GAYLO THREE

Playing Halo online. Why would you do such a stupid thing? Here, I can recreate the Halo/Xbox Live experience for free: lock yourself in a room with five 13 year old boys and scream "faggot" at each other until it's six the next morning.
Enjoy your fun I guess.
Meanwhile I'm taking time out of my incredibly busy schedule of faffing about school and forging metal and punching rodents in FFXIV.
Who knew the path to becoming THE FIST OF THE NORTH STAR was fraught with so many squirrels?
Oh, right, the tangential connection to Halo: he talks about Halo and has Master Chief avatars on his blog.
I know I've missed the last couple of posts but between posts for school and Final Fantasy, well.

What's the one question you would like to ask if the answer were guaranteed to be correct?

What are the winning lotto numbers for the very next lottery in NC?
If this isn't your question you're provably stupid.
Also: he has the "you must be 14 to view these earth-shattering thoughts" and most of his posts are Writer's Blocks. Great.
I do love the number of people who asked "IS THERE A GOD?" Hurr, great. Even if the answer is "yes" what are you going to do armed with this knowledge? Meanwhile I can buy ten thousand boats or something equally stupid with all my money.

Am I really going to have a well paying job, a house, and lovely housewife?

?

?

:(

Wow you fucked up. Ask my question and you won't need the first, you can afford the second and you'll magically find the love of your life somehow that has nothing to do with your new wealth, honest.
Oh now Blogger is automatically skipping lines every time I want to skip to a new line because of the dumbass way he formatted his blog. Get fucked, you.
There, I fixed it.

Do you think having children is a fundamental human right? Should there should be any restrictions?

Yes. The number of children you have should never outnumber you, the parents. One exception: if you have one child and then through NO ADDITIONAL AID (like fertility drugs, etc) you have twins, triplets or whatever.

I'm pretty sure that reproducing will keep the human race alive?

Wasn't what they were asking, asshole. Way to pay attention.

Have you ever been the target of cyber-bullying? What was your reaction?

This is a trick question. There is no such thing as cyber-bullying. If people are saying mean things to you on the internet and you're that upset about it do you know what you can do?
WALK AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER.
If people are saying mean things to you on Facetube:
1. You're on Facetube. No one gives a fuck about that cesspit and if you do you're silly.
2. Just imply you fucked their mother or something and 99% of Facetube users aren't intelligent enough to come up with a response to this.
Easy shit, kids.
Seriously I don't know what you'll do when you run into a dedicated internet troll like myself.

This happens almost all the time on Xbox Live.

Ultimate retaliation on a video game: just do better than them at it.
Yeah, I'm a fag and you just went 17:1 against a fag, so what's that make you?
Honest to God, people. Grow up.

Which celebrity are you sick of seeing? Who would you like to see more of?

JUSTIN BIEBER. I shouldn't even know his name.

Less Justin Beiber.

RIGHT ON. Can't believe I'm saying that in response to someone on Livejournal. A Writer's Block, no less.

More Altaïr Ibn La-ahad!

Err, the main character in Assassin's Creed. Brotip, friend: he's not real.

How do you feel about the upcoming Twilight film? Are you a fan or a critical bystander?

Twilight sucks and if you enjoy it you have no taste in books or movies.

I'm not huge fan, nor am I a critical bystander. I just enjoy the frickin' movies

Fag.
Seriously name one objectively good thing about Twilight.
I can wait.

Fanfiction: Do you love it or hate it, or are you totally indifferent? Why?

Seems silly but I guess ultimately I'm indifferent to it.
I mean it sucks so I just don't read it. Hate seems like an awfully strong emotion for something like that.

I don't love it or hate it, and I'm not indifferent.

So-- err.

I don't love it because I've never written one, nor have I read a substantial amount to say that I like them. I don't hate because of that reason.

If you don't love or hate something aren't you, by definition, neutral to it?
I guess you could get cute and say you "dislike" or "like" them because love and hate are strong emotions (of course, people immediately go to the strongest emotions they can feel for something because they're emotional vacuums with no opinions for themselves so using strong words creates the illusion of thought) but you have, what, 100 entire words to ask a question in Writer's Block? Forgive me for not running through all your options, Christ.

I'm not indifferent because I do generally like the idea of fanfictions because they're like stories based off other stories or movies.

So, what?
And it just ends there. Get fucked.

If you could create/select a new subject that had to be taught in high school, what would it be, and why?

I guess what I'd be looking for is really a civics class but really I'd want a class that'd teach these urchins how to not be such socially cloying, vacuous idiots.

Sex education needs to be highly prioritized. I can't speak for other schools but my school has a very weak health program.

No it doesn't. Let's waste more time on nonsense meanwhile half the people in high school are on a third grade reading level.
Here's a condom, here's how to use it so we don't create more wastes of resources like you, now back to the Cat in the Hat.
Man I have a negative view of school for a high school English education major, goddamn. I know I'm playing up the negative views for comedic effect but whatever.
Oh I love this comment (I know I never quote comments but fuck it):

Agreed. More sex ed would prevent so many std-related deaths. I think that abstinence (not sure that´s spelled correctly) should be promoted more too. Not just "safe sex".

That's all they promote, idiot. That's half the problem because abstinence doesn't work on a population that has never known self-control or denial. Or at all but we're not really talking about history.
Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane with shit like this. Am I the only one that sees glaring flaws in what entire institutions do?

I think abstinence is promoted to a certain degree. When hormones start flowing, and a boy and a girl are alone, it's sorta hard for abstinence to control their minds.

The response. The response to this:

Reality? They wouldn't listen. What the hell they care about using condoms. They are invincible.

Future policy maker posting here, folks.
SO IF THEY THINK THEY'RE INVINCIBLE AND WON'T USE CONDOMS WHY WOULD THEY LISTEN TO TALK OF ABSTINENCE?

How well do you take criticism? Do you deflect it or take it personally?

I don't deflect it or take it personally. I usually just say "oh thanks that's a good point I'll think about it" and keep on doing what I'm doing. When they're right I'm man enough to admit it and make the change. Usually they're wrong and I don't. What's the big fucking deal?

It depends on which type of criticism is in question. I can handle constructive criticism

Constructive criticism is another word for pointless compliments, as I've learned. When I'm looking for criticism I want criticism. I know what I did well, I want to hear about what I didn't do so well so I can improve it.
That reminds me of all the bullshit posting I've done in my school career. SANDWICH METHOD, PEOPLE. SAY ONE NICE THING, ONE THING THAT NEEDS IMPROVEMENT THEN ANOTHER NICE THING.
I think I'll employ the sandwich method for the sandwich method:
I like the name.
Great, thanks for wasting my time having to read and type more nonsense.
It really helps me evade butthurt (sometimes).
Well that wasn't so hard.

If your pet could talk, what is the first thing s/he would say to you?

She'd probably just whine at me incessantly for treats she doesn't eat.
Hey wait she does that anyway.
Strange.

Are you worried about where technology will lead us? Do you think it's possible that civilization may someday turn away from technology altogether for the betterment of humankind?

>turn away from technology FOR the betterment of mankind
WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST READ?
Yeah, man, we were sooo much better off with a simpler technological base. Dying of easily cured diseases really is the sign of a quality life to me. Tools.
Or shit like the Haber process that's used to grow up to a third of the world's food?
Yeah fuck that noise. Surfdom and endless toiling are clearly the path to a better future.

As long as technology exists, people will become more lazy and dependent on it.

I do hate watching people try to operate their technology but the technology itself isn't to blame.

Like "why send him a letter when I can text him?".

... Legitimate question, actually. Why would you want to do something that takes more effort and ten times as long to get a response when you can literally just text him and get a response in thirty seconds for the same result?
That's not lazy that's just using what you have to achieve a goal you want.
Also you don't need a period when you have a question mark.
Christ all mighty, some people.

It'll take miracle for people to turn away from technology in my opinion.

It's like we've adapted to creating shit to aid our work.
Hey wait--

If you could choose which fashions would go out of style permanently, what would you choose, and why?

Jeans or tights and skirts.
PART OF THE ALLURE IS THINKING MAYBE A STRONG GUST OF WIND WILL COME ALONG AND I'LL GET A PEEK. NO HOPE NOW.
His response is skinny jeans which proves he's more of a fag than I thought.

The eighties were known as the Me decade. The nineties have been called the Electronic age. So far, what would you label this decade?

The Shit decade.

I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."
-Jeremiah 11:19

Fuck yeah Jeremiah. Throwing down now, motherfucker.

Is this a quote from the Bible? I only say that because of the 11:19.

JEREMIAH 11:19. MAYBE IT'S FROM THE BIBLE.

If humanity were to become extinct, do you think another animal species would evolve to take our place?

Hard to say because evolution isn't deterministic. It'd have to be another creature strongly similar to us, though. Probably monkeys again or perhaps marsupials.
I mean life existed perfectly well for far longer without species like us than it has with us, so it might never happen again.

I think dogs will probably evolve and take our place. It seems as though dogs have a humanlike mind and are far superior than us in physicality,

Define "superior", asshole. I haven't seen a dog work a keyboard. When you have your jaws to grip things and nothing else you've kind of limited yourself. Evolution doesn't select the traits based off what you deem to be good.

As long as they DONT follow our selfish ignorant ways they would be alright.

We're one of like five species to be found on every single continent in strong numbers. I'd say we've done all right for ourselves.
Only species to go into space, too.

Could you spend the rest of your life with someone who had horrific taste in music?

Considering I make it a sport to goof on music yes I could.
Speaking of, have you heard Like a G6? What a shitty song, holy fuck.

If your best friend and/or romantic partner read all of your email for the last month (or longer), how would it impact your relationship(s) and why?

Well lately these Chinese dudes have been trying to scam my World of Warcraft password from about three years back (for some reason) so I guess if whoever is reading my email fell for that I might be in some trouble but otherwise no, no impact.

If a loved one got diagnosed with a painful, terminal illness and asked you to help them terminate their life before they deteriorated, would you do it?

