oh my god!

Rachel! You are completely right, i screwed that joke up COMPLETELY.

Birds are always broke.
not fish.
the fish are fine, they have plenty of money.
they buy stuff everyday in their very damp malls.

Oh my god, that was so stupid of me i can't even edit my last post and let myself forget about it.

anyway, the joke REALLY is:
why are birds always broke?

and it can be any bird, not just penguins, ducks, turkeys, pigeons, or macaws. By the way, Rachel, i think you should make a new friend: the Dictionary.

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  So Rachel, Rachel, and Sarah P. came down to the Ani concert and didn't get lost. I was very proud of them, and showed them around what little i know of Madison: the Geology Building! Ani was fantastic, because by definition she always is. Margaret Cho was very funny indeed and as i just discovered the downloading capabilities on my roommate's computer so i may be in business. There was a voting-history slideshow between sets, which was very interesting. Only 3-4 generations removed from the time women couldn't vote and we take the whole thing for granted now. How strange.

Every time i see Ani it's in a bigger place, which amounts to me being furthur and furthur away. I don't know if i like that or not.... it's good that she's getting popular but i don't wanna buy binocs next year to see her in Target Center or something lame like that. The Overture, Madison's new pride and joy, just finished remodeling and the place is crazy. It has a shiny ceiling, too. WOW.

So last year when i lived in the dorms at UWEC there was a girl named Anna. Ah-nah. Anna had never heard of Ani (Ah-ni), so of course i took it upon myself to get them acquainted, and Anna & i spent many hours conversing in the hallway avoiding work. Twas fun. then i moved here & figured i probably wouldn't e'er see her again... BUT! she was at the Ani concert! I ran into her on the street by the Psych building (yah! home of Harry Hanlow, the monkey-love-abuse guy from the 60s-70s) yesterday and it was awesome!

That's the whole story.

i have lame work to do.

that description of HH sounded like a bad B movie set up. Sorry. I don't think it was at the time, really. Remember the photos of a sad little monkey holding onto a plush stuffed mamadollmonkey and only skampering to the meanlooking wired food mamadollmonkey from Pysche? Yeah, most of those experiments were done here.

and speaking of that pysche book, which always made me laugh 'cause it would open to the page with the photo of the narcoleptic dog every time, the Rachels & i discovered something very important the other day:

Fish are always broke.

i leave it to you to figure out why.   ¶ 08:21 1 comments

  #1 weird reason to vote Kerry:

He's the Antichrist!

Something about 3.5 years of peace (supposedly Iraq if K. wins) after 3.5 years of war (iraq now) will signal the beginnings of the True Christ's Rule. I.e., Armaggeddon! So anyone who truly understands Revelations sees that Kerry must win, to bring about the End of Times!

Yes! i just can't wait!
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  Don't Panic  ¶ 21:14 0 comments

 

create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.
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  i am happy for the world that exists outside myself

Friday night... i'm at home. Not because i am lame, but because i am tired. I might be lame, too... hm. Anyway, my mom had a job interview here in Madison today and then we went to Pewaukee to visit my truly lame grandparents, who were not home, and then we went to not-lame Milwaukee & Elyse's, and ate Mexican. That's about all.

Tomorroww is the geoclub tailgate thing, i get to help purchase meat. Yay so much i could burst. Hey everyone near/in Madison: come buy food from us, i'll get you the goods cheap. Dayton Street/Chambers, Weeks hall Courtyard. The big 70s rific building with the hole in the middle. Angular windows much? it's a good place. Later Glen is coming to visit, and we may find fun things to do.

I have so much work, but nothing's due for a few weeks so i think i'll go neglect it now.

Oh! Ani Tuesday! Donna, Rachel, Rachel... oh yes! Fun will be had then!

i wanna play risk.... mmmphf.  ¶ 20:22 0 comments

 
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How Big of a Buffy Fan Are You?
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okay, i don't know that much about Buffy. Just the obvious

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  http://groups.msn.com/RockJockCentral/southdakotafieldtrip.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=36

Yeah, the first Bouden i ever saw... i will remember it fondly all of my days. That's my measurement card thingy, just so you know. And i got hit by seventy buses full of old people driving up the hill to see Mt. Rushmore there. It was worth it.



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  http://groups.msn.com/RockJockCentral/southdakotafieldtrip.msnw?Page=1

Look! At! Photos!

That Brian Took!

And the ones i took!


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  Sign it.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/315803858?ts=1095781883

Kerry invited Bush to debate about the environment. Two guesses what Bush said about that.
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  "I will always think of [our professor,] Basal when I enter a bar ~Frank~



Hi! I'm back in Wisconsin! It takes forever to drive to SW South Dakota! It's boring to drive for 16 hours a day! But i'm back and i have showered!

