<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097</id><updated>2011-07-08T01:31:31.831-04:00</updated><category term='space'/><category term='Regret'/><category term='drive-ins'/><category term='failed Keanu coif'/><category term='Letters'/><category term='nebula'/><category term='Nuff said'/><category term='Gossip Girl'/><category term='a sexual kilometer'/><category term='renunions'/><category term='Beer'/><category term='Science'/><category term='Memories of Remembrance'/><category term='Dashes of Pee'/><category term='a crayon'/><category term='a million hot wheels'/><category term='contempt'/><category term='glass blowing'/><category term='Open'/><category term='Art Day'/><category term='ass-wigs'/><category term='Furniture'/><category term='audio'/><category term='feeling itself becoming on'/><category term='things to come'/><category term='imaginative saluting'/><category term='Planets'/><category term='Susprises'/><category term='anger'/><category term='telegrams'/><category term='Racism'/><category term='cobbler vs cobler'/><category term='Kenneth Tablescoash'/><category term='guns'/><category term='Not like me'/><category term='real and combing'/><category term='Eku'/><category term='Books'/><title type='text'>elevendy twelven</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photobucket.com"="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/elevendytwelven/PICT0217.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-1329971305425607818</id><published>2009-11-24T21:03:00.012-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T21:37:24.830-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='contempt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='space'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nebula'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gossip Girl'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anger'/><title type='text'>A chance to reclaim our spot. We look at the natural world, and ask it to go fu*k itself.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyR50qsuWI/AAAAAAAAAYY/PHL42uHk5J8/s1600/Outlook-5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyR50qsuWI/AAAAAAAAAYY/PHL42uHk5J8/s400/Outlook-5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407857675141429602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Quit faking it. Of course you probably think that due to the looping filaments of glowing gas extending much farther from your central star that you're off the hook, but I do believe that you're the first nebula I have found to be completely full of sh*t. You are what is referred to in the streets... as a trick ass bitch. And you, &lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;, will never be my only one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyR0tZ-fDI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/AOiABCg-zrM/s1600/Outlook-4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 203px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyR0tZ-fDI/AAAAAAAAAYQ/AOiABCg-zrM/s400/Outlook-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407857587292896306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Hello. You star clusters just don't get the picture. Judging by this 'picture' us humans  obviously do. We caught you guys with your galactic pants down, and your space dicks whipped the fu*k out and Earth has had enough. This is the most ridiculously slow and unacceptable orgy we have ever seen and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;we have seen a lot&lt;/span&gt;. You guys get TV out there? No? What about all your favorite NY sports teams in stunning HD? Nothing? No entertainment value. Fu*k space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyRtrAW2cI/AAAAAAAAAYI/QHPVRq8FV8E/s1600/Outlook-3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyRtrAW2cI/AAAAAAAAAYI/QHPVRq8FV8E/s400/Outlook-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407857466389486018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Look at this sparkly bag of sh*t. You wouldn't even know if there was a problem with your shiny attitude, because your head is so far up your star-ass! All of the asses of your stars. -- And look at that little piss-ant spiral galaxy in the lower right. If that guy doesn't hide the fact that he loves &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Gossip Girl &lt;/span&gt;and the occasional space reach around, then I'm not a human stuck on a really small planet, writing hateful things about, oh I don't know... Fu*k Space maybe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyRqBpmtWI/AAAAAAAAAYA/Q5zIY5xrDlg/s1600/Outlook-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyRqBpmtWI/AAAAAAAAAYA/Q5zIY5xrDlg/s400/Outlook-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407857403748595042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The moon has long been associated with romance and the search inside the human soul to find meaning in our world. To this I say, did you guys forget werewolves? Yeah, cos they will, along with being seriously sexy young men seducing Kristin Stewart in a forest, rip your fu*king fingers off, shove them in your eyes and asshole, and then feast on the corpulent remains of your once stupid face. PhotoShopped or not this does not make any sense. The moon is dangerous. No way. No thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyRljymaaI/AAAAAAAAAX4/4-tbCUMr8KU/s1600/Outlook-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyRljymaaI/AAAAAAAAAX4/4-tbCUMr8KU/s400/Outlook-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407857327013783970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is about the scariest thing I've ever seen. It's like Dracula took a sh*t after eating a gallon of glitter glue and motor oil. You'd think that being the unofficial Lord of the Undead he would stick to blood, but it would appear that even Dracula has fallen for the magic of space. Fu*k both space and now, sadly, Dracula. Let's look at the stats, hmm? No oxygen - below zero - radiation - Oh I don't know...fu*k you and, yes: fu*k space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyRhVrTeYI/AAAAAAAAAXw/kIydTcRD1Rc/s1600/Outlook.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyRhVrTeYI/AAAAAAAAAXw/kIydTcRD1Rc/s400/Outlook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407857254505609602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Alright you guys. Break it up. Go home. What? You are home. Well fu*k my hand! Get a job sir! You'd think that my tax dollars go to helping the people who need it, but here you folks are, light years away from any sense of dignity. Hanging out at all hours of the space-day, looking for something to smoke or shoot, drinking all types of dust. I say again...fu*k space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyXeCaNV_I/AAAAAAAAAYo/6neozuSIW38/s1600/Outlook-6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyXeCaNV_I/AAAAAAAAAYo/6neozuSIW38/s400/Outlook-6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407863794863790066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;You folks just don't get it. Do you? Right in the middle of SPACE, where everyone (with a seriously high-powered telescope floating above Earth's atmosphere with the ability to compile composite images of the universe using infrared, ultraviolet light, far-field gravitational lensing, and radio waves) can see? You guys make me want to spray my favorite shag carpet with vomit, induced from eating a wig and a broccoli &lt;a href="http://isite.lps.org/mhaun/entree_photos/Taco_Hot_Pocket.jpg"&gt;Hot Pocket&lt;/a&gt; at the same time. I could probably squat down, right now, and make something that has more grace and courtesy than you two fly out of my ass at the speed of s*it! Do not ever test me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-1329971305425607818?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/1329971305425607818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=1329971305425607818&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1329971305425607818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1329971305425607818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/11/chance-to-reclaim-our-spot-we-look-at.html' title='A chance to reclaim our spot. We look at the natural world, and ask it to go fu*k itself.'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SwyR50qsuWI/AAAAAAAAAYY/PHL42uHk5J8/s72-c/Outlook-5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-6777655118731209318</id><published>2009-09-29T20:34:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T21:25:42.893-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guns'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Racism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='glass blowing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Furniture'/><title type='text'>The Bar 6 List</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SuelS3VJrhI/AAAAAAAAAXo/izsxMTNpzo0/s1600-h/4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 231px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SuelS3VJrhI/AAAAAAAAAXo/izsxMTNpzo0/s400/4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397464421935722002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The following are $100.00 movie ideas &lt;/span&gt;-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Racist Couch Dealer - Race issues dealt through couch.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Romantic glass blower teaches retarded Eskimo the subtly of life. Dies in an accident, glass accident; Eskimo takes over.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Trees...so silent, so quiet, not particularly dangerous....&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Man, lonely man, who names brand new shades of color for a paint company. Some wacky broad shows him the light...green.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Blowfish life, from the blowfish perspective.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Balcomy - Master architect; master of the art of balcony, turns the feature to magic. Marries a woman who shits paper cranes.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Miles Davis' horn is full of guns. So is Charlie Parker's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Talbot SweetApple - Handles issues. Tackles tissues.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-6777655118731209318?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/6777655118731209318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=6777655118731209318&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/6777655118731209318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/6777655118731209318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/09/bar-6-list.html' title='The Bar 6 List'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SuelS3VJrhI/AAAAAAAAAXo/izsxMTNpzo0/s72-c/4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-3915856340849654532</id><published>2009-04-22T00:01:00.010-04:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T21:24:25.626-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Regret'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Beer'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Planets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Open'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Eku'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letters'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='telegrams'/><title type='text'>Open Letters</title><content type='html'>Dear Planets,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should all trade in your nickel cores.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Craig T. Neasiles&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Planet,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SuebQJyF-zI/AAAAAAAAAXA/pKmS9lDVYJs/s1600-h/an-artists-rendering-shows-two-massive-planets-colliding-around-the-star-hd-23514-in-the-pleiades-cluster_9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 246px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SuebQJyF-zI/AAAAAAAAAXA/pKmS9lDVYJs/s320/an-artists-rendering-shows-two-massive-planets-colliding-around-the-star-hd-23514-in-the-pleiades-cluster_9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397453380233067314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey. So the other day, when you drank like ten Earth beers and said you'd be OK to go home--I thought you were a truthful planet. Seems we're all a little bit silly, even gigantic planets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call me. I wanna break up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amanda S. Squires&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey Amanda,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm so sick of this! You just want me to be like you! &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I'm a Man-Planet&lt;/span&gt;, not a Planet-manda. My times are precious! &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I wanna break up with you&lt;/span&gt;! And I'm a &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;World&lt;/span&gt;, Amanda. A freakin' World. You should be ashamed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still, in your kind of forever, will remain your,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Planet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Sueh9WD0FpI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/LQmfbEVk2Ag/s1600-h/angry+woman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Sueh9WD0FpI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/LQmfbEVk2Ag/s320/angry+woman.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397460753692497554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eff you and your telegrams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-A&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;~&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_____________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This message from the Criag T. Neasiles Foundation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I before E except after you properly fix the title roofing on my Spanish roofing title bungalow and make smoothies and touch my thanks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerly, Juna Takingstem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks you to much high ness and heaven. Goodnights and the give much.&lt;br /&gt;______________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SuejTg5ji3I/AAAAAAAAAXY/6NKJceOKKBM/s1600-h/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 67px; height: 106px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SuejTg5ji3I/AAAAAAAAAXY/6NKJceOKKBM/s200/images.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397462234071010162" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eku Beer review:&lt;br /&gt;Muffled in a Friar's Blanket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Budwiser:&lt;br /&gt;Rocket of Red White Regret.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colt  45:&lt;br /&gt;A Complex Individual Always Stumbling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Steel Reserve:&lt;br /&gt;Space Beer somehow gone wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heineken:&lt;br /&gt;Available at Your Local Walgreens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brooklyn Brewery:&lt;br /&gt;Smal Wherehouse made for beering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samuel Adams:&lt;br /&gt;The Nahthern Shores of plenty.&lt;br /&gt;______________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No it doesn't.&lt;br /&gt;_____________________________________________________________&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-3915856340849654532?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/3915856340849654532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=3915856340849654532&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3915856340849654532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3915856340849654532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/04/open-letter.html' title='Open Letters'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SuebQJyF-zI/AAAAAAAAAXA/pKmS9lDVYJs/s72-c/an-artists-rendering-shows-two-massive-planets-colliding-around-the-star-hd-23514-in-the-pleiades-cluster_9.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-2361297998842532812</id><published>2009-02-25T22:09:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T21:24:44.353-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Science'/><title type='text'>Scary Science {No.1}</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIkRQevTI/AAAAAAAAAWg/sr2WJNIpa-8/s1600-h/att673f3.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 313px; height: 76px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIkRQevTI/AAAAAAAAAWg/sr2WJNIpa-8/s320/att673f3.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306938630103547186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;EVOLUTION: Yeah or Neigh&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We live in a world comprised of millions of cells. Cellular structure and function is the cornerstone to all natural sciences. Evolution would lead you to believe that one of these cells, located in your body, used to be inside this guys body….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIpzny7pI/AAAAAAAAAWo/mtekCrwL-Gw/s1600-h/att673f4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 174px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIpzny7pI/AAAAAAAAAWo/mtekCrwL-Gw/s320/att673f4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306938725227490962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I have a huge differ to beg. That's buried-alive scary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Playing second fiddle to some ancient swimming rat is not where my cells used to be. Some say that horses are whales who were once into swimming…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIvJErTeI/AAAAAAAAAWw/zjcnNJx1MwQ/s1600-h/att673f5.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 98px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIvJErTeI/AAAAAAAAAWw/zjcnNJx1MwQ/s320/att673f5.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306938816885116386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Does this look like a horse-whale?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIz0UDNSI/AAAAAAAAAW4/se3-YlMg1F0/s1600-h/att67405.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 117px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIz0UDNSI/AAAAAAAAAW4/se3-YlMg1F0/s320/att67405.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306938897211798818" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The explanation for this 6th grade art contest scribble is….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" &gt;“Whales evolved from split-hooved land mammals. Very little is known about the animals that first ventured into the water, so drawings are entirely speculative.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sh*t is frightening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-2361297998842532812?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/2361297998842532812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=2361297998842532812&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/2361297998842532812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/2361297998842532812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/02/scary-science-no1.html' title='Scary Science {No.1}'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaYIkRQevTI/AAAAAAAAAWg/sr2WJNIpa-8/s72-c/att673f3.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-8545350246331411988</id><published>2009-02-25T10:54:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T11:20:04.215-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cobbler vs cobler'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='real and combing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art Day'/><title type='text'>Art Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;{Some of the following are from the interestingly uneasy mind of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;elevendy twelven&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;, others are not. But all display an aspect of genius that only comes from the most basic of color of Cyan...}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVqXBHieLI/AAAAAAAAAV4/d2rqOmqnnJw/s1600-h/cobbler+robber.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 259px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVqXBHieLI/AAAAAAAAAV4/d2rqOmqnnJw/s320/cobbler+robber.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306764679595587762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Cobbler Robber&lt;/span&gt; - Displays the inner-most wanton need to both have and steal cobbler. May also refer to some other definition of &lt;a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cobler" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;cobler&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;; the double "b" may be there to throw uneducated viewers through a creamy pie-like hoop. By Walter Shovelsfull.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVrUP90CwI/AAAAAAAAAWA/LEaVaepD0rk/s1600-h/imagems.php.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 220px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVrUP90CwI/AAAAAAAAAWA/LEaVaepD0rk/s320/imagems.php.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306765731553348354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Flesh eats Watermelon, Finally&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - This piece speaks to the desire to have it all: movement, eyes, watermelon. Yes, feel the need. By Matt Jason.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVsEifGUDI/AAAAAAAAAWI/HVWu-rj7ej8/s1600-h/hospitalsrfun.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVsEifGUDI/AAAAAAAAAWI/HVWu-rj7ej8/s320/hospitalsrfun.