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I guess it'll be interesting to see if all of the Christian right nut-bags who want to ban violence in oh I don't know, every-freakin-thing feel about the new Christian video game where you kill people who don't convert to Christianity. You know like a good old fashioned crusade! Yeah kill those infidels. Praise the Lord! But it's not the only christian game coming out. Money quote.

There is, for the most part, a remarkable verisimilitude except for one detail - all of the ambulances have 911 painted on their roofs. In the reality-based world, most ambulances have a red cross on top. Yet the game designers make prominent use of these 911 ambulances to evoke the tragic events of September 11, 2001.

I'm sure Jesus would approve. And people in this country actually think other countries like Saudi Arabia have problems with extremism? Give me a break. But maybe it's just because our extremists get Kirk Cameron to star in their movies...instead of bearded Muslim terrorists. Hmm, which has more reach and power and money?

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Ugh, my wife warned me about Gov. Huckabee appealing to Republican voters well over a month ago. She's more in tune than the Daily Kos!

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So lately me and the wife have been trying out new crazy fruits. Or at least trying to. We tried a mango and it was terrible! TERRIBLE. I cannot emphasize enough its total suckiness. But we recently tried a Horned Melon also known as a kiwano. It wasn't horrible but the consistency was really weird. It had the seeds of like a cucumber but the consistency was like jello. Well a mix of mercury plus jello. Very strange duders, very strange. Here's a picture of it. I look forward to new excursions in fruit exploration...

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I can't really imagine most of my co-workers being involved in some underground fight clubs but I bet if I wasn't married and was in the same state of mind I was before I met my wife I'd be all over this. But fortunately a lot of my inner rage and anger has left me and that's made me a much better person in the long run. This article's funny though as it demonstrates the common irony that ran through "Fight Club", here was a movie that became iconic in pop culture about shunning pop culture. And here's fellows reiterating the movie's theme as if they're some witty nu-Emerson/Thoreau type. Which reminds me, I really need to re-read some of those two writers material. I really couldn't stand their pompous lameness years ago and I wonder if I'd feel the same way now.

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The Never have put out a pretty good album in Antarctica: A Storybook Record. It comes coupled with a 50-page storybook that was inspired by children's books. I thought it was a pretty good listen of some art rock/power pop. Download an MP3 of 'Cavity'.

Lately I've really been into some dub stuff. I think I really got interested in it when I heard the skatty dub-beats of stuff from cEvin Key's Plateau project. But the reggae-dub stuff is where its origins are based. Doctor Echo is a great dub producer, his new album Echo Evahlastin' is really quite golden, he layers on top of some spoken word/socially conscious beatnik poetry by Solange St. Croix with some trumpet and other live instruments. It's really quite crisp in production. Read my review if you'd like.

The Gersch have an album out that was culled from a bunch of lost recordings by the fine folks at Tortuga Recordings and distributed/promoted in tandem with Hydrahead Records. It's just downright fucking wild sludge metal with sloppy noise that's painted by Cliff Meyer (Isis, Red Sparrowes). Stoner rock for stoners who have brains. Plus it has a bunch of lyrics based on Conan the Barbarian. I mean that's amazing.

Hmm, what else is good. New Knut is an awesome set of remix crazies. New Ministry is probably the best political album out this year. Anything anyone wants to recommend to me?

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My wife has recently been saying how amazing (!) it would be to retire to Italy. She suggests this little home. I second that, as long as I can have DirecTV and high-speed Internet (PORN DOESN'T CUM SLOW BITCHES!) so that I can pay attention to baseball and other fun things in 'merica. Actually I don't know what else I'd miss from America. Maybe the ease of speech but other than that...I'll struggle. Between this villa, my son's college fund, and our overall retirement I guess I need to kick some butt at work and finally break the $100k barrier. Soon enough...

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An 18-inning marathon and I got to see one damn fantastic ending to it. Thank you DirecTV. Bottom of the 18th inning, zero outs, Jason Bay is on third and Craig Wilson is on first after a pair of wild pitches by Gallo. Bautista is batting and hits a fly out to shallow center. The throw to the plate is in time but Bay bowls over Munson who drops the ball. Safe! Run scores, game over. That's a pretty awesome way to end a game like that...

