we don't pop collars, we pop dollars

I'm watching The Wire and yeah, it's as good as everyone says. One drug-dealing kid explains to two like-minded guys the rules of chess. "And what about those ball-headed bitches?" "Those? Those are pawns." Rad! I bet that's a linguistic first. Two other fun quotes gleaned from the written world:

"NOAA looked at the Air Force and said, 'Huh, goose-stepping fascists.' And the Air Force looked at NOAA and said, 'Fish-kissing tree huggers.'"

Yeah!

One more: "Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore."

So I wrote this story about flying cars. A negative one, saying how they're just clunky and messy and kind of a bad idea. I picked on one particular engineering team, and for that I feel guilty. But the interesting part has been the fallout. The first response was a turbocharged tirade about how I'm totally wrong about everything, and I need to be peer-reviewed and possibly fired. That letter was written by some guy who spent his whole life designing flying cars for Ford. Awesome Ford, good investment there.

The next letter went something like this: "You're so right! Thanks for taking down those fraudy engineers. There's no science behind their fancy animations, not a prototype in sight! My flying car, however, is AMAZING! It's already almost really here! Check it out, you'll be blown away!!"

The next three were all in the same vein: Thank you for writing this story, I am a flying car designer, tell me what you think of my model. wtf?

Who knew there were all these closeted--but opinionated--flying car designers out there. I thought I'd interviewed them all.

I got nuthin else to report this week. I spent one whole day drawing some dude's right hand holding a door knob, badly, and two days writing and taping my radio thing on the native american canadian indians, or whatever you call native americans not living in "america" who carry around little cards that say they're officially "indian." The rest of the week was lost to a foggy haze of brain. current reading: still "angle of repose" by wallace stegner, and the collected works of IEEE Internet Computing.

Now I'm watching Weeds. Best show EVER.