An Angry and Sloppy Meditation on Nihilism and Anti-semitism

My two favorite isms (not favortisms) are Nihilism and Anti-semitisms! Why?! Because when I can' t think of any other reason why the world exhists, I can invoke either Nihilism and Anti-semitism! Sometimes it seems like they are both the same things! (Especially when you are a nihilist Jew!) But maybe there needs to be some calm investigation of this matter! Let's take a breath! Let's step back and be a little rational!!!!!!! First of all ANTI-SEMITISM(!!!??!?!?):

First of all, the Semites are Arabic persons(!?!?!?!) But somehow, when you are Anti-semitic, you are suddenly only hateful towards Jews! (Lucky Arabs who are Anti-semitic are not considered Self-hating!) How did things get this way?!? Are not the Jews and Arabs descended from the same genetic stock, and same geographic area--the Arabian Peninsula? Why are the Christians who hate Islamofascists not anti-semitic who also love the Jewslamo-fascists? Am I so silly and ridiculous for thinking this?

And what is a Nihilist? Somebody who doesn't see the opportunities in all the crisises that we make? A naysayer?

Okay, Sarcasmus, cut the strange Sarcasm for a second. For years we heard that to question the reason for Israel's existence, was tantamount to thinking that the Holocaust wasn't so bad. Thankfully, Mel Gibson has made that comparison a little less silly. Everything has gone topsyturvy. In the Joe Lieberman, the Jewish Moral Compass, view of the world, everything was making just TOO much sense. Yes, Joe Lieberman let Bush kiss him, but he never let Bush split his lips and taste his saliva. (Nor did he inhale!) But seriously, now. Is questioning things like this a reason to bring up the Holocaust? Do I need to say it? Two wrongs etc??????!!!!!!!!

Gah...

Who's the real nihilist? The guy who doesn't think that reshaping the Middle East to Exxon's vision can work?

Or this:




UPDATE:

Huh!?

Kafkaesque Meditation in Red, White and Blue

Things must be really bad if the Aol News Service is using the term Kafkaesque.

The Daily Show's New Middle East Correspondent


and, I guess I've become too lazy for titles. My blogging is very lazy. I'm trying to save my word-hoard for my real writing, I suppose.

45%

No, we're not really killing children, are we? It's all smoke and mirrors. Of course.

I'm beginning to think Israel is the California of the world; it is a smaller version of the whole world in the near future.

Angry and Barry.

The knife cuts both ways. Who's to say that this won't happen in the US some day?

Plus Juan Cole and the Lord of the Rings.

Always useful!

Oh...who will stop the windmills in my head?
Who will remove the knives from my heart?
Who will kill my poor children...?
In order that they do not...grow up in the red
furnished apartments..
servants..
catamites..
pimps...
who will kill my poor children?"

more

How to create a clear blog personality

Korean, academic study focusing on blog version 2.0.

Mac versus PC

I am more than four months away from realization, but I would like to buy a laptop for producing digital media. Ie., film, music. I don't know if I should go for Mac or PC. If I buy a Mac it comes everything I need for basic production. But I have more bang for the buck generally with a PC. I feel that the choice of PC is less fascist--but like all choices, perhaps it is illusory. A Mac comes with iMovie and I could upgrade to Final Cut when I get a feel for editing. Plus it would be compatible with my brother's system. But I've never owned a Mac before...the prospect feels a bit creepy, fascism withstanding.

Any thoughts?

I have money!!!!

They finally paid me!!!!

I'm never eating ramyon again for as long as I live!!!!!!!

(Just the thought of it makes me sick.)

This guy

He has a thing about demons and a circular room.

Remember the Bar in Hell is a Circular room?


I need to write me a book one of these days.

The Burning World

Mission accomplished. On to Lebannon and Iran!

ha ha

Some clever shit.

Cute is Evil

Or, at least, it is used for evil.

Nah, it's pretty much evil.

Between Classes

But Billmon has become indispensible with regards to the whole Middle East WWIII thing.

Here are some other chilling links.

Bloodtypes

As an exercise I had a class of mine explain to me in English the different bloodtype-personalities--something a lot of Koreans believe in:

A -- small mind, patient, good with animals
B -- Original, moody, selfish, proud, bossy
AB -- Crazy/genius--own world in head. Very stupid, very simple, don't care about other people
O -- Generous, gregarious, very normal

We're all gonna die because pigs aren't Kosher

Why oh why oh why?

