the world's most difficult questions
if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a noise?
yes...absolutely yes
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
7 degrees of crazy... go gun nuts!
person of the week
as of last night this blog was going to be about celebrities with normal names and their inane need to name their offspring something stupid, particularly frank zappa (the indisputable fore-father of ridiculous child naming), but today, at work, someone did something so incomprehensibly stupid that he bumped moonunit zappa, apple martin-paltrow, suri cruise, and zuma nesta rock rossdale...
ok, now i have every respect for anyone who wants to express their second amendment right... for those of you who are not familiar with their second amendment right i can only make three assumptions a.)you did not pass 9th grade civics 2.)you live in some urban center north of the mason dixon and east of the appalachians (or west of the rockies) and d.) you are not of a minority ethnic group who "know their rights" (meaning they have no idea what their rights are, just that they have the right to remain silent) and could not be labeled "a redneck," "a hillbilly," or "a republican."
this is fact because the second amendment right, of course, is the protection of the right for the state to organize a militia... oh yeah and the right for that militia to bare arms. some how in this convoluted mess of things we call law making, it also came to be interpreted that any individual can also bare arms, not just the militia...this i am also ok with
... here's the problem: that people who think they have the right to carry a gun, think they have the right to carry a gun anywhere they want. this truly brings out the stupid in people. so, this brings me to today... a guy walks into our store, jared the galleria of jewelry (yes "galleria" is a made up word) in auburn hills, and sits down at our bridal counter with his wife... as they begin to look the guy (we will call him dumb ass gun nut or dagn for short) takes off his jacket... now i must digress here for a moment and explain that our store has, for obvious reasons (no gun battles in the store), a strict no firearms policy, limiting authorized carriers of guns to only uniformed police officers, people contracted through our store (i.e. brinks armored truck service) and our security guard. even our sales staff who deal with $30,000 rolexes and $50,000 diamonds can't carry... dagn however feels that he must wear his gun in plain view in a holster while in a jewelry store looking at bridal... why? because he is a moron. but more specifically dagn is a moron with something to prove. my security guard then pulls him away from the presentation politely and tells him about our firearm policy and takes him outside our store to show him our firearm policy posted in the window and our manager comes out to reinforce this policy. dagn hands jeremy, my manager, a pamphlet on michigan's gun policy, which says he can openly wear a hand gun. jeremy says that it is private property and he has to follow our firearm policy. dagn says, and i quote, "my gun goes where i go" and pulls his wife out of the store.
here's my issue with dagn... is he really so concerned that he or one of his loved ones are going to get gunned down on the way into and out of the jewelry store if he's not packing heat? if the answer is yes, then we all have better things to do than buy jewelry because the shit has truly hit the fan. however, like most rational people, i believe the answer is no. this leads me to my next point... someone who carries is 6 times more likely to get shot... normally i would agree with the criticism that people who are more likely to get shot carry guns rather than the other way around (so the original statement is really the dog wagging the tail so to speak)... however in this asshole's case, if i were packing, i'd put 2 in his head just to prove a point (and he wouldn't see it coming either 'cause my shit is concealed)... better yet i'd put 1 in his stomach and let him bleed to death because, and to the fault of his mantra "my gun goes where i go," they would be unable to admit him to a hospital, because in the state of michigan it is illegal to take a firearm, including licenced firearms (excluding police officers), into a hospital, or bank, or airport, or school, or church, or court house, or post office, or on to private property that has a no firearms policy...
so i say again, if you want to express your second amendment right by all means do it, but don't be a dick about it just to prove a point...this is how people end up shooting one another in a fucking toys-r-us and how stupid celebrities get bumped from my person of the week...fuck you my dumb ass gun nut...fuck you
Friday, December 12, 2008
i really don't get enough attention or... randy's bass guitar
photo fun friday
... this really isn't that old. this is from about a month ago when i visited randy and heidi in c-bus ohio. i was just hanging out in randy's living room and i thought the color of his stand-up bass really stood out against their beige walls (notably with it's hot pink overtones) and olive curtains. so i grabbed my camera and took this... it's a shame that the resolution that blogger allows is so low... on my computer the bass really jumps off the screen. my favorite part of all though has to be the never-been-played shine that the fret board has all these years after he got it... wow
i must admit that i thought i would take a lot more photos this week (especially cause my camera was pretty much my travel companion all week long), but with me being lazy, i of course fell far short of the task at hand...and therefore, because i took no new pictures, i will post an old one...
