Time To Take The Cyanide Pill


Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Update

I think you'll all be glad to know that I have not yet spit up on my desk.

2 hours and counting.

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I'm pretty sure I'm dying...


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Note to self:

You are too old to stay up all night partying and then go to work. I know you think you are a rock star, but please note- you are not. You are just an almost 30, short chick from Jersey, who is sitting at her desk praying for the sweet release of death.

Keith Richards would be totally ashamed. (And well he should/would be- if y'know, he still had a central nervous system or whatnot).

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And we wrote songs about 4 dead in Ohio?

This is so unbelievably bad- I don't even know what to say.
Please contribute or at least reflect. This just surpasses anything I can wrap my mind around.




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Monday, December 27, 2004

Quitter...

George Carlin enters rehab....

"I'm going into rehab because I use too much wine and Vicodin," said Carlin, 67.

Honestly though, since when is the occasional wine & vicodin smoothie considered a "drug problem"? I've always kind of thought of it as love, in a glass.

Ah, I don't care- I still love him and want to have like 10,000 of his (crack) babies.



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Sunday, December 26, 2004

Are you fucking kidding me?

From Ann Coulter's website:

To The People Of Islam:
Just think: If we'd invaded your countries, killed your leaders and converted you to Christianity YOU'D ALL BE OPENING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS RIGHT ABOUT NOW!
Merry Christmas


This woman
so totally goes on my list of people who should be beaten to death with a bag full of their own money.

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Thursday, December 23, 2004

Home again, Home again, jiggity jig...

I don't know why, but there is an infinite regress that occurs when you enter your parents' home. No matter how old I get, or how mature my evening has been, I still feel like I just snuck in through a window with the remains of Schlitz on my breath and a hickey on my neck.

Christ..I should be so lucky....

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Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Ummm...Feedback...

"I have been reading your blog and think you are dark, disturbed, and a little bit disgusting".
-NS

Niiiice. So, this is a direct quote from an email I got today. And while these types of comments usually come from my mother, this one came from a friend and drinking buddy. Dude, you've been with me at 4 am, totally shitcanned and in some pretty precarious situations. So, all I can say is- this is news to you?

But, as I've said before I'm not dark & disturbed- it's just my dry sense of humor that makes it seem that way. But here- to settle this matter once and for all- is a list of reasons why I am neither dark nor disturbed (I'm not gonna try to fight the disgusting charge- it's totally true. I have a dirty mouth and raunchy sense of humor and dammit I'm not ashamed of it).

Reasons I am light & fluffy & happy and other crap like that:

1. I really like and get along with my parents
2. I cry at weddings- even if I don't really know the people getting married
3. Some of my favorite music is happy, hippie music
4. My best friend in the whole world is a happy hippie person- and I don't even tease her about it...much...anymore...
5. hmm.. this is harder than I thought...
6. I volunteer VERY early on Saturday mornings (and I HATE mornings)
7. I once actually believed that a friend of mine had magical powers. Granted I was on drugs at the time, but I'm not anymore and somewhere deep down inside I still kind of think he does...
8. I don't really hate babies as much as I say, and sometimes, when they are quiet, I even want to hold them
9. I like cats and especially kittens
10. Jonathon Livingston Seagull was my favorite book for many, many years. (It got bumped when I started reading Joseph Heller, which doesn't really do much to improve my image as being light & fluffy but, whatever).


I can't really think of anything else right now- but honestly- does that really look like a list made by a dark and disturbed person? I don't fucking think so...


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Tuesday, December 21, 2004

A new level of shame....

So, I was talking to my mom and made an offhand comment about how nightmare-ish I find the whole process of dating. I jokingly said I was pretty close to just giving up and buying a cat, and occasionally hiring a male prostitute.

"Oh," she said, "well....um...make sure to use protection".

Dear God- what have I done in my life that's led my mother to believe that I would not only cavort with prostitutes, but that I also need to be reminded to use a rubber before sleeping with a street hustler?

This is so totally why I drink...

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Introducing everybody's newest, favoritist game-- Justice Watch

Too many people I know are more aware of who the Hilton sisters are fucking than they are of who sits on the highest court in the land. Since the Supreme Court is most likely going to be a major battleground over the next few years, I think we should all pay a little more attention to who & what the hell is going on there. We'll go through all the Justices, one per post, and I promise to try and make it fun. If I can't, then I will at least throw in a masturbation joke or two at the end. OK- let's play.

