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Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus

"Friday, March 9 at 7:00 PM
Flying Monkey Arts Center, 2211 Seminole Drive
Admission $5 / $3 Film Co-op members"

http://www.filmcoop.org/events/2007/dodos.html


Crosspost freely!

I had an interesting discussion with a co-worker who couldn't understand that while I consider myself a Christian, I also believe in Buddhism, Satanism, and Atheism. I follow the principles (though not many of the organizational and practice aspects) of the first two and try to live my life accordingly, but recognize the aspects of myself that appreciate and understand the latter two. I know they don't work for me, but I don't automatically condemn someone that they do work for.
I've always felt that if you read just Jesus' words (not Paul the sick bastard, not the old testament stuff) that he sounded very much like Buddha. Her point was that with Buddhism, it is valuable and a necessary experience for enlightment, but it only shows YOU one path valid only for you, whereas Christianity (when properly practiced-which is hasn't been in years, especially the last 5) encourages you to help others find A path that can be valid for many more people besides yourself.
I agree and disagree at the same time.
But then, I do this with many things which driveres wither/or people crazy. Them: the glass: half empty or half full? Me: Yes.
Might as well be asking me about Heaven and Hell or the existence or non-existence of magic. Is there or isn't there there? Yes.

I believe in everything, also the belief of not believing, which in itself IS a belief.

Philosophy 101 teaches that as circular logic. But then, that doesn't do much to expalin what's beyond its own process of analysis. There are things that truly can't be got at through logic. Faith being the big one. Faith of any sort. The power is never what you believe in, but in the act of belief itself.


Wow, that went on longer than I meant it too.

I reall like what this guy has to say and show.

http://mefeedia.com/watch/text.php?entry=22580

616 is the Beast address. 666 is just his block party organizer.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1501490/20050509/index.jhtml?headlines=true

NC-Comics

Wowsers, I like this guy's style.


PN-Film

Omgee! Prelinger Archives added another collection. Movie Trailers from Sabucat Productions which has the largest collection of theatrical trailers.


PN-TV


PBS, as hard right -wing as it's becoming, still sometimes has some good programs. There's a series about the differing world views of Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis that I saw last night and the previous Wednesday. The most interesting parts are the conversations between the panel. One woman put my perception into words. Looking at something can be looked at through any window, the religion window, the art window, the music window, the logic window. None of these viewpoints are better or worse, but different. Which I agree with, and why I always have a problem with the modern idea that logic is better than everything else. Because in my own personal experience, it's not. Freud's Civilization and it Discontents and his essays and C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and his essays have both had profound effects on me. They are conflicting views. And I think they're both right. They don't conflict internally for me, as both work for me.

CT-Biography-
Journal entries:

I've got the coolest girlfriend in the world. She respects me, she's punctual, calls when she says she will, and her gifts are so damn thoughtful (a Futurama Bender Robot, a Simpson's Squishee maker, handmade cards and drawings, and the most important for me-time alone when I desperately need it. She doesn't understand it, but she respects it). Looking back through my life, if I wasn't interested in taking a photography class in 1988, I'd never have met her because that one event and one acquaintance changed my life's path forever, simply because of two of the people he knew. Went through emotional Hell for a while, but emerged stronger and better for it. Weird how certain decisions can change your life forever. Even when we met, it was through a mutual friend that got us to meet again for the second night at another mutual friend's house where everything started between us. After we had pretty much given up on each others gender and were thinking about being alone the rest of our lives.

J-Political Science

It happened before, it's happening now. Lets' stop it and not let it happen again.

Everyone, get a camera, and start shooting pictures of public places. All over. This crap is stupid.

I'm sure this writer believes what she's writing is useful information, and not just plain wrong on several levels. But my question is, how and why? (personal note, most of the website is the antithesis of what I believe. I felt like I've met Mr. Glass from Unbreakable.

FCC getting all upset at violence on
TV? How about turning it off or changing channels or actually having a discussion about what's being seen? Jeez.

M-Music

I like Sony-BMGs music. It was better than cats. I listen to it all the time.

NC-Comics

This was ganked from Sarah Dyer's website

PN-Film

The preview of The Village they showed during the TV showing of Unbreakable reminded me a lot of a Twilight Zone episode.

Watched Tim Burton' s version of Planet of the Apes. Wow, what a stinker. A case where each piece is beautifully put together, but ends up being more than less than one fourth of its parts. Problems for me? The main character wasn't likeable. At all. So I didn't care what happened to him. The other humans were speaking, which threw out a lot of what made the first one interesting. To much telling about ape/human rights and not enough showing. On the plus side, the acting was great for what they had to work with, and Rick Baker's makeup was fantastic.

