4.02.2002
Harold and Maude and Eternal Reefs
In November 1995, I had what has turned out to be an epiphany. It manifested itself in the phrase "CULTURE IS A FISH". I've been trying to figure that one out for awhile, and I've gotten even closer. Then came a newspaper article I read this morning that pointed to this website: Eternal Reefs. My favorite moment in the movie Harold and Maude is when Maude throws her engagement ring into the San Francisco Bay. Harold screams in disbelief "WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" and she answers, "Now I'll always know where it is!"
So, this is what I want to do, continue the cycle of life and death. And you'll always know where I'll be: with the fish!
Here's something exciting: My cholesterol is sky high, so in searching for what to do, I found this interesting page: Red Rice Yeast
4.01.2002
3.15.2002
3.10.2002
My bro is in the hospital sans gall bladder. Which made me wonder what the hell it's used for. Of course, with the internet, I knew in less than a minute.
The Function of the Gall Bladder
Because fat cannot be dissolved in water, a special system has evolved for its digestion and its absorption through the intestinal wall. Bile is an essential factor in this, since it contains substances that allow fats to be emulsified. It also stimulates the secretion of an enzyme concerned with the breakdown of fats. Bile is secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder until needed. When fat is eaten, this stimulates the gallbladder to contract and bile flows down the cystic duct, into the common bile duct and through the ampulla of Vater into the intestine. As well as acting as a storage vessel, the gallbladder concentrates the bile within it by removing water through its wall. Thus, if the gallbladder is removed, although bile still flows into the intestine from the liver, fat digestion may be less efficient because the bile is not concentrated.
3.06.2002
JINGO BELLS, JINGO BELLS
Got this from my mom via email. She likes to forward interesting tidbits she receives. I decided to go through it all and put my left wing spin on this right wing rant. It was fun, anyway. My rebuttals are in brown. Some sentences have links.
Just outside of Ab Gach (in the northwest panhandle of Afghanistan between Tajikstan and Pakistan) November 11, 2001 I wonder how many Americans can name the geography surrounding Afghanistan now. Maybe this'll help?
Bizarre, it's f***ing freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush mountains along the Dar'yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles. OK, you are not in Kansas any more. Already, there's an implication here that pizza will make the world right again. I knew what was coming right from this point. More of the same blather about how good "our way" of life is, and about how to dehumanize the 'enemy'. This type of set up attempts to make us all comfortable with the killing that is going on in our name right now. Yeah, lots of good old fashioned killing and death and destruction...ok, well, not much left to destroy, but we'll do it if we can. I also glance at the area around my ass So, FUCKING needs stars, but ASS doesn't? This is always real curious for me...does this guy work for CNN with the same ideals of censorship? every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers ants and fleas, but them goddamn scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid but God bless the Marine Corps for the 5 vials of it in my pack. One truth the Taliban(dits) cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. Interesting to note that this writer starts out saying the Taliban are human, but then proceeds in several sections to dehumanize them as much as possible, making rampant bombing and killing more palatable. �That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy; I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware,A nice euphemism for these daisy cutter bombs that have incredible destructive force. Notice no use of bomb, explosion or any violent imagery here...not yet anyway...more below. we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement. No, this is not about bashing heads, it's about killing. It's about bodies being blown to small pieces. It's about rampant decapitation, disembowelment, dismemberment, liquidation. It's about complete and utter destruction of a hated enemy without remorse. Call it as you see it, please, and I'll have a bit more respect for your stance, even if I disagree with it. �It's all about intelligence. �We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats Dehumanization. have no idea what they're in for. I think you are probably right. The fuckheads who brought us 9-11 were MOST LIKELY connected in some way with these guys, though none of this information has been made public, brought to light in a court of justice, etc. They surely haven't a clue of the overwhelming might of American military forces...but then again, they are in Afghanistan...among one of the poorest and most shat on countries in history. Most Afghanis don't even know what the World Trade Center looked like. They haven't a fucking clue about where the USA is.�We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin. Eradication...is anyone scared yet?
