in case you didn't see it, andrew posted this in the comments a bit ago. it's bitchin'. kudos to him.

congratulations, US of A! we're nazis! (this courtesy of lei, for thoe of you who don't read the comments. which is probably none of you. anyway...)
pretty much anything i say has already been said by kyle, since he's somewhat more articulate, informed and so on than i am, but it still would feel good to say SOMETHING. doesn't mean you should read it though.
first off, i gotta say that it's unfair to bash people just because they're republicans. kyle says this too, so do not mistake my comment for dissention in the ranks. i only bring it up because some of his early statements echo something i hear - and practice myself - all too much. namely, that THEY suck. it isn't always us liberals talking about how the righter side has got it wrong: i just saw a play today in which a whole little posse of republicans were accusing the democratic party of everything from slander to stealing their stands on issues. everyone everywhere in the united states blames it on the other guy. if the schools are in the shitter, it must be because the republicans have F-ed the economy UBAR. or the democrats, depending on where you stand. we blame the politicians, but we put them in office. they are there because of us, because they are provided for by a system that was, at the time it was concieved, revolutionary. it was: remove the ruling classes - let the people rule themselves. it would seem to work, on paper. the people elect officials to represent them, since there are far too many to do so individually. these elected people, they tell the people what they stand for, and the people choose the one that is closest to thier own views.
classic.
the problem is, this system has evolved, mutated into some perverse reflection of the ideals it was sprung from. instead of honest men and women communicating with their constituencey, we get a costly, elaborate game, played by anglo-saxon men of considerable wealth and even more considerable power. only the rich can afford to play this game. men who've lined their pockets with more money than anyone could possibly ever need. it's not a position sought after so that they an improve the human conditon. no, it's more for conversation at cocktail parties. example:
"ah, good evening joe! how ARE you tonight? i'm afraid the wine is a little stale. i simply MUST have a talk with albert...i DISTINCTLY said 'and '85', but he's gone and brought a '75"
"why i'm just SPLENDID, frank. the wine's just dandy. oh, by the way, did i tell you i got elected as oregon state senator?"
"you DIDN'T!"
"just got the victory notice today."
"well golly joe. that sure is swell. you're going to have to invite me over that that, um, you know... washington B.C. sometime. i can bring the kids, too. they'll LOVE it!"
"capitol ideal, frank! now, if you'll excuse me, i simply MUST try some more of that diced korean tiger. it's just so tender..."
no, the intent of a campaign is not to inform the people. i mean, seriously, the people are idiots. duh. no, a campaign is a dance, choreographed moments before the players go on stage. smile, look at the audience, don't let them see you slip the dagger into your opponent's back.
or maybe elections are bullfights. you goad the bull, poke him with spears, dodge his increasingly frantic charges until he finally makes his mistake and it's curtians for him, wine, women, money and fame for you.
this makes it sound like my opinion is that all politicians are bad. they aren't. at least, i hope not, because i might become one somday. no, it's just that the good ones, the ones that would change things, they're trapped in the bureaucracy of a thousand men so intert, so hopelessly dependant on the system, that they will fight to save it. or they can't get elected. and besides, it's the people that truely desire power, not the greater good, that tend to have the drive that gets them into higher and higher office.
i've often talked about how anarchy is stupid. especially since it seems like alot of the big advocators of such seem to be scrawny guys who would probably be some of the first to get bumped off if true anarchy ever came about.
(just in case you're curious what EXACTLY anarchy means, here's what dictionary.com has to say:
an·ar·chy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nr-k)
n. pl. an·ar·chies
1.Absence of any form of political authority.
2.Political disorder and confusion.
3.Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose.
[New Latin anarchia, from Greek anarkhi, from anarkhos, without a ruler : an-, without; see a-1 + arkhos, ruler; see -arch.] )
but at least understanding anarchy as i do now, i sometimes wonder if it just might not be prefferable to the shit that's going on now. but who knows.
anyway, i supose this has gotten a bit hypocritical, telling people not to just dole out hate on a party basis, but to just hate all politicians equally. which is not, i think, my message at all. so i'll leave this alone now. make of it what you will.

this really scares me.
see, at first i thought it might be some sort of hoax, inteded to scare people just for fun. but a little examination shows it to be remarkably in-depth, which leads me to believe that this web site is not, in fact, some horrid joke, but in fact REAL. and that scares me. alot. i mean honestly...just read the damn thing. no wonder the rest of the word hates our fetid guts.

