...and now I know why everyone hates Israel.

I hesitate to call it Math Class Zionism, but that's what it was.

That was OUR fucking table.

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On a totally different note:

[22:17] yuvali611acs: ok we can escape
[22:17] inqualcanto: i don't fit in with people, i don't smoke pot, i'm not vegitarian, i spend half my money on clothing, i play jazz, and i don't like hippie folk music
[22:18] inqualcanto: szdjklgsdkljasdgf

I also find it funny how the number of tags on this post is disproportional to its size.

The United Nations/New York

Isn't the UN being a little unrealistic?

They try and mediate a war. They try to outlaw war crimes, they urge captors to respect prisoners' rights, and they keep people from attacking civilians.

But isn't that like a family therapist trying to mediate a conflict and telling his patients, "Stop! Nothing below the belt! Can't you people LISTEN, you can only hit each other in the stomach!"

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Winter Break

If I go to New York with Sasha for the weekend, my week will be complete. Alas, I will not finish my Facing History paper I so desperately need to do. But there are other things in life than just school. Like black walnuts, for example. There are a lot of those lying around on the ground.

I need to play the drums. Really bad.

deathbygunshot

Thought it was time to upload some drawings I've done since my last drawing post on Picasa.

You cut-throat, you! ...You're lucky I don't stuff your beard down your gullet! ...But get out, viper! And take care that you don't cross my path again! Sheer off, filibuster! Outz of my sight, you gallows bird! Baboon! ...Carpet Seller! Paranoiac! Pockmark! Cannibal! Duck-billed platypus! Jellied eel! Bashi-bazouk! Anthropophagus! Ceropithecus! Psychopath!

- Captain Haddock, in the French comic Tintin: The Red Sea Sharks

The Last King of Scotland

Charming. Magnetic. Murderous.

When you're fooled into sympathizing with the bad guy, you can't help but question yourself too. When that bad guy is Idi Amin, there's something wrong with you. Except that I think there are few people who wouldn't think, "Oh, wow, this guys actually kind of cool." Until you learn about the shit going on.

I gotta say the one thing I loved best was the way the movie ended with the Entebbe hijacking and the events that led up to Gallagher's escape from Uganda. Oh, and Forest Whitaker is amazing in this film, I should add.

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On Friday, Sasha and I went down to Juna's to grab some coffee and talk like we normally do. That day, we were joined by Lukas who had just gotten out of an internship interview with the Ithaca Journal.

So we covered the basic subjects, and then Sasha had to leave, and Lukas and I went to get some pizza from Neds, when we learned that neither of us had the three dollars we owed Neds for the the pizza.

"I have a debit card," says Lukas.

"No swipe...no swipe thing. I don't have," the rather rude pizza man says.

With no money, and no pin number for the ATM, we don't have a choice. We start looking around for people who have money, yet no one will give us any. I grab my bag and search through the deepest crevasses for loose change. In the end, we come up with $2.50 cents, a full 50 cents short. Problem is, we already ordered.

"You owe me fifty cents, next time," he tells me.

Shit, I think, what is this guy trying to do, jack me out of money later? But what choice do we have? We just spent money we didn't have. So we accept and go eat pizza while laughing about it. In the back of my mind, I know that if I come to him on Monday, he's going to ask for a dollar or two. I'm cool with that, but I'm not cool with letting him play me like that.

But my mom comes in with fifty cents and thus we are rescued.

Format/WII

One thing that irritates me more than people who format funny and PEOPLE WHO TYPE IN ALL CAPS because they think it's cool, is pplz typng reel badly bcuz tey r 2 skild.

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January 15, 2007 - Woman Killed In Wii-Related Competition

A twenty-eight year old Sacramento mother of three has died of water intoxication after taking part in a local radio competition to win a Wii console.

Jennifer Strange was found dead on Friday at her home after taking part in a contest named “Hold your wee for a Wii” at the studios of radio station KDND 107.9. The competition involved drinking large quantities of water, with the last person to go to the toilet winning a Wii console – currently out of stock in most of North America.

An Associated Press interview with another contestant, named James Ybarra, claimed that contestants were initially given eight ounce bottles of water to drink every fifteen minutes, with larger bottles being used once contestants began to drop out. According to Ybarra, “They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk." He described the victim as “a nice lady” and that “she was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids."

Water intoxication (also known as hyperhydration or water poisoning) is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain function that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is upset by a rapid intake of water. It is unclear how serious a danger to the contestant’s health KDND knew the competition to be at the time.

John Geary, vice president and marketing manager for Entercom Sacramento, the station's owner, claimed that station personnel were “stunned” when they heard of Strange's death. "We are awaiting information that will help explain how this tragic event occurred," he said. The incident has already been widely reported by mass media outlets around the world.

POSTED: 03.33AM PST, 01/15/07 - David Jenkins - LINK

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The thing that went through my mind by the last sentence was that America ought to be embarrassed about themselves, embarrassed that this sort of thing happens at all, and for its own sake. That's right.

In Sudan we have people dying in the name of ethnic cleansing, in Somalia we've got people dying in the name of power, in Palestine we've got people dying in the name of God, and in Malawi we've got people dying in the name of survival. But eh. What do people in America die for?

That's right.

What makes it worse: this tragedy could have been averted if she had an extra 250$ to go out and buy it herself.

Calorie counting

[23:18] inqualcanto: people who ACTUALLY count their calories.
[23:18] inqualcanto: annoy me.
[23:18] yuvali611acs: I CANT EAT THAT
[23:18] yuvali611acs: yea
[23:18] yuvali611acs: i look
[23:18] yuvali611acs: and then im like
[23:18] yuvali611acs: i shouldnt eat that
[23:19] yuvali611acs: and then i do
[23:19] inqualcanto: i wanna just go like "yeah bitch you are fat." and make them cry.
[23:19] inqualcanto: but that'd be a horrible thing to do.

Went and saw Stomp the Yard, and I can offer you a few words of advice: DON'T see it. Spend your ten bucks on something more enjoyable, like oxycontin or ritalin. Or Robitussin shots. SOMETHING. Okay, it had its cool dance moves which sort of made me want to take Capoiera. But the actors were dancers, not actors. And the girl wasn't that gorgeous.

Odd thing happened today. Yuval and I got to the theatre at 7:05, thinking the movie started at 7:15. (Dyslexia? Joking.) Apparently it started at 7:50. A shame, though, since for half an hour, we thought we had the theatre to ourselves; that would have been a first. It would have been pretty awesome, but we learned later when Ryan walked in and was like, "wow guys, how long have you been here?"