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Saturday, March 12, 2005
2:10PM
Paul Rogers: Do you feel bad for a guy like Darius Washington?
Ellis Myles: Well normally you would, but you can't feel bad for a guy who talks trash and pokes his tongue out us all game long.
I say we're at least in the final four, at best national champs.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
"Wander, look for lands, avoid large-scale fighting, send pioneers ahead, have them plant maize, when the harvest is ready, move up to it; keep me, Huitzilopochtli, always with you, carrying me like a banner, feed me on human hearts torn from the recently sacrificed." commandment to Tenocha tribe from the god Huitzilopochtli ("Blue Hummingbird on the Left"), pre A.D. 1168.
War/Death Poem, indirect ode to Huitzilopochtli:
He makes the Eagles and Ocelots dance with him!
Come to see the Huexotzinca:
On the dais of the Eagle he shouts out,
Loudly cries the Mexica.
The battlefield is the place: where one toasts the divine liquor in war,
where are stained red the divine eagles,
where the jaguars howl,
where all kinds of precious stones rain from ornaments,
where wave headdresses rich with fine plumes,
where princes are smashed to bits.
There is nothing like death in war,
nothing like the flowery death
so precious to Him who gives life:
far off I see it: my heart yearns for it!
And they called it Teotihulcan
because it was the place
where the lords were buried.
Thus they said:
'When we die,
truly we die not,
because we will live, we will rise,
we will continue living, we will awaken
This will make us happy.'
Thus the dead one was directed,
when he died:
'Awaken, already the sky is rosy,
already dawn has come,
already sing the flame-coloured guans,
the fire-coloured swallows,
already the butterflies fly.'
Thus the old ones said
that who has died has become a god,
they said: 'He has been made a god there,
meaning 'He has died.'
Even jade is shattered,
Even gold is crushed,
Even quetzal plume are torn . . .
One does not live forever on this earth:
We endure only for an instant!
Will flowers be carried to the Kingdom of Death:
Is it true that we are going, we are going?
Where are we going, ay, where are we going?
Will we be dead there or will we live yet?
Does one exist again?
Perhaps we will live a second time?
Thy heart knows:
Just once do we live!.
Like a quetzal plume, a fragrant flower,
friendship sparkles:
like heron plumes, it weaves itself into finery.
Our song is a bird calling out like a jingle:
how beautiful you make it sound!
Here, among flowers that enclose us,
among flowery boughs you are singing.
Underworld Poem:
All the earth is a grave and nothing escapes it, nothing is so perfect
that it does not descend to its tomb. Rivers, rivulets, fountains and
waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously
they hasten on the vast realms of the rain god. As they widen their
banks, they also fashion the sad urn of their burial.
Filled are the bowels of the earth with pestilential dust once flesh and bone,
once animate bodies of man who sat upon thrones, decided cases, presided in
council, commanded armies, conquered provinces, possessed treasure, destroyed
temples, exulted in their pride, majesty, fortune, praise and power. Vanished
are these glories, just as the fearful smoke vanishes that belches forth from
the infernal fires of Popocatepetl. Nothing recalls them but the written page.
Nezahualcoyotl, King of Texcoco (1431-72)
Saturday, September 18, 2004
It becomes more and more apparent with each atrocity committed anywhere in the world that 9/11 means nothing. Take Darfur, a state of Sudan, for instance. An Islamic militia calling itself Janjaweed has attacked indiginous African villages in Darfur, killing anywhere from 400,000 to 500,000, and has displaced approximately one million persons, or, one-fifth of the total population of Darfur. In an interview with CNN correspondent Christine Amanpour, Sudanese president Omar Ahmad al-Bashir attempted to place allegations of genocide and government involvement in perspective, saying, "We know that the population of Darfur is about 5 million and we know that if take the stated numbers of about a million people, than we know that nearly 4 million are not affected by the war. So of course, these numbers are exaggerated and reports that this problem is widespread through the entire Darfur region is not true. And if you consider that the population of Darfur is 5 million and you take the numbers that they cite of a million, that means 4 million people are not affected by the war which means that the majority of the region and its citizens are living their normal life." Eyewitness accounts of victims paint an particularly nightmarish picture, one with aircraft bombing poor villages, men on horseback raiding villages, setting them ablaze, raping the women, killing the men, and killing the livestock (and thus destroying the villager's food supply and economic hopes. The Janjaweed militia, a shadowy, mysterious group, maintains a strangehold of terror on the region. Children and elderly people are dying the most from malnutrition. Yet with all this going on in plain sight, the news media, which is "forced" to prioritize its coverage, especially in an election year, has not publicized the atrocities in Darfur.
