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2.22.05/23:46 good mourning to everybody As one of my friends pointed out to me, I can't spend the rest of my life pooping and reading Doraemon comics. After all, we don't live in a perfect world, just the best possible world. Even that is arguable considering the events of the other day.
I'm sure you've all heard about the death of Raoul Duke's famous alter-ego Hunter S. Thompson. I'm still skeptical about it, but it's a very sad thing indeed. The world has lost one of the few loud and colorful voices not afraid to speak for underdogs everywhere.
[japanese dictionary project] ridiculous undertaking
Other than fighting my phone company to get cheap kokusaidenwa, I've started a new project, as evidenced by the link above. When I was a kid, we got the encyclopedias one letter at a time (they had new ones at the supermarket every other week), and this is how this Japanese Dictionary Project will go as well. Only a few of the buttons work, but I did at least finish the faq for it if you've gots questions. This week you only get 'A', since I'm taking a road trip to the IN. 2.13.05/18:43 the new personality quiz I see these damn things in everyone's blogs and on all kinds of websites and I think to myself, 'Why not?' So here it is, without popular demand, the soon-to-be-most-famous personality quiz on this here internet.
[what decade ARE you?] personality quiz
2.11.05/03:02 killing the buddha
[disquiet] short story
That's a little something I'm toying with, kind of supernatural, kind of something that was chilling on my laptop's desktop waiting for me to do something with it. There are a few other things I've been working on as well, one I will show you and one I probably won't.
And the picture is of my car. It's a Super GT with new rims and hydraulics and 2x nitro and yeah, I'm a geek. Since I can't beat the damn remote controlled airplane mission I've just been popping drug dealers in an attempt to make some cash and waste some time. Just like in real life.
My cognitive psych teacher says that to be a master at something you have to spend around 10,000 hours doing it. I'm a little disappointed that I'm only a master of two things: (video games, and I'll let you figure out the other one on your own. Probably you're a master at it too.) 2.9.05/01:35 basic site upkeep Okay, I realized that when I fixed the archives I left out a few months and I never made pages for those freaking sweet rhyming poems I wrote in July. Crap, man, those were freaking sweet. Also, I'm sorry about yesterday's post being such a downer. The truth is that we need silly rednecks to give us conflict in our lives.
[until i met you] [deprived] [some call it love]
And from a Buddhist standpoint, I think the president has to be a living Buddha. Think about it, all those muslims or whatever they are in Iraq are not going to achieve nirvana in this life, but now that hundreds of thousands of them have been shuffled loose that mortal coil, they can come back as Buddhists and find nirvana. The American soldiers, too. 2.7.05/23:41 doublespeak to the doubleplusMAX!! These days, there are a lot of euphemisms floating around. It's like certain people in power read 1984 and said, 'Why not?' I think it's time to take a look at some of my favorites and explore what they really mean:
preemptive war: invasion peace negotiations: shaking down smaller countries manifest destiny: killing all the indians collateral damage: dead civilians social security: money for crackheads who pretend to be cripples ethnic cleansing: holocaust DMCA: a convenient way to sue 8 year-olds and dead people friendly fire: killing your own troops global warming: actually, a precursor to another ice age. ironic? african americans: people who may or may not be from africa post-birth abortion: infanticide privatized social security: gambling with your retirement fund liberation: occupation by a new regime regime change: killing non-compliant national leaders war on terror: fighting a vaguely-defined concept unilateralism: flipping the UN the bird patriot act: rolling a blunt out of the constitution electoral college: americans are too stupid to directly elect leaders conservatives: rednecks and morons non-denominational: hedging your bets liberals: gay hippie drug-addicts pundits: meaningless losers who can't get into politics support our troops: support our atrocities networking: handing out business cards alcohol poisoning: you drank too much comfort women: girls forced into prostitution for japanese soldiers religious fundamentalists: people who god tells to kill other people 2.3.05/17:15 okeihan sensei
This character, this woman is featured in posters, commercials, and even has her own promotional section on the Keihan Line homepage. Me and Eric have a crush on her. Him moreso than me.
I think he wants to have her children. The frustrating thing is that we were in Hirakata and never got a chance to double up on her. Not that I'm into that kind of thing, but certain situations justify extratypical measures, don't you think?
2.3.05/17:12 hyperbole my retching, tortured soul writhing in an ocean of torment
the flames and pointy daggers poking through the skin of my psyche
oh, how badly it sucks to be middle class, well fed and bored
my suffering on par with that of Jesus, Socrates, and the mighty Epsilon
o please, kill that which plagues me: kill my stereotypical tendency to feign hyperbole 2.1.05/23:36 usagi usagi hi
Speaking of addictions, Maria sent me a crystal chalice for my birthday. When we were talking on the phone the other day I'd mentioned that I haven't even been to a bar yet since I turned 21 and she said 'No! You can't quit drinking. It makes you...genki.' What she meant was 'You can't quit drinking. You have to drink wine out of the present I sent you that you haven't gotten yet.'
That's the Japanese way...subtle influence over outright persuasion. Some call it 'expedient means' or 'upaya', and others call it lying. We have it in English too, and the women here are especially good at it.
Before you label me an egomaniac, try to realize that I am not what's important in these pictures. The first one is just to show off the chalice and the second one is a picture I'm sending to Maria. When she was in Hawaii she took a picture of herself holding a picture of me. |
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It's
what you're supposed to do if you meet him, because meeting him will be a
manifestation of your desire to seek enlightenment and to properly detach
yourself from your desire you have to destroy it. Pretty deep, huh?
It's what Master Lin Chi said, and he is an honorable man. Much like
Brutus.
On
the Keihan Line in Kansai, you will find posters promoting said Keihan
Line. They feature a character called 'Okeihan Sensei.' Her
name is Keiko Kyobashi, and she uses the train to take her Hirakata Park
Gakuen students on field trips to Kyoto Shrines and Osakajo and other fun
places.
And
check out the poem right under this post! Isn't it fantastic?
Doesn't it just ring true with the lamenting of all the tortured artists
you know? No? Of course not. This type of mopey, whiney
shit is what brings down all art forms. It's what allows emo music
to get popular, and what allows every youth to imagine their suffering is
so much deeper than that of refugees and tsunami victims and pretty much
everybody in Africa. But not Egypt, even though that's in Africa,
too. Maybe the southern part of Egypt.
So...it's
been like a week and some change since I've posted anything. You
might've thought I was dead. But no, brother, you've got it all
wrong. I was SAVED. Saved by a video game called 'San
Andreas'. Okay, maybe it's not a religious experience, but it's sure
been addictive.
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