Cracked Ass

I'm with Lewis Black on this one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ANrvQC4wIk

Is that some Dan Quayle graff? "Minds were meant to be be blown"

Not no one. I care, you care, we care. I am still as active (and knowledgeable) as ever. I also don't see enough herbs falling off, there's plenty out my way. I can even identify a generation of newer writers who started after I did and put in enough work to be called established. If your area got sleepy, and toys fell off, don't tell me where it is cause I'm comin through. One final pro-curmudgeon note: us vets can't shake our fist and lament about how things changed if there isn't a new generation fucking it all up. Everything in its time.

mover, high, ugly interesting catch among others...sento!

Where there's brimstone, there's fire.

It's all about the hustle. I'd accept the offer at first and enjoy myself with B&W for many months, maybe a year or two, all the while piling up extra stock and hiding it from my benefactor. I would test how the benefactor gives me the paint - pallet at a time? I'd get one last pallet and hide most of it and then start breaking the rules and using colors. Benefactor would then shut me off for breaking the deal but then I'd have this stash of extra black and white to back up my unused color stash.

I didn't watch the videos. If I had, I would not have noticed any symbolism. I don't pay any attention to that stuff. Some internet chatterers would have had to alert me to the fact that something was going on. Which you did. I still don't care. I don't know why anyone would. Sparkle me chicken-dip. (See, I just put some symbolism in my post. Should anyone care?)

The boycott is supposed to make Arizona think "Gee, maybe we fucked up with this lousy racial profiling/police state law" but apparently they are sticking to their big, loud, stupid guns.

Not after 9/11, forget about it.

I agree Carwin lost fair and square. I was psyched to see him drop Lesnar and do that kind of damage but as soon as Carwin landed on top of him and the ground and pound started to slow down I was like uh-oh, don't get careless, finish it right...and he didn't. Maybe he was already gassed. I just wonder if his corner was aware of the danger of it slipping away and what they were yelling at him. I think Carwin had to recognize the danger in time and either erase dude's face with elbows or stand up and walk away and make the ref stand Brock up. But yeah probably a case of punched himself out. Better luck next time. Leben didn't quit and it paid off, I think he would have lost the decision if he didn't pull out the choke. Just a random thought, love to see Carwin get back on track by knocking out Roy Nelson.

It's all true. Strike a balance. I do my share of internetting. But I learned a lot about a diverse variety of things from painting freights for many years, especially since I am more willing to endure long waits and long walks to get over. One example: I was standing in the woods waiting for the switcher to leave so I could paint. I was attacked by an average battalion of mosquitoes. I wanted to paint and was willing to wait out the situation, but the mosquitoes sucked so bad I decided to kill them. ALL of them. I began to wonder how many were in the radius of being able to smell me and home in. There was no wind so I figured if I killed the first and second waves I might actually "win", that is, kill every mosquito in range. I put down my bag, stood still, and began clapping at the attackers. I killed a few, missed a few. Concentrating on the task, I tried to get better at taking a second shot at ones I initially missed, but they tended to disappear. I paid even closer attention and discovered a startling fact: clapped-at mosquitoes fly to a nearby leaf and land upside-down on the bottom of the leaf to gather themselves for another attack. They are hard to spot while they do this - who's looking at the undersides of leaves? I hunted more aggressively using this knowledge and killed the first wave and the stragglers who wandered in later, and there was actually a lull because I had succeeded in killing all the attackers in range. Naturally a few latecomers would stumble into my smell radius, or if I moved anywhere I'd encounter the ones chilling in that area, but it worked for a few minutes. The switcher left and I went back to painting. I never heard anyone else drop that little bit of knowledge before or since. There's probably some insect specialists who could have told you that, and from their own experience, but it was cool to find something out live. There's no need to hermit up and live a primal life. But it's very much worth it to introduce chunks of that stuff. Long walks in new places are the best for keeping your observational brain sharp.

No he's a bot who crafts a vaguely relevant sentence to the topic by picking out certain keywords. Then he spams you with his site in the signature. BANNED

Cav on a TBOX. Pay attention kids.

It's true, you can stack paper if you have the discipline. Sadly, I don't. It doesn't take me long to flip out and tell the boss where to stick it. Well, I don't bother telling the boss anything anymore, I just leave when I'm freaking out. I hate being told what to do.

Wait until you have skills before you self promo. Good looks on the Diars though.

BTW the oil investment play I described in '99 would have taken 5 or 10 grand, 8 or 10 years, and a strong stomach during pullbacks, but depending on how aggressively you played it could have easily netted anywhere from twelve grand to twelve million.

Regrettably don't have time to look at Celente. Crooks based on your response I'd say don't associate me at all with futurism, or Futurism. All I do is step back and look at the historical perspective, see the trends of knowledge and ignorance unfold throughout history (including ignorance in science, which is rarer than in religion but often involves hubris, falling in love with one's hypotheses without adequate observation, etc. which is part of what makes science a two steps forward, one step back discipline). It doesn't take a lot of figuring to see that science will occasionally err but due to group rigor will generally advance knowledge and shine light into the murk, and hundreds of years later the various control freak churches will grudgingly admit that the scientists were right about that, but there's still a God, etc. I had the same feelings about financial markets, the price of oil (I saw it trading below ten bucks a barrel in '99 and said "Boy, if I had Buffett's money I'd buy, hold, and roll over oil futures contracts by the hundreds"), various trends that involve humans. It's so easy for me to see short-sightedness and ignorance in humans, to zoom out and look at big and long-term pictures, and know that everything is cyclic, especially if it involves humans.

Seriously though, on the media tip...I just watched Nightline. Three stories were advertised before the show: 1.Times Square bomber 2.Lebron James is a great guy puff piece 3.Nashville floods. I normally wouldn't sit through that show but I wanted to see flood coverage. After the Lebron puff piece came a canned puff piece (i.e. a junk, non-news story filmed a long time ago that they can just stick in there for filler). The flood coverage was never shown. So yeah, I guess Nashville doesn't count.

I wasn't gonna make a Ganges River joke but I guess I can now.

"think outside the box bra" C'mon, nobody saw the joke potential here?

There go my BART spots.

hee hee hee "And, in those recent years, the project has fallen a year off schedule, the GAO says, with the expected completion date for the research now at the end of 2012." hee hee hee

The aliens are visiting us from the future for really mundane reasons - Back to the Future type shit, so their great-great-great-great-great-etc. grandma fucks the clean dude instead of the HIV one, and that lets the Alpha Centauri Jesus get born, and he redeems the proto-earth, etc., etc.

Interesting, I didn't know anyone else was on to meta-analysis of the patterns of belief change, or that it had a name (Futurism). I'm not signing up for futurism - I don't know what else has been propounded other than the idea of analyzing patterns of belief change and looking at the possibility of predicting where it's headed - but my own application of this idea (a long time ago) is a strong part of my general intuition that as science solves mysteries, they stop having religious/divine attribution, and the pattern over time favors the debunking of religious BS in favor of the advancement of real knowledge; and as this unfolds the religious ones will be further marginalized as their body of pseudo-knowledge shrinks. However this will take freaking forever; science doesn't even have the momentum or the driver's seat yet. It's like trying to stamp out smoking worldwide - they will cling to whatever they have, and even try to push back. Religious people have a trump card: the vastness of the unknown, a murk in which they can hide for a long time.

Yeah I don't even fight and I was watching McCray-Bryant and yelling "Uppercut! Right high kick! You moron!" I could just see these openings, the shit was there all day, and most of the time his corner was yelling the same shit I was looking at.