Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Ha ha ha

Friday, June 1, 2001

I love getting funmail from guys like this. They're all pretty much the same:

Hotmail account, sometimes AOL.
Work at McDonalds, sometimes at a gas station.
Use their mother's computer, sometimes their big sister's.
Spend their nights jacking off to ConsumptionJunction and Stileproject.

X-Originating-IP: [199.177.21.52] From: "John Hopkins" <hopkins68@hotmail.com> To: glider@bmezine.com, submissions@bmezine.com Subject: You people are fucked in the head Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 11:37:27 -0400

I found a link to your website after veiwing a picture of some fucking DUMB ass suspending himself by hooks Hellraiser style- featured on ConsumptionJunction.com. So I then, out of the compelling nature of human curiousity, went to check out the website. The piercing was nothing new to me, but the "ritual" shit and the "pocketing" shit had to be the most fucked up, ignorant form of unessecary body mutilation I have EVER seen in my life. I guess you really need to have a few srews lose to do anything like that to yourself- or have an unbelievably LOW self esteem. How about mountain biking or something? Try something as timple as knitting- perhaps that would be more constructive than fucking yourself's up forever. Shannon- who I beleive is the fucked up yink with the hoola hoops through his ears has some serious issues. What the fuck are you going to look like when you are 60? You'll look even more rediculous than you do now. Are you trying to prove something? I guess you would say, "I don't have to prove anything to anyone" Bull- shit. A picture of your bloody head- that's a great way to display yourself. Must make mom proud you think? Can any of the poeple on here find normal job, or do you all work in piercing shops sticking needles in each other all day.. Sounds like a great time. As for those hellraiser type looking jamoaks, hanging themselves by hooks- try a rope around the neck. You will avoid the humiliation of your neighbors looking at you in disgust, and have a much quicker death than when the infections set in. I apologise for this nasty email, as I'm not normally like this- I am only an average asshole who can only watch from a distance and wonder- what the fuck is wrong with these people. All I can say is I'm sorry.. Truly sorry. Yours truly, someone who has no right to talk about what you are doing....

Good luck with your life and future- or lack thereof.

The punch line is that he describes the ideal goal of a person is to “find a normal job.” Ha, ha… Who do I feel sorry for?

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Phoenix New Times

Thursday, May 31, 2001

HOOK, LINE & SINNER
A harrowing evening with the Church of Body Modification, where parishoners reclaim their bodies and have gory tug-o-wars. Then something goes wrong.

CLICK HERE TO READ IT

“Pain is the sensation of weakness leaving the body.”
Rev. Steve Haworth

Note: Photos above courtesy Steve Haworth

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Zap

Thursday, May 31, 2001

I just got electrocuted! Nothing big, but when I went to turn on the lights, a huge spark (sort of a glowing bubble of electric fire) shot out of my X10 fader, hit me, and then blew out all the lights it was attached to. No big deal. I replaced the bulbs (breaking one all over my fuzzy blanket in the process), and it all seems to work fine, and I wasn't at all injured.

Paul stopped by — he floated my bandwidth bills for the time period where we had the credit card problems, so I've been playing catchup, handing him a much larger cheque every week or two so that I'm not in the red any more. The accounts are still low enough that it's not fun writing these big cheques! (Yes, that's how we spell it up here).

I also talked to him about running phonelines into my server cage, and that should be no problem. The even better news is that we still have a twelve port PIKA card left from some old projects. I guess tomorrow I'll chat with my old friends Art and Chris (someone else into wild cars) at Black Dolphin Technologies and see if they'd like to get involved. I just can't quite remember if we parted on bad terms so I hope it doesn't go badly! But they do build some very highpowered tools.

I'm told there are some tools that connect a GPS unit to a HAM radio and report all that to a website using packet radio, but I think I want to build a tool that's easy to use for the average person — most people can figure out how to use a telephone I figure.

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Snailmail

Wednesday, May 30, 2001

I only open my snailmail about every eight months, so I thought I ought to do a bit of that today. I found some really nice stuff — amazing photos, nice postcards, and some wonderful letters. It takes me a long time, but I do see it all. My personal mailing address is:

Shannon Larratt
247 Bathurst St. #1
Toronto, ON
M5T2S4 Canada

Just don't send anything that won't fit through a mailslot. If you are sending something bigger, use the address listed on the main page of BMEshop. Just let Ryan know that he needs to pass it on to me.