NO REGRETS.

When something is troubling you, where do you usually turn?

The Good Book. The Warhammer 40,000 Third Edition rulebook.

Do you think society puts too much pressure on people to be in relationships and/or have children?

Well there is this bizarre phenomenon I've noticed where society tells men to be sexually promiscuous and women sexually repressed which I suspect might cause some sort of relationship turmoil on a societal scale but otherwise no, don't give a shit.
And I'm up to his first entry where he tells me rather humorously his journal is "friends only". What were the fifteen million entries I just read then, asshole?

Whoa!

Almost no update Friday as well.
Well, I'm sure you were all looking forward to it (without asking) and here's my official review of Final Fantasy XIV:
Last night I started at 8 PM (class and maintenance stacked on top of each other to keep me off until later) and the next time I looked at a clock it was 3:30 in the morning.
You can punch things, you can craft items, you can mine for fish-- not getting too technical, am I?
Oh but let's take a break from the glory that is hunting for wind shards (258 fire shards and counting, though) and read some fuck.
The title is "Hiding out from the Inter-Hemisphere Police" and he (?) probably thinks that's "lulz funny xD becuz their arent inter-hemisphere police!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" but I'm here to shit on his parade.
They're called Interpol and they don't have nearly as much authority as you'd think they would.
In fact, as near as I can tell, they're kind of pussies. I know personally I'd suit them up in power armor, but that's just me.
I do like their company symbol, though: the globe with a dagger through it. Very authoritarian take on law enforcement, gentlemen.
Like all blogs recently, we start with a writer's block:

What would you do if you only had one month left to live?

I'm amazed at the number of people who think they'd do something incredible. If you could really do all this shit that easily and the only thing stopping you was you weren't close to death, why wouldn't you just do it now?

My life is complicated enough without adding time frames into it.

Thankfully, I don't have to worry. As a non-corporeal being, I won't really "die". I might freeze eternally, never to post again.

Now we have to give pause here. Is he being serious? He might be, you don't know. The immediate reaction, I'm sure, is "oh he's just kidding. I don't really get this joke but surely--" but you don't know that, man. I've reviewed some fuck in the past that you can't in good confidence say "he's definitely joking".

Or... since my account is always online, I would be immortal....

Or as long as the internet is around--
huh, didn't think of that, did you?

Is it appropriate for governments to spend so much money on defense and weapons? How much is too much?

Which governments? Some countries don't spend very much at all whereas some (South Korea, Russia, US, China, Japan, Israel, etc) spend tons and tons. Some of these nations (South Korea, US, Israel, Japan, etc) would seem within their rights to spend so much: they had some of their shit ruined in the recent past or their shit is threatened in the near future.

The problem isn’t expenditure per se, but more the lack of imagination which *results* in defence expenditure.

It would be much more interesting for countries to sign an International Treaty On The Resolution Of Disputes By Poetry.

... What the fuck am I reading?
Anyway my problem is this country spends so much money on defense contracts but spends hardly any at all on research and development.
Never going to have space marines at this rate, are you guys?

Or…what about an Annual Smut-Writing-Extravaganza?!

*nods enthusiastically*

Of course this may have the unforeseen consequence of conscripting some of my favourite people (including my Other Self) into military service.

Other Self. Nope, don't wanna know.

The answer is: Because it was interfering with my love life. What's the question?

"Why did you have penis reduction surgery?"
Hard carrying around this baseball bat, ladies.

The question is: why did you quit LiveJournal?

*teehee*

*evil smile*

If you do that again I'm going to roll up a newspaper and swat you so fucking hard on the nose your head will spin.

What is your fondest childhood memory? How often does it come to mind?

TRADING POKEMON WITH A BRO WOOOOO
EVERY TIME I LOOK AT MY LEVEL 100 GYARADOS

*clears throat*

Well, actually I wasn’t.

A child that is.

I sprang into existence as a fully developed entity.

So--
Errr.
Well I think I'm going to start up FFXIV now. I doubt this riveting tale will command my full attention.

Spontaneous existence is somewhat like spontaneous human combustion. Without the humans, flames and nasty death related side effects.

I wish I had a psycannon from Warhammer right now. You'd be faced with un-birth now, demon.
Now loading.

However I do have a surplus of penguins.

*all applications for penguin adoptions will be considered*

LULZ XD UR SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY!
Seriously I hope if you ever get on a plane it crashes twice.

I could more accurately be described as an inter-hemispheric Baudrillardian simulation with a dual personality.

So, not joking? Just crazy?
When philosophers ponder “the meaning of life” I can only assume they’re being facetious, because the answer is obvious: paper-clips!
HURRRRRRRRRRRR.
So fuck this noise. Just nonstop xD so randum moments. If I wanted to deal with this fuck I'd read Gamefaqs or something.

THE TIME IS NIGH

Just a fair warning: there may be no update Wednesday.
There may be, however, if the release day patch for FFXIV exceeds one GB.
Stay listening, I guess~
Today's writer's block was fantastic because it asks "if you could change or create a law what would it be?" and like all things Livejournal the responses are fantastically well-thought and well-meaning.
Where to begin? First, the Livejournal hivemind has spoken: gay marriage is in. HOW CREATIVE, PEOPLE. I mean that's a fair law, after all. They are citizens like anyone else and why shouldn't they be entitled to the same rights as everyone else?
Of course most Livejournal users aren't that articulate about it but whatever.
Second: universal health care is in. I thought that was in before? At least, I thought it was in. Maybe I wasn't paying as close attention as I thought. What was all that health care reform and spending lots and lots of money this country doesn't have about, then?
Anyway I'm against this idea. Once you run out of money you can do no more things, or so I was taught as a child. Well, the US, you have done this. Save your pennies and next time you can get health care for all.
However, I feel today's idiot blogger has by far the worst idea ever. Check this shit out:

Racism would be straight up illegal, and stupid laws like the one in Arizona would send whoever proposed the bill to jail!

Gee, how are you gonna enforce that? Racist employment policies are already illegal, so I have to assume you're referring to individual acts of racism. Are you going to have inquisitors going around ensuring people aren't racist? Is there going to be a random pop quiz to ensure no racial ill will? Aren't Americans entitled to think however they want, no matter how wrong or misguided, according to the CONSTITUTION?
Idiot.

gasp! Lol. I been tryin to put him in something extracurricular.

You been, eh?

but its kinda saddening Lol. me on the other hand, i was always doing piano. =/ extracurricular stuff is good for kids -- keeps them outta trouble.

Or you could, you know, talk to your spawn or something.

i been trying to practice being happy in the moment. and from this, even through the darkest moments... its hard but i feel much stronger because of it. no longer wishing for what isn't. being happy with the now. it is so liberating.

Great. Thanks for that wisdom, Buddha.

haha last night i had a dream i was hanging out with steven spielberg and the human woman from the navi avatar movie.

What the fuck?

What is the best science fiction movie of all time, and why?

If your answer isn't "Return of the Jedi" you are provably incorrect.
It has sword fights, it has HOT BLOOD, it has betrayal and redemption, it has romance, WHAT THE FUCK MORE DO YOU WANT OUT OF A MOVIE YOU PLEBS?

I like SciFi, but one of my favorites is "The Island."

THAT SHITTY MOVIE WITH SCARLET JOHANSON AND EWEN MCGREGGOR?
Also the question wasn't "what is one of your favorites" but "which is you all time favorite?"

The reason I really like this movie is that it is very thought provoking, raising issues of playing God in the lab, such as transplants, stem-cell research, genetic engineering, cloning, etc. etc.

That movie was about as thought-provoking as a bowel movement, shut up.

a funny thing happened 2 me 2day. i was almost there... been hearin w y y for weeks in my head, & almost had chance 2 talk 2 them omg! but no ingles!

WHAT?
WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST READ?
No, you're going back and doing that again.

Is there anyone you would permanently erase from your life and memory? If so, who and why?

Erase yourself and you'll transcend and turn into pure energy, so clearly this is the correct answer.
No but seriously I'd erase you so I wouldn't be reading your shitty blog currently.

If you were given a life do-over card, would you keep it or give it to a friend? If you kept it, would you prefer to be born to the same or different parents? Would you want to keep your memories?

Do it over but keep your memories. You'd be a 6 year old with the wisdom of-- err, a six year old, but me personally, I'd be a 6 year old with THE WISDOM OF THE AGES.

this mothers day consisted of my son lockin himself in his room playing video games,

Pokemon don't level themselves, you know.

What do you think the lower age limit should be for LiveJournal and other social networks, and why?

21.
Actually, no: you should have to pass a basic IQ and common sense test before you're allowed on the internet in general.

Do you think a marriage license should have a renewal or expiration date, just like a driver's license?

No. People need to learn relationships are a lot of work and not just a huge party.

Yes, the rate marriages fail these days, the expiration date should be about 4 years from time of implementation.

Oh that's brilliant, have them expire before they can fail. Yes, now the problem is really solved.
Idiots.

Some weird guy kept bugging me to go on a date with him. Well, I got there 15 min late and he didn't call or text me until he was at his house already and I had just arrived. Then he calls ME shady and tells me why did I email him that I was running late when I knew he was away from the computer. Well, thing is, HE could have called me as well, so why the hell he is going to put all the blame on me when it very well takes 2 to tango.

Because you showed up late? Granted it was only 15 minutes but still, this is your fault. Also why would you date someone admittedly "weird" who "bugs" you? Don't you have a kid to be raising? That's great, your kid will wind up an orphan as his whore mother goes around with anyone who asks her out.

So it is just as much his fault. Maybe even more considering he is the guy and should be chasing the girl.

I always love it when women employ this logic. WOMEN'S LIBERATION WOOOOO! Oh, but when it comes to dating we're still in the 13th century.
Only when it's convenient for you, eh ladies?

Anyway, this new train of thought is liberating. I just finished that book "he's just not that into you" and I am not chasing anymore. Rather, I just kick back relax and do my own thing while nutheads fall at my feet. Pure liberation, and I'm loving it.

