Michael Kindt's Blog, page 469
September 28, 2011
Suddenly, I have a bunch of shit to do and other observations, updates, and random life stuff.
My son's coming down, must make him supper. Vegetable lasagna. He's vegetarian when he visits. No choice.
Brew beer, much sterilizing of equipment. Putting it all together only takes minutes, but preparing to put it all together takes a few hours. I've wanted to brew this beer for weeks now and goddammit I'm doing it tonight.
Leaving tomorrow for a few days. Will you miss me?
Also, shaved. No longer bearded. I am not unlike a queue ball at the moment. I look much younger this way. Hide your daughters.
I was out of my usual shaving cream, Musgo Real. In fact, being out of it sort of got the whole growing a beard thing underway. I went down to the Breadroot Co-Op to get some food and looky there they got shaving cream too. Dr. Bronner's Magic All-One Organic Fair Trade Shaving Soap Gel, winner of this year's Longest Titled Toiletry Award.
The shit is spectacular. I may never go back to Musgo Real. Kudos for being available somewhere besides the internet. The days of me ordering shaving cream off the net are over.
Couple points: It's peppermint-smelling, which I don't really care for. When you squeeze it out it kinda looks like diarrhea. Other than that, best shave ever. Fully protected, terribly easy. It's edible too, so if you get some in your mouth while shaving, lap that shit up, suspended black hairs and all.
Anyway, I have to go. I have a bunch of shit to do.
Love ya.
September 27, 2011
Every Little Bit Helps: Obama's Plan To Destroy The...
Every Little Bit Helps: Obama's Plan To Destroy The Wealthy
In Buddhism, there is a thing called 'Dana-Paramita'. It is one of the six paramitas, or perfections, one must practice to achieve enlightenment. The other five aren't as cool, so I won't bother you with those, but Dana-Paramita is generosity or charity. It is the offering of help to those less fortunate, and of the six, it is listed first. It's number one.
Charity was also an important part of authentic Christianity, which has all but died out in here the West, having been replaced with spiritually empty formalism and self-righteous judgmentalism.
The virtue of charity is not gone entirely from the American psyche, however. All of us, even those Libertarians whose parents actually hugged them as children, still feel that tug in our hearts when a fellow human being is suffering. Many of us even reject our ideologies and/or ideologies pretending to be religions and hearken unto it, offering help.
That's why I beseech you reading this to open your wallets and share some of your good fortune with Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana. Like many Americans, Mr. Fleming is having a rough go of it. He revealed on MSNBC recently that "after I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left."
Like you, I, too, was taken aback that he had exposed such a personal and embarrassing financial fact about himself. And on national tv, no less. At first, I thought maybe he was drunk, but that couldn't be. He's a Christian, albeit a modern one.
What it was, my friends, was nothing less than a cry for help. He may not have intended it, he may not have planned it, but that's what it was. Sometimes, when luck and circumstance conspire to force us to eek out a living in the gutter, our emotions get the better of us.
He was arguing against Obama's heartless proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy when he slipped and said this. I didn't crunch the numbers, but can you imagine if the amount he was left with was actually reduced to something like $380,000? How, I ask you, would he ever cope?
These are sad days in America when we are forced to demand help from the small group of people chosen by God to have all the money. Sad days, indeed.
Mr. Fleming's life will not be the only one utterly ruined by having to share with the less fortunate. Ted Turner's will, too. On Bloomberg, Mr. Turner was talking about the difficulties a billionaire would have giving away half his money. "That's only $500,000,000 left. It's hard to afford a jet plane at that level," he told the interviewer.
I think I speak for all Americans when I say there is nothing more embarrassing than forcing a nobleman to mingle with peasants on a cramped airplane he himself doesn't own.
We should be ashamed of ourselves.
That's why I am here today, asking you to open your hearts and give. I googled Ted Turner, hoping to find an address, but no luck. I did find a way for you to send money to Mr. Fleming, though. It's flemingforcongress.com.
Please, find it in your heart to put that address in your browser, get out your credit card, and give what you can to help this poor, poor man who only has $400,000 left. It's the right thing to do.
Together, we can make the nightmare a dream come true.
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September 26, 2011
The L Word actress Leisha Hailey says she was kicked off a...
The L Word actress Leisha Hailey says she was kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight after kissing her girlfriend.
"Flight attendant said that it was a 'family' airline and kissing was not ok," Hailey wrote. She and her girlfirend, fashion designer Nina Garduno, have been together since 2006.
"Hate is not a family value," Hailey tweeted after the incident.
For their part, Southwest Airlines issued the following statement: "Initial reports indicate that we received several passenger complaints characterizing the behavior as excessive. Our crew, responsible for the comfort of all Customers on board, approached the passengers based solely on behavior and not gender. In fact, they were even wearing special glasses made in Japan that only allow them to see behavior and not gender. We regret any circumstance where a passenger does not have a positive experience on Southwest and we are ready to work directly with the passengers involved to offer our heartfelt apologies for falling short of their expectations. Additionally, we suggest all tongue-wrestling lesbians take our 'Lipstick Love' midnight flights in the future, which occur in giant pink airplanes suggestive of dildos. Thanks!" Full story…
The gleefully stupid perplex me.
