Non Illigitamus Carborundum

Ride the snake

2006-09-05T15:54:09Z

Yeah, so this is going to be my last lj entry...well, ever. If I move to another blog, I'll post that here. If not, my facebook will be my only Intarweb presence.

Good luck to you all.

College is still awesome.

OMG FUCK YES

2006-09-02T05:26:59Z

oh college. I love you so.

Progression

2006-08-23T21:48:13Z

I'm thinking about getting a blog on blogspot, it seems like that's where the best work is nowadays. Not a lj-blog, but like a creative columnesque thing posted weekly. John B gave me the idea, what with El Guapo in DC.

Also facebook lets me have notes now, further compounding this lj's obsolescence.

I move in six days.

Give some love?

Last Call

2006-08-13T08:27:29Z

My plane leaves on the 29th.

Anyone interested in hanging out between now and then, comment now or call my cell or something. Cos I'm not coming back for a long time.

Road Trip

2006-08-13T07:25:51Z

Back. But you already know that.

Climbed mountains. Killed a motherfucking bear! With my bare hands! Bears n' shit!

Not entirely true, cept for the mountains.

Lots of stories, none of them here.

Saw Miami Vice. Very bad. Trailers good.

The Departed is going to kick ass.

kthxbye

18

2006-07-12T04:04:37Z

Legal adulthood. Woo.

AP RESULTS

2006-07-11T19:41:32Z

English Lit and Comp - 5
Euro - 5

HOW CAN THIS BEEEE

Tested out of my humanities requirement.

Well

2006-07-11T16:17:51Z

It's not even noon and this is a much more fucked up day than I anticipated.

And Syd Barrett is dead. See? SEE WHAT I MEAN?

Hemingwayage

2006-07-10T06:22:37Z

Saw Bill Maher today--good show, that.

Happy birthday John Baunach.

Italy won the World Cup. This is not surprising, but more frustrating than anything. Italy is to me what France is to say...Prather. Their women are hairy in the arms and they lack both the wine and the cheese to placate me in my stuporous fury. To hell with Old Italy.

Sorry

2006-07-05T21:54:35Z

Having a rough day.

MacArthuring

2006-07-04T06:32:32Z

I have returned.

Ali-Ben no longer gets to say I date crazy chicks, because Hannah took the fucking cake.

It's been a strange couple of days.

ASLKhfakhs

2006-06-25T08:17:17Z

Boston University may think I'm a sophomore.

See, the last letter they sent said I was Class of 2009. And according to Facebook, my roommate (though it may just be he hasn't changed his residence yet) is a Class of 2009...guy.

May be a mistake.

Maybe I LOST A YEAR TIIIIME WARP.

So Yeah (and here we go)

2006-06-25T02:03:30Z

Ordered the college laptop.

Have a schedule.

I'm a college man now.

I'm in a good place right now, I think. A few loose ends to tie up.

Would anyone here read a short story (or more than one) of Wodehouse-ian political satire, focusing on a White House staffer in an incompetent administration, with an unseen President and a vicious, geriatric Vice-President, and his adventures in unwittingly preventing World War III?

I think I like it so far.

Back

2006-06-18T21:52:25Z

Yes, I'm back from BU.

I fucking love college.

Orientation Film (3 of 5)

2006-06-14T04:27:40Z

All right, I'll be in Boston from tomorrow til Sunday, so you'll see naught from me.

I'll be at orientation for BU. Call if you like, no guarantee of an answer.

Growly and Scowly

2006-06-12T05:53:24Z

Britain's oldest surviving war veteran has celebrated his 110th birthday at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne.

Henry Allingham was presented with a letter of good wishes from the Queen by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown at the five-star seafront hotel.

The letter said the Queen sent "warm congratulations" and hoped that the day would be "happy and memorable".

In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5052152.stm

Also, whenever someone claims to have researched a point and thus knows what they're talking about but refuses to actually cite the research, respond as follows:

"I have "done research" too that says monkeys can fly but you don't see me quoting it cause it'd be the Wizard of fucking Oz."

Production

2006-06-11T00:56:02Z

I've written a series of new poems. They're good.

'38 ROYAL LIFE

TELEVISED AMBIENT CONTROL

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2006 (maybe retitled FULL METAL CAP-AND-GOWN)

HOWLY-SCOWLY

THESE ARE BLOODY TYPEWRITER POEMS

WRITER'S BUFFET

ON SPELLING AND GRAMMAR

THIS CHAPPIE WITH THE KNIFE

HEMINGWAY MUSINGS

CARICATURE

MAROONS

FRATERNITY MAROONS (digressions from the above)

STILTED AUDIO

and more on the way

St. Vietnam and Tales of Incredible Achievement

2006-06-10T07:32:58Z

So I'm browsing Wikipedia for info on BU, and what do I find?

