It shouldn't make you cry, it's just a telephone!

You know, sometimes it's a lot of fun to practice arguing on the internet. There are throngs of passionate people, some of whom have infinitely more knowlege about things than I. I often end up learning something and honing my own wordsmithing skills to boot. I also meet new peoples and impress myself with my own sparkling wit and clever retorts. But sometimes, it's just annoying. I'm not sure why I watch any pagan or writing comms at all, since they are 10% insight 10% networking, and 80% annoyance and book reccomendations.
So, nate101000, be comforted in the knowlege that someone on the internets is far more irritating than you, even if you were simultaneously voting for Bush, ordering a subscription to Creedo, and inviting my mom over to my house.
Now THAT's irritating!

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I had a dream last night that Stephen King died on his way over to my house.

Everyone is getting new cats. I almost want one too.

I'm going to try to write a new chapter tonight, and this week I'm going to relearn Illustrator so I can get super fly at it. Someday I hope to have all the skills my resume says I have...sort of like attaining the weight on your drivers license. ;-]

Group was stupid last night. I'm sick to death of hearing about "the power of positive thinking."
If postive thinking really worked, everyone would do it.

Wednews Update!!

Here are the most important things going on in the world, in my humble opinion:

Thing #1: Goth kids, poets, and smartass intellectuals alike will be thrilled to know that the prototype for that poster in your dorm has been recovered. Take THAT, Guernica!! As a fellow bi-polar person, I enjoy Edvard's work very much. For your looking pleasure, here are some small versions of two of my favorites:

	The Kiss Oil paint.
	Murderer This was my desktop wallpaper for a very long time.

I always forget if Munch is considered expressionism or impressionism. I know that impressionist paintings are supposed to have been painted in under an hour, but I wasn't there when he painted most of them. ;-] His work incorporated lots of symbolism, and sometimes naturalism--although I like that a bit less. I mean, Picasso painted lifelike stuff but that was never as good as the cubist stuff IMHO. Murderer is an especially good painting because it's scary, sad, and disturbing all at once. You can see the horror, the remorse, and the road. Munch loves to paint people on roads.

The Scream is the piece that people love best, I think because it speaks to that part of us that we don't often articulate. It's supposedly a picture of his nervous breakdown, and I admit that if I look at this painting in just the right mood, it will move me to tears. There is such torment in it, and it's sad that it's been marketed to the point where it becomes the stuff of parody. Even though most people don't have nervous breakdowns, I think they are familiar with at least the fleeting feeling that they it's always possible.

Madonna was also recovered (did you even know it was gone?). I'm not posting a pic of it, because I don't care for it much. For one thing, I hate the color scheme. And for another, I have no idea what he's trying to convey with it--it's just a naked chick. I guess I do like some art even when I can't figure it out, but not this one. That's just how I roll.

Thing #2: FEEDBACK!!!!!!

Thing #3: This isn't new news or anything, but I think Tony's Law is funny every time I encounter it.

Thing #4: It has come to my attention that people in the UK do not watch SNL because they can't. So they are just now finding out about Colonel Angus and how one cures a fever with more cowbell. I only hope that they get Celebrity Jeopardy out thataway!

Thing #5: I'm supposed to be thinking of ways to have fun that do not include...you know, stuff I'm not supposed to do. So I ask you, what's something you do that's fun that doesn't cost anything, doesn't require transportation, and is actually fun and not lame? Let's hear it.