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In a state that has become known for polygamy a Salt Lake City movie theater has decided to ban Brokeback Mountain. After pulling this move the theater then declined to comment. I don’t get it, why are they banning a movie about gay people? AHHHH! Gay people! Gay men especially! Uh-oh, this movie wont even draw horny men looking to see female lesbian action! And, and, well, GAY PEOPLE! I don’t get it! Someone please explain to me why this movie was banned? I have not seen the movie, but I can tell you now that I’ll still be partial to John Stewart’s critically acclaimed Brokeback Senate. I have to tell you, seeing him do his whole “Coot Off” bit was hysterical. If you want to see senators making fools of themselves head over to comedy central and check out the clip, its really funny…

In other news the new pope has decided people who have sex outside of marriage are still bad. Ok, so it was really

“In our times we need to say ‘no’ to the largely dominant culture of death,”

but still its really the same thing right. But here’s the bigger question, is anyone really listening? Does anyone care? I don’t, and according to him I’m committing a big sin. Oh well, the act is… Or maybe he was criticizing president bush, after all, who isn’t these days? It is Bush’s fault that high schools today are encouraged to instead of teach safe sex that abstinence is the only message. I guess you could directly relate that to abortions if you wanted to stretch it. Hey, sorry if I piss off some really religious person, but I really am not going to lead my life according to some Hitler youth old man wearing a bunch of white robes and shit a long way from where I live. Can you guess I’m not very religious?

On a sad note I have to goto bed at a decent time tonight and get up early, school starts again. Sad, I know.

Note to retailers: If you leave large quantities of CD’s free for the taking…I will take them…all.

So, yesterday I had five flippin cavities filled (I have to go back) and to vent my frustration and pent up energy from sitting in the chair for many hours I decided to help myself to the free sample display in the nearby Daves Supermarket of earthlink cd’s. Go advertise somewhere else, and quit wasting natural reasources. These 71 cd’s join my pile of JEEP cd’s that they’ve decided to permenantly loan to me. I figure once I have enough I use the servaces GreenDisk (google em) offers and recycle all of em. I think I need a few more tho…

So a few weeks ago I finished a book called Evasion, purchased directly from the distro for six bucks it was a fun read. At first I was worried that because I had acquired if from an anarchist organization (I’m already on the list, don’t worry) that the book itself would be preaching to me and try and convert me, twasnt the case. Evasion follows the journey of a recent high school grad as he basically rejects the normal path and starts living on rooftops, in university libraries and lord knows where else. The book describes scams like left handing, receipt scam and how hee got free copies at kinko’s. Perhaps one of the things I found “wrong” with what this kid was doing is just how much he was dependant on others…charity, even if it wasnt the fullest of the definition. But, I did find it all very interesting for I had no experience or…understanding of the world in which he lives, dumpster diving, squatting and stealing to keep oneself alive. My description really doesn’t do it justice, why not read it yourself? 6 bucks gets you the book and while it was written awhile ago it could have just as well be written yesterday (albeit some of the scams he runs wouldn’t work now).

Its lead me on a little adventure of my own, learning more about stickering, stenciling on walls, graffiti and the likes. I think indirectly the book has mad me realize that we really do live in a sterile environment, no conversation or interaction with strangers, no expanding our limits. Sad really.

Ok, I have to post a little rant here. As I work to clear the que this weekend (fat chance) I’m dumbfounded by the number of sites submitted that don’t meet our requirements. On our submission page we have the following requests posted.
* Submit only human-readable pages (ie. no XML, RSS or Atom feeds)
* Submit a direct link to your blog (no welcome pages).
* Do not submit password-protected blogs.

Ok, so is this not clear? We don’t really have a problem with number three, but folks, please take the time to read the one that says “human-readable only”. I don’t want to see your fuckin RSS link in my que, I cant read it, I’ll deny it. And furthermore don’t send me some e-mail that reads anything like the following:*
“Sorry we did not make the cut at Blogwise. Rest assured that if we
ever move away from educated sophisticated viewers and revert to banal, sophomoric and irrelevant content we’ll reapply.”

So don’t by surprised when I respond with:
The reason you didn’t make the cut is because Blogwise.com cannot accept xml/rss feeds. Should you have a regular, human readable site that these banal and sophomoric editors can read we’ll be happy to re-review your site.

So please, don’t send me your RSS/XML feed, I don’t want it.
Now for number two. A direct link to your blog. We’ve been having more and more problems recently (although I’m not the most active editor I do know) with people submitting welcome pages. Please don’t, we specifically asked you not too. And remember, we volunteer our time.
Sigh.

*actual e-mail

Before I begin let me first tell you that I don’t like the idea of people starving, it’s a horrible death, not pretty to look at and undoubtedly not nice to feel. Your body practically breaks itself down to support life, not fun.

That being said awhile ago I read an idea that well, made me see hunger as perhaps not the biggest worldwide problem (for me it would be AIDS but I think that’s more personal than anything else). The idea said that basically hunger was a way for mother nature to control our outrageous population explosion. Because we’re reproducing faster than we can plant and cultivate crops hunger is a way to prevent to population on earth from reaching the level where we cant sustain that much and then promptly kill everyone for food (or oil, whichever comes first). But the way this was presented was one of the most logical explanations to “the other side of the coin” so to speak that it truly stuck in my head. Now let me clarify my ideas on this. I don’t think our world should have widespread, mass poverty as it does in many parts right now. Plain and simple, but perhaps we should look at it a different way, instead of pumping millions of dollars into feeding people maybe we should realize that the earth is an expendable resource’s, and eventually we’ll use it up. Perhaps we should be exploring other alternatives as to what to do with an expanding population.
More later, oh, and mad props if you can name the source that I heard that idea from, s’ a book.

You know one of the things that really aggravates me during the winter, for me, this is just one of those things that just really gets under my skin, or inside my show at least. But first, some background. Now, I want to school everyday, its about half a mile and it truly is a cold day in hell that I get a ride to school, its either got to be pouring rain outside or cold as all get out before someone takes pity on me. Bottom line, most of the days I’m walking. So here it is, one of my biggest pet peeves of the season. Lazy ass people who are to lazy to get off there but and shovel the sidewalk. Believe it or not people actually still do walk places, I know this is hard to believe because of the society we live in but honestly, would it kill ya to shovel the foot of snow? I’m more likely to slip and hurt myself on the ice that has resulted from many pairs of feet packing the snow down over the past few days than you are to while shoveling. So please, next time it snows in your area shovel the sidewalk, all the school children, mailmen and people who don’t feel like driving the two blocks to the drug store will thank you.

This has been a rant from the Renegade Blogger, thank you for tuning in. You may now return to whatever else you were doing. Hope your warm.