Very slwoly, the last few months of careful planning and consideration are falling into place and beginning to show fruition. this is my humble shout out to Jesus to say thanks...because without him none of it is possible. ...also shout outs go to  you, my friends, because you listend to my endless complaining and belly-aching...thanks so much. (^_^)

I fig'red I would post a link to the hotness of where I get my icons from. I get my icons from

exploding_candy

and as such, I encourage you to check out her icon posts. Her latest (which happen to be Tron icons) can be found here . Moving along, I also want to do a "300" questionaire!

It is no secret we will be seeing this movie. As such, I want to make sure everyone has the chance to get in on the fun. That said here goes. The movie comes out on Friday the 9th. Now, like most of you kids there IS a thing called work and or responsibility. I get off work usually at 6PM on Friday (sometimes later depending on what labors I have to complete). Also, I have to work the following Saturday (3/10) from 8 until about 5Pm depending on how long filming lasts. I have also been approached about karaoke. As far as I am concerned, the following weekend would be best for me...or atleast a day showing on Wednesday. Let me know what you kids want to do please. We could make a day of it and do both karaoke and a movie...OR we could do as JE proposed and do IMAX 300 and bowling (which I strongly encourage and prefer). Either way let me know what's good with you all...oh, yea! we don't even need to do it all in one shot. Karaoke one day and 300/bowling another; whatever works for you guys. Please get back to me so I know and we can schedual accordingly.

The Omaha Courthouse Lynching of 1919
Yes, his is on fire. This particular lynching is notably disgusting. Strung up to a nearby lamp post, Mr. Will Brown was sprayed with bullets, taken down, set on fire and finally tied and dragged from the back of a car. To add insult to injury, the ropes used were sold for 10cents a peiece. God bless America.

One last lesson for you:


Way to go FLORIDA!! NOt only are you home to the vacation capitol, you are also home to the lynching capitol, too!

(I have foused on injustice in the south, let us not forget the north and other territories were littered with just as much injustice, as well. Racism comes in many forms and the battle of racial supremacy has varying tactics)

If you don't know your history, you're doomed to repeat it......

        Hate is a dead thing, who of you will be tomb.....

So, yeah, how's 'it going all? In regards to the completely irrelevent things Nebby has been up to, I guess this, in the soup of silliness, floats to the top. Been reading/watching Monster. I came across the title while looking for Death Note. *Aside from my current addiction to Dexter (courtesy of Exploding_Candy) it's pretty darn good....so go and watch it!!*  Moving along, basically it's just following the life of a simple doctor from Japan practicing brain surgery in Germany. He's got the "hot girlfriend" and a promisng career and then he saves a young boy's life rather than the mayor who arrived after the boy to the hospital (he was having a bad day. He let a poor Turk die to save an Opera singer ealier that day). Afterwards, our young doctor finds himself up to his neck in hot water, loosing his special status , his money, his dignity and his woman. Oops, right? No, no, it gets better. A night of liver-melting binge drinking ensues and our doctor awakens to the pleasantries of vermon, filth and rotting aroma therapy. That same night all those that took his status and career are then murdered and our hero is thrust back to the top. Unfortunately for him, one of those people happends to be the director of the hospital and the father of his former fiancee.I haven't gotten much farther...but it seems death follows this guy around by the heels(even if he is a doctor, that logic can only be used so much). It's interesting thus far, but hey, I have been wrong about good stories before (but for some reason I feel this should prove to be good through to the end). I suppose the fact that it opens quoting the book of Revelations also got my attention. I mean, who can turn away a story talking about "The mark of beast", visions of the End Times  and the Anti-Christ?



It'll make you think twice about helping a dying child with a bullet in his head over a politician. 

Also, on the topic of good reading, I've picked a copy of Haunted by Chuck Palahnuik. I've been reluctant to read it based on the cover. Now, I've always been one to say that old cliched line about judging books based on covers...but the cover was just damn freaky and I didn't want to touch it. So I finally decide to buy it off a whim while book shopping with mine olde sister Kimberly. She said the back sounded like something I would like...she was sooo right. Basically, it's a series of poems and short stories strung together to tell the story of 13 people (writers of people) thrust into a desperate situation where they are locked in a hotel of sorts and aren't allowed to leave for 3months. Now,after answering a personal add for a writer's colony, they are told to bring one bag and one bag alone, nothing more. They are given food rations...which inevitably runs out. It's a great horror story because it looks into the darker parts of the human soul and brings into play the baser instincs of humanity and the question, "what would you do to stay alive?" It's really interesting because it forces you to read between the lines and see exactly what is going on through reading their fictional writings. Any person that can write this well, having no character's writing styles sound the same is def. worth reading. This was something I wasn't expecting and I am super glad I finally started reading it. I am completely impressed by the whole book in itself, writing style and all. I have been lacking faith in the writers of our age and this is def. something I reccomend picking up. It's completely repulsive and grotesque...yet I can't put it down. Everytime I tell myself, "enough", I just keep reading. There are somethings that shouldn't be written...well, he writes them and creates an amazing world or filth, nausea and utter comedy. Hey, the guy wrote Fight Club  I shouldn't be suprised. It gives me chills how much I am enjoying this.

