2003-10-29
JULIA PASTRANA
My friend Evan Mueller is in this play. Go see it!
The True History of The Tragic Life and Triumphant Death of Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World.
2003-10-28
MR. B
My sister's dog wuvs you!
2003-10-18
DAVID BLAINE
I happen to think that what he is saying at the end of his fast, is pretty darn awesome. It is about God, and the ability of the human spirit to endure, to be inspired and to find beauty, even thorough tests and trials.
Blaine is a little kooky. But I think he's a really cool kook! I'm glad he's among us. I remember when he jumped off a pole, and into a pile of cardboard boxes, in NYC last year, he praised God as the source of all his strength. He also expressed that we should love one another if we want world peace. I thought that was a totally refreshing thing to hear on TV.
Here's what he said the other day:
"And that's what I think this is for me. It's my way of finding beauty in suffering, because I think life is poetic and I think the spirit is much greater than flesh. Love is everywhere, love is inside."
Blaine is fasting for 44 days, inside of a clear plastic box, suspended from the Tower Bridge in London.
Christians fast at Lent, Jews at Yom Kippur, Muslims at Ramadan. Members of the Baha'i Faith are obligated to Fast for 19 days each spring. We do not eat or drink anything from sunrise to sunset. Here is more info.
2003-10-12
MI CASA ES MALA PINTAR!
Here is a picture of my house BEFORE I painted it.
Here is a picture of my house AFTER I applied a coat of paint.
That can of paint is obviously defective. I am so pissed! I can't believe how much it ruined my home. Now I must hire a bunch of cheap, English speaking day laborers, to restore my home to its original state, before my neighbors complain to the police. Aya Carumba!
2003-09-30
TOFU, BROWN RICE & VEGGIES
This explains why I stay away from red meat & dairy products. "A non-human molecule found in red meat and milk makes its way into the human system when eaten -- and seems to build up especially in tumors..."
2003-09-06
SOLZHENITSYN
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian writer and historian, was imprisoned by brutally corrupt communists in the former Soviet Union in the late 1940Ãs. He was sent to labor camps for 8 years because he criticized a mass murderer named Stalin.
Here is an article about Solzhenitsyn. And from it, here is a passage that I like:
¬Of course, one is struck immediately by his injection of religion into this comment about our civic order. In his [Solzhenitsyn's] observation, there was "still a clear conception of the Almighty" two hundred years ago, when "the very idea of equality was taken in fact from religion, from religious concepts; in other words, that all men are equal as children of God." In the turn away from God, "democracy has lost its higher center."
¬Like Solzhenitsyn, Havel, who makes no secret of his indebtedness to the Russian author, harks further back. "[T]he fathers of American democracy knew" what "modern man has lost: his transcendent anchor." This "spiritual dimension" is today "the forgotten dimension of democracy." Indeed, Havel harks very far back. "[I]f we examine the oldest moral canons, the commandments that prescribe proper human conduct and the rules of human coexistence, we find numerous essential similarities among them. If is often surprising to discover that virtually identical moral norms appear in different places and at different times, largely independently of one another." Despite our superior information about the universe, our ancestors "knew something more essential about it than we do, something that escapes us." What they knew, for all their disparateness on details, was "the same basic message: people should revere God as a phenomenon that transcends them; they should revere one another; and they should not harm their fellow humans. . . . This is a message that speaks to us from the very heart of human religiosity."
LIBERTY n' JUSTICE 4 ALL.
2003-08-21
SACRELIGE
This is sacreligious:
Well maybe sacreligious is too strong of a word. But it's just plain wrong
to remake what is one of the best movies EVER.It's like hiring another poet to try to improve a Shakespeareian Sonnet or Hamlet. Or hiring a painter to improve the Mona Lisa. Or an architect to rebuild the Lotus Temple in New Delhi. They are already perfect! There are already a plethora of great ideas, written by unemployed screen writers,that may never be made-for lack of funding. Hollywood hasn't run out of ideas, it is just too afraid to take risks on new talent, new ideas and anything or any person that people haven't heard of already. And honestly, it's not even Hollywood. It's the investors, banks and corporate interests who control Hollywood.
Just had to get that off my chest.
2003-04-15
HOPE
I have great hope for the future. It is an unexplicable state of mind that I cannot rationally explain. If you have "ears to hear" I'll try and tell ya sometime!
On a side note, anyone got any poetry or crazy photos? Me in the mood to laugh.
2003-04-12
ADMIT IT AND CHANGE EVERYTHING!
Define and narrow me, you starve yourself of yourself.
Nail me down in a box of cold words, that box is your
coffin.
I do not know who I am.
I am in astounded confusion.
I am not a Christian, I am not a Jew, I am not a Zoroastrian,
And I am not even a Muslim.
I do not belong to the land, or to any known or unknown
sea.
