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THE RUNNING JOKE: July - September, 2002 09.29.02
09.21.02
Right off the bat... BING!...Matt's latest sports beat has [mostly] arrived. Dave is incommunicado now, but I will rendevous with him tomorrow BEFORE any games begin. I will acqire his picks then, and post them as soon as I am able. Rest assured, the process is intact. Anyway, I will attach the preliminary picks here, but make sure you visit the real site for Matt's new, cryptic epigram.
I am a big fan of the NFL Ticket that DIRECTV is offering. Now, I am a digital cable man myself, but Dave & possesses the DIRECTV. What's more: he chooses to splurge on the Sunday Ticket. What this means is that for the cost of a couple of measly 6-packs each Sunday, I am entitled to watch a lot of football. It's not a total cakewalk, though. In case you hadn't noticed, Dave is an indefatigable Detroit Lions fanatic (poor bastard). So I have to watch the Lions game before all others. Lately this has not posed a problem, because of how the Lions games tend to be over midway through the first quarter. Mrs. Dave is all about the Dolphins, so they are pretty much number 2 on the menu. But even with the Colts a distant 3rd preference in that NFL Sunday Ticket household, it's all good. We have the ingredients for our next batch of homebrew -- our first attempt at an Imperial (and when I say 'imperial' I mean 'muthafuckin' imperial') Stout. The hops is, shall we say, in abundance. I imagine that the brewing will take place next weekend. In the restaurant tonight, I finally saw the video of that woman beating the hell out of her kid in the Kohl's parking lot in Indiana. People are amazing! Video camers are amazing, too! As striking as the video is, I sort of wonder how it became national news so quickly. As much as I would like to believe that this was a completely anomalous event, I have to think that something of this nature and magnitude happens regularly. Is it that strange, or did we just happen to see this one? And if we just happened to see it, that begs the question: who is monitoring all of those heralded, decried, bastard video cameras that spy on all of us everyday? And what's up with the surname -- "Toogood". Is somebody pulling my leg? And now if I want to see the video on CNN, I get an advertisement to subscribe to their video service. If I recall correctly, CNN broke the story. I almost feel un-American suggesting that this whole thing is some kind of perverse commercial for a new interactive news capacity that the geniuses over at AOLTW have concocted. So I won't suggest that. Instead, I will just go grab another Icehouse.
09.16.02
Thanks everybody for playing. The former site host has been purchased by a new site host. Confusion occurred, picks were muddled, the fans they was a-scanderlized. It's been a confusing pile of days over here at cocksocket central. For your captain as well as for you.
Even so, the peeps has submitted them picks. The launch of MSB '03 could have been more crisp, but we are underway all the same. Matt posted the best week 1, but his "golden picking eye" is a little out of focus this week.
Week 2:
I watched a couple of movies last weekend. The first, Orange County, was not terrible. Even though I am a nearly-homosexually-charged Jack Black fan, I was expecting a soggy piece of morally refined shit. And, to be fair, it was just that. Just not to the expected degree. The second film, The Gift, was sensational. Go watch it 'cause it's good. Great ensemble vehicle. Great story. Great Cate
My Studio's days are numbered. The stack of recording goodness in the office corner has been sentenced to a cardboard box in oblivio while we clear out the office for new critters to live in. Although, the presence of the TASCAM 234 has been titular at best since we moved into this place, it represented the promise of archives yet to be restored. The new configuration will be nothing more than a notebook roaming by means of a wireless network. I don't know what that means for making music, but if I had to guess, I would say that it will be more "electronic" than "organic". Blast!
I tried to help you all I can
In addition, the cauldrons are turning and someone has let the droid out of the bang
09.09.02
Matt's Sports Beat is off. It is beating off like a good sporty thing should. Even though updates were not made until Monday evening, all picks were submitted in advance of the games. Cocksocket has even contracted a 3rd party auditor (Andersen) to certify the Week 1 picks in an independent 'ritual'. You may see it here, or below (whichever you prefer...)
08.28.02
White America: I could be one of your kids.
Football season is approaching faster than the nimblest 300-pound offensive lineman through the line of scrimmage, and Cocksocket is preparing more slowly than a primping pro bowl quarterback. Matt has been organizing his thoughts, and even mailed in a preseason beat or two. You, the loyal Cocksocket reader, standard bearer, persevering through the stanky quagmire of what used to be the crown socket on the tip of the cock, as it were, however, are not yet privy to those delights. The Matt's Sports Beat delights, I mean. And here is why you are not yet informed: golf (what a stupid game!), and the Sony handheld that I just picked up.
If you have any questions or comments, send them in. Otherwise, I simply offer a look into my early adventures with the Clie.
08.12.02
I have flipped the switch and now the light shines upon all the nodes and connexions contained here in the cocksocketonian sludge.
Writing this message will be my first official "redesigned" activity. I believe that this design is about 60% of the way done. You will find many new and exciting things here, and you will find many things that work improperly or don't work at all.
With that in mind, my second official "redesigned" activity will be to create a list of cocksocket to-do's. This list will comprise the basic elements of the website that need to be corrected or implemented or even removed. As soon as I finish this message, I will open the to-do list here: http://www.cocksocket.org/todo.html. Surely you will want to peruse this list, and you may even want to police it to make sure that the quality of your adventures in Socketonium represent authentic value. A task even more important than these--the essential task--is that you work with the site, and alert your captain to any errors / misstatements / etc. If you find something wrong, drop me a line: captain@cocksocket.org.
Peace and how you be G,
CAPTAIN FORMALDEHYDE
07.16.02
Okay, people, let's get to it. First, I have not actually been recording for the last 7 weeks. I got started on May 30, and worked for like a week or two. I have no finished product. Nothing to share, save my meek, measly, unfortunate progress to date. This will be corrected in due time.
Mostly this recent lull has been a Cocksocket type siesta, filled with sleeping and snoring, meditations on marinara, brewing - imbibing, etc. It is critical that I differentiate this lull from a process whereby the organica grows mossy and moldy. In this case, we have a less natural occurrence.
When I awoke from my slumber, I immediately began encouraging the contempt that I share with myself for myself. Because there was no place to direct this caustic anger, apart from myself, I decided to let loose upon the world, the Cocksocketonian faithful, and the very fabric of the Cocksocketonian experience: the page design for cocksocket.org.
A word about Cocksocket and Cocksocketonian page design:
Later, It changed. It got darker, more brooding. The design changed from the colorful (and somewhat familiar) blueish theme, to some dark, bloody maroon and black type shit...
October, 2001. 1 year thence. Matt flew in and launched the new design. Pomp and circumstance attended. What we had then is what we have now. It looked like this...
You can give the new designs something of a trial run by moving your ass to http://test.cocksocket.org. Thanks all for your continued interest and patronage. Keep it real, and look for the changes over the course of the next few weeks
Ciao,
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