Devil's Night

After getting sick and having to work at *bucks anyway and not sleeping and "waking up" sicker than before and having to go to a film shoot all day, I realized that Shauna's birthday party/haloween party was TONIGHT and not tomorrow night. I still had nothing to wear, so I hurried over to the costume shop and bought some Ben Nye and meticulously applied a bald cap and a half a pound of blue grease paint. Paired with all black clothing, I was a Blue Man. As in, one of the Blue Man Group. Only I was groupless. The stuff stung my eyes and my nose was/is running thereby streaking the paint and then it took over half an hour to scrub MOST of it off (meaning I'll be in church tomorrow with some blue eyeliner looking stuff on), but I was told it looked pretty darn good.

Naomi was Stevin Tyler. She wore a sock in her pants. She tried to poke me with it.

Other costumes consisted of a catholic school boy paired with a priest with a fake penis sticking out of his robe, Smokey the Bear, the kid from Rushmore, a group of four or five leather clad policewomen, and some guy who I think made his face look like a baseball.

Now it's time to drink some tea and sleep. And then I'm off to church, another six hour shoot, writing a paper for class, doing homework for class, and then work at 4am Monday morning. Wee!

900' of film.....................................................................................$300
craft services..................................................................................$160
12' truck rental for 2 days................................................................$130
film processing/telecine...................................................................$125/hr
2 replica handguns..........................................................................$65
costumes........................................................................................$50
magnetic sign..................................................................................$40
faux wedding ring............................................................................$10
leaving film school with my own film................not nearly priceless enough

for everything else there's slaving away at an underpaid job

Forgive Me If I Make No Sense

It's 1:30AM, it's absolutely pouring outside, and I can't, for the life of me, for the second night in a row now, get anywhere close to sleeping.

I just wrote a huge paragraph and then erased it because it was numbingly boring.

Instead of trying to be witty when I can barely stay awake but can't go to sleep, I will tell you a bedtime story.

There was once a boy named Grant. He made small amounts of money working at a coffee shop and didn't quite work hard enough at school. One night he couldn't get to sleep.

The end.

Sigh...again...

Josias...you are totally and utterly caught up on your emotional story here. Until you can get past that (which may never happen, I'm not telling you to get over your father's death, I'm telling you to not argue while you are emotional) give up trying to persuade people who have done their research, have their educated opinions, and will not change for a sob story. I'm not going to argue with you any more because you are completely against listening to anything anyone says. Shauna laid out a perfectly good explanation of what she believes and why she believes it (she agrees with YOU for god's sake) and yet you go back to saying we're all wrong because your father died. Try arguing without mentioning your father even once and maybe you will come across as credible.

Sigh...

Apparently my little talk about stem-cell research offended a person or two. Here's a comment I got:

"well, my dad died of diabedes earlier this year, and splitting a cell or two could have saved his life. I'm sure the Matrix really made an impression on you, but this is real life.

I really resent kids that think they have some kind of concept about what life is all about. Maybe when your dad is laying face down on the kitchen floor you'll be a little bit less self-righteous. Ignorant people like you are what is going to continue to keep other fathers like mine dying.

So spare me your concern for molecules when I remember my dad trying to speak to me one last time."

Josias

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Well Josias, I truly am sorry that your dad died. Death is an incredibly difficult thing that has touched pretty much everyone. It does not, however allow us to justify anything we want. I'm glad to see that the main thing you got out of my post was the comment about the Matrix. You know why I put that in there? Because I was trying to not be too gloomy about a horrible subject. It's called a societal reference...glad to see you know the difference in a comparison and a thesis statement.

Oh, and next time you want to make an argument, you might want to try something other than argumentum ad hominem. In case you are even more ignorant than you are accusing me of being, that's attacking the person rather than attacking the argument. You can tell me I'm ignorant, I'm just a kid, and I have no concept of what life is all about, but that doesn't mean anything when what I was talking about was stem-cell research. In fact, it just makes you look more ignorant. Plus, good job telling me I don't know what life is all about when you know absolutely nothing about me as a person. Shows how smart you really are.

The comment you made about "when your dad is...." how in the world do you know whether or not I have been through something just as, if not even more tragic and traumatic? What I displayed in my post was nothing similar to self-righteous behavior...it was completely selfless in that my desire is to help inform others so as to save the lives of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even millions of babies lives.

