The Workermonkey

Tuesday, May 31, 2005

D.E.P. job #5 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 5/31/2005 05:28:00 PM

Well there we have it. My meteoric rise to acclaim is again put on hold as I once again settle for the D.E.P. For the most part I'll be ticket-boothing Chatfield Hollow. I'll still be looking around for other jobs but at least I can make paper while sitting outside reading books. I'm slightly dissappointed that it's come down to this again but there's still enough things I enjoy about it to balance that out. So I'll get to see Mark Imbriglio every day, at least.....that's......fantastic.

I DJ'd a college graduation party at some pavilion in Fairfield on Saturday. It was pretty sweet....really easy too since most folks were the same age. Sometimes it's hard striking a balance when the moods and genres vary drastically. For example, there were a couple chaperones (or relatives or something) who were in their 30's and wanted to hear some big-band stuff. Yeah. Okay. Let me just make that smooth transition from 50-Cent into Duke Ellington. Obviously I couldn't oblige them. It's not only a matter of striking a balance, but of pleasing the majority. My every intuition went against filling that request for Zoot Suit Riot too.

Everyone got called inside for cutting the celebration cake, and I let some girls have the mic for a speech. I didn't have any cake-cutting music except for that weird surreal wedding song we heard at Looney's. "The bride cuts the cake.....the bride feeds the groom.....hi ho the dairy-oh, the bride feeds the groom." This one girl kept yelling back "THERE IS NO BRIDE" so I turned it down. Then back up louder. I played it on her behalf anyways cuz she was being a bitch. Had some folks rolling on the floor.

So.....Deep Throat, eh?

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yea... deep throat

By  ron, at Tuesday, May 31, 2005 7:38:00 PM  

the DEP can always be cast aside if something good does come up.

i would laugh too if that song came up.

deep throat huh? i'm just amazed at the right's reaction to him. they've been calling him every name in the book and labeling him a trator and trying to blame the entire vietnam war on his "lies". the hate is just crazy.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, June 04, 2005 1:25:00 AM  

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race time! 

# posted by ron @ 5/31/2005 12:36:00 PM

This years indy 500 was the best one i've seen yet. the babes were smoking hot, music was top notch, the local IPA was killer and the cars were fast. the drive back sucked however. I wont bore you with the racing excitement as i'm sure i'm the only one here who actually thinks that racing is a sport that takes strategy and skill. many will say, 'they just drive in circles'. yea, thats the shape of the course i cant argue that, but what alot of people dont understand is that you cant just pass people like you do when your driving home, everyone has it floored just like you.

looks like branciteam has initiated the self destruct sequence to becoming immensed in redneck culture. i think the reason for the excessive bullshitting talk, "back in .... I ...", is simply an age thing. i suspect that these fellows are older. they have infact as some of us will be, been broken by the system and just live these routine lives. there isnt anything interesting in the routine so they talk about their glory days. hell, we bullshit tons about the stupid shit we did.

speaking of routines.... (barone) get up whenever..... do whatever.....
its going to be hard to break that one after its been drilled in for 9 months!!!!

nuff for now.

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i've never had a problem with breaking routine. if anything i look at it as an alteration to the routine. instead of waking ujp at noon, its 6:30. I've changed routines enough over the last decade (ugh.. i feel old being able to say decade) that a change in the routine almost feels normal. at this point i'm more afraid that maybe i'm going to be stuck in having to change the norm every year or so so that i'll never be able to settle down.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, June 04, 2005 1:21:00 AM  

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it's official: i'm out of shape 

# posted by josh @ 5/31/2005 11:44:00 AM

i guess i knew it, but didnt want to totally admit it. but yesterday i played in the alumni baseball game at hk (the current team won, 2-1). all i did was run to first twice (1-2, single), pitch an inning, and make 3 plays at third. now i expected my arm to be sore, but not my back, calves, and the left half of my ass. i apparently used more muscles than i remembered i had. i was gonna golf today but it hurt too much to get dressed. looks like i'm on the golfing dl for a few days.

hope everyone had a good memorial day. chump good luck on your interview today (which you may have already had).

murph thanks for the good time fri night, too bad about the po-po.

photohunt champions!!!!!!!

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For a second I saw "poo-poo" instead of "po-po" and got really confused.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:28:00 PM  

josh, we're all out of shape. after a long day of drinking and selling hot dogs on the river, i woke up feeling sore and not refreshed. i've been running a mile on a fairly consistant basis, but i'm starting to think it may not be enough. i need to get back into shape.

after watching Super Size Me, i really felt like i shouldn't ever eat at a fast food place again. instead i've been making more trips to the supermarket instead and grabbing a piece of fruit and a slightly-fresh made sandwich or even the salade bar. small steps.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, June 04, 2005 1:18:00 AM  

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Saturday, May 28, 2005

What can ya do? 

# posted by wyldshaman @ 5/28/2005 09:53:00 AM

So often you sit there wondering "what can i do?", well at least i do. Here is something that you can do, that i feel strongly about.

Around 1.1 Billion people live in extreme poverty, extreme poverty is defined by the UN as those making less then $1 a day. I do not wish to argue about why this is or if poverty can really be ended. Just look deeply inside yourself and ask can i be doing more to help?

Please go to www.one.org

And tell your friends and family, lets try to make a difference because thats what we CAN do.

Thank You.

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I added my name this morning, but I must admit, this is not a huge issue for me. There are other things I think more about, maybe because I am not sure there is a clear course of action to solve third world problems. The US certainly can provide more money and other forms of aid, but really the countries need to be stable and safe, and have some kind of economy where people can earn a living. Unforunately, countries trying to move out of the third world seem to be finding the only help countries like the US offer is using those poor people for cheap labor to feed our ever growing desire for cheaper goods. It is an area I have little knowledge, but I do not know how those countries can be put on a long term sustainable path to a decent standard of living. Further, I was not totally sure what my name was going to be used for. It seems they will be asking the US government to do more to help, but beyond that I could not figure.

By  Damon, at Saturday, May 28, 2005 8:16:00 PM  

part od the harsh reaility of this world is that our country does benifit from third world places and we sort of need them. the US has already pledged to send aid and help these people, but we aren't actually sending any money. look up the Millenium Project. its an already established goal that we just aren't making any payments too. thanks GW.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, June 04, 2005 1:14:00 AM  

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Friday, May 27, 2005

Purgatory is the next south park 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/27/2005 01:02:00 AM

i've got a ton of great ideas for that concept. my only concern is being too crazy with it and not being able to get a network to pick it up. crazy ideas later.

i'm having trouble with bit torrents. i'd rather not go into much detail, because of the whole government thing, but i have a few albums i got and i can't get them to open with out being corrupt. can anyone help me out here?

heres an idea, i'm thinking of just getting a shit job for the summer in CT, my probelm isn't that i need a place to stay, or a job, ( i can find a shit job anywhere), what i need is a place to do my laundry, and a place to take a shower. no matter what the job is i'll need to bathe and wash my clothes. after that i'm looking at sleeping in a tent and taking abreak from society and just chilling out. food and shelter aren't that hard to come by. i need plumbing and wash material. i would enjoy the forced separation from the electronic world, like the internet, TV and video games. (i'm not talking a permanent situation like some crazy hippy in the woods, just an interesting summer excursion) no one can claim this is some stonedd idea either becaue i haven't smoked in almost two months. i want to start up again and any woods type excurstion would need that outlet but i understand that. a back yard or a good woods spot would be nice. i'm thinking the island for a good amount of time. who thinks i'm crazy? who thinks i'm drunk?

i'll be down in CT on friday for face to face explanations and muphy's rager.

i am batman

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chump for like 30/month you can shower at teh Y. do it up!

By  josh, at Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:15:00 PM  

I'm sure the shower floors at the Y have enough spunk on the floor as it is.
Oh god that's disgusting.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Sunday, May 29, 2005 3:10:00 PM  

yes, that is disgusting, but only because it is so true. if i don't get this job, the Y is a very interesting option....

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Saturday, June 04, 2005 1:11:00 AM  

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Succumbing to the dark side... 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 5/26/2005 09:22:00 AM

Well, according to my statistics, the monkey should be coming out of its collective minimum soon. The next maximum will take place in about 3 or 4 days following Murphys raging Neck fest. I wish I could be there, for I surely miss good social interactions with the appropriate age group. The only contact round here Ive had lately is leaning on the side of a F250 with a dead black bear in the back, bullshitting with 2 old bastards about how things transpired. And boy, do people around here just love to bullshit. They feel the need to brag, boast, and reminisce about every stupid thing that’s ever happened in their insignificant lives. “Yep, well back when I worked for the county, I came upon this 12 pointer by the river..” Ahh! I don’t fucking care! I don’t care about your god damn bullshit stories! Fucking rednecks, go drive your truck. ANYway… there is a sever lack of youth culture in this town. The only youth around here that are “like us”, work on trucks, or stay home with their babies. The other thing is, that I just don’t get how, or what people talk about. The other day we had an ice cream social at work where everyone went outside. People were talking (if you want to call it that) and it was like an alien culture. There was no way I could have joined in. I just didn’t get it. Hard to explain, but it was like there were on the inside of the bubble, and I was on the outside. I almost hated them. I wanted to get up and yell, “what the fuck is wrong with you people! This is not right!”. But I didn’t.

