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It's All Bullshit!!! - CNN: Sniper tips are bogus.

Meanwhile, I believe I've found the sniper. He was right under my nose and I never suspected a thing. Michael "YMike" Yatabe. Remember when I said that the sniper's name is likely named Michael and that's why he's choosing Michael's craft store locations? You know how the sniper van is likely a white Chevy Astro Van with lettering on the side?

Michael "YMike" Yatabe's band van and alleged getaway vehicle.

Motive, you ask? Publicity for his band's new album. According to YMike's website, the new DFiVE9 CD arrived today. I've already bought 10 tickets for the CD release party. Maybe YMike will be able to play bass at the show while wearing shackles and I'm counting my half-million-dollar reward money.

Three years ago I didn't even have an email address. Didn't want one. Now, I've got a video stream on GoochRadio. Click "Radio" above to see it. There's really nothing substantive, only a test with a beer can as a tri-pod. I guess the common thread in my technology career is really, in fact, beer. Click HERE to access the video test directly.

In news, I love that the news stations are showing pictures of the AK-74 and asking viewers to keep in mind that "the sniper could change guns at any time." Yeah, like I was going to call the police when I saw some guy in a van pointing a rifle out the window. I hung up the phone when I saw that he had an M-16 and not the AK-74 they showed on TV. Nope, couldn't be the sniper.

Also in the news...

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DUDE, YOU'RE GETTING CANNED (MAYBE).

Possibly the greatest technology news of 2002. CNN.com/Technology

I'm ten minutes away from vomiting over all my office from the goobernatorial [i did that on purpose] ads in heavy rotation on TV. Commercials that are scripted like "I'm a single, working mother. Candidate X would raise my taxes. I can't afford that. Candidate X hates working moms. " Or something to that effect. It's a sniper attack to my sanity, a car bomb in the night club in my brain. Can someone draw up a ballot measure to eliminate bad election ads?

If my website has slowed lately, it's due to the rebuilding of my media archives through KaZaa. I'm working on the South Park archives now. I got the "Scott Tenorman Must Die" episode, which is to me the greatest South Park of all time. If you want to know why I'm rebuilding my archives, check the latest log in GoochRadio. It requires Real Player, which I don't have anymore because it crashes my machine. I'm going to swich to Windows Media soon, being that I'm a Microsoft guy and all.

For those of you who rely on this website as your sole source of information, there was a shooting tonight at 9:15pm ET in a mall parking lot in Falls Church, VA. A woman was shot while standing next to her husband near their car. A lookout for a cream colored Astro Van with a left tail light out; silver ladder rack on the roof has been issued. Police are hesitant to assume that this is related to the previous sniper attacks, though it would appear likely. One would fear a copycat killer, though the van sighting and the proximity to a Michael's craft store would point to the real deal.

So what are we dealing with here? Previous sightings were of a white van and I think that the cream color is a misjudgement by some witnesses. White Astro vans are common as hell... I used to drive one myself. I've never seen a cream colored Astro van and I think that it's likely that darkness and a dirty van could give someone the perception of a cream or beige color.

A tail light that's out and a dented bumper? Wouldn't be from a big company; it's from a small company. Big companies keep up on that stuff. Letters on the side, not easily read? Possibly a used fleet vehicle with the letters removed, like a lot of small companies purchase. With a half-million dollar reward out there, a small contractor would turn in his mother almost as quickly as he would one of his employees. So it's a solo serviceman who works primarily on the weekends and on a ladder. Satellite dish installer? Gutter cleaner? This guy is way too clever to appear deranged in public. This guy drives home every night to a neighborhood where his neighbors joke with him that they're going to turn him in because of the type of van he drives, although there's no way that he could be a shooter.

What's with the "Michael's" connection? One speculation is that St Michael is the patron saint of law enforcement and it's a means to taunt the police. I'll bet a dollar that the shooter is named Michael. If I decided to go on a shooting spree, it'd be in front of Gallucci's Pizzeria in Lincoln City, OR. Most people beg for death after eating there anyway.

Who knows? It's pretty fucking tragic, regardless. All of my assumptions above could be shot down quickly... even by me.

Oh, and while I'm on the subject... When Montgomery County, MD police chief Charles Moose "lashed out" at the media, the public relations and damage control the news stations spewed forth was absolutely the most chickenshit crap ever put on the air. The story I saw from Portland's own KGW (Charles Moose is a former police chief here in Portland) focused on Chief Moose and his "temper." As though he raised his voice or hit someone. Moose merely spoke sternly to the press who were aggravating a touchy situation. KGW put forth a biased segment where a reporter interviewed Moose's former colleagues specifically about his temper. The footage they showed didn't match the story's copy... Moose is not a man out of control; he's a determined individual who isn't afraid to call "bullshit." However, he made news organizations feel uncomfortable and KGW knows that if you put propaganda over the air, people will believe it.

I will not ever, ever, watch Portland's KGW news again knowing that they're willing to skew the truth in order to push forth with their own agenda. KGW is also the same news entity with a sign language interpreter during their morning news broadcast. When KGW's longtime sign language translator Hank Stack died this year, anchor woman Brenda Braxton made it a point to mention in a radio interview that KGW is the only channel to provide a sign language interpreter. It was also KGW that paid to have their weatherman Matt Zaffino and anchor woman Tracy Barry carry the Olympic torch through Portland, reducing an honor usually bestowed upon people who have exhibited enormous courage and athletic acheivement into a marketing opportunity. Is nothing sacred at KGW?

You know what it's like when you crave Taco Bell and someone shows up at your house with a ten-pack of tacos? (Holy shit, I'm so fat that I'm making food analogies). You know what I mean... you crave something and it (as if by) magic appears. That's how I felt when I saw RED DRAGON tonight. With all of this East Coast sniper shizzo happening, I needed a good psychopath-killer film. A lot of people don't know that Red Dragon is a remake of MANHUNTER, which I hope to rent soon. Manhunter was written and directed my Michael Mann, so you know it looks like a two-hour episode of Miami Vice. I saw Manhunter some ten years ago, so I need to rent it. There are some anachronisms in Red Dragon... look for a reference to a quick DNA analysis in the film, which was set in 1980. I'm pretty sure that DNA wasn't so widely used in '80. Email me if I'm wrong.