PN-TV

Joan of Arcadia is easily my favorite show of this year. I've only seen a few, but I've loved every one.

I had this dream about Amber Tamblyn, the actress who plays Joan.

In what I call the dream mall (The big huge, plain white box-like mall I always visit in my dreams when I dream about malls) ,I dreamed that Amber Tamblyn was a Lou Reed groupie. She had done something really stupid (I don't know what) and was trying to get Lou Reed to like her so much he'd be here boyfriend (yes, I know she's a teen and he's like, in his fifties or sixties now. Eeew.) She kept having days like in Groundhog Day and the more she tried to fix things the worse they got. After many times of this, Lou Reed takes his sunglasses off and his eyes are stars (like Sandman) and he says, "You haven't learned enough yet before he fades out and Amber Tamblyn (note:this isn't Joan, it's Amber) is looking at Dr. Jacobi from Twin Peaks. (who was played by Russ Tamblyn, Amber's dad. Dr. Jacobi says, "You'll find Laura soon enough, Amber." Then I wake up. Pop culture city, huh?

While watching a special on WAFF 48's kid's shows through the years made me wonder-do any cities have these locally anymore? I've seen plenty of parodies, but not the real thing. The clips I saw looked mind-numbingly boring.
PR-English Literature

I saw this book title:
Plants that Fight Cancer and immediately thought of The Garden of Plants, made up of a cactus, a rose bush, a marijuana plant, algae, and a brother/sister team of a single weed and one blade of grass facing off the villainous masked mutants known as the agents of C.A.N.C.E.R.
Of course, I have no idea which plants DO fight cancer, I just thought the image was funny.

GT-Manners and customs
quizzes

from seamusmoon

Unitarian Pagan Liberal Christian?
Yep, that's me.

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J-Political Science

Fucked up stuff in the halls of congress. No, I mean REALLY fucked up shit.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/index_np.html

Let's make sure this Republican crime strategy doesn't happen again.

http://www.guerrillanews.com/civil_liberties/doc4695.html

http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=342

I hate that this crap is only going to get worse.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/19/1756235

Bill press straightens up some delusions about this current administration

http://www.buzzflash.com/buzzscripts/buzz.dll/content

Just go read everything here:

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh062204.shtml

While I disagree almost wholeheartedly with where he stands now as opposed to his National Lampoon days, PJ O'Rourke, is still funny. Even when he's completely wrong. Why can't more conservatives do that?

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/07/orourke.htm

yick. Congress needs to, you know, do its job.

AAAAAAH! Stop the insanity!
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_06_21.shtml

http://slate.msn.com/id/2096927/

http://www.dailynews.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,200%257E20954%257E2226850,00.html

K-Law

Cory Doctorow on why DRMs are bad for society:

http://www.dashes.com/anil/stuff/doctorow-drm-ms.html

NC

Animation


Very good examination on what makes the cartoon Network's Adult Swim block work.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0406.peters.html

Comics

Cool. Maus as a community library reading plan

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/8972924.htm?1c

Oooh, I want this issue of this McSweeney's magazine baaad.

http://store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/object_id/23704EB8-F337-4582-B656-C26B48545C85/McSweeneysIssue13.cfm

here's a review of it.

http://www.time.com/time/columnist/arnold/article/0,9565,654422,00.html

PN-Film

weird, weird films

http://www.5minutesonline.com/

BS-Bible

This is weird, but not a bad idea for their message.

Pete the Porno Puppet

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4874417/

GV-Recreation

Bicycling


Today a racing bicyclist really pissed me off. I don't know what made today different, but there were a lot more bicyclists out today. On my regular bike commute to work, 2 bike racers passed me, one said "Howdy". That was fine, and they went on faster (they're on road bikes and after speed, I'm on a mountain bike adapted for the road loaded down with gear and other stuff for comfort). Then at the traffic light at Jordan and Holmes, I was stopped behind the white line, and a little behind the car (started doing this when people started turning into me instead of the road), when two bike racers came up . The first one paused then started biking during the red light, halfway through the lanes on Jordan before it switched to green. Grr. This kind of behavior from other cyclist is what makes it so damned hard to get respect and consideration as a bicycling commuter in this town. I'm hoping this is just a rare case and not widespread, but it makes it more difficult on people like me who commute every day, 18 degrees or 100.