Fucking work is getting to me. Its in my head. The last 2 weeks have been especially bad. I dream about working. I need a fucking break. I cant help but think about my parents. I was thinking about how their sleep schedules are all fucked up. Sometimes they wake up in the middle of the night and cant get back to sleep, or they wake up ass early and are tired, but cant sleep. I always wondered what the hell was wrong with them. If your tired, sleep. I’m beginning to understand a bit more. This pattern and routine really fucks with your head. You have responsibilities (it must be 10x when you have kids) and shit on your mind. Your dealing with stress from work, stress from home, and everything else. You wake up at the same time everyday. You go to bed at the same time. You do the same thing everyday. The pattern that you rotate in shapes your life and alters your thinking. If a human gets enough repetition, the thing will drill itself until it is a part of you. This is how people get beat down. This is what breaks us. This is what changes are free flying spirits into the tied down, closed world.

I suppose I justify it to myself by saying you have to taste the beast before you can defeat it. You have to get your assed whooped before you understand how to fight. I’m going to hold my breath as long as I can, then come up just before its too late and gasp that sweet air. That’s the plan, but fuck, I’m getting a little warped by the lack of oxygen. I’m changing with every week that I’m subjected to this life. The pattern is reaching down into my soul and taking root. I’m losing, just like everyone always does.

(Ok, I didn’t want this post to be that dark. I’m just fucking stressed here or something...)

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does anyone else feel the need to preform a clockwork orange on john? i respect your views john, but i just think you're misled and confused. maybe you've had a few bad experiences with "liberals", just don't give up. we'll get ya back.

oh, and where did bush jr. graduate from with straight C's? have you been by the skull and bones building yet?

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 27, 2005 1:00:00 AM  

you have to dent it up a little more, put some bondo on the bumper and get a hood thats another color= complete redneck mobile

By  murphy, at Friday, May 27, 2005 9:19:00 AM  

That depends Berg.. Do you like guns? Do you like shooting guns? Do you like your sister/ cousin? Murphys suggestions should get you in.

Matt, im sure John feels the same way about you. He wants to go 1984 on your ass!

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:09:00 AM  

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

a slap on the wrist for fow news on this one. 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/25/2005 11:36:00 AM

This was a meaningless story i read but the punch line is in the last paragraph. no spin my ass.

Comics are selling less than they used to, sure. But in recent days folks have noted the decline in theatrical box office, lower TV ratings, and music industry woes as well. Now the book publishing industry is heard from with a recent report that concludes that more books are being published, but with lower sales per title.

“People are reading less, so what you’re seeing is the same phenomenon that has hit magazines and newspapers, a massive shift toward home video, DVD, internet and cable,” said Albert N. Greco, an industry consultant and a professor of business at Fordham University.

The Book Industry Study Group, a nonprofit research organization, reported estimated sales of 2.295 billion books in 2004, compared to an estimated 2.339 billion the previous year. Higher prices enabled net revenues to increase 2.8 percent, to $28.6 billion, but also drove many readers, especially students, to buy used books, Greco said.

While the new HARRY POTTER is expected to makes '05 an up year, the major areas of growth appear to be religious publishing, and schoolbooks for younger readers ("el-hi".) Other categories are expected to remain flat for the next four years.

What does this have to do with comics? Not much directly (although manga is usually cited as a rare growth area for publishing, as well.) But it does put some of the declines in comics publishing into a larger perspective. There's simply more media than ever before, and everything has to compete for time in an era when people walk around with earpieces in place so they can yap on the phone all day.

The Beat was amused by the Google News headline aggregate for this story, however. "More books published, but fewer sold" was a common headline, while Fox News has its own spin: "Publishers Putting Out Too Many Books." Thanks, Rupert.

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What do you do all day?

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:45:00 PM  

duh, he looks for jobs.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

By  ron, at Wednesday, May 25, 2005 4:48:00 PM  

he cranks, spanks, AND yanks

By  josh, at Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:56:00 PM  

i had a productive day today. i woke up around 10:30, ate a bowl of cinnemon toast crunch in front of sportscenter, looked for jobs until about 1 and read up on the various websites i visit. after that i took my mom to the doctors, came home, made chili, watched the aviator (what a waste of 3 hours that was), ran a mile and watched the yanks beat the tigers again. now i'm trying to download the new beck album and then play some video games.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:46:00 PM  

I would love to hear how an UNproductive day goes. Let me guess:

I woke up around what i thought to be 12:30. Day or night, it didnt matter and i didnt care. Feeling no need to put on pants, i stumbled to my parents kitchen where i ate some left over pepporoni pizza. Feeling the need for something more in my life, i reached into the fridge and doused the greesy cheese with some ranch dressing. Boooya! Now we are talking. Senseing some contact with actual human life, i flipped on the TV and sparked up a bowl. Letting the sweet smoke massage my brain and thoughts, i opened my laptop with wireless internet in front of me. The world was at my fingertips. Oh damn! Suddenly some sauce fell from the pizza and onto my already stained "go yankees" T-shirt. Nothing worth worrying about, for I had done the same the day before. Stretching out upon the large couch, i began to think how much the world is screwed up and how i would fix it. Then, i suddenly decided to look at my ever growing collection of asian porn. After a 5 minute "time out", it seemed fitting for an ice cold beer. Ah thats the stuff. Continuing to watch intermixes of baseball clips and Emmerill, i let the hours pass by. Life is good, and its time to take nap.

(Ha ha! that was fun)

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:27:00 AM  

Bwa haha. Zing.
Most of my days lately have resembled....well, both of the above. Typically wake at 10:30, do some job searching, downloading tunes, watch a movie, stroke it somewhere in there, go to kung-fu training, cpu games, get stoned. It's not always in that order. Sometimes there's also frisbee. Most times there's Tino's.
By the way Aviator rocks, Matt. It's the wave of the future. The wave of the future. The wave of the future.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:56:00 PM  

me thinks branciteam is jelous.

sure i have days like that, like today for example. i woke up around 11, i actually got 11 hours of sleep last night, i was amazed because i hadn't beeen to bed at 12 for a very long time. i put a bowl of aformentioned chili in hte microwave and watched Shaun of the Dead. not bad, nothing great but not bad. that lasted until about 1 when mom got home, i had al franken playing i nhte background and before i knew it, amanda was home. i had to unload a bunch of junk out of her car since she's moving home for 1 day between apartments. after that i spent about 5 minutes looking for jobs until she convinced me ot watch oceans 12. not as good as the first but still a solid movie. then dad was home. more nonsense, i made rubens and mac and cheese for dinner, then the game was on. robert stopped by at around 9 and i had a few beers and bullshitted with him. don't let me forget to ask greg about dumpsters. today was utterly pointless. i wish i was smoking.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 27, 2005 12:55:00 AM  

I am jealous.

I had monday off however, and did not know what to do with myself. I'm out of practice in being lazy

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, May 31, 2005 8:30:00 AM  

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Superstylin' 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 5/23/2005 08:24:00 PM

So I hit the "next blog" button and it brought me to http://hand-care.blogspot.com/
Erm.....
I'm not even going to field any self-abuse jokes right now. Not just yet.

Actually, next time I'm prompted to tell a joke I think I'll start it:
"So me and this bitch are thinkin' about beating me off..."
At that point I "accidentally" spill grape juice all over those surrounding me and the joke ends.

Thievery Corporation is doing a set in Providence tonite. No fans available for me to go with. Que un sorpreso. Que una lastima. I guess it's helping me save my money, but really - I would like to actually attend some of these things. Theivery Corp. consists of two DJs from DC. They are damn sick when it comes to combining funk/lounge/electronic with world music. They run this club in DC called 18th Street Lounge (18th St. is a pretty hot strip near Vermont and Connecticut Avenues.) Rastas guard the door and there's a strict dress code for Superstylin'. I bet the audience tonite is pretty eclectic themselves. Lots of rastas. Haha I just thought of a joke.

Q: What do you call a Jamaican that's smoked himself stupid?
A: A tabula-rasta.

*(Audience blankly stares....)*

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nice macunas.

Q: a black guy and a mexican are in a car. who's driving?
A: a cop

actually ganked that one from an old snl i saw the other night. back when snl was actually synonomous with funny. good times.

By  josh, at Monday, May 23, 2005 10:02:00 PM  

actually, i just saw assualt on precint 13 and that joke was in there too.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, May 24, 2005 1:04:00 AM  

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flip it and reverse it 

# posted by josh @ 5/23/2005 01:57:00 PM

so i'd like ot think i've accomplished a thing or 2 in my first 24 years.

but lately i've been in a slump. had a rough time applying to law schools, then a rougher time in sc. i can think of 2 remedies:

1) slumpbuster (aka hookup w/ a fat chick)
2) the costanza theory of opposites: if my natural inclinations lately have been wrong, then the opposite must be correct

option 1 isnt something i'd like to try. i enjoy healthy women, but not fat ones.

so it looks like option 2. this has prompted me to apply to the lewis and clark school of law in portland, or. it has the #1 environmental law program in the US. this is in addition to the 5 or so schools in the east. maybe i'm way off. maybe i need to change everythign up for 2 years or so. maybe i just need that option. whatever it is, it will make the decision more interesting, and if i get in, harder.

its deliciously unpredictable. the best part? even i wouldnt have predicted this. nothing like throwing an extra variable into the already complex equation.



no fat chicks!

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I told you already, school in Sweden is free, can't beat that. Though I think you'd find them lacking in their healthiness.

By  Damon, at Monday, May 23, 2005 4:05:00 PM  

very true, but unless i want to do international law (which i don't) there may be a problem finding work in the US due to differences in law. and i do intend on living and working in the US.

i'm sure i'd find them lacking in healthiness. potential problem there.

