Here are some April Fool's ideas, for anyone who's stumped.
So here's a joke I like. You take a really strong magnet, like the kind you can get at the exploratorium, and you wave it all around someone's computer and cell phone and their credit cards, and pretty much their entire life vanishes.
Um, don't tell your parents I told you about that joke.
Also, it's pretty cool if you go into a restaurant wearing a wig, and go to the bathroom, and take a shit in the sink. Then you leave and your friend stays waiting outside as if they were in line and there was still someone there. You get out, then come back without the wig...and your friend goes in and starts screaming "there's shit in the sink! THERE'S SHIT IN THE SINK!"
Ummm, don't tell your brother or sister I told you about that one.
Oh, and hey, a really, REALLY good joke is when you get some friends together and go to a party with someone who you don't like, (I mean someone who was mean and shitty to you, not just someone who is annoying) and then you get the jerk really really drunk. You take the jerk to a back room and start passing around some pot in a crack pipe. If the jerk asks why you say because it's cooler, dammit. So you pass the pot around between all your friends, only whenever you get to the jerk you swap out the pot and swap in a crack rock.
Do this for a few weekends in a row, leading up to spring break, and then 3 or 4 nights in a row. Then call the jerk's parents and tell them you're worried that their child is hooked on crack.
ummmmmmmmmmm....don't tell ANYONE that I told you about that joke.
Alright, one more, and this one's a doozy: Get 10 or so rolls of saran wrap, and wrap them around and around someone's car. Twist every now and again to add thickness. Keep it up until the car has a ribbon of saran wrap around it that's half an inch thick or more. If you put cardboard around the car first, you can melt the saran wrap with a hair drier (a portable one, or plug it into an adapter in a nearby car). Also, you can wrap raw eggs under the saran wrap (but not actually against the car!) for added joy.
"Offices below, headstones marking daily graves of thousands. Inside,
across clock faces, as observed as those of celebrities, hands
commence final laps." - Alan Moore
From Rant by Diane DiPrima (who I love despite the fact that she uses 'yr' as an abbreviation for 'your,' which is usually something that irritates the fuck out of me):
there is no part of yourself you can separate out
saying, this is memory, this is sensation
this is the work I care about, this is how I
make a living
it is whole, it is a whole, it always was whole
you do not "make" it so
there is nothing to integrate, you are a presence
you are an appendage of the work, the work stems from
hangs from the heaven you create
every man / every woman carries a firmament inside
& the stars in it are not the stars in the sky
w/out imagination there is no memory
w/out imagination there is no sensation
w/out imagination there is no will, desire
history is a living weapon in yr hand
& you have imagined it, it is thus that you
"find out for yourself"
history is the dream of what can be, it is
the relation between things in a continuum
of imagination
what you find out for yourself is what you select
out of an infinite sea of possibility
no one can inhabit yr world
yet it is not lonely,
the ground of imagination is fearlessness
discourse is video tape of a movie of a shadow play
but the puppets are in yr hand
your counters in a multidimensional chess
which is divination
& strategy
the war that matters is the war against the imagination
all other wars are subsumed in it.
the ultimate famine is the starvation
of the imagination
it is death to be sure, but the undead
seek to inhabit someone else's world
the ultimate claustrophobia is the syllogism
the ultimate claustrophobia is "it all adds up"
nothing adds up & nothing stands in for
anything else
josh: me and ben have been talking about 3.0 zack soto: ahh josh: and one of the big things we are adding josh: is the fact that all content is treated the same in the database zack soto: ok.. josh: be in a news, image, post, etc zack soto: k josh: so this led to the idea of taking a feature i wanted to add, which is albums for your images zack soto: and what exactly is that going to do? josh: and turn it to an album for any of your content zack soto: ahh josh: which then turned into the idea of making it an album for any content josh: so for example, kiche could create an "album" called republicans are evil zack soto: like a journal album, a image album, etc? zack soto: lol josh: and include any content from killoggs related to that zack soto: with his rants? zack soto: ohhhhh josh: even content he didnt make josh: with like an introduction zack soto: like a favorites list or somethign josh: "republicans are evil, a content album by kiche" with like a paragraph of his introudction, then links to everything josh: kinda zack soto: yeah zack soto: i think i see where you're going with that josh: it would also allow people to make their own categories basically josh: like say i was... refurbishing my house josh: i could make a content album called "fixing my house" and just keep all those posts there josh: does this sound interesting/usuful? zack soto: hmmm zack soto: yes zack soto: i like that zack soto: then .. zack soto: then you could have the main page be kind of like it is now, except it'd be kind of cool if.. zack soto: like say instead of a w2hole entry pop up when you post your newest main page enrty.. zack soto: like say all the members were like uh index cards josh: yeah we are thinking the front page would be some kind of index of content josh: haha index cards zack soto: and when they'd post, their index card was brought to the top josh: hmm thats an interesting take on it zack soto: and at the top of the index card, it had their newest post title and maybe a sentence or two from it, or an abstract of the post zack soto: and below that in the rest of their index card, it had all their albums listed josh: i was thinking the front page would basically have an area with tabs, one tab for each "content type" and each tab would list the 20 most recent items, but not in full maybe, just like the first sentence or whatever josh: yeah that index card idea is good too zack soto: you could do it both ways really zack soto: indexed by album type, but also by the users who create the albums josh: we just want to take killoggs beyond being a blog, but leave the blog elements there as well zack soto: yeah zack soto: i like that josh: cool. well we are working on it. zack soto: cool josh: im gonna post this should i change your IM name? zack soto: nah zack soto: it's fine josh: damn it can you paste me back what we typed josh: my computer blows zack soto: yeah hold up
Yo, I only saw like 15mins of DMBQ at the Black Cat tonight cause I thought they were headlining but Navies and A Day In Black and White were and they played first, but I still got my money's worth cause the shit was was like Sabbath and psych and loud and awesome and they were dressed all evil like if evil was from the 70's and fuckin the singer had a fuckin gas mask with mics sticking out of it and he crowd surfed and gave me the mic and I sang some high ass notes that were infinitely echoing then they brought the drum set into the crowd and played it there and kicked it into people and I saw some dude there that was at the Jack Rose show last night in Bmore wearing a Black Sabbath Vol 4 shirt and I talked to him for a second before I bought all my shit but like oh yeah they stood on top of the drum set remnants and jumped off and hit the cymbals for the last note.
It was awesome.
I'm a little bummed cause I didn't get to see the majority of their set, but I'm glad I rolled out after they were done cause I gotta work early all week.