Anyway, the trip was very fun and the Geology bit us all in the face. If i never measure another strike and dip in the rest of my life i will be okay with that, but as i know there's more coming i can't let myself hate it too much. We walked all over the Badlands and the Black Hills in the blistering heat, but at least raspberry ice cream was shared with me at Mount Rushmore and we had nothing to do there but stand around. I.e., no field book entries for that. Incidently, there's a dike running through George Washington's nose and they keep it from weathering with caulk. I want to be the guy who has to climb up there every year and caulk the prez's nose. i wonder what his job title is.

The people in my Geology 202 class are very cool, and the main function of the trip was all of us being forced to get to know each other. Being geo undergrads, that meant 4 nights of fire & cheap beer, but the Custer state park was full of dead wood (heh, Deadwood... that's red sandstone we looked at) and the beer night 4 was on the department. Not that i myself drank any, but i did have the oppurtunity to bum many ciggarettes from my viceful classmates after i gave my last clove to my TA. I will deny him nothing until the grades are in.

Let's see... we walked around many random trails and looked at several fabulous roadcuts. If i ever get hit by a semi i will know why. My feet are blistered and my back is sunburnt and i can't sing. We had a singalong Saturday and broke Frank's heart (Frank is another junior geo guy who is quite often the voice of reason). Brian & i learned how to take 'professional' photos in the field, and when he sends me the link there will be many cool photos that i myself helped create. Actually my main role in that was to hand him the camera after he climbed a cliff, but still. Once i held a pencil for the cause.

Angie came along on the trip, too, though she's not in 202 this year. She works for Basal and will probably become a Structural Geologist, so she was along to help out with lame things like strike/dip but mostly to see the not-lame Badlands&BlackHills again. Talking with Angie is sometimes very weird, as we're very similar in unexpected ways. She wants to move to Bellingham for grad school, she loves the Desaparecidos, and speaks Spanish more-or-less.

Oh, and if i was from Lead, South Dakota i would shoot myself. Or jump into an open-pit mine.



yep, that one.



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  in 2002... well anyway, it was news to me.
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midget japanese sub found by noaa
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  G B G F W

I shook the hand of Utah Phillips last night.

what does that stand for?
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a hat for Donna
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  "Anything is possible," Eremon said to Donn as they stood together watching one such maneuver. "Once a man realizes that, all he has to do is find a way he knows must exist."

--Morgan Llywelyn--
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  Muuyacm news: not too momentous, but constant giggling has been induced by the following conversations:

1. Mark: "The last time we followed a burning bush into the desert we stayed there forty years."

2. Mark: "the Cesium atom was clearly chosen for the Atomic Clock because it's the most useless atom ever. It has nothing better to do than oscillate."

3. Scott: "I love this time of year, and for once I feel prepared for it, that's a very good feeling. I love seeing everybody return, and meeting all the new people. I especially love buying twenty boxes of condoms for the student org fair, and watching the clerks face. I always want to tell them, 'it's okay, I'm a minister!'"
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  all your base are belong to us!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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  Coleridge wrote: "There is no way of arriving at any sciential end but by finding it at every step."
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  "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell"
~Edward Abbey~

This we know, and this we shall live. Another day reporting, sir, from the 'Seattle of the Midwest:' Yesterday i went to an Ishmael discussion group, and it was pretty interesting. Those of you who haven't read that novel i'd highly reccommend you get around to doing it. It's a quick read, really, and if worse comes to worst i'll buy yall a copy.

In all my genius i slept through my first class today. I didn't have 515 today due to Phil driving his last daughter to her new college, and for some reason i assumed that meant no morning classes at all. Whoopsies, wrong! 113, i'm really sorry i'm so stupid. Somehow i don't think that will cut it. This counts as the second class i've skipped in college, still a far cry from my attendence senior year at MHS.

I somehow managed to really anger Glen. Now, i know most of us from highschool don't talk to him anymore anyway, so you might find this a moot point, but in fact i still like Glen and feel really bad that he's mad at me. The discussion was something like this: Glen is coming to Madison this weekend for his monthly army-practise-thingy, and i said he should call me Saturday and we could hang out. "Do you really want to spend time with a bunch of Jesus Freaks?" he sayz, to which i reply, sure, if those Jesus Freaks happen to be my friends (Glen & Dave). I can hold my own to the followers of the sect: i better, as most people i'm likely to meet are them. There are plenty of very sweet and loving christians... though i find christianity itself just a bit dated and missing the point. Christians, of course, view me as naive and not willing to account for myself much less accept the holy trinity into my heart. My faith (or lack thereof) is just as carefully considered and relevant as the best among them. Christians read the bible and listen to their priests; i read current events and listen to people who relevantly refer to the future.

But. I have decided, with all the 77 times forgiveness that can be granted even by a nonchristian, to forgive Christianity. View it like this: it's an old power play, won in the 3rd century by a bunch of dead guys noone can name anymore. It was one of the most successful power plays ever enacted in recorded human history: with Europe under its grasp for almost 2,000 years, and Europe's colonies following, neither Peter nor Constantine would have guessed their success would be followed by so many~followed to the point that we have forgotten the power play that early Christianity was.