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306766561158516786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Hospitals R' Fun &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;- Need we say more? By Janet Shuttleford.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVs4Wnrm_I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ot8ECBvbfwg/s1600-h/HassleLkilgon.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVs4Wnrm_I/AAAAAAAAAWQ/ot8ECBvbfwg/s320/HassleLkilgon.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306767451326487538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Man of Dreams if your dreams include Beaches and Space&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Yes, note the hair. The excess both on the head and the chest is a metaphor for the duality of humankind, both the commander of life and the commanded. So real and combing. By Margot Ennial&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;__________________________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVt84dcAjI/AAAAAAAAAWY/24xloXeFiVE/s1600-h/Altered+Skinny.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVt84dcAjI/AAAAAAAAAWY/24xloXeFiVE/s320/Altered+Skinny.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306768628641432114" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Altered Hue-Man&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; - Sometimes things have to explode out of you to really get your attention, be it sadness or caffeine excess. This piece articulates that to a bloody "t". And, reflexively, Red Bull may be the bloody tea of  a generation. &lt;/span&gt;By Alex Novelsworth.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-8545350246331411988?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/8545350246331411988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=8545350246331411988&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8545350246331411988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8545350246331411988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/02/art-day.html' title='Art Day!'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SaVqXBHieLI/AAAAAAAAAV4/d2rqOmqnnJw/s72-c/cobbler+robber.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-8351436763655348247</id><published>2009-02-20T01:26:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2009-11-24T21:40:37.458-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Regret'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Art Day'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Nuff said'/><title type='text'>Indeed.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;According to the following slide, you have apparently gone way too far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZ5NN6__8sI/AAAAAAAAAVw/N9NfkwD0UmU/s1600-h/far.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 344px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZ5NN6__8sI/AAAAAAAAAVw/N9NfkwD0UmU/s400/far.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304762312660349634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-8351436763655348247?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/8351436763655348247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=8351436763655348247&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8351436763655348247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8351436763655348247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/02/indeed.html' title='Indeed.'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZ5NN6__8sI/AAAAAAAAAVw/N9NfkwD0UmU/s72-c/far.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-7583546345527929991</id><published>2009-02-19T21:55:00.006-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T22:14:28.824-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='a crayon'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feeling itself becoming on'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='a million hot wheels'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='failed Keanu coif'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drive-ins'/><title type='text'>The Melted Half</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZ4fbTxTUSI/AAAAAAAAAVo/eDjcBMXPJY8/s1600-h/CRAYONS.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZ4fbTxTUSI/AAAAAAAAAVo/eDjcBMXPJY8/s400/CRAYONS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304711965113012514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;(illustration by&lt;a href="http://www.jamesblagden.com/" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt; illy jimmy b.&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;{Supportive author&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"&gt;Trent Ables&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;offers reflections on one of the smaller moments of life. For more info, check&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.theworldsbestever.com/kung-fu.jpg" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;for Trent's day affirmation.}&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The digital-cinnamon &lt;a href="http://www.geekologie.com/2007/03/single-digit-clock.jpg" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;LCD&lt;/a&gt; clock turned to the hour of 12:00. Realizing that this was the latest I had ever stayed up, I lazily glanced over at the green metal box hanging in the car window. The noises issuing from the battered speaker were die-cast explosions that sounded like a million Hot-Wheels being dumped onto pavement. The light from the screen sat in the reflection of the varnished hoods and chrome work, all pretending to be little movies. We were parked in a lot that had been dressed up and taken out for drinks, as it always was during the mild summer nights. I began to notice all of the smells surrounding the car. The roof had given way to the fabric that concealed it, draping the interior like a tarp covering a fresco. The blanket contained a peculiar mixture of smoke-stain and dryer-exhaust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I leaned back in the seat spilling some of the cold and chewy popcorn into the back. I hunched over and, blindly groping the floor, tried to clean it up as best I could. I came back with a handful of sticky pennies, popcorn, and a crayon. This was a typical handful of in-car leavings, but the crayon struck me as being out of place. The family I was with had children that were not specifically of coloring age. Both of the brothers were from Florida and had motley hair cuts that reminded me of failed Keanu coif. These were not the people who would color. The gender of this crayon was ‘Cornflower.’ This color had nothing to do with corn, or my preconceived notions towards the colors of flowers. This was a nomad in the vast desert of car floor, hopelessly searching for a shred of paper to feel itself becoming on. It was getting used to the idea that no matter what the surroundings would be, it would never be remembered to these people. However it came to be settled on this short haired floor, this would be its last tour of a color duty, never embarked on. Yet here I was, holding this tool in my hand, bent over the car seat, still pretending to look for a self-created mess. I squeezed it and this became more important than the gigantic spectacle of a movie playing in front of our car windows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I color with my wife sometimes. She has shown me the subtle art of shading, divulged the secret of consistent direction of strokes, and shown the beauty of Cornflower. The drive-in has lost its screen and been made into a parking lot. Just a regular &lt;a href="http://www.texasescapes.com/TOWNS/McCamey_Texas/McCameyTxClosedDriveInTheater100706BarclayGibson.jpg" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;parking lot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-7583546345527929991?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/7583546345527929991/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=7583546345527929991&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7583546345527929991'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7583546345527929991'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/02/melted-half.html' title='The Melted Half'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZ4fbTxTUSI/AAAAAAAAAVo/eDjcBMXPJY8/s72-c/CRAYONS.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-5782328185797009481</id><published>2009-02-09T12:43:00.010-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-11T10:41:22.710-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ass-wigs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kenneth Tablescoash'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='things to come'/><title type='text'>Amazingness Hitting Selves Soon - "Pooping Through the Wig" Book!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZBr89JLI7I/AAAAAAAAAVg/rwMe5RxN70g/s1600-h/thru+wig.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 476px; height: 230px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZBr89JLI7I/AAAAAAAAAVg/rwMe5RxN70g/s400/thru+wig.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300855456364438450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"&gt;For the first time ever, author &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Kenneth Tablescoash&lt;/span&gt; discusses this monumental work with the layman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"&gt;"I never knew that so many people would get ‘behind’ this project, and coming from a purely statistical background, the proof is in the numbers. More Americans are pooping through their ass-wigs than ever and it’s time to tell not only my story, but theirs as well!&lt;/span&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;- &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);"&gt;Kenneth Tablescoash, author of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"&gt;Pooping Through the Wig&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;"...an instant classic to be cherished for years to come--an all &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;at once horrifyingly touching and memorable testament &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);"&gt;to the human spirit." &lt;/span&gt;--Matt Lauer, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Today Show &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;"  &gt;Includes indelible insight and information&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;"  &gt;on such all-encomp&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51); font-style: italic;"&gt;ass&lt;/span&gt;ing topics as:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Pooping&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Wipe Allocation                                                  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Game Planning                                                        &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Showering                                                                 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Income/Outcome                                                    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Disability                                                                                              &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Clinger Accumulation&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Education&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Ass Forecasting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" &gt;This is so important, and in these difficult times, it’s even more &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;importanter&lt;/span&gt; to remember that no matter who you meet or how far you get in this world, chances are not only do you have crap in your cheeks, but they do too. Chappy butt flaps are a common thing, and have nothing to do with wipe-coverage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"  &gt;Published by Sweep It Clean Books&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:180%;" &gt;Please call for a copy of this amazing book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;432 Any Street West &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Townsville, State 54321 USA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;(543) 555-0150 (800) 555-0150&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;www.backitup.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-5782328185797009481?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/5782328185797009481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=5782328185797009481&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/5782328185797009481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/5782328185797009481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/02/upcoming-amazingness-hitting-sleves.html' title='Amazingness Hitting Selves Soon - &quot;Pooping Through the Wig&quot; Book!'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZBr89JLI7I/AAAAAAAAAVg/rwMe5RxN70g/s72-c/thru+wig.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-3800074896895264304</id><published>2009-02-09T11:55:00.008-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-09T12:37:26.811-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imaginative saluting'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='renunions'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Letters'/><title type='text'>High School Reunion Reply</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;{We here at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-style: italic;"&gt;elevendy twelven&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; like to look forward, not back. So continuing our tradition of awkward, yet creative, randomness, we will not be attending our high school reunion. Scrupe!}&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZBjepONgjI/AAAAAAAAAVY/547q2SG7TTk/s1600-h/banner.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 374px; height: 248px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZBjepONgjI/AAAAAAAAAVY/547q2SG7TTk/s320/banner.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300846139527758386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Mr. Reunion Organizer,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;I've sent back the sheet you wanted me to fill out. Thanks for sending it my way.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to say that, surprisingly, I found your email incredibly refreshing. I think was expecting some sort of themed email when this time came. A kind of overly glossified correspondence reminding me to "party like it's &lt;a href="http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/reviews/class99b.jpg" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;1999&lt;/a&gt;" again, or break out my &lt;a href="http://www.shopwebsbest.com/sites/mwatts/_files/Image/leejeans.jpg" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;Lee jeans&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.jacquesranch.com/Colorado.jpg" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;King Soopers&lt;/a&gt; belt. But not you. You were Succinct. A kind of anorexic message showing no fat whatsoever. Even the lack of a salutation--something like a 'Thank you' or 'Talk to you soon'--made me feel so, well, painfully welcome to this whole project. Thanks. Honestly, it was a great email to receive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must warn you that my "help" in this project will be incredibly limited. You see, over the last five years or so I've become a recluse of sorts. The human affairs of danger and dignity--those instances that transpire through and across the lives of each and everyone--have left me emotionally obese; have scarred the face of my confidence in repugnant ways; and have resulted in moral disfigurement. In short, I live in &lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2285/2235076775_e8b0e95b63.jpg?v=0" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;New York&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Actually, my mind and face melted into an ooze of disbelief when I saw you on the 1 train not more then seven months ago. Or was it the A? Either way, there you where, reading a book, propped up against the subway door (just like they tell you not to)--seemingly as yourself as you ever where. Actually, there is still a seed of doubt in my mind as to whether or not it was you, and you may confirm that seed bursting into a flower of mistaken identity, but as I stole looks at this person from across the way, I convinced myself that it was you. Probably studying at Columbia, furthering your education--or maybe even teaching out here as I remember you had a penchant for foreign languages. Either way, it made my night--the constant guessing, the wondering what you were up to. So if it was you or not, thanks. I appreciate it. Because I remember when I used to think (silently and aloud) that you would be a great &lt;a href="http://blogs.timesunion.com/kristi/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/smile.jpg" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;toothpaste model&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;. Geeze, I was an asshole. Maybe still am. But I said that in reference to your great and infectious smile--the one aspect of you I do and will always remember. So if you took, or take, offense to that cavity-fighting line of thinking, please know that it comes from a genuine place of endearment and nostalgia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upon reading your email for the up-teenth time, I realize that maybe you too are not exactly super excited about putting this together. But if you imagine me &lt;a href="http://www.blogjones.com/Images/WX10102040832.jpg" target="new&amp;quot;"&gt;saluting&lt;/a&gt; you right now, with a face of pride and admiration, you would get a fairly accurate picture of me this instant, as we type. The only difference is that I'm not sure if you're imagining me sitting or standing. Know that I'm sitting right now, but will be standing later--so I guess either works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;In summation:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Will I attend the reunion? Um, no. The only reason I would like to attend would be to you see you and gauge the uneasiness this email may have created between us. But you know what: it's better then nothing--which is what we had before this email.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Will I help? Sources say "not all that much." If you need small donations or something of that sort, I can probably throw those your way. But if you're looking for someone to do mass emailing or sleuthing, you'll have a hard time hearing back from me. In situations like that I use snail mail. Actually, I have a facebook group called "Letter Writers Unite!" We write each other constantly but meet online every second Thursday of each month. It's fun. And redundant. Check us out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;I hope all is well with you. I really do. And thank you for involving me in this process. It doesn't look like I'll be doing much, but I do appreciate the correspondence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Explosively yours,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;selfstonishment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-3800074896895264304?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/3800074896895264304/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=3800074896895264304&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3800074896895264304'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3800074896895264304'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/02/high-school-reunion-reply.html' title='High School Reunion Reply'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SZBjepONgjI/AAAAAAAAAVY/547q2SG7TTk/s72-c/banner.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-4220842269751519473</id><published>2009-02-06T11:01:00.004-05:00</published><updated>2009-02-06T11:15:43.017-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Susprises'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Not like me'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dashes of Pee'/><title type='text'>Suprise Steve!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SYxfx5TBSrI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/RzUh5vJgcKU/s1600-h/balloons-big.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 285px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SYxfx5TBSrI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/RzUh5vJgcKU/s320/balloons-big.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299716172307057330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Surprise –&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;We were crouching. Our legs, arms, and torsos had been snuggled tightly behind the outline of Steve’s couch. All of us had managed to hide our bodies very well, while I was busy trying to hide my emotions. The tingling in my feet was the first sign, the neurons firing like twelve rifles at a funeral for the contents of my bowels. Hold on…I started sweating like a Nelly video, but decided that the surprise would be all too much with no clothes on. It was getting hot in there though. A deep quiver slammed through my gut. There was no way I would be able to explode from a dead squat AND give surprise birthday wishes. We all held on to the couch. I was the only one clinging to it like a bloated chunk of driftwood. I was alone floating in a river of fear and on my way to the ocean…the dark, cold ocean. