Afghan

This is blog.
This is to appease the teeming masses.
Yes I'm saving the world. You'd be dead by now without me.

Religulous

So, I saw it, in a cool little theater in Raleigh. HA! If you'd seen it you'd understand why that's funny. Anyone else seen it? I imagine it won't get as much serious discussion as Expelled since this movie wasn't trying to appear scientific or having some definite aim. But if anyone wants to talk about it I've got a fickle internet connection.

In Desperation

Everything so far has fallen through. Here's the deal. On October 1 I'm deploying until sometime next June, when I'm getting out of the military. I have this cat, The Professor. He's totally awesome. He's friendly and handsome and he fetches and sleeps under covers and is front declawed/spayed (or neutered. I forget which it is for a guy).

I'm trying to find someone that can keep him until probably Julyish next year, when I move to wherever I'm gonna be for at least a little while. If at all possible, I don't want to get rid of him. He's the coolest cat I've had. If you can take him for that time, or if you know someone that can, please let me know. I'd pay for all his food and cat litter and then some on top. If I can, I'd like him to go somewhere where there's no other animals, just so there's no drama, but if that can't happen, no big deal. He's been fine with every animal I've seen him with after the initial cattiness.

I can ship him anywhere if the person I find to take care of him isn't here in Nebraska.

He's a couple more pictures of him looking cute.

Since When Did Saruman Start Reasoning With Madness?!

I just needed to do one more. And there are some gems on the extended edition too.

Sweded

To anyone that's seen Be Kind Rewind, it apparently has taken off in the real world. Here's a couple pretty sweet examples.

Star Wars


Jurassic Park


The Princess Bride

The Desolation of...

Alright man, here's the freakin deal.

I'm thinking of getting a tattoo. I told some friend's this and one of my friends said, "Oh yeah, death eaters, you and me buddy!" He meant something like this, I'm assuming. Sans the binary.

That's a little too geeky for me. Or let me correct. A little too obviously geeky.

So I've spent a good few hours checking out online what people have. And my god there are some really dumb tattoos. Here are my ideas, really, 2. One is to have something in Gaelic. You know, to honor my Irish heritage and give grandma Irish something to gloat about at the next book-cover-ripper's convention.

But then, there's this:
It's actually a sketch by JRR Tolkien for a possible cover or image on the cover of The Hobbit. It's Smaug.

So this means something to me. Tolkien was kind of a big part of my life growing up. Plus since I'm sort of Chinesey, I could probably pass it off as something along those lines...but...really...it's pretty freaking nerdy. I just don't know man.

I'm looking to get it on the inside of a forearm.

The Slope

There are two things on my mind. One's good, and one's sad. Both are about life.

The first is a movie I watched called Cash Back. It's British and has Oliver Wood from Harry Potter as the main character.

There's a lot of nudity in it. It's about beauty though, and claiming the moment. It's pretty Bohemian, but it's definitely an inspiring movie - inspiring in the way I like it to be. Not in the Seabiscuit or Radio way, where they might as well put it in the "inspiring" genre, but something that lulls you in and makes you care about the characters, and then tells a human story.

I had to put that one first, because the second makes it seem trite. Someone that was a good friend of mine in high school, I just found out, was diagnosed with colon cancer in June. Apparently he has a fairly high chance of survival, but it's just so strange. Anyone past some certain point in life, I would think, would sympathize with this sentiment - but it is not quite scary and not quite sad to me...but just an altogether wordless feeling, to be confronted with death in such a real and immediate way.

I don't know if I've written this before, I may have, but it's worth repeating. It's both horribly tragic and terribly interesting that we should grow to know that we are - and to build relationships with people, to have love, and to have things we build, and accomplish, and overcome - and die. If we live long enough we will see everyone we love die, and die ourselves. And this is certain. That we would pass thru life like a blip on a radar screen, like a vapor, and we know, we know that everything will end. That we could understand this, and still slip toward it completely unable to stop it. Humanity is actually a tragedy.