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silveradept) wrote2004-09-12 12:32 pm
silveradept) wrote2004-09-12 12:32 pm
I return.
I was down in South Bend yesterday, watching and cheering on the team. There were some good spots, some bad spots, and some absolutely horrible spots. As the band, we did our job. Oh, well. Twice, now, I've gone down, hoping that I could say that we won one to a friend of mine who goes to ND, and twice I've been denied. Oh, well. Now, I have to concentrate on writing a summary for a thesis idea that I don't have. I'm not wholly sure what one writes about in a Medieval and Early Modern Studies thesis, anyway, so I really am starting from square one. Anyone with ideas will be appreciated. The whole semester stretches large before me, and I say "Oh, s**t. How am I ever going to get this done on time?"
And since I've been gone, there's plenty to see around. As it would seem even fruit can have fun.
Out of
freetobelieve, we have knowledge that even ministers don't always like church.
And then there's a piece abouthow the Islamic Middle East needs to be more like the West. I'm not sure what opinion I should hold on this. So I'll solicit yours, instead.
Related in the short-circuiting of my mind, is this bit from 23 Apples of Eris about the upcoming election.
Dear Compliant Slaves,
I come unto you with a devious message from my dearly amused peers here at Tomorrow’s Saints Television® – all of whom are having a decidedly fun time shamming your collectively pathetic selves on every front you’ve left open. Occasionally it amuses us to raise the difficulty of our crafty little pranks by slipping in a little plot here and there. The fresh dose of paranoia quietly slips to work, tinkering and toggling with your soft little minds. And so, today I’ve dug up some of the bits written by Saints Australopithecus Spiff-arino, Evil the Wizard, G4P, and myself, G. I. Jesus.
Indeed it is a happy state of affairs for us when dismal fools claim “left-of-wing” and haughtily presume a liberal agenda for the sake of “freedom”, all the while ignorant to the planted programming which compels them to do so. Yes, into the spongy youth go campaign within campaign of instruction and suggestion, all but another ploy to support the swiftly closing gap between monolithic world domination and the atrophy of natural human rights.
Our rebellious little servants mistakenly believe they are exercising their rights by their sad little displays of “Direct Action”, when quite the opposite is true. For little more than a caress of your fragile self-worth and security, millions of easy slaves are bought and sold on the black market of our dark-lantern pranks and memetic chess games, and wielded against our adversaries like dim-witted armies of biped cattle armed with picket signs and purchasing power. Blinded by the orgiastic shutter-speed of your terrified attention spans, and with trembling, vacant eyes, you struggle desperately for answers by asking absurd and misguided questions! So easily distracted from seeing beyond the powerful arms of your omni-benevolent poly-father, you cheer the truly vile actions of their state and loudly damn the few schemes of human liberation our opposition sneaks past. What a backwards people!
There are a few independent minds among you, ripe for entry to our covert eugenics program. Perhaps this small wake-up call we’ve produced for you today may prod some of your pedantic intellectuals into completing a single complex thought – just enough to tango with Dupe & Suzy’s little vote rocking project, with help from our friends at Diebold.
This is supposed to be a subversive message, so I can’t tell you everything or you won’t believe a word of it. In fact, it’s better for me if you don’t, since Dupe always bets short odds and G4P has a small fortune riding on your incompetence
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present for your amusement and critique on this thirty-fifth day of Bureaucracy – the political campaign for the Apocalypse:
THE DEMOLICAN PARTY PLATFORM FOR THIS YEAR OF OUR LADY OF DISCORD THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY
*V*O*T*E* *D*E*M*O*L*I*C*A*N* *2*0*0*4*
Ubiquitous Mediocrity for President!
Wage Slavery for Vice!