I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit a bloody ear into his face and plunge my nickel-plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. �But you know me, I'm a romantic. I feel better already. I'm going to invite this guy to my next birthday party. It seems that this mentality is the mirror image of bin Laden and his ilk. Then again, bin Laden is a spoiled rich boy who isn't getting his way anymore. This guy's background is anybody's guess. Spitting out an ear? Hence, we learn a bit more about mindset. Am I supposed to be cheering now? Are people who read this feeling comforted that their tax money is going to support people who will chew off ears before slitting throats? How is this different from the fucks who killed Daniel Pearl, then? Do the fucks who supported that monstrosity feel the same way some people feel about this imagery of chewed off ears and stabbing someone in the head? Why does that make this guy better then?I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. So happy you've discovered this secret. The US packed up and left it high and dry and saturated with land mines after the commies, the guys who helped to plant most of the mines, were run off. Oh, sorry we didn't stay to help you clean up the mess those commies left. See you later, no need to thank us! There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. �This is an inhospitable, rockpit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. So, which is it? No government, or a place ruled by warlords? Please don't pause to study the history to find out how it came to be that way, ok? Let's just leave out that part. I feel better now. �There are no jobs here like we know jobs. Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. �That's it. �Those are your options. Opium, an addictive drug, highly in demand. Let's see, our war on drugs...and we, the U.S. government and the Bush administration, gave the Taliban(dits) 42 million dollars to eradicate the crops...hmmmm. I'm glad we don't have anyone in the U.S. engaged in doing something they hate just to put food on the table. I bet you love your job, too..oh, you are in the army...I'd say how ironic that was, but irony is dead after 9-11. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if that's your idea of a party. And all those refugees are so happy to be there, too. They want to live like that of course. Go and ask them why they don't just hop on a plane to America to live in some gated community somewhere. I'm sure they much prefer to live in terror 24 hours a day..doesn't matter who imposes the terror, the warlords, the Taliban, US soldiers. But the smell alone of those "tent cities of the walking dead" is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day. �Things are coming so fast and furious, I don't think I can keep up with this...bad smells, eeeeww! Must not be human! Walking dead = Zombies = not human, and eeeww! Zombies smell bad, too, right? The last part about the poppy fields work is probably true. They can put food on the table, because it's a high demand commodity. Who consumes that poppy stuff? OH, heroin addicts in America, you say...oh. And let me tell you something else. I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of em, are Huns. �Actual, living Huns. Are huns human? Seems the answer is NO. �They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. �It's ALL they do. Duh. Again, check your history book fella. But wait, you are a soldier, what's the difference? You just talked about skewering bin Laden, chewing off his ear and stabbing him in the forehead. I don't see any consistency here.�They have no respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for themselves. �They claw at one another as a way of life. Please, whatever you do, don't stop and think about why this is as it is. Also don't think about why you need to point out this detail. Please don't.�They play polo with dead calves and force their five year old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. I think the dead calves thing is a national sport that has been a tradition since...the Huns! ;-) Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Goddamn cavemen with AK 47's. Dehumanization. Makes it easier to justify counter-barbarism. YAWN.
Then again, maybe I'm just cranky. �I'm freezing my *** Used ASS above, but not here...I just don't get it. You can't write FUCK or ASS, but you can write about chewing off an ear and stabbing someone in the forehead... off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. And I'm sitting here on my ass in front of a computer with a nice warm space heater blowing on my soft candy ass. So, what's yer point?
Oh yeah! Is this a "EUREKA I've realized what an ass hole I am", or is it some kind of spiritual self-awareness thing? �You like to write letters, right? �Do me a favor: �Write a letter to CNN and tell Judy and Bernie and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban "smart." �They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is "cunning." CNN? CN fucking N? You are basing this argument on the assumption that CNN is an unbiased news source. Owned by AOL Time/Warner, I doubt we'll find anything approaching "disinterested" from them.�The Taliban(dits) are cunning, like jackals Dehumanization. and hyenasDehumanization. and wolverinesDehumanization.; they are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent, cowardly parasites Dehumanization.who create nothing and destroy everything else True. They were also created by American cold war policy to counter the commies, and trained with American money to become machines of destruction. We did a good job! �Smart. �Pfft!! �Yeah, they're real smart. They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one!, as books go)This is a curious bit of political correctness, in my opinion. I think this guy pretty much hates Islam, and equates Islamic fundamentalism with mainstream Islam. Well, ok, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham represent mainstream Christianity, then. SIGH. Religious stereotyping and bigotry is the real boil on the ass of history. and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. Considering that less than 5% of the worlds population has indoor plumbing (ok, I don't know the exact number, but almost all of the developing world doesn't have it..jeez, a lot of Japan doesn't have indoor plumbing!) I don't see what this is supposed to mean. �They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Not the most intuitive design...but anyway, is this supposed to mean that Bic defines the pinnacle of civilization? Bic lighter...using that to light up a cig, perhaps? Tobacco and Heroin poppies in the same essay...two different perspectives on what they are. I suppose the addictiveness and ruin the tobacco industry has caused to millions of Americans is acceptable while 9-11 is not. Where the fuck is the consistency? Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape Dehumanization. how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.Stick in the eye, knife in the forehead. �OK, enough. I'm encouraged that this guy tried to dialogue with one of these apes. However, improving his quality of life implies that it isn't quality enough...and what was our writer trying to say exactly? I'm afraid this confuses me more again. I thought you weren't interested in talk, only eradication. Please, please be consistent. You are really fucking starting to bug me.
