Here is a picture of him.

CrankyMessiah (Brad Blines) Picture

] RIP Brad. Hopefully you are sharing your sence of humour
] with some good spirits, on the other side.

Another site that CrankyMessiah used pays it's respects. There is a link here to a picture for those who wanted to know what he looked like.

FAZED - Slorum - CrankyMessiah Thread

check the "other news" blurb at the bottom of the page:

"The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: "We just don't teach enough science." Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee's space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order..."

Congressional Bonehead Award

Decius wrote:
] Hit Altavista at random to widen a search. They've got an
] interesting new feature. Search results are clustered by
] topic.

Interesting.. It gives options for various additional keyword and keyword combos which can be used to narrow a topic. When you select one, it appends it to the search. For instance, if you search for 'memestreams' and click on the Weblogs link, the search becomes 'memestreams weblogs'.

Update:

This is beatiful! The keywords on Altavista deliver!

] Computer Science
] Internet Content
] People Work
] Social Web
] State Of The Art
] Surfing Tool
] Blogs
] Blogging
] Memetics
] Nashville (ha!)
] Preferences
] Weblogs

Bang. Coming next year.

RE: AltaVista Search: memestreams

This is the website for the New Life Lodge, a drug crisis treatment center outside Nashville, Tennessee.

In lieu of sending flowers for Brad Blines (crankymessiah), it has been asked that donations be made here.

New Life Lodge
Alumni Association
P.O. Box 430
Burns, TN 3702

New Life Lodge

] Five opioid-dependent volunteers each received a single
] subcutaneous depot injection containing 58 mg of
] buprenorphine and were assessed for at least four weeks
] for signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal, first
] residentially and then as outpatients. Depot
] buprenorphine appeared to provide effective relief from
] opioid withdrawal, with no participant requiring
] additional medication for withdrawal relief following
] depot administration.

Its time for an end to heroin chic.

Please..

I've seen the movies.. I've seen the friends die.. Its done. Its trite. There is no hip factor attached. You get no points. The education you receive is only in the economics of need.

There is a methadone clinic a few blocks away from my house.. I get to see the hardcore street junkies all the time, when they are really hard up. I was just relaying a story last night about this pathetic incident watching a street junkie shoot up between the toes. Fun stuff. Let me tell ya. Got a lot where those come from, collecting new stories all the time.

Lots of different types of junkies. I theorize the largest group are the folks who hold together a somewhat normal life, just with their one all encompassing hobby. The maintenance junkie. I've known a few.. They seem to go on for years, as opposed to the high schooler junkies, who tend burn up real fast.

So what's the message to the riders? "Stop." Sure, that's effective. I only hope that as time goes on, it will be successfully treatable as a medical condition. Hope is present that better tools are on the way. Maybe. Could just be a morning after pill with a new set of easy outs and associated problems. Who fucking knows..

I do have advice for those buying into the chic: Don't. Really. Just don't.

Well.. This will certainly be a theme that keeps coming up. Anyone else on the system riding the horse? I'd help you if I actually had any fucking clue what to do.

Death to Heroin Chic

From Flynn23:

It is with an extraordinarily heavy heart that I post that my good friend, Brad Blines, died on Thursday morning of a heroin overdose. Folks on memestreams will know him as crankymessiah. People from the 'scene' in Nashville will remember him from the days of Dragon Park, countless concerts and shows, and Predators games.

Brad was one of the lights of my life. We shared the same giddy excitement over music, film, and creativity that few people can understand. We had that kind of brotherly relationship where you don't really have to say anything to hear the other person. I hope that I will be able to still hear his infectious laugh in my head for the rest of my life.

Goodbye my friend.

Brad Michael BLINES
Nashville, TN
Age 35
January 8, 2003
January 8, 2003. Survived by parents, Michael and Diana Blines; sister, Kristin (Richard) Vik; grandmothers, Bonnie (Lloyd) Holt, Ruth Allen; nephews, Ethan Richard Vik, Brennan Michael Vik. The funeral service will be held at 3 p.m. at Harpeth Hills Funeral Home with Bro. Doug Varnado officiating. Pallbearers will be Chris Scheele, Richard Vik, Michael Dodson, Rich Husband, Jim Folger, Ernie Simon. The Interment will follow at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the New Life Lodge. Visitation will be Friday 5-9 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. until service at HARPETH HILLS FUNERAL HOME, 9090 Hwy. 100, 615-646-9292

I'm going to miss him too.

I'm at a lack for words right now.. I'm sad and angry.

I am sad, and unhappy...

Hmm.

] Own A Piece of BellSouth History…

] Due to downward trends in payphone usage, BellSouth plans to
] discontinue providing services to its payphone location provider
] customers.
]
] In partnership with BellSouth Public Communications, the BellSouth
] Pioneer Volunteers are offering for sale original renovated and
] completely operational BellSouth payphones and coinbox doors.

No longer do you need a crowbar to have your own payphone..

BellSouth Renovated Payphone Sale

This is a cool video clip to "See what happens when a power station's 500 KVA switch is thrown!"

500 KVA switch