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gruninn438 [e] [h] |
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Tuesday, January 3rd 2006 - 06:56:42 PM |
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Saturday, December 10th 2005 - 07:54:52 AM |
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Sunday, December 4th 2005 - 10:07:52 PM |
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aligator921 [e] [h] |
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Tuesday, November 29th 2005 - 12:08:23 PM |
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win [e] [h] |
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Eskimoized,Upton lossy clobbered courtiers Freudian entrepreneurs lid progeny:buffs game ... Thanks!!! |
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Monday, October 31st 2005 - 12:25:01 AM |
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Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 04:35:03 AM |
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Friday, July 15th 2005 - 02:53:21 PM |
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Saturday, June 4th 2005 - 09:42:43 AM |
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rev999283 [e] [h] |
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Friday, June 3rd 2005 - 01:43:00 AM |
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rev999283 [e] [h] |
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Hello |
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Friday, June 3rd 2005 - 01:40:53 AM |
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Circus [e] |
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Thanks fellas. I really did enjoy this blog--just wanted to end it before it felt like too much of a ball and chain.
I miss everyone, though. |
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Tuesday, April 19th 2005 - 09:32:35 AM |
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mpr [h] |
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shit. lets keep in touch circus.... you are a keeper. ; ) |
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Wednesday, April 13th 2005 - 01:27:47 AM |
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mpr [h] |
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shit. lets keep in touch circus.... you are a keeper. ; ) |
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Wednesday, April 13th 2005 - 01:27:28 AM |
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petrichor [h] |
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I remember stumbling upon your diary here one night, it was past midnight, and I don't remember just how I stumbled upon it but I know I did stumble across it. I remember that something which I no longer remember kept my attention and I kept reading and reading. I remember reading your first entries when you met your girlfriend too. I remember being curious about how it would turn out. And now, in 2005, this diary will end. I have been increasingly lackadiscal about my own diary. However, I know that I can still contact you by the same medium of the internet, and I hope I don't forget to nudge you with messages here and there ever so often. :-) I will be keeping in contact. Take care of yourself and well wishes and all that.. petrichor |
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Tuesday, April 5th 2005 - 01:26:14 AM |
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leon2004885 |
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**f**king spammer. email and homepage removed** |
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Tuesday, March 22nd 2005 - 06:09:31 PM |
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Circus |
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See, this is why i like you guys so much. (And i agree.) |
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Thursday, February 24th 2005 - 05:13:02 PM |
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Scott [h] |
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I have to say, I still fondly look back on the times that I've seen Mel use the F-word. It's so friggin' powerful coming from someone who avoids it so. I try not to curse so much sometimes just so I can retain that shock value. |
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Thursday, February 24th 2005 - 02:00:23 PM |
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I agree with you. I hate walking around and hearing people swear as if it was their own house. In fact, there is one person we both know who I'm trying to break of that habit. We hang out here in MD with people who aren't big on swearing, so the F word really retains its power since it is rarely used.
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Thursday, February 24th 2005 - 06:50:39 AM |
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Cruel-Irony [h] |
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I agree. Civility is underrated anymore. |
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Friday, February 18th 2005 - 10:17:11 PM |
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Cruel-Irony [h] |
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I love Steven Wright - he's one of my favorite comedians. I'm not so found of strip malls though. I love your description of the town. |
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Monday, February 7th 2005 - 03:15:41 PM |
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Jeff / Manxom Vroom |
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Nicely put! It is the crass commercialism of Xma$ that makes people (like me sometimes) cynical and pissy about Christmas. |
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Wednesday, December 22nd 2004 - 03:05:49 PM |
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the tackiest of all: having lights laid out across your entire lawn, in addition to all the other tacky things you listed, so that it is impossible for any human to walk on said lawn.
i saw that this year. TWICE. |
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Saturday, December 18th 2004 - 02:15:03 PM |
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Niomi [e] [h] |
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My dad put a tacky, self-iluminated plastic snowman in our backyard. It keeps falling over, Dad claims this is because of the wind. I'm not sure. |
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Saturday, December 18th 2004 - 11:53:39 AM |
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Circus |
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*laughing merrily* Ha! Just what i always wanted!
