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<p><a href="http://troytotheworld.com/troy_story.php">brandon troy</a>, i'm looking at you, especially.</p>

a bonus treat for you.

<p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/153383242/">three</a>. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/153383270/">more</a>. <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/veganstraightedge/153383289/">pictures</a>.</p>

<blockquote>
  On this Day of Rememberance<br>
  let us not kneel and pray for the dead.<br>
  Let us stand and activate for the living,<br>
  To rescue those about to die.
</blockquote>

<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <i>Ordinary People Do Fucked Up Things When Fucked Up Things Become Ordinary</i> by Propagandhi</p>

<p>this is hi-freaking-larious. someone actually used a picture from my <a href="http://veganstraightedge.com/2004/11/2/all-hallows-eve-in-sf-2k4/">halloween costume</a> to backup their superhero story.</p>

<blockquote>MC: If I tell you it kinda defeats the purpose of the joke. But if you must know before visiting the link, you asked what the Chocolate Thunder's suit looked like...so it is simply a link to an image of a pathetic costume. As I said, nothing to be scared of. *sound of a balloon deflating*</blockquote>

<p>...<a href="http://misterchris.blogspot.com/2005/07/art-of.html">just go read it</a>. its really funny.</p>

<p>he has no comments or trackbacks turned on. so my only hope is that some he googles himself and finds this:</p>

<blockquote>misterchris. Internal chaos released in a controlled environment.</blockquote>

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<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <i>Bookworm</i> by Kid Dynamite</p>

<p>i know <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina">its terrible</a>. thousands of lives are changed forever. thousands of lives have been lost. people are starving. warlords are cropping up. i can't say words that will match the horrificness of what's happened in new orleans and the rest of the gulf states. everyone has said it more than i could anyways.</p>

but this isn't about that.

new orleans can show us a lot of what ifs... in action. the kind of things we only imagine possible scenarios when the lights go out. god, i don't know. we can't predict all the ways that things are gonna fall apart. but shouldn't we be learning some lessons from this? not just for the next natural disaster, but for when we can't start a car, let alone power a water purification plant.

come on, man. i can't quite articulate what i want to say here.

ps. listen to this radio interview with the mayor of new orleans. 14 minutes long. powerful stuff.

pps. i heard some friends of mine say the other day, not jokingly at all:

three generations from now people will search for the lost city of new orleans. it'll be a modern atlantis.

<p>i saw <a href="http://www.thecorporation.com/">the corporation</a> again today at <a href="http://www.slcpl.lib.ut.us/index.jsp">the library</a>. man, i love that movie. if you haven't seen it, please do. it just might change your life. brandon troy, i'm looking at you.</p>

<p>dinna myspace commented me this picture. and i don't have myspace. so, i moved it here. thanks, dinna.</p>

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<p>ps. we totally posed this picture.</p>

<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <i>Paranoiattack</i> by The Faint</p>