Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Michael Palin

He's a lumberjack, and he's ok.

So, I am in a self examining mood, today. Why do I still have a Fisher Price musical apple on my desk, 20 years after I was given it? Why do I like boxers so very much? Where did I get my cell phone holder from? Why do I want to do things to Condoleeza Rice that are illegal in Kentucky?

Where should I go tonight? Will any of my friends ever just hang out at my place? Why are all of my friends at least 13 miles from my house? Why do I still want to strangle Matt Knapp, years after I have last seen him, even though he is in a loveless marriage with a child he didn't want?

Why am I me? Why do people care about me? I really am nothing special. That's enough melancholy brooding for today.

Discordant thought; there are lots of people that I would risk injury or death in order to ensure their safety, even if they wouldn't do the same for me.

3 comments:

Drunken Chud said...

because you like the aesthetics or the apple.
because they are comfortable, but commando is sooo much better.
radio shack.
it's the gap teeth and the position of power.
chatters.
yes. just invite us. for a big party. to break things.
cuz you live in ypsi.
cuz you never had true closure, and it's killing you inside that even though he dies a little more inside, it's not your doing.
because you are.
because you are.

and as for the discordant thought... meh. that's the price of friendship. it's not always a two way street, or a revolving door.

Stepho said...

Because sometimes you need to rock out in apple form?
Because they're the next best thing to wearing nothing, yet it's January so you probably shouldn't just go commando?
Did you find it on the ground?
It's gotta be the hairstyle.

I'm Scooter, but I might be a troll. said...

God bless you, Steph.