Now let us contrast this atrocity, which the United Nations declared the "worst humanitarian crisis on Earth right now," with the recently much publicized terrorist taking of a school in North Ossetia, Beslan, Russia. Chechen rebels stormed the school, taking everyone hostage, executing teachers, and used school children as human shields to block the Russians from counterattacking. The insurgents warned the Russian military that for every rebel they killed, fifty children would be slaughtered in retaliation. In the end, when Russian soldiers stormed the school after several failed negotiation attempts, 335 hostages died. Chechen militant leader Shamil Basayev claimed responsibility for the attack in an email posted on a Chechen rebel website. He also claimed responsibility for a Moscow metro bombing that killed 10 people and explosions that downed two passenger jets, killing 90. He called the siege of Beslan a "terrible tragedy" and placed blame on Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has steadfastly refused any measures that would grant independence for Chechnya.
The difference here is the implied al-Qaida links between Basayev and Osama bin Laden. While there may be links between al-Qaida and the Jajaweed militia operating in Darfur, none have been explicitly stated. Basayev asserts that there are no contacts between his independence movement and bin Laden's terrorist organization.
Perhaps the news media weighs their stories on historical impact. After all, isn't the Darfur genocide (to use the UN's words) simply little more than a local competition for land and resources, compounded by years of racial and ethnic hatred? And, certainly most important, isn't Russia a strong US trading partner? Sudan certainly is not. The Beslan incident raises much more sinister implications, according to the media. For instance, days after the end of the seige, President Vladimir Putin put into effect sweeping reforms to "unify the country against terrorism." Now, at close look, these reforms are somewhat alarming. Putin's party, Unified Russia, already has a large majority in the national Duma. Under this new measure, which is sure to pass with little trouble, Putin will have the authority to nominate candidates for local election. The catch is that all of his candidates will be from Unified Russia. No matter who a Russian citizen votes for, they will be voting for Putin. This measure will effectively end any real democracy, and is almost identical to the Soviet style elections of old, where the people had only one candidate to vote for. Looking even closer, one realizes what kind of a leader Putin is. He has the admiration and overwhelming support of his country. He is an intimidating, business-like demigod. He is a former high KGB official, and has publicly stated his admiration of the strong leadership qualities of former Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. This points to nothing less than the second coming of the Soviet Union, only without the anti-American sentiments that the Soviets felt was their raison d'etre.
This represents yet another triumph for terrorism, if you want to call it that. A strong ally of the US has again relapsed into its former ways, and a poor, backwater region has been effectively ignored by the American news media, which has the power to mobilize some sort of relief effort.
It is a shame that the present administration, nor John Kerry has adequately addressed Darfur. But, it is easy to see why. If the news media doesn't care, then the average American doesn't care. If the average American doesn't care, then why should those wishing to represent us in Washington?
Through this reasoning we can see how much of a stranglehold the news media has on the US citizenry. One person cries a link between Chechen separatists and Osama bin Laden, and Beslan is on the front page. No one made such a cry in Sudan, where the possibility of al-Qaida connections is just as possible as in Chechnya, because no one cares about a poor, oil-less region where it is easy to say "that stuff happens all the time over there, what's new?"
So, now it seems that not only are the "terrorists" (or, plainly-speaking, the "bogeymen") are our main enemies. God help us if we do something to piss off Russia and pick up the Cold War where it left off.
On a different note, but perhaps more pertinent to Americans, I write this: With everyone these days seeming to care about the election, it would be beneficial to give some insight into the basic poles of political thought, an area which is distressingly ignored by many. Political scientists (aka people with degrees who read a ton of news and are much more well-informed than most) separate the political philosophical realm into two categories; realists and idealists. The premise of the two categories rests on their attitudes toward human behavior. Realists are pessimistic of human behavior (see Thomas Hobbes, Niccolo Machiavelli). Idealists are optimistic about human behavior (see John Locke, Thomas Jefferson). Realists (also called conservatives, traditionalists, and, in our two-party system, Republicans) postulate that human behavior is dictated by one's own instincts for survival, that one man will place his lot before the lot of others for his own self-advancement. Thomas Hobbes, writing in the seventeenth century, called this "animus dominandi," or, an inherent need to dominate. Evidence can be seen to support this theory, from slavery to man's continual efforts to control mother nature. This idea explains the current international system, which is anarchic, meaning there is no unifying government to rule all. States in this system are in direct competition with one another, and thus, loathe to cooperate with one another for fear of the other state gaining the upper hand.