By  josh, at Monday, May 23, 2005 5:22:00 PM  

one time when i was driving stoned on a sunday afternoon in southern mass i though of this.

"if it wasnt for that horse and all those random turns, i wouldn’t have spent that year in college."

By  ron, at Monday, May 23, 2005 8:55:00 PM  

so what the above is saying, sometimes some randomness gets you something good, other times it can really fuck you good.

i'd hit up the slumpbuster.

By  ron, at Monday, May 23, 2005 10:23:00 PM  

Josh, do i take this that you broke up with...(insert name here)?

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, May 26, 2005 1:01:00 PM  

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Friday, May 20, 2005

Next Friday 

# posted by murphy @ 5/20/2005 01:56:00 PM

Straight to the point-Friday May 27th is the date of the party in haddam neck

should be large enough to burn down another tree-multiple kegs and lots of folks comin, we reaching back into the archives on this one

Come one Come all-bring beer if you want but we got kegs.

help us celebrate the home coming, birthday, graduation, memorial day, and going away party. hope to see yall there

Ronnys dad
octagon octagon

and im spent...

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# posted by josh @ 5/20/2005 11:32:00 AM

happy birthday ron. welcome to the old bastards club (though 24 is pretty much the same as 23).

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thanks josh, my birthday wishes include;

i) 6 texas bikini team girls
ii) one large kiddie pool of pudding
iii) a double elimination tourney in which i get to fight the winner.

By  ron, at Friday, May 20, 2005 12:02:00 PM  

Ah yes. Ron's B-day. Josh how to you always remember these things?

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, May 20, 2005 12:08:00 PM  

i don';t know how he does it, i forget my own birthday. i told someone i was 24 the other day.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 20, 2005 12:41:00 PM  

two things i have noticed about getting older.

1)an increase in the recovery time between big bike crashes

2)the monday morning once-a-week shave is definatly not cutting it by the time friday afternoon rolls around.

By  ron, at Friday, May 20, 2005 3:07:00 PM  

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Nerdtastic II- Whats up with the poll Q 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 5/20/2005 11:25:00 AM

For a good background on blu-ray vs. HD-DVD click here.

I'm enjoying following this. Its almost like a war brewing. Corporations are taking sides, backing a format. Others are waiting to jump on board last minute. Lets get it on!

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Thursday, May 19, 2005

STOP PLAYING C IV 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 5/19/2005 11:21:00 PM

I feel like a starship captain around a black hole - slowly.....ever so slowly.....drifting toward a darkness which knows no bounds. The rest of the crew is dead of starvation. With my last bits of strength left, I send the distress beacon which needs to be sent. The radio waves just barely escape time-distortion and resonate freely past the black hole perimeter. Somewhere out there......someone may hear the esoteric message........

......;lsr4e..................C....I..V..........3.....................WI........L.L.....RUI..N......Y.O...UR.....LI..FE....

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http://www.civfanatics.com/

Civ IV is coming... be warned

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:49:00 PM  

They should just call it C IV. That would be cool.

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, May 20, 2005 8:56:00 AM  

you need girl, macunas

By  Anonymous, at Saturday, May 21, 2005 3:21:00 PM  

I prefer to think of it as: "A girl needs me."

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:46:00 PM  

you should be so lucky

By  Anonymous, at Sunday, May 22, 2005 3:48:00 PM  

I got served.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:52:00 PM  

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Nerdtastic 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/19/2005 11:15:00 PM

I saw Star wars early this afternoon. I bought tickets yesterday. There was a line waiting outside the theater at about 1:00 when I went in to buy them. I walked up the counter and waited in line behind a nice old lady. I asked for my tickets for the showing this afternoon. The old lady turned and asked "what’s the matter? You don't feel like waiting in line for tonight’s show?" with a chuckle. I laughed and replied "nope, I’m not that desperate, I can wait", this got a good laugh from her and the cute girl working behind the counter. The guying standing in line behind be stopped the fun when he spoke up and said "but you're going to miss all the fun, that’s what I’m here for. I’m going to wait until the midnight show!" turning to look at who the loyal fan was, I spotted a small greasy man who was looking quite disheveled (no offence Tim). The old lady struck me a cool smile with a little grin in there upon seeing your average stereotypical geek/nerd. The cute girl also caught the wily old ladies smile and was laughing too. We finished our transaction and I was out the door. The irony to this story is that I had recently showered, shaved and happened to be wearing clean cloths or else I too would have been playing the part of loyal fan.

the movie it's self was very good, i'm not going to go into too many details to ruin it but the story was very complete. i'd really suggest seeing the clonewars animated series before seeing it though as the opening scroll explains some good stuff in only a few sentances. anikin turning into vader was well done, although the final "acceptance of the dark side" was a little forced. all the battles were sweet, all the plot lines were tied up and everything came to a happy little ending. and now i really want to go back and watch the old ones again.

E3 is still going on. everyones unveiled thier new systems (except nintendo who's holding a bunch of stuff back) and there look to be ton of sweet games comming down the line, including a new, mature zelda. looks good. the footage of the nextgen stuff is amazing, the PS3 really looks good. i hadn't given the new Cell processor enough credit. i've been reading up on it and it really is amazing what it can do. they showed a tech demo of it where there was a ground full of leaves, and then like three tornados poped up and they explained how every leaf had its own audio channel, kept its full graphical rendering and was being tossed around in realtime with all the true physics being preserved. cool. alot of hte games shown off have had some sort of grad scale to them, like war games with a million guys all running around at once on the screen and each of htem totaly interactive with thier own actions and independent AI. very cool stuff.

josh when do you come home? i think becky is graduating this weekend right?

i'm going to come to haddam friday, anything going on?

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Josh is going to NY for Becky's graduation today, so I'm not sure if he will respond. He left me as guardian of the poker chips, so we have that.

By  Damon, at Friday, May 20, 2005 7:54:00 AM  

yeah, i'm leaving in like 20 mins or so for saratoga. until sunday. come to ct next weekend too.

By  josh, at Friday, May 20, 2005 11:38:00 AM  

hmmmm. poker. i've gotten better since last time i've played with you guys.

By  ron, at Friday, May 20, 2005 12:25:00 PM  

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Wednesday, May 18, 2005

In the midnite hour.....blog wants more more more 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 5/18/2005 01:17:00 AM

So I didn't see Billy Idol tonite. That's fine. In leau of his RI show I think I'll hit up the Boston one on Friday. If anyone wants to sweat then let me know. It's like $30 as a heads-up. by the way blow me

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stop holding on to idols (pun indended) of yesteryear. billy was dead to the world over a decade ago. his new stuff is awful. may we all forget it.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 20, 2005 2:42:00 AM  

meh

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:36:00 PM  

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gettin a little excited here 

# posted by josh @ 5/18/2005 12:31:00 AM

this summer at mohegan:

may 25-28: lewis black
june 29-july3: darrell hammond - he came to jmu the year before i was there, and i heard it was the best show ever by everyone who went

also, meatloaf is coming. MEATLOAF. how would any of our middle school dances have concluded without him?

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Fuck Meatloaf. I can't stand them. The music world is tainted by their contribution.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, May 18, 2005 8:42:00 AM  

1) meatloaf is singular, like the tasty supper
2) "i would do anything for love (but i wont do that)" is the best rock/love ballad ever
3) i can think of many worse than meatloaf
4) i'm hungry, and now i feel like meatloaf

By  josh, at Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:30:00 AM  

yea dude, i havent had meatloaf in awhile. mmmmmm...

By  ron, at Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:49:00 AM  

The Rent-a-DJ folks specifically advise against playing Meatloaf at a gig unless it's specially requested.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Wednesday, May 18, 2005 4:37:00 PM  

that's classic. still considering the show......

By  josh, at Thursday, May 19, 2005 2:34:00 PM  

i dare anyone to name one other song meatloaf sang other then "i won't do that", i know i can't.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 20, 2005 2:43:00 AM  

1) life is a lemon and i want my money back
2) objects in the rearview mirror are closer than they appear
3) wasted youth


shit, i cant think right now. that's all i got at the moment. but i can sing a lot of his "bat out of hell 2" album

By  josh, at Friday, May 20, 2005 11:35:00 AM  

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005

the results are in 

# posted by josh @ 5/17/2005 12:20:00 AM

the test shows i'm 85% either "yankee" (goddamn southern bastards) or normal american english

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I'm 5% dixie. Sad to say, i have been using Y'all regulary round here. 35% yankee and 55% regular. I always knew i talked normal and everyone else was fucked up.

85% yankee josh?! Damn, you are a yankee bastard.

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:36:00 AM  

i'm 65% general american english, 20% yankee, 15% upper mid western. 0 dixie, yea boyee!

By  ron, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:56:00 AM  

55% General American; 30% Yankee;
10% Dixie; 5% Upper Midwestern. What a mutt

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 3:07:00 PM  

55 normal, 40 yankee 5 midwest 0 dixie, fuck the south, i'm edumacated.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:23:00 PM  

45% General, 40% Yankee (BB read Josh's post again, I think this is the same as him) 15% Dixie, not sure where that came from other than y'all which I do use on occasion, picked up from Maryland people I used to work with.

I wouldn't have thought we all talk so different.

By  Damon, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:50:00 PM  

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Monday, May 16, 2005

funny 

# posted by ron @ 5/16/2005 10:07:00 PM

working monkeys

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matt, make the monkey on the unicycle our site monkey.

