BartCop's most recent rants

BartCop's most recent rants: "'It's unbelievable to me. He can't possibly have meant it. Because it means we can hit you if we don't like you. The administration is redefining its meaning of having stockpiles of WMDs to thinking about acquiring large stockpiles. His claims that there is no difference is disingenuous. But they're sticking with that position - that black is white.' --David Albright, former UN inspector and a Washington expert on nuclear arms, on Dubya's response to a Diane Sawyer question about his claims that Saddam Hussein possesed WMDs, as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons:( Dubya's answer: 'What's the difference?') Attribution "

FUBAR DAY

grandmom in hospital with a broken leg, im sick, work is just crazy (game supposed to go gold tomorrow), and we just had an earthquake. A 6.5 someplace pretty far away but we felt it... made me queEeezy.

Yahoo! News - Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops

Yahoo! News - Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops so i guess the question is how long has the media known this?

crazy. sunday here at work and all hell is breaking loose were calling programmers in and talking about staying late tonight and working over break. Meanwhile I wokeup saturday sick with a sore throat, aches, and some congestion. i simply cannot be sick. not now

Cost of War

Cost of War worth checking out again

Project Censored

Project Censored oh boy

Project Censored

Project Censored: Corporate Media Partial Coverage: Atlantic Journal Constitution, 9/29/02, The President's Real goal in Iraq, By Jay Bookman "Over the last year corporate media have made much of Saddam Hussein and his stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Rarely did the press or, especially, television address the possibility that larger strategies might also have driven the decision to invade Iraq. Broad political strategies regarding foreign policy do indeed exist and are part of the public record. The following is a summary of the current strategies that have formed over the last 30 years; strategies that eclipse the pursuit of oil and that preceded Hussein's rise to power: In the 1970s, the United States and the Middle East were embroiled in a tug-of-war over oil. At the time, American military presence in the Gulf was fairly insignificant and the prospect of seizing control of Arab oil fields by force was pretty unattainable. Still, the idea of this level of dominance was very attractive to a group of hard-line, pro-military Washington insiders that included both Democrats and Republicans. Eventually labeled "neoconservatives," this circle of influential strategists played important roles in the Defense Departments of Ford, Reagan and Bush Sr., at conservative think tanks throughout the '80s and '90s, and today occupies several key posts in the White House, Pentagon, and State Department. Most principal among them are: ·Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, our current Vice-President and Defense Secretary respectively, who have been closely aligned since they served with the Ford administration in the 1970s; ·Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the key architect of the post-war reconstruction of Iraq; ·Richard Perle, past-chairman and still-member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board that has great influence over foreign military policies; ·William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and founder of the powerful, neo-conservative think-tank, Project for a New American Century. In the 1970s, however, neither high-level politicos, nor the American people, shared the priorities of this small group of military strategists. In 1979 the Shah of Iran fell and U.S. political sway in the region was greatly jeopardized. In 1980, the Carter Doctrine declared the Gulf "a zone of U.S. influence." It warned (especially the Soviets) that any attempt to gain control of the Persian Gulf region would be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the U.S. and repelled by any means necessary, including military force. This was followed by the creation of the Rapid Deployment Force — a military program specifically designed to rush several thousand U.S. troops to the Gulf on short notice. Under President Reagan, the Rapid Deployment Force was transformed into the U.S. Central Command that oversaw the area from eastern Africa to Afghanistan. Bases and support facilities were established throughout the Gulf region, and alliances were expanded with countries such as Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. Since the first Gulf War, the U.S. has built a network of military bases that now almost completely encircle the oil fields of the Persian Gulf. In 1989, following the end of the Cold War and just prior to the Gulf War, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and Paul Wolfowitz produced the 'Defense Planning Guidance' report advocating U.S. military dominance around the globe. The Plan called for the United States to maintain and grow in military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge us on the world stage. Using words like 'preemptive' and military 'forward presence,’ the plan called for the U.S. to be dominant over friends and foes alike. It concluded with the assertion that the U.S. can best attain this position by making itself 'absolutely powerful.' The 1989 plan was spawned after the fall of the Soviet Union. Without the traditional threat to national security, Cheney, Powell and Wolfowitz knew that the military budget would dwindle without new enemies and threats. In an attempt to salvage defense funding, Cheney and company constructed a plan to fill the 'threat blank'. On August 2, 1990 President Bush called a press conference. He explained that the threat of global war had significantly receded, but in its wake a new danger arose. This unforeseen threat to national security could come from any angle and from any power. Iraq, by a remarkable coincidence, invaded Northern Kuwait later the same day. Cheney et al. were out of political power for the eight years of Clinton’s presidency. During this time the neo-conservatives founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). The most influential product of the PNAC was a report entitled "Rebuilding America's Defense," (www.newamericancentury.org) which called for U.S. military dominance and control of global economic markets. With the election of George W. Bush, the authors of the plan were returned to power: Cheney as vice president, Powell as Secretary of State, and Wolfowitz in the number two spot at the Pentagon. With the old Defense Planning Guidance as the skeleton, the three went back to the drawing board. When their new plan was complete, it included contributions from Wolfowitz's boss Donald Rumsfeld. The old 'preemptive' attacks have now become 'unwarned attacks.' The Powell-Cheney doctrine of military 'forward presence' has been replaced by 'forward deterrence.' The U.S. stands ready to invade any country deemed a possible threat to our economic interests."

Tallahassee Democrat | 09/02/2002 | Clearing up the election that won't die

Clearing up the election that won't die Don't let it happen again!

i saw a bumper sticker...

...it said "drum machines have no soul." I smiled. Point taken, but of course, drums have no soul either, and for that matter I'm not sure about people.

Yahoo! News - Chirac Seeks Law Banning Head Scarves

Yahoo! News - Chirac Seeks Law Banning Head Scarves Wow, what an amazing move on France's part... Bizarre to Americans, right? Is it discrimination? Are necklaces with the cross also banned? Are WWJD (QJFI) t-shirts allowed? As the article points out, the scarf is a symbol of female submission... I remember reading a cover article in UCLA's muslim magazine about how the scarf is really empowering to women. It was one of those things where you could tell the writer was trying to convince herself... I don't imagine that she even succeeded in that modest goal. On the other hand is this a place for the government? I'm all for secularism, but why should a person be able to wear a SNOOP t-shirt (or in france an NTM shirt) but not a religious item. Doesn't the choice belong to the individual? I report, you decide.

The Dead Leaves

just no time to blog these days. Work has gone crazy. We've got a title that were finishing up and I have so much on my plate. Feast or famine, as they say. Band practice on Monday was really sweet. Everyone agreed upon The Dead Leaves for our name so that's out of the way. We have a working arrangement for "girl shaped hole" so we can play it all the way through, and we worked out some 3 part harmonies. Katie's tune sounds awesome. I'm getting better at playing and singing and standing. I wish we could play more. But other than that it's just work work and work. 11 hours a day minimum, although the hours from 5-8 are pretty chill. I haven't had the time to think much on politics or international news... Kinda miss it. Gonna take the GRE in March or June. I think I'll put in a good effort studying. One thing I learned from teaching the SAT is that these tests can be nailed with practice. I hung out with Jason and Sahsa over the weekend. It was pretty cool but we didn't do much. There is a baby grand bellow my attic and Jason's old guitar was freshly strung. They made some sweet music which had me longing a bit for the old pharmacy days. Speaking of Pharmacy I thought of another cool band name: The Pill. Claudia will be here soon. I've kept that off the blog because there is so much to say and so much that is private and so much emotion. But it's just a week away and I'm pretty knocked out about it. It'll be great to have no responsibilities for 1.5 weeks so I can enjoy her visit maximally. I'm growing accustomed to not having money. I'm begining to think I'll live a large part of my life in relative modesty, and I'm coming to terms with that. I don't wanna spend my youth chasing money, I want to chase something else, so that perhaps in my maturity, the money will chase me.

Saturday 02:44 am

What a night! So much running through my head, or so little I'm not sure. They god Saddam.... or at this point there are unconfirmed reports that they got it, there will be an official announcement of some sort or another in 75 minutes. Oh shit this is crazy how can I sleep? They captured Saddam... I was so excited I woke my dad up, he was happy about the capture but not about the phone call... fair enough. People in Iraq are celebrating again... This really could mean a lot for our eventual success there, and make no mistake, as long as we're in there we mght as well succeed. His capture is symbolic for the Iraqi people, and it is great that we didn't kill him, right? We can put him on trial and show the world how pathetic he is instead of martyr him. I worry that this might, as my dad suggested, make Bush a hero... that would be a) absurd, and b) bad for america. I doubt that this will look that great for BushCo in the LONG run, but I have this bad habit of giving "the masses" more credit then they deserve... Beyond that I'm making some progress in designing my future... to use a rather gross phrasing. OH, oh! Here we go, live to an announcement on NBC... here it comes ooooh shit... "US OFFICIALS SAY THEY ARE CERTAIN THAT THEY HAVE CAPTURED SADDAM HUSSEIN. ...WHICH OF COURSE WOULD BE A HUGE VICTORY FOR THE WAR ON TERRORISM AND GEORGE BUSH " (fucked up editorializing by the reporter in Baghdad) In tikrit, by the way. They were at a basement in Tikrit.... You know I'm realizing as I listen to this that you will you will all know what I'm telling you long before you read this on Monday at the office or library or whatever, yeah, ok, so my thoughts here aren't at all reflected upon but I'm just excited I guess about this and wanna write about it. So the other news... yeah... I'll hold it a bit close to my chest for now... Some things I can't write about on here you know? But call me or email me for info.

