the night of slutty disney characters and classic superheroes

gracious, i love halloween in nyc.

Halloween

I've never celebrated Halloween before.
This is exciting :-)

Correction, however long 8am yesterday to 6pm today is.

Me

I will be lazy, as well as tardy, with this post.

There are a few things I should come clean about, now that I have reached what many have said is the pinnacle of my time here on this planet.

I am absolutely unreliable when a "timeframe" is involved

I lack moral judgement, and character

I am lazy as fuck

I honestly believe that there is, and never will be, a greater live show than the Flaming Lips. This I cannot defend, nor do I feel the need to

I'm pretty certain that my place of work and the school I go to are wastes of my time, but will likely do nothing about it

I feel as though my talents would best be used as a Southern Baptist preacher

Thanks, I feel better.

Perhaps not as culturally significant as the election, but...

Just look at this. This dress was part of the gothic collection featured at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. The dress was inspired by Japanese horror films and is supposed to look like blood in water.
There's also a hat made of pig skin (resembling human skin) that has a tattoo of a bat on it, pretty sweet.
The website itself is amazingly designed and makes you feel like you've stepped into the museum, so even if goth isn't your thing you should check it all out. Here's the website:
http://www3.fitnyc.edu/museum/gothic/

My humblest apologies for not posting on time, I've been in this god forsaken theater for for 21 and a half consecutive hours

These guys are voting......

I know I am late with this but...

The saddest thing for me, listening to this, is that quite a few of these people probably graduated from high school.

Obama

I know it's not my day, but I thought this was too important not to post it.  I've been supporting Obama since the day he entered the race, and I can't believe that six days from now he could be elected the next president...WOW!!!

Seriously?!?

I had someone look me in the face today and say, in all seriousness, that women's rugby is not a real sport. He's lucky that I've been working on controlling my anger lately...

Thelonious Sphere Monk

Words cannot describe what his music means to me

satan in the form of footwear

no... these are not photoshopped...

satan has appeared~

'nuf said.

Sleep

An average human sleeps for 27 years throughout their life.

Can you imagine if we didn't have to sleep? What we could do with almost 30 extra years...the possibilities are endless.

And why do humans sleep, anyways? It doesn't make any evolutionary sense! Think about it: when humans are sleeping, they're not eating, drinking, socializing, or reproducing - all of which are necessary to survival from the evolutionary standpoint. So why do we have to sleep?

Why can't we just have an extra 30 years?

better than a three layered cake....

it's my three layered STENCIL!
bwahaha for calvin and hobbes~

(the cork board makes it kind of funny)
(plus i couldn't wait until i could take the photo in better situations)

enough about "green" fabric...

oh wait, just kidding. The newest one is Minerale. It's actually made from the minerals found in volcanoes, and it has the best properties of any fabric invented thus far. It's pretty hard to find too much information about because only one company, Cutter & Buck, is licensed to use it. They'll be introducing it in their boring old golf apparel. ugghh what a waste!

ok, no for something completely different. I love the song "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon" by Urge Overkill. It's the one that Mia Wallace plays right before she ODs. Oh, the glamour!

p.s. my 21st birthday is on Saturday.

Thank you, lacey

Fear as an insulator/Insulate through fear?

According to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, fear is defined as:

A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

Apprehension of impending...doom? (A heart attack?)

Many of our fellow Citizens are afraid.

They are fearful of the intentions, beliefs, values, plans, and the size of a presidential candidate's cock.

That's right.

The color of a man's skin is, openly, a reason to question someone with enough credentials to receive the nomination of one of the two major political parties in this country. The idea, the audacity, that someone who has been elected to two political offices, won four elections, and has been publicly running for the office of President of the United States of America for two years is a complete unknown, a SUPER enigma to the american people is unconscionable. Only through insulation to information from outside sources about topics not of the daily routine could this have happened anywhere in this country, in this, the 21st Century. The 21st. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death almost 50 years old. The Civil War, staring down the barrel of 150 years. The signing of the Declaration of Independence, stating specifically,

AND I QUOTE,

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

That all men are created equal.

All men.

Equal.

That fun little document, 232 years old.

But where does this come from? We are the pinnacle of achievement in the world. Both historically and contemporarily. We are successful over-throwers of big, mean overlords. You can come to this country, sign a couple sheets of paper, and sell dildos out of a box. How great is that?

But now we are content to halt our progressions. Civil liberties are at their peak. Expression is as open as should be warranted. Subsets of people are who they are and where they should be.

I had hoped that racism and bigotry in this country were minorities, both vocal and silent. Understood, but not to be fucked with. Perhaps, sadly, we have settled.

