tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-311806932012-01-26T23:41:29.501-08:00Consider Your Ass Kicked!This blog is intended as a real-time updated archive in a keyword-searchable database for the discriminating news enthusiast.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.comBlogger36691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-24330442450348892232012-01-24T23:11:00.000-08:002012-01-24T23:16:19.953-08:00Modified Record Player Plays Years Of A Tree's Cross-SectionYEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo.
What I gather from the description is: the dude (Bartholomäus Traubeck) modified a record player to optically read the rings of a tree section rotating under it, and output the visual as sound using custom software to covert ring thickness, texture, and color into piano notes.
Thanks to reader Mel for the sweet tipoff!dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-60822965655414987792012-01-23T23:01:00.001-08:002012-01-23T23:01:25.339-08:00Thought of the Day: SQUATRules don't mean squat. They mean what comes after squat.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-91928170984560852862012-01-20T02:58:00.001-08:002012-01-20T02:58:37.796-08:00Thought of the Moment: Misanthropy?Misanthropy is just another way of loving what's best in people, and acknowledging that it isn't there.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-10762895364709875222012-01-18T22:57:00.000-08:002012-01-18T23:02:43.967-08:00Open Letter Re: This Whole SOPA / DIDO DebacleAhem.
Dear Copyright Infringers,
I blame you! Piracy is VIRUSY!! You all are making the traditional system of information valuation and ownership exhibit SYMPTOMS! And um, the politicians (quite rightly drawn in their attentions to it by the dutiful ministrations of well-heeled lobbyists who only want what's only fair for their media megabaron megacorporation patrons) are responding the only dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-18750026503501512482012-01-17T21:15:00.000-08:002012-01-17T21:22:52.050-08:00HOLY SHIT! 250,000 PEOPLE DEAD!250,thousand to 300,000 people DIE A DAY. In the world.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
A day?
HOLY FUCK! FUCK those people! How many of them - what?!! Two HUNDRED and fifty THOUSAND?
A DAY.
FUCK THEM! What the fuck! How can so many people be dying??!!! That is a SHITLOAD OF PEOPLE, people! A DAY.
I mean, FUCK. That's a scale on which I can't operate, I can't mind-wise, take in this...two hundreddogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-45964884253784052272012-01-17T07:04:00.000-08:002012-01-17T08:18:42.090-08:00Random Critiques of Poorly-Written Wikis #1From Wikipedia article The Guns of Navarone (film):
"During the remainder of the voyage, Mallory confides to Franklin that Andrea has sworn to kill him after the war, because he was inadvertently responsible for the deaths of Andrea's wife and children."
During the remainder of the voyage. "During"? That makes it sound like confiding this to Franklin occupies the whole remainder of the voyage! dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-91115231301933742082012-01-17T00:52:00.000-08:002012-01-17T00:52:39.159-08:00cruel thought of the dayIf truth be cruel, the tongue for proclaiming it is no crueler than the eyes for seeing it.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-1441037544355602462012-01-16T22:40:00.001-08:002012-01-16T22:43:59.859-08:00"dead cowboy"bourbon
rocks
bitters
grenadine
floater of cokedogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-4199741372963965462012-01-06T22:45:00.000-08:002012-01-06T22:47:03.112-08:00Chronic Back Pain? So Many SufferSo many people live their lives with chronic back pain. It bothers me!
I've been so lucky. I have never had to deal with chronic back pain. I've practically never had to deal with acute back pain!
It bothers me. It makes me feel guilty. Why them and not me? Why did they draw this card from the deck of fate? Why do they deserve the anguish, the suffering, of having to deal daily with either the dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-28791130350369344572012-01-06T00:04:00.000-08:002012-01-06T00:04:01.371-08:00Fiction Friday: Modern Noir Narrator Walks Into A BarSome fucker was fucking with me in a bar and I was like, I didn't know why? But I played it pretty cool and friendly I thought, and he said some crap like I was fucking with HIM, and I forget what the whole basis of his complaint was, but he kept telling me how I was (which was in point of fact, how I wasn't), so I was all,
"Hey man! What you see is as valid as how I feel."
I forget what dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-16465080831452772292011-12-18T09:47:00.000-08:002012-01-02T20:14:14.900-08:00brand new mantraGod, if I could get my wish, I want to be your will for me on earth.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-25219857147569693372011-12-17T18:02:00.000-08:002011-12-17T18:14:38.652-08:00Props to Mr. Dee, My Favorite English TeacherMan, I just had a miniature epiphany listening to this. As I just kept listening to this song, reeling with the cumulative hits, feeling the full force of what wordplay is CAPABLE OF. THIS MAN:
...one Mohandas Dewese, nom de guerre: Kool Moe Dee, taught me more about the proper use of the English language than any other teacher, artist, writer, speaker or critic, living or dead.
