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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 22 February :: 12.03pm
:: Mood: too early to tell
:: Music: Fuel - Bad Day

If you're a fan of 24 and haven't seen this yet, you're in for a treat. Props to Ricci for passing this along. I think my favorite is "Jack Bauer can get McDonald's breakfast after 10:30."

Random Jack Bauer Facts

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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 13 February :: 8.45pm
:: Mood: calm
:: Music: Frou Frou - It's Good To Be In Love

The Great Blizzard of '06
We got a teensy bit of snow the past couple of days. You may have heard about it on the news. It's not that there's a lot of snow or that it's really cold, but the fact that it all came down in one 24-hour period and aburptly stopped that got me. I'm used to the residual lake-effect crap that lasts basically the entire season. I thought I'd share:







This one's for Michelle...

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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 11 February :: 1.42am
:: Mood: unnerved
:: Music: Monty Python - Argument

“George Bush doesn’t care about black puppets.”

Long live AD.

Arrested Development 2003-2006

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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 8 February :: 4.05pm
:: Mood: amused

DO IT!
Read more..

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JediBumblebee

:: 2006 4 February :: 11.12pm

a new set, pick one.
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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 2 February :: 11.49pm
:: Music: David Gray - As I'm Leaving

Alright, let’s pull the car over to the side of pretentiousness turnpike…
(This is a response to Jeeber's last post. I am not posting it in my own journal in order to reach a wider audience or anything like that, but because I was honestly unable to post it as a reply to his entry.)

Mike, I’d like to question two facets of your entry: the logic of your assumptions and the motivation for posting them.

“Everyone I know aside from aforementioned individuals don't actually know what love IS, rather they lust after what they want.”
Are you truly qualified to make such a boastful statement? How can you begin to know the feelings and emotions of the people around you in regards to a covert set of behaviors such as “love”? In my experiences, I’ve found it’s hard enough to qualify one’s own feelings in a romantic relationship, let alone beginning to speak for another. I would be curious to know how to operationally define such an emotionally complex and messy concept as love, and qualify, quantify, and rank it such as you do here. And let’s say for a minute that your love for Amanda is as strong as you say it is… why does it have to be mutually exclusive with everyone else’s? Why can’t we each strive for our own level of happiness, each working to be content if our own situations, everyone reaching to attain our own conceptualization of “true love”? Why does your guys’ love have to be stronger than ours? Who are you trying to convince? And what about those people who aren’t looking for such things in the first place? Does that make them bad people? Does that make them incomplete?

All of these purposely rhetorical questions don’t mean a damn thing to me though, as compared to my fundamental problem with your entry: what on God’s green Earth would possess to post such a thing? Let’s go with the assumption that you actually believe every word you wrote… did you actually believe such arrogant statements would go unchallenged? I cannot imagine, no matter how much passion and intensity drove your entry, that you didn’t stop at one point and consider that your public statements would be considered inflammatory to the uninitiated reader. The only logical explanation I can come up with is that you were trying to provoke for some reason, or retaliate to some outside threat. Many times on Woohu, I’ve found that a user will encounter some distressing person or experience during the course of a day, and then fire back in an entry, projecting their frustrations into a sort of Woohu-black hole. But even that is the case (which I don’t think it is), it does not even begin to account for the vicious volleys that your entry shoots out in this seemingly unprovoked attack against the values, beliefs, and intelligence of your readers. Because I don’t see how your entry is anything other than exactly that: an attack. You are mounting an offensive against the self-perceived clueless inferior masses, in the process isolating you and Amanda at the top of the pile. Well, Mike, I hope you are as sure of your feelings as you say you are, because they say it’s lonely at the top and it’s a helluva long fall to the bottom. If your love is as strong as you guys say it is, then you two should be able to revel in that knowledge privately, without publicly demeaning your peers by stating that you think you are better than them. If you plan on sticking around with this Woohu thing, I think you’d be wise to take a page in Woohu-etiquette from our pal JediBumblebee. Here’s someone who presently has us all trumped… she just got engaged. But instead of trying to rub our noses in it as you are, Stef is quietly bemoaning the difficulty of putting a wedding together and asking our opinion on dresses. The thing that a lot of people don’t seem to grasp about Woohu, and all blogs for that matter, is that it is a community. It may be your journal and you are free to post whatever you want, but just like society at large, respecting other’s dignity and feelings is just as important as your own personal freedom. After attempting to extend that same courtesy to you in the past few paragraphs, I will now throw said even-temperedness to the wind in my concluding thoughts for effect:

“They can't help it though, they're a product of the society and situations they put themselves in.”
You know, in the past couple of years I’ve been accused, sometimes by the people closest to me, of having a pretty big ego. Whether they are right or not, I’ve always been able to justify it as a mechanism of my survival, a necessary evil to make it through the day. But in my efforts to build myself up, I have strove to never achieve such self-confidence at the expense of others, as you do here. All things aside, now matter how you may feel, that was an extremely pompous and asshole thing to say.

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JediBumblebee

:: 2006 1 February :: 4.34pm

You Know You're From Michigan When...

