shawn avery

meet ferdinand gilson , 106, a decorated world war one veteran, who also participated in the french resistance during world war two. he refused to work for the nazis in 1940, and made false documents for french soldiers, saving them from the work camps. this guy ate worm infested meat in the gas trenches in europe at age 19. he dragged pieces of his friends out of ditches. long live war vets and current service personnel...and good luck. with dubya, you're all going to need it . in other news... ashby just got some raw concert footage from the july 15th show at workplay. eventually we will be sifting through all of the footage we've acquired in the last few years, in order to put something together that seems interesting.

i'm doing a lunch time perusing of internet headlines and i read a news report about a global population trend study. i was floored by how a tenth of a percent increase or decrease in population growth could save or end the human race by the year 2300. notice in the study that if today's current population growth rates go unchanged, we will basically fuck ourselves out of existence. that puts an interesting spin on the pro-life movement. here's an excerpt: If fertility rates stabilize at 1.85, the population would shrink to 2.3 billion. If it went to 2.35, the population would balloon to 36.4 billion. If fertility rates remained unchanged from the 2000 rate of 2.83, there would be 134 trillion people in 2300, impossible to sustain. also... i wanna give some props to the guy who got my vote .