Today i am god

this is me just hanging out under the saturn 'v' rocket at the kennedy space centre in florida, neil and buzz flew this baby, what a ride!

















this is at the budweiser factory,












the donkey and the elephant are the two symbols of both the US government parites
the elephant is republican (lincoln, bush) and the donkey is democrat (clinton, kerry) maybe they look so angry is because there is still beer left in the glass! take a look, they must still be sober.

















this is general lee's bed, his house is in the middle of arlington national war memorial/cemetry, which is just across the river from washington d.c. the h.q of the union, and lee was living there married to george washingtons daughter or grand daughter , i forget, so after he left as the civil war was breaking and went to richmond ,,which is the capital of virginia, to base the confederate war, the union thought they would show some disrespect and burry their dead in the backyard of his house, and they still do to this day, dam yankees. richmond and d.c are incredibly close to each other, even in the day of horses, so boths sides of the civil war had their h.q's within in stones throw of each other, by car it takes about five hours.






-New poll- there is a new poll, it's tough, i was speaking to a friend and he said 9/11 had caused an escalation in religious violence so he would stop that from happening, but maybe if you stop jesus being born you could stop many more religioun justified wars, or if he didnt get killed he
would have gone on to lead a normal life and die from something simple like tripping down some stairs at a bar and everyone would see that he was just some farout dude without powers and we don't have to constantly repent ourselves for the sins he burdened on himself in death, and there might be a little less anti semetic sentiment if that happened. * anti-semetic not anti-zionisism
its hard being god ,

--and if you stopped the discovery of gunpowder there would be a halt to a mass scale means of violence but wars would still continue and eventually you have to suspect something similar would be discovered. but gunpowder can't be discovered if you choose it on the poll, because you're god and you're choosing for it never to be discovered.
--kennedy had many polocies in place but i'm sure he could have done more,
--and daryl sommers who doesn't want to blast him into space??
--being a part time existentialist i chose to do nothing.

-newcastle high, i forgot to mention earlier too that dean rowes' brother is here! sam rowe, i think he works at arnolds with handley, he is doing architecturefor one semester on exchange like me, apparently uva has the sixth best architecture school in the country,he was two years below us at newcastle high, we both joined the surf club but i havent been bothered going to any meetings, i have bumped into him a couple of times on campus, it just brings back memories of dean rowe i thought that guy would end up with leather shoes (that local newcastle vagrant who wears flip flops but his feet are so black it looks like he is wearing leather shoes)-he certainly was special, but i heard he is skinny now and has his life on track,

- fun fact no23.- uva also has the sixth best law school in the nationrobert kennedy the brother of jfk, is one of the more famous law school graduates

quotes

'Of all the weapons in the vast soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947. More commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It'll shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars. '
-yuri orlov (nic cage) - lord of war

Peter Griffin: Well, I'm gettin' something really special too. And by special I don't mean special like that Kleinaman boy down the street. More special like... like Special K, the cereal. Hey, what do they do with the regular K? And for that matter, what ever happend to K. Ballard? You know, if you said mallard and you had a cold, it would sound like ballard.
Brian: Do you listen to yourself when you talk?
Peter Griffin: I drift in and out.

-the special i meant with dean rowe is similar to the kleinaman boy.

untitled musings

i went to dinner for the first time at an etheopian restaurant, it was good food it actually reminded me a lot of indian except you use your hands to dip the wat
in the something(the wat really is the name for it), its like a big pancake that you pick apart and use it to scoop food of a big communal plate, and one of the
guys at dinner worked for a law firm in new york over the summer, he did a whole month working on the appeal for zacarias moussaoui (the only guy caught for the
9/11 incident), he wasn't even allowed to see the guy he was defending, none of the appeal lawyers were allowed contact. moussaoui just sits in solitary
confinement all day every day for the rest of his life. i would hate to go to an american prison, and they have the death penalty in virginia.

everyone has fascinating stories about their summer, working 14hours a day on wall street.

uva has one of the best commerce schools in the country, each department in comm school is actually sponsored by a big firm, and the students do work for the firm
as part of their projects, - the ultimate capitilist society!! and they are pretty much guaranteed a job as they walk out on graduation day. there is a lot of
work on all levels of the spectrum, i cant go to a mall and not see at least four help wanted signs , you could walk down the street and apply for about ten low
end jobs.thats where the illegal mexicans are needed, because everyone else seems to be obsessed with money, its the major topic of conversation- the jobs and the money they
will make, as an investment banker etc. i went to business at newcastle university and their was the culture of success and material gain, but nothing on a
comparitive scale to here, or perhaps again it is a UVa specific thing.

religion and money an american obsession- my anchient philosphy teacher actually said 'when you're telling your parents you are doing philosophy and they say why
don't you do economics or business or medicine, tell them by taking philosophy classes it will help you get closer to god.' it was a true statement, he didn't say
it in jest. and everyone kind of agreed with him, its a good thought, but its the blatant religion i'll have to get used to
this is my jacket, that also doubles as my blanket, it's a bit ostentatious but it keeps me warm of a night, and notice the cavaliers football!!
we will crush virginia tech this season
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this is the crazy squirell, he had no idea what he was doing, he went up and down that tree four times in the two minutes i was watching him, but now i can understand people from other countries being so interested in koalas, i love watching these little fellas scamper around,

go australia
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this is an example of the architecture around the grounds, this is on the 'lawn' and is original from jeffersons time. jefferson still has a big impact with his philosophy and way of thinking that promoted open and free discourse between the students and the community, that is another reason why the university sprawls into the communtiy, physically















