Texas

Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Oh, the irony.

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Body modification quotes

Monday, July 12, 2004

I was reading Walden (aka “Life in the Woods”) this morning again and I came across this great quote (Thoreau's expansion on I Corinthians 3:16 — “Ye are the temple of God”).

"Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1862)

Anyway, I was thinking about adding a quotes section to the BME encyclopedia. If you have a favorite body modification related quote, please post it in the comment forum… It can be quotes from people in the general public, relevant historical ones as above, body modification practitioners and personalities, or even people here.

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Shaking hands with the clown

Monday, July 12, 2004

First, if you're not interested in the news, just click the picture below instead.

Anyway, as you know, it now turns out that there was no link whatsoever between Iraq and 9/11, putting America into a position where it has neither legal nor moral right to be involved in this war… and the punch line is that no matter who you vote for (unless you vote Nader or something like that), you're voting for war — Kerry, Bush, Edwards, and Cheney all voted for the war. They also all voted for the PATRIOT act. They've all said they'll expand both the war and the PATRIOT act. Yay for democracy, I'm sure the Iraqis are looking forward to having so much choice when the period of martial law ends.

But, don't worry about having to choose. The Bush administration has already been asking the Justice Department exactly what it needs to do to legally suspend elections. Other than that, Cheney (who conspiracy gamblers are putting the following bet on: prior to the election, Cheney will have a “heart attack” and McCain will step in as VP, thus winning Bush the election) is up on a $7 billion set of charges in France for money laundering and bribery (more, more, more), as well as a $180 million set in the US as well… When asked about it, President Bush laughted, and had only this to say:

“Fuck 'em all”

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Canadian in-joke

Sunday, July 11, 2004

I'm far from the first person to point this out, but I really find those video professor (below left) ads on TV somewhat disconcerting due to the similarity to Canada's NDP leader Jack Layton (below right)… If he ever got elected and needed Saddam-style doubles, he already knows who to hire.

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Wanring: Home Alone

Saturday, July 10, 2004

So I was eating some wasabi coated peas and it had one of those little freshness packs inside it. In red letters it said DO NOT MICROWAVE. I figured, hey, what's the worst that can happen? Toxic fumes that kill the nazi sex cult next door?

So I microwaved it.

First it expanded like a little balloon and I didn't really expect much more to happen. But then all of a sudden sparks started shooting out of it and it actually exploded (I got lucky with that middle photo). Finally it burst into flames and started to smell pretty bad so I threw it in some water.

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