Wednesday, November 28, 2007  

i leave tomorrow
back north
10 days minimum
herro canada

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Now playing: Nine Inch Nails - Closer To My Violent Heart (DJ D-roq Remix)
via fatpeopleeverywhere

   [ posted  @ 3:27 PM ] [ (0) comments ]

flowers are the things we grow...

just finished "raise high the roof beam, carpenters" by j.d. salinger. i am going to read through catcher in the rye again as well. he has a seductive way with words. verbose; without pretense. it is like air, i need it.

some highlights:

"I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person deprived, for life, of any understanding or taste for the main current of poetry that flows through things, all things. She might as well be dead, and yet she goes ib kiving, stopping off at delicatessens, seeing her analyst, consuming a novel every night, putting on her girdle, plotting for Muriel's health and prosperity. I love her. I find her unimaginably brave."

said about the mother of a man's fiance.

"The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth."

yeah, that doesn't need explanation.

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Now playing: Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning
via bub gave the track to me

   [ posted  @ 11:07 AM ] [ (0) comments ]

cop shoot cop
'any day now'

One of these days Mr. Opportunity gonna be knocking on my door
One of these days I'll read the writing on the wall
One of these days I'll be a spectator in an audience of whores
One of these days I'm gonna run until I fall
One of these days I'll win the lottery and wake up a millionaire
One of these days I'm gonna get myself a job
One of these days They're gonna stop the world and I won't even care
One of these days I'm gonna finally believe in God
One of these days I'm gonna grow up to become the President
One of these days I'll find the woman of my dreams
One of these days I'm gonna find these truths to be self evident
One of these days I'll blow my brains out on T.V.

One of these days
One of these days

One of these days I'm gonna get in shape, become an astronaut
One of these days My fears are gonna fall down the stairs
One of these days I'll sell my soul and let them find out what they bought
One of these days I'm gonna shave off all my hair
One of these days I'm gonna learn to play and write myself a song
One of these days I'll take my conscience out to lunch
One of these days I'm gonna buy the plans and build the atom bomb
One of these days I'll have the guts to play my hunch

One of these days
One of these days
Any day now
Any day now

   [ posted  @ 1:39 PM ] [ (0) comments ]

oh yeah, it is going to be a weird day.
charge up the packet sniffer, i is goin' a'huntin

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Now playing: Infected Mushroom - Becoming Insane
via insanity

   [ posted  @ 8:03 AM ] [ (0) comments ]

By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Wed Nov 7, 10:50 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Programs that focus exclusively on abstinence have not been shown to affect teenager sexual behavior, although they are eligible for tens of mil lions of dollars in federal grants, according to a study released by a nonpartisan group that seeks to reduce teen pregnancies.
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"At present there does not exist any strong evidence that any abstinence program delays the initiation of sex, hastens the return to abstinence or reduces the number of sexual partners" among teenagers, the study concluded.

The report, which was based on a review of research into teenager sexual behavior, was being released Wednesday by the nonpartisan National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

The study found that while abstinence-only efforts appear to have little positive impact, more comprehensive sex education programs were having "positive outcomes" including teenagers "delaying the initiation of sex, reducing the frequency of sex, reducing the number of sexual partners and increasing condom or contraceptive use."

"Two-thirds of the 48 comprehensive programs that supported both abstinence and the use of condoms and contraceptives for sexually active teens had positive behavior effect," said the report.

A spending bill before Congress for the Department of Health and Human Services would provide $141 million in assistance for community-based, abstinence-only sex education programs, $4 million more than what President Bush had requested.

The study, conducted by Douglas Kirby, a senior research scientist at ETR Associates, also sought to debunk what the report called "myths propagated by abstinence-only advocates" including: that comprehensive sex education promotes promiscuity, hastens the initiative of sex or increases its frequency, and sends a confusing message to adolescents.

None of these was found to be accurate, Kirby wrote.

Instead, he wrote, such programs improved teens' knowledge about the risks and consequences of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and gave them greater "confidence in their ability to say 'no' to unwanted sex."

The sponsors of the study praised Kirby for his "thorough research" and for being "fair and evenhanded," but they also acknowledged that ETR Associates developed and markets several of the sex education curricula reviewed in the report. Several of the previous studies that were reviewed also were written by Kirby.

The report noted that there continues to be "too high levels of sexual risk-taking among teens" with 47 percent of all high schools students reporting having sex at least once and 63 percent saying they have engaged in sex by the spring semester of their senior year.

"Many teenagers do not use contraceptives carefully and consistently," said the report. About 40 of every 1,000 girls age 15 to 19 gave birth in 2005, the last year for which data was available, the report said.

no shit.

   [ posted  @ 2:52 PM ] [ (0) comments ]

it is growing harder and harder to express how i feel. stringing sentences together is nearly out of the question. basic emotions are impossible.

i'm running out of reasons, excuses and everything else.

   [ posted  @ 8:37 PM ] [ (0) comments ]