Ugh, she's right. The "big article" on Mikee is stupid, and short, and ick.

So -
Should I spend tonight in a room full of interesting people listening to Salman Rushdie speak at a rare engagement in my city, for free, and in the company of a good friend?
Or,
Should I spend tonight in severe physical and emotional pain, alternately lashing out and curling up in bed, not wanting to move or be around people, violently panicky at the thought of human contact?
Thank you, body, for deciding for me! The challenge was too much. I think it’s a lovely idea. I’ll be off to drive in tunnel vision for an hour, so as to curl up in relative safety and hand implements of destruction over to someone else. Maybe sleep on the floor a little.

All in all, so much better than seeing and listening to someone I enjoy listening to someone I admire. Infinitely preferable to spending time with good people and playing with fantastic ideas for hours. Why would I want to test panic against joy? Who wouldn’t want to spend a few hours doubled over instead?

Fuck this day.

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I know two people who will be amused momentarily:
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So it's back to this, is it?

Sorry, Megan -

WARNING PRUFROCK AHEAD

And indeed there will be time
To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -
(They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!")
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin -
(They will say, "But how his legs and arms are thin!")
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

END PRUFROCK

You can look now.

Do I have to tell a story
Of a thousand rainy days since we first met
It's a big enough umbrella
But it's always me that ends up getting wet

Do I have to tell a story of a thousand rainy days since we first met it's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet Do I have to tell a story of a thousand rainy days since we first met it's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet Do I have to tell a story of a thousand rainy days since we first met it's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet

This had to be reprinted
Sung to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it"

If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq.
If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq.
If the terrorists are frisky,
Pakistan is looking shifty,
North Korea is too risky,
Bomb Iraq.

If we have no allies with us, bomb Iraq.
If we think someone has dissed us, bomb Iraq.
So to hell with the inspections,
Let's look tough for the elections,
Close your mind and take directions,
Bomb Iraq.

It's "pre-emptive non-aggression", bomb Iraq.
Let's prevent this mass destruction, bomb Iraq.
They've got weapons we can't see,
And that's good enough for me
'Cos it'all the proof I need
Bomb Iraq.

If you never were elected, bomb Iraq.
If your mood is quite dejected, bomb Iraq.
If you think Saddam's gone mad,
With the weapons that he had,
(And he tried to kill your dad),
Bomb Iraq.

If your corporate fraud is growin', bomb Iraq.
If your ties to it are showin', bomb Iraq.
If your politics are sleazy,
And hiding ain't that easy,
And your manhood's getting queasy,
Bomb Iraq.

Fall in line and follow orders, bomb Iraq.
For our might knows not our borders, bomb Iraq.
Disagree? We'll call it treason,
Let's make war not love this season,
Even if we have no reason,
Bomb Iraq.

from farwing c/o sagima.

Also a reprint from farwing:

2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root.
1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.
1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.
1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.
2000 A.D. - That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.

I had a good time last night. I'm not too out of it today. "Fuckin' jihad on you!"

why must itself up every of a park
anus stick some quote statue unquote to
prove that a hero equals any jerk
who was afraid to dare to answer "no"?
quote citizens unquote might otherwise
forget(to err is human;to forgive
divine)that if the quote state unquote says
"kill" killing is an act of christian love.
"Nothing" in 1944 AD
"can stand against the argument of mil
itary necessity"(generalissimo e)
and echo answers "there is no appeal
from reason"(freud)--you pays your money and
you doesn't take your choice. Ain't freedom grand.

e.e. cummings.

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#23396 +(1847)- [X]

[Donut[AFK]] HEY EURAKARTE
[Donut[AFK]] INSULT
[Eurakarte] RETORT
[Donut[AFK]] COUNTER-RETORT
[Eurakarte] QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE
[Donut[AFK]] SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
[Eurakarte] NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM
[Donut[AFK]] RIPOSTE
[Donut[AFK]] ADDON RIPOSTE
[Eurakarte] COUNTER-RIPOSTE
[Donut[AFK]] COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE
[Eurakarte] NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON
[Miles_Prower] RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES
[Eurakarte] WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD
[Miles_Prower] ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS

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