I hate titling these damn things

You are a greedy piece of shit, just like the rest of us. Your grammar and spelling are abysmal at best, but I bet you can spell Millionaire without a hitch every time. That is what we've become. As a generation, we have let ourselves become tools of "the man", and he's laughing all the way to the fucking bank. It's truly indicative of our generation's ethical code that we condone personal cheating to get ahead in our own life, but condemn it when anyone else does it. Fuck it. We're americans and we are better than you. We live in a country where we just pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and get right back to work. That ethos falls a little short though when you consider that a full third of the nation's population can't even make ends meet, and that bottom third is by far the hardest working. Building cars and hauling trash is not easy work. I don't even know what I'm saying anymore. I'm so angry all the time I can't even get my thoughts aligned properly. I don't even know who or what I really hate. Go fuck yourself.

lookit me go!

So here I am, blowing off work again. What the hell does it matter? I make less than half the amount my government calls the "poverty line". By no means, though, do I consider myself impoverished. Fucked hard without butter by a system that hates us, but not impoverished.

Lets crunch some numbers that I am willing to bet are not all that different from your own (excluding RawB). I make $8 an hour working retail. I bust my ass full time to make ends meet. My average paycheck (bi-weekly) is around $500. Maybe a little more, but usually a little less. Now for someone in my position, this is not bad money, comparatively speaking. But now lets factor in rent: $360 a month, electricity: $60 a month, phone bill: $55 a month, car insurance: $110 a month and car payment: $240 a month. Now assuming I make an average of $1000 a month, these very basic bills leave me with an average of $175 a month to spend on food (I eat lots of ramen), gas (at $2.05 a gallon we're still getting fucked harder than any idiot consumer group in history), and any type of "enjoyment" I can squeeze out. Said enjoyment usually involves alcohol these days, because hey, fuck it, why shouldn't I drink? It's certainly more productive than whining about getting "shafted" by "the man" in some stupid blog. I mean, who would do that, right?

I hate myself. Maybe I should go join myspace again...........

the facts

The plump slice of tomato on that chain restaurant burger you ate last night was, on a genetic level, part flounder.

So are your corn flakes.

And no one has to tell you.

Six different major drug manufacturers, including pfizer, have been paying to inflate and increase news coverage of the avian flu "epidemic".

Remember Neurontin?

In the wake of the Katrina disaster, Exxon-mobil posted the largest quarterly earnings profit by any company in history. Chevron, Shell, and BP all posted their most profitable quarters in company history.

The top 1 percent of american households control more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined.

All of these statements are true. They are completely undistorted facts. I am tired of being lied to. I am tired of putting up with fiscal rape just to get by. And I am sick and fucking tired of being blamed for it. They say we are the country of opportunity. Therefore if you don't make it to the top you're simply not working hard enough. Bullshit. FUCKING BULLSHIT! The subtext that the politico spouting off his script about american opportunity leaves out is that to get there you have to screw over a lot of people. You have to cut throats and cut ties. You have to step on fingers, toes, necks and faces. And God help you if you're a good person unwilling to lie and scam your way to the top, because I promise you that someone in line behind you is. And man, we've let it happen. We've been asleep at the wheel. One day you wake up and realize that being a good person actually puts you at a disadvantage. How the hell did this happen? How do we let Exxon-mobil CEO Lee Raymond go before the U.S. Senate and say that the jacked up gas prices, and their resulting monstrous profits, are simply due to "consumer demand" and "market forces"? Why aren't we burning that lying motherfucker to the ground? Are we scared? Do we just not care? Are we so delusional as to believe that this doesn't affect us? Are we naive and blindly optimistic? None of the choices are particularly appealing.

We are indoctrinated from youth with the ideal of the cut-throat individual. Did you play monopoly as a kid? Remember how great it was to get the "bank error in your favor, collect $200" card? Nevermind that the whole game is just a rouse to teach kids that fucking over your friends to get their property is alright. Pre-teens (12 and under) control a segment of the economy worth over $600 billion annually. That's right. $600 billion. No, those are not two typos in a row. $600 billion worth of sponge-bob shit, transformers, and clothing too skimpy for 8 year olds to be wearing. To get a corner on that tremendous amount of money, ad companies pay in excess of $12 billion annually to manipulate our children. And we think it's fine. We have 10 year olds with chests bigger than my last girlfriend's, and we let them get away with it. We have a new generation of children who lack things as basic to childhood as an imagination, and we let them get away with it. Cancer rates are shooting through the roof, while smoking and pollution slow down, because of things they aren't telling us, and we let them get away with it.

And you want to know the worst part? This isn't even the tip of the iceberg. This is looking at the tip from a thousand miles away.

This time I won't stop. I won't be quiet. You'll be hearing from me.

I just can't fucking take it anymore

http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/09/news/economy/oil_hearing/index.htm - Let's hear it for capitalism! FUCK!

Does anyone have a bio-diesel engine they're looking to unload?

my lord, bathe me in flame

Everyone has skeletons in their closet, but mine is starting to look more like a graveyard.

In the interest of full disclosure: The title for this blog is not from a HIM song (as I'm sure some of you snide fuckers have assumed), it is in fact a quote from one of the greatest musicians of all time, BigdumbFace.