Actually, you know what would be nice? 1/2 BBN no scal, guac on side. With you and Page and Yolanda and Tammy and Rob. And Mario. And Frank and Aleisa. |
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Tuesday, December 14th 2004 - 09:35:15 AM |
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MPR |
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circus, for christmas i think i will get you a multidimensional parabola. do you think they sell them on amazon.com? : )
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Monday, December 13th 2004 - 11:55:46 PM |
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Ian [e] [h] |
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Pretty good, of course. Not as touching as the movie, much more than the average RPG game.
The hard part was to make it part of the campaign; that included reversing the genders and, obviously, not placing it on Casablanca but a fictional feudal Juppon (Japan) when a World War was about to begin... in a fantasy setting.
And yet, it worked, even though I'm sure they didn't notice (probably because they ended acting according their characters, not the movie. yeah, they probably didn't notice, even, what was I doing. and, in all honesty, neither did I until much later. influences, they call it). |
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Thursday, November 25th 2004 - 02:47:40 PM |
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Circus |
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It was very good indeed.
You've already used it in an RPG setting? How'd it turn out? |
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Wednesday, November 24th 2004 - 02:31:58 PM |
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Ian [e] [h] |
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Finally, you got to see Casablanca!
Great, wasn't it?
I had to say it. That and that too many have learned something from Bogart and Casablanca.
(and thanks for suggesting it for an RPG plot. it'll work great for my project. although I just realized I already have directed and played it. but then, I'm a genius. sort of) |
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Monday, November 22nd 2004 - 08:56:32 PM |
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Cruel-Irony [h] |
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Thanks for the entry regarding Walmart. It's a disturbing phenomenon to me but I've never been able to articulate so wonderfully as you did. |
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Friday, November 19th 2004 - 06:43:53 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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If I had money to bid, sigh. |
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Monday, November 15th 2004 - 05:30:57 PM |
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Circus |
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Scott, you make me happy. You know this? You're a good boy.
*pinches cheek*
Now eat your pasta.
(Sorry, couldn't resist. It's funny; i hadn't thought of the Halloween entry in the context of the election. I'll have to go back and reread it from that perspective.
I'm just glad someone enjoys the stuff i post here....) |
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Monday, November 8th 2004 - 02:21:36 PM |
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Scott [e] [h] |
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"We've gone from being responsible for our actions to being innocent victims of chance and malice."
Funny how your halloween entry seems a better commentary on the recent election and its results than most of the "real" commentaries I've read. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but really, that entry has given me a window into the mind of America at the moment that all the other political commentary I've read seems to miss. Good one, accidental or not. |
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Sunday, November 7th 2004 - 04:17:08 PM |
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italiancharms052 [e] [h] |
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Hello, you have been making good site :) Respect. |
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Saturday, November 6th 2004 - 08:18:25 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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How are you liking The Sandman so far??? |
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Tuesday, October 26th 2004 - 06:31:09 PM |
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Scott [e] [h] |
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"If you have a story about a person whose essence has been uploaded to a global network, is it really anything more than a ghost story?" It's a good question. To which I'll give (as usual) an ornery answer.
I don't think it's really anything more than a ghost story in a different guise. But I also don't think that a ghost story is any more than a story about loss or fear in a different guise. I don't think that ghosts or cyber-essences or whatever make entirely new stories...
But genre and style and tone have a lot to do with how those story archetypes (someone's still around even when they're gone... stuff ensues) are perceived and digested. The same story that seems dull in one form could seem vibrant with a different style. The same story that one might dismiss as irrelevant when it's about ghosts can become obviously more relevant in the context of the internet.
Um, yeah. Rambling in the guestbook. You get my drift by now. Ta ta! |
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Monday, October 25th 2004 - 11:57:18 PM |
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To a certain extent, I think you're right about cyberpunk, that it is really just new clothes for old ideas. However, when taken in a larger context, I think it does tell us something new.
Before cyberpunk, I think science fiction was mainly focused on outer space - this notion of going to the moon or exploring other planets, making contact with alien races, and so on.
