Tuesday, February 24, 2004

posted by: copernicus on 2/24/2004 09:40:00 AM
First of all, how about a big hand for David, who redesigned my blog into what I envisioned when I first created it. (Thunderous applause)
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Secondly, a conversation that took place at work tonight:

A nosey nurse was all up in my business, and told me that I was getting too old to be playing around, that I needed to settle down and have kids.

NOSEY NURSE: "Once you hit 30 this summer, it'll be time to start a family. Doesn't your mama want grandkids?"

ME: "My mom would rather me have kids when I'm ready and prepared than conform to arbitrary social expectations and force myself into a lifestyle I don't want and am unprepared for."

Then she brought up Jesus, and I had to end the conversation.

ME: "Organized religion has no place in my life. I respect your desire to have faith, but I don't need it. Thanks anyway."

I wanted to quote George Carlin's bit on "...the invisible man living in the sky...", or quote Robert Anton Wilson's definition of faith as "...putting an idea up on a shelf so you never have to think about it anymore (the more faith you have, the less you have to think)...", but I didn't want to offend her.

I just wanted to get my work done so I could get the hell out of there and catch my girlfriend before she left for work.
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And Thirdly, I was listening to this album on my way home from work this morning, and decided though lengthy, I would post what I consider to be the most important thing Ani has ever written:

SERPENTINE

"...yes, the goons have gone global
and the CEOs are shredding files
and the democrans and the republicrats
are flashing their toothy smiles
and uncle tom is posing for a photo op
with the oval office clan
and uncle sam is rigging cockfights
in the promised land
and that knife you stuck in my back is still there
it pinches a little when i sigh and moan
and these days i'm thinkin i could just as soon use
the time alone

cuz all the wrong people have the power
of suggestion
and the freedom of the press is meaningless
if nobody ever asks a question
i mean
causation by definition
is such a complex compilation
of factors
that to even try to say why
is to over simplify
but that's a far cry
isn't it dear?
from acting like you're the only one there
unrepentantly self centered and unfair
enter all suckers scrambling for the scoop
exit mr. eye contact
who took his flirt and flew the coop...

...and the music industry mafia is pimping girl power
sniping off sharp shooter singles from their styrofoam towers
and hip hop is tied up in the back room
with a logo stuffed in its mouth
cuz the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
and that's the truth

but then
i'm getting away from myself
as i get closer and closer to home
and the difference between you and me baby
is i get fucked up when i'm alone

and i must admit
today my inner pessimist
seems to have got the best of me
we start out sugared up on kool-aid and manifest destiny
and we memorize all the president's names
like little trained monkeys
and then we're spit into the world
so many spinny-eyed t.v. junkies
incapable of unravelling the military industrial mystery
preemptively pacified with history book history
and i've been around the world now
and i can see this about america
the mind control is steep here, man
the myopia is deep here

and behold
those that try to expose the reality
who really try to realize democracy
are shot with rubber bullets and gassed off the streets
while the global power brokers are kept clean and discrete
behind a wall
behind a moat
and that is all
that's all she wrote

and my heart beats an s-s-s, oh-oh-oh, s-s-s
cuz folks just couldn't care-care-care, less-less-less
as long as every day is superbowl sunday
and larger than life women in lingerie
are pouting at us from every bus stop
shelovesme shelovesmenot shelovesme shelovesmenot...

and big government should not stand between a man and his money
i mean "what's good for business is good for the country"
our children still take that lie like communion
the same old line
the confederacy used on the union

conjugate liberty
into libertarian
and medicate it
associate it
with deregulation & privitization
we won't even know we're slaves
on a corporate plantation
somebody say halleluja!
somebody say damnation!
cuz the profit system follows the path of least resistance
and the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked
so just give me my judy garland drugs
and let me get back to work
cuz the empire state building
is the now tallest building in new york..."

ABSOFUCKINLUTELY