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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
11:30 am	Crazy People Dislike Children's Movie This weekend, Pixar’s latest film “WALL-E” debuted at No. 1, earning $65 million at the box office. The film has been hailed by critics, scoring a whopping 97 percent “Fresh” rating on RottenTomatoes. The film portrays a lonely robot’s quest for love, as he is left to clean up a trashed earth. Meanwhile, the over-indulged humans wait it out aboard gigantic spaceships run by a monolithic corporation-turned-government that “resemble spas for the fat and lazy.” Somehow, this touching love story has outraged the radical right: Shannen Coffin: From the first moment of the film, my kids were bombarded with leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind. It’s a shame, too, because the robot had promise. The story was just awful, however. Greg Pollowitz: It was like a 90-minute lecture on the dangers of over consumption, big corporations, and the destruction of the environment. … Much to Disney’s chagrin, I will do my part to avoid future environmental armageddon by boycotting any and all WALL-E merchandise and I hope others join my crusade. Glenn Beck: I can’t wait to teach my kids how we’ve destroyed the Earth. … Pixar is teaching. I can’t wait. You know if your kid has ever come home and said, “Dad, how come we use so much styrofoam,” oh, this is the movie for you. Dirty Harry: Have we lost Pixar? Have we lost the wonderful studio who brought us The Incredibles and Ratatouille to Bush Derangement Syndrome? Here you have a winning streak going back ten-years, enormous amounts of public goodwill, equal amounts of credibility as serious storytellers, and they stop things cold, yanking you out of the story with the liberal nonsense. Quite a disappointment. Jonah Goldberg: I agree with the charges of hypocrisy. I agree that the Malthusian fear mongering was annoying Goldberg posted a lengthy letter from a reader decrying the film’s “fascistic elements,” which apparently include the movie’s discussion of the environment, a character “getting in touch with her emotional, passionate inner self,” and the use of the color red. Now we can add a critically-acclaimed and universally-beloved cartoon character to Goldberg’s enormous list of evidence of “liberal facism,” which already includes vegetarianism, love of animals, and Captain Planet. Can someone tell me when the right wing became a bunch of little bitches? I thought it was the left wing's job to take offense to every little ridiculous thing. Also what is it with the radical right's tendency to show absolute contempt for our environment and complete condemnation of anyone who thinks differently? (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
9:33 pm	On Wednesday I had three wisdom teeth removed, the upper left, lower left and lower right. The top right tooth is fully encased in bone so it won't be causing any problems. The extraction wasn't so bad, they gave me some gas then an IV full of tranquilizers and then a local anesthetic. The procedure seemed to be over fairly quickly, I was aware of what was happening happening but I didn't really care. The most annoying part was having my jaw numb for the next few hours afterwards. I went to the pharmacist to get the prescriptions they gave me afterwards without even realizing that I had drooled blood all over my lips and chin! Must have looked kind of horrifying to other shoppers. Anyway today I stopped spitting out blood so that's good and my face isn't quite as swollen or painful as it was yesterday. Just gonna ride it out I guess. (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
2:03 pm	I haven't updated this gay-ass blog in a long time, probably because I don't think my life is terribly interesting. Since I last wrote in here I got a better job where I make more money, have good hours and actually have weekends off like the rest of the working world. I've always been the kind of person who really needs his friends but lately I've been onto a new train of thought. I don't actually need them and I've become a lot more self-reliant when it comes to personal issues. I'm better able to work things out on my own. I don't need friends, however I do want them and in my opinion that is much better and healthier. I've always said that it is much better to be wanted than needed, to need is so impersonal. Hell, I need water and oxygen but that doesn't mean I feel anything for them really. I've just spent the better part of my morning stacking firewood in the 90 degree heat (better stock up now since heating oil will be obscenely expensive this winter) so you'll have to excuse me if I can't put it any more eloquently than that right now. Last Saturday a coworker and I went to see Stone Temple Pilots in Holmdel, NJ. Sadly we were up in the lawn ($75 apiece for lawn tickets and $200 for front row? You've got to be fucking kidding me.) where we had a lovely view of the back of everyone's heads. If not for the large monitors on stage I wouldn't have been able to see very much at all. When we arrived Ashes Divide was in the middle of their set and I immediately recognized Billy Howerdel from A Perfect Circle on vocals and lead guitar and even if I hadn't seen him his guitar work is unmistakable. "Ahh this could be good!" I thought to myself. They were fantastic, very moody and melodic which is pretty much what one would expect from Billy. I ended up picking up their CD the next day and it was worth every penny. Filter was also opening and they played a great set, lots of energy and Richard Patrick's vocals were spot-on. He verbally abused the hell out of everyone in front of the amphitheater