Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in comeondieyoung2's LiveJournal:

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
12:36 am	Farmers Only! This is, apparently...not a joke. Current Mood: indescribable (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 13th, 2006
7:43 pm	Books!! Went to the book mine today with the fam. Here is the haul: 3 Nights in August - Buzz Bissinger (Apparently is the anti-Moneyball. I may scoff at most of it and find it to be full of nonsense, but I think it will be a really interesting read either way) The Essential Ellison - Harlan Ellison (Squee! This collection has more or less everything!) The Nineties, When Surface was Depth - Michael Bracewell (Looked interesting, am not familiar with the writer but am familiar with the Nineties.. I was there!) Inside the Shadow Government, National Emergencies and the Cult of Secrecy (Because I cannot go book mining without getting a conspiracy book) American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis (Have seen the movie, have been curious about the book.. just happened to walk right past it so figured i'd give it a go) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (Apparently everyone is supposed to read this book, and I have not, so there you go. Also, it's a pun! No, it's a catch 22! (there is only one other person who will get that joke, but that number is probably equal to the number of folks reading this, so yay!)) Bookiness of booky booktime. (the spellcheck on LJ does not think bookiness, booky, or booktime are words. Puh, I say!) Current Mood: cheerful (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 5th, 2006
7:52 pm	At the Grocery Store Me: Wow, check out those oranges! Savannah: (looks at chest of girl standing a few feet away) Me: No.. really, the oranges. (points at huge stand full of oranges) Savannah: Oh yes, they look very nice. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 30th, 2006
1:05 am	Help! Helen Thomas won't stop asking why we are at war with Iraq!! Just caught the last 15 minutes or so of Stephen Colbert hosting the White House Correspondent's Dinner. It was fantastic! From what i've seen in the past, these events are typically good natured joshing and ribbing and this sort of... "oh you!", followed by ruffling of the hair, aimed at the press and the current administration. Colbert was all, fuck that noise. He's going to catch hell from both conservatives and liberals for his "unprofessional" routine.. but everything he said was fitting and proper. You do not kid around jovially with someone who is not only pissing on your shoes but then telling you that it is raining. He gave it to Bush and his cronies as well as the press who has been so negligent throughout. I heart Stephen Colbert. CSPAN is replaying the event tomorrow at 12:30 in the afternoon eastern time, if anyone would like to try and catch it. It is well worth your time. Current Mood: impressed (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
11:42 pm	I'm a ramblin' man So I have this idea that I could have a talking heads show like they do on all the news networks. I would have on guests and ask them questions about the current issues of the day, then when they said something stupid I would cut their mics off and intone deeply "haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate". I would call it Hateity & Colmes, or the O'Hatey Factor, or possibly Hateball. The only problem I see is running out of people to book, I doubt i'd get any return guests. I just finished reading a book which details the 70 greatest conspiracies of all time. It is AWESOME. I have always been interested in all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories, and with watching X-Files again lately i've had that reawakened. Things that I suspect are true: -The government was in some way involved in the assasinations of the Kennedys, MLK, and John Lennon. -The government has proof of alien life -The moon landing was fake -There is some sort of behind the scenes power controlling everything that happens as far as governments, world wars, treaties, etc.. The Council on Foreign Relations figures heavily into this -The royal family is made up of lizards -okay, not really, but hee.. lizards Current Mood: silly (2 Comments |Comment on this)
3:13 am	Blast! It is really hot in Florida right now. Hot enough to make the steering wheel in the car all hot and ouchy. Bleah. We finished up our current X-Files disc and it ended in a cliffhanger episode. Unfortunately we don't have the next disc and probably won't till next week. Glarble. We do , however, have Glengarry Glen Ross.. and possibly Brokeback Mountain coming tomorrow. So there's that. I have been wanting to see Brokeback, though I go into it without expecting too much because I have found that when there are claims that a movie "changes the way you think about cinema" it usually doesn't. I am beginning to fear that I don't like Bill Murray anymore. Lost in Translation and Life Aquatic both stunk it up, in my opinion. I know everyone and their mother who love the same sort of movies I do swear by Lost in Translation, but I can't. One of the women who does the exercise rehab with me also works at Wal Mart. She said they were really jerking her around about missing work being of being tired all the