quote

'The first time I was struck with something, a chicken breast from Kenny Rogers. I was standing next to a garbage pail. I thought it might've been an accident, that they were throwing it out. The second time, it hit me square on the chin, a soft taco. Then, pop. A falafel. McNuggets. Always fast food. Fast food. Shit people would rather throw out than finish. It's easy. It tastes all right, but it doesn't really provide you any nourishment... I am fast food.'
-- Dave Spritz (nic cage) - 'the weather man', he is having a little crisis about not really contributing to society

photos from the grounds

this is a squirell that was hanging out on the lawn, near poe's room and the jefferson statue , they look cute but they have cold dead eyes like a serial killer, they bulge out like they have just done a white line, then they scamper up the tree just waiting, waiting for winter, waiting to eat their nuts, crazy bastards











this is the statue of thomas jefferson, if you want to streak on grounds, and have it be an official streak then you have to start at the rotunda and leave your clothes on its steps, and you can't have anyone watch your clothes, so they might not be there when you get back, then you run down about two hundred yards along the lawn till you get to the jefferson statue, where you either say good morning/afternoon/evening mr. jefferson and kiss his ass, then you go all the way back and hope your clothes are still there. and thats if you want to do an official streak,



this is misael one of my roomates, he is from etheopia and has been in the us for seven years now, he has four majors, astro physics, actuary accounting, mathematics and something else. .. i need a degree just to understand the complexity of his degree,










this is the rotunda, the original one burnt down, and this one was built, in i think around 1890 , when you streak you have to leave your clothes here












"I'm not drunk. I just have a speech impediment. And a stomach virus. And an inner ear infection." -Bryan

'Let her go. If it ends, it ends. We can move towards hope, that's what's beautiful about this place. We cannot run from heartache. My brother was slain in the towns, the rest of my family died here. Heartache is a part of life, we know that now. Ivy is running toward hope, let her run. If this place is worthy, she'll be successful in her quest. '

UVa

Life at UVa
this is the second highest ranked public school in the country, public because it takes 66%of its students from virginia, it has an incredible history and a strong reputation for producing excellence, which is funny because it's star pupil edgar allen poe metriculated for one semester in 1826 , while he was at colege for that one semester he accrued many debts which his father refused to pay, he then went on to be an alcoholic and die in the streets of baltimore, the latter part is not mentioned on the little sign outside his room, it just says he left. But they celebrate poe so much as to have a flock of ravens brought in to live on the lawn after his poem 'the raven', woodrow wilson a former president also metriculated at UVa and many more,. it was the brainchild of thomas jefferson and it began in 1817 after many of planning and designing,

-the cost is 17thousand a year on average for an interstate student(at newy uni i incur about 10grand a year so thats like 8 grand in us dollars), and i met some people from overseas who are paying 44thousand dollars a year, the cost is high and so is the workload, i already have to have several books read by this week, more than i have read my entire time at newy uni!!! and the religion thing, wow, in the philosophy classes, god gets many a mention, they are still hung up with the old fella, its also in the texts they prescribe currently i am reading st augustine's confessions, i think in australia you can deal with the religious issue if you want to delve into it, but here it seems more mandatory.

i went out to dinner with misael my roomate from etheopia and all his friends, some of them from nigeria, siera lione, cameroon, the guy from nigeria doesnt drink and he had a long island iced tea, so he was a few sheats to wind, i asked him why etheopia hadn't been colonized, he said 'the red coats took one look at them scrawny bastards and said 'you're all too skinny!' so they left and gave them the rations out of pity!.. none of them can drink at all , they had two drinks during dinnner and where stumbling around and rambling in the car park

i also hang out with a group of germans, i am an aussie in america hanging out with germans, one of the german girls wants me to do intelectual history of philosphy its a 700 honors level course but i think ill try it out, plus she is a blonde bombshell who likes existentialism.





this wasn't even the large size, you have to respect the king,





this is my first meal, i bought the pot the knifes and forks and the pasta sauce, pasta and cheese, but i didn't know i needed a bowl , but eating out of the pot is ok and i went to harris tweeter today and picked up a plastic bowl. my new meal plan is one can of salmon and maybe one or two rice pasta meals a day,




















this is edgar allen poe's room, its in the old section, people still have rooms next door, and you can notice the plastic raven on the window!! and that is jacob he also lives at faulkner, he is a history major and was helping me become learned on the great history at uva , i am putting up a link to his myspace blog so you read about all his neurocies!! he is a genious






quotes
'ok i'm going to go ahead and do kermit the frog.' - tatooist/banker - family guy

'i have a small part in a broadway musical, it's not much but its a start.' - homer simpson

The Wiggles

the wiggles have arrived, they are playing to a packed out audience in the john paul jones arena just near my dorm, it seats 15,000 people and is the best college basketball stadium in the country
-last week hulk hogan was in town, because wee raw was held at the arena.

-changes i thought i'd class up the old blog a bit, give it a bit of a spit and shine,

-there might be some talk of me hanging out at the hospital, yes it's true i had a few quite whiskeys and caught a cab home, i sort of passed out on the curb right near my dorm and the university police (which are real police, not like newy uni's dads army), it's nothing big but in virginia if they find you drunk you can either go to prison or go to hospital for the night, and i chose the latter, so i was on a drip for the night
-and the crap thing is - the hospital is near the bar strip , so i caught a taxi back to my dorm only to be taken to the hospital, then when i was released this morning, i had to ride my bike back to the dorm. and another weird thing is that the nurse found a vein first go, and commented on my good veins, the opposite is what usually happens,
-the hospitals in the usa are nice, Uva has one of the best med schools in the country, so it might be that , but it was clean and had some nice decor, and there was no waiting.

