Musings of A Bookworm and Movie Lover
Array After seeing the Basilica and dome, we went over to view the sistine chapel, onlz to find that to get in we had to wait in the longest line I have ever seen in mz entire life. It took us, no joke, ten minutes, 10 (TEN) whole minutes to walk up to the front of the line at a brisk walking pace to determine how long the line was. Considering that there were at least 5 people per meter standing in this line (some places in line people were standing 3 or 4 abreast, so this is a real generous estimation), it works out that there were approx. 5×1000= 5000 people in line at the time we got to the line. Since people tend to talk and entertain themselves while waiting in line, thez don’t alwazs paz attention to the line ahead of them. In addition, the language barrier also presents another reason to believe that the human reactin error is considerablz higher in a line for the Sistine Chapel than at an olzmpic track event. Putting all these factors into a comprehensive mathematical formula that I have developed, I have concluded that the human reaction error needed to properlz calculate the rate of movement of the line at the Sistine Chapel is, rounded to the nearest whole number, 10 seconds.It has come to mz attention that I have made a miscalculation in figuring out the proper time needed to wait to enter the Sistine Chapel. The human reaction error, which we calculated to be ~10 seconds per incidence, turns out to be a compounded calculation, meaning that groups waiting in line don’t suffer from a lapse in reaction once, rather multiple times until thez finallz reach the turnstzles. Since groups in line eventuallz enter the Sistine Chapel, the number of people diminishes in line. (real here means actual, or adjusted, taking into account the human reaction error) I was able to see that people were entering the turnstzle at the entrace of the sistine chapel at a rate of 3 per second (zou will remember I told zou we walked to the front of the line to see how long it was). This number is also generous, considering not everzone can enter the sistine chapel at once, as there is limited room in the sistine chapel and people take time to actuallz view the sistine chapel. 15000/60= 250 minutes to completelz travel from point A (end of line) to point B (entrance to Sistine Chapel) not including the human reaction error. Including the human reaction error, we arrive at our final estimate for the time needed to wait in line to get into the Sistine Chapel: 250 208.16667= 458 minutes and 20 seconds or 458.166667/60 (minutes in an hour) = 7 hours 38 minutes and 10 seconds. Considering that we arrived at the line at 11 am and the Sistine Chapel officiallz closes at 12:20 pm, I can now saz, with confidence, that we would have never made it into the Sistine Chapel.
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The line between primary and secondary sources on modernization theory is vague, as many who have written about the theory in a historical mode have themselves been development theorists, and in this sense their criticisms continue a debate about âdevelopmentâ that modernization theory helped to inaugurate. Pletsch (âThe Three Worlds, or the Division of Social Scientific Labor, circa 1950-75,â Comparative Studies in Society and History 23 [1981]: 565-590) notes that modernization theory required the invention of the concept of the Third World, and that the popularity of both the theory and the concept of three distinct worlds of development in turn supported postwar redefinitions of the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences. Michael Lathamâs Modernization as Ideology (Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2000) describes the theory as an ideology in the Geertzian sense, with valuable case studies of the impact of modernization theory on Kennedy-era programs like the Alliance for Progress in Latin America, the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam, and the Peace Corps. Jeffery Alexanderâs Fin de Siècle Social Theory (New York: Verso, 1995) describes modernization theory less as a social scientific theory than as a symbolic system or metalanguage that that provided its audience with a sense of meaning and purpose in a chaotic, decolonizing world. More dispassionate is David Engerman, et al., eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), which shows how Americaâs allies and enemies alike shared an enthusiasm for modernist ideas about achieving increased production and higher standards of living. Several of the essays in this book look at the diffusion of the idea of modernization into the wider popular culture, a theme also taken up by Jonathan Nashelâs discussion of The Ugly American: âThe Road to Vietnam: Modernization Theory in Fact and Fiction,â in Christian Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). Wolfgang Sachs, ed., The Development Dictionary (London: Zed Books, 1992) and Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) are the most widely cited post-development texts, though James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994) and Ali Mirsepassi, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) are more thoughtful. Watts, along with Frederick Cooper in âModernizing Bureaucrats, Backward Africans, and the Development Concept,â in Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard, eds., International Development and the Social Sciences (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), connect development discourse in the colonial and postcolonial worlds and welfare state norms and forms in the industrialized states. In the wake of the Cold War, there have been a number of efforts to rehabilitate modernization theory, beginning with Francis Fukuyama, whose reformulation of modernization theory in Neo-Hegelian terms remains a touchstone for contemporary policy debates: The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992). Joel Barkan, âResurrecting Modernization Theory and the Emergence of Civil Society in Kenya and Nigeria,â in David Apter and Carl Rosberg, eds., Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994); For two withering critiques, from opposite ends of the political spectrum, of the post-Cold War return to modernization theory among former Sovietologists, see Martin Malia, The Soviet Tragedy (New York: Free Press, 1994) and Michael Burawoy, âThe End of Sovietology and the Renaissance of Modernization Theory,â Contemporary Sociology 21:6 (1993): 774-785. Homegrown Eastern European critics of post-Soviet applications of modernization theory include Boris Kagarlitsky, The Mirage of Modernization (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995) and Ilana Shapiro, âBeyond Modernization: Conflict Resolution in Central and Eastern Europe,â The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v. Kimber Charles Pearceâs analysis of Rostowâs rhetorical skills shows why he became the leading popularizer of modernization theory: Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001). Two recent dissertations deal with the role of modernization ideas in Rostowâs Vietnam policies: Mark Haefele, âWalt Rostow, Modernization, and Vietnam: Stages of Theoretical Growthâ (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001) and David Armstrong, âThe True Believer: Walt Whitman Rostow and the Path to Vietnam,â (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2001). Ron Robinâs The Making of the Cold War Enemy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) considers modernization theory part of the behavioralist movement, unaware of ideology and disinclined to think about power. Noam Chomsky et al., The Cold War and the University (New York: New Press, 1997) allows a number of prominent senior scholars to reflect on how the universityâs place in American society changed during the Cold War. On the postwar changes to the American university system more generally, see Thomas Bender and Carl Schorske, ed., American Academic Culture in Transformation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), especially Charles Lindblomâs essay, âPolitical Science in the 1940s and 1950s.â This bookâs original blueprint included a fourth case study, on the University of Chicagoâs Committee on Comparative Study of New Nations, set up in 1959 by Edward Shils, Clifford Geertz, David Apter, and Lloyd Fallers. On the influence of modernization theory on Geertz, see Nils Gilman, âInvolution and Modernization: The Case of Clifford Geertz,â in Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach, edited by Jeffrey Cohen and Norbert Dannhaeuser (Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2002). The first work to attempt to place modernization theory within the wider intellectual milieu of the 1950s was Irene Gendzierâs Managing Political Change (Boulder: Westview Press, 1985), which connected modernization theory with other intellectual movements of the 1950s such as the elitist theory of democracy, anti-populism, and the end of ideology debate. Dealing mainly with the prewar period, Emily Rosenbergâs work has pioneered the notion of âliberalâ modernist development as elite-guided welfarism: Spreading the American Dream (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982) and Financial Missionaries to the World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). The global macroeconomic underpinnings of the world historical break in the early 1970s is explained with reference to Eastern Europe in Charles Maierâs Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) and Stephen Kotkinâs Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), which together suggest that the crisis of modernity in the early 1970s affected not just the liberal-democratic modernity of the West but also Soviet modernism.
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anyway, for dee’s room i had a green and cream bedspread that i wangled for bugger-bloody-all at the sheridan retail outlet, and i went garage sale trawling on saturday…i found a couple of cane planters and a nice chaise longue…i bought a couple of cluster palms and a nice rug and pillows from this cool shop called loot…anyway enough boringness…the sum total of my decorating expenses was 1.60 above what i had kicking around the placefor mum’s i went for a lilac/purple and cream thing…which was the bedroom i’m going to use for a meditation room when the old girl buggers off…anyway, i had a shirt quilt cover that i never use much, and chucked on some purple sheets and cushions…and a purple lamp and painted a table creamish and chucked my favourite four van gogh paintings into two lilac and two purple frames and shoved them up with some ribbon (purple coloured…who’da thunk it?) on the wall…anyway it sounds all very purple but it’s really only a few touches.awmawgawd…i’ve officially become someone who posts boringly detailed shit about themselves…oh well…i’m literally almost giggling as i type this because it put me in such a lovely mood to do them :o)
I didn’t really feel anything for the muscle guy I killed either. I was pretty wrung out and tired by the time I got back, and eventually between the drunken sobs and hysterical giggles I dropped off to sleep. My Friend took the bottle and my gun, and eventually he must have gone to sleep in the other bed. When I woke up it was light out but still pretty early. I didn’t have a hangover and My Friend had hidden my gun, probably worried that I was going to go completely mental. Then again I had a fair recollection of how I’d been gibbering the night before, not something to inspire confidence. If it had been anyone but him I would have been embarrassed. Being reduced to tears by exhaustion, adrenaline overload, and near death experiences may be a healthy reaction, but I never liked to cry, not for any reason.
