List

1. Bring in Mail


2. Go over letters


3. Change litterbox.


4. Take out garbage


5. Dishes


6. Vaakuem!

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Goals 10/12/2021

1. Banking.

2. Laundry- continue

3. Clean the restroom- continue.

4. Change that litterbox.

5. DIshes- continue.

6. Get rid of junked boxes.

7. Vacuum.

8. Go through my mail.

9. Exercise.

10. Job Hunting.

11. Writing.

12. Game Prep.

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List

After getting diabetes my doctor has after me to keep a journal and chronicle what I eat and what exercise I do. With attention deficit it isn't a bad idea anyway so this is what I'll do. I'll start with a list of goal for today and go from there.

1. Get some groceries, especially some breakfast cereal like Cheeros.

2. Laundry.

3. Clean the restroom.

4. Change that litterbox.

5. DIshes.

6. Get rid of junked boxes.

7. Vacuum.

8. Go through my mail.

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And in other news, Homestuck
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ACT6ACT5ACT1x2COMBO.php?s=6&p=007721

What is even going on anymore????

Clicking on this link and not being familiar with the comic Homestuck certainly qualifies as a SPOILER but given that I am entirely caught up and still have no idea what just happened its less of a spoiler than it would be otherwise.

Seriously....what? WHAT?

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::sigh::
"Bah, who cares if the heater doesn't work? Its Texas! Just throw a blanket on. You can save a little money on heating and repair. All you have to do is tough it out through the pussy winter month and everything will be perfect. There can't possibly be a time when it will get so cold you will start to eat these words, right? RIGHT?"

::sigh:: If you guys will excuse me...

NOM NOM NOM...the 'B' tastes like turkey...NOM NOM NOM

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Deep Thoughts
And now, I present Scott's one in the morning finally sobered up enough to drive home deep thoughts: What exactly are the cops up to when they park their cars side by side in that 'North and South' sorta pattern so that the two driver's side windows are are up against each other? Surely in this modern age any vital info they have to share would be said over the radio or transferred to their laptops. So seriously, what the hell do they get out of it? Are they huddling together for warmth? DO they make out through the car windows? Are they have a short range DS pokemon battle? It makes no sense, dammit!

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"He had a dream
It was haunting him at night
It would fly into his hands
So he tried to cage it
But he only made it fly away

He heard a song
It was running through his mind
It was singing from the past
So he tried to sing it
But he found he could not make it last

The world is falling apart
He's getting older
And there's a funeral in his heart

He was alone
With a picture of his life
On the outside looking in
So he tried to change it
But he lost the person he had been

The world is falling apart
He's getting older
And there's a funeral in his heart

Thunder moving under the mountain
Thunder in his dreams
Hoping that there must be a word for
Everything he means

He had a love
It was keeping him alive
It was someone else ago
So he tried to hide it
But he knew he'd never let it go

The world is falling apart
He's getting older
And there's a funeral in his heart"

October Project, Funeral in his Heart

I've always felt close to this short lived band and their music. Their songs stand in stark definance of a genre (folk? soft rock? Alternative? Who knows?) and spoken to me more deeply than any other kind of music I could name. I had no idea it would be so prophetic.

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But I hate being sucker punched.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brBuIeH0vfg

So there's this thing. And I'm frankly surprised how unimpressed I am. I'm usually totally into the mind trippy movie- loved Matrix (before the sequels), love Inception, and the surreal is always awesome to me. And its a movie that has mechs, Nazi zombies, dragons, and machine guns. And scantily clad catholic school girl ninja, apparently. I should be dying to see this movie. And yet, I've seen too many movies that were made up of things that should be awesome (said Matrix sequels, Indy 4, Xmen, Wolverine, any starwars movie without Harrison Ford...). Frankly, this thing feels like the anti-Twilight....a movie that is trying to appeal to 15 year old adolescent boys, and hopes that throwing in every random thing that said demographic likes it might makes some money.

Maybe I'm just being cynical. I'm certainly open to the possibility of it being good...I'm just not going to look forward to it until proven otherwise.