Wish more towns had these bike garages. If they can blow so much on car parking garages, why not these?

http://www.fujitec.co.jp/english/product/parking/2ring/c1.htm


J-Political Science

Florida again. At least one person had the sense not to go through with the debacle.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-felection08jun08,0,2424064.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

911 truth

http://www.911truth.org/index.php?topic=press

Ray gun's real legacy

http://www.bartcop.com/reagans-records.htm

Anti-bush protests in Italy

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/06/con04255.html

Scientific American nails Bush supporters

http://sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=0001E02A-A14A-1084-983483414B7F0000


M-Music

Ray Charles died today. I loved that man's voice and his work. Where all the media tributes should be going this week instead.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/10/obit.ray.charles.ap/

Random music. The utility Project.

http://crossings.tcd.ie/gallery/Dean/Utility_Project/

NC

Animation

This is creepy looking. Homer from the Simpson's

http://www.robertoparada.com/gallery1/homer.html

Comics

Good forum on writing comics.

http://www.scrypticstudios.com/

P-Lit

Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger story in Mp3s. This story is so relevant today.

http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/9028


Great collection of free public domain books. I just finished Doc Savage and The Brand of the Werewolf. Pulpy fun where every character either "thumps" or "ejaculates" what they're saying.

http://www.blackmask.com/page.php

Help out Project Gutenberg here:

http://www.distributedproofreaders.net/c/default.php

More modern free books.

http://www.baen.com/library/

PN-film

They're making a Fat Albert movie. Live action. With Keenan Thompson. Could be very good, or very bad. Good casting choice though.

http://www.beinamovie.com/

QA-Computer Science

Best reference I've found for learning about databases when you know very little about them:

http://www.geekgirls.com/menu_databases.htm

Z-Library

This is sweet. Open access journals, as in you can read them online. For free.

http://www.doaj.org/

GT-Manners and Customs

Here in North Alabama, asking for a coke will get you the response, which flavor?

http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html

Quizzes.

I AM weird. Just not FREAKY weird.


Get out the hats and let's have a big ol'pity
party. You're repressed. You've got the gift,
but it looks like you're waiting for
something--like a swift kick in the arse. Don't
deny your inner freak. You want to be weird,
people already think you're weird, so stop
fighting it.


Smythe Reisner Abnormality Index (aka Freak Quiz!)
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Bow before me! Nah, figure it out yourselves. I gave you part of me to do that anyway. To infinity and beyond!


Let there be light! Yep, you guessed it, you are
the all knowing God. Except you're also the
incarnation of good... one of the two main
incarnations. Satan is the other one, obviously
your nemesis. Well, you don't interact with
humans or the other incarnations... God knows
why. You leave it up to the other incarnations
to foil satan's plans to make the whole world
evil.


What Incarnation of Immortality are you? (wonderful pictures)
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J-Political Science

I'm not a big fan of Al Gore, but he hit the nail on the head about the Iraq problem 2 years ago and was called a liar and a nut for it:

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/02/02-09gore-speech.html

http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh060204.shtml

Great Tom Tomorrow cartoon here:

http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=17028

and a great Get your war on series of cartoons here:

http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war36.html

Gaaah! I'm so sick of this bullshit!

http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN62051504.htm

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/05/29/state1749EDT0067.DTL

WTF?

http://www.reason.com/sullum/052804.shtml

BPL a bad idea

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/05/con04238.html

Interesting on how a smear campaign got started.

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/politics/national/features/9221/index.html


New language for English speakers

http://www.felbers.net/mt/archives/001792.html

M-Music

TOMORROW NIGHT @ THE MONKEY!


Flying Monkey Arts Center

The Mattoid

Chris Fitts tofg

NC-Comics

This is a really sweet comic for adults

http://www.projectkooky.com/erika/comics/girls/index.htm

J-Political Science

Good suggestions here.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/call.html

Okay, this is hard, but if you want to take America back and get jobs back here, stop supporting as many of these companies as you can. (It's very, very hard and not realistic for me to not support Adobe). It's not realistic to stop using all of them, but if enough different people of enough varying backgrounds make some different business purchasing decisions, maybe, just maybe things could take a turn for the better in our economy. (That the mouthpiece Lou Dobbs has his hackles up about this is actually a good sign that thing are reversing for the better.)