After a shower and some coffee, My Friend woke up and got dressed we went up the street for some breakfast. He glanced my way a couple times, looking away real fast when I noticed, finally I said,
Dude, Im fine. Seriously I was just fucking wiped. You know?”
He agreed out loud but doubt hung in his eyes, and the way his face didnt relax. I told him about my trip, when I got to my kidnapping he swore, Damn! You fucking idiot! What the hell were you thinking? I shrugged and continued
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004JOURNAL / BLOG ENTRYexcerpt from overheard cubical chatter:coworker # 1 - oh crapcoworker # 2 - oh crap. anything.- 51% of the American public and ‘their’ next four years.- crazy people.- mean people.- crazy mean people.- the self important.- the self deluded.- the self obsessed.- the self referential.- the self sabotaging.- the self absorbed.Friday, November 12, 2004JOURNAL / BLOG ENTRYToday’s math work…..38° light rain / umbrella = no problem38° light rain any-amount-of-wind / ±umbrella = kill me.Flapjack bathmat = issues.Flapjack (bathmat issues) / kory-annoyed = Flapjack-bathmat-issues-continue.Flapjack (bathmat issues) / kory-amused = Flapjack-bathmat-issues-cease.so far at least.weekly work paycheck = 0 > unemployment insurance weekly checkworking with music = 1000% > working with NO musicworking with no music = kill me.Wednesday, November 10, 2004JOURNAL / BLOG ENTRYFlapjack-vs.-Bathmat-Watch-2004-11/09/04 6:23pm - bathmat found lying just outside of bathroom-11/09/04 9:49pm - bathmat found lying just outside of bathroom-11/10/04 4:36am - bathmat found lying just outside of bathroomBLOG ENTRYExcerpt rom the illustrious Onion.com:Nation’s Poor Win Election for Nation’s RichThe Republican partyâthe party of industrial mega-capitalists, corporate financiers, power brokers, and the moneyed eliteâwould like to thank the undereducated rural poor, the struggling blue-collar workers in Middle America, and the God-fearing underpriviledged minorities who voted George W.
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So here they are, not particularly in order:1.Armageddon2.The Matrix3.The Matrix Reloaded4.Speed5.A Walk In The Clouds6.The Replacements7.The Empire Strikes Back8.The Incredibles9.X-Men10.X-2: X-Men United11.Swordfish12.Van Helsing13.A Room With A View14.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring15.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers16.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King17.Lethal Weapon18.Daredevil19.Snatch20.The Lady and The Tramp21.Mulan22.The Mummy23.The Mummy Returns24.Gone in 60 Seconds (Nicolas Cage)25.Face/Off26.National Treasure27.Phantom of the Opera28.Great Expectations (Ethan Hawke)29.Elektra30.The Professional31.Hardboiled32.Equilibrium33.Constantine34.The Lost Boys35.Bram Stoker’s Dracula36.Shadowlands37.The Breakfast Club38.Raiders of the Lost Ark39.King Arthur40.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade41.So Close42.The Long Kiss Goodnight43.Pirates of the Caribbean44.Naked Weapon45.The Waterboy46.Happy Gilmore47.The Sure Thing48.Real Genius49.Heartbreakers50.Superman51.While You Were Sleeping52.Miss Congeniality53.My Chauffeur54.Aliens55.Pitch Black56.Willow57.Cat on A Hot Tin Roof58.The Long Hot Summer59.Marnie60.The Birds61.Snatch62.XXX63.The Pacifier64.LA Confidential65.The Transporter66.Romeo Must Die67.Sleepy Hollow68.The Specialist69.Deep Blue Sea70.Ride With The Devil71.Die Hard72.The Best Man73.I, Robot74.Independence Day75.The Princess Bride76.Trading Places77.The Blues Brothers78.Lover Come Back79.The Fifth Element80.Flirting81.The Boondock Saints82.Underworld83.The Wizard of Oz84.Ghostbusters85.The Frighteners86.The Bourne Identity87.Splash88.Tears of the Sun89.Kiss The Girls90.Blade91.Blade II92.Hellboy93.La Femme Nikita94.The Boondock Saints95.Office Space96.Heathers97.Overboard98.The Punisher99.Shag100.Bringing Down The House
Array After seeing the Basilica and dome, we went over to view the sistine chapel, onlz to find that to get in we had to wait in the longest line I have ever seen in mz entire life. It took us, no joke, ten minutes, 10 (TEN) whole minutes to walk up to the front of the line at a brisk walking pace to determine how long the line was. Considering that there were at least 5 people per meter standing in this line (some places in line people were standing 3 or 4 abreast, so this is a real generous estimation), it works out that there were approx. 