"Nothing is too hard for God, except my dick."
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- leighton
- October 27th, 12:43
My High School's wiki lists famous achievers, including the murderers, cool:Xavier Beitia, kicker: 2001-2003 Florida State University, 2004 New York Jets, 2006 Berlin Thunder
Jim Davis, U.S. Congressman
Jay Feely, National Football League kicker: 1997-1998 University of Michigan, 2001-2004 Atlanta Falcons, 2005-2006 New York Giants, 2007-present Miami Dolphins
Lionel, nationally syndicated radio talk show host
Dave Magadan, former Major League Baseball player: 1986-1992 New York Mets, 1993 Florida Marlins and Seattle Mariners, 1994 Florida Marlins, 1995 Houston Astros, 1996 Chicago Cubs, 1997-1998 Oakland Athletics, 1999-2001 San Diego Padres
Rich McKay, National Football League executive: 1993-2003 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, general manager, 2003-2006 Atlanta Falcons, president and general manager
Lou Piniella, former Major League Baseball player and manager: 1964 Baltimore Orioles, 1968 Cleveland Indians, 1969-1973 Kansas City Royals, 1974-1984 New York Yankees, 1985-1986 New York Yankees (coach), 1986-1988 New York Yankees (manager), 1990-1992 Cincinnati Reds (manager), 1993-2002 Seattle Mariners (manager), 2003-2005 Tampa Bay Devil Rays (manager), 2007-present Chicago Cubs (manager)
Brad Radke, pitcher, 1995-2006 Minnesota Twins
Frankie Silvestri, sentenced to 35 years imprisonment for the murder of Premal Dagly
Joe Vance, animator, Walt Disney Feature Animation
Tedd Webb, broadcaster, photographer, author
Charles R. Wilson, circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Bert Kreischer, comedian
Shane Robinson, Major League Baseball player: 2004-2006 Florida State University, 2009-present St. Louis Cardinals
Jason Michaels, Major League Baseball player, Philadelphia Phillies (2001-2005), Cleveland Indians (2006-2008), Pittsburgh Pirates (2008), Houston Astros (2009-Present)
MarkThompson (Designer) Kid Stays in the Picture, D.E.B.S., Crude, Iconoclasts
No wonder I found high school boring, I find baseball to be boring, up close.
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- leighton
- October 15th, 5:17
fabled
Leighton Chamberlin Mann Nutso humpday show: Supersuckers forced the new guy to learn Cornuda-era rock set. Sweet.
Brannon re-dubbed Easy Action "The Harold Richardson Trio" and threatened to bring me and my banjo on stage for an acoustic NA set. John tells me the details of his appearance with FEAR on SNL. Rock.
Chapstik discovered the fabled Triple Brown Note using said banjotar attack. This Note stimulates the Buy Too Much Merch Gland, apparently. Evil.
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- leighton
- October 14th, 14:39
New podcast is up. "Things I Shouldn't Have on My iPod" edition. Plus moving older ones to new feed:
http://web.me.com/leightonsatan/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html
I am avoiding LiveJournal lately, because SnowLeopard hates Russians.
FaceBook makes better use of my time, which is zero.
Thinking of quitting my overtheroad driving job at the worst possible time, but they are running me illegally...
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- leighton
- September 24th, 11:37
I have discovered the joys of the Magnetic Lasso tool:
- (Australia may not be that cool)
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- leighton
- September 17th, 15:33
Finally fixed server / HD issue and...
Another podcast is up: HERE
Podcast by an over the road Truck Driver, Atheist, Landscape Architect, Vegetarian, Heavy Metal God. Features: clips of CB conversations, new music that isn’t always metal, phone calls from the future version of me.
Drag Me To Smell
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
After a severe head injury to the MacBook (which still works great), the PodCast returns and reconsiders the coolness of Australia.
Call-in racism and foolery.
Our drunk drummer + Beyonce’
Future Leighton.
New music by Baroness / Keelhaul +
Frank Black, The Makers, Moore and Napier (truck driver songs),
...The Haunted + CB clips from Hell, again.
I’ll add all the old pocasts, later.
Bro.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
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- leighton
- September 16th, 8:56
Behind closed doors, Conservatives use racial epithets and joke about killing gay people, while shooting a neighbor's kitten.
Behind closed doors, Liberals have orgies and worship Satan while dining on babies.
