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After vacationing from the tedious labor of providing sanctitude and comfort for wayward, ascendant sub-beings, I see there is a need for the dispensing of rectitude. (Keep that censer a-puffing, smithy <img> ) Will a twelve-step program do?
1. Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco.
2. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
3. Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back in.
4. If you’re riding ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it’s still there.
5. If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
6. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
7. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
8. Don’t squat with your spurs on.
9. It doesn’t take a genius to spot a goat in a flock of sheep.
10. Always drink upstream from the herd.
11. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
12. There are three kinds of people: The ones that learn by reading, the few who learn by observation, and the rest of them who have to touch the fire to see for themselves if it’s really hot.
Zea,
hey dood, i was joshing ya on the name thread. I think that is your charm, your gig, please please keep changin!!!!! I did vote for the Lord and I like Palace Brother also.Y’know tones, I thought the same thing about that line in Back b4 you go. Seemed un-J, but it seems to fit together with the vein of this album. If there was one album that seems to branch almost to the point of "concept" I would say "more Light" is the closest.
Far as the nom de guerre de plume (war/pen-warpin?) name, it came from the gents in the USMC, prob cuz I only got loaded and never locked on to much but my own trip. I made some deriviative sayings at the time:
Halfman, all business, no bull shit
Halfman, no business ,all bull shit
Halfman, half terror
etc.. ad nauseum fin.Kurtikai, you are one made man. Are you a kept man also? <img>
I bet a year’s membership that Spaceboy can’t tell us all the names he used <img> <img> <img>
According to Wired in a report Mattman sent me, I think Sen Leahy of VT. who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee is prob/or has by now killed the bill at least for this session. However, there is nothing stopping Frtiz from rehashing for next year. Very willing to hear your word Kurt. I also just joined up with the EFF , who have big guns fighting this mess. I figured I do not have the time to really open up a grassroots thing as well as I figured, but am willing to add support and write my letters when most effective. Thanks Kurt for your work <img>
<small>[ 05-07-2002, 02:40 PM: Message edited by: Half-Man ]</small>
Welcome, Todd,
I bought EBC not too long ago and enjoyed many things about it, including song selection and liners.
Have fun here, and thar, and everystinkinware <img>Tom
Jeez…..
Yeah, noticeable effects start in a couple of hours.
Had a drummer dude across the hall from me OD on crack and booze, had a heart attack.
He had only been there from noon till 5 pm. A neighbor, (drug buddy) went nuts didn’t know what happened. I went in turned him over and his face was as purple as this board, mottled the whole works just like the more realisitic horror and cop movies. Not cool at all. Guy was in my apt. helping me light a stove pilot 2 days before.Damn. I was born on the synthetic version called methadone. Crack can get all the headlines, but the junk has to be the more lethal if for no other reason than if you get pure product you are toast one two three, and tolerance be damned. Coke seems to need a bit to do on its own and an already weakened condition of the body for death to hit. Who knows, I am no pro, just a reformed sort sad to see anyone’s curtain call like this again and again and again.
I could be wrong, but I think the questioned posed as the name of this thread has been answered. Now, I propose this thread get locked up before more damage is done. I apologize for my contribution to this mess.
Now coming to a virtue-all tonality near you:
The Gilded Jet Kettles
Yes, it’s true! After 50 years of behnd-the-scenes knobbing turning and switch-pulling, The Gilded Jet Kettles decided to give to the world what they have been given in their dusted and cloistered times of penitence.
Lil "T" Bownes Kettle: Skins and Tinkles
Jack "Whistlin Dandee" Kettle: Closed Mouth Bass
Roscoe "Pah" Kettle: Groans and Guttear
Clementine "Maw" Kettle: Washed-up and-down board and tweedlee-dee’sFor an unlimited time only, you can getcha a seat for only $19.95 for the all ages stumps and gardens show coming to an alimentary canal in you.
Special guests:
Saran Wrap Dutch Ovensperfoming their number one indiecountrybluesreggaepopjazzscronktweemathbluegrassraphouseacidgrungeclassicalbolly hit, "My Florescent Tunnel Calling".
Sorry yawll. Ddidn’t get to go this time, Would’ve screwed up a week that can’t be. I am too looking to hear about info. I imagine Foglight will get both shows together for us. He’s a constant.
Tom
I appreciated your post, Allison. As much as I would like to say the paper would stand up as it is with the cheerleader line, I cannot agree on that part.
Perhaps if you did not use a narrative form, and stuck with a pure story format, the satire would be presented in a more acceptable format. With the narrative, you take the chance of claiming the phrase in question as a assertation. Really, I think changing the wording in a few places would work, but hey, if it’s turned in, great. If you have to revise, so be it.
Establishing the proper voice for the essay can be tricky sometimes. I was given the choice of pro or con death penalty for a poli sci paper freshman year. Rather, I let my partner pick, as I could do either with equal fervor. I tried to be very careful in trying to pick out statements that could be phrased without committing to ownership of the position, yet still presenting the material. It was tough, yet it worked out well.
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Malc,
I appreciate your attempts to satirize the music store atmosphere. Certainly, perpetuating certain stereotypes in infamy is wrong. In your case, I see more of a presentation than an endorsement. If these caricatures are not portrayed with lightness from time to time, could certain impressionable people, such as children, believe the crap of trendseeking and foppishness is to be strived for?
Lastly, here are a nice few lines from "The Vanity of Human Wishes" by Samuel Johnson:
Ah! let not censure term our fate, our choice,
The stage but echoes back the public voice.
The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give,
For we that live to please, must please to live.<small>[ 04-13-2002, 09:20 PM: Message edited by: Half-Man ]</small>
Kweezy,
Wow. I used to do the exact same thing in the USMC with Green Mind and Where You Been. Everyone hated D/j and more so when I got drunk and pissed <img>
This too is no lie: I had an ass for a neighbor who ran a computer repair shop downstaris from me also using it as his personal techno recording studio.
I listened to this shitneck play one damn loop over and over for 2 weeks. Murder loomed large. I came to my senses, went to do laundry, put in Ear Bleeding Country at 10 and left. I came back and there was dead silence. A month later, the sucker copped a summons or two and an eviction notice, probably for doing nothing more with the computers than admiring what he couldn’t do with them.J. Mascis for Sheriff,
Tom
My Fair Housing Act
Daily precedent,
hectic routine
begins once
a close shave decision,with empty hands
overflowing grace.
A forgone control,
repeating the wheel
in suffocation,pruning the hinged path
of ignored basis and
projected discomfort.
A malady enforcedto relinquish freedom
getting smoother,
cresting higher
value borrowed,
retention spent.
