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RobGordan
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Name: Matt
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Metro: Warsaw
Birthday: 5/4/1982
Gender: Male
Interests: Find the face of an artist, find their soul.
Expertise: I am an Artist - www.lullabyart.com - and a sometimes writer. Neither pay the bills.
Occupation: Other
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AIM:  GWHMAN2000
Member Since:
7/8/2004
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I've moved...sort of.
http://www.alittledarkly.blogspot.com/
I'll be posting primarily from there from now on...or until people migrate once again to the next trendy digital hang out.
Matt
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Do you ever have one of those days when you get the privilege of witnessing the murder of what someone thought was a good idea? I stumbled upon this little film that thinks a hell of a lot of itself - and how can you not when Christian slater is voicing the title role - and for a film that looks as bad as this...that's saying quite a bit. Check it out and laugh at how NON cutting edge it looks, let alone the fact that it's a total fucking rip-off of every other damned Moses flick that has come out over the last 50 years - no I don't include the 10 commandments musical.
http://www.epicstoriesofthebible.com/trailers.php
hoot hoot
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| This is an excerpt from an article from Slate.com about a book called God's Harvard. For more to go slate and read the whole thing...but really, I think this is quite telling about the ultra right's point of view.
"About halfway through the book, something
struck me. Not a single student quoted Jesus' sayings to you in
justifying their politics. Their justification came from Old Testament
admonitions about power. They didn't quote Jesus—at least as related in
the book. Why? It is because it would be
impossible to quote Jesus urging young Christian men and women to
tackle the political battlefield as if going unto war. It is because
Jesus' commands have everything to do with sacrificially loving others
and nothing to do with influencing the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court. I
am not saying that Christians shouldn't have a political voice. They
should. But they should do it as citizens with opinions in public
policy and not as "Christians" presuming they have Jesus' answer to
problems—because on virtually every position, they do not. It is
perfectly possible to be a Bible-believing, Jesus-loving, born-again
Christian and have different perspectives on everything from abortion
to Iraq. And that perspective is what is missing from Patrick Henry. You
may be absolutely right that these kids will be a "delta force" for
Christian politics for years to come. But I hope you're not."
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Many things seem to have changed, but really only a few have.
One thing that has not changed is that I am so white that when the sun comes down to hug me I get burned. I have not been this red in years.
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In early January I sat down to interview the co-founder to one of Indiana’s most predominant coffee chains. We met to talk about how the coffee joint is becoming the ultimate wireless hot spot. What we actually talked about was something quite different: nearly two hours of Starbucks condemnation and gloating about his business. He bragged about roasting their own beans and how their beans are fresh, etc and how good it was that they convinced people to “spend four dollars on a cup of coffee,” though in actuality what he was referring to was a slim shot of espresso in a disposable cup filled primarily with sugar syrup, milk, and whipped cream. I preface the next chapter in this pilgrimage on coffee with this because of how people like this have transformed coffee into the equivalent of sweet and low…all flash with no substance leaving a toxic aftertaste glazing the senses for hours afterwards.
At just about every city I go to I try their local coffee house and no, I don’t mean I take a bite out of the building. Typically I will take an hour and order anything from straight coffee to an iced espresso drink and spend some time soaking in it’s atmosphere…that is, if I can stomach it. Some of these places, if not most, are trendy yuppie hangouts that mimic the Starbucks model. Others are cliché church lady gathering rooms that plaster so much ornate “beauty” that it almost induces a visceral stream of (choose your disgusting word picture here). What they all have in common? The buck. Most of these places are set up in locations where patrons think that Maxwell House is amazing coffee/don’t really understand or like coffee, but all their friends drink it so they toss four dollars for a cup of coffee laced sugar milk drink. In a short story I wrote two years ago, I described the many followers of the goddess lady Starbucks that would journey to her temples every morning and nurse from her coffee swelled breasts before continuing on their way in a sugar induced haze. It’s not limited to Starbucks – though when there are three within a mile of one another its hard not to be exclusive – but just about any place with a trendy name, Higher Grounds, The Beanery, The Daily Grind, and so on. They have taken the idea of coffee and turned it on its head. It’s about the cup itself. It’s about being part of the coffee drinking culture. Like the child that wants to be an adult so he orders an espresso and fills it with so much milk and sugar there is no espresso remaining…but he’s drinking an espresso so he’s cool right?
To find truly enjoyable coffee it takes some work, and yes it pisses me off to try and find that coffee. We live in a culture that sells the idea of coffee, but people don’t want coffee – most, not all – they want sugar, they want to be a part of the club…
"And now for something completely different"
I’ve been pseudo soap boxing on coffee recently – and I’m not going to stop anytime soon dammit – and because they have been mostly negative, here is something that all three of you might find useful. We all know the price of energy is annoyingly high and is flirting with being “kick you in the skull” high. In January our electric bill was high, but not incredibly high. By February in had sky rocketed to close just above 150 dollars. Aimee and I tried to figure out the problem and so we decided to try something: unplug appliances minus all but one lamp, alarm clock and TV when we aren’t using them. That means the computer, toaster, etc. all had to be unplugged when not in use. The result was creepy. Our bill went down by half. Mind you this doesn’t include fluctuation in energy rates, but still. So we kept it up and with the weather getting warmer we turned the heat off, opened the windows for air – we’re on the 9th floor – and kept the lights off until we actually needed inside light. Again the bill lowered…by close to a third. In the UK they will be offering people energy monitors for their homes so that they can see how much they are using and in some cases how much each appliance is costing them. So chaps, blokes, and gifted animals enjoy the extra pocket change if it works for you.
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