This is too fucking great…

Here’s an interesting sidenote, which pretty clearly proves that cute white girls definately do get more media attention when lost…

Overheard in New York

A collection of street wisdom, as overheard in various places around NYC. Really funny stuff.

Includes such greats as:

“Girl #1: It looked like you were getting pretty close with that guy on the dance floor.
Girl #2: I know! He was putting his dick all up in my ass like he knew me or something.”

–11th between 3rd & 4th

Or..

“Black dude #1: Shut up, nigga.
Black dude #2: What the fuck. Don’t call me nigga. I’m Puerto Rican. Call me a spic.
Black dude #3: Stop using that offensive language! No wonder everyone on this train is staring at us. We are all God’s children. We all bleed the same. Aren’t we all god’s children?
White woman: Pardon?
Black dude #3: Aren’t we all god’s children?
White woman: Well, yes.
Black dude #3: You see!”

–1 train

Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com

Put simply, the fact that you’re not dead yet doesn’t mean that the things you’ve done up until now shouldn’t have, by all that is fair in the universe, already killed you. You might just need a few more data points for the law of averages to catch up, and put a permanent end to your short term thinking.

I thoroughly enjoyed this essay, and you might too.

Soldiers lived in remote hideout since WWII

Wow…if that doesn’t have “potential movie plot” written all over it, I don’t know what does.

Apparently June 21st 2005 is “Go Skateboarding Day.”

I’m going, even though I haven’t really skated for about a year, since the time I crashed after drunken hooky-bobbing behind my friends BMW through our apartment complex parking lot at 2:00 am.

Not sure where I’ll go. Probably downtown. I got a really interesting comment from a guy there one time, which as I remember it was “Oh…skateboards….no better sign of a misspent youth.” I was about 22 at the time I think. Dick wad.

Man what I would give to go back to my youth when I basically got waste whole summers just skating around various towns, primarily Oroville, California. Shit was totally awesome back then…or at least it seems like it was when I look back on it.

Charlie the Smoking Ape

Sorry, but that is just fucked up.

So I got the bike all back together last weekend. What sucks totally is that I put a new chain on it this weekend, and since the gears are all worn apparently, it slips all the time. I didn’t notice this riding around in town on flat ground so much, but when I went out with Dimitri and JR, I noticed it rather drastically when I hit the first hill. So, thinking stupidly I had perhaps put one extra chain link too many in the chain when I replaced it, I removed one. This got me a short distance before I hit the right gear combo and jammed the chain on. When I tried to remedy the situation by popping the chain to add the extra link back in, the part of the chain tool that pops the pin out got stuck by the force of the stretched chain, and when I spun the wheel to release it it went sailing out into the leaves. I never found it, despite 5 or so minutes of searching.

I realize that to anyone who has ever ridden a bike before, this seems like an impossible lame situation. I bow my head in stupid-shame. The worst part was, I had given Dimitri and JR a roughly 20 minute head start, and they each left on different trails, and JR had taken the keys to the car so I couldn’t go back and leave my bike there. To compensate I ran with the bike for about two miles I think…occasionally coasting down hills on it. I finally caught up with them right as Dimitri came down the trail from the much more hilly and generally sucky trail to the lake. Then we smoked a joint, and walked back together.

Not much of a ride for the first attempt on an actual trail this season. But once I get the new gears, we should be all set.

So it’s been a few days since I’ve written anything. I don’t know why really, but just haven’t really felt anything was immediately worth reporting.

Last Friday night, I went over to a long time friends house and played guitar, sang, and got totally hammered. It was a really good time. I wish I could provide more details, but it was from what I can recall, perhaps *too* good a time. It was at least nice to have the guitar and amp back in a place where it could be put to use though, and the amp even decided to get in on the fun and stop the annoying buzz of death it had been making the last few times prior.

Saturday morning, or afternoon rather, I went out to breakfast, or lunch as most would call it. DMTri and I went to a diner nearby that I’ve taken Endub to before. We saw an interesting East Hartford style conflict involving a young woman refusing to pay for her pancakes because she had “changed her mind” while they were being made, and now she wanted calamari. Normally, you would think this would end reasonably. But no. It ended with the police forcing her and her friends to pay the $6 minimum table charge.

It seems after the first woman decided she wasn’t going to pay for the pancakes, her friends decided they were also sufficiently aggrieved to also refuse to pay. This resulted in the manager getting rather upset, and calling the police. The police didn’t think it was very funny, but I did. Oddly enough, the police wouldn’t force them to pay for the food they ordered and had delivered to their table before refusing to pay. They were only required to pay the $2 minimum per person table charge. I thought that was weak. I was hoping it would turn into an episode of cops with the women trying to beat up the cops and end up getting billy clubbed arrested or something. But nothing really exciting happened. Just a couple of dumb asses and a couple of cops. It really made me feel bad for the EHPD though. They deal primarily with just flat out DUMB FUCKS. While East Hartford is not the safest feeling area, you can rest assured there are no real criminals, just a spectrum of people ranging from moron to amateur crook. I met a cool guy just out of prison for larceny the other day…funny story…he wanted a cigarette, and remarked he hadn’t seen American Spirits since he had been on tour with The Grateful Dead. We had a pretty good talk about that…but it’s a story for a different time.

I spent the rest of the weekend watching movies, playing Blogshares, and doing fuck all.

Tonight I went on a walk out at a one of the fine state parks we have here in Connecticut. It was a rather short 3/4 (actually on further reading, it was apparently a 1 1/2) mile walk up a hill to a totally awesome summer house of a, from what I can tell, 1930’s liquor runner. (Well, a liquor “runner” in the 20’s, and a legitimate liquor “importer” with a company and all in the 30’s.) Apparently the guy who built it was the first person to introduce Smirnoff Vodka, as well as A-1 Sauce to the United States. He also sold a variety of liquors, including pre-mixed rum drinks.

The place is absolutely beautiful. Totally out of control view. The house is actually a huge tower with a room with walls for all 4 windows at the top. It was pretty awesome.

Does anyone know if the Senate voted on the bullshit nation ID law today? I suppose reading my own link to google news would probably tell me fast enough, but I don’t feel inspired just yet. Well, I should have gone to bed happily ignorant of this fact, but it passed. National ID cards on the way kids…welcome to uh…something less free than America was yesterday…and more run by religio-corporate sluts and whores. Just try to keep in mind while considering the ass raping that freedom got in this country today, that this is supposed to be a democractic styled government, which would imply that there are at least two sides on the issue and yet once again the Democrats can’t pull the dicks out of their mouths long enough to even pretend to be a different party.

If that weren’t enough, why isn’t anyone mentioning the fact that it is now utterly proven that Bush completely lied and premeditated the reasons for the war in Iraq? I mean, it’s all over the media right?

Oh yeah…and it looks like the news page gets a vote of no confidence.

Anyway…exciting stuff, I know….thanks for reading..if any of you three actually did.