no one is ever safe from the stroke of irony...Tony Suazo, a founder of a New Mexico hunters association and long time hunters' advocate was shot and killed by his friend and long time hunting partner while (yes, you got it) hunting.
police in Pharr, Texas lost 59 pounds of marijuana from their evidence room, forcing them to drop charges against three men...they say it may have been inadvertanly burned, according to an internal investigation....must have been one hell of a party....i bet they had the munchies for days after that one...bet 59 pounds makes one hell of a big joint...hehehe....party on dudes
well, a new defining moment of two cards shy, maybe a candidate for hall of fame status for Charles Grissom, director of the Paris, Texas Blue Blazes Marching Band....this for his Visions Of World War II, which included a student running across the field with a nazi flag while the band played Deutschland Uber Alles, performed at Hillcrest High School on Rosh Hashana...i mean, how fucking out of it are you thinking it is not going to be disturbing, offensive and just plain dumb, to do this on the Jewish New Year holiday, at a school in a heavily Jewish part of town...DOH!...we were booed, things were thrown at us we were cursed, he said, as if this was surprising...well, i supposed he was surprised, as he had no clue...now he does.
fueled by still simmering rage over being spammed yesterday, i thought i would share some resources for any of you who hate them slime sucking bastards as much as i do (or as much as a normal person does), and were not aware of these sites...there are three that i highly recommend you visit, or better yet join...at least use them to keep up on the battle and to find good tools and such...they are:
CAUCE Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
i especially like Counterexploitaion, as it has information on fighting not just spam, but all forms of advertisement and other annoying things.
read this letter to the editor in the opinion section of today's Dallas Morning News, and felt that it deserved to be printed here in it's entirity, so you could all marvel at the tpye of cretins we have living here.
Buy 'em bus tickets
An easy solution to the city's homeless problem is to shut down the 30-plus organizations in the city of Dallas that feed/house these noncontributors to society. The only thing the homeless need is a one-way bus ticket out of Dallas. I will buy the first one.
Roy Jenkins, Sachse
everytime i think i have the epidemy of ignorance and/or intolerance, something like this comes along to remind me how wrong i was in thinking that...no doubt bright boy Roy thinks that the homeless are comprised of people who are simply to lazy to work...i guess he thinks that they just act crazy, like living on the street, and are just using that near starvation diet as a quick way to lose some weight....or it could be in his worldview the homeless just woke up one morning and said to themselves HEY, i think i will just go live on the street, call their bosses and say, take this job and shove it, call their friends and family and tell them i'm dropping out, so if you want to talk, check the local shelters.
i thought it was very nice of him to offer to buy the first ticket, though i wonder when he was planning on bussing them to....is he just being selfish and thinking, HEY, let Los Angeles/New York or where ever have them, because they like them better there...or was he just going for the low cost euthanasia angle, and intending on bussing them to the middle fo the desert, or the far north, where the waether would quietly kill them off quickly...too bad it is painfully obvious that Roy just doesn't think.
so here is my thought...maybe Roy can take that bus money and try to buy a clue, although i'm guessing he couldn't find one...or maybe Roy can have a breakdown, and after living on the street for a while use that bus ticket to send himself to hell in a handbasket.
saw a high school football score from a couple of local teams in The Dallas Morning News... final score was 92-0...not mentioning the schools, because it's not really important, and no need to further humiliate the losers....my question hereis, how the hell does that losing coach help his team get over this serious of an ass whoopin....you know every player on that team must feel lower than low...i imagine most of them are terrified to return to school monday and face their classmates.
today's playlist to motivate me (hopefully) into getting some productive work done:
1) The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive (Hardknox Mix)
2) The Crystal Method - trip Like I Do (Hard House Remix)
3) Rabbit in The Moon - Floori.d.a (RITM's Handled Without Care Mix)
4) Orbital - Lush 3-3 (Underworld Remix)
5) The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive (Trip Hope Mix)
6) Portishead - Scorn (Glory Box Mix)
7) Moloko - Fun For Me
8) AK1200 - Drowning (Cleveland Lounge) (Dave's Drum & Space Mix)
9) Aphrodite - Urban Jungle (Underworld Roughed Up Version)
10) Fatboy Slim vs. Eminem - My Name Is Rockafella Skank
11) Banco De Gaia - Rabbit In The Moon's Drunk As A Skunk Mix
12) The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds - (Adam Freeland's Tsunami 1 Remix)
13) RBA - No Alternative (Brooklyn Bounce Remix)
14) DJ Lego vs. Warp Brothers & Aquagen - God Saw The Phatt Bass
15) Chemical Brothers - Live On JJJ Mixup
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i don't know if this hotmail account is real, let alone responsible, but am providing the info in case it is...this pisses me off so badly, i can't find words to properly decribe it...i have of course deleted this so called comment, i never thought i would actually feel the need to remove a comment, but this was it...is this happening to anyone else...do we need to band together to stomp this out in its infancy, before even our own webspace becomes the latest spamming hell.
