There comes a time in a young man’s life when he comes to the realization that what he’s been watching isn’t wrestling but is, in fact, a soap opera. And he dies a little inside.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
The Bucket List
I’ve noticed that a popular entry on any particular blog is the inclusion of a “bucket list”, as it’s called. So, I’m going to do one as well. This is me being a sheep. Bah. These are things I hope to accomplish in my lifetime. Some of them are a little odd. Since my life is so utterly mundane all the time I want to do grand things. Anyways, let’s get one with it, shall we? In no particular order…
1.Get Dreadlocks – Yes, I’ve already accomplished this one. It was on my list a few years ago, so I went and got dreadlocks. I’m including it on this particular list just as an ego boost, to say that I’ve accomplished at least one thing. The main reason I wanted dreads is that my hair naturally dreaded if I left it alone. But I never liked the look of natural dreads, so I went to a hairstylist and got them done. I still enjoy them immensely, though I don’t take care of them the way I used to.
2. Record an Album – I write music. Quite a bit of it, as it were, but I never quite get past creating demos. I write in a lot of different styles, which makes it a bit difficult to assemble any sort of album together. Another big problem is that I’m not in a band. Worse yet, I don’t know that many musicians and I rarely meet new people, so I’m kinda left doing a whole solo thing for some music that requires multiple people. An additional problem to that is that I don’t feel comfortable playing my music for others, but this is something I am trying to overcome. I write a lot of instrumental music, but nobody cares about instrumental music, so for others I feel it necessary to include words. I’ll always write instrumental music though, even if it is just for my own personal consumption. However, my thoughts are that I if get around to recording an album I should make it a sparse, simplistic, minimalist folk album. That way it would require little more than myself and a guitar.
3. Have a Giant Anteater as a Pet – The possibility of keeping an anteater as a pet hadn’t even occurred to me until I recently came across a picture of Salvador Dalí walking his pet giant anteater out of a subway. I was immediately enthralled. What an awesome animal for a pet, I thought. So I started looking into it. It turns out that anteaters are great pets. They are playful and absolutely love attention. However, there are many hurdles to overcome in order to properly take care of one. Obviously, they eat ants. Which, as I understand it, are kind of hard to get a hold of as a constant food source. I’m sure they eat other things, but I haven’t found out what yet. Besides that, they are a threatened species and they live in warm, humid rainforests. So my current location of Toronto, Canada would hardly be suitable for a pet like that. I imagine one wouldn’t survive the winter. But still, I think a giant anteater would be a fantastic pet.
4. Write, Encode and Bury an Epic Tale – This is a weird one. This potential accomplishment is inspired by the Voynich Manuscript; an old, old story from the early 1400’s that is written in a so-far undecipherable script in an unknown language and continues to baffle cryptographers, code breakers and literary historians to this day. I want to do something similar. The idea is that I will write an epic story, in the vein of Beowulf, Journey to the West or The Mahabharata; an ancient Indian tale. I want it comparable to The Mahabharata in the sense that The Mahabharata contains 1.8 million words. It is massive. And I want my story to be as well. A huge, epic adventure story with a lot of philosophical ideals interwoven to the multiple plots. No doubt a massive undertaking. After this is completed I will then encode the entire story. It will remain in our modern Roman alphabet, but it will be written in a specific code so as to make it undecipherable to the average reader. After this is accomplished, I will produce 10 copies of the story, numbered and titled in regular unencoded English. Then I will proceed to travel the world and in 10 random, sparse and remote places I will bury a copy of the story in a metal box as deep into the ground as possible. Once all 10 are buried, my job is done. I simply sit back and hope no one finds them before I die. Because the goal of this is to have people in the future discover them and spend a lot of time trying to figure them out. It’s my own weird version of a legacy.
5. Start an Internet Meme – I want to start an Internet meme, like Sad Keanu or the Y U NO guy. I don’t even want credit for it, I just want to start something and see it go viral. The problem here arises in the fact that I have no current ideas on what the meme would be or how I would distribute it. I’ll have to figure all that out at some point.
