Camp-Out

I will be gone for a few days, exploring a potential campsite for our great CAMPING ADVENTURE @))*... oh, held the shift key down to long...

Anyway you get the point.  So I cannot compete with Zach-o for first posts... or can I?  No, I can't.

Fuck.

Anyway, Andy mentioned to Jimmy or DT that he won't be able to go.  Sadness.  DT, you will have to pretend to be Andy for the duration of the trip on the 26th.  (You can be yourself as well, but you'll have to carry a big stick.)

I wish I had more interesting things to say.

Oh, I hate Karl Rove.  But who doesn't, so that's nothing special.  I will give him props for giving our generation a new person to make an adjective out of.  No longer does a person have to refer to another system or person as Machiavellian.  Now they have Rovian.  (Sounds like a dinosaur.)

Oh, I suppose I have something else to jabber about for the moment.

People are making me nauseous.  Not everyone, but damn if it isn't a whole hell of a lot of people.   With their whiny "I think I know what love is" or "I think I know what life is" or "I think I know the answers to every fucking problem"... "and I'm 22".

Fuck you.  Fuck you people.  It's a slap in the face to every single person who came before you with good intentions and weren't able to get things done, but actually did make incremental differences.

And fuck you people who think you know what life is and are woe-is-me'ing it up.  Fuck you.  I've seen people who come back from war with missing limbs and they are cheerier than you Hispter Doofus Fuckers with your melodramas about the man and society pressing you down.  FUCK YOU.

Fuck you Military-Supply-Protestors and Code Pinkers for not understanding that to have some level of freedom, you have to have the conviction and strength to protect it.  Fuck you for ruining it for legitimate protesters who protest against what they may feel is an unjust war (debatable) by protesting against providing supplies to troops.

And then there are the "I know what love is, and I have experienced it" bullshitters who are in their early twenties and have yet to watch as someone they know, love, are committed to legally and monetarily start to decay from the effects of lung, liver, kidney or breast cancer.  A special FUCK YOU to you pieces of crap.

People will say that I no nothing of romance.  I'm sorry, a glorified one-night-stand based off of "love at first sight" is not love.  I'm not discounting the idea behind "love at first sight", but a) it statistically doesn't work, and b) the people who claim they met so-and-so, felt "love at first sight", and have been married for 20+ years are discounting the fact that they happened to win the chances game and their time spent together helped to solidify their affections.  (You don't hear them spieling on about their other "love at first sight"s.  Do you?)

Interestingly enough, even Disney never really fully played up that angle, and they are the masters of animated love stories.

Tell you what you fuckers... when you are willing to wipe the ass of the one that you love because their body and mental functions are breaking down all around them, then I'll take your "romance" at face value.  Buying flowers, "writing" songs (laughable at best), or any other insertable cliché thing is NOT DEFINITIVE of being romantic.  It's called being a tool.  If that's all you are relying on to consider yourself romantic then congratulations.  You are not.  You are a Hallmark-Robot.

and yawn... I don't know where that sudden outburst came from, but it makes it quite apparent why I need to get away from the city for awhile.  The people that feed off of its excrement are starting to annoy the crap out of me.

So anyone who wants to join me and the others that want to go (which I think stands at James, Jimmy, DT, and maybe someone else), then come.  We will lamely try to set up tents, watch James play "master of the fire", and bitch and moan and philosophize over stuff, like we used to do, but with the cynicism and strained hope that has come with 5+ extra years.

Skids

Because... If I had a super funzo awesome fast red car, I'd have my
vanity plates say SKIDMRKS too.

Slug Snippets 2008-07-10

Slug Snippets:

1p - sitting at town hall meeting for what is called TEMPO credit.
Nothing better to do today.

1:03p - I just noticed how very dirty my lab coat is. It's actually
quite gross. Speech is beginning...

1:05p - a support group that I help to run was given a small accolade
for good service. Surprised, to say the least.

1:14p - boredom beginning to set in.

1:17p - why do they torture us so? Trapped in a room with old
people... Monotone speech. Very few hot people. I'd kill for a
Clover monster attack to shake things up.

1:20p - Large woman in front of me has a comment. Large, and yellow.
Sooooo yellow. It's like watching the sun drink a big gulp.

1:22p - the "Sun" takes another gulp.

1:23p - I find myself hoping she doesn't have a heart attack.

1:25p - they are talking about our shitty elevators. About time.

1:26p - "Sun" hydrates itself.

1:29p - the boss of primary and specialty care, or second-in-command
is kinda hot... In a slightly older, business woman kinda way.