... this really isn't that old. this is from about a month ago when i visited randy and heidi in c-bus ohio. i was just hanging out in randy's living room and i thought the color of his stand-up bass really stood out against their beige walls (notably with it's hot pink overtones) and olive curtains. so i grabbed my camera and took this... it's a shame that the resolution that blogger allows is so low... on my computer the bass really jumps off the screen. my favorite part of all though has to be the never-been-played shine that the fret board has all these years after he got it... wow
Thursday, December 11, 2008
what i'm thankful for or... a lousy excuse to not come up with an original idea
thursday 13
with the thanksgiving holiday now an entire two weeks behind us i think it is about time to do a list of the 13 things i am most thankful for... in no particular order
1. my family- this one is pretty a standard and obvious one on the list to anyone who has a family that doesn't completely suck and even some who's families do completely suck
2. my job- well... not my job so much as the fact that i have a job to speak of. it is a complete blessing that in this economy when 500,000 jobs were lost in the month of november and nearly half of those in retail that i can still drive 45 min and get berated for not doing my job as well as i should and still have it.
3. music- this makes the list because that part that we played with the solo kicks my ass...
4. thanksgiving is over- it is pretty amazing how that holiday lasts and lasts and lasts... especially for me. my thanksgiving started on november 2nd, with my nana and papa and the rest of my dad's side of the family (because of my grandparents snow-bird status) and finally ended earlier this week when my mom threw out the rest of the leftovers . not that i don't love the food and the socializing but it's not an enjoyable thing to eat your self into a 6,000 calorie coma and then work at 8 am the next day.
5. bragging rights- i completely love a good in your face and to all of those how got an in your face from me recently... thank you ... oh yeah and "in your face" again
7. having time at christmas to spend with family and friends- in the 8 years i've worked in jewelry i have never been able to do anything with my family, friends, or by myself during chrismas. working 60 plus hours consistently put a stop to that pretty much every year... this might just be the best recession ever.
8. dec 27-
9. that i'm almost done with this blog and it's not even 12:30- sweet, bedtime
10. the number 6- for being such a disposable, unimportant number
11. that family was so far up on the list that i can actually put it again for #12 and no one will really notice.
12. my family- this one is pretty a standard and obvious one on the list to anyone who has a family that doesn't completely suck and even some who's families do completely suck
13. my girlfriend- she's really special to me and makes me happy
i hope everyone had a very happy holiday and two weeks since then... unless you've pissed me off then i hope you got herpes
with the thanksgiving holiday now an entire two weeks behind us i think it is about time to do a list of the 13 things i am most thankful for... in no particular order
1. my family- this one is pretty a standard and obvious one on the list to anyone who has a family that doesn't completely suck and even some who's families do completely suck
2. my job- well... not my job so much as the fact that i have a job to speak of. it is a complete blessing that in this economy when 500,000 jobs were lost in the month of november and nearly half of those in retail that i can still drive 45 min and get berated for not doing my job as well as i should and still have it.
3. music- this makes the list because that part that we played with the solo kicks my ass...
4. thanksgiving is over- it is pretty amazing how that holiday lasts and lasts and lasts... especially for me. my thanksgiving started on november 2nd, with my nana and papa and the rest of my dad's side of the family (because of my grandparents snow-bird status) and finally ended earlier this week when my mom threw out the rest of the leftovers . not that i don't love the food and the socializing but it's not an enjoyable thing to eat your self into a 6,000 calorie coma and then work at 8 am the next day.
5. bragging rights- i completely love a good in your face and to all of those how got an in your face from me recently... thank you ... oh yeah and "in your face" again
7. having time at christmas to spend with family and friends- in the 8 years i've worked in jewelry i have never been able to do anything with my family, friends, or by myself during chrismas. working 60 plus hours consistently put a stop to that pretty much every year... this might just be the best recession ever.
8. dec 27-
9. that i'm almost done with this blog and it's not even 12:30- sweet, bedtime
10. the number 6- for being such a disposable, unimportant number
11. that family was so far up on the list that i can actually put it again for #12 and no one will really notice.