Schieffer lied about Farmer Gore--and showed you the soul of your 'press corps:'

if ya'll want more content, then do more shouting out, it really means a lot to me to see some meaningful feedback. Otherwise what's the point?

Take No Prisoners

please click here and watch this. I also recommend that you read the text on the bottom of the page.

My technology... specifically my PC is pissing me off to high hell these days. It's enough to make me miss my Mac days. The DVD burner I bough won't burn DVDs, and my computer in general only works on and off as a DVD player for some odd reason. Last night I was watching a Chomsky DVD and the image froze up just a few minutes into it... Meanwhile ALL the stuff on my old hard drive is still inaccessable to me, Windows XP is a messy whore, the old games I like to play are a sketchy proposition at best, too much shit runs in the background, my TV connector seems to be fucked (that one is new this morning), and I can't find a cord I need to get my VGA switch working (my third VGA switch, the others were inadequate for one reason or another), and that's just the shit I can remember. My room is pissing me off too, it's so freeking awkward to DO anything in it other than crawl around and sleep. I'm too damn tall for it. Tonight is the company xmas party, yay, then I'm hanging out with Sasha and Jason, yay. Saturday I'm hanging with grandma and Sunday I hope to edit the short (finally) with John, who is so cool and down as to blow my mind. That guy is awesome. I'm reading this little tome called "The Prophet" and its pretty beautiful stuff, it's got this shell of a story about a prophet "whose ship has come" so the town gathers around to wish him farewell and they ask him to speak on various things like work and marriage and law, which he does in his prophet-like ways. On joy and sorrow: "Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that hold your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?" Nice. On Children: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams." Kinda makes me question my troubles with Windows XP. me and Sasha are looking into a house by Joshua Tree for rent month to month cheaply. We figure get ~6 people and have a second residence for like 50 bux a month each. Have a great weekend y'all.

barrels of yuks

...hilarious. From the begining of an Amazon.com reader review of Coulter's latest masterpiece. Amazon.com: Books: Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism: " Ann Coulter Lifted Up The Rug, November 14, 2003 Reviewer: Joseph Pacelli from USA I was very pleased with Ann's book. It was not written for historians and policy junkies, it was aimed for the average American reader who has taken in years of liberal propaganda from the media, hollywood and the educational system. She shows what I've always believed. That Sen. Joseph McCarthy was right!" (italics and bold mine) ...And it goes on from there...

Yahoo! News - Bush Rejects Europeans on Iraq Contract Flap: "'It's very simple. Our people risked their lives. Friendly coalition folks risked their lives, and therefore the contracting is going to reflect that, and that's what the U.S. taxpayers expect,' Bush said." Mr. Bush, you may be very simple, but the politics of Iraq's reconstruction are not. Even an ignoramus like me can tell you that. Coalition soldiers are risking their lives, so what does rewarding your rich buddies --whose kids, I'd wager, are nowhere near Iraq-- have to do with it? Not letting other contries bid for contracts, in addition to being politically absurd, means the reconstruction will cost more. Do the U.S. taxpayers expect that? Where's your free market now, asswipe?

You might be upset or annoyed not to have any updates from me for a few days, but really. Do I have anything important to say? Anything at all that you don't already know? Yes, the world is really fucked. I mean it is in some tremendously bad hands. But you know that. Yep, I had a weekend not unlike yours. Not too good not too bad. I spent some time with the family. I did some eating and some sleeping and some laundry and maybe a bit less partying than usual. One night I probably felt really happy, another night pretty sad. Same old I guess. Actually I went into the office few a few hours on Sunday, which is a new experience. And you know what? Today is Alexandra's birthday, that's pretty cool. She’s 22 today-- funny to think I've known her since before she was allowed to drink in the US. Happy birthday A-dogg! Come to think of it, today was a pretty interesting day at work; I spent the whole day in the recording studio “on script,” which means I made sure the voice-actors said the right lines, and I provided the context when necessary. If we changed a line on the fly, I recorded it in the script. Pretty cool. In other news I’m totally addicted to Diet Vanilla Coke. I can’t make it through my day without a few, I am excited before I drink one. It has to be DVC, nothing else will do. I know it's not the healthiest activity, yet I find the whole experience subtly magical. Popping a fresh can is quite the thrill. A little addiction helps me get through the day, is that so wrong?

911 Victim Ellen Mariani Open Letter To The POTUS

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"Today it was a good day, we got some steaks for dinner and it was going perfect until we heard incoming. I'm tired of this. I don't understand what we're doing wrong. The government probably has a lot of long-term plans for this country, but as far as I'm concerned it's come down to making it alive out of this place." -- US Soldier Uday, now dead Don't forget that Bush hasn't been to ONE funeral for these soldiers. That would be bad publicity. Who wants to see a picture of Bush with crying family members when we can have pictures of him suprising troops and serving turkey.

On CNBC, Russert pandered to Goldberg. So Bernie just pandered right back awesome, just awesome. Daily Howler is AWESOME! Don't forget to watch the gore video I linked to a few days.

This morning I was singing the Neutral Milk Hotel song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea which has a lyric "How strange it is to be anything at all..." This somehow got me thinking about the statistics about how likely it is to be born into a 1st world country since the advent of electricity and to be above the poverty line etc... I forget the odds but lets say its something like 1 in a billion. This is supposed to mean that each of us is very lucky, as the odds are a lot smaller than the odds of winning the lottery. However, because we cannot take the future of humanity into account, we have no idea what the complete set is. After all, it may turn out that 100 years from now, humanity explores space in peace and prosperity for a million years. Unlikely maybe, but illustrative. In such a circumstance, the odds of growing up in "good times" would rise considerably, and a new calculus might make us part of the unlucky group. On the other hand, if you facotr in the fact thaty we were born as people, and not, say, livestock and we start to look pretty lucky again. While me and most of my readers are lucky as compared to our contemporaries on the planet, it's not possible to say that we are lucky or unlucky per se. Regardless, the real magic is that we are anything at all.

My good friend Ben Olson, the successful online futurist, wrote kick ass play about ideology and humanism. Im posting it for your reading pleasure before it is available anyplace else. jordanblackman.com: get your rocks ON: Play- rough draft script[1.jib].doc

Companies' Productivity Soars 9.4 Percent

Yahoo! News - Companies' Productivity Soars 9.4 Percent media = full of poo

I just watched Chris "Clinton's Cock" Matthews get Dean to agree that he went into his draft physical hoping to get a deferment. It will be fun to watch the media make a big deal out of it. Me, it makes me like Dean much more that he had courage to tell the truth. Of course every sane person wanted to get a deferment from Viet-freaking-Nam.

Never trust anyone who overuses the word sincerely. One must wonder about those times when the abuser doesn't use the word. I sincerely hope that you, my loyal reader, had a copasetic thanksgiving. Perhaps you overate, which is proper. Or perhaps you underate or even fasted, which would be a pretty amazing experience, I do believe. Me, your fearful leader? I Took off for San Francisco Wednesday afternoon with 'ma 'n 'pa 'n gran'ma. We piled into the family benz and made it to Max's Opera House Cafe. As serendipity would have it, Murphy had just picked up Miller from the airport, and they came our way via pickup to pick me up. One I was good and picked up we headed to Dave's house in the Inner Sunset district. We spent the night cavorting and carousing. Late in the night, Miller played us some of his latest. It was a forgotten pleasure to hear new Miller/Danny songs and it made me pretty happy. I slept on the couch. And so it went for three nights, or was it four? No, it was three. Each of us spent the days with our families kvetching, and the evening with each other carousing. I'll leave the details aside, and simply say it was a very nice weekend of merriment-- one that truly felt like a holiday. Of course there were family affairs too. We had turley and oh so much more at Spencer's east bay abode. We shopped on the haight ashbury, which is pretty lame, but not as lame as it could be. We ate out at corner bistros and drank coffee. Soon it was Saturday and time to head back. I slept through most of the trip, sorry mom. I arrived in Malibu in good cheer and cleaned up my little attic for the next 24 hours... more or less. Chris sent in his apps and we all have our fingers crossed. Viva thanksgiving.

MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action

The absolute bar none best speech on the relationship between post 9-11 security and the future of american liberty

ROY EDWARD DISNEY November 30, 2003 Mr. Michael D. Eisner, Chairman The Walt Disney Company 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank, CA 91521 Dear Michael: It is with deep sadness and regret that I send you this letter of resignation from the Walt Disney Company, both as Chairman of the Feature Animation Division and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. You well know that you and I have had serious differences of opinion about the direction and style of management in the Company in recent years. For whatever reason, you have driven a wedge between me and those I work with even to the extent of requiring some of my associates to report my conversations and activities back to you. I find this intolerable. Finally, you discussed with the Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors its decision to leave my name off the slate of directors to be elected in the coming year, effectively muzzling my voice on the board -- much as you did with Andrea Van de Kamp last year. Michael, I believe your conduct has resulted from my clear and unambiguous statements to you and to the Board of Directors that after 19 years at the helm you are no longer the best person to run the Walt Disney Company. You had a very successful first 10-plus years at the company in partnership with Frank Wells, for which I salute you. But, since Frank's untimely death in 1994m, the Company has lost its focus, its creative energy, and its heritage. As I have said, and as Stanley Gold has documented in letters to you and other members of the Board, this Company, under your leadership has failed during the last seven years in many ways: 1. The failure to bring back ABC Prime Time from the ratings abyss it has been in for years and your inability to program successfully the ABC Family Channel. Both of these failures have had, and I believe will continue to have, significant adverse impact on shareholder value. 2. Your consistent micro-management of everyone around you with the resulting loss of morale throughout the Company. 3. The timidity of your investments in our theme park business. At Disney's California Adventure, Paris and now in Hong Kong, you have tried to build parks "on the cheap" and they show it and the attendance figures reflect it. 4. The perception by all of our stakeholders -- consumers, investors, employees, distributors and suppliers -- that the company is rapacious, soul-less, and always looking for the "quick buck" rather than long-term value which is leading to a loss of public trust. 5. The creative brain drain of the last several years, which is real and continuing, and damages our Company with the loss of every talented employee. 6. Your failure to establish and build constructive relationships with creative partners, especially Pixar, Miramax, and the cable companies distributing our products. 7. Your consistent refusal to establish a clear succession plan. In conclusion, Michael, it is my sincere belief that it is you who should be leaving and not me. Accordingly, I once again call for your resignation or retirement. The Walt Disney Company deserves fresh, energetic leadership at this challenging time in its history just as it did in 1984 when I headed a restructuring which resulted in your recruitment to the Company. I have and will always have an enormous allegiance and respect for this Company, founded by my uncle, Walt, and father, Roy, and to our faithful employees and loyal stockholders. I don't know if you and and other directors can comprehend how painful it is for me and the extended Disney family to arrive at this decision. In accordance with Item 6 of Form S-K and Item 7 of Schedule 14A, I request that you disclose this letter and that you file a copy of this letter as an exhibit to a Company Form 8-K. With sincere regret, (signed) Roy E. Disney

G.O.P. = F O X

Conservatives Shocked By the Power of Money

Op-Ed Columnist: The Uncivil War

Yahoo! News - Analysts: Medicare Drug Costs Will Rise. Isn't it swell how AP articles like this only come out AFTER the legislation passes?

If you read yesterday's jibblog and wondered if I was calling YOU a flake, the answer is no. I was't referencing a particular person but a number of people. It was the quantity that was tough on me. This may indicate that it just hurt my big fat ego a little bit, and that may be true, and that is probably for the good. So you flakers actually helped me on my pathless path toward enlightenment. Thanks!

Here is some really bad news (Thanks MizzShaw). Unfortunately, Iraqi police are now forcibly shitting down TV stations as part of operation "we are a bunch of hypocrites who deserve the world's ire." Articles like these are the tolls of the apoclypse. Then we get GW saying this: "We have protests at home, too. They now have that right in Baghdad as well." --Dubya, on the London protests George W. Bush, please, I beg you-- kill youself. Gouge out your eyeballs with a ballpoint pen, come screaming out of the oval office, and then take the 24 karat gold letter opener your dad gave you at your innaguaration--the one given to him by Mohammed Bin Laden-- and plunge it into your shrimp-Louis-salad-filled belly, and die the horrible death you and your murderious ilk deserve. Please... kill yourself. Oh, and by the way, if there is a heaven, and if pernicious assholes like you get to go there while never-baptised iraqi children go anyplace else, then fuck the evil god that created such a setup and may he die again on the cross asap.

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saturday we had a fun time even though it was flake city out there, which was kinda disillusioning. I know it's hard to tell people no, but its way worse to say yes then not show or call. And then when 8 people do it on the same night it hurts a tad. But hey, i've been that guy too. I'm pretty bummed about no band playing all weekend. Now I gotta wait until after thanksgiving. I came up with a cool riff on the guitar. its a kinda new thing for me becuase I took a simple chord thing and rocked it up with slides and extra chords and rhythm stuff... in other words just what I need to become excellent at doing. I spent about 4 hours cleaning out my car. What a mess, now I gotta do my room but im way too tired. good night cruel flakey world.

it's hard to feel sad when skipping down a hill. However, some people have learned to do this.

Pearle admits invasion was illegal

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal

I Promise

Not to post any pictures of Michael Jackson.

The get together at Renee's was nice. I was running late because I had a really cool chat with a coworker about lucid dreams and out of body experiences and quantum shenanagins. It was stimulating. Anways, at Renee's only about 1/4 people contacted came, but that's totally cool and to be expected. Nobody from the office came, but I guess that is pretty normal too. I gave really short notice to everyone as this was something I decided to do that very afternoon. Chris, Terra, Anda, Sasha, Ezra, Joe, Erica, & Jeremie were there. We drank and talked and generally had a good time. It was nice to see Joe and to meet his longtime travel companion Erica. Either Renee's or Chris comped me my drinks, thanks! We went to to norms and my briefcase was there with everything which was a pleasant suprise. Chris finished off my steak. Joe and Erica slept over at my place and seemed to enjoy it. Now I'm 25 and it feels OK. Jeremie send me some more photos and I'll post 'em. They don't need to have me in them. Thanks for this one.

U.S. Occupation Launches Media Offensive

Yahoo! News - U.S. Occupation Launches Media Offensive: "In what one Pentagon official called going on the offensive, military public affairs officers also began last week flooding reporters in Washington and Baghdad with press releases on everything from commando raids and weapons seizures to the capture of Iraqi insurgents and reconstruction efforts. " Press releases on commando raids? Orwel much? Please pass me a bucket I think I'm gonna vomit. How much of this propogandized euphistic bullshit will be printed nearly verbatim by our "puppy dog" press? Lots. "Additionally, they are planning a new 24-hour satellite television station to offer more government-produced programming of briefings, military activities and other events in Iraq (news - web sites), defense officials said." Hmm, encourage democracy with state run media... yeeeeeah. Garanteed it will be absurd and make us more alienated and hated. This shit will be available in the US too, I presume-- oh wait we have already Faux News.

It's strangs how reading a blog moves one back through time. This is in contrast to time's foward progress in a book or journal or a life. In the book we start with the author at the begining and move foward. The reader of a blog, at least on her first visit, find himself starting with the present, or some apporiximation, and moving backward into the past. There are distinct problems with this kind of temporality. Knowing the end can make reading the begining unnecessary, no? Maybe the point is not to read back into the blog's past, but to start when you arrive and move foward with the blogger into that dark night. Avast? Never!

Salon.com | In the lion's den: "Meanwhile, the right's intellectuals and activists had largely scrapped talk of democracy. Some suggested that the Iraqis themselves are our enemy, that we owe them nothing. Pipes referenced 'The Mouse That Roared,' the 1959 film in which a poor country declares war on America, hoping to lose and be rebuilt like Germany and Japan. The implication seemed to be that Iraq is both lucky and greedy. " The neo-con right is NUTS. They are by turns in denial and in outer-space. I'll break it down sometime when I get some moments.

MizzShaw wrote a poem for me: expanding branches envelope the dusty void marked by my birth. Woe are the lonely hours surrounding the mound of earth keeping watch over my dwindling existence. The valencia orange falls to my death.

9.75 hours into the birthday and I've been up and down some sort of emotional EKG but now I'm at the office and feeling well. I've gotten some comic eCards and well wishing IMs and jazz on the hi-fi. I opened the box of instant oatmeal and I greedily went straight for my favorite flavor, which will leave hard work in the days ahead.

Eric Alterman: Altercation. Check him out. He da bomb. He's like an ultra smart billy bob thorton.

Energy bill deal with big corporate tax breaks OK'd

Salon.comLife for oil companies just keep getting sweeter. I wonder why?

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My life is fuckign non-stop. its almost 8 I'm still at work. now I'm off to do some errands. I've never been so busy in my life as I am now. Not sure what I think about it. on one hand im a third dead so its about time, on the other hand I'm all over the place and I think it may be time to focus like a laser beam on one thing or another. Krishnamurti talks about awareness and how when one is completely aware of something then intelligence is maximized (one's sense of self also disappears). I am fractured and therefore dim and self-aware. I guess the trick is to be focused on what one is doing when one is doing it, then you can do whatever whenever and the intelligence is applied. It ain't no easy feat. My dad told me not to be penny wise and pound foolish. He was talking about my car but I think it is a great axiom. I heard on the radio that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. I like that. Katie's song is sweet. I need more guitar skills. rock and roll is here to go charleston chew for governor done making video games for the day. time to get some stuff out of the old apartment and think about getting older.

A girl at the office painted this. I think it's tres dope:

This SA article is a classic case of "its easier to say somebody's shit sucks than to say something positive, or --god forbid-- make some shit yourself." Regardless, it's really funny and I'm not against taking some wind out of the strokes' sails. Meanwhile the trashing of Primal Scream is really funny, even if I like Primal Scream. Something Awful: "The Velvet Underground was revered for Lou Reed’s unmistakable voice and, even a crotchety bastard like me will admit it, fairly memorably lyrics. These are two qualities distinctly lacking in the music of The Strokes, whose songs usually contain no more distinct message than “life is exciting” or perhaps “life is boring” or, in cases of extreme emotional outburst, “my relationship is either exciting or boring.” "

Tonight the band is practicing again. Were actively searching for band names so email them my way, huh? Me and Katie were kinda into "The Motions" but chris isn't. The name worries me because it's a lot like the strokes, and that's so NYC circa 2002. Other recent thoughts: The Dollops, The Dollars, Four Dollar Bills, The Bleeding Hearts, Stereogram (just had this idea right now as I'm typing), Ken Starr, OMG (just had this now too), Duty Free (just had this idea so now im just talking out my ass ). ok I'll stop. Email me your thoughts.