I am in search of what Hatguy calls Transmetropolitain. Hmm...his description, despite utterly lacking, has inspired my desire to read it. I think it was the part where he describes the main character complaining about being cold in his car because he forgot to put the windows down before launching a rocket into a bar full of people he hated that sold me on it. It wasn't that he just killed a bunch of people, it's that he was cold in his car...priceless. He also describes it as the best depiction of the future since it's the most practical. Previously we were discussing how stupid the futuristic world of Minority Report was being that it's 50years in the future.

I'm assuming we're all familiar with the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Ed., Topeka Kansas. Since I'm going under that assumption I'll state the following. I was listening to the radio today and some very.....interesting discussions came up. I won't call it distressing since it's an actual reality. The US government has seen fit to become more lax on its standard in regards to allowing gender seperated schools/classrooms etc. to be operated with government funding so long as these schools are...*gasp* "seperate but equal". This made my ears itch a bit when I heard this. XM Radio has stolen my heart and the stations operating all have something to offer. Now, what really gets interesting is when the host brought up racially seperated schools and classrooms. He asked the question, "what IS seperate but equal and what does it really mean? People phoned in, gave their opinions and the program went on. I was surprised by the number of people that actually supported segregated classrooms. With a predominantly black audience, these people basically were saying the Black America was better off during the times of segregation (in regards to taking care of "our own"). I didn't have a problem with the discussion, nor did I have a problem with opinions...what irked me was the possibility segregation becoming ok once again in our society. People sacrificed so much to intergrate, and the thought that their labors were in vain makes me a bit sad. I think this is the start of something far deeper than what in anticcipated. To say that its ok to seperate based on sex, what's to say that people won't try to begin seperation based on race...and we see what becomes of that kind of society. There's a great deal I could comment on this. I suppose the only other thing I can say is that it only takes on domino to make the rest fall.

I have another post for later tonight on Kogepan...because burnt bread is apparently sarcastic.

They say money can't buy love and that you are not what you own. While these things remain true...I can't help but want something so much I've been salivating over it ...even in my dreams (well, not really...but it COULD happen). What makes it all the more tricky is that god-forsaken British pound!!!! CURESE YOU and YOU'RE VILE ECONOMIC SUPREMACY!!! *tears* Oh, you may wish to know what it is that I'm just dying to own. Well, it is none other than this:



for the ever so modest price of just 150pounds you too can own such a lovely peice. Now, being that I am so very cheap, I'll just have to find the closest replica I can possibly find on the fair streets of NY. It is my mission to find this baby and give her a nice resting place upon my finger.Oh, and no...I'm not really this shallow...I just like pretty things.

Ok, firstly let me say that earlier this week I brok my cell phone in some way or another.Also, let me mention I am no great story teller, so this will be no work of art.  All I know is that one day the bloody thing wouldn't turn on and I was left sad and lonely without my baby. Flashforward oh say...4days and I was the Verizon store patiently awaiting my designated techie to fix my phone. These poor lads had no idea what was coming their way. I take my seat and wait for my turn to return once again so I can find out what is wrong with the blasted thing so I can be about my business. After taking my seat a woman walks up to the counter. Looking at her you think, "My, she spent one tooo many days in the tanning bed". As I sit there, nose in book, I hear, "What F*** is wrong with you people?!" After that, it was all downhill. After a blizzard of foul words that would make a sailor cringe, she begins to scream across the counter at the man that looked as if he wanted to push her face into a wall. People left the store, women grabbed their children and walked outside and men stared in horror as she vomitted out words I can't even repeat. She began to call them liars and incompetant fools and the like. She carried on scdreaming for about 20min. I thought she would get tired and leave...she didn't. Her phone apparently had gotten wet and wasnt' covered under warranty and she couldn't quite deal with the notion that she would have to pay for another. Alas, the more belligerent she became, the more other cutomers, such as myself, began to get irrated at the woman. The  funny part of such events came when I found out the man sitting next to my mother was a state trooper. He was waiting for the moment the woman got out of control to take her down. I was kinda hoping it would come to that. She even went so far as the start cursing at my father who was standing next to her with another sales rep guy. Who curses at a Reverend? Apparently this woman. I was scared of this amazon because she looked like she ate babies!!!  Babies!!! I think she'de give Condi Rice a run for the "Scariest Bitch" award. Oh, Condi may have intellect and fangs on her side, but this woman could KO a grown man with her mouth. When the dust finally settled, she left the store...without a phone, as she had previously stated that she wanted a new phone for free. There be some crazy peeps in 'dis here world...and last night I crossed paths with one.