May 15, 2004

Terrific

I have managed to piss off a pregnant woman. w00t. I didn't mean to. I can be harsh, but that is because I usually only see things one way and think that everyone else sees exactly what I see. Just because I tell everyone about my faults doesn't stop them from being faults. But if I am informed of how things really are then it comes into perspective.

I had a really cool time hanging out at "Shad"'s house last night. It was a nice night just hanging out. Joel was at a wedding rehearsal (the wedding singer) and hung out with a buddy of his last night, so I kept Brad company while Shanna worked. We talked about marriage and how it is perfect for people like us. We are married to our best friends and everything just kind of worked out nicely. Joel is my best friend and he is my husband and that's just terrific. Terrific is a great word, it should be used more often. For example, Saturdays at the library are not terrific. My friend Summer has graduated and is moving away tomorrow. I will miss you summer, but I am sure we will talk and Joel and I will get over to Atlanta when he gets some more time from work. You are such a beautiful person and I am glad that we met all those years ago in 7th grade, listening to whatever brit band you were into at the time, watching Star Trek and X-Files and staying up really late talking about who knows what. You and your family were always so nice to me and I am so glad to be your friend. I will miss you. Congratulations. I know you will accel in anything you do.

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May 13, 2004

Satire

Kurt Vonnegut is my hero. This is an article that he wrote for a site called In These Times. It sums up everything that I have been thinking about what has been going on for the last four years. We let America become what is should never be. We are power hungry apes and we will cause our own painful demise. Vonnegut had a dream in his youth, a dream that he has wrote about many times over in his books, most prominently in Slapstick or Lonely No More, it is a dream of utopia. An America that is reasonable and humane. He thought that we could possibly achieve that dream, but it has been crushed by power. I think you should read this article. Kurt Vonnegut, you are awesome.

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May 11, 2004

pink lemonade, recliners, and free will

Pink lemonade and recliners: that’s it for me. I finished my exam in my dreaded economics class this morning around 8:45 and I am out for the summer. It is already starting out to be a good one. Tonight Joel, Robbie and myself are going to New Orleans to see Dave Chapelle. The only way today could be better would be some sunshine. The day I actually plan to go outside and get some sun and relaxation it rains. Bastard weather.


I was thinking about something before I went to sleep last night and wanted to write about it then, but it was late and I had to go to sleep, so I will write about it now. A little background on the subject: I go to church on a fairly regular basis. It would be safe to say that I go twice a month at the least. Kurt, the minister, is not a stereotypical minister. He is actually the reason I go to church. If it were anyone else I wouldn’t bother. He takes what is in the Bible and relates it to today: yeah this is how it was, but let’s put into perspective here and now. He has a real good understanding of it all and has a good handle on how it related to today. Well, it isn’t just him. The people in the church are really nice; it is a small community of people and everyone looks out for everyone else, like a family. Yeah, everyone has his or her problems but no one judges anyone else. Everyone is accepted for who they are, fucked up or not. Moving on…I like the idea of God/Jesus. However you want to slice that. Jesus had some really good ideas. He was a pacifist, he wanted everyone to hang out and be groovy (stealing a line from Eddie Izzard) and as the story goes, suffered and died for humanity’s sins. Got to give credit where credit is due. I have been reading the Sandman books by Gaiman recently and God and his angels and creation of humanity have come up more than once. Not to mention in Gaiman’s Murder Mystery story. I was thinking last night about God’s will and our free will. I hear all the time: “It’s God’s will” or “Don’t go against God’s will”. I was thinking that God’s will has nothing to do with us. God created the angels for a life of worship and servitude. They did whatever God willed them to do. God’s will is a part of them. They had no free will of their own. What separates humans from the angels? God gave us the gift of free will; a marvelous gift it is. God’s will has nothing to do with our own. We have choice, in God’s eyes; to worship the Name, ignore the Name, question the Name, etc. One of the things that brought this up in my mind was a conversation I had with my father one day. I was expressing my woes of the insurance company not covering some of the things I need, example: birth control. I don’t want any babies right now; therefore I take the magic pill. My insurance does not cover this and I was questioning my father if he knew why. It is cheaper for the insurance company for me not to have babies than for me to have them, isn’t it? My dad replied to me that some pharmacies aren’t filling people’s prescriptions for birth control because of the debate of whether birth control is a form of abortion. I was confused at this. Surely if there isn’t a baby there you can’t kill it, then I had to think like…well, I had to think like a fundamentalist. It dawned on me that maybe the people who are bringing this debate up are afraid that people are going against “God’s will” and that is wrong. If the Name gave us the freedom of choice then I choose to not have babies right now.

