craig joyner

brentbent @ 2001-03-27T23:15:00

2001-03-28T07:14:12Z

Just got up a few hours ago from a major sleeping session after yesterday's screwing up of my schedule by covering ty's radio show i ended up with not enough sleep.well major time has elapsed between now and the first sentence, pab showed up right after i started typing and we hung out for some time, talking and whatnot. He's really smart, we did alot of book talking mostly of stephen king, cuz he's reading his new one, and we talked alot of scifi in general, robert jordan, robert salvatore--i still haven't gotten pab to read any of the Drizzt books but he's getting more interested now that he realizes the Icewind Dale Trilogy relates to the IWD video game he played on his computer. Im currently reading Servant of the Shard, the latest in the series, just got it yesterday and it's awesome some far. Artemis Entreri is back, the horrible but troubled human assassin is now in charge of a massive crime syndicate in Calimport with another woman named Sharlotta, the world at large sees them running the Bassadoni Family Guild, which now has a stranglehold on all crime in Calimport, is really ran by dark elfs who have risen up from the underdark to expand the empire of Jarlaxle the other main character that's evil and wicked, leader of the dark elf band of renegade male nobles, Bregan Da'erthe, is way worse than any human crime syndicate could get for dark elfs come from a society of assassins, backstabbers, and conspirators. Dark Elfs also have massive talents in the world of magic, even the weakest noble can levitate and summon globes of pure darkness. And their best can rivall anybody else who claims to be the best, magic flows in them and their culture, they have learned how to imbue items with bizarre radiations emanating deep within the bowels of the earth, fortunately for the topsiders that power fades away fast in sunlight! Jarlaxle has Crenshinnibon, the Crystal Shard, an ancient artifact of pure evil, a crystal shard that is sentient and capable of massive feats of magic from raising crystal towers, scrying and magical cross the distances communication, attacks that disintegrate, rain down walls of fire, and dominate beings minds just to name a few. Drizzt knows this and accidentally gave it to him when he thought he was giving it to Cadderly, a high priest of Deneir, he was going to help Drizzt to destroy the artifact. Jarlaxle used his compatriots skills and summoned massively powerful illusions that tricked decades hardened warriors and adventurers, so he gave it to a fake Cadderly. But now they know that and they're after crystal shard for it to be destroyed so it's evil stop inflicting pain upon the world. The Shard has a long history of getting its "owner" to do what it want done by implanting visionary dreams into their sleeping, dreams of conquest, of being a king, of being powerful, etc. In an earlier book the Shard brought together a huge host of monster and the superstitious barbarians of the Icewind Dale and had them attack the various towns around there in an attempt to take them over where thousands ended up dead as a result, perhaps even over ten thousand. And the Shard is centuries old and a whole cadre of Baatezus and Tanar'ris seek it, to own it and control its power, the devils and demons they be, eternal incarnations of various aspects of evil seeking only to glory evil more. Epic grand story telling at its best if you ask me.

Enough writing, im going to eat dinner and read. Got me some nice potatoes, carrots, onion, turnips, garlic, and thai green curry paste steaming away to mushy tenderness.

Monday 330-6pm pst I will be on RA at www.kuoi.com

2001-03-25T10:37:44Z

Got me a radio show going on this Monday, covering for a friend. ALL you fools out there should listen to me dj, I like to thinks that I do a pretty damn good job at it and friends in town and online have told me so too. I'll be on 330-6pm PST via RA via www.kuoi.com. KUOI is 100% free format! No required plays, only gotta say an hourly legal id and an hourly show promo for another dj. Not too many stations can make such claims.

so tune in, tune me in, tune it in, tune in.

Saturday nyght in Moscow

2001-03-25T10:14:58Z

Another weekend has stumbled through Moscow, things were much slower thanusual with all the students just starting to trickle back into town for school on Monday. I bet a good half of them or so will not even make it back for Monday, I know I sure didn't make it back to class that fast even when I hadn't left town. But then again those were when I had bozo 500+ people classes any phule with 2/3 a brain could get an A in by hitting the right days to attend classes, finding old tests, and right middle of the road mildly interesting papers. But it'll nice to have them back, the town will swing to its proper young, vibrant attitude, Moscow gots itself 25k or so normal full year residential types and another 11k in students who are mostly gone during the Summer. It's kinda nice, the Summer is so incredibly laid back here, everybody outdoors soaking in the warmth and forgetting Winter exists. Least most people do, I love being in the Sun but I'll pass on the jungle heat unless im doing the monkey dance with somebody/thing. Moo.