Name: William Hubbs Rehnquist


Age: 80
Appointed: 12/10/71 by Nixon
Elevated to Chief Justice in 1986 by Reagan
Swings: REALLY fucking conservative
He voted against the expansion of school desegregation plans and the establishment of abortion rights (dissenting in the 1973 case Roe v. Wade), and in favor of school prayer, capital punishment, and states' rights.

Tidbits & Fun Facts

I'm not a racist, I just played one when I was a law clerk.

From 1951-52 Rehnquist clerked for Justice Robert H. Jackson During this time he wrote a memorandum arguing against school desegregation while the court was considering the Brown v. Board of Education case. Rehnquist later claimed that the memo was meant to reflect Jackson's views and not his own.

And you're going to tell me this guy doesn't support gay rights? Methinks thou doth protest too much.
"Rehnquist also created a unique robe for himself as Chief Justice in 1994. It has four golden bars on each sleeve. In the past, Chief Justices had not dressed differently than any of the Associate Justices. Rehnquist robe was modeled after a robe he had seen in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Iolanthe. The costume which inspired Chief Justice Rehnquist, an acknowledged Gilbert and Sullivan fan, is worn by the Lord Chancellor, a character called upon to settle a dispute among a colony of fairies." (I shit you not- I lifted this quote verbatim from wikipedia)

Everybody's FREEEEE to FEEL GOOD (Except for, y'know, black people and college kids getting slapped with mandatory minimums)
"Rehnquist has long struggled with back problems, and developed a dependence on the prescription sedative Placidyl to ease his back pain, for which he underwent a drug addiction treatment program at the George Washington University Hospital in the early 1980s."

Why he's important:
Earlier this year Rehnquist was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and it's his failing health that points to him stepping down very early in W's second term. While it's unfortunate for him that he is ill, his resignation and replacement will have very little impact on the court's composition since there will certainly be a conservative for conservative swap.

But there is something in the process that's extremely important and warrents comment: Senate Republicans may try to enact a rules change to disable Democrats' ability to block Supreme Court nominees. It's so nasty politicos call it going nuclear and if the Goopers are able to pull it off there could be pretty dire consequences. Basically it lowers the headcount vote necessary to end a filibuster to 51 senators as opposed to the super majority of 60 needed now. This is pretty dangerous because it would take away what little influence the Democratic minority might have in blocking nominations. So keep your eye on this one.

And now, what I'm sure you've all been waiting for:
Pinocchio had just finished having sex with his girlfriend, and he asked her, "So ... how was I?" She said, "Well, Pinocchio ... I hate to say this, but when we have sex, you give me splinters!" Well, Pinocchio was devastated. He went running to Gepetto, crying, "My girlfriend says that when we have sex, I give her splinters! Is there anything you can do?" Gepetto says, "What you need, my boy, is a piece of sandpaper. Use this once a day, and that'll solve the problem."

About a month later, Gepetto ran into Pinocchio on the street. "How was that sandpaper I gave you?" He asked. "Are you still having problems with the girls?"
"Girls?" Pinocchio asked. "Who needs girls?"
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hehehe.....stay tuned for Ruth Ginsburg tomorrow...



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Monday, December 20, 2004

Dear god what have I done?

Does this page look funny to anyone else? I'm assuming it has something to do with the pictures, but I put them in last night and the page looked fine then. It wasn't until this morning that it looked really odd (maybe my blog hates Mondays too?), with the links pushed down to the bottom. Hmm...anyone with any idea what the hell I did please let me know.

I believe I may have reached an all time low of being totally tech-tarded...

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The Lord's day my ass....

I'm not sure if it's the by-product of too much booze and sleep this weekend, hating my job, or this really nostalgic sounding Van Morrison song I downloaded tonight and keep replaying, but I've got that Sunday Night Feeling. The one that starts in the pit of your stomach and spreads into your shoulders and ughhh...it just feels...I don't know....bleak?

There is, though, a positive spin I put on having this feeling. I knew someone once who said working gets easier as the years pass because the part of you that fights back eventually dies, making it easier to trudge in day after day. If I still have the Sunday Night Feeling then at least I know that this part is me isn't dead yet, and will still fight back so that someday, Sundays won't feel like this anymore.

Hmmm, maybe I should just stop playing that song over and over and stop being so melodramatic. Ah, fuck it...it's my Sunday night and I'll whine if I want to.