Sun'll be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. �Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm getting good at it.
Please tell my fellow Americans to turn off their TV sets and move on with their lives. TV, now THERE'S REAL quality of life! The story line you are getting from CNN is utter b***s*** and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. Give this man a master's degree in communication! He's got it! �We've got this one under control. Be very scared.�The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, you don't want to know. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, especially when it's Americans fighting evil with evil. That'll even the score..oh, actually, we've already surpassed the body counts of 9-11. Just over 3,000 innocents versus just under 4,000 and counting in that shithole we call Afghanistan. This is precisely what ALWAYS happens in war scenarios. The first casualty in war is the truth, and the truth is that a lot of people are being murdered. Um, human people, you know those kind, right? We are your military and we are doing what you sent us here to do. Keep at it, man. Don't stop until one or two million are dead, then I'll feel that those 3,000 innocents did not die in vain. Plant more landmines and please practice many interesting things like castration, drawing and quatering, skinning alive and other forms of torture outlawed by the Geneva convention, etc, etc. Man, be very very scared. You wanna help? �Buy some f***ing stocks, America. If I had those stocks, I'd lock your sorry ass in them, fucker. Notice I said nothing about stabbing you in the forehead.
Saucy Jack
People who enjoyed reading Saucy Jack probably also searched the Internet for the video of Daniel Pearl. Wake the fuck up, America and realize that we are going further and further down that slippery slope. War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate. -- Marvin Gaye.
Got this from my mom via email. She likes to forward interesting tidbits she receives. I decided to go through it all and put my left wing spin on this right wing rant. It was fun, anyway. My rebuttals are in brown. Some sentences have links.
Just outside of Ab Gach (in the northwest panhandle of Afghanistan between Tajikstan and Pakistan) November 11, 2001 I wonder how many Americans can name the geography surrounding Afghanistan now. Maybe this'll help?
Bizarre, it's f***ing freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush mountains along the Dar'yoi Pomir River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles. OK, you are not in Kansas any more. Already, there's an implication here that pizza will make the world right again. I knew what was coming right from this point. More of the same blather about how good "our way" of life is, and about how to dehumanize the 'enemy'. This type of set up attempts to make us all comfortable with the killing that is going on in our name right now. Yeah, lots of good old fashioned killing and death and destruction...ok, well, not much left to destroy, but we'll do it if we can. I also glance at the area around my ass So, FUCKING needs stars, but ASS doesn't? This is always real curious for me...does this guy work for CNN with the same ideals of censorship? every ten to fifteen seconds to avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the chiggers ants and fleas, but them goddamn scorpions give a jolt like a cattle prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid but God bless the Marine Corps for the 5 vials of it in my pack. One truth the Taliban(dits) cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. Interesting to note that this writer starts out saying the Taliban are human, but then proceeds in several sections to dehumanize them as much as possible, making rampant bombing and killing more palatable. �That requires couriers and that's where an old bounty hunter like me comes in handy; I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and storage facilities, type the info into the handheld, shoot the coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where to drop the hardware,A nice euphemism for these daisy cutter bombs that have incredible destructive force. Notice no use of bomb, explosion or any violent imagery here...not yet anyway...more below. we bash some heads for a while, then I track and record the new movement. No, this is not about bashing heads, it's about killing. It's about bodies being blown to small pieces. It's about rampant decapitation, disembowelment, dismemberment, liquidation. It's about complete and utter destruction of a hated enemy without remorse. Call it as you see it, please, and I'll have a bit more respect for your stance, even if I disagree with it. �It's all about intelligence. �We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. These scurrying rats Dehumanization. have no idea what they're in for. I think you are probably right. The fuckheads who brought us 9-11 were MOST LIKELY connected in some way with these guys, though none of this information has been made public, brought to light in a court of justice, etc. They surely haven't a clue of the overwhelming might of American military forces...but then again, they are in Afghanistan...among one of the poorest and most shat on countries in history. Most Afghanis don't even know what the World Trade Center looked like. They haven't a fucking clue about where the USA is.�We are but days away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to begin. Eradication...is anyone scared yet?
