Good news on "Baptism Of The Rats" And The Best Music Review Ever

My friend who read the play says that it's very good and professional. I had a rather stressed day today but this piece of news really made me very happy.

The music review is here: http://www.angelfire.com/mi4/steveandabe/britneyspears.html
It's a must to read, even if you don't know who Britney Spears is (or wish you didn't know ;))

Sisyphus Unbound, Sexy Parties Abound

Two releases today: One is the very short story Sisyphus Unbound!, which, despite the fact that it came out of my imagination, depresses me when I read it. Yet for some reason I keep reading it and being even more depressed. http://drlight.multics.org/lit/fables/sisyphus.html

In other release news, here is a program I wrote inspired by Stewie Griffin's Sexy Parties. Basically 3 little @ symbols dance around at random within the confines of map.0 (or map.1, or whatever you want them to dance around within the confines of, if you have a compiler and the ncurses library). It was basically just something I did out of boredom and being curious about how video games do bounds checking. http://drlight.multics.org/crawler

More Ridiculous Shit

I already had a disgust for the hypocrisy of mainstream journalism and what it decides the public does or doesn't need to know, particularly the Associated Press, but this article just made it worse:

http://www.counterpunch.org/weir03182006.html

"Russian Socialists And Anarchists After October of 1917" Project.

News I got from www.hro.org - a Russian human rights portal:
On March 10th there'll be a presentation of a new website - "Russian socialists and anarchists after October 1917 : history, ideas, traditions of democratic socialism and lives of the members of the left opposition to Bolshevik regime" - http://socialist.memo.ru (the website is up already, unfortunately it's only in Russian, if I have time and enthusiasm I'll try to write its English summary) as well as of two books under the research program of the historical human rights society Memorial "Socialists and anarchists - the members of the left opposition to Bolshevik regime".

Not dead! New story

Hi, I'm not dead, just busy the past couple months. I wrote a story this afternoon entitled The Diner. It's only seven pages long, so you won't be too angry if you don't like it. You can find it here. Mahlzeit.

Old, But New For Me

I keep stumbling upon rather funny old news.
This is an amusing article about Bush's music taste. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4435639.stm It has funny reader's comments as well, my favourite is the one by Gerard from Dublin and the very next one by Tim from Bangkok.

Another one is about a Dutch pastor who celebrated a Harry Potter mass for children. http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2002/01/13/story36273.asp