Wow... deep. I feel so out of place mentioning this, so I think I'll just write it in tiny font:

Tommy Salo's been traded to Colorado.

All right, excellent. And hey, I think it's great that Al can express himself out here. I'm glad that this board (which I would prefer peoplenot set up the bomb) could help this out. I'm sure everyone's had some thought about how fucked up the world is, and it's good to get it out there.

And hey, I suppose it allows me to somewhat segue (look it up, Percy!) into this interesting link I found. Gary Larson sure knew life was fucked up, and he loved to make fun of it. Now, his cartoons have been recreated, in photoshop form. Here's an enticing tidbit:


"Norm? This is Mitch....You were right -- I found my drill."

BTW, Eric... I'm sure I told you this before, but now that you've been doing the TMT stuff, maybe you can appreciate more how cool it is that Schimel worked with Solomon, Greenberg, & Pyczszinsky... the 3 guys who are basically the modern fathers of TMT as an extension of Becker's work. And check this out... you can read one of the papers he published along with Greenberg and Pyczszinsky (damn that's impossible to spell) by clicking
here.
(I set it up as a google link in order to highlight Schimel's name for you throughout the essay... that way you can just skip to the parts relevant to him if you want.)

Crazy n'est-ce-pas?

Random posting... hope I can sleep tonight

Well, G'night!

semi-related to: Face's bombing comments, my conversation with you (Al) earlier, and also the studying done for my midterm on Wednesday check out the works of Ernest Becker - especially his analysis of the Fallacies of the Cultural imperative for Heroes / and the human desire for transcendence through such a Hero-System.

"I just wish I could live in a time were the only thing I have to worry about is being strong at weilding my sword and doing good in the world. "

Man, don't we all? I just wish there really WAS such a time; unfortunately, such a time never existed. Life is never that simple... it's only idealized and romanticized to seem like that in books and movies and popular culture... and even portrayed that way all-too-often in bad history lessons. We're constantly told of ancient stories about noble warriors... but there's no such thing as a sinless samurai, or a Sir Lancelot. I suspect there've been some Don Quixote's around, but that can only be attributed to ignorance equalling bliss, and I'm pretty sure you'd rather not be ignorant. Do you think being a warrior back then was any different than being a soldier now? If you yearn for the simple life of the noble warrior, you're a perfect candidate to enlist in the army... specifically infantry, and I would recommend doing so. But there's nothing noble or glamourous about the job. It's hard, it's dirty, it's inhumane and although some would disagree, I would add to the list 'unecessary'. And on top of it all, I hardly think that killing or even injuring people brings any amount of 'good' into this world. And it's not even 'ancient' or medieval stories... we're still constantly bombarded with this romanticized lifestyle bullshit... what do you think that Jedi stuff is all about? There's no such thing as pure good vs. pure evil, and there never will be.

I don't want to sound like an uncaring bastard, but damn- get over those ideas in your head; they've been fed to you by the same society that you call 'weak', and yet you still believe them? That's hypocritical garbage. It's a fact that we lead pretty mundane existences when you follow life by the rules. Sometimes you gotta say "hey, I want to do something meaningful with my life... and dammit all to hell, I'm gonna do it!!!". Fucking quit school and fly to Africa to teach children, go to Brazil and protest deforestation, write a book, learn something useless that interests you, join a buddhist monestary and pledge your life, start a band and vow to tour the nation, live on the street for a week and at the end of it take a homeless individual to a fancy dinner, set this message-board up the bomb, climb a motherfucking mountain with your bare hands, make a movie, spraypaint your name on the sides of buildings, photocopy your manifesto and hand it out to random passersby, get a tattoo, tell your parents you love them and that you're leaving and that you don't have a clue where you're going or when you'll be back, but it doesn't fucking matter. Because when it comes right down to it, it doesn't.

Give a society a nice big 'fuck you' and do what you want to do (within reason of course, haha... for example, raping people is never a good idea) and damn the consequences. Life is what you make it. Live your life so that when you're an old man on your death bed and someone asks you "if you could be reincarnated into anything you wanted, what would it be?", your answer would invariably be, "me."

And above all, remember this: beginning is the best mean to an end.

still better than being a prancing half elf, I wont mention who obtained this result for fear of his or her life.

I think I'm back to normal again so don't worry about reading all my previous post. Not like your life depends on it or anything.

well here I go apologizing again, but I'm sorry about the bad news about your mom. I'm sure she'll be fine and you just have to finish off this hellish month then its all over... for all of us... sigh.

It's ok Alison, when I just put my first name in, I'm a Drunken Ranger!

Damn, my secret's out!

okay, on a lark, I tried "Alison" in the name generator, and I think some of these are the funnest so far:
According to the Red Book of Westmarch,In Middle-earth, Alison was a Laughing Peredhil (wtf?)

Hobbit lass name for Alison: Peony Grenthumb from Haysend (appropos n'est-ce pas?)

Dwarven Name for Alison: Farin Deathvisor (ha ha ha!)

Orkish Name for Alison: Nazalûk the Blacktooth (I brush, promise!)

Adûnaic name for Alison: Arîdbolgeke (again, "huh?" with the Adûnaic... where does it come from?)
I still like Nalizor though (with all those fancy accents...)