Be a Good Consumer

typed for your pleasure on 14 January 2007, at 11.13 pm

Sdtrk: ‘memory one’ by The caretaker

The only fab thing about being employed again? The money. Or, as Winnie the Pooh might have it, the munny.

Over the course of the past three days, I’ve purchased
+ an airsoft MP40, courtesy of the Bay of e, so I can pretend I’m with the Wehrmacht. With the exception of the highly-coveted P90, my airsoft collection is complete

+ volume 2 of Ultraman, in conjunction with a $10 BestBuy giftcard that I received on Christmas. Initially my plan was to either buy the Prisoner thinpack, or the ‘Doctor Who: The beginning’ box set, but I forgot I was at BestBuy. ‘If it’s not brand new, or a hot item popular with the masses, we ain’t got it.’ Fuckers. O well, I wasn’t even really looking for Ultraman v2, so it all worked out

+ Borders had Emailed me, saying I had until 31 Jan to use up my Holiday rewards savings (a grand total of $7.63), so I hit the location near my work and grabbed volume 2 of Monster, and an Audrey Hepburn calendar for 2007. Not my ideal choice for a calendar, but 1) they were 50% off, and 2) that was the best they had left out of their remaining selection. Thankfully, I’ve always found Audrey hot, so it’s okay. But at the register, I was informed that I’d need a hardcopy of that Email I got, in order to use my savings, as they start tallying savings for 2007 after 01 Jan. Ergh. So I guess I’ll be using my $7.63 to buy Monster v3

+ Also within the same quarter mile as BestBuy and Borders was a GameStop, where I used some trade-in credit dating back to 2005 to get $20 off Samurai warriors 2 finally. The trade-in receipts were yellow and fading, much to the register biscuit’s astonishment. ‘Dude… were these printed on the Declaration of Independence?’ he’d asked. I chuckled

+ My hex key set that I’d ordered through the corporate gift catalogues issued to us at work arrived through the post! From now on, if I ever have a hex placed upon me, I can unlock it with no trouble whatsoever

+ Finally, be witness unto my New Cellphone.

No idea why the pic is blurry — more than likely, it’s due to Shi-chan’s complete inability to hold still — but yes, those are gaily-decorated human skulls as my wallpaper. (If you’re fully intrigued, you can download a copy for yourself from here.) But it’s a Treo Smartphone by Palm, which means that unlike my old Kyocera 7135, it’s smaller, lighter, has a faster processor, a built-in QWERTY keyboard, a 1.3 MP camera, a camcorder, and won’t crash like three times a week. Summation: it is a sexay machine.

So yeah! Stuff Week, or as the Germans might have it, Stüfwoch. O wait — now what the hell is this??

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Machines 3, Fleshlings 0

typed for your pleasure on 5 January 2007, at 1.32 am

Sdtrk: ‘Speedlearn broadcast’ by F. Peters

I swear to christ, I’m gonna build a TARDIS, go back in time, and flat-out murder whoever invented the flu with my bare and twitching hands. This is utter bullshit. Not only have I missed two days of work — under normal circumstances, that’d be something I’d be crowing about, but I like having money — and worse, I’ve not showered or shaved in two days, so I resemble some fucking hippie filth. Normally, I wouldn’t admit that sort of thing publically, but I’m brimful of Alka-selter/Halls/some generic anti-flu drug, so I don’t fucking care. Frankly, I’m surprised taht Im lucid enugh to speling as goood as I am.
So to everyone I need to Email back — you know who you are — give me a couple of days to remember how to spell my own name, and I’ll get back to you immediatement. Okay? Okay!

In the interim, I’ve just downloaded all three volumes of the soundtrack to ‘The prisoner’ from X-Y-Z Cosmonaut’s CosmoBlog, one of those crazy .mp3 blogs that I scour on a daily basis. One of my favourite episodes was ‘The General’, the one with the supercomputer with the subliminal learning technique that it televised to all the inhabitants of the Village, and I recall that tune that was played during the educational broadcasting was very very ace, as it was like all of Broadcast and Ghost box‘s output condensed into 42 seconds. So I’ve been playing it over and over for the past hour! And now you can hear it, too! FOREVER

Also, I want a Nissan Figaro, just like Sarah Jane Smith drives.

