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Monday, July 6th, 2009
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4:44 pm
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UK’s next spy chief in Facebook storm
The future head of Britain’s MI6 security service has found himself at the center of an embarrassing media storm after a UK newspaper unearthed pictures of him and personal details on his wife’s Facebook profile.
Heh. Idiot.
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| Sunday, June 14th, 2009
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6:29 pm - Oh Dear.
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Daniel Craig Popsicle
An ice cream company created the purple "licence to chill" lolly after asking more than 1,000 women which male celebrity like to see on the end of a stick. Del Monte Superfruit Smoothies said artists "worked tirelessly" to recreate a sculpture of 41-year-old Craig in the scene where he emerges from the sea in Casino Royale. "Daniel Craig topped our poll of Britain's coolest celebrities and thanks to our Del Monte lolly replica he is officially immortalised as super smooth and licensed to chill," said spokesman Matt O'Connor.
The Daniel Craig smoothie lollies are blueberry, pomegranate and cranberry flavoured and under 100 calories each.
I want one.
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| Friday, May 29th, 2009
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8:16 pm - Somedays your work is dull...
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And somedays you get to dress a kid up as Cthulhu and train the other kids to chant "Cthulhu Fthagan!"
At the school I work for, our afterschool program (what I do) decided that the theme for this month's activities would be "Under The Sea". A fashion show was held on one of the longer days, with the kids making their own costumes from assorted materials, and well, what's an under the sea theme without a little Lovecraft?
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| Sunday, May 17th, 2009
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4:00 pm - Pirates! Yay!
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Went to a pirate event, got distracted by tasty beer, but made it back to my tent without doing anything too embarrassing. Well, except for threaten my captain with gross bodily harm if she touched the beer, but in my defense, I didn't know it was her at the time, and much is defensible, in defense of booze. But really, I hadn't eaten dinner beforehand, and it had been a really stressful day, and then Parlan shows up with this huge frosty jug of delicious, delicious, pale ale, and everyone else wants the rum, and there's no good way to judge how much you've had except for it was about half gallon bottle, and then it was empty. Pair that with the obligatory swigs of god-knows-what that everyone offers you as you make the rounds to say hi (I think it was a mojito, some weird thick sweet drink, a horn full of some strange thing that burned my already smashed senses as it went down, and maybe others) and you have the makings of a very drunk Vispie.
I haven't been so smashed in long while. I suppose I needed to get it out of my system, but I won't be having much of anything for a while. The poor liver needs to recover. Still, it was a fun time. I think I'll try and make it to at least one more - either the Gathering or Seadogs.
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| Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
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12:07 am - Question
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What movie was enough to totally override your common sense by way of hormones? For me, it was Troy. That much random nakedness had me walking out of the theater going "Wow, that was a great movie." It took a day or two for my rational mind to go over it and figure out, "No, it was a crap movie, and very stupid, but they had enough pretty to overload the common sense part of my brain for a bit."
So, what's yours?
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| Sunday, April 26th, 2009
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6:41 pm - Heehee
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Amusing movie summaries. Some of my favorites:
300: Gays kill blacks.
ALIENS: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications.
BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Peasant girl develops Stockholm Syndrome.
BEOWULF: Colonists hire assassin to drive natives from land.
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA: Redneck trucker kills Chinese immigrants.
BLADE: Obsessed loner stalks and murders minority group.
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: Deranged pedophile big-business industrialist tortures and mutilates young children.
DELIVERANCE: Tourists experience local hospitality.
KARATE KID: Boy gains acceptance through violence.
KILL BILL: Irresponsible mother wants custody of her child.
RED DAWN: Despite shock-and-awe tactics, a superior occupying force is no match for a tenacious sect of terrorist insurgents.
SWEENEY TODD: Businesses flourish when freed from stringent regulation.
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST: Mel Gibson fulfills fantasy of showing a Jew beaten to a bloody pulp and killed on-screen.
WORLD TRADE CENTER: Rag-tag group of underdogs succeed at a massive undertaking despite overwhelming odds, credit success with faith in God
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| Monday, April 20th, 2009
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9:17 pm - Sun!
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The sun has finally decided to drag her errant ass back to the Northwest and give us some decent weather. Now if she could only get around to thawing out that mountain, we'd be in good shape. As for me, I've decided that I will go to UC Davis Law school - North California is really beautiful, and I think I'll like it there.
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| Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
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11:11 pm - Headed to California
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Going for a quick visit to Sacramento, visit a potential law school, see my sister and enjoy some nice sunny weather. 70 degrees, here I come.
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| Monday, March 30th, 2009
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8:41 pm - News at 11! When Weak-minded Idiots Breed
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mom pleads guilty in cult starvation death
A former religious cult member pleaded guilty Monday to starving her 1-year-old son to death after making an unusual deal with prosecutors: If the child is resurrected, her plea will be withdrawn. Ria Ramkissoon, 22, also agreed to testify against four other members of the now-defunct religious group known as 1 Mind Ministries. All four are charged with first-degree murder in the death of Javon Thompson.