Especially dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-52661961179878915212011-12-17T10:55:00.001-08:002011-12-17T10:56:20.738-08:00Doodeloo #88: The Golden Reassurance FROGdogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-71206384909984982162011-12-16T02:49:00.001-08:002011-12-16T02:49:25.013-08:00MinifestoThe most important thing in art criticism is to be really arrogant in one's beliefs about art, because one has a healthy sense of how silly, pompous and idiotic the art theory approach to art is. Art criticism, done well, is taking fun in the straight-faced knowing pose that art theory is serious.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-58637824009817406602011-12-15T08:00:00.000-08:002011-12-15T08:00:02.432-08:00Quote of At Some Point"Procrastination is the realization that no matter how much is to be done in the future, the present can be prolonged indefinitely."dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-10052724637721081222011-12-15T00:49:00.001-08:002011-12-15T00:50:15.031-08:00ANYBODY GIVING ME SHIT ABOUT CROWDED HOUSE CAN EAT A DICK! THESE GUYS RULE!!Exhibit Z to the Nth degree if you please.
dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-16719696346435226372011-12-12T12:29:00.000-08:002011-12-12T19:00:59.731-08:00Tough Topics #26: Punching BabiesWe here at Consider Your Ass Kicked! have never shied away from the tough topics in this, our Tough Topics series. We've covered all sorts of tough topics, from The Vietnam War to who knows what else - including war itself, from a no-particular-war standpoint (warfare in general), to sexual nudity, or even the "terror war" on terrorism as it is called. Then we've hit issues that have nothing to dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-67151979267372459392011-12-10T13:10:00.000-08:002011-12-10T13:10:41.215-08:00It's a monument ... it's a monument.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-5242244054545931022011-12-08T23:12:00.000-08:002011-12-08T23:12:16.485-08:00Overplanning: HOW TO.A lot of people don't understand how to maximize their leisure time. It's because they're stupid, but I'll take pity on you. Here's how you do it right. Overplanning. Whether it's a weekend free, or a full-on two-week vacation - simply expand or contract proportionally, based on how many 2-day increments you've got waiting to fill up with itinerary!
TAKE:
For any given 2 day period.
Plan fordogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-81675110989246553072011-12-07T20:48:00.000-08:002011-12-08T03:31:48.817-08:00You Know What I Go For? Plain Girls.Plain girls. I love them. If I had to single out one type and say "That's my type?" I'd say: plain girls.
It's just something about them. It's not a superficial thing! I'm not basing it just on looks, although of course, that is a big part of it. Attraction in human beings is powerfully tied to sensory cues, and the visual is a big part of that equation! Especially for dudes, and some say the dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-62179257065199704282011-12-02T15:10:00.000-08:002011-12-02T15:10:11.243-08:00Thought of the day: Sometimes, the adverb form's not worth itAnyone who uses "virtuosically" in a sentence is not speaking virtuosically.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-38644902931128601702011-11-29T20:58:00.000-08:002011-11-30T00:54:48.293-08:00I Never Want To Be With Anyone Who Can't Tell Me The Difference Between A Crocodile And An AlligatorI never want to be with anyone who can't tell me the difference between a crocodile and an alligator!
First, because it's inexcusably ignorant. A person should take an interest in the wider world and her surroundings, and crocodiles and alligators are among the oldest creatures on earth!
Second, because I myself never could keep it straight, all my life and I have been very blessed to find dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-78285444143861587812011-11-29T20:01:00.000-08:002011-11-29T20:01:36.200-08:00"At First, Lonely" by Tanya Davis
This is so blessed and sweet. Her voice is as soothing, thoughtful and poignant as Linus from Peanuts.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-35200231511696228262011-11-28T22:51:00.000-08:002011-11-28T22:52:23.324-08:00I have to say,I have to say, I'm kind of in a funk, here.
I think it's because I'm so far behind on my poems. 303 poems for 2011. 33 days left to get to 365.
You know what, actually that's kind of cake! What am I whining about? I could write ten poems tonight, if I wanted to. Hell.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-87868086378018068172011-11-22T17:47:00.000-08:002011-11-22T17:47:06.283-08:00Carry On, Carry OnWe must carry on. If we dropped it, it would go off!dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-46591082115718231512011-11-17T07:14:00.000-08:002011-11-17T07:14:08.393-08:00Smooth Quote of the Day"My future's so rough, I gotta wear suede."dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-91228441481193846552011-11-10T15:18:00.000-08:002011-11-11T09:15:36.437-08:00Top H Reasons People Are Fucking Around OnlineTop H Reasons People Are Fucking Around Online
People who are fucking around online, wasting a ton of time online doing things online, are doing so for a reason. There is some need that is not being met, and they are driven to seek a substitute or a supplement for it online. In most cases, they are doing so for one of the following Top H Reasons People Are Fucking Around Online:
H. dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-15153429161594963212011-11-10T07:56:00.001-08:002011-11-10T07:56:57.138-08:00Actual Exchanges at WorkPerson A: "Well, what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger."
