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I find racism/ageism/sexism/religion offensive

2009-05-07T20:45:38-06:00

racism/ageism/sexism/religion
To me, all those isms are dated terms. I feel that if everyone stopped discriminating based on those factors, the world would be a better, generally happier and smarter place. I think that hatred and negative feelings are universal and natural, even necessary, but to feel negative feelings based on someone's skin color, sex, sexual orientation, age or religion is a choice. I could have made a decision to discriminate. I live in the country, I'm surrounded by hicks in pick-up trucks, I'm white. But I've never seen what the discriminators see in people. I see people, and that's all I see:PEOPLE. Their sex, sexual orientation, race, age and religion are merely something I OBSERVE. I only witness these things. Never have I looked at someone and judged based on these factors. I judge people, yes. But I judge their character, their style, things you can only learn from getting to know somebody. And even with these judgments, I'm not discriminating, I'm only gathering information and assessing the person to gather more information. I couldn't ever just look at someone and judge. I've found that the old saying "Never judge a book by its cover" rings true across the board. We are born a certain way, and we develop in different ways, but in the end you can't accurately pass judgment on someone based purely on appearance, because ultimately anyone can be anything and do anything. To say that because someone appears a certain way, therefore they are the stereotype of that image, is dangerously shortsighted. That's all. Unity, people. That's all we need. Unity.

My descent into ClarkStateism

2009-04-27T18:53:50-06:00

When I left high school when I was 16, my parents said it was ok, but only if I immediately got my GED. I did, right after I turned 17, if memory serves correctly. Then, they said I had to get a career because I was driving around all the time, wasting their time and money while also fucking over my future self in the process. So, I ended up making some ill-timed bad decisions, and wound up in rehab for 2 weeks. While in there, they said I had to pick a day job that wasn't a musician, because it was in their (correct) opinion the musician part of my life was causing me to have this "I play music so I can do drugs and drink and fuck at 17 as much as I want" mentality. So, I picked phlebotomy. What's not to like about drawing blood? I figured it would be another quirk on my large list of quirks. I was very wrong. I did the lab part of the phlebotomy course fine, even passing with an A before I was 18. However, the lecture was too boring for me, at least back then, and I failed it, big time. I didn't even try in the lecture. So, I had to take it again, and passed with a B. I got hired at ZLB Plasma services when I was still 17, so they couldn't legally put me to work 'til I was 18. So, I waited it out, got clean in case there was a drug test, and got hired on there. I ended up getting overworked, so I quit that July, I believe, somewhere in that area of time. After that, I sat around and did nothing, and my parents stepped in, as they should've. They informed me of what was going to happen if I did nothing with my life, so I said I'd go back to school for something else, this time with a major. They just wanted me to get a degree or two for work, and that's what I wanted because at that point in time I still hated school. So, I went back to school, and took Psychology 111 and an English class. I hated the English class because it moved too slow, but the psychology intrigued me like nothing else had before it. For every question about my mind and the nature of humans, it had several answers. I absorbed more knowledge in that subject than anything else I ever had. What's more, it became a personal interest. Through Psychology, I have improved myself exponentially, and no longer have issues, or Bipolar II disorder, or anything. So, if it weren't for dropping out at 16, I wouldn't be the Dean's list making Psychology major I am today. And the future is still going, recently I got accepted into the Phi Theta Kappa honor society due to my GPA, and have a transfer set up to Wright State upon completion of my Associate of Arts at Clark State. So let that be a lesson: you can do what you want in life, and if you take the oppurtunities given you'd be surprised where you end up.

A Haiku About Old School.

2009-04-11T03:17:30-06:00

Old School is a waste
so much so it wasted
my time with this thing.

I get no paper cuts with my news.

2009-04-02T17:41:18-06:00

Why the internet trumps the paper every time.

On the internet, you can learn about anything, at any time. Stephen Colbert pointed it out the best a few days ago. He was talking to a representative of the American Newspaper Associates, and he suddenly said "Ok, lets have a little contest. Let's see who can, the fastest, find how the DOW is doing, what the weather is, and where I can find a picture of Katy Perry's head photoshopped onto someone else's naked body. Ok, I'll use my iPhone, you use the newspaper, and...go.*10 seconds later, as the newspaper guy is still opening the paper* 'Done.' ". That's the reason. On the internet, you can learn whatever you want, when you want, and do whatever you want with it. But with the newspaper, you read a piece of paper, and clip something out with scissors at best. Boring.

Three overplayed songs I love anyway

2009-03-26T20:17:59-06:00

A Milli by Lil' Wayne

The first time I heard this song was when I was riding in the car with my friend Neal. He had a system, so he bumped the SHIT out of that song, 500 watts at a time. After that, the song came to represent victory, and just a general, feel good, do what the fuck you want song.

Closer by Nine Inch Nails

This song has led me from one significant moment in life to another. It was there to freak me out as a kid, there to welcome me as I left childhood, parked behind my former school, which in turn led to it being the background to my own personal destruction. However, it was also being played as I got my shit back together, and I listen to it to this day. Very meaningful song to me.

Paper Planes by M.I.A.

Well, it's been playing steadily more and more since it first came out. Especially after Pineapple Express, which is a GREAT movie! And, the fact it gets played a lot, even now, a good two years after the albums release, is great. I love this song, and this whole album. I keep wondering if I'll get sick of it, but it has yet to fail in enticing me.

Good music will help you through a break-up

2009-03-20T21:09:21-06:00

What's A Girl To Do? by Bat for Lashes

The lyrics tell a tale of a love that died...very suiting for most breakups.

I've Been Tired by The Pixies

It tells the story of some guy hooking up with left wingers and girls that are slightly older than him, and how politics go good with beer. Good for finding that next flame.

Breakin' Up by Rilo Kiley

The entire song is about the unbridled freedom that comes with breaking up, and it's an ass shaker at that.

The shamwow! sells itself...or the troll under the bridge with the head mic does.

2009-03-19T03:06:33-06:00

Ugly people shouldn't be able to sell that easily.

zomg, Vince Shamwow is *back*!

I've always wanted a ShamWow. That ugly little frogman can sell me anything. He could play Moe if they ever need a real life Simpsons cast.

America: The Book will make you shit bricks.

2009-03-19T02:24:01-06:00

America: The Book has pictures that will haunt you forever about the supreme court.

Everything about this book is so....dead on and funny. Very good read.

My handiness

2009-03-15T20:32:54-06:00

I'm not a handyman. I'm a handy man. I'm not a gentleman. I'm a gentle man.

And as far as fixing things,building or duct-taping things...I prefer the duck.

Let me tell you what I do

2009-03-15T20:28:43-06:00

I wake up, get ready. I get in my car, go get money for the day. I buy some cigarettes, spend my money, and come home. I do my school work as soon as I get home, then it's free time, which is spent any number of ways. This is simplified for the masses btw lol, my real day is much longer and much funner ;)

Seat me next to the quiet starer, please

2009-03-15T20:23:30-06:00

At least with a quiet starer I can pretend I don't notice (as I always do). But with a talkative person with an irritating voice,I couldn't ignore it. I couldn't concentrate on anything, and I would end up getting pissed with this person and their inability to shut up.