Back in the day it was Crosby Still Nash and Young, Creedence, shit like that. Then you got a dearth of decent music. At least there wasn’t anything to really get riled up about. Then came Regan and all his shoe-polish-head shenanigans. With it came punk and for me, what a godsend it was. ‘New Wave’ just didn’t cut it and I wasn’t anywhere near ‘goth’. (Aside from the few girls that… well… nevermind.
I got all riled up from this post over at Drunk Cyclist today. Yes there is a bit of ’scratch my back’ going on, but come on… how many people REALLY check this shit out, REALLY? Don’t try to fool me, I get the weekly stats.
Let’s have a 3 song post, and you can tell me which one really makes the hair on your arms stand up.
But this guy? Someone show him how to do a proper internet search, or… fuck… just read something other than the fucking NASCAR schedule.
—gimp
(I been pretty busy in training to be an English teacher here. Sorry for the sporadic posting. Actually, I’ve posted more in the last week than in the entire month. So I guess I’m NOT sorry. Nyah-nyah…)
I think I finally get the whole ‘Less Government’ argument. It goes a little like this:
Government can’t do things right; there is too much of it; government spends your tax money on crap you don’t need, therefore we should chop all the ‘non-essential’ stuff out.
Ok fine. Let’s look at that first bit. They can’t do anything right. The Friedman-ites in the conservative party (I’ll get to Friedman and his wrinked old ass in a bit…) argue that less government regulation works in their free-market models. All the numbers support their theory, they say. Numbers don’t lie they argue. Sure. Numbers DON’T lie. PEOPLE lie WITH numbers though. Arguing that your model works using only numbers is weak at best; an outright denial and bald-faced lie at worst. Number don’t lie, but people are greedy, lying manipulative bastards that will fuck your grandmother’s dead corpse for an extra .01% on their quarterly profit earnings.
I been busy. Not busy as in ‘I have been playing video games and drinking beer in my underpants’ busy, but busy like ‘I am in training to be a teacher of English in Germany’ busy.
Yeah. Me in job training. I can hear some of you giggle at the thought of me in a room full of Germans in a monkey-suit trying to correctly explain the usage of ‘Past progressive’ versus ‘Present Perfect Progressive’. Yeah. I thought so. It honestly is difficult. I don’t remember all the rules (fuck the rules…) seeing as I am capable of speaking clearly and succinctly when I have to. Otherwise I pepper my sentences with words like ‘Fuck’ and ‘Shit’ and ‘Fekking shite’ for a bit of variety. I won’t go into the other words I like to use. There may be children around.
Speaking of which, NO… I am not having a child, but a dear friend of mine is. A girl. Congrats TC. I know you will be a great mom, and I hope you are as happy as one can be. I am happy for you, that’s for sure.
Shame this didn’t happen on American soil. It won’t even get coverage in the US media. So much for the fourth estate and all those ‘journalists’.
BOULTON: And yet there are those who would say, look, let’s take Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and rendition and all those things, and to them that is the, you know, the complete opposite of freedom.
THE PRESIDENT: Of course if you want to slander America, you can look at it one way. But you go down — what you need to do — I think I suggested you do this at a press conference — if you go down to Guantanamo and take a look at how these prisoners are treated — and they’re working it through our court systems. We are a land of law.
Merriam-Webster has the definition of ‘Slander’ as follows… “1: the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another’s reputation2: a false and defamatory oral statement about a person.”
So the question remains… Did the limey slander Bush or America? I don’t think so. he said something Herr Bush doesn’t LIKE; he called him out and called bullshit on his actions and words, but I don’t think it was slander. Let’s see him have to go to court over it.
This was also a great line (what I am referring to in the topic of this post.)
BOULTON: But the Supreme Court have just said that — you know, ruled against what you’ve been doing down there.
THE PRESIDENT: But the district court didn’t. And the appellate court didn’t.
BOULTON: The Supreme Court is supreme, isn’t it?
There you have it. An Englishman having to remind the Idiot-in-Cheif about how our goddamn government works. He tries to weasel his way out of it and does a really nice double-backflip-louganis with a triple twist, but you can see he is just a fucking idiot who wants it his way or not at all constitution be damned. If he wasn’t on camer5a I’d wager he would have started stomping his feet and whining shit like, ‘but im da pwesideeeent…’ like some fucking 3 year old.
