Tuesday, September 5, 2006

regarding karma, and the now defunct crocodile molestor....

Greg-o said he saw this one coming -- he's been waiting 12 years for that aussie to be stricken by some venemous aquatic beast. and let's face it, there's so many things out there that will kill you, it doesnt take much to slip up. one second you're looking confident , fearless, and positively australian... the next minute your indecipherable accent is gone, because youre dead as a doornail.

so, next time you're wrestling a crocodile, or even your girlfriend, remember that he or she whom you molest has karmic registry, and the questionable maneuvers you make against them (be they recorded on film or private) accumulate stingray death points somewhere. or to paraphrase ghandi, 'fuck with the bull, and you'll get the horns.'

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

i am officially done with CNN world...

thats it!! i will not watch any more of CNN world. i've had enough of iran, charles taylor, northern ireland assinations, the weather in southeast asia, proper etiquette when dealing with the chinese in business matters. i'm DONE. i'd rather watch the 4th tier polish handball league. or curling for that matter. ive never watched this much curling in my life, and i have to say, if you watch the women do it, and close your eyes, it's better than porno....

Monday, April 17, 2006

sociolinguistics esssssssssse..

i know this is like the uncoolest thing to do... post serious shit on here...but hey, sometimes you just gotta post what flows. i can take the mission hipster heat, jack.

it has come to my attention, conveyed to me by a friend , that i have just completed a tour of the most notoriously anti-semitic countries of all time. spain, germany, lithuania. my tour actually retraced almost the exact path of jewish european migrations between the 14th and 20th centuries (without the 3 stopovers in charles de gaulle).

i had first wanted to document where i was and somehow draw parallel paths between me and some ancestral crew back 500 years, but thats not gonna work. tonight is sociolinguistics essay night, so buckle up, ese.

yiddish is a sociolinguistic phenomenon that documents the movement of a people throughout a very foreign land mass. jews were in europe by the 5th century, and by the 12th century had developed languages which mixed their own alphabets with the local vernacular. pockets of culturally semi-autonomous languages began to form including ladino (spanish) and zarphatic (french).

around the 12th century, a critical mass occurred somewhere in the rhine valley, and by the 15th century, a well defined (non-pidgin) language was forming throughout germanic central europe.

like a passport stamped during a long journey, yiddish has been marked by its stopovers. slavic, semitic, and romantic inflections dot a landscape written in hebrew. as crews of jews moved eastward, they picked up pieces of the local languages, and various dialects could be found in northern europe, the balkans, poland , the baltics, russia and ukraine, germany, and elsewhere.

in the early 1930s attempts were made to standardize the language based on committee efforts in vilnius. at that time roughly 10 million people spoke the language, most of them based in europe. hundreds of daily newspapers existed throughout europe and the americas. schools, transactions, fights, debates, and plays were conducted in the langauge.

efforts to standardize was made irrelevant by an attack from central europe that was almost entirely fatal. what was started in germany was finished by an attack from a frigid east -- stalinism froze whatever corpse of a language was left.

today you can still see yiddish in kovno (kaunus) and vilna (vilnius). it marks gravestones, mass murder sites, destroyed (and ocassionally rebuilt) synagogues. consider this a cultural endpoint, or maybe the final stop in the world's shittiest bus ride. consider yiddish the bloodline of a culture constantly on the move, pushing further east as the heat from the west became hotter and hotter. consider the final one-two punch, fire and ice, squeezing the life out of sentence and song.

consider this:
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(here rest the bones from the kovno ghetto (1941 - 1944) , which were burnt in 1944. they were buried in 1979)

people like to say that yiddish is not a dead language, but they are wrong. yiddish was murdered, my friends, and that makes it dead as dead can be.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

i have taken to schematical drawings...


well i have made it back to germany, for an overnight stay before my return to the states. not sure how or what to blog right now, but i wanted to share a couple observations, in schematical form...

first, regarding the women of my birth country of Lithuania... it's amazingly hit or miss. for my more mathematically inclined friends, there is clearly a bimodal distribution of hotness amongst these women, with one big bump around heidi klume, and another near the area of bob villa. in other words, there are those who are extremely fine and make you realize what an untapped resource this country is, and there are others that would probably do really well on the country farm. i submit the following diagram to further describe this point :

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also, while i was waiting for my dad during a dentist's appointment (he must be the only man willing to travel across the world for dental work... let's just call him eccentric), i sketched out my mouth, with a couple of angles of questionable importance:

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chag sameach to those who care -- i tried meeting up with the chabad in frankfurt, but they wouldnt pick up their phone, so i guess i am left with kababs and guilt. ahhhhh judaism.