RON JEREMY was in MEET WALLY SPARKS with BOB SAGET
BOB SAGET was in FULL HOUSE with THE OLSEN TWINS

think about it.

yeah.
i swear, i know nothing.

ok.
just watched strictly ballroom. much of my life has been leading up to this point.
as i may have already mentioned, baz luhrmann is one of my personal heroes, at least to a certian degree. i own moulin rouge, and loved and will someday own romeo and juliet. i'd never seen strictly ballroom before though. so this was a new experience for me.
i imagine that where i a dancer, i would have found this movie even more impressive. even to one as dance-impaired as i, just the dancing bit was spectacular. then there was the whole romance bit (which i'm a sucker for), and some fantastic filming and composition - i.e. the shot(s) in front of the coca-cola sign.
although fran and scott were acceptable romantic leads, the show - at least acting-wise - was stolen by the supporting characters. the mob boss-like federation president barry fife, scott's overbearing screechy mother, but most loveable of all, scott's dad. his huge coke-bottle glasses, his watery eyes, his shaking hands...the guy stole my heart.
anyway, i'm not feeling smart, or whatever, enough right now to talk intelligently about this movie, but you owe it to yourselves as human beings to go watch this movie. it's excellent.

yes, as many of you have probably already surmised (or knew all along), i had something to do with IT. in fact, i had a good deal to do with IT.
it was, in some ways, an attempt to bring to light, in a somewhat witty manner a certian issue. it succeded in only making things worse, so i'll just lay on the line what i was trying to say in the first place:
first and foremost, what i was trying to get at is that i thougth andrew was being rather mean in many of his comments...perhaps that was just me, but in my typicaly nonconfrontational fashion, i tried to sort of dance around the issues without comming right out and saying it. and yes, i realize saying something like this on the internet, in a public forum, is lame. oh well. but just the same, andrew, i'd appreciate it if you could try and by a little less, um, mean about things.
i had no idea that something i thought to be relatively benign would bring out a good deal of rather vicious sarcasm and so forth. in fact, i hoped that the obvious babelfish translation would make it somewhat more comical, and thus not to be taken very seriously. apparently i hoped wrong.
anyway, without lapsing too much into a sort of condescending tone, i'm sorry i did it. it was cowardly, as kyle said, to hide behind a fake name, and even moreso to not come straight out with what i was saying. i appologize for it now, and i hope that things can get somewhat more friendly around here again. i've been a dick, and i realize i'll probably get a fair amout of dickery in return, but i'm tired of feeling like shit because i didn't do what i should have.
now i'm going to go read the sparknotes for catcher in the rye, because i didn't manage to get ahold of it in time to read it for tomarrow.

Being the new member here, I thought it would be good to make a little of basic reading of the recent posts... For the majority, it is a site of entertainment which seems to draw a rather significant crowd. I noted, however, that some penismonger had been... the oh, I do not know... a truth penismonger. I want to say, each one is entitled to their own opinions, etc., etc., but this is just ridiculous. I was carried out to believe that the system of comments was added in order to give to the masses a manner of acting one on the other with my colleauges here. Now although I would be completely sure that they always do not express the opinions which are majority, they still do not deserve this kind of refuse-speak. But when somebody does not have anything to say but negative comments, the internet site becomes an unpleasant experiment for each one. Honestly, did your mothers never say you "if you do not have anything for saying good, do not say anyting at all"?
Excuses with each one for makeing my so unhappy entry.