I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with my boot on his throat as I spit a bloody ear into his face and plunge my nickel-plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. �But you know me, I'm a romantic. I feel better already. I'm going to invite this guy to my next birthday party. It seems that this mentality is the mirror image of bin Laden and his ilk. Then again, bin Laden is a spoiled rich boy who isn't getting his way anymore. This guy's background is anybody's guess. Spitting out an ear? Hence, we learn a bit more about mindset. Am I supposed to be cheering now? Are people who read this feeling comforted that their tax money is going to support people who will chew off ears before slitting throats? How is this different from the fucks who killed Daniel Pearl, then? Do the fucks who supported that monstrosity feel the same way some people feel about this imagery of chewed off ears and stabbing someone in the head? Why does that make this guy better then?I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's not even a country. So happy you've discovered this secret. The US packed up and left it high and dry and saturated with land mines after the commies, the guys who helped to plant most of the mines, were run off. Oh, sorry we didn't stay to help you clean up the mess those commies left. See you later, no need to thank us! There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, there's no government. �This is an inhospitable, rockpit hole ruled by eleventh century warring tribes. So, which is it? No government, or a place ruled by warlords? Please don't pause to study the history to find out how it came to be that way, ok? Let's just leave out that part. I feel better now. �There are no jobs here like we know jobs. Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the opium trade or join the army. �That's it. �Those are your options. Opium, an addictive drug, highly in demand. Let's see, our war on drugs...and we, the U.S. government and the Bush administration, gave the Taliban(dits) 42 million dollars to eradicate the crops...hmmmm. I'm glad we don't have anyone in the U.S. engaged in doing something they hate just to put food on the table. I bet you love your job, too..oh, you are in the army...I'd say how ironic that was, but irony is dead after 9-11. Oh, I forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if that's your idea of a party. And all those refugees are so happy to be there, too. They want to live like that of course. Go and ask them why they don't just hop on a plane to America to live in some gated community somewhere. I'm sure they much prefer to live in terror 24 hours a day..doesn't matter who imposes the terror, the warlords, the Taliban, US soldiers. But the smell alone of those "tent cities of the walking dead" is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day. �Things are coming so fast and furious, I don't think I can keep up with this...bad smells, eeeeww! Must not be human! Walking dead = Zombies = not human, and eeeww! Zombies smell bad, too, right? The last part about the poppy fields work is probably true. They can put food on the table, because it's a high demand commodity. Who consumes that poppy stuff? OH, heroin addicts in America, you say...oh. And let me tell you something else. I've been living with these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for over a month and a half now and this much I can say for sure: These guys, all of em, are Huns. �Actual, living Huns. Are huns human? Seems the answer is NO. �They LIVE to fight. It's what they do. �It's ALL they do. Duh. Again, check your history book fella. But wait, you are a soldier, what's the difference? You just talked about skewering bin Laden, chewing off his ear and stabbing him in the forehead. I don't see any consistency here.�They have no respect for anything, not for their families or for each other or for themselves. �They claw at one another as a way of life. Please, whatever you do, don't stop and think about why this is as it is. Also don't think about why you need to point out this detail. Please don't.�They play polo with dead calves and force their five year old sons into human cockfights to defend the family honor. I think the dead calves thing is a national sport that has been a tradition since...the Huns! ;-) Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each other's barbarism. Goddamn cavemen with AK 47's. Dehumanization. Makes it easier to justify counter-barbarism. YAWN.