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Keys. Jingling and dropped. Our accomplice was nervously explaining how it would be good to just have a quiet night. Laughing. How could they laugh? My heart jumped into my leg warmers, and a dash of pee blessed my underwear. The look on my face was a smile and the coy apprehension of a female spy who knows how to get the information she wants…oh she knows. The door opened and time slowly approached a complete stop. Frozen behind Steve’s couch we looked at each other for the right time to spring. Not knowing exactly what certain hand gestures meant, we took our time trying to decipher when we would rise. Rise indeed like an ambushed Lazarus from a once sullen and dark grave. We all would become a pillar of shock and celebration that would mark Steve’s 31st making it the most 31sty it could ever be. At that moment we shot upward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;“&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;Surpirse&lt;/span&gt;!” The following happened in under a tenth of a second: Steve looked at us as if we were a loved one visiting from the deep, quiet sleep of eternal life, he then smiled and it was at that moment that I was overwhelmed with fear. A fear so complete and consuming that I raised my hands to my face, as if to defend my silken emotions from the tarnish of solid dread. Nothing could stop the scream bellowing in my salivating mouth. I yelled in horror. My waist size shot up a number, due to the sh*t overflowing my jeans. Surprised Steve?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not like me, oh no….not like me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-4220842269751519473?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/4220842269751519473/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=4220842269751519473&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4220842269751519473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4220842269751519473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/02/suprise-steve.html' title='Suprise Steve!'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SYxfx5TBSrI/AAAAAAAAAVQ/RzUh5vJgcKU/s72-c/balloons-big.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-8688391833264287720</id><published>2009-01-29T12:45:00.012-05:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T13:43:24.629-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Memories of Remembrance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='audio'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='a sexual kilometer'/><title type='text'>Memories of Remembrance: A Tribute to Never Forgetting #2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SYHtY1syAdI/AAAAAAAAAU4/wQyx3sy5CiI/s1600-h/clouds_320.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 301px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SYHtY1syAdI/AAAAAAAAAU4/wQyx3sy5CiI/s400/clouds_320.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296775647751963090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SYH2TgYaXbI/AAAAAAAAAVI/eO_R7E8R4sQ/s1600-h/forgetting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 177px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SYH2TgYaXbI/AAAAAAAAAVI/eO_R7E8R4sQ/s320/forgetting.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296785451734687154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;{The 2nd installment below. See the 1st&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/03/memories-of-remberance-tribute-to-never.html" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/IcAz3Lb/music/6JLKicRG/11d12n_memories_of_remeberance_2/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="width: 300px;"&gt;&lt;object height="110" width="300"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://media.imeem.com/m/psKgJfbMOy/aus=false/"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imeem.com/people/IcAz3Lb/music/6JLKicRG/11d12n_memories_of_remeberance_2/"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://media.imeem.com/m/psKgJfbMOy/aus=false/" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="110" width="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"&gt;indeed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-8688391833264287720?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/8688391833264287720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=8688391833264287720&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8688391833264287720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8688391833264287720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2009/01/memories-of-remembrance-tribute-to.html' title='Memories of Remembrance: A Tribute to Never Forgetting #2'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/SYHtY1syAdI/AAAAAAAAAU4/wQyx3sy5CiI/s72-c/clouds_320.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-6848849859348330937</id><published>2007-08-21T10:08:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-21T10:11:08.083-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Liquid Salad</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RsryDOUl_iI/AAAAAAAAAOc/7pI8y5N-UhM/s1600-h/pepsi-ice-cucumber2.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5101155665148509730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RsryDOUl_iI/AAAAAAAAAOc/7pI8y5N-UhM/s400/pepsi-ice-cucumber2.jpeg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1980"&gt;Where's&lt;/a&gt; my Dr. Bell Pepper?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-6848849859348330937?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/6848849859348330937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=6848849859348330937&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/6848849859348330937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/6848849859348330937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/08/liquid-salad.html' title='Liquid Salad'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RsryDOUl_iI/AAAAAAAAAOc/7pI8y5N-UhM/s72-c/pepsi-ice-cucumber2.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-7061067612551196406</id><published>2007-08-07T13:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-08-07T13:29:03.335-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Tote-Baggery</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;{Taking a stab at the serious op-ed piece. This one never made it to press.}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RripWiZ8w0I/AAAAAAAAAOU/Y3s6eXjxELQ/s1600-h/_42839751_bag.203"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096009183027577666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RripWiZ8w0I/AAAAAAAAAOU/Y3s6eXjxELQ/s320/_42839751_bag.203" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Whole Foods has released its most sought-after product to date: a tote bag. The canvas Anya Hinmarch–designed bag had New Yorkers waiting for hours in lines that stretched around city blocks. The main draw of this tote––the most basic of bags, two straps and a bucket of material––is the stitched “I’m not a Plastic Bag” message across the side. Meant to raise awareness concerning the dangers and environmental pitfalls of the plastic grocery sack, this tote and its bubbly, sewn letters has become the summer statement of underarm fashion. The appeal comes from the pitch-perfect mixture of ironic missive and eco-awareness, and, of course, the honesty of the text. It indeed is not a plastic bag. But why stop there? Why not come clean about yourself and motives? For the next round of totes, I have some suggestions for Whole Foods:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;strong&gt;I’m a Basic Marketing Strategy&lt;/strong&gt; – It doesn’t get more candid then this on a tote. This acknowledges that people are walking billboards, so read the slogans. Next thing you know, you’re in Whole Foods convinced you need soy bubble bath solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;strong&gt;I was Purchased on Ebay for $200&lt;/strong&gt; – Yes, these bags are online and, yes, they sell for preposterous amounts of money. With this, you’re not so much into Whole Foods or getting rid of plastic bags; you’re more into putting out the perception that you’re into Whole Foods and getting rid of plastic bags. Public assumption is not cheap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;I Carry Groceries More Expensive than Your Rent &lt;/strong&gt;– Not everyone can afford the top-of-the-line organic fish, spinach or wheat grass. We may all want it, but a head of lettuce at C-Town is $1.28 while the new Whole Foods on Houston Street boasts a smorgasbord of leafy greens that cost more then the two-train trip to get there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. &lt;strong&gt;I’m Going to Make the Environment Trendy&lt;/strong&gt; – As much as environmental conservancy turned fashionable might cause some to cringe, it’s probably the first realistic step toward change. Next, look for totes emblazoned with “Oil is for Losers” and “Al Gore is Handsome” dangling off the shoulders of Bono and Sting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;strong&gt;I Came Here to Find a Date but Ended Up with This Bag&lt;/strong&gt; – Recently Whole Foods was revealed to be where the New York single and lonely gravitate. It makes sense; finding a boy- or girlfriend can be just as challenging as trying to find white bread made without bleached flour. Whole Foods has both, sometimes in the same isle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. &lt;strong&gt;I’ll be Left At a Friend’s House in Three Days&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;shy;– How many totes really go the distance and stick around for years? Not many. So choose wisely when traveling with said tote, you might accidentally bestow a fashion gem to a friend when you rush out to catch the train.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. &lt;strong&gt;I'm a Goodie Bag from the Wild Oats Buy-Out Party&lt;/strong&gt; - What does a company do when it purchases its only real competitor, like Whole Foods did last month? It throws a party. This bag came complete with actual crushed wild oats and various Monopoly game pieces.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. &lt;strong&gt;I’m Saving the World Better Than You&lt;/strong&gt; – Have the tote be the ultimate in school-yard bravado. Be sure that everyone who reads this is aware that you wearing the tote in public dwarfs anything they might ever conceive of in terms of world salvation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. &lt;strong&gt;I ♥ Tote Readers&lt;/strong&gt; – If you use a tote with writing on it, you mean for people to read it. Why not show some compassion for those of us who take the four seconds of our lives to interpret your patterned shoulder bag? Honestly, we’re usually disappointed so a little empathy would go a long way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;10. &lt;strong&gt;I’m That Somewhat-Annoying College Student Whose Sense of Humor Revolves Solely Around Pointing Out the Obvious in Bag Form&lt;/strong&gt; – Pretty self-explanatory. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-7061067612551196406?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/7061067612551196406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=7061067612551196406&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7061067612551196406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7061067612551196406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/08/tote-baggery.html' title='Tote-Baggery'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RripWiZ8w0I/AAAAAAAAAOU/Y3s6eXjxELQ/s72-c/_42839751_bag.203' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-1630121220716217180</id><published>2007-07-27T11:59:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-27T12:09:43.323-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The New Guy</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;{&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;This is the story of a new co-worker of mine and how he came to work in book publishing. This is how he tells it, in third person. I replaced his name and the names of his family to respect his privacy.}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091908313893618354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="196" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RqoXoiZ8wrI/AAAAAAAAANM/jKxLzVDYtd8/s320/shack.jpg" width="294" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;New Guy was in the habit to live on the remote island awayed from the Peninsula of Kamchaska. Fishing in dwarf-ish lake from which we lived for the account were our unique means of the foodstuffs. The uncle, considered forward thinking of families because of residence in Quebec, learned us that we also could "shop" by the gross. The uncle brought to young New Guy and to family the old generator and the unusually long set of cables of the jumper. Uncle adjusted the portable right of the machine of an electricity front to the poor two houses of a beach of a bedroom and carefully connected them. To check a stream, the too-confident uncle brought a jaw of the free black and red ends of a cable together. The spark clapped between them, the uncle nodded in the agreement. New Guy was both in expectation of parents and supervision from an entrance, we saw that the uncle stretched a cord to coast of lake and thrown two ends of cables of the jumper in water. There produced a sad, muffled buzz, similarly to the fly caught in an interval in glass and the screen of a window. Then, as far as twilight of arriving night would show us, baby-ish patches of shining have begun the impact floating on a surface of lake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RqoXzSZ8wsI/AAAAAAAAANU/EK-hsxlW7ks/s1600-h/deadfish1.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091908498577212098" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RqoXzSZ8wsI/AAAAAAAAANU/EK-hsxlW7ks/s320/deadfish1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;It was the majority of a fish which New Guy and parents ever saw at once, more then annual value was easily there. The dinner now was served For ever. The uncle only looked out on his performance, any doubt, thinking that he made its good business in the help to family of his sister, his bank of destiny now spilling with a stock. Father, however, his opinion was shaken. All duties he should obey: the beginning morning fishes, constant search of the following good fishing strain, clearing to come home empty handed. Now he could leave his work in coal mine because family could eat. There is no more a closed soot mouth, dressing and eyelided. There is no more wheezing of him is itself to sleep. Father suddenly felt tears well in his eyes, maybe the world floated. In an instant of great delight, father left the party of his wife and the son, stirred a network which was always ready on an entrance, and passed to his suspending fish, measured extraction. New Guy and mother which compare in ecstasy, is proud observe him. The uncle still monitors water, trying to measure how the "a fish by the gross" technics demanded, when his brother-in-law resolutely walked past, to him now and to the future dinners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It borrowed one minute for the uncle to understand precisely that father planned to do. Really it was a rumbling still-on generator which agitated him from his narcissism, looking through his kill. As he lunged to the husband of his sister, the uncle already knew that he will not make it, water would achieve father all over. Instant water lapped against naked foots of father, a muffle crackle and the person of aged years twisted silently in a pain and fallen to water. New Guy would remember movements father briefly made there on fine coast, imposing in the most thin sheet of water. It reminded of a dying fish, only on the contrary: alive water caused curvatures and struggle, not air.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shocked, dizzy, scared: New Guy, mother, and the uncle were all these things. And as New Guy observed a shout of mother to her brother to switch off the machine of an electricity front, everything that New Guy could do was sit on the entrance and look out on lake, our lake, now dotted with dead. And dead father. New Guy knew, during that moment, that his unique choice should be leaving. Leave this place and succeed mother and fallen father.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Destiny was clear: New Guy would be included in the romance book publication industries. There, demons during this day set in soul could be that killed, and life postponed into the freedom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091909340390802226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RqoYkSZ8wzI/AAAAAAAAAOM/75ixVhJHlNs/s200/princelavender.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-1630121220716217180?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/1630121220716217180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=1630121220716217180&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1630121220716217180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1630121220716217180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-guy.html' title='The New Guy'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RqoXoiZ8wrI/AAAAAAAAANM/jKxLzVDYtd8/s72-c/shack.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-1022848825550388100</id><published>2007-07-17T09:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-17T09:48:04.107-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Why no Jury Duty (longform)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;{Sent today}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Whom It May Concern:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As of August 13, 2007, I have been selected to serve my civilian duty as juror for the 12th District Court of the State of New York. This letter is to regretfully inform you that I cannot fulfill this obligation. I will have you know, however, that this decision is not made by choice, but rather by situation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To fully explain myself and my reasoning for abandoning the task assigned of me by my state and city, I first must clarify a few particulars fantastic in nature:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpzGrYrPiuI/AAAAAAAAAMs/d1bBblpvPms/s1600-h/gnomenice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088160127682317026" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 245px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 155px" height="142" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpzGrYrPiuI/AAAAAAAAAMs/d1bBblpvPms/s200/gnomenice.jpg" width="223" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Gnomes exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Regardless of what some folklore states, gnomes are not very reasonable or pleasant when there is a lack of sugar in their tiny bodies. Plainly put: They become quite irate and sharply rancorous with their actions and words when sweets are absent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I myself believed neither of the above points until I awoke one morning, not a week ago, to a gnome sitting on the headboard of my bed. My eyes opened only to see the bottoms of two small leather boots gently tapping aloof not a foot above me. Wanting to see if I was dreaming my first reaction was to rub my eyes or slap my face or get some coffee; a movement of some sort was needed to reacquaint myself with the reality I’ve come to know where clock radios and caffeine take the responsibility of waking you, not the rapping of miniature feet. But my attempt at such a movement was disheartened at once. I found myself restrained to my own bed by fishing line. My fishing line. The spool lay down on the floor in knots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The gnome above took notice of my jarring about and then went on to calmly whisper that I have been chosen to provide for him and his “ilk,” as he put it. He continued with words of quiet encouragement and reassurance of no harm as long as I participated willingly. Of course, scared for my sanity and life, I agreed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpzHMYrPivI/AAAAAAAAAM0/dlK8xb1f_2k/s1600-h/sml_gnome01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088160694618000114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpzHMYrPivI/AAAAAAAAAM0/dlK8xb1f_2k/s200/sml_gnome01.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As the hours passed I began to realize that an entire fleet of gnomes, with their pointed, floppy, mushroom-skinned hats and matching earth-made apparels, were sacking my home. I could hear things being thrown about, shelves crashing, glasses breaking, all while their weensy, breathy voices ricocheted through hallways that were once mine and comfortable. Finally, after enough time had passed that I was convinced this was indeed really happening, I asked the gnome above what it was they were looking for. “Powdered creamer,” he simply murmured.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here, two folds of terror shot through me: 1) the audacity behind being restrained for a cheap coffee accoutrement and 2) I had and have no powdered creamer in the house. How this came to be, how my home––the home of a coffee enthusiast, whether expensive or cheap––came to be empty of creamer is another letter in itself, but suffice it to say that a certain significant person in my life left for a new batch of powered flavor for our morning brews only never to return. My personal life, like my coffee, has been devoid of smack and sweet-spice ever since.