I went and got a massage at "The Massage Studio" on Allen near elmwood after (e:enknot) suggested it. I had hurt my neck last week on a ladder and had a hard time turning left. I will definately go back again and now I know what kind of birthday gift I want. The guy that worked on my was name Jerry Giovannucci, I would definately recommend him.
I didn't know what to expect as I have never had a massage before. When I went in the room I felt nervous because I took my glasses off and put them on the table so I couldn't see the guys face as he was talking. Damn, I really need Lasik.
Then the guy said to put my clothes on the chair and get under the sheets, which left me wondering how much of my clothes I was supposed to remove. I didn't want to remove all my clothes and seem like a freak, and I didn't want to leave my socks and underwear on and feel like I was being shy, as we all know that isn't me.
I ended up keeping the underwear and regretting it as the band kept annoying me when he was massaging my back. I mean it's not like you are naked anyways, you are wearing a sheet. Next time looser fitting band or nothing.
It was freakin fantastic. If you never had a massage there are so many parts of your back that you have no idea how much tension is in.
I can now look to the left again!
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06/07/2007 22:13 #39576
Getting a Massage at the massage studioCategory: health
06/06/2007 23:18 #39560
Photos From The WeekCategory: gay
Some of this is from pride but first read the journal before this one. It is a video about a wedding - it is nuts.
These totally disgusting chicken wings came this way from Casa Di Pizza on Elmwood. Normally, I like this place - but this is fuckin' sick. Look at them, when did they incurr this damage, while they were still chickens or after? I like to call them sickenwings.
(e:eknot) and I saw this major accident residual near the Scientologist Church Look at that bent stop sign.
Has anyone gone to a chiropracter. I hurt my neck on a ladder and want to go to one. Tomorrow night I have an appointment with a massgae therapist. I wonder if that will help/
Hm, why does Hyatts have 24 hour video surveillance now
(e:ladycroft) 's party was nice, we had a fire and I got to talk technology with the estrip guys.
And then the parade
You probably can't tell in this photo but this dudes back is scratched the hell up.
Clowns are scarry.
Drag Queens float by
Christians can help us. I remember the mormons sending me those books about getting healed.
Getting yelled at by "christians"
I tried like 600 times to get a pic of this guys eyes, they looked like the woman from the 80s national geographic cover. He must have thought we were insane because between me and (e:mike) there were about 30 pics of hi on my camera.
The festival was packed
I guess there are other gay catholics besides my brother.
I would be interested in working with the glbt archives someday. I am sure I have some useful technology for them.
This was hilarious to me. The gay marriage float was almost totally lesbians. What does that say? Guys just don't want to settle down no matter what their sexual preference.
Here is the videos of it.
The cutest guy in the parade was our very own (e:libertad) who (e:mike) rekindled with
Saw (e:matthew) 's twin again.
The roller dirby girls (e:dragonlady) and (e:rachel) along with (e:zobar)
(e:terry) being (e:terry)
An "awesome" woman giving into fashion and wearing a wool hat on what is the hottest day I remember for the summer so far.
These totally disgusting chicken wings came this way from Casa Di Pizza on Elmwood. Normally, I like this place - but this is fuckin' sick. Look at them, when did they incurr this damage, while they were still chickens or after? I like to call them sickenwings.
(e:eknot) and I saw this major accident residual near the Scientologist Church Look at that bent stop sign.
Has anyone gone to a chiropracter. I hurt my neck on a ladder and want to go to one. Tomorrow night I have an appointment with a massgae therapist. I wonder if that will help/
Hm, why does Hyatts have 24 hour video surveillance now
(e:ladycroft) 's party was nice, we had a fire and I got to talk technology with the estrip guys.
And then the parade
You probably can't tell in this photo but this dudes back is scratched the hell up.
Clowns are scarry.
Drag Queens float by
Christians can help us. I remember the mormons sending me those books about getting healed.