- classes have started now, so i wont be drinking for four months, i have many books to read and essays to write. just some good clean living, riding my bike and expanding my mind.

the live draft went well, here is my team that is going to kick bromleys ass out of the park!!!

Roethlisberger, Ben (QB PIT) quaterback / pittsburgh steelers
Alexander, Shaun (RB SEA) running back / seattle seahawks

Bell, Tatum (RB DEN) running back / denver broncos

Branch, Deion (WR NE) wide receiver / new england patriots

Johnson, Keyshawn (WR CAR) wide receiver / carolina panthers

Watson, Ben (TE NE) tight end/ new england patriots

Longwell, Ryan (K MIN) kicker/ minesota vikings

Patriots, Defence and Special Teams (DST NE) the whole defense and special teams from the new england patriots


quote

'a fool and his money are soon partying.'

'man i'm so wasted right now.' - towely / south park, the best character ever.

Fireman Dan

Today was the activities fair, with all the different clubs and intermurauls you can join.
i am now a member of
-le cross team
-baseball team
-juggling guild
-filmmakers society
-surfers club (the beach is four hours away!)
-radio channel
-international students club
-existentialist club
-ultimate frisbee society
-volunteer firefighters

i will have to wittle it down to about three, but i will definately be a firefighter, i get to ride in the big american fire engines, and do a twelve hour night shift once a week from 6pm to 6am, where i will be with a group of full timers and ride along with them.

Dupree the role model seeing as i am living my life based on the philosphic principals set down by dupree in the film 'you me and dupree' i am about half way through the movie, so i have done all the drinking and stuffing around, and now i am using cycling to get my life back on track. Another reason is because faulkner and the whole campus is very spread out , it sort of branches off into the community, it's vast, very vast.




This is inside one of the many cavalier's shop, this is about a third of the shop .













this is my sweet ride, i bought it for 53 bucks at target, the brakes dont work the best, i have to know about fifty meters in advance when i want to stop, and the handlebars are loose (but what else can you expect from some disgruntled assembler at the back of target) but nothing a few tools shouldnt fix .







this is the view from just outside my dorm
the front of a cavaliers shop
















Quotes

'If his unpleasant wounding has in some way enlightened the rest of you as to the grim finish beneath the glossy veneer of criminal life, then his injuries carry with it an inherent nobility, and a supreme glory. We should all be so fortunate. You say poor Toby? I say poor us.' Sphinx - Gone in sixty seconds

'I walked into the kitchen and sat down at the table. I looked with a grimace at the questionable meal Lois had placed in front of me. Of course I'd never tell her how disgusted I was with her cooking, but somehow I think she knew. Lois had always been full of energy and life, but lately I had begun to grow more aware of her aging. The bright, exuberant eyes that I had fallen in love with were now beginning to grow dull and listless with the long fatigue of a weary life.'
Peter Griffin narrating his own life - family guy

'i awoke several hours later in a daze.' peter griffin, after lois knocks him out.

Virginia Cavaliers

the virginia cavaliers - my new football team, i had no idea uva was such a big football town, every twenty yards on the road is the logo for the team and ive only been here for aday or so but in that time i have seen at least four shops dedicated to selling cavaliers merchandise, so if i go to open tryouts maybe i can get a spot on the bench cutting oranges foreveryone at halftime or maybe even a seventh string defensive linebacker, either way i would be on espn!!! last year one of the cavaliers i think he was a running back was a rookie forthe pittsburg steelers and went on to win a superbowl, and another dude is playing for the new york jets.

it would be my wildest dream to have a k-mart in australia that stocks the same catalogue as here, there is a whole wall of paintball guns and accesories, a paintball gun only costs 50bukcs!and you can buy a bucket of fifteen hundred rounds for ten bucks, and the weapons, switchblades, butterfly knives, ninja stars! and then on the next wall is all the pump action shotgunsand the sporting section, an official nfl ball for only twenty bucks! simmo i know you want one! its official nfl, k-mart here in charlottesville even have their own dedicated cavaliers section. and uva had an undefeated le cross team last year'you don't score untill you score!'

charlottesville is a beautiful town, i went for a drive while i still had the monte carlo, nothing beats hooning around the streets of an american city with the solo from freebird playing on a loop! and bromley my chirpies kicked ass over the hyundai.

the red carpet hotel (there aren't motels) is a dive its the worst place i've been, on par with vegas that i have frequented, no wi-fi, its the sort of hotel you expect mayor quimby to have his floozies withand lord knows what has happened on the bed i slept on, so i decided to treat myself, i walked down to the 7/11 and bought some $2 longnecks of bacardi rum and watermellon and 89 cent cigars! that's rightdon't you just love no taxes on the vices in life :) i'd say the cigar i smoked (which was also flavored watermellon, mmm) would cost 15 bucks in oz. i just wish it was wednesday night so i could watch the new lagunabeach on mtv then my night would have been perfect, i could catch up on what rocky is doing, i know how much you love her kimbo!

i had my first taste of college sports watching the cavaliers (all teams at uva are called the cavliers) soccer team play pre season against vcu (virginia commonwealth university) the losers! we kicked their ass 3-0 , faulkner my apartment block is right near the soccer field, and id say there would have been a thousand people at the match.

prep rally then after the soccer match i went to the football field, (which seats 60 thousand!) to have my first pep rally for freshmans and transfer students. the band was there and the cheerleaders (they were handing out tryout sheets, and there are a few guys in the squad, it looked like a pretty sweet roll, or i can tryout for the mascot) after a few basketball coaches spoke, it was time for the football coach, (he was head coach for the new york jets in the year 2000) he spent half his time bagging the hokies (virginia tech) dam hokies i can't wait to kick their asses in the game of the season,and the other half making sure we would wear the free orange uva t - shirts they were handing out,

go the cavaliers, this stubby holder is one of many pieces of virginia cavaliers merchandise that i will purchase



go the cavaliers
















this is another picture of the legendary dog, as he rides off into the sunset











this is my spacious room, i had no idea i would have to furnish it, i dont need much, i bought a pillow, and tomorrow i think ill buy a blanket, a cavaliers blanket of course


this is a real t-rex fossil from the museum of natural history in new york city














quotes:

'A mountain of sugar is too much for one man. It's clear now why God portions it out in those tiny packets, and why he lives on a plantation in Hawaii.' - homer simpson

'note to self, making love with blowup doll not as good as advertised.' - mitch / dirty work (where is norm macdonald doing lately, the world needs him!'

