Shit only gets worse. It's been three days since any new story has come up in the "Election 2008" category on Digg. I think voices are being suppressed. I think elections will be rigged. Again. I think things will get a lot worse before they get better. I believe that my country is asleep, that the world is watching, and that hearts are breaking. What...
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A People's History of the United States
Anyone who considers themselves well-informed about U.S. history but hasn't heard of this book, well... I would contend that you're not quite as informed as you think. I heard about it when I was going to college, but I didn't pick it up until now. And let me put it this way: after listening to Mars Volta and...
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Anyone who considers themselves well-informed about U.S. history but hasn't heard of this book, well... I would contend that you're not quite as informed as you think. I heard about it when I was going to college, but I didn't pick it up until now. And let me put it this way: after listening to Mars Volta and...
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lokischild:
who is that by? cus the title sounds really familiar...i think they used that in ap history in my high school....
ragdoll:
Please tell me who it is by so I can go lookie.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment on my set sweetness. x x
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment on my set sweetness. x x
If you're tired of reading about peoples' opinions on Hurricane Katrina, you can just skip this entry.
What I keep reminding people is that it could have been worse. What we have now is a bowl of disease where 480,000 people used to live, a city which stood for 300 years in the deep South, but it could have been worse. A warm front of...
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What I keep reminding people is that it could have been worse. What we have now is a bowl of disease where 480,000 people used to live, a city which stood for 300 years in the deep South, but it could have been worse. A warm front of...
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lokischild:
Happy birthday!
sadpanda:
Yeah, I've just been busy with work lately 
So apparently, a former Mighty Morphin Power Rangers actor, Skylar James Deleon, has been charged with muder and other nasty things. I say "apparently" because his name is not listed anywhere in the credits on IMDB.com, no matter how you combine "Skylar James Deleon."
Either he performed under a psuedonym, not uncommon in Hollywood (although not mentioned in any of the coverage I've read),...
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propernoun:
The story over on NBC4.tv reports that, acording to his relatives, he appeared as an extra on PR. ...which could mean he was any of the countess background people over the past decade(?) of that show or even one of the oddly costumed henchmen. Hardly a claim to fame, but...
Oh, and thanks. I like my profile pic too.
Oh, and thanks. I like my profile pic too.
lokischild:
oh man....the power rangers were my heros!....they almost sound like the plot to a really bad horror/love story....you know what i'm talkin about? someone should write a comic book about them..... 
I read the Lord of the Rings when I was 11 or 12 years old. It was downhill from there, in terms of fantasy novels. Nothing else quite ever recaptured the feeling I got. The evocative names, the luxuriously rich history, the vivid detail of locations... After that, it was David Eddings, Donald Stephenson, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks. I lost heart. R.A. Salvatore was the...
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lokischild:
i've always wanted to try his novels but i could never get past the first couple hundred pages......my brain wouldn't let me....but i'm sure once i whip it into shape i'll do much better with them...
Every once in a while I realize how lucky I am. I mean, beyond being alive, being healthy, educated, reasonably good looking and intelligent, etc. I mean the global enclaves of the Internet, the everywhere convenience of cell phones, and the amazement of video on demand. Things like that. Videogames aren't too bad, either. And I can stream a million songs over the Internet, at...
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chris_sick:
Thanks for the compliment. The hope is always that the same fire that makes me drink fight and fuck can make me a great writer.
But, I never want to stop being good at drinking, fighting or fucking, either.
Tightrope, fucking tightrope.
As for this-e-here thoughts of yours. Well, it's true. It's strange to come out of the nightclub where I work counting twenties, after watching people spend twenty on the door and seven-fifty for mixed drinks, or worse, five dollars a Red Bull(we get them for three dollars a case) envy them their money and social life, only to be hit up by a tweaker for a cigarette or spare change. I have to walk through a park to get to work which is where about twenty to thirty homeless people live. It's unsettling, not the homelessness or the poverty so much as the juxtaposition.
The book I quoted in my journal entry(with convient Amazon link!) is not only a great read, but it deals with this kind of thinking a lot. Most of the book takes place in Havanna during the exodus/recesscion years of the mid-nineties. The most impressive thing about the book is not the depression and povertry and decline, but rather the simple joys and pleasures that the charcters find in fucking and smoking cheap grass, drinking rotgut rum. You think about how most of us have never lived without cable television. what we'd have to do if we didn't have television or stereos, couldn't listen to music whenever we wanted. These people go days without water and still find joy in life. It's amazing.
And, for the record, I am in an aloost constant state of jigginess.
Or was that drunkenness?
I know, I have a lot of fun, at least.
But, I never want to stop being good at drinking, fighting or fucking, either.
Tightrope, fucking tightrope.
As for this-e-here thoughts of yours. Well, it's true. It's strange to come out of the nightclub where I work counting twenties, after watching people spend twenty on the door and seven-fifty for mixed drinks, or worse, five dollars a Red Bull(we get them for three dollars a case) envy them their money and social life, only to be hit up by a tweaker for a cigarette or spare change. I have to walk through a park to get to work which is where about twenty to thirty homeless people live. It's unsettling, not the homelessness or the poverty so much as the juxtaposition.
