The World Parade

Beers, Beards, & Bastards

Tue, 07 May 2013 20:33:23 -0700

Andrew, Dusty, and Max take you on an alcoholic journey through regular ass life. Listen as they cover movies, music, sports, news, and all things …

It’s been a while dear friends, but I’ve been toiling away. I’ve started a podcast, and I’d love it if you gave it a try. MUCH LOVE!

That feel when my ranty blog gets a spike in readers. I can only...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:56:38 -0700

That feel when my ranty blog gets a spike in readers. I can only assume that if people identify with me, this is what we’d do.

I kind of forgot the communal love that is Tumblr. I can’t believe my hiatus was so long.

Milhouse solves everything.

http://catchherintherhyme.wordpress.com/

Oh Hai Tumblr. I’m started a nice ranty blog. Have a...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:28:22 -0700

Oh Hai Tumblr.

I’m started a nice ranty blog. Have a look, won’t you?

http://catchherintherhyme.wordpress.com/

Writing

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:24:00 -0700

Wrote something new tonight, and boy howdy, shaking off the dust.

Also, I’ve decided that Grad school will happen. Cool.

More on this as it develops. Also, give me something to write about long form, suggestions?

I’ve tagged Olympics because I’m clever and more people might see this that way. ^_^

Be

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:40:03 -0700

~~Start workout routine~~
~~Start martial art~~
~~Graduate College~~
~~Get out of an apartment~~
~~Get New Job~~
* Not quite what I was aiming for, but it’s okay.
Pay down some debt
Learn to relax
Appreciate what I do have

I recently watched some home movies from the 80’s and 90’s. I saw my old home. I saw how I began, I saw my parents a lifetime ago. I realize I’m close to where they were. They struggled, but they bonded. They made memories.

I’m excited to connect my body and my mind. I’m excited for a vacation anywhere.

The present is a gift, and I just want to be.

More coming really soon.

It’s about that time where the internet has gone from entertaining me to making me want to...

Mon, 07 May 2012 20:46:58 -0700

It’s about that time where the internet has gone from entertaining me to making me want to peel skin.

Photo

Sun, 06 May 2012 23:42:09 -0700

Brooklyn, we go hard.

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:12:52 -0700

Brooklyn, we go hard.

We only want soft thoughts

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:52:53 -0700

I. In a state of hard questions. Of hard days. Hard truths. Hell, even hard-ons, I guess. I guess what I’m saying is that when the lights go off and we place our heads on our pillows, we want to think of soft things. Things that help us drift. We want to feel our limbs weave into the blackness of it.

II. I’ve taken no time to look outside. And I have to walk outside to get in.

III. Today I saw two dead birds, and a dead dog in the road, and my day was shaken. Be careful when driving, for the love of God.

IV. I was reading up on recent deaths and I noticed that the people who seemed to live the longest were quiet artists. Except for the ones who probably drankliver canceror smokedlung cancer.I understand though. Those people were allotted more time, and didn’t feel like it, so they passed it along for us to use. That’s damned fine of them.

V. I made it through college without logging my dyslexia at the disability center.

So

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:44:54 -0700

I’m graduating in 3 days. That’s nuts. I’m also looking for new work. Also nuts.

I don’t want to grow up. I might be on here more again. I miss wringing my brain out here, and I need to beef up my writing samples so, Here it goes.

…

Goodnight.

Holy Shit

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:11:35 -0700

I have one of these.

Hah. I’m okay.

simsofthrones: Drogo starts a pillow fight with the moon of his...

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:56:54 -0700

simsofthrones:

Drogo starts a pillow fight with the moon of his life.

My lovely friends have an amazing and hilarious Game of Thrones Sims 3 Family going. The blog catalogs their bizzare life choices. You should all take a look here.

Perfect for us Sims nerds and GoT nerds alike!

Puscifer and other things

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:44:17 -0700

Semester’s over. Puscifer was fucking fantastic. I want to write a review but I feel like I need more time to soak it in. It was probably top 3 shows in my life, and I’ve seen hundreds of bands live.

I’m somewhere between exhausted and exhilarated.

clearlywrong: Always Be Adventuring.

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:34:58 -0700

clearlywrong:

Always Be Adventuring.

My Narcissistic Self (A Spontaneous Credo)

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 01:37:55 -0700

I’ve recently started posting again, albeit sporadically, and I’ve lost one old follower and gained 3 new ones. This pleases me because it means that perhaps, I’m doing it right.

I want to be accessible. I want to be heard. I want people to learn something. I want to learn.