Well, if you can't kill it with liquor then do it with laughter. Here kids, for your Sunday pain management enjoyment:







This is a great strip I found accidently while surfing around. Mitch in Wonderland is awesome- please check out his shit and stay tuned tomorrow for our regularly scheduled, less serious and hopefully funnier snark.


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Field Trip

So, I finally had occasion to visit Williamsburg, the hipster haven across the river. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. While I did see some irreverently angled haircuts and a few ironic t-shirts, no one slinked out from a dark corner to quiz me on the discography of obscure punk bands. But, from what I understand, I was on the outskirts rather than in the vortex of hisperdom. I mean, I didn't even get to roll my eyes at anything. Hmmm......maybe next time I'll get to have that deep conversation about subtitled films that are fraught, simply fraught with social significance.

Overall it was a good time and I enjoyed being there, but something about the whole experience made me want to come home and conspicuously consume commercial goods & services.

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Friday, December 17, 2004

Can't. Get. Clean.

Ughh...I just used the words, "streamline" and "efficacy" in a progress report.

Fuck- I think I should probably just hit myself in the face with the phone again.

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Too stupid to live

I just hit myself in the face while answering the phone and will probably have a black eye. I'm so gonna have to make up a lie about this one.

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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Go On (take another little piece of my youth now baby)

So, another dinner party. High end food, top shelf booze and strategically placed votive candles . It was a great time and I was once again impressed by a friend's ability to entertain that many people in her home. And since this was my second one of these things in two weeks, I'm starting to get the hang of it. I even brought a bottle of champagne in a fancy gift bag. Ok, so it wasn't really fancy per se, but I did buy it in a gift shop and I'm pretty sure I remembered to take the price tag off- so it's a start.

Regardless, the party was a great time and I thought to myself, "wow- I must be getting used to adult social behavior". And then someone walked in with a baby. An infant really. And that FUCKING FREAKED ME OUT. This was not an accident, no one got knocked up; it was a married couple that had decided to start a family. Is there something I don't get? Or that I got wrong?

It's not so much that I find the idea of breeding repugnant- just totally foreign. Think of the time and energy spent trying NOT to get pregnant. Look, the baby was cute as hell and I was even going to ask to hold it at one point. But then I dropped my phone and broke its outer casing right in half. I think its probably better that I left the child with his mother.

I'm not sure what freaked me out about the whole thing. Maybe it just made me feel old to have peers with children that they had on purpose- a feeling that I course countered by getting blackout drunk and engaging in wild reckless behavior. It was also brought to my attention that I held court in the kitchen telling cum jokes to my friend's younger brother and her cousin. (By younger I mean 25- I'm an asshole, not a pervert).

I woke up hungover, confused, and with that vague after-shame that accompanies nights like these, but hey: I felt young again- and that was definitely worth the headache.




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Friday, December 10, 2004

Post With Redeeming Social Value v. I (As promised to my mom)

I volunteer once a month at the Planned Parenthood as a clinic escort. Escorts make sure that people have unfettered access to the clinic and that the christo-crazies who stand out on the streets can't scare women with their "medical" brochures and brutally fabricated pictures. (WWJP-What Would Jesus Photoshop?)

This Saturday I was called the following things by these little lambs of god: "scumbag piece of shit", "souless devil", "murderer", and "probably a Jeeeew". They also said they'd poisoned my coffee with strychnine and arsenic.

So much for the "culture of life" they're always talking about.

These people make me crazy. It's so unbelievably nonsensical- they don't believe in sex ed, family planning, abortion, or (and here's the real bitch of the thing) welfare. They won't teach you about sex or how to prevent a pregnancy, they won't let you terminate it when you do get pregnant, but neither will they pay into a system to help support a child they've forced into the world. The disconnect in the logic is so enormous it's like someone who's asked a yes or no question looking at you and earnestly responding, "sandwich".

I believe in plurality and in discourse. I believe that people have a right to question, to argue, to protest and to fight for what they believe in- even if it's diametrically opposed to the things I fight for and believe in. The problem arises when one person belief's preclude any other. I don't take issue with someone who's faith informs their behavior- but I do take issue when this person's faith starts informing them of what the hell I should or shouldn't be doing.