And it's a power play today. I don't mean to completely knock the faith; humans like myths for whatever reason. We all have one, be it that of god coming down and feeding the masses or be it that of the possibility of change at this late stage. But all good tyrants want to stay in power, and this is my prediction: within the next hundred years all humanity will have to realize the power we have exercised so long over the earth was not our god-given right, in fact He probably doesn't like it much. The Vatican, the leaders of the Lutheran Church, the leaders of the Free World, everybody; there's a choice coming up and a choice will be made, for the betterment, abondonment, or downfall of civilization.

I see that choice subtly being made today; even though the Bible does say that the earth is here for our use and our use only (He made the animals so Adam could name them, et cetera: read Genesis) there is a proliferation of Christian Conservation groups. You can be both Christian and an Environmentalist, and i think that's what more and more people will become in the years to come. If the Vatican wants to stay in power, it will have to allow and even encourage minimalness. Or else we'll all reach the breaking point and the Vatican will fall with the rest of us. Humans have a strong instict for survival, and i do hope this prevails over our instinct to be consistent.

Anyway, i've been reading some pretty interesting books that ya'll should look into: Bard, by Morgan Llwelyn, and The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan. Llwelyn, besides being awesome 'cause she's all Welsh & stuff, writes great historical fiction, and Bard 'The Odyssey of the Irish' is particularly interesting as the hypothetical degree of civilization reached by the early Keltoi/Celtic tribes is quite believable. There's a power play, there too; Amergin & the bards subtly doubting the tribe's future as Eremon & the warriors turn too much to 'the physical world.' There's some Phoenicians from the east, and the baby anthropologist in me finds the clashes between the most civilized and the less civilized interesting. Marshall McLuhan, the author i've been all gungho on all week, is probably best approached initially through The Medium is the Massage, all his other books are dense and my brain is tired from too much information on Chromium deposits to really want to read something else with small print.

Well yeah, it never occured to me before what exactly the churches are gonna do if&when population/environment reaches the breaking point. That should be interesting, if nothing else. I hope i can make up with Glen, but i can understand his anger at me: i blatantly have chosen 'the wide path.' Those that believe themselves on 'the narrow path, hard to follow, but reaping great rewards in heaven.' Well there's a stopthink if i've ever heard one!

"All dedicated pyramid-builders should stick with civilization. The rest of us just want something else, and it's high time we had it."~Daniel Quinn~
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  "This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself."
--Marshall McLuhan, again.--

My world is incredibly weird. I was just bumming around the internet, and decided to look up the mystery man whose quote i pasted in this fine forum the other day, and behold: the title of his post-mortem website is:

"the medium is the message"

sounds familiar to me
because i myself wrote it
as a parody on a No Doubt song
but more because i thought it was true.

hmmmm, i wonder if the No Doubt song could be a reference to an obscure not-academic, which is possible if Gwen Stefani is into the folklore of the industrial man. Somehow she didn't strike me as the type.

"In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought." MM, 1954
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  hey who left sunglasses on my couch? Rachel & i need to know, and you may want them back.
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  "There is no inevitability as long as there is willingness to contemplate what is happening." --Marshall McLuhan--

condense it/suppress it
you know there's no away

Yesterday at the fall Geology picnic i acquianted myself with many grad students, and happily greeted Simon who surprisingly traveled back to WI to visit his old undergrad buddies. On to bigger and better things in a state we all agree sucks (iowa, yeah), but then again grad school's not always what you wanted it to be. Craig, another coundergrad geo major/environmental studies minor, expressed concern about the future of oil, consumption, etcetera; key word: sustainability. This is what i love most about my current classmates: an almost universal appreciation & understanding of that concept. Now only if it takes root in society at large.

Today i volunteered door-to-door for LCV, and it was so hott out i seriously wondered about my effectiveness. Don't forget, kids, Wisconsin is crucial and your vote crucial to Wisconsin. Vote Kerry if only so Craig & i can get jobs in a few years, but more importantly vote Kerry 'cause you love this country and the future it could have.

Well that was sufficiantly vague. Loves to you all.

i mean, the appeal of that is gone/smokesmokesmoke
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  i'm now in my apartment in Madison, and only had 2 classes today as well as a Geoclub meeting and the usual Thursday adventure of Muuyacm. 411 should be fairly easy, but 303 is out to get me and my ignorant copupils. Is that a word? I have a field trip Sunday for 202, and in two weeks we go to the Badlands. Fun-o-rific. I wish i knew of a closer grocery store than the Willy Street co-op, as i don't want to lug milk ten blocks, but i'm refusing to buy food at Walgreens. There's just something sinister about it.

Bekah & Tasha: is that Buffy/Work party happening?

Everyone: call me!

608 441 8508

the addition to the geology building is quite thankfully done, except we can't use it. Apparently someone forgot to fill out fire department forms. Hahhhhhhhhh, beauacracy!
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