Sunday, May 16, 2004

 
Graduation was today. It was really hot and really long. But in the end, I got my diploma. There's really nothing else to say, except that I was amazed by how many people, both male and female, considered Rainbow sandals to be appropriate graduation attire.

In other news, there are few things more embarrassing than having to eat your words. In response to Joe's comments, I would like to quote Tori Amos:

God sometimes you just don't come through
God sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you
God sometimes you just don't come through

You make pretty daisies pretty daisies love
I gotta find what you're doing about things here
a few witches burning gets a little toasty here
I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows
tell me you're crazy maybe then I'll understand
you got your 9 iron in the back seat just in case
heard you've gone south well babe you love your new 4 wheel
I gotta find why you always go when the wind blows

[give not thy strength unto women
nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings]

Will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky fall
will you even tell her if you decide to make the sky

God sometimes you just don't come through
God sometimes you just don't come through
Do you need a woman to look after you
God sometimes you just don't come through
posted by BaCsonkaDonk 10:21 PM

Sunday, May 09, 2004

 
Holy shit. How could I forget to mention what was hands-down the most crucial movie-watching experience this year?

Last night, Christian and I watched American Ninja. By purely objective standards, this movie is abominable: the plot is strictly formulaic, the acting amateurish, and the fight choreography uninspired, to say nothing of the movie's myriad inaccuracies. The most notable of these is when the titular character (played by the impeccably coiffured Michael Dudikoff) discusses how the evil Black Star Ninja must die because he has betrayed the code of bushido. For those of you who are unaware, bushido is the samurai (i.e., not ninja) code of honor. Christ. But all this is redeemed by a singular exemplary factor. Three words:

Ninjas with lasers.

'Nuff said.

Another note for you language buffs: American Ninja is believed to be the first recorded instance of a man using "bitch" as a pejorative term for another man.

By the way, I seriously doubt that I'm going to Evo this year. Or any fighting game tournament, for that matter. I don't think I can afford to, what with me living in Charlottesville and working and all. Plus, I'm going to have to start paying back student loans pretty soon, so I should probably save up for that. Besides, SF has pretty much gotten to the point where these tournaments are only worth it for about a half dozen people in America. Suffice it to say I'm not one of those people. But that doesn't mean I'm giving up on fighting games entirely. If any of you (i.e., Joe or Allen) ever happen to find yourselves in the 434 and are in the mood to rumble, drop by my place. There'll be plenty of action. And plenty of gay sex afterwards.
posted by BaCsonkaDonk 11:23 PM

 
Dude. I'm done. I'm fucking done.

So, yeah. I'm done with all my exams. All that remains is graduation on the 16th. Of course, this raises the question of where to go from here. Right now, the plan is to go back to Virginia Beach for a couple of weeks and then return to Charlottesville at the beginning of June. I'll probably just hang out for a year and work and apply to law school (LSAT is on June 14). This all necessitates me finding a job and a place to live. I've got a place for the summer, but beyond that, it's up in the air. As for work, I'd like to do something substantive that would look good on a resume, but the reality is I'm probably going to end up at Waldenbooks or something like that.

As I'm sure you can imagine, my lax blogging has been due to my hectic schedule over the past month. Now that things are more relaxed, let me update you on the major happenings that have taken place in life as of late.

Prom was on the 24th. First of all, let me make it clear that it wasn't a real prom. Some guys I know thought it would be fun to throw a kind of hipster prom, so they did. Overall, I had a pretty good time. First, the good points:

1. I received universal approbation for my impeccable attire. The tux I rented had some pretty sick tails, and all the girls there were remarking that I was the only guy there who was really dressed up.
2. At one point during the dance, I decided to bring the mosh. This one girl actually took a picture of me in the middle of a spinkick. My friend David knows the girl, so I'm hoping to get the picture, as I imagine that it would be too crucial for words.

And now the bad:

1. We didn't really have good directions to the place, so we had some trouble finding it. We didn't end up arriving until about 10:30. Since the prom ended at 11, this was kind of a problem.
2. The girl I went with is pissed at me. Really really pissed at me. Over some dumb crap I don't even want to talk about.

A couple of weeks ago, Josh was telling me over lunch about how some secret special guest was coming to his politics class that day. I decided to stop by and check it out, and it turned out to be Mo Rocca. He gave a little talk about political stuff that was pretty amusing. He also informed us that I Love the 90s was coming soon to VH1, the prospect of which excites me to no end. He took a few questions at the end, and with it being a politics class and all, I decided to ask him what he thought about this year's Senate races. I caught him completely off-guard, so he gave a rambling and incoherent (but funny) answer. I later got his autograph, which was pretty cool.

In other news, I urge all of you to read Joe's cogent and insightful analysis of the current political situation. My thoughts on the matter can be summed up by the following website:

http://www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com

Speaking of websites, you should all check this out with all due haste. Who wants a body massage?

