Weekly Wrap-Up

1. What’s your favorite method of travel? Why? Airplane, cause flying rules. It’s even better if I get to fly some.

2. What’s the longest road trip you’ve ever taken? Where? I drove myself to Pennsylvania a couple years back, near York. It was to visit a pal of mine who was staying with his Grandmother for the summer while he worked up there. Good trip, except I got food poisoning and felt like I was dying once I got back.

3. How many plane trips have you taken in your life? Don’t recall, a lot.

4. What method of travel do you fear so much or intensely dislike that you avoid it? Why? Boat. Cause boats sink. I’ve seen Titanic, I know this stuff.

5. Describe the worst travel experience you’ve ever had. Uh… haven’t traveled nearly enough to really say what the worst was, truthfully. Always been okay. Except when I was a kid. Every trip more then ten minutes sucks when you’re a child.

How 2 Be Uh Thug This guy’s been stealing my moves.

When I was a kid I wanted to be hard core. I wanted to be a thug. I wanted people to see me and run, and not in the way they do now. I wanted to strike fear in the hearts of other guys so they would think I could kick their ass and have sex with their sister.

I’ve already talked about fighting, but now I’m teaching you how to act the part. Sure, this might piss off your parents, but isn’t that what life’s all about? FECK YOU MOMMY AND DADDY! I’m a big boy now!

The McDonalds nutrition calculator is actually pretty frightening. My super sized McChicken meal looks like this:

Total: 1470 52 9 45 1270 238 10 23 % Daily Value**: - 81 47 15 53 79 39 -

Why don’t they tell you the calories percentage?

This week’s Friday Five

1. Who is your favorite celebrity? Nicole Kidman. Mmmmm……

2. Who is your least favorite? Whoever is currently seeing Nicole Kidman, that bastard.

3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life? Uh, yeah, but I don’t recall who. Dan Bern, the guy ‘Born on the 4th of July’ was about, um… crap, I’ve met other folks. Really.

4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not? Sure. The money would be good, but only because it would allow me to do things that I can’t do broke, like help lots of folks. And the popularity would help for that as well. It’s easier to promote a cause when folks know ya.

5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why? Whoever Nicole Kidman is currently seeing. Because she’s hot.

Get your talking Iraqi Information Minister doll here!

CNN Obituaries before folks are even dead…

BlogStreet looks kinda cool. I’m gonna have to play with it more when I get a chance.

20 Questions

1. What will you be doing over the Easter weekend? Homework.

2. How did you celebrate your last birthday? I went to work.

3. What would be the best birthday present you could receive? Free college education.

4. What did you do on your best birthday ever? A bunch of friends took me out drinking for my 21st birthday (a week after it because I was ill).

5. What picture is on your desktop wallpaper? Blue.

6. What is on your mouse mat? ( apart from the mouse - LOL!!! ) Some paining. I don’t know what it’s supposed to be or who did it. Kinda crappy, if you ask me.

7. Which colour do you wear most often? Tan or blue.

8. What is the view like from the window nearest your computer desk? Jenn’s backyard. Well, that’s Jenn’s computer. Mine? My apartment parking lot.

9. Are you artistic? In what way? I play the guitar and write. I think those are artistic things.

10. Who is your favourite artist? Ed Hopper

11. Who is your favourite author? Fiction? Toss up between Tim Sandlin and Jonathan Lethem with Christopher Moore close behind.

Non-fiction? Uh, that’s a tough one as I don’t read a whole lot of non-fic so not a lot of any one person’s.

12. If you won a lottery what would you spend the money on? School for myself and my family, probably a house, and invest the rest.

13. What sort of car do you drive? 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer.

14. How do you dress? ( i.e. smart, casual, power suits, scruffy, etc. ) Business casual weekdays, scruffy weekends.

15. How much jewellery do you wear? What is it? None since my watch band broke.

16. Have you ever dyed your hair? What colour? Nope.

17. What was the last song you heard? I forget the name, but it was by Gomez

18. What do you think about smoking? ( for, against? ) Pipe tobacco? If it’s a good tobacco, good stuff.

Cigars? Again, if they’re good, yea!

Cigarettes? Not for me, but whatever you want to do is cool.

19. Where would you most like to live? I don’t know, really. Overseas would be neat. I’d actually like to travel if at all possible, go here for a few months, there for a few more, stuff like that. Do it while I can and all.

20. How often do you blog? Whenever I’m online, really.

Artifice Comics Presents

Bush43 Issue #8 - “My Losing Ways”

By Jason Kenney

I ran across the roofs already drenched in sweat.

