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Fuck the corporate scene, I want to live the Bohemian lifestyle. I'm sick of having to regulate everything from haircut to body piercings to my general fucking outlook on life to fit this fucking corporate mold of what is and what isn't acceptable. I hate the fact that I put in so many goddamned hours, that I skip lunches, that I stress myself to a fucking daily heartburn for what? Just to process company checks that, individually, far surpass my yearly salary. I hate making a slave wage and slaving away so that others may prosper. I hate that, when I needed one day off to cope with the death of a friend and another day off to attend his funeral, I was threatened with "termination" because I'm fresh out of sick days. And I hate the fact that every job I find is, seemingly, just more of the same. Because when it boils down, even if I'm doing something more attuned to my skills and interests, I'll still be in that same fucking corporate environment. Maybe I've been jaded by the very shitty treatment at my current job and maybe, just maybe, there are other jobs out there that regard their workers with a little more, well, regard, than this one. But I have a hard time believing it. I've recently looked back on my MilwaukeeJobs.com history. I've been applying to jobs since January. Fucking January. You know how many legit* jobs called me back? 0. Not a fucking one. So now I'm second-guessing myself on top of all this. I don't see a way out; even if I do get another job, I can't imagine it being much better. Fuck it. *I did get a call back, and interview, with a company that is nothing more than a pyramid scheme. As I discovered at the interview. Big waste of time. |
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In true existentialist fashion, I am fully aware that the only purpose to life is to experience. Why not? In the end we're dust regardless and so much of what we do in life has no purpose. We should, from time to time, break free from the drone of the machinery -- allow the gears to turn without us for a time while we go out and seek something. Anything. While we pursue either of the twin virtues of Aestus and Animus. Passion and Intellect. In that vain, I will attempt here to compile a list of events, occurrences, and experiences in which I would like to partake before they grind my bones beneath the steady pressing weight of soil and footsteps. Here goes: [Realize that I am far too much of a cynic to ever believe that I will successfully cross any of these off of my list -- let's call it (post-mortum, of course) an unfinished list of regrets and failings or, if you will, Unobtained Longings.] 1. Learn to never live up to the expectations of others, serving self first. Always. 2. Publish something of some significance, even if only to a single reader. 3. Experience my own psyche firsthand with the aid of psychedelics. I am thinking, in particular, of DMT. 4. Experience the joy of marijuana amongst friends. 5. Sift the soil of foreign lands between my fingers. 6. Experience the wormwood dreams of absinthe. 7. Sink the ink of the twin virtues deep beneath my flesh as a physical representation of their beauty, as well as an homage to their importance. 8. Spend a moment free of a tumultuous mind. More to come... |
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This Tuesday, the 16th at 9pm CST, FrankWit will be conducting a live interview of Brian Sapient, who runs www.rationalresponders.com. All are welcome to join in with questions. Download the latest version of Skype (the interview will be through there) and hop on! It will be fun and informative. www.rationalresponders.com My skype name is dmanley22. Any questions, you can send them to me. We hope to have a good sized audience from the spectrum of religious/atheist thought. |
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Your results: You are Riddler
Click here to take the "Which Super Villain am I?" quiz... |
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Tiny little pathetic me, all dangling legs and hideous grotesque, spinning my web, hoping to catch a bird. The bird has beauty and elegance and grace; the bird is everything I am not. And yet... I know that my web is too fragile, that those colorful wings will rip my delicate perfection to the barest of strings, and yet... I hope to catch a bird. Beautiful and majestic and perfect. My web is pathetic; it is paltry, it is sparse, it is the best I can create, it is the height of my achievement, and the best I can hope for is a moment. Just a moment. The split-second between perfection and ribbons, where I hope to catch a bird, to catch her beauty unaware. And then she may destroy me without protest. Just a moment, and then I am hers. Just a moment. Just so I can say: "I caught a bird".
