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March 21, 2004
'Nothing So Strange' at Vanderbilt University
Last time I was in Nashville I danced the two-step and got slapped in the face by a woman at a bar. The two events were related.March 19, 2004
It is as it was
It appears Brian Flemming's Weblog has now been re-created on the new host pretty much as it was on the old one. I lost a few entries between March 4 and today, but they were mostly about how I was...March 13, 2004
Are you really my friend if you don't read my blog?
When friends ask me, "So, what's going on?" I assume they mean, "What's going on except what I already know about from reading your blog, which I do every day?" But, no, sometimes they actually mean, "What's going on?" As in, "What's going on that you already wrote about on your blog but I want you to take the time to tell me about because I can't be bothered to visit your little area of the internet?"March 04, 2004
Kooky Dan
Wha--? That was my reaction upon going to playwright Dan Trujillo's blog today. Usually said blog is called "Venal Scene" and contains either a clever scene about current events (yeah, Dan actually writes) or some news about some staging...March 02, 2004
The Brian insurgency
I'm sorry, did I say one week ago that Brian Flemming's Weblog was #42 on the list of top blogs over at the Ecosystem? Subsequent events have rendered that claim inoperative. Brian Flemming's Weblog is, at this writing, actually #12...February 22, 2004
George W. Bush nose job story on "Late Show with David Letterman"
Here now is my favorite story of the week: a rumor that President George Bush had a nose job, that he had some kind of plastic surgery, he actually had a nose job. And I was thinking, well, if this is true it would be the first new job he's created since taking office.February 20, 2004
We get letters
From: "matt" Date: February 20, 2004 12:31:36 AM PST To: vagrant@slumdance.com Subject: YOU ARE BY FAR THE BIGGEST MORON ON THE WEB WHAT IN THE WORLD OR HOW IN THE WORLD DO PEOPLE LIKE YOU LIVE LIFE!!! WHY DO YOU...February 20, 2004
"This transmission is coming to you"
So said Houston Mission Control to Apollo 8. And so said Brian Flemming's Weblog to the Mainstream Media with its exclusive! report on President Bush's plastic surgery. And how did the Mainstream Media respond just one week later? "Transmission acknowledged....February 17, 2004
The little blog that could
Brian Flemming's Weblog is currently ranked #42 in traffic here at the moment. (Not to mention near the top here, at the moment.) God knows why you would, but if you ever want to see traffic information about this site,...February 14, 2004
Presidential rhinoplasty scandal aflame!
Thanks to Wonkette! for the link yesterday to my exclusive! report on President Bush's nose. And now the established expert site on celebrity knifings, Awful Plastic Surgery, has picked up on it: Did George Bush have a nose job? It...February 12, 2004
GEORGE W. BUSH NOSE JOB?
These President Bush pictures are undoctored. The nose? Not so sure.February 09, 2004
Does this blog make me look gay?
No sooner did I put up this blog's new look than I get this email: From: Tigerdavison6@aol.com Subject: (no subject) Date: February 6, 2004 To: vagrant@slumdance.com i just figured a fag like you would like† a real man like arnold,...February 07, 2004
Me vs. the New York Times
The New York Times contacted me today about "Silence (remix) ©2004 BRIAN FLEMMING. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED." I'm totally not kidding. The reporter, David F. Gallagher, is writing an article on the silent tracks sold at the iTunes Music Store and...February 06, 2004
Silence (remix)
AUDIO DOWNLOAD. I remix all nine completely silent songs that Apple is selling at the iTunes Music Store.February 06, 2004
Mingering Mike found
A while back I asked, Who is Mingering Mike? The New York Times found out. (via Boing Boing)...February 02, 2004
LICK magazine launch
You can see the MoveOn ad on CNN during the Superbowl halftime, but why not multitask and check out the launch of L.A. blogger/legend Tony Pierce's LICK magazine, also occurring at halftime. (via Marc)...January 31, 2004
Hot
Man, it's my week to win awards, I guess. Dr. Menlo has named Brian Flemming's Weblog "Progressive Blog of the Week." Which means I get propers at the Menlo-associated blogs American Samizdat, Dr. Menlo presents and Sensual Liberation Army ("See...January 29, 2004
What's Bush drinking?
Whiskey? Water? Vodka? It's hard to tell, but it's fun to speculate.January 29, 2004
"L.A." vs "LA"
Over at the other blog I contribute to, LA.COMfidential, I keep forgetting to write "L.A." as "LA" -- without the periods. That's the style there, and I always forget. I don't know why I'm comfortable writing "NY" but I always...January 28, 2004
Eric Alterman is a very good person
Now Eric Alterman at the MSNBC blog Altercation has linked to my scrupulously fair Bush vs. Dean video. He's exploiting me! He's exploiting me! If you don't get that joke, you probably missed the recent comedy of errors in which...January 26, 2004
Things you have to believe to be a Republican today
It's funny 'cause it's true. (Via a MeFi comment.)...January 25, 2004
Sometimes spam makes me laugh
From: "Ramona" Date: Mon Jan 19, 2004 Subject: - Good morning Hi stupid Vagrant. Good morning brainless Vagrant. Okay, at once Prove this website: http://uk.geocities.com/-------- It is like McDonalds (Every time a good time)., so With best wishes. Isabel McCown....January 19, 2004
#1 nice thong
You're searching the internet for a nice thong or thong pics. Well, here they are.January 15, 2004
Who is Mingering Mike?
