4.23.2005

Increase in the Mormon church?

Really now, those Catholics better watch what they're doing.

Springfieldians are such funny people. Funny ha ha, and funny weird, incidentally.

On another note, I have made a Flickr group (Flickr is a photo sharing site - waaaay better than Hello) about history. Its called "Antiquity Abating" and you can check it out here. The pictures, as of this writing, are all mine.

Stuff from today I

Christians burn pagans for their sinfulness, whereas Pagans burn Christians for warmth.
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Terrorism: "The calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature."-US Army Operation Manual, 525-37
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Language is a virus and religion is an operating system and prayers are just so much fucking spam. - American Gods, Neil Gaiman

4.21.2005

More fucking Daylight Savings Time??

When people go through the ritual of moving their clocks forward each spring ushering in daylight-saving time, they're also saving energy - the equivalent of thousands of barrels of oil, in fact. Congress says a good thing can be made better.

Okay, I know that not everyone "celebrates" DST, like Maine. What about them? Are we considering all the facts?

"We all just feel sunnier after we set the clocks ahead,"

Ah, yes, it makes me feel ever so much better to know that our lawmakers are using such intelligent adjectives to describe such important and life-changing policy.

"In addition to the benefits of energy savings," he said, it means "less crime, fewer traffic fatalities, more recreation time and increased economic activity. Daylight savings just bring a smile to everybody's face."

How the fuck will there be less crime? More darkness=more crime. Criminals like the dark, idiots, ask the police. And how are there fewer traffic fatalities? Where are the substantiating facts? Why not just say that increasing DST will stop terrorism, decrease pre-marital sex, solve the abortion issue, and turn gay people straight? Fuck.

Christianity at work

I heard an amazing statement at school today. Remember, I go to a conservative school in the midwest, in the buckle of the Bible belt.

As I was walking along our new Public Affairs monument, a ridiculously grandiose "flagway" with the flags of 120 countries flapping over my head like so many carrion crows after the war (we like to call it the IHOF), I overheard one of our professors as he was having a conversation about religion in collegiate America. Lifting his hands to the sky, encompassing all 120 flags and the majority of our campus, his frustrated voice carried across the sidewalk, "This is Christianity at work."

4.19.2005

I am so ashamed of what I ever called my own. Take what I have, take these broken remains...: i heart you
I am so ashamed of what I ever called my own. Take what I have, take these broken remains...: especially your boobs
I am so ashamed of what I ever called my own. Take what I have, take these broken remains...: but i like your personality a lot too

Ahh...true love. ;-)

4.18.2005

Fighting the system is like tweezing hairs - tedious and pointless in the end

So, I found out today that the real problem with May Day is that no organization can have a cooler event booth than SAC (Student Activities Council). When you cut through all the bullshit, that's what it boils down to. So now we're stuck fucking doing their work instead of doing a cool event of our own.

What' s the point of fighting the system if you can't get anywhere? Today I also found out that the school put a camera in the studio, without informing us. Not that we could have fought them or even would have, but it would have been nice to fucking know.

Anyone have any suggestions for fighting the system and not killing yourself from futility in the process?

Golden Palace Monkey - capitalism at its peak; could it really be all downhill from here?

"This species will bear our name for as long as it exists," GoldenPalace.com CEO Richard Rowe said in a statement. "Hundreds, even thousands of years from now, the GoldenPalace.com Monkey will live to carry our name through the ages."

Have you heard about the Golden Palace monkey? Read about it here. Find ways to kill yourself here.

4.07.2005

Chambers bought a fucking llama

A fucking llama! Actually, it isn't technically a fucking llama, since its too young yet, but you know. He's going to build a pen, apparantly. After we had the discussion about a llama not living in the house with 10 cats, 2 dogs, a leopard gecko, a lovebird, and 2 finches. It's not even like the animals that live in the house get along.

And tomorrow, my mom's going to sell her waterbucks and a nyala and buy a camel or three. Three fucking camels! Can you fucking believe it? Plus, my mom bought about 20 fucking mounts (mounted exotic animal heads).

This is just the briefest overview of my crazy week.

Quotations:
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"You don't need a llama!"
"Look, you don't understand, we don't need [the animals], they need us."
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"Gazelle."
"Impala."
"Whatever, just sell it."
(after 8 solid hours of auctioning off literally hundreds of mounts)

4.06.2005

Okay, okay, I'm slacking

Don't you think I know it too? Fuck.

I'm actually only slacking on my Blog. I have a zillion other things to do and the blog, even though it calms my nerves, just gets put aside every day. Not like anyone is reading it, but it does make me feel better, like my life is a little more in order and I can understand what's going on in my head. It's like sorting laundry: kinda soothing, if rather pointless.

I promise to write more tomorrow, after all, I'm in Macon, MO for an exotic animal auction. Chambers bought a tokay gecko, some Cuban tree frogs, and some lovebirds. He really wanted a Fennick fox, but they were too expensive. And spider monkeys are insanely priced now! A pair spider monkeys went for $5200 today. Fuck. You can't make that kind of money on crack. I mean from selling crack; of course you can't make that kind of money on crack. Unless you sucked a lot of cock.

4.02.2005

[exclamation point]

Hmmm. I noticed something annoying about my post titles; besides not being very clever, an abnormal number of them end with an exclamation point. Why the fuck is that? Why is it sooooo imperative that I end those particularly unwitty sentance fragments with that overused punctuation mark? It really annoys me when others do it, so I'm really confused as to why I would do the same thing.

But, I've decided it's a habit that needs to be broken. From now on, if I want/need an exclamation point in my posts, especially in my titles, I'm going to use the following: [exclamation point]. That's a lot more work than putting an actual exclamation point, so hopefully I'll be able to break myself of this annoying and useless habit [exclamation point]

World's Biggest Canvas


World's Biggest Canvas
Originally uploaded by xtoq.
Thought I would share another picture with you. Look for pictures from the Drive-By Trucker concert to be posted soon, along with a detailed and boring saga regarding the trip and our plethora of crises that seemed to plague us.

420 squared A


420 squared A
Originally uploaded by xtoq.
This is a tiled background I made from my photos of...stuff. Most of the photos are my creation, except the Mona Lisa, the Joint Rollin Handbook, and the silver-looking leaf, to name the ones I know of. Other than that, they are pictures I took or made in Photoshop.