Read the lastest on cursor. Things are looking grim. Bush is letting Israel go wild because the neo-cons are desperate--if a regional war develops we can bomb Iran with no questions asked.

Fuck.

Some Pictures from Korea

Soju just flies from down the sky down into your mouth, here. They do a lot of drinking here.

Here was my first day in my love hotel; or in my case, self-love:

In this part of the world the Secret Masters don't hide their activity; ie., here's one of their trucks:



Here I am in my new apartment, eating ramyon. When I don't teach I eat ramyon. Also reading and listening to the rain. (I don't read the rain or teach the ramyon. The ramyon teaches and the rain reads me, yes?) Also, fighting mosquitos. I like to smack them after they are filled with my blood and I say to them "Ha! You've got my blood but I got yours! Rahhh!"





There's nothing more vulgar or filthy in this world than money.

my problem

Unfocussed. I spread myself too thin, maybe. How can I make my life, write a novel, make movies, and music and all of this?

Very frustrating.

You and me kid are gonna go far

Dark Rotarians

Aliens; nude conspiracies...Lyndon LaRouche was right!

Myspace will be crushed by cyworld

Get it before it gets you.

Lurking

Here's a re-mixed immigration speech. Now that I don't live there I actually go to rightwing sites and read what they say. I love their comments. My favorite part about the speech is that even their "ideal" world is not coherent. They want illegal immigrants to do all the menial tasks in our country; and they also want every last illegal immigrant deported. That's there ideal world: They want to have their hate cake and eat it too.

Also, I have a question for self-styled conservatives, what's a more burning issue? Flag burning or equal access to fireworks?

Go Korea Excitement Now!

Oh wait, that's Japan. And that's not me, that's Kraig.

Still.

Lucky bastards

For you, it's probably still Sunday.

Also, now I'm asleep while all the news and blogging goes on. So I just wake up and find out what happened yesterday.

Male? Single? 40-ish? Maybe you can get married.

3500 won

3500 won can get you a starbucks coffee in Seoul; it can also get you a huge bowl of buckwheat noodles in crushed ice plus lots of cold pickled items, presumably, kimchi.

Milano

Okay, so I'm in Korea now. I'm staying at a hotel called the "Milano." I think it's akin to one of those "Love" motels I've heard about in Japan. Except it's just me and the gigantic LCD screen. Today in training my boss said off handedly hey I bet you've never stayed in a hotel like that before, and I said, "no--I've been to Italy." He didn't get it. Maybe there's nothing to get. Anyhow, I sat through a lot of powerpoint presentations today.

On TV there is porn, video game playing, go-playing.

It's gonna take awhile to get used to this.

Last Day in the US

My last official blog from the US. So long, amigos. It's the Far East for me. Wendi told me to stop posting pictures of her wedding and start doing real blog entries. I'll try. I also want to get my real world writing done too, so we'll see how that goes. If I die, bury me face down so the whole world can kiss my ass. Even if they have to kiss it through six feet of topsoil.

Hey, look at that

Is that the Soviet Army? Oh wait, that's us? Good news is, whoever is supplying the Taleban with weapons is going to get bit in the ass in ten years whenever we cut and run.

Lord have moicy: Apocalypse!

At least we Jews get a temple out of the whole thing.

"I truly believe John Hagee is at once a daring, beautiful person — and quite dangerous," said Orthodox Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, vice president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership in New York.

"I sincerely recognize him as a hero for bringing planeloads of people to Israel at a time when people there were getting blown up by the busloads," Hirschfield said. "But he also believes that the only path to the father is through Jesus. That leaves me out."

Korea

It looks I'm leaving the 26th. I'll spend one or two nights in San Francisco getting my working visa situation figured out, and then off to the Far East!

Local Marching Band News

I caught the last half of a bulletin on local cable access; it said that the Gateway Marching Band might have to cancel its 2006-2007 season because lack of funding. I had a lot of fun in marching band. I hope they don't have to do that. What's left for these poor souls? Theater? Dungeons and Dragons.

I just read The ACME Novelty Library via my brother's copy. It was really good.

Two fun maps

Air torture.

Mind torture.

Where'd all the white women go?

Instead of worry about a "demographic crisis", why don't we just put all our precious white genes in deep freeze.