whirlygirl Escribi�:

He has other people doing the thinkie stuff for him. Look no further than the documentary Bush's Brain which is about Karl Rove. It's eye opening.



Personally I find Bush to be hawkish and shrewd - he may have been a failed businessman but he is a businessman nontheless and it's obviously worked out to be lucrative for him. Whether that makes him not stupid is up to how one perceives the end results. He has one thing going for him and that is he's cunning to the core.

I was reading the book that doc Bush's Brain was based on (same title), for that reason I love to see bad news hit Karl Rove, him and Dick Cheney are the most evil looking people I've ever seen. I've wrote 20-page papers on just how evil these people are.



Bush, smart or not, may or may not have, done something really smart. While everyone he works around is unmodestly evil, fat, and bald. He has come off as common folk, MORE SO THAN ACTUAL PRESIDENTS (Carter) WHO WEREN'T RAISED AS SPOILED AS ARABIAN PRINCES! I think he comes off the same as G.Ford, in that sort of dope who never was good at speaking or walking/biking/eatting small snack foods. Regardless that personality has made him, for some, one of the loveable presidents. I think the people, mostly southerns like him so much I have literally seen framed pictures of him in their house. This is the first president for many that people feel an emotional connection with and begin to treat him like their religion: unquestionably right and anyone who questions that is wicked/evil. That's why everything is "we support troops", and you're with us or against us, all in black and white.



On a last note (I deleted most my angry rant because I am becoming what I hate), I am moving to Santa Cruz tomorrow for school. Temporarly for this year I will be living on campus. Unfortunatly University of California Santa Cruz (the most anti-bush UC since Berkeley is another Yale) has been put on the Bush Administrations' "Credible Threat" list which means they might be going through my internet history and seeing what posts I list... But on a light note, they're selling my size

Biff Escribi�:

Unfortunatly University of California Santa Cruz (the most anti-bush UC since Berkeley is another Yale) has been put on the Bush Administrations' "Credible Threat" list which means they might be going through my internet history and seeing what posts I list

That is just laughable, and incredibly paranoid. Pretty scary, seeing as the US has the most powerful military - couple that with paranoid governance and it's easy to see why the world is in the mess it's in.

Biff, I raise my coffee cup on this early morning to you. I think you touched on an important aspect of the Bush presidency when you say he's a commonor of sorts that the average Joe can relate to. I read once that people wanted a president they could have a beer with at a neighborhood barbeque, not someone necessarily well spoken and worldly as they seem out of touch compared with the average person. The whole thing seems futile to bitch and moan because we've got a few more years til we're at the presidential polls again - but damn it's frustrating because it seems with every "new corner" we're turning it's like we're taking 1 step back per every 2 steps forward.



Anyway - congrats on the plunge to Santa Cruz. It's an amazing school (my brother's wife went there) with great teachers and a lively, intelligent and laid back colorful student body. And the campus is lovely too. Go Banana Slugs!! You have to get that shirt, it's fantastic!!

mX. Escribi�:

I found this:



Top 11 facts that prove George W. Bush is too stupid to be President



+Even he confuses himself with his father

+"Nu-Q-lar, Nu-Q-lar, Nu-Q-lar"

+He was born with a silver spoon in his nose

+Even his brother Neil is smarter

+The word "Strategic" has only one correct pronunciation

+He has to take off a boot to count all of the items on this list

+He couldn't find oil in Texas

+He attacked Larry King in the South Carolina debate because he thought +King was another Republican challenger

+He thinks he can keep his past hidden

+He calls Greeks "Grecians"

+Dan Quayle is one of his advisors

+He calls subliminal "subliminable"



I once saw a debate about Al Quaeda using porn sites to send eachother subliminal messages and Bush kept saying it wrong, over and over.



That guy is definitely as stupid as a donkey's ass.

Having one of those days today. Commuting to school took longer by car (over 30 minutes) than it would have if I had rollerbladed. Nearly got sideswiped twice on the way. Every road I tried was backed up brutally.



Because of traffic, was running late, had to park in the parkade (at extravagant prices) instead of the cheap lot farther out.



I swear I'm going to start bringing a gun with me on the way to school, because the next person to nearly sideswipe me or cut me off is getting all four tires shot out and is then going to be pistolwhipped until he begs me to put him out his mercy via sodomy (which I will refuse to do).



Went to go move my car to the cheap lot during my three-hour spare. Cheap lot was full. Lovely. Go drive to one of my favourite clothing stores instead. Not open yet. Get in, the hat I wanted is gone, nothing else interests me.



Back to school. Park in the parkade again. Call a couple friends to see if they want to go for lunch. They're off campus, grabbing a bite to eat downtown (15 minute drive away). I decline. Grab an overpriced slice of pizza.