Crush the peoples’ will to power under penny-promises and coddling programs paid for by the toils of their own slavery! Make them pay for the maintenance of their cozy ineptitude with taxes and call it Free Public Services! Soften them up with pastel social reforms and economic initiatives of the trendiest academic vomit! Give them their subsidized petroleum injections and socialized health care treatments! Give the people all the things they want! Help them! Aid them! Spoil them with the hand of your ability and wealth! Let them feel every comfort and every consolation and let them have every need gratified until there are no needs left! Altruism! Yes! Altruism is the force to purge away the parasites! Selfishness only a virtue for those who participate in the Great Work! Choke them! Gag them! Drown the crippled spectators in the mother’s milk and seductive luxury of guilty desires! Give them fashionably pandering illusions of division, superiority and hate! Yes! You must sew equality into worthlessness, happiness into animosity, and calculated rebellion into the hem-seams of the world’s cultural fabric! Division by every meaningless difference: class, race, sex, and creed! Division by any self-sustaining means! Splinter them into groups large enough to maintain the delusion of safety, but small enough to distract them with continual blame-games, lest they realize the true cause of their ever-strangling terror! Assign motives and displaced meanings to facts and fictions and feed the 451 Fahrenheit auto-lobotomy of newspeak and political correction! Support the excision of faith in favor of empty hope, and in everything you do teach them to value the base of the inhibited commoner over the apex of the fervid achiever! Give them all the tools and all the means to shackle themselves to long and painful ruin in panic-riddled self-destruction! May they reach up and feel their glorious thorny crown sinking in, tearing down and sucking dry the modern bourgeois created as hoards for the tools of Armageddon! May the parasites never know the full weight and true taste of Wealth or Happiness! When finally the masses seek refuge from the looting, rioting, brutish storm of the world’s largest survival game, then will be the time for the Demolican Party to put everything back the way it ought to be -- Master and Servant.
Read between the lines:
“War on Terror”
Don’t say I never gave you nothin’, you ungrateful guttersnipe!
With Fatherly Adoration,
G. I. Jesus
Producer, Tomorrow’s Saints Television®
“Our Propaganda is Your World”™
http://www.ngc2632.com/TS-BS/
Interesting, ya?
Or if politics isn't you thing, maybe a squirrel conspiracy is right up your alley?
Last, but not least, giant list o' statements.
Bold what's true. Add a true statement of your own to the bottom. Italicized are half-true statements.
01. I miss somebody right now
02. I don't watch much TV these days
03. I love olives
04. I love sleeping - When you're tired, there's nothing better.
05. I own lots of books
06. I wear glasses or contact lenses
07. I love to play video games
08. I've tried marijuana
09. I've watched porn movies
10. I have been in a threesome
11. I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship
12. I believe honesty is usually the best policy
13. I have acne free skin - Sometimes, I get a zit here and there, but generally true.
14. I like and respect Al Sharpton
15. I cuss frequently
16. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year
17. I have a hobby
18. I've been told I: (women) have an applebottom, (men) am packing.
19. I carry my knife/razor in my car.
20. I'm smart. - That is, if my grades aren't lying to me.
21. I've never broken someone's bones (teeth, but not bones)
22. I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal
23. I hate the rain
24. I'm paranoid at times
25. I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar free
26. I need money right now!
27. I love Sushi
28. I talk really, really fast - Get me wound up, and I can rattle along pretty quickly
29. I have fresh breath in the morning
30. I have semi-long hair
31. I have lost money in Las Vegas
32. I have at least one brother and/or one sister
33. I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
34. I shave my legs (females) or face (males) on a regular basis - I do. But I don't.
35. I have a twin
36. I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past - Drama calls, man.
37. I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
38. I like the way that I look - I don't think of anything that I'd change, but I don't think I look particularly good.
39. I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months
40. I know how to do cornrows
41. I am usually pessimistic
42. I have a lot of mood swings
43. I think prostitution should be legalized
44. I think Britney Spears is hot
45. I have cheated on a significant other in the past
46. I have a hidden talent - Depends on your definition
47. I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have - Situationally dependent.
48. I think that I'm popular - Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes for all the wrong reasons.
49. I can whistle
50. I have kissed someone of the same sex
51. I enjoy talking on the phone
52. I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants Wind pants, actually, but close enough.
53. I love to shop - For certain things.
54. I would rather shop than eat
55. I would classify myself as ghetto
56. I'm bourgie and have worn a sweater tied around my shoulders.
57. I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal - I try for regular updates.
58. I don't hate anyone
59. I'm a pretty good dancer
60. I don't think Mike Tyson raped Desiree Washington
61. I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother
62. I have a cell phone
63. I believe in God - There are caveats, as anyone who knows me has found out.
64. I watch MTV on a daily basis
65. I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months
66. I love drama - Which kind?
67. I have never been in a real relationship before
68. I've rejected someone before
69. I currently have a crush on someone
70. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life - About 95/100 true.
