First off, Mary is sick. I feel bad for her so if she logs in I wanted to collect a few news articles I found interesting so she could peruse them.

News post…
– China cures diabetes through transplantation. Who the hell said communist nations don’t produce technological advancements due to a stagnation in the work force? Does Ego really drive technological advancements? Does communism really preach 100% equality, or is that simply the propaganda statement? Every single question i’ve raised is very absurd, because they work off of cardboard interpretations of China’s communist political structure.

– Oil prices. This article just explains what has been happening the last few weeks with the cost of gasoline, and it also offers projections of the future.

– Hah french love at it’s best. This is why i’m not romantic baby, romance kills people ;).

– Interesting dilemma. This seems to be a major point of contention with the republican party, either we close the borders or open them and offer them legal work. Decisions decisions…

– As always, she appears to some and remains hidden to others. Man a yellow and white stain on the overpass in the shape of the virgin Mary is good enough to draw crowds, but Chris Ofili, the Anglo-African Roman Catholic, whose mixed-media work, The Holy Virgin Mary, is obscene. I think intention plays into the whole affair. One instant, he intended to create the work out of feces and in the other she intended to arise from a urine stain on the side of the overpass. I’m joking of course, she doesn’t exist so she can’t intend anything.
BTW I really want to go see this work of art Mary.

– FWHAT!? You mean obesity isn’t the killer we belived it to be!? OH my god. Haha i’m glad i don’t use scientific studies to regulate what is healthy for me, because i’d be schitzophrenic. This isn’t to say i don’t consult them for general directionary purposes, but i don’t need a dietary study to tell me begin overweight is unhealthy for me. HLG tells me that every day of the week as i trudge up to the fifth floor.

– Uh oh… So drinking might not be as healthy as they claim it to be? FWHAT?! I’m sorry to show this to you Mary. I just thought it was so relevant to this blog.

I’ve run into major problems today with attempting to define things. Apparently life escapes definition. At lunch today Michael, Me, and Trey got into an argument about freedom. (I think this is what they were saying, at least this is what Trey was arguing for) According to them we have very little freedom because there are consequences for a majority of my actions. I say that freedom is independent of the consequences. I define freedom as having the ability to do something.

In example: if you are in jail, then you still have the freedom to escape the jail.

I think that we negate our freedoms for concerns that can sometimes be described as non-existent. I don’t scream now, but i certainly have the freedom to do so. It is irrelevant that the consequences are there.

I also think i pissed mealymel off by attempting to define humanities, or at least asking for a definition of humanities. What the hell is the definition of humanities?
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According to Nietzsche, Philosophy has a problem. It has no sense of “history”. Every philosopher approaches an idea as though no one has thought of this idea before. Nietzsche’s point was that we don’t recognize the problems of the past and how they effect the future.

I disagree. I think of philosophy differently, but then again i’m the student of our philosophical department. According to the methods taught to us, philosophers approach problems by recognizing the evolution of ideas over time. Kant percieved the world drastically different from Descartes, but a lot of what Kant argues for is a response to Descartes. So in the end philosophy is very difficult to nail down.

What i’m concerned with in this post is something that is inspired by this post on Mealymel’s blog. As i was having this post discussion with Mealymel, i came to ponder about something inherent in blogging culture.

We approach blogs as though they are stream of consciousness. I am thinking A, B, C, D, etc, and my blog demonstrates this. There is something else interesting. We treat blogs as though they are speach.

fictional example:
I hate johnny. Wow i suppose i shouldn’t have typed that. Oh well.

And then we hit the post button. This is interesting. We recognize in typeface the things we shouldn’t do, but we take the extra step to do them anyways.

We also discuss things a lot more openly then we would. What is the blogging phenomena.

Wow. Simply Wow. He is God’s rottweiler. Isn’t that what we needed? More religious fundamentalism?

“He has denounced homosexuality as evil and other religions as “deficient”. He also reined in proponents of Latin American liberation theology. “

fun fun… Really needed this leader against the muslim onslaught of religious ferver. What we need are well defined leaders in the religious war of today. The last Pope was a pansy, and was way to welcoming. We need religious ferver. We need more crusades! We need more Inquisitions!

We need more bomb shelters.

And no one else does. Scary. There is a brain disfunction that causes you to smell burning rubber, i think it is related to tumor.. So i must have a tumor. heh..

No i think the printer is breaking, and i’m the only one who notices the burning smell.

or maybe i have a TUMOR!! eh? eh? maybe…

Mary… we need a kid so i can go watch stupid cartoons and not feel like a complete loser about the whole ordeal…

I watched Ice Age in the theater thinking it would be great because one of the voices was dennis leary, and it was ok. Of course it wasn’t because of dennis leary. He kinda sucked.

I saw incredibles and man i enjoyed that movie.

ah well…

Next? Thursday, the 21st of April, The Southwestern Review is hosting a poetry reading at 8:00 at chris’s poboys. This is the poetry reading i was telling you about.

DnD
Apparently no one pays attention to this either. Dissappointing. Thought someone might pick up on the pattern. Here is an idea. Why not make it more blatant? perhaps they will pick up on it then.
Heaven got a net to stop nasty people from entering.
So this time instead of using simply one space i will use the combined space of two lines of dialogue on the main page for the absent text. Who knows this might cause enough of a stir.
So it came to my attention that my queen is angry with me for my gblog’s neglectance toward her day of birth. I told you guys what i did for her last birthday, but i never explicitly came out and said happy birthday to her, or did I. I called her and talked with her for several hours before her class, even though she didn’t go to class, and then i called her back that night and several hours later went to sleep. Not to mention, last time i was in new york we celebrated her birthday early so i could kind of be there with her. I know it isn’t the same, but given the time money and effort put into the affair it should count toward something.
Is it working can you read me? I really don’t care that you neglected my birthday on your blog. I’m not sure why i’m being such an asshole in this next paragraph. Just mark it up for me being an asshole. I still love you.
But let us backup for a moment. I’m not one to point out the lack of equal treatment, but well ok i am. I remember my birthday specifically. It wasn’t so great. I even remember a certain individual’s blog silent on the occurence of my birthday. I’m just pointing out, that perhaps complaints should not be lodged till a full evaluation of the situation is at hand.
In the end you are a gorgeous woman, Mary. I am lucky to have you. I appologize i didn’t have the means to make your birthday a lot more special then it was.

I LEFT my damn cell phone at home again. i need a chain for the damn thing.
Hello Mary. You realize i Love you right? I
I seriously need to figure out how i’m moving my stuff to New York.
Am the child in the wind and the heart on a string
I would like to rent a car and drive up there but the cost is going to be too much for me to bear by myself.
Protective of the progress i make and enduring
I would like to ship all of it, but it means leaving a lot behind.
Penelope’s abstract attempts at ontological status, ha HA.
I would like to just leave it all behind and simply purchase all new goods once i get there. *haha — i would love to but it would require a large influx of cash.. perhaps if i liquidated all my items for cash… perhaps… perhaps not*
You know i have had so many beautiful moments with you. Have a beautiful
All the same the world is moving on. I saw a great film yesterday. It was the most realistic portrayal of samurai life i’ve ever seen. IT demonstrates the class structure of samurai and how they organized themselves within the clan itself, and then also gave a damn good representation of fuedalism.
Birthday.
I suggest watching The Twilight Samurai.

Read the extended version… i want to show you something that will probably depress the shit out of you… of course we can stick our fingers in our ears and hum really loudly as though we don’t read/hear anything bad… hear no evil.. see no evil… etc.
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