30.5.05

siouxs! and i took a secretive trip home this weekend so we would have a last chance to see my (step)brother before he ships out to paris island for marine boot camp. we instructed my mom to tell no one but my aunt and uncle so that we could come in without having to make the usual rounds to see every family member in the east tennessee area. in that, it was fairly a success. we went skeet shooting for the first time (1st for me and siouxs!; michael was thoroughly experienced and quite a good shot... imagine that). we saw haven thomas judd, cutest child in the western hemisphere (there's a kid in china named tan ling who caused several people to lock their own children in the basements for the rest of their lives because they could ever measure up).

we also saw haven's birth mom. i still don't know how i feel about that encounter. she's left her husband and is trying to finalize the divorce, which is good. she seems a little more mature, and that is good. she has a good job with no opportunity to steal a deposit, and that is good. however, she might as well not have been able to see haven, and i don't know how i feel about that. on one hand, i don't want her thinking that she could ever have him back. i don't really think she is the most fit mother in the world. i just don't know what to feel right now. i love my cousin, but i can't always like her.

i don't know what else to say about all of this, so i'll just say i'm glad to be back in the stl.

25.5.05

jesus christ, holy shit
i'm having an anti christian fit
the buddhists don't bug me
the muslims are great
(but i live in a fucking red state)

the "moral majority"
a radical minority
seems thoroughly ready
to declare me a traitor
(but i'm just a church-hater)

senator frist
is making me pissed
the bible says "love thy neighbor"
not "thou shalt condemn"
(but try telling that to them).

23.5.05

ok, so now it seems that our military has been abusing prisoners in afghanistan as well. does anyone really think that military grunts, even the notably more vicious mp's, all came up with the idea to psychologically humiliate muslim prisoners on their own? might not this be a directive handed down from, say, rumsfeld? i won't assume that it goes any higher than that, though i also won't assume that dubya would have said "stop" had he known all along...
laura bush is being heckled in her tour of the middle east. obviously, laura bush has some big brass balls for even going to the middle east right now, but to think that she thinks she's campaigning for peace is utterly unbelievable. that she is able to sleep at night knowing what the man she loves is capable of is perhaps harder still to understand.
went to see revenge of the sith on saturday. i loved it, but that isn't the purpose of mentioning it. the real purpose is to rain my foment on yet another group of people who bother the hell out of me. i have nothing in particular against most fat people (especially with my ever expanding waistline), but i am getting rather tired of seeing the enormously obese riding around on little scooters as though they were genuinely handicapped. (there was a gentleman of more than mple girth on just such a device at the movie eating a large popcorn by his self. the seat to his chariot must have been three feet wide, and yet still was not large enough to contain his posterior.) get off your ass and your handicap may be curable. every time i hear that lame excuse of "glandular problems" i want to vomit. why do you think people who weigh over 300 lbs have glandular problems? might it have anything to do with diets that consist of nothing but refined flours and various forms of sugar? i know i am not the healthiest eater in the world, but at least the majority of the ingredients in my food came out of the ground like that (or off the hoof). put the twinkies back on the shelf and walk to the mailbox every day. then we'll talk.
fuck bush, and that fat bastard cheney (i wonder why he has a heart transplant every six months...)

15.5.05

while at my favorite bar last night (the way out club), listening to my favorite local band (the seven shot screamers), a member of a rival sketch troupe was sitting on stool down from me. that he recognized me as "bastards karamazov" i took as a compliment. when he told me that the zim-zam cock show was still ongoing, i was a little jealous, since i had thought all of the sketch troupes in town to be at least temporarily out of commission. i felt better when he told me that most of their material was less than stellar lately. i was incensed when he mentioned that there might be room in their group for me as a writer. not that jah or skip ever really read the blog, but for their sake, and any possible fans out there, i will never be a zim-zam. i will never be in a cock show. i will never give or sell them material, and will only attend their shows as a lesson in what no to do. i won't even look online to see if they have a website, much less link to them. in whatever form, baskar forever, do or die.

i could use an actor, but never a zim-zam.

13.5.05

rumsfeld says that he's going to save 5 billion a year by closing military bases around the country. congress just passed an "emergency" spending bill (not officially part of the budget) to finance the wars on iraq and afghanistan. talk about supporting our troops. let me just clarify... though i think the commander in chief and his warmongering cronies are a bunch of spineless thugs willing to put others' lives on the line in order to further their own selfish ends, i have nothing against individual soldiers. i don't hold being in the military against anyone. i'm not going to fight a war (now, a revolution... hmm), so i respect that they're willing to do so. i must say that uprooting families and putting people out of work (civillians too) is hardly to be considered "supporting our armed forces" as those assholes are so fond of declaring.
what really pisses me off is that republikkkans can deficit spend till the cows come home, but let them cut five bucks out of the budget at the expense ofthe citizens, let them cut taxes to increase the growth of our deficit, let them firebomb a pork project sponsored by some demokkkrat, and suddenly, they're financial wizards leading this country in the right fiscal direction.

i threw up at work today, presumably from hangover stomach. that hasn't happened in a long time, and i'm not proud of it. i'm blaming my first boilermaker (a fine drink for the stouthearted, but a wee bit scary...) and the other ten or so beers. actually, i blame the chicken, cheese and bacon biscuit i bought at quiktrip this morning. after that, my day was swell. i didn't eat anything for the rest of the workday, so needless to say, unloading a container of spanish wine was fun.

sorry i haven't written recently, oh my (6) readers, but i wrote some jokes, some sketches, and some other shit in the interim.

fuck bush.

11.5.05

minneapolis? dana? is that you? you in mn... give me a shout.

9.5.05

we went to see the baseball game yesterday (cardinals/padres). though the series went three games to one, the one game we went to was 15-5 cards. in fact, siouxs! and i have only seen the cards lose once in numerous trips to busch stadium (cardinals management: season tickets may be sent to...).
i spent a lot of money this weekend trying to get my frankenstein's home computer to play city of heroes. it does, and now i find i'm not very good. don't you hate it when things happen like that?
oh yeah. bill frist, republikkkan senator from my own home state, seems to want to be president. for all of those who give every politician a chance until they know something about them, don't trust bill frist. he is a lying scumbag who has never once done anything for "the little guy" that makes up 4o% of tennessee's population. he's trying to play the role of the hardliner now, which i hope he keeps up, if only to take away those moderate wishy-washy votes that dubya was able to steal by seeming human (like a human with significantly diminished brain function, but a human nonetheless, as opposed to the humanoid lizards that the bushes, cheneys, frists, and delays, et al, really are. someday they will show their true form and rule mercilessly for hundreds of years, unless we spread their brains on our nations interstate system to dry.)
strange weekend.
strange morning.
strange blogger, i know.
fuck bush

4.5.05

i'm not exactly sure why i'm posting right now. i'm pretty down and don't feel like sharing with the world (all ten of you) why i'm down on a website i hope to be well trafficked. i hope everyone is well.
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