Also, love having a dad who’s a computer engineer. Found a bunch o shit that ain’t being used anymore, including lots of old, but still functional computer speakers.

Also, go outside for a cigarette (hand-rolled cause I’m an elitist like that and I want to minimize the varieties of cancer I’m risking) and I went over by our little pine grove. We had one of those thick winter fogs today, and the needles all had thick coats of frost. I couldn’t take a picture, because I lost my camera this past summer, but let me just tell you:

Tinsel ain’t got shit on genuine frost-covered pine! It’s fuckin beautiful.

Ooh, hey, whiskey.

Holy shit, Edward! Are weight benches like stakes to the heart or something? From one out of shape skinny bitch to another, you need some sun and a gym membership. You’re competition is Jacob, and shit, I’m a heterosexual male, and even I wanted to squeeze him. I think the girls will find those muscles more impressive than sparkley skin.

And Bella, get a fuckin shrink. Y’know, I’m on this shit called Cytalopram, you should maybe check it out.

Alice, even if you are prejudiced [or allegorically racist] against the wolves, keep doing what you’re doing sweet stuff.

It’s a bit weird right now, and it’s sloppy-looking, but hey, it’s there.

The conservatives and the Fox News people — I’m sorry that was redundant — have been comparing Obama to Hitler the last few months. I’m just watching the Daily Show now (I shouldn’t, I’m gonna grow up to be some obnoxious pundit who contributes nothing to society). I’m seeing something about these people. Let’s compare.

Obama: Trying to bring a message of hope, blah blah. True, a bit of a demagogue, but one that goes for every demographic, and attempts to be inclusive.

Hitler: Yelled and ranted about anyone who opposed him. Found a bitter populous to exploit and alienated all others.

Fox News: Yells and rants about anyone who’s not conservative or who criticizes them. Find bitter American populous and exploit their anger and ignorance. (Hey, ratings are great, right?)

Obama: Had some passionate rallies — oh, and they were fun — while campaigning. Now he mostly does presidential stuff.

Hitler: Held rallies in which he burned books, decried alleged enemies to the German people, and promoted a furiously nationalist sentiment.

Fox News: Promotes rallies (which they then cover) where they dump teabags, decry alleged enemies of the American people, and promote a furiously nationalist sentiment.

Obama: Reaches out to all people, even those who compare him to Hitler, Stalin, or Osama. He even acknowledges the citizens who are [gasp] don’t believe in his invisible deity. Tries not to hate on people and apologises (with beer!) when he does.

Hitler: Reached out to white, German people who were usually Christian. Vilified homosexuals, pacifists, liberals, a particular Abrahamic, originally Middle-Eastern religion and ethnic group (Jews). Hated the French.

Fox News: Reach out to all the hard-working Americans (face it you assholes, the teabaggers are at least 99.9% white). Vilify liberals, rationalists, Middle-Easterners, and a particular Abrahamic religion (Muslims). Hate the French.

Obama: Haven’t heard much from him on history, but he usually gets it right, and doesn’t use it crazily.

Hitler: Lied about history, ignored parts of history pertinent to arguments, made up bullshit about history.

Fox News: Lie about history, ignore parts of history pertinent to arguments, make up bullshit about history.

So, I don’t want to say anyone is a Nazi, but if the conservatives are going to start, then here’s my question: Who’s the new Führer? Is it Beck or Hannity?

On a Happy Note: I think I’m doing well in my classes, and my lower points aren’t quite as low lately. I’m going to try to get my webcomic started (since I have far too much freetime) but my computer hates hardware, and this includes my roommate’s scanner.

I’m trying to figure out photoshop right now. I think I’m going to start a webcomic. Not really for much attention; more just to keep myself from thinking. Already have a panel drawn.

Oh, I should schedule an appointment with the headshrinker.

Happy note: veggie chili is awesome! Better than real chili.

