serpentworship

I actually doubt that anyone truly knows me. If all you’re familiar with is a nice, meek, sweet, well-intentioned man, that is – at most – half of the story. As light as that side is, the other is just as conversely dark. After all, if I’m being completely honest with myself, I should admit that I *can* be intolerant, angry, combative, impatient, confrontational, unsettling,...
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Seriously, does anyone love that motherfucker as much as I do? Glenn Greenwald is one exceptionally insightful and fearless journalist (in the truest sense of the word) that I would probably follow to my doom, however that would happen.

And Edward Snowden should be his VP. And Bradley Manning and Julian Assange surely members of their cabinet.

On a related note, though I don’t believe...
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So my favorite Canadian export, Skinny Puppy, billed the U.S. federal government for allegedly using their music as a method of torture during interrogations of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. According to one half of the music duo – cEvin Key – they’re billing them $666.

Admirable on behalf of the band? Nah. Publicity stunt, I say. Just one way to get more people to check...
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I think I’m going to go see Skinny Puppy this Saturday at House of Blues downtown. I have to admit I don’t think particularly highly of anything they’ve done since 2004, but their albums “Too Dark Park” and “Last Rights” are among my favorite records in the history of recorded music, particularly the former.

Sometimes, I think you have to be on heroin, miserable, and...
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There are occasions when I think my writing makes me out to be at least a mild jackass, though I don’t think I’m being immodest when I say that I don’t think there’s anyone who knows me who would describe me as such.

I just get a wild hair, and then that coupled with being dead center in the middle of the workweek, results in...
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It seems I’ve cut way down on the amount of alcohol I used to imbibe almost without realizing it. I don’t party at friends’ places as much as I used to, not as part of a conscious effort, but rather a kind of natural progression toward simply getting more stuff done. But also, I’ll admit I’m not the most tolerant guy on the face of...
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I was admiring the box art for an old copy of Skinny Puppy’s “Too Dark Park” this morning, just examining for the umpteenth time all of the exquisite beasts, demons, and devils that a man named Jim Cummins, a.k.a. I, Braineater --https://www.facebook.com/jimcum -- created for the band almost twenty five years ago now.

And it’s a sizeable excerpt from the full painting, considering the...
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Somebody's touchy!

Well, shit. Don’t even think of just turning your phone on if Curtis Reeves’ in the theater with you. There’s probably not much chance of that now, but think how many fellow moviegoers likely narrowly escaped with their lives before Monday.

Ya know, some folks who know me know that I’m not a huge fan of people using their phones (or being otherwise...
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...I think I do, and I think that’s the problem. For I suddenly find myself with a dead or nearly dead hard drive chock full of unbackedup data being operated on by a crack team of tech-heads in up in Miramar.

And that’s my fault there; I just suck at keeping a regular backup schedule.

But these guys are apparently very, very good. It’s San...
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More of the same this evening: fun with snakes. I got both my female and male each a large domed structure for Xmas that they apparently positively love now. Neither of them had a hiding place that had just one opening before, and that seems to make all the difference to a snake. To Royal Pythons, at least.

I don’t think I’ve ever achieved so...
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