The book I quoted in my journal entry(with convient Amazon link!) is not only a great read, but it deals with this kind of thinking a lot. Most of the book takes place in Havanna during the exodus/recesscion years of the mid-nineties. The most impressive thing about the book is not the depression and povertry and decline, but rather the simple joys and pleasures that the charcters find in fucking and smoking cheap grass, drinking rotgut rum. You think about how most of us have never lived without cable television. what we'd have to do if we didn't have television or stereos, couldn't listen to music whenever we wanted. These people go days without water and still find joy in life. It's amazing.
And, for the record, I am in an aloost constant state of jigginess.
Or was that drunkenness?
I know, I have a lot of fun, at least.
annalee:
Thanks so much for the sweet comment you left on my set the other day!
So I saw Le Temps du Loup (The Time of the Wolf) last night, and there was a long segment where the camera just looked out the window of a train as the French countryside went by. It reminded me of the trips I've taken on the train, before I learned that Amtrak is the most ridiculously untrustworty mode of transportation ever concieved by a...
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lokischild:
been in philosophy mode lately? i'll get into kicks like that....usually when i'm sitting on my roof....it just seems to be the kind of place that begs for philosophy and introspection... 
Running away from armed policemen ordering you to stop moving, in a London subway in the wake of the bombings, is a recipe for suicide. Was he dressed suspiiously or acting untoward? Were the authorities justified in shooting an unarmed man at point-blank range? I can't really say if I wouldn't have done differently, had I been in their shoes. It looks like the suspect...
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lokischild:
funny, i feel much the same way, when i talk to the people around me and i see that they have no notion of what's going on today, and nor to they care....although i was going to go more with a mime in an invisible box because mimes are so cool....they piss everyone off....
p.s. kinda like me
p.s. kinda like me
chris_sick:
Well, there is good news. We live an age of ubquitous media that's ever hungry for the next scandal, which means they, like many of us, are just waiting for another bad Partriot Act story, or another prisoner abuse scandal. I grant, they're not asking the right questions and they like these things for the wrong reasons, but there is a mounting tide of poeple who not only give a shit, but are trying to keep this kind of shit in check.
I think the pedulum swings. Honestly, I do(sometimes).
In '00 a few months before the Republican Conevention came to town here in Philadelphia a homeless man was shot to death by police on a subway platofrm, his crime was shouting 'shoot me, shoot me' and swinging a plastic chair over his head, threatning police and comutters with it. So I have a hard time getting too worked up over a terror suspect shoot to death on the tube a week after the bombings.
I think the pedulum swings. Honestly, I do(sometimes).
In '00 a few months before the Republican Conevention came to town here in Philadelphia a homeless man was shot to death by police on a subway platofrm, his crime was shouting 'shoot me, shoot me' and swinging a plastic chair over his head, threatning police and comutters with it. So I have a hard time getting too worked up over a terror suspect shoot to death on the tube a week after the bombings.
So I got a push start from AAA on Monday morning. Battery was so low that a conventional jump wouldn't work. I was able to drive to work, but the battery was dead again, as soon as I turned the engine off. I'm pretty sure it's toast (and I'm hoping the problem is just the battery), so I got a new one from Kragen today....
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It began early, at 7:30AM. The stomp and scrape of the contruction workers on the roof of my apartment building. Numerous thumps spoke ominously of an impending cave-in, and I feverishly tried to picture the achitectural state of the Victorian ceiling vibrating a few feet from my suddenly fragile skull.
They had worked the morning before, bright and early, scraping paint or something with what...
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chris_sick:
Nice profile image.
sadpanda:
Thanks -- too bad I can't take credit for it, though. I just found it on the Interweb and tweaked it a little in Photoshop.
Life ain't so bad, all things considered. I think I just a need a vacation, but I can't really afford one now. With weather in the city like this, though, and hellish summer everywhere else, maybe I should just sit tight for now.
All the SG girls I think are cool seem to live in Canada. What the hell is it about Canada? Must be...
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All the SG girls I think are cool seem to live in Canada. What the hell is it about Canada? Must be...
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lokischild:
mmm.....i like blunts....i need to learn how to roll them...i haven't had one in a long while....
chris_sick:
Hah! Blunts! I could giggle like a school girl just saying that word.
Rhapsody: Where my argument of ownership breaks down
Over the course of my life, I have owned perhaps 1000 MP3s. But subscription music has shown me that I'm a bit of a music nut, as my Rhapsody catalog is at 4600 tracks and counting. Like the days when I used to sack and pillage library book sales, I find myself gathering at a far greater...
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Over the course of my life, I have owned perhaps 1000 MP3s. But subscription music has shown me that I'm a bit of a music nut, as my Rhapsody catalog is at 4600 tracks and counting. Like the days when I used to sack and pillage library book sales, I find myself gathering at a far greater...
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lokischild:
huh....the book thing sounds familiar...i have boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes up in my attic and a shitload of bookcases full....and i wish i had that much music....good lord i'd be in heaven