now let's disect this vile shit....as i mentioned above, i stripped all the links out of this...it was all links of course...i can't believe they had the nerve to include the last sentance...who wouldn't find this inappropriate, and unacceptable...my blog is not a platform for advertisement, aside from promoting my and/or my girlfriends ventures...what sort of cretin assumes that anyone is going to be ok with being used as a platform to advertise some strangers products with out being asked first, or offered any compensation...not that there is enough money to persuade me to allow this sleazy shit at all....my other question is what fucking cretins buy this stuff...i know viagra is a legit drug (in some cases), but the rest is the worst sort of psuedomedicines sold to the terminally stupid...i could almost feel sorry for the fools who buy this shit, if it weren't so totally pathtic.
i can't believe that i am now going to have to waste time ensuring that any future spam is gone as quickly as i find it....at least MT makes this a fairly simple task, just a tedious one, and time consuming, if i am forced to start building ban lists....the worst part is having to delete anything from my blog, as i intended to never do that....fucking spammers, poison everything...i hope every one of them gets some incurable disease, preferably a painful, disabling one, and then lives in misery for at least 50 years....still not punishment enough for their crime...oh well
i got this incredible comment posted about A Crack in The Event Horizon:
An excellent piece of artwork. I wish I have that kind of talent.I truly believe whoever is viewing this abstract digital art will escape from depression into the tunnel filled with hope! Thanks for sharing this art! Gilbert Lam
thank you Gilbert for taking the time to comment...while i love getting feedback of any kind on my art (it helps me to improve my skills and techniques when i know what people like or dislike), comments like yours give me the best possible incentive to keep at it.
as an aspiring artist nothing feels better than to hear that some one has actually felt exactly what i tried to convey in a piece...it's awsome to know that my message was received so clearly, and that i was able to bring renewed hope....wow...i think i will wrap myself in this warm fuzzy feeling for a while...maybe this will be the thing that breaks the block, and lets me get back to creating again.
having a dog (ok, he's my girlfriend's dog) has resulted in me saying things i never expected, or even considered saying...most common things i have to say to him:
1) Get your nose out of Simba's butt.
2) Quit licking your feet.
3) Quit licking the carpet.
4) Blow your nose fuzzy boy.
5) You cheeky bugger (frequently said when he steals my seat).
6) Go poddy.
7) Quit pouting, I wasn't laughing at you.
reminds me a lot of the things i said to my daughter, though she never stuck her nose in a dog's butt, and she didn't lick the carpet. Things I said to her when she was young:
1) Don't put that in your mouth.
2) Don't pick the kitty up by his back leg.
3) Because, i said so.
4) Don't wipe you hands on the cat. He isn't a towel/napkin.
5) Kitty baths don't count.
6) Kitty does not want to go camping with us.
i don't know what has happened to me over the last few weeks...somewhere in that timespan, i have slipped into some truly weird mental state...it is not a depressive cycle, though it bears some of it's characteristics...whatever it is it has totally robbed me of my normal sense of self...i feel like i am drifting along, unbalanced and no clue how to get back....i feel like i lost my sense of humor, and worse the certainty that there is balance in life, which is one of the foundations i depend on to get through day to day life...it has encroached into all my creative outlets, which is the most frustrating thing....i have almost totally lost my ability (what little i had) to write the way i want...there is no flow at all and i've let myself get mired in ugly mental dialogue...the worst of all is i am in the midst of this huge creative block, and can't create a fucking thing graphicwise.
not one attempt lately, be it art, graphics, or even simple photo work is going right...every single thing i have tried working with is looking like shit, even something as basic as converting the colors of the rating image....i hope i find my way out of here soon, and get back to a more normal (for me) place...i miss the creative release and need to get these outlets working again...maybe i will try sleeping for 3 or 4 days straight, or not sleeping for a week...maybe that will break this damn state....who knows...i guess only time will tell
seems like a lot of people in the dfw area hate one or more comics in the paper enough to write letters to the editor bitching...at least one letter every weeks, three last week...don't people have better things to get wound up about....if you don't like a comic, then don't read it for christs sake...i realize that we all have differing senses of humor, but sheesh...lighten up people....it's always the same strips too...the boondocks seems to be the most hated, followed closely by la cucaracha, and pearls before swine...i don't find every day's strips funny, but the ones that are more than make up for the slack days...i would hate to think that a few humorless people might deprive the rest of us a good laugh...thursday and friday's pearls were funny as hell...friday's, while an old joke, was beautifully executed...i laughed till it hurt...and thursday's had such a lovely PUNch line.
