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 Non Sequitur posted Monday, January 24, 2005
For those who don't or are not able to read the comic strip Non Sequiter, then this is what you missed:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the Corporate States of America, and to the Republicans, for which it stands, one nation, under debt, easily divisible, with liberty and oil for all."
Fucking funny stuff.
Casey @ 7:38 AM EST
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HBO posted Sunday, January 23, 2005
HBO is really kicking ass this year, and it's still only January!
If you've not been watching "Carnivale", this it's one of the best shows you're not watching. The show is fantastic. The story and the mythology are just plain creepy, yet enticing. One of the best good vs. evil stories I've seen in a long time.
And very soon we'll have a new season of "Deadwood", a new season of Bill Maher and a new series called "Rome" that looks really good from the trailers I've seen so far.
Recently HBO produced a new movie called "The Hamberg Cell" which was really captivating. It's the true story about the Al-Quada members who flew the planes involved in 9/11. If you have HBO or HBO On Demand, the I recommend this movie. Very well told.
Finally, there is the new George Clooney/Steven Sodenburg project called "Unscripted" which is really just their now defunct "K Street" (which I also loved and was sorry to see canceled) that revolves around three aspiring actors in Hollywood and their trials & tribulations in the biz. I liked "K Street" better, but this new show will do for now.
I would be so lost for entertainment without HBO. If you're ever stuggling to choose which pay channel to get on cable, this is the one if for no other reason than their original programming.
Kudos HBO, thanks for the great material!
Casey @ 8:06 PM EST
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Ornithology posted Thursday, January 20, 2005
To all of the men I know, and to all of my female friends who have a great sense of humor. Consider the two birds below. Study them closely and watch their habits. See if you can spot which of the two is the female. It can be done. Even someone with absolutely zero skills whatsoever in bird watching may figure this out.My son thought this picture was the funniest damn thing. Sure, at four he's not old enough to get the joke...but seeing an image of one bird sqawking (as he put it) at another was hilarious. He's so precious. I love him so much.
Casey @ 9:01 PM EST
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Truth posted Thursday, January 20, 2005
A police officer pulls over a speeding car. The officer approaches and says, "Sir, I clocked you at 80 miles per hour."
The driver says, "Gee, officer I had it on cruise control at 60. Perhaps your radar gun needs calibrating."
Not looking up from her knitting, the wife says: "Now Richard, don't be silly. You know that this car doesn't have cruise control."
As the officer smirks, writing out the ticket, the driver looks over at his wife and growls, "Can't you please keep your mouth shut for once?"
The wife smiles demurely and says, "Richard, you should just be thankful your radar detector went off when it did."
As the officer makes out the second ticket for the illegal radar detector, the man glowers at his wife and says through clenched teeth, "Darn it, woman, just shut up !!!"
The officer frowns and says, "And I notice that you're not wearing your seat belt, sir. That's an automatic $75 fine."
The driver says, "Yeah, well, you see officer, I had it on, but took it off when you pulled me over, so that I could get my license out of my back pocket."
The wife says, "Now, Richard, you know very well that you didn't have your seat belt on. You never wear your seat belt".
At this, the police officer begins writing out the third ticket . The driver turns to his wife and screams, "WHY DON'T YOU PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP??"
The officer looks over at the woman and asks, "Does your husband always talk to you this way, Ma'am?"
Her response . . . " Only when he's been drinking."
Casey @ 8:51 PM EST
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The End Of The World Cometh posted Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Here is the problem I have with all this.
That loud mouthed punk in the White House decides to send Iran a message that "military action" is not off the table.
The Iran comes back with this: Iran Says It Has Military Might to Deter Attack
Read between the lines. Iran is daring Bush to attack them knowing full well that the US is spread way too thin in Iraq and that we don't have nearly enough troops to mount an effective strike.
So, Iran won't comply and Bush in his never ending attempt to use our military to play cowboys and Indians (also known as Christians and Islam) will invade yet another country with little or no (or mis) information in his never ending quest to force democracy and freedom on country's who don't want it. With our military so anorexic, we'll likely get our asses kicked while France and Germany laugh their assess off.
Then Iran will invade our country, occupy us and justify it all by saying the American people want to live under a dictatorship and that Islam will set us free.
Sound far fetched?
Give Bush another year or so to fuck things up even worse than they already are and see what happens.