Finally decide to cut my losses, it's only one class that I'm missing, grab an entire pizza and a bucket of ice cream on the way home. I'm watching Champions League this afternoon instead. (Before going to work of course. I sense a lot of drinks will be consumed when I go out post-work tonight).



Thanks for the patience. Cheers.

damn man, that blowzers

heh. It's all good. Just needed to vent, listen to some Plump DJs, eat some pizza, and have a little nap.

:D

Glad it all worked out in the end!



It's been ages since you posted on here, hasn't it?

(well, it seems like it!)

chemicalfan Escribi�:

:D

Glad it all worked out in the end!



It's been ages since you posted on here, hasn't it?

(well, it seems like it!)

Been doing a little more lurking than postwhoring the last couple weeks. Just haven't had much to say, but I check the board at least daily.

Goin to see Banksy



http://www.banksy.co.uk/index2.html



and probably go by amoeba records... later!

Cool site toomuch'stash. Thank you...

that one is right by the albert pub in brighton.



*proud* :D

Banksy is the motherfncking man! (or woman?). I rediscovered art thanks to Banksy.

We just got back from the Bansky dealie-oh. It was really great exhibit, held in a stuffy warehouse in the industrial part of downtown LA. There were a ton of hipsters out and about which was cool- it gave a real urban feel to an area of town that hardly ever sees any foot traffic, let alone any action whatsoever on weekends. Overall the vibe seemed more New York than LA.



I'll post pics soon!

We saw an image or two by Banksy on the walk back to Waterloo station from Fabric a couple of weeks ago. It was cool and looked good, I wasn't aware of the work before, until a mate pointed it out. Then he explained the whole Banksy thing, and I was like "wow, wicked!"

(it was 6am, if that seems a bit simple and weird )

banksys suffered a bit recently though - theres no denying his artwork is cool and looks very good. but the problem is his whole schtick is subversion and revolution. how can u be subversive and revolotionary when your selling pieces of your art for $100,000 to brad pitt?????



theres also the problem that he hasnt really done anything particularly original for the last 8 years or so - he def developed his own style and aside from variations on a theme, he hasnt realy changed it, now its not his fault that the mainstream have finally 'got' him, so i think that accusations of selling out are a bit harsh, but he does need to develop a little bit to stay ahead of the game. sitautionist pranks aside, his stencils are always fairly simllar.



for me the best banksy's are the ones like chemfan said - jusr randomly painted bits of artwork reclainming the street - using the city as a canvas. oh and his work on the palestine/israel wall was fucking amazing.



maybe he can think about it as he sips champagne on his yacht in the bahamas ;)

Everyone's going to sell out for 100,000! You can't blame the fella

Hey people !

Can't be on there a lot for the 2 next weeks, because I began school, and for 2 weeks we have the "swimming pool" : basicaly we have class from 10 AM to 8 PM and then we have excercises from 8PM to 6 AM... it's hard I know, but that's how you learn how to use Unix and C Language very quickly and very well :)

Fantasy Island



Inside Japan's surreal fetish clubs, perversions of every persuasion are indulged for the right price



Joan Sinclair, a 22-year-old photographer, was working as an English teacher in Tokyo when a friend dragged her to the city's infamous Kabukicho red-light district, a neon-drenched enclave packed with 5,000 sex shops that cater to an impressively specific array of sexual fantasies and fetishes. She was hooked. Eight years later, she returned with a camera and set out to document Japan's $20 billion sex-services industry, befriending hundreds of budding sex workers and their businessman clients. The results of her project are collected in a lush, vinyl-wrapped new book, Pink Box, published this month by Abrams. It provides a vivid glimpse into a subculture rarely seen by Westerners.



"The clubs are a reflection of modern Japan," writes Sinclair, "where the rules are written out, prices are not negotiable, and fantasies are predetermined, prescripted, and prepaid." But those who dismiss the Japanese as excessively demure or morbidly repressed would do well to take a peep inside. America has its run-of-the-mill massage parlors and topless bars, but only in Tokyo can you find entire clubs populated by faux nurses, teachers, stewardesses, and secretaries?not to mention naked karaoke, mirrored floors, life-size latex dolls, and bathtubs filled with green gel and faux-mermaids. And, as Tokyo police crack down on a wave of subway gropings, the Kabukicho district offers not one but three clubs equipped with immaculately reconstructed train cars filled with short-skirted schoolgirls who won't press charges. Below, an exclusive look at Tokyo's decadent demimonde. Stand clear of the closing doors.



Intersting pics:



http://www.radaronli...japan/index.php

Ben_j Escribi�:

Hey people !

Can't be on there a lot for the 2 next weeks, because I began school, and for 2 weeks we have the "swimming pool" : basicaly we have class from 10 AM to 8 PM and then we have excercises from 8PM to 6 AM... it's hard I know, but that's how you learn how to use Unix and C Language very quickly and very well :)

Tomorrow i have my first exam of C