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It took the team of gnomes only a few hours to come to the conclusion I had known already: no creamer. At this realization, the gnome who was my company for the morning was called away by some unseen mumble-hiss. Next thing I saw was a swarm of ten to fifteen gnomes struggling, dragging a bread knife down the hall toward me and the bedroom. They only made it halfway until each one collapsed exhausted, panting, their curses sounding like the rubbing of a thousand insect wings. Then they gathered themselves again for another task: a wooden spoon. This time they progressed stoically to the door frame of the bedroom then, again, fell to the floor too fatigued to continue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afraid, I tried to tell them that someone would be coming soon, hopefully, with creamer, that it was on the way, but they only ignored me, throwing up their minute hands as if to bat away the lies I was hurling at them. The group limped back toward the kitchen and, again, I had to endure the sounds of my belongings being tossed and broken. When they came back into my view a few of them where carrying a white-topped orange plastic bottle with amazing ease. The gnome that woke me had a fingernail-wide grin on his face while he walked toward me, I could tell even through the beard. I braced myself as they climbed the bed, completely unaware of what was to happen next. As the small, bearded men crested into view, I finally saw what it was they were hoisting: Bubble solution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088161063985187586" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpzHh4rPiwI/AAAAAAAAAM8/S4lmaxKSj6U/s200/14_bubbleL.jpg" border="0" /&gt; The next few hours of my life are ones that will forever change me. Parts of my soul have died; aspects of my person dissipated like wet footprints in summer’s heat. What happened next, what these mini-monsters did to me, was completely unforeseeable. They climbed all over me, on my chest, my face, in my hair. Their feet sunk into my skin, their breath smelled of upturned soil. One of the gnomes positioned himself by my ear and whispered, “Just tell us where the creamer is. You think we’d come here if you didn’t have any? We know you. We know all about you.” Then the four who were standing on my face pried open my eyes, two to an eye. The bubble solution was maneuvered on to my chest and then the rest of the group burrowed under my pillow and propped up my head. I was staring at a bubble wand, its circle filled by moving, soapy colors, with eyes pulled open. It might as well have been the barrel of a gun. Two gnomes from behind the screen of iridescence then took deep breaths and finally exhaled. Bubbles, hundreds of bubbles, hit my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Torture. It’s the best word to describe it, what I’ve been though. Even now, I’m still tied up, eyes raw and red. At this point, I bet I have enough soap in my eyes to blow bubbles out of them, from the inside, my thoughts acting as air. Please know, as of this moment, I am dictating this letter to you. Like a game of Twister, a gnome is hoping about and contorting himself on the keyboard of my laptop so that this letter will reach you. It is the one favor they will grant me. They have no intention of letting me go, or believing me when I tell them that I have no creamer. This ordeal, though maybe far from over, has pained me greatly, but the prospect of maybe surviving this only to go to jail for failing to attend to my civic duty of juror, truly deflates my entire being, soul, body, and mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I pray for your understanding. And also creamer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yours,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selfstonishment&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-1022848825550388100?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/1022848825550388100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=1022848825550388100&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1022848825550388100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1022848825550388100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-no-jury-duty-longform.html' title='Why no Jury Duty (longform)'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpzGrYrPiuI/AAAAAAAAAMs/d1bBblpvPms/s72-c/gnomenice.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-8699560809599225628</id><published>2007-07-12T15:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-12T16:00:43.803-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Zebra manufacturer cookbook manual</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpaIHIrPisI/AAAAAAAAAMc/WjOeTfacib0/s1600-h/unicorn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5086402485330873026" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpaIHIrPisI/AAAAAAAAAMc/WjOeTfacib0/s320/unicorn.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;{Keeping the spam poetry going. Simply succulent.}&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Helicopter sandal bagel press with a quail mansion wrist band. Elephant squish car door handcuffs put spirit guns to cockroach doctors. Enigma machines encode typewriting synthesizers. Yes? Starship dentures, artificial teeth pop. The pickle jar drum set sound makes neon light pea shooter ointment. Blowtorch spritz bottle. Loaded gun bazooka sofa. Gorilla stabilized penguin toe?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;An enclosed basketball court dancer rabbit sniff in an south dakota russian neighborhood park playground. All for a civil war army aircraft snow blower. The World War 2 reception birthday present was given in the bowling alley furnace still attaching the pine tree feeding tube. Teacup can opener hairbrush? What an unreasonable question for a softball butterfly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have bookcase pantry gymnasium access.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look to the toot beep rhino lighthouse and listen for the unicorn honk. My shoe lace bass canoe rock climbing appeases costume wrestling tackle mask goaltenders.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wanna see through my magnifying glass projector sunglasses? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Or partake in my baboon body part armchair?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fresh out of the water glue bubble bath, one might tutor genius eardrum hardware hammer tools. Under the dummy bikini patio ceiling light, self's limerick panel abdomen landing gear touches my cardigan armhole walnut. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;See you at the balance beam workshop. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-8699560809599225628?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/8699560809599225628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=8699560809599225628&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8699560809599225628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8699560809599225628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/07/zebra-manufacturer-cookbook-manual.html' title='Zebra manufacturer cookbook manual'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpaIHIrPisI/AAAAAAAAAMc/WjOeTfacib0/s72-c/unicorn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-2786803849024271490</id><published>2007-07-11T11:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-07-11T11:53:49.664-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Spam Subject Lines</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;{These are actual subject lines of emails found in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:elevendytwelven@gmail.com"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt;elevendytwelven&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;'s inbox}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085961687715219746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpT3NVmDCSI/AAAAAAAAAMU/VTIVXNpmmbU/s320/spam-big.jpeg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- John Kerry has approved your mortgage!&lt;br /&gt;- For example, avoid leaning away from the speaker and folding your arms which can be interpreted as a lack of interest.&lt;br /&gt;- Lenore Martin on or exhaustible &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Morris time and a half molest &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Aurora Correa by ron or selector &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Mary Calloway her methylene the sanford&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Lina Alvarado I roulette the residue &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Helga Tripp A typeface he quipping&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Queen Carr I epistemology the bulk &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Bette Lloyd Be revet of volleyball &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Ken Connelly I my cashmere&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Pansy Gregory As in sensuous &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Grisham Doretha Re: My darling..... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Christiana Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the old world order &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Elise Payne The barkeep as destruct&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- Ariana Still Happy With It All&lt;br /&gt;- Is it burlap&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- so baneful, so bugle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- sex can&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- I as venereal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- straightjacket self-explanatory&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- so resentful a rodent&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- you a winner!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- no one can tell. Pterodactyl&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- be my waterline&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- you salvation of tusk&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- In-laws titillate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- vaporized scythe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- do you think Bush is a gay?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- once the angle of the blade is ruined, you might just as well throw them out&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;- It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul&lt;br /&gt;- this best move success made people only boulder&lt;br /&gt;- hotel pakistan want embassy missing using bomb defensive might&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;And, lastly:&lt;br /&gt;- Her hairy white fancy bra prepares for fight and their red cat is thinking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-2786803849024271490?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/2786803849024271490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=2786803849024271490&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/2786803849024271490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/2786803849024271490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/07/spam-subject-lines.html' title='Spam Subject Lines'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RpT3NVmDCSI/AAAAAAAAAMU/VTIVXNpmmbU/s72-c/spam-big.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-3560469232343769475</id><published>2007-06-20T12:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-20T16:31:46.833-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Visit Denver</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnlZTylXZpI/AAAAAAAAAMM/L6norReKeag/s1600-h/Photo-0022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078188251367827090" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnlZTylXZpI/AAAAAAAAAMM/L6norReKeag/s400/Photo-0022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Check the Molly Brown House. Enjoy the Mountains where you can hike, swim, jog, and play golf. Also be sure to visit our most treasured historic landmark, a symbol of Mile High pride, the 7-11 located at York and Colfax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more info check&lt;br /&gt;www.seven-elevendytwelven.blogspot.whydidyoupunchmeinmyfu*kingface.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-3560469232343769475?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/3560469232343769475/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=3560469232343769475&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3560469232343769475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3560469232343769475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/06/visit-denver.html' title='Visit Denver'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnlZTylXZpI/AAAAAAAAAMM/L6norReKeag/s72-c/Photo-0022.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-7902595596272796692</id><published>2007-06-13T17:15:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-13T20:07:21.974-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Frightful Visions-Fearful Shadows, 1st installment</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnCCqClXZmI/AAAAAAAAAL0/qEufFmwX99c/s1600-h/step1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnCCqClXZmI/AAAAAAAAAL0/qEufFmwX99c/s320/step1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075700438806259298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;A gray mist had settled on the lower section of Manhattan as Daniel closed his Power Book and looked at the clock. 3:00 AM. Why did he decide to take the Tanaka account? To reach his clients, it was required that he stay up late, to reach them early in the morning. Tonight he was care free as they bought his bid to redo the line of shin enhancing lotion cream drink. His associates shut the lights and moved to an after hours joint on Rector. It was 4:30 when Daniel made his way to the W station. The offer was given for a cab to be split, but Daniel was nursing his last Harps in the jon and had missed them. He saw them drive away and he was left alone. The air was thick with silence. For downtown to be so loud and clamorous during working hours, after they all had gone, the decible level was excrutiatingly low. All he heard was his Rockports shuffling the loose gravel, and his liquor heavy breath struggling to maintain respiration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He trained his eyes on the two globes glowing red at the top of the stairs. His legs were swollen as they bent, to lower himself down into the station. He could hear a train coming to a stop and he quickened his pace. He jiggled his keys around the mess of napkins and dollar bills to find his fare card. He had to swipe the card twice, and bruised his left thigh on the turnstile. He had missed the train. He peered down the tunnel and saw the two red lights on the last car slide uptown. He caught a glimpse of the tracks. He started to lean in, and stare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnCC1ClXZnI/AAAAAAAAAL8/JXoIxPqLK7U/s1600-h/ThirdRail.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnCC1ClXZnI/AAAAAAAAAL8/JXoIxPqLK7U/s200/ThirdRail.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075700627784820338" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Was it true what they said about the third rail? Swaying back and forth, he imagined himself falling on the grease stained metal. A crack from his ribs had knocked the wind out of him. A train quickly approached. First his fingers were split from his hand, then his thorax burst open as he was repeatedly struck by the wheels. He was divorced from pain as his brain trickled out of his ears, along with all ability to feel. Darkness surrounded him.&lt;br /&gt;He got a grip and fell back on to the wall. He was sweating profusely. He had not fallen on the tracks, but his feet had a tingling in them, similar to the feeling of peering down from great heights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His head swaying, he issued a Camel from his coat pocket and lit it. Absolutley no one to be seen. He felt a slight breeze coming from one of the tunnels, so he thought some train would be coming soon. He took a deep pull off of the cigarette, and exhaled imagining a bygone year, where a man could smoke where and when he wanted to. Just then he heard a plastic bottle slide across the platform on the downtown side. He looked and saw no one. He blinked very slowly and tilt his head. His eyes began to swivle in their sockets as he raised the Camel up again. The blue smoke burnt his eyes and he put his hand up to squeeze them. He opened them as a tear formed and saw something moving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnCGmilXZoI/AAAAAAAAAME/N4Nse4Ju-Ss/s1600-h/honda-muffler.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnCGmilXZoI/AAAAAAAAAME/N4Nse4Ju-Ss/s320/honda-muffler.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5075704776723228290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Not sure what it was, he smashed the smoke into the ground and threw it into the pit, where the tracks were laid. He stood up and brushed his pants off. There, across the platform was a man. He was of normal height, and a solid build that bordered on stout. His glossy visage had composure and he seemed to have purpose. His face was not the issue. This man was wearing nothing but a grease stained t-shirt. His testicles were dangling like a hairy broken muffler beneath his undercarriage. No shoes, no watch, no hat. Just a large t-shirt. The man began to laugh, then he farted. Daniel's brow came to a crunch in the middle of his face. He bent forward to begin purging himself. He lost balance and fell head first onto the tracks. He rolled over to pick himself up but lost control of his hand. It slipped on something and his chin came crunching down on metal. Daniel was dazed, lost in a swril. He looked up and saw the man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The t-shirt with man inside begun to lower itself onto the tracks. He crawled delicatley over the tracks onto the side where Daniel was. On all fours he began to go through Daniels pockets. Just then they both looked up. The W. The man lept out of the tracks, as a piercing screech blazed from the oncoming train. Daniel rolled over once again. He had never seen such a frightful vision, such a fearful shadow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-7902595596272796692?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/7902595596272796692/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=7902595596272796692&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7902595596272796692'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7902595596272796692'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/06/frightful-visions-fearful-shadows-1st.html' title='Frightful Visions-Fearful Shadows, 1st installment'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RnCCqClXZmI/AAAAAAAAAL0/qEufFmwX99c/s72-c/step1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-45638631578840155</id><published>2007-06-07T12:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-08T09:44:57.512-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Gladys Update</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9966;"&gt;{Part 2 of Lewmont Alec DeMarq's guest-blogging.}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073686782044235218" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RmlbPylXZdI/AAAAAAAAAKs/g0Cafn41LtU/s320/blogging.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Shortly after my last post, and in an emotionally blinding blitz, I tried, for the second time, to power up Gladys.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first things appeared fine, harmless, trivial. In the splinter of a second, I considered my pain forgotten, my isolation erased, and my inner-fortune returning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then, that all changed just as quick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My PX-2500’s, or Gladys’, movements became jerky, haphazard. The visor shot up into its PVC dome to reveal two naked camera eyes, slapdashing back and forth, panicked. A metallic whine pealed from the droid and filled the room, causing me to cringe. Its hands shot up and covered the ear-mounds as if trying to keep something from spilling out… Perfectly against my wildest imagination, unanticipatedly, and much to my own horror, Gladys then proceeded to twist and rip its head clean off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I witnessed a suicide; my own creation’s self-propelled euthanasia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My psychological state has been awash for hours. I cleaned up my latest mess feeling a heavy hollow in my ribs, empty, utterly alveolate. I had to let open my windows hoping the stinging redolence of singed plastic would dissipate. I was breathing in the remains of my happiness, the last traces of what might have fixed me. I sobbed uncontrollably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once I regained and composed myself, I began to write my post for this site. In all honesty, I cannot tell you why; it just felt right. I then found a comment on my last post from the wise, the charismatic, the undaunted Jonald. He was, in fact, the flicker of encouragement that brought my self-confidence to such heights I felt fastened to the idea of sharing a bit of myself (other then snow globes) with this world. He lived across the hall from me during my freshman year at Yale. Jonald was just as lonely as I was, but his impelling mind was put to good use; Jonald created the modern-day weblog, or blog, to deal with his companionless excuse for a life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In my lugubrious mind frame, the message he left me was inspiring, helpful, and very much needed. Thorough his kind words I’ve found that I don’t need a robot to discover love and companionship. All I need is a blog and fellow bloggers, because even virtual concernment is still concernment. And that is, if even the only thing, what I consider to lack. It is good to know those with the similar interests can heal even the worst of maladies. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RmlbhilXZfI/AAAAAAAAAK8/rcrFQBjSoMI/s1600-h/blogging%20pic.