price of fish sticks keeps going up...

...because we are scraping the oceans so bare and polluting them so horribly that enormous underwater 'dead zones' (like the huge one right outside of San Diego, California) have taken over areas of our seas that used to be packed with ocean life.

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Offshore dead zones bedevil ecologists

By Winston Ross

The Register-Guard

Published: Thursday, July 27, 2006

FLORENCE - Dying phytoplankton have once again sucked all the oxygen out of the water along a stretch of the Oregon Coast this summer, creating a hypoxic dead zone that kills any underwater marine life trapped in it.

It is the fifth year in a row that researchers have spotted a dead zone in Oregon waters. And this year, it's bigger than ever, enveloping half of Washington state's coast as well.

...read the entire article here

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update:

this week i've made significant progress in getting caught up with things; i've cleaned a hugely significant portion of my van, accomplished a huge deal of progress in my bedroom, the daily show and the colbert report have been my favorite daily tv shows, lucky louie on hbo this week was hilarious, innocent people are being bombed to death and injured horribly by bombs in Lebanon for bullshit reasons, making progress on the music/dj aspect of my life, talked to a couple ex-girlfriends in far away places, did laundry, helped my dad's friend's family with their computer three nights in a row, paid some bills, read a lot, and basically took it easy after the long weekend i had this past one up in Austin DJing for Chris & Ross' birthday parties (that was craaazy) (boobies! haha).

^_^

hilarity & hilariousness

lastnight one of my best laughs was during the Colbert Report on Comedy Central, when Steven got a Congressman (Wexler, of the 19th district in Florida) to say "I like to do cocaine because it's fun to do." WITH A STRAIGHT FACE. (and then to say how he likes to mix cocaine with soliciting prostitutes)

wow, yeah, and that's just one of the times i laughed very hard. ^_^

daring to be understood

"modern consumers must be kept in a constant state of desire, and deterred from considering consequences."

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"Modern technology promises fulfillment but delivers isolation, cocooning us from each other, from nature, from the consequences of our destructive, unsustainable ways."

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In 1968... The !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari spent only a few hours each day gathering food. The rest of the time they played, socialized or slept.

The Abelam have a pretty sweet life. They have little sense of time and don’t distinguish between work and play. They just live. Their health is good and their life expectancy comparable to ours — minus, of course, artificial life support.

“There’s not a heckuva lot that they have, but there’s not a heckuva lot that they need,” Scaglion says. And best of all, “It was really nice to live in a truly egalitarian society. … There’s nobody who can tell you what to do.”

daring to be understood

"modern consumers must be kept in a constant state of desire, and deterred from considering consequences."

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"Modern technology promises fulfillment but delivers isolation, cocooning us from each other, from nature, from the consequences of our destructive, unsustainable ways."

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In 1968... The !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari spent only a few hours each day gathering food. The rest of the time they played, socialized or slept.

The Abelam have a pretty sweet life. They have little sense of time and don’t distinguish between work and play. They just live. Their health is good and their life expectancy comparable to ours — minus, of course, artificial life support.

“There’s not a heckuva lot that they have, but there’s not a heckuva lot that they need,” Scaglion says. And best of all, “It was really nice to live in a truly egalitarian society. … There’s nobody who can tell you what to do.”

ah, tuesday

a cute little gray cat just passed right by my office window from left to right while prancing right next to a 3-foot black & white garden snake that was surfing along the grass with its head raised.

^_^

Going going back back to Cali Cali... ugh.

so i posted a bulletin to all my friends on myspace asking them to write me a quick note about what they're doing today, and my friend/former roommate wrote me back this morning about 10-15 minutes ago saying "I'M GOING GOING BACK BACK TO CALI CALI" because he lives in Delaware but his ex-wife and his kids are in our hometown of Santa Rosa, CA. He also wrote that because those are famous lyrics from a song called "Going Back To Cali" by the Notorious B.I.G.

well, i have a customized radio station for which i've rated 5,201 songs at this point...and "Going Back To Cali" by the Notorious B.I.G. came on about 8 minutes after I read & replied to the message.

I mean, this constant MCS shit is absolutely unreal.

click here to visit the page for my radio station

oh yeah

also, today a huge huge wasp landed on my nose, laying its huge legs over both of my nostrils and in fact reaching from cheek to cheek, and i freaked the fuck out in shock and shook it off and immediately apologized out loud in english in a way that was communicating to the wasp that i only made that violent movement because it was instinctual reaction, i didn't even have a chance to realize what was happening to me until after it happened, because it flew up from outside my periphery SUPER fast and landed SUPER fast, and took off SUPER fast when i shook it off in less than a split second after it landed on me. i believe i reacted by quickly telling it, "i'm sorry, i didn't mean for that to happen." i didn't experience any fear whatsoever, i figured after i said that right away after shaking it, it would understand and leave me alone, just like it did. in any normal situation, it would have started stinging me, right? i mean i smacked it off my nose with a really hard shake that hit its body with my nose pretty hard, but still it was able to fly in less than a blink of time.

lol. it was a moment of simultaneity that was pretty fucking magically coincidental, and because i realized how cool it was as MCS, immediately, i was smiling about how perfect that was going to be to write down and tell friends about.

carlos mencia is performing his best episode in the world right now. wow holy shit. totally amazing that i'm ripped for it.

it starts with a hilarious 2 or 3 minute skit that satired how the 1st and 2nd amendment were written that was the best skit i've ever seen him do. then he went off forever about how vacations are for chillin, and the wife came out with this list talking like, "we're gonna do this thing, then we're gonna see this thing, then we're gonna try this thing, then we'll go do this thing...and then we'll have lunch." "NO BITCH NOOOOOO!" he screamed in his one-man reenactment of the moment. then he went on to how she tried to pull out the schedule of activities for the day after getting the EXPENSIVE room with a view in Hawaii ("come on honey, you deserve it, you work so hard"); and he said something like "Fuck no, bitch!!! Why the fuck did we get the room with the view? I'll tell you why, to enjoy the fucking view! We paid for it, so we have to fucking UUUUUSE IIIIIT!!!!!!!"

later there was a 4 minute rap video of carlos rapping AWESOMELY MEANINGFUL lyrics as a Saudi Arabian making fun of how rich he is. (Saudi Arabia owns 7% of America's entire economy - basically 7% of everything in America.)

