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Thursday, May 27, 2004
Beware the Worm!
Whatever you do, watch out for The Worm Within.
Join the discussion at the end! Fun!
Join the discussion at the end! Fun!
Monday, May 24, 2004
47% of the US thinks Bush is doing a good job
According to CNN.
Wait a second...
Nearly HALF the country of the United States currently thinks that Bush is doing a good job?
Is it that these people:
1) Don't believe their friends, family and TV shows which all regularly proclaim, "Bush sucks donkey balls."
2) Don't have television, family or friends
3) Are all inbred relatives of Bush
4) Are fake people created by a secret CIA-based agency
5) All of the above
I just don't understand. I guess these are the same people that believe that EVERYTHING is going well, even Uncle Phil's terminal lung cancer, because "God meant for it to be that way."
I wonder what it takes for those 47% to change their mind... probably nothing will. Brain death is generally irreversible.
Wait a second...
Nearly HALF the country of the United States currently thinks that Bush is doing a good job?
Is it that these people:
1) Don't believe their friends, family and TV shows which all regularly proclaim, "Bush sucks donkey balls."
2) Don't have television, family or friends
3) Are all inbred relatives of Bush
4) Are fake people created by a secret CIA-based agency
5) All of the above
I just don't understand. I guess these are the same people that believe that EVERYTHING is going well, even Uncle Phil's terminal lung cancer, because "God meant for it to be that way."
I wonder what it takes for those 47% to change their mind... probably nothing will. Brain death is generally irreversible.
East vs West
My grandparents came to visit San Diego this weekend, bringing the intensity of the colder and wetter climes to bear upon us, the well-nourished, sun-blessed and generally mild and glassy-eyed SoCalese.
If environments make creatures behave and even evolve differently, then New York makes people into quick, sharp, small monkey-creatures of little patience and great intensity to feed and breed.
Southern California evolves a comfortable, slow-moving, drifting, sliding type, of long aquatic movements and tendrils of relaxed comfort. Gentle and sleeping seals, prone to barking or being selfish, but mostly seeking the prized jewel of respite.
Monkeys like the seal's beaches. Seals like the monkey's warm jungles. But a monkey can't live on a beach, and a seal can't live in a jungle.
Then there's the Midwest: grazing, lumbering and wary buffalo. Good land, good food, and lots of distance to look out for intruders.
If environments make creatures behave and even evolve differently, then New York makes people into quick, sharp, small monkey-creatures of little patience and great intensity to feed and breed.
Southern California evolves a comfortable, slow-moving, drifting, sliding type, of long aquatic movements and tendrils of relaxed comfort. Gentle and sleeping seals, prone to barking or being selfish, but mostly seeking the prized jewel of respite.
Monkeys like the seal's beaches. Seals like the monkey's warm jungles. But a monkey can't live on a beach, and a seal can't live in a jungle.
Then there's the Midwest: grazing, lumbering and wary buffalo. Good land, good food, and lots of distance to look out for intruders.
Sunday, May 23, 2004
Improv and 24-Hour Playwriting Weekend Concludes
All went well, I have to say. I was satisfied with both.
And I also realized the satisfaction such crazy events bring to my life. I swear, I could be working as a waiter and be doing these shows and I'd feel like every day was a small success.
Not that working in a cube doing grunt tasks isn't satisfying...
Thanks to all who came to either. And to those who didn't, well, you stink like poopie.
And I also realized the satisfaction such crazy events bring to my life. I swear, I could be working as a waiter and be doing these shows and I'd feel like every day was a small success.
Not that working in a cube doing grunt tasks isn't satisfying...
Thanks to all who came to either. And to those who didn't, well, you stink like poopie.