October 2011
2 posts
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“Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of...”
– Steven Erikson, Dust of Dreams
Ethnocentrism
Are there places that don’t think they’re the best? Are there people that are really like ‘you know what? We’re okay. But those guys in _____, those fucking guys kick our asses.’ I don’t think so. I understand there’s a fine line between pride and blind raving nationalistic fervor, but it’s not a line that anyone who isn’t an imbecile crosses...
September 2011
3 posts
My brain sucks
Someone once told me that the ability to see and act in a perfectly logical and rational manner wasn’t necessarily a good thing - not necessarily the way things were “supposed to be.” After all, she reasoned (paraphrasing,) if that was the proper way to be, we would be that way. I wish I agreed with this - rather - I do agree with this, but only because that’s how I myself...
The real miracle
I think, after 22 years of enduring an endless parade of blithering self-indulgent morons, that the only reason that Helen Keller managed to be so dedicated, persistent and positive is because she happened to be oblivious to the fact that she was surrounded by billions of worthless people.
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August 2011
26 posts
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As the Irene hoopla mercifully dies down..
Let us not credit ourselves, or thank the fates that we managed to pull through this one, for the most part, unscathed - no, we should be focusing on the fact that this whole debacle has demonstrated a certain ‘lack’ within the contemporary human spirit. There are several ways to taxonimize this ‘lack,’ but I guess it’s just easier to describe it by way of pointing...
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“Yes, make yourself useless to humankind. Only thus will you survive, even when...”
– Heboric Ghost-hands, The Bonehunters
Grossed out.
Whenever some even moderately precipitous event happens, like this wack earthquake that I just mistook for a strong wind, I really have to stay off all social networking sites. Everyone has some variation of the same wack status or whatever and is seemingly unaware of the fact that they’re not clever, and not original. I go off the grid for at least two days. Lest I hate every single person...
Happiness
I have found that happiness is generally what, in one way or another, people are seeking. The problem is that happiness only works as a fleeting sentiment - it only exists as a vaunted thing if we’re walking the precipice of it no longer being around.
And that’s the problem - we seek to lock down that which, were it to be locked down, would not be desirable in the slightest.
Our...
Walking the same speed as someone is just an obnoxious experience. Especially when that someone is gross.
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Rubbernecking
How, as a society, have we accepted rubbernecking to be an inevitable evil? How have we reached the point where we can, without batting an eye, discuss that we were stuck in traffic because of rubbernecking? It is the stupidest fucking thing that we as humans deal with on a regular basis - other fucking idiots who feel the need to actually slow their vehicles to a crawl to gawk at a car accident,...
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“If I wanted you to understand, I would have explained it better.”
– Johan Cruyff
I write like a child
I have just.. Terrible handwriting. I always have. I always assumed it would somehow get better and it just.. Hasn’t. I just assumed when I became an adult I’d start writing like one. Not the case, not at all. I can make it relatively legible, but if I’m scrambling to like take notes.. Wow. It looks like a Jackson Pollack.
“If the world determines that my sole virtue is in being replaced or disregarded,...”
– Gaius Severus
Parts of my memory could use erasing..
Nothing serious, nothing on like an Eternal Sunshine scope, but just little things here or there - little associations that I have with things that I’d rather not have. Little nagging gremlins that just never seem to go away - and why would they? Every effort put forth to exterminate them further cements them into your brain, and adds a little more bitterness to the schema. The only real...
I find it unreasonable...
..that my urine smells like tuna fish. I have NEVER eaten tuna fish. And now I never will, because I know that it smells like urine. My own urine, at that.
"Do you have 5 seconds for gay rights?"
Those clipboard holding sons of bitches wanting me to sign up for this or that always try and get me with that question. It’s obnoxious because by not doing whatever it is they want you to do, you’re basically telling them, and the world, I guess, that you hate gays. So they guilt people into it! I can’t believe this works, but I see that it does. I see it in peoples’ eyes...
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“But let me describe the characteristics of peace, my young friend. A pervasive...”
– The Crippled God, Midnight Tides
Erik Weihenmayer
Okay. I could see how the guy can climb mountains, kind of. There’s a certain tactile component that I can grasp a blind person being able to work with. But are you seriously telling me the guy goes skiing and cross-country biking? No. I’m sorry. That’s impossible. Or he’s not blind. That just doesn’t make any sense. Is the guy a fucking bat? Matt Murdock? No way in...
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The Supreme Arrogance of Home Improvement
One of the most infuriating things that any thing/person/dynamic/institution can be is gratuitously self-righteous. And the Tim Allen vehicle Home Improvement was certainly that. The fact that the writers and producers perpetuated that fucking tripe about Wilson’s face for the decade that show was on television is nauseating. And then they come out with it at the end of the show - like...
Gay Weddings
If the ethos of this gay marriage legislation is to better integrate gays into society, then shouldn’t we stop saying patronizing things like ‘yayyyy first gay wedding!’ ‘Omigod! Three gay weddings this month!!!!’? It’s disingenuous, is it not? No one likes weddings, and by acting like you like gay weddings more you keep perpetuating the same problem of...