6. Own a Contrabass Balalaika – The Balalaika is a Russian string instrument. It is fantastic looking and sounds really cool. Those are about the only reasons why I want one. It’s all aesthetics on this one.
7. Travel – You’ll notice that there is no particular destination listed. That’s because I don’t much care as to where I go, I just want to leave the province. That’s right; I’ve never travelled outside of my own province. The furthest I’ve been away from home is a four hour car ride. This is something that really bothers me so I just want to go anywhere. Once I get a car I might go for a cross country trip. Once I get my passport, I’ll aim a bit further than that. If I had to choose specific destinations, in Canada, Vancouver would be high on my list. I don’t even know why really. I don’t know much about Vancouver. Outside of Canada, I think I’d like to visit Great Britain, Australia, Cuba, the Galapagos and Germany the most. Various reasons for each.
8. Own a Respectable CD Collection – As of this writing, my CD collection consists of 445 albums. It’s a good amount, but I’d like more. I always want more music. I would consider 1000 CDs to be a respectable collection so that’s what I’ll be aiming for. And not just a mass of any CD I can find, I want this to be 1000 CDs that I enjoy and listen to. And perhaps one day I’ll even have a collection like this.
9. Tell the Girl I Love How I Feel – I know this one seems out of place on this list. Truth be told, this should be something that could be done easily. But, I’m shy, apathetic and I have a problem dealing with success in any form, including being loved. But still, this is something I’d really like to accomplish …but that’s about enough of that.
10. Publish a Book – I would like to publish at least one book. The most obvious choice would be to publish a poetry anthology. I enjoy writing poetry and I have compiled quite a bit. But I would also like to publish a collection of short stories. I’m not much of a novelist though. Every time I’ve tried to write a long story it’s always turned into a good short story. I tend not to waste any time in my telling of a story so the plot tends to resolve itself rather quickly. The strength of my writing is in the metaphysical realm, describing what’s happening emotionally or psychologically in interesting and vivid terms. I tend not to dwell on the details of what’s going on in the physical world at the time. Besides poetry and short stories, I would also like to publish at least one children’s story. I’m currently working on a story, and I’ve got another story brewing in my mind. My motivation for writing a children’s book is that a few months ago my mother bought a book for my niece and I was appalled at the simplicity and utter disregard for intellect involved. Just because the story is for a child does not mean the story should be dumb and simple. On the contrary, it should be deep and memorable, but written in an engaging way for a young reader. My favourite story as a child was The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was a beautiful little story, great for children, but even to this day I enjoy it. It has great meaning to it, and I want to write stories like that as well.
11. Fake a Bigfoot Sighting – I am completely intrigued by cryptozoology, but not because I believe in it. On the contrary, I find it all very amusing. I love watching video evidence of Bigfoot, ghosts, Mothman, aliens, El Chupacabra, etc., etc., and just laughing at it all. Not specifically at the belief in Bigfoot or some other stuff, but the fact that people find these videos persuasive in any way. It boggles the mind that a 4 second blurry clip of a shadow is enough to convince anyone of anything. But I’ve always wanted to fake a Bigfoot sighting and get it covered at least on a local news channel. If it gets bigger than local news then that’s just icing on the cake. A friend and I used to have a plan to pull this off, but this is no longer a viable option. I’m sure I’ll think of a new way though.
12. Learn to Paint – I’ve no illusions about become an actual painter, or even a good one. But I’d like to learn how to paint landscapes at least, if only half-decently. It seems like it would be a good, calming skill/hobby to have. The most artistic I get nowadays is sketching little doodles in my notebooks. Nothing good, mostly abstract shapes and whatnot. I’m horrendous at drawing people and faces though.
13.Compile a List of My 100 Favourite Songs – This one is nearing completion. For the last few weeks I’ve been trudging through my music collection to try to whittle it down to the top 100. Of course, it doesn’t help that my hard drive crashed partway through this process. Anyways, I’ve cut it down to 141 songs and am in the process of setting these songs in order. I will simply cut off the bottom 41 songs and review the order and then be done. I do plan to post the list as multiple blog entries. 10 of them, counting down in 10 song increments from 100 to 1, each song accompanied with a little blurb about why I like that particular piece.
