in other news... the further adventures of this past night's adventures on the net involved me running napster for the first time in awhile. jeepers, it still works. and it's even more international than i remember it. within five minutes of one another, a german guy and an italian chick contacted me basically to ask that i please let them grab their songs. (i've never understood that myself. if i'm going to cut you off, asking me not to isn't going to change the fact that i can be an asshole from time to time.) now trying to find a middle ground between two people who only have a slippery grasp of one another's languages is tricky as it is. especially when it's chat and you're not free to make goofy hand gestures and talk louder and slower so that those crazy foreigners can understand the language that god in heaven put in our mouths. when you're trying to work such a miracle with two different parties who are speaking two entirely different languages... well, let's just say it takes a genius the likes of me to get that shit done. and boy did i! both the german and the italian got their entire songs and we all agreed that we couldn't understand one another for fuck-all. (as i type this, i see that there is somebody by the name of puphdamajikdragun grabbing a song from me. he just got his shit cut off because i can be an asshole from time to time.)

what else what else what else???
oh. since i got the cable modem whiz-daddy, i've been playing with newsgroups. and i think i may actually be involved in what could be the beginning of a flame war. yay for me. for any of you inclined to see me holding down turf that might make glitch13 proud of me, head over to rec.music.video and check the thread entitled "Why no music videos?..." which- weirdly enough- was started by someone in metairie. why does everything come around and bite me on the ass so hard?

i'm trying to think of something else to share, but i'm at a loss right now. i'll prolly just come back later and add it.

later....
i know it could just be me, but as i've been working on this, i've occasionally glanced up at that damned cam pic and something's driving me nuts. i know that what i'm actually seeing is what looks like the side of a monitor sitting on that couch. but for the life of me, it looks like ol' mister glitch is holding his left hand out to the side with his fingers extended outward and his thumb pointing straight up.
and i think it's driving me insane.