About a year ago, Nike re-released them, but the colors didn’t
move me.
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It seems more and more likely that I will have to forego the Audi TT for
20-30 years. However, I would not object at all to driving childrens to
school in
HREF="http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,58569,00.html">oneathese.
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When I was younger I always wanted to put oneathem fancy “This Theater
Equipped With Dolby Digital” signs in my TV room. Now, though, I find
myself panting over this
HREF="http://www.mainstreet-stores.com/cgi-bin/ePages.filereader?3e884de301866512271dc0a80136067b+EN/products/114333&2D1029175">repro of a handsome 20’s-era Western Electric theater sign.
It’s hard to beat vintage trademarks like “Western Electric.”
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