Hey bitch, I'd be happy to joust or something equally manly for your honor, but I'm not begging.
Oh God, suddenly I'm reminded of that God awful (and I mean really awful) song called "Crazy Bitch". Why did I just think of that fuck?

those who are happiest are those who find beauty even in the most mundane things.

Nay, I tell ye now: those who are truly happiest are those who are happy with themselves and nothing more.
I just made that up, actually. See how easy it is to sound wise when you just make shit up as you go along? I'm almost positive that's how all religions operate.

so i been walking around downtown and comparing the cappuccinos.... most of them have that starbucks factory flavor taste, but there are two that are really good.

Suddenly I'm reminded of that other song with bitch in the title: "Sexy Bitch". What is it with me today? At least that song has kind of a cool Gameboy sound to it.

sometimes.. u just got to believe in yourself to make that final step.

Oh wow. Thanks for that, Parappa. I GOTTA DO WHAT? I GOTTA BELIEVE!

pedro is kinda like one. but i feel he is corrupted. maybe God wants me to help him find the innocence again? Beats me. Or maybe: God wants me to learn Patience! jajaja.. I think that's it! lmao!

The fuck?
Also:
>jajajaja
ARE YOU BRAZILIAN, MOTHERFUCKER?
Brazil is but one step removed from Texas.

i'm so cold now. he likes me more than i like him. honestly i dont give a damn. i was flirtin with other guys. i never do that if i like a guy. i think i am better as his friend. but as for a girlfriend? naw.. he's too immature for me. but he kept introducing me as his girlfriend.... i was like whatdafuck? but i didn't wanna embarass him.. (its like my ex said before. some girls just pushed their way into his life...) the spanish dude asks "how long?" "oh 3 months" date said.

Let's just sit back and bask in this mess.

there is a guy my age in orlando that seems really funny.. he's hella attractive, artistic (he can make vector art like me), and he writes stories.

Anyone remember that game Vectorman?
Fuck yeah that game was awesome.
Now here's a post in Japanese, let's see--
She phoned someone and it's really tough and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I would love to get paid to travel and blog about it. That would be hardcore awesome. =) I do that crap already anyway. Lol. Might as well get paid for it. =P

Don't you have a kid to be raising?
Also: I'd love to play video games and get paid to blog about my adventures.
Who wouldn't want a job where it's just fun all day everyday?

i was thinkin that we are all instruments for a plan He has for us.

WE ARE BUT PAWNS IN TZEENTCH'S GREAT GAME. WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR THE PART WE PLAY.

not ready for commitment at the time, but when it happens, what i want from my ideal dude.

Oh, better take notes.

1. good heart

Do I have a good heart?
Sure, why not?
My frequent ill-wishes toward my fellow man certainly doesn't make me a bad person, anyway.

2. beautiful eyes

Despite my frequent wishes for ROBOT EYES I think they're okay, so sure let's go with that--

3. medium build. i can't go with a skinny dude. =P i want a guy who can lift me up and put me on his shoulders

Oh no, I don't meet this tramp's list of ideal traits for a man.
Heart broken now.
I doubt I could lift you because I can't lift ten times my own weight.

so.. i was reading somewhere that Lucifer was once God's favorite angel.

LUCIFER in heaven, before his rebellion, was a high and exalted angel, next in honor to God's dear Son.

>implying Lucifer is the devil
>implying Lucifer is Satan
>implying Satan is the devil
Bible doesn't say this anywhere, you know--

To not want to is したくない shitakunai.
To have to do in slang is しなきゃあ (ならない) shinakyaa (naranai).

Thanks for that grammar lesson. Didn't know that.
Oh wait, yes I did, huh.

I got my blood test results back and my level is way too high...

Can your level be too high? What, not getting experience for grinding vermin anymore? Time to move to the Dunes~
Anyway I have to go to class soon and to be perfectly frank I'd rather be sitting there doing nothing at all than continue reading your horseshit, so be seeing you I guess.

LAY IT DOWN.

Well, well, well. By now you should know the routine. There's a shitty blog. I'm going to say mean things about it.
This is a good blog because 80% of the posts are writer's blocks. Seriously, why bother posting if you can't come up with anything?
Oh right, Livejournal.
Anyway, here we go.

Does anyone else have really strong scent memory?

No one but you. Smell is only the sense that pretty much bypasses all sensory organs and goes straight to your brain, so of course most people don't remember smells longer than any other memory.
Wait, no--

I always have... I have a lot of smells that remind me of specific events/places/times (vividly, too).

WOW, YOU'RE SOOOO SPECIAL!
Have you guys ever, like, smelt something and then related it to something going in your life at the time? YES? WELL YOU'RE A LYING SACK OF SHIT.

For example, bug spray/citronella always reminds me of Georgia, as does that "woodsy" smell or the "after rain" smell.

WOOOOOOOOOW! I'M FREAKING THE FUCK OUT RIGHT NOW!

I cannot smell the colognes or body sprays that my exes used to wear because it reminds me so strongly of them I start thinking they're like, standing behind me or something.

I can't smell pizza without thinking of VICTORY because I was at Pizza Hut the first time I leveled a Pokemon to level 100.
... That's a true story, too.
Level 100 Blastoise on Pokemon Blue, hell yeah motherfucker.
Speaking of: I finally acquired Pokemon Black and it crashes after I get through the little intro where I'm talked down to like I haven't been playing these games for 12 years. Great.
THIS IS A POKEMON.
Great, thanks professor lady whose name I've forgotten. I had no idea a game called "Pocket Monsters Black" involved creatures called "Pocket Monsters (also known as 'Pokemon')".

For some reason that cold air/wood burning smell makes me think of Christmas too.

For some reason the holiday that takes place during the cold season reminds you of things that happen in cold weather, brilliant.
For some reason, guys, whenever I see a pool I'm reminded of the smell of chlorine. Is that weird?

Today I sprayed myself with this perfume I used to wear a lot about a year/9 months or so ago. BAD idea. It smells like my old job, and it's seriously freaking me out.

So I'm looking at the Pokemon White ROM in a hex editor. I wonder if I can fix this? It's only a couple of thousand lines of hex, surely I can solve this before people who know what they're doing can.

I had a really crazy dream last night.

So lines a0 and b0 are all 0s. I wonder if that's usual?
So are 160 and 170, so I'm guessing this is the way it's supposed to be based off no other reason than there are a lot of lines like this.
Oh, if only I knew to what these referred I'd be able to figure this out.

Okay, so it started as a roadtrip to my Aunt and Uncle's house in GA (a lot of my dreams start this way, it's my favorite place ever). Except instead of being in a car with just my family, there were a LOT of people going on the trip. And somehow it was a car/truck THING, but there was this HUGE bed in the back... For everyone to sleep on?

Ever notice whenever anyone describes a "really weird dream" they had they always sound mentally handicapped?

Is there any book you can read over and over again without ever getting sick of it? Do you discover something new every time you read it?

The three greatest books ever written: The Odyssey, Inferno and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Any of the Harry Potter books.

Also Harry Potter.
And Twilight.

Any of the Chronicles of Narnia books. Any of the Lord of the Rings books. Maybe it's just a fantasy series thing,

Maybe I'm a fan of the fantasy genre given the three things I listed are fantasies.
Idiot.
No but I used to hate The Lord of the Rings and then I kind of softened on it mostly because of Warhammer (lame reason I know) because everyone was on about what a huge inspiration Lord of the Rings was for Warhammer so I decided to check it out.
They're pretty good books, actually. I think most people don't understand what J.R.R. Tolkien was trying to achieve (nothing new there) but they're definitely world's better than, say, Harry Potter.

GO BUY MY HUSBAND'S BOOK, OK??? YAY!

Let's see--
THE COLD TOWER.

Peace. Prosperity. Freedom. After fifty years it ends.

In the world of Scyllia darkness is coming. The evil sorcerer Enlokirim has risen from the grave, seeking revenge against those that destroyed him. He searches for the Triangles of Power: nine magical stones that are individually powerful, but even more dangerous together.

Amras Oronar, an outcast elf warrior, leads a group of adventurers in hope of stopping Enlokirim.

Oh hey, it's that plot to everything ever.
Remember when that guy made that gay Dark Elf ranger named something impossible to pronounce like Drizzt? Yeah, those were good times. Apparently EVERY NERD EVER agrees, Christ all mighty. OUTCAST ELF WARRIOR HAS TO GATHER MAGICAL MACGUFFINS.
Seriously could you come up with a more contrived reason to have an adventure? "Find some shit to stop the world from being destroyed" literally summarizes 99% of fantasy ever. You couldn't come up with a revenge drama or a "getting home" epic like the Odyssey? Something a little classier? No?
Well, no surprise there I guess.

So I'm re-reading Harry Potter, and I'm on the first book, and I was wondering about something that always bothered me. The scene where they fight the troll in the bathroom and Hermione says that Harry and Ron came after her because she went after the troll on her own... WHY? Why does she lie?

Because they're poorly written books? Are you seriously looking for an answer that makes sense outside of that?

I wrote a silly poem at work this week, while contemplating my cup o' pens:

My pens and pencils come and go,
Some are ones I do not know.
Where they come from, I'm unaware,
Perhaps they appear from thin air.
Red and blue and black and green,
Appear and disappear unseen.
What they do, I do not care,
As long as when I reach, they're there.

I wrote a poem too, while contemplating my Pokemon ROM:
Pokemon Black doesn't work on my Acekard,
FUCK.
Should have bought a CycloDS instead.
Thank you, thank you.
Oh, here's a picture of her new haircut. Before I click on it I'm betting she's a hambeast. Anyone wanna take that bet? (Of course not).
WOW WHAT A SURPRISE! A HAMBEAST!
Are you sure you were always a girl?
It's okay if you weren't. I'm an equal opportunity hater.

I don't know if you've all heard, but MTV is trying to do a re-make of Rocky Horror Picture Show. YES YOU HEARD ME RIGHT.

