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"A Traveler's Diagram"
One of my favorite things to do at work is archive slides. There's one guy who's about to retire that brings in a lot of them. After I told him how to steal Fats Domino records off the internet, he told me I could use the images for whatever I want (like I said, he's about to retire and he seems to be of that class of person that's less sad about it and more like, "F**k this work s**t"). I can't find the disc... I think it's out in my car... But I started this with the intention of posting one of a bunch of buses sitting outside (the palace at) Versailles circa 1970-something. They look like something out of Munich or one of those other period pieces.
Oh well.
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-Funniest things I read this week: (here and here)
-Regarding the latter, I'm referring to the sub-headline (something about grown women acting like teenagers). I saw Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants. One of my ex-girlfriends (whom I mentioned a few entries back) "made" (looked as promising as most other movies) me watch it and I liked it okay.
-Regarding the former, I'm referring to the sentence where Lessenberry says: "...as I write this he is still denying fathering her baby. That's certainly plausible to me; I visit single women and their babies in the Beverly Hills Hotel all the time." Most insightful and reasonable things I've seen on the Edwards scandal are here and here.
-If I don't mention it now, I never will, but while I can't actually say "Bro's before Ho's" out loud (much less subscribe to the doctrine), amongst other things, it appears to be an institution that protects men from disagreement vs. opposition.
-Speaking of disagreement vs. opposition, I was involved in a romantic relationship with another man's wife. The circumstances were probably about as normal as they get (they married really young and I get the feeling that - for my generation - the only things keeping the divorce rate from reaching 95-100% will be religious fundamentalism, 2nd marriages, and premature death), but I noticed that when they found out, even my most open-minded and "sensitive" guy friends tended to say, "Alright!" or "Good job!" with the tone of voice that one might associate with high-fives. The woman I was involved with kind of acted like whichever Candace Bushnell character she liked best that week (that's a really nice way of putting it). After awhile, I didn't behave very well, either. I tried to for a very long time and then gave up.
The premise is pretty loaded, so the longer it went on, the more behaving honestly and/or with dignity stopped being an option. Which brings up the real issue: It's not really about who behaves the best or who behaves the worst or who's to blame. It was really, really sad. I've been involved in or on-the-cusp-of a lot of really, really sad situations and it was definitely up there with the worst of them. And at its best and worst moments, it played-out, ended, and lived on like most other crappy situations going on around me. I recognize that there's a degree of relevance and necessity, but if the media abstains (completely, regardless of any developments) from writing about the personal lives of the Edwards family (Man Fucks Woman, Breaks Best Friend's Heart, Dying Wife Says Moon Told Her About It After Being Abducted By Aliens In Grassy Knoll - OMG, WHO'S HE TALKING TO!?!?!?!?), I'll personally pay for Commander Oefelein to attend one of Jeremy Snitkins men's retreats.
-Judith Beerman responding to Snitkin's Aug.2009 bong loaded op-ed on the how the Promise Keepers is actually a secret society of "Funbag Punchers" can be found here
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Lite-Hammer of +3 Poor Taste
Detroit, MI
Aug.9, 2008
12.39am
One of my favorite things to do at work is archive slides. There's one guy who's about to retire that brings in a lot of them. After I told him how to steal Fats Domino records off the internet, he told me I could use the images for whatever I want (like I said, he's about to retire and he seems to be of that class of person that's less sad about it and more like, "F**k this work s**t"). I can't find the disc... I think it's out in my car... But I started this with the intention of posting one of a bunch of buses sitting outside (the palace at) Versailles circa 1970-something. They look like something out of Munich or one of those other period pieces.
Oh well.
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-Funniest things I read this week: (here and here)
-Regarding the latter, I'm referring to the sub-headline (something about grown women acting like teenagers). I saw Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants. One of my ex-girlfriends (whom I mentioned a few entries back) "made" (looked as promising as most other movies) me watch it and I liked it okay.
-Regarding the former, I'm referring to the sentence where Lessenberry says: "...as I write this he is still denying fathering her baby. That's certainly plausible to me; I visit single women and their babies in the Beverly Hills Hotel all the time." Most insightful and reasonable things I've seen on the Edwards scandal are here and here.
-If I don't mention it now, I never will, but while I can't actually say "Bro's before Ho's" out loud (much less subscribe to the doctrine), amongst other things, it appears to be an institution that protects men from disagreement vs. opposition.
-Speaking of disagreement vs. opposition, I was involved in a romantic relationship with another man's wife. The circumstances were probably about as normal as they get (they married really young and I get the feeling that - for my generation - the only things keeping the divorce rate from reaching 95-100% will be religious fundamentalism, 2nd marriages, and premature death), but I noticed that when they found out, even my most open-minded and "sensitive" guy friends tended to say, "Alright!" or "Good job!" with the tone of voice that one might associate with high-fives. The woman I was involved with kind of acted like whichever Candace Bushnell character she liked best that week (that's a really nice way of putting it). After awhile, I didn't behave very well, either. I tried to for a very long time and then gave up.
The premise is pretty loaded, so the longer it went on, the more behaving honestly and/or with dignity stopped being an option. Which brings up the real issue: It's not really about who behaves the best or who behaves the worst or who's to blame. It was really, really sad. I've been involved in or on-the-cusp-of a lot of really, really sad situations and it was definitely up there with the worst of them. And at its best and worst moments, it played-out, ended, and lived on like most other crappy situations going on around me. I recognize that there's a degree of relevance and necessity, but if the media abstains (completely, regardless of any developments) from writing about the personal lives of the Edwards family (Man Fucks Woman, Breaks Best Friend's Heart, Dying Wife Says Moon Told Her About It After Being Abducted By Aliens In Grassy Knoll - OMG, WHO'S HE TALKING TO!?!?!?!?), I'll personally pay for Commander Oefelein to attend one of Jeremy Snitkins men's retreats.
-Judith Beerman responding to Snitkin's Aug.2009 bong loaded op-ed on the how the Promise Keepers is actually a secret society of "Funbag Punchers" can be found here
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Lite-Hammer of +3 Poor Taste
Detroit, MI
Aug.9, 2008
12.39am