One of these is true. I saw it.
OK, actually both are true.
- Like watching a trainwreck, but is rubbernecking a good thing?
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- leighton
- September 14th, 13:41
I am fascinated by the AM-radio-fomented Teabaggers. Watching them is like watching society slowly implode, from what you think is a safe distance.
I am equally amused by hippies protesting in dumb ways. But this is the week of the Jesuslandians. (I agree that Cap and Trade is kinda dumb, but much dumber is racism and suggesting we "Cap" [shoot] elected officials.) Let the parade of ass begin:
I used to estimate numbers professionally and there were not 2 million people at Saturday's rally. Their self-delusions of how numerous / important they are are awe inspiring, but I feel pangs of guilt enjoying (laughing at) their antics / artistry. Wesley Willis was entertaining but not really as a technical musician. Idicoracy was a drama...not a comedy.
Luckily, most of the media is not as fascinated as I am. Their fetishizing of missing white women isn't any better. But this week featured a missing woman who was also technically a runaway bride for getting murdered. Nice.
And then, we can all have some fun:
- Ram It Through. (Don't jump off the roller coaster while on it.)
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- leighton
- September 10th, 10:28
Fuck the dumb jock Republicans. Dems should do something they understand: disregard detractors. Ram health care reform through Congress without GOP backing. The election was last year, and the opposition lost.
The Democrats might lose the House next year if the "nuclear option" is used, but a slim GOP majority there cannot reverse reform in 2011. By the time 2012 comes around, Obama (if he isn't assassinated by Rep. Wilson) will have many other things accomplished and would probably win reelection.
Ram It Through. Because...
Sternly doing what you think is right sometimes gains the respect of enemies.
Almost all such reforms are hard won and easily defended once implemented. No one would touch Social Security or Medicare with a ten foot pole now, but they had to be rammed through.
Once people see how well such systems work, they love them.
Polls indicate we wanted reform, then we got cold feet.
Analogy time:
My young niece demanded to go on a mild roller coaster at Hershey Park this past weekend, but while we waited in line she had time to get scared of her decision. Her mom would not let her back out of the line. The girl's screaming and pleading became more and more hysterical, but her mom insisted she'd like it.
We rode the ride together. The niece acted scared.
Hours later, she demanded to ride again... on that roller coaster ...and loved it.
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- leighton
- August 28th, 13:11
After reading "The Road" and hoping the movie with Viggo and Charlize doesn't suck like almost every other post-apo movie ever that I still love.
So, I've been watching every dead world movie I can remember while stuck sick or in my truck this week. So, far it's been:Damnation Alley (available on YouTube only, but that means free)- A movie so good and bad that it isn't available on DVD.
The Last Man on Earth - Wow, Vincent Price can't act in this one, but he's a million times better than Wil Smith in the remake "I Am Legend"
Red Dawn - Is that Patrick Swayze?
Coming:
Deep Impact - I'm thinking it won't have one.
28 Weeks Later - hoping it's as good for a third time.
- In case you missed this on the news that never reported it...
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- leighton
- August 28th, 10:53
Christian Pastor calls for the President’s death.
"Anderson’s sermon wouldn’t have made any headlines except that the day after he delivered his fiery sermon, one of his parishioners showed up at an Obama town hall event with an assault rifle and a pistol."
He kinda looks like a pre-donut Glenn Beck:
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- leighton
- August 23rd, 20:18
Perhaps this is just because I just finished reading "The Road" and re-watched "Damnation Alley" on YouTube, but a certain vehicle seems completely practical at $240,000:
What can you do to be prepared? The FEMA website is a great place to learn about preparing for emergencies, but think of the peace of mind that having a fully self-contained four wheel drive expedition vehicle would provide. An EarthRoamer XV-LT provides an 85 gallon water supply, a 90 gallon fuel supply (range approximately 1000 miles) and plenty of storage space for food and gear. Four wheel drive, a turbo-diesel engine, high output lighting, front and rear winches and off-road tires with military bead-lock wheels will ensure that you get to your destination. Once you arrive safely 510 watts of solar power and a 510 amp-hour battery bank will provide power for all necessary systems. Sleeping facilities, a galley and bathroom with toilet and shower provide for the necessities of life.
