I woke up really blue this morning. I'm super-duper crushin' on someone right now. 

So I'm listening to this.

It's Official

I found the place. It's not my dream place. But it's reality. And that's fucking beautiful too...

P.S. I've got a feeling that I belong here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5OHdDZYxZc

Watch this. NOW.

Earth Day

I'll be planting a tree. Will you?

4/20 

I Believe In Doubt/I Doubt I Believe

The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end... Plain fact is, religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge having in key decisions made by religious people. By irrationalists. B those who would steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken. George Bush prayed a lot about Iraq, but he didn't learn a lot about it... Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction. Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do. Most people would think it's wonderful when someone says, "I'm willing, Lord! I'll do whatever you want me to do!" Except that since there are no gods actually talking to us, that void is filled in by people with their own corruptions and limitations and agendas... And anyone who tells you they know, they just know what happens when you die, I promise you you don't. How can I be so sure? Because I don't know, and you do not possess mental powers that I do not. The only appropriate attitude for man to have about the big questions is not the arrogant certitude that is the hallmark of religion, but doubt. Doubt is humble, and that's what man needs to be, considering that human history is just a littany of getting shit dead wrong... This is why rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you comes at a horrible price... If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers. If the world does come to an end here, or wherever, or if it limps into the future, decimated by the effects of religion-inspired nuclear terrorism, let's remember what the real problem was. We learned how to precipitate mass death before we got past the neurological disorder of wishing for it. That's it. Grow up or die.

Bill Maher

Assignment #50

Take a flash photo under your bed. 

Assignmet #37

Write down a recent argument. 

{Approximately 10:37 in the morning on a Wednesday. 34 degrees fahrenheit. Television on in the background. "The View". It's  the two of us.}

Me:  "I think that I'm going to sell my eggs."

You: "What?"

Me: "I said...I'm going to sell my eggs."

You: "Your eggs...?"

Me: "Yeah. Sell 'em."

You: "Where did this come from?"

Me: "It didn't 'come' from anywhere, Mom. I've just decided. And that's that."

You: "Oh! Okay...so you've 'decided'. Who you gonna sell your eggs to?"

Me: "Whoever wants them..."

You: "Well, I think it's a stupid idea."

Me: "Of course you do."

You: "What's that supposed to mean?"

Me: "It means you think all of my ideas are stupid."

You: ---

Me: "It means you think I'm a fucking idiot."

You: ---

Me: "It means you've never cared ONCE about what I want."

You: ---

Me: "It's ALWAYS been about what YOU want. Hasn't it?"

You: ---

Me: "Hasn't it?!?!"

You: ---

Me: ---

You: ---------

Me: ---------

Me: "I'm not even old enough to sell my eggs anyway."

You: "I know."