I think I am developing a very serious case of Anthropophobia. Anthropophobia is the fear of people and/or society. I don't have many phobias and I really think everyone should have at least one crippling fear so I did some research and discovered that Anthropophobia was the PHOBIA FOR ME! And if you had any sense at all it would be your number one phobia too.
Here's why...
EVERYONE AROUND YOU IS (OR IS WELL ON THEIR WAY TO BECOMING) COMPLETELY FUCKING NUTS!
Want proof?
A judge recently in Florida ordered two opposing lawyers in a case who were unable to agree on ANYTHING (even the smallest little details like where witness depositions would take place) to resolve their disagreements by playing PAPER, SCISSORS, STONE. Of course it is Florida we are talking about here... they don't even know how to vote down there so that's not so crazy I suppose.
But wait there's more!
Arizona - 2 parents have been recently charged with rewarding their children for good behaviour by giving them MARIJUANA. Actually... when I think about it I wish I had parents like that - I would have done a LOT better in school. At least they were taking some sort of interest in their children's lives and trying to encourage them to do their best. That's better than the majority of parents do these days.
New York - Some dipshit would-be criminal tried to rob an auto parts store Rochester. The employees responded to his robbery attempt by beating the living shit out of him with a metal pipe. He survived. He's sueing them. Well I guess he was just trying to do his job (hey everyone needs to fill SOME position in this society after all)... how would YOU feel if you got the shit beat out of you for doing your job?
Utah - A lady was arrested for lewdness for exposing herself in a store. Seems she was riding around in the store in a motorized cart with her pants around her ankles and no underwear on. I wonder if the store was cited for any health code violations? The woman said she was in town with a travelling circus but had been left behind when they left town. Ahhh those crazy circus folk... what would we do without them?
Those are just a few examples I grabbed out of the news online today but you don't have to look very far or hard to see what I mean... just take the time and really observe the people around you... hell you might be shopping right next to stranded circus folk and not even know it. People around you might be making all of their decisions based on the outcome of a children's game! Who know's? It might be how the parent's of those kids in Arizona came to the decision to give their kids pot as a reward... who the fuck knows? You may be sued for defending yourself against a criminal attack... and the resulting lawsuit may be decided by a lively round of PAPER, SCISSORS, STONE!
See what I mean?
The whole world is going FUCKING INSANE!
I suggest staying inside and waiting it out.
And if Anthropophobia isn't for you check out http://phobialist.com/ and get the phobia best suited to your needs.
You'll be glad you did... I know I am!
Monday, June 12, 2006
Saturday, June 10, 2006
End of The World Theory
I have a theory.
You probably won't like it much.
To tell the truth I don't like it much either.
In fact just presenting my theory may cause the end of the world as we know it.
But what the hell... if my theory is correct than it doesn't really matter anyway.
My theory is this:
THE WORLD HAS ALREADY COME TO AN END!
We just haven't noticed yet.
We're like the drunk guy at the party that ended hours ago but is still there slumped in a corner drooling all over himself.
Ugly thought isn't it?
I don't know exactly how to prove my theory but I'm pretty sure I'm right. Just think about all the weirdness in the world these days. It can't be coincidental - things are just too strange for this to be the real world.
You know in your hearts I am right don't you?
But it's ok - apparently if you just ignore the End of The World it won't matter.
But for the sake of humanity DON'T PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND - you might just disappear.
You probably won't like it much.
To tell the truth I don't like it much either.
In fact just presenting my theory may cause the end of the world as we know it.
But what the hell... if my theory is correct than it doesn't really matter anyway.
My theory is this:
THE WORLD HAS ALREADY COME TO AN END!
We just haven't noticed yet.
We're like the drunk guy at the party that ended hours ago but is still there slumped in a corner drooling all over himself.
Ugly thought isn't it?
I don't know exactly how to prove my theory but I'm pretty sure I'm right. Just think about all the weirdness in the world these days. It can't be coincidental - things are just too strange for this to be the real world.
You know in your hearts I am right don't you?
But it's ok - apparently if you just ignore the End of The World it won't matter.
But for the sake of humanity DON'T PULL YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE SAND - you might just disappear.
Monday, June 05, 2006
25 Years
Wow... 25 years.
25 years ago today the federal government issued a warning that 5 gay men in L.A. had died from a rare form of pneumonia.
25 years ago today the yet to be identified HIV virus first made the news.
Of course at that time no one knew the pneumonia cases were linked to a virus that would change the face of the world... only that something strange was happening to gay men all across the country.
I was 17 years old at the time. It's entirely possible that I had already contracted the virus... I tested positive a few years later, just after I had turned 21 or so. You would think that a person would remember the exact date that they received such life changing news as that but not me. I remember the day but not the date. The date wasn't (and isn't) important to me... it's not like I was going to celebrate the anniversary of what (at the time anyway) was my receipt of a death sentence. At that time massive doses of AZT was pretty much the only treatment offered and that was killing more people than the disease itself was so either way the general thinking was that anyone who got HIV would be dead within 3 - 5 years on average. So it wasn't like I was expecting to be around long enough to remember the date I tested postive anyway. When I tested positive my immune system was pretty messed up and the doctor who gave me my results at the free clinic told me it was likely I had been carrying the virus for some time judging from the condition of my immune system. I wasn't really all that surprised... I had been a pretty horny (and sexually active) teenager and had been having anonymous sexual encounters with men in public restrooms since I was 13 or 14 (hey - at least I am honest about it).
So it's entirely possible that on the day the government first reported the strange pnuemonia cases in LA the very same virus that had killed those men had already made it's way across the country and into my body and was courseing through my veins at the very moment that announcement was being made.
That's a pretty weird thought to me now.
