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[hehateme2001]

1) I'm back from Europe, obviously. pixorz are up on myspace.

2) I lost 1" off my waistline there from all the walking and healthy eating. I intend to try to keep it off but lets keep it real here; the odds aint lookin' too good. I crushed two bagels and a mountain dew in just the last hour.

3) I heard awesome music over there, especially at

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[eevilyounggirl]

FUCKING JUNK MAIL. It's like those people on the street who hand out flyers (basically saying "here, YOU throw this away,") but you don't get to just ignore them. You have to take it and toss/recycle/whatever it yourself.

In Madison, we get this thing twice a week called the "Shopper Stopper." It's just ads for dumb places, and sometimes they sneak a grocery store flyer in (those can be useful sometimes, if you want to dedicate the time/energy to looking at them). But it's on newsprint, so unlike every other piece of goddamn junk mail, it's HUGE and real mail can get stuck in it. I hate that fucking thing so much.

[hehateme2001]

There's a bosnian food place in our county that hands out flyers to passersby. The guy handing them out is usually surrounded by a halo of crumpled up flyers on the sidewalk. I feel sorry for him so I usually wait until I'm around the corner to pitch mine into the gutter.

The credit card junkmail is the most amazing to me. I get an offer from Chase weekly, every week of every month of every year. You'd think they'd use mass-mailing software that would stop sending it after, oh, I dunno, 157 fruitless weeks or something.

Also I get home refinancing and aluminum siding flyers for my Apartment 8A address. You'd think somebody could filter that Excel spreadsheet better.

[eevilyounggirl]

My aunt, who lives in the Hancock Tower in Chicago, gets those siding ones too. She called them once and was like "oh, sure, come on over and do an estimate." She gave them the address, but as far as she knows, they never showed. They probably drove by and were like "...oh."

You'd think they would have noticed the "Apartment" bit, but apparently not. Boo!

[day_walker]

why do you dislike china so much? for the record, i feel ambivalent about it.

[hehateme2001]

They are a communist dictatorship with no regard for trade law or patent rights. They are also virulently anti-Christian. They are in the midst of the largest military buildup in history. Their aims for territorial conquest are terrifying; for example the last time I was in Hong Kong the map on the airport wall already showed Taiwan and Mongolia and "provinces" of China.

[day_walker]

you've got good points. china does make me feel highly uncomfortable.

[day_walker]

p.s. looking at your trip photos now. where are the goth club people???

[amnesiascope]

Did you hear any Scandinavian Folke Metalle? There's nothing I love more than a bunch of hulking Viking-types in spike-bristling leather and corpse paint playing flutes and acoustic string instruments ... in the service of Satan!

[hehateme2001]

Ha ha ha - no I didn't hear any of that. Their goths were all Ramstien-type peeps. I did hear Danish rap though in the cab from the airport, which was fairly disturbing.

[tdaschel]

your China/Olympic commentary is spot.on. with regard to America's China policy it looks like a bipartisan fuck.up. did Red China ever have bigger cheerleaders than George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton? those guys represent a strain of Globalism that serves no one but the post.national elite managerial set, folks who owe allegiance to no country, least of all our own...