Oh yeah, forgot to share that EVERYONE loves the Iraqi Information Minister. Bush loved him so much that he said

"I get a lot of things secondhand, but in the case of the statue or Sahaf, somebody would say, he's getting ready to speak and I'd pop out of a meeting or turn and watch the TV." Bush also referred to Sahaf as 'my man', and 'a classic'.
7:58 PM

Alright! First, let's talk about the future of the blog, in the bullet form I'm coming to love so much:

Every friday will be short fiction day! I'll write some sort of short fiction, or poem, etc., and put it up.

Wednesdays, this day excepted, will consist of me and Argy arguing over something. The first topic will probably be the goggles, and lost and founds in general.

That's actually it. If someone has a suggestion, feel free to comment it, but this oughta do us.

A few months have gone by bloglessly, which is a shame, as things still happened, but oh well. If something occurs to me that I really was into during that time, I'll put it up here. One cool thing is the Free Spirit (Alas, the Catholic Encyclopedia doesn't address this particular heresy, but they do do the anarchy heresy) Anyway, the free spirit is a bastardization of Sufi Islam, which seems to me sort of Unitarianism for Islam, taken to extremes.

Basically, if good comes from God, and evil comes from God, than both are righteous paths. Indeed, any choice is a divine choice, because it comes from God. The official declaration of it as a heresy listed these as its basic tenets:
(1) "Man can attain such a degree of perfection in the present life that he is thoroughly incapable of sin and can no longer advance in grace"; that (3) "Those who are in such a state of perfection and liberty of the spirit are not subject to human obedience or to any laws of the Church"; that (4) "Man can reach the same final blessedness in the present life as in the eternal life"; and that (5) "The soul does not need the light of glory to be elevated to the vision and enjoyment of God."

I assume there was a 2, a 6, etc., but these ones sum it up. Very similar in Nietzsche, as far as I can tell. God is dead, so let us race to replace him. This was the Middle Ages, however, so ultimately it was just a group term applied to many mystics. I like it, however.

Perhaps more pressing is the issue of roads being baboon blocked. Angry baboons are protesting the carelessness of drivers by blocking the road for hours at a time. And you just thought dirty hippies did that. I especially like the picture and caption:

Baboons: unimpressed by Ugandan drivers

How charmingly British.

7:48 PM

I have discovered Wikipedia, and with the influx of new information this has resulted in can no longer stay away from this blog. I'm not really sure why I stopped it anyway, so best to start up again. I quit the chat the other day, and since have furiously been taking in stuff:

I've read a book on anarchism, a book on the spanish civil war, part of a book on social ecoloy by Murray Bookchin (dead boring), (the essay) half of a collection of Kropotkin's writings, and the Lexus and the Olive Tree (a pro-globalization book).

Madly going through Wikipedia, learning about everything there is to know. Incidentally, next time someone says 'oh, anarchism could never work', I'm referring them there. Individuals are co-operatively working together to make a huge encyclopedia of quality articles (submit or edit some yourself!).

Went through a Les Savy Fav phase, wherein I got just about every song of theirs I could, currently am on a British pre-punk trip (Kinks, Yardbirds, the Seeds), along with miscellaneous others (Velvet Underground, David Rovics, Amebix, Crucifix, the Stranglers, the Troggs, Flux of Pink Indians and John Lee Hooker currently occupy my dls of the day)

Couple this with obsessive news reading (not really healthy; I need to cut down), writing (well, no, nothing ever gets written down, or at least nothing ever gets saved, but I'm going through a lot of stuff in my head which hopefully will culminate in some good stuff), and studying, and I've been much more busy than one would suspect.

Anyway, plans for this blog will be discussed later, but suffice to say that I intend to go back to every day updates, I'll try to stick to more sharing stuff I've learned than rants, and there will be some additional features, hopefully.

7:28 AM