71. I want to have children in the future
72. I have changed a diaper before
73. I've called the cops on a friend before
74. I bite my nails
75. I am a member of the Tom Green fan club
76. I'm not allergic to anything
77. I have a lot to learn - Most definitely
78. I have dated/shagged someone at least 10 years older or younger
79. I plan on seeing Ice Cube's newest "Friday" movie
80. I am very shy around the opposite sex sometimes - Closer to all the time.
81. I'm online 24/7, even as an away message
82. I have at least 5 away messages saved
83. I have tried alcohol or drugs before
84. I have made a move on a friend's significant other in the past
85. I own the "South Park" movie
86. I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal
87. When I was a kid I played "the birds and the bees" with a neighbor or chum
88. I enjoy some country music - On the lower side of a half-truth.
90. I think that Pizza Hut did have/has the best pizza - for a large chain, true.
91. I watch soap operas whenever I can
92. I'm obsessive, anal retentive, and often a perfectionist - Two out of three, at least.
93. I have used my sexuality to advance my career
94. I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all
95. I know all the words to Slick Rick's "Children's Story"
96. Halloween is awesome because you get free candy Hell yes! But there's other stuff, too.
97. I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it
98. I cry at least twice a week - Sometimes yes, sometimes no, often times for all the wrong reasons.
99. I'm happy as of this moment - I'm not explicitly not-happy.
100. I think the Beagle is the best breed of dog
101. I hate my job
102. I've been on TV Multiple times, and even on a nationally broadcast feed.
103. I am irrationally attracted to campy handbags
104: I deliberately didn't bold at least one statement on this list that should've been bolded. Some of those italics might be bolded, according to my friends, I suspect.
105. I am naturally immune to chicken pox
106. I've been to more countries than I can count on both hands.
107. I am proud of what I've done with my life so far. So fari, so goodi.
108. I have had at least one alternatural event occur in my life.
And since I've been gone, there's plenty to see around. As it would seem even fruit can have fun.
Out of
freetobelieve, we have knowledge that even ministers don't always like church.And then there's a piece abouthow the Islamic Middle East needs to be more like the West. I'm not sure what opinion I should hold on this. So I'll solicit yours, instead.
Related in the short-circuiting of my mind, is this bit from 23 Apples of Eris about the upcoming election.
Dear Compliant Slaves,
I come unto you with a devious message from my dearly amused peers here at Tomorrow’s Saints Television® – all of whom are having a decidedly fun time shamming your collectively pathetic selves on every front you’ve left open. Occasionally it amuses us to raise the difficulty of our crafty little pranks by slipping in a little plot here and there. The fresh dose of paranoia quietly slips to work, tinkering and toggling with your soft little minds. And so, today I’ve dug up some of the bits written by Saints Australopithecus Spiff-arino, Evil the Wizard, G4P, and myself, G. I. Jesus.
Indeed it is a happy state of affairs for us when dismal fools claim “left-of-wing” and haughtily presume a liberal agenda for the sake of “freedom”, all the while ignorant to the planted programming which compels them to do so. Yes, into the spongy youth go campaign within campaign of instruction and suggestion, all but another ploy to support the swiftly closing gap between monolithic world domination and the atrophy of natural human rights.