While there were writers in the late 60's and early 70's writing other kinds of stories (Harlan Ellison, Delaney, PK Dick) I think what cyberpunk did was to fundamentally change the main focus of SF. Instead of looking upward and outward, cyberpunk looked inward. It offered a new paradigm, a new way of looking at technology.
But now cyberpunk has become stale and cliche. I'm not as current with what's new in science fiction as I'd like to be (I let my subscription to Locus lapse last year), but I wonder if maybe writers aren't starting to look outward again. The best example of this I can think of are all the Mars novels that came out a few years ago.
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Friday, October 22nd 2004 - 02:27:53 PM |
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He'd throttle me if i left him out, no question about it. And then i'd have to bring Ping because he gets lonely without Polo, and really, Ping keeps Polo from getting into too much trouble. Heh. I'd have a regular party in my backpack.... |
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Tuesday, October 12th 2004 - 02:29:00 PM |
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Scott [e] [h] |
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All I'm sayin' is that the backpack would certainly have Polo in it. 'Nuff said. |
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Tuesday, October 12th 2004 - 10:22:44 AM |
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Ebintel591 [e] [h] |
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that's pretty good site |
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Friday, October 8th 2004 - 12:19:47 AM |
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Circus |
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Really? Spam? Hrm. Lemme go and fix that. In the meantime, i'll check out the site and most certainly give it a plug or two. |
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Thursday, September 16th 2004 - 09:54:55 AM |
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Jeff Mach [e] [h] |
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Dearest circus,
Your emailbox is rejecting my emails as spam. It makes me sad.
Would you give a shout out to Crucible (www.CrucibleCon.com) in your journal? Because we love you, you know! |
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Wednesday, September 15th 2004 - 08:02:25 PM |
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Circus |
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SHIT! Scott, i just accidentally deleted your last comment--i was trying to delete a duplicate and clicked on the wronge entry. I'm sorry!!!!!
(For the record, in case anyone is wondering, his comment was that he's always felt the same way about women's gymnastics. It was a good comment.) |
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Thursday, September 2nd 2004 - 09:33:06 AM |
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Circus |
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Okay, that's a relief! Back when i was practicing tae kwon do regularly, i took it before every practice (usually three or four times a week) but i don't remember ever feeling that shakiness. But this was a couple of years ago, so it makes sense. I'm glad it won't be a problem forever. Thanks, Jeremy! |
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Thursday, September 2nd 2004 - 09:26:04 AM |
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Jeremy [e] |
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Yes, albuterol will give you a rush feeling, especially if you are new to it. I've taken it most of my life and don't ever feel that anymore, but it can be pretty awful for people that haven't taken it before. The important thing is that you are able to breathe better. |
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Thursday, September 2nd 2004 - 03:51:12 AM |
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Circus |
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Hey--wow! Thank you! I'm not much of a designer, but i'm pleased with how this one turned out.
Out of curiosity, how did you stumble across my site? I hope you'll stick around! |
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Friday, August 13th 2004 - 12:52:54 PM |
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alison [h] |
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Got here quite randomly, but thought I'd tell you that I love your design. Nice and simple is always best. |
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Friday, August 13th 2004 - 12:35:03 PM |
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Circus |
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HAH! How's the new water tank treating you? |
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Friday, August 13th 2004 - 11:24:19 AM |
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mzsk [e] [h] |
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this blog is gooder. fewer WORDS. |
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Thursday, August 12th 2004 - 10:02:36 PM |
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BB [h] |
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I like your site. You maybe feeling cynical but here we call it 'political correctness gone mad'... and it has. Just recently the leader of the main opposition party made some comments about race relations saying people were getting preferential treatment because of their colour. The media went 'shock-horror, you can't say that' but the voting public agreed... the media were out of touch with the public. |
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Sunday, July 25th 2004 - 10:12:47 PM |
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Scott [e] |
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"Society teaches that it isn't worth learning about other cultures' ways of doing things." Or, what I find more disconcerting these days, is the way Society is often generally amused by other cultures, as if they were cute pet rabbits and we their owners.