You define summer as three months of bad sledding. You think Alkaline batteries were named for a Tiger outfielder. You can identify an Ohio accent. Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack and a bucket of smelt. Owning a Japanese car is a hanging offense in your hometown. You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre. The Big Mac is something that you drive across. You believe that "down south" means Toledo. You bake with soda and drink pop. You drive 75 on the highway and you pass on the right. Your Little League baseball game was snowed out. You learned how to drive a boat before you learned how to ride a bike. You know how to pronounce "Mackinac". The word "thumb" has a geographical rather than an anatomical significance. You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week. You expect Vernor's when you order ginger ale. You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but that it isn't far from Hell. Your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, the opening of deer season and Devil's Night. Your snowmobile, lawn mower and fishing boat all have big block Chevy engines. At least one person in your family disowns you for the week of the Michigan/Michigan State football game. You know what a millage is. Traveling coast to coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon. Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh. You show people where you grew up by pointing to a spot on your left hand. You know what a "Yooper" is. Your car rusts out before you need the brakes done Half the people you know say they are from Detroit... yet you don't personally know anyone who actually lives in Detroit "Up North" means north of Clare. You know what a pastie is. You occasionally cheer "Go Lions- and take the Tigers with you." Snow tires come standard on all your cars. At least 25% of your relatives work for the auto industry. You don't understand what the big deal about Chicago is. Octopus and hockey go together as naturally as hot dogs and baseball. You know more about chill factors and lake effect than you'd EVER like to know! Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car. Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout. When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left." You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms. You never watch the Weather Channel - you can just assume they're wrong. The snowmen you make in your front yard actually freeze. Solid. The snow freezes so hard that you can actually walk across it and not break it or leave any marks. All your shoes are called "tennis shoes", even though no one here plays tennis anyway. Your major school field trip includes camping and cross-country skiing. Half your friends have a perfect sledding hill right in their own backyard. You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Michigan.

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JediBumblebee

:: 2006 31 January :: 2.41pm

pick your fav
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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 27 January :: 5.53pm
:: Mood: cool
:: Music: Rod Stewart - Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)

Quotes
"Then there are those who care not about extraterrestrials, searching for meaning in other human beings. Rare or lucky are those who find it. For although we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways, on this planet, we are all… alone."
- Jose Chung, 3x20 "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"

Denise: "I thought you liked being alone."
Alan: "Oh, I love being alone, I just prefer to be alone when there are other people around."
- from Tuesday's Boston Legal

Scully: “You know, one the old mariners’ maps, the cartographers would designate uncharted territories by writing ‘Here by monsters.’"
Mulder: “Oh, I got a map of New York City just like that.”
- from 3x22, Quagmire

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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 27 January :: 5.02pm
:: Music: Cake - Dime

So, I haven't had a proper update in quite a while, but I chalk it up to the fact that every year or so, I go through this period of "what's the point in updating?" I may come up with a topic or two here and there that I want to write about, but by the time I get myself in front of a computer and start considering what I want to compose, it's all seems like unnecessary work. Nonetheless, I check the site regularly, and I do enjoy updating my journal style rather frequently. (By the way, if you haven't noticed, I put up a new layout a few days ago... ::pats self on back for HTML code/photo manipulation competence.)

Life is relatively good as of late. I do stress that word "relative," the semester is starting off with a great deal of promise compared to my largely stagnant and transitory fall semester. Going home and then coming back here, it didn't take much at all to readjust to the city and I find myself quickly becoming more proficient, identifying the cogs that make up the larger wheel. I've been pleasantly surprised how much (aside from my first week back) I've been able to get out since I've been back. Hit up ESPNzone, Nintendo World, a couple bars, and Madison Square Garden all in the past couple of weeks. Thanks to Steve and the good people at the German American Chamber of Commerce for the latter, hooking me up with a free ticket to a NY Rangers game this past Tuesday. They lost, and to be blunt, they pretty much looked like shit (although I've been pampered for quite some time on the Red Wings' absolute dominance), but it was still a lot of fun. Mmm... overpriced beer-battered onion rings and mismatched souvenir cups. As promised, pics:







I've also been taking advantage of my membership to the Museum of the Moving Image, spending quite a lot of time with their interactive video game exhibit (NBA Jam or Mortal Kombat, anyone?) and watching their weekly film screenings. Saw Brazil again for the first time last week and I'm going to see Once Upon a Time in the West as soon as I finish up this entry.

Things are getting pretty serious with Michelle... an amazing development considering our positions. I don't know what's going to happen there in the long run, but I have faith things will work out how they are supposed to. I could say more, but this isn't really the place.

Believe it or not, I only started school yesterday, but things are looking promising there as well. I'll know more after next Tuesday when I start my other two classes.

< /train of thought> Off to the museum/movies. Good day, y'all.

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JediBumblebee

:: 2006 23 January :: 9.20pm

http://paulandstefanie.weddingannouncer.com/

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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 22 January :: 4.58am

:-)

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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 21 January :: 8.37pm
:: Mood: i'll let you know in an hour or so
:: Music: Evanescence - Going Under

I should update. Seems like there's a lot that needs to be said.

Going out tonight to the Brass Monkey on 14th Street. Brass Monkey, that funky monkey...

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TaoMan1121

:: 2006 18 January :: 4.43pm
:: Mood: stoic
:: Music: Bright Eyes - Falling out of Love at This Volume

"Helping someone move is like oral sex. Once you do it once, they owe you for life." Scrubs

"You can’t fire me. I don’t work in this car." Dwight, The Office

What if what I want and what I need are the same thing?

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JediBumblebee

:: 2006 18 January :: 2.13pm

grrrrrrrr.

I am not a bridezilla, I am just realizing who my friends really are.

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