Here is a petition:

So? 96% of movies made this year were remakes or sequels.
I didn't make that statistic up, either.
You see, people make more shit now than ever, so they have to rely on name recognition to sell their product. Hard to compete with the internet, it is.

Also, yes, I am THRILLED that Obama won.

What-- oh, I'm quite a few years back now. Huh. Well two years later and I wonder if you're still thrilled?
Here was my face when I voted for him: :|
here was my face when he won: :|
here's my face now: :\

There are a bunch of idiots on the Dragon Cave forum trying to say that Obama isn't an American citizen.

So get your armor on (it'd have to be a rather cauldron-inspired suit, HO!) and saddle up your horse and take care of the dragons. I mean fuck, there's a place called THE DRAGON CAVE and there are still things alive in there to talk about shit?
Anyway what follows is a political meme (groan) and I don't feel like clicking back anymore so off I go to do something with myself.

Capitalism, ho!

Rare day in hell: I feel like revisiting a blog. This Monday's, specifically.
I could go on about this cunt, so I will.
Now, there's some controversy about him: specifically, there is a hypothesis out there that he is a girl. I don't know why I assumed he's a guy. I guess the name "Chris Brecheen" would lead me to believe he's a man, but as was pointed out that could easily be short for "Christina" so I don't really know. Actually I tell a lie. I can Google, let's find out~
Found his Facetube. That's a guy.
Well, now that's settled let's move on. He's updated since Monday.

My students are cheating.

Every semester I have a different configuration of cultural backgrounds.

Name one culture where cheating is an acceptable practice outside of "Dark Eldar" or "15th century Florence". Cheating is a lot like cowardice in that regard. Nearly every culture agrees you're a douche if you do this thing.

Certain cultures will actually do certain kinds of cheating accidentally if differences in expectations aren't made clear. Some East Asian countries wouldn't think twice about getting someone to run through and copy edit a paper for all its grammatical errors.

... That's cheating? I guess everyone at my college is a cheater, then, because there's an entire office devoted to running through your paper and checking the grammar. It's free of charge, even.

Sadly, my students perpetuate this stereotype. Last week I showed them how easy it was to tell what someone was looking at by setting up a couple of pieces of paper and asking them which one I was looking at. They got it right every time, even when I covered my eyes with that half hand move that students do when they totally think they're being slick and getting away with it.

>write answers on your shoes
>no one ever seems to question why you're glaring at your shoes
Welp.
Not that I'd ever need something so unscrupulous as that because I can basically take a mental photocopy but whatever, there you go, kids.

This week I gave a shout out to people to keep their eyes on their own papers when I saw a few gazes start to wonder.

>Gaze averts to the right during to a test
>Get genuinely interested as I realize all of her answers are wrong
>Hurry to finish so I can watch her fail
Man my life is awesome.

What they NEED is an experience with the hammer of American intolerance of any who would cheat at the meritocracy (I'm giggling as I write that, by the way--just so you know).

Yeah apparently we're not a meritocracy in the United States. I made the mistake to suggest last Thursday in class, ho-boy.
"WE'RE A WHAT?"
"A meri-- ruh-roh."
Fucking class, man.
OH FUCK I'M HEADED BACK THERE TOMORROW.
Goddamn.

I hate it when people ask sex questions on AMA because it always turns into a dogpile of the teens and young twenties assuming that them and their friends are a valid sample for drawing general assumptions--and dumb ones at that.

Isn't the point of drawing an assumption to be kind of vague and off?

but I know that anorgasmia isn't something women just need to "relax and get over except for maybe 1%" Just because teens today aren't running into so many cultural klaxons hammering into their heads that sex is bad doesn't mean that applies to all women everywhere of all ages.

>Encourage men to be sexually liberated
>Encouarge women to be sexually inhibited
SOCIEEEEETYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
No but it's as they say: a key that opens a lot of locks is a master key, but a lock that's opened by a lot of keys is a shitty lock.

Okay, as a writer (and not JUST as a writer but among a group of folks amongst whom could be counted writers, heavy--or considered maybe(?)--readers, lit majors, storytellers, film makers or students or film buffs or really anyone who really understands deeply what makes for a good story there is a tendency to read books, watch movies, ect with an eye on a somewhat different set of bellwethers than maybe most people do.

As a writer I really should learn how to edit my thoughts for length and clarity, hmm.

So I don't want to sound elitist or anything, but just to say that I may have watched the movie with different eyes than a lot of the reviews I'm watching that seem to want to focus on whether the end was a dream or "the real world."

I don't think you'd know a good movie if it hit you in the face.

However, I didn't have that in mind when I watched the end scene. What was going through my head was the dichotomy between wants and needs.

THIS ISN'T A REVIEW IT'S A CRITIQUE YOU BORE.
Here's a review:
I think this movie was shit, and here's why...
here's a critique:
the symbols in the movie were such that...

All good characters have both. They have something they want and they have something they need.

Only a shitty reviewer deals in absolutes, Christoph.

In a lot of stories this is pretty much the same thing. Rocky wants to go the distance. Rocky needs to prove to himself that he CAN go the distance.

You didn't pay attention to Rocky. Rocky wanted to be a champ so he needed to train hard, and even then he still failed. Even though he still failed he remained true to himself despite the adversity he faced, and so at the end he still got the girl and was the champ in his own mind. It's about not giving up and shit.
... You really didn't get the point of Rocky?
Wow it's almost like all these fancy college critical theory classes don't actually teach you how to pay attention to a fucking movie or something.

So if Rocky goes the distance he gets his needs and wants satisfied.

ROCKY WENT THE DISTANCE AND STILL LOST THE FIGHT, HOLY SHIT.
THAT'S THE BIG TWIST IN ROCKY. HE DID EVERYTHING RIGHT AND LOST.
I cannot get over this. How can you miss the point of a movie this hard and still be all pretentious about it?

See, every show has one episode where the antagonist would be a cake walk for the hero, but the hero is out of it due to injury or illness.

Or the entire Android Saga if you happen to be Dragonball Z.
I wonder if Pokemon Black and White has been leaked yet? I bet not--
Nope.

2. What do you notice first when checking out a suitor?

Well for you, powder puff, I'm sure it's "HE HAS A HUUUUGE COCK"

So...we know I'm a straight guy, right? Just checking.

No "we" weren't aware of this fact.
You will forgive "us" if "we" don't believe you.

Women that are interested in me tend to either be refreshingly forward or so brazen about making me know they're receptive that I would have to be a rock not to realize what was going on.

... Has that ever happened to you? This is such an alien scenario you've set that I can't imagine this actually happening. Maybe if everyone was speaking Russian and there were Chinese subtitles and it was an 18th generation bootleg this might have some context I understand.

Favorite drink?

Ice water. Sorry if that's boring.

Well you are boring. Like I said Monday, what'd you expect?

5. You are on an abandoned island, but can bring anyone as a sex slave. You choose....?

... What a bizarre thing to bring to a deserted island. I can't bring a radio so I can leave the island?
Like, what, I got to decide between something else and my sex slave I brought with me on this three hour tour, and so the sex slave came with me?
That'd really put a new twist on Gilligan's Island, come to think of it. Mary-Ann the kinky bondage slave.
Notice how I didn't pick Ginger because everyone expects that behavior from her and so therefore it's totally out of character. You always expect the innocent girl-next-door type first, see.
That's why I tell the jokes.
Oh and your answer is so incredibly boring I don't even know where to begin.

There are a variety of reasons that I must answer this "My Girlfriend" not the least of which is that she knows where I sleep.

Somehow I doubt your girlfriend would appreciate being appropriated as a sex slave.
... Unless she's into that kind of thing.

4. Who is your favorite poet and why?

Poet, huh?

Homer. Or Dante. Any other answer and you are provably wrong.

Good question. I'm going to answer Frost,

Yep.

5. Would you rather be well-paid or well-known as a writer?

Well-paid. Anyone who says otherwise is lying, Christ.

This is a morning splat. If you don't know the rules of morning splats it is that

Whoa hey I don't want to know about your "morning splat", man.
Sex slaves and morning splats.
Only on FLIRTING WITH PRETENTION.
Also Edie Finds a Corpse, apparently.

So to be clear, I am NOT talking about that.

Sorry I'm just reading what I want to read at this point. What are you talking about, exactly?

Now, with that said, I don't know what your situation is. I am aware of THREE people that have been diagnosed (not self-diagnosed) with clinical depression.

What does this have to do with what we were just talking about?
Too depressed to splat, I get it.

Statistically, I should know more. The APA and depression medication commercials disagree on exactly how common depression is (go figure) but it certainly seems to share a place with many disorders that have a massive industry of corrective meds in being both over and under diagnosed.

... If you had a sex slave would you even need to morning splat? I'd think you could just get her to help you out.
Sorry I'm getting really off topic now. Anyway, you were running your yap about shit no one cares about. Please, proceed.

All of the three I know are on medication and none really get offended when I talk about this stuff because it doesn't strike a nerve with them--because they KNOW it's not about them.

I imagine sex slaves are very depressed. Get her some medication you sadistic bastard.
I'd be a nice owner if nothing else, anyway.

(No one gets offended when an insult is absurd. It's only when there's some truth in the words that it starts to sting. More truth--more sting.)

I see what you mean. Gotta keep your pimp hand strong and all that.

To me, talking about a "mind/body connection" is like talking about a thigh/leg connection. The "mind" isn't really a thing.

Sorry I wasn't listening. I was practicing a Zen principle I discovered a few years back in the middle of critical theory class. I call it the "ten thousand voices make noise, not sense" principle. Sometimes it's what you don't say, man.

It's a concept--a cerebral concept that is incredibly ingrained in our culture.

So I guess you could argue that no one *technically* exists because we're all just vessels for shit we've seen and heard, and so therefore everyone is just the same thing in a slightly different order, huh.
LOOK HOW FUCKING LONG THIS POST IS JESUS CHRIST ALL MIGHTY.