The Onion | Mom Finds Out About Blog

It happened to me!

Clark Tells Veterans He Backs Amendment on Flag Desecration

Clark Tells Veterans He Backs Amendment on Flag Desecration It's too bad really. To quoth the master (roughly): "The flag is a symbol. It's not the country, it's just a symbol. A symbol that represents... the freedom.... to burn... the flag. Case closed." --My Twisted version of something said by Bill Hicks.

"Many of us who opposed the war in Iraq did so because, we argued at the time, Iraq was successfully contained and therefore no threat to America and that a war over there would distract us from greater dangers posed by al Qaeda, North Korea and Iran. Six months later -- six months after toppling Saddam Hussein, that is, it's obvious that we were right. If the goal of President Bush's foreign policy was to make America weaker, more vulnerable and more hated, mission accomplished." --Paul Begala

"If music be the food of love, play on..." -Shakespeare

I read this on a web site and instantly tears came to my eyes. Idunno why. Anyway, have you ever read a phrase more beautiful? Email it to me.

Yahoo! News - 9-11 Victims' Relatives Criticize Deal

Yahoo! News - 9-11 Victims' Relatives Criticize Deal

I know that sometimes my blog writing leaves something to be desired, but understand that I do this for fun and to communicate, so I write in a stream-of-stupidness style and rarely proofread. Therein is the excitement of reading my personal thoughts stripped of any ornimental trappings or editorial whitewashing... No, the truth is I totally self edit and one of these days I'll start writing an anonymous blog and none of ya'll will know about it but it'll be about 1,000,000x more fascinating and somebody will track me down and my life will get all fucked up and I'll end up sleeping on a blanket just north of hollywood blvd around wilcox or so. Jesse hooked me up with the GRAND THEFT AUTO III DOUBLE PACK! So basically he rules and the rest of us drool. So I'm finally going to be playing the most controversial game ever made. The amazing thing is that in addition to being controversial, it is also amazingly good, and ranks with the very best games ever made. It is unusual for a game to have both gameplay substance and the cheap thrills provided by violence and adult humor. It's remarkable that over two full years after it's origional release it is still many gamers favorite ps2 game, and it is still causing lawsuits. If your kids can't figure out that shooting randomly at cars is a bad idea, hold them back a grade, ok? And also get a vasectomy because you shouldn't be raising kids. Idunno if it's your shitty DNA or your whacked-out parenting, but hang up with your lawyer and call a doctor. ok? In other news, I still suck at the guitar.

Yahoo! News - CIA Report Says U.S. Losing Popular Support in Iraq

Yahoo! News - CIA Report Says U.S. Losing Popular Support in Iraq

what an eventful period... Too eventful to properly blog I'll do my darndest. The 24 hour film marathon was a failure in the sense that we didn't have a proper story and didn't get it in on time so weren't eligible for the contest. This sucks. It's probably my fault that we didn't get it in on time. #1 because we didn't have a story, and I should have made sure we did, and #2 because in thr crunch time I could have put more pressure to get it out with enough time to make the drive to hollywood. On the other hand, there our theme was pathetic (upstairs) and there was no way it could have been cut decently in time. Hell, our too-late cut was rougher than dirt. But we did end up with a completed project despite amazing adversity and time constraints. Mad thanks go out to Jeremie and John, who made it all possible, Allie, Ryan, who helped all the way through the deadline, and John Ryan, who really did some kick ass acting and was just funny as hell all day. Others helped out too, like Russ and Terra. thanks. I don't wanna thank god at all, she didn't do shit for it. In fact I'm pretty sure she was trying to stop the whole thing from happening. well too bad cus ill be psoting it online here in just a couple weeks. Sunday I played with terra and katie and chris.... the new band. It was awesome. We'll be rehersing every friday and sunday. We practiced at one of those places where the drums and amps and pa and mics are all there and its really nice and affordable. $18 per hour. We played "get back" and "girlfriend" (matthew sweet) and goofed a bit and messed with some of Katie's originals. Katie is a really solid guitarist and terra can fucking play drums! It is so fucking awesome i can't even communicate. I bought myself a cheap fender practice amp (frontman g15 series II) to practice at home. I actually have a guitar amp again! Even if it is a $65 one. monday night the four of us (the band) went and sang karaoke at the dume room. it was awesome. chis with guns and roses, terra dueting with everyone, katie drinking everyone's drinks. It was utter rock n roll. I got drunk, I got sick, i got to work late. Good times!

BartCop Volume 1192

BartCop Volume 1192: "Tensions between U.S. forces and Iraqis in the Shiite Muslim enclave, Sadr City, rose Monday after the head of the U.S.-appointed municipal council, Muhanad al-Kaadi, was shot and killed by an American soldier guarding municipal headquarters. The U.S. military said the shooting occurred Sunday when al-Kaadi got into an argument with a soldier guarding the council headquarters. The statement blamed the altercation on 'his refusal to follow instructions of the onsite security officer who was enforcing' regulations 'in accordance with the rules of engagement.' An American medic administered first aid and rushed him to a military clinic where he was pronounced dead, a U.S. statement said. Al-Kaadi, who spoke fluent English, had been trying to improve relations between the Americans and residents of the impoverished community." --Associated Press"

Salon.com News | Carter: U.S. missteps embolden dictators

Salon.com News | Carter: U.S. missteps embolden dictators: "the Nobel Peace Prize winner said an erosion of civil liberties in the U.S. has ``given a blank check to nations who are inclined to violate human rights already.'' "

Salon.com Books | Dictionary editors to keep "McJob": "McDonald's may not be ``lovin' it,'' but the editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary say ``McJob'' is a word that's here to stay."

Salon.com | Gore vs. Bush, Part 2

Gore vs. Bush, Part 2: "But a lot of other changes have taken place that a lot of people don't know about and that come as unwelcome surprises. For example, for the first time in our history, American citizens have been seized by the executive branch of government and put in prison without being charged with a crime, without having the right to a trial, without being able to see a lawyer, and without even being able to contact their families. President Bush is claiming the unilateral right to do that to any American citizen he believes is an 'enemy combatant.' Those are the magic words. If the president alone decides that those two words accurately describe someone, then that person can be immediately locked up and held incommunicado for as long as the president wants, with no court having the right to determine whether the facts actually justify his imprisonment." -- Al Gore Think about this, this isn't some conspiracy theory or wacky left-wing socialist blog, this is Al Gore. You can no longer doubt that fact that, "American citizens have been seized by the executive branch of government and put in prison without being charged with a crime, without having the right to a trial, without being able to see a lawyer, and without even being able to contact their families." There is NO excuse for this. There is NO state of affairs which makes this acceptable. There is abominable and unacceptable and we need to DO something. What, I'm not sure except do the best we can to elimante Bush in '04.

Yahoo! News - Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War

Yahoo! News - Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-Minute Deal to Avert War

l'problem

classic debate going on via TV, radio, or dinner table. DAD: "getting rid of saddam was good cus he tortured people and stuff." DAUGHTER: "Yeah but that's not why we did it because this administration supports plenty of regimes who violate human rights Uzbekstan, the Pakistanistan and the Saudia Arabia come to mind. Dubya's dad and granddaddy reagan himself used to supported Saddam, and he was no saint even back then." DAD: "So does that mean getting rid of an evil dictator is bad? Of course not, doing so is always good and not supporting the war means your believe Saddam's oppression was OK." That's usually where a commercial break or dessert comes in. Why is it a problem that the us is hypocritical? Anybody? The answer could be a 50 page thesis, so try to expand this stuff internally: bias proves that all the bad shit saddam did was neither a necessary nor sufficient cause for our attacking him. therefore it is obvious to everyone world wide that this is not the cause of the PRE-EMPTIVE attack. since the true cause is not clearly articulated by the president it leaves everyone who already fears the us as a super power to imagine it for themselves. many will imagine that it was a grab for oil, cronyism for bush's friends, religious ideology, or whatever. This is what people worldwide will think, whether or not these are true reasons is, for the sake of this argument, not important. Many people will use these possible causes to galvanize people for their own purposes (to recruit terrorists, for example). in the modern interconnected world where we are still quite vulnerable in many ways this kind of poor statesmanship puts US citizens directly in danger. And for that we're killing out soldiers, and iraqis (how many?) and paying billions.

awesome

National Public Radio will announce today the largest donation in its history, a cash bequest from the will of the late philanthropist Joan Kroc of about $200 million.

various and sundry

I saw a bumper sticker this morning that said "I support president bush and our troops." The administration is like a beer company that puts hot girls in their commericals so people will think "girls good, beer close to girls, beer good too." Does anybody know anybody personally who does not support our troops? What would that even mean? Does not supporting the troops mean that you want them to be hurt? If so, then what does a bumper sticker like "I support president bush and our troops" imply? I support our troops so much I didn't want them to get put in harm's way to begin with. Does Bush support the creeping number of troops coming home in "transfer tubes." Ya know, those dead soilders who the media isn't allowed to photograph. He doesn't suppot the troops who died in the helicopter attack enough to give a speech about them to the American people. Why not? He is afraid of the opposite of the beer-girls effect. "dead soldiers bad, Bush talks of dead soldiers, Bush bad too." What a piece of shit leader. Damn daylight savings for taking the deer and marine life out of my morning commute. I joined a french server in R63 last night and got mad props for even trying to speak french. Since the game was developed in montreal many french canadians play. It was cool. They made fun of my governor elect when they found out where I lived. They complained about american gamers who don't like canadians or the french these days. I was watching some strange show about busting old myths and they were talking about the supposed study where they flashed "your thirsty" in movie theaters and everyone went and bought drinks... We'll the science minded myth buster guy said that the experimenter later admitted that, "not only did he pad the results, but he never even conducted the expirement to begin with." Does it take a degree in philosophy to comprehend what is wrong with that statement? I think not.