ok, we're introducing a new member here at ben's pants. he'll be posting shortly.

if you take joy, as i do, in the humiliation and subsequent pain of fat freaks, then watch this, and following it, this. it is imperative they be watched in the prescribed order. when you have finished laughing and can once again breath, you can curse the cruel world that would allow a man like this to be born.

aside from also being incredibly hot, this woman (monica bellucci) has made it on the my top five list of badass female actors. not only was she is this, but also THIS. OH MY FUCKING GOD. she's a goddess. i swear. i hope she'll have my babies. even though she's...um...thirty-five. in case you're wonder whom she was in brotherhood, she played the woman fronsac meets in the brothel, and who turns out to be extreemly badass.

RACHEL!

when i get the money, i'm driving up to canada and getting myself one of these. oh my fucking god. those of you who RECOGNIZE this item should be aproximately as excited as i am.

you WILL go here and sign this, because you DO care.

ok. my two or so cents:
uh, well, really i don't have anything to add to what kyle's already said. i mean, i agree that it's generally kosher for those people who have underclassmen (or women) boy/girlfriends or potentials to invite them to prom. there's even a few freshman that, like kyle says, have enough senior friends that it's OK for them to go too. although... i donno. i mean, i do have alot of friends that are "underclassmen" (masculine used for lack of...i donno. careing?), and i certianly won't shun them for going to my prom (and yes, it damn well IS mine), but i supose there is a part of me that resents it a little. maybe it's just bitterness that i wasn't asked to prom as a freshman, or that i didn't have senior and junior girls climbing all over me when i was in 9th grade. cough cough. now this isn't to say that i'm going to be bitchy about it, and i'm certianly not going to preach to my younger friends about how they're stepping on the toes of the older generation. but...well, i donno. once again, the worry of insulting or pissing people off paralyzes me. i guess what i'm trying to say is that prom is really sort of a special thing, and it's kind of reserved for juniors and seniors. maybe it's just the surfacing of a previously dormant case of senioritis, but i kind of feel that way now. it's not like i see freshman and sophmores as lesser people, it just seems like prom is a privilege that i've earned by going through four years of high school. it's kind of like using cheats to beef up your character at the begining of fallout 2; the game becomes incredibly easy, but it also becomes really boring, and eventually it starts glitching. and sometimes, if you're not careful, you'll end up killing importan characters early in the game because you're too strong, and it's the kind of game where there aren't any triggers to prevent that sort of thing. um, honestly, this analogy makes sense. so i guess what i'm getting at, is the following: underclassmen who are going with a boyfriend/girlfriend/potential of junior or senior status, i SUPOSE i'll let it pass THIS time. if you're going to just to go to prom you, to be quite honest, suck. i mean, shoot...is the american "i want it NOW" ethic so heartily ingrained in your minds that you can't wait one or two fucking years so you don't have to weasel your way in like the dog you are?
anyway, i'd appreciate it if people didn't get all pissed off at me in response to this. i do like to express opinions, but getting show down in a firey fashion when i do does not encourage me to do so. fuck i'm tired, and i'm getting stupid.
on a slightly lighter note, this, and also my toasty mr. spartan video is up in the movies secion. enjoy it. you'll need the divx4 codec to do so.
sigh.
bedtime now.

6th level of hell - the city of dis
you approach satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. burning tombs are littered about the landscape. inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in god and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. you will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. the three infernal furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of hell.

well, that's me.

who would have thought that randomness born of myself and the pike could have come up with this. woah.

holy shit.
i am walking on air right now, i tell you what.

tonight is mr. spartan in the CHS auditorium at 7:00. tickets are $7 for student, and $9 for adults. you should come, because i'm in it. and i rule. and topher is doing tech. because he rules. tell all the ladies that ben (jay), galen and jacob are also teching, and are ready for any sort of "action" attractive ladies might be looking to visit on them. these young studs are ready to rumble.