uncomfortable musings

does anyone else worry about Thompson might have been avoiding? he saw Watergate coming; what do you think he thought about the years he decided not to see?

it's a hard rain a-gonna fall
-Bob

when ya hear the beep, it'll be three o'clock.

she said that's over an hour and I hung up.


I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yers. I said that.
-Robert Zimmerman

Tip For The Day

No one cares.

life here on the moon

my best friend is a disembodied voice from Seattle. my other friends usually only exist from periods ranging from an hour or two a day to a few hours every few weeks. some just wink in and out every other month or so.
the music's good, but i've already heard most of it.

life lessons

some people listen to music so bad, even if you go outside and smoke a spliff, when you come back, you'll still want to die. this is bad for productivity.

i've become an abolitionist

free the slaves! abolish government!

what's with all the helicopters?

anyone else noticed this? is it just campus area? what the hell is up with all these goddamn loud mutherfucking helicopters?

looking for god?

great news, we've found something that's omnipresent, without beginning or end, the source of all things, and even all-loving, in a irritable, unpredictable kind of way; we're thinking it fits God's description. most interesting of all, we all stare at it all day, every day.
so we're hereby announcing the discovery of God. we've found and identified Him for you guys who are interested in that sort of thing, and you can look at Him.
He was the universe itself all along.
hiding in plain view. just like that bastard.

going out.. glass and tacos.

also acetone. mission accomplished!

frankly, i'm dissapointed in society and indeed human achievement in general because there's no place i can go to buy paint thinner, tacos, helium balloons, get a money order, rent a movie and have my acetylene torch's cylinders exchanged, all at the same time. although i must admit, the Hancock parking lot comes pretty close.

take a moment today to tell your favorite passing stranger what a difference they've made in your life.

Tip For The Day

Clean it with fire!

Tip For The Day

Quit that, already.

vicarious thought

whilst pondering anime conventions and how things look in the dark and why my shirt is making my shoulder itch, i realized something i already knew, but didn't know i knew, and i've decided to share it with YOU.
when in the dark, closing your eyes may actually make the scene brighter, if you're paying any attention to the squiggles inside your eyelids at least.
this thought connects to the fact that since we're not aware of being asleep, from a subjective point of view we're always awake. when you close your eyes, you still see stuff, so still no rest.
this connects to stories i've heard about idiots who decide they didn't really want to trip after all, and then panic when they discover that closing their eyes doesn't make the visuals go away.
and in a way, this connects to something i decided a few days ago. i think fate and free will are actually the same thing. it solves alot of semantic problems, and it feels good on metaphorical terms, so to speak. and just like when you're tripping you have the option of having a good trip or a bad one, as you decide, but you're going to have to ride the trip out either way, your inescapable fate is to use your free will at every single moment of your life, whether you're aware of it or not.

but who cares about any of that shit?

making the world a more accepting, less pleasant place

everyone knows you're not supposed to talk about politics or religion in public. most of us do anyway. in the interest of ever further stretching our conventions of acceptability, i now propose a list be compiled of topics even less appropriate for chatting in mixed company.

-death
-sex
-love
-what you dislike about the present company
-human stupidity
-humorous bathroom anecdotes
*yucky ass-related topics

everyone help by contributing to the list! things that make people uncomfortable, things that make them angry, things they don't want to hear about. the only catch is it should be something people don't already talk about in front of others despite how unpleasant it is. the point is to expand the range of inappropriate conversation, not just list it.

for those who are wondering, as long as i'm irritated and disgusted by all the stupid crap people talk about, i figure they should have to put up with the same sort of thing. i'm mean like that.
send those topics in!

...over a decade of conceptual continuity...

that's me.

i want to be a fictional character. it would be great. fictional characters don't have all that mundane day-to-day crap real people have to deal with. all you ever see is the cool parts, when stuff's actually happening, and the characters are being interesting and you can see who they are and what sort of life they lead without all the hassle of actually doing it.

just for the hell of it, i'm going to post-date this entry to about 4 and a half hours from now.

pleased to announce

i think the audience participation thing went well. not the most straightforward of universal truths, but cool to ponder nonetheless.