time. And yet, she still claims to love working there. I've actually found that to be true of most of the wal mart people I run into down here. I just really struggle with people who have that sort of loyalty. I mean.. I had heaps of loyalty at Peaches when I worked there.. but I had a great boss and the company wasn't constantly trying to innovate new ways to dick me over.. so you know.. I appreciated that. On the other hand... and this is where so many people are misguided... please do not hate wal mart because they pay low wages. Fact is that they do not. The work they require of people is so simple a monkey could do it.. it requires no thinking, no special skills, and no particular education. As such, the rate of pay is pretty much where it should be. There are reasons to hate wal mart but that isn't one of them. People who keep shouting that there is "absolutely no evidence" that the duke chick was raped need to shut their faces. I swear, there is no bigger way to make yourself look like an asshole. If your analysis of the situation as it stands is that evidence against the boys does not exist then you are automatically an idiot, and most likely a racist and a misogynist. Anyone who isn't the prosecutor or on the grand jury has no clue what evidence the prosecution has or does not have. There is absolutely no reason to state in a non-speculative manner that the evidence does not exist unless you just automatically assume that black strippers are all liars, or that rich white boys never rape anyone. Hate. Hateity Hate von Hatenstein. Hateity & Colmes. Haaaaaaaaate. It's like people who still to this fucking day think that Terry Schiavo was not brain dead. I mean.. you what? How the fuck do you even exist? If the things that you think have so little rhyme and reason to them, how are you even able to string sentences together or manage to feed yourself. And you know, if you thought she was still "alive" before the autopsy.. fine.. I mean you were wrong, and it was pretty obvious you were wrong.. but whatever... i'll give you the benefit of the doubt. But if even after the autopsy you still haven't changed your mind you, to my mind, are pure evil. Some people might think that's a little strong. Well, you can think that, but you'd be wrong. As an enlightened life form we have a responsibility to think. We have an obligation to actually have reasons why we think the things we do. I'm not saying enlightened beings can never be wrong, it's how they are wrong. It's learning from mistakes. It's adjusting opinions and world views according to observations and evidence at hand. If you believe you have three apples, and you count them and you only have one.. you must either decide you really only have one, or come up with a plausible explanation as to why your count is off. You cannot just decide you have three in spite of your count because it makes you happy. That makes you evil in my book, and it means I hate you. :) Current Mood: amused (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 21st, 2006
12:49 am	All Times and Music Eastern Savannah got her shipment from Amazon today.. that she ordered several hours after I placed my order. I have not gotten my stuff yet. Clearly there is some sort of conspiracy at work here. I have been working out as to keep in shape for the lung transplant. My muscles are all sore. It is an odd feeling. I will be all buff soon. ESPN has the best commercials hands down. Except for the Geico Gecko. Also Adult Swim. I find those commercials for Volkswagon? (or whatever) with the cars randomly crashing into each other disturbing, and not in a good way. I am reading a collection of short stories by Richard Brautigan. This is from one called 44:40 : "Cameron had his own easy chair in the front room. It was covered with a wool blanket. Nobody else ever sat in that chair, but it was always as if he were sitting there, anyway. His spirit had taken command of that chair. Old people have a way of doing that with the furniture they end their lives sitting in." Current Mood: weird (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
4:58 pm	shutup barry bonds, shutup espn ESPN just ran a commercial for that Barry Bonds reality show. I have not actually watched said show, because I do not like to associate with badness. I can't speak to whether or not the show is good, but I do know Barry is a nasty person. I think steroid use is bad, but that isn't really my issue with him. Giambi, Sheffield, Pudge Rodriguez and many others are said to have done steroids and I don't have any particularly negative feelings towards them. I suppose part of my issue is that he may break the homerun record, but I think it's more about the way he acts. I understand that he gets hate mail full of racial slurs and that is clearly vile. I in no way find that acceptable. However, when you race bait like Barry has, forgive me if I do not feel sympathy for you when you cry about how people call you bad names. This is the man who has said that he is really only interested in breaking Babe Ruth's record and not Aaron's because Ruth is the great white hope. Barry is an asshole, he's always been an asshole, he shows no signs of ceasing to be an asshole in the near future. If you are an asshole you have to expect to not be liked. Sammy Sosa may or may not have