Entries this day: Idiocy Lunch cranium dream internet_down japanese_Ring tea the_gunslinger

Idiocy

7:55pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

What is the fucking deal with Bush and foreign relations?

He's all riling up troops to go fight in Iraq when the UN is all, "we found nothing" and Bush still wants to go fight and 'liberate' the Iraqis? And then what? try to fucking take over their country under the guise of aid and westernize it and end up destroying another culture with our white plague?

And at the same time Korea is all, "hey yo we got bombs!" and Bush is all, "oh, we'd like to be diplomatic about this."

What The Fuck???

Is Bush mad cause Saddam was going to kill his dad? Yo dubya, call your daddy; his ass is still alive. Go shoot a bunch of fucking deer on your ranch and let diplomacy work with Iraq *and* with Korea. Be wise, not a fucking war monger. Let the UN discern weapons in Iraq.

I'm not all brilliant about this shit yet, but dammm; this situation is pretty fucked up.

Lunch

5:31pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

Mikey and Joel cooked lunch for us today. Quite funny to watch them tossing veggie burgers onto sizzling hot oil and jumping back so as to not be burned by the hot splashing oil. They were all laughing and having a great time. So awesome to have such positive energy put into our lunch.

Nice Laura Douglas came over; it was great to see her again.

Wow. I'm totally falling asleep as I write this entry. I don't know why I'm so tired.

cranium

5:17pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

The kittens went to a thrift store and came back with Cranium, the four team game that pits different random talent-ish things against one another. Janette, Mikey and I were winning pretty handily. The other two teams seemed to be fighting pretty handily. Were we finding the limits of YRUU comraderie? 7 days together in basically one house might stretch such bonds.

The game was abandoned before finished. "this is a dumb game..." Tanner, Mikey, Janette, Josephine and I played a couple rounds non competitively, just to practice the skills: drawing with eyes closed, modeling with clay, etc.

Now some of them are going to a different thrift store, and some of the others are going to play disc. I'm choosing not to; it's too cold! And practically dark.

dream

7:11pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

(dream)

Someone speaking some dialog for a movie, maybe Sean, but she was a girl. We were filming a movie and basically didn't have enough script so were trying to go over old script again in a different way to make it seem longer.

I woke up and Joel was beside me. He had been sleeping in a weird position; weirder than Marty McFly in Back to the Future. I talked to him a bit, asking him how he slept; he said just fine, and then he was gone and I was talking to Ricky Shaw, of Shaw Chevron down in Houston. He was fine as well and looked forward to seeing me at my party.

Then I woke up for real.

internet down

7:55pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

Breaker broke again on the computers, this time while I was chatting with Ryan McCarthy in New York. My laptop battery kept my computer up, but the router's power was killed. No more chattin'.

10:57pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

For some reason I'm still having internet non-connectivity.

japanese Ring

10:42pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

Saw the Japanese version of The Ring, which they just called Ring. If you've seen our version, stick with that.

The Japanese version wasn't scary at all compared to our version. There was only one (1) thing that the Japanese version did more scarily than the US version. And it was actually just creepy or spooky: to keep from dying in the American version, one had to copy the tape. In Japanese version, one had to copy *and* show the video to someone else.

But the Japanese version didn't have any horses, didn't show the girl in an insane asylum, didn't visit the girl who saw her friend die, didn't have the dad kill himself, didn't show where the girl had been kept, and the video itself was way shorter.

- - - -

Hahaa now the kittens are talking about their "irrational" fears of dark, boogey man, vampires, peeing in bathrooms with windows..

"Shit! Both your bathrooms have windows in them! I'm going to go pee outside.."

- - - -

"hey don't say all that scary stuff around Josephine, you might scare her."

"Oh I think that while she's got all these big hairy boys around her she'll be okay."

"hey, just because we're bigger doesn't mean our minds are stronger; we're scared too."

tea

11:00pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

Tyler walked toward the kitchen, carrying a cup of hot tea. Joel grabbed his arm and yanked it back, causing the tea to spill all over Joel's hip and shirt and such.

"Ahhh!!! it burns!" through laughter as they both cracked up at the situation.

The story, relayed to those who came to see what happened quickly transformed into, "I was trying to get by Tyler so I said 'excuse me' and he whirled around and threw scalding tea on me!"

So funny.

the gunslinger

11:31pm CST Friday 3 January 2003

I'm going to read Stephen King's _The Gunslinger_ to Janette.

- - - -

Hahahah!!

Cracking up laughing as I read with my mouthguard in, which makes my speech sound like Drew Barrymore. (I fancy it does cause that makes me think of her and I'm hard pressed to think of a time that I don't want to be thinking of Drew Barrymore)

"The Gunthlinger"

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!

Over and over until she was finally all, "okay, don't read the title anymore."

"Okay."

snickersnort

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

"okay."

"okay."

"The man in black thled acloss the dethert." ahaAhahahaHAHAHAAAaa!!!!

AHHAHAHAAHAa

"okay." sigh. "okay."

AHAHHAHAAHAHAHAH

"This is how movies waste so much film."

"okay."

"The man in black HAHAHahahahhaahahaahahhaah!!!"

This happened maybe 10 times; It took so long to get to the second phrase of the first sentence of the book.

"The man in black thled acloss the dethert, and the gunthlinger thollowed. HAHahaahahahahaahahahaahah!!!!!"

I took my mouthguard out and read.