I'm A Big!

I joined Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Kansas City about a month ago and made it through all the check processes in flying colors. I'm so excited to be a big brother! I now have three profiles to chose from. I encourage anyone to do this especially men because there are two hundred boys on the waiting list in my area alone. I'm keeping everything private but I have to say after reading one of the profiles I was in tears. These kids need us so bad.

sick

I ate some bad middle eastern food yesterday. blegh. Terrorists win.

John McCan't

Some fun factoids about John McCain:

John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved," yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.

According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."

His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.

McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4
The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health
care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.

He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.

Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."

McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.

McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide," Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion." McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult."

He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.

John McCain is not who the Washington press corps make him out to be. Please help get the word out.

Electric Six

Get to know them because they are awesome! These songs/videos are awesome. On infected girls notice the singer getting blown on the steps at the :56 mark. Hilarious.

Writhing In Excruciating Pain

I was just leaning back in my chair thinking about my current home page design for a project I'm currently working. I was listening to some random song on my itunes list. The song had a heavy beat which I was enjoying in the form of me flicking my chair. Do to my sprawled out, laid back posture, I was flicking in a location I would consider a softer portion of the chair. The location of the chair I was continually flicking laid in between my legs near my groin area. I have no idea why I chose this spot in particular but had someone walked by it might have looked a bit strange. However, that is what I was doing as I was lost in my creative coma.

Perhaps it was the forward rocking motion or the snap out of my coma but my arm spazzed and before I could pull away, my finger plunged deep into my right testicle. Owwwwwe! I screamed in my head as i doubled over. Yes, not one of my finer moments. My stomach immediately had that dropping feeling you get while on a roller coaster as well as a sharp pain in the tender area. I grabbed my crotch and immediately put my head down hoping to perform some miracle through inconsistent breathing techniques. With teared up eyes and a sore right testes I'm befuddled as to how this came to pass. I'm probably just unlucky but this kinda' stuff happens to me all the time. I'll laugh about it later and repeat the story to my friends so they can make fun of me but for right now I'm wishing they had a non-sexual occupational therapy facility for testicular trauma. If I walk funny you know why.

Don't Even Trip

Someone comes to mind when I listen to this song.



Peeping Tom - Don't Even Trip

i think you're old enough to know better
but i'm old enough to remember
(don't even trip........)
i won't use that stupid boy forever
(cross your heart and hope to die)

don't even trip,
don't get too big for your britches
(don't even trip........)
all these bones been jumping out of your closet
(you're not in your closet yet)
so blasé,
don't turn and look the other way
(you wanna be a star)
you want to be a star
you're oh so near, yet oh so far

(don't even trip........)

you'll be back inside before the winter
on that long, long trip before december
(don't even trip........)
don't be throwing stones at the window
(lock in peace and close your house?)

don't even trip,
don't get too big for your britches
(don't even trip........)
all these bones been jumping out of your closet
(you're not in your closet yet)
so blasé,
don't turn and look the other way
(you've gotta have it all)
you've got to have it all
you're oh so near, yet oh so far

And i know that arseholes grow on trees but i'm here to trim the leaves
and i'm afraid
daddy you're still my friend
and you're just a piece of shit
but i can over-look it today
'cause you're still my friend

(don't even trip........)

drop that gun, you aren't my fuckn hero
(don't even trip........)
you think its cool to be a fuckn zero
i can't believe i called you my amigo
(take a deep breath you'll be fine)

speek up now
and one of you is a hundred loud?
(when you preach you come off?)
when you preach,
they'll join you on the roofs and streets
(like crystal clear)
crystal clear,
i'm hanging like a chandelier
(watching over you)
watching over you,
i'll move you from a song to tears

and i know that arseholes grow on trees
but i'm going to trim the leaves
and i can say
daddy you're still my friend
and you're still a piece of shit but i can over-look it today
'cause you're still my friend
and i know that arseholes grow on trees
but i'm here to trim the leaves
and i'm afraid
are you still my friend?
and you're still a piece of shit but i can look the other way
'cause you're still my friend
(don't even trip........)

i like this too!

I love that all I have to write about right now is that I went and saw American Teen which was an excellent film! I played some Rock Band and enjoyed some wine last night. I had fun.

Today Was a Good Day

A quick update. Things have been going well for me. My mom is still in and out of the hospital and in great pain but I visit her when i can and try to not let it confuse me. She's not dying but seeing her like that, in pain and in the hospital bed makes me think of death. I think about if she were to die and how upset that would make me. It tends to make me upset and so then I try not to think of her death. A vicious cycle our minds can go into. I'm in control of my life and that makes me really happy. I have some cool opportunities coming my way and can't wait to take them. I'm a little burnt out at work but it's nothing a vacation couldn't fix. Everything seems to be in order... like the quite before the storm. I love my friends. Cheers to the good life!

adios!