Paul came by tonight, Rani's(paul's gf) didn't come into town after all but Jon still was stuck working the house and garden expo at the kibbie drome so maybe somebody will buy a pond or water sculputre garden thingy this summer, I still can't get over how awesome the one at Dave's house looks and hi goldfih survived the winter, that I can't believe. So we didn't plaly dungeons and dragon yesterday cuz of all that chao, hopefully this coming Saturday we will be coordinated enough to pull it off. I really really wanna make the Mulligatawny soup I found on the net, without a doubt the best soup I have ever had and I only had it once. Now I get to see if I can adapt it to a vegetarian recipe, actually it'll be vegan, that' as good as the one that had chicken bits and lamb stock when I had it six years ago. The one I'm working off of is a replication of the infamous Soup Nazi's from Sienfeld, the guy really does exist and acts as nutty as he does in the show and he does indeed serve Mulligatawny which this web site run by some chefs bought some samples of and then deconstructed and came up with their own recipes after several tries. Actually did four Soup Nazi recipes. Paul and I talked alot, as usual, about so many things I can barely remember cept in broad details, but I'm still filling good so that's all that matters. We watched two britcoms, first tv in almost three weeks, first the bgrade campy Are You Being Served about british department store workers followed by Keeping Up Appearances, a show centered around the inufferable Hyacinth Bucket, pronounced Bouquet. Hyacinth is wacked like somebody gave her a box of acid and she never stopped tripping and the things she fixates on are all centered around status. Status through her objects she owns or status through the labels she can liberally heap upon herself and her family. When she convinces Richard, because it is pointless to argue with Hyacinth for she never listens, to call the Chinese Ambassador to complain about people dialing her telephone number when they were seaking the Chinese Take-Out she informs two conversing ladys "Excuse me, my husband is on the phone with the Chinee Ambassador and I wonder if you could keep it down because it' important official diplomatic business" Doesn't matter Richard is inside and the door i shut and won't hear a thing from outside. She gets me laughing so hard that I sometimes cry from it, in a lot of ways he reminds me of my mom' neurotic fetish with appearance, alway worried about what people, espeically family, thought of her and that they could never see her in any negative light no matter how stupid the situatin. Oh well daddyo.

After Paul left i got my paints out and worked on my current painting, the first layer of it i almost done, I imagine it'll take at least three more layers of color. It' been a long time since Ive worked with acrylics which dry so wickedly fast, I really wanted to get oils but they cost twice as much and need a well ventilated area to work which my apartment would not be suitable for. Im really liking the way things are going on it. It has three horizions all of which have their own mountain ranges cept one of the horizions and its mountains are upsidedown. And all the colors aren't what you'd expect, blue mountains, silver mountains, red mountains, purple sky, pink sky, orange sky, red sky, hehe. There' also three towers, one on each mountain range. And one of the mountain ranges is being held up by a giant godlike man wearing a tribal face mask, he's naked off course, no god would go around in clothing if he could avoid. Clothing is a tool of fascism.

Then I came online and did some chatting. #queerpunk is still be infested with morons from #gayplanet, #gaystlouis, and #gaysultans cuz we won't recycle the channel and resynch the timestamp. I can't believe they think what they are doing i so important that its okay to invade our sanctuary after we've listened to their innane drivel and told them we dont care if the timestamp works now leave burt they don't. Thank ircGods for inventing the /ignore feature.

I guess it's enough babbling for tonight. My mind is happy and floating in the silver void. I keep wondering things so dreamy, like walking into a living hallucination.

salon writer scathes the dubya's "leave no child behind"

2001-03-24T09:22:32Z

Wow here's a nice scathing commentary on dubya's "Leave no Child Behind" bullshit. I guess he meant he'd leave no child behind if they have massive stock options, holdings in oil companies, or have donated six figure+ in soft money to his partay.

http://salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/03/23/child_cuts/index.html

Hoof and Mouth outta Control in Britian--govt says

2001-03-24T06:28:28Z

Haha. Hoof and Mouth is apparently out of control in England now, all I can say is HAHAHA meat eaters! The government admits to 500 current confirmed cases and says that it could get ten times worse which equals 5000 possible cases. France has admitted to multiple cases and Holland has admitted they've found their first case too. Now I don't like seeing animals suffer which is what hoof and mouth does-it makes their mouth and hoofs so sore they stop eating and walking, but I hope their suffering is used as a wakeup call as to how screwd up the meat industry is and how dangerous it can be. Britian is also saying they are now going to kill any livestock within 2 miles of any known case. Give it a few months and every country will have their first case of it.

