Red Haring: Conspiracy, Lunacy, Disinformation

2007-06-14T13:31:00.000-04:00

2007-06-14T13:30:00.001-04:00

Alien Invasion

2007-06-08T15:10:00.000-04:00

God, I can be so fucking Republican at times, but this is something I really feel strongly about:

Illegal Aliens kill more people per year than died in 9/11

Llama.

2007-06-07T14:40:00.001-04:00

The Evils Of Lesser Evil Voting

2007-06-05T21:40:00.000-04:00

...Understand this: Lesser evil voting is not courageous. It is a cowardly surrender to the disappointing two-party status quo. Voters have some remarkable opportunities to transform fine minor candidates into competitive major candidates - more honest and trustworthy people like Ron Paul, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich, for example....

Condemn progressives for voting enthusiastically for Democrats and the inevitable response is something like "just imagine how much worse voting for Republicans would be." Similarly, many true conservatives and Libertarians see voting for Republicans as a "necessary evil." With many progressives regretting giving Democrats a majority in Congress, and many conservatives regretting putting George W. Bush in the White House, it is timely to refute lesser-evil logic.

Inevitably, lesser-evil voters face personal disappointment and some shame. Politicians that receive lesser evil votes do not perform according to the values and principles that the lesser evil voter holds dear. These voters must accept responsibility for putting ineffective, dishonest and corrupt politicians in office. Though they may be lesser evils, they remain evils.

All too often, lesser evil voters avoid shame and regret and prevent painful cognitive dissonance by deluding themselves that the politician they helped put in office is really not so bad after all. Corrosive lesser evil voting erodes one's principles as pragmatism replaces idealism. This makes the next cycle of lesser evil voting easier.

Lesser evil voting helps stabilize America's two-party duopoly that greatly restricts true political competition. Third party and independent candidates - and minor Democratic and Republican candidates in primaries - are defeated by massive numbers of lesser evil voters. Despite authentically having the political goals that mesh with many voters on the left or right, these minor "best" candidates fall victim to lesser evil voting. Lesser evil voters are addicted to a self-fulfilling prophesy. They think "If I vote for a minor candidate they will lose anyway." They ensure this outcome though their lesser evil voting. The truly wasted vote is the unprincipled lesser evil vote.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
--John Quincy Adams

Effective representative democracy requires politically engaged citizens that vote. Lesser-evil voters support the current two-party system with its terribly low voter turnout and chronic dishonesty and corruption. Lesser evil voters help put into office disappointing politicians, not the best people that would restore American democracy and show more citizens that voting is valuable. Lesser evil voters demonstrate the validity of turned-off citizens' view that it really does not matter which major party wins office.

Politicians knowingly market themselves to lesser evil voters by constructing phony sales pitches, especially to certain audiences outside of their more certain base constituents. Democrats make themselves look more progressive than they really are, and Republicans make themselves look more conservative than they really are. Lesser evil voters are phony, and they produce a phony political system. Lesser evil voters contribute mightily to the travesty of our political system that no sane person respects or has confidence in.

Lesser evil voting demonstrates the worst aspects of political compromise. This is the common cause of terrible laws. When citizens surrender so much of what they truly believe in, they enable compromise politicians to create bad public policy that, in the end, satisfies very few people and puts band-aids on severe problems. Lesser evil voters concede victory to the other side - the side they view as the worse alternative because the people they vote for will not stand up for what is right and necessary. Think Iraq war. Even when their lesser evil side wins, they do not have the principled positions that would prevent awful compromises; often this is done in the name of "bipartisanship," which is little more than a clever way to justify our corrupt two-party mafia.

Lesser evil voters deride the alternatives of not voting or voting for minor candidates. The outcome should the "other" side win is deemed "unacceptable." There is worse and there is worst. The core problem with lesser evil voters is that they are short term thinkers. They fail to see the repeated long term consequence of their style of voting - a system over many election cycles that persists in delivering suboptimal results. The "good" outcome in the current election (from their perspective), is the enemy of the "better" solution in the longer term (from an objective perspective). But, the real "better" solution is major reform that will never happen as long as lesser evil voting persists.

Understand this: Lesser evil voting is not courageous. It is a cowardly surrender to the disappointing two-party status quo. Lesser evil voters should trade regret for pride by voting for candidates they really think are the best. Voters in this presidential primary season have some remarkable opportunities to transform fine minor candidates into competitive major candidates - more honest and trustworthy people like Ron Paul, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich, for example.

The deadly decline of American democracy results in large measure from lesser evil voters electing lesser evil politicians. When virtually no elected public official is there because most voters have embraced his clear principled, trustworthy positions, we get a government that is easily corrupted by corporate and other moneyed interests. We get what we have now. And if you are dissatisfied with that, then reconsider the wisdom of lesser evil voting. We will only get the best government by voting for the best candidates.

Otherwise, we get what the power elites prefer...and what we deserve.

by Joel S. Hirschhorn, who is the author of Delusional Democracy - Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government. His current political writings have been greatly influenced by working as a senior staffer for the U.S. Congress and for the National Governors Association. He is a co-founder of the "Friends of the Article V Convention" - http://www.foavcorg/. Visit his website at www.delusionaldemocracy.com.

Craigslist is Gross

2007-05-23T12:00:00.001-04:00

Hurricane Katrina: Washington Post

2007-05-23T11:39:00.000-04:00

This article was published in the Washington Post 4/29/2007.
Having grown up partially in New Orleans, this PISSES ME OFF. Grr...
Read on to discover where the money actually went.

Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed
By John Solomon and Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, April 29, 2007; Page A01

As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.

Titled "Echo-Chamber Message" -- a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again -- the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: Assure the scores of countries that had pledged or donated aid at the height of the disaster that their largesse had provided Americans "practical help and moral support" and "highlight the concrete benefits hurricane victims are receiving."

Many of the U.S. diplomats who received the message, however, were beginning to witness a more embarrassing reality. They knew the U.S. government was turning down many allies' offers of manpower, supplies and expertise worth untold millions of dollars. Eventually the United States also would fail to collect most of the unprecedented outpouring of international cash assistance for Katrina's victims.

Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil. Some offers were withdrawn or redirected to private groups such as the Red Cross. The rest has been delayed by red tape and bureaucratic limits on how it can be spent.

