June 2006
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Lolz!!1 We Blew Up The Kio Towers! W00t!
Lately, I fail to find the focus necessary to properly proof-read what I write before I am willing to post things here, but the following development in Congress is such a blatant absurdity and has so enraged me that I can’t resist posting about it. Congress Demands Recordkeeping From Social Networking Websites (AKA The Terrorists [...]
Save Me From Ordinary
So what the fuck are you going to do, kid? Still ratting at the chains of the gates of the world, but you can’t quite pretend. Still tasting youth’s bitter exile here in your empty generation’s wasteland, where all the things that you’ve been clinging to are being ripped from your hands. Restless soul, this [...]
Among So Many Who Are Not Virtuous
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.1 The epigraph I would choose for Titus Andronicus. Niccolò Machiavelli : The Prince : Chapter 15↩
Sala Caracol, Miercoles 21
Please tell me how we did this: we got ourselves into such a mess again. We fought so long we can’t remember what the hell it was all about.1 And time again I find myself wondering whether the things I was sure I had to fight against as a little boy really matter now and [...]
The Truth About Iowa
The world isn’t against you, my dear: it just doesn’t care.1 Of the several bands I’ve fallen for lately, Modern Life Is War might be the most irresistable — the one that keeps bubbling up from some unconscious impression made in moments I’ve spent humming riffs and thinking of snippets of lyrics I don’t fully [...]
Just As A Quick Observation
The next person who tells me that I like what I like in order to seem smarter is going to get seriously hurt — and well deservedly — for being so presumptuous. It’s a piece of arrogance on such people’s part to assume that because they are philistines I must be as well.
A Rainstorm Late At Night
May my tears in God’s dissolve And He thus my sins absolve.