Okay? Okay! Back to lying down! But first, let me stumble over to the bog and puke some more WOO YAY

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This is why we can’t have nice things: supplemental

typed for your pleasure on 2 January 2007, at 10.52 am

Sdtrk: ‘Kenickie folks’ by Hideki Kaji

Right right; now I see why there’s been a metric ton of people over the course of the past few days, hitting ‘Shouting etc etc’ by looking for Ronald A. Dotson. I’m peering at my stats, going ‘WTF??’ Not ‘what the fuck??’, mind you, but making a perplexed sound that resembles ‘wittif’.

Mannequin fetishist could get life
Associated Press | Mon Jan 1, 5:33 PM ET

FERNDALE, Mich. – A man who has a history of smashing windows to indulge his fetish for female mannequins could draw a long prison term for his latest arrest. Ronald A. Dotson, 39, of Detroit faces up to life in prison if convicted of a charge of attempted breaking and entering at a cleaning-supply company in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale.

The potential life sentence is because prosecutors charged him as a habitual offender. Authorities say he has at least six convictions for breaking and entering and a stint in state prison over the last 13 years.

Ferndale District Judge Joseph Longo ordered Dotson to stand trial following a preliminary examination on Thursday, The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak reported. The judge ordered him jailed unless he posts a $15,000 bond.

Dotson was arrested Oct. 9 after police say he smashed a window at a cleaning-supply company to get at a female mannequin dressed in a black and white French maid’s uniform. He had been out of prison for less than a week.

Dotson was arrested in Ferndale in July 2000 and later convicted for breaking and entering at a women’s clothing shop to get at a mannequin in a pink dress with bobbed hair.

Ferndale police also arrested Dotson in 1993 after finding him in an alley behind a woman’s store with three lingerie-clad mannequins. He also has similar convictions in Detroit and suburban Oak Park.
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Information from: The Daily Tribune, http://www.dailytribune.com

Oddly enough, the Trib doesn’t actually have this story on its website. What does that say about the Tribune? *coughfishwrapcough*

Now, I know exactly where that shop that he broke into is — I pass by it at least once a week when I’m Out and About — and I’ve seen that Mannequin. She’s cute, but definitely not worth risking a prison sentence.
And I have to go even further by saying that yes, our Ronald certainly isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but I think a long-term conviction is quite literally a waste of taxpayer’s money. Don’t you think it’d just be cheaper to get that tosser a couple of Mannequins, and let him go crazy? Honestly, they’re not that expensive, especially if you buy used. Now if his problem isn’t based on wanting to have it off with a Mannequin, but is actually centred on simply breaking and entering/theft, then by all means, get him some psychiatric treatment. But throwing that silly tosser in prison simply cos he doesn’t have access to Mannequins is, well, silly. Sure, it’s not as if he couldn’t buy one, but it’s been proven that he’s just not that clever. He’s an idiot, but ultimately, he’s a harmless idiot — it’s not as if he’s knifing people in the streets or whatever. There are worse individuals out there that deserve harsher punishment.

You gotta love ‘Shouting to hear the echoes’. The execution of Saddam Hussein? Not a jot, not a single syllable. Some story about some local loony who attempted to make sexy time love explosion with a Mannequin? Well, he gets not one, but two posts written about him! Our priorities are different here

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This was the Future, Vol.32

typed for your pleasure on 1 January 2007, at 7.09 pm

Finally, a new one!
Sdtrk: ‘Don’t drag no more’ by Susan Lynn

Well, well, well, if it isn’t a structure by Mr ‘Machine for living’, Le Corbusier. This would be Villa Savoye, located in Poissy, France, and completed in 1929. In fact, this would be the primary example of his whole ‘machine for living’ aesthetic.

The Villa Savoye was designed as a weekend country house and is situated just outside of the small village of Poissy in a meadow which was originally surrounded by trees. The polychromatic interior contrasts with the primarily white exterior. Vertical circulation is facilitated by ramps as well as stairs. The house fell into ruin during World War Two but has since been restored and is open for viewing.
quote taken from this site

One of the coolest and most forward-thinking aspects of Villa Savoye is that the garage is integrated into the structure itself. What would occur is that you would drive along the paved section up to the house, and your vehicle would follow the curve established by the ground floor. Le Corbusier knew what he was doing, as that ground floor curve was the exact turning radius of an automobile — some sources say the 1927 Citroën, others say it was the 1929 Voisin.