On the other hand are the idealists (liberals, progressives, Democrats). Idealists stress the idea that humans possess the ability to cooperate and aid one another, as it is this quality that differentiates humans from lower forms of life. What many Americans seem to forget is the fact that the Revolutionary War was at its core idealistic. Both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are based on the writings of John Locke, a major voice for progressives at the time. Instead of the current anarchic international system, idealists believe in a unifying "world government," an idea that many decry as inherently communist. Idealists seek to end competition between states by forming a unitary human government that will work in the best interests of humanity. International organizations, the largest of which is the United Nations, are a result of this belief.
Realism emphasizes power, economic standing and lineage. Idealism emphasizes justice and the obligations of the advantaged to the disadvantaged.
I am politically an idealist. I believe that justice is far more important than power.
The US should do something to halt the Darfur genocide because it is the right thing to do, but I guess since there is no monetary gain to be made there, the UN will have to handle it, and God knows they don't have the funding to do as good a job as the US would under ideal (not idealistic)circumstances.
Friday, July 30, 2004
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
in theaters may 19 2005.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
recently read books:
albert camus; "the myth of sisyphus"
"the stranger" (re-read, originally read in high school)
"caligula and three other plays"
"exile and the kingdom"
"the plague"
"the fall"
"the first man"
jean-paul sartre "no exit and three other plays"
alex haley "roots"
sophocles "elektra"
gabriel garcia marquez "one hundred years of solitude"
fyodor dostoevsky "notes from underground"
erich maria remarque "all silent on the western front" (re-read, originally read in high school)
noam chomsky "rogue states: the rule of force in world affairs" (for college world politics class)
recently read articles from old national geographics with synopsis:
marco polo three part article: author travels the same route as famed italian discoverer, starting at venice, through iran and the middle east, to china, and back through india to venice once again in an attempt to objectively coroborate polo's influential book entitled "description of the world." along the way the reader learns of kublai khan's affinity towards marco (kublai khan appointed marco to a position in his mongol controlled empire which stretched from china to the frontier of russia and much of the middle east), his various discoveries, including coal and silkmaking, and his misadventures on board a boat passing through samatra, at the time inhabited by cannibalistic tribes. the writer discovers that most of what marco described was indeed true.
megatransect three part article: author travels with a biologist making a year long trek through central african jungles, reporting on the discoveries and dangers they faced, including rebel soldiers, gorillas, ebola, and various other tropical diseases. the biologist is accompanied by various african tribesmen. the author devotes much space making a psychological profile of the biologist, and much of the remaining space is concerned with the future of african jungles in the face of extreme poverty, low government funds, volitile political conditions, and the needs of an exploding population. the group traveled through areas that human eyes had not seen in at least one thousand years.
light article: author reports on light, what it is, the history of light in a scientific context, the birth of the universe, dating its age based on "fossilized" radiation, how it behaves, and how it can be used in the future. near the end the author asks a physicist, "why does light travel at the speed it does?" the physicist's answer; "we may never know." theoretical scientists have postulated that light can possibly travel at a different speed in another universe, but of course it is very hypothetical and practically impossible to refute or confirm.
pterodactyl article: author interviews paleontologists whose expertise is pterodactyl biology. the reader learns that pterodactyls are possibly not cold blooded reptiles like was originally thought, pterodactyls had a 150 million plus year history, making them one of the most enduring life forms on earth, they had a brittle bone structure, were efficient fliers, different species fed on different foods, and they ranged from the size of a sparrow to the size of a world war two fighter plane. pterodactyls died out at roughly 65 million years ago, along with all other dinosaur species.
