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YOU DAMN RIGHT I CHEEAATED

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:07:18 GMT

Xanga... im leaving you...
for blogspot

elbenchwarmer.blogspot.com

i have no fucking clue how many clicks it took to even post THIS.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:00:22 GMT

wtf is xanga friends? this aint facebook. sheeeit

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:28:51 GMT

you can use 6-8 boneless chicken thigh pieces since theyre already flattened
or buy pork tenderloins and cut a pocket into it

heat up a little bit of pesto sauce in olive oil, just enough to impart the pesto flavor. sautee some garlic in it, and diced sun-dried tomatoes if you have them. I like adding diced almonds because nutty is good. I then like to take some spinach, fresh or frozen, and then sautee it down. Once cooled, mix in some feta cheese. salt, pepper, and olive oil your meat and then stuff it if its pork or wrap it if its chicken. I like to bake it, typically 40-50 at 400 if frozen, 30-40 if thawed.

serve with pasta and sauce of your choice.

and no, i dont do measurements

Friday, January 18, 2008

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:00:38 GMT

so my boy daniel has been sending me links to slam poetry, and i've been watching them mostly because i'm getting burnt out on rap. I think i need a break from it. I guess it's like methadone for heroine addicts.

i had just finished cooking dinner for the next couple of nights. I made bulgogi fried rice. I came back to the computer, expecting more stuff from a guy named Lemon. Lemon is badass in his own right, and you should youtube him. He asked me if i had heard of this guy named Rives (pronounced Reeves), and I hadn't, so he sent me this.

I dont know what exactly it was. I don't know if its just.. because i feel like i've fallen off or i'm drowning or something. That or maybe ive been on this quest to find something beautiful in life that will move me. That or maybe I didnt expect deaf people to write incredible poetry. Maybe it was the combination of sign language, which was foreign to me, followed by an interpretation that added meaning. Either way, this is easily the most beautiful thing i've seen in years, and i cried over it. I've never cried from something being so beautiful, but today i did. I watched it twice because i had nothing to say. Maybe it wont do anything for you, but i guess I felt like i finally found something that i've been looking long and hard for.

Monday, January 07, 2008

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:50:39 GMT

since i became agnostic, life has become pretty ugly. i don't find it beautiful. I need constant reminders of good... of beauty... of sincerity. Unfortunately, the ugliness of life isn't reason enough to believe.

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 01:39:50 GMT

hillary clinton drives me crazy. in a bad way. I hate that all the dems at the debates voted for the patriot act, but for hillary to call out obama and call him a flip flopper on that same issue is some bull shit. john edwards gets props for calling her out on smearing when she started dropping on the polls. Then she puts words in his mouth, trying to minimize the idea she's doing so by saying it was put out by the AP.

The Santos-McGarry ticket is the only one i'd ever support. but since they're not up, im goin for kucinich.

man, we talk about policing the world and the atrocities of 9/11. we talk about the 3000 we lost, and as much as i HATE the idea that we're losing american soldiers, we've orphaned 5 million kids and KILLED 1.2 million people. we just need to get the hell out.

i honestly dont like any of the candidates on TV right now. fuck ABC and facebook, this is some corporate-ass BULLSHIT.

Friday, January 04, 2008

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:23:21 GMT

i have two things i'd like in 2008.
1. to find a job i can love
2. reconcile science to God

i pretty much let my mom know that i don't have enough information to say I believe in God. I know it broke her heart, but it's nothing that I can so easily fix. The last lecture I heard was by Ken Miller when he spoke at Case Western. He's a Roman Catholic, a theist, but refuses to believe in intelligent design. Intelligent Design is a non-science, so leave it to a marketing major to make claims about the natural world. Either way, read both sides of the argument, read the opinion of the court, and just read about what's happening in the science world before you immediately accept "intelligent design" as fact. I want to believe that evolution can fit into God's plan, and that somehow our spontaneous existence was a misinterpretation. The Answers in Genesis organization as well as Ken Ham drive me crazy with their attempts to argue science. This is the douche behind the Creation Museum.

I feel bad that religion feels like science is evil for attacking the validity behind their most fundamental beliefs, but someone had to do it. Science isn't inherently evil. It's meant to uncover the truth. Religion declaring a theory, a mere means of explanation, as evil, is in itself intellectually dishonest. And then using religious assertions to "Create" a truth is pretty bad, too.

My mom tried to tell me that carbon dating is inaccurate and that scientists are all wrong. I dont know who's been feeding her this. Then there's a trip the grand canyon that my folks took, and apparently they took one of those "Christian" tours. I googled that and found info about the Van Andel Creation Research Center, which is pretty awesome since they award doctoral degrees to people in what the rest of the scientific community calls a pseudoscience. Theyre saying that the grand canyon is but a mere couple of thousands of years old, and was caused by the flood during noah's times. This, unfortunately, isn't supported by the scientific community. I just feel like these guys are unqualified to be talking about science. When a Christian teaching at an ivy league school, who has a reputation for being on the forefront of discovery, decides to write a peer reviewed paper on this stuff, i'll listen. Until then, some dude who went to seminary after being a geologist for a couple of years doesn't really qualify as having enough credentials.

