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Name: Mike
Birthday: 9/25/1974
Gender: Male
Interests: Food and sleep. Sex would make the list if i got it more often.
Expertise: being cynical
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Government
Message: message me
Website: visit my website
Member Since:
9/2/2004
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| Tell me the universe isn't a beautiful place.
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| Is the fucking plague. Everything about it's existence is horrible. It lets you keep in touch with people you don't care enough to keep in touch with using traditional means. All so you can artificially bloat your friends list and look popular. And how do you communicate with these tertiary acquaintances? By poking? Now we have pre-canned communication too? Now there's this new 25 random things about me craze. What is up with people posting random private shit about themselves nowadays? What happened to privacy? Can your life really be reduced down into list form? So not only have we simplified communication, but we've simplified our definition of our own life as well.
What is to blame for all this lack of privacy nowadays? Perhaps it's reality tv. It's made it seem possible for any moron to be famous so long as they're 'whacky' enough. Everyone seems to think they're going to make it or be famous someday. Face it, you're most likely not. Most people will live a 'normal' life. Guess what? There's absolutely nothing wrong w/ a normal life. Besides there's something pathetic about the chase for fame, somewhere near the level of artificially boosting your friends list w/ people you don't know. Hah, u know my last post talked about how i was getting old, and now this one. Man... i really must be getting old. All out of touch w/ new technology and shit. I think i'll go back to watching my picture box, and listening to my portable record player, and *gasp* physically talking to my friends. Fucking crazy, i know.
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| So for the first time in my life, tonight i was called ahjushee. For non-koreans ahjushee means sir. Yet somehow it's so much more biting than the word 'sir'. Perhaps some background is needed.
I did some design work on spec for a friend of mine. To thank me he treated me to a nice dinner of korean bbq and drinks. Granted, nothing says 'thank you' like cold hard cash, but korean bbq comes a close second. At least to me. So we're sitting there eating, drinking, being merry and all that shit. When the next table asks if they can take our extra seat. However this being 'k-town' they ask in korean. Also when they ask they look right at me and say that dreaded word. Ahjushee.... As i said that means sir. Yet it cuts so deep, as this was the first time in my life someone had ever used that word to me. Now normally i would have shrugged this off. But after about 4 bottles of soju i'm thinking maybe i have a night of going out in me. Perhaps part of me is also thinking, 'fuck you bitch, i'm not old... yet' So one friend of mine decides he's done for the night and goes home. The other wants to go out and party a little. At this point i'm pretty buzzed so i'm game.
We drive back to the city.... More background. I live just outside of DC in maryland, and the local 'k-town' is in Virginia. My friend that wants to go out a little more lives in DC. So we drive back to his place. We're chilling there for a lil bit trying to plan shit out. Remember though. This is the weekend before the innauguration. Therefore the bars are all open till 5 am. My friend (who is a resident of the city) has been taking advantage of this up till now so he's been partying pretty hard for the last few days. I haven't been out since... well, i can't even remember the last time i went out on the town. So we're chilling there... and he passes out! Like straight up passed out... snoring and everything! It's only like 10:30pm! I sit there for maybe another half hour playing w/ my phone, before realizing it's just a lost cause. I wake him up and tell him i'm going to take off. Then leave and get in m car. Remember we had just drank 4 bottles of soju and maybe 3 beers, and the guy who passed out really didn't help so it was 4 bottles of soju between 2 guys. Suffice it to say i'm pretty fuckin hammered. But i drive home anyway.
The entire way that word is ringing in my head 'ahjushee'. It doesn't help that the entire night was an aborted effort to go out. By now it was about 11:30 pm and i'm tired as shit. Wow.... Just a year ago i could have gone until 4 am with no problems. WTF happened? What happened was that person was right. I AM old. I FEEL old. I don't know what i was thinking trying to go out, and recapture the past, when all i really wanted to do was sit at home and watch a netflix movie. FUCK. I'm an ahjushee.
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| "You know what the problem with this country is? We used to build stuff... make things. Now all's we got is our hand in the next guys pocket." - Frank Sobotka "The Wire"
'By the people, for the people' that used to be the tagline for our government. It's sadly no longer the case. It's now by the people who went to harvard or yale (and went on to become career politicians), for the people who work on wall street or control large corporations. Have you noticed how many laws recently have met w/ extremely low approval from the general population but were passed anyway (like the bailout)? As for the bailout... $750 billion wasn't enough. It would only get passed w/ an extra $150 billion in pork added on top. A bailout btw that i (and seemingly the majority of americans) don't think we needed anyway (not that i'm an economist or anything). Hey if the banks fail, let them fucking fail. This is a capitalist system isn't it? What? There's suddenly companies that we can't let go under? We've been rewarding mediocrity for far too long in this country as it is, now we're not even letting companies fail. There were other, more direct ways to use that money than just transferring taxpayer money to the large institutions that caused the problem in the first place.
Those of you who are young and don't know anything about this stuff. Why aren't you angrier about the situation the baby boomers are leaving you in? They're essentially leaving you to pay off their debt, but there you are just caring about your next ipod or pair of jeans. Innoculated by consumerism. It's fucking pathetic.
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