tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86069600817911231352011-12-29T16:57:35.832-06:00just me and my non-sexual thoughts.jason dikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586114122187938609noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606960081791123135.post-54219851557926389862011-11-23T17:23:00.003-06:002011-11-23T17:27:34.920-06:00

This will be the first holidays after Dad's death. I am not looking forward to it and it definitely shows, I'm crankier than usual and the thought of having to go out and see people fills me with that sort of anger that sets in when forced into any obligation that one would rather not attend.And everything is making it worse: work, my new back and leg aches, my students, job searching.

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Let me start with a praise: I think Chuck Palahniuk's voice is among the most original in contemporary fiction. His first ten years include--Fight Club, Survivor, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, Diary, Rant and Haunted appeal to a wide audience and introduced characters and situations unlike anything in popular literature. His earlier books feature characters everyone can relate to. Who

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Two books to recommend, long time readers know I ain't gonna steer them wrong.First up, where's Jimi in this video?Playing backup to two soul singers by the numbers rendition of "Shotgun". That's what Hendrix did for years after leaving the Army.Becoming Jimi Hendrix by Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber.Roby and Schreider do what no other biographers of Hendrix have done which is discuss his

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There is a curious trait in American political discussion of trying to ascertain what the Founding Fathers would think about this issue or that issue. Because of his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson is often brought to the forefront of these discussions. In the past Jefferson has been claimed by slaveowners and abolitionists; integrationists and segregationists;

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http://jasondikes.wordpress.com/

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I'm doing most of my writing over here nowhttp://jasondikes.wordpress.com/

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I do most of writing here now

jason dikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586114122187938609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606960081791123135.post-76941855983326253262010-03-12T21:50:00.015-06:002010-03-12T23:05:03.915-06:00

I'm watching Mother's Day, 1980 exploitation horror film.*this movie has terrible production values, i think the actresses just wore their own clothes to the shoot*who wears high heels camping?*gratuitous nude swimming in the lake, yet I've never wanted actresses to put on clothes more than I do now. These are seriously unattractive women.*who puts their home gym--weights, nautilus etc.--on

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It is that time of the year again, when my birthday looms in the horizon and my thoughts turn to why I haven’t found a nice woman to settle down with and argue about whether or not to have kids. Many other important questions loom: who will listen to me complain after I retire and hang around the house all day? Who will take care of me? Who will float my corpse down the Ganges? And so, here

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Ok its again been a while since I updated. Summer school was a bitch, the cataloging class was the most difficult class I've ever taken. I'm no longer teaching sunday school, last Sunday was my last day, as if to confirm my decision, all of the most ill-behaved kids were there...the kid you have to ask five times before he'll do something; the 8 year olds who act like 5 year olds...so much

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At work on Mother's day. The action on the floor:3: 15 every computer is being used. Two people are looking through the video/DVD section. No one is browsing any shelves with actual books on them.Earlier some lady got pissed cause when I was checking her PIN which is used to check out books, I asked out loud if it was 5455? SHe said thanks for telling the whole building...there were three people

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At the library I work out, we have a display with staff picks. So far, both of the books I have put out there have been checked out.#1TITLE: A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World.AUTHOR: Tony HorowitzChristopher Columbus established Spanish colonies in 1492, the Puritan separatists colonies came along in 1620 and nothing happened in between. WRONG. From 1492-1620, there were

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To clear up a bit of confusion, I wrote this sometime in 2004.***********Her funeral was brief, as all funerals should be. And small. Her husband, their children, some people from work. No one from her own family was there. She never knew her family. Raised in a Scottish orphanage, she met Gilbert Elkins in England during the last European war. He was an Air Force mechanic; she worked in a

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So at the library its decided to have a Christmas Cookie exchange day, where everyone bakes cookies and brings them in with the recipe.Point one: I don't cook. When I was a kid, I was always shooed out of the kitchen so I do not have the warm fuzzy memories of spending heartwarming Hallmark moments in the kitchen with my folks. Nor have I acquired any desire to learn since then. Maybe one day

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My friend Spence ran this experiment on his blog where he hit shuffle on his IPod and listed the first ten songs. So here we go1. I Found Out/John Lennon. A good track oversahdowed by several others--Mother, God--on the Plastic Ono Band album.2. Chapter 30/Lolita by Vladmire Nabakov. This is an unabridged reading of the classic novel about a man and his love for a very young female; read by

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I don't have much to blog. I think the election and the end of the semester wore me out. My class in Rare Books finished on Saturday and so I am now 15 hours done on my degree, only 21 more to go. I slept for like 9 hours last night and took a four hour nap today...looking forward to the long break.