according to the paper, the hurricane was resposible for 17 deaths...i wonder how many of those were brainless fools out to experience the storm???
sorry for the lack of entries lately, but things have been so damned depressing in the news i just couldn't deal with it...seems like things are going to hell in a handbasket on every front....local news is bad...national news worse....international worse yet...be nice to see some bright spot somewhere, but the world won't cooperate....so tired of all the hate and mean-spirited shit....sick to death of the childish crap being done in the name of some religion or another....grow the fuck up you stupid children...quit twisting your holy books to justify things that violate the core principals of your faith...bet all your prophets are spinning in their graves, seeing what you have done, and continue to do in their names....why don't you all just go kill yourselves, and let the rest of us get on with trying to live our lives in peace
boy texas politics just keeps sinking farther every day...this redistricting/partisan politics is just getting worse every day...bad enough we are now on our third special session, called strictly so perry can get his redistricting pushed through, but this bullshit of putting the democrat senators on probation is idiotic...the republicans in the house and senate don't even agree anymore on what the new map should look like...this whole ugly mess has completely trashed any spirit of bipartisanship, and the rancor generated by our governor keeps spreading.
the house and senate republicans are no longer in agreement....the comptroller, a republican, is fighting to keep the core duties of her office, because she had the gall to do her job honestly...our budget deficit keeps growing, thanks to special sessions of legislature...air quality just gets worse and there appears to be no hope of improving it...voters stupidly approved a cap of 250,000 dollar damages for lawsuits...what next...i'm almost afraid to see where this all ends
late, as usual, but i wanted to say a sad farewell, and mourn the loss of three great ones...john ritter was one of the best physical comedians there has been, and i will miss him...i truly mourn the loss of two giants of music, warren zevon, and johnny cash...both these men leave a legacy of great music, and provide examples that you could suceed, despite refusing to be mainstream in what you wrote, and did...i am amazed how both men stayed true to who they were to the end, and regret that their loss deeply
well it's been too long since that last time i did this....some humor to lighten the mood.
Quaylism:
[I will never have] another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy,
Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.
Nice try Dude:
A 28-year old male was brought into the ER after an attempted suicide. The man had swallowed several nitroglycerin pills and a fifth of vodka. When asked about the bruises about his head and chest he said that they were from him ramming himself into the wall in an attempt to make the nitroglycerin explode.
If Dr. Seuss wrote for Star Trek: the Next Generation...
Picard: Sigma Indri, that's the star,
So, Data, please, how far? How far?
Data: Our ship can get there very fast
But still the trip will last and last
We'll have two days til we arrive
But can the Indrans there survive?
Picard: LaForge, please give us factor nine.
LaForge: But, sir, the engines are offline!
Picard: Offline! But why? I want to go!
Please make it so, please make it so!
Riker: But sir, if Geordi says we can't,
We can't, we mustn't, and we shan't,
The danger here is far too great!
Picard: But surely we must not be late!
Troi: I'm sensing anger and great ire.
Computer: Alert! Alert! The ship's on fire!
Picard: The ship's on fire? How could this be?
Who lit the fire?
Riker: Not me.
Worf: Not me.
Picard: Computer, how long til we die?
Computer: Eight minutes left to say goodbye.
Data: May I suggest a course to take?
We could, I think, quite safely make
Extinguishers from tractor beams
And stop the fire, or so it seems...
Geordi: Hurray! Hurray! You've saved the day!
Again I say, Hurray! Hurray!
Picard: Mr. Data, thank you much.
You've saved our lives, our ship, and such.
Troi: We still must save the Indran planet --
Data: Which (by the way) is made of granite...
Picard: Enough, you android. Please desist.
We understand -- we get your gist.
But can we get our ship to go?
Please, make it so, PLEASE make it so.
Geordi: There's sabotage among the wires
And that's what started all the fires.
Riker: We have a saboteur? Oh, no!
We need to go! We need to go!
Troi: We must seek out the traitor spy
And lock him up and ask him why?
Worf: Ask him why? How sentimental.
I say give him problems dental.
Troi: Are any Romulan ships around?
Have scanners said that they've been found?
Or is it Borg or some new threat
We haven't even heard of yet?
I sense no malice in this crew.
Now what are we supposed to do?
Crusher: Captain, please, the Indrans need us.
