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December 27th, 2009
 | 09:08 pm - Things I love, #27
Sentences that begin with "Prepare the..." and end with "...of Earth." "Prepare for the..." is also acceptable. Classic examples include:
• "fortification"
• "subjugation
• "harvesting"
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November 1st, 2009
| 01:44 pm
Eddi: There's a lever here. I'm gonna pull it. Any objections?
Mal: No, just give me a minute to put my spike-proof hat on.
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October 11th, 2009
| 03:28 pm - Stupid Gaming Jokes
Mal: Well, I slowed this guy for you, so if you can't kill him we don't deserve to be here and should just go do our laundry somewhere else.
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September 23rd, 2009
 | 10:18 pm - Quotes from William S. Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg's "The Yage Letters Redux"
"A Materialistic consciousness is attempting to preserve itself from Dissolution by restriction & persecution of Experience of the Transcendental. One day perhaps the Earth will be dominated by the illusion of Separate consciousness, the Bureaucrats having triumphed in seizing control of all roads of communication with the Divine, & restricting traffic. But Sleep & Death cannot evade the Great Dream of Being, and the victory of the Bureaucrats of Illusion is only an Illusion of their separate world of consciousness." - Allen Ginsberg, quoted in the introduction by Oliver Harris
Quotes from the text:
"I was getting off junk and he kept nagging me why was I kidding myself once a junkie always a junkie. If I quit junk I would become a sloppy lush or go crazy taking cocaine."
"He told me exactly what I would need for the trip, where to go and who to contact. I asked him about the telepathy angle. 'That's all imagination of course,' he said."
"I never feel flattered by this promiscuous liking for Americans. It is insulting to individual dignity, and no good ever comes from these America lovers."
"Like the U.S. Pegler fans say, 'The trouble is Unions.' They would still say it spitting blood from radiation sickness. Or in process of turning into crustaceans."
"It's your duty to turn in the guerrillas and work and know your place and listen to the priest. What an old con! Like trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge."
"I have been conned by medicine men (the most inveterate drunk, liar and loafer in the village is invariably the medicine man), incarcerated by the law, rolled by a local hustler (I thought I was getting that innocent backwoods ass, but the kid had been to bed with six American oil men, a Swedish Botanist, a Dutch Ethnographer, a Capuchin father known locally as The Mother Superior, a Bolivian Trotskyite on the lam, and jointly fucked by the Cocoa Commission and Point Four)."
"After five days in Puerto Assis I was well on the way to establish myself as a citizen in the capacity of village wastrel."
"The Brujo of Mocoa told me if a woman witnesses the preparation the Yage spoils on the spot and will poison anyone who drinks it or at least drive him insane. The old women-are-dirty-and-under-certain-circumstances-poisonous routine. I figured this was a chance to test the woman pollution myth once and for all with seven female creatures breathing down my neck, poking sticks in the mixture, fingering the Yage and giggling."
Puerto Leguizamo is named for a soldier who distinguished himself in the Peruvian War of 1940. I asked one of the Colombians about it and he nodded, 'Yes, Leguizamo was a soldier who did something in the war.'
'What did he do?'
'Well, he did something.'
"So here I am back in Bogota. No money waiting for me (check apparently stolen), I am forced to the shoddy expedient of stealing my drinking alcohol from the university laboratory placed at disposal of the visiting scientist."
"Arrested on the beach suspect to have floated up from Peru on the Humboldt Current with a young boy and a tooth brush (I travel light, only the essentials)..."
"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Even a man like Oppenheimer is a deviant tolerated for his usefulness. Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in U.S."
This is a nation of kleptomaniacs. In all my experience as a homosexual I have never been the victim of such idiotic pilferings of articles no conceivable use to anyone else. Glasses and traveler's checks yet.
Trouble is I share with the late Father Flanagan--he of Boy's Town--the deep conviction that there is no such thing as a bad boy.
"Yage is space time travel. The room seems to shake and vibrate with motion. The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian--new races as yet unconceived and unborn, combinations not yet realized passes through your body (stasis and death in closed mountain valleys where plants sprout out of your cock and vast crustaceans hatch inside and break the shell of the body), across the Pacific in an outrigger canoe to Easter Island. The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market."
"...get nauseous, rushed out and began vomiting, all covered with snakes, like a Snake Seraph, colored serpents in aureole all around my body, I felt like a snake vomiting out the universe..."