Then again, maybe I'm just cranky. �I'm freezing my *** Used ASS above, but not here...I just don't get it. You can't write FUCK or ASS, but you can write about chewing off an ear and stabbing someone in the forehead... off on this stupid hill because my lap warmer is running out of juice and I can't recharge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. And I'm sitting here on my ass in front of a computer with a nice warm space heater blowing on my soft candy ass. So, what's yer point?
Oh yeah! Is this a "EUREKA I've realized what an ass hole I am", or is it some kind of spiritual self-awareness thing? �You like to write letters, right? �Do me a favor: �Write a letter to CNN and tell Judy and Bernie and that awful, sneering, pompous Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban "smart." �They are not smart. I suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for is "cunning." CNN? CN fucking N? You are basing this argument on the assumption that CNN is an unbiased news source. Owned by AOL Time/Warner, I doubt we'll find anything approaching "disinterested" from them.�The Taliban(dits) are cunning, like jackals Dehumanization. and hyenasDehumanization. and wolverinesDehumanization.; they are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. They are hateful, malevolent, cowardly parasites Dehumanization.who create nothing and destroy everything else True. They were also created by American cold war policy to counter the commies, and trained with American money to become machines of destruction. We did a good job! �Smart. �Pfft!! �Yeah, they're real smart. They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very good one!, as books go)This is a curious bit of political correctness, in my opinion. I think this guy pretty much hates Islam, and equates Islamic fundamentalism with mainstream Islam. Well, ok, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Billy Graham represent mainstream Christianity, then. SIGH. Religious stereotyping and bigotry is the real boil on the ass of history. and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be products of the devil. Considering that less than 5% of the worlds population has indoor plumbing (ok, I don't know the exact number, but almost all of the developing world doesn't have it..jeez, a lot of Japan doesn't have indoor plumbing!) I don't see what this is supposed to mean. �They're still figuring out how to work a Bic lighter. Not the most intuitive design...but anyway, is this supposed to mean that Bic defines the pinnacle of civilization? Bic lighter...using that to light up a cig, perhaps? Tobacco and Heroin poppies in the same essay...two different perspectives on what they are. I suppose the addictiveness and ruin the tobacco industry has caused to millions of Americans is acceptable while 9-11 is not. Where the fuck is the consistency? Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of life is like trying to teach an ape Dehumanization. how to hold a pen; eventually he just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it.Stick in the eye, knife in the forehead. �OK, enough. I'm encouraged that this guy tried to dialogue with one of these apes. However, improving his quality of life implies that it isn't quality enough...and what was our writer trying to say exactly? I'm afraid this confuses me more again. I thought you weren't interested in talk, only eradication. Please, please be consistent. You are really fucking starting to bug me.
Sun'll be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. �Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm getting good at it.
Please tell my fellow Americans to turn off their TV sets and move on with their lives. TV, now THERE'S REAL quality of life! The story line you are getting from CNN is utter b***s*** and designed not to deliver truth but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. Give this man a master's degree in communication! He's got it! �We've got this one under control. Be very scared.�The worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, you don't want to know. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, especially when it's Americans fighting evil with evil. That'll even the score..oh, actually, we've already surpassed the body counts of 9-11. Just over 3,000 innocents versus just under 4,000 and counting in that shithole we call Afghanistan. This is precisely what ALWAYS happens in war scenarios. The first casualty in war is the truth, and the truth is that a lot of people are being murdered. Um, human people, you know those kind, right? We are your military and we are doing what you sent us here to do. Keep at it, man. Don't stop until one or two million are dead, then I'll feel that those 3,000 innocents did not die in vain. Plant more landmines and please practice many interesting things like castration, drawing and quatering, skinning alive and other forms of torture outlawed by the Geneva convention, etc, etc. Man, be very very scared. You wanna help? �Buy some f***ing stocks, America. If I had those stocks, I'd lock your sorry ass in them, fucker. Notice I said nothing about stabbing you in the forehead.
Saucy Jack
People who enjoyed reading Saucy Jack probably also searched the Internet for the video of Daniel Pearl. Wake the fuck up, America and realize that we are going further and further down that slippery slope. War is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate. -- Marvin Gaye.
3.05.2002
OH, GREAT GOOGAMOOGA!