and rightfully so, you'd think these assholes were glued to their seats. I know they hadn't necessarily come to see Filter but they put on a hell of a show and I thought it was terribly rude to just sit there like that. He did acknowledge everyone up in the lawn where we were pretty much rocking out like were actually at a fucking rock concert unlike the rich pricks who paid a shitload of cash to be up front. I don't know why they charged so much at this particular venue considering that it's usually like $50-$70 for front row and $30 for lawn everywhere else. I guess being relatively close to New York City might have something to do with it. Filter finished their set and that's where everything pretty much went downhill. Opie and Anthony took the stage (to a tremendous din of boos, I guess these were Stern fans) to reassure us that we were mere minutes away from seeing Stone Temple Pilots. Minutes ended up being over an hour and a half. People were getting antsy and I myself joined in the chants of "Bullshit" and booing. My biggest regret was that the stage was much too far for my bottle to reach it. Finally after waiting over and hour STP took the stage and man, they sounded like absolute shit. Scott Weiland was obviously out of his head, either totally drunk or high on something. He was slow, incoherent and sang every song with the same monotonous tone while fucking up the lyrics and generally throwing the rest of the band off. It was like he forgot how to sing his own songs, his own fans were laughing at him. He did stop to talk but it was mostly incomprehensible, something about how he met a girl and he began to apologize when Rob Deleo, looking very embarrassed, cut him off. We left, completely disgusted, after about five songs. This guy does not need to be on tour right now, he needs a lot of help. You can listen to what happened and why by going HERE. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 19th, 2007
11:36 am	snow It's been snowing here since last night. The ground, the trees, everything covered in snow. It's absolutely beautiful. I wish you could all see it. (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 1st, 2007
1:13 pm	A big "Fuck You" to The University of Delaware University to students: 'All whites are racist' Mandatory program 'treats' politically incorrect attitudes Read more about it here. Here's my favorite part: The organization cited excerpts from the university's Office of Residence Life Diversity Education Training documents, including the statement: "A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. 'The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination….'" I don't know about anyone else but I am really sick and god damned tired of being told that I should somehow feel sorry and/or ashamed at the fact that I'm a white American male. Well guess what? I'M NOT SORRY FOR BEING WHAT I AM! I didn't do anything, could someone please explain to me what exactly it is I'm supposed to be sorry about? Also why you're at it, maybe you can also explain to me what part of working 9 hours a day busting my ass just to barely scrape by makes me privileged. Bite me, University of Delaware. Just bite me. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
8:39 am	It's been a long time since I've updated this, or at least it feels like it's been a long time. I really do hate to lay down some heavy stuff on you, whomever might be reading this (I'm pretty convinced that no one does) as I usually prefer to keep things light and amusing on here so if you don't really care then feel free to skip this entry. This passed month has been a hard one for me, there's been a new job which can sometimes be stressful but to be honest that's not all that bad, at least I'm making a lot more money than I was. It's enough to support myself but ultimately not enough to fulfill my wants and desires in life (house, family, marriage, etc., perhaps not in that order) but it will do fine until I have my degree in May. May seems like a long time from now, May seems like forever. In May I can finally move to be closer to you Peterborough where my heart longs to be. Now throw in a mystery illness, losing my place to stay, my car practically falling apart and my inability to save any money at all due to the fact that I owe hundreds of dollars and you have a good idea of where I'm at right now. However, these aren't the things that really upset me the most right now. You know it's odd the things that get me upset, in this case a song and it's accompanying video. I know I know, big deal right? Well personally I think this is a very powerful song accompanied by a very powerful video especially if you've ever lost or come close to losing someone, it hits very hard. Maybe you're like me however and there's someone out there that you love more than life itself and for circumstantial reasons you can't see, be with or be near that person and you see something like this and start to think of all the things that could happen and all the things you've done in the past and wish you could do differently to let that person know how much they mean to you because you just never know what could happen, you know? You start to think "What if?" The "what if's" of this world will drive you crazy if you let them. Maybe none of this makes any sense, maybe no one can relate at all to what I'm saying here, I don't know. I'm just putting it out there is all. Current Mood: sad (Comment on this)
Friday, September 14th, 2007
2:35 pm	I NEVER LOSE (Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