I'm listening to a funky beat and, yeah, it's the truth: Sure it's almost 7:30 and I'm at work, and yes I worked over 200 hours last month with more coming my way, but I can't complain. I've got people knocking on my door (proverbialy only) and more shit to do in life than I can. Actuallly that's a problem for in my life. Growing up probably means accepting that I can't do everything I want. I need to make choices about where to spend my time. But I still WANT to do it all: hold down a full time job, be in a band, play games, watch the best shows, read the good books, see the good movies, love the good people, develop myself personally and socially and mystically and intellectually, sleep, learn foreign languages, travel, be fit, play ultimate frisbee. Is it all doable? Maybe, but for one with a tendency for low energy and illness it is so indescribably hard. I'm trying though, I really am. Well I'm not playing ultimate even a little. Friday @ midnight me and a whole crew are have 24 hours to complete a video short for a movie making marathon contest. We get the topic of our film friday night and turn in a finished product saturday night. Good times! I've got a DP, producer, editor, audio slave, all sorts of equipment, and presumably actors and actresses. I'm directing and am most assuredly the least experienced person in the group. Good times. Sunday I'm playing with the new band dealio. Chris, Terra, Katie are all in and maybe one other. Should be awkward and bad sounding and fun. I booked us a space at one of those fully equiped rehersal spaces. 18 bux an hour. damn good deal I think. Carry on.

"Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism. The techniques have been honed to a high art, far beyond anything Orwell dreamt of." -Chomsky (written over 20 years ago)

from snopes.com

Claim: A man has been stranded at a Paris airport for more than a decade. Status: True. Origins: What follows is one representative newspaper account of the strange story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri, a man without country, trapped by his lack of papers in Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, since 26 August 1988: [Boston Globe, 1997] He could be any passenger waiting for a flight, sitting patiently on a red plastic bench in Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal One, luggage piled neatly by his side. He sips a cup of hot chocolate and scans the crowd, occasionally cocking his head to listen to the airport announcements. He peruses a book, Hillary Rodham Clinton's "It Takes a Village." But Merhan Karimi Nasseri is going nowhere. He has been waiting for a flight out of France, he says, for 10 years. Nasseri was expelled from Iran a decade ago for his political views. Through a series of fateful missteps, he landed here without any documents. Since then, Europe's increasingly stiff stance toward refugees and his fragile mental state have kept him at the airport here in legal limbo. His is a story of broken hopes and bureaucracy, of a trip across Europe in search of a homeland that became a journey into mental chaos and despair. And it is a story of a man who has searched for his family, only to find an adopted one here, at Charles de Gaulle. "He's like a part of the airport. Everyone knows him," says Muhamed Mourrid, the manager of the Bye Bye Bar, pointing to the spot where Nasseri, 47, has lived for a decade. "That's his table, his chair, his place." Adds Marise Petry, a Lufthansa clerk, "He's one of us. We even get letters for him." Among the annals of horrific refugee tales, Nasseri's story is remarkable for its pathos and complexity. It begins in Iran in 1977, when Nasseri, fresh from studying in England, was expelled for protesting against the shah. His expulsion left him without a passport. Nasseri came to Europe. He bounced from capital to capital, applying for refugee status and being refused, again and again, for nearly four years. In 1981, his request for political asylum from Iran was finally granted by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Belgium. That decision gave him refugee credentials, which in turn allowed him to seek citizenship in a European country. The son of an Iranian and a Briton, Nasseri decided in 1986 on England with the hope of finding relatives there. He got as far as Paris, where in 1988 his briefcase containing his refugee documents was stolen in a train station. Nasseri boarded a plane for London anyway. But when officials at Heathrow Airport found he had no passport, they sent him back to Charles de Gaulle. At first, the French police arrested him for illegal entry. But as Nasseri had no documents, there was no country of origin to which he could be deported. So he took up residence in Terminal One. From its circular confines, he and his attorney, the Paris-based human rights lawyer Christian Bourget, battled to define his status and send him to London. In 1992, a French court finally ruled that Nasseri had entered the airport legally as a refugee and could not be expelled from it. But the court could not force the French government to allow him out of the airport onto French soil. In fact, Bourget said, French authorities refused to give Nasseri either a refugee or transit visa. "It was pure bureaucracy," said the lawyer. French immigration authorities have no comment on the case. Bourget and Nasseri then focused on Belgium, where they hoped to reclaim Nasseri's original refugee documents. But Belgian refugee officials refused to mail them to him in France. They argued that Nasseri had to present himself in person so that they could be sure he was the same man to whom they had granted political asylum years before. But, inexplicably, the Belgian government refused at that point to allow Nasseri to return there. And under Belgian law, a refugee who voluntarily leaves a country that has accepted him cannot return. In 1995, the Belgian government finally told Nasseri that he could retrieve his refugee documents if he agreed to live in Belgium under the supervision of a social worker. Nasseri refused. He said he would move only to Great Britain. And so here he has remained, year after year. At first glance, the dignified man does not appear to be a refugee who sleeps on an airport bench because he has nowhere else to go. His clothes are clean, his moustache well-trimmed. He keeps his one blazer covered with plastic wrap, hanging from an airport cart. His belongings are carefully packed in a frayed suitcase and a stack of Lufthansa boxes. Nasseri nods hello to a clerk, who calls him "Alfred," his nickname here. He follows the news closely, thanks to the most recent Time magazine, which the postman has just dropped off. And he loves to discuss the new selections from the Book-of-the-Month Club. "I just keep on reading, every day," said the soft-spoken Nasseri, a courtly gentleman who rises and offers his seat to a visitor. "I just keep waiting here." His pallid complexion is testament to his inability to cross the airport threshold to the outside world. He walks to the doors of Terminal One and absorbs fresh air as they swing open. But he never steps outside. His hollow cheeks and thin frame show the limits of the generosity of airport staff and strangers to help with his meals. Nasseri's confused account of his plight speaks to the psychological price he has paid in his fight to become a man who belongs somewhere. "Nobody could suffer all he did and stay normal," noted Bourget. The sad truth is this: After fighting for years to leave the airport and apply for citizenship elsewhere, Nasseri was afraid to do so when the opportunity arose. Belgium offered Nasseri the chance to settle there, but he refused. "Now, I think he will stay in the airport until he dies," Bourget concluded softly. His bizarre tale has brought him a degree of fame. He has been the subject of news reports from Finland to Britain. His life story became a 1994 French film, starring Jean Rochefort. Nasseri gets fewer visitors now to punctuate the long days down on Terminal One's boutique level, ringed with stores and small cafes. But he still has a following who help clothe and feed him and lift his spirits. "He does no harm to anyone," said Papa Starr, manager of the Les Palmes restaurant. "Everyone cares for him here." Several times a week, the airport priest stops by to visit him, as does Dr. Phillipe Bargain, the airport doctor. Many staff regularly visit him at his table for a cup of coffee and a chat. "I get lots of cards at Christmas," he said. "I call it my American Christmas." His life follows the quotidian airport cycle. He wakes at 5:30 in order to shave in the men's room before passengers arrive. He reads all day long. At night, he waits until the airport stores are locked before he brushes his teeth with the toothbrush and toothpaste from a complimentary airline travel kit. Weekly, he rinses out his clothes overnight in the bathroom. Nasseri is renowned throughout the airport for his refusal to ask for help. "We have a colleague who gave him clothes, but he returned them, saying 'I'm not a beggar,'" said Crystelle L'Hospitalier, a Lufthansa clerk. But he has to eat, and accepts occasional meal vouchers and francs from stewardesses and airport staff. As the years have slipped by, it has become increasingly clear that Nasseri will never leave Charles de Gaulle. His airport years have made him "crazier by the day," on the topic of his future, said airport doctor Bargain. When he talks about flying to London, the staff here greet him with understanding smiles. "An airport is kind of a place between heaven and earth," said Danielle Yzerman, spokeswoman for Charles de Gaulle. "He has found a home here." Nasseri is known for his honesty and refusal of charity. On two occasions he turned in billfolds full of money that had been mislaid by passengers. Airline and airport personnel push meal vouchers on him so he can eat. "French fries are my favorite," he confides. "It's not a very healthy diet, but I get enough." According to Nasseri: "When I think about the past 10 years, I realize that it is all wasted time," he says softly in clear but accented English. "I would like to leave this airport, but I need to get my identity papers in order first. It's not a normal life to stay in the airport for so long. It gets boring." On 17 September 1999, an international travel card and a French residency permit were put into Nasseri's hands. With them, he's now free to leave the airport, either to take up residency in France or to fly to another country that will allow him entry. He refuses to sign them, however, because they list his nationality as Iranian, and he wants it listed as British. He remains at Charles de Gaulle airport, determined to stick to this point rather than face life outside the terminal. -Barbara "terminal boredom" Mikkelson

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Jesus Day

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Toxin du jour (Dihydrogen Monoxide)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: You can tell which day a loaf of bread was baked by the color of its plastic twist tag?)

jello is made from bones and hides

Me at work a few weeks ago. I'll be here A LOT the next few months as we crunch out some games. No, I don't wear a headless phone thing, it was a mic to test in-game voice technologies.