I'm so lonely, please tell me I matter!

In a weak effort to live vicariously through the wit of a hero, I am posting Tucker Max's "hookup application". I am doing this with the naive hope that some beautiful woman will randomly stumble across this, submit it, and then I will find true love through a coded series of 1s and 0s. Or maybe my friends will submit them and I'll get a few good laughs. That would be swell!

Your name -

Your email -

Your age (must be age of consent) -

When do you want to fuck -

Anything else -

If you seem worth my time past this, and I don't already know you, I'll ask for a picture then.

In the meantime please visit http://www.tuckermax.com for some really incredible stories of asshole daring-do.

Friendlies everywhere!

Moved into the new place on friday. It's a nice 1950s townhouse. Well, it looks nice anyway. I guess it's a stopoff for cockroach immigration though. There are dozens of those little fuckers running around every evening, and I go to sleep lightheaded from all the Raid every night. Damn this georgia weather. They should all be frozen by now. At least our entertainment center is ridiculously excessive though. Especially for two college guys with a small tv and no cable.

Has anyone else been paying attention to the riots in France as closely as I have? Has anyone else gotten the feeling that this might be a zombie outbreak? The riots started in a quiet suburb, then quickly spread through the city and out into the country side. More than 2,500 cars have been burned in the last two nights. The riots had been a nightly occurence for almost a week before it made international news. And in spite of all this, the only pictures we see on international news sites are of burning buildings and cars, always at night, but never any rioters. When they interview someone on the street for the common person's perspective on the riots, it's always some idealistic, angry muslim youth who vehemently agrees with the rioters, but has not himself participated. If the french (read: metrosexual) army doesn't quell this soon (as I'm sure they will, ha), we might be talking about a full-scale european zombocalypse here. Get your chainsaws and contingency plans ready folks, because I will not wait for anyone. Required reading for such an outbreak is as follows:

SAS Survival guide - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060578793/qid=1131484181/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9484407-8920635?v=glance&s=books

The Zombie Survival guide - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400049628/qid=1131484632/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9484407-8920635?v=glance&s=books

Serpent and the Rainbow - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684839296/qid=1131484669/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9484407-8920635?v=glance&s=books

Any inquiries into proper zombie contingency protocol are welcome, and I will do my best to help anyone out right up to when the zombocalypse occurs. After that you're on your own, so keep your head up, and pay attention to the news. You can always see this shit coming.

sleeping late

Staying up with my friend's parents after he has crashed out is always a different experience. He gets tired and leaves at 2:30, then his mother and I stay up talking shit until 4:00. I once stayed up until dawn with his dad drinking, shooting pool, and talking about music. They have some really fascinating stories, those two.

So it's coward time again. I can't shake the feeling that I'm making a series of terrible mistakes, the repercussions of which I won't feel until next year. I did the same thing around this time last year. And I can always trace it back to the fact that I am, essentialy, a coward. I am weak and foolish, and impulsive. I get myself into trouble that I'm too shortsighted and cowardly to deal with efficiently.

Sometimes I just really don't like myself.

I'm hoping Saw II is actually worth seeing, and not the tremendous waste of time and money and brain cells that the last one was. I just saw Argento's Suspiria for the first time the other night, so Saw II is going up against some pretty stiff competition.

Maybe I'll just go drink way too much again. I'm starting to miss that wet asshole taste.

rabble rabble rabble.....

It never stops, does it? So, since we last spoke, Libby has been indicted, Rosa parks has died, and Bush has given us his concrete plan for fighting off the evil terrorist-esque avian flu virus. Libbys is getting fucked because he's a great fall guy that the majority of the country doesn't hate yet. He's being thrown to the dogs for the indiscretions of an entire administration, and that just kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I was never a big fan of "Scooter", or his creepy obssesiveness with bio-warfare, but he does not deserve this. I also don't think he saw this coming, because I doubt he would have sent the letter freeing Judy Miller if he had known it would spell his prompt political demise. The guy is facing $1.2 million in fines and 30 years in jail for something he is far from solely responsible for. Poor fucker.

Rosa Parks passed away. I could pretend this affects me in some profound way, but it doesn't, so fuck it. She was great, she was old, and she started some serious shit. God bless her.

Bush has just issued a massive initiative to combat the overwhelming threat of the avian flu. Translation: "Be scared America! Be afraid! Be terrified! PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF FUCKING GOD INFLATE MY PFIZER STOCK SO I CAN LEAVE THIS OFFICE WITH AT LEAST A SHRED OF HOPE OF KEEPING THIS SILVER SPOON IN MY MOUTH!" And I'm sure most of congress will fall right in line, because they'd all like to be screaming the same thing. Fuck them all. The only difference between a good polititcian and a currupt one is that the currupt one gets caught. I'll be drinking dirty bathwater and toungue-kissing chickens before I pay a dime for flu vaccinations this season.

In other news:
-Exxon-Mobil and Shell both posted their most profitable fiscal quarters in history a few weeks ago. Does anyone else's asshole feel a little sore? More on this later...

-My car damn near blew up on friday morning. My starter exploded and fused with the flywheel in morning rush hour traffic. $371.80 later I'm broke and wondering why I haven't been able to go more than six months without a major motorvehicle malfunction in 6 years.

Till next time, kids.....