I think Blurty has become a fairly safe place for me to write. Safe in the sense that nobody will ever see it. Yay!

I know I don't visit you all that often, but once every five years has got to count for something. Right? Right?

All right, I really think I would like to start using blurty more again - if only because LiveJournal was bought by six apart and - perhaps not coincidentally - is down right now.

Anyone left?

Apparently, I still have a blurty journal!

Is anyone else out there? I will use this to flirt with Aly otherwise. >:D

Hey! Happy New year Everyone!

I am wishing everyone a happy new year.

Because it is the new year.

And you should be happy.

So happy new year.

Yeah!

Hey, thought we should take some time to, you know, get to know each other.

Hi. I'm Joey. I'm 5'11", 210 pounds. I have brown hair and green eyes. I'm 36 years old and, yes baby, I'm single as they come. I really like bondage. Not when I get tied up, but when you do. Then I can go and read in the living room in peace. Maybe I'll go get a pizza. I'll come back, eventually, to untie you, but as long as your tied up, you're out of my hair. Awww yeah. Having clean hair is shexy.

I see you noticed my hair. Well, it is all real. It isn't all mine, but it is all real. Real animal hair, anyways. They don't gaurentee that it is from a human, but I like to think of it as a little bit of the animal in me on the outside of me. I coudl talk about my hair for hours and I probably will, which is another reason I'll have to be securing you to the bed frame.

Oh, wait, stay there. My friends are here and they want to see you.

Yar!

Hello Blurty friends! Today is Unlovely Pirate Appreciation Day! Details can be found at the UnlovelyDotNet LiveJournal community. The best way to find this site is to visit my LiveJournal.

Also, if you want a LiveJournal and are currently on my friends list, I have a bunch of extra codes.

YAR!

I'm not a fan of Rush Limbaughs. I also have some pretty serious issues with his assesment of Donovan McNabb as a QB (sure, he hasn't been so hot this season, but, dude, did he see him in 2001?). Indeed, I might even argue that his remarks were, whether he intended it or not, tinged with racism.

That is not my point.

I also want to point out the obvious logical fallacy in Rush's statement that "If I wasn't right, there wouldn't be this cacophony of outrage that has sprung up in the sports writer community."

Basically, this assumes that the only possible reason that the sports community got angry with Rush is because he was right. In truth, it could be possible that they reacted angrily because they genuinely believed he was wrong, or genuinely believed he was being racist.

Anyhow, that is not really my point, either.

My point is that the one thing I've always respected about Limbaugh is that he speaks his mind and holds onto his opinion no matter how boneheaded it might be. I am sort of disappointed with him for resigning from ESPN over this whole thing. I wish he had stayed and fought it out. I think he's sort of ignorant about sports, but no more ignorant than many of the people they have on ESPN these days. Anyhow, I hate it when somebody - even somebody I don't like - feels that they have to quit or go into hiding for speaking their mind in America in 2003.

Bah

Date:	2003-09-27 23:01
Subject:	Current Psychological State
Security:	Public
Mood:	melancholy
Music:	"Kiss Off" by the Violent Femmes

So, in the last two weeks I've started having panic attacks. This has never happened to me in my life. I find myself driving and needing to merge and panicing so much that I go past where I'm supposed to turn just so I won't have to. I also find myself getting very upset about almost nothing. I confess that this tends to happen more often when laurie is around - she is a fountain of negativity these days. I feel like all I hear all day at work are people complaining and then i come home and hear her complaining. She thrives on drama and often creates situations where there are no situations. This, in turn, is making me nuts. Wacko. I am turning into Mickey from "A Mighty Wind."

Date:	2003-09-20 00:50
Subject:	15153
Security:	Public
Mood:	aggravated
Music:	"Jesus, etc." Wilco

Apparently, I have posted a whole bunch at Metafilter.

I really run hot and cold on the site. Sometimes, I really like it and sometimes I really hate it.

I like the political discussion, but hate that they turn into "you're wrong - no you're wrong" style shouting matches. No attempt at listening to each other.

I am glad people are so willing to use their right to free speech (both the Americans and the non-Americans), but I wish they would also use their right to listen on occasion. Bah.

