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.