Backpacking Trip

I'll be posting the details of this years' trip on the blog sometime this week so stay tuned. As of right now its going to be three days, three nights with the first night camping at the trailhead. The dates are: thursday 22nd(get to trailhead), friday, saturday, sunday hiking. Any questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome.

Book Report

I just finished Hell's Angels by Mr. Thompson. At first I wasn't into it because it was just a journalistic approach to the motorcycle club. As I read more and more, however, it grew on me. I now am looking to get an old motorcycle as soon as I have a spare 1000 bucks. More realistically I need a new book to start. I was thinking something kind of philosophical (maybe eastern?), as my heart is currently broken and needs repair. Any suggestions? How are your books?

PackBacking

Rubb, will you be in Colorado already or will you be flying/driving? Who will be going in our car, Math, Catbean, dogs? Sean probably is not going. I am starting to feel this trip in my crotch.

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Backpacking

When are we going backpacking? Was May 24 the last date mentioned? I'm down. Jesus crhist get me away from thsi computer and weather i am fucking down.

Starbucks has won the 2008 Kyle Smith Prize for Most Annoying Best Coffee.

Someone needs to order this:

Tall skinny quarter-caf mochachino mocha mocha foam no-foam latte with a single-double shot and extra room for cinnamon.

Scientology

I was in boulder a little over a week ago and was fortunate enough to see one of those scientology pimps hanging out at his scientology table. There he was sitting at his table in the middle of Pearl St. with a sign next to him asking "Are you stressed out?" Complete with that little machine they hook up to your fingers to administer your personality test and a stack of Dianetics books. I've been dying to take one of these tests but unfortunately I was a bit hungover after Adam's wedding and not really up to the task. I'm really pissed I didn't take, especially because I wanted a copy of Dianetics which for some reason is impossible to find in book stores. Anyway, to make a long story short, this story is really going nowhere.....I'm just pissed I didn't take the test.

Interesting side note 1: spell check really wanted me to capitalize scientology but I just accept it as a legitimate religion(discuss?).

Interesting side note 2: spell check didn't recognize Diantetics as even a word, it wanted me to change it to diabetics. So according to spell check scientology is a religion but their so called bible doesn't even exist. Weird!

Cousin party

Who's down for a cousin party on saturday? Any suggestions on what to do, drink, destroy?

As long as the Sinceros are on the jukebox, it'll be a good party.

Awesome Band

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The Sinceros

Hey Matt...

Arthur C. Clarke just died - did you ever read Childhood's End? I read it a long time ago, and I'm sure its pretty dated, but it was really good and it should be a candidate for next year's list. Best-Explanation-For-DejaVu-Ever.

How's the reading coming along? I'm at the end of Wuthering Heights (good, and really good if you think about how different it must have been back then) and I'm stuck reading this terrible book by a British man writing as an American woman but I have to finish it for politeness sake.

Orgiastic Fun Friday

Last night I went to a bluegrass band that was playing at my local music venue. I didn't previously associate myself with being an avid bluegrass fan, and I guess I still don't, but that was about as much good clean fun as you can have for 12 bucks. Trampled By Turtles, and Pert' Near Sandstone were the names, both from MN. I don't know how they stacked up against more renown bands but they caved my skull in with pure American boot stompin' fun! I was bounding around the room like an amphetamine strung-out ballerina, shouting and whooping into the fucking frigid bitch Wisconsin night. So if you have a case of seasonal sexless depression, get yourself some bourbon whiskey and bluegrass.

The Ten - comedy gold

I teach English to foreigners

Sometimes I have them bring words/phrases that don't understand, such as "What's up?", to class and write them on the board so we can talk about them.

One day, an evangelical student from El Salvador wrote this on the board:

choke the monkey

I erased it, asked him where he heard it, and kept a totally straight face through this explainantion:

(read slowly with a "Mexican" accent)
I wass walking wi my frenns from the seminary? - seminarians? - seminary? - OK - and we leff a house* and the man yell out the window out his door "Choke the monk-eee!!!!" and I was like "Wha? Choke the monkey? What is choke the monkey mean?"

*after trying to discuss the lord jesus christ with a random stranger

Sayulita

I just got back from Sayulita, Mexico which is my new favorite place on earth. I am now planning to move there next year for awhile. Pictured are a humpback whale that I was 100 feet from and La Playa de los Muertos which means the beach of the dead but should be La Playa de los Touristas Gordas. Anyway, I have more to follow shortly. Hope all is well and I'll see some of you at Adams wedding.

Fun with youtube

I really love youtube. Whenever I have people over, I bring my computer out into the living room, and invariably the conversatoin turns to something along the lines of "Did you see that cupcake dunk?" or "You ever heard that Any Winehouse song called F*** Me Pumps" or "remember that rap song all those football players at Miami made" or "is Alicia Keys getting whiter?" and we're watching that shit in 5 seconds. It's a beautiful thing. I look forward to when I will have internet on my television, which already exists, is probably not actually that difficult, but is still just beyond the reach of the common man.

This post was supposed to start out as a rant about lonelygirl15. I assume most of you have heard of this person. She somehow has the biggest youtube/webcam following of anybody, getting millions of views of her videos. I finally was curious enough to watch one, and here's what I got. I just sat there like, "really?"

this might have then lead into a rant about the lowest common denominator, reality tv, and this thing i saw from msnbc quoting girls who go to the same school as britney spears' sister talking about how she's a slut, and how sad this all is.

But instead, I will post some good videos. First check out all the links in the first paragraph. And you better listen to the whole damn u of miami rap song.

There is one web-cam blogger I like, his page is here. Here's a cool thing he did with his ten favorite martin luther king quotes. And here's the first one that I saw that has been kept in my head. Beat that little hater, fam.

What else. Here is a song that I recently was told about, that is just awesome. Here is a sad, stupid video that recently came up in a conversation. Here is my all-time favorite tazer video. Here is a funny one Jeremy showed me. And another similar one that Jeremy also probably showed me.

Students for Hillary

My response to a mass student e-mail from the Students for Hillary at UW:

Take me off this list! You sold your soul to the scummy She Devil! Jump ship at once comrade, the Beast is closing in. You don't have much more time before your skin will begin sloughing off your limbs. She sweats strychnine and drinks babies blood. It's time to wake up and think for yourself particle! - your classmate wilfred

Summer or Bust!

I started reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas...needless to say, it is amazing. I had just finished a book on options trading and figured I would read something a little more leisurely. I was cracking up like a madman on the public bus today reading it. I also broke up with my girlfriend of 5years, so this valentines day is going to be particularly depressing. We decided to take a break from each other because there was no mad love in the relationship. I understand that after being with someone for that long you lose that, but I am not ready to accept it. I still have dreams to take over the goddamn world! I want to be a country music star. We'll probably re-evaluate things after the school year is over. So that's that. I have two tests tomorrow; I should be studying. Mostly pharmacy kids suck, actually I suck, they're fine. I have been hanging out with one a bit lately but he doesn't hold his strong drink well. He already vomited on my floor. The saving grace of all of this is I found this awesome bar by my house. It plays the best music only from 20s and 30s. It is the best place to go on blustery nights. Suck on that.

Want a nerdy halloween costume?

The Mathemaniac

He yells "two plus two equals sixty-nine, ho!"

And has a tattoo across is chest: Divide Or Die

And another across us buttocks: Gotta Hoe to Grow (talkin bout the number 1 green)

Usually he carries a knife in one hand, Pixie Stix in the other.

Goole image seach of "Sean Smith"

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Fourth result:

I almost posted a sweet post