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Date-Based Archive Another 50 episodes, and Naruto still sucks

My mom called the day before Thanksgiving and said the power had gone out due to a storm. And she was bored, it being 9pm and my dad was asleep and she couldn't read by kerosene-lamp-light, not with her eyes.

But then she didn't call back so I don't know if the turkey was raw or what.

Meanwhile in the city I ate about three Thanksgiving dinners in the past week, all of which were superb.

I also dyed my hair! Wheeee! Bleaching your hair by yourself is not recommended, folks!

N. and I got up to episode 50 or so of Naruto, when Rock Lee fights Gaara. Let's put it this way, the following episodes of Naruto are good: eps. 30-35, eps. 48-51. That's all folks. Maybe there are other episodes later which are OK, but you might as well just read the manga or watch the rest on fast-forward. Me and N. just like shouting at ninjas to be better, damnit. I swear to god, the background department just keeps going on hiatus.

Here are some quiz results to bore your pants off:

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Date-Based Archive I'm not below funny links of the day

This series of photos is self-explanatory and freaking hilarious:

http://zattevrienden.realroot.be/depanneren.htm

This short flash music video is really something:

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bunny.php

These two Sifl & Olly - Naruto fan parodies are quite, quite funny:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=42497

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/members_videoinfo.php?v=17526

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Date-Based Archive New Backdated Entry

My half-assed ravings about the election are in .this easily-missed back-dated entry.

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Date-Based Archive More Halloween Pictures

I have posted more Halloween pictures here!!

These three are some of my favorites:

This fellow is Papa Beard. If you haven't heard of him look at this site or this one.

Thanks to Helen and Sam for the photos!!

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Date-Based Archive Ohio Has Always Sucked

Two more pictures from my Halloween party:

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(I can't figure out why these links are broken.... anyone?)

I started to write this entry on November 3rd, but gave up after a while:

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I should like to say that despite my self-proclaimed a-political-ness, I was cheering for the Kerry camp last night because frankly, I don't want to have to hear liberal complaints at work, and on the street, and from my friends, for another four years.

Third, I should like to point out that Ohio has always sucked. I have driven through Ohio hundreds of times on the way to and from Michigan, and much of the state is very flat and boring and covered with soybean fields. Cleveland, Dayton, and Toledo are extremely boring, unattractive and sometimes dangerous cities. There are at least three major amusement parks in Ohio, Cedar Point, Kings Island, and a Seaworld. I suspect the parks are there to keep Ohions from dying of boredom.

Ohio is also a sports rival for Michigan - at least in terms of football. Ohio State is like, our mortal enemy.

Perhaps what's most frustrating to learn from this election is that slightly over half of all Americans (out of the ones who vote) approve of what Bush is doing and how he's doing it. Who are these people? They don't live around here. I mean, I can only think of Rick, Zeke, and maybe my Uncle Chuck who are probably big Bush supporters. Even N. recanted at the last minute and is now seriously worried about the Iraq situation. There are millions of Americans who's views are not represented in my workplace, or in New York City. There were houses back home in Michigan with Bush/Cheney signs in their yards - but they weren't the houses of people I knew.

These other Americans don't have livejournals, which I believe is a liberal mush, and the don't read animenewsnetwork.com.

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This map RULES: http://www.270towin.com/ You can change the electoral votes of each state and play around the election results. You can also look up past elections, which is great.

Dan brought this chart: http://www.fec.gov/pages/elecvote.htm to the election party Sam had.

This is the official site of the Monster Raving Loony Party: http://www.omrlp.com/ Which is the only party that both N. and I can confidently back up.

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In Bush's speech on the third of November, he said:

America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens.

With that trust comes a duty to serve all Americans.
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A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation. We have one country, one Constitution, and one future that binds us.

And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America.

Bush clearly isn't serving all Americans right now... gah.

The Village Voice the week after the election had a cover that featured a painting of Manhattan, a single island adrift in a vast ocean. It really is nuts that the Republicans had their convention here, only to say a great big "Fuck You New York, and Everything You Stand for!" after the election.

I overheard one of my coworkers saying he was ready to start tipping over cars in the streets - just as long as he wasn't doing it alone, and as long as it wasn't the same day Grand Theft Auto San Andreas was coming out. N. responded to that by shaking his head and saying, "...bread and circuses... bread and circuses."

There are some upshots to a second Bush term that N.'s suicidal crazed coworkers might night have thought of:

1. More coservative government = better street punks, like in the '80's.
2. Those humorous anti-Bush shirts are still good for 4 more years.
3. Hippies have real issues to protest, not like during the Clinton years.

I'm sure I can think of two more things later.

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Date-Based Archive Halloween Party!

The weekend before Halloween we carved pumpkins at Maggie's:

Mine was carved from a stencil in a kit, but I decided to put two faces on it to represent Maggie's two cats, Brutus and Sappho, and leave the pumpkin at Maggie's house as a gift.

Here are some pictures from my Halloween party:

If you don't know the anime character I'm dressed as, here's some reference material:

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