Cool. Found out about this through the Detritus list: Okay, so I hit the flea market last Thursday in the freezing cold and came upon this dope soundtrack collection - Melinda, Sweetback's Badass Song, The Marketts Play Batman, Mannix, More...January 15, 2004
New dog!
January 06, 2004
More searches that bring people here
Read 'em and weep for our planet: thong discussion bottle ass screw (Why, oh why?) recall Arnold Schwarzenegger paris hilton sex tape transcript nude wife pictures my nude picture slip nipples brian k flemming sex video valerie plame "Vanity Fair"...January 06, 2004
Visits from search engines that probably disappointed somebody
Limbaugh+football xxx rated sex videos "Joseph Wilson" + "Valerie Plame" free nipples female ass And one that probably didn't: arnold schwarzenegger nude...January 02, 2004
Starting the year off right
I like to kick off every year being licked by pretty girls. This year, I got my wish....January 01, 2004
Los Angeles on New Year's Eve...
...as I head out to par-tay. My hope is that this view will still exist on New Year's Day....December 31, 2003
The Diva
Mac Diva is totally flirting with me. She called me a "hottie" once, and a few other nice things, and now she calls me "smart and attractive." She thinks I don't notice. But I do. Oh, I do....December 20, 2003
But- but- I go to Harvard!
From a friend who works in the Harvard Health Services department: [...] I'm sure you've heard, but there is a nation-wide flu vaccine shortage, and for a while Harvard seemed to be the only place in Massachusetts not affected.† Of...December 19, 2003
G**gle bombing
I try not to mention the words "G**gle bombing" in my posts that contribute to a bomb, because if G**gle is smart, they will start giving lower weight to pages that mention this term in close proximity to another term...December 18, 2003
Kids Corner
Don't do this to your child. (Thanks, blogging.la.)...December 18, 2003
Fished in
Elizabeth Spiers, author of New York magazine's The Kicker blog, got fished in by this "Reuters" story: Madonna, Queen of Reinvention, has her new sights set on academic study and becoming Dr. Madonna...Madonna wants to get her PhD in critical...December 16, 2003
Movie that skyline
A photo I recently took of the L.A. skyline is garnering some pithy remarks over at Buzznet....December 13, 2003
View from my window
About 10 minutes ago....December 11, 2003
LA.com on Madonna
At a book reading in Westwood, Madonna teaches children a valuable lesson about those lying fucking fucks in the fucking media who always fucking lie and they should just shut the fuck up, those fucks....December 10, 2003
Female ass not as popular as you'd think
I'm not getting terribly many hits from this. Female ass is not quite as popular as I would have predicted. (And, yes, the only reason I wrote this entry was to prop up my page's Google ranking for female ass...December 08, 2003
MEETUP
I'm totally gonna crash this event. Easy pickins, knowwhatImean, knowwhatImean?...December 07, 2003
Another milestone
A very big day for Brian Flemming's Weblog. This weblog now turns up among the top ten results on a Google search for "the female ass." Please, no gifts or flowers. Just wanted to mark the milestone....December 04, 2003
The Paula Carmicino sex video
Oh my God! A student filmmaker intends to shoot graphic sex! Also, the sun rose in the east this morning! Because NYU junior Paula Carmicino planned to become the 112,472nd film student to shoot naked people doin' it, New York...December 04, 2003
New L.A. blog
Go say hi to the new blog in L.A., Blogging.la. They have some good writers listed up top, including Nancy Rommelmann, who way back when wrote the great L.A. Weekly piece on Bruce Willis that sparked that whole episode in...December 03, 2003
Oh. Canada
Oops. Forgot to mention this here on my blog before I left, but I took off for Canada for a few days. I wanted to dodge the draft, but my daddy couldn't get me into the Texas Air National Guard,...November 27, 2003
View from my bathroom window
November 19, 2003
Dogs art
Nora has even more cool stuff up at her store....November 18, 2003
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugural address
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger inaugural address...November 17, 2003
Seek and ye shall find my ass
Some recent searches that led people here: fair and balanced my ass idiot son of an asshole koran + "slay the infidels" joseph wilson flemming...November 11, 2003
Moms and blogs
Very funny Onion story about a dude who finds out that his mother has discovered his blog. Widmar said he expects his site to provide Lillian with ample cause for worry. "Even on that benign front page, she found something...November 11, 2003
The Meatrix
PETA rocks. (Flash animation.)...November 10, 2003
Seattle photos
Okay, I kept putting it off because I wanted to write up a photo essay, but I just haven't found the time. (I admire bloggers like Tony Pierce, who manage to do so many on a regular basis.) So the...November 06, 2003
It's time
32-second QuickTime movie. Some folks at Detritus pointed the way to footage of President Bush just before he announced his war, and I used it to slap together this short. small large...November 05, 2003
The end of the world
Funny. (Flash animation.) (UPDATE: I don't know who made this piece, as all I was sent via an email from a friend was the URL.)...October 31, 2003
Rush Limbaugh, football and racism
I know very little about Rush Limbaugh. A few years back, my clock-radio alarm was somehow set to a station where he broadcasted in the a.m., and I didn't bother to figure out how to change that setting. So every...October 13, 2003
"Hmm...I don't remember it being that bitter."