Normally I would be enjoying this run, this freedom. I should have been, considering I had been locked up in a freakin’ asylum like a nutcase for Lord knows how long. But there would be time for delight later.

Right now I was pissed.

Oh, the fury.

City Hall waits for no man.

I stopped for a moment at the edge of a building across the street from the seat of government for Pacific City and scanned the area.

Cops. And the press. And bystnders. Lots of each. Why the crowd around City Hall? Someone expecting me?

And how the hell was I going to get in there?

The street between me and city hall was one of those four lane deals with a median down the middle, wider than most streets in Pacific City and therefore harder to leap across. The only thing I’d have going for me in that kind of jump was the fact that the building I was on was taller than city hall and I was super strong.

But everyone would see me leaping.

And while that might not have been a bad thing before, I’m not necessarily out and about on the best of circumstances.

I ran to the opposite end of the roof, making up my mind to try the jump.

“Millennium Man could make this jump,” I said aloud to myself. “Think Millennium Man.”

I ran towards city hall, getting my feet on the edge of the building and pushing up and off and into the air.

I leaned forward, trying to streamline my body to get as little drag as possible, reaching out so I could grab onto the edge of city hall should I fall just a wee bit short.

But as I started my downward arc I realized I was going to fall a little more than just a ‘wee bit’ short.

I shielded my face as I tore through a window a few floors from the top, colliding with a chair and then a desk and toppling both as I fell into the office.

I continued my tumble, trying to make it a graceful cartwheel of some sort and land on my feet, but instead hitting the far wall of the office with my ass and legs. I lay there a moment, letting my body adjust to the feeling of tumbling through an office, and then I pushed myself to my feet.

I opened the office’s door and stepped into the hallway, smiling as I heard gasps from people who were shying away from the room where the wonderful clatter came from.

“Pardon me, folks,” I said, putting my hands on my hips in some sort of heroic gesture, “but could one of you fine citizens point me towards the mayor’s office?”

Yep, my wonderful series of a young man’s heroic adventures while wearing a mask bearing the likeness of our President continues with a hard hitting, mind numbing, not nearly as long as the last, issue! WOO!

Please read it.

Fetish ‘doctor’ castrated 50 men

A university student in the US, convicted of castrating men for their sexual pleasure, confessed to honing his bizarre skills in Australia.

Taiwanese engineering student Shuo-Shan Wang told US authorities he performed his first four castrations in Australia before taking the knife to more than 50 men worldwide.

A US court heard Wang, 29, advertised his unusual services on the website of an international network of men whose fetish is in having their testicles removed.

Wang, who lived in Australia until several years ago, was arrested 10 months ago after a man began haemorrhaging outside his home in Detroit, Michigan, following a voluntary castration.

The 48-year-old man said he sought the castration because he had a sexually transmitted disease and no longer wanted a sex drive.

I guess that’s fifty folks who won’t be able to get their beat on in the Masturbate-a-thon

Dog’s tale has a happy ending (Ha ha!)

Robert Howard’s 4-year-old Dalmatian Willie got himself into a heap of trouble chasing a cat at about 4:30 p.m., Monday.

Howard’s home off Spirit Lake Highway in Castle Rock is atop a 70-foot cliff that “goes quite a distance on both sides,” said Eric Koreis, Castle Rock emergency services director.

The cat leaped onto a tree that hangs partly over the cliff and Willie went skidding off the edge, falling 70 feet to the Toutle River below.

I saw that cartoon already.

The Charles Manson gigapet

Republicons.org is a not for profit enterprise begun to combat the resignation or anger felt by most progressives in America. We believe it is necessary, but not sufficient to be antagonistic to the conservative powers that be. We must do more however, we must spearhead a rebirth of progressive ideals that are contemporary, dynamic and mature to gain traction. If we must be CONtrary, let’s be CONstructive. It’s unfortunate that this is considered some new tactic. I thought it was common sense to field viable and reasonable ideals of your own if you wanted to counter those of your opponent.

Powell vs Kissinger

Powell regrets U.S. role in 1973 Chile coup

When a student asked Secretary of State Colin Powell about the 1973 military coup in Chile, the retired general turned diplomat made no secret of his deep misgivings about the U.S. role in that upheaval.

“It is not a part of American history that we’re proud of,” Powell said, quickly adding that reforms instituted since then make it unlikely that the policies of that Cold War era will be repeated.