In addition, valuable supplies and services -- such as cellphone systems, medicine and cruise ships -- were delayed or declined because the government could not handle them. In some cases, supplies were wasted.

The struggle to apply foreign aid in the aftermath of the hurricane, which has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $125 billion so far, is another reminder of the federal government's difficulty leading the recovery. Reports of government waste and delays or denials of assistance have surfaced repeatedly since hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005.

Administration officials acknowledged in February 2006 that they were ill prepared to coordinate and distribute foreign aid and that only about half the $126 million received had been put to use. Now, 20 months after Katrina, newly released documents and interviews make clear the magnitude of the troubles.

More than 10,000 pages of cables, telegraphs and e-mails from U.S. diplomats around the globe -- released piecemeal since last fall under the Freedom of Information Act -- provide a fuller account of problems that, at times, mystified generous allies and left U.S. representatives at a loss for an explanation. The documents were obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a public interest group, which provided them to The Washington Post.

In one exchange, State Department officials anguished over whether to tell Italy that its shipments of medicine, gauze and other medical supplies spoiled in the elements for weeks after Katrina's landfall on Aug. 29, 2005, and were destroyed. "Tell them we blew it," one disgusted official wrote. But she hedged: "The flip side is just to dispose of it and not come clean. I could be persuaded."

In another instance, the Department of Homeland Security accepted an offer from Greece on Sept. 3, 2005, to dispatch two cruise ships that could be used free as hotels or hospitals for displaced residents. The deal was rescinded Sept. 15 after it became clear a ship would not arrive before Oct. 10. The U.S. eventually paid $249 million to use Carnival Cruise Lines vessels.

And while television sets worldwide showed images of New Orleans residents begging to be rescued from rooftops as floodwaters rose, U.S. officials turned down countless offers of allied troops and search-and-rescue teams. The most common responses: "sent letter of thanks" and "will keep offer on hand," the new documents show.

Overall, the United States declined 54 of 77 recorded aid offers from three of its staunchest allies: Canada, Britain and Israel, according to a 40-page State Department table of the offers that had been received as of January 2006.

"There is a lack of accountability in where the money comes in and where it goes," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the public interest group, which called for an investigation into the fate of foreign aid offers. She added: "It's clear that they're trying to hide their ineptitude, incompetence and malfeasance."

In a statement, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said that the U.S. government sincerely appreciated support from around the world and that Katrina had proved to be "a unique event in many ways."

"As we continue our planning for the future, we will draw on the lessons learned from this experience to ensure that we make the best use of any possible foreign assistance that might be offered," Casey said.

Representatives of foreign countries declined to criticize the U.S. response to their aid offers, though some redirected their gifts.

Of $454 million in cash that was pledged by more than 150 countries and foreign organizations, only $126 million from 40 donors was actually received. The biggest gifts were from the United Arab Emirates, $100 million; China and Bahrain, $5 million each; South Korea, $3.8 million; and Taiwan, $2 million.

Bader Bin Saeed, spokesman for the Emirates Embassy in Washington, said that in future disasters, "the UAE would not hesitate to help other countries, whether the U.S. or any other state, in humanitarian efforts."

Kuwait, which made the largest offer, pledged $100 million in cash and $400 million in oil. But the Kuwaitis eventually gave their money to two private groups: $25 million to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, a project of the former presidents, and another $25 million to the American Red Cross in February 2006. They still plan to contribute another $50 million, said the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States, Salem Abdullah al-Jaber al-Sabah.

"It was based on my government's assessment of the fastest way to get money to the people that needed it," he said. "The Red Cross was on the ground and action-oriented."

In the White House's February 2006 Katrina report, U.S. officials said Kuwait's $400 million oil donation was to be sold for cash. Sabah said it was an in-kind pledge made when it appeared that U.S. refining capacity was devastated and that the American public would need fuel.

"We have to see what we have to do with that. When you pledge something in-kind, your intention is to give it in-kind. I do not think now the American people are in need of $400 million of fuel and fuel products," he said.

Of the $126 million in cash that has been received, most has not yet been used. More than $60 million was set aside in March 2006 to rebuild schools, colleges and universities, but so far, only $10.4 million has been taken by schools.

Half the $60 million was awarded last fall to 14 Louisiana and Mississippi colleges, but five have not started to claim the money. Only Dillard University in Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College have tapped their full awards, worth $6 million, U.S. Education Department officials said Friday.

Another $30 million was sent to Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes in Louisiana and to the state-run Recovery School District in New Orleans to build libraries, laboratories and other facilities for 130 public schools.

But none of that money has been used yet, said Meg Casper, spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Education. Allocations were just approved by the state board last week, she said, "so the money should start to flow."

The first concrete program officials announced in October 2005 -- a $66 million contract to a consortium of 10 faith-based and charity groups to provide social services to displaced families -- so far has assisted less than half the 100,000 victims it promised to help, the project director said.

The group, led by the United Methodist Committee on Relief, has spent $30 million of the money it was given to aid about 45,000 evacuees. Senate investigators are questioning some terms in the contract proposal, including a provision to pay consultants for 450 days to train volunteers for the work the committee was paid to do.

Jim Cox, the program director, said that the project is "right on track" but that its strategy of relying on volunteers foundered because of burnout and high turnover. He acknowledged that more people need help than are receiving it and said the program will be extended to March to use available funds.

"The resources aren't there, but these resources certainly are coming," Cox said.

2007-05-23T11:15:00.000-04:00

Dog Condoms - Recall

2007-05-22T11:38:00.000-04:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Bloomington, IN – August 3, 2006 -- Dog Condoms, Inc.
is announcing a voluntary recall of its Dog Condoms® canine prophylactics, due
to an unacceptable failure rate reported during preliminary release in test
markets. Use of these recalled condoms may result in unwanted canine pregnancies.
Additionally, meat-scented Dog Condoms® may present a choking hazard, especially
for smaller dogs.

http://www.dogcondoms.com/product-recall.html

From Craigslist San Fran

2007-05-21T13:06:00.000-04:00

From an Angry Soldier

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Date: 2007-04-10, 1:00PM PDT

I'm having the worst damn week of my whole damn life so I'm going to write this while I'm pissed off enough to do it right.

