Victhor The Viking | 
11 22nd, 2009| 
Great Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals. Great Book.
Nov
22
Alright Austin Folks. Show some love….
When little Marie was rescued from Town Lake Animal Shelter she was deathly ill with an upper respiratory infection. She wasn’t eating and had reached a “dangerously low weight”, according to APA’s vet techs. Her foster parent started nebulizing her once per day for 20 minutes and saw significant improvement. Soon she was recovered and eating on her own. Marie was adopted last week — a happy, healthy cat that could have easily died if not for nebulizing.
What is a nebulizer and why do so many rescued cats need them?
While at Town Lake Animal Center many cats and kittens develop upper respiratory infections (URIs), aka, kitty colds. At the shelter the cats stay in small spaces in close proximity to other cats and are highly stressed, making it easy for a kitty to catch a cold.
Usually once we place these cats in foster homes they recover quickly but some take longer than others. Our cats need to be healthy in order to go to adoption events and find their forever homes. If a kitten is sitting at home sick he cannot be adopted. The longer he stays in foster care the fewer cats we can pull from the euthanasia list to take his spot.
Nebulizers help a great deal when it comes to getting over a URI. They are used to help cats and kittens breathe better when they are all stuffed up. If a cat can’t breath, he stops eating because he will only eat what he can smell. And not eating certainly doesn’t help a sick kitty.
via Austin Pets Alive! » Blog Archive » We need nebulizers to save more cats.
Nov
22
This sounds Awesome! I want to get this!
[Click for larger image.] I was lucky enough to see Black Flag play live a number of times in the ’80s, around the time Glen E. Friedman shot the photo that graces this book’s cover. I was an underage teen sneaking into grownup punk clubs, high on moshpit fumes (and, truth be told, lots else). The band, and that subculture that surrounded them, changed my life.
Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag
explores the history of one of the most important bands, if not the most important, in American punk history.
Snip from observations by writer Joe Carducci, who was long associated with SST Records (some links added):
“[The book is] very well reported and assembled by Brit music writer Stevie Chick, author of the better of the recent Sonic Youth books
. Neither Greg Ginn nor Henry Rollins sat for interviews but their voices are included from earlier interviews, and more importantly Chuck Dukowski spoke to Chick – a first I believe. The story, laid out from the band’s earliest practices in 1976 to its end ten years later, makes a far more dramatic book than the usual shelf-fillers with their stretch to make the empty stories of various chart-toppers sound exciting and crucial and against the odds. “
Spray Paint the Walls: The Story of Black Flag
Here’s a related post on photographer Glen E. Friedman’s blog.
You may also be interested in some of Carducci’s own writings on the subject of music and fandom.
After the jump: Glen E. Friedman shares an exclusive sneak peek at the back cover, with an ’80s photo of Greg Ginn.
Nov
22
Wow! But I would just like to point out that their were never any chicks that looked like the picture below that were playing D&D when I was a kid.
Nerve is running “Sex Advice From Dungeons & Dragons Players,” answering questions about RPGs, role-playing, and finding mating opportunities among the nerdy. It’s a delight.
What’s the best way to pick up a D&D player?
If you’re a geek and you see a girl geek browsing the comic books and players’ manuals, don’t make assumptions. Nothing irritates me more than having someone tell me what I’m holding. I know what I’m holding. Aside from the fact that I came in here specifically looking for it, I CAN READ. Instead, try a trivia tidbit or a commentary on the quality/author/whatever. Your goal is to sound interested, not condescending. For the non-geek, we’re really not that strange and different, but we tend to be a little defensive. Be willing to listen, stumble through some conversation you don’t have the lingo for. Don’t mock. Unless your romantic candidate starts talking about their characters in detail. No one finds that interesting. Really. Get out while you still can.