5×1000= 5000 people in line at the time we got to the line. Since people tend to talk and entertain themselves while waiting in line, thez don’t alwazs paz attention to the line ahead of them. In addition, the language barrier also presents another reason to believe that the human reactin error is considerablz higher in a line for the Sistine Chapel than at an olzmpic track event. Putting all these factors into a comprehensive mathematical formula that I have developed, I have concluded that the human reaction error needed to properlz calculate the rate of movement of the line at the Sistine Chapel is, rounded to the nearest whole number, 10 seconds.It has come to mz attention that I have made a miscalculation in figuring out the proper time needed to wait to enter the Sistine Chapel. The human reaction error, which we calculated to be ~10 seconds per incidence, turns out to be a compounded calculation, meaning that groups waiting in line don’t suffer from a lapse in reaction once, rather multiple times until thez finallz reach the turnstzles. Since groups in line eventuallz enter the Sistine Chapel, the number of people diminishes in line. (real here means actual, or adjusted, taking into account the human reaction error) I was able to see that people were entering the turnstzle at the entrace of the sistine chapel at a rate of 3 per second (zou will remember I told zou we walked to the front of the line to see how long it was). This number is also generous, considering not everzone can enter the sistine chapel at once, as there is limited room in the sistine chapel and people take time to actuallz view the sistine chapel. 15000/60= 250 minutes to completelz travel from point A (end of line) to point B (entrance to Sistine Chapel) not including the human reaction error. Including the human reaction error, we arrive at our final estimate for the time needed to wait in line to get into the Sistine Chapel: 250 208.16667= 458 minutes and 20 seconds or 458.166667/60 (minutes in an hour) = 7 hours 38 minutes and 10 seconds. Considering that we arrived at the line at 11 am and the Sistine Chapel officiallz closes at 12:20 pm, I can now saz, with confidence, that we would have never made it into the Sistine Chapel.
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The line between primary and secondary sources on modernization theory is vague, as many who have written about the theory in a historical mode have themselves been development theorists, and in this sense their criticisms continue a debate about âdevelopmentâ that modernization theory helped to inaugurate. Pletsch (âThe Three Worlds, or the Division of Social Scientific Labor, circa 1950-75,â Comparative Studies in Society and History 23 [1981]: 565-590) notes that modernization theory required the invention of the concept of the Third World, and that the popularity of both the theory and the concept of three distinct worlds of development in turn supported postwar redefinitions of the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences. Michael Lathamâs Modernization as Ideology (Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2000) describes the theory as an ideology in the Geertzian sense, with valuable case studies of the impact of modernization theory on Kennedy-era programs like the Alliance for Progress in Latin America, the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam, and the Peace Corps. Jeffery Alexanderâs Fin de Siècle Social Theory (New York: Verso, 1995) describes modernization theory less as a social scientific theory than as a symbolic system or metalanguage that that provided its audience with a sense of meaning and purpose in a chaotic, decolonizing world. More dispassionate is David Engerman, et al., eds., Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), which shows how Americaâs allies and enemies alike shared an enthusiasm for modernist ideas about achieving increased production and higher standards of living. Several of the essays in this book look at the diffusion of the idea of modernization into the wider popular culture, a theme also taken up by Jonathan Nashelâs discussion of The Ugly American: âThe Road to Vietnam: Modernization Theory in Fact and Fiction,â in Christian Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). Wolfgang Sachs, ed., The Development Dictionary (London: Zed Books, 1992) and Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) are the most widely cited post-development texts, though James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994) and Ali Mirsepassi, Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) are more thoughtful. Watts, along with Frederick Cooper in âModernizing Bureaucrats, Backward Africans, and the Development Concept,â in Frederick Cooper and Randall Packard, eds., International Development and the Social Sciences (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), connect development discourse in the colonial and postcolonial worlds and welfare state norms and forms in the industrialized states. In the wake of the Cold War, there have been a number of efforts to rehabilitate modernization theory, beginning with Francis Fukuyama, whose reformulation of modernization theory in Neo-Hegelian terms remains a touchstone for contemporary policy debates: The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992). Joel Barkan, âResurrecting Modernization Theory and the Emergence of Civil Society in Kenya and Nigeria,â in David Apter and Carl Rosberg, eds., Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994); For two withering critiques, from opposite ends of the political spectrum, of the post-Cold War return to modernization theory among former Sovietologists, see Martin Malia, The Soviet Tragedy (New York: Free Press, 1994) and Michael Burawoy, âThe End of Sovietology and the Renaissance of Modernization Theory,â Contemporary Sociology 21:6 (1993): 774-785. Homegrown Eastern European critics of post-Soviet applications of modernization theory include Boris Kagarlitsky, The