Rattle wrote:
] Apply Achem's Razor. Which one is the simplest option?

Google will tell you that by far the most widely accepted spellings are Occam's Razor, with 160,000 hits, and Ockham's Razor, with 128,000 hits. Occham's has only 980 hits. Your spelling gets only 78. (Wikipedia files under Occam's.)

] Wait! There is something more to this.. Its Hollywood. Out
] in LA, porn runs through the streets like the stories of gold
] told to the immigrants. Democracy. Whiskey. Sexy. LA is
] also home to the same people causing issues for the technology
] folks creating new ways to distribute content.

Interesting you should characterize it as such; that's one contemporary interpretation. Perhaps you might be interested in some Los Angeles history. I refer you to "Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology", at

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931082278/

"Here are fascinating strata of Los Angeles history, from the 1920s oil boom to 1980s graffiti art, from flamboyant evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to surf music genius Brian Wilson, from German emigré intellectuals to hard-bitten homicide cops. Here are fragile ecosystems, architectural splendors, and social chasms."

You can read the book at Amazon. Search for Iowa, Baptist, and so on. A few choice excerpts:

The osteopaths, chiropractors and other such quacks had long marked and occupied it. It swarmed with swamis, spiritualists, Christian Scientists, crystal-gazers and the allied necromancers.

They ranged from melancholy High Church Episcopals, laboriously trying to interest retired Iowa alfafa kings in ritualism, down to struggling Methodists and Baptists, as earnestly seeking to inflame the wives of the same monarchs with the crimes of the Pope.

The Iowans longed for something that they could get their teeth into. They wanted magic and noise. They wanted an excuse to whoop.

Of the three million population of Southern California, at least half come from the Middle-Western farming states: Iowa leads with 400,000, but Illinois and Missouri are not far behind with 350,000 and 300,000.

Do a Google search for Aimee Semple MacPherson. From a Library Journal review of a biography about her, courtesy of Amazon: "Once considered the premier evangelist and faith healer of her day, Sister Aimee built a church in Los Angeles called The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. A mixture of evangelism and the cult of personality, the church is today valued at over $300 million."

RE: Under New Chief, FCC Considers Widening Its Reach

Finally, the time has come!

... a resplendently silly new musical ...

This eager celebration of inanity will find a large and lucrative audience among those who value the virtues of shrewd idiocy, artful tackiness and wide-eyed impiety.

'Monty Python's Spamalot': A Quest Beyond the Grail

Yesterday, I memed a letter to the editor at the Washington Post in which the author complained about nonsense words and phrases like "going forward" that seem to plague the world today.

Well, as annoying as such phrases may be at times, they can also be fun! Or so says Mark Dunn, who's written an entire book about interjections.

Zounds!: A Browser's Dictionary of Interjections explains where a few of our favorite filler words come from. English, having the most words, has the most interjections, and the lexicon is growing daily.

Gadzooks and Yadda Yadda

The current Broadway season has seen several new musicals disappoint, but "Spamalot," which is scheduled to open on the Great White Way on Thursday, could be the savior.

Monty Python Comes to Broadway with Musical 'Spamalot'

This retrospective exhibition, the first in more than 30 years, presents the artist's signature images -- such as Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, NYC, 1962 and A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, NY, 1970 -- as well as previously unpublished photographs and writings drawn from the artist's archive.

This exhibit runs through May 30, 2005. If you live in or near New York City, or if you are visiting soon, this is something to see.

Diane Arbus Revelations

This is the official web site for SpamAlot.

It's the biggest musical event since 937 AD. David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry and Hank Azaria lead a cast of, well, many, in this outrageous tale of brave knights, fair maidens, and killer rabbits. This medieval musical comedy, featuring a book by Eric Idle and a score by Idle and John DuPrez, is directed by Tony Award and Academy Award-winner Mike Nichols.

Monty Python's SpamAlot

Telling the legendary tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and their quest for the Holy Grail, 'Monty Python's Spamalot' features a chorus line of dancing divas and knights, flatulent Frenchmen, killer rabbits, and one legless knight. Based on the 1975 movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," this production features a new score, but still includes three songs from the movie.

The show is in previews right now; official opening date is March 17. When it gets reviewed, you'll find the review linked here.

Monty Python's Spamalot

We are freed, at the end of these two dramas, not because the playwright has arrived at a solution, but because he has reconciled us to the notion that there is no solution -- that it is the human lot to try and fail, and that no one is immune from self-deception. We have, through following the course of the drama, laid aside, for two hours, the delusion that we are powerful and wise, and we leave the theater better for the rest.

David Mamet on Arthur Miller.

Attention Must Be Paid

Kortenhof had heard of a high school where pranksters had put an automobile tire over the top of a thirty-foot flagpole, like a ring on a finger, and this seemed to him an impressive and elegant and beautiful feat that we at our high school ought to try to duplicate.

The Brotherhood of Pranks

... so I joined the NSA. Life is a game of patterns and chance. Be the craziest. Triple triple.

Eight minutes of flash you will enjoy.

God Speaks To Me Through Scrabble...