Getting yelled at by "christians"
I tried like 600 times to get a pic of this guys eyes, they looked like the woman from the 80s national geographic cover. He must have thought we were insane because between me and (e:mike) there were about 30 pics of hi on my camera.
The festival was packed
I guess there are other gay catholics besides my brother.
I would be interested in working with the glbt archives someday. I am sure I have some useful technology for them.
This was hilarious to me. The gay marriage float was almost totally lesbians. What does that say? Guys just don't want to settle down no matter what their sexual preference.
Here is the videos of it.
The cutest guy in the parade was our very own (e:libertad) who (e:mike) rekindled with
Saw (e:matthew) 's twin again.
The roller dirby girls (e:dragonlady) and (e:rachel) along with (e:zobar)
(e:terry) being (e:terry)
An "awesome" woman giving into fashion and wearing a wool hat on what is the hottest day I remember for the summer so far.
06/06/2007 22:05 #39558
The Wedding From HellCategory: accidents
So I was watching, "So You Think You Can Dance" and the one girl who twisted her ankle and lost was so sad because she had fought for her life after a terrible wedding floor collapse accident a couple years back. So right away I googles "wedding floor collapse" and I could only find one in Jeruselem, Israrl. I thought - she was asian, it couldn't be but then I searched some more and it was. They got it all on video. It is perhaps the most horrific accident I have ever seen 23 people died. I will save you the googling, you can watch it on my journal.
fellyconnelly - 06/07/07 12:02
holy hell that was absolutely terrifying!
holy hell that was absolutely terrifying!
06/06/2007 17:40 #39549
Surebert 3.0Category: programming
06/06/2007 18:44 #39550
The book of viscoCategory: religion
In response to (e:jim,39535)
First of all I would like to say I totally support people's freedom to believe whatever they want as long as they don't get tax breaks on it and I don't have to pay for any part of it.
I hope this doesn't offend anyone but as an athiest, gay, polygamist my sheer existence is probably offense enough for most people, although, honestly - I think I pull it off with grace, pun intended.
I believe that religion does bring happiness, kindness, joy, compassion and union to many people. It standardizes and codifies the way that humans should act with one another.
It is not the only thing that can bring these emotions. Any group with a common belief system can share these feelings without a spiritual context. People having these emotions in a religious context often believe it is the spiritual aspect that causes it.
The thing about religion is that it also causes so many problems. People fight wars over religions and kill people in the name of jesus and other magicians. I know all you good christians can't believe it, but it is true. Other people kill other people for not believing in Jesus - not only that - they kill them for not believing in him, in prescribed way.
I am not the kind of athiest that screams about it. I am definitely not interested in converting other people to it, but that doesn't seem to stop so any people for trying to get me interested in their spiritual beliefs which offends the hell out of me.
That is why in fact I am an athiest, because I don't care about religion or the absense of it. I would rather describe myself as someone who never considers spiritual aspect of religion or the absense of it very much. If I never had to hear the word spiritual or religion one more time, I would not be athiest. I would be in perfect harmony, lol.
I read the bible, and I am over it - like I am over Alice and Wonderland and The Hardy Boys - learned some valuable lessons but the magic part is pretty hokey to me.
Okay, check this out - I am going to go get a random bible quote from the internet and see why I don't need the book. Here it is
Seems reasonable, guess what - I could think of it myself. I pity the people that can't think of this but I know they exist. I guess I can consider myself luckily for having the education to even consider these things. Maybe in previous times, it was necessary to have these ideas given to you.
Then I roll the die again to find:
Here we are back in magic land and there lies my problem with the book. Showing hospitality is a fine goal, contributing to the needs of the saints is questionable and sketchy. I mean who defines the needs of the saints.
Okay one more time this is too fun
This one is great but once again, I could totally think of it myself. At least it is a noble goal.
And again.
While this is freaky and dangerous. It is the basis of war.