14. Perform a Protest Song at a Place of Political Importance – This is inspired by Rage Against the Machine’s music video for their song Sleep Now in the Fire. They set up their instruments in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street and started rocking out, causing trouble, and delight, for people nearby. I’d love to just set up on the White House lawn and play a song like Killing in the Name. Although I assume it’d be easier to pull something like that off without the whole rock band setup. One guy with an acoustic guitar would be easier to maneuver. So I’ll play a folk song of some kind.
15. Change Somebody’s Mind – I want to meet somebody I disagree with on a difficult topic. I want to have a discussion with them on that particular topic. I want to make such a sound, rational argument that they walk away from the discussion with a new point of view. Accomplishing this is rather difficult. People have the tendency to not want to listen to or think about alternative ideas. And if ever you can change somebody’s mind about something it usually takes a long, long time. I want to see if I can do it in one conversation.
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2. Record an Album – I write music. Quite a bit of it, as it were, but I never quite get past creating demos. I write in a lot of different styles, which makes it a bit difficult to assemble any sort of album together. Another big problem is that I’m not in a band. Worse yet, I don’t know that many musicians and I rarely meet new people, so I’m kinda left doing a whole solo thing for some music that requires multiple people. An additional problem to that is that I don’t feel comfortable playing my music for others, but this is something I am trying to overcome. I write a lot of instrumental music, but nobody cares about instrumental music, so for others I feel it necessary to include words. I’ll always write instrumental music though, even if it is just for my own personal consumption. However, my thoughts are that I if get around to recording an album I should make it a sparse, simplistic, minimalist folk album. That way it would require little more than myself and a guitar.
3. Have a Giant Anteater as a Pet – The possibility of keeping an anteater as a pet hadn’t even occurred to me until I recently came across a picture of Salvador Dalí walking his pet giant anteater out of a subway. I was immediately enthralled. What an awesome animal for a pet, I thought. So I started looking into it. It turns out that anteaters are great pets. They are playful and absolutely love attention. However, there are many hurdles to overcome in order to properly take care of one. Obviously, they eat ants. Which, as I understand it, are kind of hard to get a hold of as a constant food source. I’m sure they eat other things, but I haven’t found out what yet. Besides that, they are a threatened species and they live in warm, humid rainforests. So my current location of Toronto, Canada would hardly be suitable for a pet like that. I imagine one wouldn’t survive the winter. But still, I think a giant anteater would be a fantastic pet.
4. Write, Encode and Bury an Epic Tale – This is a weird one. This potential accomplishment is inspired by the Voynich Manuscript; an old, old story from the early 1400’s that is written in a so-far undecipherable script in an unknown language and continues to baffle cryptographers, code breakers and literary historians to this day. I want to do something similar. The idea is that I will write an epic story, in the vein of Beowulf, Journey to the West or The Mahabharata; an ancient Indian tale. I want it comparable to The Mahabharata in the sense that The Mahabharata contains 1.8 million words. It is massive. And I want my story to be as well. A huge, epic adventure story with a lot of philosophical ideals interwoven to the multiple plots. No doubt a massive undertaking. After this is completed I will then encode the entire story. It will remain in our modern Roman alphabet, but it will be written in a specific code so as to make it undecipherable to the average reader. After this is accomplished, I will produce 10 copies of the story, numbered and titled in regular unencoded English. Then I will proceed to travel the world and in 10 random, sparse and remote places I will bury a copy of the story in a metal box as deep into the ground as possible. Once all 10 are buried, my job is done. I simply sit back and hope no one finds them before I die. Because the goal of this is to have people in the future discover them and spend a lot of time trying to figure them out. It’s my own weird version of a legacy.
5. Start an Internet Meme – I want to start an Internet meme, like Sad Keanu or the Y U NO guy. I don’t even want credit for it, I just want to start something and see it go viral. The problem here arises in the fact that I have no current ideas on what the meme would be or how I would distribute it. I’ll have to figure all that out at some point.