Mirage of Modernization (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995) and Ilana Shapiro, âBeyond Modernization: Conflict Resolution in Central and Eastern Europe,â The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, v. Kimber Charles Pearceâs analysis of Rostowâs rhetorical skills shows why he became the leading popularizer of modernization theory: Rostow, Kennedy, and the Rhetoric of Foreign Aid (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2001). Two recent dissertations deal with the role of modernization ideas in Rostowâs Vietnam policies: Mark Haefele, âWalt Rostow, Modernization, and Vietnam: Stages of Theoretical Growthâ (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001) and David Armstrong, âThe True Believer: Walt Whitman Rostow and the Path to Vietnam,â (Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 2001). Ron Robinâs The Making of the Cold War Enemy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) considers modernization theory part of the behavioralist movement, unaware of ideology and disinclined to think about power. Noam Chomsky et al., The Cold War and the University (New York: New Press, 1997) allows a number of prominent senior scholars to reflect on how the universityâs place in American society changed during the Cold War. On the postwar changes to the American university system more generally, see Thomas Bender and Carl Schorske, ed., American Academic Culture in Transformation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), especially Charles Lindblomâs essay, âPolitical Science in the 1940s and 1950s.â This bookâs original blueprint included a fourth case study, on the University of Chicagoâs Committee on Comparative Study of New Nations, set up in 1959 by Edward Shils, Clifford Geertz, David Apter, and Lloyd Fallers. On the influence of modernization theory on Geertz, see Nils Gilman, âInvolution and Modernization: The Case of Clifford Geertz,â in Economic Development: An Anthropological Approach, edited by Jeffrey Cohen and Norbert Dannhaeuser (Walnut Creek: Altamira Press, 2002). The first work to attempt to place modernization theory within the wider intellectual milieu of the 1950s was Irene Gendzierâs Managing Political Change (Boulder: Westview Press, 1985), which connected modernization theory with other intellectual movements of the 1950s such as the elitist theory of democracy, anti-populism, and the end of ideology debate. Dealing mainly with the prewar period, Emily Rosenbergâs work has pioneered the notion of âliberalâ modernist development as elite-guided welfarism: Spreading the American Dream (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982) and Financial Missionaries to the World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). The global macroeconomic underpinnings of the world historical break in the early 1970s is explained with reference to Eastern Europe in Charles Maierâs Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997) and Stephen Kotkinâs Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), which together suggest that the crisis of modernity in the early 1970s affected not just the liberal-democratic modernity of the West but also Soviet modernism.
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anyway, for dee’s room i had a green and cream bedspread that i wangled for bugger-bloody-all at the sheridan retail outlet, and i went garage sale trawling on saturday…i found a couple of cane planters and a nice chaise longue…i bought a couple of cluster palms and a nice rug and pillows from this cool shop called loot…anyway enough boringness…the sum total of my decorating expenses was 1.60 above what i had kicking around the placefor mum’s i went for a lilac/purple and cream thing…which was the bedroom i’m going to use for a meditation room when the old girl buggers off…anyway, i had a shirt quilt cover that i never use much, and chucked on some purple sheets and cushions…and a purple lamp and painted a table creamish and chucked my favourite four van gogh paintings into two lilac and two purple frames and shoved them up with some ribbon (purple coloured…who’da thunk it?) on the wall…anyway it sounds all very purple but it’s really only a few touches.awmawgawd…i’ve officially become someone who posts boringly detailed shit about themselves…oh well…i’m literally almost giggling as i type this because it put me in such a lovely mood to do them :o)
I didn’t really feel anything for the muscle guy I killed either. I was pretty wrung out and tired by the time I got back, and eventually between the drunken sobs and hysterical giggles I dropped off to sleep. My Friend took the bottle and my gun, and eventually he must have gone to sleep in the other bed. When I woke up it was light out but still pretty early. I didn’t have a hangover and My Friend had hidden my gun, probably worried that I was going to go completely mental. Then again I had a fair recollection of how I’d been gibbering the night before, not something to inspire confidence. If it had been anyone but him I would have been embarrassed. Being reduced to tears by exhaustion, adrenaline overload, and near death experiences may be a healthy reaction, but I never liked to cry, not for any reason.