Casey @ 4:23 PM EST
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Whoops posted Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Looks like Richard Hatch, the first winner of "Survivor" forgot to declare his million dollar winnings to the IRS.
http://thesmokinggun.com/archive/0118051hatch1.html
Bad move Rich, bad move. You can't "outsmart, outwit and outplay" the IRS buddy, no matter who you stab in the back.
That's five year in prision and a 250,000 dollar fine for each count. I wonder if he'll have the same kind of surviving success in jail? Someone should tell him that one doesn't get voted off the block during any "tribal counsel," however considering his sexual preference, he should, um...fit right in?
Fucking dumbass...pay your taxes!!!!
Casey @ 11:00 AM EST
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Hens posted Monday, January 17, 2005
Were you aware then hens have behavioural needs? Apparently they do.
Behavioural Needs of Hens
Even more interesting is the fact that groups of people devote study to these kinds of things.
I wonder if people actually grow up claiming they want to study the behaviour of hens for a living.
Casey @ 6:32 PM EST
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Eat Shrimp, Go To Hell posted Monday, January 17, 2005
I saw this posted to one of the various AOL shit holes known as message boards I read on a regaular basis.
www.godhatesshrimp.com
Who knew?
Anyways, new episodes of The Fairly OddParents are on at 8:00 PM, so I'm out.
Casey @ 5:57 PM EST
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Love posted Monday, January 17, 2005
It's a sad day when Cosmo is getting more than I am!
Casey @ 2:30 PM EST
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Gotta Love Those Women Drivers! posted Thursday, January 13, 2005
If she cannot even use her own head right, image how well she'll give head. ::snicker::
So, who gets the ticket here? You won't be smiling once the insurance company sees this!
 The possibilities boggle the mind
 Bwahahahahahahahaha
 This must have been a contest. I think she lost.
Casey @ 10:12 PM EST
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Displacement posted Thursday, January 13, 2005
I love sci-fi. Particularly time travel. I've never actually completed a book that involves either of the two, although I have been working on one for quite some time. A little over a decade actually. Why so long? Well, put aside the fact that most of my time goes to working and my son, I was never able to come up with something believable. Before I devoted my time into writing such a book, I wanted a back story and an outline that was believable and not some cheesy "Star Trek" type thing which ends with a "reset button" type ending thus leaving the reader feeling cheated. Nothing bothers me more than a great movie, with a great setup and an awesome story with an ending that leaves me unsatisfied or disappointed.
Look at what Stephen King did his Dark Tower books. Over twenty years of a great story, making us think about why his world was dying, why the Dark Tower was falling apart and what our hero character, Roland Deschain would find at the top of the tower. If you've been a reader of that cycle of stories then you know what I mean. Roland finally got to the top of tower after a bunch of cheesy sub plots only to discover that he has to take his journey to the Dark Tower all over again, this time with something he didn't have before. A horn. If it doesn't make sense then don't work...you would have to read the books to understand. My point is that King got us to the top of the tower only to press a reset button, this time changing Roland quest in hopes that maybe if he reaches the tower again, he will have taken a different journey to make him worthy of entering the tower.
After twenty years of waiting for the end of that story, I (and many others apparently after reading the Stephen King newsgroups) was left with an ending that didn't satisfy. That is not what I want to do when I finally put my ideas on paper.
I think now I have finally gotten there. I started a handful of short stories in the late eighties/early nineties, before the Internet, that all revolved around the same concept. A great war in the future that wiped out mankind, leaving in power some greater force. People being kidnapped from their own time to that future. I didn't see it back then as I do now that all these short stories would be combined to make one bigger story.
Here is what I have now.
I call the story "Displacement" and I posted the first chapter here last year...incomplete. As of this writing, I've almost finished the first three chapters at approximately 50,000 words, which sets up our characters, their conflicts and how they all get to the same place.
In the year 2029 the third world war broke out between the Western (American) Alliance and the Eastern (European) Alliance. Europe got nuked, but before that happened they released a new kind of weapon on the West which was supposed to eradicate the population without the destructive side effects of nuclear weapons. It was called RAID. However, the RAID agent backfired and instead of killing everyone and dissipating into nothing, it rendered about 90 percent of the population comatose leaving the other ten percent to fend for themselves. On top of that, RAID didn't dissipate as it was designed to do, instead it remained and began to grow.
In the decade that follows a new power emerged, calling itself The Corporation. They repopulated the east cost where RAID did not survive with what was left of the population and began investigating ways of reversing the comatose effect left on the remainder of the population before they died off. The Corporation begins using a new technology which allows them to steal the spirits of people from the past in an effort to repopulate their dwindling numbers. This is accomplished by displacing a spirit at the point of death when it is released from the body. The stolen spirit is placed into a comatose body in the future, and repopulation begins.