Then they've recently admitted that in Vermont they've taken away two different farms worth of sheep. Of course the farmers decided it was a huge government conspiracy to install the UN or NWO or some other alphabetsoup agency in charge of the US and it took a federal lawsuit to get the sheep, from europe, away from the 2 farms and slaughtered in Iowa. The govt is paying for their loss but somehow they've whipped their paranoia into a conspiracy and that since they, some sheep farmer, doesn't think his sheep are infected then the govt should have no right to protect the rest of the country from their arrogance and stupidity.

Right now in Germany and France meat eating has dropped to all time lows, in some instances in certain high risk areas over 70% of the people have stopped eating meat! I hate to see it coming about this way with all this suffering in the animals but damnit its about time peopel see the fallacies of eating meat. If everybody stopped eating meat we could feed all that grain to people instead of cows and there'd be no starving people left. Or how about all the antibiotics they force feed animals in factory farms cuz they stand in an open sewer and constantly get sick and infected, doing that will make strains that will become 100% immune to our antibiotics and then people will start dying again in en masse with a cold or the flu. Or how about how horrible it is to be one of those poor animals that never gets to move, standing in its own piss and shit, and never seeing the sun? Or how about all the people who die from our fat laden, meat centric diets when compared to 3rd world countrie with grain/veggie based diets their cancer rates are 1/10th to 1/30th lower than ours depending on the cancer type. Meat is just a stupid idea, a waste of life.

Don't wait till Mother Nature kills half your family to learn some common sense!

politics as usual-bastards

2001-03-24T05:57:29Z

What a week in the world of politics... First off Dubya has revoked the American Bar Association's ability to pre-screen federal judge apointees saying the AMA is too liberal. Okay let's just forget out of the 26 judges the ABA didn't approved to be a judge(and they're only making a recommendation here, not the official approval)only 3 were republicans and 23 were democrats. Apparently republicans don't know when to let go of a grudge because their main complaint is that Bork was given 4 "not qualified" and a dozen "qualified" or better ratings and Clarence Thomas who got only 2 "not qualified" and the rest "qualified" or better. But what do you expect from bitter people who think sex is evil and feeling good shouldn't be encouraged, if you can't release your psyche then the next best thing is to hate everybody but those like you and get off on hating people and feeling superior.

Know how about the environment...dubya has reversed plans to reduce arsenic in our water from 50 parts per million(ppm)to 10ppm. I guess he's decided there's no proof arsenic casues health problems too because Dick Cheney told him so, cuz he surely didnt get that information from his scientific advisors becuz he hasn't appointed any of his scientific advisors--why let science get in the way of your ideology?! He also did an about face on a campaign promise to regulate Carbon Dioxide, suddenly now CO2 hasn't been proven to be harmful and he's also saying that there's no consensus that global warming exists. That's only becuz megacoporatewhore inc. has funded thousands of scientists to say "global warming doesn't exist and here's the money I mean proof that i am telling the truth" And speaking of dergulation of everything, the electro co. bastards in cali are saying out their asses "we aren't gouging customers" when people are being charged 6-8 times more for natural gas than the rest of the u.s. And the media calls the Clintons whores for money, all these changes are coming about cuz of the money whoring dubya did when he was running for prez, he got paid to alter reality in favor of the megacorps and the peoples be damned!

The O$CAR$ designed for a sanitized fun time of mediocrity~~~

2001-03-21T04:57:27Z

Okay, I would normally know this information because of my lack of involvement with mainstream culture but I saw a pre-Oscar show on pbs at a friends house. Her are the nominees:

Gladiator
Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger
Erin Brokavich
Traffic
Chocolat

Okay CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON looks to be a cool movie that I'd watch when it comes out on video. But it is a KUNGFU movie, no KungFu movie is going to win an Oscar, this is the 100:1 choice I bet and was picked by younger nominators so the Oscars could appear more hip and youthful when it is nothing but an Old White Males club of bastards trying to insure you feed yourself pablum instead of real food for your minds. Instead of real driving social commentary we get...

ERIN BROKAVICH which is also not going to win. Why? Because it tries to "tackle" a hard hitting issue that a good segment of Americans would rather not know about, admit exist, or see in a movie. Erin Brokavich is about Julia Roberts, which is the only reason it is nominated. Old White Males love to masturbate to Julia's big fat mouth and her insecure giggling girl smile, she said in the pbs show that "I have low self esteem" when asked why she didn't think Erin Brokavich would even get nominated let alone win. This is more or less, pc alert, a chick flick, a date flick you take a woman to see to show her how sensitive you are. This movie will not win an oscar because it's not truly what Old White Males want but again picked as a great marketing ploy in diversity, in broadcasting instead of narrowcasting. Speaking of narrowcasting, let's go to a movie that has no chance of winning.