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This is easily my favorite photograph that my buddy has taken.

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The scene.

5:30am.
My bedroom.

The players.

Myself playing myself
Jack Tripper playing Morning Terrorizer

Scene 1, Act 1:

BANG! Down come the blinds as Jack Tripper bounces on them to peer outside at the rising sunlight of dawn. Jason jumps out of bed screaming expletives and explosively stomps after Jack Tripper. Tripper runs down the stairs at lightning break-neck speed hiding under a couch. Jason screams more curses then remorsefully walks up the stairs. Muttering curses under his breath he places the blinds precariously back in place though the plastic element that holds them is broken. He jumps back into bed and wakes up two hours later.

Later that day he looks at the blinds in his computer room only to discover that a certain cat has decided to gnaw on the side of them producing small piercings throughout the sides of them. Rattled he allows a few more curses to come out and then resigns to slam his head through the wall.

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Beer rules, but only for men. Women need not apply. Stick to your girly drinks!

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This geography quiz is so much harder than I thought it would be. I missed questions #1 and #5. BOO!

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I miss playing/screaming in a grindcore band. Though I'm sure if I tried to do it now my voice box would explode since I haven't tried to sing in years upon years. But I found out about this old school flyer my grind band Endangered Feces was on. It was a pretty slammin' show with Enemy Soil and Pig Destroyer. I think my ears bleed afterwards. Scott Hull was an amazingly nice dude and it was fun to hang out with him and chit-chat. He's the legendary guitarist for Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, and also played with Anal Cunt for a while. BLAAARGGGHHH! I need to record some grindcore man...

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I really hope that this is the last year that I see the results of America's stupidest show on CNN. This isn't news. Now THIS is news. But you won't find that on CNN or in the mainstream media. After all the news media is too busy talking about who will take over at ABC News. Lame. No wonder no one votes. They're too busy thinking that who won American Idol is important news-worthy events. Hell people should at least be concerned with the Net Neutrality and Web toll tax, which outside of bloggers and some industry insiders/followers, few know about. Ugh, I hate our country sometimes.

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I'm pretty psyched about the ending of Lost, though it sucks that I'll have to wait until September to see any more new episodes. Of course, I could count down the time via a Dharma Initiative clock (have to have the .NET framework so stay away Mac/*nix freaks), but I'm sure my son will take up plenty of my free time. Speaking of TV, the seasons for "How I Met Your Mother" and "Scrubs" have ended. I really love both of those shows. The ending for "How I Met Your Mother" was damn impressing and gut-wrenchingly beautiful. But I'm a sucker for sit-coms. The Hell with reality TV!!! I'm done with it! I want me some sit-coms. Of course I'll watch the retarded Real World vs. Road Rules challenge "Fresh Meat". But that's because I like to make fun of the people on that show. I don't really watch it for any other sort of reason. I guess I could say that's just a waste of my time and that I could be reading, or doing something productive. Well I enjoy entertainment that is mindless sometimes.

So yeah that means I not only saw, enjoyed, but really damn well liked the "Da Vinci Code" movie. (read my review) Personally I think that people that make fun of the prose of the novel and yadda yadda are just idiotic snobs. Sure it's not the best writing in the world, but if you think it's so easy, why don't YOU go out and write a best-seller that boasts 40 million copies sold. I know it's easy to throw that out there as a comeback, but twats that get all hell-bent about this stuff really annoy the shit out of me, they're just snobs that forgot the meaning of ENTERTAINMENT. Also the people that are all in a big outrage about the content of the movie are as bad as the Muslims decrying the Danish cartoons. At least the Muslims were upset because in their (strict) intepretation of their religion you can't depict the Prophet Muhammad. What's so bad about Christ having a child or being married? Would that make his words any less powerful or inspiring?

Also, Ann Coulter needs to write a new book. The whole bust on liberals thing is getting tired. Then again I guess she is a one trick wonder whose schtick appeals to the Scaife's of the world. Crazies in other words.

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So sometimes I find pretty hilarious and crazy and sometimes all out spooky pictures. And other times I find boring things. And that's when I say it's time to go...

