You know, reading shit like this is why I love the ironic simplicity of Soldiering.

The facebook status update of one of my friends in Afghanistan:whats on my mind? hmmm naked chicks, beer, naked chicks drinking beer, drinking beer with naked chicks drinking beer...
God bless America.

I don't know why it is that I'm never compelled to write anything anymore.  I think that cynicism destroys your creative output.  Ironically, the contents of this update feature behavior very lacking in cynicism ( Read more... )

In service to the last post, and as the most strikingly emotional example of what I was talking about I have seen in a while:


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“It’s an honorable profession.  We protect those who cannot protect themselves.”

I spent a lot of time over the last year trying to figure out what exactly the role of a Soldier in the modern world for the contemporary American military is.  Left wing people I know, free from the emotional connection of having someone in the military, love to point ( Read more... )

I have a ridiculous love-hate relationship with this job ( Read more... )

I think that if Stanley Kubrick had hired middle school bands to conduct all of his movie scores, modern film theory would consider him even more of a genius than they already do.

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I am being shamelessly manipulated by propaganda, I know. But it's still nice to know that the movie trailer for my job is way cooler than the movie trailer for your job. Your job is stupid. You probably don't even have a movie trailer for your job.

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Now if you'll excuse me, it's time to watch football with a bunch of desaturated, digitally-camo' ( Read more... )

Okay.  The first 30 seconds of the song Resistance on Muse's new album are like directly ripped from the song Dumbledore's Farewell on the Half-Blood Prince soundtrack.

I am horrified that I identified that.

But that's actually a good thing.  New album = good from a minutes sampling.

Also:  FALL IS HERE IN UPSTATE NEW YORK AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL!

And this will be me:


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I love my family.  I love everything about the last 16 days.  I don't want to go back to New York tomorrow and I don't want to go to Iraq ( Read more... )