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fun times
Fun things to do with your evening:

1. Psych yourself up to buy a new game such that your job drags all the more by waiting.

2. Drive through the miasma of people all trying to get to places which, at the moment, are far less important than the place you want to be (if you do say so yourself).

3. Endure the zombified, 'please kill me now' looks of the Walmart employees, each of whom treat answering your inquiry roughly on the same level they might treat inserting live scorpions into their nether regions...not that I can really blame them...

4. Finding out that the reason this game is listed on wikipedia as coming out for your console is because it did so IN JAPAN after doing this for about an hour.

5. Whining about it in a livejournal post.

6. Putting the finishing touches on that rage monkey super virus you've been secretly designing the sequencing for with the help of a stolen genetics book from your college days and the mind numbing loathing for all mankind you aquire on such nights as these.

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You win this round, my mind....
So I was going along, all happy and fine with not having a Halloween costume planned and shit, and then I get asked what I'll be doing for halloween. And I'm in the middle of going "oh right, what kind of costume could I possible make three days before halloween?" and my brain immediately pipes up with "well, you could make ********, I mean, all the component parts are easily available and potentially useful on their own. Plus you've been wanting some new pants for forever, and you could totally take it to all kinds of conventions and shit after tonight."

And I was like "goddamit brain, that was a rhetorical question! You of all people should recognize a rhetorical question. I trying to save a little money here!"

And my brain basically said- "Sucks to be you, bitch, cause I'm not gonna let this idea go, and I'm gonna keep reminding you of how awesome it is and simple it would be to make and its basically gonna keep on going like that until you give in. Bitch."

******* and possibly some pictures will be revealed on Halloween day. Though feel free to guess. I'll tell you privately if your right. Here's a hint: I'll probably be shaving the beard for this one. As often happens....

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Paranormal Activity 2
So, short version of the story- if you plan on seeing Paranormal Activity 2, my advice is to leave when the footage from the first film appears. This movie is about 98% prequel and 2% sequel, and I have never, ever seen a movie do such a decent (not as good as the original, but decent) job of making a horror movie and then just have it all FAIL in the last five minutes. That 98%...not too bad. It DOES kind of feel the need to add in details and background for the original movie, apparently under the mistaken assumption that this is a good thing (seriously, the thing that makes the first movie work is how much isn't said). But it does a decent job, all things considered. Then the 'prologue' hits and....no. Just no.

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More fun with stupid email pirates!
You know the drill. You get an email from the wealthy president of Bumfuckia, Nowhere and he's decided for an oddly omitted or occasionally and stupidly elaborate reason to give you bajillions of dollars even though he can't be bothered to give you a name. Well, today I got this

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-----Original Message-----
From: sonny@knoxville-tn.com
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Sent: Wed, Oct 20, 2010 5:53 pm
Subject: Vacancy



Greetings,
I am Dan Howard,Manager Bondtrust House Plc.We need a representative who can be working for us as a Payment Officer.we receive Payments from clients in
form of Money Orders or Cashiers Check for which its always too expensive and stressful for me to come down and receive such payment so,We decided to contact
you.We are willing to pay you 10% of every payment received by you.
Email back with the Info below :

NAME FULL .:
ADDRESS .:
CITY .:
STATE .:
ZIP CODE .:
PHONE NUMBER .:

>>>


Normally I just jetison these into cyberspace. Sadly, today I was feeling bored. So...

NAME FULL .: Strahd Von Zarovich
ADDRESS .: Castle Ravenloft
CITY .: Village of Barovia
STATE .: Barovia
ZIP CODE .: 00001
PHONE NUMBER .: ?

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The 4th Hokage is a dick
Greetings everyone. Its been a little while since I last made an entry, and it occured to me that the best way to make a come back was to go on a long rant about a subject no one but me is likely to care about! So buckle up, this is probably gonna take awhile.