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You know, they're hoping to get re-elected on Gay Marriage again. And you know, doing other incredibly important work like voting that English should be the national language (I'm sure the immigrant bloodline must run thin in the Senate), while Bush is hoping to spend a billion dollars on border security--an issue that came out of nowhere just to tug on heartstrings and just for re-election banter. Give me a break. Why is immigration suddenly such an important issue to tackle versus bird flu, another in a long line of hysteria-driven Congressional drivel that results in a blasé electorate. After all we're at war, paying out the tooth while Oil Companies post billion dollar profits in single QUARTERS, and the big issue of 2002 (you know, terrorism) seems only to be a speech crutch for the Republicans when they can't get their way or when a whistleblower exposes the administration as a fascist regime. Sure some can connect the dots but it's not the connection the Administration ever makes--there's is a Darwinian tie-in how Americans can be pushed into a corner and manipulated 24/7. Of course the other side does the same, after all Democrats are guilty of a heinous crime of severe inaction for the past five years. They seemingly had no real interest in winning the White House which is precisely why they unleashed a torrent of ineffective candidates whom, while good to some degree in my view, were not appealing statesmen who did what America needs in this Bushian dictatorship--true leadership that inspires and invents.

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I like the IDE Belt...

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First off, it's exciting to watch Pujols just destroy National League pitching. He's a man good enough to recognize that people need to back off of Bonds. I sure am getting tired of the media's treatment of a player who cheated no more than any other Hall of Famer.

But it's also exciting to watch Detroit battle Chicago for the top of the AL Central. That Justin Verlander kid is dynamite but I'm a little disappointed in Curtis Granderson who hopefully won't become Corey Patterson Part Two. In the National League equal, it's nice to see Cincinnati finally doing something with all those bats. Who would have thought it would come from pitching by Aaron Harang and Broson Arroyo? Snaps to them.

But in my own east sides, it's disappointing to see the Braves finally succumb to their payroll slashing cuts. But it's nice to watch the farm system produce guys like Jeff Francoeur. They've always done great stuff with their farm clubs. But the Mets? Oh man, I'd regret seeing them win the division but with Florida barely being able to be labeled a polished turd. It'd be better to see my local Nationals doing well. But they're in a sad state of non-hitting and non-pitching. Plus I guess I hate the Phillies too. So whatever.

But the AL East is interesting. I knew that Toronto would line up a good team but was sad to see how awful Tampa Bay's starting pitching truly is. Boo on that! I'd love to see those kids kick some butt, they have probably the best set of young outfielders of any team. I love Gathright, just wish he could figure out how to get on base more often so he could show off that blazing speed. Boston and New York of course are battling it out for the top position. And while that always makes for good drama I sure would like to see one of the other worthy teams up atop of the AL East.

But the MOST exciting thing about baseball is that I'll be able to watch some games with my son this year. That's gonna be amazing. He might not understand why daddy is ranting and raving but those will be some of the most special moments in my entire life.

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I think war and not films cause post-tramautic stress...

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my emails always get misintepreted because I'm lazy at grammar and prose.

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A couple of weeks ago I unfortunately had to tell my bandmates that I couldn't give them the type of committment that they desired and deserved. After not practicing with the guys (and gal!) for a good month or more, I got an e-mail from my main man Carbomb (smother's #1 interview question!) that essentially read like he got the short straw (which is interesting noting that Corpsegrinder is the Official Mir Band Firer) essentially saying that they wanted to be able to practice 3 or more times a month and that they were hoping to record soon and play a show late this summer or early fall. While normally I would be all gung-ho since I'm having a kid I just honestly don't know what my schedule is going to be like and I don't want to flake out on this amazing band at the last minute. I told him and Jimmy that I too had been thinking about my future with Mir and wondering how I could balance my upcoming Lifechange™ with band practice and work and everything else. It just so happened the last couple of months happened to be insanely busy with birthing classes, work, family visits, and baby shower stuff. I can only imagine that it'll get more crazy too with my little man coming into the world in three or so weeks (OH MY GOD!).

