July 04, 2005

blowing up things

When I was 15, I was asked by the Inquiring Photographer at the Rolla Daily News what I'd be doing for my 4th of July. "Blowing up things," was my response. Mom & Dad were mortified when my smiling mug appeared in the paper with this caption, next to pictures of other decent upstanding citizens with far more boring answers.

So what will I be doing this 4th of July?

  • Listening to Ives' Variations on America. A huge bitonal sea monster emerges midway and bellyflops into the shrieking audience. "Use your ears like men," Ives roars from behind the organ.
  • Writing some code to do matrix inversion. For the last month I've been torturing myself in my free time with the intersection of 3 spheres problem, which is behind GPS & other cool things. Finally think I've got it...check out maelstrom in a few days.
  • The standard thing. Skyrockets at night...
Posted by Alan at July 4, 2005 05:17 PM
Comments

OMG. Yeah. Mom and Dad were so embarrassed that you seemed like white trash. "Blowing up things."

BTW, the white-trash, baby-toting, tattooed, mullet-sporting, toothless, leering red-necks were out in *full* force this holiday weekend in Rolla. I mean, seriously, where do all these people come from? And where do they hide the other 364 days of the year? Questions that we may never have the answer to. Anyway, Love!

Posted by: Ed at July 7, 2005 05:31 PM

They live in the knife/gun section of Walmart and emerge between the hours of 2 and 5 am.

Posted by: Alan at July 7, 2005 09:39 PM

Careful research has also determined that they spawn on damp truck-stop restroom floors and in the grease traps in bar kitchens where more than 70% of the house music was produced either in Nashville between 1978 and the present day or by long-haired white guys wearing sleeveless t-shirts with confederate flags on the back.

Posted by: Brennen at July 7, 2005 10:54 PM

For a Nebraskan Mr. B. you display an uncanny knowledge of our beloved Show Me State.

Posted by: Alan at July 9, 2005 03:54 AM

So I was browsing around for Norm 4 Eva, found out they had changed their name to Tsumi, etc... anywho, one thing after another I end up here.

I also used to hang out with Heather and Luke and the Norm 4 Eva kids. As well as being around down town Lincoln for about 3 years. Worked at A Novel Idea and spent many days at the CoHo and many nights at Duffy's or O'Rourkes... good times.

That is until I moved to Seattle last September.

So, from one former Lincolnite to another - good luck and all. If you ever talk to Heather or Luke, tell them that 'Matt from the bookstore' says "hey".

Posted by: Matthias at July 14, 2005 02:42 PM
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