The big show... in pictures.

The Devil. Woooo...

So I'm getting out of my car this morning to get into the office, and as I'm turning off the car, the radio barks, "Tonight! On NBC, an event never before seen. Does the Devil exist?"

Unbelievable. Not for the shameless attempt to manipulate and soften up an already-paranoid-and-end-time-fearing public. No -that's a given, and I'm quite jaded enough now to expect it.

No what's fascinating is that I'm reading a book right now, In Search of Zarathustra, that is changing the way I view most of western history and religious thought. I know what you're thinking (are you thinking?) - "oh, that's that guy that Nietzsche wrote about." Um... kind of, but not just that.

For the briefest of summaries - Zarathustra (or Zarathushtra, to be proper) was the prophet from ancient Persia who taught the way of thought known now as Zoroastrianism, basically a belief system that the world is a battlefield between good and evil, and people are here to fight evil and cultivate good.

Sound familiar? Or course it does, and it predates almost every other western religious teaching of the same nature. There's more, but I'll wait until I read the book through a few more times before I try to comprehend it and even paraphrase it worse here.

Pick it up, if you're looking to expand your realm of thought, and are willing to challenge assumptions you have about the history of the idea behind the Devil (woooo....).

People...?

So my day job outfit, a technology company, is currently looking for developers. And having a hard time of it. which to me, doesn't make sense, given how many out of work people there must be out there, from the Department of Labor records.

Or is it that we're not reaching the right people?

Or are all the developers working, and it's just the manufacturing working who are out of work?

Know any good HTML / JavaScript developers in the NYC / Westchester area?

Area 51?

From google sat maps to Area 51. Only a matter of time, I guess.

Oops!

Scientists Scramble to Destroy Flu Strain (sfgate.com)

Um...yeah. Wonder how the Fedex guy felt?

This should remove all doubt from anyone's mind of the likelihood of human being wiping themselves out at some point.

The big show...

I know...I know... I can't think of anything else right now. Two weeks until the big show at the Canal Room. Come to it, or if you can't, tell someone you love about it, it's going to be special, and no, I'm not just saying that. There's a definite "world" music feel to the rehearsals we've been having recently, and the show promises to be something special.

In other, more mundane, and yet wonderful news, I got a great deal on a new minidisc player today in midtown. I actually had to slip the salesguy a twomper to make it happen, but he literally knocked $50 off the price. I still don't know if I got a good deal, but it was too priceless an episode to let slip away.

In any case - the 4 years of mini disc recordings I have from the Simple Charlie / Otherwise era are now going to be researched for old shows that might prove interesting. I'll keep you posted.