The No-Face Guy, Plus The No-Like-To-Board-A-Plane Guy
1. My neighborhood's newest homeless guy has no face. It's concave, like someone took a head-sized melon baller and scooped the features off his face. He's got a mouth-hole sorta but I couldn't see lips and some nostrils against flat skin and little tiny eye craters that I guess he can see out of because he walks more or less in a straight line. I am fascinated by this. Do we think this is the result of some chemical accident or are people born faceless sometimes?

2. New blog that I enjoy a lot:
http://www.theblackoven.blogspot.com/

3. My beloved Sonia at Irv's Burgers has been written up in a new book called "Hamburger America: A State-by-State Guide to 100 Great Burger Joints." She's excited. We're excited. She deserves to be in there.

4. The Knoll "Life Chair" arrived. It's great. Now it's making me itch to buy a new desk to continue the ergonomic revolution. Also to ditch this non-desk we constructed out of cubes and a board. It's like a super ugly person marrying a sleek modern beautiful person. All wrong.

5. I've booked my next flight to Dallas to visit my mother. I'll be there from May 3rd to the 9th. I just took my first airplane-terror-preventing Xanax this morning.

6. Something weird is afoot with one of my main writing jobs. This is a cryptic post because I'm not supposed to know about it yet because none of it is public knowledge outside of some people above me. But I know. It's not bad, so don't fret. But I will entertain creative guessing in the comments page.

7. I need some MP3s of some 80s things for my shift on Saturday. Who has extended or remixed versions of:
Erasure - Chains of Love
Berlin - The Metro
Shannon - Give Me Tonight
Prince - Raspberry Beret
George Michael - Faith
Janet Jackson - Nasty and/or Pleasure Principle
Starpoint - Object of My Desire
Duran Duran - Rio and/or Hungry Like The Wolf and/or Wild Boys
Human League - Don't You Want Me

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	trouble841 2008-04-23 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	I don't have a creative guess, but I would say (as a fellow writer) that all writing jobs are a little weird. Certainly, those that write full-time are weird. :) Oh, and what bothers you about airplanes? I learned last summer that if I take meds (like xanax or ambien) and get on a plane that I'm a mess. Edited at 2008-04-23 03:58 pm UTC (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:24 pm UTC (Expand)

heartirony 2008-04-23 04:03 pm UTC (link)

Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti has been haunted by another No Face for years. He's an obviously mentally ill fellow who began life with a normal face but then attempted suicide with a handgun. The end result was a face much like the one you described and also a lot like the face of the Arseface character in the Preacher graphic novels or the Faceless ones in Spider Robinson's Telempath novel. He had some prosthetic parts made for him but he never used them. Instead he'd wander the streets, spin a semi-coherent story about cancer to try to get sympathy or money, but then yell out "boo" before getting either. That might have been a cognitive scheme to avoid disappointment. Anyway, don't shoot off your face to spite your demons. (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - deptofdave, 2008-04-23 05:04 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:27 pm UTC (Expand)

misterroboto 2008-04-23 04:12 pm UTC (link)

6. Something weird is afoot with one of my main writing jobs. This is a cryptic post because I'm not supposed to know about it yet because none of it is public knowledge outside of some people above me. But I know. It's not bad, so don't fret. But I will entertain creative guessing in the comments page. the advocate wants you to take your american idol column to the "next level" and has made arrangements with the show's producers to get you a guaranteed spot in the top ten next season (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:28 pm UTC (Expand)

	quirkstreet 2008-04-23 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	I can hook you up with an extended dance remix of Don't You Want Me that was released on CD on the rarities album a couple years back. Hang on while I rip the CD. Shoot me email if there's a particular address you want me to send to. Mine's still trapezebear on gmail (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:30 pm UTC (Expand)

	nebulocity1976 2008-04-23 04:16 pm UTC (link)
	So Mel Gibson is homeless and lives on your street? How the mighty have fallen. (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:31 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - nebulocity1976, 2008-04-23 07:36 pm UTC (Expand)

	poppychirpy 2008-04-23 04:26 pm UTC (link)
	2. You need to make those lemon curd cookies and then invite me over to eat them. 7. I don't have any of those but I have the mp3s of the extended version of Together In Electric Dreams and the extended remix of Heaven Is A Place On Earth, both of which I think you should have. (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - gavin, 2008-04-23 05:38 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - poppychirpy, 2008-04-23 11:15 pm UTC (Expand)

	unpetitours 2008-04-23 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	I still think about Sonia's breakfast burritos on a near daily basis. Man they were incredible. (Reply to this)

	sunsmogseahorse 2008-04-23 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	Homeless guy might have had trauma, but he also might have fetal alcohol syndrome. Too much booze when your mama was pregnant leads to retardation and a flat face. (Reply to this)

	brianrdu 2008-04-23 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	Pleasure Principle remix - check Give Me Tonight remix - check (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:32 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - brianrdu, 2008-04-24 02:20 am UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-24 02:09 pm UTC (Expand)

	you seen this right>? funkybitch 2008-04-23 04:54 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7hr9RgrdUk (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

Re: you seen this right>? - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:36 pm UTC (Expand)

