some days, i'm gonna write like i'm an emo teen/college student again and go 'deep' and 'write my guts out'.

other days i'll write wit and humor and silly - making absolute less than no sense.

and once in a while, i'll do all the above, and then some.

sometimes friends only, sometimes not.  take it as you will.

Today at a cemetery one thing was reaffirmed - the common decency and kindness of strangers. 

A bit more of the rational/kind/decent kinda people as opposed to irrational/fearful/reactionary, and maybe we'll all be just fine.

To do - costume good for either Halloween or Rocky Horror
Theme - Old man (ornary... not perverted, damnit)

Have:
+ Loafers
+ Black Socks
+ Jeans - plan looking (alternative - slacks or cargo pants)

Need:
- Fisherman's Cap... or some other kinda old-fashoned hat?
- Cane
- Temp. Grey Hair coloring
- Shirt of some sort... long sleeved, or button-up?
- If button up shirt - tie or bow?
- Beat-up jacket (or blazer)
- Suspenders?

ADDENDUM 10/8:

Instead... what about makeshift criminologist costume?

http://www.rockyhorrorcostumelist.info/anlcrim.htm

Inspired by carnivalesque's Presidential Debate in 30 Seconds post , here's my condensed version of tonight's Vice-Presidential debate:

PALIN: JOE?
BIDEN: OKAY.
PALIN: I FROM WASILLA, AND MIDDLE CLASS!
BIDEN: I FROM SCRANTON, AND MIDDLE CLASS!
PALIN: OBAMA BAD - HE RAISE TAXES AND NO LYK DRILLING OIL TRUE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE.
BIDEN: NUH-UH! OBAMA GOOD; MCCAIN BAD - HE NO CARE FOR MIDDLE CLASS! (DETAILS)
PALIN: UHH... ME NO ANSWER QUESTION, MODERATOR LADY. OH - ENERGY INDEPENDENCE!
BIDEN: ME BE GOOD VP, AND SUPPORT OBAMA.
PALIN: ME BE GOOD VP... AND WANT MOAR POWAR!
BIDEN: WTF? U BE LYK BAD CHENEY VP?
PALIN: UHH... I BE GOOD VP, PROMISE. OH - REAGAN!
BIDEN: I FEEL UR PAIN, AMERICA. I KNO U NEED HELP.
PALIN: ...MEDIA SCARY! OBAMA BAD - NO TAXES! ENERGY! REAGAN!
BIDEN: OBAMA AND BIDEN = CHANGE. GOD BLESS.

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Thanks to your annual inability to agree on a state budget on time, now all my co-workers who do work for the State of California (as well as thousands of other state employees) now are gonna be paid minimum-wage (around $6ish) until the budget is hammered out... however long it takes you slowpokes. 

GREAT JOB ASSHOLES!  Maybe it's time to sweep you all this November, and try to get some competent people for a change.

*Sighs*

No love,
Me.

So this 'finding long-lost footage' deal isn't some hoax, but something that actually happened?

*orgasm*

 ...now i wonder how long this restoration would take.

One - arguably the director.  Throwing out ideas, concerns, and what he thinks is a worthwhile narrative/conflict/point of interest for their documentary.  Trying to find an interesting narrative to show the subject in, while still weaving in the common group that made this brainstorm possible.  Thinking about how much time to spend, how much real vs. scripted, what kind of format to have, or even whether it should instead be a series/set of episodes.

Two - main character.  Pilot/Mechanic/Aspiring Musician(?) whose whim to travel and have his adventures/misadventures documented turns him into the subject of a documentary.  At this point definately willing to put himself out there for all the world to see when this is done.  Throwing his input in as to what will happen in this project, interacting with the director as to what about his life/trip would make good documentary film - wanting to make sure that at least he gets some say in how it all develops, regardless of the journey/cost.

Three - producer/promoter/undefined.  She had an idea for the documentary - focused on the common group that all three belong to.  Has connections that just might make the whole idea more than just idle brainstorming.  Not interacting her own voice into the discussion, but mostly listening.... as if waiting for the others to reach some point in their discussion, or instead debating whether to voice an opinion/thought that might derail the brainstorm thus far(?). 

