Chapter One:
Young, single, & free.
He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Underneath his bespoke suit lay the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. (Ohh I love this.) Saint Louis was his town, and it always would be...
Hahaha anyway... Hello there!
I'm Tom Sederburg. :-)
Now, what can I say about myself without sounding like conceit’s expositor? (Donnez-moi la force et le courage de contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans dégoût. - lol)
Well, I am fairly intelligent, modest, open minded, and... temperate? (What were those four things Plato seemed so keen on again? Hmm... w/e.) Speaking of virtues, I also try to be as honest and forthright as possible at all times. Oh, and I can dress myself & not look like some 80's reject but I have a love-hate relationship with clothes.
In my spare time I enjoy writing, playing tennis, and having interesting, outrageous, and very funny conversations.
Anyway, that's about all I can think of right now. I will write more when I come up with something that might interest you.
Pax vobiscum.
Later,
Tom
P.S. I hate being bored so feel free to drop me a line if you want to hook up... I’m always down to have some fun.
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(Do you ever feel like this?)
-Brobdingnagian Miscellany-
NEW FACT OF THE DAY: E Pur Si Muove.
NEW ? OF THE DAY: Is it not better to see yourself truly, than to worry about how others see you?
Curiously addictive helicopter game:
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Exceptionally swank jigsaw puzzle: ..
"'The time has come,' the Walrus said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings.'"
- Lewis Carroll
(Through the Looking-Glass & What Alice Found There - 1872)
In other words small talk is a hobby of mine, so try me out:
AIM: ThomasSederburg (Perpetually on.)
ICQ: 287401719 (Rarely, if ever, on.)
MSN: FTShooter@(Ask me if you can't guess.).com (Rarely on.)
Yahoo: tom_sederburg (Usually on.)
(Note: My Yahoo Profile Link .)
Caveat:
I actually enjoy listening to what other people have to say... usually. However, I get easily irritated by people who say asinine things and aren't on my intellectual level. I have a low tedium threshhold and I don't respond well to ennui. (If I get too bored I have a tendency to ripen & then rot, you know?) Hence, if you bore me and I am without other recourse I will attempt to annoy the shit out of you in order to entertain myself.
*Potentially* wearisome topics include:
Almost All Professional Sports
Animadversion (Directed at me, yourself, or anyone else.)
Bullshit Drama
Money
Politics
The Weather
Your Material Posessions
Your Sex Life
Exemplification:
ThomasSederburg: I'm just here as an observer
ThomasSederburg: A student of human nature, if you will.
erin politics: That's lame
erin politics: I am here as a subject?
ThomasSederburg: are you human?
ThomasSederburg: I heard they taught some monkey how to type using sign language...
erin politics: I heard.. shut up
ThomasSederburg: lol
Seriously though people, that's not the first time I've been on AIM & gotten the distinct feeling I was talking someone with the I.Q. of an ape...
Hmmm...
Koko love huh?
Sure she does.
Then Koko rip your heart out.
-Apologia de Mrs. Pitt.-
tomsederburg: Bonjour Chris!
Flyrsman15: Sup Tom?
tomsederburg: I was thinking about having lunch, you know?
Flyrsman15: I was about to go out and buy a shirt
Flyrsman15: Lunch sounds decent though....
tomsederburg: what kind of shirt?
tomsederburg: A solid white custom-tailored dress shirt I hope
Flyrsman15: T-Shirt
tomsederburg: a t shirt?
tomsederburg: No way
Flyrsman15: Yes
Flyrsman15: It's all I want
tomsederburg: A plain white one I hope
Flyrsman15: Mr. Pitt
Flyrsman15: Lol
tomsederburg: Mr. Pitt?
Flyrsman15: You don't get it
Flyrsman15: Nevermind
tomsederburg: No please, expound
tomsederburg: Elucidate me
Flyrsman15: You remember when those Mrs. Pitt shirts were popular for chicks?
Flyrsman15: Probably not, you're better than that.
Flyrsman15: I forgot
Flyrsman15: Hold on
tomsederburg: I don't remember
tomsederburg: Who has time to look at what girls are wearing before you rip it off them?
Flyrsman15: It's basically a white t-shirt that says "Mr. Pitt"
tomsederburg: Who, may I ask, is "Mr. Pitt?"
Flyrsman15: Ugh
Flyrsman15: I don't think you get it...still
Flyrsman15: Instead of Mrs. Pitt, its Mr. Pitt
tomsederburg: What am I to "get?"