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Saturday, July 24th 2004 - 12:34:14 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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... I hate the Bush Adminstration ... |
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Wednesday, July 21st 2004 - 11:10:27 PM |
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Scott [e] |
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Your entry today makes me think of one of my favorite quotes, attributed to Einstein: "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." I know a lot of folks (not you) who seem paralyzed by the fear of making the wrong career choice, life choice, educational choice... and so on. But I always think it's better to be going Somewhere. I might not end up using this degree I'm in the process of getting, but at least I can feel a sense of momentum at my back. And I totally believe that to be a key to my cheery disposition.
Okay, I sound like I'm patting myself on the back there. But all I mean to say is, the best things I've ever done were all decisions I was totally unsure about, but did because I'd rather be doing something than standing still. Whenever I sit there waiting until I feel certain, I almost always regret it. |
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Monday, July 19th 2004 - 04:20:28 PM |
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Circus |
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*joins in little victory dance*
One of these days, our government will no longer be a theocracy. On that day, i will rejoice with great abandon. |
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Thursday, July 15th 2004 - 02:23:43 PM |
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Yes, when I saw that it didn't pass today on the internet, I was at the library and I went "Yes! Sweet!" and the guy next to me look over me like I was weird or something. Heh. And as for Senator Hatch, that's my state's senator, and I am hardly surprised. Its Utah and its a Mormon state. But whatever, it DIDN'T pass (little victory dance). |
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Wednesday, July 14th 2004 - 10:50:00 PM |
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Circus |
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Hee. "I was expecting Rick Wakeman, but instead I got Baldrick!" |
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Thursday, July 8th 2004 - 12:33:51 PM |
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Heh... "Qualia*."
I remember a certain Philosophy class...
* 2 Jul 2004 |
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Monday, July 5th 2004 - 12:58:55 AM |
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Jeff |
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Is there a journal that would print this? It's incredibly well-written, and much deserving of a wider audience. You should submit it somewhere...I just don't know where.
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Thursday, July 1st 2004 - 02:03:01 PM |
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I agree that resilience is something that can be, to some extent, learned, but i'm thinking also that there are kids who are just naturally resilient--and this intrigues me. The idea that a person can be raised in completely horrible circumstances and turn out just fine suggests to me that he/she has some natural inclination toward resilience. |
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Monday, June 21st 2004 - 01:54:40 PM |
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On resilience: My own personal belief is that one becomes resilient by overcoming adversity. There are so many cliches here: that which does not kill me only makes me stronger; life never gives you more than you're able to handle...and so on. Cliched though they are, there is truth in them. |
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Monday, June 21st 2004 - 12:26:31 PM |
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Reading your lament reminded me of a book I read some years ago that you would probably find interesting. It's by Andre Schiffrin and titled: "The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read." Another great book on writing with a more personal slant is "Forest For the Trees: An Editor's Advice to Writers" by Betsy Lerner.
Don't let the sorry state of the industry get you down. It's easier said than done...I try to focus on the joy of writing in and of itself rather than the end result, and it makes me a happier person when I succeed.
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Wednesday, June 9th 2004 - 07:21:16 AM |
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petrichor [h] |
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My memory tends to be more about impressions and emotions than the literal details myself. I will remember smells, sensations, sounds, but not attached to a concrete, laid out memory. My brother in law, however, can remember entire days from his childhood, what he wore, thought, saw, did, everything, its mind boggling to me. |
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Thursday, June 3rd 2004 - 04:21:51 PM |
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Circus |
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Thanks! *big grin*
I was pretty exhausted when i wrote that entry, so i wasn't sure whether it made any sense at all.
