Yeah, I know this isn't one I mentioned before, but I went and bought it a few days ago (and couldn't put it down) - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I really enjoyed it, though I developed a real love-hate relationship for Holden. The reason for that, I think, is because I seem to be quite a bit like him (I just hope I'm not that much of a prick, heh), and for reasons that I am a bit too bashful to share (or perhaps I'm aware of how incredibly pretentious that would sound - not sure). I very much love how it is written definitively how a seventeen year old boy talks and would tell that story. Perfect.
It is a book that I regretfully never read in high school, as it was never assigned to me in any class. Then again I never did take any initiative to read it, so who's the bad guy, who's the bad guy? I dunno, but that is one book down, and at the very least four to go. I am glad to say that the first one is a book that I will read again.
And what a hell of a start!
Will
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
...Wow...
http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=8734018&nav=3YeX
Hypothetically. Again.
You are driving down the street, and some dumbass kid smacks into the back of your van. People in the neighborhood see what's going on and beat your ass. The police have been ignoring kids riding dirt bikes, quads, whatever. I'd. Be. Fucking. Pissed. At the mob of people who just beat your ass? Obviously. Especially when some of the people they interviewed either thought it was funny or were too obviously dishonest to give a detailed account of what happened (when kids are driving around on dirt bikes and shit, something they might enjoy, you don't go to one of them for the truth when one of them fucks up. They're id centered and they will lie to keep that pleasure alive). But the cops? Oh, you'd better fucking believe I'd be pissed at them. It's basic psychology. If you reward an undesirable behavior, by allowing it, in this case, that behavior will continue. So I'd have a fucking field day with the cops. Maybe not sue them. Just openly five-on-two them. Make them look as impotent as possible (or in this case, they are).
Okay, maybe that much is extreme, but Jesus Tap-dancing Christ, they've been ignoring this shit. This was a matter of time before something like it happened.
This kid though...
How come parents of said fuck-ups always say their kids were good kids? If the kid really was on a stolen dirt bike, how does that constitute good behavior? What the hell would you consider to be bad behavior?
"Well there was this one time he cut his sister's tongue out. Boy did he get read the riot act for that!"
Oh, and how do you not know what the hell your kid is up to? HE WAS DOING IT IN BROAD DAY LIGHT! A witness said he slowed down by his house. That's right, he was biking around his own neighborhood in full view of his home. Oh, but why would he do that at an empty house? Oh, that's right, it wasn't empty and he didn't want you catching him go fast. Is that really where the line is drawn, going too fast? "Oh I don't know or care where or how you got it, just go slow." Really? Are you fucking blind? Deaf? Otherwise oblivious? Did you buy him a dirt bike? No? Then where the fuck did it come from? It's easy, sit him down and say, "Don't steal motorbikes. If you do, stop at the proper places and drive responsibly. If you don't do either of those, wear a helmet." Seems easy to me.
Did the kid deserve to die? Did he have it coming? Was he asking for it? Absolutely fucking not, but come on. Give your kid a better chance than that. Is the alternative really all that great? And are you just going to say, "oh it's just a bad thing that happened, horrible tragedy," or are you going to make something of it? Are you going to make things better? Or will you ignore the behavior, and keep the cycle going?
I feel like I'm on crazy pills.
Will
Hypothetically. Again.
You are driving down the street, and some dumbass kid smacks into the back of your van. People in the neighborhood see what's going on and beat your ass. The police have been ignoring kids riding dirt bikes, quads, whatever. I'd. Be. Fucking. Pissed. At the mob of people who just beat your ass? Obviously. Especially when some of the people they interviewed either thought it was funny or were too obviously dishonest to give a detailed account of what happened (when kids are driving around on dirt bikes and shit, something they might enjoy, you don't go to one of them for the truth when one of them fucks up. They're id centered and they will lie to keep that pleasure alive). But the cops? Oh, you'd better fucking believe I'd be pissed at them. It's basic psychology. If you reward an undesirable behavior, by allowing it, in this case, that behavior will continue. So I'd have a fucking field day with the cops. Maybe not sue them. Just openly five-on-two them. Make them look as impotent as possible (or in this case, they are).
Okay, maybe that much is extreme, but Jesus Tap-dancing Christ, they've been ignoring this shit. This was a matter of time before something like it happened.
This kid though...
How come parents of said fuck-ups always say their kids were good kids? If the kid really was on a stolen dirt bike, how does that constitute good behavior? What the hell would you consider to be bad behavior?
