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  Conrad Romo runs the Tongue and Groove Spoken Word Concert Series at the Hotel Café. Stop on By Sunday the 17th @ 6:00  Back then, in the early 70’s, Scientology staff got paid a whopping ten bucks a week. These staff members are called Sea Org. On occasion they wear lanyards and epaulets and […]

Bastard of Art Commerce: Rarely Asked Questions

The official BOAAC RAQ 1. Do you ever microwave eggs? No. Wait. No. I don't. 2. If I were to call you on the telephone, would you be willing to talk to me? Yes, of course. Contact me via this blog with a prepared list of topics you’d like to cover in our conversation and […]

“Career Opportunities”

  The computer screen?  Can’t face it.  I would rather face my forehead in my hands, elbows on table, staring into doubt.  But this isn’t the computer screen of writing.  This is the computer screen of having to look for a job.    It’s been over six years.  I’ve witnessed countless other friends do it […]

20 Fun Facts About Teen Heartthrob Udo Kier!!!!

Greg Mills can also be found at the BASTARD OF AND ART AND COMMERCE.   Udo, I do-o! 1. In Tombstone, Arizona, the Town Too Tough To Die, Udo Kier was named “Honorary Chief Sexecutioner” by unanimous vote of the city council. 2. The musk of a civet-like gland located at the top Udo Kier’s […]

Demand Better Consumerism — Healthnet

  Read up on the Intro and DELL COMPUTERS here.  HEALTHNET:  Health care in America is a commodity of which you, the person, is the least valuable part.  With all these HMOs and PPOs the health care industry is set up to make you think you have all these choices which are going to keep […]

PBS Don’t Want My Money

Greg Mills can also be read at The Bastard of Art and Commerce.  A grey and bent Eric Burdon is alternately spewing misty-eyed nostalgia and begging the aging boomers of Marin County for money. It’s pledge time on KQED! PBS’ most bloated affiliate is once again shaking the cages for that sweet boomer buckage. The […]

GOD BLESS YOU MR. VONNEGUT

We welcome Sam Moffie. Check out his site here ! When I was a boy, 5000 bottles of merlot ago, I thought by age 47 it would be a lot easier to break into the limelight.  Now I know how Kilgore Trout felt. The man had hundreds of books written and the only magazine he […]

Demand Better Consumerism — Dell Computers

This is the first of a Three Part Series. First on the chopping Block– Dell Computers — CP  WHAT GOOD IS IT TO LIVE IN A CONSUMER SOCIETY IF THE CONSUMER ISN’T IMPORTANT? I’m not one these “consumerism is evil” people.  I am a proud average American consumer.  I consume funky new gadgets and fine […]

You’re Getting Old– Lighten Up!

Had a birthday and a realization. I've been taking myself WAAAAAY too seriously lately. What's up with that?  With all the grim realities of Ron Paul, Iraq and the crappy movies about them, the Republican Party, the strike etc… non-fiction has been rotting my brain. I actually caught myself starting a sentence with "These kids […]