Edshugeo The GodMoor

I'm not a huge fan of the goatee. I feel it's now a bit of a nineties cliche, though at one point it was a fifties, beatnick cliche, wasn't it? Whatever the case, I now see goatees as the nineties version of padded shoulders (1980's) or bellbottoms (1970's). I decided to "grow" one a few weeks ago, just for the hell of it. For me, growing a goatee means growing a beard, and then shaving around it. I'm not sure if there are some who can grow such things naturally, but I guess it's possible. I just wanted to point out that I'm not among them. Twelve years ago, I couldn't grow a handlebar mustache. I wanted one 'cuz Jimi Hendrix used to have one. The hair on my face grows in slightly differently than it used to, though not as smoothly as the picture may suggest. A few years ago I did the handlebar mustache thing and told people it was my big gay mustasche. I'm not gay, by the way. Figured I'd point that out, too, though there's nothing wrong with that...
So I have the goatee, and in a couple of weeks I'll shave it off just before my 40th birthday and I'll return to my pattern of alternating between beardlessness and, uh... beardness, I guess.

Labels: fun, These pictures will come back to haunt me one day

If you're anything like me, then you probably have no idea what these local politicians actually do. Some might see this as a good reason to stay home, but me, I think that would just be letting these guys off the hook. You'd become a vote they wouldn't have to fight (or lie) for. So I'm voting. The Long Island Press has put together a guide to help us make our choices. (if you live around here) It's no substitute for actual research, but for now, it'll have to do.
Tuesday's Election day. Go vote.

Labels: politics

This article says pornography to go is a no-brainer, but oddly enough, I never saw this coming. I liked the idea of the video iPod when I first heard about it and I like porn. I don't care much for the idea of carrying "Rocco Ravishes Europe" or anything by Max Hardcore in my pocket, though. My feeling is that iPod porn will soon make headlines in the context of it's use by students in classrooms. I have to worry too, about whether or not public masturbation becomes more convenient and thus more prevalent. I take public transportation. And public restrooms, fuggedaboutit!
Anyway, I still don't have an iPod nor any of the other portable mini music players as of yet. I have a portable cd player that plays mp3s on CD. While the video iPod sounds cool, I may be leaning toward the Sony PSP, which plays games as well as video. I'll probably get one around January-ish. I haven't had a close up look at either product, but I assume the screen sizes will make watching subtitled movies troublesome. That's kinda an issue for me. Also the price.
iTunes is selling video downloads for $1.99 or something. That seems a bit much, but people appear to be buying 'em. Plus a more reasonable price point might have people questioning the 99 cents they're charging for music downloads. Tough to argue with success, though. Besides, there are alternatives for the resourceful among us. "Nudge, nudge, say no more"...

Labels: downloads, media, porn, PSP, society, technology