I'm keeping this account, this archive, as formal protest and all, and will check it daily, due to my internet addiction, but this weekend, when I tried to view my page, Livejournal put up ads on my "free" journal, as per new policy. They also fucked with my css code, which was the greater offense...

so I'll put links (and maybe even copy posts) ( Read more... )

Not really related to anything except that I'm back from sea (again) and had to drive for hours down the coast on errands, you know, rather than hit my bed a-runnin'. I stopped at the Circle K to buy beer before I even hit the house. There's just something about ethanol that makes the nervous sea-going urgency disappear. I bet sailors don't even ( Read more... )

We're supposed to be the magic melting pot of no return, the elimination of all those hyphens, but all it's ever done is burn those hyphens in, son of one country and father of another, but no brothers or sisters to speak of, when did I get so damn sentimental? There's not really a good way to bring up the Irish elephant in the room, you know, you ( Read more... )

I'm preparing for an invasion of my peaceful values. And, I suppose, my happy home. Speaking of which...

The best thing I read today was our grand new law to help all those people defaulting on their mortgages by giving millions of dollars to the Fed-backed companies who are going bankrupt. That way, we won't have to nationalize anything, and all ( Read more... )

Christian rock sucks.

Mostly because of its insidious contradiction it exploits for pure marketing purposes. There's a subtle but very real difference between music about believing something as a matter of course, and "faith-music", and most of it falls into the latter category of suckitude.

That said, I have few heroes, and even fewer religious ( Read more... )

So the reason for all the glory: those disturbed, odd, dareIsay natural thoughts that occur to everyone are pretty commonplace, I think. The nirvana I speak of is this; Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Gautama, Shelley, Jesus H. tap-dancing Christ all said,

“It’s a shift from having our mental health defined by the content of our thoughts,” Dr. Hayes said ( Read more... )

I think the disappointment that stems from the realization that money (rather than intelligence or work) is the determinant of success or mobility or whathaveyou, is caused mostly by the fact that all means of public communication and entertainment preach the opposite. So I say, fuck 'em. If you haven't noticed, I added Fussell's Class to my amazon ( Read more... )

Back from sea.

Instead of sleeping, like I should have, I went down to Shelbyville to play a show. It paid $7 and drugs, apparently. Oh, and two free pints of Guinness. Now it's time to take today off and stop waking up at 3am for my watch.

Yar, the sea, she be a cruel mistress...

When is a good time to call? how about ask?
When is my question. No whats or whys. I'm not very ambitious.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. -W. B. Yeats

Curses and Irish drinking songs run through my head all day now. I put things off for no good reason. The other day I was at a party, and some girl said ( Read more... )

Absolutely serious stuff, and not at all any justification that your child must be wonderful, and not have mental "problems" in any way.  There are horrible battles being fought over disabilities, how they are things to be cured, gotten rid of, like this wart on my finger that won't go away.

Hypersensitivity to external stimuli can be said to ( Read more... )