I guess the advantage I have in life is that I use some sort of realism to keep me in check. I know what I can probably do, and I strive for greater things sometimes, but i don't really think beyond that. I just stick to what I know will work and I go with it.
So when it comes do dealing with certain situations I don't think about it too much if I'm convinced that there is only one really realistic solution to the issue at hand.
I see it, but maybe no one else does, but I do.
Its done me well to be in my "realistic bubble" where I know how bad things are and can potentially become...
Mitch's comic strip reminded me of this thing I wanted to post.
Okay, this is from a week or so after Obama was elected, on the season finale of 'Real Time with Bill Maher.' I found it to be hilarious, so I thought I'd share.
"I read this in USA Today, a survey of Americans, how they felt about Obama's election, 67% proud, 59% excited, 30% pessimistic, 27% afraid. So we'd like to fuck with those people right now. The people who are afraid. A little something we call 'Obama World'.
In Obama World all guns will be confiscated and melted down to make a giant statue of Allah.
The National Anthem will be changed from the Star Spangled Banner to Gin and Juice.
The colors of the American flag will be changed from red, white and blue to black, black and leopard print.
The Department of Health and Human services will now be the Department of Earth, Wind and Fire.
And the Obama Cabinet will consist of Shaft, Dolemite, Foxy Brown, Mandingo, Cleopatra Jones, Superfly and Blacula.
And finally the government will listen in on your phone calls, search you without a warrant, arrest you without charges and hold you without a trial.
It was a good day today as far as the wild card games go. Colts and Vikings can EAT IT. YEA!
Fuckers :]
I also single handedly banned our entire airsoft team from that fuck off field in Muskegon. I would probably feel really fucking proud if I wasn't concerned with certain members of the team being upset with me.
Yea for having some big ass fuckin testicles and not worrying about what other people think :] Apparently there are people out there that have a seriously hard time listening to things that they don't want to hear or accept.
"I'm not that kind of girl" = I'm not allowed to be that kind of girl.
My eyes are open wide
By the way I made it through the day
I watch the world outside
By the way I'm leaving out today
I just saw Hayley's comet, she waved
Said "why you always running in place?
Even the man in the moon disappeared
Somewhere in the stratosphere"
[Chorus]
Tell my mother, tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize
This is my life
I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance
Please don't cry one tear for me
I'm not afraid of what I have to say
This is my one and only voice
So listen close, it's only for today
I just saw Hayley's comet, she waved
Said "why you always running in place?
Even the man in the moon disappeared
Somewhere in the stratosphere"
[Chorus]
Tell my mother, tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize
This is my life
I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance
Here is my chance
This is my chance
Tell my mother, tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize
This is my life
I hope they understand
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance
Sometimes goodbye
Is a second chance [x2]
It's a good song; I promise.
I'm pissed off and irritated. Console each other in private, imo. Not in front of my face.
Oh, and Kelly is the best ever. Seriously, no joke. Thank you for being you; for being honest, for being my friend, for everything. See you tomorrow, and thanks for not being mad at me <3
I know I have quite a few listed in my facebook profile, but here are a few others that I like.
"There are far worse crimes than burning books. One of them, is not reading them." - Joseph Brodsky
"I want you to remember that no son of a bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." - Gen. George S. Patton
"A happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life." - Kinky Friedman
"I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown is far more sexy than two naked bodies in bed." - Bette Davis
"I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it." - Dolly Parton
"What you cannot enforce, do not command." - Sophocles
"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Having the right to do something does not mean that doing it is right." - William Safire
"In science it often happens that scientists say 'You know, that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. It happens every day, but I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion." - Carl Sagan
The Facts.
I need to do my homework. I really need to do my homework. I really, reeeaaalllly need to do my homework. I have to get it done. It has to be completed.
This one time, my cat attacked me. She stole my eye, and I had to battle her for eight hours in order to get it back, which I did. Then this other time, my dog saw it fit to attempt to take over the world. Needless to say, I could not let this happen. I apprehended my fiendish pup in the same way that my cat attempted to apprehend me...I stole the dog's eye. This upset her to such a degree that she declined the opportunity of world domination. A lot of you don't know this, but I've saved the world from ultimate demolition countless times, 'cause I'm a ninja.
Why should I have to do my homework when I'm the one making sure that homework can still be assigned to and by the living? Is that fair?