used steroids in his run against Mark Mcgwire (who pretty clearly did use), but nobody hates Sammy Sosa...know why? NOT AN ASSHOLE. The thing that is really driving me crazy is I cannot watch baseball anymore without having to hear that idiot Joe Morgan chatter on about Barry and how great he is and blah blah blah barry bonds is godcakes nonstop. Now, Joe Morgan is obnoxious under normal circumstances anyway. But when it's the top of an inning and the Dodgers are batting and Barry is not DOING ANYTHING pertinent to the game maybe you could talk about oh.. I don't know.. the guy at the plate? HATE! I have never been much of a golf fan, but I know some people who are and they tell me Tiger Woods has ruined the game because the networks would rather show Tiger walking along the fairway than show any other golfer actually taking a golf shot. This is what is now happening in baseball with Barry. He is detracting from the game bigtime. The other night I actually gave up and watched something else because I am a BASEBALL fan not a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man fan. And I mean, cat can't even run. His body has gotten so gigantic and swollen and ridiculous that he cannot even move properly. And yet all the ESPN sportscasters who don't have a conflict of interest or anything, with barry's show being on their network, keep saying he will recover from his current slump. John Kruk, who I once had some respect for, will not shutup about how pitchers will stop challenging Barry "the first time he hits one into the bay". No. They won't. Look at him. I fully expect one of these nights to learn that Barry's legs actually fell off while he was trying to catch a fly ball. So yea.. I hope he doesn't hit another homerun ever. I would love it if he'd just retire.. but that clearly isn't going to happen. I don't really wish him any personal harm, I just want him off my tv and out of my game, dammit. I want stories about Albert Pujols who may turn out to be one of the greatest of all time.. I want stories about Chris Shelton's hot start,or about the two headed monster of Schilling and Beckett in Boston (even though I am a Yankees fan) I want stories that cover all of baseball not jut one guy. I don't want stories covering one guy even if that one guy isn't a bloated asshole.. but when he is I just cannot handle it. Current Mood: bitchy Current Music: Rome is Burning background noise (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 18th, 2006
3:18 pm	You are a stoat So I decided I will try to write stuff every now and again, and since everyone decent seems to have made the jump from OD to here, I figured I might as well get with the program. I am currently watching fox news, which is something I do because I love to be outraged. They are currently taking emails on the topic of the "double standard" surrounding the making public of identities of people accused of gang rape while the victims name is not reported. Seriously. Apparently people indicted for committing crimes now need need to be "protected".. and if we don't "protect" them why should we "protect" the victims? They keep saying they aren't saying this to be case specific.. but um.. bullshit. This is about a black stripper accusing some rich white boys of something. One man wrote in to say that her identity shouldn't be protected because "she wasn't interested in protecting her identity when she was being a prostitute", which is actually what this is about.. but fox certainly can't come right out and say that. Hah, so they just showed their stock footage about Iran which is always a crowd of soldiers goose stepping along.. you know, not that they are trying to suggest anything about Iran or anything. ::eyeroll:: So back to the Duke thing... I get that the boys may be innocent. It wouldn't surprise me if they were, actually. I usually hate these high profile cases that capture all the news focus.. for example I haven't watched a single minute of news footage about that holloway girl since this whole mess started way back in the before.. in the long long ago.. because I find it ridiculous. But something about this Duke thing fascinates me because someone is clearly lying their face off, and i'm not sure who. The defense isn't just saying "we didn't do it", they are like.. we didn't do it and we have 456 pieces of evidence proving this. So you know, they are going to, at some point, be asked to produce that evidence.. one would think.. which leads me to believe they actually have it, or else they are counting on being raptured between now and the trial. But if the boys didn't do it, who did? Someone clearly assaulted this girl.. so .. yea. Maybe it's just me, but I find the story fascinating and I think everyone is either too eager to convict the boys or too eager to say they didn't do it. I have no idea if they did or didn't, but I do want to know. ETA: The two boys who were arrested are named Collin and Reade.. one cannot help but wonder if Duke lacrosse has sort of hazing ritual involving inserting tons of extra letters into the players first names. I ordered a bunch of music from amazon the other day.. Music is friendly: Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots The National - Alligator Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas (3 Comments |Comment on this)