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Latest Humorous T-shirt Slogan: "Baltimore Colts", this one had the logo of the Baltimore Colts as well. Why is that humorous? How many decades have passed since the Colts were in Baltimore? (the answer is slightly over two decades).
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Music lost to history:
Alice Cooper is basically what Marilyn Manson has become. He sang about really taboo subjects at a time
when taboo actually was taboo. This particular tune is one that I began listening to after being dumped by the girl that I was supposed to marry
back in the early nineties. It is actually one of three songs that play back to back on most albums. Those three songs are, if memory serves,
"chop, chop, chop", "Gail" and "Roses on White Lace". I never really appreciated the other two quite as much as this one, but then I have
never hacked anyone to death, so check back later... This song stands alone as being pretty cool just because it states the anger that I was having at the time (back in the '90s). At the same time, it illustrates that Marilyn Manson is following the course of another very successful rocker. While Cooper's songs were not earth-shaking, they were provocative. That single fact is what has led to Manson's success. I have never heard or read Marilyn Manson say that Alice Cooper was an actual influence on his music, but here is an example of it from twenty years ago. Obligatory Linkage: BlackChampagne.com- Without his site, my site would never have existed. Is It Porn? The first site in this experimental category is Was.com, the idea here is that you have to guess if it is porn or not based on the name.
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Strange how time seems to move so quickly isn't it? I just updated the dead link at the bottom of this page (you know the one; it entices you to click on the next update, regardless of the fact that
I have yet to write it), I have thought to change that link so that is just text, but then I would not have all of the personal satisfaction of knowing that someone, somewhere, is actually trying to
click on it. At any rate, It was during this little process that I realized that it is going to be October pretty soon, within a few hours in fact. Seems like it was only last week that I was thinking I needed
to get the damn archives around here up to date, of course that was while I was on vacation in July, so you should see what I am getting at with the movement of time.
The real problem with updating the archives isn't about actually spending the time to do it, since it honestly only takes me a few
seconds to scan each update, write a very brief description and slap it on the page. No, no, the real problem with it is that it requires me to read
all the dribble that I write. Did you think that the lack of proofreading was due to my integrity? No, nothing like that at all. People say that you are always
more critical of your own work, but come on, some of this garbage is just, well, garbage.
When I initially set up this site it was due to a free site having deleted my page and all of its content. Paying a few bucks a month to keep the content online didn't seem like a bad idea, so
that is what I did. I am not sure if I ever had the intention of setting up a daily journal/blog -type thing, but that is what happened. While I do enjoy writing all of the stuff that I post
here, I don't really enjoy reading it all that much. The writing of it is quite theraputic, while the reading of it is boring to me, and hopefully no one else.
It is with those beautiful, self-deprecating thoughts that I go into todays post..Be Warned..
• I, and I alone, have taken it upon myself to declare today "National Stand Out On Your Lawn Holding A Large
Metal Pole While Praying For Ligntning Day". Possibly not the whole day, but certainly for the two hours that the presidential candidates
are going to be on television. I am not one to be cynical, oh wait I guess I am, but the simple fact that the online games I like to play have flooded over
with players since the start of the 'debate' just makes me think that no one really cares which party has the better control of their puppet.
I am actually going to go watch the debate to see if I can be so 'Un-American' as to try to form my own opinions based on what the candidates say. Of course the debate is
all but scripted, so good luck to me.
I hope to pick this up after Survivor is over, but no gurantees.
The debate was all that I expected: Bush said the phrase "war on terror" at least a thousand times (and I only watched half of it), while Kerry did his best to bring the facts into view; The fact that Iraq was less of a threat than
at least four other countries (as far as 'weapons of mass destruction'), the fact that we invaded Iraq on our own (no help from the UN on that one), the fact that the deaths in Iraq have been steadily going up since the war was 'over' (deaths being both the U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians).
For some reason you can't seem to hammer a fact into the head of George W. Bush...No, seriously, I bet if you had a fact that you wanted him to hear, then listened to how the 'key part of the war on terror' that fact was, then you became agitated and grabbed a hammer....You know where this is going.
The really unfortunate thing is that I don't think that Kerry really did all that well at the debate. I could be wrong, or cynical, but it seemed that Bush was able to make his little eyes very steely when he looked into the camera and said "terror" or "war on terror". I think Kerry had a lot more facts than Bush, possibly a better
way to achieve the goals (though that would require looking at each candidates website to find out), I just think that Kerry might have been able to sell himself a bit better.
One thing, in the debate, that I found to be a bit surprising was that Kerry actually brought up the subject of 'stem cell research', and Bush's policy against it. It was a bit of manuevering that Bush had to do to get that subject
changed back to the 'war on terror', but he did it. He never once mentioned his staunch opposition of it. I tell you, if Bush is not re-elected he could certainly make a good spin doctor for someone else, someone else who likes to
not hide facts, but change subjects, that is.
This year's presidential debates are going to fall into the next trivial pursuit game, I am afraid. The only people that are watching them are steadfast supporters of one or the other of the
candidates. The 'undecided' people are all playing on-line games, much like I should be, but my 'journalistic integrity'(hehe) keeps me from doing so.
Here's to hoping that the presidential candidates sober up...
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