Saturday, May 15, 2004
MY TV-WATCHING FIGHT SONG [Paul]
When you understand one thing through
and through, you understand everything.
- Shunryu Suzuki
...yes, that it explains it all when it comes to my TV "addiction." It's not that I'm just sitting on my ass watching Police Academy 3 because I'm lazy Gen-X slacker, oh no: it's because with enough TV watching, I will eventually come to fully understand--and see through--the illusion of the DiSH Network's digital crackpip. Only then will I put a down payment on the www.(un)manifest.org URL over at Network Solutions. Time for bed Paul.....
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2:33 AM
Friday, May 14, 2004
BREAKIN' BALLS [wrench]
chop-buster # 6,789 from my foreman, Bill:
"Do you know if you hold a mole up by the tail, its eyes'll fall out..."
"No way! Really?"
"No. . .You know why?"
"Uh uh."
"Moles ain't got no eyes."
"They don't have tails, either, do they?"
"That's right :)"
*(no moles were harmed in the making of this post)*
(also: apparently, moles do have eyes, but they're very very tiny and covered by fur, so...)
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5:28 PM
MEAN GIRLS, MEAN PRES [Paul]
I happened to catch SNL writer/Weekend Updater Tina Fey's Mean Girls the other night. And here I thought it was just another cookie cutter high school movie, far inferior to the original template. Heck, it wasn't even as good as Clueless. It follows the typical first day of school/first crush/girl fight/prom sequence, but is sadly devoid of nudity, drug use, or any strong emotions whatsoever. But that's beside the point, contends Flakmag's Martin Scribbs in "The Tyranny of Regina George", who sees the film as Fey's uh, fey critique of the reign of George W. Bush. For instance, when Regina phones in a fake Planned Parenthood call to the parent of a hated rival girl, Scribbs sees this as "raising the specters of another George's unilateralism and disdain for abortion rights." Fuck, now I have to see it again.
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1:34 PM
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE GRUNGY [wrench]
It's never a good sign when you come to work and your boss says, with a grin: "I hope you wore a long-sleeve shirt, today."
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1:09 PM
Thursday, May 13, 2004
NO WORDS FOR THIS NIGHTMARE [coolmel]
i'm too weak to rant after seeing the video.
Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion. Practice good-heartedness toward all beings. Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others do to you. What they will do will not matter so much when you see it as a dream. The trick is to have positive intention during the dream. This is the essential point. This is true spirituality.- CHAKDUD TULKU RINPOCHE
(from Glimpse@Rigpa.org)
fuck this dream. fuck this nightmare. i'm too weak to even curse the insanity of it all. bless all their souls. bless all our souls.
(now why the fuck was this NOT on the headlines? good thing there's blogging. sometimes i think that the moral rankings of mainstream news media suck to the bone and riddled with hypocricy. between the masses and the media, who's playing who?)
ADDENDUM:
05/14/2004 - just to balance out the equation --
Revolting millions around the world, the video footage of an American citizen's execution has also raised numerous questions concerning its authenticity.
whatever. the fact is, a man is dead and beheaded.
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1:32 AM
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S INTEGRAL HOMEBOY [Paul]
Fascinating article on Belief Net on C.S. Lewis, good friend of that Lord of the Rings guy. Richard Land looks at the Iraq prison torture scandal as a Symptom of Moral Crisis, and draws an analogy to C.S.'s stance against moral relativism many years ago. And therein it gets interesting, for Lewis basically presents his own Anglo interpretation of the chakras:Lewis explained that in the properly ordered composition of a human being, the head (the intellect) ruled the belly (the visceral appetites) through the chest. Lewis defined the chest as the “higher emotions organized by trained habit into stable sentiments or character.” Lewis went on to argue that the higher emotions of the chest—in essence, the workings of the heart--were the essential liaison between the cerebral and the sensual. Without the chest, human beings become self-idolatrous worshipers of their own minds and their own appetites.
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7:17 PM
CORNY (OR BREADY) JOKE DU JOUR [.j.evonne.]
Have you heard about the NO-CARB DIET for 2004?
No Cheney
No Ashcroft
No Rumsfeld
No Bush
(and no Rice too!)