12. my family- this one is pretty a standard and obvious one on the list to anyone who has a family that doesn't completely suck and even some who's families do completely suck
13. my girlfriend- she's really special to me and makes me happy
i hope everyone had a very happy holiday and two weeks since then... unless you've pissed me off then i hope you got herpes
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
but if we start now it'll take years to find cures or... stem cells dumb ass
politics and religion
my first blog on politics and religion since the kick-off of my new, more ambitious blogging endeavor was a hard one to decide upon... there are so many issues that have arisen in the last few months since i've blogged last and so many more weeks ahead to talk about them...
i, as most of you who would be reading this know, live in michigan... that's the semi-progressive, rust belt, auto-industry-driven state that happens to look like a couple of mittens (thank you glaciers) in the northeastern midwest. what is less known is probably the fact that i am dying of terminal degenerative brain cancer... ok so i'm not really dying of brain cancer, but if was i would be glad that my state has the foresight to expand human embryonic stem cell research and hopefully find treatments for and even, dare i say it, cure some of the most wicked and costly (in the way of human life) diseases... diseases that are not prevented through good diet and exercise (like diabetes and heart diseases), that aren't "punishment diseases" for bad behaviors (i.e. stds and emphysema)... diseases that rip hundreds of thousands away from loved ones each year either through death (like cancer), memory loss (like alzheimer's), or through loss of function (like m.s. or m.d.).
i make no apologies for my defence of scientific progression for the actual greater good, especially when it is incurred at little of no social cost for significant improvement of human existence.
100 million americans suffer from diseases that could potentially be treated or even cured by stem cell research and this year alone 565,650 people have died from cancer. there is a need and there is a solution on the horizon.
why... you might ask... are stem cells so important to this "solution"?
stem cells are a type of cell that can renew themselves through mitotic cell division and have the capacity to differentiate into specialized cell types (i.e. blood, organ, nerve tissue). stem cells are found in most multi-cellular organisms and have two functions in adult organisms:
1. act as a repair system for the body (i.e. breaking a bone and the bone regrowing) and
2. maintain the natural turnover of regenerative organs like the blood and skin
the cells that do this are a type of cell called the "adult stem cell." there is another type of stem cell, which of course is the controversy causer... the embryonic stem cell. now these cells are similar in many ways in that they are not of any particular type of body cell but can be grown into a variety of functioning cells...like blood, bone, skin, ect... however they vary in 1 distinct way. the adult stem cells can only develop into a limited number of cell types, where as embryonic stem cells have the potential to become any cell type... an attribute of stem cells referred to as potency. the rub of course, is when harvesting stem cells from an embryo the 50 to 150 cell embryo is destroyed.
believe what you will about life at conception but the loss of 150 cells to save even a fraction of the 100 million people who suffer from these degenerative diseases seems worthwhile.
i found these arguments against embryonic stem cell research on a web site claiming the fight against embryonic stem cell researchers is over because of new sciences that allow researchers to create stem cells with similar properties to embryonic stem cells from skin cells... which i will no refute.
argument: "1) The moral objection is obvious. Human embryonic stem cells are obtained by killing a five-day-old living human embryo and extracting the cells from within that tiny forming body. For many, this moral objection is totally governing"
response: ok...i put this argument first because, not only was it the first on the web site but it is the only realistic argument against this research...yes if you believe in "life at conception", killing an embryo is killing a baby... however the embryo's used to harvest stem cells are saved from destruction to serve a purpose...the practice you need to worry about then is 'in vitro' fertilization not stem cell research... all of the stem cell strands currently being used in research (and in my opinion the only ones that should be used) are would-be-discarded embryos from fertility clinics, helping the god-fearing pro-lifer's with tilted cervix's, inconsistent ovaries, and weak sperm have the gun-toting right-wing offspring they've always wanted.
it's hard for me to consider what is simply a sac of 100 nondescript cells that could have just as easily been created in a test tube and an incubator (that's right... there is no "body" to speak of) "life"... even if the basic components for life are there. and even then, isn't it worth a single "life" (that has no emotional connection to anyone) to save the lives of people who have families and children and parents and sisters and brothers and friends and lovers.