'aha you didn't can't on my loyal army of prostitutes, did you?' - mitch

'hey, i think he has his thumb up that dogs ass!' - mitch (that was the one good thing about the red carpet inn, i got to watch dirty work on comedy central)

and my favorite, i remeber loving this when i first watched the film many years ago. 'hey do you want to grab some coffee?' - kate asks to which mitch said 'uh no i have to go lift weights... what?'

this is the chevrolet monte carlo, it was two door, a pretty sweet ride for a rental car

Road Trip

im off to school, off to school, to prove to dad that i'm not a fool, ive got my lunch, my shoes tied tight, i hope i don't get in fight.

unlike billy madison i'm going to college not high school, so today i leave erie pensylvania and head to the university of virginia in charlottesvill VA. road trip! i think its an eight or ten hour drive in my rented pontiac grand prix, which beats the eighteen hour greyhound trip for only forty more bucks. i'll have to buy to map cause i don't want to end up at the university of ithica or austin or some heckhole where they have deer carcasses and skunks splayed on the lawn.

-post blog,,,, i made it!!! driving on the right side of the road was pretty easy after about half an hour, so i was cruising the interstate with my lynard skynard blaring in my chevrolet monte carlo!!! it had a spoiler, what an awesome rental car, so right now its about 2.30 am the bars just shut , i have my rental car till 10 am tomorrow-wait till today, thats where ill be sleeping, i parked in a street that has all the college housing, so right now i am sitting in the garden of some lodging place across from where i am parked on my laptop! the magic of wireless, im hooked up to some guys unsecured wireless network in the garden.. i've already met a few frat guys and hooked up some parties. charlottesville is sweet i think 98percent of everyone i have seen is under thirty , it really is a college town.

i would put up some new pics but i don't want to get the whole kit out in the garden. (i have another pic of that legendary dog!!!)i seriously can't believe that i can just hang out in a garden and hook up to the net on my laptop, by the way i'm listening to one bourbon, one scotch and one beer by george thorogood, and a shout out to kimbo and bromley for putting up dupree for a week !! good work and thankyou very much







-this is me taking a snap in my new favorite
piece of clothing my tom brady new england patriots jersey













this dude was cruisin along at about sixty miles per hour on the turnpike on the way into pittsburgh, he had no teeth


















this dog was riding shotgun in the sidecar of this motorcycle, i don't know if you can see but the dog is wearing sunglasses, this dog is a legend











this is in a sandwhich shop in pittsburgh, free smells????

cash knew something that we don't

one bourbon, one scotch and one beer,if you don't know this george thorogood song then don't read on, this post won't apply to you and you need to know man in black by johnny cash,for those who know, here we go, you aint got no place to stay and no job to pay the rent, i say fuck you lANDLADY,we are all drifters coasting through , with no place to go, we might think we have something to hold onto but johnny cash said it best in the reason he wears black, for well- i cant paraphrase well enough so lets let the man speak for himself-

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,Why you never see bright colors on my back,And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,But is there because he's a victim of the times.
I wear the black for those who never read,Or listened to the words that Jesus said,About the road to happiness through love and charity,Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.
Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.
I wear it for the sick and lonely old,For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.
And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,Believen' that the Lord was on their side,I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,Believen' that we all were on their side.
Well, there's things that never will be right I know,And things need changin' everywhere you go,But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,You'll never see me wear a suit of white.
Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,And tell the world that everything's OK,But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

- that's it. the man mr cash can feel for those who aren't so lucky to be born into the right family, he can feel for those who are persecuted , he can feel for those who just haven't got a chance and there are a lot of people like that, he can feel for thorogood's character who is homeless and his mates wife wont let him stay anywhere(dupree), even though he is a good bloke and just needs a couple of days to get on his feet,that's what we're all trying to do in a sense, is just find our feet, and our place, but you can't blame others because society is unnatural and is made of people coming together to better themselves and in that melting pot, people will lose and people will win,

and people will sing songs about the losers, and people will fuck other people over just to get ahead, and people will make rules and when other people break 'em they will end up in prison for a cause that is both justified and sadonic, so you choose, and you work out how we can better ourselves and you can work out how to better this life that you live in with all your friends and your family,

or you can cash out for the position you're in , and in doing that you are saying you're better than the chineese sweatshop worker who has to work 20 hours a day to feed his/her family, the family that you take for granted and resent going to birthdays and christmas parties with. or you can choose to listen to some johnny cash and come have a drink with me, i'm sure we'll have a good time, just don't ever forget that your little problem that you think is worldly, is completely personal and will meander into insignificance, and as you wander on through life all you can do i cherish every moment you have no matter how painfull or how glorious. ying and yang, good and bad, bush and hitler :P

and also don't forget to support mel gibson, the dude is a legend , the dude has an incredible body of work and he likes a drink, don't get me wrong i'm one of the biggest jewish supporters around, but i could never feel badwill against mel, the patriot, braveheart, lethal weapon series, we were soldiers , seriously rob schneider came out against him and said i'll never work with him again, fuck schneider you idiot your last movie was deauce bigalo 2, a sick perverted stoopid movie,

gibson has done more to forward the betterment of storytelling in one movie than you have in your whole idiodic career, i love a few of your movies but you're a dick for abandoning mel, jodie foster is onboard she knows he is a good bloke, and i know from personal experience that someone you respect and love can make anti semetic remarks purely because they grew up with them, even though it's not in their heart but after a few drinks they say some horrid stuff that isn't even what they truely believe, i know that by a family member who i hold in extremely high regard but he gets maggot on VB and says some shocking things like gibson does, but if anyone disagrees i will meet you in the carpark and we can settle things lethal weapon style!!