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/popups/exporting.america/frameset.exclude.html

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/10/1084041343688.html

Those dirty liberals, again.

http://powerskeptic.net/ingraham.htm

This was amusing

http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/idaho_does_not_exist.html

Yep, I'm not the only one who saw this coming

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1212585,00.html

Some damned fine thinking here

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/5/11/121238/575

disturbing NPR connection to Right-wing Paulians.

http://betterangels.blogspot.com/2004/05/ballad-of-barbara-bradley-hagerty.html

P-Lit

Verbs bad! Not say Bizarro.

http://www.scholastic.com/artandwritingawards/gallery/2001/winners2001/tedholm.htm

PM-Esperanto

place holder for this neat translator to Esperanto.

http://lingvo.org/traduku/

PN-TV

They made a movie out of Madeline L'Engle's fantastic book, A Wrinkle in Time.

I liked her quote about it:

"Oh, yes. I expected it to be bad, and it is."


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4926262/

I also like this

"Such as?""
"Such as I sometimes think God is a s--t and he wouldn’t be worth it otherwise. He’s much more interesting when he’s a s--t."

"So to you, faith is not a comfort?"

"Good heavens, no. It’s a challenge: I dare you to believe in God. I dare you to think [our existence] wasn’t an accident.
. . .
Many people see faith as anti-intellectual.
Then they’re not very bright. It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity."

This was to pabstreally in seamusmoon's comments section. Like that comment, this reply took on a life of its own.

What's funny is when I went out to Albuquerque the alt newspaper there, the Weekly Alibi and Creative Loafing in Atlanta both had letters complaining about the lack of things to do in their cities respectively. My best friend in Albuquerque has noticed a creative shift there along the same lines on the one going on here in Huntsville. Also done by a passionate few in the background over a few years.

It's all perception. Just modifying Pabsts' comment here to reflect Huntsville now instead of Atlanta:

pick up a copy of the Valley Planet (someone with some know-how finally got a tabloid going on an actual periodic basis-and it's pretty good, 'specially info wise) and you have listings for all of the arts, music, dining, and geeking out for (almost) every single night of the week. most of the time the problem is not what to do it's which to do.

This is true now, but it wasn't accomplished by people bitchin', but by people doing. Well, okay, bitching while doing sometimes (why the hell isn't some else doing this?)

Now, I understand that for anyone under 21 here, it's gotta suck. But that's true most places. It's very rare that people stay where they grew up or had defining years, especially creative people. The post in the comments about DRIVE was right on it. If you have drive, it doesn't really matter where you are, unless there's a specific business you want to help out/cash in on (music promotion in your case, Pabst).

If you're moving toward something, go for it: here, Atlanta, New Orleans, Portland, wherever-but don't make the mistake of thinking that escaping is moving forward-it's not. Running from something doesn't help create worthwhile creative endeavors, but running toward something does.

Frankly, I think the problem is that we simply don't have enough in the way of a population to form anything but a small but fervently passionate audience for shows and such. In my opinion, it really is about the numbers of people. Especially with age demographics.

Name something someone wants to do in Atlanta or Chicago or New Orleans and you can do it here. Not as often, and it may not be as good (then again, it may be better-one of the best plays I ever saw was done by a high school), but instead of just saying that sucks, let's move somewhere else, how about saying and then doing, that sucks-I can do better-then doing it.

Burlesque show? Well, okay maybe not. Bu there are strippers and drag queens.

Plays? Every year. Several. Some good ones some bad ones. Some good performances some bad ones. Can say that of Broadway too. And we do have the Broadway shows here.

Opera? A very vibrant opera community.

Music? Just name a style and it's playing somewhere around here.

Art? Several galleries, and the Art Museum has been getting some great thought provoking collections lately (which was due to the influence of a gallery director who cam in about ten years ago and its just now his influence is showing)

Drugs? I don't do them, and I think its silly to waste money on them, but I personally have no problem with their responsible use. Use does not equal abuse in my opinion.

Sex? Depends. Huntsville was like the 4th largest producer of S& M films in the 60s, and I know there's a big fetish crowd in this city. Vanilla is more my style, but I got no problem with others doing safe responsible sex.

With the net now, it's possible to do creative things with people all over the world. Even a live show with a net cast. Jobs are still pretty geo-centric, but creative works aren't-not anymore. If you're a novelist-it doesn't matter where you live. Same for commercial artist or illustrator or painter. Music may be harder-I don't know. There's a lot of talented people here, but having talented people isn't the same as having the audience for them.

So, instead of bitching about creative people moving, like Seamusmoon did, I'm bitching about the lack of support for the arts in general, and I think Huntsville is a very good indicator of popular trends of the nation since it is such a microcosm of differing cultures and viewpoints.