But what happens if the body of the stolen spirit didn't actually die? Or was revived after death?
Our story revolves around a group of people stolen from their time, some with a chance to return, others not.
In their quest we come to find out that The Corporation has been working with another race called the Bruder. The Bruder culture revolved around three special powers, or "gifts" of Displacement which they have shared with The Corporation. Spiritual, Visual and Temporal. We also discover that time has stopped at it's current index in the year 2095.
And the answers (or more questions) remain in a place in the past, long before humans ever came to be.
So that is where I am. When I finish the first chapter (two and three are done) then I will post them, probably at fictionstory.com where I can get some feedback. I admit, I am not a very good writer. I have more ideas and concepts than ways to tell them.
Stay tuned.
Casey @ 12:57 PM EST
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Obsessive Twits posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Apparently, the Perverted Old Man and his sidekick The Pudgy Fuck are still tweezing their millimeter peters over me. You two fuckwads need to pull each others dicks out of your asses and move on. It's just not healthy. Thanks for the tip, They Who Shall Remain Anonymous
Casey @ 10:29 PM EST
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Stupid People posted Tuesday, January 11, 2005
It amazes me how stupid some people are. I'm not talking about the basic stupidity that 98% of the general public exhibits on a daily basis, but rather stupidity on a level, so high it defies logic.
Apparently, this whole problem with people pointing lasers at airplanes and other aircraft is becoming an epidemic. Okay, so there were a some dunce who flashed his green laser at some aircraft late last year (who then blamed on his pre-teen daughter) blinding the pilots temporarily. The bastard got what he deserved and was charged under the Patriot Act. But now there are a group of lunkheads who think that this is something fun to do...purchase laser pointers and flash them at low flying aircraft taking off and landing at airports.
What the fuck is the matter with these people? Don't we have enough problems in the world with terrorists and shit without a bunch of mentally deprived sheep getting their rocks off by endangering aircraft and wasting taxpayer dollars making the feds investigate all these incidents? Shouldn't the FBI be concentrating on more important stuff than chasing down some brainless douche bag with a laser point stuck up his ass?
Please, give me five minutes with these asswipes and their lasers and I promise you it won't be a problem anymore. I'll take that pointer and stuff it down the penis hole of the offender, then tie his ass down in a chair and shine another one right into his eyes until he goes blind.
Justice served! By the way, you can get one of those cool ass green laser pointers right here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a47/ Do us a favour and get yourself arrested with it so we can make room for more worthy people.
Casey @ 7:17 PM EST
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Oh well posted Monday, January 10, 2005
Just in case you didn't notice
 This man obviously has no problem attracting pussy.
 I guess the underwear question has been answered.
 Secret's out...
 In case you have a stressed rabbit riding shotgun.
 Hmmmm
 Somthing good to know.
 I think The Ex had a pair of panties that said this. I guess I should have tried that Southern Comfort.
 No...your *other* right
 Where is a cop when you need one? I don't know about you other states, but this is a *real* problem is Florida.
 I guess they are going to start putting these next to the restaurants. Appropriate enough. McDeath. Supersized caskets available.
 And ten thousand of them don't game a damn...
 Another fine example of proper zoning in Florida.
 Your guess is as good as mine.
 I weep for the future.
 I hope whatever it is, it's not too urgent.
 Get off our wave!
 Mmmmmm. Tasty
 Hygiene is important, you know.
 I hear that only 36% of all women actually reach this place.
 Some things are just too cute.
Casey @ 2:47 PM EST
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Be back this week posted Sunday, January 9, 2005
Well, I figure it this way: If I got people telling me in real life (not over the Internet) that I should start writing for my weblog again, then I guess I should take that as a sign to come out of hiding and start expressing my deep, dark, innermost emotions...again.
Lord knows I have enough material to complain about, and catch up on! 
I did write a post last week, but never posted it. It's called "Money Corrupts" and tells the story about a certain sombody who went from being a giving and kind person to the world's most selfish bitch...all over the almighty dollar.
Perhaps it is indeed now time for me to start writing again.
I guess we'll see if Casey can find his groove again.
Thanks Jeff, Amy and Carrie for being "blog supportive." I hope I don't disappoint. And be sure to leave comments!!
Love you all
Casey
Casey @ 12:22 AM EST
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