They cry out, "Help us, clothe us, feed us!"
I can't just sit and let them die!
A doctor MUST attempt -- MUST try!
Picard: Doctor, please, we'll get there soon.
Crusher: They may be dead by Tuesday noon.
*COMMERCIAL BREAK, COMMERCIAL BREAK
HOW LONG WILL THESE DUMB ADS TAKE?*
Worf: The saboteur is in the brig.
He's very strong and very big.
I had my phaser set on stun --
A zzzip! A zzzap! Another one!
He would not budge, he would not fall,
He would not stun, no, not at all!
He changed into a stranger form
All soft and purple, round and warm.
Picard: Did you see this, Mr. Worf?
Did you see this creature morph?
Worf: I did and then I beat him fairly.
Hit him on the jaw -- quite squarely.
Riker: My commendations, Klingon friend!
Our troubles now are at an end!
Crusher: Now let's get our ship to fly
And orbit yonder Indran sky!
Picard: LaForge, please tell me we can go...?
Geordi: Yes, sir, we can.
Picard: Then make it so!
THE END
here it is, the next installment of search strings...today we venture into the just plain weird...stuff like the following makes me wonder what is going on in some people's heads.
What The Fuck???
1) hmo rule 7th day adventists - i can't even imagine what exactly this person was hoping to find with this...i suppose it might have been an attempt to determine policy.
2) humor tateless steak and cheese - this is just plain weird, aside from the apparent misspelling.
3) pork nonsense - as opposed to pork sense?
4) things i've learned you cannot make someone love you - you needed to search to find this out? maybe they were wanting a second opinion.
5) new post classified ads of used skating for sale in england - i had no idea that you buy used skating in england, or anywhere else for that matter.
6) throwing away old things yes and no - which is it, yes, or no? what old things? why the hell would anyone care? must be a better way to use your time.
7) antichrist slideshow - i wonder if they actually found any? who's, or what pictures would qualify for this show? who would spend time creating it in the first place?
8) art mom dad is not your fault i turned out this way unpleasant yaoi - whoa, what a long strage string this is...once again, what was this person looking for?
another one of those situations where i hate being right....i felt from day 1 that the patriot act was a mistake, and that it would be abused, and i guess i was right...despite all the assurances that it was only going to be used to fight terrorism, it came out that various agencies have been taking advantage of the act to gather evidence used to pursue non-terror related alleged criminal acts...i knew we couldn't trust them not to violate our 4th amndment rights...for all the claims of how the act has prevented terrorist actions, there has been little specifics detailing how many, by whom, and such....what a shit trade we got in this deal...i wonder how long before they decide to just snoop on us all, because they can...we need to get this act repealed before it is too late....fight to have your rights restored....don't let fear justify the theft of our freedom in the name of security or patriotism.
not sure how it came about, but i have renewed some very old friendships in the last two months....one with my best friend from high school and another with one of my best friends from my 20's....don't live in the same state as either, hadn't talked to either of them in over 10 years, but in both cases it was like we never spent time apart...it is so cool to be able to instantly regain that feeling of closeness, and in one sense it is as if no time has passed at all...they both sound the same as they did, and while we are all older, we all seem to still be the people we were, and liked in each other....life never fails to surprise me, and i love when they are good surprises.
well it seems that johns hopkins screwed the pooch in a major way and has retracted their findings, that supposedly proved ecstacy would fry your brain in as little as one night....this study published last year, had stirred up shitloads of controversy, as it allegedly validated all of the worst government and media scare tactic b/s hype...the study said 3 moderate doses, which in their view was a typical night's usage at a rave, could cause permanent damage to dopamine receptors and in 10 percent of the cases cause death....reputable researchers had been disagreeing, but as the government is firmly anti-drug, even where it may have clinical use, reason was drowned in the screams to puit an end to this drug.
turns out, that the supplier had mislabled the vials, and they did not contain MDMA, but Methamphetamine, and pure at that...also studies were done on baboons, not people, though you would think they might have noticed a difference in the expected behavior, but then baboons aren't people...also came out the doses were considerably larger than a typical dose of x, and much larger than of speed of course, so no wonder they got the results they did....upside is that the door is opened back up for clinical testing of MDMA in treatment of PTSD and other mental conditions, which many scientists believe will prove to be a valuable drug for treating these disorders...it was also pointed out, that had the hopkins study been valid there should be thousands of people suffering symptoms requiring treatment, and many deaths....point of fact, there have been no deaths directly atributed to MDMA, though one or two people did allow themselves to die by overheating or dehydration, which happens more regularly without using ecstacy....when will they stop trying to shove stupid lies down the public's throat concerning drugs, and be honest....if you want to have kids listen, you can't keep lying so obviously...maybe more of these anti-drug fuckheads need to experience real life, because then they might change their views.
compiled and commented for your reading pleasure, here it is part 2 of the ongoing series of search strings used...i was torn between groups, but decided to save the weirder and less pleasant ones for later entries....feel free to comment with your strings if you are so inclined.