6. Own a Contrabass Balalaika – The Balalaika is a Russian string instrument. It is fantastic looking and sounds really cool. Those are about the only reasons why I want one. It’s all aesthetics on this one.
7. Travel – You’ll notice that there is no particular destination listed. That’s because I don’t much care as to where I go, I just want to leave the province. That’s right; I’ve never travelled outside of my own province. The furthest I’ve been away from home is a four hour car ride. This is something that really bothers me so I just want to go anywhere. Once I get a car I might go for a cross country trip. Once I get my passport, I’ll aim a bit further than that. If I had to choose specific destinations, in Canada, Vancouver would be high on my list. I don’t even know why really. I don’t know much about Vancouver. Outside of Canada, I think I’d like to visit Great Britain, Australia, Cuba, the Galapagos and Germany the most. Various reasons for each.
8. Own a Respectable CD Collection – As of this writing, my CD collection consists of 445 albums. It’s a good amount, but I’d like more. I always want more music. I would consider 1000 CDs to be a respectable collection so that’s what I’ll be aiming for. And not just a mass of any CD I can find, I want this to be 1000 CDs that I enjoy and listen to. And perhaps one day I’ll even have a collection like this.
9. Tell the Girl I Love How I Feel – I know this one seems out of place on this list. Truth be told, this should be something that could be done easily. But, I’m shy, apathetic and I have a problem dealing with success in any form, including being loved. But still, this is something I’d really like to accomplish …but that’s about enough of that.
10. Publish a Book – I would like to publish at least one book. The most obvious choice would be to publish a poetry anthology. I enjoy writing poetry and I have compiled quite a bit. But I would also like to publish a collection of short stories. I’m not much of a novelist though. Every time I’ve tried to write a long story it’s always turned into a good short story. I tend not to waste any time in my telling of a story so the plot tends to resolve itself rather quickly. The strength of my writing is in the metaphysical realm, describing what’s happening emotionally or psychologically in interesting and vivid terms. I tend not to dwell on the details of what’s going on in the physical world at the time. Besides poetry and short stories, I would also like to publish at least one children’s story. I’m currently working on a story, and I’ve got another story brewing in my mind. My motivation for writing a children’s book is that a few months ago my mother bought a book for my niece and I was appalled at the simplicity and utter disregard for intellect involved. Just because the story is for a child does not mean the story should be dumb and simple. On the contrary, it should be deep and memorable, but written in an engaging way for a young reader. My favourite story as a child was The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen. It was a beautiful little story, great for children, but even to this day I enjoy it. It has great meaning to it, and I want to write stories like that as well.
11. Fake a Bigfoot Sighting – I am completely intrigued by cryptozoology, but not because I believe in it. On the contrary, I find it all very amusing. I love watching video evidence of Bigfoot, ghosts, Mothman, aliens, El Chupacabra, etc., etc., and just laughing at it all. Not specifically at the belief in Bigfoot or some other stuff, but the fact that people find these videos persuasive in any way. It boggles the mind that a 4 second blurry clip of a shadow is enough to convince anyone of anything. But I’ve always wanted to fake a Bigfoot sighting and get it covered at least on a local news channel. If it gets bigger than local news then that’s just icing on the cake. A friend and I used to have a plan to pull this off, but this is no longer a viable option. I’m sure I’ll think of a new way though.
12. Learn to Paint – I’ve no illusions about become an actual painter, or even a good one. But I’d like to learn how to paint landscapes at least, if only half-decently. It seems like it would be a good, calming skill/hobby to have. The most artistic I get nowadays is sketching little doodles in my notebooks. Nothing good, mostly abstract shapes and whatnot. I’m horrendous at drawing people and faces though.
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14. Perform a Protest Song at a Place of Political Importance – This is inspired by Rage Against the Machine’s music video for their song Sleep Now in the Fire. They set up their instruments in front of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street and started rocking out, causing trouble, and delight, for people nearby. I’d love to just set up on the White House lawn and play a song like Killing in the Name. Although I assume it’d be easier to pull something like that off without the whole rock band setup. One guy with an acoustic guitar would be easier to maneuver. So I’ll play a folk song of some kind.
