So I was reading a fascinating story in the New York Times today when it abruptly ended with a peculiar sentence:

“Mr. Lorello noted in his confession that most of what he stole was not particularly valuable (some of his items sold for as little as $10). Most of the artifacts were known among dealers as trash, he wrote, although he used a trashier word than trash.”

Please don’t keep us in suspense, Eric. What word did he use? The only ones I can think of at the moment are synonymous with excrement but surely that is only because I have a limited imagination.

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Back in the summer of 1999, my genius and multi-talented brother Daniel Frouman and his band Psy-Fly jammed at The Mercury with some friends of theirs. The event was filmed for posterity. I recently dug it up out of the vast frouman.com archives.

Here are the video credits:

Shot by Aaron Land
Produced and Edited by Frederico Geib
Stock footage provided by Arrowhead Film & Video
Austin, Texas, 03/2000

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This morning I was looking over my AT&T bill in their online account manager
when I somehow ended up at a page advertising the availability of DSL service without having to pay for a voice line. Since for the past 5 years or so I have been paying for a service I don’t need, don’t use and don’t want; this seemed like a great deal to me. While the monthly rate is about 11.44% more than what I pay now, it is still better than paying the extra 43% I now pay for a voice line I don’t use. The last time I had looked into AT&T’s “naked DSL” service offerings, the service offered was not only slower than what I currently have but more expensive than what I pay now for the DSL and voice line combined.

So I called the number listed and after going through the extremely annoying voice prompt phone tree and waiting on hold for a few minutes, I was informed that I should call the “dry loop” number which is 1-800-264-0002. This time I waited much longer on hold (about 15 minutes). Finally, I got to talk to a real live person. She asked for some information to look up my account so she could check to see if I could get it or not. So about a minute goes by and she informs me that it is available and starts to explain the order process. But then she notices that her system now says I can’t get it which she says is very strange. She says she’ll try something else and after a few minutes says it is available and she is putting the order through now. But then she says it was rejected. So it seems I can’t get it after all. This makes no sense as there is certainly no technical reason why they can’t provide me with the service I already have without charging me for another service which I don’t want or need.

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