I am SICK of all this bullshit people are writing about the Iraq war. I am abso-fucking-lutely sick to death of it. What the fuck do most of you know about it? You watch it on TV and read the commentaries in the newspaper or Newsweek or whatever god damn yuppie news rag you subscribe to and think you're all such fucking experts that you can scream at each other like five year old about whether you're right or not. Let me tell you something: unless you've been there, you don't know a god damn thing about it. It you haven't been shot at in that fucking hell hole, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

How do I dare say this to you moronic war supporters who are "Supporting our Troops" and waving the flag and all that happy horse shit? I'll tell you why. I'm a Marine and I served my tour in Iraq. My husband, also a Marine, served several. I left the service six months ago because I got pregnant while he was home on leave and three days ago I get a visit from two men in uniform who hand me a letter and tell me my husband died in that fucking festering sand-pit. He should have been home a month ago but they extended his tour and now he's coming home in a box.

You fuckers and that god-damn lying sack of shit they call a president are the reason my husband will never see his baby and my kid will never meet his dad.

And you know what the most fucked up thing about this Iraq shit is? They don't want us there. They're not happy we came and they want us out NOW. We fucked up their lives even worse than they already were and they're pissed off. We didn't help them and we're not helping them now. That's what our soldiers are dying for.

Oh while I'm good and worked up, the government doesn't even have the decency to help out the soldiers whos lives they ruined. If you really believe the military and the government had no idea the veterans' hospitals were so fucked up, you are a god-damn retard. They don't care about us. We're disposable. We're numbers on a page and they'd rather forget we exist so they don't have to be reminded about the families and lives they ruined while they're sipping their cocktails at another fund raiser dinner. If they were really concerned about supporting the troops, they'd bring them home so their families wouldn't have to cry at a graveside and explain to their children why mommy or daddy isn't coming home. Because you can't explain it. We're not fighting for our country, we're not fighting for the good of Iraq's people, we're fighting for Bush's personal agenda. Patriotism my ass. You know what? My dad served in Vietnam and NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

So I'm pissed. I'm beyond pissed. And I'm going to go to my husband funeral and recieve that flag and hang it up on the wall for my baby to see when he's older. But I'm not going to tell him that his father died for the stupidty of the American government. I'm going to tell him that his father was a hero and the best man I ever met and that he loved his country enough to die for it, because that's all true and nothing will be solved by telling my son that his father was sent to die by people who didn't care about him at all.

Fuck you, war supporters, George W. Bush, and all the god damn mother fuckers who made the war possible. I hope you burn in hell.

Safety

2007-05-21T12:34:00.001-04:00

KUSA-TV reported in March that a Transportation Security Administration undercover team was able to sneak simulated liquid explosives past screeners at Denver International Airport about 90 percent of the time during a three-day test in February, in nearly every case because, though machines detected the explosives, the undercover agents talked the screeners out of personally searching them. [KUSA-TV (Denver), 3-29-07]

2007-05-17T16:05:00.001-04:00

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure."
-Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

Jerry Falwell

2007-05-17T13:54:00.001-04:00

Tastefully done.

Dick in a Box.

Cat Poo Coffee

2007-05-17T13:27:00.000-04:00

Don't Trust Australians.

Via Reuters:

CANBERRA - Cafe-crazy Australians in the last decade have embraced coffee in all its forms, but they've saved the most expensive -- and excremental -- for last.

Kopi Luwak, made in neighboring Indonesia from coffee beans excreted by native civet cats, is reputedly the world's rarest and most expensive coffee, painstakingly extracted by hand from the animals' forest droppings.

When roasted, the resulting beans sell for around $1,000 a kilogram ($450 a pound) and brew into a earthy, syrupy, coffee acknowledged by connoisseurs as one of the world's finest.

Despite the closeness of the coffee's home on the islands of Sumatra, Java and Sulawesi, Australia's first civet cat brew has only just gone on sale in Queensland state, selling for A$50 a cup at the Heritage Tea Rooms, west of Townsville.

"Everyone calls it cat poo coffee," cafe owner Michelle Sharpe told the Australian Associated Press.

"People who willingly pay the $50 are uplifted by the thrill of the experience," her husband Allan Sharpe said.

Civet cats, considered a delicacy in China, are linked to the SARS respiratory virus that emerged in the south of that country in 2002 and spread globally.

Kopi Luwak joins a booming coffee scene in Australia, which has seen consumption grow from 300 grams per person in 1939, to 2.4 kilograms a head, or 1.26 billion cups a year worth A$3 billion ($2.5 billion) in sales.

Around a dozen people a month try out the exotic brew, with reactions so far 99
percent favorable.

It's as good as my private life is bad. This is the kind of coffee you renounce your religion and sell your child for," one taster quoted by AAP said.

Best Craigslist Post EVER.

2007-05-17T13:18:00.000-04:00

From Minneapolis:

Operation Heavenly Hogpile - m4w

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Date: 2007-04-13, 4:13PM CDT

Calling all BBWs and SSBBWs! Help make a dream come true! This is America, god damn it, and I'm an American, and there is no reason in the world why my freakiest fantasy can't be fulfilled. I recently sold my pool table in my rec room to make space for Operation Heavenly Hogpile. I covered the floor with 6 layers of foam padding, and 1/4" rubber shower liner on top. I've got 3 cases of baby oil, half a dozen strap-ons and several days' worth of classic bluegrass music piped through a kick-ass sound system. I've even prearranged to have Dominoes deliver buffalo wings, pizza, and cheesy bread every hour all weekend. All I need is 8-12 big (BIG!) lovely ladies to join the fun. Get naked, get oiled up, consume what you want, wrestle around, make a great big tangle of jiggly womanhood. I want to roll around on a cellulite sea and stick it in every hole, crevice and fold you've got. Applicants must be prepared to remove every hair on their bodies, including head hair. Eyebrows are ok, but not a single follicle anywhere else.

If you're not heavy enough to get fucked in a fold of elbow fat, don't bother responding. If you're over 18, have a minimum BMI of 35, and are ready for the best fucking time of your life, send me a photo.

Google 'calculate BMI' to find out yours if you don't know it.

God bless.

