I'm 24

Lamont Cranston · 03.03.2010, 08:53 AM

Today March 3rd is my birthday.
First I spent the day exhausted from having spent eight hours yesterday at a TAFE course I have been compelled to attend that is full of people learning to speak English, but it was better than the previous one full of people with Downs Syndrome.
On top of that I spent the morning sick as hell dreading the psychological counseling sessions that have for the past few months been a battleground as I am insulted, bullied, and antagonized. Sure enough from the moment I dragged my half-asleep & trying-not-to-vomit self into the office the so-called doctor was starting a fight and provoking an argument - then I used the word 'jerk' and flipped him the bird then he walked out. Not even five minutes had passed.
Then I spent the rest of the day exhausted, sick and vomiting, and impotently furious.

verme (prevaricator) · 03.03.2010, 09:00 AM

happy birthday.

phoenix · 03.03.2010, 09:10 AM

happy birthday lamont!

If you were a little less mysterious i'd be inclined to meet you or something.

Sorry yr birthday wasn't great

floatingslowly · 03.03.2010, 09:22 AM

happy birthday, fish-brother.

atsonicpark · 03.03.2010, 09:23 AM

Late July, dog days of summer. On the news the doldrums arrive, lazy waves on a calm sea. Beneath this the usual commotion proceeds: more troops to Afghanistan under cover of new words for old thoughts. We’ll pacify them, bring them the glories of democracy, build schools. 30 US dead this past month, we aren’t told how many others we killed in this pursuit, and whatever the numbers they’d be false. Meantime JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs celebrate, having converted the financial panic of autumn into a fiscal killing a mere 8 months later. Capitalizing on panic, like a gang war, they rubbed out, with some help from Washington, some major competitors. Now these two sit on the peak of Wall Street, raking in the money and shelling out billions in reward to those inside the game. Unemployment rises each month, the funny figures jiggled by the statisticians so the official number is 10% for the US, though the real one is likely far closer to more than 20%. The jobs vanish, and politicians promise renewal, but the work is gone and there’s little real reason to think it’ll be replaced any time soon. The celebrated shift to a “service economy” has tanked, the 70% of GDP generated by “consumption” suddenly shrivelled with diminished plastic and heightened extortionary interest rates. Meanwhile Michael is dead, after much distracting hooplah, and now Walter Cronkite, and new news rolls in. On Washington’s C Street, an alleged Christian retreat for hardpressed politicians turns out to have been a love-nest for errant hypocritical Republican “family values” Senators and Representatives. Elmer Gantry is America.
Obama slowly tarnishes, as it becomes clear this Knight in burnished bronze is only the best the political system could offer, but it is still inside the system, and the system is gamed by those of the military-industrial complex intent on keeping and expanding America’s imperium, 700 bases – and building – scattered across the globe. The whiff of Roman decadence becomes a stench. The prison at Bagram in Afghanistan is a political embarassment so the PR machine cranks about the “bad image” and not the actual substance of the matter: that America, in pursuit of its ugly interests, hesitates not to imprison, torture and kill in the most casual of manners. Caesar would be proud. The Romans poisoned themselves with lead linings to their aquaducts; we follow suit with plastic water bottles leaching bisphenol-A (BPA) into us, dicking with our hormones. Our domestic economy wilts as we pour more and more into armaments and money-shufflers, and Obama orates with a silver tongue speaking as his masters dictate. Were he to actually attempt to take on his commanders in the Pentagon, CIA or Wall Street, he’d be gone as a lynching victim in August.

Lamont Cranston · 03.03.2010, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by phoenix

happy birthday lamont!

If you were a little less mysterious i'd be inclined to meet you or something.

Sorry yr birthday wasn't great

I haven't been mysterious. PM if you want.

phoenix · 03.03.2010, 09:37 AM

i mean, by how little you post.

Lamont Cranston · 03.03.2010, 10:03 AM

Oh I just haven't been on lately. All this shit and reading a lot and not thinking of anything interesting.

floatingslowly · 03.03.2010, 10:08 AM

oh, how I wish that doomsday involved gigantic crabs.

verme (prevaricator) · 03.03.2010, 10:13 AM

a tidal wave of terror.

floatingslowly · 03.03.2010, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by verme (prevaricator)

a tidal wave of terror.

not if you have an ample supply of drawn-butter.

apocalicious!

