BEND NOW > January 2001



	back write NOW THEN 1/29/01 >> I've decided to spend the night in Colorado. Denver. I believe that 59.5% who didn't stay may live here (see THEN 1/28/01 below). —Andy THEN 1/28/01 >> Who are those 55 people? These figures, taken directly off the Bend site stats at our server, display how long each of our approximatly 27,000 visitors stayed with us during a look see last year : Visit Duration >>> Number of Visits Didn't Stay >>>15,825 (59.5%) Less than 1 minute >>> 3,741 (14.1%) 15 - 20 minutes >>> 428 (1.6%) 50 - 60 minutes >>> 72 (0.3%) Over 2 hours >>> 55 (0.2%) Oh my. Depressing or liberating? >> We've added issues of Bend Zines #08 (1988) and #10 (1989) to the Bend Consumption Machine. Found these original issues in the archival "basement" in perfect condition. Rare. Only about 10 copies of each remain. >> Milk, the band responsible for the "Knife Song" which accompanied Jason Lee's part in the Blind, "Video Days" skate vid, will be featured on the upcoming Jackass soundtrack from Interscope Records (Aprill 01?), along side the MInutemen (YEAH) and Eminem (huh?). This is the first time any Milk song has been available anywhere but Blind and Foundation videos. THEN 1/27/01 >> Well, you can now get copies of Bend Books (all two of them—the rest are out of print) via this very site with your plastic card(s). Visit the Bend Consumption Machine. We've stepped into the 01. >> A damn cool coincidence story here. Not fiction. Our warmest go out to Bend Friends Mary Chen and Bob Kronbauer. THEN 1/23/01 >> Phantoms. THEN 1/21/01 >> Our Guess; "Below the Standard of Those Already Listed" Subject: Your Linkdup submission(s) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:01:39 +0000 (GMT) From: submissions@linkdup.com To: andyjenk@bendpress.com Hi there, Sorry for the possibly huge delay in getting to you, but we have a major back-log of sites that we're working through. Unfortunately the link(s) you submitted to linkdup didn't make it in this time round. All sites are checked before inclusion at Linkdup and yours will have been visited by at least three of our links-editors. Unfortunately we can't include them all. Due to the large back-log it's impossible to go into the details why the site(s) you submitted didn't get in. As a guide, here are some of the main reasons why a link may get rejected ... • site was already listed • site was in the validation list twice, the other entry has gone in • site was below the standard set by those already listed • site URL or a majority of the site didn't function • just a 'coming soon' or splash page, or site was too low on content • elements were clearly taken from another known site without approval • the content is deemed to be of an unsuitable or offensive nature Please do re-submit the sites in the future if it's have been reworked or added to and you think is worth a second look... All the best, The Linkdup Crew THEN 1/19/01 >> Johannes Gamble and Michael Leon released a Christmas CD compilation last December entitled "No Flocking Way." It consists of 30 "songs" on 2 discs. It is the most eclectic collection of Christmas songs you will ever hear. IF you hear it. Each disc is hand-made and home-burned. If you're lucky, a little bird might make, burn and send you one for a nominal fee. They asked me to come up with a "song" for it and this was all I could muster : Seagull (58 seconds long, 912k). Click here for the written version. >> This is a sign I've seen on Western Blvd. at night. >> Mr. Larson shares his first installment of monkey memories with the Bend readers (viewers?). THEN 1/18/01 >> Commonwealth Stacks put up a new interface today. It is designed to give you flashbacks. While there tripping around, check the link to Gorillaz. Or, hell, just click here. We've heard the CD (a little bird mailed it to us) and it is the future. THEN 1/17/01 >> New Response Section up. Edition #7. >> Larson Muses : This is my latest info-filled response from Shewchuk... encyclopedia of a man, he is. I asked him this; "Alright smarty pants: Why don't FedEx, UPS, DHL planes EVER crash? And why aren't those planes being used to haul people around? I can deal without my fruitbasket that my Aunt Dode overnighted to me, but losing a cousin is a little heavier." —Tony Larson The reply : "Sad to say, they do go down. All the time. Cargo plane crashes. FedEx, UPS, and all kinds of janky ass international shipping services. Although you never hear about all the people who don't get their packages. They probably don't tell them. I don't know." —Greg Shewchuk THEN 1/15/01 >> Go here... J.Otto is rollin' (have Flash ready) : >> Since I've not had the energy to get the Response section up-dated (too much culling), I've decided to add a few letters right here, right NOW : >> Mr. Oak Kelsey Gets His Due : I can't really keep up with Mr. Oak Kelsey's correspondense, so I've given him his own section here on the Bend Web Machine. Lets start it off with this intro from Michael Lenz. >> I met Pete Relic when he came to work for Dirt. That must have been 1991 or so. I'm lucky enough to get a letter from him every so often. A real letter. In the actual mail. Damn. THEN 1/14/01 >> Unsolicited Email, Part XII (edited for length) : newafrica.com/travel Dar es Salaam, JANUARY 8-14 AFRICAN TRAVEL NEWSLETTER Provided by newafrica.com Ltd - Africa's leading Portal 1) Circus Chimpanzee Reunited With Sibling at Chimfunshi 2) ATC, Precision Aai Extend Cooperation 3) Rivalry Stalls Setting Up of EA Tourism Council 4) Airline Re-Commits to SA 5) US Tourists Fly Home After Bus Burns Out 6) Air Namibia Profits From Fiasco 7) Nigeria Airways, SAA Lagos-New York Flight Begins Feb 21 8) American Dies After Elephant Attack 9) Emirates Earmarks DAR FOR AirbusS A3XXS 10) Precisionair Clinches Award THEN 1/13/01 >> Are We Not Men? Subject: Can't Tell Date: 1/12/01 From: LetsGo3785@aol.com To: words@bendpress.com I'm enjoying your site, but I can't tell what you guys are... magazine? Book publisher? Que es esto? Please set me straight... THEN 1/12/01 >> We've all lived in apartments. Here's a really good apartment story from Megan Baltimore. THEN 1/11/01 >> Three prints from Justin Goetz. It's a gif, so just watch it. >> TNI Books has "Eve Was Evil" up. They also have a mention of Little Engines which lists the final writers contributing. Looking forward... THEN 1/03/01 >> A letter from Bob Kronbauer to start the new year. Bend Press 22500 S. Vermont Avenue Torrance, CA 90502 USA fax 310/783/1920 ©2001, Bend Press / Andy Jenkins All Rights Reserved All other works copywritten by the individual artists / writers