Natural Selection

2007-02-21T10:15:00.000-05:00

Ah yes, the morning commute is never complete without at least one 50 something, face-lift stretched Long Island lizard woman cutting me off. Now I understand the importance of putting your make-up on while driving, I mean, how else do you intend to keep your husband under the impression that you arent a rode hard, put up wet, smelly old hag? I mean, its not like his 19 year old mistress has anything on YOU. No. You go girl. Just next time, make sure and buckle up the little turds screaming in your back seat lest they ACCIDENTALLY were to be followed to school by the innocent driver you cut off and (somehow) scarred to the point of running off to Hong Kong. Yes, that would be a damn shame.
I know this lacks consistancey and a decent spell check, but I know what I mean, and yes Virginia, that's all that matters.

Strange Week

2007-01-27T13:46:00.000-05:00

So: this week I found out that one of my exboyfriends is going to jail for DUI. Then I found out another ex-boyfriend is now a famous country music star. Top that.

From Death to Delirium

2007-01-13T16:07:00.000-05:00

If anyone has ever extensively read the Sandman series of comics, and you know me, you would know that I used to resemble the character of Death quite a bit. I realized the other day that I am now, and have really always been, much more like Delirium, yet afraid to expose/embrace it.
Anyhoo, made some revalations recently: I am first and foremost, and Artist.
I want to learn to Tattoo. I think my interest/skill in film/video production should be geared toward Music Videos. I'm missing a very important CD: "Pig: Sinsation." Let me know if you see it laying around. I also tend to use comma's like they're going outta style.

Merf out. Word.

What I had at work today:

2006-12-16T22:31:00.000-05:00

WEEEEEEE!!

I didn't think it could be done.

2006-11-10T21:35:00.000-05:00

Even. More. Awesome.

Two Words:

2006-11-03T22:29:00.000-05:00

Awe some.

Monthly Post! WooHoo!

2006-11-02T12:56:00.000-05:00

Ok, this kind of pisses me off.

Lindsey Lohan

I have been sober for almost 10 months now (1/14/06) and its no easy task and especially not something to throw around. Not one person I have ever met in AA or NA or whatever openly dispalys their chips/coins/thingies like jewelry. They are meant as reminders and tokens of accomplishment. I still keep the 24hour coin with me at all times, even though AA did not work for me and the stint of sobriety it was originally for failed miserably.

I have recently entertained the idea of having a drink, that perhaps i CAN have only one or two like a normal person if I am accompanied by a close friend, that maybe this doesnt have to be a lifelong struggle, but I still would never think of essentially discreditting the attempts of those struggling against addiction by flaunting my coin as a fashion accessory.
GGrrr.

k off my soapbox and back to work.

welcome to my world.

2006-10-19T01:27:00.000-04:00

zzz.

A.D.D. is F.U.N.!!!!!

2006-10-11T14:53:00.000-04:00

i have no idea.

I Wanna Be Sedated.

2006-10-11T14:48:00.000-04:00

Rolling over in his grave...

I Hate Oysters.

2006-10-11T10:50:00.000-04:00

Where I will be working this weekend

Stolen from Doug

2006-10-08T14:17:00.000-04:00

What the Amish can teach us

Solar Power

2006-10-05T10:06:00.000-04:00

Go Solar Power!

All we are saying...

2006-10-05T09:39:00.000-04:00

...is give peace a chance.

go here to join the movement: The Peace Alliance

..who you are..

2006-10-04T23:04:00.001-04:00

Meet me at the old drive-in
the place we shouldnt have gone
to do things we shouldnt have known how to do
so as to avoid mothers and prying little sisters
that we may have scarred for life

im feeling guilty again
like eternal sunshine
everlasting moons winking, sharing
our secrets

i will lay out on the lawn in front
of the old, now new, drive-in
and i will wait for you
in your martyred pose

to find me
cloud worshipping.

My Monthly Post.

2006-09-26T14:34:00.000-04:00

Im having problems on the best way to upgrade my company's database. Currrently using the archaic program Q&A, sold by Symantec long ago to a German company. Sesame by Lantica directly imports, but in 10 years will we be in the same situation with an outdated program no one knows how to fix? I am leaning toward ACCESS, but not sure if we need SQL or ifACCESS will be enough since it is a relatively small company, with 4-6 people on the server at most at one time and about 15 people being dispatched in a service call capacity. Any advice would be helpful!

I'm so fucking tired

2006-08-29T09:38:00.000-04:00

Ive just realized recently when someone asked me:

"so what have you been up to?"

that i am working 53-55 hours/week, 6 days a week, trying to start an online ebay company while manageing a small ebay consignment business, atempting to update my makeup portfolio by scheduling shoots and models and trying to remmeber what i took all those goddamn classes for, trying to update my cinematography reel but forgetting to upload the footage from a film i shot over 2 years ago (that put me on IMDB thank you very much) while starting 16-20 hours of school credits to get me out of this hell of my life.

Christ, i just need a nap. I dont understand how people can function this early in the morning.

at long last

2006-08-02T11:30:00.000-04:00

I'm tired of putting up with people's shit. I can feel my life wasting away as I continually let myself be pushed over. In relationships, at work, by my family. Im sick of it and have truly reached my limit. Its amazing what someone will put themselves through because of the fear of being alone, when in retrospect that person has been alone for 27 years. Screw this. Im. done.

Does Anyone Actually Read This Thing?

2006-07-19T10:43:00.000-04:00

Or am I doing this purely for my own amusement? Just wonderin..

Sigh. I'm a little embarrassed.

2006-07-13T15:36:00.000-04:00

Who Predicted This?!?

Think I'm Getting a Cold...

2006-07-12T21:24:00.000-04:00

..or maybe Ebola.

Ugh..Flashbacks.

2006-07-07T10:17:00.000-04:00

My Life for a Short While...

Stolen from Doug

2006-07-07T10:03:00.000-04:00

WTF?

Horoscope

2006-06-30T14:01:00.000-04:00

Sagittarius November 22 - December 21
Years of treasured recollections dating all the way back to your childhood will be lost forever when a four-story fall exposes your photographic memory to daylight.

Article of the Week

2006-06-30T13:48:00.000-04:00

There's No Way I'm Saving That Guy

By Jesus Christ

There Goes My Baby...

2006-06-28T11:44:00.000-04:00

The downhill slide continues

Buy American!