I feel that I have the capibility to understand human interactions without guidance from people in an ancient world or divine intervention. In fact, I think it is a unfortunate that the book mixes these two messages together - the message of treating people kindly and that you need to believe in the power of the mighty magic wizard, his halfling son and their sidekick ghost. It seems like the message could be much more powerful divorced from the book. Why can't human interaction and social etiquette be secular? I mean why not distill the bible down into a smaller book of ways to live your life without the spiritual bullshit.
I have seen so many people fall down the slippery slope of having their life suck because they were a bad person, then turning to church, the people they meet are nice and kind and then - bang they are in magic land and keep asking me to come visit it - when I wasn't having any problems in the first place.
CONCLUSION
I just had a brilliant realization while writing this. aybe I will change the world. I am going to create a new religion based on the Paul Visco interpretation of the bible. See, you think I am joking but what I plan to do is take the magic out of the bible. Same great book, less agic. That way the next time someone tries to tell me the magic book is really about a moral code about how to treat other people, I can say - no that book is full of magic sdtories, what you need is the Visco Bible.
First of all I would like to say I totally support people's freedom to believe whatever they want as long as they don't get tax breaks on it and I don't have to pay for any part of it.
I hope this doesn't offend anyone but as an athiest, gay, polygamist my sheer existence is probably offense enough for most people, although, honestly - I think I pull it off with grace, pun intended.
I believe that religion does bring happiness, kindness, joy, compassion and union to many people. It standardizes and codifies the way that humans should act with one another.
It is not the only thing that can bring these emotions. Any group with a common belief system can share these feelings without a spiritual context. People having these emotions in a religious context often believe it is the spiritual aspect that causes it.
The thing about religion is that it also causes so many problems. People fight wars over religions and kill people in the name of jesus and other magicians. I know all you good christians can't believe it, but it is true. Other people kill other people for not believing in Jesus - not only that - they kill them for not believing in him, in prescribed way.
I am not the kind of athiest that screams about it. I am definitely not interested in converting other people to it, but that doesn't seem to stop so any people for trying to get me interested in their spiritual beliefs which offends the hell out of me.
That is why in fact I am an athiest, because I don't care about religion or the absense of it. I would rather describe myself as someone who never considers spiritual aspect of religion or the absense of it very much. If I never had to hear the word spiritual or religion one more time, I would not be athiest. I would be in perfect harmony, lol.
I read the bible, and I am over it - like I am over Alice and Wonderland and The Hardy Boys - learned some valuable lessons but the magic part is pretty hokey to me.
Okay, check this out - I am going to go get a random bible quote from the internet and see why I don't need the book. Here it is
Galatians 5:22-23
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
Seems reasonable, guess what - I could think of it myself. I pity the people that can't think of this but I know they exist. I guess I can consider myself luckily for having the education to even consider these things. Maybe in previous times, it was necessary to have these ideas given to you.
Then I roll the die again to find:
"Romans 12:13
Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality."
Here we are back in magic land and there lies my problem with the book. Showing hospitality is a fine goal, contributing to the needs of the saints is questionable and sketchy. I mean who defines the needs of the saints.
Okay one more time this is too fun
Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.
This one is great but once again, I could totally think of it myself. At least it is a noble goal.
And again.
Samuel 2:2
"There is none holy like the LORD; there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God."
While this is freaky and dangerous. It is the basis of war.
I feel that I have the capibility to understand human interactions without guidance from people in an ancient world or divine intervention. In fact, I think it is a unfortunate that the book mixes these two messages together - the message of treating people kindly and that you need to believe in the power of the mighty magic wizard, his halfling son and their sidekick ghost. It seems like the message could be much more powerful divorced from the book. Why can't human interaction and social etiquette be secular? I mean why not distill the bible down into a smaller book of ways to live your life without the spiritual bullshit.
I have seen so many people fall down the slippery slope of having their life suck because they were a bad person, then turning to church, the people they meet are nice and kind and then - bang they are in magic land and keep asking me to come visit it - when I wasn't having any problems in the first place.