TRAFFIC looks interesting too and I might watch it if it came on the tv or something. It's about the drug war which makes it an automatic narrowcasting, appealing to a small segment of the population type of movie that due to it's "controversial" subject matter and message will never get approved by a bunch of anal, selfish Old White Males. I'm not sure how it even got nominated other than those young punks they pick to make the Oscars look youthful that also picked the KungFu movie did a little coup de'tat of their own and nominated cuz we all know Hollywood is the Drug Den of Satan! Anything that questions the public stance of the federales will never win an Oscar no matter how much it is deserved, again it is just too risky and close to home because of its brutal honesty. Brutal honesty is not an Oscar getter, it's not very marketable. And there's gotta be a foreign arty film in the mix so the Oscars can look cultural admist all the trash.

CHOCOLAT which seems to be a movie about eating lots of decadent, fattening chocolate treats and having loving, romantic chick flick sex. A love story about a magic chocolate shop where you get to see lots of chocolate treats get made and lots of passionate sex. There are no explosions, violent deaths, or car chases in it which to most sheep will make it a movie men will avoid so their armored, emotionally unavailable, and neurotic personalities won't show themselves. Men feel uncomfortable if there isn't power, domination, and violence going on around them on some level or another which is why this movie won't win and...

GLADIATOR will win. It has everything an Old White Male could want. First it will remind the real old farts about when they watched Ben Hur, the first really famous Gladiator movie. It also has Emperors in it and most the people who run Hollywood enjoy their decadent domination of those below them like they are Kings and Emperors, the nominators get off on seeing people ordered about like serfs. There is lots and lots of violence in this movie just from the few clips I saw on pbs, lots of scenes of men showing how studly and virile they are as warriors. Lots of big bulging, oily muscles, thick layers of metal armors coupled with sharp pointy weapons is any teen boys power trip tools. And even if you aren't the Emperor you can pretend that you are strong enough to be the Gladiator, to gain your respect through killing people and proving to a vast audience that you are one powerful bastard not to be fucked with unless you want to be skewered on a sword and have your head put onto a pike. What wonderful days those must have been, why can't we have some real family values like back then? Have a problem with your parents, why not solve it in the gladiator ring like Real men would, the person that doesn't die is obviously correct in the argument or why would he have won for God would have stepped in to correct things cuz we all know that Good always wins in Hollywood. I didn't see this movie so I can't say if the Good person won, but I would have to imagine he did and he probably also got the babe he's been wanting to fuck the whole movie at the end of it too.

The only way Gladiator wouldn't win is if my cynicism towards modern death corporate culture is a little overblown and that there are truly people out there, at least in Hollywood, who care about the truth enough to pick some movie like Erin Brokavich or Traffic to win. But it isn't likely seeing how the Academy, see how arrogant they are they are the Academy, who picks out these nominees and winners are mostly Old White Males. Now there is nothing with being an Old White Male, after all one day I will be old and I am a white guy too, but there seems to be a preponderance of Old White Guys running almost every aspect of society which really skews the way reality operates, it makes the fighting, competition, greed, lust, violence reality the dominate language of our culture and utterly tries to destroy the vocabulary of the feminine, eschewing such concepts as copmassion, emotions, feelings, sensitivity, kindness, cooperation, etc. It's why we can't share because the Old White Guys don't want that, it's ruin their Emperor Old White Guy trip they are on with their buddies. Well everything dies sooner or later, nothing is permanent, not even the Old White Gut Global Control Club. Civilization is Ruins waiting to happen baby, let's fuck on their graves and dance till their coffins get filled.

Spr|nG EQu|n0x $up@h K00L

2001-03-21T04:24:01Z

Today is the day Spring has come to Moscow, up until today it wasn't Spring. Today it finally got past 50 and stayed sunny all day long which never happens in the Winter and tomorrow might even be the freakin same! Did a kick ass emo/indy/math show today in Spring's honor, I always do a Spring Equinox show cuz it's always been during the U of I's break schedule so I can sign up for a time slot not my normal Friday night time. I actually pre-planned the show and looked up all the cds before I went in instead of the normal wander and pick things at random from the library and go through the new stuff and pick the cool lookin stuff out to spin. I prefer letting chaos pick out what I need to play that night instead of pre-planning tho I guess it was only half pre-planned cuz I didn't work out a song procession or anything like that, I only got to play about a 1/3 of what I pulled, tho that's about usual.

