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Earl in Miami

below: you go to the naked beach yet?!?!!?
abon: LOL
abon: nah not yet
abon: but i did see someone who was "bottomless"
abon: u heard of "topless"
abon: but oh shit, bottomless

Success Sucks

This is a shame.

Fans boo and walk out after Amy Winehouse gives atrocious performance

It's a shame because she is one of the brighter stars worth turning your neck for in our age. But really, these are the stories that make up most of today's headlines. People often say that success can take you far. But "sky is the limit" is not always the case for today's type of success. It is more like "how deep is the pit." It sucks because there are no warning signs for success the way there is D.A.R.E. for drugs. We are taught to be become successful, no matter how many times we fail. However, there are no lessons for when you are at the top. There is no enemy to conquer on the mountain except yourself, and how do you win against yourself? It is not a clear-cut two-sided battle between right and wrong. For celebrities, it could mean to keep on chasing what you've been chasing your whole life at the cost of self-destruction or it could mean disappearing into mediocrity and obscurity, conditions of which the psychological effects should not be under-exaggerated, but hopefully gaining a peace of mind in the process. If you do happen to find yourself in one of those self-destructive type of positions of success, how are you supposed to get out? Think about it. That's like a crackhead who shoots up and they pay him for it and give him an exorbitant amount of fame and attention. For some people, that's their life. There will always be rehab for drugs and alcohol, but there is no rehab for success. The only rehab for success is failure. And from personal experience, looking in the mirror after any failure, especially the large ones, is the hardest thing to do.

Oh sh*t

Oh sh*t

Ballet Class Crank

What do you look for in a significant other?

Sheng Wang Joke of the Day:

I took a shit in a toilet with no water. I told my friends that I had to drop the kids off at the skate park.

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So we asked all around what they look for in a significant other.

Marius said that the girl should be funny.

Nolan said the girl's gotta be someone who he can talk to.

I said that I look for standards, moral principles.

Christine said the guy should be kind and someone who could make her laugh.

She seemed to put an emphasis on kind, and that's what's been tripping be me out. Kind isn't really the same thing as nice, friendly, compassionate or having manners. Kind means something else. In the word kind, there is an inherent vulnerability. And there seems to be no room for something like that in a man's world. Kind is a *large* type of vulnerability. It means turning the other cheek or letting someone screw you over. For men, being kind seems to contradict the tenets of manhood of being strong, courageous, assertive, or sometimes, being honest. I asked her to name someone kind, and she did. But I know the person to have a mean side, and not the type of malicious mean side. It is the type of mean that can make us laugh at the jokes on MAD TV. By implication, one cannot enjoy the offensive jokes on MAD TV and the ones that are pretty much standard in American society if you are ALL-OUT kind, which means being kind is boring in some situations. Where I went to high school, you could not really be afford to be kind unless you could tolerate having a low self-esteem. Everyone else was unkind to battle everyone being unkind, but it was really just teenagers who weren't sure of themselves.

Then I asked, "How do you expect to find kind?"

She said, "You just either are or aren't." (which kinda sucks if you're a guy trying to prove yourself and you are innately NOT kind)

But that phrase can go all ways: "You're either funny or you're not." "You either have standards or you don't" "You either are able to talk to Nolan or you aren't."

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Kanye West's Mom Died :(

I give the woman a lot of respect for raising a son who was THAT creative and believed in himself THAT much. No one talks about how difficult it is to raise a child to believe in himself/herself. Everyday you're self-esteem is being tested by the outside world. The kids at school tell you you're not good enough. The commercials tell you that you're not cool if you don't buy this or that. You gotta wear the right clothes. The super competitive people make you feel less-than-competent. Donda West is proof that if you raise someone to be strong, EVERYONE benefits.

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Is it possible to be kind in today's age?

Any words for Donda West?

Comedy Show at Cal

I went to a comedy show yesterday at Cal. Here are the jokes that I remember off the top of my head.

*Host: Now introducing to the stage...Sheng Wang!*
*applause*
*man comes out behind curtain*
*Sheng Wang: Surprise! Sheng Wang is Chinese.*

*Sheng Wang: I'm going bald. I don't like to think of going bald as losing hair, but more like gaining more face. ::rubs the top of his head:: Can you imagine that in a couple years this will be my forehead?*

*Sheng Wang: My roommate is too honest with me sometimes. I don't understand why she has to be so up-front. I brought a lady friend to the apartment and she felt the need to tell me what she thought of her. "She's pretty good...Eh...she's alright...she's okay....you can do better." ::looking around:: I know I can do Better...but BETTER isn't trying to do ME. BETTER is out there trying to fuck BEST. and I'll be doing OKAY. ::smiles and gives the okay sign::*

*Sheng Wang: I can't even justify the use of the term "sex life." That's like, "hyperbole." But it's okay, I'm under the impression that having sex again is like riding a bike......Some people just don't own bikes. ::audience laughter:: Sometimes you gotta walk...or talk a leisurely stroll.*