Gertrude M. Jones Word has been received that Gertrude M. Jones, 81, passed away on August 25, 2003, under the loving care of the nursing aides of Heritage Manor of Mandeville, Louisiana. She was a native of Lebanon, KY. She was a retired Vice President of Georgia International Life Insurance Company of Atlanta, GA. Her husband, Warren K. Jones predeceased her. Two daughters survive her: Dawn Hunt and her live-in boyfriend, Roland, of Mandeville, LA; and Melba Kovalak and her husband, Drew Kovalak, of Woodbury, MN. Three sisters, four grandchildren and three great grandchildren, also survive her. Funeral services were held in Louisville, KY. Memorial gifts may be made to any organization that seeks the removal of President George Bush from office. Published in The Times-Picayune on 10/2/2003.

is bush jesus?

CBS pulled it anway

accurate reagan

what a leader

ripped from mediawhoresonline.com: Yahoo! News - White House: Resolve in Iraq 'Unshakable': "Bush, spending a long weekend at his Texas ranch, said nothing in person about the helicopter shoot-down Sunday, a day in which three other Americans, including two civilian contractors, also were killed in Iraq. "

so funny

last night Sasha called me up around 20:00, I'm still at work, and he reminds me that it is rumored that Keith Richards may show up at The Joint tonight. So obviously I tel him I'll meet him there, which I proceed to do. Every monday at the Joint a buncha renowned old rock men, and one young girl, play rock covers to a crowd of true rock and roll lovers and other freaks of nature. Its a fun scene, with old folks, young folks, black folks, white folks and so on. The singer dude was Jimmy Page's first choice for Led Zepplin, or so the story goes. Plant played on the stage with them two weeks ago, so why not Keith tonight? The guitarist, bassist, and drummer are all session and touring dudes who've played with the stones, niel young, and tom petty respectively. They play great sounding rock n roll without a lot of frills. During the first set they mentioned a couple times how anything can happen on "this stage" and to stick around, which me, chris, anda, sasha, and jeremie all did. But we didn't get keith. Set two started with Revolution #9 and went from there into an awesome honkey tonk woman which got the crowd going. We could sense something was going to happen. Smiling girls pressed toward the stage with youthful, not-quite-quivering, anticipation. Then you will never guess who went up onto it.... you'll never guess. Please try... It was... Fred Durst. Truthfully we had heard it might be in between the sets, but it was still a bit of a shock, or more of a slap in the face. He said "I want to get deep here with everyone for a minute." Me and my crew were all looking at each other nowingly and making fun. Durst proceeded to render that song "no one knows what it's like." Man, I thought I was a hack singer! Seriously bad, off key, ugly, uninspired. Trust me, I was probably 10 feet from him or less. After that he left the stage (thanks god) and the band did led zepplin's "nobody's fault but mine." That's not the song title is it? Well anyway they NAILED it, the drummer kicked ass and did those wierd counter rythms perfectly, the guitar screamed, the bass thumped, it was amazing. After that I took off and my ears were totally numb. I'll be back there soon.

TheStar.com - Pentagon keeps dead out of sight "But today's military doesn't even use the words "body bags" — a term in common usage during the Vietnam War, when 58,000 Americans died. During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Pentagon began calling them "human remains pouches" and it now refers to them as "transfer tubes.""

ripped from bartcop:

BartCop Volume 1192: "'We no longer live in a free country according to definition of Dubya: On October 3 this year, he said, 'See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop 'weapons of mass destruction.' ' -- Alex Mnats "

me hiking a malibu canyon this weekend: Thanks Jeremie

Oiling up the draft machine?

I kinda doubtthis can be true, but I'm posting it before I read it. I'll have more on this later.

"The audacity, vacancy, and prejudice of various cultures is evinced by the fact that each claims 'love of food' as distintly it's own." - Jordan Blackman Oh I'm so right there. I don't care if your italian, french, jewish, Chinese, WASP, Mexican, it makes no difference, in your culture's heavy self-celebratory NPR style BS you will make a comment about how important food is to your culture or how much people in your cultural group like to eat. Provincial mofoes, it's food, do you really think it is just your group's deal? It is the same with dignity, taste, love, god, and other perinnials.

I've been wanting to blog all weekend but i messed up my PC installing a new HD (120 gig) and a DVD RW (wierd polaroid brand). Now I'm at work and happy to be here. Good morning ya'll.

Self-Referential Sentences: One Two Many

Self-Referential Sentences: One Two Many

Yahoo! News - Report Links Iraq Deals to Bush Donations

duh

easier said than done

"If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." - Joseph Campbell

Center for American Progress - Claim vs. Fact: Presidential Press Conference, 10/28/03

- Claim vs. Fact -

Yahoo! News - Fox nearly sued itself over 'Simpsons' parody: Matt Groening

Yahoo! News - Fox nearly sued itself over 'Simpsons' parody: Matt Groening

jordanblackman design

You can now buy jordanblackman design t-shirts... Or one at least, this is just a placeholder shirt until I build some cooler designs, but it might become a collector's item right? Should i do it this way or stick to handmade t-shirt paint and stencils?

Do You Realize??

This Flaming Lips song, which I heard on VH1 as a bumper and thought, "Wow, I wonder what this is, it's better than all the songs they play videos for," totally has me in awe. I didn't know it was a flaming lips song then and when it just played on the CD Terra loant me I was totally amazed. Still am. Best new song I've heard all year. It's John Lennon good. Do you realize?? Isn't it funny, by the way, how Mtv and radio stations will play good cool songs for bumper music but won't play them "for realz"? Assholes want us to know they know what the good shit is but are too patheitc and money hungry to play it. I just wanna listen to that song again but I can't cus I'm at work...

we just had a small earthquake here in Calabasas. I'm fine. More as events unfold. Please e-mail me if you have any information.

saw it on mediawhoresonline.com

Washington Post Editorial - May 3, 2003: "Still, it's also impossible to agree with the banner that was draped near Mr. Bush on the carrier deck, proclaiming "Mission Accomplished." Aides say the slogan was chosen in part to mark a presidential turn toward domestic affairs as his campaign for reelection approaches." flash foward to yesterday: "The "Mission Accomplished" sign, of course, was put up by the members of the USS Abraham Lincoln saying that their mission was accomplished. I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from staff. They weren't that ingenious, by the way." - George W. Bush (10/28) Smells like fish huh?

Guardian Unlimited | Up to 15,000 people killed in invasion, claims thinktank

Albino Blacksheep - Video / S-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse

Albino Blacksheep - Video / S-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse Thank Jeremie, this is terrific! I wish I had made it. REQUIRED CLICKING FOR EVERYONE.

Rules for a succesfull FPS "79. If any character in the game smokes a cigarette, he or she is (or will be) a bad guy. If your character smokes a cigarette, you are a badass with a heart of gold. Corollary: Cigars may not be smoked by thin people ever. (Submitted by Ignatz)" "94. There is usually some 'artifact' that you have to collect, but the bad guy must always split it into 4 or more pieces throughout his evil domain. Each piece is guarded by some warlord type guy who wears a leather thong and has a huge axe type weapon. He must also be surrounded by 'lesser' minions who run at you no matter what happens, and there must be flying enemies at these points too - who must have lasers and nothing else. (Submitted by John Donnelly)"

The Fysche Bowl. you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be confused.

Salon.com | Camille speaks! I get the feeling she is the kind of person who gets her kicks by forming unusual and unpredictable opinions. What a thrill, anyhow, she give good interview so have a look.

still really scary

Salon.com News | Bush disavows mission accomplished banner

Jus Another Lie

saw it on bartcop:

"The more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become. They can't stand the thought of a free society. They hate freedom. They love terror. They love to try to create fear and chaos." -- Gee Dubya Bush "These attacks are not really happening. Or if they are they are the fault of liberals in the media. Iraq is a democracy. The invasion was a success. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." --Eric Alterman "Does the president really believe that suicide bombers are willing to strap explosives to their bodies because we're restoring electricity and creating jobs for Iraqis? Is the president arguing that the better things get in Iraq, the more dangerous it will become for American soldiers?" --John Kerry

UCLA, where a kid can be a kid (in debt)!