Other ace features would be the open-plan layout, the central spiral staircase, windows practically everywhere, and a ramp leading to an open-air roof garden. Quite innovative, especially for the late Twenties. Not counting the Maison de Verre, of course

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Roll up your windows

typed for your pleasure on 25 December 2006, at 2.46 am

Sdtrk: ‘With every heartbeat’ by Robyn (feat. Kleerup)

WARNING: I’m subjecting you to another one of my dreams.

Steve (a former roommate), Marika (Shi-chan’s Organik sister), and I (me) were driving in my car to some motel, for some reason or other. The temperature outside was warm but not too unpleasant, so I’d had my rear windows down halfway. After pulling into the parking lot, we all got out; I was going to make reservations, and while that was occuring, Steve said he was going to go do something, and Mari was going to hit the adjacent Sunoco for something to drink. ‘Right, we’ll meet back in ten minutes,’ I said. So I headed into the hotel office — it was rather dingy, and it reminded me of one of those office trailers that you see on construction sites. Also, it seemed that no-one there was under the age of seventy. I went up the six or so steps and entered; the office was small and custard-coloured, but had a clear view of the parking lot. I saw the manager and his wife, who again had to be too old to be doing what they were doing, and I’d said, ‘I’d like to reserve a room please…’ then in looking out the window over the manager’s shoulder, I spotted a woman and her two sons. Their car was parked next to mine, and the mother had simply opened my left rear door, and pulled out a large framed Evangelion poster from my backseat. She was speaking to her two sons, who looked to be around six and ten, and they were nodding approvingly.
‘Ah, excuse me, I’ll be right back, someone’s, uh, taking something out of my car…’ I then bolted to where she was — she had just placed my poster in her back seat and was getting her kids back in the car, and I have to add that none of them were in any great hurry, bizarrely enough.
‘Ahh, what the fuck are you doing with my poster?’ I’d said to the mum. She was probably about 4’10”; I somehow sussed that she and her kids might’ve been Filipino.
‘Oh, uh, I’m sorry,’ she replied. She wasn’t freaked out or anything; she seemed slightly embarrassed, but it was more as if she was just inconvenienced. I reached into the back of her sedan and pulled out my poster, and also, without being seen at all, I spotted an LP on the backseat and took that, hiding it beneath my poster.
As she and her sons were getting in, I remarked, ‘You might want to get out of here before I call the cops.’ She turned backwards in her seat to reverse, and while she was engaging in that, I managed to surreptitiously break off her left side wing mirror.

Steve & Mari came back a couple of minutes later; I told them what happened, and they were aghast. ‘One of you has to stay with the car now,’ I’d mentioned, ‘while I go and get these reservations taken care of. ‘I’ll do it,’ replied Mari, and Steve followed with ‘I’m done, so I’ll stay here too.’ So I headed back into the office, which now contained around seven or eight other old people; most were milling around, but a couple were seated on a bed without sheets which was in the back corner of the already-cramped office.
‘Sorry about that,’ I’d said to the manager, ‘Someone was stealing something right out of my car.’
‘Yeah, there’s been a lot of that lately,’ he replied. ‘Times are rough these days, you know?’

So yeah! No idea what to make of that. As per usual. It’s a shame I didn’t realise it was a dream, as I could’ve laid a spinning piledriver on that mum; that would’ve been amusing.

In the meantime, Happy holidays, you ingrates. 🙂 Go listen to the new Ricky Gervais podcast!

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typed for your pleasure on 12 December 2006, at 3.04 am

Sdtrk: ‘el graphic’ by Death by chocolate

Hells yeah! Err, I mean, Why yes, of course!
It seems that 4woods has gone crazy with the sculpting and releasing of not one, but five new models! Well, two of them aren’t really new, they’re resculpts of previous models, but their Sexiness Quotient has increased about 300%. Three hundred per cent! That’s three one hundred per cents!

First off, there’s the new lass, Natsuki, of the A.I.NEO series.


