November 2003

It's a chicken, inside a duck, inside a turkey! Genius! -- Posted by Balcony on Thursday, November 27 2003

Happy Thanksgiving Or as I prefer to call it, family avoidance day. Sadly there's no Turducken for me this year (once in 21 years I've tasted it...sad), hopefully things are going better for anyone else. And feel free to beat anyone who lets the words "tofu" or "tofurkey" slip out of their mouths.

And the timeless secrets of Osiris will once again animate the lifeless! -- Posted by Balcony on Thursday, November 20 2003

I've come to the conclussion that people hate me. All of you. It seems to me that people really only feel any want to talk to me right as I'm going to bed. For example; just last night as I was literally picking a DVD to put into my player so I could watch it as I drifted off into happy dream world I got an instant message from a one Ninja Hak basically ordering me to update this here site. So, you have him to thank for this what you're about to read. Next Time Use A Gun So's I got this email in my hotmail account yesterday from The Kids In The Hall (well...not the Kids themselves but some kind of representative). In said email I was offered the chance to be in the first group of people able to order the Kids In The Hall Season One 4-disc DVD Box Set for the low low price of $60.00. That shocked me. Maybe it was the sudden influx of free DVDs I've gotten that made me forget just how much (tv show set) DVDs cost, or maybe I'm just an idiot, because a quick check of amazon.com most tv show sets at least start out around $50.00, and as soon as I buy them the price drops to around $30. So, as you can see I'm on the horns of an enema (In the words of the one and only Kelly Bundy). We all know I'll end up with it. The only question now is when...or if I can con someone into making it a Christmas gift . Christmas in February Kill Bill Volume 1, DVD release: February 3rd Kill Bill Volume 2, Theatrical release: February 20th Now is the time on sprockets when we dance! Chicago Rulez! #1 San Francisco is once again the home of Terrell Owens' ego and no more. In a pathetic attempt to try to be cooler than a fan they claimed to have the worlds oldest (captive) fish. Little did they know that Granddad has been in the Shedd five years longer than their lame ass fish. Oh yeah, I said it. Their fish is lame, ours is great! It Depends On The Editing Hayden Christensen on Star Wars 3: "There's an amazing light sabre fight that'll knock people's socks off. Geographically, it covers the most distance of any other swordfight on film. And depending on the way they cut it, it should be the longest swordfight, timewise, that's ever been on film." A+ I'm one final away from wrapping up my first quarter at school. Three classes, three As. I da man. Ok...That's all I got. Go away.