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2:48 PM
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
IRAQ RATIONALE, A MULTIPLICITY [Matthew]
Leave it to good old Illinois to set the trend in political scholarship. Student Devon Largio, from the U of Illinois, wrote her honors thesis to catalog the reasons publicly stated by members of the US government. Bush administration has used 27 rationales for war in Iraq, study says
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- If it seems that there have been quite a few rationales for going to war in Iraq, that's because there have been quite a few -- 27, in fact, all floated between Sept. 12, 2001, and Oct. 11, 2002, according to a new study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. All but four of the rationales originated with the administration of President George W. Bush.
You can read the actual senior thesis here.
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5:28 PM
BLOGGLE?! [coolmel]
Google has a new weblog called Google Blog --
Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google. Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search.
Evan Williams (Blogger Program Manager, Google) "writes that the Google blog will consist of regular bloggy things: What Larry had for breakfast. What Sergey thinks of that Hellboy movie. Which Dawson's Creek character reminds us most of Eric. And perhaps, news about Google, and our thoughts on whatever random events cross our horizon."
i don't care what Sergey thinks, Hellboy rocks!
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3:42 PM
PUNK IS DEAD, DEAD, DEAD [Paul]
Writes Hank Green in "Republipunks" on Knotmag: "Groups like GOPunk and Conservative Punk do not frustrate me because of their Conservative ideologies, though I will admit to being shocked. I am frustrated because these pseudo-punks believe they are anti-establishment. They got confused and began to rebel against the leftist and often anarchist core of punk rock by becoming pro-establishment, and they think that makes them more punk than ever." Hmm, romanticizing an archaic (and oppressive) political system as some new radical form of rebellion? Sounds a lot like this movie I just rented.
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2:22 AM
Monday, May 10, 2004
SPEAKING OF BOMBS... [coolmel]
it ain't a bomb but it had the same results.
Motorcycling is a great hobby of mine. I ride all my life and I owned different bikes and I ended with big kawasaki ninja. This motorbike has matured 147 horse powers, some serious bark, it is that fast like a bullet and comfortable for a long trips. I travel a lot and my favorite destination lead through so called Chernobyl "dead zone" It is 130kms from my home. Why favourite? because one can ride there for hours and not meet any single car and not to see any single soul. People left and nature is blooming, there are beautiful places, woods, lakes. Roads haven't been built or repaired since 80th but in places where they haven't been ridden by trucks or army technics, they stay in the same condition as 20 years ago. Time do not ruin roads.
and did you know that the first atomic bomb test was code named Project Trinity? how appropriate.
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5:15 PM
MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS [.j.evonne.]
This recent Indian report on EFFECTS OF DEPLETED URANIUM asserts that more modern sources may be to blame for some of the uranium in India. As for historical missiles and the Brahma-astra, it is likely that crashing celestial metals inspired those first lines in the Mahabharata (give me a few days and I'll find the references....).
The Brahma-astra was the most powerful weapon in Hanuman's arsenal, but if he were to pick his bombs today he may prefer a MOAB to skip the radiation poisoning....'cause if you're gonna bomb a country to smithereens, even monkeys know better than to render the land unusable.
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3:32 PM
NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN ANCIENT INDIA? [Meera]
Some interesting excerpts from an ancient Vedic text called The Mahabharata give descriptions that seem to greatly allude to nuclear warfare. Apparently the text goes on to describe how people who went back to the city long afterwards got sick and died (radiation poisoning). There's also some other strange finds in India, like increased amounts of uranium in some areas.
When Oppenheimer tested the bomb, he also quoted the Gita "Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds." Names like Shakti were given to different projects within the Mahattan Project.
All this has actually become a cornerstone for a Hindu fascist movement.
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9:10 AM
THE MEANEST MOM EVER: A TRIBUTE [Paul]
Well, Kyle's mom is a bitch, she's a big fat bitch,
She's the biggest bitch in the whole wide world
She's a mean old bitch if there ever was a bitch,
She's a bitch to all the boys and girls....
[you get the idea. happy mother's day ya'll!]
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3:10 AM
Sunday, May 09, 2004
HAPPY MOM'S DAY! [wrench]
fun quotes for today:
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." --Theodore Hesburgh
"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." --Michael Levine
"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." --Tenneva Jordan
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