I've been catching up on my manga reading, which has sadly dropped over significantly since OneMangaPlace.com died a tragic internet death a few months ago. Which brings me to Naruto Manga number 504, which is a much better read than my last naruto rant (Naruto Scientologist, FYI) was. That being said...the storyline in the previous rant was awesome in the sheer level of stupid associated with it ("YES! WHEN MY PLAN TO TURN THE MOON INTO MY HYPNOBEAM IS COMPLETE, I SHALL RULE THE WORLD! NARRRRRR!"). This manga.....pretty much destroys the 4th Hokage. Completely.

But lemme back up for a moment. The story so far in Naruto has revolved around the title character (Naruto Uzamaki), a boy growing in a ninja village as an orphan. In this world, ninjas are users of a kind of life energy called chakra, that they can manipulate to create all kinds of magical effects called 'jutsus'. Naruto is special because he has a giant demon fox spirit inside him, a being of pure energy that has more chakra than any single living person could ever hope to manifest. This monster was sealed inside him by the mysterious 4th Hokage, the most powerful ninja in the village who died while fighting off an attack by the fox spirit, the Kyuubi.

That's where the series begins. Along the way we've had more information established. Naruto is a Bijuu, essentially a person who has one of the spirit beasts sealed inside himself. There are nine of the people in all, each a member of a different ninja village. These people are usually shunned and feared, but they serve as a sort of nuclear deterent between the villages- each has this superpowered ninja available as a weapon of last resort in the event of a war. Recently, a group called Akatsuki has been fucking with that balance by stealing the tailed beasts and killing the host. The mastermind behind this plan is a guy named Madara, who is pretty much the faceless unseen evil behind everything....and also a nutjob who wants to turn the moon into a deathray, but I'll try to ignore that right now.

So, things are clearly gearing up for some big series finale in the coming months. Madara has recruited Naruto's one time best friend and rival Uchiha Sasuke to his side (pretty much because the plot has progressively turned Sasuke into a bigger and bigger gullible idiot for the convience of the story and one last giant brawl between the lead characters). because Sasuke has been leveling up all over the place, Naruto realizes that he has to get complete control over the demon fox's powers if he stands any chance at all of saving the day. So he meets up with the last surviving Bijuu, who is teaching how to do that. This leads into a training montage which, as such things go, is pretty lame even by training montage standards, but culminate in the fairly interesting 'final battle' between Naruto and the demon fox inside his head (from time to time, the series has had the two 'talk' to each other, Naruto appearing outside a dark cage with the giant fox inside. They do so again here, but this time Naruto opens the cage and let's the fox out. This is pretty much all or nothing- if Naruto can defeat the fox, he can control it, if not he's unleashing a pissy fox demon on an unsuspecting world.

As you might expect by this point in a 'beat em up' series, naruto is quite the badass and holds his own. But he starts to lose eventually and the demon fox is about ready to burst out of his cage completely when a redhaired woman appears out of nowhere and stops the fox from delivering the finishing blow. This Dues Ex Machina introduces herself as Kushina, and its quickly established this is Naruto's momma, who has apparently been living inside his head with the fox this whole time.

This is a pretty nice exchange, all things considered. We learn a few things- naruto's father was the 4th Hokage (which was about the biggest unsurprise for everyone except the most thick headed idiot who follows the series- the two look exactly alike, after all). We get to hear about how the 5th and Kushina met, which was kind of cute, and that Kushina was the previous host of the nine tailed fox.

So then comes the big reveal. We learn that the reason the fox went on the rampage long ago was because of Naruto and his birth....and Madara. He essentially attacked the village as Kushina was giving birth to Naruto, and used her weakened state to break the seal and free the fox. The story then goes through the battle between the 4th and Madara, which naturally takes a few chapters to tell.

Madara is, among other things, the founder of the Uchiha clan. Which, considering the clan was founded a few hundred years ago, should mean Madara is dead....but hey, why let facts get in the way of a good story. I'm sure we'll hear his bullshit excuse for being immortal some day. Anyway, Madara's main claim to fame is his ability to teleport and become insubstanital at will. The only way to hurt him is to hit him as he's about to attack, which is nearly impossible thanks to his sharigan....okay, hold up a sec.

