Ah... Halloween

Since when did it become tradition to continue trick-or-treating well into your teens in this country! I'm at my house on Halloween now, trying to enjoy my glass of whiskey and watch Michael Myers slowly saunter after screaming coeds with a knife, and I'm being constantly interrupted by trick-or-treaters......but none of them are fucking kids! The next high-schooler with a sheet over his stupidly grinning face that requests that I, "stop being a downer and get the candy" is gonna get a swift kick in the ass.

Damn Redwings!

The only bad part of being a devoted fan to a sports team that routinely excels year after year is that any time they start to do bad, even if it's just for a little while, it can seem catastrophic. Such are my feelings after watching the Red Wings drop their second straight game tonight. Oh well, at least Halloween will provide sweet alcoholic relief.

Who's Naylin' Palin'?

Wow. That is the only word I have to describe the latest development in the public interpretation of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin. Made fun of by SNL, The Daily Show, and numerous YouTube hilarities, Palin is now the target of Hustler Magazine and Video's own Larry Flynt. Yes the iconoic pornographer himself has taken a place in the seemingly endless line of Americans waiting to rightly bash the esteemed governor, a fact which has brought about a new low in the ranks of the GOP. Flynt's Huslter Video will soon be releasing an adult film entitled "Who's Naylin' Palin?", in which adult film actress Lisa Ann will portray the "maverick" Alaskan Governor as a nympho politicians who's taking more than bribes (if you get my drift). My message to the GOP: You know you done fucked up real bad when pornographers are taking shots at your candidate.

Elvis: Dead, yet still raping the Blues

A list of the top earning dead celebrities compiled by Forbes magazine recently, listed the one and only Elvis Presley at the top, further increasing my sickness and contempt for the man. Wow, steal a bunch of great American blues songs, originally sung by African-Americans, and let Elvis sing them and call it Rock and Roll, so the white people will accept it. I hope Elvis is somewhere getting his.

McCartney burns rubber (or at least he used to )

I read a funny story today about the Beatles, wherein in was relayed that the Fab Four, early in their careers, used to allegedly set fire to condoms for "extra lighting" during their sets. Ah yes, the 60's: the decade where rubbers were burned instead of used. This practice upset the Germans, who went so far as to deport McCartney after one of these "contraceptive incidents". In an interview, McCartney said, "Let's get it clear, they weren't used".

Brittney: An American Role Model?

Is anyone else sick of hearing praise levied on Brittney Spears for her supposed "comeback"? What the fuck America? The woman had a monstorously popular pop music career, made a shit-load of money, then married some white-trash fake rapper, got knocked up, and started popping pills and drinking heavily. Now, she's worked hard to "reform" and turn her life around and we're supposed to feel proud? Like she accomplished something? I'm sorry but I just don't see it. Where's the praise for real working mother's who overcome real adversity to triumph in motherhood? Adversity like working three jobs to pay the bills and feed the kids. Brittney Spears kids would never have had anything to worry about, no matter how many pills she was swallowing or how many BigMacs she was stuffing down her throat, besause they sleep on a bed made of money at night.

Voter Turnout.......Is our system reliable

As a first time voter this November, I'm both excited and apprehensive about casting my vote. In a recent article in US News and World Report, I read that this year's election will see a historic turnout of as many as 130 million voters nationwide, a figure that has a number of experts concerned over the pressure this massive number of ballots will but on election workers to count the votes correctly and accurately (we all remember Florida in 2000). This pressure is not only on them, in my opinion, but on young first time voters like myself as well. My only hope is that all parties involved will work their asses off in order to ensure that the votes are tallied correctly and the true voice of the American people (if there is such a thing) will be heard.

Another hole in the wall

why is it that every time we have a party at my house, there's a whole in the wall the next morning. last night my roommate got in a fight with his girlfriend and hurled a 10 gallon aluminum stock pot into the wall, leaving a nice big whole that i don't think any amount of plaster will fix. at least i know that i ain't doin it.

Lastest

here's the latest poem I'm working on, entitled Ode To C, you can guess what its about:

As the minutes slip by I’m
Sittin’ round and feelin’ fine
Honey you know I’m just
Lookin’ for a good time

When I take a breath
The wheels turn
My troubles slip away
When that sweet leaf starts to burn

Funny how it ends up
A thing we’re supposed to fear
Instead of causing harm
Makes the world so clear

Float high above
On a cloud of peace
All the evils of the world
They completey cease

Politics fades away
With it’s thievery and greed
Religion as well
Which people think they need

I wonder why
No one has made this point
All the world’s problems
Could be solved with a joint

Oh Mickey!

Detroit Red Wings announcer Mickey Redmond is, I'm convinced, perpetually drunk in the commentators booth. Last night he must have rambled on for damn near 10 minutes during the game about the good ol days of hockey. I think it might be time for Mick to hang up the microphone and find himself a front porch where he can sit with other old men, sip whiskey and shoot the shit.