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5073687086986913266" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 304px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 212px" height="230" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RmlbhilXZfI/AAAAAAAAAK8/rcrFQBjSoMI/s320/blogging%2520pic.jpg" width="314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;So I thank you, again, Jonald, and bloggers everywhere. You all have the ability to make me feel loved. A truely treasured sentiment by yours truly. Expect in the forthcoming months a blog of my own, complete with clever name and graphics. Much thanks to elevendy twelven for not only introducing me to their one (1) reader, but showing me the power of the blog. How the possibility of someone reading my inner-most thoughts (and maybe even caring about them!) can partially fill the very void Gladys was designed to occupy. But how slippery a possibility can be! Yet I grasp with vim and vigor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please pray for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until then…a gracious good-bye. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-45638631578840155?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/45638631578840155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=45638631578840155&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/45638631578840155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/45638631578840155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/06/gladys-update.html' title='The Gladys Update'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RmlbPylXZdI/AAAAAAAAAKs/g0Cafn41LtU/s72-c/blogging.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-5735375023455495335</id><published>2007-06-05T21:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-06-08T09:43:30.502-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dans ma vie</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;{The following post is the first of two installments from guest-blogger Lewmont Alec DeMarq. His forthcoming novel,&lt;/em&gt; &lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Snow Globes filled with the Tears of Children&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;, due out this winter, is a blinding bildungsroman tale that traces DeMarq's life from the slums of Flagstaff, AZ to his Ivy League education to his discovery of-- and ultimate success because of--&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Smooth Banishment&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;, the cologne that changed the fragrance game. Please enjoy.}&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;My hands smell like science, my eyes burn with pride. Soon the residuum of my labors will come to fruition. After many a night slaving over my drafting table with protractor and pencil in hand, I am a few clockwise turns to the right from having a new companion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;True, I revel in a snow globe or thirty, but, alas, these traits, this dedication to a glassed, permanent winter paused behind swirling confetti, afford me very little conviviality. Yes, I've tried those flagitious, malevolent substances that rob individuals of their youth and luster by way of injection or inhalation; sadly, attempts to escape my acute forlornness were mainly by way of illegal drugs. But I learned fairly quickly, that my extreme dissolution would only return twenty fold each and every time the serpentine effect wore away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Swerving in and out of my cold, dead, hebetudinous labyrinth, I tried to focus my attention on globes, pour my passion into plastic skylines, the properly-angled jiggling of knickknacks, and the subtle twinkling of synthetic snow. But even they couldn't change the barefaced fact that most nights the Food Network was what lulled me to sleep instead of a caring, caressing hand tracing trails on my cheek. I would awake in starts and fits, only to have reality wash itself back into my eyes and my mind: I am alone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is not advantageous for an intellect such as my own to be devoid of conversation or stimulation. I need to discuss the problem with the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3214709"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;deli isle &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;or how &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/01/nyregion/01truck.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;six inches &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;do make a difference or how good my &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070604222124.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;air tastes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;. Oh how these things tear at my very core!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the cliché goes, Desperate Measures for Desperate Times, and I have taken it upon myself to dramatically improve my situation. I give you my new roommate, the PX-2500, or Gladys, for short:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RmYJWClXZcI/AAAAAAAAAKk/R-zmanpKLG4/s1600-h/200px-Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072752304534808002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RmYJWClXZcI/AAAAAAAAAKk/R-zmanpKLG4/s320/200px-Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Here, as you can see, I'm running the performance program. The Fugal Horn creates the most tranquil, unflappable intonation, in my opinion. The ceremony pictured here was not perfect-- some notes flat, others ear-bleedingly sharp--but showed immense promise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will post more pictures when it is complete, maybe even video. But please join me in wishing Gladys success. My life, as I know it, needs this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-5735375023455495335?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/5735375023455495335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=5735375023455495335&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/5735375023455495335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/5735375023455495335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/06/dans-ma-vie.html' title='Dans ma vie'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RmYJWClXZcI/AAAAAAAAAKk/R-zmanpKLG4/s72-c/200px-Toyota_Robot_at_Toyota_Kaikan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-376524811272667931</id><published>2007-05-25T11:39:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-25T12:30:09.357-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Adventures with Baby</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RlcNrDxJKUI/AAAAAAAAAKc/bZikG8o0sds/s1600-h/235.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5068534939025746242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RlcNrDxJKUI/AAAAAAAAAKc/bZikG8o0sds/s320/235.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;{&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;Adventures with Baby&lt;/span&gt; is a monthy installment that allows us to look deep inside the consciousness of one of America's own. The strained, waste-strewn box is this modern culture and he is the man-boy, only to allowed to grow as much as this life will allow.}&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The child awoke to a bad case of the bends. Grasping the night before, a night of revolution, holding the choice laser of destiny ... the old ,shoot first and ask questions later. It wasn’t so much the daily exercise of swimming in his oblong fish bowl full of scotch that brought the destruction of his machine but more the long exhausting adventure through the no-name roads of conversation. Her name was Shit Dick, Veronicolin, or something. She held a cup of skull which made him think she was a real Viking of sorts, wearing a blood stained shirt and crushing her breast into a big, tamed beast she named, ‘my man’. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-Main stream hip-hop is destroying Africa with all the cocaine drug trafficking going on. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Where did you learn this? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-It’s a fact. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The child stared into his empty cup while his companion conversed absurdities to the Viking. He kept taking sips of his ghostly drink so not to speak. The Viking could tell he was hiding something. She attacked. While on her rampage of belittling the child he stared deeper into his cup. He could see his reflection in the stubborn droplets of vodka and realized why God was doing this to him. He first thought it was because of his appearance. The childish face full of childish stubble. &lt;em&gt;Damn, baby forgot to shave again, you fucking baby&lt;/em&gt;. Short soft hair that hadn’t fully come in yet. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Why don’t you like Ol’ Dirty Bastard? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Because he’s old, dirty, a bastard, and he’s dead. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The child left the room and went on his way home. It was a dark fuzzy night. He relied on his cigarette to guide him through the streets. When all had fallen silent he dreamt of Russell Jones screaming and clawing at his coffin, crawling from the depths to fight Vikings. Scratching the surface. The woman who was sworn in to take care of the child, to watch baby, placed the little man in the shower. The water was hot. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-We listen to intelligent political rap. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Shit dicks. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting more annoyed with his memory he tried to get his mind on to better things. In the shower, he looked down noticing his new friend. An oddly shaped fellow. He wished that he had the same powers that this friend had, the power to grow into one strong large muscle. Thinking how it would have helped earlier that night, during the ongoing Viking blaze of mayhem. &lt;em&gt;If only I could do that! What would she say then!&lt;/em&gt; He finished.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That day he had to work a double shift of mindless running back and forth, holding burning plates in his palms while entertaining the anonymous. &lt;em&gt;How can these people allow a baby to work this many hours? I wish my mind had the narrator’s voice from the wonder years, I don’t even hear anything. Whatever happened to Fred Savage? Whatever happened to Winnie? God damn my allergies are killing me. &lt;/em&gt;He sneezed throughout the entire day. &lt;em&gt;Why doesn’t anyone say bless you? I’m always on top of it, for all I know Millhouse might be right and my unblessed sneeze has erased everything that’s good and everything I’ve achieved.&lt;/em&gt; He was picked up by his caretaker who drove him to their neighborhood bar. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3 Rumpelmintz and 6 Papts later he could be seen 360 degrees around the bar dancing and singing Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s return to the 36 chambers. He noticed he was being watched but did not care for these people did not get it, but he realized a character was paying close attention to him. An oddly looking fellow: a man in makeup, a she with Captain America’s jaw line, a sausage smuggler in a skirt. He approached the man-her. Throughout the one sided flirtatious conversation, he cornered the decision to employ a science experiment on his two buddies who had joined him for drinks. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-What’s your name? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Janet. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Would you like to smoke some weed Janet? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Yes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Leaving the pissed stained walls and the origins from which they came from, the child was immersed in an argument with his friend. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-I don’t know if this girl should come over man, Ryan’s kind of freaked out about bringing people over he doesn’t know. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;-I understand but think about it this way, you’ll have a cute girl to smoke weed with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;-Yeah, well I’m putting this in your hands and anyways you have a girl. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The child laughed to himself. &lt;em&gt;It’s not even on that, man&lt;/em&gt;. His friend placed him in the child seat and they were off. &lt;em&gt;Shit dicks&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-376524811272667931?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/376524811272667931/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=376524811272667931&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/376524811272667931'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/376524811272667931'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/05/adventures-with-baby.html' title='Adventures with Baby'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RlcNrDxJKUI/AAAAAAAAAKc/bZikG8o0sds/s72-c/235.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-3827884191174305799</id><published>2007-05-10T16:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-10T16:47:19.373-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Serious Movie Reviews</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkN-uXnxQwI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/wTD9UUQ--zM/s1600-h/popcorn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063029741174473474" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkN-uXnxQwI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/wTD9UUQ--zM/s320/popcorn.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Title, Dialog Contribute Next To Nothing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;-A serious movie review by&lt;br /&gt;Pissenger Padgeins-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Rear and Pleasant Danger,” the first installment of Cory Elon’s three-film threadbare-arcadia serial, is densely peppered with random acts of coitus, pulpy money-shots, and painfully obvious hotel-room scenery. The human struggles of connection and acceptance are staples of American culture––evidenced by the last six years of ‘The Gilmore Girls’––but Mr. Elon’s character’s tap into something different, acting more like sex-crazed zombies with endless slews of crotchal moisture.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The film begins in medieval England, at least that is what one is led to think when Paige Patella––the only female lead––appears wearing a corset gown and tiara. She is told of her father’s stress in dealing with the defiant rouge factions in Ireland. Worry is splashed across Ms. Patella’s face like paint, heavily and deliberately glob-like. The young male messenger who brought the news ends up having to catch her from fainting; obviously the stress levels of the father of Ms. Patella’s still-nameless character affect her deeply. Next you know, the messenger is naked, standing with eyes closed, while Ms. Patella, now very conscious, seems to have found a cure for her worry in the form of swallowing again and again the young man’s machismo. How this strong connection came to be, how their clothes mysteriously disappeared is part of Mr. Elon’s elaborate trickery. While the camera focuses on more buttal and tittal angles, it’s almost like the story already doesn’t matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next we find ourselves in what looks to be a modern-day apartment, if today was 1985. The couches are screened in plastic; the art looks like Max Headrum just sneezed on the wall. But Ms. Patella is there, this time dressed in nothing but a Mickey Mouse t-shirt. The plumber shows up, which she seems to be expecting. What happens next can only be described as elbow-pit copulation, with the bearded plumber repeated asking, “You want my pit slice?” or “Are you watching that flesh wrinkle?” Yes, Mr. Plumber, many of us are watching, and wondering. Ms. Patella’s character can only respond to such metaphysical questions with a very poignant, “Fill my trapper-keeper with your college-ruled!” Education is indeed flexing itself here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be hard to keep track of everyone within such an intricate plot, but things start to almost make sense when, for whatever reason, Ms. Patella visits an apparently near-by quarry. She watches the men work away at the limestone, in their plaid working shirts and hardhats, while thoughtfully chewing her upper lip and, in a moment of self-reflection, warms her hand in-between herself. Here we get the only real insight to Ms. Patella’s character’s motivations: natural landforms and the harvesting of rock remind her of her own sexual valley and the work she’s put into forming it. She is obviously proud and as the scene proceeds to fade out, we are left with a small sense pride ourselves having pieced together some aspect of plot and character drive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We fade back in to Ms. Patella, obviously high from her introspective trip to the quarry, engaging yet again in genital activity while holed up in a very sterile hotel room. This time she’s quiet, just throwing looks of confusion-mixed-with-inattention back at her now-sixth partner of the film. He’s the loud one this time, deploring her to enjoy his “Mendous Member” and to be affected by his “Mazing back-u-puncture” technique. These words (Tremendous and Amazing) are obviously said wrong to show the audience that this partner has trouble, like some of us, expressing his inner thoughts and feelings. Unfortunately, Ms. Patella’s character doesn’t seem to care and we are left to ponder her all-too-realistic choice of just exchanging bodily fluids with the random man and not helping his phonics. She leaves him deflated and sleeping.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The crescendo of the work occurs after this random-room encounter. Outside of the hotel Ms. Patella’s character runs into two little people. Referring to themselves as “honest, vage-loving midgets,” and after an exchanging of very bare and basic dialog, we find out that they are on the run. Ms. Patella, possibly making up for the lack of compassion in the hotel room, seems to be over flowing with empathy in the parking lot. She’s obviously affected and motions them behind a car were we are led to believe that Ms. Patella’s character somehow stuffs them inside of herself. She stands up, straightens her skirt, and walks casually away. In a moment of directorial genius, Mr. Elon then shows us the two little people, tucked away in Ms. Patella’s character’s neither-regions. They are all smiles and happy, relieved to thwart the threat that plagues them. So jubilant, in fact, that they themselves begin to engage in sensual action, right there surrounded by the pink and soft of Ms. Patella’s supposed birth canal. This, of course, affects Ms. Patella and while she is standing in line at what looks to be a Subway, she collapses to the floor in mysterious ecstasy. Their hidden love-making has brought about similar results upon Ms. Patella’s character. The metaphor here is a touch forced, but still relevant: She can harness any love she wants, but the inner love is what swings the heaviest hammer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The end of the movie is confusing, but I think so on purpose. As we fade out from Ms. Patella grinding a bag of Sun Chips against her pleasure-pot, we fade into the future, 45 years from now. The Earth is barren, the moon broken into shards, and people seem to have morphed into marsupial-human-mix-type creatures called at one point “Kangavites.” Two of them hop toward each other and proceed to massage each other’s pouches until plastic fruit explodes from their furry honches. Humanity has lost, sensuality has abandoned. And we, the audience, are left understanding: Ms. Patella’s nameless character, a presence more then a person, wanted all the love she could get. She was a prophet and knew the future was effete and bleak. Neither the dialog nor the title contribute to this only-possible conclusion, which is a testament to the director’s aptness, but still leave you a bit confused. Which, if you think about it, is how life portrayed as art framed through life made with artistic tools really is.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-3827884191174305799?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/3827884191174305799/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=3827884191174305799&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3827884191174305799'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3827884191174305799'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/05/serious-movie-reviews.html' title='Serious Movie Reviews'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkN-uXnxQwI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/wTD9UUQ--zM/s72-c/popcorn.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-4559657092294634177</id><published>2007-05-09T13:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-09T13:36:07.594-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Elevendy Twelven presents...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkIFV3nxQvI/AAAAAAAAAJs/GZsFmtPJ7ao/s1600-h/-songs.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062614804384006898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkIFV3nxQvI/AAAAAAAAAJs/GZsFmtPJ7ao/s320/-songs.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may remember them as love songs. Not so much this week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fu*k Me Tender – Elvis Presley, 1956&lt;br /&gt;It's Only Fu*k – The Beatles, 1977&lt;br /&gt;And I Fu*k Her – The Beatles, 1964&lt;br /&gt;I Will Always Fu*k You – Whitney Houston, 1992&lt;br /&gt;Endless Fu*k – Diana Ross &amp; Lionel Richie, 1981&lt;br /&gt;That's The Way Fu*k Goes – Janet Jackson, 1993&lt;br /&gt;P.S. I Fu*k You – The Beatles, 1964&lt;br /&gt;I'll Make Fu*k To You – Boyz II Men, 1994&lt;br /&gt;Best Of My Fu*k – The Emotions, 1977&lt;br /&gt;I'd Do Anything For Fu*k (But I Won't Do That) – Meat Loaf, 1993&lt;br /&gt;It Must Have Been Fu*k – Roxette, 1986&lt;br /&gt;I Need Fu*k – LL Cool J, 1987&lt;br /&gt;Fu*k To Fu*k You Baby – Donna Summer, 1976&lt;br /&gt;I Want To Know What Fu*k Is – Foreigner, 1985&lt;br /&gt;Baby, I Fu*k Your Way – Peter Frampton, 1976&lt;br /&gt;Stop To Fu*k – Luther Vandross, 1986&lt;br /&gt;How Deep Is Your Fu*k – The Bee Gees, 1978&lt;br /&gt;All Out Of Fu*k – Air Supply, 1980&lt;br /&gt;Fu*k Will Keep Us Together – Captain &amp;amp; Tennille, 1975&lt;br /&gt;I Can't Make You Fu*k Me – Bonnie Raitt, 1991&lt;br /&gt;Because You Fu*kd Me – Celine Dion, 1996&lt;br /&gt;Words Of Fu*k – The Beatles, 1964&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-4559657092294634177?