15. Change Somebody’s Mind – I want to meet somebody I disagree with on a difficult topic. I want to have a discussion with them on that particular topic. I want to make such a sound, rational argument that they walk away from the discussion with a new point of view. Accomplishing this is rather difficult. People have the tendency to not want to listen to or think about alternative ideas. And if ever you can change somebody’s mind about something it usually takes a long, long time. I want to see if I can do it in one conversation.
Friday, March 18, 2011
The Death of My Poetry?
I fancy myself a poet. At least, I did. Now I’m not so sure.
As a writer I’ve noticed several habits and trends I tend to fall into. One such trend is that my appreciation for my own work runs on about a 3-4 year cycle. When I first started writing poetry I was 12 years old. I thought the stuff I was writing was pretty good. Then, when I was 15, I wrote a poem called TeleHeaven. It was unlike anything I had written up to that point. It was a free-form, rant-like piece that filled an entire page. And suddenly, everything I wrote before that became obsolete. I had evolved in my writing style and, to me, the material I had written before now seemed atrocious. I really, really disliked it. So I burnt most of it. Seriously. Then another few years went by and my style changed again. And suddenly all the stuff I’d written between the ages of 15 and 18 seemed horrible, TeleHeaven included. I was really displeased with all that previous writing effort, but I was glad to be writing in a new style that seemed quite fantastic. Until now.
I’ve recently come to dislike my work from age 18-22, which I suppose fits with the normalcy of my aesthetics towards my own writing. However, unlike previous distastes of my writing, this dislike of my previous work was not initiated by a new style of writing. I’ve not been writing in a new, more fantastical way. This time I just don’t like what I’ve written and I’ve no idea where to go from here. It is an interesting point. Previously, I’d always had an alternate direction to go in when I didn’t like where my writing was going. But now I do not.
My writing nowadays seems, to me, pretentious and pseudo-intellectual. I don’t feel much for it anymore. Granted, I don’t feel this way about all my poems, even ones dating back eight years or more. Some of them I genuinely enjoy and am proud of and still relate to and feel what the particular piece is trying to convey. Some of them are even quite good. But I’m talking about the majority of the writing, the stuff that most people don’t get a glimpse of.
But my natural inquiry is: what should I do now? Should I keep writing in this tired, old style I’ve come to be comfortable in? Perhaps if I just grind through it I will find another avenue to take my writing down, perhaps another evolution of sorts will take place. I mean, I don’t see where my writing will go from here. Perhaps I should look for writing styles that interest me and try writing in those. I really am uncertain about this. I suppose I’ll continue to write no matter what, since it’s about the only thing I tend to do anyways. I still enjoy the act of writing. It’s nice for me to sit down and ponder. But will I enjoy reading them afterwards again? I dunno.
I can really only hope that some form of stupid inspiration finds its way to me and shows me a new perspective, but then I’ll probably just find myself back in this state of mind in three years’ time.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Musings #3: Dodo Birds
When I think about the dodo bird I get sad. Not because they’re extinct, but for more selfish reasons. I get sad because I personally will never be able to hear or see a dodo bird for myself. Does that make me a bad person?
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Banning Smoking in Public Areas, or, Hamilton's Empty Ashtrays
The city of Hamilton, Ontario has just passed a ban on smoking in public parks, beaches and other open spaces. Story here.
I do not smoke. I have never even tried it. It seems like a stupid habit with very little upside. But how the hell can any form of government make it illegal to smoke in public? This is ridiculously preposterous; to tell people they can’t smoke in open spaces outside. I fail to see where the problem with smokers being in open, public areas comes from. On what possible ground could you make the argument that smokers should not be allowed to participate in their habits in public? Of course, we’ve all heard what the main argument is: the health risks.
Smoking is dangerous, granted. That’s one of the reasons why I’ve never tried it. But it’s in no one’s rights to stop other people from partaking in such activities. If it’s not harming anyone else then why bother restricting freedoms? Oh, I hear you gasping, preparing to yell at me all sorts of statistics about SECOND-HAND SMOKE!!!