2006-06-27T16:33:00.000-04:00

In May, in the midst of the Ford Motor Co.'s "Red, White & Bold," buy-American ad campaign touting its classic Mustangs, the research firm CSM Worldwide (using statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation) revealed that 35 percent of the 2006 Mustang's content came from overseas, and in fact, that five Honda models and seven Toyota models contained more U.S. content than the Mustang, including Toyota's Sienna minivan, which was 90 percent U.S. [Wall Street Journal, 5-11-06]

Dude.

2006-06-23T16:38:00.000-04:00

I'm more of a Mac person myself...

Sigh...

2006-06-19T22:33:00.000-04:00

Making Southerners Look Good Part 2

ew. ew.

2006-06-16T16:33:00.000-04:00

(1) In April, authorities at El Salvador's La Esperanza prison near San Salvador arrested visitor Lidia Alvarado for allegedly trying to smuggle an M-67 grenade to inmates by stuffing it inside her vagina.
(2) Also in April, according to a report in the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal-Star, a 38-year-old man appeared at the ER at BryanLGH Medical Center West in Lincoln with a 20-ounce soft drink bottle lodged in his rectum. (
3) Also in April, according to a report in The Capital (Annapolis, Md.), a former restaurant manager was acquitted of assaulting one of his then-employees, heightening the mystery behind the alleged assault (in which the employee had been found in June 2005 in an alley behind the restaurant with a garden hose's nozzle end stuck in his rectum). [KTRK-TV (Houston)-AP, 4-19-06] [Lincoln Journal Star, 4-12-06] [The Capital (Annapolis), 4-13-06]

mmm...

2006-06-16T16:32:00.000-04:00

In a May dispatch from Atlanta on Southerners' notoriously unnutritious, fat-laden cuisine, a Chicago Tribune reporter watered readers' mouths with descriptions of the "hamdog" and the "Luther" (prized dishes of Mulligan's restaurant in Decatur, Ga.), which are, respectively, "a half-pound of hamburger meat wrapped around a hot dog, which is deep-fried and served on a hoagie topped with chili, bacon and a fried egg," and "a half-pound burger served with bacon and cheese on a Krispy Kreme doughnut." The 11 states from Washington, D.C., to Florida, west to Texas, have the nation's highest mortality rate from strokes, but, said a University of Mississippi professor, "Food is a strong emblem of identity for Southerners," uniquely shared across racial lines. [Chicago Tribune, 5-16-06]

THE LLAMA SONG!!!!!

2006-06-10T00:52:00.000-04:00

LLAMA!

How-To Guide for My Ex-Boyfriends

2006-06-06T16:27:00.000-04:00

Click Here, Christophe.and Jason.and Leslie.and Dean...and...and...

Welcome Home, Damien

2006-06-04T20:42:00.000-04:00

Keep those legs crossed!!

For Evelyn & Greg...

2006-06-04T19:21:00.000-04:00

You bitches better cheak this schizzznit out. Holla.

The End of the World

Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me

Filthy Scotts. Filthy, filthy Scotts.

2006-06-02T22:44:00.000-04:00

LEAD STORY

The National Health Service office in Dundee, Scotland, has recommended toilet techniques for the estimated one-third of the population that suffers from bowel and bladder dysfunction, according to an April report in The Times of London. The pamphlet, "Good Defecation Dynamics," lists preferred breathing habits and describes the proper, upright, seated posture for effective elimination ("Keep your mouth open as you bulge and widen"), and encourages support for the feet, perhaps "a small footstool." [The Times (London), 4-29-06]

Ew...

2006-05-30T15:13:00.000-04:00

Gross!

When Reality TV Goes Horribly Wrong

2006-05-24T15:05:00.000-04:00

Brace Yourself...

Shalom Outside The Home

2006-05-23T16:02:00.000-04:00

1997 -- The Brooklyn, N.Y., organization Shalom Bayis ("Household Peace" in Hebrew) closed down its 24-hour mistress hotline in January after an unfavorable New York Daily News story. A Shalom Bayis spokesman said the hotline's purpose was to place its 40 volunteer mistresses with unsatisfied husbands in order to stop the "plague of divorce" menacing Jewish couples. Although Shalom Bayis claimed to take no fee for its services, it did admit that after the Daily News story, most of the hotline callers were single men and happily married men who just wanted sex.

Poor Axl

2006-05-20T20:19:00.000-04:00

Axl's Recent Smackdown

Making Us Southerners Look Good

2006-05-19T10:08:00.000-04:00

At least she didn't drop her drink.

Dream

2006-05-17T11:15:00.000-04:00

Ok, so I parked my white Ford Ranger pickup truck on the airplane and hid my pet cat and mouse that I had snuck on board in a cat carrier then covered it with a red blanket and stored it at the back of the airplane, behind all of the other parked cars. Then we left and went for a walk through a park. Then , looking up, I see the island of Manhattan (which is frozen) floating about our heads then floating away. I look at Dave and say "I hope you've got all you Pink Floyd albums." "Yeah, good thing too" he replies. On the walk through the park back to the airplane, the cat I snuck aboard appears in front of me; she had escaped from the plane. I tkae her back to the hidden cat carrier on the plane and find another cat, a few mice and a couple of rats were sleeping in the carrier. I dug out my little gray mouse and stuck my cat and my mouse in my pocket.
Then I woke up.

"Congressman Fucks Own Wife Out Of Political Necessity"

2006-05-15T14:00:00.000-04:00

WASHINGTON, DC—Seeking reelection in 2008, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) will limit himself to sexual activity with his wife, Libby. "I love my wife and would never do anything that would weaken our sacred bond of marriage, or reduce my constituents' faith in me," said Doggett, who faces fierce competition in the next election due to recent redistricting. "Libby's been right at my side, and instrumental in my political career, through all our years of marriage." Seeing no possible negative ramifications, Doggett allows himself to jerk off while thinking about Naomi Watts.

*The Onion

Drink Apple Juice

2006-05-15T13:54:00.000-04:00

Because O.J. will kill you.

I have a weakness for white men with corn rows.

2006-05-08T21:53:00.000-04:00

Like drugged out train wreck, but yet I can't look away....

The Immigrant Problem....

2006-05-08T21:51:00.000-04:00

Will Solve Itself.

W.W.J.D.?

2006-05-08T21:46:00.000-04:00

Jesus Christ, Y'all

Reason #4,892 I moved.