Speaking of crazy people: I finally got in to see a shrink. I was in an oddly good mood while there, and I like my shrink. He talked to me in neurological terms instead of psychological terms, which I prefer. I know that I’m not supposed to think the stupid thoughts I do and that I have no real reason to feel the bad things I feel, but I do and I can’t help it because that’s just what my brain cells are doing. He put me on some medications and all that. He also had some really interesting theories about endorphin stimulation and mildly dissociative behavior. The next day I was feeling pretty down, and I don’t know why. I’m not going to blame the SSRIs since I had just literally started taking them, and I doubt 10 mg of Citalopram would have such immediate adverse effects. So, yeah, ups and downs.

Holy shit! Ophelia is Helena Bonham Carter! Crazy People! Haha, a priest just said “No tongue”.

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Happy Update: I made delicious raspberry muffins this weekend from a great vegan recipe, using wild berries (cuz I’m BA like that). Also, my roommate is working on a design project that now has our kitchen full of cake scraps.

Yep, a few nights in Morris and I’m already registered at the ER here. That’s what happens when you’re an asthmatic who is allergic to everything airborne and your inhaler runs out and the whole night you can’t get the throat constriction under control. But the ER was also very musical. The machines were all playing musical notes in a weird, electronic sound and I was all “It sounds like First Encounters of the Third Kind” and the nurse was like “Yeah, those are our new machines,” and the other nurse said “You should hear them when something’s going wrong.”

I was wondering to myself, “Whoa, does it play a funeral march when someone flatlines?” So then they gave me a replacement inhaler that has a meter that fucking tells you how many puffs you have left. Oh, more importantly I was able to go to bed knowing that I would most likely wake up

Also, my advisor is pretty cool. I like Morris.

So, first off: The movie Legion looks like it’s going to be awesome, but it will piss off all the Abrahamic folks. (*grin and chuckle*)

I love the crazy, evil old lady crawling on the ceiling.
So we went to see District 9. Okay, if you like action movies and thinky movies, you have to see this. And see it in theaters, ‘cuz if you steal this movie you are evil and will fester in the special hell for child molesters and people who talk in theaters. It’s basically loaded with humanitarian overtones, and it’s sort of an Apartheid allegory. Okay, so imagine the action of 300 plus that of Watchmen times like 5 with the special effects, then at least as much intellectual stimulation as the latter. It also has the suck value of an LOTR movie, so negative suckiness. So if a is action, i is thinkiness, and let’s add s for suck:

District 9 = (300 + W)a + Wi + LOTRs

Now you’ve got a movie with a pretty good vector value. I never thought seeing things go splat would be so much fun.

One of the issues I always had with Christianity, back when I still believed in the supernatural, was the constant referral to God as “He” or “Father”. I always found this sexist, since I could think of no reason why the one almighty power would have a sex. I did not know of any part of the Bible in which God referred to “him”self as a man or male. Why would it need to be? I didn’t like the people who emphasized “He” to piss off feminists (also usually the types to mistakenly think all feminists have vaginas). How could an omnipresent being have a shape, let alone a penis? When is any male characteristic of God ever mentioned?

And then something struck me. And I got an old mini-Bible out to check it. Sure enough, if the Christians are correct, then God must be a man. How can I tell? Because you can see, right there in Luke, that God is one of those assholes that nicknames his penis:

The angel said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God.
-Luke 1:35

You see? Now no Christian can ever tell me that I’m being too vulgar. Not when their holy book contains such course language from a messenger of the almighty. I think I also saw some passages about “The Holy Spirit entering into her”.

Also, seriously? The Holy Spirit? I’ve heard some bad nicknames for body parts, but this has to be one of the worst. Do people really want to worship a God with the maturity of a 13-year-old and the insecurity of a frat boy?

Shit! Just realized I shouldn’ta told the ‘rents that story. Now they know how to find this thing. Anyway, yeah, update on me: I feel confused lately. In Latinam: “confusissimus sum!” Well, anyway this weekend should be fun. Oh, and fuck rusty water.