argument: "2) These cells are foreign tissue if implanted in a human. The embryo has a different DNA and cells extracted from this tiny body will probably be rejected by the recipient body, just as a transplanted kidney would be. The counter argument has been that these are so primitive that they will not be rejected is a fact not proven."
response: This is the stupidest argument against stem cells ever... because i've never heard of a successful kidney transplant.
argument: "3) These cells placed in animal bodies frequently form tumors. They tend to grow uncontrollably into many different cellular types, which may be malignant and fatal to the recipient. Their response has been that there must be an answer for this if only research continues. And so the clamor for using your tax money for further research on embryonic stem cells continues."
response: there must be an answer for this if only research continues... it would be ignorant to assume that if you study what something happens you might find out why or at least how it happens... sarcasm implied... oh and no federal u.s. tax dollars go to stem cell research and is 96% privately funded.
the final argument... and quite possibly the stupidest of all the arguments i could not find worded in a short enough quote to put in my blog. it is the "no cures have yet been developed from embryonic stem cells."
argument: basically the argument is this... that no cures have been found from embryonic stem cells yet, and any cure that could come from this is decades away from development. there is more promise in "adult stem cells" that have already cured multiple blood, bone, and muscle disorders, especially now since research is being done to create stem cells from adult stem cells to create non-regenerative tissue like brain and nerve tissue (like embryonic stem cells can).
response: ok, the adult stem cells have proven more productive thus far in curing diseases... i will admit this... this, however, may be because we discovered the "stem cell" in 1908 and have only recently started looking into the potential of embryo stem cells. not only that, but the fact alone that the stem cell with less "potency" can treat and cure what adult stem cells have treated and cured gives much more support to the idea that the more potent embryonic stem cell can truly impact more serious conditions. and in response to the latter point of the adult generated "embryo-like stem cells": the research is great and necessary, but the effectiveness and longevity of current resulting stem cells is low and with continued effort this may be a way around the embryo problem, but wouldn't it be better to develop the use for the cells at the same time as to not set us back another ten years.
i think it's pretty irresponsible let people die for a 150 cells that would have been thrown away anyway... some people might call me a baby killer, at least i won't have 100 million people's suffering on my head
my first blog on politics and religion since the kick-off of my new, more ambitious blogging endeavor was a hard one to decide upon... there are so many issues that have arisen in the last few months since i've blogged last and so many more weeks ahead to talk about them...
i, as most of you who would be reading this know, live in michigan... that's the semi-progressive, rust belt, auto-industry-driven state that happens to look like a couple of mittens (thank you glaciers) in the northeastern midwest. what is less known is probably the fact that i am dying of terminal degenerative brain cancer... ok so i'm not really dying of brain cancer, but if was i would be glad that my state has the foresight to expand human embryonic stem cell research and hopefully find treatments for and even, dare i say it, cure some of the most wicked and costly (in the way of human life) diseases... diseases that are not prevented through good diet and exercise (like diabetes and heart diseases), that aren't "punishment diseases" for bad behaviors (i.e. stds and emphysema)... diseases that rip hundreds of thousands away from loved ones each year either through death (like cancer), memory loss (like alzheimer's), or through loss of function (like m.s. or m.d.).
i make no apologies for my defence of scientific progression for the actual greater good, especially when it is incurred at little of no social cost for significant improvement of human existence.
100 million americans suffer from diseases that could potentially be treated or even cured by stem cell research and this year alone 565,650 people have died from cancer. there is a need and there is a solution on the horizon.
why... you might ask... are stem cells so important to this "solution"?
stem cells are a type of cell that can renew themselves through mitotic cell division and have the capacity to differentiate into specialized cell types (i.e. blood, organ, nerve tissue). stem cells are found in most multi-cellular organisms and have two functions in adult organisms:
1. act as a repair system for the body (i.e. breaking a bone and the bone regrowing) and
2. maintain the natural turnover of regenerative organs like the blood and skin
the cells that do this are a type of cell called the "adult stem cell." there is another type of stem cell, which of course is the controversy causer... the embryonic stem cell. now these cells are similar in many ways in that they are not of any particular type of body cell but can be grown into a variety of functioning cells...like blood, bone, skin, ect... however they vary in 1 distinct way. the adult stem cells can only develop into a limited number of cell types, where as embryonic stem cells have the potential to become any cell type... an attribute of stem cells referred to as potency. the rub of course, is when harvesting stem cells from an embryo the 50 to 150 cell embryo is destroyed.