2006-05-07T23:52:00.000-04:00

"1996 -- Nashville, Tenn., police were called to a Laundromat in January after a customer reported that a man had come in from the rain, soaking wet, put a few coins in a dryer, climbed in and was getting tumble-dried."

Several More Reasons

Finally found the reason for my headaches...

2006-04-27T23:28:00.000-04:00

Nailed It!

Physicists Rock, baby.

2006-04-19T20:43:00.000-04:00

Homeboys gots the right idea.

Oy Vey part 2

2006-02-09T23:44:00.000-05:00

tomorrow i am going to have something called an EMG test done, which from what i understand will involve several needles being poked in me at once while the test administrator quietly giggles at my pain. lets hope the results do not indicate nerve damage, for that would suck since i believe the surgery is quite risky. hm. im a NOT looking forward to this.
sure wish my family or anyone i know from back in tennessee were here, im pretty freaked out, and its rare i admit im scared.
le sigh.

so 'The Man' wins again

2006-01-12T13:00:00.000-05:00

i spend most of my life standing around, waiting.
at the post office, at work, at the store, waiting for someone to pay attention to me.
in order to get ahead in this world, you need a skill to rely on, an in demand skill that, while may not be something that you particularly enjoy, will help pay the bills and let you pursue what you really want to do.
Many people have the helping hand of thier parents or loved ones to give them a boost up towards the american dream. alot of us, however, never have that oppurtunity and end up struggling through life just to get by. we may be smart and ambitious in our pursuits, but that means a whole lot of nothing if you cant pay for it. for example, i would like to return to college to finish up a degree in something that, while im not going to love, will pay my bills thus giving me the peace of mind i need to survive.
classes begin Jan 28th.
im working 3 jobs at a minimum of 60 hours a week. im trying to get some of my own stuff done on the side as well as being in physical therapy 3 times a week for an hour at a time. i really hate one of my jobs and think i can actually afford to quit, but they have me by the health insurance, which i need for the physical therapy, etc. one of the other ones is just a bar job one day a week which is a two minute walk from where i live, so theres no point in leaving that. the last one is a little office job 2 days a week that i am trying out to see if i can actually do something outside of the restaurant field, plus i am anxious to learn how an office works since one day i wish to run my own business,
all this is such a delicate balance - and i want to progress in my life so much, but i cant since if i try to return to school now i will collapse and die i think.
and the man wins again.

Bush Bush Bush

2005-12-18T12:10:00.000-05:00

George Bush is visiting the Queen of England.

He asks her, "Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient
government? Are there any tips you can give me?"

"Well," says the Queen, "the most important thing is to surround
yourself with intelligent people."

Bush frowns, "But how do I know the people around me are really
intelligent?"

The Queen takes a sip of tea.

"Oh, that's easy. You just ask them to answer an intelligence
riddle."

The Queen pushes a button on her intercom. "Please send The Prime
Minister in here, would you?"

Tony Blair walks into the room. "Your Majesty...."

The Queen smiles. "Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and
father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your
sister. Who is it?"

Without pausing for a moment, Blair answers, "That would be me!"

"Yes! Very good!" says the Queen.

Back at the White House, Bush calls in his vice president, Dick
Cheney.

"Dick, answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child.
It's not your brother and it's not your sister. Who is it?"

"I'm not sure," says the vice president. "Let me get back to you on
that one."

Dick Cheney goes to his advisers and asks every one, but none can
give him an answer.

Finall! y, he ends up in the men's room and recognizes Colin
Powell's shoes in the next stall.

Dick shouts, "Colin! Can you answer this for me? Your mother and
father have a child and it's not your brother or your sister. Who is
it?"

Colin Powell yells back, "That's easy. It's me!"

Dick Cheney smiles. "Thanks!"
Cheney goes back to the Oval Office and asks to speak with Bush.

"Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle.
It's Colin Powell."

Bush gets up, stomps over to Dick Cheney, and angrily yells into his
face, "No, you idiot! It's Tony Blair!

birthdays suck.

2005-12-08T15:29:00.000-05:00

im old, goddamnit.
wacky jews make me feel better though.
jewjewbee

Lonely and bored

2005-11-20T12:35:00.000-05:00

what to do? i know i should be productive.......so easy to be lazy. and my bed is so comfy.
maybe i will dye my hair.

My entire world looks brick red.

2005-11-12T00:17:00.000-05:00

My entire world looks brick red.
Ive realized I am incredibly bored with life. Ive experienced every emotion i can imagine in one form or another. there is no way i can accomplish all that i had hoped for at this point, so my ambition, my drive is pretty much shot.
Im bored.
the only reason i move at all is because i am bored sitting still for to long.
I have incredible urges to self medicate, so much so that i have officially labeled myself an alchoholic.
If im fucked up then maybe i wont realize what really isnt there.

Im tired of being fed life in convenient 30 minute blocks with laugh track included.
but somehow it makes me feel better if i laugh when i am supposed to laugh. even if i dont really laugh.

L.O.A.

2005-10-19T00:42:00.000-04:00

I'm putting myself on a leave of absence. I will return soon when i have managed to pull myself a little bit out of "the job-the other job-searching for job" - stresspool that is my everyday life. For now, know that I am currently afraid of toilets. More to come on that subject later.

Alien LOVES Predator

2005-10-06T16:34:00.000-04:00

click me!

via baka san.
thats all i got for now.

Sparta TN is next!

2005-09-24T13:36:00.000-04:00

Ok, so apprently EVERYPLACE i grew up is destined to be under water. First New Orleans, the the news just informed me that Beaumont TX is now evacuated and flooded as well. Only one place left, but its landlocked so Im almost curious how mother nature is gonna get to that one.

id better get crackin.'

2005-09-22T13:04:00.000-04:00

Hi merideth!
Your Personnel expected death date is 09 July 2058
You have excatly 19283 days to live. Have a nice day.

Michael Moore is still pissed

2005-09-19T12:41:00.000-04:00

To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush:

On this, the fourth anniversary of 9/11, I'm just curious, how does it feel?

How does it feel to know that the man you elected to lead us after we were attacked went ahead and put a guy in charge of FEMA whose main qualification was that he ran horse shows?

That's right. Horse shows.