1. Last movie you saw in a theater?
iron man - arguably the best superhero movie i've seen in quite some time. 

2. What book are you reading?
i forget - but most likely jarhead

3. Favorite board game?
zombies!

4. Favorite magazine?
giant robot - close second and third being wired and top gear

5. Favorite smells?
i've forgotten - ask me by the end of the summer

6. Favorite sounds?
rain, laughter, a nice & quiet evening (damn this shit sounds sappy)

7. Worst feeling in the world?
feeling useless

8. What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
"fuck this shit - i wanna stay in my futon for a bit longer" (most common)

9. Favorite fast food place?
toss-up between portico's and lelia's bbq in downtown sf

10. Future child’s name?
normal names - can't really think of any... but i know for sure not named after me

11. Finish this statement. “If I had lot of money I’d….?
"...either do something incredibly wise with it, or absurdly stupid."

12. Do you sleep with a stuffed animal?
no - but on the stand next to my bed is a stuffed weighted companion cube and a equally stuffed tachikoma.  geek points if you know what i'm talking about.

13. Storms - cool or scary?
...long as i don't die/lose my dwelling in the process.

14. Favorite drinks?
nearly anything with rum/whiskey, corona, san miguel, guiness.

15. Finish this statement, “If I had the time I would….”?
"...make the most of it goddamnit - go to exotic/crazy/cool places, see friends more, do as many amusing things as legally possible."

16. Do you eat the stems on broccoli?
yes - only because i don't feel bad about eating them.

17. If you could dye your hair any color, what would be your choice?
grey - just to see if people guess me as hella old or something.

18. Name all the different cities/towns you’ve lived in?
san pedro, san jose, santa cruz, hong kong, chesapeake, pinole, daly city

19. Favorite sports to watch?
 i don't believe in sports - j/k.  'm just not interested enough.

20. One nice thing about the person who sent this to you?
sonya's definatly a person i know i can have a good time hanging out with - no matter how absurd the circumstance/event.

21. What’s under your bed?
random crap - mainly old papers and cd's with old anime from back in the day.

22. Would you like to be born as yourself again?
maybe... only so i can do it better (or as i'll probably end up doing -> occuring with new and different fuck-ups to make up for what i don't do wrong next time around!)

23. Morning person, or night owl?
depends on the situation, but more for nights than mornings.

24. Over easy, or sunny side up?
both - eggs are a nice breakfast treat anyway.

25. Favorite places to relax?
with friends, alone in front of my laptop cruising the intarwebs, places where i can get a good view of the night sky

26. Favorite pie?
apple pie?
 
27. Favorite ice cream flavor?
rocky road/cherry garcia.

28. Of all the people you tagged this to, who’s most likely to respond first?
i dunno - i haven't thought that far ahead

tag - uhh... anybody that feels like doing it?

some good news, some bad news, but thus far an interesting february.  one year at work; meeting new (and sometimes perverted) people and having fun at the same time; hearing my mom go nuts about the lotto; realizing that old people can be damn offensive about their views on voting; and of course trolling the intarwebs for interesting content - two stick out @themoment in particular:

freeze flash mob in sf - an interesting idea, but i wonder how it'll work... and why nearly all the suggestions given for venues are around union square or so.

heaven rejects us and damns us all to hell, so let's wage war - now this sounds fun.  idea of 'what if heaven announced that it didn't care about us and will damn all humans to hell'.  real amusing how quickly it morphed into a 'how humanity can whoop heaven/hell' thread. 

...that, and i see continued proof that fandoms really are serious business.  *shrugs*

picture in deep masculine voice: "hello, i'm hello kitty!"

...do you need brain bleach now?  i do...



i blame this for putting such a thought in my head.

