I bought too many groceries today, including but not limited to: goat cheese; blueberries; stuffing sized portabella mushrooms; huge ripe OMG delicious tomatoes; and plastic bags. Good plastic bags, you know, brand name stuff.

The evening conversation was interesting. kaldame has inexplicably taken up knitting. J showed up and was very interested in my brain BIOS rebooting therapy and approved of it tremendously, and it was good to hear from another professional that this isn’t just some kind of Boopsian Pyramid Chakra nonsense. I shall be neuro-EMDR-reprogrammed into a very effective Mentat.

J’s room mate is socially maladjusted nearly to the point of psychosis. He attempted to simultaneously argue about: the validity of “labels” like “liberal” or “Christian”; the morality of abortion; the validity of words to describe anything; the existence or nature of God; the justification of eugenic murder of children whose lives are not turning out right; whether all women are “playing games” with him; and whether to go shoot pool tonight. I found it kind of fun but I can see why some people want to thrust their heads through a board after such a conversation.

I think I said “Whoa, there!” like Larry Wall about 8 times.

Confidential to Surprised in Costa Mesa: if your girlfriend is who I think she is, you should just up and start runnin’.

GOOFY HILS which she will use as her LJ icon if she has any balls whatsoever. Note Silent Trucker Phil in background.

also pinhead B; happy hils on phone with J & L in background

For bruisedhips and others who would appreciate it:

No, Your Waffle

WARNING: The Consumer Safety Protection Council has deemed this product dangerous because of the “embedded toy”. The Ferrero company does not export this product to the USA at this time, so supplies may be limited. Please be a “responsible” parent/adult and do NOT purchase this product if you have children under the age of 5 “in your household”! These Eggs are suitable for older children and adults ONLY.

No.

Edit: eyeteeth is a very bad and dangerous person for locating

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=rarelitslash

It’s a “goldmine”, folks.

The address of the black hole is 474 E 17th St Costa Mesa CA 92627

and three more..

Today I went to the BIG LOTS! because bruisedhips had assured me that they had the Spicy Cheezits with Tabasco. The spice must flow so I went. She was right; that woman knows her discount stores. Because it was the BIG LOTS! I also ended up purchasing a set of Old Spice Red Extreme Climber Men’s Toiletries with Carabiner and Humor Value for xtreme_pr0k, some Spicy Spam with Tabasco for vegemitelover, some terrifyingly bad Panda Candy for redmaenad, and some German Organic Rye Kernel Bread in a plastic bag that is made of neutron stars and weighs a pound although it is the size of a Cheeto for friendly_bandit. It is the general consensus that I should stay away from the BIG LOTS! now.

I then went to Cost Plus World Market where I purchased green and jasmine tea, Thai spices, the double-salt Dutch licorice that only I can eat and live, a backscratcher ($1.49), and some soap.

By the way the Old Spice Red Extreme Climber Mens Toiletries smell just awful. Don’t open the box, just enjoy the joke.

CALIFORNIA
Hoax Soaks Aliso Viejo
City officials fall for an Internet prank and draft a law to curb the risks of dihydrogen monoxide.
By William Wan
Times Staff Writer

March 13, 2004

In large quantities, dihydrogen monoxide can cause medical problems in humans and even destroy property. But in Aliso Viejo, it’s only causing red faces.

Officials of the south Orange County city were embarrassed to learn Friday that they had tripped over an Internet hoax about dihydrogen monoxide — commonly known as water — in an effort to be environmentally correct.

A proposed law that was scheduled to go before the City Council next week would have banned foam cups and containers at events requiring city permits.

A staff report cited environmental concerns, including the danger posed by dihydrogen monoxide, described as a chemical used in production of the plastic that can “threaten human health and safety.”

“It’s embarrassing,” said City Manager David J. Norman. “We had a paralegal who did bad research.”

The American Plastics Council has seized on the case as an example of how “junk science” can cause unfounded environmental fears.

“The plastics industry has always been a favorite target of environmentalists,” said spokesman Robert Krebs. “But we dream about instances like this when our opponents do something foolish.”

Regardless of the hoax, the Sierra Club argues that the ubiquitous white foam — made of polystyrene — can cause environmental harm.

It’s not biodegradable, said spokesman Eric Antebi, and, if ingested, can damage the digestive tracts of marine animals.

Aliso Viejo officials are not the only people who have fallen for the hoax.

Seven years ago, four teenagers in Pittsburgh were reprimanded by police for passing out fliers that caused a neighborhood-wide panic about dihydrogen monoxide.

Weeks later, the hoax took on a life of its own after a junior high school student in Eagle Rock, Idaho, used it in a science fair project to prove how gullible people can be.

The student conducted a survey of residents about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide and found that 86% favored banning the substance — without knowing what it was.

The hoax inspired a small tongue-in-cheek movement on the Internet, with “national coalitions” formed to ban the substance. One of them, the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division, maintains an extensive, if satirical, website detailing the harmful effects of the chemical — from tissue damage caused by prolonged exposure (wrinkly skin after soaking in the bath tub) to death by overdose (drowning).

Despite their embarrassment, officials in Aliso Viejo may still ban polystyrene.

“Our main concern is with the Aliso Creek watershed,” Norman said. “If you get Styrofoam into the water and it breaks apart, it’s virtually impossible to clean up.”

After some Internet research on Friday, the city manager decided to pull the item from the City Council’s agenda.

“We’re going to rework it — with better research — before it’s taken back to the council,” Norman said.

Today is apparently fucked-up cult mass murder day in Fresno, CA.

I had a Brain Inventory today. Hils asked how I was doing on toner. Actually it was funny (haw) because I had left my wallet at D’s right before the appointment with the psych doc and when I filled out the Brain Inventory one of the questions was “Do you frequently lose important objects?” YES OFTEN.

This therapy is right on the borderline between New Age Bubblehead and Science, which is probably good for me in a number of ways. It’s genuinely holistic, in that she looks at all sorts of causes and cures for the brain rot I seem to have. I’m not sure how I feel about all of it (when people talk about things like nutritional supplements I get nervous), but the EMDR bit and some of the attention to things like diet and exercise make sense.

I was sent off to buy some pop psych book with a title like SQUEEZE YOUR BRAIN, SQUEEZE YOUR BALLS that I have not started yet to read.

EMDR sounds like Modern Therapeutic Phrenology but you know, I’m about to try anything that doesn’t involve Scientology or psychic surgery at this point.

Also, no exorcists thanks.

My latest theory on human relations is that communication is actually impossible and that our insistence to the contrary is a form of near-universal hominid psychosis. Please do not steal my Nobel Prize/Macarthur Grant for this one.