Today's band is Mary Timony. She seems not to have a web page of her own, but she does have one at Matador Records. I heard of her recently when she opened up for Sonic Youth. Dumbass that I am, I missed her set but I listened to the MP3 Matador has up there and I really like it. It's kind of trippy and dreamy ala some of the quieter Liz Phair songs. You can hear it here. ss."

The other is to describe the situation, such as at my current workplace, where all top management are smokers. This means that many times a day, groups of them meet out front of the building for 5 - 15 minutes at a time for what become defacto policy setting meetings. Non-management smokers end up being present and having an effect. Non-smokers end up mostly out of the process, and even if they go down and hang out, it's never the same. This situation is a "nicotacracy."

Here and now, I plant that flag of each of these terms. Use them as you will. My goal is to see HIRPHUA used in an Usenet post someday. That will be my success case. astructure like water and sewer are literally falling apart and can't be addressed with any finality because the city is scrambling to pay its bills. We all know now that the Olympics is a corrupt organization, with officials who use the goodwill of the events and the glory thereof to stuff their pockets with money with both fists. I think potential host cities should be asking themselves "Do we want to be licking the ass of these crooks and scumbags for most of the next decade? And if we do, how much of our future are we willing to mortgage for that privilege?" It seemed so wonderful twelve years ago that we would get to host them and the reality was really kind of ugly. Ultimately, the endeavor is like trying to join the rich kid clique at school by throwing a big fancy, expensive party. They will come, eat your food and drink your drink, and then make fun of you for thinking you could be one of them. If you aren't in the club already, it's almost impossible to buy your way in.

I will be searching for the journalism on this topic and post references here if I can find any. Meanwhile I'll be breathing smoggy air as assholes in SUVs run stop signs and try to kill me every day I live here.