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Name: Beth
Country: United States
State: Florida
Birthday: 7/19/1984
Gender: Female


Interests: photography, drawing, writing, buying books, hypocricy, attempting to read classic literature, eating ice, things of the political nature, obsessing, and bordem.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004

Currently Watching
Supersize Me
By Morgan Spurlock
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just saw supersize me
it was very well done
grounded in facts and numbers

but americans are greedy and fat
and really, i couldn't care less if half
of them hurled over and died of
a massive coronary infection

i pledge allegiance to the hamburger,
and money and baseball and hotdogs
... one nation ... divided by stupidity ...
with gluttony and brutality for all ...

oops ... if i go on like that big bro
might come and shake my feathers a bit
....uhhh....
i love america ... yeah! george w
anyways
go see it .....


Sunday, July 18, 2004

Currently Reading
The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship
By Charles Bukowski, R. Crumb
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Bukowski is quite a funny old man
it bascially his journal ... he has this very mean (yet so so funny) attitude
he hates it when his fans approach him ... he compares a lot of things to
shit or taking a shit ... he goes to the racetrack basically everyday ... and doesnt
like to cut his toenails ... and if thats not funny enough ... there are illustrations by
robert crumb ...

yesterday i bought the most useful book i think that i have ever bought
and i recommend it to anyone and everyone
"the big book of self-reliant living"
it has everything in it ... be it how to plant a garden and feed yourself, build a
greenhouse ... good diet habits ... how to perform first aid ... how to tell which
plants you can eat in the wilderness ... how to make a bed out of bamboo ...
make your own log cabin ... all the way to what morgages are and why its better
to buy than rent ... how to tell what month and day it is according to how long the
day is ....how to lay cement and also how to survive at sea or in case
of nuclear disaster ...
not that i would actually have this say ... when i get lost in the mountains .. but i
would like to think i would ...


Sunday, July 11, 2004

bikini island

a flock of eyes planted in baby-powered floating pots (disguised as a marching band).
survey their territory by night, with an evil eye.
they are searching for the island of Rest. for they are all very tired.
they've been up all night,
longing for sweet dreams.
and avoiding the trace of promiscous nightmares.

most have heard the stories.
you see, it's ms. communication. i'm afraid she hasn't quite
got all of her lashes in a line, if you catch my drift.
but the young ones do indeed enjoy her company.

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"it's awful," she says.
"you cant see a damn thing!"
"first, they pull your eyelids down. and then they project things on them.
terrible things."
"what sorts of things?" one of the younger ones asked.
"well quite terrible things i'm afraid. i couldn't .... you wouldn't ....nevermind."
he began to poke her. at first she thought nothing of it, but it quickly got
annoying and plus, ever since a young age, ms. communication has always
been quite afraid of poking her eye out.
"quite a curious young lad, hmmm. alright, gather around boys, but don't tell
your mums i was the one to tell you.


evil ponies, i tell ya. evil dancing ponies. there must have been millions of
them. no no ... billions of them."
"were they furocious? did they have huge pointed teeth?" the young lad asked.
"hmmm, no, oddly, the teeth were very normal in size.
but, these bloody ponies, they were bleeding from the spines, you see.
then, a dozen of them began to approach me. a baker's dozen, actually (thats 13).
they looked arabian. (but, lets not bring race into this).
they stared me down and then began to dance.
i was afraid they were going to dance and sing in evil circles around me till the
moon flew away. they were terrible singers, you see. couldn't hit one damn note
all night."
"what did you do? did you fight them off?"
"no, i just walked away. it was quite ridiculous really.
nightmares are really very strange."


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shrooms are quite a curious little adventure
so i have found out
i dont think i would do them very often
but i would definately do them again

drawing my flock of eyes was quite fun
i've never found it so easy to draw
normally, i spend so much time in mental
anguish thinking about what i'm drawing,
instead of just sitting my pen down and
allowing it to make shapes ... and then letting
my psyche sort out what they are going to be.

and as for this little story
i am going to attempt an animation
i actually found a plot (it's about damn time!)
a descent one or few and have
some interesting ideas for it.


Saturday, July 10, 2004

ahhhhhhhhh i cant stop listening to airamerica radio


Thursday, July 08, 2004

Family of Slain Soldier Calls Bush WMD Jokes "Disgraceful"
Democracy Now
March 26, 2004

At a media dinner Wednesday, President Bush joked about how no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, eliciting laughter from many of the journalists in attendance. We get a reaction from a father and twin brother of a soldier killed in Iraq and we speak with The Nation's David Corn who attended the dinner. [includes rush transcript]
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While millions of people marked the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq this week by protesting against war on Saturday, President Bush marked the event in a different way: joking about how no weapons of mass destruction were found.

At a black-tie dinner for Radio and Television Correspondents' Association on Wednesday, Bush poked fun at himself and his administration for among other things not finding weapons in Iraq.

At one point Bush showed a photo of himself looking for something out a window in the Oval Office. He said: "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere."

After a few more slides, there was a shot of Bush looking under furniture in the Oval Office. Bush said "Nope. No weapons over there." Then another picture of Bush searching in his office. He said "Maybe under here."

According to the Nation's David Corn many of the journalists at the dinner laughed throughout the skit.

But the Daily News is reporting that the families of soldiers killed in Iraq are not laughing.

George Medina who lost his son in Iraq said, "This is disgraceful. He doesn't think of all the families that are suffering. It's unbelievable, how this guy runs the country."

Medina's son, Special Irving Medina died at the age of 22 in Baghdad on November 14.

Senator John Kerry responded by saying, "585 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq in the last year, 3,354 have been wounded and there's no end in sight. George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them, and now he thinks that's funny?"



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