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More Anti-War Stuff

By ~LS~ On March 16, 2003 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Politics, War

God’s Livejournal

By ~LS~ On March 14, 2003 · Add Comment · In Humor, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Humor

Back in December, God threatened to resign, as per His Livejournal. I stopped visiting said Livejournal for that reason. Today, out of a sense of nostalgia about the state of the world, I became sentimental and I missed God, so I re-visited His Livejournal and Behold! He was still there. I am sure there is a profound lesson here.

Unbeknownst to me, God’s Saints also have a Livejournal. Though God’s threatened departure has been erased from His Livejournal (how very Him-like to change his mind and then erase the change from History. I think he did that with Lilith, once), the Saints Livejournal has the traces (we fallible humans are always the traces of His imperfection). Some of His Saints are very good at interpreting his absence. Others, predictably, are just bad typists. See the 11/07/02 entry:
There they found the Pope pointing to a single word [...]

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Anti-War Stuff

By ~LS~ On March 14, 2003 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Politics, War

I had a brief and strange convo on the hallway with Shaun Treat today about “this whole Iraq thing.” He was passing out printouts of the Impeach Bush website he emailed me (see 3/12/03). Treat’s explosion of anti-Bush, anti-war “stuff” on his walls attracted the attention of a Reveille columnist (see Tolerant Ones? and also Treat’s response). Anyway, I think it was the strangest Treat conversation I’ve ever had. It resembled Morse Code — we both nodded a lot, left sentences unfinished, rolled our eyes, and ended up giggling at our own paranoia and conspiracy theory tendencies. I told him I was going to the hardware store to stock up on survivalist gear. It was one of those sad but hysterical moments where, at the end, all we could do is shake our heads, throw up our hands, and pronounce that we live in interesting times. I’m still [...]

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Random Musings – Nigerian Scams, the Spanish Prisoner, Impeaching Bush

By ~LS~ On March 13, 2003 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, Politics, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Nigerian Scam, Voxygen

More Spanish Prisoner:

The Nigerians have given my address to Kenneth Kabila from Zaire – Congo-Kinshasha. He has diamonds he would like me to help him export (smuggle?) out of the country. Incidentally, here is why that movie, “The Spanish Prisoner,” is called..the Spanish Prisoner (from the Urban Legend Reference Page):

The Nigerian Scam has been emptying the pockets of victims for decades — first through letters, then with faxes, and now via e-mail. In its earliest incarnation — which dates to the 1920s — it was known as “The Spanish Prisoner” con. In that long-ago version, businessmen were contacted by someone trying to smuggle the scion of a wealthy family out of a prison in Spain. But of course the wealthy family would shower with riches those who helped secure the release of the boy. Those who were suckered into this paid for one failed rescue attempt after [...]

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The Quiet American

By ~LS~ On March 11, 2003 · Add Comment · In Pop Culture, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Gender, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture, Race

Listening: Zwan, Mary Star of the Sea
Cirque Du Soleil, Dralion

Last night Steve and I went to see the Quiet American. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a really high rating and they were right. The movie was good; it was disturbing and haunting and very hard to watch. The movie effortlessly metonymizes Viet Nam with the woman character, Phuong, who is the object of both Michael Caine and Brenden Fraser’s affection. The best review I read is from Kamera.Com in the UK. They like the film because it pushes us away from the tired “Miramax orientalism.” That’s a phrase I like. Miramax orientalism. But nobody seems to be talking about what it means to turn Viet Nam into a mistress or prostitute. Probably because it’s so much a part of our “me so horney, me love you long time” consciousness. Given our current chicken-hawk climate, the [...]

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VVAW Anti-War Quiz

By ~LS~ On March 8, 2003 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Politics, War

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