The Zombie Easter party had a great audience and a lot of people don't realize how very important that is until they see a great act with a bad audience.

amusingmuse, I didn't take to biking those hills right away. It was at least 2 years before I got comfortable with them. But I think you're right, Huntsville was probably a good place to learn how to drive (or bike, for that matte). If you survived it and drive legally, you can drive anywhere with any type of driver.

The biggest difference with Huntsville and larger cities is the type of participation from businesses and local government. Huntsville, until the corporations and local governemnt can see how music and art can benefit an are economically are going to insist on family-friendly safe art.

Art shouldn't have to be safe. It should make you think, feel, react act-not feel comfy (unless that was the intent of the piece).
It shouldn't have to be family friendly either.

Which is why the Panoply arts festival may have a few good things, but not that many. Panoply, if done right, would support the artist with free food and drink while the event was going on so that they could stay at their booths and do their acts and wares. It would also always be a free event withoud fences. Instead we hae support for food vendors who descend like vultures on a crowd that comes out for this sort of thing maybe once or twice a years.
In my opinion, it's not done right, and it never will be until the Ats council wakes up.

Which is why it's great to see so many different non-profitw working together to make ago of the Flying Monkey Arts center for some actual adult entertainment.

I've tried to live by this motto recently,

There is no try, only do.

wait, that's Yoda.

Quit complaining and do something. Moving counts, but only if you do something where you moved to and aren't running away from "this boring town", wherever that may be.

GT-Manners and Customs

I love Margaret Cho. *Sigh.*
http://www.margaretcho.com/blog/stupidpeople.htm

quizling

Harmony. It's inner peace for you, or at least
trying to find it. The shell you live your life
in is akin to monks of old. You'd be more
comfortable if things were less stressed and
made a little more sense, so you try to get
just that. You survive the end by not letting
it happen. You didn't stop it, but you
supported those who did. I'm glad you took a
break from meditation to take the quiz...


How would you survive the end of the world?
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J-Politics

Ahh! The Starfish Are Invading!

http://www.local6.com/news/2766662/detail.html

CBS is being incredibly stupid.
http://creativedissonance.blogspot.com/2004_01_14_creativedissonance_archive.html#107412087243271277

http://www.berrysworld.blogspot.com/2004_01_11_berrysworld_archive.html#107412905922149295

http://www.oliverwillis.com/entries/0104/the_liberal_media.html

good old cartoon about this here:
http://www.thismodernworld.com/media/arc/1993%20archive/93pbs.gif

NC-Drawing and Techniques

Animation

I laughed pretty hard at this. This sight always has some, well, rather good things on it.
http://www.rathergood.com/elephants/

About a Font. Cooper Black-what really happened.

This was pretty well done.
http://www.cheshiredave.com/mastication/2002/07/0037a-btt.html
Comics

Mac lovers. Read the Jan14th strip
http://www.pvponline.com/

Good story about the Penny-arcade guys

http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/04/1/13/18006955.cfm

Scott McCloud's The Right Number Part two is now available for .25 from Bitpass micropayments.
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/trn/intro.html

PS-English Literature
Judging books by their covers.

http://www.cheshiredave.com/mastication/current.html


QA-Computers

interesting idea, but like the new solar power ones they've developed better.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/15/1841206

online stuff:

Fake ESP Math trick. Pretty neat.

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html


more weird bible stuff.

http://twc.sshunet.nl/~djstronk/ircbible/pages/archive.html


Software
I can't use this now, but you Mac users might like it:

http://www.spiny.com/comictastic/

found from this site

http://comicbooks.blogspot.com/2004_01_11_comicbooks_archive.html#107386123225110979

BS-Bible

The Bible in Lego form!

http://www.thebricktestament.com/


GT-Manners and Customs
Quizzes





Take the What High School
Stereotype Are You? quiz.