Re: you seen this right>? - funkybitch, 2008-04-23 09:21 pm UTC (Expand)

Re: you seen this right>? - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 10:08 pm UTC (Expand)

	genxcub 2008-04-23 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Your anonymous sex column will now be on cable, with you hosting? (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:36 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - genxcub, 2008-04-23 07:42 pm UTC (Expand)

	delmarmar 2008-04-23 04:57 pm UTC (link)
	A friend of mine was bored and horny this weekend and said he was going to "jack his face off" when he got home. Maybe that's him. (Reply to this)

devldog 2008-04-23 05:10 pm UTC (link)

you're taking over William Kristol's op-ed column at the NYT. William Kristol will then be buggy whipped in Times Square. your personal goal will be to make Maureen Dowd cry. this will take exactly three weeks and will involve the use of the words, "glib," "sophomoric," and "teat". Thomas Friedman will try to kiss you in the men's room. you'll let him. it will be the subject of 8 weeks of your column slumping subscription sales will see a complete reversal. (Reply to this)

	soundbear69 2008-04-23 05:29 pm UTC (link)
	Chains of Love off of Just Say Yo? I have it. (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:37 pm UTC (Expand)

	gavin 2008-04-23 05:34 pm UTC (link)
	If I was at home I could help you out with the MP3s for Erasure, Berlin, George Michael, Janet Jackson, and Human League...but I'm not at home, so I can't help. As they say here in Montreal, "je suis desole" (that's French for "I'm sorry"). (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:37 pm UTC (Expand)

	funkybitch 2008-04-23 05:46 pm UTC (link)
	i have a Chains of Love MegaMix from this album....you can hear a sample on this page -it's on the second disc. if you wants i gots. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hits-Very-Best-Erasure-Erasuremegamix/dp/B0000CGD3K (Reply to this)

	manicdogbert 2008-04-23 07:14 pm UTC (link)
	Prince - Raspberry Beret (Extended Dance Mix) http://www.sendspace.com/file/ymgutn if nobody else gets to it before me, i have the extendoid mixes of Duran Duran stuff. (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 07:40 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - manicdogbert, 2008-04-23 08:51 pm UTC (Expand)

neelyneelyneely 2008-04-23 07:24 pm UTC (link)

6. Something weird is afoot with one of my main writing jobs. This is a cryptic post because I'm not supposed to know about it yet because none of it is public knowledge outside of some people above me. But I know. It's not bad, so don't fret. But I will entertain creative guessing in the comments page. TPTB at Project Runway are so impressed with your Advocate re-caps that you will be replacing Miss Michael Kors on the panel next season. Oh please, let this be supertrue! (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - genxcub, 2008-04-23 07:44 pm UTC (Expand)

	intoutdoors 2008-04-23 08:18 pm UTC (link)
	I've got your Chains Of Love (The 1988 Unfettered 12" Mix) right here. Does that earn me a pancake or three? (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-23 09:14 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - dr_tectonic, 2008-04-23 09:35 pm UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - intoutdoors, 2008-04-23 09:36 pm UTC (Expand)

	thafuzz 2008-04-23 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	1. He might have suffered cancer somewhere on his face. Haven't you seen a Montel episode featuring facial prosthetics? 6. MSNBC.com finally decided to implement spell check before publishing news stories? (Reply to this)

poohbearray 2008-04-23 11:57 pm UTC (link)

6. Something weird is afoot with one of my main writing jobs. This is a cryptic post because I'm not supposed to know about it yet because none of it is public knowledge outside of some people above me. But I know. It's not bad, so don't fret. But I will entertain creative guessing in the comments page. They're going to make you the Entertainment Editor, and blackmail MM to write the AI recaps and work for you. They will still let you stay home and work in your underwear. (Reply to this)

	seabear59 2008-04-24 01:13 am UTC (link)
	I have... The Reflex (Dance Mix) 6:16 Duran Duran Love Action (12" Instrumental Mix) 5:12 Human League The Sound Of The Crowd (complete) 6:26 The Human League None of which you are asking about. Edited at 2008-04-24 01:27 am UTC (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-24 02:15 pm UTC (Expand)

	chris_gardner 2008-04-24 01:20 am UTC (link)
	i have a cd of many duran duran night versions/12's... wanna borrow or have me send it to you?? (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-24 02:16 pm UTC (Expand)

	manicdogbert 2008-04-24 03:11 am UTC (link)
	in case you still needed it The Wild Boys (Wilder Than Wild Boys) Extended Mix http://www.sendspace.com/file/nmbv21 Hungry Like The Wolf (Night Version) http://www.sendspace.com/file/xe589e Rio (Part One) http://www.sendspace.com/file/2tao35 (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-24 02:25 pm UTC (Expand)

	pulsecub 2008-04-24 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	Had I had more advance notice and/or not been headed to SF this weekend, I could've gotten you all of those except the Starpoint. If you can't find them elsewhere, call me (Dave White has my number) and I'll try and rip 'em for you tonight while I'm burning CDs for my gig this weekend. [HUGS] (Reply to this)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - djmrswhite, 2008-04-25 01:43 am UTC (Expand)

(no subject) - tantra_flower, 2008-04-25 03:11 am UTC (Expand)

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