~ as promised, the latest release – 110^a from the angry red planet is now available. send your cash or trades or spider-man paraphernalia to our culver city address. feel free to visit the

~ despite the superstitions which surround today’s date, we retooled the los angeles.

~ we are running redhat 6.2. (!)

~ linux update: we have a redhat 6.2 cd on loan to us and a freshly made boot disk. installation attempt #1 will commence in 2 minutes.

~ hardware update 1: future linux machine still in suspended animation, as it awaits resuscitation through the means of redhat 6.2, for 7.0 was explained to be too riddled with bugs.

~ hardware update 2: current mazda machine still in suspended animation, as it awaits resuscitation through the means of a ‘professional’ mechanic, for our staff is too overwhelmed with other occupations to fully address the mazda’s issues.

~ no one at the angry red planet can remember the exact quotation, nor to whom it is attributed, but there is something like; ‘the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, take no stand at all.’ notwithstanding the lack of evidence verifying the existence of hell, this is exactly the kind of place that the united states of america’s ambassadors to the united nations deserve for refusing to act in the face of the israeli army’s violence against palestinian civilians…. [cnn.com] …

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   comics, ink: ‘typeface…now there’s an interesting villian’
   the angry red planet: ‘hmmm…i don’t know what that’s all about’
   c,i: ‘still, i like mackie’s peter parker’

   t.a.r.p.: ‘yeah, but i hope he makes a move on glory or jill, before his roommates steal all his prospects.’
   c,i: ‘hmmm?’
   t.a.r.p.: ‘unless they do something ridiculous like bring his wife back to life.’
   c,i: ‘or something ridiculous like adding another spider-man title…oh, wait, they already did that.’
   t.a.r.p.: ‘what? where?’
   c,i: ‘the ulimate spider-man’

   t.a.r.p.: ‘oh…yeah….’
   c,i: ‘the story was at least told well, but it is one that didn’t need to be retold.’
   t.a.r.p.: ‘i know, i had to explain to my roommate, who doesn’t follow this, when he asked ‘hasn’t that already been established?”
   c,i: ‘oh, yes, countless times over….’

~ the yugoslavian people a re now officially held in awe by the angry red planet. we hope that we can learn from their example, if, by some chance, ralph nader [w] does not win next month’s ‘election’.

~ the angry red image log has been updated, hopefully without flaw this time. we are always moving it from directory to directory, it it sometimes gets lost. it should now bring you all the los angeles – and beyond – images from the past few months of the log…

~ ….rough night…..

~ one of the wires has been pulled out of my headphones, so only the right speaker works. the trial continues…