Jack White got married in some bullshit culture appropriation world music eco-tourist pseudo native wedding where three rivers meet in the mostest sacredest bestest part of the Amazon jungle by a medicine man, or some such shit.
You jumped the shark, Jack. You’re Sting now.
The White Stripes are the Spinal Tap of indie music.
I know these things are dangerous, but..
http://www.pwcwatch.org/Accident%20Links.htm rectal/vaginal lacerations????
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scromp: having fallen off a few pwcs i am not surprised at the rectal issues there
I love the dry, restrained prose of safety experts. They can’t just say “The damn things are too small, everyone’s an idiot, and they go fast. And stop fucking drinking!” From the California state boating safety report:
• Two PWC operators were riding together, on a parallel course. They were trying to converse and maneuvered closer to each other, but did so unsuccessfully and sideswiped each other. A passenger aboard one vessel sustained a broken leg as a result.
• A PWC operator approached a ski boat in a crossing situation and altered his course in order to cross behind that vessel. He failed to see that the ski boat was towing a tube and struck it. The tuber sustained a severe head injury and a broken elbow.
• An operator was traveling too fast considering her proximity to the shoreline. She attempted to avoid the wake of another vessel and quickly changed course, grounding the vessel. She sustained a broken elbow and the vessel sustained major damage.
• A PWC operator was traveling too fast in a 5 MPH zone. He shut off the engine as he approached shore and then lost steering capability and struck a beached vessel. A person aboard the beached vessel sustained facial and internal injuries.
• The PWC operator executed a donut at a high rate of speed, causing his passenger to lose his grip, fall overboard, and dislocate his shoulder.
• Many PWC operators do not realize that when they let off the throttle, they lose steering capability. Numerous accidents have resulted from this lack of knowledge.
• PWC sometimes present a danger to their riders because of the craft’s lack of visibility when it capsizes. Riders who are attempting to remount their PWC are often not visible to other watercraft, and are liable to be struck by other vessels.
• Although rare, lanyards sometimes present difficulties for operators. In one case, the operator fell overboard and was injured, rendering him unable to swim back to the craft. Since the lanyard was on his wrist, the passenger was unable to maneuver the craft to retrieve him. In other cases, lanyards became detached and could not be reattached quickly enough to avoid grounding or colliding with another vessel. These situations are rare, but noteworthy.
via cruel.com
Most of you are white North American or European suburban or urban people in the 14-30 age range. Most of you who are not in this group are participants in the dominant monoculture and economic ruling class this group represents, which is why you’re using the Internet in the first place. The following is a list of things which you are not:
Please make a note of these things that you are not, and keep them in mind when posting prose on the Internet.
Otherwise, I’ll have to kill you real hard, right in the head.
Those of you who actually are beatniks, little Japanese girls, etc.: please carry on, sorry I had to say anything.
When you host images on your own website and read your logs, one of the things you see is which friends group you’re in. This is usually pretty basic, like “locals” or “people” or “not_from_work”. As I think I mentioned once long ago, they can also be funny like “former_fucktoys” or “dumbfux” etc. I am on kateoninetails list called “not legal” although I am over 18, because she is in law school.
There’s been a few funny ones over the years but I am happy to say now that I have just found out I am on gordonzola‘s list called “white guys”!
Gang of Four put some re-recordings and remixes of old songs on their U.S. website, and they’re pretty good. They put them up with a flash player than streams them, however, which is as the kids say “weaksauce”. Communist rock band attempts to keep fans from downloading MP3s: hilarity ensues.
Here they are, in more reasonable mp3 form. Right-click and save, enjoy. If you want to give them to other people, please mirror them.
These expire in a few days, or sooner if they get abused.
Another show stopper: “49ers love being in community. Very patriotic . . . support president and his George Bush erection.”
“Erection?” Reynolds asks.
“Yes,” the Chinese man responds. “It say, ‘You like Bush — then you like his erection.’
“My name is Suck Hung,” the Chinese man says as he’s leaving. “My brother’s name is Suck Young — my whole family suck.”
Worst PR director ever.
Working on your brain is difficult but rewarding.
The current medical regimen is the most helpful yet. I’m not happy taking 3 separate psychiatric medications (plus one other prescription and a regular OTC drug for other things), but we’re getting closer to a well-tuned head. The Adderall seems to take me to a more calm and focused place, and the other two have pretty much knocked out the anxiety and depression fits.
There are interesting links between depression and ADD. People with ADD do anything they can to fire up the forebrain, because it’s dead and that feels awful. Therefore we self-medicate with stimulants, or arrange a life full of emergencies and extreme situations, or play lots of video games, etc. One way to stimulate the forebrain is to force yourself into a problem solving and pattern recognition mode: the brain function that tells us that a twig snapped in the forest 50 yards away, or that the dot on the horizon is a ship, or that our keys are across the room next to the hat.
Unfortunately, one way to stimulate the forebrain is to keep pushing at an insoluble problem. If your problem is something like “why can’t I get anywhere in life?” or “why do all girls hate me?” or “how will I ever clean up this horrible mess of my existence?” it’s going to be refractory to the usual problem-solving methods. If you’re depressed, these things will come up a lot. And if you’ve got some form of ADD, working away at that problem will stimulate the forebrain and be irresistable, like picking at a scab or scratching an itch. What you get for your trouble is a spiral of repetitive negative thinking that gets tighter, and deeper, and worse.
This explains one of my worst depressive thought patterns. I do just that; I latch on to an unpleasant “problem” which is actually a reflexively depressive thought. Because thinking about it fires up the problem solving apparatus, I think I’m going to somehow solve the problem if I just think about it really hard. This makes the depression go deeper, and I’m in a feedback loop.
Long story short it’s way easier to get out of one of these spirals on 15 mg of Adderall XR. The forebrain is running about normally and isn’t saying “scratch my itch!”, and when I slide into some self-critical repetitive negative thinking it only lasts a short time; I can pull out of it faster now.
The next step in brain maintenance is: regular exercise. This is gonna be interesting. I’ve never succeeded at that since it was enforced in high school.
+ received new remaster/re-release of Gang of Four’s Entertainment!/Yellow E.P. Sounds great, very loud and bright, nice packaging. Thank you, Rhino!
+ received new Umberto Eco novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana. I love me some Eco. Will begin reading it tonight. Hurray.
– I have to fill out a complicated document (in Excel of course) because HR says I “failed my S.M.A.R.T. goals for the year” necessitating a complete list of my achievements for the last year, or something.
– Self-loathing again.
+ Pizza!
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