If I might derail my rant to go on a rant, let's talk about the sharingan a moment. Naruto is one of those long running series that revolves around fighting and tournaments. In a general sense, with all the themes and nuances stripped out, its essentially a giant pissing contest. When characters aren't actively beating the crap out of each other, they are trying to find ways to be able to beat the crap out of each other. There's an easy trap to fall into here, something I like to call the Super Saiyan Inflation principle, after the worst offender of this kind of thing Dragonball Z. See, when a series is primarily focused on how powerful a character is relative to his peers, and the primary conflicts revolve around getting stronger and facing stronger opponents, there's a tendency for certain characters to...well, fall by the wayside. The writer is focusing on strength, and so when one character surpasses another that second guy becomes less relevant to the story- meaning he gets less screen time, unless he finds some new way to be a bigger badass and challenge the hero again. As a series drags on, the casualty list increases.

Which brings me to the other half of the SuperSaiyan inflation principle, that being that things that were once treated with awe and reverence start to become humdrum and obsolete. In Dragonball Z, the first big story arc is about this rare alien species called the Saiyans, who's race was all but wiped out when their planet was destroyed. The main protoganist of the series, Goku, is one of these guys, and being a Saiyan makes him more formidable in battle. The climax of the first major story arc of that series ends with Goku achieving a legendary state amongst his people, the SuperSaiyan, which allows him to fight and defeat the creature who destroyed his homeworld and thus avenge his race. That would have made a perfect climax to the series. But the fans wanted more, so the series dragged on for a few more seasons. Fast forward to the last big story arc, and there are no less than 4 'levels' to the supersaiyan power, the number of saiyans in the world has tripled, and the first level of this legendary state of being is so simple that even a little kid knows how to do it.

My point here is that the Sharigan is basically the naruto version of being a supersaiyan. Once upon a time it was the epitome of what the Uchiha clan (an elite group of warriors who were massacred down to a handful of people- notice any parallels?), now its old hat. If a new uchiha member gets introduced, you can bet he'll have a fucking Sharingan! Everyone who's anyone has a sharingan, its the latest goddamn thing! This is partly because they gave the Sharingan a second, and then a third 'level', which made the first level less and less impressive. But as the power became inflated, your standard every day ninja becomes even more irrelevant. Which I suppose is the reason behind giving all the major villains recently the Sharingan or the equivalent.....now its less about if you have a sharigan, and more about how many you have. Now, I know, you'd think the maximum number of eyes you could have is two, right? NO, my friends! Our last villain had no less than ten of the goddamn things surgically grafted to his arm (I mean, where better to put sensitive organs than on the limb you routinely use to handle dirty things and block incoming attacks, right? The height of practicality, that). That's become the default thing for the series- if you want to make a dude respected, give him a goddamn sharingan. The more, the better. Which is why Madara has a literal vault full of eyeballs in his secret lair.

Holy crap, I just got it! Madara has been using Akatsuki to steal demon spirits, and he's been plucking out Sharigans in his free time....he's establishing a monopoly! He knows that at this point in the series the only way to be important is to have a sharingan, have a demon inside you, be a part of some previously established club of badasses (hokages, sannin, akatsuki, so on) or get yourself killed in an upcoming episode. Since he's already given Sasuke upgraded eyeballs, and he claims to have given another villain his eyeball related superpowers, its clear to me now. He's planning on handing sharingans out to anyone who wants to feel important. He'll make a fortune while he hands out sharingans like candy for Halloween!

Eye candy!

.......and I couldn't be farther off point than if I took a left turn at albuquerque. Moving on....

Okay, Madara is fighting the 4th. The hokage has his own signature technique, basically a magical teleport symbol he can put on a throwing knife or an enemy's back and instantly be there to beat them down. The fight ends rather anticlimatically with the two stalemating each other- Madara is driven off because he can't beat the 4th and control the Kyuubi. But Kushina, being bonded to the demon fox, is going to die and there's nothing that can be done to stop it.