water conservation article: author investigates the state of water conservation on the planet and gauges its importance among environmental issues facing the world today. he discovers it is perhaps the most important. the author discusses new technology such as desalination, water treatment, and sprinkler systems that are programmed to give plants just the right amount of water to reduce run off and inefficient water usage. other solutions such as makeshift dams that collect monson rains are discussed. a breakdown of the planet's available water supply is also provided, revealing that 70% of the world's freshwater is stored in polar ice caps, and, in most areas, the most used source of water, groundwater, is quickly being exhausted by major cities and urban areas with an unquenchable thirst for water. the author discusses the grave threat posed by the current water situation, which includes areas being ravaged by drought, starvation due to the death of crops, the prevalence of water bourne diseases such as cholera and diahrrea, unclean water tainted with industrial chemicals and sewage, and, among countless others, the high cost posed to extremely poor people worldwide by the coming necessity of buying water in an urban center.
black sea and the biblical flood: scientists research the formation of the black sea, formed by the mediterranean breaching a natural dam, and how local populations would be displaced by massive flooding, possibly giving birth to the various flood stories that occur frequently in ancient literature, from the bible to the sumerian epic of gilgamesh. according to these scientists, the water level of the black sea could have risen by as much as fifteen inches a day over the course of an unknown number of months, forcing the human population of the time to flee their homes, causing widespread famine, death and warfare between fleeing tribes encroaching on the homelands of other populations. their research corroborated this theory, and also gave alarming evidence of the rising levels of the black sea's anoxic (water with trace levels of oxygen that cannot support animal life) water levels. one particularly grim, yet possibly realistic opinion is that all life in the black sea can die in the next fifteen years due to natural cycles which are accelerated by human pollution.
other articles read: the history, culture, religion, folklore, and future of the former soviet republics georgia and armenia, (two separate articles), the history of the ancient yet oft forgotten empire of axum, the descendant of which is modern day ethiopia, an article focusing on the current civil war in sudan, its origins and possible future, an article on how humans migrated to north and south america during the ice ages and the competing theories associated with the migration (siberian tribesmen crossing a landbridge over the current berring strait, south pacific islanders trekking to south america, etc)
latest books i own but have yet to read that would guarantee me entrance into the vietnam war era wannabe hippie cool club:
"the wretched of the earth" frantz fanon
"tropic of cancer" henry miller
"nostromo" joseph conrad
"the russians" (written by a collective of western journalists about the day to day life of soviet citizens circa 1970-1980)
Current music: third eye blind - how's it gonna be?
Monday, July 5, 2004
11:41PM
i celebrated the fourth by smoking weed with michael middleton.
Monday, June 14, 2004
5:38PM
i was never good at math either, hell, i passed junior math by .5 of a percentage point and failed my first college math class, so just bear with me;
getting no sleep the night before your first day of work at your new full time job + being there for nine hours + finding out that your schedule has you working seven days straight, eight hours a day, yet having to stay there for nine because of the one hour unpaid lunch break + finding out that none of your coworkers are anywhere near your age + basically realizing that you work at a giant corporate bingo hall + the mere fact that your supervisor looks exactly like a white trash high school drop out version of kimmy gibbler = key...
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK!!!
but hey alright, here's the good part.
by the time i get my first paycheck, because it is biweekly, i will have worked a maximum of 120 hours, or at the very least a minimum of 105. oh yeah, minus the fact that my first paycheck is three weeks away and i will be running on fumes money wise.
Saturday, June 12, 2004
11:51AM
smoking weed is again an option. thank gad.
Monday, June 7, 2004
Amherst Song Professes Ptolemaic Solar System?
Is the band Amherst clinging to outdated and scientifically disproven theories of the structure of our solar system? In light of the current, accepted, and proven (via satellite photographs, Hubble telescope images, high powered observatories on earth) model of our solar system, we must say yes. Grade school children learn the order of the planets by the saying "My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas." This is the proven, correct order. Grade school children also know that each of these planets revolves around the sun, which is situated in the center of our solar system. Yet the Amherst song "8mm Film" contains the lyrics, "What i need is the strength/to reverse revolutions of the sun." The ancient astronomer/scientist/geographer Ptolomy (87-150 A.D.) devised a system which placed the Earth in the center, remaining stationary and being circled by the moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and, finally, a last level that constituted the stars. (http://www.roman-britain.org/images/ptolemaic.gif) Not only was this Ptolemy's model of the solar system, but it was his model for the entire universe. In his time, stars were grossly misunderstood, and none understood that our own sun was one. And because of primitive means of observation, the existence of other solar systems were unknown and unfathomable (yet it should be noted that ancient Greek philosophers such as Epicurus debated that the universe is infinite and must contain infinite planets with their own intelligent species). This theory, which Ptolomy backed with his own scientific observations (of course, one must consider the political, religious, and socioeconomic climate of the time, and also what crude rudimentary tools were available) was not debunked until the 16th century, by famed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, whose own work owed much to earlier astronomers Tycho Brahe and Nicholas Copernicus. Galilei's model of the solar system was heliocentric, meaning the sun resides at its center.
