This is a public challenge to my darling little brother to complete:

WriAShorStorWe"The NaNoWriMo For Lazy People!"

I think he's too much of a whiney sissy to do it. Yeah, I went there.

(Maybe I just think, that he, like me, is more likely to accomplish something if he's told he can't do it.)

So write already.

TBWITWW and I were discussing government today after one of my comments about "dirty hippies". I mentioned that while I think my ethics match well with the fairly activist, leftist people that populate the areas we frequent, my politics don't. I'm probably most closely matched to libertarians, but really I just don't trust government... at all. My theory is that as soon as an organization of any type gets large enough, that every member is not known personally by every other member, leadership becomes political. Power now has to be surrendered to someone who is an unknown, and by not knowing you personally, is going to have less interest in your well being. I firmly believe that no government can ever be truly be fully benificial to the governed. Does that mean I'm an anarchist? Not by a long shot. There are, and need to be rules for how people interact, and the wider the sphere of interaction, the more of those rules need to codified... unfortunately. In small groups, if you do something that angers another person, you are likely to know immeadiately what you've done and why it has angered them. (Not always true, of course, or there would be no divorce, but that's another issue entirely.)
Is Government necessary? Yes. But to me it is a necessary evil. We must always remember, when government can become a career, the people that the governors know best will become other governors, not the government, and we all protect those we know best first.

I'm going to start posting some of my favorite photos on a semi-regular basis. This is the first.

My Antonia by Emmylou Harris

I can still hear him. he calls to me only
What once was begotten shall come to no end
But the road is so long and the nights are so lonely
My soul just to hold him in this world again

You are my sorrow, you are my splendor
You are my shelter through storm and through strife
You are the one I will always remember
All of the days of my life

I've set up a new category for lyrics. Sometimes a song just gets to you and you need to share it. To me lyrics are poetry, plain and simple. There's good poetry and bad poetry, and every now and then there's something that grabs you by the heart and speaks to you beyond just the words.

"You are my sorrow, you are my splendor" is one of the best looks at love I've seen in a long time. Love is full of beauty, and pain. This song is haunting in its yearning for what might have been. What do you give up to seek your fortune? What do you treasure? What do you love?

OKCupid! The 3 Variable Funny Test

The Wit(52% dark, 34% spontaneous, 0% vulgar)
Your humor style: CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARK

You like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean you're pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most other things found in a fraternity leave you totally flat.
I guess you just have a more cerebral approach than most. You have the perfect mindset for a joke writer or staff writer. Your sense of humor
takes the most effort to appreciate, but it's also the best, in my opinion.

PEOPLE LIKE YOU: Jon Stewart - Woody Allen - Ricky Gervais

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 43% on darkYou scored higher than 43% on spontaneousYou scored higher than 0% on vulgar

Link: The 3 Variable Funny Test written by jason_bateman on Ok Cupid

LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

This is awsome. Enter your books and see who shares similar libraries. It looks like there is a lot in the works too. It even generates a CSS styled "blog widget" if you want. Sweet!Visit my catalog here.