This Recording

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I got a spam e-mail today that really bothered me. This is actually real, how disturbing is that?

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you’ll grow out of it!”
You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt.
All change is not growth all movement is not forward.
Jesus might have said, ”I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.”
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
I don’t judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.
I have only one counsel for you — be master.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

This last part seems especially untrue.

I have been known to take revenge by dropping people’s e-mail addresses in spambots. The mafia should use this more, my readers in organized crime should e-mail me if interested.

Big Love last night was kind of a holding pattern, but the Weber Gaming storyline made up for it. I am dying for my Weber Gaming tee-shirt. I hate Albie and I hate Rhonda, and I kind of hate both their storylines, too. At least Sarah is finally getting crushed on Potential-style. I liked the scene with Sarah and the social worker a lot, it’s the kind of thing where someone you think is the bad guy really isn’t, and everything gets turned on its head. That’s all I got.

I had to watch Big Love last night with Rachael and Gideon’s loaner dog, Chito. He is a shar pei with a huge pair of testicles swinging every which way when he walks around. It really makes you realize how much you hate testicles.

They are newlyweds if you have not been following this breaking story. It is fun to watch them take care of a dog. Gideon has never had a dog so it’s like he’s inventing new ways to pet Chito.

There are a lot of songs that go with Chito’s name. My favorite is Paul Simon’s “Cecilia.” I like it because it frames my disappointment over Chito’s testicles with the telling phrase “you’re shaking my confidence baby.”

Chito is also missing an eye as a result of a tragic childhood, nay, puppyhood accident. You cannot help but feel those balls are wagging to compensate, much like a pirate who has sex with his shipmates to compensate for his own missing eye. Am I saying Chito is gay? Perhaps.

Does anyone feel like they are just living the end of the movie High Fidelity again and again? No? Fiiiine.

Richard Brodie, a popular poker blogger, was nearly banned from Harrah’s for winning at video poker.

Google arguing over which color is better.

In favor of an armed populace.

Collider unlocking the secrets of the universe.

“Nora” — The Long Winters (mp3)

But she never says I love you

until I say I love you

like we’re exchanging hostages

“Shapes” — The Long Winters (mp3)

“The Sound of Coming Down” — The Long Winters (mp3)

“Prom Night at Hater High” — The Long Winters (mp3)