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Another round, please.
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By Bitwise, Section Diaries
Posted on Fri Nov 2nd, 2001 at 12:49:38 AM PDT
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I did it again -- I went to the nut house. And what a pleasant stay it was. You can hardly blame me for desiring all that gourmet hospital food or for wanting to wear slippers and pajamas all day long, but I'm manic-depressive and sometimes that's all you can hope for. And I do believe that recreational therapy really is my true calling. While I am glib about my experience, it is not in the least something I take lightly. I may never wish to see my roommate whose story about cooking meth and the one about his P.O. never failed to entertain (no matter how many zillion times he repeated them) or the fellow who seemed to have some, well, bowel issues (which stunk up my room -- I'll never forgive him for that), I am glad that places like that exist for the periods in our lives when life seems unlivable.
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What I'm up to...
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By Bitwise, Section Diaries
Posted on Thu Sep 13th, 2001 at 05:19:46 PM PDT
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It has been a hard few days since the terrorist attack on America. I have been doing my best to register what has happened, and what this means for us, both nationally and locally. I have begun a documentary about what it is that we are doing as a community to cope with this disaster. I have talked with churches, and working on getting in touch with school districts, blood banks, armed forces recruitment centers, and hospitals.
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The Oddest Apperance of the Thin White Duke
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By Bitwise, Section Diaries
Posted on Fri Jul 20th, 2001 at 10:36:24 AM PDT
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I love MTV. Except when they play Road Rules, Real World or anything else other than videos or Daria and then I pretty much hate it. And I haven't seen much of the latter two. So maybe I hate MTV. Which would be why I was watching VH1 this morning. Anyway, they had a show called Dynamic Duets showing the oddest pairings of people singing together that I have ever seen. By far the creepiest was a televised Christmas Special in the 1970's just this side of Ziggy Stardust which paired the Thin White Duke with crooner Bing Crosby. Even though Bowie was respectably dressed in a blue, button down, wide collar, powder blue shirt and tight white pants, he still somehow managed to look the part of the vamp. (I can't imagine why!) Picture a staid Bing Crosby in a brown suit standing next to that image of Bowie singing Little Drummer Boy in harmony. It's enough to give one the shivers. Perhaps you had to be there, but I felt really sorry for the marketing executive who thought that pairing would be a good idea. Damn 1970's. See the poll for your favorite pairings. Also feel free to comment on which other pairings that I should have included (or excluded?) in my poll. I have to admit that this entry is a little weak, but I have had a pretty boring week and this was the best I could come up with. Maybe I'll have an exciting adventure about being curb-stomped for singing Christian karaoke this weekend and tell you all about it later. (That was a thinly veiled silly reference to the comment I made concerning that story -- just for clarification. Funny site though!)
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Boy Bands and Sanity
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By Bitwise, Section Diaries
Posted on Fri Jul 13th, 2001 at 09:56:08 AM PDT
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Every boy band has a thing. One's may be snappy dance moves, another's may be having all cute ones, but they all have a thing. They also all have a 'Bad Boy.' This is just simple math since statistically one is sure to buckle to the will of the record company/manager and take the money to accept the bad boy image and all that it entails, including bucking the 'thing'. Well, today I found a standard 5-man boy band whose entire 'thing' seems to be that they all have spiky hair (aside from the requisite singer of color whose genetics don't encourage hair spiking and the 'bad boy' whose penchant for being bad seems to only allow him to do 'bad' things to his hair by dreading it.) Their name is 'O-Town' but they might as well be called 'Legion' for all the time Satan put into creating which may be the most innocuous boy band on earth to appeal to all the depraved teenagers today. Now, you may say, "only three out of five in the band have spiky hair, how can that be their thing?" Believe me, I looked long and hard to find a better 'thing' for them, but there was nothing I could do for them. Their music sucked, there weren't enough cute ones to make that their thing, and they simply plodded back and forth over the stage as though on barbiturates -- no snappy dance moves there. I was watching MTV when their music video came on and at first I thought their thing was that they all played their own instruments and I thought "how refreshing." I soon realized as they came out of the shadows that they were just going to sing (poorly) and stand around like mannequins. I am not usually one to be so negative, but they sucked. See the poll to vote for your favorite secret boy band. Anyway that was my observation for the day.
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My First Posting!
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By Bitwise, Section Diaries
Posted on Wed Jul 4th, 2001 at 12:51:54 PM PDT
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Hello World!
I have enjoyed the 'Sphere for quite some time and felt that it was time for me to join the ranks of the obviously hip people here in Olympia. Or something. Whatever. I am at work this morning and afternoon of the Fourth of July and have nothing to do but wait for the phone to ring -- which it never does. So before I came into work I loaded up a bowl to cope with being alone and not being out flyfishing on this fine day. When I got to work I immediately called the radio station and requested that they play Ben Harper's "Burn One Down" in honor of the fourth. The DJ said, "Dude, that song's about pot!." I responded that I did indeed know about the implications of the song, and that in fact THAT was the reason I wanted to hear it, not just some wierd form of patriotism. Thankfully, he obliged not only with my request but also threw on some Pink Floyd immediately following. What a way to spend the morning. So now that things have settled down and the giggles have passed (nice to not have to stifle them in an empty office) I turn my thoughts to this evening's affairs: to fish or drink like a fish, or both. Tell me what you think I should do in my poll. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Perhaps I'll find something cool to post to the 'sphere now that I have an account!
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