General Clark? Didn't he get fired?

Who the heck is Howard Dean? I don't mean biographical details and press coverage. Who is this guy really and what right does he have to be the Democratic front runner cum chief rival to Bush in the next election? He makes zero impression on me and his views seem weakly held at best.

Am I in the wrong? Is he some sort of political savior come to overturn Bush? Or is he merely a Mondalian sacrificial lamb being prepared for a 1984-style Republcian trouncing?

I just don't see the appeal at all. The closest thing I've seen to a candidate that I like is General Clark, and he doesn't seem to want to join in the fun. What the hell?

Date:	2003-09-05 13:01
Subject:	Optional Update
Security:	Public
Mood:	shocked
Music:	"God Give Me Strength" by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach

I am feeling trapped in 1985.

I think I need to do something to snap myself into the 21st century.

I was thinking that maybe I would take up smoking. That seems modern and cool.

I am totally obsessed with Weezer right now.

The only thing that will help is scantily clad photos.

Help!

So, here is the situation.

For about two years, I have been bringing my work laptop home with me.

From this computer over a dial up line, I can access anything I want when I am home.

At the start of June, I decided that the constant travel was damaging parts of the laptop. Decided is the wrong word - I determined that it was doing damage.

Thus, I started to use my work computer at work only and my old home computer at home.

My home computer can't handle certain pages. For example, it freezes when I visit Beef Jerky Good (Ed Yuban's current site). It also freezes when I visit Blurty.

My work computer can handle all pages, but works over a network where many pages are blocked by something called CYBER PATROL. Blurty, for reasons that I can't really explain, is blocked - which makes no sense when you figure that Vutant is not blocked - yet.

Ergo, I am almost never in a situation where I can update Blurty.

I am here today though and will try to figure out ways to update more regularly. For the children.

Date:	2003-08-06 22:37
Subject:	How I Missed You, My Blurty
Security:	Public
Mood:	awake
Music:	"Misunderstood" by Wilco

Well, apparently my parents' computer is not allergic to Blurty.

I am on the East Coast until Sunday, so I can update here.

The trouble is, I have a limited amount to say. What is up with all of you?

Finally got around to reading the notorious Project for the New American Century site.

These are the people ruling American right now?

I am not feeling good at all about this. If you haven't thoroughly read this site, it is very useful and informative and scary as all hell.

Enjoy!

Somehow, against all logic, I made it to the final three in SurvivorBLOG 3. I have no idea how I could have lasted so long, seeing as how I was 90% alliance free. I entered into one alliance for the sake of eliminating the existing alliance, and then unallied myself.

By all rights, I should have been voted off two or three challenges ago.

Anyhow, now that I am in the final three, I am gaurenteed a cash prize. Whatever cash I win goes to the National Bone Marrow registry, for reasons most of you probably remember.

Apparently, I am still living in the United States of America. I figured I had better check, since many things have been going on that seem to be pretty, well, un-American.

I thought I would read the the Constitution. Surprisingly, it is a pretty short, straight forward document. Even the amendments are short and, for the most part, straight forward.

Then, there is The Patriot Act, which is incredibly long and seems to go against a bunch of things in the Constitution. It is also hard to wade through. It is even harder to wade through Patriot Act II, but sequals are often less readable than the original.

These two documents, more than any other recent legislation, are pretty fricken un-American, in my opinion.

I belive that in the U.S.A., a person is innocent until proven guilty. Under the guise of keeping us safe, these documents (one passed, the second pending) basically make it all right for the government to treat you like you are guilty. None of this "proven guilty" or even "proven innocent" stuff is necessary. The second one will even give the president the ability to strip away a U.S. Citizen's citizenship if the president deems that person to be somehow in support of anti-American activity.

This is, of course, pretty common knowledge online and (one would hope) to the average working Joe. It seems that people would rather have the illusion of safety (as if rounding up everyone from the Middle East who is a citizen in the U.S. will somehow protect us from crazy people outside of the U.S.) than stay true to American ideals and traditions.

Bah.

*chokes on own bile*

Note: This is not intended as original thought. I am just sickened.

Wolverine in Iraq

Provided by Adam.