Look, most information the general public has on the dangers of second-hand smoke (SHS) was attained from the 1992 EPA Report on their study of SHS. This study reported that SHS caused 3000 deaths a year in the USA. It also classified SHS as a Class A Carcinogen. This, naturally, scared the hell out of people. And to this day when people make claims against SHS they are often quoting from this study. But there’s a problem in doing so. For a while now the validity of the EPA Report has been in question. There are too many little inaccuracies to list them all here, but if you’re interested, here’s a link to a website shedding light on the problems of the report. In short summary, the results of the study were published before the study was actually concluded. The study was based on previous studies that were selectively hand-chosen to get the results they were looking for. A lot of information contained in the study was actually derived from questionnaires. Etc., etc.
Suffice to say, the report was not conducted to find the truth, it was made to find the answer they wanted. That’s not to say SHS is unharmful, it’s just to say it wasn’t an accurate study.
All this having been said, smoking in open areas would seem, to me, to solve the problems of SHS by way of the smoke itself drifting away into the atmosphere. So even if you’re concerned about breathing in second-hand smoke, it’s quite unlikely that you’d be walking through a park and stumble into a cloud of toxins.
Another big argument I hear against smoking in public is that smokers “smell bad.” So what? Just because it annoys you gives you no right to restrict people’s freedom in public areas. Why stop at smoking? I find people on cell phones annoying, let’s ban those in public. Some people think sea food smells bad, so let’s ban that from public areas too. Do you see the stupidity of these thoughts yet? Just because you don’t like a certain action, as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else, you have no rational argument to make against it. You may not like it, hell, I don’t like it, but if I’m passing by smokers in public do you know what I do? I don’t breath in their smoke. I know, it’s difficult. But with some practice I’m sure you can handle turning your head slightly too.
Because I’m not a smoker I was completely ignorant to just how widespread laws like this already are. Cities all over Canada, and I’m sure the United States as well, have already banned smoking in open, public areas. I just can’t see how they justify it. It seems like such a blatant infringement on people’s freedom of choice. But hey, since when has that ever mattered, right?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
An Open Letter to the World at Random
*NOTE* This particular piece of writing was written in early May of 2009. So it is quite out of date. Some of it I don’t even respond to as well as I did. However, I figured it fit into the kinds of writings I might include in this blog, so I’ll post it here as well. The majority of this Letter was written in a 2-3 day span and was reactionary to news articles I had read at the time. Some of it is just neat facts. Some of it simple observations. A lot of it is ranting. Anywhom;
An Open Letter To the World At Random
Albinos are not magical; please stop killing them for shamanic purposes.
Bananas do not prove, nor disprove, the existence of God. It's a stupid argument either way.
Wrinkles are a result of aging, not a cause. So can we please see an end to "anti-aging" facial restoration products?
Some scientists say global warming. Some say ice age. I say win-win.
Since when did alcoholism become a disease? It's an addiction, not an excuse. Besides, we all have our own poisons.
Charles Manson never actually killed anyone...
The Earth is much older than recorded history. People think the world is being destroyed. I have a funny feeling our planet knows how to balance itself out, and if a time has come where that involves the removal or extinction of the Human race, don't think our planet won't find a way.
It's funny how when Human Beings discover (yet another) thing about ourselves that proves our imperfectness we classify it as 'disease' or 'symptom' to remove fault from our actions or to feed our own narcissism.
To quote Marilyn Manson: "Times have not become more violent, they have just become more televised."
Everybody dies. Deal with it.
The word 'beauty' should have meaning, but not a definition.
Censorship is a curious thing. We invent these words so we can't use them. And that's all words are; inventions. They hold no real meaning or emotion in themselves. They're just random shapes or sounds strung together arbitrarily. The emotion lies within the intention.
The most well-known "classical" songs are just pop songs from long ago. Cookie-cutter stuff to appeal to the masses. Just like the music of today, you've got to dig deep to find diamonds.
Is marijuana really worth all the time and money all these governments are spending trying to get rid of it?
Prisons are too fancy. Prisoners are there as punishment so let's lose all the luxuries.