But I must digress into the issue at hand, which is the erroneous lyric. Is this a hearkening back to the ancient days of naked eye astronomy? Or maybe an acknowledgment of human vanity, which had just always assumed that Earth was the center of the universe by virtue of the presence of humans upon it? Was the speaker sick/asleep/in the principal's office the day his grade school class went over the heliocentric model of the solar system? Perhaps widening the context of our investigation will provide us with some insights. The song seems to be a kind of lamentation on the subject of past wrongdoings, living with grief, and so on. Perhaps in the speaker's grief, which has a tendency to cloud the mind and distort certain apparent truths, he had quite simply forgotten the discoveries of Brahe, Copernicus, and Gelilei. Instead of expressing his desire to go back and correct past wrongs correctly, he has committed an astronomical impossibility in supposing that the sun revolves around the earth.
So, as we are now able to see, it seems that ancient debunked theories may be making a comeback, the ramifications of which are possibly monstrous, sinister, and, at the very least, misleading to an all too often uneducated public who will believe anything told to them.
Friday, May 21, 2004
"did i hear somebody say hypnotize camp posse?"
Current music: three six mafia - sippin on some syzurp (feat. UGK)
Friday, May 14, 2004
1:26AM
georgette is having morphine dreams. she wakes up crying "vincent!", pulls herself up, and runs out the door, past the buildings, and into the streets, all the while screaming for vincent. until a taxi comes careening out of nowhere, collides with georgette's slight figure, and sends her flying over the car. hubert selby runs out of the taxi, crosses himself like a good catholic, and says, "my god."
other than that, i was pretty much disappointed in the film version of last exit to brooklyn.
ps: georgette was a drag queen known affectionately as "georgie-boy."
Thursday, May 6, 2004
2:52PM
Well, it seems that our president's approval rating is the lowest since last March, and he and Kerry are at an almost dead heat according to the latest Gallup poll (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/06/thu/index.html). And here comes the punchline: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is coming under heavy fire in the wake of the pictures released from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. House Democrats are calling for his immediate resignation. Bush, of course, is standing steadfastly behind his man. All Bush could say concerning the politically damning pictures of Iraqi prisoners stripped, hooded, tortured, and forced to perform sex acts on each other was, simply, "Sorry."
Current music: at the drive-in
Saturday, May 1, 2004
2:35PM
hey guys guess what? nobody cared in the least in the eighties when saddam gassed kurds in the north, trampled over the rights of his own people, killed dissidents, tortured anyone who looked suspicious in elaborate means, and enriched his followers while worsening the lot of his people. you know why nobody cared back then? because we supported iraq in their eight year war against iran, the biggest enemy of the eighties. and we can easily control dictators, not traditional democracies. that would require the people of a country to actually support us in our exploitation of them. we kept things friendly with saddam, until he disobeyed us wishes and invaded kuwait. which was coincidentally around the time of the fall of the soviet union, aka the communist menace we had previously used to attribute all foreign actions against. without that, what new enemy would we have? we had to get one fast, people. and saddam acted like a pawn in our game, and we squashed him. all of a sudden he became the beast of baghdad, the most evil tyrant alive, etc etc. there's other parallels. take general suharto of indonesia for instance, a man referred to for over 35 years in government circles as "our kind of guy." yeah, and also the same kind of guy who came to power by us means, funded with us money, armed with us guns, who killed hundreds of thousands of his own people. not to mention the repeated invasions of east timor, in which the entirety of the population was either displaced or killed (one third of east timorese population murdered in the nineties). he slipped out of power, and, consequently, us favor, in the late nineties. because he could no longer control his own people. so he's "our kind of guy," right? oh, and add to that the war on drugs, the extremely corrupt and murderous columbian government, the sanctions on cuba which are still the harshest in the world, and what do you have? us foreign policy forumla for success.
haha.