Anyway, i'm glad you enjoyed it! |
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Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 10:53:14 AM |
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see, posts like that (june 1) are the reason i so enjoy reading you: you come up with these ideas that never occurred to me, that make me see things in a whole new light. you rock. :) |
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Wednesday, June 2nd 2004 - 02:46:28 AM |
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Jeff / Manxom Vroom |
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Nicely done, Circus. I feel both honored and gratified to have inspired you to write this. |
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Friday, May 28th 2004 - 01:20:21 PM |
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Circus |
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I like that idea very, very much. And i think i even have a photo i can use for it (after a little doctoring). Thank you! |
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Friday, May 28th 2004 - 12:12:25 PM |
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Jeff |
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Here's a thought for your sticker: take a picture of one of your home made masks, maybe change it to black and white or posterize it, write your "Don't be fooled..." quote underneath and then add the URL for your blog. |
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Wednesday, May 26th 2004 - 01:58:30 PM |
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Jeff |
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Yes, I would want one of your stickers! I think it's a great idea. |
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Wednesday, May 26th 2004 - 07:17:59 AM |
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daysleeper/chickie |
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i'd love a few stickers if you made them! i think it's a great idea. |
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Wednesday, May 26th 2004 - 01:41:29 AM |
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Circus |
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See, that's just it. I'm starting to think i just can't work for a place where i love the overall company but hate the specific daily tasks. There MUST be something out there where the daily tasks are things i like. Maybe i got the wrong degrees. :( |
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Thursday, May 20th 2004 - 02:54:58 PM |
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Re: Working and your job.
I think that I'm in love with the ideas about my job and what I'm doing. What I actually don't enjoy is the actual work I have to do. I don't care if that makes me sound like a lazy ass, but working stinks. It's realyl just busywork that bugs me, but some days, that's all there is. Meh. |
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Thursday, May 20th 2004 - 02:53:01 PM |
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Circus |
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Heh.
Underemployed? (check)
Overeducated? (check)
Mmmm, yep. We must be Gen-Xers.
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Thursday, May 20th 2004 - 01:40:05 PM |
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Job happiness? Ha! I've always been underemployed, but it allows me to write. Strange how life works out sometimes. |
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Thursday, May 20th 2004 - 10:19:11 AM |
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Circus |
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I like that image. The more i think about it, the more sense it makes. |
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Thursday, May 13th 2004 - 10:55:53 AM |
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amy [e] [h] |
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re : Physical navigation of non-physical places, lately I've found myself visuallizing my internet journeys in a tree/branch format. An unexpected visualization.
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Wednesday, May 12th 2004 - 03:50:57 PM |
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We're all running XP. For some reason, a handful of machines didn't have the most recent Critical Windows Updates, though most of them did. The machines that got hit were hit by various strains of Gaobot. |
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Wednesday, May 5th 2004 - 01:21:09 PM |
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Keith |
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If your versions of windows are Pre win2K, or the most reccently updated versions 9newest service packs from MS, availiable free from www.windowsupdate.com - you won't get the Spanner virus. |
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Wednesday, May 5th 2004 - 11:47:37 AM |
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Keith |
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If your versions of windows are Pre win2K, or the most reccently updated versions 9newest service packs from MS, availiable free from www.windowsupdate.com - you won't get the Spanner virus. |
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Wednesday, May 5th 2004 - 11:46:30 AM |
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Ian [e] [h] |
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Damn! That's what I get from visiting long-time-since-last-time-we-met in your b-day.
So, happy birthday, Circus.
*hugs* |
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Friday, April 30th 2004 - 09:27:28 PM |
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Ian [e] [h] |
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You know, assuming infinite is not such big deal. It's the assumption of continuity which strikes me the most.
If continuity didn't exist, time wouldn't be a flux, motion would, indeed be an illusion, making Xeno's paradox even worse --since motion would not longer be a a continous sequence of snapshots but a sequence of spatial _leaps_!
If continuity doesn't exist, what makes changes occur? Our will? Our ability to make sense of otherwise unrelated events? Are we the ones making connections?
*goes to post this on his blog* |
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Friday, April 23rd 2004 - 11:51:26 AM |
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Hey Daysleeper--thank you for the comment you left a while back! You don't find that you get bored with my random crap?