The matter might have ended there had not Washington operative William D. Rogers taken notice of Powell’s televised comment. Rogers served under Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1975-76 as the department’s top official on Latin America and maintains a professional relationship with Kissinger.

In a highly unusual move, the State Department issued a statement that put distance between the department and its top official. The statement asserted that the U.S. government “did not instigate the coup that ended Allende’s government in 1973.”

Rogers was concerned that Powell’s comment was reinforcing what he called “the legend” that the Chile coup was a creation of a Kissinger-led cabal working in league with Chilean military officers opposed to Allende. He called the department legal office to point out that there was a pending law suit against the government and Powell’s comment was not helpful.

“I also called Kissinger,” said Rogers. “I talked to him about it. I wouldn’t say he was upset. … I told Henry I think this is bad stuff. It doesn’t help the U.S. legal position.”

Rightly or wrongly, Kissinger has been linked to the coup that brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military government to power.

Ha ha! Powell’s great. I don’t think this is going to get Kissinger in any hot water, but it’s good to hear someone say that some things we may have done in the past are regretful, but are in the past.

You know, I’m sick of people arguing “when has America ever” when talking about our ‘noble’ goals on the international front. It’s not about whether or not we’ve done something in the past but whether or not we learned from that action (or lack thereof). People screaming “America has never built a democracy in a foreign nation” when we went after Afghanistan and Iraq are arguing on the past, ignoring the merits that may exist within current plans and leaders. Ultimately, you can not judge how someone like Colin Powell is going to do their job based off of how Henry Kissinger did his. That’s like saying the guy who had your job before you sucked, so we’re expecting you to suck just as much.

Wait, you mean the US Military purposefully targeted journalists for the hell of it? Wow, who’d have thunk it?

Dumbasses. Look, if you go into a war zone, your ass is on the line. You can not expect every soldier and every tank to know exactly what each building is or where every journalist is, so when you sit in a hotel in an enemy city and gunfire comes either from or from very near that building, guess who’s ass is in the crosshairs? And with an unknown number of bombs going off target time to time, yes, there will be civilian casulties, and, guess what? Every once in a while one of those civilians might be a journalist in the field (GASP!).

So, okay, fine, maybe the military is targeting you. Or maybe they’re targeting the city you chose to put yourself into or the block that you happen to be on or the building that happens to be next door. And maybe, because you put yourself in those situations, you’re going to get hurt time to time. It comes with the job, people. I’m sorry, but no tears here.

Truthfully, we’re lucky more journalists didn’t die with the large number that were embedded and in the country otherwise.

Ask and ye shall receive…

Ruben would like the world to be exposed to his new video, ‘Format’. I’m not sure if I’m the best platform to use for such a conquest considering how few people regularly visit my site compared to many others, but I will assist in any way I can.

Don’t fear the big blue furry shark. He is your friend.

This or That Tuesday

1. File taxes as early as possible, or wait until the last possible minute? The earlier you file, the earlier you get your return. File early.

2. File electronically, or mail paper forms? Paper, because it’s free.

3. Prepare your own taxes, or have someone do it for you? My own. Nothing too complicated I can’t handle.

4. Are you a saver or a spender? Spender. Spend spend spend.

5. Do you prefer to carry cash, or pay with plastic (credit/debit cards), or by check? While cash burns a hole in my pocket, I prefer it over credit but checks are best.

6. You’re broke and desperately need a job, but the only places that are hiring are retail or fast food places. Which would you pick? Retail. Done it before, I could do it again. Hell, I keep thinking of doing it again.

7. Keeping track of your money: are you more meticulous or careless about it? Careless. Oh, God, do I suck with money.

8. What do you do if you find yourself with a lot of change weighing down your purse/pocket/wallet? Do you try to spend it to *get rid of it*, or do you put it in a jar or a piggy bank? I put it in a jar until I need it. Had a pop corn bucket a third full and got eighty bucks out of it when I was really broke.

9. Which form of fake money do you like better…Monopoly money or those chocolate coins covered with gold foil? Mmmm….. Monopoly money….

10. Thought-provoking question of the week: You find a wallet containing $5,000 in cash, as well as several credit cards and the owner’s drivers’ license. Your rent is due tomorrow and you’re short $200. Do you take the money (some or all of it) and mail back the wallet anonymously…or do you return the wallet with all contents intact? I return with all contents intact. My debts are my fault and I’ll take the fall for them, no reason to take someone else’s money. Besides, maybe they’ll hook me up with a reward of money that would help or just alcohol so I could drown the problems away.

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