2 Years?

Two years is quite a long time to just not post. I guess I just gave up on this thing. I feel I have grown quite a bit and am a little different than I was then, so I figure I'll start again. I've chosen to use this blog again mostly because, hey, it's here and I'm lazy. There were a few posts I decided to delete as one was entirely too angry and hate filled and the others were, well, just stupid. I'm not such a hateful bastard any more though I do still like to rant. I've gotten back into motorcycles and have started building random stuff I've dreamed about for about as long as I've known what the hell they were. Firstly, I've built this Trebuchet!



I'm rather happy with it, but I do plan on bigger and better later. I'll be happy to show more projects later, but for now, time to work.

-Steve

Too good to keep to myself

The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde

Sick

Well, I seem to have the plague at the moment, so I'll just give you this to tide you over until my next rant...wonder what it will be about...

THE DEVIL

I fucking hate these things...

The Whitest Kids You Know

Well, the last two posts have been a bit on the...well...depressing side. I wanted to let everyone know that I actually had a PHENOMENAL weekend. I went to a great party in Glen Burnie, MD with a friend I haven't seen since high school. At this party I met a fantastic group of new friends, played a masterful game of badminton (Go Team Beer! who's signature, by the way, was playing with a beer in their off hand...never spilled!), and got what may be the best massage I've ever received. I do still have my religious problems and other problems, but it has been a weekend of coming to terms with things also. In the best news of them all, I got word my father can receive a partial liver from a live donor! I'll be getting tested post-haste! Though that will mean about 12 weeks of no alcohol. Small price to pay for the possibility of saving my father's life for father's day. Man, shopping for him is going to be a BITCH from now on if this works...really...how the fuck am I going to top a liver? Either way, in political news, there's been a LOT going on they're just not being totally up-front about recently. Here's a message from the White House Press Secretary detailing the issues of the day.

Zebras

Can a zebra really change its stripes? Desmond Tutu writes in his book "No Future Without Forgiveness" that the horrors of apartheid could only be worked past with forgiveness on both sides. This seemed to work well enough, but where's the justice? Is justice just a flawed concept we came up with to satisfy our own egomaniacal sense of self worth? If so, then where does that put god in all this? I once had a friend say that only god could grant forgiveness...and that friend is an atheist...does this mean by that logic there is no such thing as forgiveness in the world? And if there is, who is to deem who is worthy of it? The victim? What if both parties are the victim? How does one forgive themself? I think that one's the hardest of them all. How does a man of upstanding moral character (permanant or newfound) decide when he is worthy of being forgiven for his past misgivings? Even in acting in the role of the aggressor, he would still remember the sins of the past and get this sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. This would all also lead him to question the existance of god, in whatever form he believed him to be. How could he still feel so terrible about all he had done, and furthermore hate himself when there is THE source of forgiveness right there wittnessing his sorrow for his crimes? When does it become ok to see yourself as a decent person when your vision is forever clouded by the memory of your evil? Not any answers here, doubt I'll find any out there either.

It's Horrible!

I apologize for not posting in a while, but by god this will make up for it. For all those who have never seen the goodness of Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog, I present it here in all it's joss whedonness! The premise is Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris) is trying to get into the evil league of evil led by bad horse (played by a horse), but is foiled at every turn by the smarmy superhero Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion). The good doctor also has a crush on his laundry buddy Penny (Felicia Day of The Guild fame. What? You haven't seen The Guild either? You are a bad person! watchtheguild.com bitches!) and works his hardest to get her to even notice. Did I mention it's a musical? Really? I love musicals! I know it makes me at least a little queer but I don't care. So, here it is, a teaser song! greatness!



www.drhorrible.com well worth the 45 mins...and I'm getting the dvd for the singing commentary!