Thursday, April 6, 2006

i make a contribution to the growing flooding problem in central europe....

frankfurt is a not so charming city built around a fairly charming river , the Maaaaaaain. last night drinking antics reached their climax; johnny walker came by, as did his driver, jose cuervo... leaving one bar, a pack of us made our way down the river, stumbling , careful not to fall in. i realize i have a whole lime in my pocket (of course) and this is unacceptable, so i throw it as hard as i can against a cement bridge girder. this is funner than i expect, and the others around me dont realize how much i love throwing shit into bodies of water. i find some concrete cylinders from a nearby construction site and throw them as far as i can, getting some major splash downs... i am walking west along the maiiin and the construction people seemed to have forgotten to affix a park bench to the ground. oops. i try to lift a side of it, and notice that it is totally movable but, i cannot do the work alone. a coworker of mine seems curious, but shy -- i shame him into lifting the other end... this park bench, where young lovers speak an incomprehensible language and smoke cigarettes, is all done. we drag this fucker to the river bank -- the mood in the crew is shock with a dash of glee. with an "eins, zwei, drei" we give the wooden bench a lift and toss into the swollen river, clearing the bank by a only a few feet.

normally i wouldnt condone the destruction of public property, or private property for that matter, but these people had it coming, and the doomed park bench provided some sense of release. i realized that this violated my earlier tenet of not being thrown in jail, and for a minute, i see myself being packed in a one-way train to Treblinka. but no outsiders see this, so we do a couple chest bumps and stumble into the red light district, which really is a whole different story...

Sunday, April 2, 2006

soccer is so dumb....

the entire country of spain gets crazy today. real madrid v. FC barcelona. its like the yankees and red sox play twice a year, and the history between the two teams involves wars, fascism, riots, etc. so it's big here, mas grande as they say. here is a short diary of the match...

impossible to get a cab, the concierge waved his hand and said 'easy!' ... would like to give him a smack now. the cab line is 40 people long, and these poor bastards are going to miss whatever engagement their trying to get to. but i'm smart, so i walk past la rambla, past la placa de catalunya, to gran via del les corts where i hook a left and walk , trying to find a cab. my mission is to hit the stadium, and party with the good people of barcelona, who are in the midst of the closest thing they have to a holy war. i am walking. i am walking west, the map in my mind tells me this is the general direction of the stadium... walking... walking... im covering lots of blocks, i must have put 10 miles on my feet today, and i am extremely thirsty. the match starts, and i am in the street. i walk past a cafe, and realize this is how the spanish do it. they sit around, yell at each other, plow through the plates, drink a little.. they are way more interested in food than getting lit. i walk past a cafe when a huge noise erupts... it seems like some guy on FCB got tripped in the box, and he gets a free kick. people are going nuts, anticipating him punching it in... a good thirty seconds of close ups on his face, along with a nervous goalie. finally he approaches the ball, fakes left, and scores in the right side of the net. 1-0 FCB. people are going nuts now, screaming, singing ole ole ole or some such shit... i turn around and continue my trek to the pitch, horns are honking everywhere at the placa de la universitat . in the plaza i see a vague flash and have a 20 miliseconds to register that this means incoming mortar fire --- a loud explosion follows, and i realize that when the spanish light fireworks, you better watch your ass.

i contine to walk, hailing cabs, police cars, civilians, anything that seems remotely similar to a taxi. no luck.. i hear an angry spaniard scream something out his window -- he is not happy and im pretty sure he said "kfjskjdf ksjdkjsd puta skldjsjkd akjsd". i am confused and vaguely uncomfortable and 10 other barcelonans are screaming out their window now. one car honks... real madrid has tied the affair 1-1.