quote

'Don't take your guns to town son Leave your guns at home Bill Don't take your guns to town, He laughed and kissed his mom And said your Billy Joe's a man I can shoot as quick and straight as anybody can, But I wouldn't shoot without a cause I'd gun nobody downBut she cried again as he rode away' powerfull stuff , the kid went to town to try to be a man , but got carried away with his own testosterone, a strong parabell to listen to your mother, she may know a few things

'Filled with rage then Billy Joe reached for his gun to draw, But the stranger drew his gun and fired Before he even saw, As Billy Joe fell to the floor, The crowd all gathered 'round And wondered at his final words, Don't take your guns to town son Leave your guns at home Bill Don't take your guns to town' it just goes to say you aren't as powerfull or impeneratble as you think, we all have that achilles tendon....cash got this tune from an old irish folk song

you miss two classes and no homework but your teacher but your teacher preachers class like your some kind of jerk, you gota fight for your right to party!!

-amen to that , support our troops mother fucker, they are dying for god knows what reason but fuck they are more man than we will ever be, they are out there with bullets flying at them, no matter what you think , you're stting in an office with A/C , doing your TPS report and you think you have a social conscience , fool, being an armchair general you idiot and you say (it's all for the oil, yet we pay more now than ever)some bastards no matter what we do (they were attacking us before any invasion, even before the usa supported iraq in the early 80's) just because we are free, and you may say well it's all us,

but fuck you i'll see you in the carpark, we are the west and we aren't some crazy middle eastern religion that doesn't allow women to dress how they want or some communist regime that decides what you study (cuba) we allow people to protest and do whatever sick perverted shit they want to do, and that makes us free, and you are an elitist if you think you deserve that freedom over someone else, because why should you wear what you want but others can't.

if you're in the schoolyard and you see a weak kid get beat up by a bully what will you do?? do you stand there and say well that (nerd/person who can't stand up for themself) should rise up and fight their own battle, that is bullshit, they physically can't do it and they need an outside influence, so according to john williamson 'is it standing by your mate while she's in a fight' that's it, or just vegimite'

if you can do something to help out, why not? people say and i quote that fuckhead michael moore 'it's not worth one american life to secure fallujah' , ok so is an american life worth more than an iraqi? revolts always cost lives, look at any revolution, it takes many years and many lives to secure freedom, sometimes the end might justify the means, and that is something many left wingers can't accept. so it's ok for us to revolt and lose lives and have freedom,

but in making iraq free we can't lose any lives? that is off with the fairies, we live in a physical world and to catalyse change it takes physical change. and for you to protest the war is hypocritical to the extreme, you are saying 'i can protest against letting these iraqi's protest!' what a load of bullshit . you are saying we need to make diplomatic change but not real world change, to help the iraq people , it is on the assumption that democracy is right, and what people say to retort is 'how do we know what is right', well that may be so, but if our current system allows you to even express those thoughts then it is hypocritical to say that a middle eastern country shouldn't have the same freedoms, if you protest against the war you are protesting for saving of a marines life yes but also a repression of many many more. and you work numbers, everything is numbers and if you think one life is worth more than 100 lives than you are left wing and that is cool, but if you are willing to sacrifice a hundred lives to say 1000 lives than you are right wing and support the war so that is cool too,

and what a lot of fuckers can't understand is that many people who join the army have nothing else and they love it, they want to shoot guns and drive hummers, i know i do- even if it costs my life, i know for a fact that if i didn't have a supportive family that allows me to be a vagrant, i would join the army in a split second, and i would gladly give my life to the cause, (live how you want and follow whatever cause you feel is justified and listen to all sides of the argument but make up your own mind/) i have already tried to join the reserves if i wasn't a vegatonic and wheat intollerant, going to battle gives many of the young men a cause, you may think that it is youthfull excuberance like the song by cash 'don't take your guns to town bill'. but it's a way of life, and giving people a freedom to destroy their own lives is the key, you can do you want with your life, you can smoke and drink till you die, but it's up to you not some tyrant or some hippy who says you should plant flowers and hope, instead of actually affect a change. or do exactley as they say or they will shoot you ,,, as my good friend nick would say in new hampshire - live free or die - even though he may hate bush you can't hate freedom no matter the cost . and if i did go to war and died and this was my last post on my blog how differently would you view what i just said? would it take on any importance or would you still disregard it as i'm sure you'all will ,