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First of all, kudos on tackling that whole Christmas celebration time nearly a full month early. Take a hike on down to one of our dollar stores and look at a FUCKING calender. December 2nd is a far cry from the 25th! Secondly, I can fully comprehend the road of the parade route being blockaded off, but to block off EVERY FUCKING ROAD THAT RUNS PARALLEL IN THE WHOLE GODDAMNED TOWN is a bit overkill, especially when, by closing them, you effectively cut off a major portion of the residential zone. Now, I understand that it's a Saturday for you folks, so driving for you is merely a formality, but for me it's a goddamned Thursday, and when I come puttering home from a long day at work and all I want is to go home and crash in front of the computer, I shouldn't have to take a tour of this lovely little shithole trying to find a parking space within the city limits. I know, I know, you're children are adorable with their little poof-ball hats and such, but because they (at the behest of their parents I am QUITE sure) decide to all gather in little flocks so as to trudge aimlessly down the middle of the street, I had to park a block away from my house in the back parking lot of the Post Office, you know, where they park their little white trucks, and march my cold and snowy ass THROUGH them just to get home. And to the guy with the air horn: Just Fucking STOP! I used to hate Christmas because I worked in retail. Thanks to you, City of Germantown, I have many more reasons to hate it. Love forever and BFF, dmanley |
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If you've been itching to hear stories that I've written, then check it out. I read to you. Good for bedtimes and such. I'll still have the other podcast, but this one's a bit of a side-project. Maybe it will motivate me to write more. |
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/no Police officers repeatedly stun a student for failing to present school I.D. Couple this with all the news reports about taser abuse and it all becomes real. Horrifically, terrifyingly real. |
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Putting aside my own intense feelings regarding personal freedom and not forcing your christian values upon others, I find myself floating in a sea of tranquil euphoria brought on by such blatant ignorance that it seems almost satirical. The reason: When I voted "no" to marriage (as the propagandists assert), I noticed a bit in there about not recognizing same-sex marriages performed in states where they ARE legal. Query: I had assumed that that whole "any state must recognize any legally binding contract drawn up in any other state" thing that makes our currency, among other things, so darned convenient also protected things like, oh, I don't know, marriage contracts. Perhaps with the dems back in a state where they can (potentially) do something positive, we may experience a renaissance to bring us from these neo-dark ages. Or maybe they'll be the "I don't want to lose public opinion" pussies that we all know them to be and the christian right will still work their cogs against progress. Time will tell, I guess. I'm strangely hopeful, if only because the possibility exists. |
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There are three new additions to the family. Well, to my apartment. I got a cluster of Hermit crabs! And they're still alive, so far!! Yeah, I dig 'em. I should Bedazzle their shells and shit, but for now I'm just watching them be crabs. Maybe I'll get some pics up here as soon as I get my camera back from Katie. Which reminds me, Katie's birthday was FANTASTIC. I'll get pics of those up, too. Again, once I wrestle the camera away from her. |
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A guy named Major Ice Hole is now my official PR Rep for my podcast. He made me a gif!!
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Quiz: 1. YOUR SPY NAME (middle name and current street name): Michael Sylvan 2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME (grandfather/mother on your dad's side and your favourite candy): Howard KitKat 3. YOUR RAP NAME (first initial of first name and first three or four letters of your last name): DMan 4. YOUR GAMER TAG (a favourite colour, a favourite animal): Green Squirrel 5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, and city you were born in): Michael Ladysmith 6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (first three letters of your last name, last three letters of mother's maiden name, first three letters of your pet's name): Manley Lad 7. JEDI NAME (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwards): Leahcim Yelnam 8. PORN STAR NAME (first pet's name, the street you grew up on): Pumpkin Wemovedaroundalot 9. SUPERHERO NAME ("The", your favourite colour and the automobile your dad drives): The Green Some-Kind-of-Pickup 10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME (first name of the main character in the last film you watched, last food you ate): J.D. Sampleweddingcake
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