Hung out with some friends, they ate subway slubs while I ate an apple and some rice milk :) they both ate foot long subs and here i was stuffed from an apple and some rick milk, i'd be hurting if i had eaten what they had. some weird pre-oscars show was on pbs at alan's house, my pick is for Gladiator well lets make that another story!

Misc Drivel

2001-03-19T09:29:39Z

http://www.livejournal.com/users/daedreamnation/

Well i started another journal already to satiate my desire to type and tell stories and write. This one is dedicated to fiction only and right now there are two longish entries that comprise an ongoing story of Malice a punk rogue who steals from drunk burb boys who come to the bad side of town to party and need to be relieved of their wealth. It is twisted tho, a darker release of my psyche so don't whine about it being demented if you go read it from here cuz you were warned ya morons!

Jon came by to borrow some more of the R. A. Salvatore Drizzt Do'Urden books and we started talking about how my computer desk/chair setup suxs and how it prevents me from being able to do as much stuff on the puter as I want because it's an uncomfortable and unhealthy setup. We were talking about making a super deluxe homemade setup using my dentist chair as the start. Yeap I have a fully functional orange vinyl dentist chair that can go up/down and back/forward, anothre freebie freind score. It actually has a rather infamouse Moscow history, having been owned by a long line of freaks and deviants who have used it for all kinds of demented uses. Not to mention all the past energy of a million and one nitrous hits being experienced by people who sat in it when it was once an actual dentist chair used by a dentist. That'd be soooo wicked cool if we could get that setup built, are actually if Jon builds it. I'm going to do the sketches and measurements and then Jon being the builder boy will check it out and see if they make sense and then construct it for me. He said the fun part will be having to find all the parts cuz he hates buying new stuff, I understand that, and he wants to construct it with all recycled materials.

Anyways, go check out my other journal.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/daedreamnation/

20000 in Naples Italy demand Freedom and Justice for the Slaveworkers

2001-03-18T04:08:36Z

Once again the mainstream media and nonmainstream media is more or less ignoring the uprising of the slaves again and instead just paint it as a bunch of punks attacking the cops so they can have some protest fun. HEY let's not discuss the issues, that'd actually require intelligence and take too much time on the tv to properly dialogue in their standard 30 seconds for a story format.

So let's get this clear, this isn't about young punks wanting to go have protest fun so they can pretend it's still the 60s. People are going to these demonstrations to demand multi-national corporations be accountable to people just like the government is suppoesd to be, at least in theory supposed to be. Globalism is not going to improve the planet, in fact it is ruining the planet and only making a handful of people rich in the process. If they had their way you and I would be as poor as the rest of the world and wealth we used to have would be all theirs. They won't be happy till they own the entire planet and every person on it. Right now the richest 4000 families have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 2 billion people on the planet. LOOK AT THAT AGAIN! IF only those 4000 families gave up half their wealth there'd never be a poor person on the planet ever again. Nobody would ever die of malnutrition or lack of medical care. BUT if that happened then people would start to think they are equal to those 4000 families and that's exactly what those families do not want for they know they are the Kings and Queens of the planet now and everybody else below them are their serfs. IF you think otherwise you are only fooling yourself. They will do anything and everything to defend their personal empires and today's protest in Naples proves it. 20k people showed up to protest and 6k cops we in force to insure that meetings designed to opress people and make them continue to eat dirt and have the rich use them as doormats continues.

CIVILIZATION IS RUINS WAITING TO HAPPEN

Its the only thought that keeps my sanity when i have to endure these stories of people trying to point out injustices and opression and the media paints it as a protest party filled with spoiled kids. Maybe you like slaving your life away for money and corporations and that's fine, if you want to do that go right ahead. But why should the rest of the world have to do that too just so those 4000 families can keep expanding their wealth. How many billions do they need? America made a really bad mistake the day the supreme court said corporations have the same rights as human beings. Human Beings have a conscious and some would say a soul or spirit and can be held accountable for their actions. A corporation does not have a conscious, a soul or spirit, and cannot be held fully accountable for its actions--the exploding tires of death proves this for their tires have had all kinds of problems throughout the decades. Instead of fixing the problems they figure out how much it will cost to pay off people via out of court settlements vs. the costs of fixing the problem. IF it is cheaper to pay people off than to fix it then you can guess what route the corporations will take! Your life means nothing to them nor does your happiness or health, again take note of how vehement the corporate response was to ergonomics rules. FYI ergonomics is the science of making work less straining and stressful on the body, a good idea? Not if it's going to cost the corporations a single penny! Who cares if in the long run the costs to implement these rules would more than pay for themselves with reduced healthcare costs but that takes long term beyond this quarter thinking which isn't possible for somebody who works for a corporation. I think the moment they hire you they install a chip into your head so you can't see past the current year you live in, what else could explain why people don't give a damn about the future?