"US News & World Report [which is what I used to make my college calls] ranks Boston University 60th among national universities, since Boston University does not fill out the required survey to be ranked in the first tier."

Hmm, I said, I didn't know that it didn't fill out a survey.

An English perspective: "The Times Higher Education Supplement recently ranked Boston University the 21st best university in the United States, and the 54th best university in the world, in its list of the top 200 universities in the world."

Well shit goddamn.

Also, I am plagued by recurring nightmares that I either a) haven't graduated St. X and they're preventing me from doing so or b) they retract my diploma. Upon study, I have come to the conclusion that this is the result of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in association with my high school experience.

Pics of Rosemary are coming.

Sometimes the Intarweb Produces Good

2006-06-08T15:50:27Z

"I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond Atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy -- you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do. You can't prove that there isn't an elephant inside the trunk of my car. You sure? How about now? Maybe he was just hiding before. Check again. Did I mention that my personal heartfelt definition of the word "elephant" includes mystery, order, goodness, love and a spare tire?
So, anyone with a love for truth outside of herself has to start with no belief in God and then look for evidence of God. She needs to search for some objective evidence of a supernatural power. All the people I write e-mails to often are still stuck at this searching stage. The Atheism part is easy.

But, this "This I Believe" thing seems to demand something more personal, some leap of faith that helps one see life's big picture, some rules to live by. So, I'm saying, "This I believe: I believe there is no God."

Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I'm raising now is enough that I don't need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day.
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don't travel in circles where people say, "I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith." That's just a long-winded religious way to say, "shut up," or another two words that the FCC likes less. But all obscenity is less insulting than, "How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do." So, believing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that's always fun. It means I'm learning something.

Believing there is no God means the suffering I've seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn't caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn't bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.

Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have."

Notes for Beth Ri. Upon Completion of Resurrection Ship

2006-06-03T06:36:07Z

If anyone deserves to get some on that goddamn thing, it's Edward James Olmos.

Have I seen you somewhere baby? Oh no.

2006-06-03T02:43:54Z

Girls:

If you have a history of alcohol abuse and a tendency (and by tendency I mean defining behavioral pattern) towards self-destruction, including a stint of binge drinking that landed you 4 ER visits and an eventual stint in rehab instead of a second semester of college, do not depend on your seventeen year old friend in Kentucky to tell you how to carry out all the unpleasant things--breaking up with people for your own good, for example--you will inevitably have to do because of your inabiltiy to make positive fucking choices. Furthermore, if you do solicit this aid and recieve it because your friend is a hapless fuckhead control-freak who can't accept that he is not the invincible problem-solver who has all the answers and instead gives you, line for line, a monologue enunciating the fact that you can't embark upon a relationship right now because you need to sort yourself out (which he is beginning to suspect will only happen in a brain transplant or a coffin), and said monologue rings true, FUCKING USE IT. DO NOT BEGIN SEEING THE GUY ON A SEMI-REGULAR AND NOT-SO-SEMI-SEXUAL BASIS. If you do, however, choose to engage in a romantic relationship with a person in opposition to the advice of your friend, your shrink, and any sane fucking person ever, please make sure that this guy is NOT A FUCKING NEEDLEFREAK. You CAN get HIV from oral sex, mouth sores are involved in HERPES, and if you have ANY FUCKING CONTACT WITH HIS BODILY FLUIDS YOU ARE AT FUCKING RISK. Since you, being emotionally crippled, will negate this advice entirely, please do this: break it off and get yourself tested.

In our inevitable phone conversation, don't complain that I'm scaring you or that I'm overreacting or that it's not really a big deal, because "Well maybe he only used sterile needles" is like saying "Well maybe Hitler meant 'Don't kill the Jews' when he said 'Kill the Jews'." It's un-fucking-likely.

Goddammit.

Goddamn motherfucking son of a fucking cunt bitch cocksucking piece of shit FUCK.

"I am in a world of shit."

How Sadistically Accurate

2006-05-29T07:04:15Z

Román took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

"Desires a tranquil, peaceful state of harmony offe..."

Click here to read the rest of the results.

I have begun writing poetry again. It's turning out well. Eclectricity indeed.

THE HAIR!!ONE

2006-05-25T03:18:12Z

Once you've seen The Hair, Anna and John, there is simply no returning.

alltoocuban @ 2006-05-22T00:31:00

2006-05-22T04:31:51Z

And that, my friends, was high school.

Graduation Shindig

2006-05-19T23:39:49Z

Anyone interested in bizarre foreign relatives and good times should stop by my home after St. X's graduation.

If you need an address/directions just call or comment.