6.28.2005
6.14.2005
5.26.2005
More than intersting... infuriating - gotta' love Palast
IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED." IMPEACHMENT TIME: "FACTS WERE FIXED."
Archaeologists Offer Taste of Pompeii - Yahoo! News
sigh. I want to be here. click on the photo in the upper left hand corner for even more archaeology pix from the last few weeks.
Archaeologists Offer Taste of Pompeii - Yahoo! News
Archaeologists Offer Taste of Pompeii - Yahoo! News
5.10.2005
5.06.2005
4.21.2005
Study puts priestly abuse at 4%
What I find bizarre about this is the fact that this statistic means that 1 of every 25 Catholic priests in the US has been accused of molestation. Most accusations have been found to be legit - this is very disturbing to me. 1 of 25. Wow. Study puts priestly abuse at 4%
4.10.2005
Count Chocula
And even more sites on Monster Cereals! And this site described Frankenberry as "an ambiguously gay robot" which, now that you mention it...Count Chocula
X-Entertainment's Halloween Season: 2004
But this one's even better!X-Entertainment's Halloween Season: 2004
The "Monster" cereals
I just love this site. I love Booberry. And for many years I thought I had hallucinated some "werewolf" monster cereal. It was good to find out that I had not created memories for myself.
The "Monster" cereals
The "Monster" cereals
4.05.2005
3.16.2005
3.11.2005
A good quote on a bad day...
I'll be moving back to my folks this weekend. I don't usually bring up persona matters on the blog but splitting up with Ashley is an event far more impacting on me than any of the socio-political/cultural shite that I babble about or point out here. Immersing myself in my classwork keeps the depression at bay, but truly, I'm sad. I came across a quote today in Edward M. Said's Culture & Imperialism (a prime example of the socio-political cultural shite I babble about here) that touched on an element of my core beliefs - spiritual beliefs actually. On the surface, he was speaking about conflicts over land and resources between cultures. But as with all of Said's writing, it is never surface level, always multi-layered and open to myriad interpretations. He said, "Everything about human history is rooted in the earth..."
Our earliest organized religions revolved around Male Rain/Sky/Storm Gods and Mother Earth Goddesses - the fertitlity parallel is, I think, completely obvious. Like rain from the sky brings the fruit of the earth, the rain from a man, brings forth the fruit of a woman. From the get go, the fertility of the earth and the fertility of humans have been at the center of our most basic ideologies. Fecundity (Saleos is, after all the demon of fecundity) has bee the simplest and most basic motivator of people ever since two of them got together and said, lets claim this garden and make some babies.
War & Love? The desire to claim the fecundity of the earth has, over years resulted in the most devastating conflicts to control it. Wars between nearly identical peoples who could share land easily, instead become the norm of our existence. And is this true too of love? The pain and sadness I feel, the quarrels Ash and I have had, the conflict that we feel - is love and pain simply the end result of our desire to honor, possess, and secure the fecundity of another person? Is love simply an emotional adaptation to deal with the innate desire to procreate? Or perhaps an innate desire to be coupled - as is naturally represented by those early symbiotic, dualistic, yin-yang gods? Is there a universal duality that we are programmed for, and as a result, we can not avoid desiring to secure both earth, and its personal embodiment in the form or a fertile (and I don't mean just reproductively, but one who is full of beautiful and powerful and necessary qualities) partner?
I thought I found my mother earth. But perhaps not. And it is the idea, fear, of being without earth that makes me so sad, and dictates my behavior so powerfully these days - controls my personal history as the quest for land has dictated political history. Indeed, my own peronsal history is deeply rooted in the earth, in my search for a complement, in my search for someone to drink my rain.
Our earliest organized religions revolved around Male Rain/Sky/Storm Gods and Mother Earth Goddesses - the fertitlity parallel is, I think, completely obvious. Like rain from the sky brings the fruit of the earth, the rain from a man, brings forth the fruit of a woman. From the get go, the fertility of the earth and the fertility of humans have been at the center of our most basic ideologies. Fecundity (Saleos is, after all the demon of fecundity) has bee the simplest and most basic motivator of people ever since two of them got together and said, lets claim this garden and make some babies.
War & Love? The desire to claim the fecundity of the earth has, over years resulted in the most devastating conflicts to control it. Wars between nearly identical peoples who could share land easily, instead become the norm of our existence. And is this true too of love? The pain and sadness I feel, the quarrels Ash and I have had, the conflict that we feel - is love and pain simply the end result of our desire to honor, possess, and secure the fecundity of another person? Is love simply an emotional adaptation to deal with the innate desire to procreate? Or perhaps an innate desire to be coupled - as is naturally represented by those early symbiotic, dualistic, yin-yang gods? Is there a universal duality that we are programmed for, and as a result, we can not avoid desiring to secure both earth, and its personal embodiment in the form or a fertile (and I don't mean just reproductively, but one who is full of beautiful and powerful and necessary qualities) partner?
I thought I found my mother earth. But perhaps not. And it is the idea, fear, of being without earth that makes me so sad, and dictates my behavior so powerfully these days - controls my personal history as the quest for land has dictated political history. Indeed, my own peronsal history is deeply rooted in the earth, in my search for a complement, in my search for someone to drink my rain.
2.25.2005
I'm a star!
Check this out (and take a peak at the trailer): http://www.judy.tv/JTVPages/JTVHomePage.html
2.17.2005
2.10.2005
Be careful defending the undefendable (and ya' better not speak ill of capitalism, either)...
I despise violence, but the lady has a point... New York City: Rights lawyer convicted of helping terrorists: "'To rid ourselves of the entrenched, voracious type of capitalism that is in this country that perpetuates sexism and racism, I don't think that can come nonviolently,' she said."
2.04.2005
1.31.2005
MSNBC - Elections Are Not Democracy
I found this to be a failry interesting take on the elections in Iraq and the problems of setting up a democracy there. It also speaks to a growing concern of mine, which is what happens when a country's natural reosurces are privatized:MSNBC - Elections Are Not Democracy
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