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    @SpiritAscent posted this link, but I think it bears repeating:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/africa/04uganda.html

    It also reminded me of a good quote for the week:

    "Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire

    (Pic found at www.thehypertexts.com - the photo is meant to convey the horror of the genocide in Darfur, but I think it's appropriate here, too)

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    January 24th, 2010

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    As a continuation of the half-assed Apocalyptic theme I seem to have had going on this week...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p5GnB3mDAw

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    January 23rd, 2010

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    Naked Destruction Friday

    (Art: Dark Angel - by Ash Sivils ... Found at Redbubble)

    http://www.redbubble.com/people/amptone

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    January 22nd, 2010

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    In honor of a rant by @PatrickIrish...not to mention the general state of things (corporatism, grubby politics etc.): a couple of interesting lessons about greed...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktbj-WpzgvQ&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do7Ejd7s3ro

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    January 20th, 2010

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    BARNABY

    Sometimes it's takes everything a good dog has not to run. And lately, the smell of spring has been calling.

    The gate is open all the time now. Somewhere beyond it, everything is waking from the cold: the hills where he and the boy chase butterflies, the creeks where they wait together for fish. The flower fields humming now with bees.

    But Barnaby can still hear the boy. The beloved sound of him comes, not from beyond the gate, or even from the house. But from somewhere inside himself where good things still linger.

    The other children still come by. Sometimes. They always bring treats, as if somehow they know the boy has been remiss. They try everything to get Barnaby to play, but he has to keep watch. It wouldn’t do for the boy to come and find his Barnaby gone. And spring has no flavor without the boy.

    Barnaby stays and the children always go. Especially when the woman comes out. Her red-rimmed eyes swollen and challenging. Her quiet waiting impossible to bear. She never brings smiles or hugs anymore, or treats like the boy always shares. She comes and she goes leaving little behind, gone back inside where the man waits, too. They sit in there all the time now like holes.

    Sometimes at night, Barnaby can smell their despair.

    Still, all the old toys are tucked safely away, and everything beyond the gate seems in place. If these things remain then the boy must, too. How could anything exist without him?

    As long as the backdoor opens, the boy might come through. So despite the sweet-smelling spring, Barnaby waits.

    JL writing as J. Albert Bell
    http://www.jalbertbell.com/

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    January 19th, 2010

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    Haven't had much free time this past week. I've spent every moment I had trying to finish reading House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's truly a masterpiece, if you like this sort of thing. But it's left me feeling...how can I describe it...? (See comments)

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    January 18th, 2010

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    I'm dragging ass today. I normally sleep during the day and work all night. But today, a bunch of little kids have been running amok in the halls of my (thin-walled, echo-chamber of an) apartment building.

    Don't get me wrong. Kids are cool, and I definitely respect their right to be young, loud and silly. But today, I keep thinking about that vid by Don Hertzfeldt - Billy's Balloon...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpc5vgi9zbM

    I used to find it a bit disturbing. Today though, I'm hoping for the Balloon Apocaloopse.

    I'm going out now to buy balloons. [insert evil laugh here]

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    January 12th, 2010

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    I'm thinking about moving...again.

    This place looks nice, but...


    (Pic/Painting by Zdzislaw Beksinski)

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    January 11th, 2010

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    Been catching up on the American political scene all evening. Having now given up in disgust, it seems like a good time for a quote of the week:

    Ambrose Bierce - from The Devil's Dictionary

    "CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."

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    January 10th, 2010

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    Self-explanatory Saturday

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    January 9th, 2010

Joseph Leonardson is a 47 year old male from United States.

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Restless traveller, ranting street-prophet, defender of hopeless causes. Unapologetic troublemaker.

MysticPunk author/artist and teller of tall, queer tales.

I've never heard an opinion I couldn't muster some healthy skepticism for (particularly my own), or encountered a well-meaning delusion I couldn't find some reason to love.

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