:: it's a scary world: rants from a chemically imbalanced mind ::

:: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 ::

shaman safety tip #2420:

never, kids - NEVER place your lava lamp on a hot stove. NEVER. bad things happen. like shards of glass in your heart kind of bad. no, really.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6621680/
 

:: Shaman 11/30/2004 08:20:14 PM [+] ::
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WOOHOOOOO!!! just got my hands on what i call a "grail" piece... a used movie prop from the original michael keaton "batman" movie... WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!! trippingly funky little wall sconce... dig -



okay, i don't have the money to spare but there is NOOOOO way i could've passed it up... great guy - bought a teacup prop from the set of little house on the prarie from him a few years back.... okay, my day is complete. i can go watch movies now. (because as we all know, i don't DO thanksgiving... which means it's time to begin my annual "i don't do the turkey thing" movie festival.....) up this weekend - the star trek episode ss botany bay followed by a showing of star trek ii: wrath of khan.. i'm half tempted to start it with the 3 part eugenics war arc they just finished on enterprise.... and if i can sit still long enough, i NEED to watch the three harry potter movies.... still haven't managed to catch any of those.... and at some point, i'm introducing the wife to steven soderbergh's oceans 11... i will ALWAYS prefer the original sinatra version BUT... i'm a sucker for soderbergh and love clooney in the flick...
 

:: Shaman 11/25/2004 01:38:13 PM [+] ::
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HEY! let's play a little game! i'll give you a bunch of factoids and business info and you name the corporation! ready? GO!

Their outdoor products include the Times Square Spectacolor (they are the premiere operator of more than 50 outdoor advertising displays in the world famous Times Square area of New York City), over 770,000 billboards across the US, shopping malls (more than 350 U.S. shopping malls, delivering a point-of-purchase opportunity where 80% of shoppers make purchase decisions), taxi tops (including the major U.S. taxi markets of New York, Las Vegas, Boston, San Francisco, Washington, Atlanta, and Miami), mobile truck panels, bus and train stations, and airport advertising (reaching 6 of every 10 travelers each day with advertisements seen in 21 U.S. airports). They own or operate 135 concert venues. They own OVER 1225 radio stations in over 300 markets in the US and another 240+ globally. Over 70% of concert ticket sales in the United States can be attributed to bands they represent. And if that isn't enough - they own over 37 television stations.
 

:: Shaman 11/24/2004 09:20:02 PM [+] ::
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ohio is STILL not done so i'm STILL not giving up.
 

:: Shaman 11/13/2004 04:20:08 PM [+] ::
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to say today is a great day is a little like saying hitler wasn't a big fan of the jews. it's understatement of the grandest kind. today is a PHENOMENAL, FANTASTICO, WONDROUSLY JOYOUS DAY!!!!! why?



it almost brings a tear to my eye... do we dare... HOPE... for the return of our civil liberties? and will tommy chong get his bong back now????

by the way, i believe that if there IS a hell, john ashcroft has a one way ticket on the short bus. pig jowled inbreed.
 

:: Shaman 11/09/2004 07:20:13 PM [+] ::
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for all the republican proselytizing and all the screaming about how this is proof of an incremental rolling shift in america - "last time it was 49/49, this time it's 51/47 - we believe america is moving to a republican stance", every analyst and commentator seems to be missing one fatal factor - almost HALF of america is UNHAPPY with the way things are currently being run! ALMOST HALF!!!! holy SHIT this should be a wakeup call and a half! unless he wants to keep pissing off 47% of the us, he should walk away from this "election" with thoughts of a centrist administration for the next four years. if the republican party truly intends to hold onto the white house thru the next election, the only hope they have is tempering their message with a little social awareness and not relying SOOO heavily on the far religious right's opinion. oh, yea, you have no choice but to pay attention to the religious segment but you don't need to go after the hard right nutcases - "gays are an abomination, war is always good because our god is right and so on" - stick with the more moderate masses - THERE'S where your numbers are... and they're a lot more tolerant than you think.... because a lot of them are "sunday christians"... they could care less about god and the implications of their actions during the week... only on sunday do they truly fear. and likewise, if the democrats ever hope to take the white house back, they need to acknowledge that you need the moderate christian vote. seperation of church and state are NEVER going to happen. the two are inextricably meshed - that's a simple fact of life. i don't have to like it but i'm resigned to it.

sigh. i don't know how this devolved into a treatise on religion in politics but whatever. i'm off to work on auctions for awhile and then to a midafternoon showing of 'the incredibles'.... WOOHOO!! PIXAR RULEZ!! and pixar doing comic book superheroes RAWKS!!!
 

:: Shaman 11/07/2004 09:20:10 AM [+] ::
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.... and the silence is broken.

today is the big day... we find out whether we have four more years of tyrannical, despotic and civil liberty stealing leadership or the hope for SOMEthing better..... i think you probably know where i stand on this whole election thing..... i've kept my mouth shut for the last three weeks here trying not to get too uptight or too verbal about this whole thing but i figure since today is the day, WHAT the hell... why not.... i find it exceedingly difficult to keep my mouth shut for long periods anyway. so... whatEVER you do, please go vote... no, not please - JUST DO IT! it is your OBLIGATION. if you don't stick your hand in and attempt to voice your vote on who rules over you, you shouldn't be allowed to breed. we don't need a bunch of apathetic morons running around bitching about who is in office when they didn't even help out with the electing. on the flipside of that though.... if you don't know the issues and don't know WHY you are voting for a particular candidate, for GOD'S sake, DON'T VOTE!!!!! DO NOT!!!! i'm pretty sure that's how bush got into office last time. voter apathy..... "oh he'll never win.... i don't need to go vote..." ... and look where that got us. an attack on our own soil, a war in a country we have no business in and so on. when i vote today, it won't be just for me... it'll also be on behalf of my daughter.... i don't want her to grow up in a land where more and more freedoms are being taken from us everyday under the pretense of "national security".... NEWS FLASH - to protect us does not require taking away our freedom. patriot act my ass. nor do i wish for her to grow up believing that it's a-ok to rush headlong into a foreign country and invade it for our own selfish reasons. oh and to the deadheads who scream i'm not a patriot:

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ~Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ~Bertrand Russell
 

:: Shaman 11/02/2004 01:20:29 PM [+] ::
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