Breaking A String

I hate breaking guitar strings, but I especially hate when they snap back and hit you in the face in the process. Such was what happened to me as I was jamming with some friends of mine. Thank God it didn't hit me in my eye. I mean, I dig the blues but I don't wanna be no Blind Willie McTell

Datsyuk is a God

Wow, the Red Wings game last night proved to me that Pavel Datsyuk is not from this planet. Like Jimi Hendrix, he is from some other dimension where they dole out raw talent at birth like its nothing. What a hattrick!

Is Google Making Us Stupid?

I'm sick of writing my own opinions and thoughts on this blog (no one seems to be reading them anyway), so today I'm posting a link to an interesting article I found on Google news, which ironically discusses a study on whether or not the internet age is furthering or hindering our human quest for knowledge. Check it out:

And another....

just felt like writing this one today:

The soft splinter of light is upon you
Speak now or forever be enslaved
Break the chain and cast your shackles aside
Take your fears as your bride
Vomit up you pride
Make your brain fried
Practice your stride
Swim with the tide
Forget that you’ve lied
Forget that you’ve died
Forget that you’ve cheated, betrayed and spied
Forget that you’ve lost all the tears that you’ve cried
Forget all the people in which you confide
Pollute the air through which you glide
Saunter, slip, ripple and slide
Every spoken word, lofty and snide

Read this book now!

I am taking this post as an opportunity for a short plug on an amazing book I just finihse reading. Illusions, by Richard Bach is not only a short read, it's an incredibly intriguing personal probe of the nature of the universe, and presents a theory that human beings are created with infinite knowledge, and can be aware of this infinite knowledge if they choose to reveal it to themselves, even to defy the restrictions of physical law, as well as the limitations of space, time, and dimension.Seep stuff, but a great read if you're looking to open your mind. Pick it up today.

Another poem

Here's another work in progress for my poetry class entitled "Purpose"

An honest breath
A wanting touch
Distant words
You ask too much

Weeping softly
Tears of blood
Drag my name
Through the mud

Ramshackle signs
And tumbleweeds
The open road
Fulfills my needs

Of peace and calm
Beware the tongue
Burning now
Leaves you numb

Cannot so much
As gasp or cry
Shiny cars
Gliding by

Pools of rain
Rings of fire
Should continue
But I tire

Of chasing you
I’m feeling old
While staying young
Or so I’m told

They say when
You die at last
Salvation waits
Those who pass

Sounds too good
Always does
Have faith, man
Just because

Phone is Going strong

Cross your collective fingers for me, I think that my current phone may just last through the month. If it doesn't, there's some bricks in my backyard with Alltel's name on them.

The Great American Curse

I believe that when Ford pardoned Nixon, he brought down upon the American people a curse of some mystic nature that festered in the bowels of hell for 20-some years, only to resurface in 2000 with the presidency of George W. Bush, continuing now with the campaign of John Sidney McCain III. By letting a crook like Nixon off the hook, Ford (perhaps unknowingly) fucked the American people, and we fucked ourselves for not objecting to it more forcefully. It's not all on Nixon though, or Ford, and it's not even all on Bush and McCain. The true evil, the true source of this hellish curse, lies in the behind-the-scenes dream-teams of scum pulling the strings of corrupt, incompetent, puppet politicians like Nixon, Bush, and McCain. The object of the greatest evil, surely a descendant of Cain himself, is the one and only Karl Rove, a human being (if you can call him that) so vile, greedy, and contemptuous of anything even closely resembling the truth, that it is nearly beyond comprehension. Rove, the mastermind of Bush's campaigns and now McCain's campaign, is the king of smear politics, and represents yet another reason to throw a vote to ANYONE but McCain on November 4th. For fucks sake, the guy ruined McCain with smears when he ran against Bush in 2000, and McCain has now hired him to ruin Obama and win the White House on a platform oozing with blatant falsehoods, similar to the Bush platform which defeated McCain in 2000. Karl Rove has no principles, no loyalty, and no beliefs other than in the power of money and the perverse delights of power. Rolling Stone's main political writer, Matt Taibbi, said it best: "The reason Rove continues to survive is the same reason that Johnny Cochran was called a genius for keeping a double-murderer on the golf course--because this generation of Americans has become so steeped in greed and social Darwinism that it can no longer distinguish between cheating and achieving, between enterprise and crime, and can't bring itself to criticize winners any more than it knows how to be nice to losers. We may be a country at war, facing one of the greatest financial meltdowns of all time. But in the end, the thing that could be our undoing is the kind of generalized boredom with legality and honor that empowers Rovian behavior. If we let it." Well, I'm just one person, and I say, LET'S NOT FUCKING LET IT!

