Archive for October 2006

October 16, 2006

Pull the Trigger, Fatso

11:57 pm | Politics | Comments: 10

Hardly seems like 10 days have past since the 6th of October. But they tell me that numbers don’t lie. I’m inclined to believe them. I was wondering to myself if North Korea’s government could be any more ridiculous than it is. It would give itself a run for its money, that’s to be sure. Does it really matter that they now seem to have nuclear capability? I don’t think so. They aren’t any crappier now than they were before. If they actually use a nuke, the international community will stomp that fat little zit Kim Jong Il into the ground like a cockroach under a bootheel. Having nukes in North Korea’s position is like holding a rifle that’s ready to fire, only the weapon is pointed at their own faces. If I were Kim Jong Il, I’d take my 8 holes-in-one on my last golf trip and shove them up my butt. That would be alot more productive for the nation as a whole than spending tens of dollars (U.S. equivolent) on a nuclear program. Don’t you just love fat little dictators with a ludicrously warped view of reality?

October 6, 2006

Open Wide

1:37 am | Poetry | Comments: 10

I heard your words before,
One time or a thousand, it’s beyond me.
Plain to see what lies behind.

Don’t lie.

Look at me but don’t smile, it’s not alright.
Your eyes, the window to your soul,
Open wide against your will, I look inside.

Don’t lie.

Honeyed words and reassurance fails to hide.
My friend, I see your life;
The words don’t change my mind.

Don’t lie.

You had your chance and now I’m gone;
The sun just set and left the moon alone
the master of the midnight sky.

James w. Lanning

October 3, 2006

A Multimedia Extravaganza

12:05 am | Pictures | Comments: 5

I finally found out how to coerce my stupe-diculous phone into letting me get my pictures onto my computer. Notice how it’s all mine, and yet it continues to disobey me. Is that what having children is going to be like? These pictures may seem random, but each one is connected by nebulous strands of strange-matter which binds our universe together.

First off, we have an important reminder scrawled on my desk at GVSU.

This is Bus 50, the GVSU campus connector, on its last trip of the semester.

Jason Kuiper, a GVSU student, gets a ride on a home-made rickshaw immeidately after his wedding.

A random drunk in downtown GR, wearing a tire that we had lying around. Downtown GR, as you know, is home to GVSU’s Pew Campus.

Among the generally lame sculptures foisted upon Grand Rapids’ Downtown area is this little guy, a squat Grim Reaper sitting on top of one of the pedestrian bridges.

Yet another ridicu-pretty Saugatuk sunset. The strands connecting this picture to the rest are so nebulous that I have my top people working round the clock to detect them.

Me, Pete, and John, surrounded by our devoted fans.

And lastly, here’s Oma rocking out on my drumset.