So much snow!
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Vonnegut is not a Yiddish word
This is an excerpt from "Cold Turkey", an article by Kurt Vonnegut. Read the whole thing at:(http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/cold_turkey/)
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
But, when you stop to think about it, only a nut case would want to be a human being, if he or she had a choice. Such treacherous, untrustworthy, lying and greedy animals we are!
I was born a human being in 1922 A.D. What does “A.D.” signify? That commemorates an inmate of this lunatic asylum we call Earth who was nailed to a wooden cross by a bunch of other inmates. With him still conscious, they hammered spikes through his wrists and insteps, and into the wood. Then they set the cross upright, so he dangled up there where even the shortest person in the crowd could see him writhing this way and that.
Can you imagine people doing such a thing to a person?
No problem. That’s entertainment. Ask the devout Roman Catholic Mel Gibson, who, as an act of piety, has just made a fortune with a movie about how Jesus was tortured. Never mind what Jesus said.
During the reign of King Henry the Eighth, founder of the Church of England, he had a counterfeiter boiled alive in public. Show biz again.
Mel Gibson’s next movie should be The Counterfeiter. Box office records will again be broken.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
But, when you stop to think about it, only a nut case would want to be a human being, if he or she had a choice. Such treacherous, untrustworthy, lying and greedy animals we are!
I was born a human being in 1922 A.D. What does “A.D.” signify? That commemorates an inmate of this lunatic asylum we call Earth who was nailed to a wooden cross by a bunch of other inmates. With him still conscious, they hammered spikes through his wrists and insteps, and into the wood. Then they set the cross upright, so he dangled up there where even the shortest person in the crowd could see him writhing this way and that.
Can you imagine people doing such a thing to a person?
No problem. That’s entertainment. Ask the devout Roman Catholic Mel Gibson, who, as an act of piety, has just made a fortune with a movie about how Jesus was tortured. Never mind what Jesus said.
During the reign of King Henry the Eighth, founder of the Church of England, he had a counterfeiter boiled alive in public. Show biz again.
Mel Gibson’s next movie should be The Counterfeiter. Box office records will again be broken.
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Antoyshung
Welcome back Cotter.
I've finally fixed my computer, again! I've got an illegal copy of XP and it shuts down every 30 days. That means that every 30 days I have to reinstall EVERYTHING onto my computer, and I lose EVERYTHING that was on it. It really isn't fun.
Today began the first day of the new semester and I can't afford the $500 worth of books I need, since I went to London. I'm also pissed off that I didn't qualify for the textbook financial aid my school was giving out this semester. That's disappointing. Who's more needy than me? Well, lots of people actually, but not many at my private school.
And if I may complain some more, yesterday I had to get a tetanus shot, and now my arm hurts an awful lot. I also had to get a blood test and a TB test, all yesterday! I was going to make some lewd comment about being poked too many times, but how immature would that be.
This blog sucks. I'm not feeling up to par. I need to get all worked up and stressed and stuff before I can write anything worth reading. Give me a few days and I'll be back in business.
Love, and many other indoor sports,
me
I've finally fixed my computer, again! I've got an illegal copy of XP and it shuts down every 30 days. That means that every 30 days I have to reinstall EVERYTHING onto my computer, and I lose EVERYTHING that was on it. It really isn't fun.
Today began the first day of the new semester and I can't afford the $500 worth of books I need, since I went to London. I'm also pissed off that I didn't qualify for the textbook financial aid my school was giving out this semester. That's disappointing. Who's more needy than me? Well, lots of people actually, but not many at my private school.
And if I may complain some more, yesterday I had to get a tetanus shot, and now my arm hurts an awful lot. I also had to get a blood test and a TB test, all yesterday! I was going to make some lewd comment about being poked too many times, but how immature would that be.
This blog sucks. I'm not feeling up to par. I need to get all worked up and stressed and stuff before I can write anything worth reading. Give me a few days and I'll be back in business.
Love, and many other indoor sports,
me
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Mekhaye
I rang in the new year with a bad chardonnay and a tired boyfriend in first class seats on US Airways. How, you may ask yourself, can a couple of wicked poor college kids afford first class tickets? It seems the many years observing the persuasive nature of my father has rubbed off. They wanted to charge us $150 per seat, but when I reminded them that we spent the first 4 days of our stay in LA with no luggage (yes, we were among the thousands of unlucky bastards who got fucked over by the incompetent luggage handlers), they decided to upgrade us for free. They had also given us $300 earlier in the week to spend on clothes and whatnot while we awaited the arrival of our luggage. All in all, not a bad deal. There was a couple on the ride over with us who were on their way to go camping in Joshua Tree, so they were fucked and had to fly back home that night. Poor kids.
Besides the luggage ordeal, the trip was fun. Got to see Red and his bro, little Red a few times, and bum around some nice beach areas and eat some particularly delicious food. I love great food, and ate plenty of it this week, including In n' Out Burger! Oh the fresh french fries! Oh the protein wrapped burgers with no bun!
So we're back in Eastern time zone for 3 days before we fly out to see J in London. This will be my first trip across the pond, and so I'm obviously quite excited.
I hope y'all (all 3 of you who read this) are doing well! Happy 2005! Happy 5765! Yeah, I'm a few months late on that one.
Besides the luggage ordeal, the trip was fun. Got to see Red and his bro, little Red a few times, and bum around some nice beach areas and eat some particularly delicious food. I love great food, and ate plenty of it this week, including In n' Out Burger! Oh the fresh french fries! Oh the protein wrapped burgers with no bun!
So we're back in Eastern time zone for 3 days before we fly out to see J in London. This will be my first trip across the pond, and so I'm obviously quite excited.
I hope y'all (all 3 of you who read this) are doing well! Happy 2005! Happy 5765! Yeah, I'm a few months late on that one.
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