...guess I'm working from home today, since I can't get out of my own driveway...as cool as that is, I'm really getting tired of people doing this, it seems to happen about once every month or so. I don't know what it is about our driveway that people can't seem to see it.

not my fault, btw, blame the Fark boards.

Well, that was fun, drinking and watching movies. Thanks to all the people who came over, it was fun turning it into an impromptu bbq.

it was not too impressive. I was gonna write more about it, but it doesn't really warrant it. Couple of good scenes, and, (even if it wasn't faithful to the source material), it definitely felt Mark Millarish, which meant it wasn't nearly as cool as it thought it was, and some of the most mealy-mouthed movie morality I've seen in a while.

ETA: I don't want a saw.

( You are about to view content that may only be appropriate for adults. )

OK, I know I'm sometimes a messy eater, but how did I manage to get salad dressing inside my collar, on the back of the shirt, just above the tag?

Got Carly's desk, put it where Theresa's desk was, put Theresa's desk where mine was, put mine against the other wall converted into a storage unit. The office isn't clean yet, hopefully finish that tomorrow. Right now, my right hand hurts pretty bad due to a desk assemblage mishap. I am gonna eat some tacos, some some, and have a beer or two. I've been cleaning and moving furniture since this morning, so no going out for me, I'm toast.

I've probably said it here before, but the number of "their oughtta be a law" type statements I've been seeing lately prompts me to post it.

If there is some human activity that you see, that you don't like, and you feel like it should be illegal, there's a simple formula.

Would you hold a gun to their head to prevent them from doing it?

Laws don't prevent people from doing things. They only create consequences for the people doing the things. Making something illegal doesn't make it go away, it only provides more power to the state. If you break a law, and are caught, you will have force used on you. That force will come from a gun. If the consequences are jail time, then you are saying that the human behavior being exhibited is so awful that the only course of action is for the person to be kidnapped at gunpoint and held by force. Even if it's "only" a monetary fine, you are saying that the behavior is so bad that they should be robbed at gunpoint. These are things that if someone who is a non-state actor did them, they would be rightly condemned. But people are all too ready to cede to the state more and more reasons to do these things to their fellow human beings.

I'm not saying that their should be no laws. But depriving someone of their freedom should be a last resort. People are all too ready to lock up other people for doing things they don't like, and frankly, it disgusts me. The United States already has, by far, the highest incarceration rate in the world, both by numbers and by percentages, and you want to lock more people up? Your petty discomfort because of something someone said or did with their own bodies is enough reason to destroy their life by forcing them to be locked up with rapists and murderers? Fuck you.

I've seen things like this before, but this one is well done:

http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/6/16joseph.html

I particularly like the 1984 and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ones.

Violent Femmes returns the favor, covers Gnarls Barkley

http://www.myspace.com/violentandcrazy

Happy Bloomsday!

It's amazing how much my wife makes me feel better just by being her wonderful self.

I just haven't been able to get anything I like done musicwise in weeks. Everytime I work on something I've been working on for a while, or start something new, I wind up hating it after about an hour or so. This is really beginning to piss me off.

Happy Loving Day!

http://www.lovingday.org/

Especially this year, since Mildred died recently.

Feeling all out-of-sorts today, don't know why. I have to work again tonight, but that's nothing unusual. I'm just feeling depressed, for no good reason. In fact, I have many reasons not to. Must be the weather.

You had the most worldchanging bicycle ride ever. 14 days ago, we hit 65 years of sunshine, seems appropriate he'd go right around the same time.

Waters loses his pork:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/riverside/20080429-1321-ca-lostflyingpig.html

This tub. I want it.

The Olaf PotatoHead.