There are 125,071 known galaxies. Think about that. Galaxies. Each containing millions of stars. It is mind numbing to think about how much is out there, almost dispiriting. And yet our entire universe might just be the unseen contents of a black hole in some other, much larger, universe.
I bet it isn't too long before Twitter becomes a lifeline on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
Thomas Edison did not invent the incandescent lamp. He bought the patent from two Canadian inventors named Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans.
Turritopsis Nutricula, a species of jellyfish, can revert to a juvenile form after it becomes a sexually mature adult. They don't die of old age; they just grow up over and over and over again.
Why aren't vertical farms all over the place yet?
Wiccan ceremonies are nowhere near as cool as they should be. Pretty lame actually.
Say what you want about them, but thistles know how to thrive.
Earth is just a celestial ashtray and we are the ash filling it up.
I wonder if Bill Hicks was right about Arizona Bay.
The story of Jesus Christ is eerily similar to a number of other stories and legends from other religions in the Mediterranean, Egypt and even in Pagan lore. These stories contain a messiah, a virgin birth and incarnation of spirit in flesh. Some even contain travels through a desert, a crucifixion and a resurrection as well as a December 25th birthday. The difference being that the Mediterranean, Egyptian and Pagan stories came around hundreds and hundreds of years before the birth of Christianity or the Bible.
Having a lower case " i " as a prefix for product names (ex. iPod, iLite, iRiver, etc.) does not make consumers feel more attached to the product. It doesn't make it seem more personal. It is just a stupid and annoying marketing ploy.
Supreme Reptilian overlords disguised as Human Beings do not exist. I know that's a bold statement, but i feel pretty confident in making it.
I believe that, had he been marketed correctly, Eric Freeman could have been as big as Bruce Campbell.
Let's see original screenplays again. It seems nowadays if a film isn't a sequel or prequel or just an out-right remake it's based on a book, a play or an historic event. I want to see original scripts that are written with the intent of being a movie.
Scientists, marine biologists and oceanographers who specialize in the 'ocean deep' complain about the lack of interest and awareness. Their main technique of persuading people to pay attention and to take an interest in the ocean deep is to recite the following: "We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about our own oceans." Well of course we do dipshit. There aren't miles of water blocking our view of the fucking moon. If there were, we wouldn't care a bit about the moon and we sure as shit wouldn't have landed on it. We care about the moon and land in general because it is easy to.
Why is it that when a Danish newspaper printed drawings of the prophet Muhammad some Muslims freaked out and people were even killed and yet when the television show 'South Park' had Muhammad not only depicted but walking and talking in a parody of the Justice League nothing really happened?
The 'Dirty South' movement in hip-hop has, in fact, destroyed the genre altogether. (And what's with all the Lil's?)
P.E.T.A. should be treated as a terrorist organization.
Pirates today have no style. They're just thugs with no land.
One time, in a store, I saw a Nut-Free Gingerbread Man. Shouldn't they be called Gingerbread Eunuchs?
Questioning specific events of the Holocaust does not equal Nazi sympathy or anti-Semitism. It is just an understanding of the American propaganda machine, and Dwight D. Eisenhower was a master of this machine.
Dear MENSA: a two year old? Are you serious?! Fuck off.
Thanks for the time. Questions, comments and vehement arguments are welcome.
An Open Letter To the World At Random
Albinos are not magical; please stop killing them for shamanic purposes.
Bananas do not prove, nor disprove, the existence of God. It's a stupid argument either way.
Wrinkles are a result of aging, not a cause. So can we please see an end to "anti-aging" facial restoration products?
Some scientists say global warming. Some say ice age. I say win-win.
Since when did alcoholism become a disease? It's an addiction, not an excuse. Besides, we all have our own poisons.
Charles Manson never actually killed anyone...
The Earth is much older than recorded history. People think the world is being destroyed. I have a funny feeling our planet knows how to balance itself out, and if a time has come where that involves the removal or extinction of the Human race, don't think our planet won't find a way.
It's funny how when Human Beings discover (yet another) thing about ourselves that proves our imperfectness we classify it as 'disease' or 'symptom' to remove fault from our actions or to feed our own narcissism.