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May 01, 2004

nazi camps, giant rabbits, and false zombies

I have been married for two months now. It seems like this is how it was always supposed to be. Life before I was married to Joel seems like it was just a dream and I just woke up in bed next to him and have been for eternity. I am an “Old Married Woman”, indeed.
I have run into a few people from high school lately and I have realized that it has been five years since I left that Nazi Internment camp they called Long Beach High. Okay, Nazi Internment camp may be a hyperbole, but it did suck. I was oppressed and they knew it. I have had more trouble with academic institutions, college included, than I have had with my pancreas, and that is saying something.
Just so the show will be good, anyone who has any talent what-so-ever in the music/vocal/acting area please go and audition for Grease. Audition information can be found at the KNS Theatre website or David Delk’s website (An “ego in progress”), whichever you fancy most. I do remember your name, David; I speak of your wonderfulness often. Perhaps I will immortalize you as a character in a story one day.
I was looking around on the Internet, like you do, and found some interesting things. One: there is a rabbit that is almost as big as my cat. Check this article out: These people raise rabbits for show and they have a 15 lbs rabbit. 15 Pounds!!!! That is a large rabbit. And they have sharp, pointy, teeth. King Arthur’s nightmare.
I also saw an article about the new Batman movie (crap) that is being made (crap) I hope it isn’t crap (it will be). If they only made Batman like they should. I don’t believe that Catwoman movie shit. Catwoman looks nothing like Halle Berry. Catwoman is a gorgeous, large busted white woman with jet-black hair and (depending on the comic I suppose) she wears a black/blue/purple formfitting suit. I have seen various artist renderings of her and the color of the suit varies, but her being poured into it does not.
Joel and I went to Circuit City last night and added a few movies to our collection. We purchased: Castle in the Sky, Running Man, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Aliens (or Alien 2: Electric Boogaloo), In Living Color: Season One, Dave Chappelle: Killing Them Softly, and 28 Days Later. I think that’s it, I may have forgotten one or two, though. Pertaining to 28 Days Later, something never really sat right with me, other than the obvious creepiness of it. I realized it last night while Joel and I were watching it that it is categorized as a “zombie” movie and it isn’t. There are no zombies in that movie. Those people weren’t dead only to raise again craving brains and/or human flesh. They were infected with a virus of some sort and became “zombie-like” but were still alive. When they were shot, got their head bashed in, run over, or didn’t have anything to eat in a while; they died, just like regular humans did. In the movie that didn’t show all that many of the “infected” to begin with. When they showed a close up it was just for a flash and usually it was dark (old X-Files trick if you ask me, they had no budget so they showed aliens in the dark). The wide shots they were moving quite fast so everything was a blur. Granted the fast moving danger did add tension to the movie, but you didn’t really get to see what was going on. The movie had more of a Silent Hill feel too it (music, camera, and dialogue wise) than a “zombie movie”. So, 28 Days Later, a zombie movie you are not; more like a scarier version of Outbreak.
May 11th sees a couple of things of excitement for me: 1. I go and take my final for this semester. Yes, final as in singular. I only have one “test” I have to take and it is in my dreaded economics class. All my other classes I had to write papers for and that is already done. The semester is over. Summer time is here. And second is Dave Chappell in New Orleans. I am so looking forward to that. Joel, Robbie and myself going to see the funniest comedian in the world, underneath Eddie Izzard, of course, but you really can't put Dave Chappelle and Eddie Izzard in the same category, can you?

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