Friday, April 30, 2004
3:46AM
kerry went to war and earned three purple hearts for battle wounds and two bronze stars for bravery in a war he publicly denounced. i guess since he didn't believe in the war he fought in and said so afterwards, that makes him unamerican. wow how unpatriotic. the man should be executed.
and to people who give their opinions about politics yet dont read the paper or seem to have to slightest clue who any major american political figure is beyond george w. bush, bill clinton and other major american presidents, shut up.
Sunday, April 25, 2004
4:44AM
ok, so the other day i was high and i was thinking about how there are indigenous peoples of africa, the canadian northern frontier, in amazonia, motherfuckin siberia, and they are living far beyond the range of modern culture. what kind of thought is that? what are they living for? what are their values compared to ours, are they as valid as ours, are their wisemen as profound as ours, are their answers simpler, less convoluted? oh my god guys, people live outside modernity, and they have no idea whatsoever about what is happening here, and else where around the mainstream world. aka basically the whole fucking globe. they are resisting modern society because they do not have any idea we exist. that, to me, is beautiful. maybe ignorance is bliss, maybe not knowing would be the best thing afforded by nature, god, whatever. i read in the newspaper recently that a tribe of amazonian indians had murdered thirty foreign (to the indians, nearly everything is foreign) diamond prospectors. the deaths are still under investigation. stop treating these people like pets, because only in the end will we realize that they know what is truly up. i am lobbying for their continued survival, they need to live for the good of all of us, because they are beautiful and admirable, and when i see national geographic articles of these "primitive" hunters, i want to bow at their knees and say, "i want to be you." i want to be like that so bad it makes my heart break, for something like that, something so simple and primal and logical. because this isn't logical. this isn't near cool at all. oh well.
and let's talk about positivist law, aka the law we exist under even though we'd like to call it divine law based on our historical perspective within the world, ie the protestant hard working individualistic a man makes himself thus accumulating his lonliness which attributes to a high rate of suicide. law comes from inside a human and his views of what society should reflect? that is bullshit, don't even try to step.
there are more protestant suicides than catholic suicides. more white than black suicides. more male than female suicides. does that mean i will die at my own hand? hopefully not because by then sociology would become obsolete in my favor. but if it occurs for other's fates, it could come for me. who can tell the future. who can tell "fate"?
unless someone gives me answers i can't refute right away or in the next fucking five minutes, i doubt i'll listen all that intently. nobody has the right to say they need to be listened to. unless you have an obligation to them. it's not a burden, though. it is pleasant to hear unloaded. aka the essence of friendship, which is, simply, putting up with other people's differences to compensate for the good time you are having with them.
people fucking get impressed by my intellect, what is that, is it admirable or an achievment or a trait, what is it, does it really matter, does it exist, does it mean anything one way or another, will it help the average joe in the everyday struggle, will it help the american dream further in any way possible? i don't feel any pride out of "being smart". it doesn't exist to me. it is simply a manifestation of boredom. people experience boredom out of lack of interest. they want to be interested. so what is the difference between reading a book and shooting small animals, or deer? what is the difference between writing a novel or play, and fucking getting drunk "with the boys" after work at the construction site? what does it mean? it means nothing, and there is no valid reason to have pride in an abstract, practically nonexistent form of consciousness. it just "makes you feel smart" which, also, "makes the girls horny." that's all it does. i want to learn out of lack of interst, and that is all. which isn't more admirable or noble than the other choices. hey, guess what? my entire interest in life is as ridiculous as the next, what am i trying to do or stop or influence? fuck it, i can't wait for the presidential election, i want to throw it down so bad i can't believe it.
steve puked at my house like a gay. what the fffffff...
i'm calling eric stuart to go to a buddhist group meeting tomorrow. and will i be better than anyone? no. not ever. fuck being better than anyone.
Current mood: drunk/high aka "crunk" Current music: jay-z "money ain't a thang (feat. jermaine dupri)"
4:14AM
i'm so drunk i cant even read this shit. inform me if anything intersting happens. i have happy heys. they dont do what i want them to do. bye.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
12:58AM
4/20 with mike newton.
Current music: big tymers - #1 stunna, i'm stilly fly, get your roll on
Monday, April 19, 2004
Excuse my intrusion, I do not mean to disrespect you as I write in good faith. I sought and 1got address on the internet myself.