Person B: "Yep, I'm a half-dead hercules."dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-76233474422404312782011-11-09T23:08:00.000-08:002011-11-10T00:21:37.735-08:00What's The Matter Don't You Trust Me?The best thing about actually being trustworthy is, it doesn't matter whether someone "would repeat" something. YOU aren't going to repeat it! You never have to worry whether they would.
Once you've made sure you can be trusted, trusting others is a breeze.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-9298457612410587172011-11-08T18:25:00.000-08:002011-11-09T07:07:42.924-08:00Dream Question #1. Pay Close Attention.Let's say you wake up from a weird dream you can't remember, to find you are in a safe, strange house.
You don't know whose house it is, but you do know for sure it is TOTALLY SAFE. Like, maybe you can remember in the back of your mind that it's the house for a reality show your friend was in, and they get to stay there 'til the end of the month, even though the show's done shooting, and you dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-76158878906222708532011-11-07T21:14:00.000-08:002011-11-07T21:14:54.669-08:00Plato said, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."Well, not those exact words. He was probably speaking in Greek.
Anyway, I always kind of assumed he meant everyone I meet is fighting a hard battle against me. That was my interpretation. Because otherwise, why would everyone I meet coincidentally be in on this same battle? A bit thin if you ask me!
So anyway, I try to be kind. Those people are up against some pretty dismal odds.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-25204252219834198372011-11-06T18:32:00.000-08:002011-11-07T21:02:25.268-08:00Gender Identity!! YES!!Gender identity is cool as fuck. I'm in Santa Cruz, so I've noticed a lot people around who seem to have a stake in that whole deal. I for one support it! I couldn't be more pleased! For me it's not a matter of tolerance, nor even of acceptance - but a matter for CELEBRATION! Celebrate the gender identity you've chosen to project! Or don't! Your choice!
I just wanted to make that clear. When I dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-13835549351703725772011-11-05T00:34:00.001-07:002011-11-05T00:34:52.837-07:00I Love My Vanished Frienddogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-51099422904342385602011-10-31T22:34:00.001-07:002011-10-31T22:35:11.034-07:00Quote of the Evenin'"God damn, woman! How do you think I know? I know all sorts of things! And that's one of them."dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-6613351453379205162011-10-31T10:51:00.000-07:002011-10-31T10:51:50.546-07:00Pretty PleaseSome people think I'm pretty fucking pleased with myself. It's actually not true! I'm pretty pleased with the world. By which I mean, "the universe" - or more precisely, observable reality. Fuck the geopoliticaleconomic situation - that's something we will always have with us, to paraphrase a well-thumbed coin.
I'm pretty pleased with the world. And I'm just so humbly mind-blown all the time, atdogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-14747487455398749952011-10-30T20:28:00.000-07:002011-10-30T20:28:24.176-07:00Amish Friendship Bread: a Case Study in Cultural Symbiosis and Yeast Cultural SymbiosisAmish friendship bread itself can be regarded in almost purely Darwinian terms. A perfect example of co-evolution, where two widely-divergent organisms evolve together in a symbiotic fashion that benefits both Amish culture, and the cultures in the bread dough.
Within the bread dough, the yeasts reproduce primarily asexually by budding - and one could look at the larger collective of the dough dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-77220959888292718342011-10-30T20:18:00.000-07:002012-01-07T13:46:47.537-08:00Memory Giving You Trouble?If working on retention and acuity isn't getting results, try focusing on creating a day or even a moment worth remembering.
Repeat as needed!dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-75496301105680160732011-10-30T11:07:00.000-07:002011-10-30T17:46:42.970-07:00GOD IS SO HOLY Pt.3You know, in the previous post, I'm totally forgetting all the sunsets, and gleams of light off tall buildings, when I'm standing down in amongst those canyons of glass and steel and looking up, not to mention the wheeling cosmos - and I can't even count how many other things have seized or struck me as holy! And sometimes, somebody's eyes after what they just said.
It's just that all of those dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-71552360219439979892011-10-30T10:49:00.000-07:002011-10-30T10:58:16.619-07:00GOD IS SO HOLY Pt.2It's like, when I think how holy God is, then I'm trying to look around and compare that to anything else, I'm struck by how unholy most of the world is. Wait, "unholy" gives the wrong meaning. Not "unholy" - more just, non-holy. I mean what else besides God even is holy? "Thou" is pretty holy.
"Thou" seems to have become the benchmark, in a lot of ways, for holiness. I think we can all pretty dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-51611293002965788962011-10-30T10:04:00.000-07:002011-10-30T10:04:00.073-07:00GOD IS SO HOLYI can't get over how holy God is.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-63633770128104092332011-10-27T12:44:00.000-07:002011-10-27T12:44:06.228-07:00What If the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean Switched Places?What if the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean switched places?
Fuck.
That would blow your mind.