FUCK the corporations. Buy local. Buy organic. Buy union produced goods. Buy used goods instead of new goods. Trade things you don't need for things you do instead of throwing them away. Do not work at places that destroy your soul. Do not spend your money at corporate chain stores, everything can be found through an indpendent dealer--it might cost a bit more sometimes but it is worth it in the long run. Think in terms of decades and centuries when considering the consequences of your and our collective actions as people and a society. Walk, skate, bike, instead of driving a car.

FOLLOW YOUR BLISS

Don't follow corporate roles set out by the tv. Don't believe you must have a BA, MA, PHD etc to be somebody. Don't do something because it's the best compromise.

Fight them till the die they die and then we'll dance and fuck and sing on top their graves!

Conspiracy spinning galore

2001-03-17T04:47:43Z

Just been spending some time writing over at the art bell msg board, trying to spin environmentalism into their conspiracys. To get them to start practicing a reduced consumption lifestyle to slow the destruction of the earth's ecological balance.

http://bbs.artbell.com/showthread.php?postid=34329#post34329

Go give it a read and post your own comments there too :) And then check out all the insane topics they discuss! They are hardcore paranoia paranormal freaks and a riot to read.

Other than that, I gotta cold, bleargh. Lots of snots galore making me wish I was in a robot body already. Been eating lots of fresh mint leaves, lucked out when I went into the co-op half the fresh herbs were reduced to 1.30, never can pass up reduced items if they're things I likes. Also gotta handful of vitamin C packs and some free yogurt and strawberry fruit/grain bars, 2 boxes of them both free!

Nothin else much happening. Went and said hallo to my friend alan and we watched a julia child special that aired a segment from her very first episode in black and white from 64 I think. Then they showed her preparing a whole pig! BARFY. It was like watching her put the family pet into a pan and cooking it. It was in black and white too. Then she did a baked alaska with a blow torch, that was later in the 80s. Followed by flaming crepes in an orange brandy sauce, from the 90s. She is the original food goddess, she piioneered the way for every single person who has a cooking type show or its variations from Martha Stewart to the Frugal Gourmet to local cable access cooking shows plus, more importantly, she made Americans take notice of our cuisines besides bland ultraprocessed American food like cheezwhiz and wonderbread(ack). Sure she eats meat, so what, let her do it she's barely able to stand now so if she thinks it's ok for her its ok to me too. She's also never apologetic about her dished be laden with bad delicious fat which is good, sure it's good to be healthy but moderation is the key. And there is such a thing as moderating your moderation, as in letting your self eat indulgent, decadent, stunningly good food that will make you remember it years from now. Give up the fat in your stupid fuds like Doritos or Whoppers, those aren't foods you'll ever remember eating or the occasions you at them in. But a gourmet meal with the right people, you will remember that till the day you die and that is what Julia Child is all about, good food with good friends talking about life, society, politics, reality, etc. And it is amazing to see her almost 90 and able to still do a cooking show. I can only hope I have half as much energy as she does when I am 50.

So next time you are about to order some pizzaslut or bubbaway sammiches, why don't you think about taking a bath, putting on some nice clothes, and finding some interesting friends to go and try some cuisine you have never had before. Thai, Japanese, Ehtiopian, Mexican(my, my, you have led a sheltered life), Italian, French, Polynesian, Hawaiin, Szechuan, there's just too many to list. If you don't know what to order ask the waitron what they think somebody unfamiliar would like and definitely tell them how hot you like your food because at some restaurants you can get food that'll melt your mouth into goo it's soooo hot. I prefer my food to have a unique mixture of flavors and essnces than just be burning up hot.

Three cheers of beaujolais for Julia Child!

Hoof And Mouth Disease...may the betting begin for 1st US case

2001-03-16T03:44:09Z

Okay, let's start a betting pool for when they announce the first Hoof and Mouth Disease case stateside! I can't wait till we're butchering millions of animals left and right cuz of it and people start converting to vegetarianism overnight for fear of contracting it(tho it's only animal borne--currently)

Not to mention that some folks are saying that alot of alzhiemers cases are really MAD COW DISEASE. Of course this information comes direct from Art Bell and some of his guests so you gotta take it with a grain of salt cuz Art also every now and then opens up his "Anti-Christ Line" to get all the Anti-Christs to call in and talk about their evil deeds and plans for the worlds. It's really funny what some people think of themselves.