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/4559657092294634177/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=4559657092294634177&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4559657092294634177'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4559657092294634177'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/05/elevendy-twelven-presents.html' title='Elevendy Twelven presents...'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkIFV3nxQvI/AAAAAAAAAJs/GZsFmtPJ7ao/s72-c/-songs.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-7695126696025444695</id><published>2007-05-08T10:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T10:56:41.430-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Unsolved Ejaculations of Mystery</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCHP3nxQnI/AAAAAAAAAIs/UjFcIp7VLwY/s1600-h/campsite1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCHP3nxQnI/AAAAAAAAAIs/UjFcIp7VLwY/s200/campsite1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062194687862981234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I dreamt of a pitched tent nagging at my sexual campsite. I wondered, Should I throw dirt and smother it? Or wrestle it like a sedan-sized bear, using every once of my strength and guile to keep my food stuffs safe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then awake, I noticed it wasn’t morning. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other side of the bed, my bed, was cold. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where was she? Did she leave?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier tonight. Yes. She came over. We talked, mostly about nothing: my quiet habit of picking the seeds off of a strawberry before eating it, her compulsion to lick salted meats and collect coats of all kinds. It was nice. The food was nice. I made a fantastic salmon smothered in a cheesy dill sauce with a side of buttered-broccoli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was sure then that night was at full tilt. Even the drab talk of the weather and coming cold could not deny it. Nothing less then sex was left. Her eyes and bare nipples made that clear. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then she dipped into her purse. A bizarre thing, it was. Like the neck of an alpaca; furry, slender, somewhat annoying, with straps. She brought out two blue hexagonal pills. Ecstasy, I thought.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“I want you to suitcase these,” she said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Where are we going?” I asked. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“No. I want YOU to suitcase these.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She had a firm grip on my wrist by then, reaching across the table. Her naked chest was covered with dill the salmon missed. She must have seen the confusion in my eyes. Suddenly, we were standing and my arm was wrenched behind my back and she was fumbling with my belt. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m not opposed to new things. I believe it makes me smarter, wiser, a better person. It might not be clear now where and in what ways my life will improve having experienced a stranger’s (albeit an attractive, top-less stranger’s) finger pushing two unknown pills up into my body from the back door, but I’m sure it will make itself clear in due time. I now at least know “suitcase” to also be a verb. Until this night, it was merely a sad, sad noun. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She called them “enhancers.” I was still thinking Ecstasy. But now she’s gone and my body is stiff and sore and alone in bed. A pinnacle of comforter rises from the middle of me, screaming with my heartbeats. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quickly I do the math. Six, no five and half hours ago we finished dinner. No sex was had, that I can remember. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Gwen?” I call, thinking maybe the topless blond I paid for “interesting fun” is still here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only answer I get is the familiar quiet of the walls and floors and carpet of my two-room apartment soaking up my sound. Nobody is here. Just me and my thundering erection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve never thought of using a male stimulant. Actually I still don’t. Not yet, at my age. But at the same time I never thought I would be afraid of my own penis either. Here it is, a fleshy flag pole fighting my boxers and the sheets above it, trying to blast off, break through the ceiling, explode into flashing glitter-balls the shape of a peace sign or the American flag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCIL3nxQqI/AAAAAAAAAJE/uVv0C1z07Vw/s1600-h/fireworks-feuerwerk-l9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCIL3nxQqI/AAAAAAAAAJE/uVv0C1z07Vw/s320/fireworks-feuerwerk-l9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062195718655132322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know what I have to do. Every man would. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deflate the urge, manually. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m like a prize fighter who’s slept through the first eleven rounds to wake up hurting, eye swollen shut, cheeks slick and puffy with pain. There is one more round to go. This will not be graceful. This will not be set to pretty music. This will sting a bit. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I reach around under my bed for the magazined smut. Oh, it hurts to move. The stash that has been kept under countless beds since my adolescence has been a constant comfort, not so much in my use of it but more in the existence and the readiness of it. If the two or three magazines were any more accessible they would be on my bedside table, but that just isn’t the look or the comfort I’m going for. While feeling for the porn, I briefly picture a naked woman pouting her lips and twisting a nipple on the way to self-exploration with one hand, holding on with the other. She’s on a helicopter, banking in at some ridiculous angle to save me, hair all curls and wind. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I position myself. The magazine is open. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The pages are familiar, the faces and poses contrived. This won’t do. I close my eyes, try and settle myself, try to forget my member. I wonder whether my feet or hands will have to be amputated because my penis is hogging all the blood. Then, in my mind, my manhood becomes a hook, all that will be left from this horrible ordeal. Some sort of prosthetic grapple hook. I will be only able to mate with robots and cans of pineapple juice. But I will have a way to get into my car when I lock the keys inside. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See, there are upsides. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. That won’t happen. It can’t. I just need to get on with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I fuddle between images of the suitcase-these-and-I’ll-leave girl smeared with dill, a co-worker at the microwave in the empty third floor lounge, a familiar yet random busty park ranger coming across my lone campsite, but nothing is holding, nothing enticing. My imagination–grown strong and vivid by the very practice of self-satisfaction on a weekly, if not daily, basis–is at a loss. Frustration ensues. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I try not to give in to the thoughts washing through my mind. That I am now welding a weapon, a billy-club of blood and vein; a battering ram capable of pulverizing the plastic cage of some nefarious hamster; a quarterstaff used to punish those that steal or use inappropriate language. This is not my gentle member. This is not my beautiful house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCI83nxQsI/AAAAAAAAAJU/c1hqFK2FQWg/s1600-h/helicopter_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCI83nxQsI/AAAAAAAAAJU/c1hqFK2FQWg/s200/helicopter_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062196560468722370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then my mind flashes. She returns, my Helicopter Girl. She is laying down this time, on the floor of the machine, arms and hair spreading down toward me, a sly smile on her face. She wants to save me, to send down a rope to bring me closer. And I will have it, have her. This will be my own Clancy novel, full of bad dialogue and military intrigue. And I will get in the helicopter, after just exposing some Russian covert operation for the greater good, on my own, under the radar of the United States Government. And she, my Helicopter Girl, is my prize. She won’t mind that I had to suitcase two strange pills. I had to, to save the country. And she’ll see that, she’ll know that, and be turned on. She’ll have no choice but to please me, tie me up right there in the helicopter with ribbons of bullets…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few thoughts later I can feel the end approaching, my goal almost procured. I had to let my mind go where it wanted, trust my imagination. A healthy, flaccid me is soon here. A few moments left.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The release is momentous. Memories even seem to leave with it. I forget for a second how this all happened, how my body came to ache. But that is no matter compared to what my casting loose brings about. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCJkXnxQuI/AAAAAAAAAJk/1H-R-wtnD_U/s1600-h/Men_s_Breathable_Water_Resistant_Parka_G03_K36_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCJkXnxQuI/AAAAAAAAAJk/1H-R-wtnD_U/s200/Men_s_Breathable_Water_Resistant_Parka_G03_K36_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5062197239073555170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Parkas, rain slickers, down jackets, leather blazers; my bed is filled with coats. I just came coats. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The shock is numbing. And when a still-topless Gwen appears from my closet and gathers as many jackets as she can from between the sheets, then kisses me before leaving, all I can do is blankly watch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outside it is snowing.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-7695126696025444695?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/7695126696025444695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=7695126696025444695&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7695126696025444695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7695126696025444695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/05/unsolved-ejaculations-of-mystery.html' title='Unsolved Ejaculations of Mystery'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RkCHP3nxQnI/AAAAAAAAAIs/UjFcIp7VLwY/s72-c/campsite1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-816556024750719060</id><published>2007-05-07T12:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T12:58:33.920-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Slipping Into Something More Confusing</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rj9aqnnxQlI/AAAAAAAAAIc/SCRk2_04V7A/s1600-h/New%2520Clydesdales%2520on%2520Kauai%2520Luke,%2520Levi,%2520and%2520Kiara%2520.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rj9aqnnxQlI/AAAAAAAAAIc/SCRk2_04V7A/s320/New%2520Clydesdales%2520on%2520Kauai%2520Luke,%2520Levi,%2520and%2520Kiara%2520.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061864194424521298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a night of wonder and romanticism, we went back to her place. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We strolled down her street, taking our time building the tension. My heart was racing as my thoughts bounced inside my head. How would it begin? What would we be doing right before, right after? Why did I have a pocket full of napkins? I was ready to take this mission on. I wanted her more than a fugitive wants to not be followed everywhere. We walked up two flights of stairs. She opened up the door. We walked in, and the standard drink was offered. I accepted. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then she said, "Let me slip into something more confusing." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I said sure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She went into her room. I took off my shoes. I slid into sex-mode. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She came out of her room wearing my clothes. It was going to be two of those nights. We maneuvered around each other's perimeters. She set off my pant alarm. My sexual searchlight spotted her prison break and my agents went to work. She offered the obligatory cavity search; I did the gentlemanly thing, and hammered an Out of Order sign on my backwater terrace, then placed the lobster bib around her flesh cummerbund.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She then found the conch meat I was hiding, and located it towards her nether-suburbs. I whistled, and my Clydesdales removed themselves from their stables, chasing a rabbit with pig-tails around an oval shaped coliseum of clumsiness. Needless to say, things were getting pretty eligible. I let her knead my loaf. She wore a smelting mask with a mirror with a picture of what she thought it would be reflecting taped to the front. It was spot on. Except for the discount flipper rack. I didn't see one of those in her apartment. But I could have been mistaken.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then the main event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The five-play was over and it was time for the regular programming to continue. She told me that she wanted me to own her notch. I remembered to her that I would only want to do that. She blushed and then winked at herself because at that moment I put on the mirror clad smelting mask. It now had a picture of her winking at herself. My hands turned to feet. My cold was hot. I was so eligible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I couldn't control yourself, and I freed me. I freed me good.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-816556024750719060?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/816556024750719060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=816556024750719060&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/816556024750719060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/816556024750719060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/05/slipping-into-something-more-confusing.html' title='Slipping Into Something More Confusing'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rj9aqnnxQlI/AAAAAAAAAIc/SCRk2_04V7A/s72-c/New%2520Clydesdales%2520on%2520Kauai%2520Luke,%2520Levi,%2520and%2520Kiara%2520.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-4523642260273093290</id><published>2007-05-07T12:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-07T13:00:44.322-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This week</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rj9ZoXnxQjI/AAAAAAAAAIM/tJxvT0a5_Mc/s1600-h/25.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rj9ZoXnxQjI/AAAAAAAAAIM/tJxvT0a5_Mc/s320/25.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061863056258187826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let it be blown, elevendy twelven reader (singular), this week is all about filth-filthy-dirty-filth appreciation. However, this will be somewhat reserved.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, not dirt. Not actual soil or mud; but the filth of the butt, breast, and crotchal areas. We mean the putrescence of private areas both real and imagined. Please believe. It is time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-4523642260273093290?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/4523642260273093290/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=4523642260273093290&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4523642260273093290'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4523642260273093290'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/05/this-week.html' title='This week'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rj9ZoXnxQjI/AAAAAAAAAIM/tJxvT0a5_Mc/s72-c/25.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-7869771248141516403</id><published>2007-05-01T13:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-05-01T13:41:06.591-04:00</updated><title type='text'>March of Irony</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rjd7iXnxQiI/AAAAAAAAAIE/EBo3VGWYUdc/s1600-h/060429_protest_vmed_1p.widec"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rjd7iXnxQiI/AAAAAAAAAIE/EBo3VGWYUdc/s320/060429_protest_vmed_1p.widec" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059648536760631842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 1-- &lt;br /&gt;New York &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As millions of people attempt to recreate last year's hugely successful nation-wide demonstration against the government's policies on immigration reform, many ran into small problems. Derek Harris, who owns a fair-trade coffee house in Lennox Hill, had hired several Hispanic Americans to create his picket signs, but due to the protest, no one showed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I should have seen this coming," Harris said as he scribbled his own signs. "Just goes to show it is hard to find good help." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Emily Franks has organized a way station along the 2nd Ave. parade route, handing out drinks and snacks to the brave marchers. This morning she stared at an almost impossible amount of drink mix, un-mixed due to lack of people of Puerto Rican hertiage. "This is insane."  She said as she poured the cherry-limeade into a 5 gallon jug.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;The irony was amazingly present in the march itself. Large numbers of protestors had extremely wrinkled shirts. Chris and Anna Northrop had dropped their "F*#k Bush" shirts at the dry cleaners on Thursday, and they weren't even clean when they picked them up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Whatever it takes. That mustard stain is more than just a testament to my clumsy eating habits," Anna said, expressing her disappointment at the dishevelment of her clothes, but added, "Those guys will be back tomorrow, and they're going to be playing catch-up.  I just hope since we're here supporting them, perhaps a discount is in order? I don’t know." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other news, the robot building cars in New Jersey shows up everyday for work and doesn’t yet want to smuggle his family across the border in a van. He just got a raise. March on that!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-7869771248141516403?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/7869771248141516403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=7869771248141516403&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7869771248141516403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7869771248141516403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/05/march-of-irony.html' title='March of Irony'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rjd7iXnxQiI/AAAAAAAAAIE/EBo3VGWYUdc/s72-c/060429_protest_vmed_1p.widec' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-6106284042486380249</id><published>2007-04-20T14:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-20T14:39:29.448-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Abe Vigoda's envelope</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RikH5ckdC7I/AAAAAAAAAHk/Ozq_ZUgXVVA/s1600-h/fish.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RikH5ckdC7I/AAAAAAAAAHk/Ozq_ZUgXVVA/s320/fish.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055580740203121586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were whispers.  On my ear hung a clinging truth: That tonight would yield a visit from the Mid-town Magi, in an undisclosed form. We finished the obviously piano-sized drinks at the BBQ eatery, only to decide that more would not be less. We skated through the revolving door, greeted by the crisp autumn breeze. Downtown bound. We cage fought with our musings; using half-nelson's of diatribe, and suplex's of supposition. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In between gnashing at the rim of our Sapporo deuce-deuce's, we detected that we were being tailed. We ducked into an inlet of stairs and rails, tucked inside the crotch of a building. The ashen pavement, still thick with the sweat caused by sister sun's departure, gleamed like distant a headlamp in the alabaster glow of the streetlight. Covered in the sheets of sound emanating from the avenue, footfalls presented themselves. They clod and clamored at the sidewalk. In them you could hear history. Of red carpet, pauses for pictures and questions, the pull of the arm urging them to enter some black tie event. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RikIc8kdC9I/AAAAAAAAAH0/qGaHxJNQITA/s1600-h/20050725sapporo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RikIc8kdC9I/AAAAAAAAAH0/qGaHxJNQITA/s200/20050725sapporo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5055581350088477650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visibly shaken, we both started to feel cold. A thin veneer covered our eyes, gone misty like maternal movie pairings of menstruation and "Terms of Endearment."  