By  ron, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:00:00 AM  

Thats funny! I thought it was going to be a play on science though.. You know, what are the chances of life randomly and naturally evolving out of chance over billions of years... obviously 0! Just like the monkeys and shakespeare! Well, good, im glad they didnt go that route, because then i would have to boycott Monty.

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:27:00 AM  

i'd love to ron, but you'd need to crop hte [ic, load it on another site and then place the link to it in the template. still can't host pics.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:24:00 PM  

Just do it egghead

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:05:00 AM  

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ok, so i'll write something 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/16/2005 12:00:00 AM

i saw lewis black last night at the Flynn Theater in burlington. he was awsome. funny, preformed for like an hour and 45 minutes and he left on a high note. he opened with a long bit about bottled water but it was funny so he gets a break. his show was also slightly tailored to the northeast so it was locally relevant. that made it a little funnier, plus he gets bonus points for knowing what city he's in. he was a good performer, a real professional comedian.

my next point starts with this; does anyone watch MTV anymore? MTV isn't the point, but microsoft decided to unveil its next-gen console on MTV friday night. it got a bunch of air time to show some cool graphics and pictures of what it's going to look like. the biggest news was that the controlers are going to be all wireless. kind of cool. mircrosoft and sony have kind of been throwing canonballs across eachothers bowes in the lead up to the next-gen systems. unless you've been really following this stuff you wouldn't know about the schedual changes that have been going back and forth to steal eachothers thunder for the big annoucements. E3 is comming in the next week and it's usually when everyone gives out all thier secrets for any upcoming projects. this year new concoles are expected so sony and microsoft slowly trickeled out information leading up to it until microsoft decided to take a bunch of money from MTV to "unviel" thier new stuff in a prime time special.

lost in the sony/microsoft cat fight, nintendo has said they aren't going to let the cat out of the bag with any big announcments. nintendo has something cool up their sleeves and aren't going to let it out to one up the competition for the sake of getting fan boys off. i applaude you nintendo. the only problem is i think i know what you have going on and i'm already looking at getting an X-box 360. i'm sorry, its just going to be sweet. nintendo hasn't given me hte third party supprot needed for any system, and this isn't thier own fault. most third party programmers aren't used to seeing anything different so when somehitng like hte DS comes out they can't build games for it. i expect no different from the "revolution", a few good games but never enough upfront. designers won't be able to take advantage of all its capabilities. i don't wnat some half assed mario game that i can yell at in loo of a sweet firstperson shooter that needs a 2000 dollar PC. i LOVE my FPS's, some fancy pikmin or mariokart isnt going to change that, plus maybe no console game will ever replace my fantastic mouse skillz, but 250 for a game machine, or 2000 for a sweet computer to run a good game are two totally different things.

i've read that the nintendo revolution will be about the same size as three DVD cases stacked togeather. humm.......

on another geek front, Star Wars opens this week, is anyone excited? i'm excited, this one has a PG-13 rating compared to the PG rating of all the others. not much but it allows a much darker story then before. plus steven spielburg directed a bunch of scenes, so lucas wasn't able to screw them up. if anyone has watched the Clone Wars animated series they played on the cartoon network, it's going to have a big impact on the new movie. general grevious is the new villian and he's kind of sweet. the animated series was drawn in the samuri jack stlye and it was awsome. i saw four or five episodes and it was very good. i'm going the buy the first seaonjs on DVD before i see the next move because the series bridges the gap and what i saw was good.

back to sports, this should have happened years ago. anyone notice tino martinez is on fire? or that the yanks have won 8 in a row? the orieals are for real, the white sox aren't. tampa bay, KC this week has to be the lowest attended series of all time. its just sad to watch. at least tampa is going somewhere, KC isn't.

i read up on the NY giants today. they released omiar stoutmire? what eh fuck!?! apprently thier draft was better then i gave them credit for. did you know that running back they drafted was 6-4, 265? me either. the guys they got were decent. better then most people thought they would do without a first or a fifth round pick. they signed a lot of free agents this year so thier offseason will be determined by how these guys do.

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lewis black is hilarious. i've actually heard the bottled water bit, but its' funny.

i haven't watched mtv in years. now that i think about it, i never consistently watched it. even when it actually WAS music television. i think that's a poor choice of network to unveil the system on, though the demographics is probably about right. but i know many people who enjoy video games and hate mtv, and so wouldnt even be aware of this unveiling.

ok i'm sick of video game talk.

By  josh, at Monday, May 16, 2005 2:36:00 PM  

MTV was cool until maybe 1996 or so. Used to be able to live on MTV and Sportscenter, now I don't watch either. MTV is the epitome of America's baseless obsession with pop culture that prevents most people from using their brains once in awhile. Actually, as much as I like to bash America, it's not just us. Not even just a Western blight. Anywho what do I know, I'm lame myself. (uh oh, everyone will once again read that as "I'm smarter and cooler than you") For anyone who didn't realize, that's why I left, I gave an implication of someone else's positive opinion of my school while saying I was lame, a loser, and had no skills with women, and I was labelled arrogant. And here I am off topic again, beat me up about that will ya!

By  Damon, at Monday, May 16, 2005 8:46:00 PM  

headbangers ball!

By  ron, at Monday, May 16, 2005 10:58:00 PM  

Damn it Damon, why dont you just say you're sorry if anyone misinterpretted you and that you dont think your better than anybody. Stop pussy footing around and come back if you want to! Sorry if that offends you. (see not so hard).

By  Brancibeer, at Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:21:00 AM  

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Friday, May 13, 2005

# posted by Brancibeer @ 5/13/2005 10:21:00 AM

What Matt can do in his spare time...

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Thats a great halloween costume, or just attire for casual fridays

By  murphy, at Friday, May 13, 2005 11:01:00 AM  

how about 6 beers paid for by some strange guy and counting. seriously, i'm partying with my sister nad a few of her friends and this guy walked in, drank 1.25 beers with us and left, but paid off our whole tab. strange, but i'm drinking for free so i can't complain.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 13, 2005 8:28:00 PM  

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Thursday, May 12, 2005

i'm just full of shit today 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/12/2005 11:36:00 PM

i feel i have to talk about the current state of video games. i've been playing a lot of video games in all the free time i have and reading a lot about all the new technology coming our way in reguards to such. i recently played through metroid prime ( i can't fucking beat the end boss, and its like a 35-45 minute battle every try), i've been playing old SNES games on my computer because i bought a sweet imitation playstation controler that works with the SNES emulator i downloaded. before metroid, i finised Zelda: wind waker, and i've just generaly been playing more games. today i finished up Resident Evil 4 which was incredible, a vast improvement over all other RE games. plus it was fucking sweet. blowing the heads off zombies in this game is a memory i'm not soon to forget. while playing the game i was excited, scared, happy, and just plain entertained. there were many moments in which i found my palms sweating and my heart racing. like a good drug or sex.

this got me thinking. what makes video games so special? why have they blown up in our society to a level to rival movies and music? its because video game combine the best aspect of music, movies and interactivity to creatate a great experience. the cinematics of most games are directed by hollywood guys, the music is awsome and the user has the ability to control the action. the visual experience can imitate things like comic books. (please someone please recognise the visual art and text of comics!) the interactivity makes the user feel incontrol. its a fantastic marraige of all other types of entertainment. when society looks at forms of entertainment they see music, movies, sports and reading. games can combine all of those. the video game industry is on the verge of over taking film movies in revenue. plus, in the next two weeks or so, the next generation of consoles are going to be announced. the PS3, X-Box 360 and a first look at the nintendo Revolution are all expected at E3.

PS3 and X-box 360 are expected to take the conservitive approach and push for better graphics from more of hte same. nintendo is looking at taking a more philisophical approach and making hte games more fun to play. the Revolution is rumored to have a touch pad inplace of the familar D-pad and a gyroscope in the controler. games like doom 3 and half life 2 have pushed the bounds of what we expect from games. there are countless inovations from new PC games and consoles are quickly catching up. This is one industry that i believe may never reach its full potential because the nature of hte beast is just too large. how do you combine the greatness of movies, music and games to create the untilmate video game? can it be done?

i leave you with this, what was the last great game you've played?

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http://www.mylifeasafischer.com/gallery/drunk/pic07900?full=1

funny pic

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 13, 2005 1:54:00 AM  

Last great game was Zelda Ocarina of Time for 64. There have been good, but that was the last truly groundbreaking, innovative , exciting game i've played. I've been picking up a couple 64 games here and there from flee markets and stuff. Latest find- Battletanks for $1.99. Nice! I also ordered Paper Mario 64 for a heftier price, but it was worth it. It was supposed to be N64's last great game. Its pretty good for an RPG. Kim and i are working our way through it now. The only other game i would want would be Conkers Bad Fur Day, and my N64 wish list will be complete. All of a sudden i have a large collection of N64 games...

Keep us updated on the game front Matt

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, May 13, 2005 8:17:00 AM  

video games and sex, for me at least, are on two different levels. maybe im playing the wrong games

By  murphy, at Friday, May 13, 2005 11:05:00 AM  

....or banging the wrong hoes?

my latest greatest....GT3

By  ron, at Friday, May 13, 2005 11:40:00 AM  

I'll interrupt video games for sex, but then go right back to the video games afterwards. Sorry babe - no cuddling unless I love ya (read: never).

