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John

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About Me

anxiety over an inability to maintain stasis without alienating myself from society

My Interests

the recent past

I'd like to meet:

people who are tired of fake progress

Music:

almost everything

Movies:

most likely whatever didn't have impressive sales at the box office

Television:

MST3k, Venture Brothers, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Office (American version), House, and Prison Break

Books:

John Burdett's thai cop mysteries, the Ender's Game series, HHGttG, various books on religious history

Heroes:

anyone who's done something to make me laugh, smile, or cry

My Blog

Political Identity Quiz

Heh, I normally don't care for these quizzes, but I do them sometimes.  This one gave some interesting results.It's probably acurate, but it definately makes me look like a schizophrenic.  I...
Posted by John on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:14:00 PST

Shithole

Wow is MySpace a shithole.  I always knew that, of course, that's why I hadn't used it for like 10 years, in spite of all my friends using it, but it's blowing my mind just how shitty it is!I'd s...
Posted by John on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 04:28:00 PST

Collective Memory

Have you ever felt that it's enough reason not to do something merely because it will eventually be forgotten, or worse, misunderstood?I'm finding it harder and harder to motivate myself to do anythin...
Posted by John on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:36:00 PST

Buddhism (exerpt from an email discussion)

Most people who identify themselves as Buddhist, are actually what I'd call 'cultural' Buddhist.  They treat it as 'religion', and in turn they allow the actual philosophy to take a back seat to ...
Posted by John on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:31:00 PST

Marriage

I have to be honest, being married is absolutely no different from being in a committed relationship.  Don't get me wrong, it's wonderful to have that relationship validated in the eyes of the co...
Posted by John on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:07:00 PST