WOW later in the show a badass lookin black dude in the nicest pimp suit came out and shot a guy being an office worker in a skit right in the fucking leg, at like 3 foot range, and the special effects looked & sounded so real and the guy was fucking screaming so hard, over and over, for so long, while grabbing his leg after being shot.

he ended the show rappin & thuggin: "welcome back/to the era of/mencia. that's what we/do/here."

okay this blog is an hour long, i'm off to sleep. an hour lost to the idiot box. as least i was typing thru it, being creative and productive. haha

peace out til next time.

okay, i'll do it...

...i'll share frequent incidences of MCS to back up what i wrote in an earlier entry.

because of how fucking cool it is.

i just sat down to watch the daily show while being ripped out of my mind from spending earlier this evening with some friends, and owen wilson was completely ripped out of his mind for an interview with jon stewart in which jon was so upset at him being ripped for the interview, he asked owen "so at what point does this become sad?" ... he continued, "i think when you're age 60 is it's sad." blatantly referring to how ripped out of his mind owen was.

and i've never experienced such a randomly perfect matching of how ripped i was, yet still able to be responsible and, for example, be home early and follow everything, as owen wilson handled the entire interview like a champion or a king would. i hated owen wilson until tonight. that was crazy.

c'est trop coïncident que nous avons fumé en la même soirée.

Peace on Earth

okay so you're probably going to judge me but lately i've been getting in the habit of coming home for lunch and watching one of two tv shows that come on around that time: jon stewart's the daily show on comedy central (that's not the one i'm going to focus on right now, though) or reruns of 'home improvement' with tim allen. i watched it when i was a little kid growing up, and it reminds me of a more simple time of life. in fact, it's a more simple type of show. anyway, today's episode was a christmas episode in which 2 of the 3 sons on the tv show (brad and randy, lol) got caught stealing money from the charity they were raising going around the neighborhood cold-hard-cash for. in the end they felt so guilty after returning the money and apologizing that they donated a bunch of their toys to the impoverished kids at the shelter, and overall it was a simple but good message, kind of a relaxing episode to watch, with a very nice amount of great humor mixed in, and even some random knowledge from wilson (the neighbor behind the fence). the point of all this is that never again will we see a tv show that fades to the message "Peace on Earth" AFTER the credits finished rolling, and shows the message for a good 10 seconds. this culture/society has become more and more fucked even in the last ten years or so (however long it's been) since that tv show went off the air. things just seem to get worse every day. now we have not shows but entire TV channels whose idea/message/goal of "War on Earth" is supported and drilled into the viewer's mind aggressively, 24/7.

Peace on Earth.
pfft. I wish.

Magically Coincidental Simultaneity

so i've coined this term for a certain type of events that happen in our lives, and for me, they happen pretty much daily, if not many many times every day.

i'll give you an example of MCS that just now happened to me.

i was responding to a girl who sent me a message on myspace trying to figure out why we don't know eachother because we share a whole bunch of mutual friends. i was thinking about how just the other day i had a deja vu moment that i had absolutely positively experienced every single detail of before; weeks earlier in a dream, and so i was beginning to write about how perhaps we've met in a dream i've had which has yet to take place in reality (too cheesy?)

anyway, in the middle of writing this very particular thought, i was listening to my launch radio station, and this absolutely AMAZING song i'd never heard before came on, and so i dropped all those thoughts to find out what the hell i was listening to, so that it could be mine in the near future.

the artist was "Forest for the Trees" and the title (here's the amazing MCS part) was "Dream"

you understand magically coincidental simultaneity, now?
wouldn't that make a great book title for a collection of people's MCS moments?
it's a thought i'm pursuing slowly.

^_^

holy fucking shit

i just did the math, and America's national debt as of February 2006 would be a stack of 100 dollar bills 5,203 miles high, or a stack of 1 dollar bills 520,366 miles high. The distance from the Earth to the Moon (average) is 238,329 miles. That's two stacks of dollar bills from where you're sitting to the motherfucking moon, and then a lot more. And the richest 1% get another tax cut.

Smart people the mindless American drones seem to enjoy having in power.

VOTE REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT IN 2-0-oh fuck you.

whoo!

Austin, TX
all weekend long
AMAZING parties
amazing PEOPLE

and on Sunday afternoon i woke up in a vegetarian co-op household (two female friends of mine live there) to a keg of delicious ziegen bock, tons of close friends, & a backyard swimming pool full of extremely gorgeous topless girls, who were flirting with me and giving me awesome hugs with their boobies and stuff.

need i really say more?

well, just for the record, on Friday & Saturday i worked a few seminars & was involved in a trade show @ the University of Texas over there with the educational products company I work full-time for.

and lastnight i saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2, it was amazing.

oh and i fell and split my chin open, but it only hurts a little bit when i'm eating.