Yeah, so I remember dancing with the black girls back in 1st grade. That was when the Temptations were in full swing with a lot of their music. Funky psychadelia, man! I miss it a lot.
Let's not forget that favorite, if dated song...BALL OF CONFUSION! Lyrics taken directly from their website!
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Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) - The Temptations
People moving out,
People moving in.
why, because of the color of their skin
run, run, run but you sho' can't hide
An eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth,
vote for me and I'll set you free
rap on, brother, rap on
The only person talking about love thy brother is the preacher
and it seems
nobody's interested in learning
but the teacher
segregation, determination, demonstration, integration,
Aggravation, humiliation, obligation to our nation
Ball of confusion, oh yeah
That's what the world is today, hey
The sale of pills are at an all time high
young folks walking round with their heads in the sky
the cities ablaze in the summertime, and oh
the beat goes on
evolution, revolution, gun control, sound of soul
shooting rockets to the moon
kids growing up too soon
politicians say more taxes, will solve everything
and the band played on
So, round and around and around we go
where the world's headed, nobody knows
Oh, Great Googamooga, can't you hear me talking to you
just a ball of confusion, oh yeah
that's what the world is today, hey
Fear in the air, tension everywhere
unemployment rising fast, the Beatles new record's a gas
and the only safe place to live, is on an Indian reservation
and the band played on
Eve of destruction, tax deduction
city inspectors, bill collectors
mod clothes in demand,
population out of hand,
suicide, too many bills
hippies moving to the hills
people all over the world are shouting end the war
and the band played on
Oh, Great Googamooga, can't you hear me talking to you
just a ball of confusion,
that's what the world is today, hey
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Got in touch with one of my high school chums who also happens to be my 3rd cousin or something like that. He asked me why I had "divorced" myself from high school friends. I didn't know that I had been doing things like that. Then I noticed the pattern! I did the same thing in LA when I split for Boston, and later to Kenya with the Peace Corps. Moving away from people DOES LEAVE some emotional scars, so how to make departing less painful. People seem to take some things a bit too seriously. Ah, well.
3.04.2002
So, it's a kind of a weird feeling, what's going on in the world. It's definitely been going down hill. I think I prefer the last millennium. Can I have that back now?
Meanwhile, the mundane of Japanese school system took a slightly scary turn with a visit to my daughter's class today. After class, one of the moms (I being the only dad in the room) asked about that Osaka incident, and how the school would handle security. Depressing.
Phil Agre always has a nice list of interesting links.
3.03.2002
Am I a weblog junkie? No, not yet, because I've been sporadic poster at best.
Just found out my very first website was taken down due to a delinquent credit card payment. I've been shelling out 20 bucks a month just to keep some cranky old pages up there, and haven't thought about the site for a few months...obviously. SIGH.
3.02.2002
George Bush, Jr. What can we say about this guy? This is quite possibly one of the darkest times in the history of the Yewnited States. Of course, Dumbya is just a figurehead...but man, what a perfect poster boy.
Here is one of the funniest comics I've seen in a long time.
And here is the most incredible dictionary you are ever going to see on the internet.
2.08.2002
A first year student writes to another student from next year about my class.
Our communication class's teacher is Larry. We do many projects. I think that the most difficult project was "MOO project". We challenged to give a lecture on PC. But I didn't understand what I should do. Since I had trouble during lecture. Maybe, there were many people the same situation with me. If you put in practice "MOO project", you had better explain more minutely. We make a card, and we exchange cards with our partner. My partner was (DELETED). It is good to be able to know about her. And I was first time using CD-R. First I didn't understand the way of using. But I think that the good thing was ready. I think that this project should do next semester.
This class is free. This is good. But we don't use English much. We almost speak Japanese. This isn't good much. We should try to speak English in myself. If we don't use English, we slipped my mind. That is sad, but that is fact. I think that it decrease the number of this class's person. And it had better increase that chance to speak English of per person.
I thought that this class's purpose is "collaboration". Because I thought that there are many group project in this class. But I couldn't hand in "NOT CD" project till deadline. It is not said that I can attain perfect my purpose. I reflect on my action, and I hold on after "NOT CD" project. Group work is not responsibility only me. If someone could not achieve your role, it troubled for all group members. Through this class, I learned precious of collaboration and difficulty. And I think that I can get more sense of responsibility than before this class.
