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Published: February 2nd 2010
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Snow is like a lot of girls I’ve known, beautiful but mostly just a pain in the ass. Similarly, the longer they hang around, the less the initial beauty matters and the more the pain in the ass part bothers you. Finally my blogging fame is growing, as I became travelblog’s “Unknown blogger of the week.” The message cited this particular blog, which doesn’t seem any more genius laden than the others, but that’s still a lot of genius. http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/blog-348623.html The Kindle has not helped extend my attention span, you can get the first 30 or so pages free via wireless of EVERY book they have. I’ve read the beginning of like 40 books since I’ve got it, and only finished one, very short, book. You know a girl is really into you when she brings a friend on your first date. Oh, and calls that friend her “boyfriend.” Wasn’t even a little uncomfortable. A couple of lessons I learned from my Buddhist training last week: I have a body. I am not my body. My body cannot sit cross-legged for a very long time without it hurting. A joke the Zen Master guy told us. “I ask Christians, do you
want to go to heaven? They say, ‘of course.’ So I say, do you want to go now?” I would pretend I’m sad about ole Jerome David’s passing, and will admit he’s a top 3 favorite author of mine, but in the interest of not being a total phony, will confess to being super excited about the possibility of books to be published posthumously. Howard Zinn died the day before, and his
A People’s History of the United States should be required material in high schools across the country. Probably our most devastating loss of the last few weeks was Zelda Rubenstein (the weird -voiced fat midget psychic from Poltergeist). Either due to vanity or a general lack of know how regarding privacy settings Latin people seem to always have their settings set to allow strangers to check out their business. I think one problem I have with the women here is that I had to be inoculated against Yellow Fever in order to live in Colombia. Speaking of inoculations, I just got boosted against Typhoid so I personally challenge anyone to try and give it to me. I didn’t get a Polio vaccination, so I may be FDRollin’ around
for the rest of my life. If any family members have any information on my last Polio vaccination (type and age) I’d be appreciative. I know this dude whose last name is Polio and it doesn’t seem to affect him at all so I fear it may not be working still if I was in fact inoculated. My friend from the Netherlands is visiting, so I’ve been doing some of the tourist things I hadn’t gotten around to. He’s a much better photographer than I am, so if it seems like this blog’s photos are better than normal, credit him. If you care to see more of his work see http://mijnbrein.nl/wordpress/?p=1155 The war museum was entertaining on the outside, especially b/c it was late, closed, an eerie color and snowing. That same day we had a very entertaining run in with the largest gathering of police I’ve ever seen. Thousands upon thousands in storm trooper gear to prevent a protest from turning into something worse. The protest was because a few days earlier a protest had turned into a riot and five people died, due to a lack of police presence some say. They may have overcompensated. Kept this one
short on purpose, I leave for India in a week, I’ll post when I get back.
Book The only one I read was Kafka’s Metamorphosis, but it’s good. Short.
Movie Not sure if this counts as a movie, but I’ve watched a lot of Russell Peters stand up (Red, White and Brown & Outsourced) lately. He’s hilarious and I love his Chinese person voice.
TV show Two good British ones, Dead Set, a zombie mini-series which I thought was great, and No Heroics, a sitcom about drunk superheroes sitting around a pub.
Music Ida Maria and Springsteen’s Nebraska are current favorites.
Link http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2009/12/03/blue-note-and-the-kid/#comments I love this, the caption is enormously amusing, not sure why. This one as well. http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/2010/01/27/b-day/
Waxing gibbous,
~T
Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed. ~ Howard Zinn
"Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not
having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash." - Franny Glass, summing up Salinger’s feelings on fame.
Men will do rational things, but only after exploring all the alternatives. ~ John Maynard Keyes.
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Congratulations on producing your first Front Page blog, Tyrone! :)