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Being poor is like being in the asshole witness protection program.

–Alison Rosen via Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

There’s nothing like a search engine’s cached, or suggested, queries to set things straight in how one views the world of human relationships. Innit?

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I was actually trying to find something else, about the singer/pop personality named Poe. But I kept running in to cute old Edgar Allen!

First off, No you can’t have this shirt. It’s all gone. Ha!

I’m wearing this shirt today. Sometimes I wear it to make a point. Sometimes I just wear it. I bought it from Shirt.Woot almost a year ago? And never actually read their wonderful post describing it. It’s cool to read it now, cause I just responded to the shirt visually, and textually, without “knowing” what the shirt “means.” Now that I do, I can answer my wife the next time she asks (she asks every time i wear it).

What this world needs is more honest tattoos. . . . instead of that meaningless fantasy tat . . . try UNEMPLOYABLE in big Olde English lettering across your throat. Or maybe cover your chest with the mugshot from your most recent DUI, rendered in the style of Boris Vallejo if that makes you feel better. Or adorn your bicep with a wilted rose encircled by banners reading I’D RATHER BE WEARING SWEATPANTS.

See what I mean?

By a Tattoo Artist named Jamie Toon.

Great NYT articleBrain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop - NYTimes.com says: “chronically stressed rats los[e] their elastic rat cunning and instead f[a]ll back on familiar routines and rote responses, like compulsively pressing a bar for food pellets they ha[ve] no intention of eating”

… and of course i know exactly what the fuckers are talking about, fuck. Cue soundtrack, Pissed Jeans, King of Jeans.

Note: preceding video not found on “King of Jeans.” I totally knew that.

I think I’ve made a discovery so significant, it penetrates to the heart of so many other human pursuits. Yes, I do mean “human”, in that it applies to all of us. It’s not so narrow as to be merely a cultural thing, or a modern thing. But I think it lies beneath almost everything suggested by the question “what is it to be human?”

In a sense, this thought, which is actually a question, could, I think, be said to lurk in the depths of our art, our philosophy, our scientific endeavors, music, poetry, literature, religious thought, even war and politics. The ridiculous thing is, it is a question without answer; an intractable question; a self-referential, maddening gyre of a question; an infernal, stubborn, infinite recursion.

The question that plagues us, has plagued us since thoughts began to form in our proto-cognitive prehistory, is a simple one. At least grammatically speaking… Yet it seems to be diamond-like kernel — perhaps galaxy-pinning black hole — of every human endeavor (with the possible exclusion of cuisine). It is … (more…)

Um if you carry this kind of stuff around on your flash drive, it’s probably best not to lose track of it, I’m thinking.

MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> Tor Browser
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> MacDrive 7.0.10
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> Gorean Texts, Scrolls and essays
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> Gorean Texts
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM <dir> Floola-win
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 1,123,456 1.mpeg
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 576 Alibris Gor books order number.txt
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 30,456 avatar_12345.png
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN AM 9,123,456 trillian-v3.1.12.0.exe
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 21,456 XXXX's myspace poems and work #1.rtf
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 1,123,456 wrar380.exe
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 7,123,456 Floola-win.zip
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 23,456 hypnomaster conversation 1-12-08.rtf
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 123,123,456 Imee_Oii.rar
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 3,123,456 MacDrive 7.0.10.rar
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 35,456 Equilibrium.mp4.[iPodTVNova.com].torrent
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 5,123,456 macdrive_7.2.5_en_setup.exe
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 2,456 MacDrive_7_0_10___KeyGen.torrent
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 7,123,456 RestrainedLife.zip
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 16,123,456 SLim-2.1.3010.1763-Release.msi
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 19,456 The.Golden.Compass.2007.DvDRip.TV.Optimized.mp4.[iPodTVNova.com].torrent
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 14,456 The_Phantom_Of_The_Opera__2004_Soundtrack___Special_Edition_.torrent
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 7,456 YYYY's chef letter2.rtf
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN AM 21,123,456 tor-im-browser-1.1.6_en-US.exe
MM/DD/200x HH/MN PM 879 WordPad.lnk
MM/DD/2xxx HH/MN PM 4,123,456 yam-win.zip

Retro Recipes: Titty Sauce Yams, 1961 is part of a series of blogs, that I just don’t have the time to read right now. From a wonderfully literate and elegantly witty food writer. I love Stephanie Butler’s prose, and her take on this old wack-job cookbook from the good old days of chauvinism and terrible food:

Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices … by the illustrious Mr. George Leonard Herter of Waseca, Minnesota. It’s impossible to improve upon or even accurately convey the passionate prose of Mr. Herter, so I’ll let him take it away. From the third paragraph:

“I will start with meats, fish, eggs, soups and sauces, sandwiches, vegetables, the art of French frying, desserts, how to dress game, how to properly sharpen a knife, how to make wines and beer, how to make French soap, what to do in case of hydrogen or cobalt bomb attack. Keeping as much in alphabetical order as possible.”