*Sheng Wang: Me and my roommate just recently got into an argument. She put in one of those glade plug-ins in our bathroom because we got "problems." But the glade plug-in doesn't solve anything. It's just confusing. A guest walks into the bathroom, "Oh it smells like peaches...Oh wait...you're roommate has diarrhea." I mean, you don't put a band-aid on a broken arm. You shouldn't put a strawberry on a pile of shit.*

*Louis Katz: For the longest time I was having sex with a condom. When I had sex for the first time without a condom, I seriously saw beams of light coming out of the girl's vagina and heard a whole ensemble choir singing. ::does short choir singing hymn:: Having sex without a condom is like putting your penis in God's mouth.*
*Louis Katz: Sex without a condom is too good. I don't even worry about getting STD's anymore. I'm just gonna throw an Airborne in there and hope for the best.*

*Louis Katz: My parents keep telling me, "You gotta find a nice Jewish girl to marry so we can prolong our people, because if you don't, Hitler wins!" How does Hitler win? He's been dead for a long time. I'm just out trying to fuck Christian girls. So, in the end, who wins? ::audience member yells, "YOU DO!":: That's right.*
*Louis Katz: Yeah, I'm a little bit on the hairy side. I have girls all the time tell me, "Have you ever thought about shaving?"......Fuck you. Of course I haven't thought about shaving. Why don't I just get a nose job and a baptism while I'm at it? But I do empathize for these girls. For some reason, the phrase, "Don't worry, that's not a pube," never brought comfort to any girl.*

*Brent Weinbach (doing a right-wing slam poetry): A dick in the butt? And then what?!?!*

In the Lord's House

I don't think that I'm conservative. I wouldn't call myself balls-out liberal either. But probably the most conservative thing about me is my big ego.

I was in the Lord's House last Sunday. I try to take in as much as I can when I'm at mass. I don't go as often as I'd like, but I think the Lord's House as a sort of pure sanctuary. To me, it is where all the beef gets put aside and we're all in the same place trying to repent. But I think I've put too much of an emphasis on pure. I was watching the events of the service transpire. Then I notice the lector of the first reading. The lector of the first reading was the same chick I saw at Santa Barbara who seemed to be majoring in debauchery studies rather than Bible studies. And then as the mass goes on, they needed people to help serve the Body of Christ. Two of the people that were helping give out the Body of Christ were heavy drinkers, proficient shit-talkers, and self-proclaimed bitches. I thought to myself, "Doesn't this somehow defeat the purpose?" I'm hearing God's word from someone who doesn't practice it. I'm receiving the Body of Christ from some of the most shadiest characters. As I tried to convince myself of this pure sanctuary, images of priest-touchin' children emerge. Then I feel bad for judging in the Lord's House. You know how angry conservative mob protesters rally in front of courthouses against gay marriage? And then people like me think, "What do gay marriages have to do with these protesters? In the long run, how does it affect them at all?" I think I got a glimpse of their ignorance. For some reason, it does affect me that the Girls Gone Wild lector is readin' God's Word to the church. For some reason, it does affect me that the some of the shadiest of individuals (and not even the Bible reference, tax-collectors who truly sorry for their sins type of individuals) are serving up the Body of Christ. I can't articulate how it affects me but that type of stuff seems contradictory in the Lord's House. It's probably as contradictory as me judging folks in the Lord's House.

All I can do is try to understand that even I don't always live up to the image of myself. Even I can't meet my standards at times. Maybe those folks ARE trying to become better people. Maybe I'm lying to myself about them but at least I'm trying for them.

But in order to reduce confusion:

Be who you say you are. And say what you is.

This is a good album.



Justice - Cross

I guess I'm being mean

I think girls, in general, are blurring the line between dressing like a slut and being a slut.

I'm sorry that's not that gentlemanly.

But I think sluts need to be more accountable for themselves. And I know the word "slut" is an ugly and demeaning word. It is a shame that we have such words in our language. But I think it's an even bigger shame that there are girls out there who embody such words. It seems very difficult to be a woman these days. Maybe it's always been hard because of the whole childbirth thing. But women don't get any leeway for anything. Guys can dress up like Mr. Rogers and be labeled as classy. Guys can dress up like Kevin Federline and be frequently mislabeled "bad boy." In either case, there is a niche for women to choose from. If women dress up like Rihanna, Beyonce, or Britney Spears, guys do not make any distinction. To them you are that H-O. And it doesn't matter if you are one or not, you get treated the same way. And there is no niche. H-O is the market. The only niche in the market are the good girls, ladies. And ladies are rare, hard to find, and really not as appreciated in society as they should be. H-Os have a hyperinflated stock price.

The problem is that we've centered our culture's perception of women around Beyonce's, Rihanna's and Britney Spears', and not enough around girls like Janelle Monae.



I do advocate that women be treated with as much respect you can give them, regardless of whether they deserve it or not. But when you see an H-O, the mind will call it what it will.