According to a statement of facts, the cult members stopped feeding the boy when he refused to say "Amen" after a meal. After Javon died, Ramkissoon sat next to his decomposing body and prayed for his resurrection.
He was fucking ONE YEAR OLD! Maybe he couldn't speak very well.
Ramkissoon's attorney, Steven D. Silverman, said Ramkissoon believes the resurrection will occur. She agreed to plead guilty only after prosecutors said they would drop the charges if the child comes back to life, Silverman said.
"This is something that she absolutely insisted upon, and this is indicative of the fact that she is still brainwashed, still a victim of this cult," he said. "Until she's deprogrammed, she's not going to think any differently."
A victim? Bullshit. You can believe whatever you like, but if you kill a child - your own child, religion is no excuse. You chose to give up your mind in exchange for platitudes and belonging, now you can pay for it. Of course she wants to believe that the kid will come back to life - otherwise she murdered her child.
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| Saturday, March 21st, 2009
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10:37 pm - Oddness
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Was checking previous journal entries for confirmation, and the plum trees are blossoming about a month later than they did a few years ago. That's odd. Furthermore, the reading has shown that 2009 has been particularly dull in contrast to my other years. All the the other years I was either training, or studying, drinking, partying and dancing round fires in honor of pagan gods. But that is to be expected. I've been busting my ass for a long time, and I needed a year off. This is how a weekday goes for me now: Wake up at 9, run for an hour, have a long breakfast, go to work at my job running after-school programs for rich private school kids, come back, eat a great dinner, design a few more programs/activities for work, sleep. On weekends I go to restaurants, take a dozen-mile bike ride, to my favorite library and get books to read for the week, or just chill.
This autumn is law school, and it's back to school and social engagements, but until then, I'm relaxing. So I crave your indulgence, gentle reader, if my stories are less than thrilling for now. Sex, violence and bitchy underhanded intrigue to come in a few months.
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| Friday, March 20th, 2009
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9:21 pm - Mmm... Food
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Living with my brothers has one great benefit - they cook. Now me, I can assemble food into edible form, and it's not bad, there are even a few things I do well, like baking. But the delicious carbonera that my brother made for dinner, and the hashed browns with grilled mushrooms, onions and bell peppers that we had yesterday... that's beyond my humble skill.
In other news, I went to a vampire ball, which was mediocre, and a toga pirate party, which was very nice. There was a grand opening of the Arrogant Bastard specialty ales, which were fine brews indeed. Visited my cousins for St. Patty's, since they were throwing a party, and it was nice to see them again.
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| Thursday, March 12th, 2009
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9:45 pm - Update
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Saw Watchmen, and it was good - except for the actress who played Laurie couldn't act for shit, and unlike your standard action-flick, Alan Moore's female characters actually have depth and personality that require more than a pretty face and great tits to pull off.
Seriously, she's talking to Jon (powerful being) and he won't help her save the Earth, and there's these great lines that Moore wrote, she says something along the lines of
Line: "Fine, I'm going back. I'll fight and die alongside my mother and friends, and all those other humans whose lives you don't think are worth saving"
What it sounds like when she says it: "Fine. Don't buy me a new car. I'll just go talk to Steve, or Harry. I'll bet they'd buy a jaguar." Really, she's that bad. *sigh* But the rest was good.
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| Monday, January 26th, 2009
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8:37 pm - Goddamn It!
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House Dems may drop contraceptive spending
Democratic officials say House leaders are seriously considering deleting family planning funds for the low-income from an economic stimulus bill headed for a vote later in the week.
These Democrats say the Obama administration made the request for the change. Republicans have been critical of the provision, which is included in the $825 billion bill.
Under the provision, states would no longer have to seek permission from the federal government to provide family planning services — including contraceptives — as part of the Medicaid program for the low-income.
For the love of sanity! You want to know what's a huge cause of poverty and bad employment? Kids you can't afford! You can't hold down a good job because you have to watch the kid, and you don't have the money to house and feed it. And it's not even adding money, it's just lifting restrictions.
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| Friday, January 23rd, 2009
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9:37 pm - Good News. Bad News, Weird News.
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Good News First: Obama reverses Bush abortion-funds policy
President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century.
Critics have long held that the rule unfairly discriminates against the world's poor by denying U.S. aid to groups that may be involved in abortion but also work on other aspects of reproductive health care and HIV/AIDS, leading to the closure of free and low-cost rural clinics.
Yes! Women's Rights are back!
Bad News: 3 dead, 12 wounded in Belgian day care stabbings
A young man with a gruesomely painted black-and-white face went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbing two babies and a female worker to death and seriously wounding 12 others.
