song of the day: xmas sucks

Oh, give me a noose I can hang from the tree
I need no excuse to end my misery
This holiday season is all the more reason to die
Oh, pull up a stool and an ear to a fool
Once found some solace in the season of yule
This holiday season is all the [...]

Song of the Day:Godflesh Anthem

Hinting at what would become Jesu, Broadrick rounds off the Godflesh years with classics such as anthem.
I remember the first time I really appreciated Godflesh; I was with friends, heavily intoxicated, we just sat their in the dark, in silence, and just listend to Godflesh’s street cleaner. No one said a word… The music just [...]

OBESITY IN CHILDREN: A MODERN EPIDEMIC

my latest sociology paper…
 
OBESITY IN CHILDREN: A MODERN EPIDEMIC
At the time of publishing’s Greg Critser’s article (2000) approximately one quarter of all American’s under the age of nineteen were obese.  This is an incredible amount of children and a very frightening statistic.  With the untold medical bills due to obesity related illnesses I present here [...]

song of the day: Lip up fatty

Buster Bloodvessel, and the boys…brings back child hood memories. I see they are live here next month..I must see them. Here is probably their best known song, of they they have other greats……

Lip up fatty, ah lip up fatty, for the reggae,
Lip up fatty, ah lip up fatty, for [...]

Song for the day: I was dreaming like a Texan girl (Beethoven, eurythmics)

always loved the album savage, they made a video for the entire album too…it was great, sadly out of print…
snippets of it are online
Here’s one of the highlights

Take a girl like that
And put her in a natural setting
Like a cafe for example.
Along comes the boy
And he’s looking for trouble
With a girl [...]

my first eva you tube creation

ok I didnt do these:

follow follow, follow

Long, long after Dorothy, Toto and the rest of the gang left the land of
Oz, Good Witch Glenda of the North was horribly bored. She spent her days
just floating around in her little bubble gazing at the land of OZ, hoping
for someone to help or inspire. One day while floating around in her bubble,
she passed [...]

The Golden Rule

“Do unto others as you would wish them do unto you.”

“…a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?” Samyutta NIkaya v. 353 

Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” Udana-Varga 5:18

“Do for one who may do for [...]

POOR EDUCATION IS A SOCIAL PROBLEM

 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thought I’d share the first draft of an essay for a sociology class I am taking:

 
POOR EDUCATION IS A SOCIAL PROBLEM
James Adams first mentioned “The American Dream” in 1931, he wrote “That dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability [...]

The Holy Turnip

Blackadder: Give the likes of Baldrick the vote and we’ll be back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner.
- Dish and Dishonesty
I’ve just been watching blackadder 3 myself, baldrick spent 150,000 or something, on a turnip
I grew up where tony robinsoin (baldrick) lives….(south west england) brings back fond memories
we [...]