So here's the part that kills this for me. The 4th decides to seal the fox inside Naruto, using a technique he knows will kill him. Now, up until now the story has had the good sense to leave the details of all this vague. We knew the 4th Hokage died for the village, that he sealed up the fox, so on. But here we finally learn why: He wants to seal up Kushina's chakra along with the fox, so that she can see Naruto when he's grown up and help him control the demon.

Kushina, sensibly, points out what a dumbass he's being here. There's no reason to use the super duper uber seal to bind naruto to the fox, he could do it without sacrificing his own life. The only reason to use the big seal is so Kushina can appear to naruto as a ghost years later and have a few minutes to bond with him. She demands to know why the 4th would sacrifice his own life just to use Naruto as the weapon to keep peace in the country. The 4th's reponse?

"Turning your back on the country, on the village, is just as bad as abandoning a child….we are a family of shinobi. Besides, even if I lived I could never substitute for you. There are things naruto needs to be told, things I could never say myself. That’s the mother’s job, and I need you to carry it out. Even if you only have the briefest of moments to do so. This isn’t just for you….this is for naruto.”

......

......

Okay, so let me repeat that. The 4th has gone from being a big ass hero sacrificing his life for the sake of the village to being a deadbeat dad who kills himself to performance so kinda of fucked up voodoo shit to seal his dead wife inside their son along with the fox.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

I mean, come on. What a bunch of hypocritical crap. Abandoning a country is the same as abandoning a child? Well, jackass, congrats, since the Hokage is supposed to be the primary protector of the country, you've just abandoned both those things at the same time. You just fought off a guy who wants to screw over the village using the demon you're implanting in your son, and you are the only who can go toe to toe with him.

And ignoring the whole sexist notion of the 'mother's duties', let's take a second look at this situation. Kushina is dying, that can't be changed. Naruto is absolutely guaranteed not to grow up with his biological mother in his life. Now, your choices there are to raise your kid on your own and try as best you can to tell him about his mother, or get over your grief and remarry so he has a mother in his life, or perform this bullshit seal so he and his mom can talk for five minutes when he's grown up. Now, given that, what in the hell makes you believe that option three is the good choice? What can his mom POSSIBLY say to him when he's grown up that will make any difference in his life- if growing up without her has fucked him up in the head, how can one little speech turn around those years of loneliness? And how is being raised by one parent worse than being raised by NO parents? How is there any logic to this?

I hate to say this, but this really screws up the cosmology. The whole point of the 4th Hokage was that the sacrifice was necessary to save the village and the child, there was no other choice. Now we learn that he had a choice, and his sacrifice was just him abandoning his son based on some assbackwards reasoning that the plot then contrives to make into the right decision. News flash- just because you control the world and can make any dumbass thing your characters do turn out okay in the end doesn't make their decisions any less stupid.

In conclusion, this was one long dumbass plot that should have just remained vague and unknown. The twist of having Kushina there to meet naruto was nice and made for a good story, but the retconning tricks that were pulled to make it possible were poorly conceived. My hopes for a satisfying end to this series are growing dim. Its like keeping vigil over an ailing pet now, waiting for the poor beloved thing to gasp its last breath so you can bury it and move on with your life.

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The Great Descent
There is a thing that claws at the back of my mind, a thing that has led to a dawning and grim realization. Something lives in the human mind, hidden in the back of the animal brain. It is an old thing, instinct from a more primitive time. The rationale is simple- in times of strife, in times of desperation, instinct says to hoard and protect- find a reserve of food, water and shelter and defend these things against predators who are just as desperate and hungry as yourself. Sleep comes harder, suspicions come easier, and the needs of survival outweigh all else. As a student of history, I've realized this must be true- in times of strife, a man abandons rationality for dogmatism. Smiles come harder, frustration boils faster, and fear rules. I've come to regard this as the worst enemy of our time- this instinct to close ranks and gnash our teeth at whatever might be a threat. Our rational minds answer the call of our fear by inventing reasons to hate, latching onto whatever half-formed fantasies our minds conjure up. In this way we are dividing ourselves, hurling accusations that can never stand to scrutiny, swallowing lies fed to us by anyone willing to take advantage of this state of chaos.

