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07/08/2006 12:28 #25776

Golden Showers
Shoot! I was just about to say I'm going back to the gym, but then I realized it's Saturday and they are closed. Yesterday I was at the Buddhist Community Center and I was talking to my friend Shannon who is 14. Eventually she asks me "Why do white guys have flat asses?" So of course I'm thinking about my flat ass and how I need to go back to the gym. I used to be in such good shape, but its funny I never was completely happy with my body. I'll do some push ups and sit-ups today and go to the gym on Monday.

I'm going to the gay pride parade in Rochester today. Last year some protesters said that all us gays like golden showers. I know I do.


07/08/2006 12:04 #25775

Ding dong
Someone just rang my doorbell. I didn't go and answer it because I don't like not knowing who it is. Was it the mail person? I dunno, but I hate not being able to peek and see who it is. Last time my doorbell unexpectedly rang , it was my friend Guillermo de Argentina. So I never know what I'm going to get. What if it's someone I really don't want to see? Once I'm down there I'm stuck.
jenks - 07/08/06 14:04
I'm with you... it's like i'm paranoid in my 'old age'. If I don't know who it is (at the door, or on the phone) I won't answer. Have gotten burned by too many credit card calls, jehovah's witnesses at the door. I figure if it's a friend knocking and I don't answer, they'll call.
krayner03 - 07/08/06 13:01
What if it was just a neighbor who needed an egg or something? I good cake may have gone to waste because of you...haha
ladycroft - 07/08/06 12:30
so should i toss pebbles at your window instead?
libertad - 07/08/06 12:05
Guillermo by the way was a nice suprise. We hadn't talked in almost a year.

07/05/2006 21:34 #25774

Ken Lay Conspiracy?
In response to (e:chico) and his Ken Lay post
is there anyone else who doesn't buy this heart attack crap? Is this his final way of ripping us off and committing some kind of insurance fraud? Yes I am a conspiracy theorist, and I don't even know if he has insurance, but it really would be convenient wouldn't it? Lets watch and see how much his wife collects. Could he have took some special pill or something to give himself a heart attack that would be undetectable in an autopsy? What does Dr (e:jenks) think? Scientist (e:chicoschica)? Anyone?
metalpeter - 07/06/06 19:33
Lays death is sure conviently timed and it wouldn't surprise me if others who thought he might blow them in (maybe even the with) could be behind it. All you need is the right Pain Killers (they have killed wrestlers in there sleep with accidential overdoses) and Alchol.

I can't belive I just read a Budhist fight. What ever your differances are please stop. This is something I would expect to see With differant branches of christanity. Dave I know his comments can be Rude sometimes, but don't let them bother you. All I will say is someone who is "enlightend" dosn't call someone else out as not being as enlightend as they are. especally in a religion where being fully enlightend is the goal. That is a Christian Thing (hpyocritical judgers who arn't supposed to judge, you know that whole cast the first stone thing) MRDT that is verry un Budhist of you. In terms of banning someone I don't agree with that, there still is this thing called free speach.
ladycroft - 07/06/06 18:37
for the record, libertad IS a practicing buddhist. i've been with him to a meeting and he even chanted for my baby nephew Max when he was very sick in hospital. end transmission.
jason - 07/06/06 18:17
I also thought by reading Libertad's post that he was an Enron investor, the whole "ripping us off" thing. No reason to get bent out of shape or have shit escalate over it.
hodown - 07/06/06 16:21
Word up, I second (e:) nejifer's comment. Any boy who is crazy about little mikey rocks the casbah in my book!!!
mrdt - 07/06/06 16:15
I still love you too...


nejifer - 07/06/06 16:13
david...don't listen to his bullshit. i think you are one of the nicest people i've ever meet. dt...u are an ignorant bastard and paul should ban you from this site. no one likes the crap that comes out of your mouth, especially since 99% of the time you have no idea what you're talking about! at first i felt bad for all the shit people were giving you. now i believe you deserve it.
mrdt - 07/06/06 15:55
well, first, let me tell you I felt bad that you lost money in the Enron scandal. But now I realize that I misread what you wrote when you stated "is this his final way of ripping us off."


Next, you never mentioned any God damn thing about the fact that me comments annoy you to me. I think you're kidding yourself a little here. Had you actually contacted me and told me that my comments were a little opinionated or annoying, I would have apologized and backed off.


Third, I don't think you know the first thing about being a good buddhist or buddhism in general. It's alot more than sitting in a circle and chatting. For someone who actually understands the philosophy in conjunction with the five pillars and utilizes it to stregthen their own spirituality it can be quite insulting when someone claims to be a buddhist while making it obvious that they don't hold their values in high regard.

Next time you're in a meditating or chanting contemplate on the way you blasted me. Are you a practicing buddhist or do you just like to tell people that? I pointed this out before... I guess it seems the truth hurts.


Talk all the shit you want buddy...it's you who will not be able to release yourself from the cycle of life. I don't really care what you or anyone else thinks about me, I have individuals around the world who love me, accept me in their homes when I travel and call me a their true friend. I don't sugarcoat shit, I talk from my heart and from what I believe in/know to be true.


If I have offended you or disrespected you in any way I am truely sorry, sometimes I can get a little carried away.


I still love you all...
joshua - 07/06/06 13:36
oh, for fuck's sake, the previous comment along with this one were authored by JASON THE ONE AND ONLY. =P
joshua - 07/06/06 13:36
Wow! Libertad's MAD! Hey man, nobody should rattle you that much.

