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Sophie Says Sooth (2003.01.06): "Now don't go getting all huffy at me and telling me that it's not "porn," it's just "adult entertainment and marital aids." Bullshit. It's porn and porn accessories and you want in on it. It's okay. You must be a woman, by the way. No man alive would think that wanting to watch adult videos is abnormal."
Sophie Says Sooth (2002.12.30): "You may as well ask me how to get the hippo out of your bathtub or what methods you can use to make right-wing Christians have an open mind. Same set of answers all around, I'm afraid. I can't believe that you didn't know that."
Sophie Says Sooth (2002.12.23): "Hell, that poor sheepherder didn't even get to choose his own profession. His father was a sheepherder, so that pretty much meant that he was, too. And that poor sheepherder's sister was doomed to marry whomever her parents chose and pump out babies for the rest of her life and probably eventually die in childbirth. And you think you've got problems with your family?"
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Oz: The Complete First Season: "Oz walks the fine line between homoerotic soap opera for men and a quasi-realistic exploration of the power structure inside one of America's maximum security prisons. While Oz possesses a premise that would make it a definite franchise show (as well as one that would get various parental watchdog groups up in arms and out for blood), it remains the red-headed stepchild of HBO."
Juliana Hatfield / Gold Stars 1992-2002: "As interesting and important as it is, though, I never would have bought it had I not found a copy for $10 at a used record store called Nuggets in Boston. I have all of Juliana's solo records, which means I have all the would-be hits including here."
Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street: "Spider Jerusalem, despite generally coming off as a PCP-addicted version of Daffy Duck, is a very deep character in terms of moral core and values. Such is the case when Spider lashes out at the womanizing leader of the Transient community regarding his abuse of authority over the Transients and his habit of knocking up his female followers."
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San Diego Comic-con 2002: Part 1: "A lot of it sounded like standard conspiracy theory bullshit; I would like to believe him about the income taxes, though. Apparently it has something to do with the improper ratification of the 16th Amendment and taxing our privilege of earning money."
"Glamour Hose": A 14-piece photographic series from Natalie Meyer
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2003/01/11
Wow. I can't believe someone finally stood up to the vengeance-as-justice machine. Ill. Gov. Ryan to Empty Death Row
Illinois Gov. George Ryan will clear the state' death row and commute the sentences of all 156 death row inmates, his spokesman said Saturday. "Ultimately, late yesterday, he came to the decision this was the only thing to do," spokesman Dennis Culloton said.
Ryan, who leaves office Monday, sent overnight letters to the families of murder victims warning them he would announce during a speech Saturday afternoon that he was commuting most of the death sentences to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Three death row inmates will get shorter sentences and could eventually be released from prison, though none will be out immediately, Culloton said.
Vern Fueling, whose son William was shot and killed in 1985 by a man now on death row, was outraged that the killer, sentenced to death, would be allowed to live.
"My son is in the ground for 17 years and justice is not done," Fueling said. "This is like a mockery."
Incoming Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat, also criticized Ryan's action, calling blanket clemency "a big mistake." Each case should be reviewed individually, Blagojevich said. "You're talking about people who've committed murder."
Ryan halted the state's executions nearly three years ago after courts found that 13 death row inmates had been wrongly convicted since the state resumed capital punishment in 1977 ? a period during which only 12 other inmates were executed.
posted at 12:48
2003/01/09
What a bunch of jerks. My goal of driving all of I-90 is now in serious trouble. Before, all I needed was to drive from Madison to Seattle. Now I also need to go back to Boston and drive a couple new, extra miles. Grrrr. $6.5b Mass Turnpike extension to open
The Big Dig's long-delayed first major opening - the debut of the $6.5 billion Massachusetts Turnpike extension to the Ted Williams Tunnel and Logan Airport - is scheduled for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, with the first drivers allowed along the freshly lined roadways and once-leaky Fort Point Channel tunnel sometime on Monday, Jan. 20.
But Big Dig officials say it's possible they'll open the road a day or two earlier.
The opening ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. on Jan. 17.
posted at 12:11
2003/01/07
Andrew WK going empty-handed is a travesty. Eminem, Avril Lavigne, Nelly, Norah Jones Nab Most Grammy Noms
With eight artists grabbing five nominations each, this year's Grammy Awards looks to be one of the most competitive in the ceremony's 45 years.
Three relative newcomers, Ashanti, Norah Jones and Avril Lavigne, join Sheryl Crow, Eminem, Nelly, Raphael Saadiq and Bruce Springsteen as the artists with the greatest chances of leaving New York's Madison Square Garden on February 23 with the most golden gramophones in their arms.
posted at 13:40
2003/01/06
Got porn? No? Well, you do have luck and good timing -- Sophie has all the porn store advice you could ever need.
posted at 16:00
I was there. It was SRO. I couldn't see a damn thing but occasional glimpses between old people's shoulders. The Doyle era begins
In a ceremony mixed with official pomp and family warmth, Jim Doyle today became Wisconsin's 44th governor and the first Democrat to hold the state's highest office in 16 years.
Doyle took the oath of office after being introduced by his sons, Gus and Gabe. Gus Doyle said his father was "the right person to lead our state during these difficult times ahead," while Gabe read a poem he wrote praising Doyle for his "principles being iron clad."
Before administering the oath, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson recognized Doyle's mother, Ruth, one of the first women to serve in the state Legislature, and remembered his late father, former U.S. Judge James E. Doyle, Sr.
Abrahamson noted that, in the tradition set by Ruth Doyle, two of the top officials being sworn in today were women: Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton and Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager. Both are the first women elected to their respective posts.
posted at 15:59
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