She seems… distracted

Personally, Natsuki is my new favourite. She just has a certain something that I can’t explain, but she’s my tip for the top these days. Not to say that Kunika, Yu-ki et al are no longer comely, but Natsuki is just seven shades of gorgeous. Maybe it’s because she looks a wee bit like my Sidore-chan? Who can say?
Then there’s Kunika Reloaded, a new twist on an old favourite:


‘Eyes up here, matey’

The most alluring features I’d have to say about Natsuki and Kunika Reloaded are their mouths — their lips have that slightly-parted quality to them which is very enticing. And evidently, they brush and floss often!
Then there’s Haruhi, the debut lass of 4woods’ new NEO-J line.


Barbarella! Good to see you could make it

Seems like the NEO-J (or NEO-Junior) is not as small-framed as the A.I.Sister line, but not as big as the A.I.Doll line, or as well-endowed as the A.I.NEO line. In fact, it also seems that the company is moving on from their A.I.Doll and A.I.Sister body types, and concentrating more on A.I.NEO and NEO-J. Good, cos all of this is confusing the living hell out of me.
Next up is the new version of Yurio. ‘Hello! I’m Yurio,’ she says on the site, ‘I changed my makeup because my body also got a littele bit of evolutions.’ I completely agree. (??)


Did no-one pay attention to my warning about Doppelgängers??

As you can see from the photo above, they’re also available in ‘Nature colour’ (the pale version) and ‘Asian colour’, which is more of the tanned mocha variation, and any of their Dolls can be poured in either skintone.
And finally we have Neu, their ’20th special’. She’s not their 20th Doll, nor have they been round for 20 years, but from what I can glean from the machine translations is that, basically, everytime 4woods makes Dolls available for purchase, they do it in batches, and Neu commemorates their 20th order batch. Okay, now that makes sense. So does this mean every time 4woods hits a certain batch order number, they’ll make a new special edition Doll? Sounds like a plan!


It could’ve been worse — she could’ve been named Amon Düül

Neu is obviously going to cater to certain, more otaku customers by and large, but it’s neat that they offer her in the first place. Also, if you were to fit her with a sky-blue wig, she could convincingly cosplay as a member of the Abh race from ‘Crest of the Stars‘…
From what the site says, you can order her with regular ears, alternatively, or as they say, ‘a big ear and a usual ear.’ Huh! The better to hear you with, one would assume. Plus, more ear means more piercings, as far as I’m concerned. 🙂

Also, atsushi-san, MaRi-chan‘s boyfriend, mentioned recently in his blog that there’s a new issue of i-doloid Petie Maniax due out soon, that looks to have an article dealing with 4woods new lasses. Any way you slice it — delicious.

And to round off this particular entry, I’m sure everyone’s seen the ‘Skatebording girls‘ video. Why is it so funny? Because it contains Unrefined Humour Molecules, I’m guessing. I could watch it all day! Just… don’t tell Ronald Dotson about it; he might freak out and start crying

arigatou to Wolfgang for the ‘Skatebording girls’ link

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Twentythree

typed for your pleasure on 6 December 2006, at 11.39 pm

(reproduced from my old website, ‘the Darkened corner’)

ALL IS LOST

I was first enlightened abt 23 around 1991, during my ‘Throbbing Gristle is the ABSOLUTE BEST BAND IN THEE WORLD’ phase.. I had purchased a book called ‘Tape delay’ by Charles Neal & was reading the interview w/ Genesis P-Orridge, where he mentions his enslavement in the 23 phenomena. ‘Hm,’ I said, ‘that’s pretty byzarre..’ Naturally I mentioned it to my mates & they were like, ‘That’s bollocks, you can mention practikally any number & it’ll start cropping up everywhere you look’. I conceded that point, but soon after, 23s began popping up a lot W/OUT ME EVEN LOOKING FOR THEM. So I did a bit ov research into that accursed number & now submit my findings below, for yr perusal..

+ Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s flat number
+ Age ov Kenneth Ockenden – Dennis Nilsen’s 2nd victim
+ Number ov times the Zodiac killer stabbed one ov his female victims
+ Age ov Manson Family member Charles Watson during the Tate/La Bianca murders
+ Number ov attacks by Peter Kürten in 1929
+ Length ov time in minutes ov the first spacewalk
+ Number ov distriks ov Tokyo
+ Number ov pairs ov chromosomes in a human haploid cell (egg or sperm)
+ Number ov atomik tests condukted at Bikini Atoll
+ Number ov viktims due to plane bomber/mass murderer Joseph Guay, 1949
+ Number ov people killed by mass murderer George Hennard; at a Luby’s restaurant in Texas
+ Infusium 23 – a shampoo
+ Age ov Vernon Butts, accomplice ov murderer William Bonin
+ Age ov Keryn Barnes, first victim ov Michael & Suzan Carson
+ Age ov Ian Curtis when he committed suicide

the Calendar ov 23

JANUARY Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born 1756. Sergei Eisenstein, born 1919.

FEBRUARY
+ 1584 Gutenberg Day
+ 1900 Steamer ‘Rio de Janiero’ sinks in San Francisco Bay
+ 1936 First rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
+ 1958 Last Municipal arc light, over intersection ov Mission & 25th St, San Francisco, CA, removed
+ 1960 Patent for Barbie filed
+ 1996 William Bonin becomes the first Californian inmate executed by lethal injection

MARCH Akira Kurosawa, movie director, born 1910. Werner von Braun, rocket scientist, born 1912
+ 1919 Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist movement in Milan, Italy
+ 1933 German Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
+ 1964 Gemini is the first spacecraft to change its orbit
+ 1965 Gemini 3 launched, the first US 2-man space flight

APRIL Joyce DeWitt (Janet from Three’s Company), born 1949.
+ 1753 St. George’s Day
+ 1871 Blossom Rock in San Francisco Bay blown up
+ 1896 First ‘moving pictures’ are shown on a public screen in New York called the VITASCOPE system
+ 1962 First American satellite to reach moon launched from Cape Canaveral
+ 1962 Marilyn Monroe scheduled to begin filming Something’s got to Give, her final film, but awakens w/ acute sinusitis
+ 1967 Russia launches first Soyuz mission
+ 1969 Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy
+ 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explore the surface ov the moon
+ 1985 Debut ov New Coke

MAY
+ 1430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians who sold her to the English
+ 1903 First automobile trip across US from SF to New York (ended April 1)
+ 1908 Dirigible explodes over SF Bay; 16 passengers fall, none die
+ 1934 Bonnie & Clyde killed in an ambush
+ 1945 Nazi Henrich Himmler commits suicide while in prison at Luneburg, Germany
+ 1949 West Germany was proclaimed
+ 1959 Marilyn Monroe offered screenplay for film The story on Page One
+ 1962 M. Monroe shoots swimming scene for Something’s got to Give in the nude
+ 1980 Funeral held for Ian Curtis

JUNE Alfred Kinsey, sexologist, born 1894. Alan Turing, pioneer in computer theory, born 1912
+ 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes patents Typewriter
+ 1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) created
+ 1959 Marilyn Monroe operated on to relieve chronik endometriosis, resulting in abnormally painful menstrual periods
+ 1962 M. Monroe photographed in 1st ov 5 sessions for VOGUE by Bert Stern
+ 1985 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in the air, 329 die
+ 1991 S/D films shoots Hurtling metal flying bright petrol; also during the drive to Tammy’s place, Davecat goes the wrong direktion down I-94 and doesn’t realise it until the crew reach 23 mile
+ 1992 My Bloody Valentine performs at St Andrew’s; Detriot, Michigan

JULY Myra Hindley, born 1942. Dog Days.
+ 1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
+ 1829 The typewriter is patented
+ 1852 First interment in US National Cemetary at Presidio
+ 1904 The Ice cream cone is invented
+ 1918 first publik reading ov the Dada Manifesto by Tristan Tzara, in the ‘Meise’ in Zurich, Switzerland
+ 1937 Isolation ov pituitary hormone announced
+ 1972 ERTS 1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite), later called LANDSAT, launched
+ 1980 Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
+ 1997 Spree killer Andrew Cunanan commits suicide

AUGUST Barbara Eden, born 1934. River Phoenix, born 1970. Zeta Draconid meteor shower, radiant in Draco
+ 1617 The first one-way streets are established in London
+ 1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed in Massachusetts
+ 1957 Digital Equipment Corp. founded
+ 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes first photograph of earth from the moon
+ 1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched

SEPTEMBER Jason Alexander (George from Seinfeld), born 1959. The first full day ov Fall.
+ 0000 63 B.C. Octavian (Augustus Caesar) made first Roman Emperor
+ 1846 Johann Galle and Heinrich d’Arrest find Neptune
+ 1877 Urbain J.J. Leverrier, codiscoverer ov Neptune, dies
+ 1956 First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
+ 1973 Largest known prime, 2 ^ 132,049 – 1, is discovered
+ 1976 Soyuz 22 returns to Earth
+ 1976 Malcolm McLaren founds Glitterbest, the Sex Pistols management company
+ 1977 Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on ‘Charlie’s Angels’
+ 1977 Third test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
+ 1998 Stereolab releases their ‘Dots and loops’ album

OCTOBER Karl Jansky, discoverer of cosmic radio emissions in 1932, born 1905. Diana Dors (in England), born 1931. Orionid meteor shower, radiant in Orion. Swallows leave San Juan Capistrano
+ 4004 BC The Day ov Creation (Sunday) as calculated by Archbishop James Ussher ov Armagh, Ireland, (circa 1650)
+ 1910 Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight
+ 1915 25,000 women marched in NYC, demanding the right to vote
+ 1948 Marilyn Monroe receives first review for a film she appeared in
+ 1956 First video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast
+ 1973 President Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings

NOVEMBER Dennis Nilsen, serial killer, born 1945. Billy the Kid (William H. Bonney), born 1859. Boris Karloff, born 1887. Vladislav N. Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11) born 1935. John Kilbride, Brady/Hindley victim, killed 1963. Klaus Kinski died, 1991
+ 1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30 feet
+ 1863 Patent granted for a process ov making color photographs
+ 1927 Murderer William Edward Hickman, under the alias Donald Evans, rents an apartment to commit killings in
+ 1948 Lens to provide zoom effects patented (F.G. Back)
+ 1988 25th Anniversary ov ‘Doctor Who’

DECEMBER Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics, born 1790. Last day of Saturnalia
+ 1569 St. Philip ov Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
+ 1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite ov Saturn
+ 1690 John Flamsteed observes Uranus but doesn’t realize it’s undiscovered
+ 1947 Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley in Bell Labs
+ 1953 M. Monroe flies to San Francisco to marry Joe DiMaggio
+ 1959 Murderer Patrick Byrne strangled his first victim
+ 1968 Borman, Lovell and Anders first men to orbit moon

23 N e u e !
(courtesy ov the book ‘Everything is Under Control’ by Robert Anton Wilson)

+ The letter W is the 23rd letter in the alphabet & has 2 points down & 3 up
+ The first Apollo moon landing was at 23.63 degrees east; the second was at 23.42 degrees west
+ Shakespeare was born 23 April 1556 & died 23 Apr 1616
+ The human biorhythm cycle is set for 23 days
+ Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times by assassins
+ The US set off 23 atomic bombs at Bikini Atoll
+ According to Mayan prophecy, the world will end 23 Dec 2012
+ There are 23 chapters ov the Cult Awareness Network
+ Blood takes 23 seconds to circulate thru the human body
+ The Unabomber killed or wounded 23 people
+ Every 23rd wave crashing on a beach averages twice as large as normal
+ There are exaktly 23 numbers & letters on the face ov all US coins
+ The NY Yankees have won the World Series 23 times
+ The Nissan company takes its name from ‘ni’, Japanese for two, and ‘san’, which means three
+ Shakespeare was 46 (23×2) years old when the King James bible was published. Psalm 46 (23×2) has as its 46th word ‘shake’, and the 46th word from the end is ‘spear’

..so you see, 23 is associated w/ a myriad ov oddness.. 23 doesn’t appear as much in my day-to-day existence; at least, not as many eventful occasions have centred round that number. These daze I’ll glance at a clock & see it’s 23-past-wotever; that’s really the extent ov it. Yet & still, it’s a number to be reckoned w/.. (cue ominous musik)
Ov course, the list can always use new input. If you have any 23 fakts, don’t hesitate to send them in & I’ll add them to this mighty list..

circa the late Nineties
in front ov Eye ov Horus, Pittsburgh, PA


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