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Walked home from work the other night; followed my feet, and the full moon. Saw a guy in his front yard, beyond a latticed fence, practicing some martial art or another... i don't think he knew i could see him. What a strange night.

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And can i just vent for a second? (noooooooo! groans the audience.)

First off: the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Can we just get that stuff the fuck out of the water already? 'Kay thanks.
(wow, i'd thought this mess was comprised of large, identifiable pieces of junk, but instead it appears to be more of a confetti soup: ignore the amount of times the guy says "like" in this video, and how dumbed-down it is, and you still get the horrifying picture.)

Second: How crazy is it that a piece of space debris as small as a bullet forced the astronauts on the ISS to hide in an escape pod, fearing a fatal decompression of their living/working area? It was traveling at approximately 20,000 MPH. Seriously, the mind boggles. This is actual reality; does this not faze anyone else as much as it does me? Wobbly legs and shit.

and Thirdly: i can't take it anymore, media. i am so sick of news reports that feel they have to add in details that don't matter one tiny bit... Please, the facts. Not the emotion-grabbers. Can you leave out statements that inform us as to the gender of the dead? Do i need to know that most of Tim Kretchmer's shooting victims were women? Is this supposed to make this attack somehow more ghastly? i'm not sure i have ever understood this line of thinking. Men? Pfeh. Secondary.
And while we're at it: Authorities raided his home and found porn? No. way.
"Violent video games"? How can this be?
"Scary movies", such as Friday the 13th? Holy shit! That must mean that everyone i went to high school with is going to pull out a gun, don their favorite black outfit, and start spewing lead.

Way to spin straw into gold there, folks.

Or maybe it was the fact that his father had a big gun hobby? Or that in our increasingly material- and status-obsessed society, we are closing ourselves further and further off from normal, everyday human contact?

Nahhhh, it was probably that other stuff they mentioned.

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In other news: Holi is here! (Well, more like there, but you know what i mean.) Whatever, i'm a day late, but here is some happiness to balance out this post:

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man, i've gotta do that some day....

p.s.) we saw one of Nat's profs on TV last night, protesting for the removal of an agreement between XE (formerly Blackwater) and Southwestern community college in Chula Vista. In exchange for the use of XE's firing range (for Southwestern's police-in-training), XE would have use of some of the rooms on Southwestern's campus. Hmmmm. Need to find out more about this. In any case, it was extremely odd that the first night in literally months that we turned on the television, the news comes on, and then a familiar face among the protesters! We were shouting so loudly and hitting/shoving each other in excitement that we couldn't even hear what he was saying. ::cringes in embarrassment:: Good thing i found this article.
Small world!