...but srs li - making hello kitty more masculine for men?

in my blitz to buy cds at virgin megastore today, i decided to buy the opera-powered web browser for the nintendo ds.  the geeky part of me goes 'wow - must buy!' even if the thing wouldn't be THAT functional (no flash, too little memory for the thing to do video or sound), but i realize how useful it'd be at places where i don't have my laptop, and can get free internet access - as long as i have my ds and it's charged.

current thoughts of opera browser for nintendo ds:
+ obviously on the slow side, but at least the thing works w/the websites i've gone to thus far (cnn, gmail, lj).
+ makes good use of both screens - although the way in which you scroll up/down the page seems confusing.
+ wish the arrow keys can be used to pan across the page, and not go between various clickable links/buttons.
+ more memory w/the expansion card that comes with the browser, but at least the darned thing WORKS, so i can't really complain.

will add more thoughts later on as they come to my head... and maybe a full review once i put the thing through it's paces

here's some quiz i did for the movie 'golden compass'. heck, the quiz itself seems more interesting than nearly all the quizzes 've done in a long time... or at least flashier. i just hope they don't fuck the movie up.

however, just because the embedded blog link i was supposed to use DOES NOT WORK, here's a ugly link to what i got instead.

ps. it's around 6:20 am, and i need to get ready for work... whoopie (not).

First - a quote:

"The satiety center registers desire not only for food but for the other three major behavioral drivers: thirst, sleep, and sex.  Often what we register as hunger is actually a desire for one of these.  So if you're hungry at work, try water first.  If you're hungry at home, screw." - 'Outsmart Your Brain', Esquire, Vol. 147, No. 5

...thought this was an amusing quote in itself - might not be true, but 'm sure quite a few Esquire readers will think it's worth a shot.  Personally, I'd pro'lly be equally interested in Playboy's articles (yah, yah, yah... it's a PRON rag, but can't say it ain't intelligent pron) - but at least i can read Esquire at work.

...this coming from a person who brought 'On a Bed of Rice - An Asian American Erotic Feast' to read on the Bart and at work a few times...

What can I say - I'm in the midst of a personal transformation of sorts.  It's scary with fears of not liking what I'll become, but I can't just go off and be the same person forever and ever and ever.  Where'd the fun be in that?

Sorry there are no stories now - maybe in a while - when i get my writing groove back... or something.

...it all started with a simple walk. 

For some reason, LORD KNOWS how it happened, a simple walk around an artificially peaceful and meticulously managed park became the start of an honestly indescribable adventure.  Sure, the phrase 'indescribable adventure' does seem quite cliche, but in this case it seems the perfect phrase - or rather the most apt, since few other things can sum it up in the young human's mind.

Young being relative, but not many people would dare say that a twentysomething is old. 

Except for little kids, of course. 

The park itself was very much a 'typical modern park', meant for recreation and enjoyment, but only under prescribed 'legal uses'.  It looked like an attempt to imitate at least one feature of Central Park, a large artificially-made park in New York City.  However, the warp hole that sucked the young person away was anything but typical - and it couldn't be described as either beautiful, magnificent, alluring, or any other positive modifier.  Instead, the worm hole was garish, chaotic, ugly, and downright terrifying.

At least to this person, anyway.

One frightening 'whoosh' through the freaky worm hole-thingie later, one human being winds up in the middle of a flat plain - or was it something straight out of a Conan movie?  "What. The. Fuck?"  First words uttered after a surprisingly soft landing into unfamiliar territory.  "Didn't even bonk my head or nothing, just landed upright.  Creepy, REAL CREEPY..."  They sure couldn't tell about the location, but there certainly was some good things that appeared nearby after that freaky hole-thingie vanished.

Nearby?  Maybe it'd help.

MAYBE.

About a week's worth of MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat), a military-grade first aid kit (complete with instructions), a laptop of some sort (that the young person thought looked like the profile of an IBM laptop, but only vaguely), an unfamiliar looking backpack ("I need to figure out what's in that thing.  Hope it's not a bomb!"), and lastly what seemed to be a small cache of arms, along with full body armor (!!!).

"Heh. Nemo me impune lacessit."

What kind of collection of weaponry would invoke the Royal Scottish motto?  Something like this: A Ka-Bar fighting knife, a M1911 .45 pistol...

an attempt at throwing out an idea: some guy talking to a friend about a certain type of egg...

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was in sorta a bad mood earlier tonight, but some walking helped ease that out a bit. and now i have a short story idea that i came up with during all that walking:

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