After a shower and some coffee, My Friend woke up and got dressed we went up the street for some breakfast. He glanced my way a couple times, looking away real fast when I noticed, finally I said,
Dude, Im fine. Seriously I was just fucking wiped. You know?”
He agreed out loud but doubt hung in his eyes, and the way his face didnt relax. I told him about my trip, when I got to my kidnapping he swore, Damn! You fucking idiot! What the hell were you thinking? I shrugged and continued
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004JOURNAL / BLOG ENTRYexcerpt from overheard cubical chatter:coworker # 1 - oh crapcoworker # 2 - oh crap. anything.- 51% of the American public and ‘their’ next four years.- crazy people.- mean people.- crazy mean people.- the self important.- the self deluded.- the self obsessed.- the self referential.- the self sabotaging.- the self absorbed.Friday, November 12, 2004JOURNAL / BLOG ENTRYToday’s math work…..38° light rain / umbrella = no problem38° light rain any-amount-of-wind / ±umbrella = kill me.Flapjack bathmat = issues.Flapjack (bathmat issues) / kory-annoyed = Flapjack-bathmat-issues-continue.Flapjack (bathmat issues) / kory-amused = Flapjack-bathmat-issues-cease.so far at least.weekly work paycheck = 0 > unemployment insurance weekly checkworking with music = 1000% > working with NO musicworking with no music = kill me.Wednesday, November 10, 2004JOURNAL / BLOG ENTRYFlapjack-vs.-Bathmat-Watch-2004-11/09/04 6:23pm - bathmat found lying just outside of bathroom-11/09/04 9:49pm - bathmat found lying just outside of bathroom-11/10/04 4:36am - bathmat found lying just outside of bathroomBLOG ENTRYExcerpt rom the illustrious Onion.com:Nation’s Poor Win Election for Nation’s RichThe Republican partyâthe party of industrial mega-capitalists, corporate financiers, power brokers, and the moneyed eliteâwould like to thank the undereducated rural poor, the struggling blue-collar workers in Middle America, and the God-fearing underpriviledged minorities who voted George W.
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So here they are, not particularly in order:1.Armageddon2.The Matrix3.The Matrix Reloaded4.Speed5.A Walk In The Clouds6.The Replacements7.The Empire Strikes Back8.The Incredibles9.X-Men10.X-2: X-Men United11.Swordfish12.Van Helsing13.A Room With A View14.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring15.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers16.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King17.Lethal Weapon18.Daredevil19.Snatch20.The Lady and The Tramp21.Mulan22.The Mummy23.The Mummy Returns24.Gone in 60 Seconds (Nicolas Cage)25.Face/Off26.National Treasure27.Phantom of the Opera28.Great Expectations (Ethan Hawke)29.Elektra30.The Professional31.Hardboiled32.Equilibrium33.Constantine34.The Lost Boys35.Bram Stoker’s Dracula36.Shadowlands37.The Breakfast Club38.Raiders of the Lost Ark39.King Arthur40.Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade41.So Close42.The Long Kiss Goodnight43.Pirates of the Caribbean44.Naked Weapon45.The Waterboy46.Happy Gilmore47.The Sure Thing48.Real Genius49.Heartbreakers50.Superman51.While You Were Sleeping52.Miss Congeniality53.My Chauffeur54.Aliens55.Pitch Black56.Willow57.Cat on A Hot Tin Roof58.The Long Hot Summer59.Marnie60.The Birds61.Snatch62.XXX63.The Pacifier64.LA Confidential65.The Transporter66.Romeo Must Die67.Sleepy Hollow68.The Specialist69.Deep Blue Sea70.Ride With The Devil71.Die Hard72.The Best Man73.I, Robot74.Independence Day75.The Princess Bride76.Trading Places77.The Blues Brothers78.Lover Come Back79.The Fifth Element80.Flirting81.The Boondock Saints82.Underworld83.The Wizard of Oz84.Ghostbusters85.The Frighteners86.The Bourne Identity87.Splash88.Tears of the Sun89.Kiss The Girls90.Blade91.Blade II92.Hellboy93.La Femme Nikita94.The Boondock Saints95.Office Space96.Heathers97.Overboard98.The Punisher99.Shag100.Bringing Down The House