Whenever my progressive friends start in on their social justice causes at a certain level, I always wonder where they've been in their lives.

You kind of topped yourself before with morning splat and sex slaves, man.

Texas is a different world--a whole different world.

OH YOU DON'T NEED TO TELL ME. I KNOW ALL ABOUT IT.

"Real" blogs- I think there's a trend away from LJ towards wordpress or some other kind of blogging tool because of the perception that LJ is somehow less credible.

Somehow. It can't be because it houses shit like this, no sir. I hope I've done all I can to make Livejournal seem less credible, too. Hooo, well. I have another blog to update now, but this one is for school so I won't use the word "cunt" as often.
It is, incidentally, not nearly as fun as this one.

I Ain't Even Mad

When you have a name like "Flirting with Pretension" you're not allowed to be angry at them when they do indeed turn out to be pretentious. What'd you expect?
Also, the elephant in the room: yes, you have to agree at the start and at every post that you're 14 years or older. Because, you know, posts about how pretentious you are and how delicious noodles are is really shit for the mature audience.

I'm going to write a paragraph now. I'm keenly aware how pretentious and presumptuous this paragraph will be, and it is somewhat embarrassing.

"I am already aware how bad this paragraph will be and yet I will continue to write it and post it for all to see."

Like three-fourths of middle class America, I want to be a writer. That is to say I AM a writer--as the tens of thousands of written pages will attest to--but I would love to be published and paid for my work.

I write a lot : I am a writer :: I own a roll of stamps : I am a stamp collector.
See what I mean when you sound like an idiot?

I am a senior in a Creative Writing/English major, and I'm planning on grad school.

Yes, because truly creative, marketable ideas come from the creative vortex that is college. If ever there was a place where good ideas go to die, it is college. It's like a black hole. Sucks all the mass right out of whatever you have going in.

If I've added you to my friend-list, it means I enjoy reading what you write, find you interesting, want to subscribe to your newsletter, whatever.

I see we've come to understand how the friend list works. Also why mine is empty.

I maintain several filters, but I manage most of them. If and when I trust someone enough that they could be on a sensitive filter, I will ask them if they want to be.

A highly complex system of filters ensures your reading experience is tailored to your skill level. Is this like Oblivion where I use magic and blunt weaponry in the tutorial so the guy at the end says "by the looks of you, you must be a skilled witch hunter, am I right?" and it's really cool to see the AI is that advanced.
Then you realize it's literally only advanced for that one little section of the game and the rest of the game is clones talking about how much they enjoy buying items from the shop owned by their clone.
Anyway, back to the system of filters.

Sometimes (though less and less lately) I post something that might be controversial. I WELCOME debate in these matters,

And this was posted in 2025, so I guess we have some time before this happens.
... I feel like I've written that before.
Now we have the writer's block of the day question. Are you excited yet?
Well you better get that way:

How do you think personal relationships would change if people could read minds?

I think absolutely nothing would be different.
>Implying most people are paying attention to anyone but themselves
>implying implications

Yeah, I don't have writers block. I haven't had writer's block in ten years thanks to Dorthea Brande. However one of my friends puts these up regularly and today's struck me. Not the question really, but her answer made me think about other things.

Great. So?

Because I think this touches on something that actually isn't totally speculative and IS changing within our culture. As the internet and social media sites basically erode our ability to compartmentalize our lives--a trend that shows acceleration if anything--we face a new lack of privacy between the spheres of our existence.

No one is making you use Twitter, asshole.

When our boss can check out our politics and look through our drunken weekend photos and our grandparents know what we're up to, times are a-changing.

Unless you, you know, don't post those pictures to Facebook.
Am I the only one with common sense anymore?
Am I going insane?

I catch people in lies. Pretty much everyone I know I've caught in a few lies. I have a really good memory--far better than most people realize or give me credit for. (There's a reason I can read the textbook once and ace a test.)

Oh, so what do you call people like me who never read the textbook and ace the test?
I guess we're just psychic is the thing.

The point is, I very quickly adjusted my view of lying as a big bad and adopted a much more world-as-I-actually-experienced-it view of integrity, morality, trustworthiness, etc... My social contract changed.

What does any of this have to do with the question asked? Also: can you believe Pokemon Black and White hasn't been leaked yet?
Here's an in-depth review of Neuromancer, one of the titans of science fiction.

Despite evidence to the contrary in the opening paragraphs, this is a very informal review of Neruomancer.

I don't really-- I think we're in for some shit.

Slowly but surely, against the current of books I must read for school not to mention this horrific development I've discovered where they surround the ENTIRE New Yorker short fiction work with these totally interesting articles like that's why anyone would buy it--I mean seriously they're okay, but they're not great; I'm going to read this one about Afghanistan before I read the short fiction, which is really the only reason I bought it and then I'm.....damn, this is actual quality journalism here.

Which is more than I can say for whatever you call this word-diarrhea-on-a-page.

And other than having a real highbrow, prescriptive tack on grammar, they're pretty cool. Seriously though, you really CAN use myriad as a noun these days; I promise....

Oh um....where was I...?

Doesn't the phrase "where was I" imply you were somewhere to begin with? You just start vomiting words out at me and no one knows what's happening. Maybe you should start again?

What I'm getting at is that I can see the relevance of what Gibson creates. I actually did post-structuralist homework, and I know a bit about the work and why it is considered so important.

I guess this is why we're different, you and I, Dice_Dork (great). You see "post-structuralist" and roll with it and use it in your writings, meanwhile I try to do everything to forget the term exists.
Somehow, in trying to avoid filling my brain of fuck my brain is filled with even more fuck.
What he writes after here I have no idea about but I certainly wouldn't call this a "review" of a book entitled "Neuromancer" by a man named "William Gibson".

There's a bit of my friendslist doing the take-a-picture-of-yourself-right-now meme. I sort of wish I knew how to work my camera and upload photos and stuff.

Yeah the Livejournal interface is so hopelessly complex. Why, you might even have to Google something!

By the by, peeps, I'm not even going to TRY to catch up on LJ, so if there's something you want me to see from the last five days, please let me know specifically.

Too much shit going on in the vast world of Livejournal? That'd be the first time in ever.

The pains taken to make her look soft and supple though she was actually hard as steel struck me as a metaphorical chiasmus to femininity.

What? I actually had to stop and reread what you wrote. I am in awe at how much of a cunt you are, currently. If ever there was an anti-cool equation, you just discovered it.

A lot could be said about how the gender roles of women expect them to be be soft in their exterior and hide any hardness, but I'll save my amateur artistic critiquing for things at least tangentially related to writing--studying humanities doesn't mean I'm fit to speak intellectually about any artistic discipline without sounding like a pretentious fop.

He even knows how much of a complete fag he is and yet he persists in writing anyway. I'd say he's an asshole but I can only dream of having this much self-confidence. If I wrote like this I'd be looking to bore nails into my brain so I could forget how to write entirely.

It's like playing an MMORPG. If you play one of those games for long enough, you start to overlay game priorities onto your life as if they're real priorities.

Well it's not like you have any friends and school is such a clusterfuck of nonsense you just transpose whatever nonsense in a game you can into your real life because at least it's something you understand and can see the end result of.

You wake up and you think "what do I have to do today?" And if your "list" is "Level fishing. Get gear. Grind faction," those feel REAL to you.

Well they are real goals. Just because they aren't good goals doesn't make them any less valid as goals.

MMORPG's aren't the only things that can create a false sense of importance, and project an entire reality worth of goals and objectives that require your attention but aren't real.

Well you'd certainly know about a false sense of importance, wouldn't you?

They want to be happy, and make themselves miserable in that pursuit.

Deeeeeeep. Tool.

Dear Scott,

Ur a n00b.

Dear Scott,

Fuck you.
Fucking hell, man. It's like you're trying to piss me (specifically me) off and you're succeeding.
Oh wait, you're not Scott. You're Chris.
Well fuck you too, Chris.

She's smart, well-educated, has an epic smile, is fun, likes video games, is homygod hawt,

She's also probably stone cold fuck nuts, what're you gonna do? If you like her so much why don't you date her?

Your pal who totally pwned you in finishing Zelda 2nd quest without using Nintendo Power as a guide,

Chris

My goal in life is to punch you right in the fucking mouth, Chris.
It'll be one of those punches where "personal safety" doesn't even register. I don't care how much it fucks up my own knuckles, your mouth is destroyed.

There's so much going on that no matter how much I want it, routine is just impossible. I'm trying to get settled into classes I'm taking, classes I'm teaching, buy books,

OR HOW ABOUT TRYING TO TAKE TWO CLASSES OUT OF ORDER AND GETTING AN EMAIL THREE WEEKS AFTER YOU CLEARED IT WITH EVERYONE ON THE PLANET ABOUT HOW SURPRISED THEY ARE YOU'RE TALKING THESE CLASSES TOGETHER AND YOU'RE JUST SURE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DROP ONE AND IF I HAVE TO BE HERE ANOTHER SEMESTER I'M GOING TO GO CRAZY--
Sorry I'm off topic, proceed.

I really just hate this time of year.

Well, Chris, I must say: you are a cunt.
You are everything wrong and fucked up about not only writing but the internet. And life.
Anyway I gotta go.

Rev your engines

FANFICTION. Can't you idiots just be a fan of something without "joining the fandom"? What a dumbass concept. "It's not enough to just like something, you have to join creepy internet communities and make an ass of yourself to show you really like something."
No, of course not. Here we are.

So I'm sitting here MSUing...what exactly is MSU? It stands for Making Shit Up. It's a term created by my work only "they" use the G version.

"they" use the G version. What--

What am I MSUing? I'm sitting here pondering what my friends on here actually look like. I've been corresponding with a few people for a year now. Shit, has it been that long? Anyhew,

>anyhew
Wow we need to talk.

So I thought I'd share with you my everlasting love for Fringe.

Here's me giving a fuck.
What's going on with FFXIV?
No patch today, huh.

So I've found out I have a freaking food allergy.