Petrichor--you nailed it right on. The whole "sidekick" thing really bothered me, as it made Klebold sound like he wasn't really invested in his actions, and i can't imagine anyone halfheartedly creating that kind of carnage. |
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Friday, April 23rd 2004 - 11:37:18 AM |
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thank heaven you got that metal out of your eye without any damage to your eyeball! |
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Friday, April 23rd 2004 - 02:42:22 AM |
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Its funny, I read the Columbine article shortly before I read your entry about it. I had also noticed that the entire focus was on Harris and that Klebold was given the sidekick treatment. You made a very good point to something that was quietly nagging me: Klebold. He was not a pyschopath. And yet he had all intention of wanting to kill hundreds of people with Harris. And yet Klebold was not a pyschopath. Klebold did not share all the characteristics the article focused on for pyschopaths. It is easier to understand why pyschopaths will kill as they do think and feel things differently. To have to realize and deal with Klebold is to have to actually look at one's self, this is the true "disturbing" thing about Columbine. |
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Wednesday, April 21st 2004 - 03:45:15 PM |
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daysleeper [h] |
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hey circus! just wanted to tell you how much i still enjoy reading you. you always bring new and interesting ideas/information to my day. |
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Tuesday, April 20th 2004 - 07:55:20 PM |
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That's a very good question. The bits that i've read have led me to believe that there were far more infant deaths then than now, but also, people rarely lived past 30 or 40. So the average is probably lower because of infant mortality rates, but 40 was also considered old age. As much as medical technology has improved infant survival, it has also increased longevity. |
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Monday, April 19th 2004 - 02:24:34 PM |
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My question is, are they including infant or young children mortality? This, I believe, very much skews such studies. I am not saying that we are not generally living longer, but from what I have read, it is not as dramatic as that. I could be wrong, but these are the impressions I have from my own studies/readings. |
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Monday, April 19th 2004 - 02:13:43 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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The Supreme Chimp, heh, I am going to file that away into my subconscious for later use. Thank you. |
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Wednesday, April 14th 2004 - 02:27:48 PM |
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Ninave [h] |
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Wow. I'm really enjoying reading your blog, because it's making me think. You make some interesting points (I'm thinking especially right now of the Good Friday post) and I'm book marking it right now. :-) Thanks! |
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Sunday, April 11th 2004 - 06:23:41 PM |
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amy [e] [h] |
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CIRCUS! I got your package today. Thank you! :) |
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Saturday, April 10th 2004 - 01:43:06 AM |
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Scott [e] |
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I hereby recommend "The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker for your fiction list. Either that or "Anagrams" by Lorrie Moore. Both of these are fairly short on plot and long on style and panache. And if you're up for something very short, light-hearted, and gentle, I nominate Robert Pinsky's "The Sounds Of Poetry" for your nonfiction list. I think it might help you with some of your poetic allergies. |
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Friday, April 2nd 2004 - 04:37:26 PM |
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Circus [h] |
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Oooooh, thanks--i like the sound of that suggestion. For the record, i'm writing this down on the same paper as my Borders coupon so i don't forget it this weekend. |
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Friday, April 2nd 2004 - 04:13:47 PM |
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The book that I most heartily recommend is Geek Love by Katherine Dunne. If I had to pick a single favorite book, that would be it. It's about a family of sideshow freaks whose show becomes a kind revivalist, religious experience with Arturo the Aqua Boy as the messiah. It's told from the point of view of Olympia, the most normal member of the family who is only an albino hunchback dwarf. It's funny, scary, sad, profound and totally unforgettable. |
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Friday, April 2nd 2004 - 02:15:21 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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Strangely, it is also raining where I am, thousands of miles away, here in Utah, it is light and gentle with a mild wind. It is perfect, as all rain and winds is.. |
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Thursday, April 1st 2004 - 04:36:09 PM |
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Christine [e] |
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Re: Wired Article: That rocks!!!! I'm not surprised though. D has a friend who sold two of his Asheron's Call characters on ebay for something like $2500 each. I can't believe there are suckers willing to pay for it, really...cheaters! |
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Wednesday, March 24th 2004 - 12:37:47 PM |
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Keith [h] |
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metroland article is up here: http://www.metroland.net/newsfront.html#1 |
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Saturday, March 13th 2004 - 04:45:48 PM |
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Ian [e] [h] |
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Aw, thanks to you! It was a great pleasure (and one of my best blog entries, too).
