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Slowdown
Posted Nov 21, 2004
Back to dial-up for a week or so. Expect fewer posts.
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Doc U goes to the movies
Posted Nov 14, 2004
Saw "The Incredibles." It was very, very, very good. It's the best cartoon I've seen since Spirited Away, and it's the best superhero film I've ever seen. It puts X-Men to shame. Also, it's the funniest movie I've seen this year. God bless Pixar.
I feel sorry for the makers of the upcoming Fantastic Four movie. I don't see how they can avoid being compared to The Incredibles, and I don't see how they could stand up to such a comparison (although The Thing looks to be an interesting character, somewhat akin to Hellboy).
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mope
Posted Nov 3, 2004
I don't know what I'm doing. I honestly can't get anything of substance done. I just mope around and listen to music and think about the sorry state of my country.
About two out of every five thoughts that enter my head are something to the effect of "This is terrible. How did this happen?"
Some minor variations on that theme:
- How have conservatives gotten away with making the Republican party the "moral" party - the "godly" party? Voters here act as if a vote for a Dem sets you up for a bath in brimstone.
- How can people like Bush? I can't stand him. He's smug, annoying, stupid, stubborn . . . but you know this already.
- People think that Bush is a normal guy. If he is (which I doubt - he seems rather subnormal to me), does he deserve to be President? Why is it considered a virtue to lack accomplishments, intelligence, and talent?
- Can we please stop voting straight party tickets already? Please?
- Can we listen to the world, acknowledging that the rest of the world might indeed be right? Could we please at least acknowledge foreign countries' overwhelming support of Kerry, rather than cursing at those meddlesome Europeans?
- I say to a Republican, "Well, what about the war in Iraq?" This Republican says, "I supported that war." I am left speechless.
- Please let there not be a draft.
- I'll shoot my toes off if there's a draft. I'll go to Canada. I'll do something.
- Is this some joke? Why vote for Bush? Is it that important to have a slightly less tiny chance of repealing abortion laws? Is it that important to deny equal rights to gays? Is it that important to risk American lives in futile pursuit of terrorists?
- Republican: "I'll vote for Bush. I'm Anybody-But-Kerry. I can't stand how he flip-flops." Am I hearing this right? Flip-flops? Who cares!? Who cares about flip-flops? Have you seen Bush speak? Have you read the news during his presidency? I'll take flip-flops over Bush any day.
- My vote just doesn't count. Sorry, P. Diddy.
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blah
Posted Nov 3, 2004
Wake me up in four years.
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The Election (again)
Posted Aug 8, 2004
The upcoming election depresses me. I don't want to vote for John Kerry, but I just found out that my state is a battleground state, so I can't "throw my vote away" by voting for a third party (just as well - I would never vote for Nader anyway). I guess I'll have to vote the John-John ticket.
What's really disheartening, though, is that there are tons of letters to the editor in my hometown paper telling people to vote for Bush. I have yet to see a single pro-Bush letter that makes any sense at all. There's just not any good reason to vote for Bush. I can't think of one. I mean, at least in the 2000 election, you could have hoped that his Cabinet would make him look smart and keep him from making bad choices, but now we should know better.
Well, it's time to change subject. Lately, I've made a hobby of stealing accordions.
Also, I just listened to the Dead Kennedys track "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now." It's like "California Uber Alles," but about the late Ronald Reagan instead of Jerry Brown. This makes me think: has Jello Biafra written another version of "California Uber Alles," this time about Arnold Schwarzenegger? It seems like a no-brainer, what with Arnold being governor of California and having an Austrian accent and all.
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