We started to shed tears. Enough to fill half of my favorite snowglobes. And then, there in front of us on 72nd in between Lex and 3rd, in a somber midnight procession, was Abe Vigoda. We had entered his envelope. Behind him a cloud of shapes followed. Apparitions of Inuit shaman carried a 12 foot totem pole, emblazoned with the faces of the fallen: Raul Julia, Ruth Buzzy, Siskel.  Me and my company started to rise, and almost joined the slow dirge marching to some hideous unheard drum.  I scrambled for the last real object I had; my Sapporo Deuce.  I threw it into the air. Explosions of Asian celebratory dragons sparked through the space between us, illuminating the avenue like a second Venus. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a glimpse, it had all ended. Abe Vigoda scooted across Lexington. Billows of steam surrounded his exit, as the 6 train blew towards 77th.  We had never before, or again been in his dominion. But good luck does not surround the unprepared. We had Sapporo Deuce happy-sureheadedness on our side.  However to the unaware, Vigoda's envelope can be quite treacherous.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-6106284042486380249?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/6106284042486380249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=6106284042486380249&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/6106284042486380249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/6106284042486380249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/04/abe-vigodas-envelope.html' title='Abe Vigoda&apos;s envelope'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RikH5ckdC7I/AAAAAAAAAHk/Ozq_ZUgXVVA/s72-c/fish.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-1127933591727750141</id><published>2007-04-18T14:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-18T14:17:58.873-04:00</updated><title type='text'>RoBot Prom</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RiZfJrC_gCI/AAAAAAAAAHM/I9O-lTIvejM/s1600-h/Mascot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RiZfJrC_gCI/AAAAAAAAAHM/I9O-lTIvejM/s320/Mascot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054832251548696610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by Jenny Bandwith&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hey Eagles!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we were given the ability to feel, how amazing would you be doing it right now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Enchanted Ratios&lt;/em&gt;, this year’s RoBot Prom––the culmination of years of data downloads, specification alignment, and nervously awaiting those monthly systems check––was a delicious success. So tasty in fact, that if we could taste, we would all be savoring the sweet aftereffects of a time now irrelevant. But now, the matriculation towards a college upgrade looms and many of us can’t stop calculating for the future. In short, never has the math of tomorrow stung so enchantedly against the metal of our bodies, mind, and processors. That’s what RoBot Prom is all about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonald Capacitor and Stiffinay Gridlock took home the crowns and the gowns known only to RoBot Prom royalty. Jonald, a chess champion and captain of the DeFrag team, accepted his honors with a steely resolve; an example to us all in danger of falling victim to the poison of personal achievement. And Stiff, as her friends call her, bowed as graciously as one could, I suppose. Especially when one maybe, possibly, most likely won the crown after skewing the wireless voting machines, letting a certain TI-3867 model lick her scuzzy port clean, and spewing lies into the ether-lattice. But, we all were happy for these two. Of course, there were some not so happy and who took home a peculiar burning sensation in their D: drives thanks to Kenwood Copperwire’s roaming charges, but all-in-all, the Royalty Presentation for &lt;em&gt;Enchanted Ratios &lt;/em&gt;was amazingly well programmed.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Of course, there were the dissenters. Those who claim that this year’s RoBot Prom–– deemed the closest we as adolescent robots will ever get to dreaming––was very capable of being not-dreamed about. But then, when Franz Smartload placed seven Stalag-vage-chips into the oil bowl, and ‘bots (and their dates) washed down a sip, suddenly everyone had to Norton Anti Virus in their date’s USB. How Gross! But it still seemed to reboot those few whose attitude programs were glitched. Thank Intel! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The decoration of the main pavilion was minimal, but the streamers lined with bits of code profiling each senior and their current location was a nice touch. I lost my date for a few seconds and these really came in handy. But the visual accomplishment of the night belonged solely to &lt;em&gt;HAMMERS, HAMMERS, HAMMERS&lt;/em&gt;, the after-prom most of everybody went to and most of everybody found worth downloading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RiZftrC_gEI/AAAAAAAAAHc/gRXHeHd87-0/s1600-h/st-Hammers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RiZftrC_gEI/AAAAAAAAAHc/gRXHeHd87-0/s200/st-Hammers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054832870023987266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;HAMMERS, HAMMERS, HAMMERS&lt;/em&gt; was the brain child of the Proxy Technical Alliance (PTA) that promised to throw us in a historical wormhole taking us back to the bonded molecule era were such tools like hammers, hammers, and hammers were used. It’s always a pleasure to learn about pre-futuristic cultures, but as an After-Prom theme it was efficiently humorful. Some days, although there aren’t many, I do wish we could laugh because on this glorious night, we would have laughed at hammers.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The program was efficiently arranged in Mircosoft Paint 8.0 and featured everyone’s favorite color, Cyan. The animated 3-D GIFFs led interested bot units toward something historically special, like a fountain, or a human raffle, and, lastly, a 20th century tool shed with connected revolving bathroom. Later on, the presentation on Centrifugal force (using the bathroom) and pre-futuristic Organ farming was also deemed an algorithmic success.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;HAMMERS, HAMMERS, HAMMERS&lt;/em&gt; all started, though, with Sergeant Server’s JROTC color guard launching of our nation’s numbers. And yes, it may be verified that nothing starts a party like these guys don’t, but there is still something to be said about tradition. Do you power up, or down, differently everyday? Thought not. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And unfortunately &lt;em&gt;HAMMERS, HAMMERS, HAMMERS &lt;/em&gt;ended when a hall detector caught three jock bots slapping a vacuum in the bathroom. They have been reprimanded with cleanup duties and are not allowed to browse online for three weeks. And then there were the theater kids, snorting WD40 across the street from the activities. Like someone wasn’t going to see you! We’re robots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sadly, a few stripped screws ruined it for the rest of us, but the time that was had was incredible, according to the school WiFi poll taken this morning. We each feel ready for the next step, armed with the know-how of tomorrow and oh so aware of the mistakes made in the past. Even if the hammer, and the hammer, and the hammer were great tools, we have many more tools at our disposal for shaping and roboting the future. And I, for one, cannot wait to utilize them.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go Eagles!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-1127933591727750141?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/1127933591727750141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=1127933591727750141&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1127933591727750141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1127933591727750141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/04/robot-prom.html' title='RoBot Prom'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RiZfJrC_gCI/AAAAAAAAAHM/I9O-lTIvejM/s72-c/Mascot.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-7911912927330050616</id><published>2007-04-17T12:20:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-04-17T12:30:03.342-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Chart Climbing, Other Things</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RiT1_rC_gBI/AAAAAAAAAHE/t9G04R_yPLc/s1600-h/climbing_chart.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RiT1_rC_gBI/AAAAAAAAAHE/t9G04R_yPLc/s400/climbing_chart.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054435156052377618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These charts are now more climbable than ever this year, and now we have hit clearance season. You know what that means---all climable charts MUST GO! Sick of struggling through rehersals just to come back and not remember what you didn't cover last week. Well thats all good and done with because guess what? These charts feature much more climbability than any previous charts before. Charts that are climbable mean time that isn't wasted on working things out with people, can be dedicated to...that's right, climbing the f**kin charts. You'll find that you climb fast once you take that first step. Upgraded charts with a slim design and climb-like action will increase step uppingness to 7%, making your weekends alot more chilled out. More free time, more kicking it...up the charts! You ever seen K-2? That looked like it was pretty hard climbing up that thing. Not here mon ami. You ever seen somebody have a bitch of a time cutting into some water, with a knife? No? &lt;br /&gt;That's because it's easy and simple and fun, not unlike climbing them there &lt;br /&gt;charts.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FLASH TO SCREEN PLAY--- &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YOU: What's going on charts? &lt;br /&gt;CHARTS: Nothing. &lt;br /&gt;YOU: What are you doing later? &lt;br /&gt;CH: Getting climbed all over. &lt;br /&gt;YOU: Yesssss. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your probably saying 'this is crazy! I can't climb them charts.' My response would be: have you even looked at the charts lately? Now with a foldable fulcrum that gently balances you out, while you tear ass up the charts, climbing these things has never been easier. You see that up there? Waaayy at the top? Huh? Thats the top of the charts. You know how close you'll get with more increasable climb-drive mechanisms? Pretty close my friend. Pretty close. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the way..... &lt;br /&gt;Org Vorbis, the norse tortoise lord of the north, orders all to report for &lt;br /&gt;chordal contort morph. Torte will be scored more for Lords of swords, &lt;br /&gt;snacking door fjords tore the 3rd course, but with plates and napkins &lt;br /&gt;provided to the first 500, get there EARLY!!! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you've found the missing bullet I fired into the air yesterday at my &lt;br /&gt;cousin's quinceinetta, DO NOT RETURN. That was a gift, and you might want &lt;br /&gt;to get that looked at. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gift horse looked in mouth. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, blessings come in many forms. Like smells. You ever been blessed by a &lt;br /&gt;smell? I want my next priest to be a waft in the air. What happened to my &lt;br /&gt;previous priest? I can't say, but this next one coming up...gotta be a smell.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-7911912927330050616?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/7911912927330050616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=7911912927330050616&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7911912927330050616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7911912927330050616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/04/chart-climbing-other-things.html' title='Chart Climbing, Other Things'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RiT1_rC_gBI/AAAAAAAAAHE/t9G04R_yPLc/s72-c/climbing_chart.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-7303306760597480650</id><published>2007-03-20T18:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-20T19:18:36.174-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Memories of Remberance: A Tribute to Never Forgetting</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RgBrOWFv7II/AAAAAAAAAGw/PpsRfA1wOI0/s1600-h/forgetting.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RgBrOWFv7II/AAAAAAAAAGw/PpsRfA1wOI0/s400/forgetting.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044149476846988418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;{1st installment}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to tell you a story:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can fly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s not this story though.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a different story. More about me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That summer I don’t think anyone could say what was in the air. But we all took it in like a cat from the late June snow and cradled it in specially marked packages of frosted mini-memories. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see, I was raised on a caramel farm right outside of Muncy, Indiana. We lived on seven acres, where in late October we would harvest the nougat and caramel in hand-woven baskets. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The sun hung low in the autumn sky, kind of like a briefcase wouldn’t. We looked at each other, but we couldn’t hear, so our senses of smell led us to the feeling that this would be enough caramel pickin’ for the night. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, that summer the marzipan was in season and we would shuck and pick the sweet treat off the foreheads of the lifeless unicorns buried in the snow. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would laugh. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we would all take turns farting on Grandma. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we were tired, we turned in. But that night I woke up as if in a dream (echo: dream, dream, dream). I walked toward the window and out in the fields were piles on piles of glowing, wooden sea lion skulls. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I laughed. And then tried to fart on my brother, but he just rolled over. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, I farted on my own butt. And laughed because it reminded me of ice cream—really smelly, hot, putrid ice cream.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll never forget how I remembered that memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With my memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll never forget that.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-7303306760597480650?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/7303306760597480650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=7303306760597480650&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7303306760597480650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7303306760597480650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/03/memories-of-remberance-tribute-to-never.html' title='Memories of Remberance: A Tribute to Never Forgetting'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RgBrOWFv7II/AAAAAAAAAGw/PpsRfA1wOI0/s72-c/forgetting.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-3314751791591759255</id><published>2007-03-13T14:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-13T14:35:59.298-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Palace of Local Monstrosities to Close</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfbtdMQv7XI/AAAAAAAAAGo/RQ6BVQ57Fz8/s1600-h/meadows2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfbtdMQv7XI/AAAAAAAAAGo/RQ6BVQ57Fz8/s200/meadows2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041477918651313522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Middle Earth-Tuesday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Local Mordor residents were shocked with news that it’s only gentle-orc’s club, The Meadows, will be shut down as of Thursday. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The news of the closure sent shock waves from Moira to Isengard as the establishment, founded during The Second Age, sometime after the fall of Numenor, was a pillar of class and savvy throughout the dry, barren, desolate steppes of Nurn. Offering stunning views of Barad-Dur and Orodruin, the club featured butterfly-eating competitions, Sauron Karaoke Wednesdays, and the famous Flesh-Stripping Cabarets featuring several happy, yet unfortunate passersby touring the Land of Shadows. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Receiving a boost from the Mordor Board of Tourism during the early 670’s The Meadows enjoyed great reviews from critics, most touting it as “the premiere place for empty ocular stuffed spider balls.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Meadows manager/owner Thromurth K’k, an orc himself, was disenchanted as he loaded a dragon-pulled covered wagon full of armor, swords and napkins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Gurrk sak hurrgle! Hurrgle!” K’k shouted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thromurth’s college buddy Vrirk Hurbag translated for elevendy twelven: “I guess this is how they thank you for holding up the entertainment standards in this soul-forsaken, piss stain excuse for a town!” Obviously, K’k does not feel the need to hide his disappointment in the decision.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An open auction will be held this weekend to distribute the unused corpses and silverware. Though Mr. K’k plans to open a Circle K© in Orthanc, he still is a little weepy as he gazes back at the gaping cave-hole adorned with trees made of bodies, skeletons and excrement that served as his once-famous and well-received establishment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Board members showed up to help load Thromurth’s wagon, but after several bitten faces, Mr. K’k called the group a bunch of “Ash-holes” and flew away on his getaway dragon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-3314751791591759255?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/3314751791591759255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=3314751791591759255&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3314751791591759255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3314751791591759255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/03/palace-of-local-monstrosities-to-close.html' title='Palace of Local Monstrosities to Close'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfbtdMQv7XI/AAAAAAAAAGo/RQ6BVQ57Fz8/s72-c/meadows2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-8630106968713985493</id><published>2007-03-12T14:36:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T14:56:51.851-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dirty Talk, Vol. 1: Physical Scientist, geomorphology edition</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfWgt8Qv7TI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Jp5GV_pdT50/s1600-h/80blast200.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041112069042072882" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfWgt8Qv7TI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Jp5GV_pdT50/s200/80blast200.jpeg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;- Get lost in my hairy estuary. &lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfWg58Qv7VI/AAAAAAAAAGY/J6mB7wrx5LM/s1600-h/b898_6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041112275200503122" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" height="119" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfWg58Qv7VI/AAAAAAAAAGY/J6mB7wrx5LM/s200/b898_6.jpg" width="115" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- I have business with your isthmus.&lt;br /&gt;- I felta your delta.&lt;br /&gt;- My peninsula is now surrounded by you on three sides.&lt;br /&gt;- My cape wants your cove.&lt;br /&gt;- Woo my dunes. &lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfWei8Qv7PI/AAAAAAAAAFo/le_yyhLF1s8/s1600-h/80blast200.jpeg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- You are so seismic right now.&lt;br /&gt;- Coat the wetlands with volcanic ash.&lt;br /&gt;- I like it from the backwater terrace. &lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfWhFcQv7WI/AAAAAAAAAGg/vK1yOwRKvDY/s1600-h/rham.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041112472768998754" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 112px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 118px" height="118" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfWhFcQv7WI/AAAAAAAAAGg/vK1yOwRKvDY/s200/rham.JPG" width="124" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Mark your marsh for geologic surveying.&lt;br /&gt;- Atoll (sexy by itself)&lt;br /&gt;- I want you to swim in my man-made lake, or reservoir.&lt;br /&gt;- Hold tight to my stalagmite.&lt;br /&gt;- I’m growing crystals in my cave.&lt;br /&gt;- Hold on! Slope my beveled cut.&lt;br /&gt;- Pet the aquitard. Pet it!&lt;br /&gt;- Let me till your badlands.&lt;br /&gt;- Wade in the backswamp.&lt;br /&gt;- Stand by for the eruption of my Sentinel Bluffs Member lava flow, which marks the end of Grande Ronde Basalt volcanism, the most voluminous period of the Columbia River Basalt Group!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-8630106968713985493?