CONCLUSION
I just had a brilliant realization while writing this. aybe I will change the world. I am going to create a new religion based on the Paul Visco interpretation of the bible. See, you think I am joking but what I plan to do is take the magic out of the bible. Same great book, less agic. That way the next time someone tries to tell me the magic book is really about a moral code about how to treat other people, I can say - no that book is full of magic sdtories, what you need is the Visco Bible.
jim - 06/06/07 23:27
Should I feel bad to stir things up like this?
By journal #100 I'll be inciting riots.
Should I feel bad to stir things up like this?
By journal #100 I'll be inciting riots.
paul - 06/06/07 23:10
That is fantastic, saves me time. I am really Jealous with a capital "J" of Thomas Jefferson :::link::: . He had so much time to think and so much independent wealth to allow him to do as he pleased.
That is fantastic, saves me time. I am really Jealous with a capital "J" of Thomas Jefferson :::link::: . He had so much time to think and so much independent wealth to allow him to do as he pleased.
drew - 06/06/07 21:10
Thomas Jefferson beat you to it! He took out his scissors and made his own, "magic free" Bible.
I'll do a longer post on my own page later tonight.
Thomas Jefferson beat you to it! He took out his scissors and made his own, "magic free" Bible.
I'll do a longer post on my own page later tonight.
metalpeter - 06/06/07 19:37
I just need to clear one thing up Spirtuality and Realigon are not the same thing. Yes sometimes they can be but a lot of realigous people believe spritual things are evil. Some of those things would include Dreamcatchers, oujia boards, Terrot Cards, or anything along those lines. One can believe that there is no god but that there is this something like a soul or a spirit that makes us more then who we are as a body alone. Two examples from science that could suggest that there is something there is that the Famous Goat who was cloned had problems and died. It could be that the science was bad and that there isn't all the info we need about life yet. Or maybe there is something about being born that you need some kind of life force. The other example is 21 grams. Yeah I know they made an entire movie based on this fact, that I never saw. But supposidly when you die your body weight drops by 21 grams. There could be ways to explain it like that when you body is alive it is making things and you are bringing in air and that the act of you not being alive anymore is what causes that to happen. Or it could be that your soul or lifeforce leaves you and that is the weight. You can also belive in mother nature and that there is a balance to life and earth and have it not mean anything about god. For example the world is over populated and polution is killing the earth and all the animals. So that is why there are all these killer storms as a way to make the earth healthy. You can also believe that is why there is Diesse. That it is a way to kill off people so that the world doesn't become over populated. AIDS is an epicdemic really it is just that it isn't thought of that way because the HIV Virus kills people off slowly in stead of quickly. But that in terms of the virus is a good thing (bad for humans) because you can spread it and spread it and spread it before you know you have it. If you belive what you read and hear with out help it may destroy all of Africa. Yes one could make this realigous and say it happens because they are a godless country (all of them) we will go help them and give them god and medicine and they will follow us. But you can also just think that AIDS is a way to help kill off all the people who are destroying the world. Ok so maybe this should have been a post and not one paragraph but I think my point was kinda made.
I just need to clear one thing up Spirtuality and Realigon are not the same thing. Yes sometimes they can be but a lot of realigous people believe spritual things are evil. Some of those things would include Dreamcatchers, oujia boards, Terrot Cards, or anything along those lines. One can believe that there is no god but that there is this something like a soul or a spirit that makes us more then who we are as a body alone. Two examples from science that could suggest that there is something there is that the Famous Goat who was cloned had problems and died. It could be that the science was bad and that there isn't all the info we need about life yet. Or maybe there is something about being born that you need some kind of life force. The other example is 21 grams. Yeah I know they made an entire movie based on this fact, that I never saw. But supposidly when you die your body weight drops by 21 grams. There could be ways to explain it like that when you body is alive it is making things and you are bringing in air and that the act of you not being alive anymore is what causes that to happen. Or it could be that your soul or lifeforce leaves you and that is the weight. You can also belive in mother nature and that there is a balance to life and earth and have it not mean anything about god. For example the world is over populated and polution is killing the earth and all the animals. So that is why there are all these killer storms as a way to make the earth healthy. You can also believe that is why there is Diesse. That it is a way to kill off people so that the world doesn't become over populated. AIDS is an epicdemic really it is just that it isn't thought of that way because the HIV Virus kills people off slowly in stead of quickly. But that in terms of the virus is a good thing (bad for humans) because you can spread it and spread it and spread it before you know you have it. If you belive what you read and hear with out help it may destroy all of Africa. Yes one could make this realigous and say it happens because they are a godless country (all of them) we will go help them and give them god and medicine and they will follow us. But you can also just think that AIDS is a way to help kill off all the people who are destroying the world. Ok so maybe this should have been a post and not one paragraph but I think my point was kinda made.