Anyways, Im putting my money on May 17th but I am being optimisitic here and hoping it strikes by then. It's just inevitable with our modern global society of trains, planes, and automobiles, not to mention oceanliners. The Brits went nutz trying to do anything and everything they could to keep their cases of Hoof and Mouth from expanding to the European mainland but low and behold those efforts were not enough! Now there are cases of it happening in France which means it will soon start spreading all over Europe and then to the former soviet nations and even as far as India and the Orient given time. Given time the whole friggin world will have it! All I can say is thank the Gods and Goddesses, eating meating isn't evil in itself but modern meat industry practices are. From meat cutting going from the safest and best paid blue collar job to the most dangerour and lowest paid job in just two decades to cutting down huge swaths of rainforest in south amerika for cattle farms to the unhealthy nature of such a meat laden diet most westerners consume, a diet that causes ten times the amount of cancer than that of a traditional low/no meat diet of non-industrialized countries. Not to mention alot of meat farms are just plain cruel, animals unable to move and standing in their own urine and excrement, festering sores, crammed full of anti-biotics(which is going on to help make anti-biotics less and less effective till something comes along that anit-biotics wont kill and people start dying of bad colds and flues again), they are being treated as nonliving, nonfeeling beings. You would never treat the family pet like that but why is it okay to treat a cow or pig that way so you can feed yourself a burger? Is a burger sooo good that you don't mind torturing animals, injuring meat cutters, destroying the rain forest, and starving others? Remember every pound of meat you eat took alot grain that could have been fed to people starving! It is not safe to eat a hamburger when that burger can be made from 1000 different cows, it only takes 1 cow infecting the rest of the huge vat of 10000 cows being turned into hamburger.

Okay, so now I must confess, I do eat meat, 2-3 times a year I'll buy a really nice(and costly)steak at the co-op that is free range, antibiotic free, fed organic grains, and comes from a small family farm that is local and the butchering is done local too and not at a massive evil butchering factory. So I guess you get to beat me as a hypocrite--yeah come beat me!

/rant mode off

no no i gotta cold now boohoo for me

2001-03-16T03:21:57Z

yeap, it's offiical, I have a cold. I was hoping it was wednesday's wicked windstorm that whipped up all that dust(which I am allergic to)but it's been around too long and annoyingly to be just allergies. Im even trying to get somebody to cover my radio show for me tomorrow, tho being the start of most the dj's springbreak and a friday night it's gonna be really hard to find soembody to cover it but fate has been friendly to me before.

Shock of all shocks, Bush has decided not to make Carbon Dioxide a pollutant as defined by the EPA cuz "it would make electricity cost more" even tho this was one of his campaign pledges to make him look like a moderate and somebody in the republican party willing to care about the environment--well you idiots who voted for him have been suckered again, he's an oil man after all you don't think he was gonna make his family's income go down now did you? Bush doesn't even think global warming exists! He won't believe it till he sees all of the coastal cities of the world underwater and then it will be too late but then again you idiots get what you deserve, if you wanna bury your heads into the dirt and act like your ultra consumptive/destructive life is sustainable for the whole world(only 15% of the world lives in luxury like us the other 85% are just hanging in there). Just think how horrid pollution would be if everybody owned a car, fridge, tv, a/c, 2500sq ft home, etc. Why do we get to live like kings and they get to live like dirt farmers who own no dirt? Cuz we got rich first? Cuz we were lucky? Cuz we could pollute the planet without concern because it was pristine back then? As the saying goes, Civilization is Ruins Waiting to Happen.

The Taliban is destroying evil idols of Buddha and all other non-muslim evilness. If the Taliban wants to get rid of evil in its country they could start by killing themselves! Women get stoned to death for accidentaly showing off a scandalous inch of their waste from their shirt rising up and women can't have jobs and must wear a veil and their homes must have their windows blocked because it is evil to see a woman in a house(i guess) IDIOTS

Yet another lazy day

2001-03-14T02:29:52Z

Woke up at my usual late afternoon time of 4pm today and the wind is blowin pretty good outside, making the curtains sway back and forth. I love the wind! And it's overcase, as usual, but that's okay cuz I prefer dark over light being the night owl I is.