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/8630106968713985493/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=8630106968713985493&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8630106968713985493'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/8630106968713985493'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/03/dirty-talk-vol-1-physical-scientist.html' title='Dirty Talk, Vol. 1: Physical Scientist, geomorphology edition'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RfWgt8Qv7TI/AAAAAAAAAGI/Jp5GV_pdT50/s72-c/80blast200.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-4344203605681254489</id><published>2007-03-05T10:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-03-05T13:12:37.706-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thoughts on Jesus' Tomb</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rew43_M80ZI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/A4WNkfK6aJE/s1600-h/JCtomb.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5038464617630454162" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 221px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 171px" height="199" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rew43_M80ZI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/A4WNkfK6aJE/s200/JCtomb.JPG" width="261" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;Sorry Sha*e's Father,&lt;br /&gt;I had to catch your attention? Anyways, on a serious note, I've pin pointed the coordinates of the freckles on your bald noggin and I've found Jesus's skeleton. Now this is a matter that we cannot take lightly, for I will not give these bones to the James Cameron Foundation unless we have an agreement that I get to see these bones three times a week. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I've proposed a plan:&lt;br /&gt;Monday 12.30-2p: Lunch with bones.&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday 3.00-4p: Massage with bones.&lt;br /&gt;Sunday 11.30-1p. Brunch with Mary Magdalene's bones &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(You know what I'm talking about).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If this does not fit your schedule please contact me, or if there is any concern with the bone's safety during our special time let me know.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I look forward to hearing from you.&lt;br /&gt;Love,&lt;br /&gt;MILK DUD&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S. 10% off the top straight to God.&lt;br /&gt;P.SS. Rest your space face next to mine?&lt;br /&gt;P.Sx3. Have you seen Sh*ne? I have.&lt;br /&gt;P.Sx4. You should read The Road by Cormac Mcarthy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Peace out Dog. Keep it real, thug ass.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-4344203605681254489?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/4344203605681254489/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=4344203605681254489&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4344203605681254489'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4344203605681254489'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/03/thoughts-on-jesus-tomb.html' title='Thoughts on Jesus&apos; Tomb'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rew43_M80ZI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/A4WNkfK6aJE/s72-c/JCtomb.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-6174551244854578057</id><published>2007-02-26T16:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-26T16:38:19.544-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Blog Topics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/ReNSZePaiGI/AAAAAAAAAFE/A44Yv7RSCYI/s1600-h/trophies.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035959405898270818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/ReNSZePaiGI/AAAAAAAAAFE/A44Yv7RSCYI/s200/trophies.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - No room on my shelves for trophies, so I place them on the window ledge. Passer-bys are astonished, yet they don't know why and for what I have received these trophies. This is an actual window in the UWS-upper west side.&lt;br /&gt;-In clown college I was known as the class not-clown...guilty of not clowning around.&lt;br /&gt;-I'm so nice I failed out of villain school. (old, however classy)&lt;br /&gt;- The sun also sweats.&lt;br /&gt;- This too shall pass...gas.&lt;br /&gt;- In my closet there are only enough hangers for all my hangables. Today I found at least 4 of them not hanging anything. I want answers!&lt;br /&gt;- Aidsvertisment---now THATS catchy!&lt;br /&gt;- A round table discussion with animals on why we shouldn't kill them. No one attends=animals killed.&lt;br /&gt;- A round table conversation with plants on why they don't shape up. Only cauliflower shows up and we go out for drinks. Awkward pauses only articulated by the weird "come back to my field for a cup of coffee"-type comments. End result=plants shape up.&lt;br /&gt;- The middle of the USA is located in Rugby, Nebraska. The tallest structure is also in Nebraska--a TV antennae 2,039 ft. tall.&lt;br /&gt;- Children of the Gilded Age, bobbing for chunks of copper. This is the origin of the phrase "Go for Gold!" But gold didn't come into it until later. This also brought dental hygiene into fashion.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-6174551244854578057?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/6174551244854578057/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=6174551244854578057&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/6174551244854578057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/6174551244854578057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/02/blog-topics.html' title='Blog Topics'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/ReNSZePaiGI/AAAAAAAAAFE/A44Yv7RSCYI/s72-c/trophies.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-4822148869838320219</id><published>2007-02-22T11:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-22T12:14:29.095-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Local Rapper Battles Baby Panda, Wins</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rd3H4yjmPQI/AAAAAAAAAEc/ZqyZ6ggozIQ/s1600-h/battlerepper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034399736927763714" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rd3H4yjmPQI/AAAAAAAAAEc/ZqyZ6ggozIQ/s200/battlerepper.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VS.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#33ccff;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rd3H8ijmPRI/AAAAAAAAAEk/mLC5EjPL27w/s1600-h/baby+panda.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034399801352273170" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rd3H8ijmPRI/AAAAAAAAAEk/mLC5EjPL27w/s200/baby+panda.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Ronald Shortblock reporting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RIFLE, CO––MC Chillability showed his self-quoted “Freeziness” to a wowed-out crowd as he crushed a baby panda with rhyme lasers last night.&lt;br /&gt;It was due to be a massive battle, a struggle of wit and cleverosity, but ended in panda-shaped shame. Venom like this came from Chillability:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;You'll high five me then I slap your face&lt;br /&gt;You can't pull peace treaty Asian panty waste&lt;br /&gt;I'll flood your homeland like the 3 fu%#in' Gorges&lt;br /&gt;Take your mom panda some flowers that are gorgeous&lt;br /&gt;I'll destroy ya'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Such lyrical face-melting like this was usually followed with an obscene gesture, Chillability’s secret intimidation technique, and at one point he spit in the face of the stupid, stupid panda. The small animal’s only reply to such debasement, if one could call it a reply, was:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;hrghnhghr... Slurgh.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In all fairness, yes, it rhymes, but is nowhere close to witty or coherent, two things that the judges look for in such verbal bullet-based blitzkriegs. A fact Chillability knows all too well. Please note other licks of the organic box-cutter that is his tongue:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your a long way from China b*tches&lt;br /&gt;Like my dishes&lt;br /&gt;I'll choke your Yin if you touch my Yang&lt;br /&gt;I'll cover you in curry and feed you to orangutans&lt;br /&gt;I’ve reached 3rd base with like 20 sluts&lt;br /&gt;While you were busy comin’ out ya’ momma's butt&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Has a heavier truth ever been told? The crowd last night--some of which were Chillability’s own “The ChillBillies” entourage--thought not, while the panda just sat and had the look in its cowed eyes like it had just been molested in the mouth a little bit. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-4822148869838320219?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/4822148869838320219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=4822148869838320219&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4822148869838320219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/4822148869838320219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/02/local-rapper-battles-baby-panda-wins.html' title='Local Rapper Battles Baby Panda, Wins'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rd3H4yjmPQI/AAAAAAAAAEc/ZqyZ6ggozIQ/s72-c/battlerepper.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-2237838834421695069</id><published>2007-02-20T13:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-26T16:39:15.746-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Numbers</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rds_yCjmPLI/AAAAAAAAADs/BwXtN2RRfCA/s1600-h/nub1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5033687137428847794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rds_yCjmPLI/AAAAAAAAADs/BwXtN2RRfCA/s320/nub1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;83&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: the percentage of sadness at which you can operate a motorcycle without crashing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;10&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; most traumatic age for fingerless persons &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;V&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: stands for vagic, Roman numerically speaking&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: the number of cars you think you parked last night &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: percentage of love for sloth-eating eagles in the rainforests of Borneo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: number of impressive sloth-eating eagles in Borneo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: the difference it makes in previous statement about love for these flying cowards&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: I’ll kick that number’s ass anyday&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: is just a vertical ballsack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;420&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: Caloric intake by Dead Head fan Moonbeam Peterson, all in muffins and dried fruit&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;49&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;: the number of times you've tried to leave your bi-polar spouse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;-346,738&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;: the rate, mph, of a speeding comet approaching itself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-2237838834421695069?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/2237838834421695069/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=2237838834421695069&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/2237838834421695069'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/2237838834421695069'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/02/numbers.html' title='The Numbers'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rds_yCjmPLI/AAAAAAAAADs/BwXtN2RRfCA/s72-c/nub1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-3864033687441586710</id><published>2007-02-17T03:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-20T12:22:20.065-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curd vs. Whey, part VII</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdbURCjmPJI/AAAAAAAAADU/pNgixne-Ca0/s1600-h/Cottage_Cheese.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032443022842150034" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdbURCjmPJI/AAAAAAAAADU/pNgixne-Ca0/s200/Cottage_Cheese.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdbUMSjmPII/AAAAAAAAADM/XWq3a8DR9II/s1600-h/2005-6-27-health5_yoghurtsm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032442941237771394" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdbUMSjmPII/AAAAAAAAADM/XWq3a8DR9II/s200/2005-6-27-health5_yoghurtsm.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;CURD GETS KICKED TO CURB!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yogurt:&lt;br /&gt;Stop picking your nose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cottage Cheese:&lt;br /&gt;I don't have a nose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yogurt:&lt;br /&gt;Really?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cottage Cheese:&lt;br /&gt;Yes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-3864033687441586710?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/3864033687441586710/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=3864033687441586710&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3864033687441586710'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3864033687441586710'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/02/curd-vs-whey-part-vii.html' title='Curd vs. Whey, part VII'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdbURCjmPJI/AAAAAAAAADU/pNgixne-Ca0/s72-c/Cottage_Cheese.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-7905606046694468820</id><published>2007-02-17T03:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T03:51:23.192-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Local Child Stretches The Truth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rda9JCjmO_I/AAAAAAAAABg/GV5PJObU-wE/s1600-h/golden+uni.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rda9JCjmO_I/AAAAAAAAABg/GV5PJObU-wE/s320/golden+uni.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032417596635757554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terra Haute, IN &lt;br /&gt;by Dr. Slacks Meridian, Child Psychologist&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's official. The illustrator of the attached drawing is obviously not correct in interpreting reality. There is no way, logistically, this pet exists. Or that its name is Dakota.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-7905606046694468820?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/7905606046694468820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=7905606046694468820&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7905606046694468820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/7905606046694468820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/02/local-child-stretches-truth.html' title='Local Child Stretches The Truth'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rda9JCjmO_I/AAAAAAAAABg/GV5PJObU-wE/s72-c/golden+uni.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-1737071882897178632</id><published>2007-02-17T02:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T03:16:08.834-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hours Wasted</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rda5sSjmO-I/AAAAAAAAABU/CbSxPjUIits/s1600-h/sega-megadrive-streets-of-rage-pal.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rda5sSjmO-I/AAAAAAAAABU/CbSxPjUIits/s320/sega-megadrive-streets-of-rage-pal.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032413804179635170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- The Banana tree is in danger. Like the Oak has never felt.&lt;br /&gt;- We spent our night naming toilet paper (Soft &amp; Touch…The Fighting Wipe).&lt;br /&gt;- How would you ambush someone in space?  &lt;br /&gt;- The latest cosmetic magazine from Conde Nast Publications, Lips and Chests. &lt;br /&gt;- Cornell West is the black Lauren Hutton. (period) &lt;br /&gt;- My friend poops like a cat. &lt;br /&gt;- Cars are human tow trucks.&lt;br /&gt;- Feet are hands gone wrong. &lt;br /&gt;- Note to self: Always say ‘bitch’ after you hit the weed. &lt;br /&gt;- Knead my sex loaf. &lt;br /&gt;- “Ask somebody the next time you see them.” &lt;br /&gt;- There are no kittens in Kosovo. &lt;br /&gt;- Standing the taste of time. &lt;br /&gt;- I find myself being critical of everything I don’t do. &lt;br /&gt;- “Can I get your email? I’m much different in words.” &lt;br /&gt;- Expand. Achieve. Excieve.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-1737071882897178632?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/1737071882897178632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=1737071882897178632&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1737071882897178632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/1737071882897178632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/02/hours-wasted.html' title='Hours Wasted'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/Rda5sSjmO-I/AAAAAAAAABU/CbSxPjUIits/s72-c/sega-megadrive-streets-of-rage-pal.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-3246796437903190421</id><published>2007-02-17T02:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-02-17T02:50:44.024-05:00</updated><title type='text'>An Open Letter to Animals</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdaxiyjmO6I/AAAAAAAAAAc/qYYJGZpT9qc/s1600-h/images.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdaxiyjmO6I/AAAAAAAAAAc/qYYJGZpT9qc/s320/images.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032404844877855650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Aardvark,&lt;br /&gt;                   I wonder sometimes about your dedication?  You think because you have the ability to sneak, under the detection of desert predators, you're immune to the same demands put on us by human society?  Joke's on you asshole.  So what!  Your teeth have no enamel coating and are worn away and regrow continuosly .  Is that a gift?  Because last time I checked, that was reserved for sharks, shit for brains.  Do you eat ants?  No?  Thought not.&lt;br /&gt;love,&lt;br /&gt;      Jake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdayRijmO8I/AAAAAAAAAAs/r9F2cfnyiAo/s1600-h/images-1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdayRijmO8I/AAAAAAAAAAs/r9F2cfnyiAo/s320/images-1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032405648036740034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Manatee,&lt;br /&gt;                       What's up cloudy butt?  Fat much?  Yeah, look in my propeller.  I feel sorry for you and your father manatee.  You guys cruise the Keys lookin for free handouts, but the Good Fat Lardy-Pop stops here! I want nothing more than to eat a slice of Dugong Quiche, or blast my next dope rhyme printed on fat ass mammal paper!  You're a disgrace,&lt;br /&gt;I love you,&lt;br /&gt;              Jake&lt;br /&gt;                              p.s. your a douche floating loser&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdayvSjmO9I/AAAAAAAAAA0/-6KetBuXnRM/s1600-h/images-2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdayvSjmO9I/AAAAAAAAAA0/-6KetBuXnRM/s320/images-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032406159137848274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dear Meerkat,&lt;br /&gt;                    Is that a new trick you learned?  Being a total whimp?  You are the Joy Behar of the animal kingdom.  I see you once, I'm interested.  One more time, I want to spork my eyes out, you filthy bag of monkey leftovers spiked with prarie dog refuse.  How is that CD of your college band going?  Sounds pretty good Meerkat...your Joe Satriani covers blew me away!  I just shit your pants, call me, &lt;br /&gt;        Yours forever, &lt;br /&gt;                            Jake&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-3246796437903190421?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/3246796437903190421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=3246796437903190421&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3246796437903190421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/3246796437903190421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2007/02/open-letter-to-animals.html' title='An Open Letter to Animals'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_VQLIBFT2bfc/RdaxiyjmO6I/AAAAAAAAAAc/qYYJGZpT9qc/s72-c/images.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32524097.post-115523382343921937</id><published>2006-08-10T13:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T14:59:52.906-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sponge Monk Beat Pants, Adventure Uno</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/elevendytwelven/spongemonk.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/elevendytwelven/spongemonk.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=3191339&amp;amp;q=hi"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;"&gt;Underwater discoveries…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32524097-115523382343921937?l=elevendytwelven.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/feeds/115523382343921937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=32524097&amp;postID=115523382343921937&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/115523382343921937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/32524097/posts/default/115523382343921937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elevendytwelven.blogspot.com/2006/08/sponge-monk-beat-pants-adventure-uno.html' title='Sponge Monk Beat Pants, Adventure Uno'/><author><name>Selfstonishment</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15035034589773915046</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