And yes...I like the line about people like me being the reason your father died. Good job of placing the blame on completely innocent people. Good use of argumentum ad misercordiam.

Also, I had to laugh out loud when I read the line about my concern for molecules. I don't care about molecules, Josias, I care about lives. If you think I haven't done my research on this topic and am just bs-ing it all, make another guess. I have done intensive, in depth research on this topic. Have you done research into how babies will be mutilated and thrown in the garbage in the name of science?

Just because something is possible, doesn't make it right. Take a look at my examples in that post. Shooting someone in the head to save an ill person's life is absolutely in no way justifiable. Therefore, neither is stem-cell research.

Not everyone who has an opinion differing from yours is misinformed.

Satan Rejected My Soul

I don't pretend to know much about the state deficit, the United State's foreign affairs policy, or even how our tax brackets work...but there's an issue or two that I do know about. And no, this isn't going to be an account of the debates, that can be found anywhere.

This is going to be about legalizing murder.

I find it funny that so many people are utterly against the death penalty, against animal cruelty, and against mistreating humans in any way shape or form, but are willing to say that it's fine to have a partial birth abortion. But I don't even want to talk about abortion right now, I want to talk about stem-cell research.

For those who don't know, this is where you take a stem-cell (the cell before it is turned into a specific cell for the body to use) and harvesting these to use for just about anything. They are incredibly helpful and can heal all kinds of diseases and save lives like none other. So why would it be so bad to have unrestricted stem-cell research?

Remember the Matrix? Remember the harvesting of humans? That's what we'd be doing. Take an in vitro fertilization. When these take place, there is often more than one egg fertilized. These are frozen and can be used later because normally the person who is going to have the child doesn't want more than one kid.

Now TRY and tell me that those fertilized eggs are not the beginning of life. Try and tell me that when all you have to do is put the fertilized egg in a uterus and 9 months later you have a child, that it is not life.

What would this mean for stem-cell research? It would mean that we could take those frozen eggs and take the stem-cells and throw the eggs in the trash. We would literally be throwing the first stage of little babies into the garbage. Which is no different than abortion...it's just seen as even LESS bad since it is doing some good in the end.

But tell me...is it worth it to kill one in order to save another?

If you were in a room with two people, one of whom is terminally ill and one of whom is fine, and you had a gun, would you shoot the healthy one to save the ill one's life?

Sigh...I’m too tired to think of more logical reasons why stem-cell research is wrong. Please do some research. Please vote against it. I'm so apolitical it's not even funny...but this is serious.

14-41

Hola mis amigos. Hoy es mi cumpleanos. I had work at 4am and I was forced to wear a little golden crown that, let's just say didn't make me look very manly. Earlier in this week the wearing of the crown was used a punishment. So I guess the crown is punishment or reward depending on the situation. The customers were split into 3 groups. The first third thought I lost a bet. The second third thought it was my birthday. The third third thought I was coming out of the closet. One of our customers even explained his desire to get me on the counter and spank me. Oh yes...birthdays at *bucks.

Then it was off to class, class, and more class. Then it's band practice. Then it's 10pm. Then I didn't do anything for my birthday. Wee!

Here's a New End Original song just to be like all the angsty teens out there. This isn't how I feel...just a good song....download it....illegally.

AHHH....MARRIAGE.....AHHH!!!

It seems that Cupid is on a bloody rampage of epic proportions. I'm talking a maelstrom of arrows from every angle. There's no other explanation for it. Everybody and their mom is getting married. No really...I know a guy who is getting married around the same time his mom is. Let's count. High school friend married (she's my age) AND PREGNANT. Ex-roommate friend getting married in the next couple weeks. Long time family friend just married this weekend. Cousin who is one year older than me married. Naomi's sister is getting married in a couple weeks. Two very close friends just engaged. Another friend engaged and talking about marriage. Plus, at least two couples who are on the verge of engagement.

Everyone needs to chill out and stop getting married so I can stop freaking out about people my age getting married and having kids. Seriously people, don't you consider my happiness more important than your own?

Marriage changes passion - suddenly you're in bed with a relative. ~Author Unknown