The got milk? people have done something unconscionable.

Complete Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968 boxset.

I just came across a bunch of these Stax-Volt box sets that I could have for relatively cheap. What a treasure! But there’s one problem, the MP3 tags are impossible! For whatever reason, they’re not auto-tagging from the web, or with my MP3 tagging programs. The darn things just don’t exist. So I’ve got about 3 or four (not quite sure) big piles of really badly tagged, nine-volume box sets of soul music. It’s not so bad, really, just a kind of mammoth data entry project. But MAN, I wish CD manufacturers would offer that their stuff was already tagged. don’t you?

Shaving my nipples the only way a real man can…. with black electrical tape.
6:27 PM Apr 17th from web
Boiled a dozen eggs, colored them and covered them in glitter. I then shoved them up a Malaysian man’s ass for the cost of free ninety-nine.
7:53 PM Apr 11th from web
Woke up naked on the kitchen floor next to a dog bowl full of my own piss. Good Friday, where are you?
2:03 PM Apr 9th from web
Pre-op tranny + dong tape + unholy hole + me = a chocolate thunder renaissance
7:31 PM Mar 30th from web

@Carrot_Top who is incredibly twisted, and probably not real

Know your Party

and

A Pretty Girl in a Cape is like a Melody

Like whoa. How is it that I never have posted Zaius Nation before, you know?

[Update: She Creatures a band of blue haired babes!!!]

Amazon.com: Klipsch iGroove HG All-in-One iPod Shelf System: Electronics

I recommend to buy!

You know you’re whipped when you let her pick out your mental illness.

Disclosure: this is also a diary over on DailyKOS

My sister is a very active Democrat, with very liberal views, including a healthy hatred of ignorance-based right-wing bigotry. Our parents, sadly, are not this way. My father’s wife, who seems like a relatively intelligent woman, forwarded my sister some crap meme email that’s going around among the illiberal chain email circuit — some horseshit about Obama being the anti-christ or something, based on the book of Revelations.

Normally getting a dimwitted forward from your dad’s wife isn’t something to get steamed about. We just delete and move on. But, the fact that Dad’s Wife should thouroughly understand my sister’s views about this presidential race, and yet forwarded the mail anyway, is beyond thoughtless.

Sis crafted a wonderful (and withering!) response. This is the real deal, right here…

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I’ve said this already.

• Larisa Alexandrovna: Welcome to the final stages of the coup…

Fascism is finally and formally out of the right-wing closet even if the F word is not yet openly being used (although it should be, and often).

We are in a crisis so dangerous that should these people succeed in their coup, your party affiliation will no longer matter, your American flag will be a nice collectible item of something that once was, and your version of God will be worshiped in secrecy because your freedoms will be owned by the few.

What do these words mean? “nationalized socialism”

Here’s one response from the opposing side:

… it’s time to rid ourselves of this pesky democratic republic and just smash the whole system so we can replace it with a system where those fit to rule have been bred that way…. Voting, democracy… messy encumberances that keep those fit to lead from leading, all because too many US citizens are too stupid to vote in their own best interests…. Sad, really. But then, such is the burden of being an elite in this country. STOP HATING US BECAUSE WE’RE BETTER THAN YOU!

I’ve said this before. It scares me that the above quoted mouth breathers are the ones with the weapons and NRA memberships and wal-mart employee discount. And those on the left, with perceptive and critical thinking skills denounce armed violence as ‘primitive.’

It never occurred to us that this was intentional, because it was meant to seem like an accident, a crisis, like a hurricane. Like the lessons of Katrina though, remember, who gets the help in a vast disaster these days? Not the poor.

Now is not the time to think hard about policy, or to lament what’s become of our ideals; now may just be the time to learn how to fight.

jigsaw #5 / interview/ Unwound

Vern: we’re forever 19.
Jigsaw reporter #2: how come you guys are forever 19 and not forever 18 (like the Nation of Ulysses) ?
Justin: because 19 is a more awkward age.
Jigsaw reporter #2: you think?
Justin: yeah, it’s more fucked up.
…
Brandt: my favorite Melvins show was—and this is really hard cuz every Melvin’s show is really different and great in it’s own way—I guess the one with Beat Happening and Nirvana at the grange hall on steamboat island road….
Jigsaw reporter #1: when they played ‘keep on rockin in the free world’
Unwound: yeah, that was cool
Jigsaw reporter #1: I got kicked in the head at the beginning of that song and passed out and didn’t come to until the very end of it but I didn’t hit the ground cuz there were so many people there.
Vern: the cops tried to break up the show during that song I think.
Jigsaw #2: was that the show where Calvin put holes in the ceiling with his head?
Jigsaw #1: yeah.
Jigsaw #2: there hasn’t been a show there since that happened…
(talk about whether or not Nirvana was good that night)

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