Joe-Beats-His-Wife

This hatred of intellectual curiosity is fascinating. Since when did the world's trailblazers become so content? We are perfectly willing to allow mass amounts of media to create judgements and ideologies for us? This nation's psyche is built on people who completely abandoned everything to seek out an entirely new world. New everything. The genealogy routes back to people, in every subset, whose questioning of the world around them was so deep they questioned which ground they should live on. They were willing to leave behind everything they knew nothing about and travel thousands of miles to live somewhere else they knew even less about. But now there even exists a mainstream, and to travel outside it is... bad? Is... Disrespectful? Is... un-American? I would argue it is more American than blind consumerism, cronyism, bigotry, or, perhaps principally, ignorance.

Hope as Change
My principal hope is not embedded in Barack's political leanings, not in his leadership skills, nor in his vitality. I hope that he can bring about social change. Help heal this country's deep divisions. We have a very dark past, one that still separates us by pigment. Barack has shown a system of values that hold high the indiviual, the person, as valuable. Hold valuable that person and embrace differences of culture and background. The Alaskan governor does not. Not in speech or character or background does she value the human being past her own beliefs. We all have families, have hopes, have fears. It is time to embrace those fears.

Monday October 20th.

Well Me Droogies,

Working on the good ship PYAASA this weekend in Anacortes I discombobulated my left rib cage and am consequently in somewhat of a narcotic(legal) induced fog, so what else is new right?

Cami, I am amazed at bamboo cloth. I am currently looking for varieties of bamboo I can plant in Eastern Washington that will grow bigger than your little finger. The bigger stuff does not seem to tolerate freezing well.

I love this Marx video. "Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad...."



You guys have finally convinced me about Obama. I think Colin Powell's endorsement was the final thing for me. I admire the General because I do not think he likes war. That is my kind of General, "I'll fight if I have to..." but he is not part of the "war machine" (Welcome my son, welcome to the machine) that basically fuels our economy. We have been at war for almost one hundred years.

I thought this site was very cool. It lets you search the internet for images that match one you pick, ie. try the Mona Lisa and you get all the various iterations

Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequences

Where are these people?

Where some salt come from.

Destruction of Jugha khachkars by Azeri soldiers

It's not my day either.

BUT I wanted to show everyone the hoodie I made for class. It's made from bamboo fabric that I dyed. The fabric has this naturally occuring anti bacterial and anti fungal agent in it called khun. No more musty stinky sweaty Cami! It's also amazingly soft, light weight, and wicks away mositure way better than cotton. The fabric's a little pricey, but I think I'm gonna see if I can find it wholesale online.

Rugby

I know it's not my day - but I have to update you all on how fucking amazing our women's rugby team is.

We beat CWU for the first time in our history - 24 to 0!

And we sent one of them home on a stretcher...oops...

Really!?!?!?!?!?

The other day I was waiting at the bus stop, and I just started looking in the sky.  And while I was looking at the clouds and the beautiful blue sky, I had just one thought.....really?  You're telling me that beyond all these clouds and stars and whatever else there may be up there, that there is a single, all knowing, all seeing, all hearing, omnipresent, infallible being, or light, or whatever the fuck "god" is, that's looking down and judging me and everyone else, deciding which of us gets to go to "heaven" and which of us get to burn in a lake of fire for all eternity.  Really? Oh, you're serious. Wow.

stencils

stenciling.... is great.

Flight

So I know it's not actually Friday anymore...sorry.
Anyways, I flew a plane a Thursday! And we didn't crash...

And I have a rugby game in the morning. I have to be on the field at 8am.
Hence the really short post.

The next one will be better...

PLA

it's cool shit. It is an artificial fabric that is made from corn, and it's properties can be changed very easily. Although the distillation process is the same as that of synthetic fibers, It's way more environmentally friendly to produce than synthetic fibers (which are made of plastic). PLA is relatively new, it came out in 2002. They're still tweaking it a little to make it a little easier to dye bright colors. I really want to get my hands on some!!!

Democracy

A little rough, but finally posted.

my mom sent this to me today, it was forwarded to her.

How Racism Works...
What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said "I do" to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers, but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?

What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

You are The Boss... which team would you hire?

With America facing historic debt, 2 wars, stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc.

Educational Background:

Obama:
Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)

vs.

McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank: 894 of 899

Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University o f Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in Journalism

Now, which team are you going to hire ?