Watch the clip from Crooks and Liars. Then be ashamed that he was elected. TWICE.
why do they have to be so close to your face? (I have been watching a lot of News Radio lately… sorry.)
But the line taken from Bill McNeil is somehow appropriate for blogage. I feel guilty when I don’t post anything for a long while; so much so that when I DO get around to posting it is usually a surge of diarrhea-like sputtering and spurting of nonsensical crap. Much like so many other ‘blogs’.
I am going to participate in a small bit of ‘domesticide‘ today by going to IKEA to buy some crap. It’s not as bad as it sounds, since I can actually ride my bike there and back. I don’t plan on buying tonnes of crap (no-one ever does though, do they…) just some pillows for our bank and maybe a sonnenschirm for the balcony. Nosy neighbors suck. Sometimes you just want to sit on your balcony in your underwear and drink beer without all sorts of weirdos staring, right?
I haven’t posted for a long while with no excuses aside from the laziness that is my soul. I mean ‘Dude-like’ laziness. Seriously.
I finally got my lazy ass out on the bike yesterday to try out my new shock. I got a Fox DHX 4.0 to replace the so-old-i-can’t-get-a-manual Stratos Helix. It was working ok, i guess… I just wanted to get something made after 2003. It fit perfectly, and now all I have to do is get it loaded with a bit more pressure and I am set. It really was buttery smooth on my so-wet-I-shouldn’t-be-riding it trail yesterday.
Imagine you’re not looking at a poorly-drawn mass of nice, cold german beer. Imagine you’re the one sucking it down on a nice cool summer evening somewhere.
I have been slacking so very hard here. I can’t even justify nor explain it really. And don’t expect me to either.
In other news, Big Jonny at DC has posted some serious shit about a head-on by a drunk driver into some cyclists. BE WARNED. The pic is pretty brutal. No blood or guts, but it is without a doubt brutal. The links as of tuesday give little information about what happened and all, but what really REALLY burns me is check the pics of the 2 links out. Then look at the ENTIRE pic posted on DC and Bummer Life. Notice what is missing? That is right, observant blog-viewers… The COP CAR has been cropped OUT.
The fucker swerved out of the way and let the cyclists take the full force of a head-on auto driven by a drunk driver. That guy has a cow-catcher on the frint, airbags, and a slew of other shit (read: 2 tons of metal) to protect him. Go back and look at that pic again. That black spot on the mid left side? That’s a guy’s helmet. I can count at least 5 bikes in the air, with no riders in sight. But damn if that cop car doesn’t have a scratch on it.
Bastard.
If you do a bit of link hopping at the local news site, you can see the guy being asked questions etc. after being booked, before he is stuck in a cell. It’s a good thing the cops stuck him in a car when they did. Keep watching and you’ll see observers as well as other participants trying their best to get the guy OUT of the car. Lynch mob would be too good for that guy if you asked me. I say let luchador wrestlers throw bowling balls at him until the equivalent force of a car hitting a cyclist head-on has been reached. THEN take him to trial if he still lives, and stick him in a cell till his time is over.
In other non-cycling / death news…
I have a new mobile phone. It’s a Nokia N95 and It is pretty cool. I took some pics and you can see them somewhere, sometime. Like now, fer instance.
or this one…
That’s pretty much all. OH yeah… I’m somewhat addicted to World of Warcraft. If I can parley my knowledge into a job, then that’s fine. Otherwise, I’m just a lonely nerd with waaaay too much time on my hands. Seriously. Someone needs to rescue me from myself, and soon.
—gimp.
ps : Sorry about the image linking… Im trying to get it sorted, but I’m extraordinarily lazy as some of you know. And usually drunk.
‘So, whad’ya do this weekend?’ is the question we all hear Monday mornings. Well, I…
Friday I got a tattoo :
Saturday I baked the most awesome lasagne :
and Sunday, I hit a biergarten :
Everything is exploding with green and its warming up oh-so-very-nicely. So much so, that I broke out the Great White Hope from the basement and did a precursory inspection. I adjusted the saddle for a bit of ‘normal’ riding and plan on going for a short spin after my coffee this morning. Have a good start of your week.