believe what you will about life at conception but the loss of 150 cells to save even a fraction of the 100 million people who suffer from these degenerative diseases seems worthwhile.
i found these arguments against embryonic stem cell research on a web site claiming the fight against embryonic stem cell researchers is over because of new sciences that allow researchers to create stem cells with similar properties to embryonic stem cells from skin cells... which i will no refute.
argument: "1) The moral objection is obvious. Human embryonic stem cells are obtained by killing a five-day-old living human embryo and extracting the cells from within that tiny forming body. For many, this moral objection is totally governing"
response: ok...i put this argument first because, not only was it the first on the web site but it is the only realistic argument against this research...yes if you believe in "life at conception", killing an embryo is killing a baby... however the embryo's used to harvest stem cells are saved from destruction to serve a purpose...the practice you need to worry about then is 'in vitro' fertilization not stem cell research... all of the stem cell strands currently being used in research (and in my opinion the only ones that should be used) are would-be-discarded embryos from fertility clinics, helping the god-fearing pro-lifer's with tilted cervix's, inconsistent ovaries, and weak sperm have the gun-toting right-wing offspring they've always wanted.
it's hard for me to consider what is simply a sac of 100 nondescript cells that could have just as easily been created in a test tube and an incubator (that's right... there is no "body" to speak of) "life"... even if the basic components for life are there. and even then, isn't it worth a single "life" (that has no emotional connection to anyone) to save the lives of people who have families and children and parents and sisters and brothers and friends and lovers.
argument: "2) These cells are foreign tissue if implanted in a human. The embryo has a different DNA and cells extracted from this tiny body will probably be rejected by the recipient body, just as a transplanted kidney would be. The counter argument has been that these are so primitive that they will not be rejected is a fact not proven."
response: This is the stupidest argument against stem cells ever... because i've never heard of a successful kidney transplant.
argument: "3) These cells placed in animal bodies frequently form tumors. They tend to grow uncontrollably into many different cellular types, which may be malignant and fatal to the recipient. Their response has been that there must be an answer for this if only research continues. And so the clamor for using your tax money for further research on embryonic stem cells continues."
response: there must be an answer for this if only research continues... it would be ignorant to assume that if you study what something happens you might find out why or at least how it happens... sarcasm implied... oh and no federal u.s. tax dollars go to stem cell research and is 96% privately funded.
the final argument... and quite possibly the stupidest of all the arguments i could not find worded in a short enough quote to put in my blog. it is the "no cures have yet been developed from embryonic stem cells."
argument: basically the argument is this... that no cures have been found from embryonic stem cells yet, and any cure that could come from this is decades away from development. there is more promise in "adult stem cells" that have already cured multiple blood, bone, and muscle disorders, especially now since research is being done to create stem cells from adult stem cells to create non-regenerative tissue like brain and nerve tissue (like embryonic stem cells can).
response: ok, the adult stem cells have proven more productive thus far in curing diseases... i will admit this... this, however, may be because we discovered the "stem cell" in 1908 and have only recently started looking into the potential of embryo stem cells. not only that, but the fact alone that the stem cell with less "potency" can treat and cure what adult stem cells have treated and cured gives much more support to the idea that the more potent embryonic stem cell can truly impact more serious conditions. and in response to the latter point of the adult generated "embryo-like stem cells": the research is great and necessary, but the effectiveness and longevity of current resulting stem cells is low and with continued effort this may be a way around the embryo problem, but wouldn't it be better to develop the use for the cells at the same time as to not set us back another ten years.
i think it's pretty irresponsible let people die for a 150 cells that would have been thrown away anyway... some people might call me a baby killer, at least i won't have 100 million people's suffering on my head
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
ted geisel or... dr. freaking seuss
100% positive...