"Well there was this one time he cut his sister's tongue out. Boy did he get read the riot act for that!"
Oh, and how do you not know what the hell your kid is up to? HE WAS DOING IT IN BROAD DAY LIGHT! A witness said he slowed down by his house. That's right, he was biking around his own neighborhood in full view of his home. Oh, but why would he do that at an empty house? Oh, that's right, it wasn't empty and he didn't want you catching him go fast. Is that really where the line is drawn, going too fast? "Oh I don't know or care where or how you got it, just go slow." Really? Are you fucking blind? Deaf? Otherwise oblivious? Did you buy him a dirt bike? No? Then where the fuck did it come from? It's easy, sit him down and say, "Don't steal motorbikes. If you do, stop at the proper places and drive responsibly. If you don't do either of those, wear a helmet." Seems easy to me.
Did the kid deserve to die? Did he have it coming? Was he asking for it? Absolutely fucking not, but come on. Give your kid a better chance than that. Is the alternative really all that great? And are you just going to say, "oh it's just a bad thing that happened, horrible tragedy," or are you going to make something of it? Are you going to make things better? Or will you ignore the behavior, and keep the cycle going?
I feel like I'm on crazy pills.
Will
Monday, July 21, 2008
Really???
Hypothetical.
Barack Obama says there should be a definite time table for withdrawal from Iraq, Bush and John McCain call it an irresponsible idea, not smart. Now, the Iraqi P.M. agrees, there should be a timetable. Why do they not wag their finger at the government that the administration propped up? Why do they continue to back leaders who are so obviously irresponsible and short sighted?
I don't get it...
Coming Soon - - Regime Change 2: The Reckoning.
Opens January 2009 (November Elections Pending).
Will
Barack Obama says there should be a definite time table for withdrawal from Iraq, Bush and John McCain call it an irresponsible idea, not smart. Now, the Iraqi P.M. agrees, there should be a timetable. Why do they not wag their finger at the government that the administration propped up? Why do they continue to back leaders who are so obviously irresponsible and short sighted?
I don't get it...
Coming Soon - - Regime Change 2: The Reckoning.
Opens January 2009 (November Elections Pending).
Will
Thursday, July 17, 2008
It's all in the bookcase, need to plow through it....
Kate and I have a nifty little library. Lots of random things, all across the map from banned books, to classics, to poetry, to (auto)biographies, histories, fiction, comics/graphic novels and random psychology books. And you know what? A good chunk of them are half read. Came across a thread in a Manics message board about what people are reading and it got me thinking, we have a ton of books and I haven't finished a lot of them. I always put off reading until I forget about it. So, here's where we finish a bunch of them. I want to polish off at least five, one for each month left in 2008. I'm already pretty well into Grapes of Wrath, but I also need to finish Angela's Ashes and get it back to Jenn. Kate found her copy of Tropic of Cancer, and I need to finish World War Z finally as well. This should be good if I can stick to it...
Pet Project..... GO!
Will
Pet Project..... GO!
Will
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
FUCKING GOOGLE
It should be noted that I created this account and blog out of a feeling of positivity and it is gone now.
It took me ten minutes to create the goddamned google account to create this fiasco in progress. Every time I entered that jumbled pile of letters into the little box it was wrong. Admittedly, the first one was way too jumbled to even guess. The second was much clearer, as were the third and fourth. The fifth was not so much clear as it was completely unreadable, and the sixth came back to normal. Finally after attempting to contact google to tell them what a piece of crap their sign in thing is, and failing at that as well, I tried one more time. Completely garbled mess of letters once again, but I guessed anyway. Success. And here I am.
I was all happy and had a ton of awesome stuff to write but this will have to suffice for the first post. Sorry about that.
Will
It took me ten minutes to create the goddamned google account to create this fiasco in progress. Every time I entered that jumbled pile of letters into the little box it was wrong. Admittedly, the first one was way too jumbled to even guess. The second was much clearer, as were the third and fourth. The fifth was not so much clear as it was completely unreadable, and the sixth came back to normal. Finally after attempting to contact google to tell them what a piece of crap their sign in thing is, and failing at that as well, I tried one more time. Completely garbled mess of letters once again, but I guessed anyway. Success. And here I am.
I was all happy and had a ton of awesome stuff to write but this will have to suffice for the first post. Sorry about that.
Will
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