4 statements about porcupines

1. they typically weigh approximately 5-16 kg
2. its genome is not completely sequenced insofar as i can gather
3. it has no direct relationship but shares probably 85% of its genes (or better) with the weird british/indian guy on abc world news.
4. they love grape juice and don't think anyone is to blame for someone unpredictably going really really really crazy, because although 85% of their biological being is the very same as humans their behavior is rather dissimilar and competely unpredictable and if you generalize the way one porcupine rolls to all the other porcupines that just ain't legit.

mark it, dude

(is more than one person reading this?)

*statements are not necessarily fact checked nor 100% factual, but generally amusing and sometimes meaning-bearing

for Mr. Business Guy, and myself a little bit

so.

i once upon a time registered a blogspot address. i think my original intention was to deliver some rant about the damn yankees, in the non-cultural sense; that is, i hate how overblown the yankees consistently are. and, Mr. Business Guy, the red sox are now in that territory as well. you spent 103 million on a 26 year old pitcher......

[punch line excluded]

[rebuttal to 'GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD' also excluded for the time]

anyhow, as promised, i want to spend a brief moment to say that we've now spent 4 days talking about some weirdo 50-year old disconnected biggot who i didn't even know existed. and, for that matter, 95% of america didn't know who he was, until the third day after he made this asinine "nappy-headed hos" comment (and if you don't think i'm contemplating "don imus' hos" for every rec or fantasy league i'm involved in for the next six months you have something to learn about me) (which is why i guess i'm going to post these blogs, because for some wonky "Web 2.0" reason i want at least a few people to know what i think... one day the subject matter will be things more significant than just baseball and don imus, things i know more than the average homo sapien about, i promise)

(what exactly was Web 1.0 then? ebay and amazon.com and webzines like slate being the only place where also-rans got to publish an opinion? then i say why not to Web 2.0, because amen to craigslist and the independent man who knows a whole lot about whatever it is he chooses to talk about)

ok long diatribe. point being, few people cared who don imus was until monday (which was three days after he made the comment, by my reckoning) (note: i may have factually errors in occasion, feel free to point them out and if they really fuck my point of view on things maybe i'll change it)

i don't care much about his comment, though tonight i heard the first arguments all week about why this was so offensive, and they were very pertinent points about gender, as this whole 'hos' thing has pervaded society now, and not so much about the nappy-headed part. what i'm fascinated by is the amount of play this has gotten. let me lay this out: the main story in national news for nearly a week straight has been some pseudo-cultural figure making (shock and surprise) a sexist racist comment. let's be honest: we've been here before. i'm not going to cite a recent example because i'm very bad with contextual memory, but my mere disgust with this issue assures me that this has happened in larger fashoin relatively recently.

and the point is: somehow, this is THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

because the labile media doesn't get (or make) any new cookie to feed on for the week.

so the lesson is this: on a slow news week, an antiquated jerk is headline news all week. you say to me "an antiquated jerk" and i say, ok, let's get a real news story. can't we discuss something worth everyone's while?

and that is what i have to say today. and now the tagline: mark it, dude.



was this the most disjointed post you've ever read? maybe in the top 10

did you enjoy it nonetheless, as you knew i was being honest and unedited? i hope so.

(that was the cheesey closer i came up with 15 minutes before i actually finished this post)

also, the question for this post is: does lack of punctuation annoy you, or should i keep it going as my thing?

still to come: i might discuss why it is that i'm now blogging, seeing as i haven't almost died recently.

other things you might eventually see: my opinions on sports; my input on the world of science (these are the things i pay most of my attention to); links to things i find amusing or personally satisfying; ill-advised pseudo-political or -philosophical meanderings; other things i am inspired to write about thanks to Mr. Business Guy's newfound creativity outlet or my own personal midweek drunkenness