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A letter in the Statesman in the other day, "I don't see how a Christian can vote for a pro-choice candidate". I'm assuming she meant Obama, although McCain used to be pro-choice up until it became unpopular with his base. Anyway she wants to protect the unborn. Fine, but what about the already born, what about the candidate who made a joke about dropping bombs on Iran. Do we assume that

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From now on, when people ask why I'm not married, I will ask them why they aren't divorced, or why they have so many kids.

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Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism by Michell GoldbergTaxpayer money going to community groups that discriminate against non-Christians in hiring. More taxpayer money being used to fund abstinence programs that state Jesus is the only way to have a healthy sexual life. Goldberg presents a troubling history of the far far Christian right's work at turning America into a theocracy.

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Did anyone else notice when McCain admitted that the US had tortured prisoners? And in case anyone is asking is waterboarding torture...after WWII, the US vigorously prosecuted German and Japanese soldiers who waterboarded American POWs. During Vietnam, when US soldiers were caught waterboarding North Vietnamese POWs, they were court martialed and kicked out of the military.http://media3.

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Winner: third party candidates in 2012IranHillarybin LadenLoser:the American people, esp. those making less than 90K a yearMcCainObamaOverall Results:China finishes purchasing the USSaudi Arabia finishes purchasing Western HemisphereWorking under supervision of Chinese robot overlords

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Well, a big thank you to American media. On Friday a war broke out between Russia and Georgia..which, according to reports that are coming out has killed over a thousand people. But the lead story in America is the John Edwards affair, thus proving the equation that one American politicians penis is worth more than a thousand dead people in some country most Americans couldn't find on a map if

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Well, election season is in high gear and so it demands a peek. But rather than talk about the candidates, let’s talk about the immense pile of bullshit being produced by the media in this election. No bones: this is the most important election in the last half century and rather than focus on the real important issues, our media instead choose to focus on the same old boring crap.We’re living

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Well, the weirdo neighbors with all the furniture trucks and kids nobody saw have moved. They were only here six months but oh, how they touched our hearts with their midnight deliveries, massive garage sales, mysterious children, piles of garbage, tree trimmings the garbage collectors wouldn't collect so they spread out into the street, and their very unkempt lawn.Hopefully some new weirdos move

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So the syncing of the Ipod is fianlly finished; it was accomplished by removing Vista as my OS. Let's review the week that was June 8-June 12.Sunday, June 8: I finally break down and buy an Ipod. Upon returning home Vista keeps asking for driver software--there is none an Ipod is self contained like a flash drive. Lots of reading of help manuals.Monday, June 9: I check all my Windows updates

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A couple of releases to look forward to. Weezer's 3rd self-titled album, now being called The Red Album. Not sure what this one will be like. "Pork and Beans" was a good song, but the follow up, "The Greatest Person who Ever Lived" is a bit weird, shifting from rap to 70s new york rock in the same song. It kind of sounds like they spliced a bunch of songs together.Dennis Wilson's lost

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Well, somebody came and picked up all the tree trimmings the neighbors had left out. It wasn't the garbage company, maybe they took it themselves...I haven't seen any furniture trucks in a while.I found out my old band that fired me is falling apart, that's nice to hear. There is talk of getting the GreenLetters back together for a show and maybe some more recording. More than likely the new

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We have some new neighbors a couple houses down. Husband and wife and an undetermined amount of children, one neighbor has seen four...but the kids are never outside so it's hard to say and we have no idea about ages, although is least one is old enough that the husband smacked the kid upside the head but that could be any age.At least once a week a furniture truck shows up around 10 PM and

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I'm watching South Park right now. Its after 11, the TV should be off, but this episode is pretty funny. I'm on the downward slide into the end of my first semester back in university. There are a few assignments left and then I'll be off for a couple of weeks until the May-mester starts, then summer school proper. I found out I'm teaching all summer so its probably a good thing I didn't sign

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Well it was finally confirmed that my mother did indeed have a mini-stroke sometime last week. The doctors also discovered that her blood pressure and cholestoral, which had been normal last November, had dangerously increased for unknown reasons. They are starting treatment to get everything under control.

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It seems my band wants to replace me as lead guitar player. Apparently my playing has not been up to par and she, the band leader, decided not to tell me that she was unhappy with my playing until Monday morning.The part that burns me is that no one ever said anything about my playing until a replacement was lined up and waiting.She has offered the option of staying on as rhythm guitar, mandolin

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...Reading a biography on John Winthrop.For those of you not hip to America's colonial fathers, John Winthrop is regarded as the father of Massachusetts. Born in Sussex county in 1588, he moved to America in 1630 and held the post of governor several times between his arrival and death.One of the things Winthrop struggled with was the tension that the Puritans lived in between upholding God's

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