Negative '-isms'
The problem with your standard negative ‘-ism,’ like racism, sexism, and the associated sentiments, is that those unreasonable lines of thinking give a bad name to widespread dislike. Hatred is decidedly not in vogue, much to my dismay.
It’s not cool to hate things! Because people associate it with indiscriminate hate (which is actually reasonably discriminate, isn’t...
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“Greater things are believed of those who are absent.”
– Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Can’t believe that despite how often I’ve told myself to not look up prolapsed uteruses while on my work computer, that’s exactly what I just did.
Brown People
In high school, my high school at least, a ‘brown person’ was anyone who was Indian, Arabic, Pakistani, Guyanese, etc, but you didn’t know for sure. Or care, really. You just didn’t want to be like ‘those Indian kids.’ So you said ‘those brown kids.’
I always hated this. Not on some ‘that’s offensive!’ grounds, I just thought it...
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“No-one asks the spirit or the god, when the icon is fashioned, if it wishes...”
– Onrack, House of Chains
July 2011
16 posts
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"Cause if we die, we still gon' be some dead...
This intro has never made sense to me. You call yourselves Niggaz For Life because of what you’ll be when you’re dead? Then you’re not niggas for life, you go beyond that. And, in fact, that’s not a guarantee of perpetual niggahood, if you will. While alive, it only implies you’ll be a nigga immediately prior to death and thereafter. Shit, if anything you spend a lot...
Awkward-tall
If there’s one reason that I’m happy I’m not too tall, and there is only the one, it’s that I don’t have to deal with having my head poke out/be visible while standing in a toilet stall. It’s always an awkward moment, making eye contact with those tall fucks, making eye contact with a man who’s wiping his ass, you know? Thankfully it’s more awkward...
Pen Spinning
Has anyone ever seen someone who wasn’t Asian doing this? Why do they do this? Why doesn’t anyone else? Having gone to a predominantly Asian high school, you could look into any classroom and see 15 heads just spinning their pens, staring blankly ahead. Dealing with lesser concentrations of Asians now, I see it less, but I still do see it, and it’s always an Asian doing it.
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Pedestrian/cyclist/skateboarding assholes
We live in a sterile age, an age where there is really scant cause for fear. Generally, I suppose it’s good that we don’t have to spend most of every day concerned with the simple act of continuing to exist. We get to focus our energies on productive things: reading, writing, masturbation, etc. Somewhere along the way though, a threshold was crossed, and now fear is a concept totally...
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“‘Contempt,’ thought Tyrion, ‘the universal tongue.’”
– George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
Too bad I didn't die at 18-19
I was a god. My metabolism was incredible. I was eating 5-6000 calories a day and you would never have known it. Now I’m 22 and every meal is like a death sentence. Every day without working out is a day where I feel like a worm, a scum, a worthless, miserable piece of unmotivated shit. I see my paunch getting bigger with every meal, the skin under my chin too. I can barely stem the tide,...
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Is 'the wankfest' an American dynamic?
I’m basically defining wankfest here as exponentially overblown sensationalism ad nauseum, I guess.
It just makes me wonder, when I see the way the media, and in turn, the populace, in America seize an particularly uninteresting and utterly inconsequential piece of news/information/whatever and just jerk it off until it’s chafed, if that’s the way things are everywhere else in...
Having worked in customer service for years..
I can safely say that any fucking store putting me on hold for over 30 minutes 3 days in a row is full of lazy, incompetent fucking baboons. Not even one: ‘I’m sorry sir, we’ll be with you in a moment,’ just straight to hold and then left there. I never had a customer on hold for more than 5 minutes when I was working for a multi-million dollar company and handling hundreds...
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On each of my two train rides today
I saw one grown man (so that’s two distinct individuals,), playing angry birds and wearing a shirt that read ‘I tried being good but it got BORING.’ Is that a quote? Does it have something to do with angry birds? It doesn’t really matter, it’s an abortion of a shirt. That wouldn’t be CUTE if a twelve year old girl was wearing it, and it’s certainly not on...
The fucking audacity of some people, man
I’m a man who truly prizes his lunch hour. All I ever want, is to read some of my book, eat a sandwich, relax, unwind, etc.
Yet more and more often, I find preposterous people forcing their way into my lunch hour, trying to drive me insane. And it’s working. Today marks the most egregious occurrence..
I’m sitting at subway eating a fine meal, when I’m bothered by two...
'El oh el you are my be eff eff'
Geico, known for usually having at least passable advertisements, is the latest company to adopt the cringeworthy tactic of lampooning ‘internet/text’ lingo, such as the example given above.
Who is that appealing to? People who speak like that? Or people who don’t? Because I’m not really sure that anyone does, and I’m not really sure that anyone cares. What it is,...
June 2011
30 posts
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This decade blows
Didn’t hit me in full until a few minutes ago.. Heard a BMW commercial hawking “oh-11 Z4’s.” Oh-11?! Jesus. That is gross. We were spoiled, ladies and gentlemen. For decades we could, without batting an eye, drop a nice ‘04, or ‘97 or ‘86 or even ‘52. Now we have this situation ahead of us for next 8+ years. Oh-11… By god. “Oh did you...