Preachy Vomit Alert -- Posted by OtterVomit on Sunday, November 16 2003

BUDDHISM: THE PESSEMIST'S PHILOSOPHY For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated at nature's way of programming certain beings to take care of themselves. Spiders naturally know how to sling webs. Birds fly south (the same route every year for generations in some cases). Alligators will care for their young. This admiration has also presented me with a constant internal struggle, however. Man, by his very nature, has always had a need for something beyond what he can see. A God, or at least, some sort of spirituality. It is programmed into the psyche to seek such a thing or things out. Some see it as a weakness. I see it as a part of nature. I can no longer avoid this nagging argument. Spiritually I am not whole nor have I been since I can remember. It is time for a change. (PS this is why I stopped drinking alcohol suddenly for my friends who read this...) IF THERE IS A GOD, HE IS AWFULLY DISTRACTED I don't know if there is a God but if there is then I am convinced he's either distracted or has moved onto new & better things. But I really do not care if God exists or not, or whether he actually gives a shit. There is no designated diety associated with Buddhism. I am not interested in worship or faith, anyway. I am, however, interested in enlightenment, detatchment, awareness and freedom (or close to it) from suffering. EXISTENCE IS PAIN The Buddha taught that to live was to suffer. Anything one holds dear will cause them pain. The whole world is in a constant state of decay. Anything that brings joy, eventually won't. Everything is in a constant state of change, and change brings pain. Birth, sorrow, sickness, disease, old age, death, grief, despair, poverty, evil, lamentations, woe, tribulations, misfortune, war, insanity, hunger, unfulfilled wants, unfulfilled basic needs, association with the unwanted, disassociation from the wanted, and is what is unstable and uncontrollable. The aim of Buddhism (very roughly) is to eliminate desire and expectation from one's life, to head towards Nirvana. Nirvana is the ending. True Reality realized. The uncreated, the unspoiled, the permanent bliss. The Eightfold Noble Path of Buddhism is the means to this end. Eight activities – a very specific course of actions – that must be simultaneously developed to realize the goal, Nirvana. THE EIGHTFOLD PATH 1. RIGHT VIEW or RIGHT UNDERSTANDING. This means knowing the Four Noble Truths: The First Noble Truth is that to live is to suffer. Two is the knowledge that suffering is based on ignorance and it is perpetuated by the craving and intoxication for sensuality and sensations, being born and reborn (reincarnation), delusion and ignorance. Three is the knowledge that the ceasing of this suffering that has arisen, the stopping of all future incarnations, is Nirvana. True Reality realized, freed of that is ill. Four is the knowledge of the Eightfold Noble Path that leads to the cessation of this ill and to winning the goal: Nirvana. 2. RIGHT THINKING or RIGHT AIM. This means to aspire to attain realization of Perfect Wisdom, the Ultimate True Permanent Reality. To abstain from all evil acts of thought. To attain the total destruction of all cravings. To renounce all manifesting, all constructions, all that is created. To develop dispassion, total detachment, absolute renunciation, self-surrender. To bring about the cessation of all "created" realities. To Self-Realize the Incomparable Awakening of Self. To win the freedom of Mind, the freedom through Perfect Intuitive Wisdom, the sane and immune emancipation of Will. 3. RIGHT SPEECH. To abstain from all lying speech, all perjurious speech, all evil abusive speech and all frivolous speech. To engage in speech and discussion that pertains to and leads to Nirvana, to what’s actually PERMANENT and REAL (eh I'm going to suck at that one...) 4. RIGHT ACTION. To abstain from all killing of all creatures. To abstain from all stealing. To abstain from all sensual and sexual misconduct (fucking your girlfriend does not count as misconduct according to my sources). To abstain from all evil acts. To abstain from all forms of intoxication. 5. RIGHT LIVING. To abstain from all evil ways of living; to abstain from all evil methods of livelihood. 6. RIGHT EFFORT. To destroy all EVIL STATES OF MIND that have already arisen; to keep NEW evil states of mind FROM arising; to maintain and grow GOOD STATES OF MIND that have already arisen; and to make grow NEW good states of mind that have not yet arisen, such as loving kindness for ALL Beings, compassion and pity for ALL creatures, sympathetic joy and equanimity. 7. RIGHT MINDFULNESS. To contemplate as impermanent, ill and Selfless: Body, Feelings, Perception, Mind, Consciousness, Thought, Mental States, Mental Objects and Mental Activity. To grow revulsion for the world, seeing it for the decaying creation that it is, and to grow dispassion, total detachment, calm, tranquility, seeing that everything is not Self. To disregard all that is perceived, remaining aloof from both the pleasures as well as the pains arising from the creation of senses and sensuality. 8. RIGHT CONCENTRATION. Aloof from the world, aloof from evil states, aloof from all sensations from the senses, dwelling in solitude, seclusion, ardent, diligent, Self-resolute, develop one-pointedness of Mind through intense meditation and reflection. Eh there's a lot more but I'll just stop there since I know nobody gives a damn.

-- Posted by OtterVomit on Sunday, November 9 2003

MEGA UPDATES ABOUT SHIT YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT!! ME AND DEATH ON GOOD TERMS AGAIN Mr. G Reaper was kind enough to point out to me that my grandmother's passing really should have been more drawn out and painful than it was (not to mention happened a lot sooner), and that many people with lung cancer suffer and suffer while grandma Vomit was allowed to simply go to sleep peacefully with those that loved her most at her side. So me and the Soul Collector are on speaking terms again. OH YEAH, MESSIER REACHED THAT MILESTONE I HAD BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR HIM TO DO Of course fate always finds ways to rain on my parades so it came to pass that I was crippled with grief when this happened but Mark Messier did pass Gordie Howe for 2nd all-time in NHL scoring. BALCONY I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN YOUR MONEY Just had my hands tied the last week or so. Well actually I had forgotten about it until I wrote this... KILL BILL I've seen it four times and I desire a fifth and probably sixth viewing. THE NEW MRS. MACK IS GOOD IN BED Thought you might like to know. GRANDMA LEFT ME THE RIGGS FAMILY CAR Worth about 50 bucks, costs about 1,000 to fix. And yet we keep it running... SAINT GERMAIN ON TOUR OF FOUR ARIZONA TOWNS Don't ask me to name them becuase I don't know them. I don't get to go on this trip.

-- Posted by OtterVomit on Tuesday, November 4 2003

Me and the Grim Reaper are definitly on BAD terms right now. Ruby Glorene Riggs August 8, 1934 - November 1, 2003 Fuck Cigarettes.