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Wednesday, September 20, 2000
Guy wearing Dream Theater t-shirt in this week's Onion
I just though it was cool, that's all.

Tuesday, September 19, 2000
ABC.com's Hip-Hop Glossary
Like most Americans, I rely on the ABC News behemoth to explain "urban" culture and lingo to me.

"phat: 1) (adj) Rich like butter, really good, extremely well put together. 2) (adj) Attractive."

I like that whoever put this glossary together only really has a very basic understanding of hip-hop stuff.

Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Barney Rocks
Review of a new album where Barney (yes, the loathsome purple dinosaur) 'rocks out' on 31(!) original 'rock n roll' compositions. I find this wholly disturbing.

Wednesday, July 26, 2000
Stone Sculpture: Moray Eeel
You know, if it didn't cost $2600, this would be a really cool thing to own.

Friday, July 21, 2000
Destination: Tuvalu
The tiny Pacific island nation of Tuvalu's major industries are: textiles, soap , philately, phone sex, copra. Wow, phone sex and stamp collecting! This has to be one wacky place.

Thursday, July 13, 2000
Statue of Frank Zappa in Lithuania
In the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, there is a bronze bust of Frank Zappa.

Thursday, July 13, 2000
Safeway UK
Safeway's British site is full of great stuff.

Tasir Ali is a graduate of the University of Leicester and absolutely loves bananas. If you have similar tastes and ambitions, perhaps you should consider a career with Safeway.

Few things inform your guests that you have the taste of a vagrant than wine in a box.

There's also lots of fun to be had over at the corporate site. They are "passionate about fresh food and great value". This kid seems pretty passionate about gigantic loaves of French bread.

While you're around, you can also print out a scary coloring sheet.

You can even get help with naming your baby. Though I'd recommend you not name your newborn Yolanda or Fergus. If you're dead set on giving your child a name starting with the letter X, the site suggests Xerxes. A name from Persia (modern-day Iran), meaning ‘royal prince’.

Tuesday, July 11, 2000
Destination: Turkmenistan
One of the cities in Turkmenistan is called Merv. That's right, Merv.

"Merv's origins are shrouded in conjecture and romance..."

Thursday, July 6, 2000
Wall o' Shame
Odd true stories and printed tidbits, collected.

I'm rather fond of the waterproof home. "Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her daily cleaning with a hose."

A memo regarding how to refer to the former "Artist Formerly Known As Prince."

Also, here's the Polytron, which "reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds." Yum!

Thursday, July 6, 2000
Weird Al Yankovic gallery
Includes a lot of wacky fan art. Yes, such a thing as Weird Al fan art exists.

Al drawn using musical notations
"This is important, this means something"
Al in old age
Freaky tattoo of Jim West

The rest of the page is mostly concert related photos. Sort of interesting. So go now, listen to a Weird Al album or watch "UHF"! I'm not kidding. I'm listening to "Polka Party!" right now.