I just got an email press release from an outfit called...

They make a product called Hot Banana On Demand. Here are some screenshots from their website...

Desspite appearances, this is not to be confused with Hot Banana, an Italian porn site evidently still under construction.

Category 7: The End of the World
DVD ~ Dick Lowry

the end of daze - wow! , October 6, 2006
Reviewer: Christopher Locke (Boulder, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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After Hurricane Katrina, I was a little worried that our Federal Government might not be quite up to the task of saving me and my family should devastating floods threaten the foothills of Colorado where I live. But after watching this movie, I am breathing a lot easier. Evidently, FEMA has been handed over to a woman who certainly looks like she knows what she's doing. She also looks pretty hot. Plus, she has a team of cool cyber-scientists working for her, so what could be bad? Michael Crichton's neocon peanut gallery will be pleased to learn he was right about the global warming hoax he described in State of Fear. The actual cause of world-terminating weather is falling "chunks" of supercooled mesophere (or something like that) colliding with thermal updrafts caused by overworked blow dryers and iPod recharging stations. Once major cities are cooled down to 79.2 degrees, expect clear skies and smooth sailing. Then we can all pitch in to clean up the overturned SUVs, make a bunch of sandwiches, and get laid. Once again, the world is saved by can-do high-tech and the indomitable American spirit. Whew! What a cliff-hanger. But as in the real world, everything works out in the end. I found this an existentially powerful filmic experience.

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I am finding this Amazon comparison shopping feature very handy and instructive. At the moment, it's a tossup between Feminine Fascism and the Box of Suicides. But then, I've been faced with exactly this decision in the past, so I feel confident I'll make the right choice again. (Click on the image for live page.)

I just learned a cool trick. I had seen these sorts of hits come up on Google, but wasn't sure how to get them consistently. Turns out that to find any book -- well, any of 1.3 million books -- all you have to do is precede your Google query with "find in a library" -- leaving the quotes on that phrase. Generally, the first hit will be a pointer to the WorldCat database. Plug in your postal code, state, province or country, and WorldCat will tell you where the most geographically proximate copies are languishing. Here are a few random examples.

• "find in a library" cluetrain

• "find in a library" gonzo marketing

• "find in a library" bombast transcripts

By the way, on that first one? WorldCat will tell you it was written by Rick Levine, but I think there were several (unmentioned, and one unmentionable) co-authors.

People tend not to believe me on this one, but the guy with the mallets really is my bro. Dig it...

Here's another vid of the "same" tune, Van Gogh By Numbers, with Joe on vibes and Christos Rafalides on marimba.

Joe Locke's site.

Joe Locke on myspace.