From Kettle Korn to taking yoga class, from playing the latest Street Fighter incarnation to purchasing the latest Clinique skin care treatments, you can spend every penny to your university creditor's name and still feel academic. After all, you are on a world-class campus in a world-class city! "But sir," you protest, "UCLA students don't spend their precious campus hours shopping. They spend them parking!" Touché. But at the prices the school charges to park, I would argue that UCLA parking is a legitimate consumer activity. Consider how lucky we are to have a fleet of meter maids that raid our coffers with the stealth and efficiency of the modern American war machine. I say that our hearts should be gladdened to finance the police officers that so happily and frequently pull over students struggling to get to the classes they paid for. That is why I'm all too happy to pay the parking fines and traffic tickets that the UC regents have made sure we never have to do without. After all, it must be expensive to set up all those administrative telephone systems in such a way that enrolled students don't ever have to speak with boring, breathing, human beings. Why else would there not be enough money for frilly extras like chairs and desks? Someone has to bite the bullet and pay for the maze of request forms and regulations that make the UCLA experience so challenging and exciting! I must, however, scold the powers that be for not fully realizing UCLA's consumerist possibilities. For example, where is the BruinCoaster? A double looping ride, looming over the main quad, sponsored by the latest summer blockbuster which is conveniently premiering in Westwood Village with tickets at a special price – if you have a Bruin Card. And why not a giant UCLA casino (dry of course)? Where is the greyhound racing, jai alai and underground boxing circuit that we students deserve? I have heard secret rumblings that such attractions already exist in clandestine and luxuriously appointed caverns below Royce Hall, but only for those whose wallets are open and whose mouths are closed. Yet even though I dearly miss these essential facilities, it is a pleasure to stroll the campus and experience diverse groups of people, all of them gathering by Ackerman to accost students as we hurry to our classes. I can't help but admire the intractable faith they each have in their own ideology. One might suspect that these groups, after spending all year within fifty feet of one another, might forget about their distrust and hatred for each other, but in fact their chauvinism remain persistently intact. Bravo! I for one can understand their desire to court the complacent masses, whose blue and yellow warm-up suits dot the courtyards and commons from Franz to Fowler. Oh look, matching blue and yellow shoes! So proud are we to be Bruins, in our BearWear frocks and socks. All over the Westside, it's hip to be Bear! And shouldn't it be? After all the class, the friends, the memories and most of all, the money, UCLA should mean a lot to us. However, I'm beginning to feel an ever so slight decline in the selling power of the UCLA brand; has somebody discovered that UCLA might not be the idyllic institution that we keep telling ourselves it is? No way! That''s why I believe UCLA needs to change its moniker to something with the decadence and chic that the early 21st century is quickly becoming known for. My suggestion: UCLA.thebomb.com. This slight change will increase UCLA's marketability and perceived value in the key market of 16 to 25-year-olds. And we can feel good selling this product to the blessed children and hopeful parents of this sanctified nation. Because UCLA.isthebomb.com is an education that is more than just an alumni bumper sticker; it's a vanity plate too. this article was written by myself in 2000, edited and printed by the Daily Bruin, and reedited just now by me to be a bit finnier. Any and all parts of this essay not awesome are the faults of the Editors at the Daily Bruin, not your fearless author. A Big Holiday Sale is going on there now!

Hate from the heartland Thank you god for your cleansing gift of religion.

A Willful Ignorance. You have to sign up with the NY times to read krugman's latest, but you should have done that already.

God Releases Behind-the-Ear Upgrade

On farting... I learned that Pumpernickel, the dark-grain bread, means "goblin that breaks wind" in Old German.

I want to thank everyone that made my weekend so sweet (incomplete sentences follow): Terra and Annie for taking me to a party and getting me a costume and being really fun all night and helping me out when I climbed down from that tree with a pulled muscle. Chris for making my Saturday fun while I was all fucked up from climbing that tree and bringing me Arnica. My mom and grandma for taking me out for lunch and being so chill. My brother for buying an XBOX and XBOX Live so we can play together and talk together even though you’re a few hundred miles away. Jeremy for taking us up PCH for a look at Sunday's beautiful destruction as the city burned. Alexandra for the ticket to Beth Gibbons and for driving up and the ride to the show and for general happiness. What a great weekend.... And last NovaLogic, for my awesome job so when Sunday comes I am looking forward to coming into work on Monday. Thanks ya'll.

It's snowing ash and the clouds of smoke are ominous and intergalactic. Going outside is irritating to the eyes and throat. I can't wait to get back to my cozy beach hideaway. If anybody is in trouble email me and I'll do what I can.

a work of fiction

Biography of President George W. Bush

Uploading images is way easier than writing shit. Have a great weekend ya'll.

Yeah, that's right, I figured out how to put images on this shizl...

Well, I wouldn't have gone to NAM either, but then I wouldn't have sent America's kids to kill and die in Iraq.

'This is How You Screw' show is off TV

oh amsterdam, i heart u

im sick of people saying things are businesses that aren't. I read crap all the time like "running a government is like running a business" or "running a school is just running a business" or "running a household is just the same as running a business." NO IT'S NOT. You can't fire your kids, or your constituency, or your students. You can't quit your family. The main thing is that a business is typically an organization whose purpose is to make money. A family is not, a country is not, and it is at least an issue whether a school ought to be. Thinking like a businessperson can be helpful when running a family or a school or whatever, but one ought not forget that there are huge huge important differences.

I heard that the albertsons/ralphs/vons folks on strike make an average of $17.50 an hour... Most of them are part time workers too. Depending on what they are actually being asked to pay for health care I might not give a crap about their strike anymore. I make less than that and I put myself into debt going to college... Anybody know the specifics of their health care deal?

a note from cohen:

on my street there's a mailbox upon which someone has painted "who would Jesus bomb?" I liked it. -Cohen

quote from dude what was in somalia as a medic for the whole mogadishu deal: "I think the one thing that I learned most from that experience is that "Fighting for Peace, is like Fucking for Virginity!"... but I guess thats a whole other website."

so yesterday I went back to the prop house because I left my briefcase there and also they had a blanket of ours so I'm there talking to the dude who is super cool and I'm asking about the difference between an m16 and an m4 and he picks up an m16 a2, and is showing me some things and he's like "why don't you just shoot it..." so I'm all, "OOOooOoh K." They have a room just to fire the guns (blanks) so i went in there and he showed me how to work it and I let loose like 20-30 shells on FULL AUTO. Fire is comming out of the barrel, shells are flying out of the side... it was so fucking awesome. Obviously i was wearing those funny glasses and ear protection... I love guns.

saw it on bartcop.com

"Bush joked last week during his meeting with Schwarzenegger that they are both sometimes accused of misspeaking the language. Mr. President, he's from a foreign country." -- Jon Stewart "Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible.... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq.... there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles. -- Bush the Smarter in his 1997 book, "A World Transformed,"

t shirt ideas, give me feedback or send in your own, I'll be makign shirts in a month or two and selling them here at cost: "evil doer" "I prefer the lesser of two evils" "no taxation without drug expiramentation" "pizza" "dopamine" "my other harley is a potato" front: "the statement on the back of this shirt is true... back: www.jordanblackman.com is kick ass" "What Would Clinton Do?" idunno, still working on it

new poll shows students are dumber than others, being taught to thoughtlessly accept material believed to be the primary reason.

This blog is kick ass!

Video Games Will Calm Your Fears

The facts are in, video games can cure your fears! Supposedly, exposure to what you fear lessons the fear... so if you are afraid of spiders you get put into an environment with spiders. But if this really worked you would think all the times I got killed in games would help me with my fear of death... Hasn't happened...

Malaysian PM repeats charge about Jews So regarding what the dude said, whatever, I wanna talk about something the reporter wrote, "Mahathir singled out the case of U.S. Army Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, the U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, who has said that the war on terror is a Christian fight against Satan, and that Muslims worship an idol. In fact, Muslims worship the same God as Christians and Jews." It was that "In fact" that got my blood bubbling. In fact my white ass. Kant's argument against the ontological proof for the existence of god was that existence is not a property, and here we see why. The sentence sure makes it sound like a fact that the different religions all worship the same entity (an entity is something that exists)... But many people, myself included, doubt there is any entity like the one[s] claimed in these faiths. If something doesn't exist, how can you signle it out as the same non-existant thing as the other non-existant thing; that is, how can it have identity? Can two people believe in the SAME non-existant banana? It seems to me that they cannot. For three whole religions to believe in the same god is not meaningless, it's simply impossible. Anyhow, ignoring these deepish ontological questions, on the surface it is clear that not even all people within these groups worship the same God. Mormons and Lutherans seem to have Gods with different values, how can they be the same? Surely there is SOMETHING different about the concepts of God that each group claims is correct, and god is nothing if not a concept. They all must claim that their god is THE one god, and therefore it is convenient to claim a heratige with the one god that people have worshipped for years.. after all, there isn't much of an alternative, other than saying that the one god from before never was, but this highly similar but only slightly different one god IS real. That is too absurd, so instead the scions of the god of the old testament (and lets face it, the Jewish god of today is not the Jewish god of back then) claim that their god, with his own set of petty rules, is the same god as before, just with some new rules or "children" or prophets. This can easily be done because there can be no verification, no test. Religions naturally break apart and diverge as groups apply their own prejudices and agendas to the invisible thing in the sky that lays down ultimate truth. So what does it mean to say all three groups worship the same god? In fact, Dennis D. Grey of the associated press never bothered to say.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose -- and you allow him to make war at pleasure. If today, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us' but he will say to you, 'Be silent; I see it, if you don't.'" - Abraham Lincoln

blowing my mind

I'll try to do this without going into a platonic discussion of what irony is... I've always contended that the song Ironic has nothing ironic at all in the lyrics. Rain on your wedding day just sucks, same with a free ride when you've already paid or good advice that you didn't take etc... however, I realized inthe shower last night that "mr play it safe who was afraid to fly and packed his suitcase and kissed his kids goodbye, he waited his whole damn life to take that flight and as the plane crashed down he thought well isnt this nice" IS ironic... not because his plane crashed, but because he thought "well isn't this nice" while the plane was crashing... SO the song does contain an example of irony in teh lyrics... now here is where things get interesting... I had always thought that the most ironic thing about the song Ironic is that there is nothing ironic in the lyrics... but now that there IS irony in the lyrics that greater irony about the lack of irony is gone... So by discovering Irony in the song the song has become less ironic. Bu bu bub BUT that new state of affairs whereby the song's containing irony makes it less ironic is itself very ironic indeed! I can go on, because the fact that by having irony the song becomes less ironic which is ironic is ALSO ironic. At this point I have to breathe and stop thinking about the whole thing, but I sense a really shitty MA thesis in there somewhere. UGH. goodmorning!