H-Social Science

Food distribution has always bothered me. There's enough on this planet to feed everyone, so how come we have so many starving people, even here in our own country?
http://www.foodfirst.org/media/opeds/2000/4-greenrev.html

M-Music

Let them sing it for you. Neat little time waster.

http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p1/src/sing/default.asp


N-Art

NC-

Animation

This cracked me up! Kind of, but not really
in a foreign language. ;)

http://www.sevenproductions.be/big/

This is really cool. Sucks about the Realplayer format, though.
http://www.seattle.gov/arts/showcase/peephole/popup/woodring/frame.asp

Comics

Fun flash game about comic superhero torsos
http://www.onceuponadime.com/gold/12pixelheroes.swf

The strange world of Christian comics

http://members.aol.com/christiancomics1/

I love this woman's comics!
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2003/12/09/opinion/10OPART.html



PS-English Literature
Poems


Hehehehehe.
http://www.punch.co.uk/Todays_Pick_Of_Punch/2002/Week5/2_PrintersError.html

People like to make assumptions. It's part of finding a pattern to make things fit in with how we actually perceive things and how we wish to perceive things. Which is why it's funny to hear projections onto me that have nothing to do with who I am and only with how I dress. I bet woman get this sort of crap all the time as well:

Clothing assumptions:

Me:

black vest, bald head, comfortable boots.

I dress comfortably and utilitarianly for myself. I wear the vest o' many pockets because I like to have a lot of things handy, and mainly because my keys kept falling through my pants while bicycling. Doesn't happen so much with the vest.

I started shaving my head because I really didn't see the point of buying shampoo or getting haircuts for the little I had left. And a razor a week is cheaper than either in the long run.

And I started wearing the boots when I was delivering mail because they were the only footwear I found that lasted more than three months on me.
Then I found they were also the most comfortable footwear I've ever owned (I think the ladies know what I mean here).

The reason I'm posting this is because it's astonishing to me how many different reactions I get. On the same night I was called “fascist pig” and “fucking hippie” A lot of ignorant people assume I'm something I most defintely am not (thanks to some bozos in the late 80s and early 90s). Other people assume, this I really don't understand, that I'm a cop or a security guard. I've NEVER seen a cop or security guard dress the way I do (not even on tv), and there's no way in heck this is a bulletproof vest.

And this is funny, some people (usually undercover cops) assume I must be dealing since I have so many pockets.

Also as far as body language goes, the most cofortable postion I can be in (thanks to a long torso) is with my arms crossed firmly across my chest. That's me completely relaxed. Not even close to being hostile or defensive as the gesture books will tell you.

*Update: Someone asked me this morning what church I preach at. Weird.*

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Doing it myself before the American government starts doing it.

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Anyone with radical pamphlets-like say, "Anarchy Now", or "Come Worship Satan" or "Peace on Earth" or anything that's just a pamphlet that would *legally* be allowed to be passed out anywhere in Huntsville, Alabama-PLEASE come to the UAH library entrance during some weeknights you're bored and run off the damn pamphleteers that screw up the whole meaning of what being a Christian is really about, giving Christianity the really bad name it has now. We can't do anything about it legally apparently, even though we've had a few complaints. So I'm thinking the best thing is competition. Just stand away from the entrance while doing it. I'm sick of these unthinking, unfeeling (yes-a plastic smile does NOT mean you have any feelings for anyone else, folks), ill-informed bozos.

I'd been trying to figure out what pisses me off so much about the T-Mobile cellphone with video commercial where the prickly African hedgehog runs up the guys leg. Finally figured it out. The woman using the phone, the dad who says "thought he was a keeper", and the mom who also implies that the guy with prickly hedgehog up his leg isn't--are assholes. Would they have just shrugged it off? Is he expected to be all stoic because he's a guy? Bullshit! Gender discrimination in reverse there, buckos. The guy's better off without this crappy family. Assholes.


After being so used to the Opera browser for so long, anytime I'm stuck on IE (like now) just makes me want to scream.

*warning!* Begin rant here:

No WMD? 9-11? what happened? Why spend so much less on investigating this than Clinton's zipper? Worldcom has a no-bid contract in Iraq for the US? Worldcom?!?! June 2, FCC in collusion with industry giants. Just NOW being reported in a couple of mainstream news sources.
We got off the gold standard. We really need to get off the oil standard, because folks, it's gong to be gone within 40 years, max. If we haven't pissed everybody else in the world off enough to start nuking this mudball.

I felt icky when a DOD guy was asking me questions about a former employee trying to get security clearance. The question that bothered me most was,"Is he loyal to the United States of America?" I kept imagining myself in that position, being asked about, my loyalty being questioned. I'm loyal to the United States that believes in The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, the Constitution and its amendments. ESpecially a free press. Without a free press there can be no democracy. Which is to say, NOT this current administration. I'm a patriot, not a nationalist. If I was I'd be goosestepping with the rest.

End rant.

The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	High
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	Low
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very Low
Level 7 (Violent)	Low
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Low
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

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