Michael Kindt's Blog, page 468
October 3, 2011
I have become a surprise party.
Lil ol me. A veritable GIFT.
My sister Brandi is 40 today. I think I speak for everyone when I say "Holy Shit! That's halfway to 80!" She didn't want a big shindig, even though she has millions of friends. Everyone who meets her loves her because she is kind and generous and mothering. It's her nature to help and take care of people.
I want to be like her when I grow up.
So she doesn't want a party, but she told her husband that all she really wanted was to see her brother. Aw.
As I sit here typing this, my brother-in-law is on his way to get me. Brandi doesn't know I'm coming down. In fact, the subterfuge was that I was going to be busy.
Me. Busy. Good one. Like doing what? Changing DVDs in my DVD player? Sleeping till 2 pm? Alternating resting and relaxing?
Oh, yeah. I'm swamped over here.
I'm going to burst through the door and say "Your dreams have come true! Odin has blessed you!"
And she will cry tears of joy.
[Happy birthday, Sis. You better not be reading this]
:)
Another Godless Goddess: Rising Atheism in America Puts "Religious Right" on the Defensive
The US is increasingly portrayed as a hotbed of religious fervour. Yet in the homeland of ostentatiously religious politicians such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, agnostics and atheists are actually part of one of the fastest-growing demographics in the US: the godless. Far from being in…
I would also argue that many Christians aren't really religious either, but have adopted a conservative political viewpoint as "faith". So many Christians are so unlike the Christ they profess to "worship", it makes perfect sense to call them godless, too. Simply believing a list of things, all of which have a direct political component, and attending a church where these are constantly reinforced is simply dogmatism, not religion. True Christians, I would wager, are few and far between in America. This country is so secular, in fact, even religion has been secularized and politicized, thus ceasing to be religion.
October 1, 2011
I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis ~ Stones
I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis ~ Stones
roniewritinwater:
I can't believe this made it to Entertainment...
I can't believe this made it to Entertainment Weekly!
Fuck yeah. Oh, would anyone like to see the ORIGINAL? I don't wanna boast or anything, but…..you're welcome Internet.
I went away and stayed in a hotel! Yay!
A nice one, too. A fucking suite. Who's a privileged white girl? This boy.
I watched broadcast tv, too, so now I know where all you little, pop-culture-obsessed, glassy-eyed fuckers get your programming. If I were you, I'd seriously consider rebooting with a book.
Think of the planet.
There were a lot of bride shows, which is new from the last time I exposed myself to brain damage. Bride shows made out of spoiled, shallow bitchy women only toe-headed tools would marry. But cute (and with money!) toe-headed tools just as shallow as the animated mannequins they are stupidly going to marry, but shallow in a guy way. You know: SPORTS! VIDEO GAMES! GOLF! CARS!
So the bride-to-be runs around being a stressed out bitch and talking about the "most important day of her life" and shit. This is interspersed with televised jello-shots and plenty of plastic cleavage.
The fuck?
Then there's a show about midget wrestling and in the informercials all the men have flat dicks and bald heads. Every kitchen is inconvenient without this particular gadget that does pretty much what a fucking fork does.
Only $19.95
The Disney Channel is still cute, empty, and cookie-cutter touching, filled with emotions packaged and prepared in a lab and spoon-fed to clueless little peasants.
Constant commercials selling us cars, which most of us already have—and if we don't couldn't afford anyway.
And debt. The whole thing about your credit score. How to find out what it is, how to repair it, etc. Why? A good credit score is just a heightened ability to go into debt. If you are among the lucky millions with a bad credit score, thank your great god Mammon because you can't go further into debt.
Bizarre that tv teaches us that this is a bad thing.
And all the fucking preachers. Jesus fucking christ. There are more than last time, more and more channels of them. Sweaty, old men with obvious wigs beseeching and proclaiming and casting out shit, holding The Book Of Lies aloft like a glistening Trophy of Participation.
Their hair really bothered me. 50 and 60 year old men with the hair of 23 year olds, but not really, cuz it doesn't look quite right, you know? It's weirdly jet black, weirdly thick. I almost spotted a chin strap on some of them.
The most terrifying thing about them? The fucking filled seats in front of them. God help us all.
It wasn't all horrible and banal, banaL, banAL, baNAL, bANAL, BANAL!!!!!!!!!
I saw a cool show about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami (brought tears to my eyes), a show about the deepest holes we've dug into the earth and just what in the hell's down there.
By and large, though, the tv was beyond terrible. It felt like my soul was being anally ass-aulted by the hot red poker of Nothingness. I couldn't look away, couldn't, for the life of me, tear my eyes away. It was like a tragic, mangled carwreck.
"That's a leg!" I kept shouting. "That's a fucking leg without a human attached!"
NYPD TELLS WOMEN TO STOP WEARING SKIRTS TO AVOID SEXUAL...
NYPD TELLS WOMEN TO STOP WEARING SKIRTS TO AVOID SEXUAL ASSAULT
Women in a Brooklyn neighborhood on edge over a spate of sex attacks are being told by police that wearing skirts and dresses might not be a good idea.
The surprising message from the NYPD is not being taken well.
Lauren, who did not want her last name used, told the the Wall Street Journal that she was walking down the street in shorts and a t-shirt after leaving the gym on Monday when she was stopped by an officer who also stopped two other women in dresses.
Lauren said the officer asked them if they knew what was happening in the area, and asked them if they knew what the suspect looked for.
"He pointed at my outfit and said, 'Don't you think your shorts are a little short?'" she told the Journal. "He pointed at their dresses and said they were showing a lot of skin."
The officer also told her that "you're exactly the kind of girl this guy is targeting," according to Lauren.
"You might also think about cutting off your boobs," the officer went on, "and sewing up your vagina. This creep is targeting women and if all the women stop being women, why, whatever would he do?"
All men who rape women, the officer told her, seem to rape women. Eliminating the female sex would eliminate this form of rape "immediately," the officer said.
He then went and ate some donuts while Western Civilization collapsed all around him.
The prick.
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September 29, 2011
The World To Which The White Man Came
Nature had been at work for centuries. Centuries more
men ranged from wandered over sailed the seas that washed
each year new wonders of the so-called new world.
Men's lives are lived somewhere & often. The tale unfolds
unduly unless he wishes to render back with margin
a fact which cannot be overlooked.
Land is just the line that cuts through runs the length
along volcanic towering broken western reaches
of western wall.
Thrown across the divide it will be overcome.
Majestic forbidding carved
of little more than untold riches.