Not mine, though. I thought about it last week, so I've pretty much got all the details worked out.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-742572676125718292011-10-27T08:04:00.000-07:002011-10-27T09:54:22.289-07:00This Post Contains Chemicals Known to the State of CaliforniaThe implications of a State knowing things are a little unsettling. I see signs posted up time to time, "contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer." The State of California knows things?
Who exactly participates in this knowledge? Shouldn't all of us, all Californians? There's some kind of untapped Jungian psyche out there, and they've cut us off from it? What else doesdogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-47029741221505210292011-10-26T20:47:00.000-07:002011-10-26T22:05:55.106-07:00Oh For Sake's Sake!I count on everyone to NEVER do anything uncomfortable, to never do anything out of their own comfort zone, for my sake. In fact, no one ever has! THANK GOD.
A few people thought they had, but after looking into it they had to admit, no they hadn't.
Because I hate that! How can something you hate be for your sake? Isn't it kind of insulting, when someone does something YOU HATE, and says it'sdogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-23729117149246565022011-10-26T08:39:00.001-07:002011-10-26T08:39:42.288-07:00Another Great Day In The Morning!I go into work with the attitude, "What's going to STOP ME TODAY????!"dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-30134045118514742072011-10-26T00:11:00.000-07:002011-10-26T00:31:17.481-07:00Songwriting Update #1 Pt.2This post is Part Two of Two. There was also a Part One.I think I better hold off on going any further on this one right now. I don't want to forge ahead to verse two, make something slapdash happen. This song deserves a special verse two, I'm going to wait. Hold out for something special.
This song deserves it!dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-32232353425626098512011-10-26T00:08:00.000-07:002011-10-26T00:27:12.566-07:00Songwriting Update #1It's been a while since we had a songwriting update! Have we ever had a songwriting update? It's certainly been a while!
Anyway, I just now wrote the best first verse I have ever written, at least in terms of NAILING what the song in question is trying to accomplish! What happened was, I had this pretty neat refrain lying around for almost a month. I wanted to come up with something special for dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-18958331881486715482011-10-25T22:21:00.000-07:002011-10-25T22:21:15.355-07:00Thought of the Day: SupposedlyDon't ask whether you're supposed to. Ask who's doing the supposing.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-77892536286081255552011-10-25T19:50:00.000-07:002011-10-25T19:52:26.641-07:00I Am One of The One Percent.I don't mean wealth-wise! That whole disparity situation. No, I just mean on my SATs. I totally top-percentiled that shit on "verbal." (Math, don't ask.)
We all have one thing we don't suck at. Or so I'd like to think!
What are YOU in the top one percent of?dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-80487861070810240942011-10-24T23:46:00.000-07:002011-10-25T01:21:07.881-07:00Joke Away and Riddles Plus! Actually, No Riddles.So, a rapist, a racist and a pedophile walk into a bar. The bartender says "get the fuck out of here! I can't make anything funny out of this situation!"
So. An alligator walks into a bar. This is a different bar. It's in Florida I guess. Anyway, the patrons all jump up on the bar, on the tables, screaming - the bartender calls animal control and says "There's a goddamn alligator in my bar! Senddogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-26610893389933143432011-10-21T16:34:00.000-07:002011-10-21T16:34:59.404-07:00Fiction Friday: Another Random Installment of Fiction Friday!"Fool!"
I didn't actually look up. Policy.
"FOOL!" The voice was more insistent, this time. A bit thundering. I looked up quizzically, with a "who's yelling?" look, pointedly not a "responding to 'FOOL' as if it were in fact my name," look.
It was John. Again.
"Look, John. What's the problem, okay? I don't need your shit right now." I had been thumbing abstractedly through the third dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-30595405277097667992011-10-19T21:16:00.000-07:002011-10-19T23:25:03.418-07:00Shakespeare Can't Really Be Blamed for How Far Behind Us He Was.I mean, it just stands to reason. Coming all these centuries and decades after, we've got the benefit of not only that dude's peculiarly-laid foundation to rest our gathering laurels upon, but also the benefit of all the constructions and all the advances of all the dudes after him! And, lest you think me sexist, all the dudesses as well. Which just makes the odds more overpowering. Though that'sdogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-20148300839658880862011-10-19T20:56:00.000-07:002011-10-19T20:56:50.674-07:00Neologism! Score!"euphemixpletive"
A euphemism expletive. Portmanteau. Something you say as a euphemism, in lieu of a conventional "offensive" expletive.
Apparently, I just coined it! Google says zero hits. Weird.
I'll lay dibs to "euphemexpletive" at the same time (also zero hits), but it's a clearly inferior construction.