Clocks in Times Square: Yet another sign of the American Apocolypse

So I wasn't aware of this, but apparently there's a large clock in Times Square that's been tallying our country's national debt since 1989, when a wealthy New Yorker named Seymour Durst erected the sign to call attention to the then 2.7 trillion dollar national debt. Our national debt, thanks to 8 years of Bush and his law bending, free spending cronies, currently stands at 10.2 trillion dollars! And get this! The fucking sign ran out of room to display all the digits in that disgustingly large number! Now they have to renovate it so we can all be precisely aware of how screwed we all seem to be, right down to the exact decimal point.

Proposal One

If you're wondering what the big deal about voting is in an age of corruption, lies, and decit from Washington, let me turn you on to an issue on the ballots a little closer to home. Proposal One will provide legal justification for the use and growth of medical marijuana in Michigan. Marijuana is not harmful, contrary to many distorted facts presented over the years. In fact, Marijuana has a bounty of medicinal potential, and is astonishingly effective in treating naseau from Chemotherapy, as well as Asthma, Glaucoma, and many other mental and physical illnesses. Don't let lies about Marijuana being addictive (it is not, as it has been clinically proven to not be addictive), and it beign a "gateway drug" prevent you from making an imformed decision this November. Legalizing Medical Marijuana is just the kind of progressive policy-making we need in this state as well as nationwide. Don't be part of the problem, apathy is not an option!

Time Travel

I was thinking about time travel today, and you know what I would do if I could go back in time? Not get a fucking English degree that's what! Not only does a degree like that have bland prospects in this dismal economy, but I have to hear my dad bitch at me about what i'm going to do with my life constantly. If i could do it all over again, I'd pick sustainable business.

Sarah Palin makes me sick!

In the aftermath of the VP debate, Sarah Palin's candidacy only makes me more ashamed to be an American every day. If it wasn't already obvious that she's nothing more than a GOP crafted image to sell to the "give me a candidate i can relate to or give me death" American public, then last Thursday night certainly proved it. I'm so sick of hearing people's weak-ass justifications for supporting her! Example: a friend of mine's mother recently said to me, "I'm supporting Sarah Palin because she prays!" I almost vomited on her white linoleum floor! If the only criteria we had for our leaders was that they prayed, we would end up with a Cabinent full of televangelists or some shit! Or, how about this one: "I'm supporting Sarah Palin because she has children with dissabilities, so she understands people with dissabilities!" My opposition to this extremely flawed logic lies in the example of one man: our current Vice President, Dick Cheney. As you might remember, Dick has a daughter who is openly gay. Did that make him a good candidate? Because his having a lesbian daughter enabled him to "relate" to a certain demographic of people, in this case homosexuals? Fuck no! Let me repeat that. Fuck no! Not only were Mr. Cheney and his administration adamant opponents of gay rights, they were adamant opponents of human rights in general. By that trend, Palin will be pushing to have disabled people shot from planes in no time. Honestly people, let's put a little fucking thought into our political views, or we're going to end up with exactly the government we deserve.

The Niece Saga Continues

Wow this uncle thing really trips me out. Today I had to watch the little bugger for about 10 minutes while my brother and his girlfriend went outside to have a smoke. I don't know what I'll do if they ever ask me to babysit, because little kids and me alone is a scary proposition.

Jammin'

I'm just writing this to recommend the music of Bob Marley to anyone who's looking for some great, relaxing music to study to that doesn't distract you. Jamm it while ya do ya homewurk mon!

Got a new guitar!

Got a new guitar today, a Fender deluxe player's Strat for all you guitar techies out there. Beautiful tone, beautiful finish, and beautiful price, only $399 off some old lady on Ebay. Gotta love Ebay, right? If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go plug this baby in.

Obama in the Flesh!

Well, I went to see Obama speak downtown G.R. this morning, and needless to say, I was impressed. If nothing else, the man can work a goddamn crowd! His rhetorical skills are amazing and he was whipping the huge crowd (there were at least a couple thousand people there) into a maddened frenzy. I thought alot of things he had to say were very refreshing, and I especially liked the fact that he addressed peoples cynical concerns (mine among them) that he was all bark and no bite. He affirmed, and reaffirmed, that his campaign for change is real, and that through a team effort, meaning citizens and government working together, that we can turn our country around. Hell, if the man even does half of what his campaign promises, it will be a 100% improvement over the last 8 years of hellish smoke and mirrors bullshit. So I say we give the man a chance, and see what he can do. Even if he fails, at least we can take comfort in the fact that for the first time in a long time, someone in Washington tried to do SOMETHING even loosley resembling civil service. God Bless America, Right?

Zeppelin Touring Again???

Crazy news from the music world: One of my favorite bands, the great Led Zeppelin, is rumored to be planning a 2009 tour, their first in a number of years. Here's a unique twist though: the band's original frontman, Robert Plant, is not willing to tour with the band. So, in a suprising change of events, the rest of the band is auditioning for a new lead singer and is reported to have found several enticing candidates. Needless to say, if they go on tour, I would sell my own mother's soul for a ticket. God help me.