A WFMU blog entry about the history of electronic recordings of ghosts. With mp3s of actual ghost recordings you can listen to. [link]
There exists in the UK a society that investigates the communication of spirits through electronic means: the spirit voices are captured on magnetic tape or digital recorder. The EVP & Transcommunication Society headed by former Psychic World Deputy Editor Judith Chisholm was formed in the early 1990's after she had received and recorded verbal messages from another dimension. In her excellent book: 'Voices From Paradise: How The Dead Speak To Us' Judith details how, in despair at the premature death of her son Paul, she set out to discover if he was alive in spirit in another world. Her search led her to experiment with the EVP using a tape recorder with inbuilt and open microphone. After recording various voices, some of which she recognised, Judith did manage to record a number of short messages from her physically deceased son Paul.
Cool.
Mountain Dew is ass. It's horribly sweet and disgusting.
I agree. It builds up this godawful phlegm in the throat that is NASTY. *shudder*
I used to like Mountain Dew but now it's my ex-boyfriend's drink and reminds me what an idiot I was when I was his gf.
You definitely want to avoid the taint of the ex, but if you actually really liked the Dew maybe you should give yourself a pass on this one. I avoided Buffy for a very long time on the selfsame principle, which clearly only hurt and deprived exactly one person: me.
Not that Mountain Dew is, like, the Buffy of soda pop or anything. I suppose my example is one of those parallels you don't want to examine too closely.
Anyhow, if you feel like having one, go ahead, even if the guy who introduced you to it was a jackhole. Screw him, and the less-than-ideal person you were when you were with him. It's your birthday!
Mountain Dew is ass. It's horribly sweet and disgusting.
I agree. It builds up this godawful phlegm in the throat that is NASTY. *shudder*
Mountain Dew makes my teeth hurt.
Maybe sometime, JZ. It's a weird taste I'm not often in the mood for, but maybe I don't need to think about him every time.
The first time I watched Buffy I didn't take to it. Nor Homicide either.
Because in both cases I came in on weird points.
erika, did you see Dana's post upthread that WGN is rerunning
Homicide
from the beginning. She said they ran the pilot, today. That gave me a little thrill, seeing as it's your birthday.
If you're looking for a cold source of caffeine, Mountain Dew is a better source than the typical cola in the sense that MD has more caffeine.
Beyond that, hey, whatever your taste buds tell you.
I did, but she moved to another firm a couple of weeks ago.
Ooh, that sucks even more. How was Vegas??
Did I say Happy Birthday, Erika? HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ERIKA!!!
I had a friend in college who didn't drink, but would drink a Double Gulp of Mountain Dew when the rest of us were drinking booze, and I swear to god, she'd be the most fucked up person in the room.
Happy Birthday, Erika! May you have a year filled with the camaraderie in the face of darkness of Homicide, the intoxicating language and unexpected moment of grace of Deadwood, the friendship and humor of Buffy, and the depth and range and resepct for all kinds of people of The Wire.