Flyrsman15: Nevermind
tomsederburg: O.k. then who is "Mrs. Pitt?"
tomsederburg: ...
Flyrsman15: You know who Brad Pitt is?
tomsederburg: Yes, of course.
tomsederburg: So Mrs. Pitt is Angelina Jolie?
Flyrsman15: No, Mrs. Pitt is just a t-shirt
Flyrsman15: Mrs. Pitt is anyone who buys a shirt that says, "Mrs. Pitt"? It's a stupid fad that happened...
Flyrsman15: Here
tomsederburg: I abhor fads.
Flyrsman15: http://www.puremoda.com/category/shape.custommadetshirts/
Flyrsman15: See the tank top that says "Mrs. Pitt" girls were buying it left and right
tomsederburg: Fads are as banal as they are ephemeral.
tomsederburg: You might as well be purchasing a shirt that says "Vote for Pedro" or "Bomb Osama"
Flyrsman15: Haha
Flyrsman15: I'm doing it to be patronizing!
tomsederburg: You can't patronize hoi polloi, you can only *attempt* to ignore them.
tomsederburg: Acknowledgement is the first step towards acceptance.
Flyrsman15: Lol
tomsederburg: I think I will replace my exemplifying conversation on Myspace with this one
Flyrsman15: Lol
tomsederburg: It is much more entertaining
Flyrsman15: I'm glad I entertain you
tomsederburg: It's educational as well. For everyone who has been deprived of pop culture and is ignorant to the Mrs. Pitt phenomena you know?
Flyrsman15: And completely patronizing to me
tomsederburg: They will receive tutelage as to the nature of Mrs. Pitt
tomsederburg: Lol
Flyrsman15: Lol
tomsederburg: Oh no good sir, you are the Socrates of this dialogue, I assure you
Flyrsman15: That's just insulting.
tomsederburg: I find it insulting that you find being compared to one of the great minds of all time insulting.
tomsederburg: how dare you!
Flyrsman15: To him!
tomsederburg: Lol
tomsederburg: Ahh well he's dead now so fuck it.
tomsederburg: You are Socrates part deux: The philosopher of Mrs. Pitt.
Flyrsman15: Lol
Frank Slaughtery: You know, you're wearing a striped shirt with a striped tie, you know that, right?
Phelan: Yeah, I do it for the ladies.
Frank Slaughtery: Do 'the ladies' ever tell you that you look like a fucking optical illusion?"
- David Benioff (25th Hour - 2002)
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-Some Of My Favourite Quotations-
What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow,
which runs across the grass,
and loses itself in the sunset.
- Ispwo Mukika Crowfoot (Last Words - 1890)
"Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the N.S.A. & somebody puts a code on my desk, something no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it and I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East and once they have that location they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding, fifteen hundred people that I never met and never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there gettin' shot, just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were off pulling a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from and the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies use the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. - A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at $2.50 a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back of course, maybe they even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs. It ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids and meanwhile he's starvin' 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure, fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe, and join the National Guard? I could be elected President." - Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting - 1997)
"People laugh, I grow annoyed. Note the contrast between others and myself.
My mind pretends to be clothed in a corpse while your corpse pretends to be sensibly clothed.
I anticipate the slap, parry it, am struck just the same.
'Hello'
'Goodbye'
I am off to see how the sun rises over the Bois de Boulogne."
- Rene Crevel (My Corpse and I/Mon Corps et Moi - 1925)
“Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master’s chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. Let nothing come between you and the light. Respect men and brothers only. When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,—none of the servants. In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions; know that you are alone in the world.†- Henry David Thoreau (Know Your Own Bone; excerpted from a letter to H.G.O. Blake - 3/27/1848)
"The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider themself as dead" - Jim Jarmuch (Ghost Dog - 1999)
"I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. The dawn is breaking on a new world. A jungle world, in which the lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If I am a hyena, I am a lean and hungry one. I go forth to fatten myself." - Henry Valentine Miller (Tropic of Cancer - 1934)
"Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls." - Victor-Marie Hugo (Les Miserables - 1862)
"Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth." - Jean Paul Sartre (L'tre et le Nant/Being & Nothingness - 1943)
"In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed--amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke." - Soren Aaby Kierkegaard (Either/Or - 1843)
"There is an idea of Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel my flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable, I am simply... not... there." - Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho - 1991)
It is right for all men who are eager to surpass the other living creatures to strive with the greatest effort so that they don't pass through life in silence, just like cattle that nature fixes bent downward and subservient to their belly. - Sallust, A.k.a. Caius Sallustius Crispus (De Coniuratione Catilinae/The War with Catiline - 40 B.C.E.)