I have a favor to ask all of you. Don't fall into this trap. Speaking personally, it is especially easy to do when I see such a large group of people behaving in manner I consider the height of insipid. But I'm trying to look ignore all the incoherence in the rants (I'm starting to see that all the talk of Marxist socialists and fake birthcertificates is, simply, a way to demonize an opponent- and in so doing, rationalize their own opposition). We have to work past that, not the least of which because I have no doubt I and you have the same kind of stupid justifications for refusing to listen. In fact, I think I just named mine- I think these people are being stupid, and I've been using that belief to avoid listening to them. The thing is, underneath all the bullshit there's strong beliefs, and likely some smart ideas waiting to be heard. Politics has become the art of oversimplifying- people are reduced to caricatures, beliefs are summed up in one line. It still pisses me off when I'm reduced to a sterotype in someone else's mind, so my challenge is to stop doing that to everyone else. I urge everyone to start taking a more careful, more considerate look at what other people are saying, even if you don't agree with it. And then look at your own beliefs- look at what you think, look at why you think your way is better than your opposition, and entertain the notion that they might be right. Or, in classic demoncratic fashion, that a third solution might lie in the middle.

This I fear more than anything else- as times grow tougher, we're going to grow more fearful and more obstinate. In this country, wherein we elect a large body of political leaders to pass laws via debate and voting, leaders who grow increasingly unwilling or unable to compromise simply mean that very few solutions are arrived at, and the ones that are arrived at are so horribly tilted in one political direction that they enrage everyone or serve the needs of a select few. Speaking to the larger world, this growing instinct to demonize and close ranks is playing in more disconcerting ways. Europe is going through a rising tide of Islamophobia- laws against head scarves, crackdowns on mosques, movements for harsher immigration laws. I've been seeing long arguments that 'something has to be done' because the Muslims (or the gypsies, or whoever) is 'up to something'. Very nebulous problems and solutions indeed. As I said, I know my history- I've seen what happened when a large group because territorial and suspicious about a minority. To use an extreme and perhaps cliched example, what they say about Muslims now is not so different from the nebulous accusations leveled at the Jews not too long ago....which combined with a heavy level of economic strife led an enterprising monster by the name of Hitler to seize control of a country and plunge the world into one of our bloodiest conflicts ever. This is an instinct that leads to darker places. Try not to follow those paths, and try to guide the people who do back.

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Under the Radar
You know what I hate? When you find yourself in a mood to do something really cool and there's just nothing BIG enough to satisfy you. (And because I know how most of my friend's minds work, I am stating for the record that the preceding gripe should not be read with any sexual connotations applied to it WHATSOEVER....ya perverts.)

Anyway.....so yeah, I hate that. Know what I hate worse? When your in that kind of mood, then you find out about something big going on pretty much when its already upon you and there's little to no chance you can get tickets to participate.

Something like this http://www.fantasticfest.com/arcade

So....anyone in Austin care to make a likely futile attempt to get into this thing with me?

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Feeling ambitious
Tonight I think I shall attempt to walk/run 3 miles. Wish me luck.

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Trillian and AIM
Well, this pretty much ends a day of pure shit. AIM suddenly doesn't like the version I am using on Trillian, and I have no clue how to, you know, update the version on trillian so its useful. Please help?

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A quote from a play
"Sometimes I dream of revolution, a bloody coup d’etat by the second rank-troupes of actors slaughtered by their understudies, magicians sawn in half by indefatigably smiling glamour girls, cricket teams wiped out by marauding bands of twelfth men- I dream of champions chopped down by rabbit-punching sparring partners while eternal bridesmaids turn and rape the bridegrooms over the sausage rolls and parliamentary private secretaties plant bombs in the Minister’s Humber- comedians die on provincial stages, robbed of their feeds by mutely triumphant stooges….AND MARCH….an army of assistants and deputies, the seconds-in-command, the runners-up, the right-hand men- storming the palace gates wherein the second son has already mounted the throne having committed regicide with a croquet mallet….stand-ins of the world stand up!"