How bizarre is that?

That is so bizarre! Who has food allergies? No one but you, that's who!

I've never been allergic to ANYTHING besides dust, grass, mold. You know the usuals. I've never been allergic to FOOD.

"I mean I've eaten my way through several buffet-style lunches before, so you'd think if I had a food allergy I would have learned about it before now."

Apparently I have some sort of wheat allergy.

Oh. They call that Celiac Disease (or Coeliac Disease if you're British. And stupid). I don't think this is nearly as common as people would have you believe. I mean grains make up a pretty huge part of the diet and you'd think anyone with a serious allergy to gluten (what you're actually allergic to in wheat) would have been bred out of our glorious species before now.
I mean it's strange, isn't it? You never see Asian people with Celiac and they'd logically be the ones most likely to have it because gluten isn't present in rice and that's their primary grain crop.

The reason I found this out was while on vacation I cut out pretty much all wheat products and my severe heartburn and I mean SEVERE (Zantac wouldn't touch it) went away and I felt clear headed and was able to sleep through the night.

Scientific.
How do you know your heartburn was diet related and not, say, stress related?
How do you know your vacation in general didn't fix the problem?

Two nights ago I made a HUGE mistake. I had a Blue Moon beer. How was I to know it was a Wietbier made from fermented wheat?!?!?!

Considering most beer is fermented barley (which also has gluten) beer is pretty much out of your diet in general, what?
Oh I guess she only claims to be allergic to wheat.
Yeah, you know, all the hypo-allergens in wheat certainly can catch up to you.
Goddamn people who post on Livejournal are mentally ill.

Hey everyone! *waves*

How is your Sunday treating you?

Just shut up and do your post.

I can't believe what a doofus I am. I decided last night to post a personal ad on Craigslist. Now I remember exactly why I don't post ads on Craigslist.

I've actually debated doing a Craigslist post on Edie Finds a Corpse. It is pretty entertaining.

It causes weirdoes to come out of the woodwork.

Weirdos, on the internet?
Let me adjust my sarcastic shocked face.
:V

There's always that ONE guy that feels the need to critique your ad and point out the flaws as if being sardonic and mean is the way to a woman's heart.

Well it has been proven in two entire studies that men who don't look at the camera get more responses than men who do when taking a picture for their dating profile, so I can kind of see where he was headed with that.

Really asshole? Might I quoth "Goodfellas" when I say "GO FUCK YOURSELF!"

All right when you try to sound smart by saying "quoth" and then you use it incorrectly you just look like an idiot. "Quoth" is past tense. It's the same as saying "quoted".
That's why The Raven is written in past tense?
Fuck.

Next is the guy who likes hitting on younger women.

How strange.

Did I mention he's 56 and I'm in my 30's?

Okay you're in your 30s making Craigslist ads. You are clearly no prize, let's just be honest with ourselves.

So I'm sitting here weeding through replies and some actually sound normal. I'll see. Last time I did this I ended up going out on three dates with a closet Nazi.

Three dates so at least he was a charming Nazi.

When life get's me down I tend to turn to comedies for relief.

Especially anything that makes me laugh.

As opposed to all the comedies that don't make you laugh, what? Well I guess there are a lot of unfunny comedies but why would you even mention those?

Shit!

Fuck!

Son of a Bitch!

FFXIV just went down?

I've fallen into yet another FANDOM!!

Christ Almighty...

Say, aren't you a little too old to be doing this kind of thing?
Now here she's having a "Midlife crisis" which let's just suppose when she says she's "in her 30's (apostrophes don't work that way)" she means she's 39, because that's the only way she's technically in the middle of her life, although of course for most people that's something that happens in your 40s, but whatever.
Maybe she's like Dante and going by the Biblical midlife in which case she's exactly 30.

I finally figured it out what I want to be when I grow up.

I want to be a Human Rights Activist.

You're someone who has admitted to several thousand dollars in credit card debt and you're trapped in a dead-end job you hate with no relationships with other people. I think you've grown up.
But, hey, at least you're not in a self-imposed exile to the Dark Land, huh?

I'm pretty much obsessed with World War II. Specifically Easy Company and the 101st Airborne.

You know, like what all them TV shows and video games focus on.
Oh yeah, I see what you did there.
Here's how she describes her "sense of humor" in six words (I don't need that many words: you have no humor)

Dry, crude, intelligent, dark, easily amused.

>crude
>intelligent
Do these go together?
Anyway I think I'm going to go do something with my life because what follows is FANFIC FANFIC FANFIC LOL xD

Dark times indeed

Today's writer's (possessive) block asks WHICH YEAR OF YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN THE BEST SO FAR?
This question is perplexing to me on several levels. First, who honestly keeps track of what happens to them in an entire year that carefully to be able to answer with a definitive answer? I seriously tried to answer this question but it devolved into a "well this happened this year, I think, or no, did it happen that year?"
Anyway, one thing is clear: the year of our lord 2010 is not anyone's best year. A lot of people said a year from 2005-2009, which is strange because those years have been pretty objectively shit by any standard that matters.
Yoinokaku (no idea what that means either) took this as a chance to run his/her/its fucking yap, though.

Now, I complained dreadfully during my senior year, but it was also the year of my highest achievement (too bad senior GPA doesn't count for college), and it was also the year I got to spend a month in Europe, which I consider one of the traveling highlights of my life so far.

Well la-de-fucking-dah.
Also: why doesn't your senior year GPA count for college? That seems kind of silly and arbitrary to me. I guess a lot of people get lazy their senior year but what if you didn't? That's going to be held against you?
Also it should be held against you, fuck it.
Glad I punched out at noon during my senior year now.

There are many disadvantages to not being sure of one's major. Right now I'm stuck deciding between History and Psychology--both of which I'm interested in; Psychology is less writing-intensive, but I've taken more classes in History already.

Hi, you seem to be making the titanic mistake of "which major is easiest to graduate from?" instead of "which of these gets me work?"
Let me share a bit of wisdom with you: unless you have your doctorate no one cares about a psychology degree.
History, for reasons I have no understanding of, will get you mad money eventually.

plus I want to study abroad the spring semester of my junior year, plus all the courses I need to take for my major, plus if I'm going to major in Psych I need to decide, like, before registration for THIS spring

I've suddenly decided I don't care about this anymore. Next entry.

From wikiHow:

"Create a single, traumatic incident for your villain. It could be as devastating as seeing his parents murdered or as sublime as seeing a prized rosebush destroyed by the whims of nature. The reason for this is to create a turning point in the villain's life."

Is this how to create a good villain? If so, this is bad advice.
You need melodrama, otherwise no one will believe it.
Why do you want your villain to be sympathetic, anyway? You want your readers to like your hero (by whatever means necessary) and hate your villain (by whatever means necessary, no matter how cheap). This isn't hard, people.
Now there's a book review of a book no one has ever heard of before.

I just ate a fish for dinner, and afterward, my mom told me...she found a worm in the fish.

"WHY DID YOU SERVE FISH WITH WORMS IN IT?"

I'm not sure what it is with me and Kay (although my friend has similar opinions, so at least I'm not alone). I picked up Ysabel, which was lavishly praised on the back of Under Heaven and won the World Fantasy Award, apparently.

Oh, the World Fantasy Award. What prestige.

This may sound like false modesty, but I swear I am being sincere to the bottom of my heart: I've performed academically above my own expectations.

>false modesty
>performed above expectations
I don't get how modesty works sometimes. Maybe she was being modest before? Underestimating your abilities is modest, I guess.
Wouldn't modesty be more like "I think I can do this thing and hey, I sure can do it" and wouldn't ego be something like "yeah I'm the best in the whole universe"?

(Yeah, I'm scared by violence in movies...so what??!)

Pussy.
Speaking of a good old spot of ultraviolence, I saw that new Solomon Kane movie. What a bunch of fucking shit that was.
If there's one character that doesn't need an origins story (70 years after the author died, no less) it's Solomon Kane. Here's his story: he kills evil people. There it is. I don't need to hear about how he was a violent and greedy mercenary captain of noble birth who was bound for Hell until he-- yawn.
Here's a picture of her desktop that I'm looking at for some reason.
>Mac
>casual video game background
wow here's a big shocker.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. With colorful cel-shaded graphics and 1:1 swordplay. (And Link finally learns how to run.)

>finally learns to run
>he's been dashing since Link's Awakening
You don't play video games, do you? Also he ran all over the fucking place in the N64 ones but OH THOSE GRAPHICS ARE UGLY SO I SKIPPED THOSE.
Also I was kind of liking the darker graphics of Skyward Sword. It looked like a Zelda game that's actually different from the other ones post-Majora's Mask. I was even thinking about getting that one when it came out, but nope.

Kirby's Epic Yarn. I didn't even like Kirby games,

How can you not like Kirby games? Do you have no soul, woman?

Epic Mickey is looking very nice.

No it's not.

I was fiddling around with Final Fantasy IV (the DS remake) which has been kind of fun so far, but no matter how much I try not to let my opinions about the story interfere, I can't help it. I know I can't really blame the scenario writers because

Because the game is 19 years old and a "sweeping, epic story" was literally impossible with 1991 technology?
You have to give it credit. Any kind of character development was a new thing back then.

Main character Cecil has to change jobs from Dark Knight to Paladin because clearly being a Dark Knight is tainting his soul and making him unable to defeat evil with evil, but if he becomes a Shining Paladin of Light he can put his Troubled Bloodstained Past behind him and be a Good Person and a True Hero!

Hey that sounds pretty good, actually. That sounds like a classic redemption plot with no ham-fisted romance subplot that drones on for 40 hours. What's wrong with this?

The way I see it, there are only two advantages to Cecil becoming a Paladin: 1) he gets a cool cape, and 2) he becomes a freaking tank.

His stat gains double, he learns healing spells, he can equip weapons and armor that aren't shit-- you never beat the game, did you?

I don't know whether that outweighs the disadvantage of him going from level 25-ish all the way back to level 1

Level 10 paladin is stronger than 25 dark knight so it's no big deal.