These are the people who don't know anything and laugh about it. Very odd to me. Like the teenagers I just encountered laughing about how they don't know what Sri Lanka is. They laughed like people who do know what it is are stupid.
Snicker, snicker.
There are millions of people like this in the U.S. I call them the IDGAF People. You find them on Tumblr quite a bit, busily unfollowing blogs with lots of text and eating Taco Bell and falling in love with fictional characters.
If you call them on their vacuity, they'll call you a snob, which is incorrect and even reversed.
There aren't that many on Tumblr, thankfully—that I'm aware of anyway.
Me, I'm busy unfollowing blogs with lots of gifs and eating vegetables and masturbating to porn.
redlightpolitics:
On Friday night, I was standing outside of a club here in Amsterdam (went out to...
On Friday night, I was standing outside of a club here in Amsterdam (went out to make a phone call) and two guys who also happened to be tourists walked by. They stood out there, pondering whether they wanted to go in or not. They were speaking English and one of them used a homophobic slur while talking to his friend (the F word). Then they attempted to get into the club. The bouncer rejected them on the grounds that homophobes are not welcome. They complained that this was not a gay club, etc. The bouncer was unmoved, told them to hit the road.
When they left, the bouncer looks at me and says "If I hear them make one homophobic, sexist or racist comment while they are outside, they do not get into the club". I asked if this was part of the house rules or something. He looked at me and said, no, these are the rules of human decency, that's all.
For a second, I half expected to wake up from a dream because never, in my decades of clubbing, had I met a bouncer who rejected people on such standards.
Fuckin A
September 25, 2011
Is anyone else flabbergasted that there are still diets?
They've been around since the national turnover to artificial food in the 60s and none of them have worked. None. Most fail instantly, others work for a bit, then fail, and others aren't even diets, but products: EAT THIS PILL AND LOSE WEIGHT*
*if you eat right and exercise as well, that is**
**which will cause weight loss anyway***
***but really it's the special pill****
****we swear!
Every year, though, there's a bunch of new diets, just waiting to not work for every single person who tries them. Hilarious.
If you were heavier than you wanted to be and are no longer, you aren't on a diet (unless you gain the weight back later, in which case you are).
Also, I was listening to NPR and the food nazis were talking about how we should tax sugary drinks like pop since by 2030 or something every single American will be obese. They have environmental concerns, you see. So many enormous people all crowded together on the same side of the earth will actually knock the planet out of alignment, and the whole fucking thing will flip over, causing both metric and standard shitloads of chaos. It will be especially hard for Santa, who will find himself perplexed on the bottom of the globe.
The funny thing about this is that the vast majority of overweight people drink diet pop and sugar-free drinks.
Fucking Americans. How do we work?
What are your thoughts on the Wall St Occupation and The 99%?
I think it's pretty telling that the New York Times wonders on its op-ed page "What happened to the American Left" then mentions it only in passing after several days of utter silence. Telling, indeed.
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Jesus.
You'd think you'd know that.
So I went and saw this on the big screen last night. What fun.
You prolly can't tell from lookin' at me, but I have a serious thing with Charles Schultz and Peanuts. I do. Snoopy is my spirit animal.
They were showing it in an old theater, the kind with a balcony and an actual big screen, not a multi-plex, digital shoebox with ten buck popcorn. Also, this Hallowe'en season, they'll be showing Shaun of The Dead. I am so going. Six bucks to get in, four if you're dressed like a zombie.
I'll pay the full six :)
The Charlie Brown movie was only a buck, and for charity. The Ronald McDonald House got all the money. It's a charity close to my heart—pun intended—because they provided my family with free housing while the doctors at Mayo Clinic were rebuilding said heart. That's what they do, provide housing for people who have to spend long periods of time away from home for medical treatment.
So I give to them on a semi-regular basis. Also, the Shriners, who paid for all my surgeries.
In other news, I changed my religion on Facebook from "None" to "The Great Pumpkin". From Wikipedia: Linus's seemingly unshakable belief in the Great Pumpkin, and his desire to foster the same belief in others, has been interpreted as a parody of Christian evangelism by some observers. Others have seen Linus's belief in the Great Pumpkin as symbolic of the struggles faced by anyone with beliefs or practices that are not shared by the majority. Still others view Linus's lonely vigils, in the service of a being that may or may not exist and which never makes its presence known in any case, as a metaphor for mankind's basic existential dilemmas. When Charlie Brown asks Linus when he's going to "stop believing in something that isn't true", Linus retorts that he will stop when Charlie Brown stops believing in Santa Claus. Charlie Brown ultimately resolves that they "are obviously separated by denominational differences".
I have found my spiritual home :)