The Real Inspector Hound

Why am I bringing this up? Because this was stuck in my head earlier. Not the quote itself, mind you, its hard to get those stuck in your head. No, what it was was the PERFORMANCE, brilliantly done (as brilliantly as high school plays can be) by an old friend in a certain bizarre british comedy I had the priviledge of working on. I can still hear each word and pronunciation as he said it, speaking with such ernest vitality and love, describing his poor character's anguish at eternally being in the shadow of someone else. This is one the most absurdly fantastic pieces of pure ranting you will ever see, and so I give it to you. If you like theater of the absurd, with a healthy degree of parody for The Mousetrap in particular and any sort of murder mystery in general, then you would do well to check it out.

If not, then thank you for indulging my little trip down memory lane and my attempt to alleviate my random bought of boredom.

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10 reasons why banning gay marriage is of vital importance.
01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning. Remember, the best way to approach anyone or thing that is in any way different from the perceived majority is to turn tail and run from it like a skittish deer, lest you grow more tolerate and understanding of other views and ways of life.

02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall. Because being gay is neither genetic nor a lifestyle choice...its more like catching the flu.

03) Legalizing gay marriage is a slippery slope that will lead to even more extreme and deviant behaviors, because clearly no one can tell the difference between marriage between two consenting adults and marriage involving a minor or your dog, and all the laws against pedophilia or bestiality are just going to magically disappear once we allow same sex marriages.

04) Marriage has always been between a man and a woman, and the laws and definitions of marriage have remained sacrosanct throughout the ages. This is why interracial couples cannot marry, divorces are illegal, and families choose who their daughter will marry for her.

05) The sanctity of marriage must be defended. Gay people clearly have an agenda beyond marrying the people they love, look at all the straight marriage bans they have attempted to pass. There is a conspiratorial homosexual agenda at work in the country to control marriage, in much the same way the jews are trying to control your money.


06) A marriage between a man and a woman is valid because this is the only way to produce a child, because adoption and artificial incimination do not exist. And thus gay marriage cannot be sanctioned, just as we ban infertile couples and people too old to conceive from being married. Remember, this world is dangerously underpopulated and any behavior that results in less children like safe sex and gay marriage puts us all in danger!

07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. The USA has and always shall be a theocratic country that sees no difference whatsoever between the church and state. Moreover, no christian or jewish church in this country has ever sanctioned a civil union between a homosexual couple. Ever.

09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Banning gay marriage is supported by the majority of voters. And people as a mob have always held intelligent and thoughtful opinions on a subject. Supporting gay marriage may give the impression that the USA is a country in which the rights of minorities and individuals are respected regardless of the popular view, and may lead to activist judges ruling that certain laws passed by popular vote are illegal and unconstitutional, which in no way has happened before and indeed is not at all one of the most important functions of the highest court in our nation.

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I'm a terrible person.
So, I've never been much of a fan of Vlad Putin, the once and probably still is head honcho in Russia. The guy who has called Stalin one of his personal heroes and said one of Russia's biggest mistakes was breaking up the Soviet Union. In other words, the guy is Nostalgic for a time when Russia was acting like a bigger jerkass than America and everyone was scared to death we were going to blow each other up. So yeah, never been a big fan of this screwball or how popular he is in his homeland (I mean, when you literally have his political opponents disappearing left and right and you can interview a russian citizen on the street who says why yes Putin probably is taking them out KGB style, but adds that no one cares because his speeches make Russians feel spiffy about their country.....no. Just no.)

Still, its never good to revel in the suffering of millions, right? So yes, I must be a terrible person for remembering this:

http://tvnz.co.nz/content/224691/425822/article.html

And chuckling maliciously about this:

http://www.euronews.net/2010/07/30/fires-destroy-homes-in-russian-heatwave/

Awwww. Wha's amatter, Putty? Its just a few degrees hotter. Isn't that good for Russia?

Ahem. Sorry. I know, horrible tragedy. But the lover of poetic justice in me just can't pass it up.

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