Month: June 2006

Via Boing Boing comes this story of a Montclair, CA, man digging for gold in his front lawn:

When firefighters pulled up at the home, workers were dumping paint cans brimming with dirt scraped from the bottom of the hole with a shovel and a pick ax. To pull the dirt out, Mora had devised a rope-and-pulley contraption with a plastic wheel and a metal rod.

The worker at the bottom of the crater had shimmied down, a rope tethered to a belt, and was sucking on a garden hose for oxygen, neighbors told the emergency responders….

Mora had failed to apply for the required permits for that type of project.

That implies that there are permits for digging 60-foot shafts in your front lawn.

Another (possibly annoying) reminder that I’m accepting submissions for the first issue of Kaleidotrope for one more week. After June 30, it goes on the back burner, more likely for the April 2007 issue, and I won’t even guarantee a response until September.

Also, if you’d like to put in an early order or donate to the cause, please feel free to do so.

The Friday Random Guess 10:

  1. Maybe you should be a little happier
    “Rad” by Smoosh
  2. Go ahead and download me, see if I care
    “Something for Nothing” by Loudon Wainwright III
  3. Honest to god officer it’s awful
    “Gravity” by the Dresden Dolls
  4. I know you’re late for your next parade
    “Baker Baker” by Tori Amos
  5. The madness that you feel will soon subside
    “If I Ever Leave This World Alive” by Flogging Molly, guessed by Glen
  6. I’d stand in the rain, no place to hide
    “To Have You Back Again” by Patty Loveless
  7. Who do you think you’re changing?
    “Rise Up With Fists!!” by Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
  8. You must live until you die
    “Between” by Loudon Wainwright III
  9. She had not two breasts but three
    “Bad Jokes” by John C. Reilly and Woody Harrelson
  10. There’s nothing left to be desired
    “The Air That I Breathe” by the Hollies, guessed by Kim

They’re lyrics. If you know the song and artist, you guess. I tell you if you’re right. It’s like a thing.

Only two were guessed right last week. Better luck this time!