12:21 pm	Always remember: NEVER FORGET! I know today's the sixth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the world trade center and pentagon, believe it or not I'd actually forgotten about it until last night. We as humans seem to only remember the anniversaries of certain events in denominations of five. The fifth year anniversary, the tenth, the twenty-fith, the fiftieth, etc. Today could not be any more different than that day, it's cloudy, overcast and the rain is coming down in sheets. I remember that day being beautiful and warm. Anyway I think that's about all I have to say about the subject, no weepy sentimental musings from me. Sometimes I believe the best way to honor the memories of those who have departed is to move on with our lives and not dwell on the horrible circumstances of their deaths. I think we dishonor their memories and their sacrifice by doing so, life goes on and it's better to go on with it. This is the first time in several days that I've gotten to use a computer. I moved into Michelle's old apartment with her and right now there's no internet or tv or ice cream or whatever else. I don't miss tv at all because I hardly ever watched it in the first place, at least I have time to read, I'm going through one book per day it seems and I've just about exhausted my source of reading material. I'd like to go and buy more but I'm pretty broke at the moment. Right now I'm at the computer lab at OCCC since it's the only place that I know of that offers free internet access. The job search is going better than I expected at lease but I am very anxious to start work, I feel useless without a job. When I'm not reading I seem to pace a lot, back and forth accross the empty apartment, an old nervous habit for when I'm feeling particularly shiftless. I was supposed to have my third interview at Lowe's yesterday but they called and rescheduled it to tomorrow, although I was told they may have to reschedule it again. Great, I was hoping to start working as soon as possible. Basically I'd be working as a sales specialist in the live nursery (plants) and it pays a lot more than my last job. It is however retail which is a bummer because retail sucks, the customers are assholes, your hours are all over the place and you never have weekends off. This morning I got a call from some place I submitted my resume to last week and they want to see me tomorrow as well. I believe it's a warehouse position (I submitted my resume online to so many places it's hard to remember) but I was told that they also have office positions that I might be more well suited for. If I remember correctly this place pays pretty well and offere benefits, 401k, and I think it's a first shift monday through friday kind of deal. At this point I'll work almost anywhere, my situation is pretty desperate. I don't know how to feel about living with Michelle. I don't know if it's just me but something about it just doesn't feel right somehow. She's a very good friend and all but I don't think she's the kind of person I want to be around all the time and that's no offense to her at all. We're good friends but in a lot of ways we're very different people. I think I'm a bit more layed back and she seems to get stressed a lot. She has a lot to be stressed out about though. Maybe once I get a job and we move to the new places things will get better, I'll feel way better about the whole thing once I can actually contribute something. I really don't want to stay at her new place with her for very long, it's only one bedroom and I'd have absolutely no privacy. She's been talking a lot lately about how she wants to live alone and I don't blame her, she's never really been alone I think. It's just not going to be a good situation I don't think. One of my next priorities after getting a job is finding a room for rent, something cheap because paying rent is a huge waste of money. I hate apartments too, so fucking sterile and generic and dull with their beige walls and white window blinds. They have to be that way since they're not catered to anyone in particular. I'd rather rent a room in an actual house with a yard in a neighborhood and just save my money so that I can buy something. Michelle and I, our personalities don't gel all that well. There's only one person that I would really like to, nay, love to live with right now. I won't name names, you know who you are and I love you :) (Comment on this)
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
9:22 am	WHAT THE FUCK? Who the fuck green lighted this ad? Why? What the fuck? *BARF* Current Mood: uncomfortable (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 1st, 2007
8:30 am	The Aquaman t-shirt, for sale at Target for $9.99, I saw it there. Who would really want to buy something like that? Aquaman was the most useless superhero of all time, he only has special powers when he's underwater. How many criminals have you heard of who held up a bank underwater? Even if a supervillain had say, a submarine base all Aquaman could really do is telepathically order his undersea friends (whales, dolphins, etc) to bounce uselessly against it's steel hull. Even if Aquaman were to get inside the submarine his powers would be useless because he'd no longer have any powers because he would no longer be in the water. Well I've decided to create my own superhero, and I call him: LOWER ATMOSPHERE CHIEF! At sea lever Lower Atmosphere Chief is just your average man. However when he is at or above 20,000 feet above sea lever he becomes LOWER ATMOSPHERE CHIEF! His incredible powers at this incredible altitude include: - He can boil water at a lower temperature and leavening agents work much quicker than they do on the ground, therefore all of his baking instructions are much different than the common man. - The power to make clouds take on threatening shapes that