I am Raymond K. Bosha, The Accountant General Time Bank Bank Of Zimbabwe. I Request you cooperation In the transfer of money, totaling (Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand USD.)
In September 1999, a British White Farmer, Mr David Adams, made a fixed Deposit of $17.5 Million (Seventeen Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) in the Time Bank of Zimbabwe. On Maturity, a routine notification was made to his forwarding address but no reply was received. After a month, we received a notice from his address, that Mr. David Adams had died in a car accident. Investigations have now revealed that Mr. David Adams Died without leaving a WILL and our efforts to trace a next of Kin has proved fruitless.
When he was making his disposition in my Bank, he did not declare his Next of Kin. When I reminded him of this, he said he wished it so. The point here is that his employees are not aware of this deposit and I am thus the only living person who is aware of this money deposited by Mr Adams and also that Mr Adams has now passed away. I am in possession of other documents relating to Mr Adams funds.
I am now looking for a foreigner, who will stand as Next of Kin of Mr Adams. I have carefully worked out necessary modalities for the careful execution of this transaction. If you accept to work with me to move this money out, you will be appointed as the next of kin. We will use a lawyer here to draw up a WILL and Affidavit of Witness stating you as the Next of Kin of Mr David Adams. We shall also secure a government Certificate of Origin showing the exact source of funds.
Upon the receipt of the WILL and Affidavit, a Letter of Probate will then be issued. This document will empower you to act in all matters relating to the estate of Mr. Adams. Please note that you will not be required to sign any documents as the Lawyer will be mandated to all that.
If you agree to work with me on this, I will be able to allow you keep 30% of this money,60% for me and 10% will be for all expenses to be incurred in the process of executing the transaction.
I am urgently looking forward to your positive response to my Email address bosharay@gawab.com or bosharay@themail.com
regards,
MR. Raymond K. Bosha
wow. i am apparently being targeted for an international conspiracy.
anyone calling me from here on out should refrain from making political statements, as i suspect that the phone lines have been tapped. fuck the cigarette smoking man from the x-files, this is bigger than that.
Sunday, April 18, 2004
3:51AM
i'm drunk and i have to mow the lawn tomorrow.
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
monday wednesday:
Intermed Algebra with Applications (aka 083 yet again) 12:00 - 1:15
History of Colonial Latin America 1:25 - 2:40
tuesday thursday:
American Government 10:35 - 11:50
The Solar System 1:25 - 2:40
having to take 083 again is pretty hey alright, but the fact that i'm taking the most how is it possible for jcc to offer something this random/ultra specific class ever (history of colonial latin america) which also offers a trip to guatemala each summer is pretty sweet. if i have enough money by next summer, i'll have to go. the funny part about the whole guatemala thing is that i was reading (in noam chomsky's rogue states: the rule of force in world affairs, a book i suggest everyone should read) about the brutal repressions and widespread murder that has been going on there for more than twenty years (if i went there, what would they do, kill me? i'm an american, aka a representative of the people who keep the killers in power and they don't wanna fuck that up by any means, that would be a retread of the whole "hey in the 1980s let's support saddam hussein and ignore the fact that he's gassing kurds and torturing dissidents in his own palace, but the second he goes against us orders in the form of invading kuwait and placing our oil supplies in jeopardy, let's call him the butcher of baghdad" bullshit that's still going on to this very day), and has been widely supported by major figures in the american government all throughout that time. in the mid forties when the guatemalans overthrew their previous government and set up a new free democracy, the us government intervened ten years later, trained hardline elements of the armed forces, supplied them with weapons, and instructed them on how to overthrow the government.
yes i have been obsessed with the newspapers lately. some kid in my english class had a copy of that day's new york times a few days ago, and i got excited when he let me have it. i watched the president's national address last night. i took a test in world politics class that had questions such as "who is maqtada al-sadr?" "name one thing president bush said in last night's address," "vice president dick cheney visited two countries this week. what are they?" (answers: 1. shiite extremist cleric operating in fallujah iraq commanding a militia of some several thousand iraqis all pledging to fight occupying us forces to the death, also has a warrant out for his arrest. 2. basically say anything about iraq, my answer was "i will send more troops if the situation calls for it". 3. south korea (i'm almost certain) and japan.) someone else get into this shit so i can have somebody to talk to about it.
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