Unfortunately, none of the other characters strike me as particularly interesting.

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I was Bootcamping my family's shiny new iMac in order to play Assassin's Creed (which I've been dying to play forever).

Soooo you're using an operating system to emulate an operating system to run a game that I suspect has very steep system requirements. I bet you're amazed it DOESN'T WORK GOOD (sic) (or at all).

I got it to work wonderfully, but then I later ran the Mac's Disk Utility, which gave me a critical error.

Oh, huh.
But I thought Macs JUST WORK.

Nothing worked to fix it, and eventually it progressed to the point where the iMac would shut down while booting up.

In the end, I had to completely wipe the hard drive and reformat it.

Meanwhile in PC land I can play Assassin's Creed or FFXIV to my heart's content.
Sure is good being me~

(Maybe I should give in and buy a PS3 or XBox 360 after all? *shot*)

You own a Mac. It's not like you're part of the glorious PC gaming master race in the first place. Peasant.

Why do people complain when an RPG is Wii-exclusive? Hello? The PS3/XBox360 has a huge library of RPGs already (FFXIII, Lost Odyssey, Eternal Sonata, White Knight Chronicles, etc. etc.) !!

Only one of these is worth playing, though.
Here's her review of Dante's Inferno (the vidya) wherein she admits she doesn't own it and hasn't played it. Brilliant.

I can't speak as to the originality/lack thereof in the game, considering I can't get it and would never want to play it anyway. My interest stemmed from a curiosity as to how the developers were interpreting the Inferno, which I read (though I preferred Purgatorio better).

>likes the boring chapter of the Divine Comedy better than the part with Satan
I don't even know what the fuck anymore.

I was partly amused and partly horrified at the changes. Instead of a fainting poet, Dante is now a scythe-wielding Crusader who fights his way through the nine circles of Hell.

When you say "scythe-wielding Crusader who fights his way through the nine circles of Hell" like it's a bad thing I'm pretty sure you lose 90% of your audience who was agreeing with you before.
The game wasn't great (it was good enough) but the criticism you're making so far is pretty silly.

I don't even want to think about the horrors of the circle of Lust.

Well as someone who actually bothered to play the game before writing a review, let me tell you what happens: you fight giant, snake-woman Cleopatra up a giant elevator contraption who eventually vomits up Mark Antony, who you then battle to the death. Then Cleopatra implodes for some reason.

Yes, I'm biased against violent games in general, but how about a puzzle-based platformer à la Ico, using Virgil to help Dante get around?

I said it should have been like Pokemon Snap but whatever. Your criticism seems more like "this game is icky and gross and not like my casual Facetube games at all."

Heh, funny that I thought of Ico/Shadow of the Colossus. I've barely seen Ico, though I've watched some gameplay of Shadow of the Colossus, and it creeped the living daylights out of me.

>the game I haven't played should be more like the other game I haven't played
WHAT THE FUCK, MAN.
She then goes on to call FFXIII a good game so I think this review is ending here before I get pissed.
Also here's my official summary of FFXIV:If these are dodos I don't know how they went extinct.
They slap your shit for 300 points of damage and then vomit all over you and you're dead. Keep the fuck away, man.

Postin'

Today's Monday, holy shit. I think I have a nutrition test tomorrow. I've been feeling strange lately.
BUT ARE YOU GETTIN' IT?
REALLY GETTIN' IT?
ARMAGEDDON IT?
This is one of THOSE BLOGS (in a voice as accusatory as I can possibly make it) where I have to agree a thousand times over that I'm older than 14. What kind of sense does this even make? 14 year olds can't make informed decisions about anything. If a 14 year old were irreparably harmed by one of these blogs (heh heh) there's no way this fucking warning would hold up in court.
All for what? This cunt's declaration that she loves the Lord Jesus Christ? Wow, how controversial.
Anyway what spawned this entry was the writer's block of the day:

If you were given the chance, what one thing would you tell the entire world?

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I have any wisdom that could really change the whole world so I think I'd go with something more that's pissing me right the fuck off: your and you're. I'd explain to people (even non-English speakers, fuck you) that these words are not the same.
Of course most of Livejournal went with the tried-and-true "PEACE IS THE ANSWER LOL" which given the number of times people have said that and it hasn't stuck I'm guessing peace either isn't the answer or no one cares enough to try it out, so time to find a new angle, people.
It's a nice thought but nope, not working.

I would tell the world to simply love one another as God loves them excluding no one, to forgive everyone and to smile, laugh, live and love evereyday as if it is their last.

What about the terminally ill? I bet they're feeling forsaken and not loving life, exactly.
Fuck you there are plenty of reasons to be miserable. Don't tell people what to do.
Hey, hey, here's a thought: if we're all children of God what's so special about Jesus?

I have always loved Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house.

Nope don't care. Next entry.
GOTTA BE 14 OR OLDER TO LISTEN TO HER RAMBLE ABOUT FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT.

I believe all our disease can be cured through the injestion of plant matter extracted in its purest form.

Dumbest fucking thing I've read today, probably. If this were the case there'd be no disease. You really think people wouldn't have figured this out before now? With hundreds of thousands of years (or 4000 years if we're going by your reckoning, I'm sure). I mean Christ all mighty, a plant can cure cancer?
Yeah pack that radiation shit up, we don't need to work this hard.
Twit.

Which famous or infamous historical person would you bring back to life, and why?
I would bring back to earth, our Lord Jesus Christ.

>Jesus Christ
>historical
Ha, ha, ha.
Youuuuu.

I would love to meet Him and to thank Him face to face for all of the mighty works He has done and for all the blessings in my life.

What'd he do, really? I mean he healed some blind people (allegedly) and walked across water (neat trick if there are no boats to be had I guess) and then he died.
Everyone that was alive is now dead and everyone alive today is going to die so that's not really a "mighty work", is it? He didn't even write his own fucking book. He had his followers do it for him. Really if they hadn't written it down no one today would have even heard of Jesus, so really we should be thanking the Apostles first and Jesus second.
Oh man all of these are writer's blocks, I just realized. WRITER'S BLOCK SPECIAL, WOOOOO--

What is your greatest fear?

I FEAR NOTHING.

My greatest fear is losing my Alan, being alone and homeless with no food or resoures. I am physically challenged in that I am reliant on a wheelchair

Yeah maybe if you weren't such a hambeast.

If you've been following a relatively obscure band and they start to become popular, do you tend to lose interest at some point? Is mainstream appeal a turn off when it comes to music?

What are you, a hipster? You liked it before, what changed? Nothing about the actual music, to be sure. Now here's a really long and boring story about how she found love in a "really odd place" (the internet, fucking wow) and-- whatever, Christ.
Well. That's the end of her blog. Short entry today, wooo--

Let's employ active language to engage readers from the onset~

Well, someone was paying attention in creative writing class, good grief.
After an incredibly bullshit two days with FFXIV (where, oddly, my school situation improved dramatically-- I wonder if there's an inverse "convenience" correlation there) I'm finally in that beta, so let's see if school doesn't take the shit now.
Oh, right. Claire Hawthorne's Garden (ugh).

Two days of warm sunny weather does not an Indian summer make......however, it's warmer than it's been for a long time with a weather forecast that seems quite settled, therefore I'm determined that the next few days are going to be spent outdoors in order to make the most of it.

Fascinating. What do you even say to this? Who the fuck cares about Indian summer or whatever the weather forecast or whatever this shit is?

The light has changed over the last few days; it's golden, mellow, less harsh than it has been over the previous weeks.

>semicolon
>less harsh
>mellow
JUST REWRITE THIS, FUCK ME. If the light is mellow isn't it, by definition, not harsh? Also you're creating a list. The list can't be its own sentence so you'd just use a colon because you're leading into the clause. In fact, this is expressly why the colon was created and you still missed the usage. Goddamn.

The last day of any month usually passes unmarked by any conscious thought, but this year the last day of August seems to have taken on a certain significance for me.
If only that wasn't the case, if only I could drift unknowing and thus unfeeling, from August through to September without any sense of loss.

DEEEEEEP.
You do realize no reader is going to have any clue what the fuck you're on about, don't you? Who, honestly, has ever heard of the end of the end of the month being "unthinking" prior to this nonsense?
That's not to say you can't coin new ideas but your ideas have to first make sense and second be cool, and this fails both checks. In fact, the end of the month is the time for most thought because that's when payments are due and especially when a season changes people have to go back to school or their work schedules change and a million fucking things are different at the end of a season.

To know it is August is to acknowledge it is still summer.....while to know it is September requires an acceptance of autumn.

I actually sat and watched the clock when I knew August was ending. September starts and we are in the month of FFXIV.

Yet nature moves at her own speed.

ALIEN. NOT YOURS.

The clear blue skies of this morning had disappeared by noon to be replaced with banks of broken grey cloud moving down from the north-west.

Man, you're boring, Claire. Let me rewrite this sentence for INTRIGUE.
The clear blue skies of this morning disappeared by noon, to be replaced by the indefinite shadows of ALIEN INVADERS.
YEAAAAAAAH. Also note "had disappeared" became just "disappeared" because "had disappeared" is passive voice (and therefore a no-no when writing an opening paragraph) but also because it's fewer words.

As the rosehips get redder their leaves slowly become more yellow.

Unbalanced sentence, ahoy! Wouldn't "get redder" sound a lot better with "become yellower" as opposed to "become more yellow (grammatically incorrect)"?

Howard and I didn't appreciate being woken unexpectedly this morning by the roofer

Howard and Claire. Let's just take a moment to hate them.
There we go.
How can you post this much about a fucking garden, Jesus Christ all mighty. I'd wager War and Peace, which is about a fucking war isn't as long as this nonsense and that book is like 2000 pages.

When I found this poem by Christina Rossetti this afternoon I thought how apt it was for today was a day when I had two and a half roses in the morning and none by dinnertime......

>found a poem
>apt
What, do you live at a college or something?

