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Observations by and for the vaguely disenchanted by Kevin G. Barkes

 

Conceived above a saloon, delivered into this world by a masked man identified by his heavily sedated mother as Captain Video, raised by a kindly West Virginian woman, a mild-mannered former reporter with modest delusions of grandeur and no tolerance of idiots and the intellectually dishonest.

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network solutions made me a child pornographer!
The sordid details...

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Anniversary

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Requiem for a fictional Scotsman

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Oh my God! They killed Library!! Those bastards!!!

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Elegy to a Mostly Maine Coon

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It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

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A Pittsburgher in the Really Big City

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Da Burg Annat

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I Have Issues

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Yeah, yeah, I'm inspired

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At least the rivers freeze in Pittsburgh

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He knows if yinz is a jagoff

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dcl dialogue online!

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no. we're not that kgb.

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KGB, CIA linked

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The Carbolic Smoke Ball
Superb satire, and based in Pittsburgh!

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Americans United for Separation of Church and State

"No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
Article VI, U.S. Constitution

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Geek of the Week, 7/16/2000

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Cruel Site of the Day, 7/15/2000

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miscellany

Hard to describe.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008
posted by KGB at 8:00 AM (permalink)

Poster of the day

(via motivatedphotos.com)

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Junk e-mail of the day

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posted by KGB at 12:01 AM (permalink)

Quote of the day

Nobody ever walked out of a theater saying "That movie sucked, but boy, they brought it in on time and on budget."
-James Cameron (b. August 16, 1954)

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Friday, August 15, 2008
posted by KGB at 12:45 PM (permalink)

Political quote of the week

A Republican politician from Idaho has endorsed Barack Obama. The last time a Republican switched sides was in an airport men's room.
-Craig Ferguson

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posted by KGB at 9:03 AM (permalink)

Signs of the Apocalypse, #782 & #783

"Peter Pan" arrested in Disneyland labor dispute.

No comment.

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posted by KGB at 6:45 AM (permalink)

Brilliant insights of the day

The size of a mind is inversely proportional to the amount of indignation that will fit inside it.

If she went to the same high school as you, how can she be an exotic dancer?

-The Covert Comic

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posted by KGB at 3:00 AM (permalink)

Quotes of the day

Change is one form of hope; to risk change is to believe in tomorrow.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

The two strongest messages we're sending through television are that popularity is everything, and that if it doesn't make money it's not worth anything.

Linda Ellerbee (b. August 15, 1944)

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posted by KGB at 12:01 AM (permalink)

Google site ad of the day...

Actually, it would probably be safe to say
the target audience has seen none of the products.

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Thursday, August 14, 2008
posted by KGB at 3:01 PM (permalink)

Guilt

"But Dad, you said we'd play in the yard after lunch..."

"Ahem. We're waiting..."

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You know...

...I think Isaac Hayes would have loved this:

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posted by KGB at 8:21 AM (permalink)

Bulwer-Lytton won by native Pittsburgher...

"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped "Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J."
Garrison Spik
Washington, D.C.

The winner of 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Garrison Spik (pronounced "speak"), a 41-year-old communications director and writer from Washington, D.C. Hailing from Moon Township, Pennsylvania, he has worked in Tokyo, Bucharest, and Nitro, West Virginia, and cites DEVO, Nathaniel Hawthorne, B horror films, and historiography as major life influences.

Garrison Spik is the 26th grand prize winner of the contest that began at San Jose State University in 1982. Full story here.

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Junk e-mail of the day

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Not too far-fetched...

The way things are going, the guys over at Carbolic Smokeball may discover their ad to be more prophetic than satiric.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
posted by KGB at 7:15 AM (permalink)

Let's be honest here...

Dear Megalithic Utility:

There may indeed be a "green," ecological reason for me to switch to "paperless" billing, but the bottom line here is... the bottom line.

You really want me to switch so you can save the buck or two a month it costs you to print and mail my bill to me.

True, accessing the bill online is more convenient- provided your server is up and I don't have to fire up IE to retrieve it because you've used Microsoft-specific crapware that Firefox and/or Opera can't display properly. But c'mon, guys- it's primarily a way for you to save a couple million a month, and we both know it.

Unlike you, I'm not that greedy. Let's split the difference. Knock a buck a month off my bill and I'll- ahem- "go green."

And fellas? Expect to get a brick in the mail from me- postage due- if an "alternate energy conservation" surcharge appears on my next bill.

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Junk e-mail of the day

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Quote of the day

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken a lot better care of myself.
-Mickey Mantle (October 20, 1931-August 13, 1995)

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
posted by KGB at 11:21 AM (permalink)

The best news summary available...

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Junk e-mail of the day

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Remembering Kliban

B. Kliban, (January 1, 1935 - August 12, 1990)

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Monday, August 11, 2008
posted by KGB at 9:39 AM (permalink)

He could dig it

Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. (August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008)

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posted by KGB at 8:10 AM (permalink)

Quote of the day

I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.
-George W. Bush (in May, 2008 interview)

Gee. What signal does this send:

There are two phenomenal asses in this picture.

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Sunday, August 10, 2008
posted by KGB at 12:01 AM (permalink)

Those accursed paparazzi...

Granddaughter Leanna can't even relax at the beach without someone pointing a camera at her. Ah, the curse of stunning beauty...

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Violators will be prosecuted.
So there.  
The kgb@kgb.com e-mail address is now something other than kgb@kgb.com saga.
kgbreport.com used to be kgb.com until December, 2007 when the domain name broker Trout Zimmer made an offer I couldn't refuse. Giving up kgb.com and adopting kgbreport.com created a significant problem, however. I had acquired the kgb.com domain name in 1993, and had since that time used kgb@kgb.com as my sole e-mail address. How to let people know that kgb@kgb.com was no longer kgb@kgb.com but rather kgbarkes@gmail.com which is longer than kgb@kgb.com and more letters to type than kgb@kgb.com and somehow less aesthetically pleasing than kgb@kgb.com but actually just as functional as kgb@kgb.com? I sent e-mails from the kgb@kgb.com address to just about everybody I knew who had used kgb@kgb.com in the past decade and a half but noticed that some people just didn't seem to get the word about the kgb@kgb.com change. So it occurred to me that if I were generate some literate, valid text in which kgb@kgb.com was repeated numerous times and posted it on a bunch of different pages- say, a blog indexed by Google- that someone looking for kgb@kgb.com would notice this paragraph repeated in hundreds of locations, would read it, and figure out that kgb@kgb.com no longer is the kgb@kgb.com they thought it was. That's the theory, anyway. kgb@kgb.com. Ok, I'm done. Move along. Nothing to see here...