1:32p - discussing green initiative... I wonder how the "Sun" feels
about that.

1:34p - the Chief of Medicine makes a joke, he's actually funny. The
"Sun" laughs... It's horrifying.

1:48p - a volunteer speaks up about a various set of issues... I think
she's been building up a list of thoughts during the other questions.
Bah, I thought I was getting out of here soon.

1:52p - the "Sun" sounds angry... With rage... Or hungry??

1:58p - the "Sun" bellows: "I'm surprised at how slow 10 mph really
is!" - Really?!? You can get up to that speed?

2:01p - town hall meeting done.

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Jeff Paulino's iPhone
Seattle, WA

Stopped Creation

First Post King.  Crowned 2008.07.10.

I don't know why I actually bother with that... not because nobody reads these, but because I actually find it annoying when some asshat goes on to a forum and posts "first post" and then has nothing substantive.  So thus, I will only declare my First Post Awesomeness when I have something substantive.

Guess what:  Substance!

I've been hearing rumors lately of an Arrested Development movie in the works, and lately it sounds like if so, it will be released into the wild in 2009.  Do you know how happy this makes me?  DO YOU?!

For all those of you who do not know what Arrested Development is... I shame you.  Go on, wallow in your bestowed-upon shame.  It was one of the best, fuckin' hilarious tv shows of the early 2000's.  (I cringed when I wrote early 2000's and I'm not sure why.)

I know Jimmy hasn't seen it, but then again, he was also in the Air Force (or was it Space Force...?!!?!) in the unforgotten land of Alaska (where I think the events of the "Postman" took place... where else but there or hell could that movie make it, after all).  Besides, he's expressed interest in checking out my DVD's of the show, so I forgive him.

But not the rest of you fuck-ups who don't care to check it out.  Still, I save my spite for those out there who not only didn't watch the show, but didn't watch the show because it started with a ukelele playing in the background and it scared them.  Or those of you who'd rather watch Survivor.

There's a special kind of hell for your kind.  And it's filled with decrepit Michael Bay clones.

So in closing, go out and buy or rent Arrested Development and watch it.  And become excited at the prospect of a movie.

Check them out!

So now I see the little mini-zacho-boobies that he talked about earlier.  Good job sir.

If I wasn't so secure in my manliness, I would be disturbed.

No wait, I might still be disturbed.  Is it because of Zacho-boobies, or because of the guns... or because I only like my guns with girl-nudity?

I'd better just stop before this devolves into something horrid.

sometimes i wonder about you jeff.

i should point out that when i log into blogger it has me sign in with my gmail info. so i feel like if you have gmail youre good to go.

Zach-Boobs?

See, I can't see half the stuff when I'm on the VA computers... I'm curious about these zacho-boobs.  They sound enticing Zach.  Soooooo enticing.

Frightening.

I'll take a look when I get home perhaps.

Someone asked me how to post to blogger, so for those who a) don't remember, b) are completely new... you have to have a blogger account, so if you goto BLOGGER you should be able to make one.  I think the invite I sent also shows you how to, if you haven't already.  Then it's a simple matter of going to blogger, signing in, and then go to the Posting tab and click on create.  I think that should be it.

I can give lessons in person.  I'm good at lessons.  Oh yah, my lessons bring all the b--

You know what, I'm just gonna stop right now.

based on the second picture, i figure once upon a time i would have been receiving flack for having bitch tits.

but i doubt even that will get people posting.

weaponry i can do. i only have the one gas mask, but i can wear it in conjunction with other weaponry. in fact let me dig here real quick maybe give you another couple that probably exist.





ive had a long day and i just suddenly got bored to to the amount of searching i had to do for those. so my post has ended.

Mwahahaha!

Though it is only two in the running, I will still savor my eventual victory over you Zach-0.  Just you wait.

Camping plans continue.  Andy seems to be on board now after I've given him some details.  Still a toss up between Dash Point and the greater Leavenworth area.  I'm sure we'll figure that out all in good time.

In the comics-news-business, things move along smoothly, and a new issue will hopefully be out about mid-month.  It should be out before the great camping trip of '08.

Zach-0, you should pose with more weaponry, or gas masks, or both.  Definitely.  It'll help me in the long run.  (Interpret that any way you wish.)

well the gist of it is she knew a lot of people i knew at the bar, and after all her friends left i offered to let her sleep it off on my couch, as she had about an hour drive home. so yes, she was drunk.

this morning (afternoon who am i kidding) after we woke up and i drove her to her car, i recieved calls from no less than 4 different calling me to tell me the girl id been chatting up at the bar was in fact a lesbian, who was in fact at the bar because shed been stood up by a girl earlier that night.

so to all the best of my knowledge this may have just been what she might consider a drunken mistake.

thats about all i know.



i shouldnt be left alone with a camera.