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man:
This movie version had better not suck:
- Oral Roberts University Has the Best College Campus on the Planet
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- August 21st, 11:54
I went to a Jesuit High School in Florida and was taught by priests and lay-people wielding doctorates in their fields from Ivy League schools. But my favorite teacher was a guy who had just graduated with multiple degrees from a cultish school in Oklahoma: Oral Roberts University. He was the most down to earth guy, which earned my respect - despite the fact that I was already very suspicious of religious people, especially evangelicals. Though I tend to get along with such people better than with other agnostics who are just as arrogant as me.
School is always what you make it. When I spied the campus within a few miles of where I was parked, I took a tour to see how he survived. A security guard happily let me park my truck in the TV studio parking lots, so I took these pics with the iPhone (forgive them):
First, the place doesn't just crank out nice, down to earth guys. Noted alumni are Michele Bachmann (batshit crazy right wing Congresswoman who believes CHUDD have taken over the Federal Reserve) and famous breeder, Kathy Lee Gifford. The founder's son and wife were involved in financial, Republican, and sex scandals in 2007. The wife used underaged boys and school funds. And the husband just wanted to be a Vegas crooner. The wiki on these scandals has not been raided Scientologically, which gives the school that much more credibility to me.
The campus itself is like walking onto the outdoor set of Shatner-era Star Trek, so I half expected to get some kind of scab-like creature attached to my back. The details of the architecture have an odd Deco / Nouveau quality (Tulsa actually has a huge Art Deco palette and hosts architectural conferences on the subject). This adds a Dune quality to the details that gets slightly creepy. Note the base of the Prayer Tower:
Also note the "eternal flame". This is where Oral holed up until he got 8 million from donations to pay off debt for building this golden medical complex:
This is now a secular office complex. The closer you got to this building, the more you felt like you were in Logan's Run.
Dorms:
Each supposedly has an appliance that is a fridge and microwave combines. Which sounds like some kind of execution device.
The students themselves looked like very polite, non-menacing versions of kids at every other college. The large accumulation of pseudo hippies and whiteboy fros was kind of disappointing, but there were a lot of minorities to make fun of them. The only evangelical-looking person was a 50+ security guard with a blonde perm.
Classic Jetsons / "Googie" architecture everywhere. Almost nothing looks religious, even the chapel:
Come to think of it, I saw less religiousness in the students than I did at LSU.
LSU had a master plan and amazing landscape design by Olmstead's office (Central Park / Stanford), but the ORU campus looked good with its odd stairways and mature Crepe Myrtle stands. The rest of the campus was getting renovated, possibly with funds found after the scandals. Good for them.
Perhaps to make up for all the whimsical modernism, they put this out front:
Creepy, yes, but well-executed, like most of the architecture behind it.
It took guts to not go with the Greek Revival / Neo-Classical architecture of similar schools. I hope all of this is looked at years from now as just as important as the Victorian or Deco movement and not dismissed as whimsy.
- Chapstik gets all squirrrlly
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- August 21st, 10:36
This was a fast test of online photoshopping aps. This one used Splashup for 5 minutes. I could have cleaned the varmint up a bit, but I am now a fan of the cloud.
My MacBook's aftermarket hard drive header took a shit, so I reformatted. Between 3 iPods, Facebook / Flickr archives and .Mac, I have nothing of value on my local hard drives anymore.
Google may rule the world with their server farms if this keeps up.
- Worst Gift Shop Ever, for Kids
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- leighton
- August 12th, 15:16
Took this quickly with the 3G S camera, before it had a chance to autofocus. Angry lady running it. The proprietrix seemed to know she had made the wrong name choice. "Gas the Other Kid" was taken.
- iPhone 3G S / 3G review
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- leighton
- August 10th, 9:56
My iPhone 3G S seems to be faster to load aps, change screens and start than my wife's 3G. But I only got the S because it has the highest capacity (32 gigs), allowing me to replace my iPod, camera and GPS for most functions. I have only halfway filled it after a month.
The internet radio aps are amazing, even on Edge connections, so no sat. radio fees for me.
The GPS has saved my ass a couple times on my bike and on foot in unfamiliar towns.
The built in speaker is good enough to listen to internet radio or podcasts while the thing is in my pocket and no one else is around or by my nightstand. I have yet to plug headphones into the iPhone.
A nice dashboard mount makes it easier to see /advance songs than the truck's stereo. The KW's decent Pioneer unit is located about a foot lower and to the right of my field of vision, dumb design from Kenworth, and this is not an old truck. The lack of a physical wheel is less cumbersome than I expected, and podcast controls are better than on a "classic" iPod. But you can't click ahead on shuffle without a quick look.