The correct neologism for this usage is "euphemixpletive."dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-75344966747666367392011-10-17T23:44:00.000-07:002011-10-17T23:44:04.827-07:00Thought of the day: Too Much PerspectiveI would like to hear a barbershop quartet cover Spinal Tap.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-81373412315394537402011-10-17T21:57:00.000-07:002011-10-17T21:57:17.351-07:00Can You Help?Hi guys! Maybe one of you, my loyal readers, can help Serge out by posting some suggestions for him in the comments. This is the e-mail he sent me:
Hello!
I'm so glad that someone else reads books :) I found The Master and Margarita in your profile, it is one of my favorite ones!
I just want to thank you for your wonderful blog asurfaceofinfiniteshallowness.blogspot.com.
I read the post "dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-67187025462958126342011-10-16T11:24:00.000-07:002011-10-16T11:27:31.487-07:00Daylight! Let's Just See What It Looks Like
I love the long pans over the crowd kind of boppin' along in scattered patches.
AND THE CROWD GOES MILD!dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-26634369773087585872011-10-16T11:05:00.000-07:002011-11-17T07:01:51.818-08:00Tough Topics #25: The OccupationA lot of people have been asking me to "chime in" on this Occupy Wall Street business.
I tend to agree with the NY Times editorial that pointed out it is not the protester's job to draft legislation. See, I think a lot of critics are trying to pull a reverse ad-hominem attack, here.
In a regular ad hominem, the actual points in an argument are ducked and dodged in cowardly fashion, and dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-82059728955165628592011-10-14T08:04:00.000-07:002011-10-15T19:18:26.438-07:00Breakfast: A Complicated Architectural MetaphorBreakfast: the cornerstone of your food day.
But it can't be as simple as that! A day doesn't have a cornerstone. Try again.
Breakfast: the cornerstone of the foundation of your food day.
This does a much better job of telling the truth about what breakfast is, what breakfast does, what it accomplishes, the part it plays, and how it fits in. But as a metaphor, it still falls a bit short. dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-27581806327893776292011-10-14T00:14:00.000-07:002011-10-14T00:56:14.670-07:00Fact Jackers II: Electric Sincerity BombThe strange thing about pointing out a fact is, it doesn't matter "whether you mean it." It doesn't even matter how you mean it. Anyone can go look at the fact.
Sweet deal.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-67885986387472204282011-10-11T23:59:00.000-07:002011-10-12T01:37:38.428-07:00Kickass Screenplay Idea #20: This Could Be The Big One, All You Faithful Sci-Fi FansI want to do a classic space operatic type sci-fi franchise, as big as Trek or Wars, action figures, sequels, spin-offs, rip-offs, conventions, the whole works. And you know it would take off, because this would be a faith-based take on the epic intergalactic sci-fi genre! All of their technobabble would be couched in terms and rationalizations that would make it clear that God was the driving dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-88948442549423887742011-10-11T22:24:00.000-07:002011-10-11T22:24:46.262-07:00XXXOOO! This reminds me, though I'm sure others have done this too! Too simple not to. But in any event, in lieu of "xoxo", in situations where this would be appropriate I have been known to substitute the subtly different
xxx...
...ooodogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-11324375454834992872011-10-10T21:17:00.000-07:002011-10-10T21:22:42.588-07:00My Apologies, Pajama Club!Here I am posting some EXCITING AS HELL live clip of you playing a cover tune of some dude's brother-act band, when I didn't even realize you actually went to the trouble to make an OFFICIAL VIDEO.
Awesome use of promotional resources, thank you for the excellent and rather disquieting effort!
ARRESTING.
Edit: by the way. RELEASE "GO KART" AS A SINGLE!
RELEASE "GO KART" AS A SINGLE!
dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-31051502434464345652011-10-10T19:13:00.001-07:002011-10-10T19:13:08.661-07:00Suffer In Pajamasdogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-83006789704410283322011-10-09T23:25:00.000-07:002011-10-10T07:50:43.477-07:00Tough Topics #22: Sending Jobs OverseasExporting jobs overseas. Eventually it's going to catch up to you, but good news: once it does, the problem solves itself! You keep sending those jobs to India for instance, okay. That only works for you in the short-term. More years go by, their standard of living will keep rising - side effect of all those jobs. Next thing you know, it's practically up to our standard - and their home-grown dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-53245403061417441252011-10-09T07:03:00.000-07:002011-10-09T07:03:30.680-07:00So Okay, I'll Bite: What the Hell?Speculations about the nature of hell have approximately the intellectual weight of speculations about the nature of galaxy-spanning alien civilizations. That's not a lot of intellectual weight. In my mind, at least! We're talking feather-juggling. That is some extremely breezy, lightweight talk, as substantial as a zephyr - and just as refreshing, for those who like to work and to play with dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-25918600664587927002011-10-08T07:12:00.000-07:002011-10-08T08:37:18.196-07:00Pah! Pt.2The previous post is almost totally out-of-hand! I don't mean a bit of it. Who could possibly get such umbrage out of such a weak, little syllable? It's quite true I don't care for "meh," but the pitch and vitriol is just silly. Silly.