Nature cannot own or claim me, nor can heaven,
Nor can India, China, Bulgaria,
My birthplace is placeless,
My sign to have an give no sign.
You say you see my mouth, ears, eyes, noseÑthey are not
mine.
I am the life of this life.
I am that cat, this stone, no one.
I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag,
I see and know all times and worlds,
As one, one, always one.
So what do I have to do to get you to admit who is speaking?
Admit it and change everything!
This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God.
Rumi
On a side note, there are still mounds of unmelted snow on the ground, in parking lots. That's highly unusual for mid April.
2003-03-31
Went to Jersey City tonight with Freddie and Joe to practice breakdancing. I'm getting better at my one armed arial freeze. Gotta get more balance though. I want to learn some basic floor moves. Foot work, uprocking & all that stuff. I am excited to practice again. I know I'm gonna hit my windmills soon! All that yoga training I did for over 10 years certainly helps me with my breakin moves. Peace.
2003-03-26
I can't believe that in some spots, there is still snow on the ground. It hasn't snowed since about Feb 24th, but that day we got a few inches. Then on Feb 17th, we got about 18 inches! Actually around here (NJ), the only places where there is still snow is in parking lots, where there plows piled up huge mounds of snow. The mounds that live under shade are still alive.
I know that some people have renamed French fries because they are mad at France, "Freedom" fries. Is anyone drinking Freedom roast coffee? How about Freedom vanilla ice cream?
I wonder if the French, or for that matter the Iraqi's have renamed anything that has the adjective "American" because they are mad at us? "Good ol' French ingenuity"? "Iraqi as Apple Pie"??? The "Iraqi Dream"??? What exactly would that be? I am sure the Iraqi people must dream of something. Maybe the same things we dream about? But then again, they do have different struggles than most American's do. I'm sure those particular struggles and oppression shape their dreams significantly.
I wonder if people could trade dreams with each other, how much their waking lives would be altered?
2003-03-25
BAN POODLES! Send them all to Baghdad.
For a long time I have wondered why people get yap dogs. Why? Can someone explain this to me? Dogs were bred for a variety of reasons. They perform numerous and valuable functions. Most notably they protect, herd, guide the blind, sniff for explosives and they rescue people. But poodles, shitzus, chihuahuas, and little terriers are good for nothing except barking. And it's not even a real bark. It's a shrill, piercing shreik that sounds like a walrus calf being raped by a yak. It's a sound that should be banned and civilized nations should not allow it. The only good small dog is the pug. They don't bark. They snore. But if my neighbors had one, I'd never hear it snore, so I don't care. Let it snore, let it snore, let it snore......
What do you get when you breed a Bull Dog with a Shitzu? A Bull Shit.
2003-03-24
An anonymous friend responds to my gas mask link on 2003-03-21:
"you were right the good ones being out of stock! The only ones left were these low-budget models. I felt okay about it at first, but having got it home and scrutinized the label, I'm not so sure. It says it's only good for bio/chemical attacks that trickle-down..."
2003-03-24
Warmonger explains war to Peacemonger. This link is courtesy of Mishkin. Thanks!
2003-03-22
The Freedom Mask
I just rushed out and bought gas masks for my dog & I. They're really comfortable! I might wear mine even after the war is long over. My dog likes hers too! However it's hard for her to catch a frisbee while wearing her Freedom Mask. I may have to rig the mask and frisbee with velcro or magnets, so she can start catching the frisbee again. Now that the weather is warming up it's time go play outdoors. I'd hate to have her miss her walkies in the park because of the world's current social climate. Without The Freedom Mask, we could not enjoy the spring sunshine in saftey. The Freedom Mask gives us peace of mind that we would survive a terrorist attack, even if our park was bombed with antrax. Thank you Freedom Mask!
HURRY THOUGH! My prediction is that they will go out of stock soon.
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2003-03-21
HAPPY AFGHANISTAN DAY!
Today really is Afghanistan Day (March 21st). Because I believe in being obedient to my government, I am of course celebrating this great holiday. I am glad that since 1982, we have cared so much for the Afghani people. I will send them a boquet of flowers at once.
2003-03-15
COALITION
I finally figured out who the "Coalition" is. Aside from the United States, there is also England, the United Kingdom and Great Britian.
And we can always repair the world with duct tape. It's a must have in every man's tool box. Every man knows that Duct Tape is made with a substance that can transform most broken things into treasured gems. It's akin to the alchemists much sought after Philosophers Stone. It is the universal medicine. It is the modern day golden elixer. We can never have enough duct tape, rope, honey or garlic (I love Italian Food). Bush knows much more than he let's on, about the logos and mythological appeal of the ancient "Secret of the Duct," and that is why he is a great president. This also explains why he has so much appeal to both working men and great living philosophers. Duct tape is the perfect universal symbol that all men recognize as essential to posess, in our common rights of passage. Bush is not only our President, he is our Merlin AND our Lancelot.
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