Monthly Archives: June 2009
Random Thoughts
I didn’t have enough on my mind on any single subject to do anything in depth, but I did want to at least post something this week. Here are some random thoughts on subjects that had occured to me this week.
Celebrity Deaths. I was saddened to hear about Farrah Fawcet’s death. Part of me knew it was inevitable, due to her condition, and yet it was still incredibly disheartening when it happened. Michael Jackson’s death, however, was just the opposite – strange and out of nowhere. It got me thinking, though, about celebrities, and especially music artists, who die early. Many of them are venerated far above where they had been in life, like Kurt Cobain, as if their death gave them the ability to be less suseptible to criticisms like how overrated their bands and sound were. With Jackson, I had the feeling that, if he could have known in advance how and when he would die, he might have chosen to die younger, before the child molestation scandals, before the pure-drenched weirdness that his life became. It’s a shame really, to fly so high and yet fall so low. But like someone said about Icarus, “at least he flew.”
The Most Gripping Drama of 2009
Somehow, this blog about a homeless family in a game I don’t play is absolutely fascinating and gripping. I think both of my readers (my wife, and a very confused Peruvian farmer who thinks this site is for gardening tips) will find it highly enjoyable.
An Ode to Diet Mountain Dew
Oh shining can
Holding life’s sweet nectar
From first crackling crinkle
To last farewell slurps
You live merely to please
And that you do so well
Two Minutes’ Hate II
There are many things in the world that piss me off (stamps required on government documents, for example). Here, I will illustrate some of the things that make me hurl obscenities like Zeus chucks thunderbolts. What I hate comes after the jump. What you hate, you can put in the comments.
So That’s Why the Sun is Always Smiling at Me
An interesting article from Scientific American about the reason why God, ghosts, and conspiracy theories exist.
“The problem is that we did not evolve a baloney-detection device in our brains to discriminate between true and false patterns.”
And thus we are saddled with religion, making the sane world under the control of idiotic crackpots who actually seem to believe the bullshit they spew. The sane people of course realize that you can’t reason with the insane, but instead of drowning them in the tub, we allow them to run things in the vain hope that they will leave us alone.
Winter in Derenemyn 