i find a cab, tell the man i want to go the stadium and he seems puzzled. he takes me there in the awkward silence that comes from having such a small intersecting word space. i ask him to drop me at a cerveceria near the stadium, of which he says there are many. we get there... silence. rows of police trucks looking like they just broke up something serious or are waiting for something serious to be breaken up. i walk more, no bars. ok, a few tight places where people are talking and not focusing on the game. they are wearing jerseys but are sitting down, intent on finishing the pig on their plate. no bars, in the anglo manner. no people pissing on the street. it's very quiet and dark. i expected wrigleyville and i got west rogers park. i approach the stadium in eerie silence. vague discomfort again washes over me, along with hard hitting isolation and sore feet. i realize that this is not what i expected, i come across the collblanc metro station and head back to la rambla, where i know of a couple places to stand and watch.

by the time i arrive there is like 3 minutes left in the match and it's still 1-1. i understand that i am intimately tied to this match; FCB will only score while i watch and i havent watched much , so they havent scored .

i am back at my hotel, remarkabely sober for my journey , so i spark one up (the australians were resourceful as well as friendly) and watch the game end in a draw.

a goddamn draw!!!! it's like the game never fucking happened.. are you kidding me? imagine the red sox and yankees playing to a draw .imagine getting so geared up for a game that you plan your month around it... and then, it just ends, unresolved, the equivalent of saying , "ahh , nevermind." calling this anti-climactic would be generous. anger, despondency, violence, joy, elation, hatred, tears -- these are emotional responses to some sort of event. how do you respond to a non-event. a shrug? a pat on the back? all i have to say is that i'm happy i didnt drop major euros to try to get into this game. cause these spanish would see the pressure drop ...

i meet my old pals, charles and jack...

i am back in charles de gaulle, and i already feel a kinship to the man, even though i have no idea who he was. ok, he was some big general (what was the last war france won??) and led a bunch of french governments into the ground. seriously, for a country full of beaureaucrats, i am not impressed. they should have named this airport after marseille marceau. at least that way my language problem would have been solved. anyway, more airports today and I am looking forward to 5 nights in germany and not having to unpack every two days... either way i have moved away from the ham (that last bocadilla in barcelona almost killed me) and am focusing on smoked fishes, as to prepare my systems for eastern europe:

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that green thing you see is lettuce. also, the coca cola lite is a result of a reunion with another old friend, jack daniels. let's just say jack hasnt changed in all these years. even in the old world, he keeps me good company when everyone around me seems down on old db, but there is always a price to pay. im pretty sure everything went ok last night -- i seem to have all my apendages and no scars indicating any involountary organ donations. though it was a suprise waking up naked on my bed covered in ham...

it does get a bit lonely to be travelling alone, and i've only done it for a couple days. but there is something liberating about the total unaccountability of being somewhere where no one knows you, you know no one, and your only concern is not being locked up in a catalonian prison or being robbed. it is still amazing to see people i know act like this real life... but at the end of the day, are you ever accountable to anything but your conscience? what else is there? is this incredibly short sighted or the key to happiness?

off to frankfurt...

Saturday, April 1, 2006

reason #45 on why spain is the place to be...

... sangwiches!!! everywhere! these people love sangwiches so much it hurts... and i'm not even talking about subway, although they got that here too, of course. i'm talking some serious ham and cheese:

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you have to understand -- this photo happens like 3 times a day for me in spain. there's also some of this:

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and finally.. i've never seen so much pig eating my life.

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i think everything in this picture, except arguably the customer, consists entirely of pig. it's remarkable. and delicious!

Friday, March 31, 2006

regarding barcelona, and my friends from the island continent of australia...

barcelona... it's hard to explain..... it's touristy but beautiful, and i encoutered about 20 australians , 1 mexican and a few locals... the locals shared absinthe with me. i reminded them that van gough met his death by this means, but they either didnt understand, or didnt give a shit. i think it was the former. the spanish seem to have a hard time understanding my spanish, as well as my english. i made a horrible mistake and did not bring my camera with me... i need to carry it at all times, this is a new goal. tommorrow , more pics.

also,i am staying at a 4 star hotel with no AC. currently, my balls are sweating so much they are complaining about global warming, and general environonmental policy. this makes my balls officially 10 times smarter than our sitting president.

its 4:20 am... goodnight!!!

