Charissa’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2008)

Charissa’s comments from the Axis Mundi X group.

::::pops:::::

actually it's more of a cackle. :::stirs cauldron:::::

LOLOLOL!!!

smartass such a gentleman

Well thank you Isaiah... that makes me less nervous. Darn those visual aides, always getting all dramatic on our asses. I heart your brain, BTW.

I am reading The Stone Gods right now, which is sci fi about the human race having destroyed one planet and then moving on to another one before the one they are on stops supporting life. So far (aside from the obvious slant to it) it's a very good read, with a lot to say about our time. Even if you don't believe in global warming being manmade.

Also, there is sexy robot lesbian sex.

okay, that's really irritating. Thanks Dave. stupid GR broken link

jesus... just in the last 4 years it's increased like whoa. that's frightening.

Has anyone here read http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88...

The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson?

wouldn't it be just like Superman me to disguise himself myself as a woman?

Hey, I don't wear glasses, am I Superman as well?

Check out these awesome comics from back in the day:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=c...

Some of my favorite styles right there.

Tell me, milk cow, what on earth is wrong with you?
Tell me, milk cow, what on earth is wrong with you?
Well, well, you have a new calf, hoo hoo, and your milk is turnin' blue

Your calf is hungry, and I believe he needs a suck
(spoken: Now, you know that calf done got hungry)
Your calf is hungry, and I believe he needs a suck
Well, now, but the milk is turnin' blue, hoo hoo, and I believe he's outta luck

Now I feel like milkin' and my, cow won't come
I feel like churnin' it and my, milk won't turn
I'm cryin' plea-hease, please, don't do me wrong
You can give-a right milk and butter, now, baby, you-hoo, will stay at home

My milk cow been ramblin', hoo hoo, for miles around
My milk cow been ramblin', hoo hoo, for miles around
She been troublin' some other bull cow, hoo hoo
Lord, in this man's town

- Robert Johnson

Just goes to show... cows are trouble.

exactly. look around you. fucked up, right? blame the cows.

they are also easier on North American eco systems. We can sustain elk herds on wild lands better than cows. Cows fuck a place up faster than you can say Jack Robinson.

raise elk instead

bottle em and use them to repel invaders.

I think it's easy to idolize someone from the comfort of The First World. Send these same people into Cuba to live, or into the jungles of Nicaragua, and I'm fairly certain you would get a different perspective from them. Unfortunately people cling to their POV desperately, choosing which facts to believe in order to support their comfortable world view. At least, that is my experience.

HEEEEE!!!!! Chewy!!! OMG That's awesome. Did you make that KD???

EWWWWWW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd rather be extinct.

Hey Alejandro... thanks for that post. It's always great to get the perspective of someone who speaks from first hand experience. Like most things, Nicaraguan politics are complicated. Terms like 'Banana Republic' spring to mind. You can't argue against the fact that the First World has exploited the bloody hell out of the Rest of the World as much and as often as it could. I think most of the reasonable arguments against Che, and other bloody revolutionaries, comes down to problems with methodology. If you're stacking up bodies like cord wood, how is this better.

Bun... yeah, that image of Che kind of does come down to fashion ultimately, doesn't it? Sad comment on the state of revolution. People would be better off sewing their own t-shirt and embroidering it with pictures their kids drew than buying a Che t-shirt from Target. HA HA HA HA HA. Oh the irony.

I watched the first part of Steven Soderbergh's film 'Che' tonight. I have to say first of all that I was unmoved by the structure of the film. It was scattered and choppy and difficult to follow. I suppose there will be people out there who laud it as artistic genius, but upon first viewing I was not a fan.

Rather than try and rely on my spotty understanding of Che, or upon the way this film portrays him, I decided to spend some time reading several articles about him. I've heard him called a butcher, and a hero. I thought I would try and decide what I thought.

Not surprisingly I found myself agreeing with the POV in this article by Paul Berman:

The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. Full Article: http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/

Come to find out Paul Berman is what is known as a "liberal hawk". I had no idea there was a term for the political ground I find myself occupying these days. Personally I think I'm in good company (Thomas L. Friedman, Christopher Hitchens, Ed Koch, Ron Silver, Tony Blair). But then again, I would think that. ; )

Anyway, opening a whole can of worms here no doubt, but whatever. I think the worship of Che is another symptom of post-modern decadence. But I find it wildly amusing that a man who lived and died to fight against capitalism is the object of such wide-spread and cynical marketing and commercial exploitation. Ah life, you always win, don't you.

ohh... now there's a back handed insult. : )