My console is my PC so Halo 1 and Rise of Nations are my fixes. I still actually play Civ III. That's gotta be my favorite game ever. It would be Tino's favorite also if it wasn't already Civ II for him and his slow ass mac.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Friday, May 13, 2005 1:43:00 PM  

Stronghold 2 is addictive though I don't know why since it's basically the same thing over and over. I guess most games are to some extent. Anyway, I got that recently for PC and play it when I have many hours to kill. I just got Forza for Xbox and played only a little so far but it looks killer. But no game can challange Madden for keeping me locked in my room for months on end. Even when it's going bad, you just think: well if I can trade my young promising backup for a veteran I need on the D-line, and draft a starting free safety in the frist round, release the expensive underacheiving WR, maybe.....

By  Damon, at Friday, May 13, 2005 4:22:00 PM  

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On the career front... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/12/2005 03:53:00 PM

I went to a "Career Fair" the other day at teh Sheriton in Burlington. As i drove into the parking lot i noticed there was a bunch of activity, people going in and out. It seemed as though it was a busy place. I parked, got out of hte car and looked a the other people all walking towards the conference center door. There were about 5 guys a 2 women all walking at the same time i was. The guys were all middle aged, anywhere from 30 to 50, and they all looked kind of depressed. It hit me that these guys aren't here for plesent reasons. they'd all been working somewhere for years and then been fired or let go and now finding a job was a matter of feeding thier family. Me, i was just there to check it out and see what it was like. I had a smile on my face and entered it with a positive attitude.

In the lobby there was a registration table to sign in with a bunch of nice old ladies passing out name tags and asking people to drop thier resumes into a raffle. I wrote my name in nice big letters and continuted into the "slaughter house". It was a big room filled with corporate booths and packed with people in suits, busily passing out resumes and passing around business cards. I wondered around the floor looking over all the booths and checking out who was there. I stopped at a pair of engineering firms booths and talked to the guys who were meeting people. these were both simple exchanges, "hi, i'm XXX" "oh, nice to meet you" "i'm an ME and i'm wondering what your company does?" "ok we're into XXX and we're currently looking for XXX and XXX" "oh great i have experince in XXX" "thats great, let me take your resume"

These exchanges are worse then small talk because at the end of the conversation the only real thing that's been accomplished is that you've dropped your resume into a box. The guys working the table are there because that's thier job, they aren't the ones doing the hiring, they just collect resumes for someone else. You aren't meeting anyone who you need to make a good impression on, just a guy doing his job.

I had this same exchange with a lady at the General Dynamics both. Then she asked if i had been to thier web site. i said yes but that it was always nicer to meet people in person and give them a hard copy of your resume. She asked why, i told her because it had been my experience that these web sites don't always give all the information to the right people. sometimes your resume gets picked apart or only a text version gets sent to the right people. she seemed to take offense at this and took a stand for her companies "great" website. she didn't assure me that they got everyones resume, she told me, asserted that thier site was so great and how they get PDF copys of everyones resume. i backed off, not wanting to upset a prospective employer before i'd even given her my resume. she was a total bitch. and thier web site only asks for a text copy of your resume. biatch.

Wondering around the floor looking at the other companies there it was obvious that what i'm looking for wasn't there. only about 4 engineering firms had shown up and one other civil type company that i talked to (they were very interesting in my CTDOT experience, i guess civil guys are in demand) and the rest were bank, recruiter, financial places, and the army. the army had like 4 different booths, plus the VT department of corrections and the state police. after i walked by a few army booths i kind of snickered to myself because it was funny watching the army try to grab people left and right. the recruiter that was sitting there gave me a dirty look and made a dissatisfied noise in my direction, i don't blame him, i laughed at his simple presence.

my whole time here totaled about 45 minutes. it's been two days and no calls so its hard to call it a waste of time just yet. plus i think i only passed out 5 resumes. it was obvious i was the youngest person there too. i only saw one other person i'd even think was under 30. surprising since it was less then a mile from the UVM campus.

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http://www.redheadedleague.com/films/robin/robin.html

check this movie out, fan films kick ass

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:06:00 PM  

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Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Breaking News: Huge Cock on Buffalo Nickel 

# posted by ron @ 5/11/2005 09:48:00 PM

you guys think you are going to take this site and run, huh?
all this political talk smart talk. i'll bring this site back down to the level it needs to be. the way it should be. BAM!




how ya like them apples?

edit: and shit like this

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Your fired

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:46:00 AM  

Ronny, you kick ass.

By  Anonymous, at Thursday, May 12, 2005 6:21:00 PM  

Really, i dont get the picture. Is there supposed to be a cock on that thing or what? Did you draw it in or is that really how it is? I dont really see anything worth noting..

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, May 13, 2005 8:28:00 AM  

damnit, there is a cock on it. no i didnt draw it

By  ron, at Friday, May 13, 2005 11:29:00 AM  

I think you drew it.

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, May 13, 2005 12:12:00 PM  

i think its just a scratch

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Friday, May 13, 2005 1:12:00 PM  

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Monday, May 09, 2005

Me smart 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 5/09/2005 04:47:00 PM

I'm not sure if i can keep up with all this talk. I mean, i can only check during work hours and this deep philosophy will override my basic work functions and burn me out man. I just might FrEAk OuT! About all i can contribute are these pathetic links. Rons B-day is coming up and I think this would be perfect. Neeeeerrrrrd!

Tim, what the fuck? Lay off the graphics please.

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Don't Censor Me!!!!!

By  Anonymous, at Monday, May 09, 2005 5:21:00 PM  

we should infiltrate this site

http://spiritofrevival.blogspot.com/

By  ron, at Monday, May 09, 2005 11:40:00 PM  

oh i'm all over this one, check the comments.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:14:00 AM  

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The worst episode, EVER ! 

# posted by NoBrainRequired @ 5/09/2005 06:30:00 AM

So...

I'm minding my own business. Not hurting anybody, not breaking any laws, not even outside my own home, but appearantly God wanted to watch me sqirm. So there I am on the shitter, minding my own business (actually, I just watched back to the future and was thinking, deeply, about the theoligical implications of time travel, ie; what if we killed Hitler but the events of history played themselves out basically the same?) on the shitter. I finish up, snap back to reality, and look down at my stinky creation.
If you're the least bit squeamish stop here, it gets worse, a lot worse.
Red, lots of red. I'm talking biblical plague "and the waters were turned to blood" every where not just in the water, around the rim everywhere. Like a power washer of blood was in my ass.
So, I did the first thing a guy would do, I stared at it in disbelief (is this another flashback?). Trying hard to decide whether or not this constituted an emergency, you know, flush and walk or call 911.
I yelled for Mo " Honey could you come look at something?" "I'm not going to look at another one of your massive shits, thats gross" she replies. But further badgering gets her there.
She looks down and says " I'm gonna pass out" and she did fell on her back, started gurgling and had a siezure!
Luckily, I got her to come too. I was panicked, she was panicked, the fish was panicked. So I called Burns. Yes thats right. In an emergency I called Burns, and he told me to go to the hospitol and we did.
So after telling this story to twenty different people at the hosp. I finally get seen.
If your the least bit squeamish, stop reading, it gets worse, a lot worse.
So the doctor comes in, big guy. 6'4" and fat. Needless to say he had very large hands. He asks me about my lifestyle; any suppositories, herion abuse, anal sex ect. No, No, NOOOOO! I say.
Well, that was the wrong answer appearently. Now, I needed an examination. Can you produce a sample? No just blood I say. I'm gonna need some of that he says. I don't want to tell you how he got it, but he did. That was inconclusive, we can elimanate infection, viral or cancer(whew). But we need to take a closer look (YIKES). He says " It involves a camera" and I said" It better also involve some morphine or alot of whiskey" It wasnt a small camera. I realize now that our callings are to invent a smaller camera for this purpose. In any case, my lesson in prison ethics wasn't over. After looking around in there he can to the conlcusion that I have an internal hemmoroid. All that, for a damned hemmoroid. our second calling is to create a hemmoroid test thats non-invasive.
As for Mo, she was getting checked out next to me. She's fine. She had a reaction from her pills and the stress of the situation. It happens. It was embarrising both sets of parents showed up (Happy Mothers day, theres blood flowing out my ass) Either way, niether of us are going back to the hospitol for a while. (Me, nothing short of a gun wound will bring me back). Well, it's 6:30 AM. I need more whiskey until I feel like a human being again. Please leave me alone for a couple of days. Then you can let me have it all you want.

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Jesus. I... You...uhhh..

By  Brancibeer, at Monday, May 09, 2005 8:51:00 AM  

That truly is a mothers day miracle, god bless us everyone!

By  murphy, at Monday, May 09, 2005 9:48:00 AM  

wow, just wow. at least you're ok.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, May 09, 2005 6:56:00 PM  

How did it end? I skipped to the bottom after the first warning.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Monday, May 09, 2005 10:06:00 PM  

it ended with tim having a baby lizard. i hear its a girl. congrats.


seriously glad to hear your alright. now tell us what the doc said so we can all learn and hopefully avoid this.

By  ron, at Monday, May 09, 2005 10:48:00 PM  

To avoid this take 5 easy steps;

1) Drink less alcohol
2) Use less drugs
3) Eat more fiber, less meat
4) Exercise more, sit less
5) Poop on a schedule (I mean, get out your daily planner and shit on it)

I would also like to point out that this is a common affliction, just not in 20 year olds. The doc said most guys ignore it the first couple of times because its painless. However, the concern is that it gets infected, then they got to do open ass surgury.

By  Anonymous, at Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:36:00 PM  

#1 not happening
#2 not happening
#3 frosted mini wheats
#4 ride bike more, got it
#5 10am phone tetris time baby!