Wow the weather is acting crazy outside(just came back in from a walk to the bookstore and food co-op)it's a hailing and raining and the wind is whipping about like insanity making the trees dance like ravers on crank listening to jungle muzak and the weirdest was that it went from dusk to pitch black in like a minute. But then again Idaho is well known for having funky freaky weather, I remember one day where it rained in the morning, cleared up to blue sky and sun, rained at noon, cleared back to blue and sun, and then rained again near the sunset time and then before midnight the sky was utterly clear and full of a billion stars. I love Idaho weather!

I got some aweasome freebies today from the co-op too! A $5 bar of funky soap, a bag of potpourri, some fresh mint with a bit of droopyness in the leaves, and a tincture of horehound whatever horehound does! The co-op is so awesome and I always get to see people there I like and who like me which is nice too, they've even installed a lil cafe eating area with six tables in it.

Got to talk with Jeremiah last night, was about to log off and go read some more of Lord of Chaos and poof he appears when Im thinking he's still out of town and computerless. Didn't go to his grandma's funeral, I can understand mainstream funerals suxs and all that emotional boohooing for somebody who is undoubtedly better off than they were living is selfish, its like they are saying I don't care if you are dead I don't want you to leave me! I want your soul stuck here on the planet in limbo to appease my mind that I am not alone and that death isn't lurking around the corner for me. But then again I tend to think most people are weak minded, simpletons, and selfish even when they are telling people otherwise.

We also talked about visiting, him coming up here to moscow for a weekend and me going down to eureka and hanging out in his huge mansion he's house sitting and camping out in the redwood forests, something i've never ever seen but have wanted to ever since seeing a pic of a redwood forest as a little kid, seeing how teeny people were next to the trees, that a common house fern that'd in a pot on yr windowsill morphs into a gargantuan plant taller than a person. It'd be like visiting a part of the land beyond the magic mirror after eating the shrinkin stuff. So I gotta be a good boy and curtail my spending habits which are already prett curtailed by nature due to my low low income--if you ever thought people went on disability to live the high life and not work let me clue you in on just how wrong you are unless you think 550$ a month is the high life. Don't make me come beat you with my cane you insolent snippity snot! Hmmm.

Also ran into a newbie, punkyboi who turns out to be adrianblu's bf! I hadn't talked to adrianblu in ages, it was nice to not only hear he was still alive and kickin but now he has a wickedly cute bf and that they're really happy together. Man o man, too bad I didn't find punkyboi before him, he's just too sexxxy, especially with that nose ring!

Okay, enough babble for now,

keep it swirly

-brentbent

look at the purty colors

2001-03-13T03:11:04Z

Well I've been fiddlin around with the colors of the page, I hate having to use premade color schemes they never suit my tastes. I even learned about how web sites understand color in it's base 15 #0000FF type of style. Had to ask Jeeves what #s fer what colors but as usual he knew da answer.

Just heard on NPR a story about how this school is using a fingerprint id machine to have their students pay for lunch and only 3 parents out of 1500 studnets copmlained. Gotta start with them young, convince them that invasive technology is actually their friend and will never be used against them by an evil government. And then somebody on IRC tells me they use those as building locks for NYU dorms! Double ACK! How many years for it is the law or at least the social norm for everybody to have digital angel chips in their bodies so they can be tracked along with storage of all their live's data? I might have to migrate to Canada if that happens--if the US hasn't absorbed Canada by then.

The Zapatistas went into Mexico City this weekend to meet Vincente Fox, the first non-PRI president in over seven decades, to see if he might be any better than the corrupt bankrupt people running most of Mexico now. It's good to see that the majority of Mexicans support the Zapatistas wholeheartedly, let's hope they finally get a fair shake in life and can stop living like dirt farmers who don't even own dirt anymore.

I got to chat with Jason a bit last night, haven't seen him forever-course I hadn't been online forever cuz I spaced payin my isp and didn't have nuf money to pay it when they turned it off less I wanted to go a few days without food at the very end of the month. Here's three cheers for you getting a job, your famliy to stop bitching at ya, and for your relationship to stay strong and healthy!

And let's have a prayer for Jeremiah so that he can have a bit of peace and sanity during his time with his family and his grandma's funeral. I hate dealin with my family other than a few of them(my sis, one cousin(christy), my auny and her hubby, and my nana)and I know how crazy I'd be going dealing with their insane behavior and response to death.

Okay, keep it swirly

-brentbent

First woohoo entry into this Journal

2001-03-12T09:34:50Z

Well I created one of these journals cuz I got too many friends with'em now and they seem to think they're cool and I always love any new methods I can use to find people to babble away with. But it's too late now and I feel like reading a book(Wheel of Time#6: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan) instead of a screen(gasp)so you'll just have to wait till later for anything else.