quotable notes

an eye for an eye would make the whole world go blind but sight wouldn't be worth shit when the sun burns out.

all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. however, if jack doesn't get that paper he's not going to get any play at all so jack better work a lot.

a watched pot never boils. unless you have laser beams in your eyes. then it will probably boil if you watch it with your rad laser eye beams. bzzzzzt! *water boils!*

a rolling stone gathers no moss, but it's cooler than most because it doesn't conform like those other stones who keep still and shit.

absence makes the heart grow fonder. but abstinence makes the balls grow blue. we should probably have a quickie before you leave.

as you make your bed, so must you lie in it. telling the truth to your wife is overrated anyway.

Bush Explains Iraq

White House - On Friday President George Bush published an op-ed in the mainstream print press titled "Heroic Victery" under the pseudonym The Decider. In the one paragraph piece Bush delved deep into some sort of philosophical roots, as he described his gut feelings about the war in Iraq.

"It's like, Iraq is like a complex thing. There're some good things and some not good things. What we're doing in Iraq will be sort of like a mix, like the average of a 'pyrrhic victery' and a 'heroic failure' ... like if those two things got together and made a baby that baby'd be a 'Heroic Victery!' Iraq, is our 'Heroic Victery' baby. I'm like the son of King Pyrrhus and King Leonidas, if they were to make a baby, which they can't because that threatens the sanctity of marriage but I'm just sayin' hyperthetically here. I did a search on The Google to find this out. A pyrrhic victery is like when you win but you get a bunch of guys killed in the process and you wonder whether it's worth it. Heh heh, well I think wondering is for the weak and unpatriotic. But a heroic failure is like that 300 movie, where the troops are all defeated and killed, but set an example of heroism, they had really good exercise routines for the abdominals. That's call "abs" for short. I like that movie. In fact I'm gonna send 300 troops to Persia to die right now... it's called a 'surge'. Sounds manly. So in summary, what we are doing in the middle east is that, we are pursuing a 'Heroic Victery' in Iraq, as long as we stay the course and sacrifice. History will remember this, cuz history has a good memory about things."

When asked whether it was possible that the baby he described could be a "Pyrrhic Failure" instead Bush replied, "No I don't have those problems, I get it up all the time when I have heterosexual relations with my wife. Cuz sometimes we do it. In the missionary's position. And it works just fine."

man vs himself

i fight a constant battle between the intellectual and the animal. i realized the other day that this is most manifest in my oscillating choice of desktop background on my pc. i go back and forth between an image of the buddhabrot, a particular fractal rendering of the Mandelbrot set, and various images of woman, in particular a certain rendering of the Johansson breast. basically, these two pictures concisely yet profoundly unveil the full extent of the simple impulses i construe as myself.




currently, the latter one is winning.


[images courtesy wikipedia featured images and any celeb ogling website...]

rebel music

i saw us at our corners with no holster decked glocks, no one snorting crack rocks, rich from shorting tech stocks... we were smokin' marijuana on a golden deck yacht... but shit, was just a dream about the cream we have not, snap back to reality at sounds of gun shots, take a peek out the window and get a whiff of that endo, if i pray it's for strays to miss my grand mama's lot, else the bells'll start tolling like that grandfather clock us niggaz stole from the landlady's shop, cuz we ran out of time, to earn dimes to pay the rent and the cops... so there's crime to engage in, rhymes spun in rage and, those who didn't make it out, homes locked in cages, shiiit i love life because hate gives it flavour, spice to the taste of scraps paid for our labour, as if bread crumbs was some shit to savour, master enslavers, muthafuck this i'm coming for you...

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"marc, why don't you write about all the happy things in life?"
"because i'm a moral person."
"what in the world does that mean?"
"well, while you basked in the blissful ignorance of your first question all around the world thousands of impoverished little kids were suffering as a result of flawed man-made political economic institutions. and while i can't do much to help them because i'm currently broke, i do the next best thing: i choose not to ignore such issues; in fact i bring it to the center of my attention by telling myself these stories. if i'm mindful about it now, when i make myself rich off of the money of privileged folks who pay to have their wealth managed i'll hopefully remember and take some action, though i'll probably buy a sports car first."
"silly marc, you mustn't think so much. you use too many words in your sentences. oops sorry, that's my iPhone, gotta run. ciao."

stream of consciousness

true democracy should imply an equal participation of all agents of a civilization in the affairs of the society it has created. if society is circumscribed by an economy in which wealth follows a Pareto distribution there exists no true democracy, only the pretense thereof. this facade manifests as the majority plebeians comfort themselves with the cosmetic, if not fatuous, "democratic" exercise of voting -where the only options available generally represent the two halves of the aristocratic class.

it is this plutocracy that the leaders of the "free" world intend to spread/maintain in the developing world as competition for resources becomes even fiercer. of course in an imperfect world plutocracy is less evil than, say, its military cousin dictatorship, but to accept such a critical imperfection is like crowning a winner-by-default.

the current status quo is not creatively progressive enough for civilization to withstand the coming pressures we will have to endure: for one thing, there will be great strain on earth's ecosystem as a result of humanity's runaway demographic and consumption trends while our somewhat mediocre profit-driven technological advancements lags way behind necessity.

overheard in Mmail

9:44 PM V:

youre uglz. ugly

9:51 PM M:

mispelled insults lack all force. go bury your head in the sand

8:59 AM V:

i know but the y and z are switched here! i found out when i tried to insult zou. see? there i go again. lol. no sand to bury myself in, maybe ill go jump in the mountain lake.