By  ron, at Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:39:00 PM  

Actually Ron, Bike riding was one of the factors he said would contribute to it, all that bumping and jamming. Let's face it Ron, not only is describing what a bike does to your ass homoerotic , but you + bike = accidents. A gentler sport, like getting head from hot hookers (alliteration; Mac would be proud, or horrified), might be more your style.

By  Anonymous, at Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:58:00 PM  

frosted mini wheats are key, the big ones just don't have enough frosting on them.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:44:00 PM  

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Exactly one month since my last post 

# posted by murphy @ 5/09/2005 02:24:00 AM

I like to see a new perspective on the blog. Welcome Johnny boy. I can see some intense rivalry already forming. Its been a long time since i checked the blog. Its nice to be back.
I see that Damon has returned, if only to comment, soon you again will feel welcome.

Ive been working for about six weeks now and the job is begining to wear on me. The kids drive you crazy all day long and it gets to you after 14 straight hours. The other night, I skipped out of work an hour early and hightailed it up to Cojones. Got blotto, took a ride with flores, did shots of cuervo with hot bartender,puked in parklot-and onself, coronas, danced, made out with drunk girl,cock was blocked, passed out at Windhm Prk #37.

Take a deep breath.....

And go-Fun night out, shitty night at work. I was on the verge of quitting on thurs. but had a good day on friday. I may just go to montana after all. Well see what kind of sell job Eli can do when he comes home. which is on wednesday. by the way...

#1 If anyone needs furnature of any kind, I have an apartment full in need of a space, you come you lift and you transport. Ill help you lift it but I dont have an way to haul it. Anything from couches to kitchen stuff-whatever you need I got.

#2 Large Party to be Held at the Murphy Camp. In honor of Justin's recent acedemic accomp., Elis home coming and going away again, my possible departure,Ron's masters, All other friends graduations, and lastly in honor of loose or as we like to call, "fun" girls of the ct mass and surronding areas---a large party will be held. Come one come all-alcohol provided, dancing, pong, water sports, fireworks, lots of women but if you have more you can bring them, if we decide to go crazy we may get a mic and do some open mic/karreokee shit. Im sure i butchered the spelling on that.

date tba
all night long
more than anyone can possibly handle
More details after i talk to Eli the Shly Guy

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You had me at "water sports"

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Monday, May 09, 2005 10:11:00 PM  

as long as its not this saturday i'll be able to make it down. i have tickets for lewis black in burlington.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, May 09, 2005 10:48:00 PM  

lewis black is also coming to one of the casinos, i think next month

By  josh, at Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:26:00 PM  

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Sunday, May 08, 2005

an unprecedented defense of religion, and why we should screw the environment 

# posted by josh @ 5/08/2005 02:25:00 PM

PART I - RELIGION

to say it's either science or religion is a horrible false dichotomy. yes, many republicans use faith to justify their stances (hell, our airport security plan is completely a "faith based initiative"). but so does al qaeda use faith to justify their actions against the US. but as many (i would hope) have realized, al qaeda is just wrong. they misinterpret islam. so, while i often have bad things to say about religion, i also think it should be noted that no one ever questions whether these guys are getting it right or not. don't get me wrong, delay is an unethical bastard, frist is a moron, and i dont know how zell miller is a democrat, even in georgia. but most of my problems with religion stem directly from the church, or statements released therefrom. or i disagree with the policy of using faith to make these decisions which affect everyone, including those with different beliefs. but in this latter case, there is a huge distinction b/w attacking this policy, and attacking religion itself.

religion does not necessarily oppose scientific thought and growth. the reason it seems so, is because the only issues that make the news are those in controversy. stem cells, abortion, etc. no one gives a fuck when everyone agrees, because its not news. don't get me wrong, i'm not endorsing any particular religion, nor even religion itself, but i do think that sometimes we oppose it too vehemently without contemplating why or if it's really religion that is the problem. in some cases, yes, there is direct opposition. but not always.

i'm not convinced that religious people refuse to listen to logic or logical debate. they just feel their faith outweighs it. and while i think that is just ridiculously stupid, that is their belief and part of what is great about our country is that they are free to hold these beliefs. if someone thinks being gay is wrong, fine, but KEEP IT TO YOUR FUCKING SELF. i dont want to hear about it, gay people dont want to hear about, no one wants to hear about it. if you cant keep it inside, then move to the south and redneck it up. but stay the fuck away from me. beliefs are fine, trying to use them to influence others is not.

PART II - ENVIRONMENT

i think johnny is a welcome addition to the blog for me, not because i'm republican (which i'm not), but because i feel i am not as liberal as many of you.

no one is arguing we should destroy the environment (despite the title of this post). but i think john makes some good points, that at least need to be considered. yes, the environment should be preserved to the extent that is feasible, but i think many pro-environmental theories are too optimistic, because, as john urges, they do not consider philosophy.

i'm mainly speakign of human nature. to what end does all our technology and progress aim? sustaining life? maybe. how about making life easier. how soon we lose sight of acham's razor. the simplist solution is often the best. humans live based on this philosophy. we want to find the easiest way to get thru the things we need to do. the reason these renewable energy resources arent catching on as well is because humans are lazy. why make all this effort and change when i can easily do what i've been doing. and sure, long term consequences will be worse and eventually we'll have to change. but the world is ever changing and more faced paced than ever. people simply dont see the big picture. they deal in the present, not the future. this is why many are unwilling to make a committment to change. it would mean a lot of work now even if the consequences would be better in the future.

another thing is that while we could change to unlimited resources, many people who resist change have made their whole life's work based on the other resources (please do not mistake this for sympathy to oil companies). and why arent the renewable resources being utilized correctly? because it would take too much work to replant trees. why look to the future when if i go cut down more trees somewhere else now i can make more money? greed is not only one of the seven deadly sins, but it's also a staple of human nature. we all want to survive, and we have blurred the line between survival excess.

finally, another theme of humans (and if you dont buy this one then you've been under a rock) is avoidance of personal responsibility. one of hte most refreshing things i've seen in a long time was dr phil (who annoys me to no end) on larry king, talkign about pat o'brien. phil said he admired o'brien because he admitted his problem and took responsibility. holy shit! i thought that was unheard of these days. when's the last time anyone publicly took responsibility for anything that mattered? ummmmmmmmmm. the o'brien story is nice, but that only matters to his overcoming his problem, and anyone he's victimized because of it. but when do people take responsibility anymore?

they dont.

oh i have add, adhd, depression, anxiety, its not my fault i was drunk, etc. stop being a fucking pussy and accept responsibility. remember life before add and adhd ruled the world? i do. it was almost alright. and as long as people can get away with not taking responsibility, they never will.


goddamn that felt great.

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josh, i was feeling ya up until dr. phil/pat o'brien. pat o'brien was told, do this special or you lose your job and we black mail you to the rest of hollywood. CBS used it's own resident "psycologist" dr. phil (who holds a doctorite in history and not psycology) to creat a prime time special exploiting pat's low point for prime time ratings during sweeps week. and yes, i saw the dailyshow point out that john stossels follow up "expose'" was on bottled water, haven't seen that before.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Sunday, May 08, 2005 10:59:00 PM  

business is about one thing and one thing only: making money. it doesn't matter what the situation is, if it comes down to making more money or not making more money, a corporation will always choose making more money, reguardless of the impact upon the average person. if it's cheaper to dump toxic waste rather then clean it up responsibly, any corporation will choose to pay the fines and continue dumping.

this indiviualism/personal responsibility arguement is a huge load of crap by the right. if my choice is dump toxic waste, or lose my job, what do you think most minimum wage earning illeagle immigrants are going to choose? the reality behind many of these arguments are lost on people trying to persuade the ignorant. i just worked for a couple republicans who swore against illegal imigrants, but employed at least three of them (there were a few we couldn't prove were illegals). there is no responsibility umong corporations. its all about the bottom line.

liberalism does not preach that people can't run thier own lives, john you're reading too many right wing books, its trying to hold people accountable for thier actions, the pinnicle of personal responsibility. we're not asking for the government to fight all our battles, just to hold people responsible for thier actions, to be the check to a corporations unweilding desire for more money, to eliminate things such as off-shore tax shelters, giant tax cuts for the rich, the unchecked destruction of our environment, a return to common sense and the end of poor people demanding the end to the estate tax that doesn't affect them. when a man who ruins the lives of thousands of people gets 6 months probation, and a person who sells a bag of pot on the corner get 7 years, there is something wrong with the system. it's an end to hipocrisy that is sought.

when people put thier own concerns before the "public good" there is chaos. there would be no military, those people fighting your war in the middle east aren't there because they want private tax accounts for social security, they are fighting foir the greatere good of the american people. they are fighting so that WE can be free and live our lives as we see fit. they are putting the greater good in front of thier own lives and sacrificing what they have for the betterment of hte rest of us. that is not individualism, that is selflessness. when everyone is only looking out for number one, or individualism, no one gains anything.

no one is nice to you anywhere unless they want something from you. salesmen aren't trying to sell you thier product because its the best one out there, they're selling it because they can't feed thier family if they don't. thier livelyhood is dependant on selling you whatever piece of crap the company is selling. they have no personal attachment to the product. thats why its called a "product". it could be batteries or porno, cars or bubble gum. if they can make you think you need it then they profit. reguardless of anyones wellbeing.

there is no such thing as a profitable charity. there is no money in helping people.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, May 09, 2005 1:34:00 AM  

I guess you could say that even the altruist is out to get something - fullfilment of oneself and the easement of conscience. The reward just isn't always tangible. I smile cuz I like being liked.