Rob Instigator · 03.03.2010, 10:43 AM

well fuck lamont cranston. the goddamn shadow knows. hope yr birthday is the first day ina ssequence of incredibly unbelievable good days

cagedbird · 03.03.2010, 10:51 AM

24 was a good year for me. I moved back home and traveled a lot: SF, Eastern LI, the Levittown library. Some good music came out. But your 24th is a different story. Here's to the ends justifying the means. May the force be with you.

Lamont Cranston · 03.03.2010, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

well fuck lamont cranston. the goddamn shadow knows. hope yr birthday is the first day ina ssequence of incredibly unbelievable good days

Did you read what I described? It is nightmare tidal wave of terror.

Rob Instigator · 03.03.2010, 12:57 PM

It is indeed a shitstorm. I think my lack of proper punctuation did not help clarify what I typed.

I HOPE everything turns around and the shitstorm turns into a storm of fucking happiness

Lamont Cranston · 03.03.2010, 05:54 PM

It wont. I should just go die.

Rob Instigator · 03.03.2010, 06:06 PM

I am in a similar position my man, and it is near overwhleming with shit.
I will not patronize you with those bullshit statements like "it can only get better" because you and I know that no matter how horrible a situation is, it can always get worse as well.
but if that is where the cards fall that's where they fall. do not give up hope. humans are the only creatures on earth capable of hope (as far as we know) and hope is ridiculously powerful thing.

on the furrrealzzz, if you wanna talk to someone PM me

cagedbird · 03.03.2010, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

on the furrrealzzz,

beautiful expression.

floatingslowly · 03.03.2010, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

It wont. I should just go die.

you'll get your chance soon enough. everybody does.

don't allow yourself to become so easily angered.

I very much understand that people can be annoying and stupid, but you simply cannot waste energy on it.

don't force me to go miagi on you too.

Lamont Cranston · 03.03.2010, 10:16 PM

I had a phone call from the CentreLink agency WorkingArrangements this morning, the TL;DR of it was if I can't continue with the TAFE course that teaches migrants learning English how to do mathematics in English then all ideas had been exhausted and I was out of options and should quit CentreLink & stop receiving dole payments.