hicks- the c u n t , he was guarding a taliban tank, the fuckers , you may think the usa is bad but comparable to the taliban, i mean what the fuck, let the bastard fry in g bay , if i see him ill fuck him up, fighting for the fucking taliban and major mori '"I think a lot of Australians don't really understand what he is accused of doing, which is really guarding a Taliban tank. You'd get more time here in Australia for, you know, assaulting someone," that' s what morri his defendant is saying, ok so you assault someone or be part of a known terrorist organisation, mori is out of his mind saying the assaultant would do more time, they should all fry the fuckers, don't fuck with anyones freedom, the taliban think they know what is right and fuck with anyone who doesn't agree with them, the usa let a whole heap of people decide what is right and don't let anyone fuck with that, so you decide, a few idiots following some religion and taking it out of context, or some politicians possibly taking jefferson and his boys out of context but for a cause that is obviously more worthwhile than the taliban, pick your bad guys people, hicks was defending a tank that was part of a group that oppressed many people, and no matter how bad you think the usa is,

and the g bay torture, you're deluding yourself if you think he was supporting a worthy cause . and that is not being hippocrytical to johnny cash, cash was all about freedom, hicks is about defending a tank that serves to repress people, the usa contributes 25% of the UN and a fuck load of aid, and in the tsunami they were the first there with the apache choppers and even an aircraft carrier helping out, so when there is shit, 'where is the usa.' but when they try to help 'what's the usa doing.' you french bastards can go live with the goats. and i'd like to see you live in a country run by the taliban as opposed to a democratically elected and responsible government.
'run to the ocean , run to the sea' - u2


-support our troops and mel gibson-
and if you don't i don't give a fuck, but i'll be waiting in the carpark, (that is an adam sandler reference for all the oldies, happy gilmore, to be exact, )

sweet home alabama

i bought my first lynard skynard cd in Pittsburgh, it's a double and has an extended live version of freebird. sweet , very sweet.
Pittsburgh is a clean city, and because downtown is basically an island it's virtually empty of a weekend, it reminded me of dallas. the andy warhol museum was cool, they had the room with the blow up silver goon bags... and they were having the americas next top model auditions in town, but we missed it, i was soo close to seeing the next kate moss.

-and i had my secoond person in as many days commenting on how well i spoke english, and how long have i've been learning? that's either a big comment, or i sound like a crazy immigrant who can barely pronounce a vowel

Snuff i bought some chewing tobacca, now all i need is a spittoon and my cowboy hat which i left at a bar somewhere, along with my brett favre and first draft pick for the texans football cards, they would have been my retirement fund!

Erie Pensylvania kimbo and bromleys city, it's quant haven't seen much of it yet, because we spent the weekend in pittsburgh.

Poll Results wow the results from the poll at the bottom of the page shocked me, i must have both some crazy historian friends and greedy friends. why the heck would you want to go back and stay in 1935, obviously you might try to prevent old hitler and his little war.. but still 1935?
and i seriously didn't think anyone would take the quick cash!!! im sure curing aids would make you at least ten million dollars but you have to put in the work, and the knowledge you could gleam from 48hours in 2085 could be worth a fortune, has anyone seen the movie where the dude buys the sports almanac, not to mention how cool it would be seeing all the flying bubble cars and the giant radioactive cockroaches!!!
-im going to put up another poll soon, it's top secret but i can say it's about being on an island and television.

screech - i just put up the link for screech's website, he is being evicted!!






a beer factory, need i say more




















fireworks, im sure you could blow the fuck out
of something with this baby



















this is in NYC, this homeless guy is on google
if you type in 'ninjas killed my family' you'll find
him, i was drunk and he was outside the bar
so i kept paying him to take photos with his sign
he ended up giving me the sign. looking at this pic
my tattoo looks undersized, i might have to get something done about that.













arlington cemetry, this is in virginia, but just across the river from washington d.c.












quotes -

'You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. ' - Tyler Durden - fight club

'Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.' - Tyler Durden - fight club

(i have to watch this movie every few months just to get a reality check.)

Unwritten law

ok these are the lyrics for the best song ever conceived by mankind, you non american idiots don't know what you're missing (just kidding ) but ill try to put the link up for die hard fans who want to see some new unwritten law, even though it's not new, who the fuck else in boston is going to post a claifornian punk band's song on their website, even with the infamy of unwritten law. who by the way are supported by the best punk rock in maitland being cindyschest , handley and bulla and simmo and morris and that bastard callaghan, morris email me before you go , i want to get some files of you, it's a matter of internatinal security, so keep those thirteen packs of shave gel of the plane and those crazy pain killers that only aussies can buy with thw stomach bleeding to minimum!!!!!

unwritten LAW LYRICS"Harmonic"Well, I'll see you aroundDon't want to stay and drownThe drama got too thickMakes me sickAnd I don't wanta talk about itI already thought about itStripped down of my prideI shed the tears then dried these eyesIt was fun at the startBut maybe we're world's apartFacing differnet waysDifferent plainsAnd I don't wanta drag it out andI just got to get on out andLeave it all behindIt's time so don't deny itI wanta know...does it show on my faceI'm sick of this placeI wanta move on, cause the feeling is goneI wanta see...is it me out the doorI told you beforeI wanta have fun, and it's just begunI've seen the lightTried to talk about itIf you were ever down for meJust stop...you'd seeYou know I'm rightAnd it showed in your eyesWhat we shared had run emptySo let...it beI wanta know...does it show on my faceI'm sick of this placeI wanta move on...now there's one of us goneI wanta see...is it me out the doorI said it beforeI wanta have fun, and its just begun[ www.azlyrics.com ]

Do you speak english?

in boston at the bus stop i was waiting for my greyhound , i had a fourteen hour trip ahead of me me, (i didn't know there would be a crazy lady with urine all down her pants, claming she was from sydney after she saw my australia t shirt) so i thought a few jim beams might ease the first couple of hours - i have not yet had any problems on the greyhound contrary to all the advice from fellow travellers and the occasional concierge, the greyhound coaches have been nothing but fairly comfortable and the travelors on board have been affable enough. The slovinian girls said they caught one in california and they were talking to a woman sitting next to them for a good few hours, when she then admitted to being a fresh fugitive of the state penitentiary. - so maybe its just the north east run. but i would actually prefer travelling greyhound thatn the maitland to newcastle cityrail.