You know that you are truly in the presence of your best friend when you both completely enjoy laying in bed for hours having a lively discussion about all of the following;
- Skynet, and its awareness
- Time Travel
- The Grandfather Paradox
- The fourth dimension, and beyond
- Scientific studies involving single photons behaving in such a way
that suggests a fourth dimension exists
- The universe, possible alternate universes, and the mind numbing concept that is 'infinite'
- The evolution of humans through successful mutations
- Genetic engineering and its dangers, in-utero fetal testing, and
Punnett squares
- Genetic disease, disorder, and mutation, sickle cell anemia, down's syndrome, dwarfism, and cystic fibrosis
- Widespread interracial child-having, and the effects it could have on dominant and recessive traits, and diseases normally isolated within one ethnic community, that might be carried but not expressed
- Language and how its many forms have evolved, and are constantly changing and replacing what is standard
Etc, etc, etc.
I might not believe in soul mates, but I certainly believe in intellectual mates. I am so lucky, and thankful, that there is someone in my life who wants to sit around and talk about this shit with me.
::
2008 30 December :: 4.32am
:: Music: Isaac Marion's Moon Colony
I spit sacrilege through gritted teeth.
I am disconnecting from... reality. From consciousness. From tangibility. From dimensional restraints.
Thread by thread, I am tearing each stitch. Finding solvent for the glue, I pry each nail from its hole. I exhume screws from their cylindrical tombs. I am plucking staples and cutting ropes. I will deracinate the roots that attach me to the ground and degauss the magnets that are holding me down.
I am burning to be released in smoke. My name is Phlogiston.
I am the view from within a raindrop. I am the collision it has with your skin.
::
2008 29 December :: 11.40pm
:: Mood: artistic
:: Music: Martina McBride // O Holy Night
I am so weird.
Crossposted from facebook.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, being the holiday season and all, there is a lot of religious music playing.
For some crazy reason, religious music, usually about Jesus or God especially, moves me emotionally more than any other kind of music.
The reason this is crazy, is because I am about 95% sure I don't even believe in God, and I am by no means religious in any way, at all. Not even a little.
I have no explanation for this. I've always been this way, and I don't know why. It seems so strange to me, but, I can't help it. Any thoughts?
So, I thought I'd share one from a few years back that is especially powerful to me. It always gets me teary eyed and gives me goosebumps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2UMFTsV0Bs
Martina McBride singing O Holy Night (acapella)
I get choked up at -
" Fall on your knees! O, hear the angels' voices!"
Especially the fall on your knees part. It touches me in a way that I can't explain. I think it's because I want so much to feel that feeling. To love God so intensely that it brings me to my knees. But, I don't. Not even close :( I don't even BELIEVE in God, let alone love him so much I am overwhelmed by it.
FIRE!
You've heard the phrase about how you can't shout fire in a crowded theater. You know what that was an anology for? A third party voter protesting the draft.
Not that I would yell about a fire anyway.
I know what to do in case of fire.
::
2008 24 December :: 6.08am
:: Music: The Specials - Do the Dog
On Diamonds
It seems crazy to me that Jay Z paid a white guy $5 million to make a black guy dig a diamond out of the land Jay Z's ancestors came from.
For Michiganders, let's see if I can make some sort of analogy.
Imagine Canada colonized Michigan, then started selling off the water from Lake Michigan. Then we made all the Canadians leave and apologize. They leave, but leave behind a giant Canadian water company ran by Canadians that still pumps out the water and then sends the profits back to Canada. They pay us shit all to harvest the water, and don't care at all if they hurt our environment.
Not only that, but other states start fighting over their water, because they know the Canadians will pay so well for it.
I don't know if that really works or not, but it's late and I'm tired, so go fuck yourself.
For some reason, men are having trouble grasping the concept of "Single Ladies" by Beyonce.
She is NOT saying that you should propose to any girl you like.
She is NOT saying that the only way to show you love someone is to ask them to marry you.
Come on, it's not that hard to understand if you listen to more than just the chorus.
She is saying:
If you are with a girl for any long amount of time and go through hell and back together, and claim to be faithful to her... and all that good stuff...
...BUT still won't commit to her, and take her for granted, and give her gifts instead of spending real time with her...
...Then you have no right to be mad at her, or jealous, when she wants to move on, and is with someone new.
"Shoulda put a ring on it" is just a lyric, it's catchy and it works for the song, but she means commit in general, and let her know that you truly love her, and that she is your one and only.
If you can't show her you really love her, in some way, don't be pissed when she wants to be with someone who can express their love and dedication. You had your shot and you blew it, took her for granted, and now she's gone.
It's pretty straightforward and simple. It's not Dostoevsky, it's Beyonce.
So we're leaving for Wisconsin today instead of tomorrow to avoid the 3-5 inches of snow that's expected here and in Waukesha tomorrow :] I'm really REALLY excited. I just hope that it doesn't turn out to be that after 3 days I'm ready to GTFO and come back home like it was last time :x
Anwayyy. Time to go pack for a week and continue waiting for my best half to get home :]] I love him. So much :D
Happy holidays to everyone!! Have a great and safe one *hugs*