So fun to write those posts! All worked up over some mind-breakingly inconsequential thing. I seem to do a lot of those. Wow, imagine if I walked around like dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-32509069066503239092011-10-07T23:30:00.000-07:002011-10-07T23:54:24.922-07:00Pah!Are you like me? Do you not in the slightest bit understand the fascination and attraction people have for "meh"? People say "meh," like it expresses something. Minor scorn, apathy. Disinterest, I guess. Whatever it may be, they say "meh." And unless I misread the mood, they seem kind of proud to say it. Like they've made a statement. Sometimes I think it's their weak attempt to approximate a dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-28152690170965991002011-10-07T15:32:00.000-07:002011-10-07T23:05:19.222-07:00Franchise Reboot to End All Franchise RebootsWell I say, heck with updating all these "small potatoes" franchises. Your James Bond Reborns, your Bruce Wayne Yet Agains, your Spock Spocks Up The Mother-Spockin' Time Continuums, your Teenage Godzilla Vs. Some Umpteenth Next Best World-Ending Threat...! For gosh sakes, what are we diddling around for with all these also-rans? Get your guts in order and set your sights where they ougtta! Ditch dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-80404857228007329492011-10-07T15:23:00.000-07:002011-10-07T15:37:24.453-07:00Sunday Theology Blog Pt.4, Fiction Friday Update Pt.2You know what, I've just got the bug lately on spirituality and matters metaphysical! This week's Fiction Friday will be coming to you in just a moment, in the form of a Kickass Screenplay Idea that is also a Fiction Friday installment AND a Sunday Theology God Blog Post!
Coming right up: The Franchise Reboot to End All Franchise Reboots
Ahh, the sweet smell of crossover.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-46069994212032115282011-10-07T08:04:00.000-07:002011-10-07T05:15:24.235-07:00Sunday Theology Blog Pt.3Annnnd on behalf of yesterday's post, feel free to expect this week's installment of Fiction Friday next Monday!
Never can seem to get the hang of this "post scheduling" function, somehow.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-6935056486671197622011-10-06T07:04:00.000-07:002011-10-07T05:50:08.925-07:00Sunday Theology Post: Christianity vs. Buddhism: Comparative Conceptions of the Infinite Pt.2"... The way of Buddhism is to honor each being around us, learning those lessons that individuality has to teach - but also ultimately to transcend those voluntary, illusory constraints, and attain to the realization that all consciousness is one."
- picking up from Pt.1
Now, I don't buy that for a second. It sounds like a crock of shit from where I stand! But if it's easy to conceive of the dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-75239654681609513592011-10-05T21:22:00.000-07:002011-10-05T22:33:01.114-07:00BOO YAHAnother blog post.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-92190214448411780342011-10-02T14:29:00.001-07:002011-10-02T14:29:44.048-07:00And we need to rebuild what was never there
Richard Thompson and his son Teddy Thompson, on a song Richard co-wrote with Tim Finn back when.
I still believe it.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-7015487405672273962011-10-02T07:04:00.000-07:002011-10-02T07:04:00.155-07:00Sunday Theology Post: Christianity vs. Buddhism: Comparative Conceptions of the Infinite Pt.1So here's how I look at it. And I realize, my thinking may be colored by a metaphor from Buddhism (or vice-versa), but I think sometimes perspectives from another tradition can be of help, in conceptualizing the unknowable. And given especially the writings of such firmly-embraced Catholic thinkers as Thomas Merton, I'd say a Buddhist or Zen gloss is not wholly incompatible with the doctrine and dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-35851730866650363332011-09-29T18:11:00.000-07:002011-09-29T18:15:48.865-07:00Please, For The ChildrenI saw a bumper sticker that said "I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A CHILD-PROOFED WORLD." Strong stuff, and yet the full import may escape many of us. We may conclude, "ah, a bitter and childless adult, setting his or her selfish interests against the best interests of the children!"
True, but it's not the whole story. In fact, if we only give it a little thought, we are forced to conclude that the dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-8292356923486286382011-09-27T11:32:00.000-07:002011-09-27T11:32:18.941-07:00My Possible Karaoke Song ListI've only sung (I've only sang? I've only singed? Well, I was pretty hot, I might have singed) karaoke literally one time. It was for a co-worker's going away deal. She was into karaoke, the local scene, and I came along for this going away party with a good number of people, and somehow I ended up promising to do a number. It was a special circumstance, and I treated it as such. I sang "Don't dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-47729153968747637452011-09-26T21:17:00.000-07:002011-09-26T22:11:58.089-07:00Top 9 of All Time #11The High Price of High-Tech Prostheses
Why Are You Everywhere, Ants?
More Epic Battles At Work!
Change Can Be Bad! But Reform Is Always Good
Technically, Though #5: Illegal Aliens
Once Again, My Sunday Theology Post!
