E-Bay item of the day
Monday, November 8, 1999 | 04:58 p.m.
Not only is it funny, but it provided me with another great animated .gif. Right now I think bad animated .gifs are like the best thing a web page can have. Fuck flash, I wanna see like a guy jacking off in animated .gif format or some disco dancer or an evil eye throbbing and bleeding. They're hilarious! They rule! In three years they'll be retro, just like the blink tag! OK, here's a low-budget contest: mail me the best bad .gif you find and your amazing prize will include full credit and a link to the URL of your choice.

Please remember in your prayers the poor soul of the faithless sinner and unworthy son of Mary who wrote these pages.
Monday, November 8, 1999 | 04:52 p.m.
"I love Our Lady of Guadalupe, she's a stone cold fox" -- the immortal words of Ian of Nation of Ulysses.

I really love religious imagery. I had a dream that I got the Sacred Heart tattooed on my calf and I was so happy- but then I woke up and it was gone. This page is all devoted to Our Lady and her beauteous image, which is fine and dandy. But it has some weird as shit stuff on it, like a Holy Rosary "To pray at your terminal, from the office or school." So now instead of fucking around on Hissyfit during work, I think I'll pray instead and save my immortal soul.

Yeah, I mean, I hate her too, but...
Monday, November 8, 1999 | 04:33 p.m.
I thought generally the X-Files premiere last night was pretty weak. This is nothing special or disturbing; in my six years of obsessive XF fandom, I've yet to see a decent premiere (Little Green Men doesn't count, as I didn't start watching until midway through season 2). In fact, some of the premieres have been downright Shatner-esque, as in the Floating Naked Mulder Saladfrom the beginning of Season 3. Anyway, this premiere was typical: kinda boring, stuff sort of revealed but not really, and a big cliffhanger to next week that isn't that much of a cliffhanger at all, as it's obvious that neither character will die since there are 24 episodes left and another movie. BUT I will say that Diana Fowler is the most annoying character the X-Files has ever produced, and it's not just because her entire purpose is to make Scully jealous and emphasize how M and S are meant to be together, fer sure. She's just awful, hypocritical and slimy and disgusting. I mean, Krychek is pretty awful too, but he's at least all hot for Mulder in a sexy kind of way as opposed to a repulsive kind of way, and the fact that he only has one hand now, well, that's just funny. Diana, on the other hand, has no redeeming qualities whatsover, AND on scenes for the next she is making out with Mulder!! I cannot handle it. Apparently neither can the readers of the above link, because they are even more vocal than I, and sound like they're gonna explode over it, or something.

1966: Fab Fashions of the Swinging 60's
Monday, November 8, 1999 | 04:26 p.m.
Mmm I like this mod stuff, oh yes, I do. I have a picture of my Mom on a moped in England circa 65 with a big teased hairdo and a headscarf- she would fit in perfectly on this website. Maybe she is somewhere on this website. All I can say is I'm wearing false eyelashes to my business meeting tomorrow, fer real.

Remove the mystery NOW!
Friday, November 5, 1999 | 12:07 p.m.
Last month my CD player stopped working and I listened to a lot of records. 90% of my vinyl collection is 7"s and the rest is pretty pathetic- a bunch of old stuff thrifted from the St. Vincent DePaul and stuff like that- the Cure albums nobody ever bought, a couple of old Madonna albums, etc. So I listened to Thriller a lot, over and over, until I bought the new Rondelles album which is fucking great! ANYWAY, once I started playing Thriller I couldn't stop. Billie Jean went through my head every day. she's just a girl who thinks that I am the one.. The author of this page is extremely into Michael Jackson, so much that he has dedicated about 25 or 30 pages, all very long, with footnotes, to debunking the myths and lies about the Gloved One. It's very interesting reading. I don't believe a word of it, but he has to be commended for the effort.

Carrie speaks
Friday, November 5, 1999 | 11:55 a.m.
It's Carrie of Sleater-Kinney enlightening the masses with her analysis of music as a force of social change. So nice to read an interview that doesn't ask SK if "they consider themselves a Riot Grrl band". Also check out the absolutely hilarious Kill Rock Stars Let's Talk section, where you can ask bands like the Bangs, SK, the fabulous Prima Donnas and Bratmobile intelligent questions like "Who's hotter, Fred Durst or Mike D.?" and "Are you suttle? Suttle like a T-Rex?"