*gets clocked*

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title unnessecary 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/08/2005 01:00:00 AM

microcausm of the religion vs. science debate. trust me, it's in there, half way down.

this is what amazes me. science, common sense, logic and good planning are thrown out the window in favor of irrationalism, religion, and hate. i know it always sounds lke one side is yelling at the other, or i'm just some crazy liberal, or some stupid label is placed on one side or the other, but thats how the argument has been framed. any side showing "facts" can be considered liberal, and the right has done as much as it can to crush intelligent thought. (whole new story, not going there) it's come down to trying to discredit and destroy the entire intelligent community and replace it with hardcore idealists. its not weather you're right or wrong, it has more to do with how much you "believe" in one side or the other.

this is where the two sides differ. the left is willing to hear serious debate and listen to logic and a well put togeather arguement. the right has no tollerence for that and believes their side is right based on faith alone. your "facts" and "logic" have no place here! and then it degrades into name calling and destroying your opponet. the attacks against the left never employ reason or proven fact, its always about destroying the charactor of the accuser, and trying to discredit anything they say. not disprove, but discredit.

ok, now thats the rant. anyone notice i haven't been talking baseball recently? thats because there isn't anything good to talk about in NY. top to bottom the line up is poor. not a single player is safe from critisim. a-rod is making errors in the field, kevin brown is just killing us, randy maybe hurt, matsui has cooled off very quickly, the kids aren't hitting anymore, gordon and hte rest of hte bullpen is a mess. bernie williams should have been benched before the season even started. i'm glad canu is playing, but it may be a year too soon for him. i'm hoping this isn't a trade bait scenaro, because he may be the cost of renting rodger clemens for half a season. in any other sport but baseball i'd push for just finishing last and getting a good draft pick, but it doesn't work that way in BB. if you sign top freeagents in the off season, you lose your top draft picks to the team you signed the guy away from. giambi didn't just cost us alot of money, he cost us a first and second round draft pick. so did pavano+wright. this is a big reason why the farm system is bare.

around the AL; man, if only oakland could hit. the whitesox will tail off, and baltimore isn't. tampa is going to make some kind of giant trade at some point. there aren't as many teams willing to trade any one this year and they have a few parts that are up for grabs. huff, lugo and baeiz. bat, SS with speed, and closer. they are going to get top dollar too since they are in high demand and the market is smaller then it has been.

this may be the year the braves don't win the devision because of the marlins. delgado was a serious bat in that lineup and hte pitching has been excelent. who's riding the D train? and lieter is the forth starter, does this remind anyone of maddux being the fourth starter in chicago last year? speaking of chicago, my heart goes out to all cubs fans. if on;y wood and prior could be healthy. this team is also a canidate for picking up all three of those guys from tampa. huff could replace bernitz (well, anyone could replace bernitz), lugo fill in for nomar, and baiez can close out a bunch of games until (fuck, what's his name, borowski?) comes back. unless the pardres blow up, the dodgers will run away with the west this year, the diamond backs aren't for real and the giants can't do shit without bonds, or alou. the team to watch out for is the cincinatti reds. they can hit and they have some pitching. going to be a tough team from here on out. watch for the brewers NEXT year. they got a great deal in return for richie sexon last year and those guys are all going to be starters, plus they just locked up ben sheets and have BJ hardy on the way up. and i think prince fielder, cecils son. but he may be somewhere else, check me on that one.

out!

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Putting yerself on a slippery slope by saying the right "never" uses facts when attacking the left. Granted, they are very good at character attacks, but many Lefties also play a little fast and loose.

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Sunday, May 08, 2005 3:06:00 PM  

i agree to that, but you have to admit the right uses one insitution to make up facts while the others use them as a "resource". a more grandiouse version of the "rush limbaugh echo chamber".

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Friday, May 06, 2005

Browsing 

# posted by Brancibeer @ 5/06/2005 12:35:00 PM

Found this cool blog. The dudes kind of like us. Matt, can you make it possible to inlay pictures like he does?

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good find brancy

By  josh, at Friday, May 06, 2005 3:06:00 PM  

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hash? 

# posted by josh @ 5/06/2005 01:38:00 AM

it's not what you're thinking. have any of you all ever heard of hashing? in theory at least it's some pretty cool shit. have hares lay a flour trail, then everyone else is a hound. random beer stops along the way. then you end up at someone's house or a bar for food and more drinking. each local hash sets its own rules about membership (e.g. adults only, how foul it will be, etc). i found 3 official hashes in ct. a better representative of your average hash might be this one, from dc. read any of the pdf's, each one is a tale of the run. you can run, walk, whatever, it's mainly a social event. its not competitive.


looks like some cool shit, but the ct ones look pretty weak from their websites.

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Thursday, May 05, 2005

can't stop thinking of shooting zombies in the head 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/05/2005 10:54:00 PM

i've been playing resident evil 4 nonstop and i'm just about done. this is one game i may play through again. dawn of the dead has been on the movie channels a lot recently so i've been watching that too. shooting zombies in the head is awsome.

saturday is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. use this to find a shop, check it out. i actually just found out tonight that it was this week. i haven't bought a comic in months. thier one of those things that get dropped when i don't have a job. when the cash starts flowing again, the smoke and comics will come roaring back baby! i might come down to CT saturday for it because the only shop i know of up here was actually closed for it last year. and its shit. oooh daily show is on. end.

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i've found my calling 

# posted by josh @ 5/05/2005 12:33:00 AM

anyone willing to chip in to help me with a lifelong dream?

god this would be sweet. and if it were a few years from now in the future and i had money, i'd so be there!

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i too have this dream josh, but i realize that if i threw a ball for even 10 minutes i'd probably hurt meyself bad. it would take probably 4-5 months to get into baseball shape and then probably another 6 months to get the skills back. kinda depressing eh?

By  ron, at Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:43:00 PM  

yeah, it's very depressing. i remember how hard it was keeping my arm in shape for something as silly as intramural softball. damn i miss being able to play.

By  josh, at Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:58:00 PM  

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interesting 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/05/2005 12:21:00 AM

very interesting look at the value of the workermonkey

for my own personal reasons, the links on the side are there so that i don't lose a few websites that i'd rather not forget about if/when my computer crashes and all my bookmarks are lost. there are many websites i can name off the top of my head that i don't need to keep a written record of. does any other then myself try these out? if i were to add more would any one out there check them? is it some bizare case of "i've already seen them all and there is nothing new there to keep my interest"? feed back people, feed back.

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Its not brain surgery here. But i'll break it down.
1) Nobody reads those comic sites but you.
2) Some of the blog ones are useless and or outdated. Some havnt been updated since last year.
3) The sports links are just taking up space. Sure there nice to have, but everyone knows about ESPN. And if somebody wants to go to the Yankees website, they dont need a link to point them there.
4) News links are ok. But just keep the obscure ones. Everyone knows about CNN, you dont need a link for it.
5) Culture is ok.

I would say only put up links that are kept up to date and are good to look at once a week or more. Thinking Ape Blues is a good example.

By  Brancibeer, at Thursday, May 05, 2005 8:42:00 AM  

chump, if you're going to keep links on the side, i like the one to the "second opinion" blog. now i realize that i could bookmark it myself, or even remember the address. but let's face it, i'm lazy and wont do either.

By  josh, at Thursday, May 05, 2005 1:57:00 PM  

Yeah it's not too often I visit any of the links. Hell, I rarely visit any of my bookmarked pages.

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Wednesday, May 04, 2005

I like your sleeves. They're really big. 

# posted by DJ Booze Piñata @ 5/04/2005 08:14:00 PM

I heard thru the grapevine that some of the Napolean Dynamite cast will be doing an appearance somewhere around here. I'll do some sleuthing.
Links to the rescue:
www.caedes.net - pretty sweet desktop backgrounds, and they're all free unlike digital blasphemy's
http://pot.tv/ - Johnny Weed's loving indulgence
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/ - Lib-style riffraff
http://www.erowid.org/ - better than the D.A.R.E. program
http://www.tweakxp.com/ - modification ideas for XP
http://www.entermyworld.com/ - A DeLorean site run by someone named Tamir.

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do you guys want more links to stuff like this on the side? i could throw down a million programs and offbeat sites that you may like. i'm not sure what to add or how much time to spend on the sidebar links.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:00:00 AM  

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monkey business 

# posted by ron @ 5/04/2005 11:41:00 AM

i dont know, for me the monkey has lost something over the year. i think its mainly to do with more people reading it. i censor myself alot of the times realizing that whatever i type is up for anyone with a connection to the web to view. now granted only a few actually know who the person behind the words is but thats exactly the reason for the censor. i dont feel that its my place to vent anymore, i do that in my journal. i mean i do vent on certian things, politics and school but thats as far as it usually goes.

monkey making money? if you can do it then do it. but the added traffic and annoying comments might cause the monkey to fall. matt, you are a member of message boards like me. you know how you see the same stupid newbie questions over and over again. thing about that with the monkey and religion. its gets old quick trying to defend your position every day. might have to delete the comments part.

i say keep the monkey on the lowdown and let fans find it on their own. this site is for us, not the web population. its full of insider jokes and for anyone to understand it they would have to have read it from the start or have been following it for awhile. its the same problem that we have with the book, we all see the global picture, but if an outsider read this site it would most likely seem uninteresting because you need that outside unwritten knowledge. an example, johnny weed doesnt smoke weed. see what i mean?