while harmless in themselves could theoretically frighten criminals into submission or at the least cause uncomfortable dampness. - Can breathe the thin air at 20,000 feet above sea level with great ease while the criminal element succumbs to dizziness, shortness of breath, and fainting spells after doing light to moderate activities at such altitudes. - Ability to control all forms of moss and lichen found at 20,000 feet above sea level. - Has the ability to fly but must avoid dipping below 20,000 feet otherwise he risks plummeting back to earth. Lower Atmosphere Chief can stop any and all criminal activity occurring at or above twenty thousand feet above sea level. Should he witness a crime being committed below 20,000 feet above sea level he has the power to phone the police and wait patiently for them to arrive. If this fails he may attempt to apprehend the suspect and bring them to a location that is 20,000 feet or more above sea level (Everest, McKinley, etc.) and use whatever super powers are at his disposal there, that is if he can survive the climb because he is just an average man at lower altitudes and not really much of a mountaineer. God bless you, Lower Atmosphere Chief! And God Bless America! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
11:09 am	Consider this part two to the video that was posted in Sol Invictus's Livejournal. We have more foreigners singing incredibly gay music but this time they have the good taste to at least do it in God's chosen language, English, and not whatever crazy language they speak over there in Russia, possibly Russian. This is Finland's answer to a question that nobody in their right mind would ever want to ask. I suspect that question was "You know I think Abba's just not quite gay enough for me, what else you got Scandinavia?" You got this. YOU GOT THIS! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
11:06 am	It's official I have to be out of here in about a month's time and the apartment won't be ready until September 15th at the earliest. I'm gonna need a place to stay for about a month. I suppose I could call my brother but living with him would suck very, very hard. Blah (Comment on this)
Monday, July 16th, 2007
10:59 am	That age old mystery is solved Finally! (Comment on this)
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
9:01 pm	This is insane! Stuff like this is the reason I love astrophysics and astronomy so much. Totally mindblowing! Have you ever looked at the sky at night and found the famous band of stars called the Milky Way? Probably, but did you notice it's tilted at an angle? Well, this thing really puzzled astronomers for quite some time. That's because what you saw is actually our galaxy itself, seen from the side. The classical maps of the galaxy place our solar system in one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy. However, we ought to be oriented to the galaxy's ecliptic, with the planets aligned around our Sun in much the same angle as our Sun aligns with the Milky Way. Now, a team of astronomers at universities of Virginia and Massachusetts used a supercomputer to come up with a strange answer to the question: why are we tilted in the galaxy? Our solar system comes from another galaxy! They used volumes of data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a major project to survey the sky in infrared light led by the University of Massachusetts and discovered that our galaxy is in fact cannibalizing a smaller neighbor, the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy. Although it is one of the closest companion galaxies to the Milky Way, the main parent cluster is on the opposite side of the galactic core from Earth and consequently is very faint, although it covers a large area of the sky. Milky Way is currently absorbing the dwarf galaxy, 10,000 times smaller in mass, which is getting stretched out, torn apart and gobbled up by our bigger galaxy. The stars in the Sagittarius form a cosmic spaghetti noodle wrapping itself around the Milky Way. The really big news is the fact that our solar system is located at the exact nexus crossroads where two galaxies are actually joining. This would explain the odd angle at which we see the Milky Way in the sky, at night, meaning that our Sun is influenced by some other system. This could mean that our solar system could in fact have come from the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy. "This first full-sky map of Sagittarius shows its extensive interaction with the Milky Way," said Steven Majewski, University of Virginia professor of astronomy and lead author on the paper describing the results. "Both stars and star clusters now in the outer parts of the Milky Way have been 'stolen' from Sagittarius as the gravitational forces of the Milky Way nibbled away at its dwarf companion. This one vivid example shows that the Milky Way grows by eating its smaller neighbors." So it seems we don't have to look for aliens anymore, since we are aliens to this galaxy ourselves. Doesn't it suck that cool things like this will never be in the news? Call me crazy but I think where we come from is a lot more interesting and profound than where Britney Spears went clubbing last night, and did she remember to wear underwear. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
12:06 pm	Mika Brzezinski I think I love you. Also please marry me Apparently she wasn't happy about Paris Hilton being their lead story of the day (and rightfully so) what with all of the other important things going on in the world so she attempted to burn and then tear up and shred the thing. Bravo Mika! I've never heard of you before in my life but I'm glad that some people still have a shred of journalistic integrity. Let's just hope MSNBC (the same network that brought us live aerial footage of Paris Hilton leaving her home, getting in her car, and driving to court) doesn't fire you over this. See it for yourself! Current Mood: chipper (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007