America's favorite psycho bitch:

WorldNetDaily: With half his brain tied behind his back She loves McCarthy and want to blow up the NY time building... LAdies and gentlemen it's america's favorite psycho bitch, ANN! This Time she is writing about Rush's abuse of drugs and guess what, she thinks its not as bad as Clinton's "sodomy." Now the dictionary defines sodomy thusly: "Any of various forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural or abnormal, especially anal intercourse or bestiality." So either Ann thinks fellatio is unnatural or abnormal which is in turn either asinine or false, OR she is accusing Bill and Monica of Anal sex or Bestiality, and if that isn't slander than idunno what is. @=

ok, back here then

dispite blogger sucking ass, I'm kinda stuck with it for now because nobody is bothering to go to the livejournal site, and nobody is commendintg at all you lazy fucks. Ok, here we are again just like old times. What's up? The usual shit, the powers that be be fucking shit up and keeping us down, the beautiful people be acting all special, the tv be yapping bout bullshits. Yesterday we went out to celebrate my dad's birthday (which is today happy pops pops) and we sat next to steven spielburg (that giy who used to make great moveis), the mother from the sopranos(in an italian resteraunt how cliche), and two other famous people (the guy from big night and the girl from indiana jones). They were facing my back so I didn't see them at all but I guess I was just a few feet away. Kinda a big fat "\/\/" but I thought yall should know.

Jibblog

So my latest post is here, @ livejournal, and I expect to be posting there from now on. Remember there is a link on the right side of this page anytime you need it. And you can get back here from my livejournal page quite easily. Ultimately my livejoural will be the front page of jordanblackman.com, but we're not there yet and probably won't be for a few weeks. So check it out and if you decide YOU want a livejournal, let me know I can get you a code.

Today I'm being sent to Independant Studio Services, a prop warehouse in canyon country, to take hi-res photos of weapons. Damn I love my job.

to the cronies go the spoils. Thanks unka dick!

$87,000,000,000.00

$87,000,000,000.00. I saw this on Severina's livejournal page. Remember folks, this is our $87,000,000,000.

i almost forgot...

FUCK YOU orange county. That goes for the TV show and the arnold loving van de kamps voting bloc. Put some fiber in your bread you lazy god fearing fuckers.

Asia Times -

let's see fox report this!

Der Gropenfuhrer Muscles His Way Into Office -- So What Now?

I live in such a funny place. Imagine the coolest treehouse possible for a 10 year old and that's pretty much my room. The ceiling is 6'3" at the tallest point, so it is womb-like. There is an upper level shelf for an even cozier experience. Meanwhile the huge skylight lets in the roar of the ocean which is unbelievably close... I can figuratively jump right into the water... The carpet is deep pile and nasty green, perfect for some old new hamshire playroom where the family keeps old checker boards and the 8 bit NES. It's the perfect room to go insnae or write a novel or commit suicide... did I make that joke on my blog yet? I'm going to set up a webcam with a view of the ocean... it'll be shnazzly. The place made me terribly sick the first night I slept there but one HEPA filter later and it's all good.

okokok, so you all are here to know my feelings now that arnold won. I think its bad, bad for california, bad for america, bad for me. But at least letterman has something to joke about. Seriously folks, wtf is wrong with people? Fuck you MSNBS, FOX, NYT, EVERY AM STATION, ISSA, ROB LOWE, BEN STEIN, and anyone who pretends arnold can successfully run California because he was a successful actor and bodybuilder. It is pretty funny that not only did he win, he OWNED that election. It really does make me laugh. He was a malibu landslide in that ass. FUCK. It's gonna take more than a broom and a few ass grabs to fix the deficit. If this is democracy in action gimmie some good old fashioned oligarchy. But we all know this WAS oligarchy in action so I guess were just straight SOL. I bought a ATI all-in-wonder 9800 pro. Pretty much the sickest graphics card out there. unfortunately the card was bad and fry's is a pain in the ass so now I have my money back but no card... OK, I'll do without for a week or two. For some reason my TV isn't picking up comedy central... is it possible to have 70 channels and CC not be one of them? If so then I want to recall somebody.

well, so I can't vote this election. Gotta work ya know. I feel bad but I figure that surely my blog has had a greater effect on the outcome than my vote would have, right? So I still have the right to bitch if Arnie wins, right? I should have done an absentee but I didn't realize I wouldn't be able to vote. Work at work has been ramping up. I've been busy all day today. Tonight I'm off to Fry's, then my new apartment, then my old apartment, then my new apartment. current mood: dealing current music: elvis costello current food: bagels current current: southwesterly

im in

the new place... i'll have pics up tomorrow night. People think I'm nuts for moving here, maybe I am. I hope I like it. Lots of solitude for me. yay.

On for this weekend: - tonight: garden of eden, no sneakers - saturday: fry's, R&R, pack - sunday: move into malibu beach house I was busy almost all day at work... working... cool. Sitemeter seems to play a roll in blogger getting its ass kicked so I removed it. this means I have no idea how many people are reading. So if you dig something, send me an email and let me know. Jordan@jordanblackman.com. @=

ABCNEWS.com : Arnold's New Battle: His Past

AABCNEWS obtained a copy of an unpublished book proposal with quotes from a verbatim transcript of an interview Schwarzenegger gave in 1975 while making the film Pumping Iron. Asked who his heroes are, he answered, "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it." He is quoted as saying he wished he could have an experience, "like Hitler in the Nuremberg stadium. And have all those people scream at you and just being total agreement whatever you say." wow, what a crazy crazy news night.

"Many of the accusations against me about titty squeezing are not true. There were many women I did not molest." -- Arnie according to bartcop. (could this be true? It seems too much even for the terminator)

Student May Wear Bush 'Terrorist' Shirt

DETROIT - A high school student has the right to wear a T-shirt to school with the face of President Bush and the words "International Terrorist" on the front, a federal judge ruled. Cool. I gotta sleep now.

Yahoo! News

why we hate bush. I sometimes fall into the category of feeling sorry for the bewildered little rascal... but most of the time im good and pissed at him. This article is absolutely a must read: "Time to dust off the F word. "Whenever people start locking up enemies because of national security without much legal care, you are coming close [to fascism]," warns Robert Paxton, emeritus professor of history at Columbia University and author of the upcoming book "Fascism in Action." We're supposed to hate fascists--or has that changed because of 9/11?"

ding dong....

the witch is dead... and by that i mean rush is off ESPN. Fuck ESPN. If rush really did the shiz with the 'scripts that will be too ironic i think my head will fall off. arnie done bad. he could never win after this snafu, could he? Why he didn't wait 6 days until saying this stuff I have no idea, but thank the 2nd law of thermodynamics that we found out in time. Watching the media spin this will be hilarious. "I glance at the headlines just to kind of [sic] a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read [sic] the news themselves." -- George Herbert Walker Bush (italics mine) i came up with all these good melodies for a song im working on tonight but i know i'll have forgotten them in the morning. I used to think if it was good enough i'd remember... but not me. I need to start taping myself more often. I need a better computer (GFX card) I had no idea Ben Stein was so right winging. I guess he was Nixon's speechwriter... His new book is really dumb for such a smart man. I heart bill hicks i gotta hit the sack alex trabec for president, he has all the answers

the rest of jordanblackman.com is back

kinda... things will be changing in these days, in the meanwhile check the link on the right for the pics, essays, poop, bio, links, and other goodies you've come to love.

LiveJournal.com

Blogger has sucked one too many times. I'll be phasing my blog over to LiveJournal. Actually, my first ever blog post was written there in Junuary just after returning from Paris. I didn't know how to spell Lupin way back in those wild days of winter. LiveJournal will allow each and every one of you to comment about any of my posts. Right now my livejournal page doesn't look like much, but trust me, it will be cooler than this when I'm done. Ultimately your going to want to register with LiveJournal. That way I can give you all special access to my more private thoughts... posts that otherwise I would be unable to share because they are not appropriate for public dissemination. Dig? I'll probably embed my livejournal page into jordanblackman.com, but I could save a bunch of dough by just making http://www.jibbah.livejournal.com main blog space... Then again I might rename my domain jibbahnation. We'll see. I've had some stuff to do at work today which is a plus. But my computer here is sucking butt and my computer at home is pissing me off too. For some reason a computer that is not running smoothly is about the most annoying thing I can think of. If my room is a mess I feel a modicum of annoyance, but if my computer desktop is all nasty I go nuts.