so a few weeks ago my girlfriend and i went out to east lansing to visit my sister (who attends michigan state university (go green (go white))) and whilst we were out there we went to the most amazing and exciting exhibit of art quite possibly ever collected in south eastern michigan ...even though the d.i.a. is pretty incredible... and even though lansing is more centrally located in the lower peninsula of michigan... you get my point, i liked it a lot. it was a collection of original sketches, prints, paintings, and sculptures from the man who calls himself seuss.
not only were the pieces incredible so were the stories collected and displayed along side the art.
so a few weeks ago my girlfriend and i went out to east lansing to visit my sister (who attends michigan state university (go green (go white))) and whilst we were out there we went to the most amazing and exciting exhibit of art quite possibly ever collected in south eastern michigan ...even though the d.i.a. is pretty incredible... and even though lansing is more centrally located in the lower peninsula of michigan... you get my point, i liked it a lot. it was a collection of original sketches, prints, paintings, and sculptures from the man who calls himself seuss.
not only were the pieces incredible so were the stories collected and displayed along side the art.
in this picture there is an original drawing along side the published image from "green eggs and ham"... this piece accompanied one of my favorite stories from the museum. the publisher from random house bet seuss $50 that he could not write an engaging coherent story using 50 words or less and what seuss came up with was the story "green eggs and ham." on the bottom of the original seuss keeps track of how many words he used ("3 words" at that point).
i addition to the usual type stuff...
there was some seuss i'd never seen before
some amazing true works of art
and... some well... "unorthodox taxidermy"
...and of course quite possibly the best part is it was completely free. i highly recommend that anyone in the lansing area before the exhibit packs its bags on jan. 16th go see this collection... it is pretty incredible
...and unmistakably seuss
agony and irony or... starting over
it's safe to say that i never really took my blogging, or my promises to blog, that seriously... however it is better to say that i never really blogged in the first place, i just more of ranted about whatever was pissing me off at the time (and lets face it i barely did that)... and it's safest of all to say that when i did "blog" no one gave a shit... therefore my old blogs of the past, as pleasing and self satisfying as they were, are no more...they have been deleted and currently burn in the fires of the hades of all prose where all terrible bits of writing end up... including, but by no means limited to, joseph conrad and his "heart of darkness" (fuck you existentialism), the book of mormon (really joeseph smith?), the scripts to the bionic woman series (ugh...bionic woman), and of course the no child left behind bill.
and with that, the past is behind us. what i plan to do now with my blog is stick to a strict schedule of updating 7 days a week... to accomplish this i have set a broad topic for each blog. the schedule is as such (starting with tuesday for the obvious reason that today is tuesday) :
tuesday- "100% positive" where i do a complete blog with no negativity what so ever... expect most to be very short.
wednesday- "politics and religion"... by this time in the week usually my dad and i end up arguing politics, where i defend my views of social liberalism and fiscal responsibility against his right-wing neoconservatism, bomb 'em all, "the surge worked so the bush presidency was a success", all arabs want us dead, foot hold in the middle east mentality. if i don't summarize the defence of my views via blog against my dad, i will discuss some other political something or other that is sure to upset at least 48% of the population and if that doesn't work i'll talk about religion and if that doesn't work i'm drawing a picture of the prophet muhammad.
thursday- "thursday 13" where i will make a list of 13 things regarding a topic and discuss in usual witty banter style those 13 things and why they belong on the list... i must admit that this idea was stolen from trina who's blog can be found beneath the "seriously my mouth" link in my little sidebar thingy
friday- "photo fun friday" where i will post one of my photographs and then subsequently talk about it... and by talk i mean type. the friday topic was originally going to be called foto-fun friday for reasons of alliteration, however those of you who have read "roots" know that this title takes on greatly different meanings than the first... for those who have no idea what i'm talking about read "roots" by alex haley and you will be enlightened ... i think it's in the first 5 chapters.
saturday- "person of the week" where i will pick a person from my week and discuss them and the various attributes that qualify them to be my person of the week. as opposed to a normal blog's "person of the week", mine will be inconsistent and will vary in criteria for being picked... this topic, therefore, may include a person who pissed me off the most that week, someone i've talked to that week, someone in the news, an actor or -tress from a film or television show i watched that week, someone dead, someone alive, a person who i passed on the street, a group of people (including clubs, races, professions, or the french)...etc. now some may say "how can you say an entire group of people is your person of the week?" and to those people i say, "push the 'next blog' button on the top of the page," because everything from here out will probably irritate you.