Finally, you may have heard of this thing called thefacebook. It's basically Friendster for a bunch of really elite colleges, of which UVA is apparently one. Normally, you have to be a student, alumnus, or faculty or staff member at one of the colleges in question to be able to join and see other people's profiles. But now there's a way for me to show my profile to non-facebook members. So if you'd like to see me as others in the UVA community see me, click below:

Facebook me!
posted by BaCsonkaDonk 5:16 PM

Wednesday, May 05, 2004

 

OMG CINCO DE MAYO

posted by BaCsonkaDonk 7:59 PM

Monday, April 12, 2004

 
Wow. EVO2K4. You know, it's funny. I go the whole year without even thinking about SF, but then when Evo rolls around, I can't stop thinking about it. Honestly, though, I think that if I do go to a tourney this year, I'd be more inclined to go to MWC. What do you guys think? Joe? Allen?

Also, I've got a date to the prom. E-mail me for more details.
posted by BaCsonkaDonk 1:09 AM

Thursday, April 01, 2004

 
Wow. A lot has happened in the past week, and it's taken me a while to compose myself enough to be able to talk about it. So you might want to make sure you're sitting down while you read this. This is big. Okay, here goes:











I'm pregnant.

APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!

posted by BaCsonkaDonk 12:59 PM

Wednesday, March 24, 2004

 
Howard Dean is out of the race. So why the fuck is he still sending me shit?

I'm kind of in an ambivalent mood about life right now. So here's a list of things that piss me off.

-Polls that show that Nader is pulling enough of the vote to throw the election to Bush. Granted, it's early, and it's well within the margin of error. But still. Is 5 percent of the voting public really that stupid? Nader received 3 percent of the vote in 2000. Are you telling me that MORE people are willing to vote for him now, after everything that's happened over the past four years? Christ. This country sucks.

-Having to explain my beliefs about drinking to people. Whenever I tell people that part of the reason I don't drink is because a bunch of my relatives have had drug problems, they always say something like "well, I drink, but I do it responsibly, so it's OK" or some bullshit like that. If you want to know how I feel, imagine that you had a bunch of relatives who had been severely mutilated in gun accidents. Now imagine that you live in an area where everyone is really into guns. And every time you told people that you didn't like guns, they told you about how they liked to play with guns, but they're responsible when they do it, like they're trying to get your blessing or something. How do you think that would make you feel? I also hate the way people condescend to me, like it's supposed to be fucking news to me that not every single person who drinks is a raging alcoholic. Wait, are you serious? You've completely undermined the linchpin of everything I've ever believed in! The house of cards that was my personal philosophy has come crashing to the ground! Fuckers.

-The new logos of the Toronto Blue Jays and San Diego Padres. Has there been a single new sports logo devised in the past decade that wasn't totally hideous? Well, the new Nuggets logo looks pretty good. And I kind of like the new Cavs logo. But in those cases, it's just that I like the uniforms and the logos are benefiting from the spillover effect. An effect from which the new Rockets logo is apparently immune. It's simply irredeemable, no matter how much I like the new uniforms (which I do) or how much better it is than the previous logo (which it is, albeit marginally). Okay, I'm rambling again.

Now, lest you should think that I am wholly consumed by hatred, here are a couple of links that I find delightful.

1. GAY BAR!

2. This one dude pretended to be a ten-year-old boy in order to get various Senators to send him their favorite jokes. The responses by Ernest Hollings and Rick Santorum are particularly instructive.

In other news, I'm sure you've all guessed that I've been back from spring break for a while now. Right now, I'm in the process of avoiding studying for exams and looking for a place to live next year. I've actually been thinking about this for a while, and I'm starting to think that I should live in Charlottesville over the summer. It'd probably be more convenient in a number of ways. I haven't really looked into it yet, so I should know more pretty soon. Stay tuned.
posted by BaCsonkaDonk 2:05 PM

Thursday, March 11, 2004

 
Spring break is in full effect, yo. And yesterday, it was 39 degrees and raining! YEAH!!!!!

I'll probably be out getting my club on (read: catching up on reading for school) for the rest of the week, so in the meantime, here are a couple of articles that bring to light the shittiness of the state of Idaho. The first one is a 2002 article from USA Today about the increasing Republican tilt of the Mountain West region:

But mostly it's immigrants from California, Nonini says. The transplants "are fed up with growth and taxation and crime and drugs, the things that have plagued that state," he says. "They've moved here for the best quality of life in the country: clean air, good schools, fresh water, and inexpensive housing."

Compare that to this 1998 New York Times article about the plight of the poor in Idaho:

Over the last three and a half years, Idaho has reduced its welfare rolls by 77 percent, the most the steepest [sic] cut in the nation. Only one other state, South Dakota, spends less per capita on child welfare. But by a huge margin, Idaho's proportion of abused or neglected children leads the nation.

............

"Idaho has effectively made itself the worst place in the nation to be poor," said John Cook, the research director at Tufts University Center on Hunger, Poverty and Nutrition policy. A recent study by the center ranked Idaho as the state whose policies were most likely to worsen the economic condition of the poor.

Indeed.
posted by BaCsonkaDonk 1:08 AM