You can be anti-abortion without being anti-choice. And as the debate heats up over the coming months and years I think we need to re-evaluate the way we talk about it. If you don't believe in abortion then DON"T HAVE ONE. Anti-abortion is not a problem- anti-choice is. And it's not just abortion that's the issue. By not allowing real sex ed in schools, by pushing this abstinence only shit- people's lives are put at risk. Do these people really think that not showing kids how to use condoms is going to stop them from fucking? No- all its going to do is stop them from fucking with condoms.

If you haven't visited this site- I beg you, I implore you, I insist that you do. The Planned Parenthood Action Network gives people an easy (read: lazy-proof) way to send e-mails and faxes to their member of Congress on issues relating to family planning, sex education, and reproductive health.

Look at it this way: We have an evangelical president, a conservative congress, and impending vacancies on the Supreme Court. Either pay attention and get involved now, or warm up to the idea of wire hangers and wearing two rubbers for the rest of your life.

Seems like an easy choice to me....



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Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Speaking of getting old...

I just had to have a conversation with a vendor telling him that his staff cannot have any visible tattoos or piercings and that their appearance and hygiene must be appropriate for a professional environment.

Damned if that's not what my folks used to say to me.

Score one for the Souless Corporate Whore Team in the battle for my soul.

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And they say us Jewish kids are no good at sports...



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Monday, December 06, 2004

Evolution...

So, I went to my first real dinner party last night- there were a lot of married people and centerpieces on the tables. The food was amazing and there was even a cocktail hour. Now, I guess this is a mark of social evolution. Used to be that you just put a keg in someone's bathtub and hoped no one puked on a porous surface- now, there are coasters.

Don't get me wrong- it was a great time and I was impressed with the hostess's ability to both feed and entertain 32 people in a one bedroom apartment. But I'm fairly sure I heard the death rattle of youth as I helped myself to a nice fruit chutney while discussing my 401 K.


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Saturday, December 04, 2004

It's All Right Ma (I'm Only Cynical)...

So there's been yet another comment on how bitter and cynical I sound here, but this one came from my mother, who asked me why I don't write about "happy sunshine things". I didn't want to tell her it's because I'm single, broke, almost 30, living in a shoebox studio in a cesspool city in a right-wing country and on a war torn planet which is adrift in a cold and indifferent universe.
That would just make her feel bad...

So, I thought I'd dedicate this post to the sweeter things in life: the feel of warm sand under my feet, cuddling, and a newborn baby's smil- ughh...I'm pretty sure I just threw up in my mouth a little.

Sorry mom, I just can't do it. But, as a tribute to your chipper nature and that "glass is half full" outlook which I simply did not inherit, I will make it a weekly habit to post something of redeeming social value. I will also try to not use the words vomit, asshole, idiot, or fuck (at least not as a verb).

But fuck it- I'm not starting that until tomorrow.




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Thursday, December 02, 2004

The smarter sex?


Hehe... Posted by Hello

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You People are Absolutely Useless.....

If you fucking red state motherfuckers insist on pushing US social policy back to the dark ages and allowing a christo-crazy set of morals to have a place in the courts & schools could you at least do the one thing you do that's not really annoying and LOWER FREAKING TAXES already???

I lost about 65% of a paycheck today to taxes. Yeah, yeah- I understand the necessity and all, but still....

Besides, if the government takes all my money how else am I going to abscond to Canada when I need pot, prescription pills and abortions? (Not to mention those little flag patches to sew on my backpack for when I travel abroad)


Yeah,that's right- I'm talking to you bitch!


Betcha can't play just once!



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Wednesday, December 01, 2004

Pass The Hemlock Please...

Shit- so it's 2 AM on Wednesday morning, I have a super insane day at work tomorrow and I'm about awake enough to run the Boston Fucking Marathon. Sweet.

Inronically enough, I'm supposed to see a Sleep Specialist tomorrow but have to cancel due to aforementioned super insane work day. It turns out I have something called Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder which means my circadian rhythms are off. What this translates into is that my body wants to sleep all day and stay awake all night. I always thought that this was a result of being lazy, apathetic and kind of high (or maybe just one of the Lost Boys). But, aha! It's not. I have an actual "disorder" that causes me to want to sleep at inappropriate times. All things considered I guess this is a pretty innocuous addition to the laundry list of inappropriate shit I tend to do- but it's irritating nonetheless.

I 'm pretty sure that nothing short of a morphine drip injected directly into the base of my spine is going to get me to sleep tonight.

Ummmmm....Morphine drip.....

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