a story about a dog - by alex

there was once was a dog named Pinky. She belonged to the librarian
at an English school called Venusa. Pinky lived her life like many
other dogs in Venezuela, confined to a courtyard 24 hours a day.
The librarian, Hans, befriended a girl (who lived with a handsome
fellow named Alex)who was teaching at the school. He asked her to
watch Pinky for a couple of days. She loves animals, and said yes.
However, Hans never had any intention of taking this dog back.
So, for about a week, Pinky lived in the most loving environment she
has ever known, actually being cared for. Unfortunately Pinky was
allowed to 'go' wherever and whenever she wanted to in her courtyard,
so the rigors of apartment living were not for her. Luckily, the girl
Daniela always did whatever was necessary to care for Pinky and her
roomates did not have to do anything they didn't want to.
So Pinky was having a good life, the best week of her life, and she
was learning how to be a good dog and she was learning slowly how not
to be a stupid dog.
Until she was hit by a car yesterday. Now she's dead.

two voices

it was interesting.... i dealt with death in the morning with my dad's family, and consoling my dad - it's never easy to see your dad cry, even when it's understandable mourning. But in the evening i went to a party with the drummer from my mom's old band, and there were a few other pople who performed, including an 82-year old firebrand of a woman who sang beautiful opera. I played bass with my mom, her husband, the drummer and their old guitarist for a good number of songs. I'd never played them before, but have heard them since i was little and was able to pick them up pretty quickly.

HaloScan.com - Comments

HaloScan.com - Comments: "My values are based on one principle: loving others as I love myself, or as Buddha taught, trying to view all beings as having been at one time your own beloved mother. When you strive tolive with this thought uppermost, then you naturally strive to eliminate others' suffering, not create suffering. You do not lie, make war, steal or despise. You don't ravage the earth and its peoples, you don't ignore poverty and pain. You don't strive to enrich yourself or your family and friends at the expense of others toil and sacrifice. You do not try to force anything on anyone. You live mindfully and with compassion. You care. You do not judge.

You do not live this way because you fear retribution in an afterlife. You live this way because it is right."

not bury me with it

for your sake, i really hope that heaven and hell
really exist, but i wouldn't hold my breath.
you wasted life, why wouldn't you waste death?
you wasted life, why not waste the afterlife?
built to spill

tough

bears are tough

yoshimi

i don't know where the sunlight ends
and the starlight begins,
it's all a mystery.
i don't know how a man decides
what's right for his own life,
it's all a mystery.
-the flaming lips

First Draft - Holy Shit!

First Draft - Holy Shit!: "I agree with the troll who said this isn't, exactly, comperable in scale to Civil war casualties. But I also agree with the poster who pointed out that the casual contempt for the lives of our soldiers and their families encoded in that cheery dismissal is disgusting. I've said this elsewhere on this same subject, its a quote from one of Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan books 'Lives don't add as integers, they add as infinities.' Every one of the dead, on both 'sides' of this sideless, incoherent, conflict adds as an infinity of loss to someone. More or less than the Civil war? More or Less than Vietnam? Averaged? By percentages? by time? by heat? I don't care. But add them by sorrow? Add them by love and hope lost, by demolished futures, by weeping children? Then, indeed, this is comperable to the Civil War, to Vietnam, and to all conflicts.

Mission Accomplished, indeed.

aimai"

but now they have grasped great power

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.: "'Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are [a] few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.'

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 11/8/54"

jeebus fucking christ

Update: Father Charged In Murders Of Daughter and Her Classmate - May 11, 2005: "Officials say Hobbs confronted his 8-year old daughter, Laura, for leaving the house after being grounded for allegedly stealing money from her mother.

Hobbs reportedly said the confrontation escalated and he punched his daughter in the face, knocking her down. Her friend, 9-year old Krystal Tobias, pulled a small knife to try to protect Laura. Hobbs says he punched Krystal, took the knife and began stabbing them both.

Officials say Laura was stabbed 11 times, including in both eyes. Krystal was also stabbed several times. Hobbs says he dragged the bodies further into the woods of Beulah Park and cleaned up the alleged murder scene."

i love meta stuff

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music + science = sexy!

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rock

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one for the little guy

Boing Boing: V-TV DAY: WE WON THE BROADCAST FLAG FIGHT!

fun!

Natural Sciences Faculty
Apparently, she's done a lot of research on the mudskipper. I can only think of Ren and Stimpy when i hear that word.

in new york no one can hear you scream.

Alien Loves Predator: In New York, no one can hear you scream.

boing

Boing Boing: Moment of accidentally anal Brazilian university zen

apocalypse soon

t r u t h o u t - Robert S. McNamara | Apocalypse Soon: "Nuclear weapons, with roughly one seventieth of the power of the 1 megaton bomb just described, were twice used by the United States in August 1945. One atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Around 80,000 people died immediately; approximately 200,000 died eventually. Later, a similar size bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. On Nov. 7, 1995, the mayor of Nagasaki recalled his memory of the attack in testimony to the International Court of Justice:

Nagasaki became a city of death where not even the sound of insects could be heard. After a while, countless men, women and children began to gather for a drink of water at the banks of nearby Urakami River, their hair and clothing scorched and their burnt skin hanging off in sheets like rags. Begging for help they died one after another in the water or in heaps on the banks.… Four months after the atomic bombing, 74,000 people were dead, and 75,000 had suffered injuries, that is, two-thirds of the city population had fallen victim to this calamity that came upon Nagasaki like a preview of the Apocalypse."

red vs blue

This Modern World: "I go to Target, I go to Home Depot."

your plastic pal that's fun to be with

Original Hitchhiker's Guide: Radiophonic Blockbuster - createdigitalmusic.com: "Douglas Adams was infamous for 'raising procrastination to an art form.' (Favorite quote: 'I love deadlines. I like the wooshing noise they make as they go past.')"