Warped, Strange, But Cool, or at least not vile.
1) give friends digital crack - always a good thing, though a slightly odd string to be using in my eyes.
2) no good deed goes unpunished - cool string, but what were you hoping to find in the results?
3) gone with the WMD - very cool string, I wish i had thought this one up...i bet this pulled some great results.
4) fresh vegetables are dangerous - another wildly cool string, though once again i have no idea what they were hoping to find...the possibilities do provide for some great mental imagery.
5) in jour head - nice play on words here....must have gathered fun results
6) parents don't understand how i feel after the divorce i'm 40 - wow....so very specific, yet so disturbed....had to get some really depressing results with this one.
7) die you gravy sucking pig movie quote - a useful quote for many occasions...wonder how many hit they got on this.
8) pork brains in milk gravy - sick twisted string....why...a meal from hell for sure.
more of these later
two movies opening soon....one by tarantino and one by rodriguez....i hope they live up to both directors' better past efforts....been way too long for both, at least for movies which are in the styles that made their fame...dying for some good tarantino dialogue, especially when well mixed with his special brand of violence...really dying for robert rodriguez to get back to his roots and dazzle me with some more of his mastery of gunbattle ballet....read good things on both so far, but will reserve opinion until i see for myself....both casts look good, and i was wondering when we would get the final chapter of the el mariachi saga...hmmmm, johnny depp, salma hayek, and antonio banderas, guns and snappy dialogue, should be tasty.
this is the first in a series devoted to the mostly interesting, sometimes odd, or disgusting, and other combinations of search terms that resulted in visits to my little corner of the blogsphere...some strings were obvious attempts to find me specifically, but most were inadvertant i think....will devote a journal entry to each group, as arbitrarily grouped by me, of strings, with comment when amusing to me...no doubt there will be updates filling later entries....feel free to comment with your own string results, though i ask you stay on subject, so if yours are outside the scope of a group, hold em until the entry that matches please.
Sorry For The Accidental Match - these are legitimate (i think) strings entered that somehow managed to cause one of my pages to trigger a result.
1) better homes and gardens episode 2003 - well not sure which page had that particular combination of terms, but i apologize for wasting your time, as i'm sure you weren't looking for me.
2) documentary old car repair - another oops getting my journal, hope it wasn't too bothersome for you.
3) puppies for sale in springfield mass - wow...how did this string generate a hit here????well i almost feel bad for not having puppies to sell, tho am glad i don't live in springfield.
4) dj irene pic - sorry none here
5) clothing brooklyn leftfield - amusing how a playlist entry screwed the results for someone wanting to score a new outfit....hope you found what you wanted.
6) technical writer grammar test - never thought my jounaling a self justification would cause some poor slob wanting to improve their tech writing skills to veer off into the angst.
7) "essential mix" track listing leftfield 2000 - alas, another casualty of my playlist....hope you found the tracklist somewhere.
8) dear miss manners july 2003 - oh boy did this ever miss by a mile or 1,000...miss manners i ain't for sure, and never will be, tho i have manners, fairly good ones when i feel the need to trot them out.
9) 2003 classified ads of used refrigerator offer for sale by priv - damn how did that get here?
10) definition football free safety - while a fan, have no definitions of positions here, at least not football definitions.
11) government of the 60's - another soul lost while looking for knowledge.
12) quotes on misunderstanding - well there are probably a few things i have said on that subject, which could be quoted, though use them at your own risk...i am pretty well aquainted with misunderstanding, as i seem to cause a fair amount, and miss the point all the time.
13) bizarro by dan piraro june 2003 strips - i really feel shitty for causing another fan to waste time trying to satisfy their bizarro fix.
14) great song quotes - there are a few, very few burried in some journal entries here, but sorry for diverting you, unless you were looking for pop trash, in which case i hope you stay lost.
15) clinton judicial appointees approved - another dead end, as i did mention the string, but in a totally different context.
stay tuned for the next installment folks...some of the upcoming entries should be quite
well lost another week to the bipolar roller coaster it seems....thought it would be otherwise, but had productive manic phase turn into unproductive manic frustration....this was followed by a couple of days of depressive apathy, and a few more of pointless self-recrimination for unproductive time lost....wheee, ain't life fun.