"This was a particularly violent attack. All the kids had multiple stab wounds on their legs, arms, and all over their bodies," Dr. Ignace Demeyer, head of emergency services at Our Lady Hospital in nearby Aalst, told reporters. The perpetrator had no connection to the day care center.
Damn. I mean, what the fuck? Who the hell goes on a goddamn baby-killing spree?
Weird News: Newspaper claims car thief transformed into a goat
LAGOS, Nigeria – One of Nigeria's biggest daily newspapers reported that police implicated a goat in an attempted automobile theft. In a front-page article on Friday, the Vanguard newspaper said that two men tried to steal a Mazda car two days earlier in Kwara State, with one suspect transforming himself into a goat as vigilantes cornered him.
The paper quoted police spokesman Tunde Mohammed as saying that while one suspect escaped, the other transformed into a goat as he was about to be apprehended. The newspaper reported that police paraded the goat before journalists, and published a picture of the animal.
Police in the state couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
I so need whatever the hell they're drinking out there.
So to recap: The government in this country is turning around, some people are still shits, and the backwards countries are still wacky.
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| Sunday, January 18th, 2009
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10:19 pm - So, Here Comes Obama
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Now don't get me wrong, I voted for him and he was a damn sight better than McCain, but all this outpouring of joy and optimism over him... I got a feeling that a lot of people are going to be disappointed in 3 months or so. I'll be happy if he reverses the worst of the anti-women legislation and doesn't fuck us over too badly internationally.
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10:07 pm - Saw Defiance
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And liked it muchly. Ah, Daniel Craig, why are you so sexy? Also, nice to be reminded that some Holocaust Jews were badass, and didn't just roll over and die because a bunch of goose-stepping jackasses told them to. My sister bought herself a puppy, which is good, because it will keep her in shape and happy, and she can put it in its kennel for a couple hours when she doesn't want to look after it. With kids, the police get all snippy about kennels.
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| Sunday, January 11th, 2009
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1:22 pm - So, I be 24
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And I went out with my Dad and Bro for pizza and beer and Rock Pasta, which is the best damn pizza ever. While there, we ran into my sister's ex-boyfriend, who we all like, and later, he, my brother and I went out for more beer. Then, while we're in a bar shooting pool, some guy walks up to me and puts his arm around my shoulder and is all "Hi." Now, an arm round the shoulder is not a grab or a grope, so it doesn't demand violence as a retribution, but it does get a pretty cold, "Don't touch me, who the hell are you?" He blinks, and goes, "Um... [name deleted]" and the gears click, and I go "Cousin! Shit, I am so sorry." And so we all shot pool, and drank more beer and ate more pizza. It was fun.
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| Friday, January 2nd, 2009
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10:07 pm - So, It's a New Year
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Went out, but the club has gone sorta blah since last time I was there (2-3 years ago). Now it's just like your average boring nightclub, it used to be the hot Russian night club. It was okay.
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| Sunday, December 28th, 2008
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11:11 pm - Press Are Idiots
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I realize that being part of the British Royal Family is some sort of ticket for people to harass them about everything, as illustrated by the whine-fest over whatshisface dressing up as a Nazi for a costume party, but this is just taking it too far.
I'm reading the news, when this headline jumps up at me. Prince Edward accused of beating dog. "Woah", I say. "That's pretty messed up." So I click, and what do I find?
Prince Edward has been in hot water with animal rights charities after using a stick to break up a dog fight.
The Fuck? Have you ever seen a dog fight? Two hunting dogs can do a hell of a lot more damage to each other than a stick. Hence the need to break up the dog fight. But it gets better.
Edward, the third son and youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II, was pictured in Sunday's newspapers waving the four-foot stick at the gundogs. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "It has not been determined that he did strike the dog."
Wait, so they don't even know if he hit the dogs?
Andrew Tyler, director of Animal Aid, said: "Hitting a dog is a pathetic, cowardly and vicious act -- it would appear he has had a royal tantrum."
Or he was trying to stop a fucking dogfight. You what's really nasty? Stitching up a huge fucking gash in your dog because another dog tore him open. And you can't exactly wrestle them to the ground either. And while I love animals, you can't explain to them "Now, that's not right, fighting is not how we solve our problems". Jesus! Find a real animal abuse case to talk about.
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| Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
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11:47 am - Yay, Yum, and Blaargh
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Got accepted to UC Davis Law school, which is good. Went out to celebrate at 13 Coins, which is a great place. Tried veal for the first time, and I swear, it tastes like Salisbury Steak. They tortured a baby cow for this? I was not impressed. The evil waiter talked me into too much delicious port after, which went really badly with the nice wine I had with the meal. See, problem is that after a year of sobriety in Japan, my alcohol tolerance has crashed like Britney Spears on a bender, and I apparently have no capacity for sweet liqueurs or any alcohol with sugar in it, especially if it's mixed. So I felt lousy afterward, and nauseous the whole next day. Good place though, I recommend it to all in Seattle.
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