(edit) first post again.

True Lesbian?

Congrats on your first post Zacho... but what a weak post... you didn't even tell us much.  After all, you said:

"oh hey interesting story.  last night i had sex with a lesbian."

 That's not a story.  At most, that's like a parable.  And not even that.  I was expecting... more.

And, is she really a lesbian?  From what I've seen of some of the lesbians I know, some of which are friends, they seem even more entrenched in their sexuality than straight males... so... was she drunk?  Or was she not really a lesbian?

It's a mystery.

I think others do read the board, they just don't post... yet.  Damnit.  Oh well.

It sounds like camping is actually on, though not many people coming... oh well x2.  Those who will come, it sounds like an area outside of Leavenworth is the goal, some non-traditional campsite.  Prepare for bears.  Too bad you can't be there for that Zacho, I think you'd have enjoyed it.  (Is it appropriate to assume one would enjoy something when it has in fact not happened yet?)

I want to ramble about something... I have this distinct urge to ramble about something... but I'm not really sure what to ramble about.  Maybe I'll post another historical-archival type image...

Is this bus is GERMAN ENGINEERED?

I want to say, circa 1997, because I was on the bus to take this picture, and I stopped riding the bus around '97 or '98... which makes this one fuckin' old picture.  (Old being relative.)  God... I hated that bus.  Though Mel was... well... he was old.  There really wasn't else I had to say about him.  I was gonna say he liked me well enough, but I don't think he did.  He liked Asian Joe though.  A lot.

And this one is just for Zacho:

BzzzZAPT!

I have to find that footage, speed it up, put it to Benny Hill music, and then promptly forget to do anything with it for another five or six years.

first post jeff. i even waited till 630 pm. i say jeff because youre the only one i ever see in here jeff.

oh hey interesting story. last night i had sex with a lesbian.

yep.

What's That?

a).  First post Zach.  Suck my nuts.

b).  Refer to point a.

c.)  Camping cannot apparently be done at Fort Lewis, as apparently they are doing some sort of "gas the area" type exercise, per Bonnie's information.  So now our options decrease a bit to Dash Point and any other site that someone suggests.  I'm fine with Dash Point personally, but if anyone is feeling "adventurous" (and not in the way that involves spending the week living in a car with Jimmoi and Zacho), then let me know of what other site you are thinking of.

d.)  All thoughts coming from Jeff may or may not be less than structured due to the number of drinks he had today when subbing in for someone in a drinking game.  Don't judge me, I was doing a friend a favor.

e.)  I'm still more coherent than YOU, whoever YOU is that is judging me.  I will cut your toe off if you think otherwise.

f.)  The numbering structure for this list is a bit off, due to the placement of periods.

g.) good night.

FIRST POST

i win jeff. i win.

im drunk.

i really just wanted to win first post from jeff since no one else cares.

where the hell is jimmoi?

its jimmoi forever. no y. oi.

i told a homeless guy to kill himself tonight.

Quick Notes

Two things, very quickly... I saw Iron Man, and will have to put up my review on it, and my thoughts as to whether or not it was a) better than Batman Begins, and b) whether I expect it will be better than The Dark Knight... oh and c) whether it was better than other summer blockbusters out that I've seen (i.e. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull).

And two... Happy Independence Day fellow Slug-gers.  I'm feeling a might bit patriotic for the moment so don't kill my buzz.

Oh and... (though I know it's no longer the grand-thing nowadays...) FIRST POST OF THE DAY... FIRST POST OF THE INDEPENDENCE DAY.

Yowza.

Raaaa!!! Too Much Corrugated Fibers!

Oh Zach-0, how we do miss those rants about you bragging about stuff.  These days it sounds like your tales mostly consist of the retarded ones that you work with and clean up after.  It reminds me of the teachers at Bethel who used to shepherd the iSeniors of our day through our crowded halls, keeping them safe from the general high school populace.  And of course, every so often, one or two of them would break from the pack and wander around, talking to the "normal" high schoolers (as if such a thing as normal high schoolers existed).

Jimmy used to make such fun of them...

And then both of you ended up working with one:

"Hello, Lee!"

Mwahaha, there you go Zach-0, a Target memory just for you.  Or did you think I had forgotten about your posted encounter with The Balin' Machine, Curtis.

Yes folks, step right up, I have memories, one and all.

