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The Old Photoblag : 1
- Posted by Ben on 31 Jan 08
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I've never been able to keep a journal for long, yet I love to collect and perfect my life stories. This project will go on for one month. I'm going to go through my old photos and tell you a story about each and every one. These are things that happened to me, names will be changed to give some sort of privacy. I'll update Monday to Friday. So, without further ado, we begin The Old Photoblag.
This is from when I was living in Seoul, South Korea. A number of these photos are from that time, because I began my picture-taking obsession while I was there.
Those buildings are totally empty. They're nothing but poured concrete. It was the creepiest thing that I've ever seen. If you were to turn around, you would have seen the cheesy-ass amusement park that is Lotte World. The day this was taken, someone got trampled to death trying to get in to the park. Which meant the police tried to keep the area clear, which meant that people just crowded more and more. I never thought I'd see a riot consisting of angry tweens, but I have. Unfortunately none of the pictures of that even came close to coming out. 
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YOU FAIL
- Posted by Andre Navarro on 30 Jan 08
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Via GifTube.
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Suck weak words are not for Doctor Doom!
- Posted by Toga on 30 Jan 08
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ow
- Posted by roque on 30 Jan 08
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sake bad! sake bring pain!
dammit, what the hell. sake hasn't given me a hangover since I moved to this country. this is unnatural. I think it's part of the general fuckery that seems to be at work in my life right now.
on the side of good news, I have abandoned my internal struggle over whether to buy the Japanese or the American version of Silent Hill 0 for the PSP. come to find out, it's being released on PS2 next month. so close I can almost taste it.
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Listen
- Posted by Rootfireember on 30 Jan 08
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Sometimes when I speak, something happens.
People listen.
Enthralled, they stare at me, eager for more, drinking every word I say like it was life.
It terrifies me.
Sometimes I'm awful at speaking. But on occasion this happens, and my words come clear and clean, not the scattered chaos that comes with fear. And I think:
I could tell them anything, and they would believe.
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Z: TBH: Afternoon, Day 3
- Posted by Z on 30 Jan 08
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In response to a thread called VENT! on another forum:
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VENT!, huh?
I remember a time when I could go to a decent local coffee bar, sit down with a good book, and occasionally get interrupted by someone looking at the cover and saying, 'hey, that's a great book, how far have you gotten?'
Now that I've moved to the concrete corporate Bay of Silicon, I've found out that a black coat and black boots aren't a sufficient uniform for the counter-culture. The coffee houses are tucked away and hidden, aggressively clique-y, and too cool for me. I've resorted to hiding away in the corners of various Starbucks locations, ranting like a lunatic via laptop, or sometimes out loud just to see who's paying attention.
I've started tying off my wrists with my boot laces until my hands tingle and throb, just to pass the time. I haven't decided what else the boot laces are good for, now that I have to wear proper leather loafers for my desk job. I carry the boot laces in my pockets and consider tying them together into a really long boot lace.
There's a record store I like to go to. I put the laces back in my boots for an evening, stomp through the parking lot and tear through their concrete warehouse buying genres and trading favourites for an hour.
Then I go home and unwrap all the little presents like it's ex-muss morning and pour cold audio water over my seething noisy brain until it shuts down for the night.
When I wake up in the morning, it's with a new favourite song, a new favourite band, and no real argument for why. I take the laces out of my boots, stuff them in my pocket, and shuffle off to work in my loafers.
Vent.
- Z
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Go on. Vent to me.
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Daily Mortification 30.1.08
- Posted by WaxPoetic on 30 Jan 08
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it's not mine, but it's better than mine:
individually wrapped jellybeans.
shakes head in agony
friend jenny made the mention and now my entire evening will be like this.
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Moreau's Child
- Posted by Rootfireember on 30 Jan 08
- I've had a soft spot for The Island of Dr.Moreau for a long time. James Morrow's The Philosopher's Apprentice brings it back to the fore again. The book is solid, fun and a touch whimsical at times with a subtle undercurrent of horror. It reminds me on a great many levels of it, and I consider it to be, very much, a modern take on the topic- the repercussions of dabbling in what we don't fully understand, in playing god. The book itself is an easy read, though referencing a great many philosophical works and ideas.I fully expect this book to do decently once it comes out in March 08.
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Random Geek: Front-runner
- Posted by TechnocratJT on 30 Jan 08
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Edwards is out of the race.
And we now have these quotes (both stolen from CNN):"At a time when our politics is too focused on who's up and who's down, he made a nation focus again on who matters -- the New Orleans child without a home, the West Virginia miner without a job, the families who live in that other America that is not seen or heard or talked about by our leaders in Washington," Obama said Wednesday.
And"John Edwards ended his campaign today in the same way he started it -- by standing with the people who are too often left behind and nearly always left out of our national debate," Clinton said in a statement.
Edwards, who I supported in 2004, and then I cringed at as he fell apart during the VP debates, could never have won the nomination. But his third place showings have been strong enough that he is in a ideal spot to play king maker.
On the other side, after his loss in Florida, it looks like Rudy is expected to withdraw today and throw his support behind McCain. Unlike Edwards, Giuliani has barely registered in most races so far. Despite that he was expected to have a bit more pull in the Super Tuesday races and his endorsement will likely cement McCain's front runner status. The question will then become will he try to appease the religious right with his VP choice. The notion of a VP nod to Huckabee or Romney worries me. In the end, I still hope he picks Lieberman, the venn diagram of the two politician's appeal overlaps so much it would only matter if their supporters could vote twice.
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Random Geek: Cyberpunk, er now?
- Posted by TechnocratJT on 30 Jan 08
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So I got to talking about 4chan and /b's hacker community declared war on Scientology with a friend or two finally.
The conclusion I came is this: these are people who grew up on Cyberpunk fiction and the related tropes, and who have, to a degree or another, always fancied themselves as the "heroes" of those narratives. When they sent out dozens of pizzas or crashed a chat room in their own eyes they were "edge running". Now they, and I do think it is a they - a group with a degree of preexisting relationships not an endless legion - have found an enemy which matches the stories in their heads.
Because what we have is a hacker society vs. a corporate cult, and I am sure I played in that RPG when I was 15 or 16.
Come February 10th they are claiming we will see extensive real life protests, and if you search youtube you can see that a few have tried already. Yet, these protests look exactly like the people out on my street asking me about conserving Georgia's water or civil rights. It does not match the ominous visage of the youtube video releases. Its a bunch of twenty somethings with hand drawn signs giving out fliers. Well, maybe with an extra Guy Fawkes mask then I see locally. They read that book too.
On the other hand they have link bombed google (search: dangerous cult) and clearly have a nice collection of leaked videos. So maybe the the random vandals of 4chan have decided they will do something with actual impact. Though looking at the counter clocks they released, and considering the organizations they remind me off, I am not sure that is to be applauded.
Yet, if they manage to have an impact on the real world, or more importantly do not get bored, and wander back off to scream at each other and post pornographic anime images in their insular net communities, then what happens next I wonder. Does that make them an actual cultural force? Speaking as a lawyer, all I can say is, if I was RIAA I would be a bit worried about who they target next.
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