Wake Up! to the Cleansing Power of SOAP
Revenge of the Thought of the Day
FW: FW: Fw: fw: OH NO! NOT THE CHAIN!
I Want To Belong To The Picketers Union
The Dudes with the Fear of dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-86798438849710909432011-09-26T20:54:00.001-07:002011-09-26T21:04:48.765-07:00Top 9 of All Time #10!Okay, there's been some snafu. I never made a post for the Top 9 of All Time #10. Yet these have been up for months and months! So I'm posting this as I take them down.
A little different, there!
TOP 9 OF ALL TIME (ROTATED AT RANDOM INTERVALS)
My Struggle Towards Exercise Addiction
The Wizards of Escharoth, Part None: Trial of the Forbidden Wand
Got Global Warming? Cool Off! With Nuclear dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-11769469282214233802011-09-26T01:53:00.001-07:002011-09-26T01:56:55.559-07:00It's Close to 2AM, and I Just Noticed My Breath Kind of Stinks.Should I brush my teeth? Or just wait 'til tomorrow?
Are there warning signs of OCD? No, that's ridiculous, even if there were I'm sure that halitosis would not be one of them.
Besides, I don't have halitosis. I'm like 90% certain this is psychosomatic.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-89087965322855156612011-09-24T10:39:00.000-07:002011-09-24T10:43:56.567-07:00Experimental Results Pt.2So this was really awesome. Last night I was hanging out with dear friends at the neighborhood place, and we were taking a break out back smoking when we all started talking animatedly about the breaking news on the Large Hadron Collider experiment (scientists sent a subatomic particle from Cern, Geneva to Gran Sasso, Italy faster than the speed of light). We were all cracking jokes, pondering dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-20561779517809939422011-09-24T10:27:00.001-07:002011-09-24T10:27:48.245-07:00It's important that experimental results be repeatable!In fact, I'm on Craig's list right now trying to find a large hadron collider. I understand there's some shit needs looking into.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-64109669851163392052011-09-23T07:57:00.001-07:002011-09-23T07:57:25.997-07:00policyI have a policy against making exceptions, and I have a policy against doing favors. But as a favor to you, I'll make an exception.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-42271628812279684172011-09-23T00:26:00.000-07:002011-09-23T02:08:20.290-07:00The Fond Nostalgia of Reminiscences #2: When We Were Kids, and Trying to Get DrunkWhen I was a kid I used to turn up my nose at the so-called "Silver Bullet." Coors Light, pah! That's pisswater. Give me the REAL COORS, in the gold can.
Yeah, I thought I was pretty hard core.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-29311388918397877382011-09-22T20:03:00.000-07:002011-09-22T20:06:01.166-07:00Side note for poets, Pt.2Sometimes I wonder whether I'm right about how hilarious the idea is of this online poet character who is just absolutely arrogant, a complete asshole full of unmitigated brag and trash-talk, perfectly convinced that his poetry is worth crowing about and rubbing peoples' faces in.
Not often, though! Usually I think it's a pretty nifty bit of a satire on the shy, retiring type we have grown to dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-71021328421247906382011-09-22T00:34:00.000-07:002011-09-22T02:03:20.643-07:00Just a side note for you poets, in your face, "boo yah"So over on the ol' Poem-A-Day(-On-Average) Poetry Blog "A Pocketful of Poesy", I'm running a bit behind my pace at 240 poems for 2011. Today (the 21st) is day 264. But I'm not sweating it. You know what I just did? Earlier this evening I tossed off a rather tossed-off, impromptu throwaway poem that referenced the rather tossed-off, impromptu throwaway band Snow Patrol. Link, for reference. Take adogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-54899728040036704372011-09-21T21:49:00.000-07:002011-09-21T21:49:08.533-07:00I'm Not Afraid to Look StupidI mean, what good is it going to do me to look stupid and afraid?dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-45902500295079456802011-09-21T19:46:00.000-07:002011-09-21T19:46:22.167-07:00Potential Emmy-Winning Episodes #3: House on HouseI would love to see an episode of House where House is like, temporarily stricken with hypochondria.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-72360203727360306972011-09-20T20:47:00.000-07:002011-09-20T21:12:15.861-07:00Are You Personally Offended? Good! Excellent!Can we maybe find some tactful way to tell people to fuck off about objecting to things that "might offend other people"?
Anybody who speaks up for his or her own self, "this offends me!" - I respect that, regardless of how I feel on the issue at hand. More than respecting their right to have a stance, I want to hear their reasons why. It's paramount in any case where something is declared dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-31210276283039124902011-09-20T00:30:00.000-07:002011-09-20T20:24:03.530-07:00Yet Another Tolkien AppreciationEvery time I return yet again to re-read J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece, The Lord of The Rings, I am struck by the timeless beauty of the description - everything seen as through a high, clear air! - by the stirring sweep and grandeur of the action, by the epic inventiveness of the plot, and by what a whiny little bitch Frodo is.