Two clicks allow me to take pics or vids of whatever is in front of me.
The camera "auto focus" is decent in daylight:
The video is fairly decent and uploads seamlessly to YouTube, but in vertical orientation it clips the sides.
This an onramp in PA with a LOT of weight on the back:
Here is a horizontal orientation, uploaded without the phone. The truck was about one third as heavy, BTW:
Fav. aps so far are:Yelp/ Urban Spoon: for the food reviews and "around me" function.
Calculator: It works fast, unlike with my Samsung's touchscreen.
WunderRadio: best of the 5 internet radio aps I use.
Bank of America App.: Ironically, I can access more from my phone now than my Mac. BoA has horrid Mac support.
ClearTune: a really accurate chromatic guitar / banjo tuner just using the microphone.
Around Me: is fun for finding what is around truckstops in rural areas - mostly beauty salons.
Speedometer is great for a heads-up display of my real speed in the Fiero and van which have altered computers and/ or wheel diameters.
Flight Control, Brick and Sneezies are good time-killing games when waiting to get loaded / unloaded,
Mapquest and Weather Channel aps are better than the default aps with the same function.
Facebook ap is very limited.
I support a nationwide ban on txting and emailing while driving. Airplane Mode allows me to ignore calls and txts and when I'm piloting actively 80,000 lbs of wheeled death. Ironically, our satellite systems in the company trucks allow for reading dispatch messages, which I happily ignore until the next stop.
- 50 bands seen live off the top of my other head
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- leighton
- August 4th, 10:27
Facebook is a Twitter/ LJ/ LinkedIn RSS combo that has this meme going around. This is different from my FaceBook list. You have no obligation to read or repeat this list:
Seen more than once and not on other list.
1. Didjits
2. Nashville Pussy
3. Spoon
4. Detroit Symphony Orchestra
5. Morning Glories
6. Ministry
7. Screeching Weasel
8. Flipper
9. Melvins
10. Iron Maiden
11. Enon
12. Halfway to Gone
13. Rollins Band
14. Fugazi
15. L7
16. Dio
17. Guitar Wolf
18. Thunderbird are Now!
19. Rush
20. Von Bondies
21. Alabama Thunderpussy
22. Queens of the Stone Age
23. ...Trail of Dead
24. RPG
25. Supersuckers
26. Jucifer
27. Man... Or Astroman?
28. Silverfish
29. Muffs
30. NIN
31. Speedealer
32. Hammerhead
33. God Bullies
34. Dixie Witch
35. Rwake
36. Cutthroats 9
37. Honky
38. Bad Wizard
39. Pansy Division
40. Lunachicks
41. The Makers
42. Mudhoney
43. Cows
44. Ed Hall
45. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
46. Metallica
47. Doo Rag
48. Brainiac
49. JJ's Paradise Player's Club
50. Throw Rag
- Klinkers - It reminds me of healthy pit bulls being killed at shelters.
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- leighton
- August 4th, 9:08
Passing "Cap and Trade" legislation this year was dumb. Global warming is real, and that's why we should do nothing about it. Let your kids figure out technology to fix its effects or rebuild your beach house inland, if needed. We need the political and financial capital elsewhere.
Cash for Clunkers (CARS), on the other hand, is both wildly popular and a failure. Anyone who says it's more of one than the other listens solely to AM radio or works for Ford. Both Glenn Beck and car dealers are benefiting by demonizing or praising the work:
A relatively small government agency was given 30 days to construct out of thin air a program to spend a billion dollars and get 200,000 "gas guzzler" cars off the road. It was expected to take months to run its course.
It took less than a week.
Beck, in typical insta-douche fashion, jumped to a conclusion and claimed this meant the government can do nothing right, and we should all give our lives and wallets to Mormo the Sky God instead of trusting the post office or anyone but Romney (who ironically oversaw the failing public health reform system in Massachusetts). Then he proves he knows nothing about the internet or fraud deterrence:
The auto industry wants the extra 2 billion to keep a huge bubble of car buying from bursting.
I am close to the supply chain of many auto companies. It's working, and it's like a shit storm of parts are flying, for now. But the aspect of this program I really don't like is the way the clunkers are taken out of the system: engines are seized and the cars are shredded.