Anyhow, re: Lay - I had the same first reaction. Then I thought of a better conspiracy. What if Cheney had Lay offed, so Lay wouldn't give up any goods on Cheney?

Honestly though, I think the guy just croaked. He did NOT escape justice as far as I'm concerned. There will be more CEO frying in the future, so I'm not so bummed that one got away.
ajay - 07/06/06 11:53
I'm sure there are ways to induce a heart-attack without leaving a trace. Heck, the guy was fairly stressed out anyways (and not because of the potential jail time; but because, like Scrooge, he was worried his precious money would be taken from him).

Is this a fake? I don't think so. Sometimes, these things happen. My only hope is that the anger that people felt will not dissipate and people will go after other such corrupt CEOs with a vengeance. Pass the pitchforks please.
chicoschica - 07/06/06 11:09
chicoschica - 07/06/06 11:01
Methinks that perhaps Lay was hanging out with Slobodan Milosevic, taking rifampicin to counteract his heart medication. (only partially kidding...)

There's at least SOME others who are going whole hog with the conspiracy theory...
:::link:::

I mean, listen, if you had a choice between croaking from a heart attack and calling some guy named "Bubba" your girlfriend - I think perhaps ol' Kenny chose the former.

As Lawrence said in Office Space -
"Watch out for yer cornhole, bud."

libertad - 07/06/06 09:02
here is a nice buddhist comment for you mrdt...shut the fuck up. (for those of you who think that is a bit harsh i all ready privately asked mrdt to stop it w/ his annoying comments. I don't think they were designed just so people could constantly leave aggravating messages in peoples journals. Mrdt you take the joy out of this site for me...thanks
mrdt - 07/06/06 02:03
wow dude, you owned stocks in Enron??? That sucks!!!!
kookcity2000 - 07/05/06 21:52
dude, I work at a juice factory, and in my professional opinion, hes in the Mediteranian somewhere
joshua - 07/05/06 21:50
Medically induced cardiac arrest - hmm. I'm no doc but I'm fairly sure its possible. I'm not a conspiracy theorist but honestly it wouldn't shock me if that nugget of goodness appeared after his autopsy.

07/03/2006 14:28 #25773

Ojos de Cuba
I want to go back to Cuba and as impossible as it was to go the first time, it seems even more so now. Today I watched my DVD show of a compilation of the many photos I shot while there. I served as a voyeur capturing intimate moments as they passed through the streets. They are such amazing people and although they lack so much in material goods I'm jealous of them. Don't get me wrong, they have to deal with things that we could never imagine, but they know culture, they know life, they know happiness.

I'm scared for them as we are in a new hurricane season and as sea levels are projected to rise they literally live on the edge of disaster If a level 3 hurricanee passed over Habana the damage would be immense. Heavy rains themselves cause buildings (with people in them) to crumble. While I was there Hurricane Rita (I think it was her, there were so many i'm not sure) caused the sea to penetrate the city and my friends were trapped in the university dormitory sky rise. They are one of the best nations in the world as far as hurricane preparedness goes, but the infrastructure can't handle it. Their future remains even more bleak as the political situation grows even more uncertain. One thing they have going for them in they know how to survive. On a daily basis they face food shortages and rolling blackouts. We on the other hand can not function without the things like electricity that we rarely go without.

As being able to return doesn't seem all that plausible, I would like to have a photo book published that would show the Cubans through my eyes. My photos really are my eyes, and I think that its important that our country sees the people which are often forgotten in political vendettas and in politicians too proud and too arrogant to see that our policies towards Cuba not only do not work, but have only given Castro more power. If anyone has any experience with publishing companies or know of anyone who does, please let me know. If it doesn't work out that's fine, I would rather have an exhibit where I didn't make any money than not share them at all. It's just that going to Cuba was costly and I'll be paying for it for maybe the rest of my life, and if I could get some money to lessen that debt, or to further my education then I wouldn't feel as if I were exploiting them just for the sake of making money.
krayner03 - 07/03/06 21:37
Your journal struck me today. I am in the middle of a bit of an internal struggle with US foreign policy myself these days. It amazes me how our government manipulates the people of foreign lands under the umbrella of patriotism, justice and world peace. I am very interested in discussing in detail and learning more about foreign policy. I think I might want to get involved on some level to work on making positive changes to the rhetoric of our government. I think your photo journal is a great way to start helping people to see the human side of foreign policy.

07/01/2006 03:00 #25772

Once upon a time there were no comments
I just deleted my last journal. (It was only up for like two minutes) It was Paul's survey, which is over due. If you want me to do it again Paul let me know, I would be glad to be of help to your project if you still need it. The reason I deleted it was because I said that I was going to not allow people to comment in my journal because we all have that option in our preferences. After I wrote it and turned it off, I realized it takes away all the comments from past journals as well, so I changed it back. I'm not willing to turn off the comments already written. So go ahead with comments....I usually like them. Just wanted to see what it was like for you o'l time estrippers.
metalpeter - 07/01/06 15:30
Before the coments where used inlinks where used a lot. For example if say (e:Beast) said something about how she wanted to have 5 butty calls she could calls. Then I could referance what she said then put the link in my journal. You can still do that. If you have time go back and check out some of Paul's, Beast's, Soyeon's or someone else who has been here a long time posts it might be interesting.
kookcity2000 - 07/01/06 10:56
dude I like commenets too