03.03.2010, 08:53 AM	#1
Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	Today March 3rd is my birthday. First I spent the day exhausted from having spent eight hours yesterday at a TAFE course I have been compelled to attend that is full of people learning to speak English, but it was better than the previous one full of people with Downs Syndrome. On top of that I spent the morning sick as hell dreading the psychological counseling sessions that have for the past few months been a battleground as I am insulted, bullied, and antagonized. Sure enough from the moment I dragged my half-asleep & trying-not-to-vomit self into the office the so-called doctor was starting a fight and provoking an argument - then I used the word 'jerk' and flipped him the bird then he walked out. Not even five minutes had passed. Then I spent the rest of the day exhausted, sick and vomiting, and impotently furious. __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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03.03.2010, 09:00 AM	#2
verme (prevaricator) 100% Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 753	happy birthday.
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03.03.2010, 09:10 AM	#3
phoenix invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: the future where it's hot and dark Posts: 5,926	happy birthday lamont! If you were a little less mysterious i'd be inclined to meet you or something. Sorry yr birthday wasn't great __________________ tiny and lost.
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03.03.2010, 09:22 AM	#4
floatingslowly invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 21,165	happy birthday, fish-brother.
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03.03.2010, 09:23 AM	#5
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Late July, dog days of summer. On the news the doldrums arrive, lazy waves on a calm sea. Beneath this the usual commotion proceeds: more troops to Afghanistan under cover of new words for old thoughts. We’ll pacify them, bring them the glories of democracy, build schools. 30 US dead this past month, we aren’t told how many others we killed in this pursuit, and whatever the numbers they’d be false. Meantime JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs celebrate, having converted the financial panic of autumn into a fiscal killing a mere 8 months later. Capitalizing on panic, like a gang war, they rubbed out, with some help from Washington, some major competitors. Now these two sit on the peak of Wall Street, raking in the money and shelling out billions in reward to those inside the game. Unemployment rises each month, the funny figures jiggled by the statisticians so the official number is 10% for the US, though the real one is likely far closer to more than 20%. The jobs vanish, and politicians promise renewal, but the work is gone and there’s little real reason to think it’ll be replaced any time soon. The celebrated shift to a “service economy” has tanked, the 70% of GDP generated by “consumption” suddenly shrivelled with diminished plastic and heightened extortionary interest rates. Meanwhile Michael is dead, after much distracting hooplah, and now Walter Cronkite, and new news rolls in. On Washington’s C Street, an alleged Christian retreat for hardpressed politicians turns out to have been a love-nest for errant hypocritical Republican “family values” Senators and Representatives. Elmer Gantry is America. Obama slowly tarnishes, as it becomes clear this Knight in burnished bronze is only the best the political system could offer, but it is still inside the system, and the system is gamed by those of the military-industrial complex intent on keeping and expanding America’s imperium, 700 bases – and building – scattered across the globe. The whiff of Roman decadence becomes a stench. The prison at Bagram in Afghanistan is a political embarassment so the PR machine cranks about the “bad image” and not the actual substance of the matter: that America, in pursuit of its ugly interests, hesitates not to imprison, torture and kill in the most casual of manners. Caesar would be proud. The Romans poisoned themselves with lead linings to their aquaducts; we follow suit with plastic water bottles leaching bisphenol-A (BPA) into us, dicking with our hormones. Our domestic economy wilts as we pour more and more into armaments and money-shufflers, and Obama orates with a silver tongue speaking as his masters dictate. Were he to actually attempt to take on his commanders in the Pentagon, CIA or Wall Street, he’d be gone as a lynching victim in August. __________________
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03.03.2010, 09:37 AM	#7
phoenix invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: the future where it's hot and dark Posts: 5,926	i mean, by how little you post. __________________ tiny and lost.
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03.03.2010, 10:03 AM	#8
Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	Oh I just haven't been on lately. All this shit and reading a lot and not thinking of anything interesting. __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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03.03.2010, 10:08 AM	#9
floatingslowly invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 21,165	oh, how I wish that doomsday involved gigantic crabs.
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03.03.2010, 10:13 AM	#10
verme (prevaricator) 100% Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 753	a tidal wave of terror.
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03.03.2010, 10:43 AM	#12
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	well fuck lamont cranston. the goddamn shadow knows. hope yr birthday is the first day ina ssequence of incredibly unbelievable good days __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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03.03.2010, 10:51 AM	#13
cagedbird the destroyed room Join Date: May 2006 Location: Mid-Manhattan Library Posts: 567	24 was a good year for me. I moved back home and traveled a lot: SF, Eastern LI, the Levittown library. Some good music came out. But your 24th is a different story. Here's to the ends justifying the means. May the force be with you.
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03.03.2010, 12:57 PM	#15
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	It is indeed a shitstorm. I think my lack of proper punctuation did not help clarify what I typed. I HOPE everything turns around and the shitstorm turns into a storm of fucking happiness __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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03.03.2010, 05:54 PM	#16
Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	It wont. I should just go die. __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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03.03.2010, 06:06 PM	#17
Rob Instigator invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In the land of the Instigator Posts: 27,976	I am in a similar position my man, and it is near overwhleming with shit. I will not patronize you with those bullshit statements like "it can only get better" because you and I know that no matter how horrible a situation is, it can always get worse as well. but if that is where the cards fall that's where they fall. do not give up hope. humans are the only creatures on earth capable of hope (as far as we know) and hope is ridiculously powerful thing. on the furrrealzzz, if you wanna talk to someone PM me __________________ RXTT's Intellectual Journey - my new blog where I talk about all the books I read.
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03.03.2010, 10:16 PM	#20
Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	I had a phone call from the CentreLink agency WorkingArrangements this morning, the TL;DR of it was if I can't continue with the TAFE course that teaches migrants learning English how to do mathematics in English then all ideas had been exhausted and I was out of options and should quit CentreLink & stop receiving dole payments. __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
	\|QUOTE AND REPLY\|