During the trial over whether intelligent design was a science, one of the "scientists" was on the stand. Although he was aware of 50+ peer reviewed papers and 9 books all substantiating the human immune system as a product of evolution, he refused to call it enough evidence. I hope i'm not being as narrowminded as this guy, utterly unable to accept empirical evidence on the basis that it undermines what i WANT to believe.

I told my mom that the thing I want most is to believe that God exists and that he does what he says he does. Currently, I don't. And i hate the ambiguity and openness for interpretation that affects what most people would use to describe their divine interactions.

this is pandora's box. never open open it. never ask the question. don't touch it, don't question it because everything will fall apart afterwards.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:33:35 GMT

so lately i've been reading a lot of anti-everything propaganda from the far right, mostly for shits and giggles. I've been reading stuff like Chick tracts, which are about as incendiary as the gospel can get. Also check out http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/devils_music.htm. There was this one super interesting article about how the master recordings (before the copies are made for distribution) of many different artists are taken to some temple room where they conjure demons to enter the CDs and tapes. Unfortunately people are saying that the guy, who claims to be former illuminati, is also a compulsive liar and is apparently in jail right now for being a sexual predator. I guess metal is as demonic as its reputed to be, completely plastered in poor theology and needlessly offensive language. I can see where people get pissed off at that. I watched a brief documentary on it, too (its for free download on the website). There were some pretty poor arguments, and despite the entirety of the docu being focused on rock, they--without ever mentioning why--would cut to pics of eminem, britney spears, and snoop dogg. Or some random black guys. I think its good that the days of blood-drinking metal seem to be over and that lyrics aren't full of ambiguous mentions of ritual sacrifice. I'll take my emo pop punk any day over that.

This blog has grown exponentially hateful in recent days. I feel a bit bad for it, but at the same time, someone needs to be brutally honest.

costco pizzas, especially at the fire-sale price of under 11 dollars, are pretty awesome.

hows life?

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 17:56:25 GMT

i had originally said this about hillary, but now i feel like it applies even more so to mike huckabee.

23% sales tax across the board and you're calling it a "fair" tax?

SERIOUSLY, BITCH,
SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU RAPIST-FREEING, POOR-PARENTING, FAR-RIGHT-NUT-HUGGING, DUMBASS.

oh. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Monday, December 24, 2007

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:41:07 GMT

church was interesting today. so pastor eric called out the "pseudo-intellectual college kid who took a philosophy class, read one book, and thinks he's an expert". I immediately smirked at the irony. One book? who's the one whose life is based around one book? God forbid the church lets people think on their own for once and, i dont know, maybe reach their own conclusions? Teach, but don't try to control. There's no enlightenment in subjugation.
dangerous thinking, i suppose, is how they see it. Then again, his answer is a bit friendlier than scripture, which asks you to kill anyone telling you to think otherwise. oops. Blindly following just didn't work out. Look at how screwed up I am now? I read back over my old xanga posts. I really did come off as an idealistic, Bible-beating, ignorant asshole. what a shame.

Maybe I feel like the stereotype eric dropped hit too close to home. I'd say i'm a philosophical college-student type. And i'd say im both deeper and more vain than most of my peers. But if there's something I like doing, it's thinking. I'm reasonably well-spoken if not well-read and engaging in this sort of thing is something I find necessary for the sake of freakin cognitive development. and It's that cognitive development that makes it hard for me to suspend said faculties to take a pastor's words on surface value.

Let me suspend reason and the ability to make syllogisms so that you can tell me about the intangible.
Then tell me that the intangible likes to communicate through dreams, which is a pretty structurally-unsound medium by which one would communicate. Also something that often is subject to different interpretation from ambiguous meanings, or could even be meaningless. I think it was that thought that made me decide that my inner-monologue might be what I once thought God was.

Moving on to better things, Juno was a pretty good movie. What a great cast. Allison Janney is my old-woman crush from my west wing days. Freakin Dwight from the office. 2 guys out of arrested development. kitty pride from the x-men flicks. Jonah Jameson from spiderman. All in all, what a crazy bunch of people for an indie flick. There were 2 actors on the show who had previously worked together on TV. That never happens. If you're wondering, the asian picketer and the ultrasound tech were both on HBO's "the l word". Similarly, Michael Cera will ALWAYS end up playing a "george michael" role like the way the punk receptionist chick at the abortion place has twice played a goth and once played a vampire. I had to IMDB this because it was as if the entire cast was familiar.