Racial Undertones Getting Louder and Louder...AND LOUDER

This morning I watched a video on youtube.  In the video there was a guy at a Sarah Palin rally in Pennsylvania who was proudly brandishing a doll which he called "Little Hussein".  Wanna know what the doll was?  It was a Curious George doll with an Obama sticker on its forehead...isn't that nice.  There have been many other frightening videos that have come out recently from McCain-Palin rallies.  People calling Obama a "terrorist", a "muslim", and a "one man terror cell".  My personal favorite was someone shouting " KILL HIM!!!".  In my humble opinion, the two people that have been inciting this violent racism are John McCain and Sarah Palin.  At McCain-Palin rallies all over the country they have been asking "Who is the real Barack Obama?".  "Can we trust a man who's been pallin' around with terrorists?".  If you can see through this bullshit you know the question that they are really asking...DO YOU REALLY WANT A NIGGER IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!  But McCain and Palin aren't the only ones who have been inciting this racism.  Republican leaders in Virginia are trying to tie Obama to Osama bin Laden.  Someone working for the McCain Campaign said that "Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family" when referring to Obama's relationship with 60's radical William Ayers.  And there are the countless number of people who refer to him as Barack HUSSEIN Obama.  While all this is really frightening, and reminds us all of the fact that racism is still alive and rampant in the United States, it makes me very happy to see that ever since the McCain camp started using this racist strategy, their poll numbers have been plummeting.  I've spent about the last half hour trying to figure out how to end this and make it all come together in a really poignant, thought-provoking way, but all I can think of is......FUCK YOU SARAH PALIN!!!!  

fruititarian

are there such things as fruititarians? there are vegetarians, pescatarians, etc. but why not for fruit?

I know, it's not Thursday,

sorry. In other news, some lady screamed at me today because I didn't hear what she ordered. "I'm sorry that I couldn't hear you mumble over the coffee grinder, espresso maker, awful lounge music, and other customers placing their orders. I've only been up since five and am covered in sour milk and stink like coffee, I'm so sorry that I am not more attentive to you. By the way, I'm the person who handles your food every morning. If you don't want a decaf or saliva in your coffee, perhaps you should be a little more polite" should have been my appropriate response.

One of these days I'll make that little speech.

Just thought everyone should know, they upped my grant for college so that means that I can go out for lunch every now and then! Or take spontaneous weekend trips to visit people who don't live in Seattle!

Sounds

I don't think I could be deaf. Maybe if I was born deaf...but if I went deaf now, I think I'd go crazy too. Something about music connects so deeply with my soul, my spirit, whatever you wanna call it, that to live without music would be unbearable.

Without music life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo

Recap

So that's the first week (mostly). I think this looks pretty promising. I just hope Capp actually participates, instead of stalking. One question I have to the group is how does everyone feel about posting on other's days? I think comments are probably the way to go, but maybe content could be posted in reply? Speak to me brothas.

Our Money

Sorry for the late post, I procrastinated, and then researched for 2 hours.

On September 25th, JP Morgan Chase overtook Bank of America as the country's largest deposit taking institution by claiming all assets of the Seattle based Washington Mutual, the country's largest savings and loan institution failure ever. Chase did so without incurring any of the defaulted liabilities of WaMu. WaMu's failure related directly to it's numerous defaulted mortgages, resulting in a catastrophic loss of capital. The public company's stock fell from $36 a share a year ago to 14 cents a share as of yesterday.

On September 29th, Citigroup acquired the capital of failed Wachovia in a deal with the FDIC, guaranteeing no acquisition of loses. Wachovia failed for much the same reason as WaMu.

But before all this, on September 16th, the Federal Reserve agreed to loan American International Group $85 billion in capitol, effectively buying the company on the taxpayer's behalf. AIG will be run by either the Federal Reserve or the Treasury. The culprit in this case was AIG's $441 billion venture (nearly half of its $1 trillion balance sheet) into housing and credit linked derivatives. Most simply, AIG was insuring the mortgages that failed Wachovia, WaMu, and 27 other banks nationwide this year.

But how did this happen?

Deregulation's roots are as old as 1969, when Fannie May was "created", formerly the governmental institution Federal National Mortgage Association. This loosened government control over who could receive mortgages, and what percentage of the market of homes were in sub-prime loans, loans given to high risk individuals.

What occurred over time was a market driven push to deregulate, to allow the market to decide the make up of its own loans overall. Sub-prime lending, heavily regulated until 1969, was an astronomical supply of capital waiting in the wings.

Valued at $50 billion in 2001, sub-prime lending is now worth $1.3 trillion, accounting for 1 in 3 mortgages nationwide. It now appears that nearly the entire sub-prime mortgage market will be paid for directly by the taxpayer, as almost $800 billion has already been injected back into the market by the federal government.