I really want to know -- and I ask you this in all sincerity and with all due respect -- how do you feel about the utter contempt Mr. Bush has shown for your safety? C'mon, give me just a moment of honesty. Don't start ranting on about how this disaster in New Orleans was the fault of one of the poorest cities in America. Put aside your hatred of Democrats and liberals and anyone with the last name of Clinton. Just look me in the eye and tell me our President did the right thing after 9/11 by naming a horse show runner as the top man to protect us in case of an emergency or catastrophe.

I want you to put aside your self-affixed label of Republican/conservative/born-again/capitalist/ditto-head/right-winger and just talk to me as an American, on the common ground we both call America.

Are we safer now than before 9/11? When you learn that behind the horse show runner, the ..2 and ..3 men in charge of emergency preparedness have zero experience in emergency preparedness, do you think we are safer?

When you look at Michael Chertoff, the head of Homeland Security, a man with little experience in national security, do you feel secure?

When men who never served in the military and have never seen young men die in battle send our young people off to war, do you think they know how to conduct a war? Do they know what it means to have your legs blown off for a threat that was never there?

Do you really believe that turning over important government services to private corporations has resulted in better services for the people?

Why do you hate our federal government so much? You have voted for politicians for the past 25 years whose main goal has been to de-fund the federal government. Do you think that cutting federal programs like FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers has been good or bad for America? GOOD OR BAD?

With the nation's debt at an all-time high, do you think tax cuts for the rich are still a good idea? Will you give yours back so hundreds of thousands of homeless in New Orleans can have a home?

Do you believe in Jesus? Really? Didn't he say that we would be judged by how we treat the least among us? Hurricane Katrina came in and blew off the facade that we were a nation with liberty and justice for all. The wind howled and the water rose and what was revealed was that the poor in America shall be left to suffer and die while the President of the United States fiddles and tells them to eat cake.

That's not a joke. The day the hurricane hit and the levees broke, Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich pals were stuffing themselves with cake. A full day after the levees broke (the same levees whose repair funding he had cut), Mr. Bush was playing a guitar some country singer gave him. All this while New Orleans sank under water.

It would take ANOTHER day before the President would do a flyover in his jumbo jet, peeking out the widow at the misery 2500 feet below him as he flew back to his second home in DC. It would then be TWO MORE DAYS before a trickle of federal aid and troops would arrive. This was no seven minutes in a sitting trance while children read "My Pet Goat" to him. This was FOUR DAYS of doing nothing other than saying "Brownie (FEMA director Michael Brown), you're doing a heck of a job!"

My Republican friends, does it bother you that we are the laughing stock of the world?

And on this sacred day of remembrance, do you think we honor or shame those who died on 9/11/01? If we learned nothing and find ourselves today every bit as vulnerable and unprepared as we were on that bright sunny morning, then did the 3,000 die in vain?

Our vulnerability is not just about dealing with terrorists or natural disasters. We are vulnerable and unsafe because we allow one in eight Americans to live in horrible poverty. We accept an education system where one in six children never graduate and most of those who do can't string a coherent sentence together. The middle class can't pay the mortgage or the hospital bills and 45 million have no health coverage whatsoever.

Are we safe? Do you really feel safe? You can only move so far out and build so many gated communities before the fruit of what you've sown will be crashing through your walls and demanding retribution. Do you really want to wait until that happens? Or is it your hope that if they are left alone long enough to soil themselves and shoot themselves and drown in the filth that fills the street that maybe the problem will somehow go away?

I know you know better. You gave the country and the world a man who wasn't up for the job and all he does is hire people who aren't up for the job. You did this to us, to the world, to the people of New Orleans. Please fix it. Bush is yours. And you know, for our peace and safety and security, this has to be fixed. What do you propose?

I have an idea, and it isn't a horse show.

Yours,
Michael Moore

Please choose

2005-09-16T12:30:00.000-04:00

1. Accountant
2. Math/Physics Teacher
3. Graphic Designer
4. Musician
5. Writer
6. Cinematographer
7. FX MakeUp Artist
8. Astronomer

Please choose your favorite career from the list. I need feedback.

Ow.

2005-09-14T21:28:00.000-04:00

I think my headaches are coming back. Searing, throbbing, pulsing pain. Christ.
Any advice is appreciated.

The Lost City

2005-09-09T13:32:00.000-04:00

"...when Air Force One dipped below the clouds on Wednesday so the president could peer out the window down at the disaster, the image was uncomfortably imperial. "

*also interesting

boogers

2005-09-06T22:59:00.000-04:00

my hair is getting long. i just looked at pictures of me on my birthday last year at the vegetarian restaurant in the village. the appetizers were good, but after that everything tasted like soy. even the soda. weird.
I have been asked to perform in the TGI Friday's Bartender Olympics in the middle of October, so thats kinda cool. As long as i dont give myself another bloody nose by misjudging where im throwing the shaker.
Stay tuned. More to come.

Michael Moore's Letter to George Bush

2005-09-02T13:34:00.000-04:00

Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

My City is Gone

2005-08-31T16:41:00.000-04:00

This is how people that once lived in NYC must've felt when 9/11 happened. The city I grew up in is gone. I will never again be able to stand in the French Quarter and haggle with the wacky Liberian guy over his cheap jewelry or stand on the levee and look out into the Gulf of Mexico or rightfully complain how Jax Brewery had turned from a brewery into a shopping mall or walk around plastered on Bourbon Street at 2 in the afternoon or stand back in awe at the incredible fusion of French and Spanish architechture that made the buildings so unique.
From what I understand, all of that is gone. It's been said New Orleans will never recover. They arent letting people back into the city for at least 3 months. When the rescue workers encounter a house with dead bodies, they simply mark the door with an "X" and move on to look for survivors. My brother in law is now on his way down from Mobile, AL to join the search and rescue efforts.
Thankfully, all of my family is ok considering where they are in Mobile was hit pretty hard as well.
So many memories, no doubt my elementary and middle schools have been washed away.
They are trying to plug up the levees with barges.
There are bodies and sewage floating everwhere. All that can be seen are what is left of rooftops. The poor people have no where to go and no money to get there.
I'm really not sure what to think.
But I think I will do this as soon as I get some extra money.

christ

2005-08-31T14:25:00.000-04:00

So i accidentally ripped the paint off the wall of my beautiful new apartment. I didnt realize that double sided mounting tape doesnt like to some off. The funny thing is, i was using the tape because i didnt want to put a hole in the wall. Any advice is appreciated on how to fix this little problem.

progress report #1

2005-08-31T01:50:00.001-04:00

So today i began breaking down a short film script written by my friend Josh in Atlanta and his inspiration turtle Fred. Put some feelers out for cast and crew and am awaiting resposes. Began budgeting as well.