Sadly I had to send my goodbyes but don't you worry my music experiences with these fine gentlemen (and girl!) aren't coming to a close. Indeed we spoke about hoping to still do some little side recording projects with each other. With Mr. Reeeeeeeeheeeeeeeeed I'd like to do some rock-a-billy/alt. country twang. Carbomb and I should do a blazing rock experiment with loads of power chords. Corpsegrinder and I shall record the finest grindcore heard to man. And my former singer, well I dunno, hopefully she can suggest something in the realm of awesome but perhaps I could finally get back to work on some nice electronica/club four-to-the-floor bangers that she could sing on.

It's a sad moment but it ushers in a whole new era of J-Sin and my life. I'm excited.

Besides, hopefully these guys can find a GOOD drummer that doesn't suck and play 4/4 stuff all the time. But in all seriousness I wish them the best of luck I can't wait to see what they do in the future, they really have a pretty sweet amount of talent.

Theo Huxtacable is their #1 fan with George Spencer and Wes Jones quickly in tail.

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So this fun myspace slut (yeah she apparantly wants to have sex with 1,000 men and write blogs about it, uh ok loosey goosey), points out that she uses a dating site called Wealthy Men that requires men to make at least $100,000 a year in order to join. Apparantly there's plenty in the Manassas area to choose from. Gosh how incredibly awesome is America?

This is seriously the worst thing in the world. I hope all of these fucktards stay single for the rest of their un-capricious lives.

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I'm looking forward to this awesome boxing match-up tonight. Predictions: Hatton by a split decision.

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For the Truffle Shuffle...it's good enough for me.

Anyone else think Cindi Lauper was a total pop genius?!?

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How else would explain us protecting our borders with the military. Domestic spying. A military general being in charge of our CIA. I mean, Bush and company are really becoming a fascist regime and molding the United States into a country led by a military junta. Ironically most of the leaders haven't even served in the military...

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Also, the Washington Post have assembled a nice map of key races for the 2006 mid-term elections. I'm a tad disappointed no one considers Sen. Allen in Virginia as vulnerable as he should be.

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How much you wanna bet the big database the NSA is using to spy on American phone records has a Ruby on Rails front-end app? I'm glad Leahy is outraged but really, where's the outrage? Sure there's some but no where near enough. They're tracking who you call, yes including those 1-900 numbers. THIS MEANS YOU PEOPLE. Not your neighbor, not someone else. Not just criminals or terrorists or just Muslims. But you. The more the masses are silent just trusting someone else to pick up the slack the more entrenched in the Bush military state we become. You might agree with the Republicans on their lame morality trips that are wrapped in Christian hubris and you might agree with their tax policies or even foreign policies. But if you agree with this, you're a traitor.

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The Daily Kos pondered 2006 Republican slogans and some of the suggestions are pretty hilarious. Also in the web news world of politics is that C-Span's videos of the White House Correspondent's Dinner made the Google Video Top Ten list. Speaking of which, the Mario live action re-enactment of the 1st level is pretty hilarious.

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I just read that one of my favorite Kansas City Royals players Mike Sweeney (his tribute site is pretty hilarious in a weird sort of way) might be considering retiring after this season because of his re-occurring back problems. Oddly this is the first year in probably 8 or 9 in which my fantasy baseball team doesn't own him. Sigh, what a disappointment. He is and was a great baseball player, able to line killer doubles throughout Kaufmann Stadium with the best of them. I sure hope he doesn't consider retiring and manages to strengthen his back so that these problems are gone.

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Besides the whole bearing my children thing of course. The other day I came home and she made me an awesome fruity beverage, quite similar to this which was delicious! Plus she watched an ENTIRE baseball game with me, of course it was the Red Sox vs. Yankees so it was understandable, but daaaaammmn that was cool of her--the same cool woman who bought the entire baseball DirecTV package and then offered to get the football package too! Also, this morning I went to get my breakfast and was greeted with a note proclaiming that there was strawberries in the fridge. Oh my cereal was damn good!

In summary, my wife rules. She's gonna be the best mommy ever.