but i digress, the man sitting next to me at the bus terminal bar was a born and bred bostonian and after chatting about the dallas cowboys and the patriots he asked what country i was from , i must also note that it was the first day i chose to wear my australian t-shirt, so sitting there with a massive flag and the word australia emblazzoned on my chest i replied 'australia' and i shit you not the exact moment i said that , men at work came over the loudspeaker. 'i come form the land downunder.'
so i said to the guy 'thats pretty weird.'. he didnt know.... so after explainging our unofficial anthem, we talked a bit more about the red sox before he asked me 'how long have you known english for?'
and he wasn't joking, i htink he barely had a grasp of the english language himself - or i sound so occa aussie that it is unrecognisable to a bostonian. So the guy did seem genuinely impressed to learn that in Australia we do speak english.









Donkey of the week award: the greyhound driver who took an extra twenty minutes at a stop in the middle of nowhere to catch a catnap after admitting to driving consistently for the past three days.

This one is for you simmon, it's in chinatown new york city. there was also a Morris street near wall st. but i didn't have my camera that day.

Kimbo saw this pic on my camera and made me put it on the blog

Biggest regret: not buying 'the station agent' with peter dinklage on dvd when i saw it a k-mart in waratah. (i have never seen it again)

Quote

Now, dicks have drive and clarity of vision, but they are not clever. They smell pussy and they want a piece of the action. And you thought you smelled some good old pussy, and have brought your two small mincey faggot balls along for a good old time. But you've got your parties mangled up. There's no pussy here, just a dose that'll make you wish you were born a woman. like a prick you are having second thoughts. you are shrinking, and your two little balls are shrinking with you. and the fact that you've got 'replica' and the fact that i've got 'desert eagle point five 0' written down the side of mine should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. now ... fuck off!!! Blue tooth tony - snatch

Random Photos

You can click on each photo to enlarge it.
Top : Me breaking the back of a horse at monument valley, its in nevada but the picturesque part that is in all the john wayne films is in the bottom of utah.
Second: i forget what town that is, its the cadillac fins thing, some post deco art in the middle of a field, this photo is just after uncle larry dacked me.
Third: there is quite the drop about a foot behind me at the grand canyon
Fourth: an indian riding off on a horse, he stole it from the spanish
Fifth: thisis in amorillo texas. the steakhouse where you eat the 72 ounce (2.5 kilo) steak.

Canada ehh

-i have a new poll at the bottom of the page, i thought about this one so there are some important decisions to make. and i'll just say i'm sad that ashlee simpson didn't get all the votes!! she has one vote and that is from me

Bonjour
maybe i should buy some sort of travel book or a map, i caught a bus from new england to Montreal in quebec, i knew there was some french thing going on but i didn't know it was the biggest french speaking city outside of france, there is no english ,and my debit card only works at an atm at the bus station, i am forever without access to my funds!!

Japan - i was speaking to a dude from japan and he was saying how they only have six days of vacation a year, and he goes to work from 8am to 10pm and that he works saturday so his only bit of free time is sunday, which he sometimes works then too. and all this for 500us dollars a week. thats a 84hour work week. the only people who finish at 5pm are sales people all the company/factory people go till around 8 or 10 pm, thats what i call a work ethic

canada is so much like australia with their laws and stuff, and it is vastly different to the usa, everyone is a bit cynical here, they dont have the blind optimism like the yanks, i'm actually missing the usa, i can't wait to go back tomorrow. i would like canada but i'm here to see the usa not some neutral version of australia full of socialists. i want to go back to a good ol' US bar have a jimbeam and coke (no jim beam anywhere) and eat nachos at the bar, nachos are my new food

a dude i was just talking to at a 'cheers' bar (just like the tv show) he is a producer and is making a film based on john candy's last script, it's called our father so look for it in 2008, the budget is 15million so tiny in usa terms but big in ozzy terms and he said the release would be international so we should see it in australia, it's about some priest in LA who produces films but loses his way and moves to detroit - so let the laughs roll with an out of place priest finding his values again in downtown detroit and all the gangsters!!! whoopi goldberg anyone????

well at least canada have the queen on their money - god bless the mother country, but i wont be coming back , there is a pub crawl starting in an hour so i'll see how i go

quote
'i understand the flowers, but did you have to salt the earth so nothing would grow back.'
'yeah'
flanders talking to homer after he stole his flowers to make a float for the homecoming game- stupid dean of the college! homer will show him and the nerds!

That's the emblem, the old man on the rock was their big

natural exhibit but he fell away a few years back! he was

on all the state quarters. i seem to remember a simpsons

episode where a face on a rock falls away, without knowing that

there was actually a face on a rock i thought it was weird at the time, but now it all

makes sense

LIVE FREE OR DIE!

