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I'm talking with my buddy Eddie on the phone today and he says to me, "Did you see the news?" And I tell him that I hadn't really caught anything that would have shocked me. So he tells me about this cab driver who got beaten in his cab and then run over by the attacker using his cab. Pretty sick stuff. But then he says, "Guess where it happened?" I've got no clue. "Right in front of our apartment." "No way!" I say. Sure enough I check out the Chicago Tribune's website and I see this:

A quarrel over a fare early this morning on Chicago's North Side led to the death of a cab driver when a man allegedly beat the cabbie and then ran him over with his own taxi, WGN-Ch. 9 reported. The incident happened shortly after midnight on the 500 block of West Briar Place, near Broadway in the city's Lakeview neighborhood, police said.

Unbelievably tragic. Briar's a narrow, one-way street but Eddie said there were police all over it and news reporters filming this morning. I just hope they can find this guy that did it.

Now and then people do join tastypopsicle. You get a cool username for posting in the message boards and it's also used when you leave comments. By joining you also get access to more than just the General Discussion message board. Eh, it's no big deal but whatever... So when people want to join one of the questions i ask is "Why?" and this has got to be the best reason ever given.

The question is, why wouldn't I want to join? To try to get accepted into this site is probably the most interesting challenge that I have experienced in a while. I find myself asking, will I get accepted even though I haven't talked with Amy or Ed since they came out to visit? Do they not want to be my friend anymore? Will this be their way of telling me to fuck off? Will I be rejected like the short, over weight, quazie mono look a like boy, that asks the schools head cheerleader for a date to the prom? I fear that if I do not get accepted I will be forced to hang out on the street corner to sling my rocks again. I truly feel that being apart of this site will end up saving my life. I won't have to hustle anymore since I will have a place to hang out. I think if I play my cards right I can actually stop hooking. Yes, I make a lot of money, but having to pleasure fat, pimply, greesy me gets old real quick. I know, I know you may not think so, but getting stuck in a sweaty fat roll does not have any good points. In the end my main reason for joining is so that I have one more way to keep in contact with my friends. I desperatly hope that at least one of those reasons were good enough for you to accept me

You crack me up, girl! Welcome, beepbeephi

I saw this VW Golf GTI commercial a few weeks ago but didn't know much about it. But as time goes on the story eventually unfolds to reveal itself. At least that's what Jason Kottke did. Turns out one of the dancers in the commercial are Bboy Crumbs, Jay Walker, and David "Elsewhere" Bernal. Jason did a little email interview with David to learn more about the commecial and along the way we get to check out his Kollaboration 2001 appearance (not the first Asian kid - wait for the guy in the orange shirt and all the cheering) as well as his Kollaboration 2003 routine. Elsewhere is part of the Detours crew and as such they have a lot of great info about him (here) And if you're like me then youu can't wait to get your grubby little hands on the song from the VW commercial. Soon my friends - soon. "Singing in the Rain remix" by Mint Royale will be here soon.

Someone always has to ruin it for everyone else. Unfortunately, this person comes off as a TOTAL autisitic retard or something. Their grammar is worse than a 6 year old in a coma and they talk in circles like their doing way too much coke. Eh, it sucks but I have to do it.

Hey man, give me a light show. Can I get some Vicks? Trance music is the BEST! I love ALL of you! Ahh yes, the tell-tale signs that the person you are talking to is rolling their balls off. Or they're a soldier traumatized from the wars our country has been engaged in - perhaps unnecessarily. You see, some American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are being asked to participate in a study by taking MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, to see if it can help to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Scientists behind the trial in South Carolina think the feelings of emotional closeness reported by those taking the drug could help the soldiers talk about their experiences to therapists.

Michael Mithoefer, the psychiatrist leading the trial, said: "It's looking very promising. It's too early to draw any conclusions but in these treatment-resistant people so far the results are encouraging. The South Carolina study marks a resurgence of interest in the use of controlled psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs. Several studies in the US are planned or are under way to investigate whether MDMA, LSD and psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, can treat conditions ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to anxiety in terminal cancer patients.

Does the study come with blowpops, too? Read more...

Maybe it's because I'm not in New York City that I just can't seem to wrap my head around the popularity and dare I say hype of a $20 million art project in the middle of Central Park. I'll let Christo and Jeanne-Claude's site explain the whole history of this thing. Here's the gist straight from their web site:

The 7,500 gates, 16 feet (4,87 meters) tall varying in width from 5 feet 6 inches to 18 feet (1,68 to 5,48 meters) according to the 25 different widths of walkways, on 23 miles (37 kilometers) of walkways in Central Park. Free hanging saffron colored fabric panels, suspended from the horizontal top part of the gates, come down to approximately 7 feet (2,13 meters) above the ground. The gates are spaced at 12 foot (3,65 meter) intervals, except where low branches extend above the walkways. The gates and the fabric panels can be seen from far away through the leafless branches of the trees. The work of art will remain for 16 days, then the gates will be removed and the materials will be recycled.

The Christo Gates as it's been called is just days away from coming down and within weeks forgotten by many. But here's what I really don't get: Geoff Hargadon of Somerville, Massachusetts parodied The Gates in a way by making The Somerville Gates As with all things dealing with the internet - someone new is always having their 15 minutes and it looks like Geoff is having his. Because of his idea and his subsequent pictures he has become a sort of celebrity - especially the way the Boston Globe makes it sound. Tiny takeoff on Christo proves gateway to glory Maybe I'm just a little bitter - or maybe I just don't get this art shit sometimes. I think it's both.