It reminds me of healthy pit bulls being killed at shelters.
What seizing a Volvo engine takes, even when the crank case is filled with sand:
Now I know why our Volvos always went over 300,000 miles.
By comparison, look how little time it took to destroy a Blazer's engine:
This seems wasteful, though in those 30 days I doubt they could have created a parting-out infrastructure to reuse the perfectly good parts in these vehicles that could be used on non-clunkers (transmissions, interiors, wheels / tires...). Then there's the cost to the environment at the landfills, with an expected 1/2 million cars waiting to die and leak in these places.
Both of my cars would qualify as clunkers, but no new vehicle can do what mine do and get better mileage, because today's safety standards add a huge amount of weight and cost.
The 98 tour van gets 18mpg empty /15-17 towing. Even though I could trade it in for a new Camaro and get the full $4,500 bonus (the DI V6 Camaro gets 28mpg+), it seems a crime to take up landfill space with an excellent engine.
There is no sub-$35k car on the new market that is mid-engined, so replacing the Fiero doesn't work either. Until Lotus makes a stripper Elise... wait, it already is a stripper.
- Seriously, people called.
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- leighton
- August 2nd, 14:30
Of course there's a new episode of my podcast online, why do you ask?
Half of Alaska's on fire?
NOT MY FAULT!
It is totally the fault of iTunes and subscribing to the Broken and Hearted Podcast via iTunes!
In this Episode:
Songs Covered by Your Band
The inevitable All-Covers Podcast has re-arrived. I guarantee you haven’t heard at least two of these unreleased songs, but you wanted to hear them.
But there’s so much more: CB clips, calls from listeners in far away states, Fox News updates, I BOUGHT A BANJO, and a nose hair knitting segment.
Covers by and of:Black Flag
SilkWorm
WOLFBAIT
Jesus and Mary Chain
Sabbath
Pussy Galore
DEVO
JJ's Paradise Player's Club
Big Boys
Shellac
QOTSA
Cramps
Beach Boys
Stones
Mastodon
BOC
Today is the Day
Circle Jerks
L’7
Thanks to DanG and Son of Darold for the unreleased stuff.
There is a bonus Ida Maria live bit at the end that destroys my cred.
- I really like that they didn't add an "e" to the end of "Grill".
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- leighton
- July 30th, 22:31
I stop in Effingham, IL all the time in my truck, because it is a truckstop coagulant. 70 and 57 meet there in farmland. But tonight, I fired up Yelp! and Urban Spoon apps on the new phone just to laugh at what ratings the local greaspits grind out:
Surprise.
There was a 5 star place within yards of my truck.
So I went.
Firefly Grill
I'm sure I looked every inch of the 550 miles I had driven so far that day, but the well-dressed staff didn't blink at me. They are probably used to dazed drivers stumbling across a field in search of beer. They probably also know truckers can afford their menu.
Leighton reviewed Firefly Grill on Urbanspoon."Hidden in the aptly-named town of Effingham in rural Illinois, this place surprised me as being friendly and uncompromising. Fresh veggies from the restaurant garden on many of the meals sold me. The setting and architecture are great, considering the locale. It is not surprising Chicagoans trek here in envy."
My server seemed local and unpretentious, a good start.
My meal:
I had gazpacho made entirely from things grown in the restaurant's garden. The pizza had their own basil and possibly tomatoes. Not sure about the origins of the asparagus, but it was good. All that and a coke cost me less than $15. Amazing, especially in a place that had a cumulative wine list that cost more than the GDP of Nepal.
The seafood on the menu is probably good because of the we flew this shit here prices (approaching high 20's for scallops). Also encouraging.
I also like that they didn't add an "e" to the end of "Grill". That shows restraint in the Mid Mid West
Bon Appetit call it the second most Eco-friendly restaurant in the country. The place looks well thought out. Yelp lists it as vegan friendly and the menu mentions flexibility, but vegan options aren't the first thing you think of when the second name is "Grill". Lots of wild boar and elk is on the menu and walls.
You can almost see my truck from my table:
Great architecture: landscape and otherwise.
I'd have to try it again to give it a rating higher, but at first pass this is a four out of five. It edges out Chrissy Hynde's vegan place in Akron which seemed to fight its location more than work with it. The Firefly knows where it is.
Firefly Grill
Sent from my iPhone, not while driving!
