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Was going to post something...
Oct. 30th, 2007 09:53 pm
Can't remember wtf it was though. I doubt it being important or even spectacularly noteworthy.
I am completely hooked on I Can Has Cheezburger?. I waste more time on that site reading stupid LoLcat captions than I really should, considering I'm halfway through the semester. It's kind of cool to me that I have found something in the Universe that will instantly cheer me up, no matter how bleak I am feeling. I submitted one myself - there's a picture of a ferret wrapped in a towel, so I borrowed something from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy & put "Doan't panik! I brawt ur towl." on it.
(Well, I just erased a few paragraphs, something on my mind but nevermind, it's not important after all)
So, who's for a North American Union? Watched some video that seemed tailor-made for all the conspiracy-theorist whack-jobs like myself, called Zeitgeist: The Movie. Rob was fully engrossed in it, but I found myself turning away from the television, partly in skeptical dismissiveness, and partially in fear, and also shame. I actually partially agree with the Bush Administration... I think we could very well form a North American Union, with looser borders between ourselves, Mexico & Canada. It would strengthen and stabilize our and Mexico's economy a great deal, reduce animosities, make travel a little more convenient... In return for strategic defense, Mexico would send us & Canada laborers and Canada would send us & Mexico timber & oil. I feel bad for Canada - seems like they'd be getting hosed, but with the Arctic icepack shrinking, all these countries are squabbling for that long-sought-after Northwest Passage. It kind of made sense, though - last week I caught a couple of news blips about states wanting to secede from the U.S. & I couldn't figure out why that had reared its head again. A sidebar article also showed up in the latest Utne Reader about it. Their sidebar said that the NAU would die of slow red-tape strangulation. It also droned on about the 'truth behind the Illuminati', who were supposedly a group of bankers from the turn of the century. As far as the RF chips being implanted in everyone, well, I don't see it happening before Bush is out of office. I don't see it happening in my lifetime.
I bristle every time I hear about the Illuminati now, mainly because I found out there was an actual group of 'enlightened' magicians called the Benandanti ('the good walkers', also starring in the fiction of Elizabeth Hand) and they sort of became the Illuminati, or were tied to the Illuminati - & they also spawned the Freemasons. Part of their goal was repressing the 'Malendanti', the shamans, the Goddess-worshippers, the animists and pantheists still roaming around at the dawn of the Renaissance. It's subconsciously carried over to my job. Anytime I check in someone whose last name is 'Benedetti' or 'Benandatti' or anything similar to 'Benandanti', I take an instant dislike to them. Even though I know that if I'd been a man alive in that time period, I would have chosen socio-political power over natural power. Sometimes being a king-maker is far more rewarding than being a king. If I'd been a woman, well, we didn't have much choice back then - the Moon or the rosary. Heh. I have a pomegranate in the fridge for tomorrow - guess we all know where my loyalties really lay.
ooh, ooh... last week I saw one of the Chicken Ranch ads on a mobile billboard truck!!!
This morning, I saw a colossal example of poor ad placement. On the back of a tour bus was the following: Very Special People Onboard! At least it was a full-size tour bus & not one of those half-buses.
I am completely hooked on I Can Has Cheezburger?. I waste more time on that site reading stupid LoLcat captions than I really should, considering I'm halfway through the semester. It's kind of cool to me that I have found something in the Universe that will instantly cheer me up, no matter how bleak I am feeling. I submitted one myself - there's a picture of a ferret wrapped in a towel, so I borrowed something from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy & put "Doan't panik! I brawt ur towl." on it.
(Well, I just erased a few paragraphs, something on my mind but nevermind, it's not important after all)
So, who's for a North American Union? Watched some video that seemed tailor-made for all the conspiracy-theorist whack-jobs like myself, called Zeitgeist: The Movie. Rob was fully engrossed in it, but I found myself turning away from the television, partly in skeptical dismissiveness, and partially in fear, and also shame. I actually partially agree with the Bush Administration... I think we could very well form a North American Union, with looser borders between ourselves, Mexico & Canada. It would strengthen and stabilize our and Mexico's economy a great deal, reduce animosities, make travel a little more convenient... In return for strategic defense, Mexico would send us & Canada laborers and Canada would send us & Mexico timber & oil. I feel bad for Canada - seems like they'd be getting hosed, but with the Arctic icepack shrinking, all these countries are squabbling for that long-sought-after Northwest Passage. It kind of made sense, though - last week I caught a couple of news blips about states wanting to secede from the U.S. & I couldn't figure out why that had reared its head again. A sidebar article also showed up in the latest Utne Reader about it. Their sidebar said that the NAU would die of slow red-tape strangulation. It also droned on about the 'truth behind the Illuminati', who were supposedly a group of bankers from the turn of the century. As far as the RF chips being implanted in everyone, well, I don't see it happening before Bush is out of office. I don't see it happening in my lifetime.
I bristle every time I hear about the Illuminati now, mainly because I found out there was an actual group of 'enlightened' magicians called the Benandanti ('the good walkers', also starring in the fiction of Elizabeth Hand) and they sort of became the Illuminati, or were tied to the Illuminati - & they also spawned the Freemasons. Part of their goal was repressing the 'Malendanti', the shamans, the Goddess-worshippers, the animists and pantheists still roaming around at the dawn of the Renaissance. It's subconsciously carried over to my job. Anytime I check in someone whose last name is 'Benedetti' or 'Benandatti' or anything similar to 'Benandanti', I take an instant dislike to them. Even though I know that if I'd been a man alive in that time period, I would have chosen socio-political power over natural power. Sometimes being a king-maker is far more rewarding than being a king. If I'd been a woman, well, we didn't have much choice back then - the Moon or the rosary. Heh. I have a pomegranate in the fridge for tomorrow - guess we all know where my loyalties really lay.
ooh, ooh... last week I saw one of the Chicken Ranch ads on a mobile billboard truck!!!
This morning, I saw a colossal example of poor ad placement. On the back of a tour bus was the following: Very Special People Onboard! At least it was a full-size tour bus & not one of those half-buses.