=)
*hopes Circus recovers speech* |
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Tuesday, March 9th 2004 - 09:09:30 PM |
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Circus [h] |
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And the point of that last entry was what again? |
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Thursday, March 4th 2004 - 01:32:35 PM |
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patti [h] |
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did you know that one of the main reasons why the ozone layer is being depleted is due to methane gas released by cattle (i.e. fart gas)? you would think that that kind of information would make me think twice about eating cheeseburgers, but i don't. |
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Thursday, March 4th 2004 - 12:54:39 PM |
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Ian [e] [h] |
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Go for it, Circus!
And good luck.
(remember to take and post pics, ok?) |
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Tuesday, March 2nd 2004 - 08:53:04 AM |
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petrichor [h] |
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Good luck with getting married to B. I do not understand how legally or logically how same-sex marriages "attacks" the institution of marriage. Marriage is a sacred union between two people. And to say that such a sacred union can only be for heterosexual relationships can only be justified and defended with the logic of intolerance, which is of course, completely irrational. *Rolls eyes* I have a feeling that these days and coming days will one day in the future be in school books like the 60s civil rights movement. Hopefully, it will have a happy ending.. |
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Monday, March 1st 2004 - 09:33:20 PM |
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daysleeper |
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good luck!!
*hugs* |
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Monday, March 1st 2004 - 04:18:57 PM |
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scott |
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Circus, you're my hero! Give 'em hell over at city hall. You rock. |
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Monday, March 1st 2004 - 01:56:50 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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I just wanted to say, welcome to the cat lovers club. I knew we would assimilate you. Galileo was, after all, at the top of her class for seduction of non-cat lover humans ;-). |
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Thursday, February 26th 2004 - 02:33:59 PM |
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Circus [h] |
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I really, really wish the museum had put together some documentation. I'd send it to you myself if they had.
The good thing is that the article i linked to (from the Village Voice) really does a good job of explaining it.
Maybe i'll go back with some high speed film and get pictures of the exhibit.... |
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Monday, February 23rd 2004 - 05:33:50 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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Damnit, I would soooo want to see that exhibit. If only I didn't live in the West.. |
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Monday, February 23rd 2004 - 05:10:44 PM |
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Complex PTSD [e] [h] |
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Hi Circus,
Thanks for stopping by my diary and thanks for leaving a note and for the suggestion. I'm a little bit familiar with cognitive behavioral therapy. I have a book by Albert Ellis around my house somewhere. If I can find it beneath all the clutter, I was thinking about reading it. By the way, how did you find my diary? |
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Sunday, February 22nd 2004 - 02:21:09 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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Probably the collapse of the Romans is a very well documented process that happened. Of course, people disagree the reasons for it, but I thought I would throw that out as food for thought, more than half-expecting that you had already thought of it. |
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Thursday, February 19th 2004 - 07:08:36 PM |
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Circus |
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I'll watch it one of these days. I've been very curious about it since i read Surrealism and the Cinema about eight years ago (i wish the damned book were still in print; it's very, very interesting), but haven't been able to track it down. I'll have to start looking again. |
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Wednesday, February 11th 2004 - 10:52:55 AM |
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Jeff / Manxom Vroom [e] |
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Ah! You've got to see Un Chien Andalou. The razor scene is indeed disturbing, but very brief. The movie packs a visceral punch that defies easy explanation, just as the reviewer says. It may be tough to find though; I don't think it's available on DVD. It can be found on tape though, along with Bunuel's documentary "Land Without Bread." |
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Wednesday, February 11th 2004 - 08:22:34 AM |
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Scott |
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Hooray for Polo! I love you Polo! Wooo! |
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Wednesday, February 4th 2004 - 12:52:25 PM |
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petrichor [h] |
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*Just* finished Perdido Street Station some minutes ago, it took me on an unexpected twist, its gonna mull in my head for awhile I expect. Glad I finished the damn book though, it ensnared me, couldn't do my school reading. |
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Tuesday, February 3rd 2004 - 05:53:51 PM |
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Jeff [e] |
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Hi Circus! I know I'm supposed to be off the internet so I can get caught up on work, but I can help but continue to lurk. I saw the American Family poll you mentioned and voted in favor of same sex marriage. I think someone posted it on the board. Anyway, I'm glad to see that the poll backfired for them. It made me smile. |
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Thursday, January 22nd 2004 - 10:21:46 AM |
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