God, I love my debaters

MarkerNumber1: did jeremy talk to you about the resolutional k?
njbubbster02: i think he’s just about to start doing that.
MarkerNumber1: okay
MarkerNumber1: let me know what you think
MarkerNumber1: I bet you’ll hate it
njbubbster02: most likely.
MarkerNumber1: haha

[switch to a conversation with Jeremy, going on at the same time.]
Shoe Of Mine: nick
Shoe Of Mine: got 2 min?
njbubbster02: yeah
Shoe Of Mine: never mind
njbubbster02: okay.,
Shoe Of Mine: chuck came threw before you, so he “stamped out the fire” of the horrible idea
…..
njbubbster02: was this some resolution k?
Shoe Of Mine: it was brians idea
Shoe Of Mine: but yes
njbubbster02: lol.

[Back to Brian]
MarkerNumber1: yeah
MarkerNumber1: so the idea was that the res says “the united states has”
MarkerNumber1: but it should be “the united states have”
MarkerNumber1: because states is plural
njbubbster02: lol.

[Back to Jeremy]
Shoe Of Mine: and worse yet, it involved gammer
Shoe Of Mine: grammer*
Shoe Of Mine: united states has (brian said have) chuck cleared up 2 reasons why has is ok, although like bria nadn i intiialy thought it would work
njbubbster02: what’s worse than the idea its self, is that you actually think its a good idea.
Shoe Of Mine: it was brians idea
Shoe Of Mine: if it was true
Shoe Of Mine: its not a bad idea
Shoe Of Mine: sure. not traditional in ld
Shoe Of Mine: but still true
Shoe Of Mine: if truth is on your side its harder to lose
njbubbster02: you mean aside from the fact that the “united States” is one nation.
njbubbster02: with one constitution and one national government?
Shoe Of Mine: HEY WHY DONT YOU FUCK YOURSELF
Shoe Of Mine: it was brians idea, make fun of him

Which I did….

njbubbster02: did you get bored in a class today or what?
MarkerNumber1: sounded like something jeremy would like to run
njbubbster02: yeah, except the antebellum constitution has been dead since the civil war.
njbubbster02: although it seems that rhenquist is determined to bring it back before he dies.
…
njbubbster02: Shoe Of Mine: it was brians idea, make fun of him
MarkerNumber1: sorry
MarkerNumber1: sounds like jeremy all right
njbubbster02: nothing to be sorry about; i just find this pretty funny

Digital Art

Today in my Communication Arts 346 Class: Critical Internet Studies, we discussed Digital Art in reference to several themes (cultural production, what’s art?, remediation, immediacy, interactivity, etc.) throughout the course. I felt the examples given in lecture were so interesting that I immediately blogged the example, so I could go back and expand upon the information. So if you read my blog earlier, this is the same as the post entitled “Cruising” just with all of the subsequent discussion.

Picture Fun

Me and Tim reacting to Minneapple pictures:

njbubbster02: oooh apple valley pictures.
njbubbster02: here
Tim Scheff: what the hell, patty?
njbubbster02: yeah, i found that kinda wierd.
njbubbster02: but he was one of patty’s qf judges
Tim Scheff: and he got brian again too!
njbubbster02: you know; its not like a picture steals your soul
njbubbster02: this isn’t a goosebumbs book.
Tim Scheff: yes they do… when you have a bad expression its a garunteed steal
njbubbster02: are you too old to know of goosebumbs?
Tim Scheff: yup
njbubbster02: yeah; they were all the rage in elementary school. trashiest horror novelettes. Not surprisingly, Fox made it into a saturday morning live action show in the style of Nickelodeon’s “Are You Afraid of the Dark?”. The one I’m reffering to was titled “Say Cheese and Die.”
njbubbster02: which promted other great works, like “say cheese and die, again”
njbubbster02: which had the subtitle “Hey, the flash didn’t go off”

Check This Out

OKCupid! presents: The Which X-Man Are You Test

Come. You know you want to take it. Tell me which you end up as.

I ended up as Gambit. Which I felt was awesome. As I’ve always thought he was the best X-man. I’ll avoid the latent psychological projection commentary.

Vote

My final pre-election article was supposed to be about how the right wing isn’t as Christian it professes to be and how Bush’s use of Christianity only subverts and rapes the values he claims to purport. Aside from that being a 100 point word score, it was pretty much going to be an article discussing how the values of Christianity are more liberal than conservative.

Instead I ran out of time and patience. I had more important things to tend today, than to write a four page rant about politics.

I will leave you with some quotes from an RFK documentary that I watched tonight, that I felt were completely fitting. The conflicts to which Bobby Kennedy addresses in his victory address in California are not unlike those we face today. (In fact if you change Vietnam with Iraq, it very well could be a speech from this campaign):

“I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions – whether it’s between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam – that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country”

And in his first major speech of the 1968 Nomination campaign critizing the Johnson Administraion of the esclation of the war in Iraq:

“Today I would speak to you of the third of those great crises: of the war in Vietnam. I come here, to this serious forum in the heart of the nation to discuss with you why I regard our policy there as bankrupt: not on the basis of emotion, but fact; not, I hope, in clichés — but with a clear and discriminating sense of where the national interest really lies.

I do not want — as I believe most Americans do not want — to sell out American interests, to simply withdraw, to raise the white flag of surrender. That would be unacceptable to us as a country and as a people. But I am concerned — as I believe most Americans are concerned — that the course we are following at the present time is deeply wrong. I am concerned — as I believe most Americans are concerned — that we are acting as if no other nations existed, against the judgment and desires of neutrals and our historic allies alike. I am concerned — as I believe most Americans are concerned — that our present course will not bring victory; will not bring peace; will not stop the bloodshed; and will not advance the interests of the United States or the cause of peace in the world.

I am concerned that, at the end of it all, there will only be more Americans killed; more of our treasure spilled out; and because of the bitterness and hatred on every side of this war, more hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese slaughtered; so that they may say, as Tacitus said of Rome: “They made a desert, and called it peace.”

And I do not think that is what the American spirit is really all about.”

As a student of rhetoric hearing these speeches I was struck in awe of similarities to our current situation. I hope these words ring true and reveal the gravity of the situation we fact today. Iraq is the new Vietnam and we are still as divided today, as we were then, on issues both new and old. And this is a situation that demands action.

One of the interviewess of the documentary concluded the program with, “when we reflect on RFK’s loss, what we’re really morning is loss of opportunity for America” (or something to that effect). Let us not waste opportunities this year, and let us not morn the loss of opportunity for America on November 3rd. Please vote.