Ha ha ha ha ha....October 10, 2003
Sleeves
October 10, 2003
Nude pictures of Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame
Yep, that's right. You heard they existed, and here they are in all their glory: nude photos of former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his CIA-operative wife Valerie Plame, two of the central figures in the scandal that has gripped the George W. Bush White House. Speaking of bush, check out Picture #3...October 02, 2003
76 Days
July 14, 2003. President Bush discovers a breach of national security. Two "senior administration officials" have apparently exposed the identity of a covert CIA operative while attempting to discredit one of Bush's critics. President Bush immediately swings into action to...October 01, 2003
The irresistible thong
Frequent BFW commenter TheKCCL writes in about the stupid Slumdance store: I have a comment that I feel obligated to make about your silly merchandise and was waiting to post on†your blog.† Oh well - I can't stand it.† Here...September 29, 2003
In the market for a nice thong?
This stage of finishing Nothing So Strange is pretty great. Forty-five minutes of work, 15 minutes of rendering (i.e., screwing around while Final Cut Pro or another program does its thing). All day long. And the movie is really taking...September 27, 2003
Shut up!
Arghh. Too busy in the real world and didn't even notice until now that today is Talk Like Bill O'Reilly Day. In honor of this great holiday, the play-only version of the crawlaway bestseller Fair & Balanced is free, just...September 26, 2003
Banned Books Week: On a mission from God
So I was just blogging about BookCrossing.com, a sort of grassroots book-liberation cult that my parents joined and that describes itself this way: You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your...September 21, 2003
Letterboxing and BookCrossing
L.A. Blogs has a recent entry about letterboxing. Apparently it involves...well, here is the description from Letterboxing North America: Letterboxing is an intriguing mix of treasure hunting, art, navigation, and exploring interesting, scenic, and sometimes remote places. It takes the...September 21, 2003
Stare at it until it moves
Click for more. (via Eric Alterman.)...September 18, 2003
Redhead Blogs Web Ring
Confession: I am not a redhead, but I joined the Redhead Blogs Web Ring anyway. This was some time ago, when I joined a bunch of web rings. I thought, Well, I'm not a redhead, but I like redheads. But...September 17, 2003
Those SOB's in SUV's: Flip off a Hummer
New initiative asks, Won't you at least lift a finger for the environment? (via onegoodmove.)...September 16, 2003
More dogs!
September 14, 2003
Gender Genie, my ass
So cinema minima led me to the Gender Genie, which is this website where you can enter in some text you have written, and the "Gender Genie" uses an algorithm to guess whether you are male or female. Well, you...September 04, 2003
"Fair & Balanced" builds
Busy finishing up a ludicrous amount of loose ends, thus the light posting. However, Fair & Balanced sales are good and, better yet, remain steady. There seems to be something irresistible about the ad image to the left. It gets...September 02, 2003
"Fair & Balanced" in the Blogosphere
Brian Flemming's Weblog sends out kisses and sodomizations (optional) to the following lovely blogfolks who recently linked to Fair Use Press or BFW: dwhudson at GreenCine Daily, which is the companion blog for GreenCine, the DVD service that is a...August 29, 2003
Why bad things had to happen to Bill O'Reilly
I'm realizing now I probably should have featured the link to Fair Use Press's synopsis written for the press kit more prominently earlier, as it contains the best explanation of and justification for the play. Natalie Davis realized this and...August 27, 2003
Your Fair & Balanced update
Blogs: Atrios linked Fair Use Press this morning. Hits through the roof, naturally. (There is a nice comments thread there, too.) Boing Boing jumped in around 2 p.m. The roof officially blew off Fair Use Press at that point. God...August 27, 2003
Fair Use Press publishes Fair & Balanced by Brian Flemming
The news: Remember that short scene called "Fair & Balanced" I posted a while back? It got me thinking. I ended up scrapping it and writing something far more profane. As I wrote, it turned into a one-act play for...August 26, 2003
View from my window
August 14, 2003
L.A. skyline, 7:08 pm
August 11, 2003
Arnold Schwarzenegger nude photo
Hey, visitor from a search engine! This is my cheap attempt to trawl for your hits. Thank you for being yet another person strangely interested in seeing this man naked. Yeah, yeah, I know. You're just doing "research" for a...August 09, 2003
Howard Dean Remixes
"Wh-wh-wh-what I want to know..." There is a Howard Dean Remix (link to mp3). UPDATE: See also the Howard Dean remix (video) right here at the blog. And other remixes....May 23, 2003