amen! (don't know how else to say I wholeheartedly agree with you... "right on Jesse!" just doesn't have the same ring to it, and I can't very well twinkle at you across the internet and have it be understood (for those of you who don't know - it's a way of showing agreement in a consensus-style group) and coming right out and saying "I wholeheartedly agree with you" just seems dorky, but I seem to have done it anyway) *twinkle*

What's the point in living if you haven't really lived? All the injuries I've gotten are things I don't regret. I've learned from them and changed my life as a result. I know I wouldn't want to have to repeat them, but they have shaped the way I am now, and there's no going back, you can only go forward. So I'll continue to get banged up and bruised, at least then I've experienced something. Coming through unscathed can be great, but sometimes it's the little bumps and scratches that make things memorable. (to a certain degree, I won't be sticking my hand in an electric mixer any time soon... so there's a level of common sense involved, but that load of rugburn I got as a kid from sliding down the stairs was totally worth it!)

I would like to follow that proverb with something I read in an email today:

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'WOW! What A Ride!'"

At least that is how I see it.

First posting of the day, I would like to start with an ancient chinese quote:

You may be 90 miles into your journey but it is still only half-way to your destination even though you have 10 miles still left to go.

So keep on trying and struggling because there still alot of fight left.

Ahhhhhh!!! I've been at work for less than four hours, and have heard britney spears' toxic at least 5 times. I can't take it any more. someone please help me.......

BAH! Down with segues! Go smoke a jumbo straw, generate static electricity, run wild up stairs and stub your toe on the door.

Dip that shit, sexy.

Yah, like Paras said... deep.

So Bertuzzi turns out to be the biggest piece of sh!t ever. If your wondering what Im talking about... take a look at this:

Burtuzzi cheapshots Moore

I didnt see the game, but thanks to Hockey Fights .com who brought us the 'Bishai fighting in he bench' fight we got another good 'un.

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.