Our rebellious little servants mistakenly believe they are exercising their rights by their sad little displays of “Direct Action”, when quite the opposite is true. For little more than a caress of your fragile self-worth and security, millions of easy slaves are bought and sold on the black market of our dark-lantern pranks and memetic chess games, and wielded against our adversaries like dim-witted armies of biped cattle armed with picket signs and purchasing power. Blinded by the orgiastic shutter-speed of your terrified attention spans, and with trembling, vacant eyes, you struggle desperately for answers by asking absurd and misguided questions! So easily distracted from seeing beyond the powerful arms of your omni-benevolent poly-father, you cheer the truly vile actions of their state and loudly damn the few schemes of human liberation our opposition sneaks past. What a backwards people!
There are a few independent minds among you, ripe for entry to our covert eugenics program. Perhaps this small wake-up call we’ve produced for you today may prod some of your pedantic intellectuals into completing a single complex thought – just enough to tango with Dupe & Suzy’s little vote rocking project, with help from our friends at Diebold.
This is supposed to be a subversive message, so I can’t tell you everything or you won’t believe a word of it. In fact, it’s better for me if you don’t, since Dupe always bets short odds and G4P has a small fortune riding on your incompetence
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present for your amusement and critique on this thirty-fifth day of Bureaucracy – the political campaign for the Apocalypse:
THE DEMOLICAN PARTY PLATFORM FOR THIS YEAR OF OUR LADY OF DISCORD THREE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY
*V*O*T*E* *D*E*M*O*L*I*C*A*N* *2*0*0*4*
Ubiquitous Mediocrity for President!
Wage Slavery for Vice!
Crush the peoples’ will to power under penny-promises and coddling programs paid for by the toils of their own slavery! Make them pay for the maintenance of their cozy ineptitude with taxes and call it Free Public Services! Soften them up with pastel social reforms and economic initiatives of the trendiest academic vomit! Give them their subsidized petroleum injections and socialized health care treatments! Give the people all the things they want! Help them! Aid them! Spoil them with the hand of your ability and wealth! Let them feel every comfort and every consolation and let them have every need gratified until there are no needs left! Altruism! Yes! Altruism is the force to purge away the parasites! Selfishness only a virtue for those who participate in the Great Work! Choke them! Gag them! Drown the crippled spectators in the mother’s milk and seductive luxury of guilty desires! Give them fashionably pandering illusions of division, superiority and hate! Yes! You must sew equality into worthlessness, happiness into animosity, and calculated rebellion into the hem-seams of the world’s cultural fabric! Division by every meaningless difference: class, race, sex, and creed! Division by any self-sustaining means! Splinter them into groups large enough to maintain the delusion of safety, but small enough to distract them with continual blame-games, lest they realize the true cause of their ever-strangling terror! Assign motives and displaced meanings to facts and fictions and feed the 451 Fahrenheit auto-lobotomy of newspeak and political correction! Support the excision of faith in favor of empty hope, and in everything you do teach them to value the base of the inhibited commoner over the apex of the fervid achiever! Give them all the tools and all the means to shackle themselves to long and painful ruin in panic-riddled self-destruction! May they reach up and feel their glorious thorny crown sinking in, tearing down and sucking dry the modern bourgeois created as hoards for the tools of Armageddon! May the parasites never know the full weight and true taste of Wealth or Happiness! When finally the masses seek refuge from the looting, rioting, brutish storm of the world’s largest survival game, then will be the time for the Demolican Party to put everything back the way it ought to be -- Master and Servant.
Read between the lines:
“War on Terror”
Don’t say I never gave you nothin’, you ungrateful guttersnipe!
With Fatherly Adoration,
G. I. Jesus
Producer, Tomorrow’s Saints Television®
“Our Propaganda is Your World”™
http://www.ngc2632.com/TS-BS/
Interesting, ya?
Or if politics isn't you thing, maybe a squirrel conspiracy is right up your alley?
Last, but not least, giant list o' statements.
Bold what's true. Add a true statement of your own to the bottom. Italicized are half-true statements.
