Attention: Your local dealer, Lloyd Nebres, will be absent from November 16th to 19th. Opium will become available once again following the day of return.

HA... for a moment there, I really thought Lloyd wrote that... mmph. ;P Reserve that trigger-happy cursor for the days when Lloyd is actually absent, huh, Trev? ;P

~Kass (the STRAIGHT arrow of the mix... ^.^ )

...or, my first drug-related weblog (!)

hehe. you kids are hilarious, and sehr entertaining. ;-) and yes, thanks for flipping for me while i'm away. although keeping a weblog streak alive is a low-level goal, it's a nice goal to have anyway. (clearly, it doesn't take much to amuse me *chuckle*) so, we'll see how far i can stretch this streak. but with flippers like you, i'm confident it can be quite a record, indeed. ^_^

lloyd in maui: Laura found "my" update "disturbing" hehehe
Error Type 404: shhiitt
Error Type 404: honestly?
lloyd in maui: well, yes!
Error Type 404: how?
lloyd in maui: if people don't know it's not me...? lol
Error Type 404: hehe
lloyd in maui: i don't have much of that kind of humor on my weblog. but i like it! don't change it.
lloyd in maui: i already know what to write about, thanks to you.
lloyd in maui: weblogging = opium ;-)
Error Type 404: well now they dont have to wonder how u make enough $$ to go to hawaii and get digital cameras and only work @ ATDP for half a year
lloyd in maui: YES! lol
Error Type 404: u shouldnt be ashamed of your job
Error Type 404: u should be proud
lloyd in maui: hehehe. funny! brb. i need to phone Sparky. read his weblog.

so, where is it i'm going anyway...? and why are there no Internet terminals or i-Cafe's there? *chuckle* well, i'll be at a Makahiki 'festival' and rituals on the island of Kahoolawe, for four days. no electricity there, much less computers with Net access. wrote about Kahoolawe in a recent weblog, and will write more formally tomorrow about this trip my brother and I are participating in.

in any case, as I'll be away, i appointed Trev to be my official weblog-flipper from Thursday through Sunday, with Kass in reserve as an emergency backup, as Trev might all of a sudden find himself preoccupied and having to deal with the neighborhood hashish peddler and will thus be unavailable for such trivial projects as log-flipping ;-). Kass, of course, will also be weighing in on one thing or another, as i asked her to contribute "straight" text to my log, to balance whatever wildness young Mr. Ridinger might wish to inflict on you all. *chuckle* anyway, i'm really looking forward to whatever gets thrown up on my weblog during this period of my absence. and keep on writing your own weblogs, of course. i look forward even more to catching up on cool stuff after the Makahiki at Kahoolawe.

and oh yeah, the weblogging-as-opium angle. i wouldn't go so far as to say this was "addicting," though Kati did mention it *chuckle* but weblogging has now became part of my DAILY ritual, and a day is never complete without having to write in my weblog, and more importantly, READ your weblogs. and the way i proselytize weblogging does strike me as reminiscent of drug-pushing, on occasion... hehe. "Hey pal, want something really cool? And FREE? Just go to editthispage-dot-com. Signing up is really simple. Takes less than a minute." (wink-wink, nudge-nudge)

seriously, though, for those of us living in the middle of nowhere, i.e. the goldurned middle of the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, the web is a godsend, with which a sense of community and connection with friends who live elsewhere on the planet is not just possible, but REAL. and using a weblog, one of the newer and more exciting dimensions of the web, is more permanent than an IM convo, and more dynamic and immediate than e-mail, to flog two dead horses even more. ;-)

wow. that was fast, Candace...

writing works as a pain-killer and hallucinogen, both for the writer/dealer and the reader/user. Fortunately for us, it's addictive but not fatal. In fact, it can keep us going on lonely islands, lonely mainlands, lonely afternoons.

my favorite drug-related composition? hmm. probably has to be William Burroughs' Naked Lunch (and that's not an amazon.com link. haha. 'tis a much more enlightening one!) ... and no, high schoolers, you shouldn't be reading Naked Lunch juuuust yet, regardless how titillated you might be by the mere title. wait until your freshman college year, like Tom Fletcher, to whom i gave the book the day before he left for Caltech. ... but i don't think he read it in the family car on the drive down I-5 to Pasadena. *chuckle*

yeah. the Burroughs would be it. still, James Joyce HAD to be on something (other than his usual absinthe, that is) when composing certain chapters of Ulysses, and most definitely Finnegans Wake. ^_^ and Joyce is by far my favorite novelist of all time.

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