Tuesday, January 06, 2004

I wonder if anyone is considering one of the greatest dangers to homeland security. Whilst we fret about dark-skinned muhadeen with homemade weapons, something far more deadly, far more immediate looms to our north, with their socialized medicine and barbaric hockey ways. I, for one, think that Canadian cow was the first of a wave of invaders, diseasing us first with their meat, and then their social justice, tolerant society ideas. Nothing is more dangerous to our free market than a market of free ideas and association. I was watching some hard core chess last night at Meshugga's, and it made me think that chess, higher level chess, is transendent - predicting the entire universe of potential with each single move, pitted against another soul who will win or lose according to whether or not he or she can withstand the opponent's onslaught of will, onslaught of hope. I can see how so many chess masters seem to have severe social disorders - playing high level chess is a black art, an art of light. I will consider computer versus human matches with greater interest in these times. 10:56:00 PM

Things they don't teach you in landlord school - Don't take singles for rent money, ESPECIALLY when the weather is cold and the cold fingers and hands have a hard time handling a wad of cash. I felt like a Jack London caricature, trying to load  nearly seven hundred dollars in various bills, including over $150 in ones, in from the icy cold car. I told Alex and John that if I started making money, I would have to pay them to keep living there so I could gather material for a sit com, after they fought over who kept the heat up highest. It all sounds too good to be true - straight white man from rural America, moving in with dark, exotic cosmopolitan gay man. In the show, you'd have to build up the conflict by making John or Alex's character unwitting roommates, and make John a homophobe. They told the sweetest story tonight, when John was complaining about how many more dates Alex brings home - which, I pointed out, is great comedy in itself, including the statement itself. Alex brought home a women for John the other night, and, as John puts it, told each of them that the other was lonely, without embarassing either of them, by speaking about each of them hypothetically, in the third person "I know a friend who isn't very good with girls because he lacks self confidence" to which John said "I know, that's kind of like me." I don't know what the corollary was for his female friend, but I bet a highly paid crew of hollywood scriptwriters could make something really good up, like "I have this girl friend who always ends up with the wrong guys because she goes for the cocky ones who don't really care about her." Rather than the low self esteem ones? I guess it's Hollywood. 1:02:40 AM