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i'm not talking about crushing the monkey or turning this site into a for profit one. i'm thinking a new site that actually has a point.

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haHA 

# posted by josh @ 5/04/2005 10:54:00 AM

maybe i'm just immature (actually i'm pretty sure thats like 95% of it) but this is hilarious. man i wasted some time doing it.

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wow i really wish i could save some of those

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:12:00 PM  

i'd love to save the one of bush i made, it's so easy to make him look like the devil. point the ears, raise his eyebrows and elongate the chin... oh and the horns just pop out of his forehead

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:57:00 PM  

well there you have it, matt goes with making bush a devil and i make britney look like shes about to get a load in the face. say aaaaahh

By  ron, at Thursday, May 05, 2005 10:24:00 AM  

hahahahahahahaha i did the exact same thing ron

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a question for all of us 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 5/04/2005 01:16:00 AM

i've been thinking, what if we wanted to make some money off of this whole web site thing? how would we entice readers to click on adds. its not hard to get people to advertise on your site, but they only pay you for "click throughs" or the number of people who click on thier add from your site. Google has a great Add program that is context sensitive, and easy to profit from. Amazon.com also has one where you can sell thier prooducts through your site. something like that would be great because each of use could recommend a weekly CD or movie or the book we're currently reading.

but that would all be a mute point unltess we get more traffic. how is that achieved? if anything we should post on other blogs, or at leat add comments. another good way is to make a name for yourself on a forum on a bunch of sites. forums are great places and i encourage everyone to find one on something they are interested in and post often. there are some great websites out there that cover some very specific topics. it's been my experience that the people found there can answer just about any relevent question you may have in a timely fashion and with more info then you could ever possibly need.

any forey into this relm would require a new site design, preferibly from scratch. i've read a lot of content driven blogs that are done by one person that could very easily be pushed into a book deal because they are so driven on a single topic, and they use a basic site design. check out Clublife for a good example of this.

i greatly enjoy the current format of this blog. i love how anyone is able to post any random though, picture or rant that enters thier head. it should stay this way. i'm sort of proposing a second bolg that is either driven by a central theme or topic, or even something that has a point. as i'm writing this i can only think that this sounds like the book idea. maybe it is. as a single person its hard to spend enough casual time to get the word out and provide enough content the get outsiders excited. i have to stress again that we have a unique group here that all post regularly. we're funny, inteligent and slightly exciting. why not make a few bucks from it? would anyone be interested?

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yeah chump, i'd be happy to lend some time and wisdom, if we found a topic we all agreed upon. we'd have to be more focused than we are here, but i think we could do that, especially with the workermonkey still alive. i would hope we would still check both, however, as the monkey would still maintain importance.

By  josh, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:04:00 AM  

shit, i forgot, i was going to suggest a topic or 2. we're all interested in politics on some level. i was thinking something about the conservative right, morals, censorship. for an interesting censorship article check this out:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/303732p-259748c.html

By  josh, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 2:06:00 AM  

*Long sigh* If you remember back when brainstorming for the book, the website idea came up (my suggestion- refer to April 30th 2004 archive, entitled "Sober up and lets go, take your time reading this...). I do think its more plausable than the book, but many of the same problems will arise (e.g.- lack of motivation, differences of opinion, lack of structure, lack of everything). On the positive side, we could always try. It would definetly have to be another blog or website becuase i want this one the way it is. Lets not ruin it. As far as central themes we could toss a few ideas around. Religion seems like it alwasy stirs things up. Politics also, but i would rather not. Current events is always fun. Sports. Science. Growing up, coming of age. But we would have to think of something that would draw in people and also be profitable...

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 8:30:00 AM  

umm... oops? sorry brian. i think we turned that previous idea into working on the book, but that has compleatly fissled out now. the monkey would not go anywhere, thats the first thing. i wouldn't mind doing something political or currentevents/news like because that would constantly give us new material to write about.

of course i already see the same problems happening with this that happen with the book also.

making a website profitable comes down to traffic. the more people you get to look at the site the more likely people are going to click the adds or buy your crap. i'm sure we could find some creative ways to get people there if we had a good product to send them to.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:10:00 AM  

well, while i also agree we'd have many of the same problems, as long as the narrative stays focused, is that a problem? would a debate not bring people into the site?


and so on and so on and things of that nature

By  josh, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:32:00 AM  

If there were going to be multiple people posting, we would have to have an editor. Someone to proof the post before posting. That way Kolpaks and Murphys jiberish wouldn't interfere with rational thought. But seriously, otherwise it would end up much like the Monkey.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:48:00 AM  

i think barone here is trying to run the monkey instead of getting a job.

By  ron, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 12:40:00 PM  

shhhh.... i may be onto something here.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:01:00 AM  

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Tuesday, May 03, 2005

# posted by Brancibeer @ 5/03/2005 11:55:00 AM

Found this crawling on my house a couple of weeks ago. Biggest one I've seen. It's cool to have lizards around. For more info visit: http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/index.htm?http://herpcenter.ipfw.edu/outreach/accounts/reptiles/lizards/Broadhead_Skink/&2

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Come on! Nobody appreciates this sweet pic? I caught the sucker too (also have that pic, but dont want to put up too many). You dont see anything like this in the NE.

By  Brancibeer, at Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:50:00 AM  

That is pretty big, actually. Let us know how it tastes.

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Monday, May 02, 2005

how to kill a night 

# posted by ron @ 5/02/2005 10:33:00 PM

1) eat a huge pasta dinner
2) have a guinness and toke up
3) read a bit

yea thats the story, except this ones got a twist. i read until around 10 and then i felt like for some reason i had to come back to the lab. its hard to describe to you guys but the lab is like my second home, sanctuary if you will. some nights like tonight i can come in, listen to music and either work a bit or surf the internet. some nights its highly amusing (sometimes not), watching videos of people doing stupid shit on bigboys.com or learning about plasma screen technology. trying to decide if you want a nintendo DS or a PSP? the internet has the answer!
alright little side tangent there. i was saying about the lab, how its become so fimiliar. one could argue that this is my office and that i've held down a job the longest. eh? i'm still in school right? havent quit, been fired or anything? alright, you really cant compare because i'm a slacker and that i'll work harder than this when i have a 'real' job. so maybe 80hrs in the lab is a 35 hr work week. so where was this going again? ah right, we're all fucked.
i watch judge judy at work today (we usually do, i mean its the A/V dept, there are 2 plasma screens in the 'shop'). so todays show had a 13yo girl and a 28 year old guy. keep in mind this is small claims court, $$ settlements only. the guy was taking the girl to court for damages that happened when the girl filled his car with snow. she filled his car with snow because he wouldnt buy her and her friends some alcohol. he had scared them off out of his house after he threatened them with a gun. the time before that they had came over and sat on his car until he went and got it.
every day its people like this grace the screen. and its everyday i come to realize more that the stupid people compose the majority.

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The last time I filled someone's car with snow, Brad Height grabbed me by the shirt collar and threatened to smash the windows of my car out. Fuck snow anyway. Fuck rain too while I'm at it..........IIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHH-------jOE tABLE

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the sunday tv wrap-up 

# posted by josh @ 5/02/2005 01:18:00 AM

i dont care that you dont care. i caught quite a bit of television tonight. here's how i rated it.

new simpsons #1 (ray the roofer): B+ pretty funny overall
new simpsons #2 (bart gets fat): B had its moments, but not vintage simpsons
family guy: A excellent. kicked off right away by making fun of fox, and ended up killing mel gibson. good times
american dad: C+ i was expecting more. it had its moments here and there, but i really didn't buy the main character. also, i can deal with talking animals, but i dont like the alien as a full time family member/houseguest.
the bruce springsteen storytellers: A+ this one took the night. amazingly intimate, in depth discussion of lyrics and songs. he played with feeling. he was candid and serious, yet humorous. it helps that he's my favorite artist, but i think anyone who likes him a little would enjoy this.



its nice to be done. home in a bit for golf, baseball, drinking, general malaize

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nice night, i caught family guy and american dad. i liked both. my favorite show is the shield w/ the commish.

By  ron, at Monday, May 02, 2005 10:03:00 AM  

i missed the sunday night line up. the shield is also one of my favorite shows, i'm glued to the TV every tuesday night for it. the new season is great too. i like glen close as the captain. the first three episodes were all about getting the story uptodate and getting things back on track. now its back in full force.

By  Supreme Monkey Overlord, at Monday, May 02, 2005 3:43:00 PM  

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Sunday, May 01, 2005

if you haven't already 

# posted by josh @ 5/01/2005 01:02:00 AM

rent "wag the dog" (1997 - bobby d, dustin hoffman, william h macy, woody harrleson). i saw it a couple years ago, but it was on tonight and it was much better this time around. the basic premise (without giving it away) is the president wants to create a fake war to divert attention from an alleged sex scandal to get reelected. very interesting statement about politics, the media, etc, especially in the wake of the white house produced commercials/press conferences W's been putting out there recently. well, reservoir dogs is on now...might never get to sleep tonight.

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also dont forget, season premiere of family guy tonight!

By  josh, at Sunday, May 01, 2005 4:51:00 PM  

Can we make it a tabby cat? How's about a calico?

By  DJ Booze Piñata, at Sunday, May 01, 2005 10:17:00 PM  

no, the president wants a white cat

By  josh, at Sunday, May 01, 2005 10:24:00 PM  

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