America Kicks Ass by John S. Hall

Capp

Capp will take monday, but will continue to slack until next monday.

Aaron takes tuesday.

Jim Cramer says, "Obama is a recession. McCain is a depression."

Gods Day

Since today is Gods day, I figured I would just give you a few quotes from the bible:

"For I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger forever." (Jeremiah 3:12) 
"Ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn forever." (Jeremiah 17:4)

"And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth." (Matthew 28:18) 
"the whole world is under control of the evil one." (1 John 5:19)

And Jesus said, "For judgement I am come into this world." (John 9:39) 
"I came not to judge the world" (John 12:47)

"Jacob said, 'I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.'" (Genesis 32:30) 
"No man hath seen God at any time." (John 1:18)

We should fear God (Matthew 10:28) 
We should love God (Matthew 22:37) 
There is no fear in love (1 John 4:18)

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity"

-Thomas Jefferson, 1782

time

this is so not fair... i totally posted this on saturday at 1:46 a.m. and because it's set on pacific time, it says i posted this on friday night... lame~

ooo but now i just clicked on the "post options" button and i can change that!!!

ah but nevermind.. it's actually just so you can have it written before it actually gets posted... lame~

a five day week?

i could not help but notice as i was cruising our newfound blog (thanks to kellen of course) that our seven day blog roster is short two. will we continue onward as a five day week blog? hmm....

honey tea is great. minus the tea part because it's actually just hot water and massive amounts of honey. it's becoming cold here finally and fall is about to begin!!! yay~ while walking down broadway the other day enjoying the crisp new air that fall wonderfully brings every year, i saw a guy walking toward me on the sidewalk who looked strangely familiar... right when he passed me he looked right at me while i had that look on my face- the one where you're like... where the hell do i know this guy from? and then i realized... it was PAUL GIAMATI!! but he looked totally crazed~ maybe he's practicing for a role in a new movie? {shrug}

Ninjas

I found these pictures today.

Maybe we really are twins...

Buses

Have you ever felt like just getting on a random bus and going wherever it takes you? Not looking out the windows, just driving and driving until you finally stop and discover somewhere you never knew existed?

I wish there were more bus stations in Pullman.

Hello

So - I'm calling Friday. That's my day.

I know it's only Thursday - but I thought I'd say hello.

I'll have more tomorrow.

Same ol shiii

While biking at gym, I had the pleasure of watching the vice presidential debates on CNN. While Palin may not have failed as badly as during her interview with Katie Couric, she by no means came across as a rocket scientist much less vice presidential material. What bothered me even more about the lack of overall content on Palin's side was the response of the critics. I was disgusted to here at least three different critics refer to Palin as "foxy." Now I know this is CNN and I shouldn't have high expectations, but I almost fell off the bike. I don't know why this kind of thing always comes as a shock to me, but it's beginning to bother me more and more. I don't hate Sarah Palin because she is a cunt. I hate her because the Republican party is using her, the seem "fiesty," "foxy," soccer mom as the poster child for reform. That is repulsive to me. While I didn't think that Hillary would be a better candidate than Obama, that was initially because of Obama's plan for helping college students get out of debt. While I would like to see a women in office, I want it to be the right person for the job, despite whether or not they've got a vagina. I want to believe that Americans are smart enough to realize just what an idiot Sarah Palin is, but my fear is that most of them will be thinking with their dongs. Is that all anything comes down to anymore? Foxy?! WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH BEING THE VICE PRESIDENT?

Bipartisinship

This taken from an article in the New York Times

It was Senator Obama who crossed the aisle.

On Wednesday evening, as the senators gathered to vote on the 700 billion financial rescue package, Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, walked over to the Republican side of the chamber to extend a greeting to Senator John McCain of Arizona.

While it took Mr. Obama several minutes to make his way over to Mt. McCain, the actual handshake lasted barely a second, as Mr. McCain responded with a chilly look, at turn of his head and brief return handshake.

As Mr. Obama worked the floor of the senate, holding a long conversation with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York and walking around to greet other colleagues, Mr. McCain largely stayed near his seat.

Republican Senators wandered by to say hello, before he left from the chamber.

It looks like the Senator from Arizona needs a nap.

Fuck rules

So here it is. I'm not 100 percent on the layout and background, and I think you guys can all change that stuff, so feel free. Since we're getting to it, I guess I'll take Thursday. Leave comments if you want any specific day, I'm reserving Sunday for Chance. He knows why.