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"On the Road to Kingdom Come" | 48 comments (48 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I know (4.00 / 20)

I've pissed a lot of people off here because of my inabiltity to not snark loudly. But I only do so because I fucking care about our planet, and my own life to be honest.

And also, because for a long time, I've felt like a second-class citizen here because I'm Canadian and "don't get" the unique American...okay, I'll leave it there for my own sake.

I know people here care, but I care too. And I... oh never mind. If you get me you get me, if not, sorry, no offense intended. Except for Chris... how dare he post moose without at least one line of the Canuckian National Anthem... meh. My friendly snark is getting rusty.

If you don't care for me, cool. I probably don't care for you either. Hell, I managed to get myself banned by the bastion of liberalism dkos for one comment last week. Unfortunately I can't take my Plame diary with me... hmmm... I wonder if that violates their privacy policy as revisted... digressions, sorry. Anyway..). So if you don't like me, think I'm a punk, a cunt, a flaming hockey lover, whatever. Let me have it. But don't take it out on Harry. He's much beloved, and one my rolemodel's (I never said I lived up to it you know).

Nutshell - I just fear for our world and the people in it so much.

by spiderleaf (spiderleaf at gmail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 04:52:33 AM EST

Re: I know (4.00 / 17)

Hi Spider, cheer up - you're not the only misfit around here, imagine living in the redstate backwoods and trying to hang out with a bunch of urban sophisticates. I'm always glad to see your name. Isn't everyone welcome here as long as they're not a prick?

Thanks for posting this song - it's just what I needed this morning. Since you mention John, I'll toss in another one:

People say we got it made
Dont they know were so afraid?
Isolation
We're afraid to be alone
Everybody got to have a home
Isolation
Just a boy and a little girl
Trying to change the whole wide world
Isolation
The world is just a little town
Everybody trying to put us down
Isolation

I dont expect you to understand
After youve caused so much pain
But then again, youre not to blame
Youre just a human, a victim of the insane

Were afraid of everyone
Afraid of the sun
Isolation
The sun will never disappear
But the world may not have many years
Isolation

by Alice on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 08:40:23 AM EST
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Re: I know (4.00 / 8)

Thanks Alice, a most beautiful and haunting song. Good to 'see' you!

by spiderleaf (spiderleaf at gmail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 05:00:25 PM EST
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Re: I know (4.00 / 16)

Hell, we love Canadians. In fact, I'm hoping that you guys invade the US and send Bush's flabby ass to Gitmo for some of that nontorture they specialize in down there.

Personally, I welcome input from wherever it may come, spiderleaf. Just jump back in the pond, the water's fine. ;-)

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin -SLB-

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 09:09:26 AM EST
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Re: I know (4.00 / 11)

What Boran2 said.

Speaking for myself anyway, I especially enjoy the input from our Canadian neighbo(u)rs. We always benfit from an outside perspective.

And thanks for the Harry Chapin. When I was a freshman in college, a friend tried to get me to go see Harry but I blew him off due to an upcoming chemistry exam, saying "Harry Chapin comes to Philly every year. I'll catch him next time." Only there wasn't a next time. And the friend transferred to Johns Hopkins. So all I was left with the next year were more chemistry exams.

:-(

Some things you have to learn the hard way.

Ecological collapse is already happening. Your resentment of the word doesn't change the fact that it is occurring.

by Knoxville Progressive (green_planet_2000 (at) yahoo (dot) com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 11:27:56 AM EST
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Re: I know (4.00 / 7)

KP :) Good to see you - I get most of my science news from you!

My mom did the same thing the year before he died and it's made her so sad ever since. I just watched the video of his final concert over the holiday's and burst into tears at the line in "Circle" when he says "and we'll all get together again and again and again." Except we wouldn't.

His voice and lyrics still give me hope though. A true storyteller.

by spiderleaf (spiderleaf at gmail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 05:03:57 PM EST
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Re: I know (4.00 / 7)

I'm afraid to say anything in response lest it is held against me if I ever try and cross the border again :)

by spiderleaf (spiderleaf at gmail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 05:01:49 PM EST
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Like, (4.00 / 7)

perhaps on or around January 27th? ;)

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 05:03:30 PM EST
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Re: Like, (4.00 / 7)

Lemme see if I can swing it and get back to you. :)

by spiderleaf (spiderleaf at gmail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 05:06:19 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: I know (4.00 / 13)

I think you're a flaming hockey lover :)

If people didn't piss each other off, then we'd just have an echo chamber. The important thing to remember is that it goes both ways; that's sometimes easy to forget in the heat of an argument. None of us have a monopoly on the truth, and we all have things we can learn, and things we can teach.

Tengo un sueño.

by ejmw (ewitham (at) umich (dot) edu) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 09:34:55 AM EST
[ Parent ]

ej (4.00 / 5)

off topic, but I checked and I didn't get your email afterall. colorsplash62@hotmail.com or colorsplash62@optonline.net.

Green Grass and High Tides Forever

by supersoling (colorsplash62@optonline.net) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 02:17:37 PM EST
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Re: ej (4.00 / 5)

OK, I just sent it to your hotmail and cc'd your optonline account. Hopefully that does it :)

Tengo un sueño.

by ejmw (ewitham (at) umich (dot) edu) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 03:13:23 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: I know (4.00 / 7)

Dammit. I knew you'd pick that option. ;)

by spiderleaf (spiderleaf at gmail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 05:05:11 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Hey spidey (4.00 / 12)

Your snarkoliciousness is very much missed by me ... and I'd even support God's team just for you ... there, how's that for a show of love ... ;)

Seriously though, I hear you wrt the fear ...

by olivia on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 09:59:27 AM EST
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Re: Hey spidey (4.00 / 7)

Oh my buddha. Please drive to T-dot and kidnap me if I ever suggest such a thing! :)

Love you too O.

by spiderleaf (spiderleaf at gmail dot com) on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 05:05:54 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: I know (4.00 / 4)

I would have posted a bit of O Canada had my head not been filled with the haunting words of Государственны&# 1081; гимн Российской Федерации. All of the moose depicted in that post were from The Kostroma Moose Farm in Russia. I'm shocked, just shocked, that a Canadian such as yourself can't tell the national origin of a moose just by looking at it. Didn't they teach you anything in school?

by Chris on Fri Jan 12th, 2007 at 07:05:12 PM EST
[ Parent ]

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