Hokay

2005-08-29T12:08:00.000-04:00

Hokay. Ive decided its time to shit or get off the pot. I am giving myself until January to make some progress in my chosen field, or I will condemn the rest of my life to cubicle dwelling Dilbert-ness.
Time's running out, its time to cash in my chips.
I will keep a regular journal of my progress in the form of daily blog posts. Please scream at me if there is not one every day.
if something doesnt happen soon, I just may turn into this guy.
More to come.

I have Officially Sold Out

2005-08-27T12:40:00.000-04:00

I took a promotion which is making me forego everything i know about how things are done and adopt 'thier way' of doing things, which is WRONG!
im officially selling my soul for health insurance and i feel like im slitting my throat and giving up on all ive worked for. the man has won. Big Brother has won. Sigh.

54.25% Pure. yeah right.

2005-08-19T02:30:00.000-04:00

I scored 54 and 1/4 % pure on the classic Purity Test.
ironic, eh?
i think they are asking the wrong questions.

Risk Assessment

2005-08-19T00:43:00.000-04:00

"I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you." --Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, 'full metal jacket'

Risk Assessment

(via Baka San)

superb

2005-08-17T15:18:00.000-04:00

time to find a job within walking distance....

article

a reflective ego

2005-08-17T01:28:00.000-04:00

I always feel like Death is looking over my shoulder.
Its very difficult for me to make plans since whenever I do, i wonder "will i be alive then?"
Very odd i think.
Am i afraid of the future?
Or have i been so completly bombarded with the facts and statistics of today that I, like many others in Gen X/Y, feel that life itself is worth very little and can be taken at any given moment by any given event?
I think this notion also works itself into my psyche when undertaking new projects, that my subconcious feels it doesnt want to leave anything unfinished, and since i could leave at any moment, whats the point in starting anything?
whats inside that makes me think underneath and sideways?
I frequently feel as if I am part of an experiment, and that i am constantly being tested on my reactions to things, forever thinking them through, rarely acting without weighing consequences. As if "is this the way a normal person would react or should i do it this way because maybe this is the way a normal person would react?"
forever questioning, perhaps i dont trust myself?
I wonder.
hm.

Chistopher Walken for President!

2005-08-15T00:19:00.000-04:00

www.walken2008.com. (just cut and paste it already)

Ice Cream and Orgasms

2005-08-13T14:27:00.000-04:00

...2 things I like. Well it took 2 and a half years, but on August 12, 2005, New York finally started to feel like home.Then I began to wonder what I was outrunning all those times I have moved (On average every 6-9 months since leaving home at 17). I was outrunning my dissapointment in myself. Once I have time to sit and think about all I have not accomplished, i leave, providing a "settling in" distraction for a good few months, then once I inevitably get back to a reflective point when I once again realize where I really am in life, its time to move again.
I think this current reflective period is brought on by the fact that I have not watched television in a month and a half and can only get one (soft pop) radio station (which is coming in from Conneticut) in my apartment that is on 24/7 since its too quiet when its just me here. I think i have heard the same KellyClarkson/RobThomas/CountingCrows song about 9,562 times and counting.
btw-interesting to note i got 4 comments on the previous post regarding how to post a link while it seems no one actually WENT TO the webpage i was posting. I love America.

Bush's Vanity War

2005-08-12T13:15:00.000-04:00

ok, i dont know how to make a link so you can just click on it, forgive me, i know the cutting and pasting is horribly difficult, but o it anyway. its worth it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/cindy-sheehan/this-is-george-bushas-a_5472.html

Days go by

2005-08-12T13:05:00.000-04:00

The days are just a blur. I could swear it is still last week some time. All I have time to do is work, come home and sleep for 8-10 hours depending on how exausted I am, Then get ready to go back to work. Im pretty sure I got the promotion I had hoped for, but that means 3 weeks of training = 70 hour work weeks. Yay. My philosophy is that lower income jobs keep thier intelligent employees by working them too hard for them to have time to find a better job, or even realize they are capable of getting one. My job offers a generous tuition assistance program, only availible to full time employee, most of which are too busy with thier families and thier 40+ hours of work to take advantage of it. It is offered because the company knows not many will be able to take advantage of it.
Oh, and did I mention They are bringing back "Flair"?
(guess where I work)
Ive got to go buy some buttons.

awww....I am le sad....sniff

2005-08-11T10:50:00.000-04:00

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/movies/article.adp?id=20050810181309990010

always thought he would be a nice man to meet from the interviews i saw with him. he seemed extremly down to earth and like a nice person.

HELL YEAH!

2005-08-11T09:55:00.000-04:00

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/music/article.adp?id=20050811005809990018

thats right, stick it to the man!

Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me

2005-08-10T10:24:00.000-04:00

needs sound.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bunny.php

le sigh

2005-08-07T13:01:00.000-04:00

ok now im tired and depressed again. this is getting annoying. i dont like drugs, but i may go back on meds just so i can get on with my life.
and i always feel the only reason people talk to me or show me any attention is because they feel sorry for me, that they really think i am pathetic and they are doing a good deed by being nice to me.
thats a whole session in therapy right there.
im taking a nap.

insomnia 2: the return of insomnia

2005-08-04T03:47:00.000-04:00

http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html
issues 3 and 4 are best.

Insomnia

2005-08-04T03:11:00.000-04:00

yet again. what to rant about save for the Russian asleep on my floor and my hatred of my job(s). Seems that everyone I am surrounded with is about (on average) 3 years younger than me and still living with thier parents. Very hard to relate to them. they are all very nice people, just unfortunately, not on the same level as I am in terms of responsibilities. I want to be a scientist, an artist, a fashion designer, a musician, a teacher...all things i cannot do because of these responsibilities I have had since the age of 17, and it is very frustrating to see those around having so very little to stress about while also being handed oppurtunites i never had the chance to work for. very frustrating.
I doubt i will call NY my home much longer. Too expensive and unreal.