9:54 am	Welp... I've just finished filling out and filing my Fafsa form online. I should know in a few days if I'm eligible or not. I hope everything goes smoothly, I need all the good luck I can get right now. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, June 15th, 2007
12:48 pm	Today Today at work I saw a bumper sticker with a picture of Jimi Hendrix on it. It said: When the power of love becomes greater than the love of power then the world will truly be at peace. A truly peaceful world... What a fucking bore. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
2:24 pm	Apparently not too legit to quit Well Bush has lost MC Hammer's support. We might as well pack it all in now. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 10th, 2007
1:01 pm	Politics. I used to never be into politics, never thought about it much really. I considered myself a liberal democrat, I had my views, no one (before you, T) really ever challenged them all that much and that was that. How naive I used to be! Today I see little difference between these so called republicans and democrats, they both share a great lack of wanting to do what needs to be done to put this country back to rights, actually taking some kind of action on something might hurt the polls don't you know. How do I feel right now when it comes to the current state of the world in which I live? Let me see if I can explain. It feels to me like some awful thing with a thousand little legs has crawled into my brain and coiled itself up tightly inside of there. It whispers these things to me: Anger, discontent, frustration. The whispers grow louder. What do I do? I open my jaws and I bite deeply into it, let it crawl around, let's see where it will take me. When my jaws grow tired and it's taken me everywhere it possible can then I will let go, and this bitter thing will be mortally wounded and it will die. From it I hope that something positive will bloom but until then, don't ask me what the answers are. Are you too frustrated with where this country is going? Don't know what to do? I'll tell you, bite back! Don't merely try to make yourself feel better by telling yourself it's all going to be ok, hold on to those feelings and let them take you where they may. When you don't know where to stand, stand up! (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
10:45 am	God have mercy on our dirty little hearts Another one of those dreams again, the circumstances are slightly different each time but the outcome is always the same: Shock, disbelief, mania, chaos, the beginning of the end. Each time we're always so unaware, we never see it coming, we never will. This time I'm on vacation, at the beach, New Hampshire's pathetic little scrap of seacoast known as Hampton. I swim amongst sharks, small ones mind you, but sharks all the same. The danger is always present, sometimes they get too close for comfort, sometimes I do. It may even be independence day, the beach is crowded and the sun is hot overhead. I step amongst the hundreds of oblivious sunbathers and make my way into the street, the hotel isn't too far from here, our hotel that is. Now just taking a moment to look around, take in the sights, the sounds, the smells. The sounds. That sound. That unmistakable sound. Everything is about to go wrong. The world is about to be turned upside down. Can you hear it now? Listen carefully, everyone knows that sound when they hear it. That whistling sound, we know it so well from movies and television but this time it's for real, something cutting through the air and dropping fast, coming closer and closer to making contact with the ground. Now if you look you can see the vapor trail as it arcs across the sky and descends, it has an appointment to make with a soon to be devastated nation, an appointment it intends not to miss. There it is, the mushroom cloud, how far away is it? It could be hundreds of miles, we're certainly not within its blast radius but that scarcely puts us out of harms way. The heat comes and it's followed moments later by the shockwave, a sound that can only be described as God rending the very heavens and earth in two. Almost immediately the rain comes, it burns our skin (Don't get it in your eyes!) and we run now to whatever place can shelter us. We find showers, we tear our clothes off, no longer concerned with modesty, our only concern is survival now. We huddle under the showers and attempt to wash off whatever evil contamination has touched us. Panic is setting in, everyone wants to know what has happened, where it has happened, and why but the EMP has knocked out all manners of television and radio communication. For now there is only uncertainty. Now the waves begin to rise. Yes, yes this has all happened before, even without the bomb. The ocean levels rise and soon we all rush for higher ground, to the top of the buildings, into the mountains. Why do we bother, there is nowhere that she will not find us. Mother Nature has arrived and she is very angry with us all, she is furious. We've gone too far this time and now she means to wipe the slate clean, to wash us all away and cleanse this place of our influence. We couldn't make it work, too bad! We had our chance and we fucked it all up, now it's no longer up to us, time to start again. Try and hold on, avoid being washed away. Back! Back, now! Back to the sea, where it all began. zeros and ones (Comment on this)