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Wired discusses, the Intelligent Design battle (give me a break, it's freakin' creationism people spun with a different name) just might finally feel the real thrashing that scientists need to give it. But what's most interesting is how the proponents of Intelligent Design (god I hate that oxymoronic name), used the Republican PR firm, Creative Response Concepts. The CRC of course were the folks behind the Swift Boat attacks against Kerry, went after CBS (sorry it wasn't bloggers that broke the story, it was this PR firm with DC gossip queen Drudge), they were the women behind Judge Roberts, and of course attacked the AARP and pushed the Bush agenda for social security. So as the House weakly passes barely anything related to lobbying reform, I wonder will the United States just become this big PR machine? That's only if liberals and Democrats (not one and the same mind you), despite to fight back with something just as dirty as what the CRC does, which of course is just compose passionate lies and then spread them through the conservative network so neatly and cleanly and thunderously LOUD that even the mainstream media has to report on the story, but fearing a "liberal bias" attack, don't actually ever really dig deep into the bullshit with the sharpened teeth we should expect from the Fifth Estate.

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This past weekend found us fixing up the baby room even more, we build a bunch of stuff like a swing, a portable crib, and many other fun stuff. I'm totally thrilled to be a dad. And apparantly I'll be ponying up some cashmoney to the wife and future mom. Yeehaw! It'll be great to tell my boy about the wizardry of the changeup when it's followed by a split-finger fastball.

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Pete Rose Jr. got tossed in the slammer for distributing GBL, which is a steroid alternative. However it can also be converted to GHB which is sometimes referred to as the "date rape" drug. Personally I agreed that Pete Rose Sr., should be allowed into the Hall of Fame. He was a great baseball player and his ban was something that was outside of his playing time and he has the stats to back up his case. The whole morality thing is baloney, baseball has never been a morals-first game and it shouldn't try...

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So today is a general election for city council in Manassas. Yippee I thought, I'll get to vote out some incumbents! Well wasn't I surprised to find the whomping variety of Republican, Republican, Independent (translation, Republican), and Republican. Thanks Manassas democrats for giving out so many options to choose from. I've never felt more apathetic in my life.

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Today is the official Immigrants Aren't Coming to Work (or School, though I think the latter is just an awesome excuse for kids to be like whatever, I ain't coming to school). Lou Dobbs hates immigrants illegal immigrants. And he thinks that A.N.S.W.E.R. is a crazy radical left-wing group, and that they're TAKING OVER. Sorry, I seriously do not think that is the case. Sure they'll have a presence at some of the protests with their "hey it's not the issue, but we'll scream at you anyway" banter about Palestine and Mumia and other non-related issues that are all good and well but all too isolating. That was something that extremely annoyed me when I went to one of the last protests against the Iraq War. Here were all these people coming together with a common thread and then a bunch of folks tried to hijack it with unrelated stuff. That annoys me, but their participation does not.

The debate is still squarely on the issues and while it's all good and well to declare in some sort of symbolic gesture that illegal aliens are pushing down the wage of the semi-skilled, so is the expense of colleges because if you think about it you need more education to get to the same spot that you used to be able to get with less. And it costs more. I highly doubt that Dobbs and the other folks that try to mask their biased nationalism (which is flawed when you consider the true heritage of America) really would want to see those wages up a notch. Hell he also cries foul to higher gas prices, what do you think he'd say to increased costs for goods and labor?

That's not to say that I think illegals should be treated unfairly OR that they should be treated MORE fairly. What I expect, is that everyone pays their taxes and contributes to society equally and fairly. That means the rich should pay more taxes than the poor. The middle class shouldn't be burdened with the brunt of the load, because ideally a good capitalisti society should want to bring more people to the middle and work on raising the middle class rather than the Republican notion that everyone should just get rich. But if you come to this country illegally, yes you have made an error. I don't think you should get the benefits of paying taxes in that you should not be able to collect Medicare/Medicaid nor Social Security. Rather you should have to contribute to those funds because in theory you could be taking another's wage/job but you should not receive those benefits. I think that's fair. But of course business would balk at that because just like I mentioend before they'll all cry foul and whine that it will increase the costs for goods and services. Fair enough, but that's capitalism for you. What's fair is fair. And that's precisely what so many in this debate are trying to avoid...

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