fellyconnelly - 06/06/07 19:28
thats it. from now on when asked to label my religious convictions, I'll say i'm a Visco! it has a nice ring to it...
I can't leave religion alone though... i'm so interested in the history of it all...
thats it. from now on when asked to label my religious convictions, I'll say i'm a Visco! it has a nice ring to it...
I can't leave religion alone though... i'm so interested in the history of it all...
jenks - 06/06/07 19:10
sign me up!
that's kind of what i was trying to say. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you... do not murder... do not cheat... do not steal... all wonderful messages. But virgin births and dead bodies coming back to life and ghosts in heaven dictating my future... sorry... i just can't buy it. No offense. But what can I say... I'm a scientist.
sign me up!
that's kind of what i was trying to say. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you... do not murder... do not cheat... do not steal... all wonderful messages. But virgin births and dead bodies coming back to life and ghosts in heaven dictating my future... sorry... i just can't buy it. No offense. But what can I say... I'm a scientist.
First of all great pictures Paul. Your pictures are a good reflection of the parade. Secondly I can't see the scratches but if I had that long coat I would have to dye all my hair black that would be so tottal kick ass. Or maybe I would just look like a school shooter, not sure. The one thing that is interesting about the video of the guy yelling is that he is drowned out by the people at the parade yelling, yeah you can hear him but you can't make out what he is saying. I don't know if that is how it really sounded or not. I think you did a good job of getting pictures of (e:peeps) that includes me also who is in that last picture with the blue shirt and long hair.
YAYAYYAYA mike and lib!!!!!!!!!
the uhaul joke is supposed to be preceded with the following joke
What do lesbians bring on the first date?
a tooth brush
and it is to be followed by the following joke
What do gay men bring on the second date?
what second date?
hehe and i second (e:jenks)'s disclaimer...
excellant pics paul, and i like your new user pic too!
I watched the wedding video in the last jrnl a few times -- what you don't see is almost as frightening as what is there.
ewww why am i so bad looking in that last picture. Sickenwings did look disgusting...like it makes me ever question getting a chicken wing there again!
"This was hilarious to me. The gay marriage float was almost totally lesbians. What does that say? Guys just don't want to settle down no matter what their sexual preference."
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Brilliant analysis Paul.
re:lesbians and marriage
Disclaimer: please no one get up in arms and be offended by this. It's just a (stupid) joke. And a lesbian friend told it to me, so that makes it ok for me to tell. Right? Because I have lesbian friends? Or is it like the N-word and I just can't say it no matter what? ;)
Q: What do lesbians bring on the second date?
A: The U-haul.
oops, I misread that above caption. My apologies to you, dear Paul, but not to the gentleman wearing the coat.
Paul, let us pause for a moment to think about ArtVoice and the Best of Buffalo. Boy, sure did sting to not win when clearly this is the best site in town. That woman in the wool hat, is none other than Tyler, the bitchenest, raddest gal I know. Think it was hot that day? That is because she was near by, the girl is smokin. Coincidentally I introduced her to this site and she is checking it out, reading some of the journals.
Besides, that wool hat couldn't be nearly as hot as a giant black, beadazzled over coat from hot topic, could it?