Frankly, I just tend to skip those boring-ass dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-54305052209357514252011-09-17T00:36:00.001-07:002011-09-17T00:36:43.723-07:00Yaay Reality!The great thing about observable reality is - that shit's observable. dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-43299715953705583562011-09-17T00:30:00.001-07:002011-09-17T00:30:57.773-07:00Please note, folks.The previous post, that was my Fiction Friday post. As noted in the labels! That shit didn't actually happen.
But those noodles did look scary for a second! Before I realized what they were.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-3704479943273899152011-09-16T08:13:00.000-07:002011-09-16T08:28:11.134-07:00OH GOD THAT WAS DISGUSTINGSo picture this. I walk to the break-area kitchen sink and dump my big cupful of yesterday's water, when suddenly my eyes drift down and I see that the big, round drain is postively clogged and filled with long, whitish-gray, writhing, waggling maggots! Freakishly long, yellowish-whitish gray worms, like elongated maggots of some kind that I've never seen before or heard of - except far more dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-39901656299437278822011-09-13T22:55:00.000-07:002011-09-14T00:02:12.479-07:00Feminist Rhetoric In General Pt.2OOO! Can we flip the phrase, too? Characterize a person, thing or situation as sexually inconvenient?
Man or woman, suppose you had high hopes for a...let's just put it delicately and say "intimacy exchange," and then you get let down. Can you say "I was sexually inconvenienced. He or she sexually inconvenienced me." Looked at that way, I'm pretty sure I've sexually inconvenienced more than a dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-12399404335109124522011-09-13T22:47:00.000-07:002011-09-13T22:47:43.064-07:00Feminist Rhetoric In GeneralI am a committed feminist, as we know, but still I have to admit, some of the classic rhetoric employed does strike me pretty funny!
I always love the phrase, "a sexual convenience." Used in contexts such as, to employ a woman as a sexual convenience.
That's a crazy, great little weird phrase! I mean, that just derails my mind. I can't picture having sex and then, I guess you roll over and saydogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-91510182728450054032011-09-13T22:44:00.000-07:002011-09-13T22:44:03.504-07:00Thought of the Day: You Keep Using That Hword. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.It's hard to believe in what you can't understand.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-26757630542171300782011-09-13T07:04:00.000-07:002011-09-12T21:12:56.000-07:00Fall TV Preview Review Episode 1 "Up All Night" Pt. 3: Errata.Correction: in Pt. 1, that should have read Anchorman III: Run Ron Burgundy Run! The San Diego City Councilman Story. That's Burgundy. Not Jeremy.
Thanks to our keen-eyed readership for the tipoff - and thanks also for the discretion in e-mailing me, rather than slapping it in the comments for all to see, so I look like an idiot!
In the forest of our modern media explosion, discretion is an dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-87764756912030379272011-09-13T00:22:00.000-07:002011-09-12T21:12:25.411-07:00Fall TV Preview Review Episode 1 "Up All Night" Pt. 2: Possible Plan B?I admit, the Sudden Infant Death Sitcom twist idea takes more guts, balls, heart and soul than possibly most roomsful of tv comedy writers may be able to summon up or pull off - to say nothing of whether a sitcom writing team has the range to handle the transition to hard-hitting drama! - so let me pitch another possible trick, to get this promising new show out of the built-in dead-end of its "dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-80965954813161894462011-09-13T00:04:00.000-07:002011-09-13T07:44:41.991-07:00Fall TV Preview Review! A New Feature! Episode 1: "Up All Night"As always with Preview Review, this piece is based solely on the ad. I haven't seen the show yet! So a grain of salt, please - and please don't come telling me any of this is a SPOILER. It cannot possibly be a SPOILER. All I've seen is the ad.
NBC's new show "Up All Night" features the always wry & charming Will Arnett (formerly of "Arrested Development") plus the sharp, spunky stylings of dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-65987168774623407432011-09-12T19:04:00.000-07:002011-09-12T19:05:23.589-07:00Thought of the Day: potentialEach of us is responsible to know intimately our own potential for good. Consider the amount of good you can do without so much as asking anyone's permission.
Now considering doing some of it.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-71001970011961630212011-09-12T12:04:00.000-07:002011-09-12T11:48:16.163-07:00Perspectives on Satire: a note on satire.Please note, when it comes to satire - I do my best to put 'satire' in the labels, in those cases. Satire isn't supposed to be funny. Yes, satire can be funny sometimes! Especially when they fuck it up, and fail spectacularly. Satire can also be funny even when it is done right. But any time satire done right is funny, know this: funny was beside the point. Funny was just a little bit of dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31180693.post-7539064850234934112011-09-12T07:06:00.000-07:002011-09-12T08:31:07.805-07:00Fighting the Hypothetical, Pt.3Anytime anyone puts me in a hypothetical situation, I just try to have sex with as many women as I can at once.dogimohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278980067086209626noreply@blogger.com0