DAMMIT PAULINO!!!!

remember when me and brice would come visit you at college and you wouldnt answer your damn phone and we would just leave voice mails that said that?

also, why the hell do you forget that that picture of roger means something to me too.?

dammit paulino. dammit.

tomorrow i have to take a retard to the retard barbecue. its not as fun as it sounds. all that will get cooked is food. still, its fun to have visions of flaming wheelchair bound retardeds flailing about and screaming something about cupcakes.

remember when i lost my virginity and i made that huge post that just read "I HAD SEX.........WITH A GIRL!!!"

man it used to be fun to brag.

farts.

last time i posted chrissie left me a comment telling me she hated me. i think im not for the comments. i agree with jeff, if youve got something to say get off your ass and post it. let all the slugs see what you have to say.

my iPod just told me that if i wanted to, i oculd start it at the beginning and it would go for 39.6 days befor eit would be out of stuff. thats fun. i guess. so why do i listen to the same 4 albums?

maybe if anyone wants to know ill tell you which ones.

why would you?

there is a pizza delivery guy who lives in the complex that i work at the most. hes foreign. he told me he wanted to "make a gift of me for to" and handed me a coupon for a free large pizza.
make me a gift any day buddy. wherever the hell you are from. i hope hes not from france.

i think im actually going to go to a movie tomorrow. i think i will see Hancock. looks fun to me. i also think i will bring a bottle of gin in with me.

i might also go see WALL E. call me a gayzo. i kinda dig pixar.

i gotta have paperwork time now. random enough for you jeff?

farts.

Changes a'Foot.

So I see someone, and my assumption is Mr. Collins, has been dinking around with the colors. Good sport. It just doesn't feel right without him setting the "look" of the main aspects of the board.

For my own, I found out that Blogger is implementing a few changes in the coming months, and I managed to get some of that "beta" stuff, mostly in the commenting area. The changes probably won't be apparent, which is fine with me. As most know, I'm not a fan of the comment system anyway. I figure, if you have something to say, get off your lazy ass and post it. Post it man!

I'm trying out some of the other new "beta" type things... oooh beta!  Beta!  it's a word that gets tossed around a lot these days... it's like the internet's version of "cool" or "hip" or "buttsexx".

To test some image downloading stuffs, I think I will post up a picture I found on an archive disc from back in the year 2002.  Ooohhhh, so long ago... 

This image probably doesn't mean much to any of you... but it would to Jimmy and I... I can't even remember why I made this image, something about Roger being a terrorist and infecting all of our raisins with terrorist-type things.  Something like that.  Better be careful of using the word terrorist too many times.  I'm foreign-looking, after all, with my slightly brown skin color.

So I'll post up another, far more friendly picture from the past:

See that?  That's the board, circa... well... I don't know.  Read a post fucker if you want to know when it came from.  Obviously it was when James was going through a Pink-phase... or maybe when that artist Pink hit it big, and everyone was like, "whoa... it's Pink.  She's punk-rock!  She's the anti-britney."  Sheep.

Okay, one more, for old times sake:

DRAGON-RAGE!

Oh man, I miss posting nonsense.  I'll never be as good at it as Michael was, but it's still fun.

Skype it. Skype it good.

Good job jOe. Except I think you're the only person in this time line that uses Windows Live Messenger. I suppose I use MSN Messenger, but I'm not even sure that the two are completely compatible.

And before you say, "well, Microsoft makes both", keep in mind that Microsoft made the Zune and it doesn't even work with their original DRM structure (Plays-for-Sure). It's sad really.

But today is not a day for diatribes against Microsoft (especially when there are 365 other days for that this year). No, more I'm just curious if anyone here uses Skype for IM'ing or video/audio chats. It would help the PODcast idea along if someone else did.

jOe: Download Skype. And post your hours of availability here. And post when you work at Wal-Mart. I might be down in the area sometime in the next few weeks and might stop in to say hi. Maybe get some pictures for the comic. I need to get some of that barn of yours. Mwahaha. Ahhh... barn. Doktor Bob.

Also, camping plans moving along rather well. I think we are currently debating between Dash Point and Fort Lewis, both having pros and cons. Jimmy through out the idea of the beach, and I'm not sure if he meant Dash Point's beach or making a mini-road-trip out to Ocean Shores. I'd be completely game for that idea.

Also, it seems like the weekend of the 26-27 of July is becoming more set-in-stone, so if you want to come, take those days off. Do it. Do it NOW!

jOe, are you coming? If you are, you'll probably have to drive yourself, as I have no car and nobody left lives in Graham.