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need i say anymore, that is the state motto, it is on all the license plates. the state of course is new hampshire a quant little place that you would barely notice driving past on the highway but once you make a stop there are some good people to meet, nick who is practically my cousin showed me around manchster , and he introduced me to a character i will have forever firmly etched in my mind - i met connor mcormack a completely unforgettable chap. the dude can party , australia definately needs its own version of a connor mcormack, imagine morris but opposite

i wish i had taken camera because there was a classic sign on the front of a corner type store 'guns, cigarettes, ammo and beer' can you not be in a place disimilar to heaven if it bears the afore mentioned insignia above its rustic wooden doors, the live free or die maxim is not taken lightly, it's such a powerfull phrase that envokes many types of emotion and could lead to certain ambiguities in other countries but the american understanding is literally live free or you will die mother fucker.
-noone wears seatbelts, there are fireworks readily available , drive in atms', i have yet to see a person on a motorbike wearing a helmet, and the gun shops are ample and heaving. yet for all this 'freedom' once again like in most us cities i have visited - the murder rate is ignored and pushed to page 8. the state has no sales tax, im pretty sure its the only state. and being just above MAthe teams are the boston red sox and the new england patriots. there is only a million people in the whole state,

it was a packed weekend, my first game of texas holdem in the usa, i came sixth of about twenty, i was too wasted and went all in on a pair of three's or something, just so i didnt have to think anymore and could devote my energy to drinking. the next day i met the rest of nick's crew and hung at a lakehouse, good times, it was my first 'nature' experience , it felt good getting back to mother earth for an afternoon.

I went to my first backyard hick party, with the side of an RV cut out of the side to make way for the band, which played all the great american rock songs that im growing to love, stuff like born to be wild and lynard skynard type stuff
after which was a place called mark's its a nice bar. i think manchester people know what i'm talking about :)

outback steakhouse this place markets itself as an australian steakhouse but it is far from it, the waitresses say stuff like 'have a bonza day' and the entree is a bloomin onion, nothing on the menu i had ever seen before, and noone knew what a meat pie was, and they had fosters actually on tap - need i say more. pretty much just an expensive restaurant with a few boomerangs on the wall.
-but cheers nick you went out of your way to show me a good time, and i only wish that you could buy alcohol after 11.30 pm so i could pay you back.



quotes
'chicken, gave me a bad coupon.' peter griffin - family guy

'he beat me, he beat me straight up, give that man hizz money.' kgb - rounders

google adsense can suck my balls

the donkey of the week award goes to google adsense


i was up to over 100 dollars but the bastards cut me off, (and blogspot isn't allowing me to put up a photo of a donkey for my donkey of the week award!!! )and have cancelled payment
this is their reason

Hello Daniel Callaghan,It has come to our attention that invalid clicks and/or impressionshave been generated on the Google ads on your site(s). We havetherefore disabled your Google AdSense account. Please understand thatthis was a necessary step to protect the interest of the AdWordsadvertisers.

and then this:

Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed furtherparticipation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. Theearnings on your account will be properly returned to the affectedadvertisers.If you feel that this decision was made in error, and can maintain ingood faith that the invalid activity was not due to the actions ornegligence of you or those you are responsible for, such as employeesand family members, you may appeal the closing of your account. To doso, please contact us only through this form

'the affected advertisers'!!! those poor basards who got free airtime on my site, airtime that is unpaid for no matter how dubious...
so which one of my employees out there clicked on my ads while you were supposed to be doing those TPS reports!!!! or perhaps family members like mom who used the same terminal from which i set up the account to continously click on the ads,

lessons learnt :
-unless you have a legimate website with decent webtraffic then adsense will only cause you hassle and actually sensor what you write - i got checked a few times for what i wrote
-google adsense can suck my balls
-i had big plans on retiring off this blog
-the blogging fad will die down, as people realise that scripted tv still exists
-logging for the most part is self indulgence and a way for people to further impose their opinions on others / uneducated opinions
-people scim through what you write and write comments pretending to have read it (david lonergan) to not mention any names
-a blogspot doesn't really impress the ladies, they can see through the shennanigans
-it may be good for personal remembrance many years down the track, such as a beloved photo album which gets put in the drawer but once viewed again releases all those wonderfull memories that make up your own insignificant life
- and lastly it is easier to make a hundred bucks by going out and mowing a few old ladies lawns and over charging!!!!

boston red sox vs cleveland indians

im a red sox fan now, i have the hat to prove it. and tonight i went to my first red sox game at fenway park, my experience was almost complete apart from a famous fenway frank, however a scalpor robbed me of my last 75 bucks to see the game, so i sat in the middle of some fat americans ,while they gorged on all sorts of stadium foodstuffs , feeling like my first red sox experience was almost complete if only for a couple more bucks, -stupid debit card day limits. the seats were good, i was just behind third base. 7-6 sox, in the last , good close game

boston is a pleasant city to say the least, i don't know if it is because i have just come from nyc that i am so impressed with the cleanliness and safer streets, but it is really one of my favourite cities , i liken it to brisbane more than anything else. it has the attitude of a smallish town but in the body of a city, the subway system is a welcome relief they aren't saunas full of sweating homeless people, boston is close to amorillo texas of my top us cities so far, the only difference is you wear a sox hat instead of a cowboy hat , and vote blue instead of red, i heard john kerry grew up just down the road from this hostel. the bars are great , a little pricey but very nice atmosphere. it would be a safe city to raise a family

mark walhberg, matt damon and ben affleck are all bostonians and boston was where the world first got to see the declaration of independance in 1776 after it was originally drawn up and signed in philadelphia pensylvania, and who could forget the boston tea party, so there is a lot of history here, but once again i have failed to maximise my time in such historic places and wind up spending my days in large faceless conglomorate malls.

if you're wondering why this post seems a little more articulate than others, it is because i am having tonight off from drinking.

one red paper clip - i have the link up now for the guy who had a dream to get a house, he didn't work he just started with a paper clip and kept trading up on his blogspot till he got a house, some of the things he got along the way are crazy , like an afternoon with alice cooper, it's worth a look. i am going to start with a brett favre trading card from the 2006 season so it will be his last, and i want to end up with a case of jim beam, or a house would be good too

quote
'you use words like pesceti and momatoes, you make numorous threatening refferences to the U.N and you end with the words screw flanders, over and over again.' - homer's editor