I also took the trowel and dug up all the golden feverfew seedlings from around the tree although I've left two in the shady stone circle until they develop stronger roots.

"Shady stone circle" sounds like something a grimoire in a video game might reference over and over and then you find out the "stone circle" is the giant, phallic tower when viewed from an aerial view and the shadow it casts at noon points to some secret archive or something.
Sorry this is so boring I'm trying to create interest where there is none, let's proceed.

They are going to have to grow quickly though for I'll need them dug up by the Full Moon.

... Because the archive closes forever at the next full moon.
The hell?

Today is Lughnasadh or Lammas, a celebration of the harvest.

Today is that noise you make when you have a lot of sinus leakage and you try to get all the snot into your throat.

This morning I was briefly horrified to see that the potted sage had appeared to wilt.

Good, fuck your potted sage. May a blight descend on your entire garden.

Today is still windy but not stormy which is a big relief for me, although it's still too windy to take any photographs of the garden.

.. while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
Man now I'm quoting Edgar Allan Poe, this is getting dire.

To my surprise yesterday's storms hadn't abated by this morning.

It's the tempest-worshiping Shadowmen who create this unholy affront to our nation.

Despite the unseasonal gusts,

Despite the accursed Sirocco wind that beats down upon my head, I make my way across the scorched and twice-damned wasteland to my destination: the camp of the Lost and Ill-Fortuned souls.
Man my sentences are so much better. They have mythological references, they have curses and damnation, they have tempest-worshipers-- man, I rule.

I was determined to get the rest of the golden feverfews moved into bigger pots for they appeared to have stopped growing in their root-bound state.

I kept a sprig of feverfew in my helmet to ward off sickness and disease, a superstition I now knew to be false as my leg joints ached and protested under the burning fever of Helljoint.
WOOOOOOO patch is done time to play some FFXIV.
New character time--
Miqo'te master race reporting in, I think--
Seeker of the Sun or Keeper of the Moon? One looks normal while the other is something straight out of your nightmares, I think this choice is obvious--
Lower intelligence than the Moon one, though. You heard it hear first, folks: nocturnal people have two more points of intelligence.
Well last time I picked pugilist which worked out fine but let's mix it up a little.
Let's try the coward's weapon: archer.
Apparently the shit I've selected has created someone with more fire than electrical defense.
Oh well, keep my character out of electrical currents and water and I guess I'll be fine.
Ah, see? Already it's raining fire. I knew fire resist would be important.
Oh right, this.
Err-- go away.

OPEN BETA MOTHERFUCKER (for real)

Ha, ha, just kidding about that whole "no peasants in my open beta that starts today (yesterday)" thing. It starts today (critical bugs prevented it from being yesterday but apparently not so critical to keep it down for more than 24 hours) also everyone is invited I guess.
Oh well, time to grind my wheels with boring bullshit I'll bitch about until 19:00 PDT (that's 10:00 PM in real time [EST]).
I found this jackoff via the WRITER'S BLOCK wherein Livejournal actively encourages bullshit nothing posts by posing questions that you can answer straight from your blog for free posts. Today's question piqued my interest because, well, it's one of my personal interests:

What kind of craft would you design to travel through time and space? How would it work? What would it look like?

If your answer isn't "a Gundam" or "a Battle Barge to PURGE THE ALIEN" you are officially boring.

A giant cloud o_O

Oh.
Oh...
His blog's name is "Nick Rides Clouds". I get it.
No, that's great. Really.

What is your opinion of relationships where there is a significant age difference between partners?

Oh another one of these, brilliant. Well if one partner is underage and one is 40 I think it's morally objectionable, but otherwise I do not give a single fuck.

It seems to me that often the older person is doing it so that they can get away with being manipulative, which is wrong.

... What?

The younger person can also use perceived attractiveness for manipulation, which is also wrong. But, I think it's ok if there's mutual attraction and no manipulation. I also think it's inappropriate to date people who are teens if you're, say, past 25 (and I think that's a liberal range).

Aw come on, can't a guy date a girl old enough to be his daughter?

Lately, most of the movies I've watched have stupid endings. It's like the writers think they're being all cool and postmodern by making a movie with a dynamic character, and then instead of completing the character's transformation or completing the point of the whole movie, they make an inconclusive ending. I think movie makers ought to take a clue from Japanese RPG endings.

I almost did a spit take when I read that.
Have you played any JRPGs lately? They're more guilty of this than any movie I've ever seen in my entire life.
Except The Matrix trilogy, maybe.
Also the Star Wars prequels (which were just plain bad).
But other than that, yes.

They're always long, and drawn out, no stone left unturned.

Except Final Fantasy XIII, good Christ.
If you're a fan of narrow corridors with no branching paths, I have a game for you.

Goddamn it I HATE when people give you a deadline for something and then nag you about it before the deadline.

Join the education department, then.
The education department, where you're not told your deadlines a good 50% of the time and you've exceeded deadlines to things you didn't even know existed.

I graduated college! Bachelor's degree in music, Magna Cum Laude, from Allegheny College. I'm now 22.

Whew, man. Glad I picked a degree where I can get a job or I'd find myself in your situation shortly.

I'm not straight edge anymore, but after some experimenting, my lifestyle has remained essentially the same. The main differences are that now I'll have a drink once a week or so, smoke some tobacco once in a while, and occasionally get a little intoxicated with friends.

Yeah, contrary to what most straight edge fags think (and they are fags) people who don't outright CONDEMN ALCOHOL aren't all raging alcoholics.

In a way, I feel stronger about my desire to be in control of my own life now, because I know that I'm not in denial of anything. I'm still vegan (of course), and have been getting more into Macrobiotics lately.

Jeez, what a pussy. How can you ever play a badass guitar when you're this much of a pussy?

Since graduating, things have been very difficult.

Because you have a degree in music with a focus in guitars, Christ all mighty. Let's take a brief survey and find out if the three greatest guitarists of all time even went to college, shall we?
Carlos Santana didn't even go to college, apparently.
Eric Clapton went but was kicked out, and
Slash didn't even graduate high school.
So there you have it, that's what three of the best guitarists have to say about school.

I'm thoroughly convinced that the frenetic pace, excessive waste, obsessive competitiveness, and apathy of modern society are simply crazy.

>Obsessive competitiveness
>apathy
Nope, can't have it both ways.

Farewell to one of the best straight edge hardcore bands ever, and definitely my favorite. I'm sad to see them go. I'm happy I got to see them play one more time though. I got kicked in the face a few times, but hey, that's hardcore.

Not really. Did you let those blows go unaccounted? If so, I have some bad news.
That's what knights used to do upon accepting a new knight into their ranks, don't you know. Wind up and crank them right in the jaw. "Let that be the only blow that goes unaccounted" and that was the end of the ceremony.
Goddamn people used to kick ass.

This Saturday, I went to D.C. to see the Holocaust Museum,

Oh I've been there. I also got to talk to a real life Nazi (who fought in the war, even). Shit was pretty cash, actually.

On the way up, I got to meet and talk to this girl Marla, who's actually from my hometown, so that was neat, but also a bit of an awkward situation to be in while the tv was simultaneously showing drunk blondes taking off their shirts. Hmm...

"Wanna follow their example? Eh? Eh?"

There's so much information and so many stories at the Holocaust Museum; I would have liked two full days to go through it instead of 2 hours.

Really? There's a lot of information at a museum? News to me.
71.7% done with this latest FFXIV patch. There have been three patches total between the end of closed beta and the beginning of open beta, which is exactly two more than I expected to have to download.

So, this semester at school, I decided I would go to the meetings of the college's Christian outreach club. It's designed to be for Christians of any persuasion, whether protestant, orthodox, catholic, etc... I felt as though I hadn't really given Christianity a fair shake.

Oh, that reminds me. I have to write a brief primer on a religion for "pussy sensitivity class" and worship of the Twelve Olympians isn't an option. Why are they discriminating against my religion? ;_;

I was raised protestant and orthodox

Err, okay?
You do realize the Protestants were protesting Orthodoxy, right (also Catholicism, which is the same shit basically)?

Many times, I find myself wondering how to live in this world, which has (as I like to put it) ended.

>world has ended
>the sun is still out, there are still TECHNOLOGICAL MARVELS ABOUND
wow what a drip.
Seriously we live in a world that is so technologically evolved when your aforementioned Christians were condemning witchcraft they might as well be condemning themselves, because to those primitives who wrote the Bible we are sorcerers one and all.

What does that mean? It means that the great world wars are over, and we generally live in a time of peace.

What'd Warhammer say about this? "It's not war that I fear, it's the unending hell of peace" or something?

We're not living in a world that's ended. We're living in the Roman Empire.

HOLY SHIT, EVEN BETTER.
Goddamn my day just got better.
Out of the way, plebeians.

The U.S. has become, to a large degree, the enemy of goodness, and this is why it's so hard for us to see what's right or wrong anymore.

>Roman Empire
>enemy of goodness
Considering they enjoyed some of the highest standards of living (for the time) in the world and their collapse heralded a dark age that lasted for hundreds of years I'm not sure I really follow you here.

Think about it. Today, Americans are party to the killing of a million animals every hour for food.

Americans are also party to killing hundreds (probably) of people every day. So what?

The point is, things are essentially the same as always. When you take a good look, the "evil" in the world is plain to see, and it's obvious what's right to do: fight it. The biggest obstacle, really, is getting over our fear of confrontation, and I speak for myself most of all when I say that.

Hey man, you posted this to the greatest invention mankind has ever conceived (the instant sharing of information the world over) under a government where you can openly call the government murderers and they don't even arrest you. I can think of at least ten ways in which you have it better than the average Roman citizen.
I wish...
people showed kindness to each other more often.
Ho-boy.
Anyway my patch is done and I have some posts to make on another blog I'm keeping for school as well as BLACKBOARD POSTAN so I guess I'll be off.
Hey if anyone is reading this and playing FFXIV (no one) pick Jecht as your server and maybe we can hang out sometime :3