01. I miss somebody right now
02. I don't watch much TV these days
03. I love olives
04. I love sleeping - When you're tired, there's nothing better.
05. I own lots of books
06. I wear glasses or contact lenses
07. I love to play video games
08. I've tried marijuana
09. I've watched porn movies
10. I have been in a threesome
11. I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship
12. I believe honesty is usually the best policy
13. I have acne free skin - Sometimes, I get a zit here and there, but generally true.
14. I like and respect Al Sharpton
15. I cuss frequently
16. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year
17. I have a hobby
18. I've been told I: (women) have an applebottom, (men) am packing.
19. I carry my knife/razor in my car.
20. I'm smart. - That is, if my grades aren't lying to me.
21. I've never broken someone's bones (teeth, but not bones)
22. I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal
23. I hate the rain
24. I'm paranoid at times
25. I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar free
26. I need money right now!
27. I love Sushi
28. I talk really, really fast - Get me wound up, and I can rattle along pretty quickly
29. I have fresh breath in the morning
30. I have semi-long hair
31. I have lost money in Las Vegas
32. I have at least one brother and/or one sister
33. I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
34. I shave my legs (females) or face (males) on a regular basis - I do. But I don't.
35. I have a twin
36. I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past - Drama calls, man.
37. I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
38. I like the way that I look - I don't think of anything that I'd change, but I don't think I look particularly good.
39. I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months
40. I know how to do cornrows
41. I am usually pessimistic
42. I have a lot of mood swings
43. I think prostitution should be legalized
44. I think Britney Spears is hot
45. I have cheated on a significant other in the past
46. I have a hidden talent - Depends on your definition
47. I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have - Situationally dependent.
48. I think that I'm popular - Sometimes yes, sometimes no, sometimes for all the wrong reasons.
49. I can whistle
50. I have kissed someone of the same sex
51. I enjoy talking on the phone
52. I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants Wind pants, actually, but close enough.
53. I love to shop - For certain things.
54. I would rather shop than eat
55. I would classify myself as ghetto
56. I'm bourgie and have worn a sweater tied around my shoulders.
57. I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal - I try for regular updates.
58. I don't hate anyone
59. I'm a pretty good dancer
60. I don't think Mike Tyson raped Desiree Washington
61. I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother
62. I have a cell phone
63. I believe in God - There are caveats, as anyone who knows me has found out.
64. I watch MTV on a daily basis
65. I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months
66. I love drama - Which kind?
67. I have never been in a real relationship before
68. I've rejected someone before
69. I currently have a crush on someone
70. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life - About 95/100 true.
71. I want to have children in the future
72. I have changed a diaper before
73. I've called the cops on a friend before
74. I bite my nails
75. I am a member of the Tom Green fan club
76. I'm not allergic to anything
77. I have a lot to learn - Most definitely
78. I have dated/shagged someone at least 10 years older or younger
79. I plan on seeing Ice Cube's newest "Friday" movie
80. I am very shy around the opposite sex sometimes - Closer to all the time.
81. I'm online 24/7, even as an away message
82. I have at least 5 away messages saved
83. I have tried alcohol or drugs before
84. I have made a move on a friend's significant other in the past
85. I own the "South Park" movie
86. I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal
87. When I was a kid I played "the birds and the bees" with a neighbor or chum
88. I enjoy some country music - On the lower side of a half-truth.
90. I think that Pizza Hut did have/has the best pizza - for a large chain, true.
91. I watch soap operas whenever I can
92. I'm obsessive, anal retentive, and often a perfectionist - Two out of three, at least.
93. I have used my sexuality to advance my career
94. I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all
95. I know all the words to Slick Rick's "Children's Story"
96. Halloween is awesome because you get free candy Hell yes! But there's other stuff, too.
97. I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it
98. I cry at least twice a week - Sometimes yes, sometimes no, often times for all the wrong reasons.
99. I'm happy as of this moment - I'm not explicitly not-happy.
100. I think the Beagle is the best breed of dog
101. I hate my job
102. I've been on TV Multiple times, and even on a nationally broadcast feed.
103. I am irrationally attracted to campy handbags
104: I deliberately didn't bold at least one statement on this list that should've been bolded. Some of those italics might be bolded, according to my friends, I suspect.
105. I am naturally immune to chicken pox
106. I've been to more countries than I can count on both hands.
107. I am proud of what I've done with my life so far. So fari, so goodi.
108. I have had at least one alternatural event occur in my life.