Go Warriors!

First I will build you up...
Then I will destroy you...

ode to my vdub...

My fast G.T.I.
Disguised as a rabbit;
a sexy hot hatch.

The words of Kurt Vonnegut

In honor of Kurt's passing, here are some quotes from wiki...

Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

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We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

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I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That’s why we’ve got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap.

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There are plenty of good reasons for fighting," I said, "but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

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The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist…It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

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The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage— and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still— I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation and appreciation of art.

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"You hate America, don't you?" she said.
"That would be as silly as loving it," I said. "It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to the human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will."

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A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

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Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

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Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we’re hooked on.

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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that’s Moses, not Jesus. I haven’t heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.

"Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break!

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I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I’m dead.

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I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that totally functionless capacity. We had a memorial service for Isaac a few years back, and I spoke and said at one point, "Isaac is up in heaven now." It was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, "Kurt is up in heaven now." That's my favorite joke.

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The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.

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Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

belated happy new year!!!!

wow! It has been a long while... to much has happened the last couple months. This blog has started to become a obituary column and tribute page, and it started to bum me out.

But this will remain to be my one and only blog so I intend to keep it that way.

I'm entering my 3rd season as a Banyan Loan Ranger and it's been awesome. I've made some new friends, strengthen old relationships and at the same time, get a good work out. My hitting has gotten a lot better. Playing catcher is fun. I'd like to try other positions but this is where I have ended up.

I haven't been involved in the "scene" lately. I've almost detached myself from it. But I do miss it. I miss watching my favorite bands. I miss banging my head off and rocking out. I haven't been to Gilman in a while... Bindlestiff can't support a music scene as of now. At least not till they move to the new spot. I've heard recently, even Balazo closed down. Hopefully its not permanent. Once in a blue moon, I'll go out and support the bands that I've always followed but it's been a while since I gone out to check out new sounds. When there's reason to, maybe one day I'll organize another show. But not anytime soon...

Movies I've recently watched:
Grindhouse Double Feature - Double Thumbs up...
300 - awesome!!!!

DVD I've rented recently:
Brick - modern film noir. different, but cool...