Thursday, March 30, 2006

i tried writing in the journal ...

let's face it -- i'm done with the written word, at least in the literal sense... i am back to bloggin, because i type faster, the words come to me here, and i cannot copy my photos as easily as i can here... so since i have a car and there arent good bars in walking distance from el grrrrrao de castellon, i present this to you:

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also i have the following questions/observations which are open to debate

1) why do europeans have so many moles? why are we in the new world immuned to facial aberrations? does this have something to do with our foreign policy? I just dont understand.

2) when in the gay neighborhood of paris, the game "gay or eurotrash" becomes a wash. information theory tells us that a situation like this is intractable ... you may as well flip a coin.

3) no country is worth visiting unless it borders the mediterranean sea. amsterdam is an exception, but its not exactly a country, so F off. seriously, i think england, germany, eastern europe, china, japan, are all useless.. i would also make exceptions to warm countries with unstable political situations, or at least those in which instability is right around the corner. this list would include: anything in south america, mexico or the carribbean. thats about it though.

hmmm that appears it for now... also, regarding the french, why all the hating? i know the jews own the media and shit, but check this out:

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now, i'm no rhodes scholar , and my french is a bit weak, but i think this translates to: "he boards with keys... he rolls like that... he fronts.. he marches and shit... he carries tampons with no reason... he skips like a fag... he's got a long dong... he rides bikes...THE DANGEROUS JEW. No Matter how you vote the Jew gets in your way... BE CAREFUL."

no wonder paris is ablaze with foreign automobiles ...

my new ride....

trueno negro ???

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Friday, March 24, 2006

european necktie

my trip from above.
constellations seen by the stars themselves
my european necktie.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

the greatest sentence ever written...

... and i had nothing to do with it ... SHIT.

anyway, i was reading on wiki about the Reverend Fred Phelps (this christian cult leader who believes God will blow up America on account of the gays) wrote a book with some wacked conspiracy theories. Here is the sentence (with one lead-in):

"Phelps also wrote a book in the 1980s with his son-in-law, Brent D. Roper, called The Conspiracy. In the book, Roper and Phelps claim to possess evidence that AIDS spontaneously generated in Africa; Truman Capote contracted the disease during an orgy with African tribesmen; Capote then gave the disease to John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe by playing football with them; and that the CIA assassinated all three to prevent the spread of the disease."

i don't know even know where to start, so i'm just gonna leave it up there and let people comment on it. anyone care to opine?

pour a brew on the concrete for another fallen brother....

don knotts is dead. whenever another don passes it hits me deep. cause you know that means there's one less of us, and we are indeed a dying breed already. when the don in question puts up 7 good years as mr. furley, we do like we do and pour another brew on the concrete.

Monday, February 6, 2006

san antone weather report....

my man trey does some thing where he blogs every day.. its usually some rumination about whether or not he is gay... either way, my man goes at it every day, relentlessly belting out fragments and elipsesses.......... like that.

you gotta admire his gumption; he is tenacious and rockin memphrica a la willis. . these two should not meet, for the betterment of humaity. either way, i'm getting after it, but instead of ruminating on whether or not trey is gay, i'm going to ruminate on the weather. also, i keep wanting to throw an 'h' into my spelling of rumination. rheumatoid arthritis has conditioned me thusly.

i;m in san antonio today on some bizness venture. regardless, it's warm and windy ,with a 60% chance of riverwalkin' .

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

shitty weather!

the weather here sucks.. why do i live in california? i'll stay out of it and leave it to tom waits:

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It's more than rain that falls on our parade tonight
it's more than thunder it's more than thunder
it's more than a swindle this crooked card game
it's more than sad times it's more than sad times
none of our pockets are filled with gold
nobody's caught the boquet
there are no dead presidents we can fold
nothing is going our way
and it's more than goodbye I have to say to you
it's more than woe-be-gotten grey skies now
--

Monday, January 23, 2006

hug it out, bitch

venturing out of an SF stripclub the other day , we were shocked to see some metallica band member/douche at the venue. after the usual 'napster' pleasantries were thrown he approached me in some confusing way, to which i says 'you wanna hug it out? let's hug it out' ... and he says to me 'im not touching you dude.' which i though was wierd cause i always thought metallica was a gay metal band. so then he takes a picture with a female member of our party and we head out . im not sure what any of this means.