To quote Marilyn Manson: "Times have not become more violent, they have just become more televised."
Everybody dies. Deal with it.
The word 'beauty' should have meaning, but not a definition.
Censorship is a curious thing. We invent these words so we can't use them. And that's all words are; inventions. They hold no real meaning or emotion in themselves. They're just random shapes or sounds strung together arbitrarily. The emotion lies within the intention.
The most well-known "classical" songs are just pop songs from long ago. Cookie-cutter stuff to appeal to the masses. Just like the music of today, you've got to dig deep to find diamonds.
Is marijuana really worth all the time and money all these governments are spending trying to get rid of it?
Prisons are too fancy. Prisoners are there as punishment so let's lose all the luxuries.
There are 125,071 known galaxies. Think about that. Galaxies. Each containing millions of stars. It is mind numbing to think about how much is out there, almost dispiriting. And yet our entire universe might just be the unseen contents of a black hole in some other, much larger, universe.
I bet it isn't too long before Twitter becomes a lifeline on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
Thomas Edison did not invent the incandescent lamp. He bought the patent from two Canadian inventors named Henry Woodward and Mathew Evans.
Turritopsis Nutricula, a species of jellyfish, can revert to a juvenile form after it becomes a sexually mature adult. They don't die of old age; they just grow up over and over and over again.
Why aren't vertical farms all over the place yet?
Wiccan ceremonies are nowhere near as cool as they should be. Pretty lame actually.
Say what you want about them, but thistles know how to thrive.
Earth is just a celestial ashtray and we are the ash filling it up.
I wonder if Bill Hicks was right about Arizona Bay.
The story of Jesus Christ is eerily similar to a number of other stories and legends from other religions in the Mediterranean, Egypt and even in Pagan lore. These stories contain a messiah, a virgin birth and incarnation of spirit in flesh. Some even contain travels through a desert, a crucifixion and a resurrection as well as a December 25th birthday. The difference being that the Mediterranean, Egyptian and Pagan stories came around hundreds and hundreds of years before the birth of Christianity or the Bible.
Having a lower case " i " as a prefix for product names (ex. iPod, iLite, iRiver, etc.) does not make consumers feel more attached to the product. It doesn't make it seem more personal. It is just a stupid and annoying marketing ploy.
Supreme Reptilian overlords disguised as Human Beings do not exist. I know that's a bold statement, but i feel pretty confident in making it.
I believe that, had he been marketed correctly, Eric Freeman could have been as big as Bruce Campbell.
Let's see original screenplays again. It seems nowadays if a film isn't a sequel or prequel or just an out-right remake it's based on a book, a play or an historic event. I want to see original scripts that are written with the intent of being a movie.
Scientists, marine biologists and oceanographers who specialize in the 'ocean deep' complain about the lack of interest and awareness. Their main technique of persuading people to pay attention and to take an interest in the ocean deep is to recite the following: "We know more about the surface of the moon than we do about our own oceans." Well of course we do dipshit. There aren't miles of water blocking our view of the fucking moon. If there were, we wouldn't care a bit about the moon and we sure as shit wouldn't have landed on it. We care about the moon and land in general because it is easy to.
Why is it that when a Danish newspaper printed drawings of the prophet Muhammad some Muslims freaked out and people were even killed and yet when the television show 'South Park' had Muhammad not only depicted but walking and talking in a parody of the Justice League nothing really happened?
The 'Dirty South' movement in hip-hop has, in fact, destroyed the genre altogether. (And what's with all the Lil's?)
P.E.T.A. should be treated as a terrorist organization.
Pirates today have no style. They're just thugs with no land.
One time, in a store, I saw a Nut-Free Gingerbread Man. Shouldn't they be called Gingerbread Eunuchs?
Questioning specific events of the Holocaust does not equal Nazi sympathy or anti-Semitism. It is just an understanding of the American propaganda machine, and Dwight D. Eisenhower was a master of this machine.
Dear MENSA: a two year old? Are you serious?! Fuck off.
Thanks for the time. Questions, comments and vehement arguments are welcome.
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