sunday- "the world's most difficult questions" where i answer the questions that seem to plague the human race in no uncertain terms... questions of a more philosophical nature or even questions of a rhetorical nature that i feel i need to answer anyway.
monday- "in the life of mike zafiroff" where i talk about my life in general
this blog is no longer an option for me it is now my number 1 priority right behind work, and school, and family, and my girlfriend, and my music, and my photography, and my friends, and karaoke, and sleep, and eating, and my time in the bathroom, and showering, shaving and other hygienic practices, and watching tv, and reading... other than those things this blog it top priority.
so join me on what is sure to be an adventure of letters jumbled together to hopefully form coherent thoughts; an expedition of verb, noun, adverb, articles, parentheses, and of course adjective; a journey of text and pictures; an indisputable voyage of verbal onslaught; this quest of undeniable literary masturbation... and hopefully, if i can keep with this ambitious agenda i have set for myself, it will be an entertaining and enjoyable experience for all those reading (by which i mean those with absolutely nothing better to do with their time).
and with that, the past is behind us. what i plan to do now with my blog is stick to a strict schedule of updating 7 days a week... to accomplish this i have set a broad topic for each blog. the schedule is as such (starting with tuesday for the obvious reason that today is tuesday) :
tuesday- "100% positive" where i do a complete blog with no negativity what so ever... expect most to be very short.
wednesday- "politics and religion"... by this time in the week usually my dad and i end up arguing politics, where i defend my views of social liberalism and fiscal responsibility against his right-wing neoconservatism, bomb 'em all, "the surge worked so the bush presidency was a success", all arabs want us dead, foot hold in the middle east mentality. if i don't summarize the defence of my views via blog against my dad, i will discuss some other political something or other that is sure to upset at least 48% of the population and if that doesn't work i'll talk about religion and if that doesn't work i'm drawing a picture of the prophet muhammad.
thursday- "thursday 13" where i will make a list of 13 things regarding a topic and discuss in usual witty banter style those 13 things and why they belong on the list... i must admit that this idea was stolen from trina who's blog can be found beneath the "seriously my mouth" link in my little sidebar thingy
friday- "photo fun friday" where i will post one of my photographs and then subsequently talk about it... and by talk i mean type. the friday topic was originally going to be called foto-fun friday for reasons of alliteration, however those of you who have read "roots" know that this title takes on greatly different meanings than the first... for those who have no idea what i'm talking about read "roots" by alex haley and you will be enlightened ... i think it's in the first 5 chapters.
saturday- "person of the week" where i will pick a person from my week and discuss them and the various attributes that qualify them to be my person of the week. as opposed to a normal blog's "person of the week", mine will be inconsistent and will vary in criteria for being picked... this topic, therefore, may include a person who pissed me off the most that week, someone i've talked to that week, someone in the news, an actor or -tress from a film or television show i watched that week, someone dead, someone alive, a person who i passed on the street, a group of people (including clubs, races, professions, or the french)...etc. now some may say "how can you say an entire group of people is your person of the week?" and to those people i say, "push the 'next blog' button on the top of the page," because everything from here out will probably irritate you.
sunday- "the world's most difficult questions" where i answer the questions that seem to plague the human race in no uncertain terms... questions of a more philosophical nature or even questions of a rhetorical nature that i feel i need to answer anyway.
monday- "in the life of mike zafiroff" where i talk about my life in general
this blog is no longer an option for me it is now my number 1 priority right behind work, and school, and family, and my girlfriend, and my music, and my photography, and my friends, and karaoke, and sleep, and eating, and my time in the bathroom, and showering, shaving and other hygienic practices, and watching tv, and reading... other than those things this blog it top priority.
so join me on what is sure to be an adventure of letters jumbled together to hopefully form coherent thoughts; an expedition of verb, noun, adverb, articles, parentheses, and of course adjective; a journey of text and pictures; an indisputable voyage of verbal onslaught; this quest of undeniable literary masturbation... and hopefully, if i can keep with this ambitious agenda i have set for myself, it will be an entertaining and enjoyable experience for all those reading (by which i mean those with absolutely nothing better to do with their time).
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