What pictures do I have to talk about today? Goddamnit I hate driving. Drove 80 miles each way for a job south of Denver. I get mad driving 3 blocks. Fuck Cars! 
Archive for May, 2008
My dog looks like a fucking murder scene, syrupy blood slowly dripping from between his red stained teeth. His tongue looks like someone shoved a half-cooked rib eye in his mouth. The blank stare in his eyes says something between “I want to eat some fucking food” or “goddamnit what the fuck did you people do to me??!!” Blood stains on the temporary sheets we’ve put on his favorite place to lay his head might be helpful with blood splatter patterns if this were some sort of CSI investigation. There’s a pretty good chance he has cancer. Maybe the fact he has a fucking racquetball-sized tumor under his mouth? They don’t know yet for sure, but just in case we’re hanging out with him all night and getting drunk. I’m pretty sure he’ll like that. He really likes licking cold beer bottles and cans. We don’t give him beer, although it may come to that. He just likes to lick the sweat off people’s cans and bottles. That’s why we’re so adamant about Lager drinking with us. He just likes to socialize.
I just though about making a new paragraph. May be a good idea if I start a new subject, although Lager’s pretty much all I think about right now. You probably never think about how much a dog may be such an integral member of your family. Well, they pretty much are your family. I’ll just stop saying shit till I find out more. Wish us luck, he’s a pretty awesome fucking dog!
As I said, I’m going to start posting horrible quality pics of some of my travels and other crap. This is from my trip to el paso fuckin’ texas. I’m still not totally convinced Texas is the worst place on earth, the people there are really nice, they love good food and…wear big hats. But, if el Paso was the only place in Texas you were to visit you would indeed think Texas is the worst place on earth.
My first prop plane and it was to el Paso! It actually wasn’t that bad except of the mexican baby that screamed approximately 2/3 of the way through our 2 hour flight or the guy next to me that needed a “seat-belt extender”. You get to board this plane in the darkest depths of hell in the denver airport.
Next up are a few pics of our little voyage across the border into Juarez Mexico. Dirty Dirty Dirty. All the employees of the place we were working in told us not to go there cause the drug gangs were kidnapping gringos for ransom. In our own gang we had our gung-ho gun-loving air force, president of the University of Colorado-Boulder Republicans soldier boy who served in Iraq and two (including me) naive “that would never happen to us” only county we’ve ever been to is Canada-idiots. So of course that made us all want to go more. We went and besides getting offers for young girls and viagra, we fared well.
Took this pic in a mexican market. Pretty awesome picture, wanted to buy it didn’t want to carry it around although there were many smaller versions of it. After taking this pic I had the “curse” for a few days.
On the border going to Juarez, I think they sell freedom there.
Going home, 35 cents to cross each way and you need exact change.
I know its not really cool anymore to make fun of mullets. Sooo 2003 I know but its still funny to see them sometimes. And he was a badass pool player in an awesome bar in el paso with a lot of drunken yelling in spanish.
In all, we had some good BBQ there, drank a lot of beer and made it a pretty good time. I even had a hot tub in my hotel room but didn’t use cause it had mirrors all around it and I felt creepy being in it alone.
Just wondering what people do during the work week? Watching TV gets old and I don’t really like spending my time sitting in front of it. I’m trying not to drink too much these days, take that out of the equation and I have no idea what to do with myself. Pretty sad eh? I take my dog for walks and I go running and surf the world-wide interweb a lot too. Thinking about trying to get a bowling team together but that won’t happen until fall and that involves drinking. Maybe start a band or I could take some knitting classes or something. Anyone have any ideas? I don’t like Jesus or children or anything that revolves around family things. I guess I could get involved politics and help my local campaign but I’ a fierce liberal and I generally don’t like the flaky people that associate themselves with things that we have in common. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Anyone in Fort Collins want to start a band (i don’t jam) or get a bowling team together? -party animal
I have a lot of time on my hands these days. As of lately I’m semi-employed, trying to cut way down on the amount of beer I consume and have no real hobbies unless you count doing absolutely nothing. So I’ve decided to try and start writing more here. I’ve been meaning to for awhile but I was actually busy with a job I had but don’t now. In my last job, I traveled quite a bit and I tried to take pictures with my shitty camera phone, usually at inappropriate times hopefully capturing semi-entertaining anecdotes of my travels. I’ll work on retrieving those photos and posting some here. In the mean time, bookmark my shit and comment on my dumb drunken rants and we can all have some useless conversation about a lot of pointless stuff. There’s only so many hours of the food network I can watch.
Thank jesus i have this freedom now!
I really like “Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like “putting limits” on God’s creative freedom. And how the new pope likes exploring the relationship between faith and reason. That would lead me to believe that faith itself is unreasonable. I can tell you that faith sure sounds like a crock of shit to me. Do people actually take any of this catholic shit serious!?? I’d believe in harry potter or lord of the rings before i believed in any of this shit. On a more “reasonable” note; we found out today that Einstein thinks god is the product of human weakness and the bible is “childish”, that sounds more like it. anyway, read on, some pretty funny shit…
reposted from the AP i think
Vatican: It’s OK to believe in aliens
VATICAN CITY — Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican’s chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday.
The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, was quoted as saying the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
“How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?” Funes said. “Just as we consider earthly creatures as ‘a brother,’ and ’sister,’ why should we not talk about an ‘extraterrestrial brother’? It would still be part of creation.
In the interview by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Funes said that such a notion “doesn’t contradict our faith” because aliens would still be God’s creatures. Ruling out the existence of aliens would be like “putting limits” on God’s creative freedom, he said.
The interview, headlined “The extraterrestrial is my brother,” covered a variety of topics including the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and science, and the theological implications of the existence of alien life.
Funes said science, especially astronomy, does not contradict religion, touching on a theme of Pope Benedict XVI, who has made exploring the relationship between faith and reason a key aspect of his papacy.
The Bible “is not a science book,” Funes said, adding that he believes the Big Bang theory is the most “reasonable” explanation for the creation of the universe. The theory says the universe began billions of years ago in the explosion of a single, super-dense point that contained all matter.
But he said he continues to believe that “God is the creator of the universe and that we are not the result of chance.
Funes urged the church and the scientific community to leave behind divisions caused by Galileo’s persecution 400 years ago, saying the incident has “caused wounds.
In 1633 the astronomer was tried as a heretic and forced to recant his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time placed Earth at the center of the universe.
“The church has somehow recognized its mistakes,” he said. “Maybe it could have done it better, but now it’s time to heal those wounds and this can be done through calm dialogue and collaboration.
Pope John Paul declared in 1992 that the ruling against Galileo was an error resulting from “tragic mutual incomprehension.
The Vatican Observatory has been at the forefront of efforts to bridge the gap between religion and science. Its scientist-clerics have generated top-notch research and its meteorite collection is considered one of the world’s best.
The observatory, founded by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, is based in Castel Gandolfo, a lakeside town in the hills outside Rome where the pope has a summer residence. It also conducts research at an observatory at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.
