Cork on the Fork

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I went to bed this morning at 4:45 after the best
night ever (Undisclosed Events), and woke up to play GB for 2 hours.
Did I mention that it was snowing? Went to assorted malls/stores on�
a search for PS2 Games, but mostly ended up playing Star Wars at the
Arcade. I Lounged for Lunch with PJ while sipping some Coffee and
talking about how that lucky bastard has all the ladies he could
ever want.

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I bought a pound of black licorice and two boxes of
cereal. Why? Nothing goes better with Cereal than� a chewy
piece of sugar stick.

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Alas, the chance is gone now.

In Other News:

– Site Reached 10,000 Hits sometime yesterday.

– No one should drink anything that’s alcoholic and
black. There was probably motor oil in there.

– Harv, it took us a while to find it, but the end
result was golden.

– I tape recorded a 21 minute message to myself at
2:56 AM. Psycho!

– Religious Experience in the Car

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I wish I had more pictures of me doing things where
I was smiling. It’s not that I don’t have any fun, it’s that I’ve
been afraid to smile since I got braces as a kid. I just thought
about that when I couldn’t find one picture where I had a big grin
on my face today. Does anyone want to trail me like the Paparazzi to
get some action pics? I thought not, good people are hard to find.

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You Jive Monkeys reading this are most likely aware
of the poll about Iraq which, by the way, seems to be drawing a lot
of votes for some reason. In any case, I’ve been to a few
seminars/debates on this war and come to a lot of differing
conclusions. 1) It’s going to get worse before it gets better and 2)
War is Hell. Just like in the movies.

I am pretty much opposed to fighting wars, but I
really feel for the guys that have to fight in them. I know this is
a big guilt trip, but it always bothered me that all the people I
know at JMU or elsewhere have the pettiest (sp?) concerns in
comparison to someone Iraqi or American or Whatever fighting over
some piece of dirt somewhere.

Random US Kid:

– Is my boyfriend gonna come over tonight?

– I need to get my grade up in Sociology

– I need a pair of Abercrombie Jeans

– Dude, my Favorite Band is going to play at Main
Street Tonight

Soldier:

– Damn, I can’t feel my leg anymore. That shrapnel
isn’t helping.

– I have to write to Tom’s parents, to tell him he’s
dead.

– I hope I don’t die in my sleep when a Mortar
explodes on me.

– I need to stay alive.

It’s been mentioned to me that we fight wars like
this to maintain the ability of US citizens to consume. I
mean, Democracy is based on having a choice, and in the US that
choice is applied to what you’re going to purchase – It’s the basis
of a market economy, the two go hand-in-hand. We are fighting this
war to secure Oil in the Middle East and to secure our ability to
consume Gasoline so we can drive to wherever the Hell we want to go.
That has been the US Policy since the Carter Doctrine, and I don’t
see how anyone can believe that this is anything but an Oil War.

Here’s the Problem: No one hear is willing to give
up their Cars, CD’s, Abercrombie Clothes, etc. so we don’t have to
fight in Wars like this. All that stuff is made with machines that
run on oil, or derive power from an oil-based energy system.  I
for one am not willing to give up the PC I’m writing this on, and
it’s just unbelievable to me that a culture can be that addicted to
crappy items that we don’t need, but refuse to give up even if we
have to fight wars to keep them.

Sorry, I was ranting like a madman, but I got the
idea’s from Burnett.

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In Other News:

– Simulation Modeling. Sounds Boring, But is
actually Quite Cool

– Free candy from the ladies downstairs – Thankee
Kindly M’am

– Cheerios WITH Fruit! Freeze Dried Fruit. Thank you
General Mills.

[The troop stops before a memorial]
Johnson:
Would you look at how fast they put the names of all our guys who
got killed?
The Sergeant:
That’s a World War One memorial.
Johnson:
But the name’s are the same.
The Sergeant:
They always are.

– The Big Red One

(It’s a little known, but highly underrated World War II Film. I
highly recommend.)