Yesterday my sister, her beau Graham, cousin Geoff, my mother, grandmother, Julia and I got together in the afternoon for a visit. My grandma is turning 90 this week and everyone came to town for a celebration. While hanging out at my grandmother's home, Graham asked Ina to walk out to the car, and when they came back they were both beaming. Outside, amid the romance and spectacle of Leisure World, Graham popped the big question, and of course she said yes! Mazel tov to my sister and her wonderful guy!

What can I say about Xah Lee that hasn't already been said? Not much, really, but here are a few key thoughts that spring to mind:

• serial killer in the making;
• super troll;
• the best argument yet for improved psychological exams during immigrant visa applications;
• the reason I have the Palo Alto police department on speeddial;
• a real fuckwit;
• creator of one of the most demented spectacles of a home page I have ever come across (note: it's an unhealthy mix of extreme nerdiness and source material for the next Silence of the Lambs);
• the most frequent user of the word "moron" and its variants in the English-speaking world.

Xah's website deserves a few comments on its own, it being a standing testament to what one psychotic individual with a lot of spare time, no social life, and a heavy set of geek-fu can do. The site itself is a composite of pages documenting his deep interest in mathematics, and his equally deep interest in being a pure misanthrope. Screeds about his enjoyment of prostitution are sandwiched between explorations of the visualization of curved surfaces; here's a typical quote - seriously, this is nothing out of the ordinary for Xah - from an essay entitled "Too Many People on Earth":

This, is one of the phenomena of the world being filled with too many human animals, and stupid masses. I fancy a decimation would be a good call. Even that, decimation wouldn't be enough. Consider the world's population, China and India EACH with some poor fucking over 1 billion human animals. And the mexican or Hispanic decents in USA for example are breeding like crazy, and also the utterly corrupt Africa fucking like crazy with AIDS one in every four. (they believe in anal sex and virgin cure of AIDS) They should really die to put their misery out, and improve the resources for the rest of us elite, who are justly equipped with better looks naturally and intelligence

Even more fun is the caption he placed under a photo on his bio page:

This picture was taken in 1995. I'm now much younger in psyche and mature in physique. (Look at me... trying smile and vacant gaze. Vampire hair and imaginary foolscap. Anyway, i'm looking for a soulmate. Female, preferably blonde and blue eyes. I'm comfortable with polygamy. I'm a bit short on humor but am strong at siring. I enjoy shopping 'n' friends. You need not be rich but nubile. Interested? You be my chick, i be your cock, if you desire, get in touch. For those Cosmopolitan girls and Señorita out there: I'm technically American. Love me and I can make you American.

All else aside, Xah is also obviously an intelligent human being; like Hitler, and the Marquis de Sade. He's quite sexually liberated in ways that might have made Aleister Crowley blush. I'm proud to call Xah, well, if not a friend then at someone who'd probably let me live as he tortured my friends, family and pets in an insane sex-blood orgy. We've got an understanding of some kind, which may say as much about me as I've said here about him, so it's only with a little reluctance that I name Xah as my Fuckwit #1. And not because I'm afraid I'll hurt his feelings, but rather more to do with my continued survival during the sex-blood orgy I predict above.

PS, I do in a way feel for the guy; he clearly needs help. But if you've ever interacted with him directly you'll understand how hopeless that possibility is. I know life isn't going well for him, and this page is less about kicking a down dog as it is about warning the unknowing bypassers about that little rabies problem.

Fuck it, he's nuts. N-V-T-S, nuts!

Beginning in 1964, visionary whacko Claude Bell set out to build something no one previously had known we needed - two of the largest man-made dinosaurs, situated conveniently off the 10 highwayy between Los Angeles and Palm Springs. Between their conception and his death in 1986 these things rose over the desert landscape, bringing weary travellers a reason to pull off the interstate, gawk for a few minutes, and then enjoy the bounty of nourishment from the adjacent truckstop diner, and eventually the Denny's and Burger King which still sustain this Thoracic Park.

Click here for an unscripted audio thought on the Cabazon Dinos.

Between music videos and the epic film "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" it seemed there was no end in sight for the pop-cultural impact of the monument; of course, the fundies had to ruin it. Now owned by an even bigger whacko and his partner whacko, this team of Orange County preacher and Orange County businessman is looking to turn the Cabazon Dinosaurs into the world's largest dinosaur-themed monument to "Intelligent Design" - aka, biblically literalist creationism. What's the tie-in you ask? Well, since evolution is a fraud, and the bible is the unvarnished and unedited truth, mankind must have shared this great blue-green sphere with dinosaurs, even going so far as to load them up on Noah's zoological cruise ship when the time came. No shit, people think this crap. But I digress. Apparently, instead of explaining the extinctio of dinosaurs in the slightly-more-plausible way by suggesting they died off in the flood, instead these assholes want us to believe men rescued little t-rex on a wooden raft 2000 years ago. So, really, that explains why Orange County fundamentalists want to turn a pop-culture icon into a biblical learning output.

Of course, don't take my word for it. Check out the official Cabazon Dinosaur site, and this handy FAQ at AnsweringGenesis.com

PS, for directions see Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.920063,-116.774497&spn=0.004603,0.007060&t=k&hl=en

Cabazon Dinosaurs 1.
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Cabazon Dinosaurs 2 - September 17, 2005
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Cabazon Dinosaurs 3 - September 17, 2005
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Cabazon Dinosaurs 4 - September 17, 2005
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Sunburst Painted Rock Sellers
El Capitan State Beach, Santa Barbara, CA
July 17, 2005

Sympathetic aging hippies got together under the sun for their annual reunion, and it turns out they've been breeding capitalists!

With devotion and gripping focus, they applied nail polish to found stones and hawked them to the people their parents used to share a commune with. Hard to resist, really, they got about 3 dollars and a big tip from me for two custom jobs, for Sarah and Julia.

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