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By Brian Baltin
Cecilia Stalin -- Straight Up
www.ceciliastalin.com
This gorgeous Swedish jazz girl got her start as the ethereal
voice on Koop's "Waltz for Koop," but that gave
no clue of what kind of lovely and complex jazz chops she
truly had. Straight Up is pure, flawless vocal jazz to make
Nancy Wilson, Cleo Laine, and Dee Dee Bridgewater proud,
with the rapturous bossa nova of the title track and the
driving juke joint groove of "Bogaloo Boy" standing
out as the most absolutely intoxicating brews in the lot.
The Gay Places
www.thegayplaces.com
This quirky but endearing site conceived by a Seattle dyke
sets out to demystify cities for LGBT travelers by alerting
them to "places that are alert, animated, bouncy, brash,
carefree, chipper, chirpy, convivial, devil-may-care, festiveÉ" In
a word, gay. While it has only three online guides to date
(Seattle, New York and Houston), more are imminent, and its
simple Goings-On/Eat Here/Sleep Here/Play Here structure
makes it easy to navigate for quick travel hints.
Google Base
base.google.com
This new add-on to the Net monolith gives anybody an absolutely
free outlet for a Web presence, though anything adult is
verboten. Still, for the casual surfer it's a great option
for a free Web page. Just choose an item type (consult their
category list or add your own), add pictures and descriptors,
and publish. Your page has its own URL and immediately shows
up on Google without having to being submitted or waiting
for their Web crawler to find it.
John Jay Harper
www.johnjayharper.com
We love our paranormal marketing pitches. This site came
to us via a press release for a book called Tranceformers,
citing trance states as proof of the dead hitting up the
living for a chat. Take it away fellas: "This 'trance'
is the doorway to the fifth dimensional field of what is
known as cosmic consciousness. He calls trance the 'Rosetta
Stone' that unlocks the mysteries of existence. Dr. Harper
concludes that the universe is a hologram: one whole message.
He sees our DNA molecule as the simplest form of a hologram.
'Our DNA molecule is tuned to the geomagnetic cycles of consciousness
of Gaia, our Sun, and Milky Way Galaxy,' he explains. 'This
is what the shaman does in trance: taps into DNA transmissions.'"
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