So it's pretty clear now that by the time anyone realized something was wrong it was already too late. But at first no one really thought it was anything to worry about. There were whispers of a "gay cancer" but not many people took that seriously - I mean come on - a cancer that only targets gay people?? PLEASE! Just another government trick to keep us from doing our thing... we ain't gonna fall for that shit! Hell we had just come into our own - the gay rights movement was in full swing and we were finally free to be ourselves in the world... we were like the teenagers of life - full of energy and hope and momentum and strength and we thought we were invincible. So naturally we thought "There ain't no "gay cancer - they're just trying to scare us back into the closet" - and we were right. Partly anyway.
Of course there was and is no gay cancer and in fact no "gay disease" of any kind - no known virus gives a shit about who you are doing the nasty with all they care about is a nice warm host to live in and reproduce in. Viruses don't make judgments you see. At least we were right about that. But that is a small comfort - the prevailing belief in the gay community that this "gay disease" was a bunch of BS soon became a deadly mistake. There was no real talk about "safe sex" at that time - no one that I knew in the gay community wore condoms - after all we couldn't get pregnant and if you got the usual STD's you could just go to the clinic and get a shot and BAM you were good as new and back out on the scene screwing anything that would let you. Of course, we didn't know that we were literally fucking each other to death until it was too late. We only woke up to the reality of the situation when people around us started getting sick and dying in numbers. And of course, by then it really was too late to stop the epidemic... it was already in full swing. Despite some people's belief that it could have been stopped and its impact lessened had the GOVT and other IMPORTANT PEOPLE WE CAN BLAME listened to groups like ACT UP and other activist groups - the truth is that the schmucks were every bit as clueless about the situation as the rest of us. My belief is the virus had already gained such a strong foothold in this country that by the time these organizations started making warnings IT WAS ALREADY WAAAAAAAAAAAAY TOOOO LATE! By that point that horse had done gotten out of the barn and screwed everthing that moved and they screwed 2 friends and so on and so on...
So... 25 years later and now an estimated 65 million people worldwide are infected with HIV and over 25 million people have died from it.
All in 25 years...
Kind of sobering isn't it?
25 years ago today the federal government issued a warning that 5 gay men in L.A. had died from a rare form of pneumonia.
25 years ago today the yet to be identified HIV virus first made the news.
Of course at that time no one knew the pneumonia cases were linked to a virus that would change the face of the world... only that something strange was happening to gay men all across the country.
I was 17 years old at the time. It's entirely possible that I had already contracted the virus... I tested positive a few years later, just after I had turned 21 or so. You would think that a person would remember the exact date that they received such life changing news as that but not me. I remember the day but not the date. The date wasn't (and isn't) important to me... it's not like I was going to celebrate the anniversary of what (at the time anyway) was my receipt of a death sentence. At that time massive doses of AZT was pretty much the only treatment offered and that was killing more people than the disease itself was so either way the general thinking was that anyone who got HIV would be dead within 3 - 5 years on average. So it wasn't like I was expecting to be around long enough to remember the date I tested postive anyway. When I tested positive my immune system was pretty messed up and the doctor who gave me my results at the free clinic told me it was likely I had been carrying the virus for some time judging from the condition of my immune system. I wasn't really all that surprised... I had been a pretty horny (and sexually active) teenager and had been having anonymous sexual encounters with men in public restrooms since I was 13 or 14 (hey - at least I am honest about it).
So it's entirely possible that on the day the government first reported the strange pnuemonia cases in LA the very same virus that had killed those men had already made it's way across the country and into my body and was courseing through my veins at the very moment that announcement was being made.
That's a pretty weird thought to me now.
So it's pretty clear now that by the time anyone realized something was wrong it was already too late. But at first no one really thought it was anything to worry about. There were whispers of a "gay cancer" but not many people took that seriously - I mean come on - a cancer that only targets gay people?? PLEASE! Just another government trick to keep us from doing our thing... we ain't gonna fall for that shit! Hell we had just come into our own - the gay rights movement was in full swing and we were finally free to be ourselves in the world... we were like the teenagers of life - full of energy and hope and momentum and strength and we thought we were invincible. So naturally we thought "There ain't no "gay cancer - they're just trying to scare us back into the closet" - and we were right. Partly anyway.
Of course there was and is no gay cancer and in fact no "gay disease" of any kind - no known virus gives a shit about who you are doing the nasty with all they care about is a nice warm host to live in and reproduce in. Viruses don't make judgments you see. At least we were right about that. But that is a small comfort - the prevailing belief in the gay community that this "gay disease" was a bunch of BS soon became a deadly mistake. There was no real talk about "safe sex" at that time - no one that I knew in the gay community wore condoms - after all we couldn't get pregnant and if you got the usual STD's you could just go to the clinic and get a shot and BAM you were good as new and back out on the scene screwing anything that would let you. Of course, we didn't know that we were literally fucking each other to death until it was too late. We only woke up to the reality of the situation when people around us started getting sick and dying in numbers. And of course, by then it really was too late to stop the epidemic... it was already in full swing. Despite some people's belief that it could have been stopped and its impact lessened had the GOVT and other IMPORTANT PEOPLE WE CAN BLAME listened to groups like ACT UP and other activist groups - the truth is that the schmucks were every bit as clueless about the situation as the rest of us. My belief is the virus had already gained such a strong foothold in this country that by the time these organizations started making warnings IT WAS ALREADY WAAAAAAAAAAAAY TOOOO LATE! By that point that horse had done gotten out of the barn and screwed everthing that moved and they screwed 2 friends and so on and so on...
So... 25 years later and now an estimated 65 million people worldwide are infected with HIV and over 25 million people have died from it.
All in 25 years...
Kind of sobering isn't it?
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