April, 2004


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Apr 04

Rape ‘Game’ Goes Bad

You might be saying ‘how could a rape game be good?’, but apparently for some people it is. Some guy accidentally attacked the wrong woman while attempting to enact a rape sexual fantasy with a willing partner. He faces a year in jail and probation.

Let this be a lesson to all of you sexual deviants out there! If you’re going to enact a rape fantasy, make sure you get the address right. Geez, what’s the world coming to?


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Apr 04

Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Anniversary

Just noticed this on my little daily calendar thingy I have set up:

Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968

It’s been 36 years now. It sure would have been nice to have Martin Luther King Jr. alive for even a few of those.


5
Apr 04

A Perfect Circle at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

I went to see A Perfect Circle play at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco last night. The Bill Graham Auditorium has long been known to me as a place where the Grateful Dead played many times. It turns out it’s located right next to the City Hall building. Weird.

Anyway, I was at the show by myself as I was meeting a friend there. We didn’t meet up until after the show, but I met a few new people. Oddly, the first people I met weren’t very familiar with Tool. How could that be? I thought people who liked A Perfect Circle were mostly just Tool fans looking for more of their fix, but I guess not. A Perfect Circle has their own fan base separate from Tool.

The show was fun. Maynard Keenan seemingly has long hair now, but he still doesn’t like to be very close to the crowd… He doesn’t even look at the crowd most of the time. He did talk to us, though… he called us ‘stoned hippies’ because everyone knows that’s the only type of people who live in San Francisco.