I’ve been reflecting a lot about my position in life. I’m geared to graduate with my degree in writing, which means an accredited univeristy has said “yeah alright, they have a 3.0 knowledge or better on the subject of what it means to be a writer.” Despite that fact, I feel like I know so little on English as a whole, much less what it means to be a writer.

I don’t ever want to stop learning

I was speaking to one of my most wonderful writer friends, and I told her tonight:

“I think people who teach writing have some insight to the world that no one else is allowed to know. It’s something they wish they could share, but just can’t.”

I think they do. I hope I get that insight. I’d be alright losing my mind that way. I’d definately not want to lose my mind stealing work from others.

I want to give the credit where credit it due.

Perhaps my honesty is crippling. I work with people who, I’m sure sometimes read some obscure and lost American author from the 70’s and just steal their words. Steal their experience, and others love it. I want my words and experience to be much greater than their. I want to trump it like the end of There Will Be Blood only I will not be finished. I’ll move on to the next one and live out my years in rural China somewhere, getting in touch with my Chi.

I want to live in a town with no California (That’s from Keith Buckley.) It doesn’t make it any less true.

My mind is all a tremble, mostly because I’ve taken two melatonin and I’m fighting passing completely out. I’m glad that people are interested in what I have to say. I want to entertain you and give you fun thoughts to think. Or insightful thoughts to think. Or really, just something that makes your brain’s stomach warm, like winter meals. (I think I’ll be using that line for the upcoming sonnets my form class is making me write).

Thank you, new followers for believing in me. Or not. Either way, I’m pleased we have met.

So...

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:11:05 -0700

Turns out one of my teachers saw this post. I am somewhat embarrassed that he saw my semi-fanboy moment, but I can’t deny that the dude didn’t help my writing. Well, both of them did really. Who wouldn’t want to immortalize them on an internet blog that may or may not get random people traffic.

OH! Also got free Orchestra seating tickets to Puscifer! EDIT:...

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:10:00 -0700

OH! Also got free Orchestra seating tickets to Puscifer!

EDIT: Different picture

I'm alive..

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:07:00 -0700

And I miss tumblr…

I just discovered tonight that I am 12 credits away from graduation. With a BA. I’m going to have that, and it was a really surreal realization. I’m excited and terrified, but I’m definitely not moving back in with my parents. I already have a soul-stealing entry-level “career”.

Growing up is so fucking bizarre.

Thank baby Jesus for the weekend. I’m going to drink and relax, and maybe clean. Also working...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:42:59 -0700

Thank baby Jesus for the weekend. I’m going to drink and relax, and maybe clean. Also working on music. We’ve got a show coming up with a pretty rad band for once.

I’m considering propsing that we cover My Own Summer (Shove it) by Deftones.

Thoughts?

thedailywhat: RIP: 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, a victim of...

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:04:00 -0700

thedailywhat:

RIP: 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, a victim of relentless anti-gay bullying, was found dead earlier this week of an apparent suicide.

“I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens,” Jamey wrote on his Tumblr blog in a post dated September 9th. “What do I have to do so people will listen to me?”

The bullying got particularly intense about twelve months ago, when classmates started leaving homophobic remarks on Jamey’s Formspring page. “JAMIE [sic] IS STUPID, GAY, FAT ANND UGLY. HE MUST DIE!,” read one of the many vicious comments.

Friends were always there to defend him, however, and Jamey himself even appeared to be taking the abuse in stride, contributing a video to Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project, in which he echos the words of Lady Gaga, telling other bullying victims to “hold [their] head up.”

Sadly, despite assuring his parents multiple times that everything was fine, all was not as it seemed. On Sunday, Jamey posted one final note on his Tumblr: “Thank you Lady Gaga.”

“He touched so many hearts, so many people,” Jamey mom Tracy’s told The Buffalo News. “I didn’t realize how many people he touched. He was the sweetest, kindest kid you’d ever know. He would give all his heart to you before he gave any to himself.”

As American servicemen and women across the globe celebrate the long-overdue demise of the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, Jamey’s untimely death offers a stark reminder that the struggle for tolerance is far from over.

[buffalonews / hausofjamey.]

You know, people talk about how we are raising a bunch of wimpy kids and pussies and all this when it comes to bullying, but it is different. Even when I was young, and I’d have a shitty day of bullying, I could at least retreat to my home or somewhere where people would leave me alone. Social networking, cellphones, and instant access to just about everything have changed that. Bullying is different and it terrible. This stuff needs to stop.