"This is the most powerful drug I have ever experienced. That is it produces the most complete derangement of the senses. You see everything from an hallucinated viewpoint. Yage' is not like anything else. This is not the electric euphoria of coke which activates channels of pure pleasure in the brain, the sexless, timeless, negative pleasure of opium."
"I have observed in using both yage' and Peyote a strange, vegetable consciousness, an identification with the plant. In Peyote intoxication everything looks like a Peyote plant. It is easy to understand how the Indians came to believe there is a spirit in these plants."
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September 22nd, 2009
| 07:22 pm - Stupid Gaming Jokes
Chase (waving hands around): Okay, so you are in an alley, and he's over there, while you're going *around* the buildings...
Mal: You know what be useful right now? Some sort of *two-dimensional* representation of our surroundings...
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September 7th, 2009
 | 09:05 pm - From Philip K. Dick's _The Man Who Japed_
"On the screen was an inter-program announcement. A large decayed tooth was shown, grimacing with pain. Next to it a sparkling healthy tooth jeered sanctimoniously. The two teeth engaged in Socratic dialogue, the upshot of which was the rout and defeat of the bad tooth."
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September 6th, 2009
| 04:18 pm - Gaming Quotes
Abbie: Should I cast 'Thunderwear'?
James/Mal: "Thunderwear?!"
Abbie: Er, 'Thunderwave.'
Mal: Awesomest. Spell. Ever.
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September 2nd, 2009
| 06:25 pm - Phone hijinks
Uriah: "I'm going to take a pic & send you the coolest aircraft safety card ever."
Mal: "Does it involve a ballerina & a stage magician?"
Uriah: "Hey! ...where's the ballerina?"
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July 24th, 2009
 | 10:58 am - Quotes highlighted from a reading of _Junky_
From the Prologue:
* I recall hearing a maid talk about opium and how smoking opium brings sweet dreams, and I said: "I will smoke opium when I grow up."
* After this my friend "packed me in" because the relationship was endangering his standing with the group. I saw there was no compromise possible with the group, the others, and I found myself a good deal alone.
* I'd once got on a Van Gogh kick and cut off a finger joint to impress someone who interested me at the time. The nut-house doctors had never heard of Van Gogh.
* The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict? The answer is that he usually does not intend to become an addict. You don't wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict.
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July 11th, 2009
 | 01:12 pm - Quotes found highlighted after a recent re-reading of Fear & Loathing
* "Not that we needed all for the trip but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can."
* "This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills: blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue--severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally... you can actually watch yourself behaving in this terrible way, but you can't control it."
* "One of the things you learn, after years of dealing with drug people, it that everything is serious. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug--especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eyes."
* "No! I thought. I must be hallucinating. There's nobody back there, nobody calling... it's a paranoid delusion, amphetamine psychosis... just keep walking towards the car, always smiling...."
* "...I knew he understood our position: We were past the point of debating the wisdom of this move; it was already done, and our only hope was to get to the other side."
* "The only hope now, I felt, was the possibility that we'd gone to such excess, with our gig, that nobody in a position to bring the hammer down on us could possibly believe it... When you bring an act into this town, you want to bring it in heavy. Don't waste any time with cheap shucks and misdemeanors. Go straight for the jugular. Get right into felonies."
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June 8th, 2009
| 10:01 pm - ...and magical properties in the laboratory
"It is beyond the scope of this paper to comment on the efficacy of S. divinorum in treatment of the various "folk ailments". There is not enough information available to make a scientific decision. More fieldwork at this stage would be more practical and certainly much more useful than trying to screen for anti-inflammatory, cathartic, analgesic, diuretic, tonic and magical properties in the laboratory."
Ethnopharmacology of Ska Maria Pastora (Salvia divinorum, Epling & Jativa-M.)
by Leander J. Valdes III, Jose Luis Diaz, and Ara G. Paul
Published in Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 7 (1983) 287-312
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December 12th, 2008
 | 11:20 pm - From wikipedia
"Some Christian theologians (particularly neo-Scholastics) saw Cantor's work as a challenge to the uniqueness of the absolute infinity in the nature of God, on one occasion equating the theory of transfinite numbers with pantheism."
From.
Current Music: Kil Switch... Klick - Bringing
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November 12th, 2008
| 09:50 pm - Line of the night
"Chocolate covered yellow peril"
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