"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." - Orsen Wells (The Third Man - 1949)
"I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone." - Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar - 1963)
"Nam in omni aduersitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii fuisse felicem. / For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of unhappiness is to have been happy." - Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (Consolatio Philosophiae - 524)
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." - Samuel Johnson (Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale; collected in Johnsonian Miscellanies, edited by George Birkbeck Hill - 1897)
"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes they can bring to bear on the same topic." - Lisa Alther (Kinflicks - 1975)
"They have come to teach us good manners, but they won't succeed, because we are gods." - Prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (Il Gattopardo - 1957)
"Build someone a fire and they will be warm for a day, set someone on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life." - Terry Pratchett (Jingo - 1997)
"Civil War? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?" - Victor-Marie Hugo (Les Miserables - 1862)
"In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite." – Anatole France (The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard - 1881)
"If triangles had a God, it would have three sides." - Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu (Lettres Persanes: #59 - 1721)
"'Tis the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power." - Herodotus (The Histories of Herodotus, 484 B.C. - approx. 425 B.C.)
"Sometimes I cut myself, to see how much it bleeds. It's like adrenaline: the pain is such a sudden rush for me." - Eminem (Stan - 2000)
"Every action has a equal and opposite reaction." - Sir Isaac Newton (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - 1687)
"We have decided how sad it is for other people, that they cannot appreciate our genius." - Pauline Parker (Personal Diary - 3/18/1953)
"The simplest Surrealist act would be to go into the street, revolver in hand, and shoot at random people in the crowd." - Andre Breton
"There's no doubt I'm all about a dollar/I just signed a life-time contract with a funeral parlour." - Big L (Devil's Son - 1994)
"Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion" - Ninon de l'Enclos (Lettres de Ninon de l'Enclos - 1670)
"It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido." - William Burroughs (Naked Lunch - 1959)
"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough." - Rabindranath Tagore (Stray Birds - 1916)
"Moderation is a fatal thing, nothing succeeds like excess." - Oscar Wilde (A Woman Of No Importance, 1893)
"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." - William Cuthbert Faulkner (Requiem for a Nun - 1951)
"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." - Bertolt Brecht (The Mother - 1932)
"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet." - Victor-Marie Hugo
"Existence is nothing but a succession of moments perceived through the senses." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing" - Sallust, A.k.a. Caius Sallustius Crispus
"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves." - Sophocles (Oedipus Rex - 427 B.C.)
"To die would be an awfully big adventure." - Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan - 1904)
"The reward of suffering is experience." - Aeschylus (Agamemnon - 458 B.C.)
"Strong and bitter words are the trademarks of a weak argument." - Victor-Marie Hugo
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"We think in generalities, but we live in details." - Alfred North Whitehead
"An intelligent hell is better than a stupid paradise." - Victor-Marie Hugo
"The goal of the good life is its extinction." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"Vae, Puto Deus Fio" - Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus
"Disgust." - Rene Crevel (Suicide Note - 1935)
"The more flesh, the more worms;
the more wealth, the more worry;
the more women, the more witchcraft;
the more maids, the more lust;
the more servants, the more larceny.
But the more Torah, the more life;
the more study, the more wisdom;
the more counsel, the more understanding;
the more righteousness, the more peace."
- Rabban Gamaliel II
(Mishnah, Prike Avot 2.4,7 - Ethics of the Fathers)
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-One Of My Favourite Poems-
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man
Less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the womb
So to the tomb;
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years
With cares and fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
Yet whilst with sorrow here we live oppress'd,
What life is best ?
Courts are but only superficial schools
To dandle fools:
The rural parts are turn'd into a den
Of savage men:
And where's a city from foul vice so free,
But may be term'd the worst of all the three ?
Domestic cares afflict the husband's bed,
Or pains his head:
Those that live single, take it for a curse,
Or do things worse:
Some would have children: those that have them, moan
Or wish them gone:
What is it, then, to have, or have no wife,
But single thralldom, or a double strife ?
Our own affections still at home to please
Is a disease:
To cross the seas to any foreign soil,
Peril and toil:
Wars with their noise affright us; when they cease,
We are worse in peace: -
What then remains, but that we still should cry
For being born, or, being born, to die ?
- Sir Francis Bacon (The Life of Man)
*Vita Non Est Vivere Sed Valere Vita Est*
*Wasted Breath Keeps A Secret*
*Sempre Sogno*