Acta diurna delenda est! [06 Jan 2010|02:01am] cpxbrex I've stopped reading the news except, perhaps, on weekends. As in “none”. I noticed that when Adrienne was gone I didn't pay attention to news too much. When she's here, because I don't want to disturb her if she's “doing something” in the evening after we've eaten and socialized and such, I often find myself reading a fair bit of news . . . which then gets me angry. When Adrienne was gone? I didn't pay attention to news and was calmer. I think it's sorta sick to engage in behavior around the woman I love that I don't engage in when she's not around and makes me a less pleasant person around her. So, good-bye, news. I don't even miss it. I mean, honestly? It's so dreary and banal and predictable. How many times and ways do I need to read about the same events, really? I'll be a couple of days “behind” things I can't do anything about? It's not like I'm a crusader for justice who organizes my life around protests and meetings. It's not like the things I have to say about current events isn't found deeply tedious by the few people who even listen to me about the subject. Like, y'know, Adrienne, who has been getting it first and worst. She knows what I think about this all, anyway. Heck, if anything, reading a Sunday paper will keep me better informed. I'll get the articles after a couple of days of thinking has gone on. Like how I've resolved to read more books about current events, which has been wonderful because rather than getting some half-assed word dump made when a situation is confused and uncertain, I get some research and thoughtfulness. Which is my news: the news sucks and I'm going to pare it down to the most useful (for me) format, a nice dense form. Absorb the information once a week, rather than continuously through the week. post comment

Political quietism [01 Jan 2010|06:47pm] cpxbrex Of late, I find I have a lot of strong opinions about things but not the will to speak aloud my thoughts. The Copenhagen fiasco, the impeding trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, the exoneration of the Blackwater mercenaries of mass murder . . . I have terrific opinions about all these things, but I don't seem interested in discussing them. I'm not sure if this is just a temporary weariness or a more significant abandonment of the very idea that discussing these things matters at all. Honestly, I don't think it does matter. I can't convince anyone of, I think, anything. The people with the wit to understand what I say seem more interested in defending the status quo (parroting one of the popularly positions) or proving their intellectual superiority . . . which I account a tragedy. That clever people, rather than banding together to be even more clever, instead squander our strength in idiotic attacks and frivolous refutations of each other! Ah, well, fuck it. 1 comment|post comment

whoa [30 Dec 2009|03:22pm] wbs [amphoraofsmoke] I used to RP on Dragonhold every night in highschool for a while. Met some good people back in the day. Anybody else a Dragonhold patron? 1 comment|post comment

For reference [27 Dec 2009|06:25pm] raegun note to myself for cooking this again later: ground beef bake (minus ground beef) 2 medium onions, diced 2 lb groud round (deleted for me) 3 tbsp butter (buncha olive oil for me) brown in skillet, then add 2 cans tomato soup 4 oz cream cheese 2 tbsp sugar 1 tsp salt and pepper 1.5 tbsp worchester sauce cook until thickens cook 8 oz wide noodles and pour into greased casserole dish pour sauce over and if you want, add mushrooms on top cover all with 1 cup corn flakes or crumbled ritz crackers bake at 350 for 20 mins the end. I made this with no meat and it was yummy. This may be my favorite recipe from my grandma.. cept she added beef and I never liked that part. I need a cooking icon. Until then, here's Bernard selling pizza. post comment

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