Night of the Living Dave

Alright, just waking up, I'm not sure I'm reading this right. In England, the towns of Cockermouth and Cumbria have been flooded beyond recognition, and in Ireland the River Suck has burst its banks, flooding the town of Ballinasloe. Many many journalists will have to grit their teeth through these sentences today.

I've only been awake a few minutes, let me think about last night this for a bit.

This was yesterday's reading.

I didn't answer the door buzzer fast enough two nights ago and whoever had come to visit went away. I'm sorry I was slow, please feel free to try again.

One month of hell officially started yesterday. This one looks worse than usual. You always say I'm difficult and insane a few days before sending out mass emails alerting the public to the Profound and Difficult Time of Mourning. You weren't mourning when I was dead. The public has been warned about this a lot of times, and if you didn't stop the pain before it got here it can only be because you like it. It's possible that the damage by mid-December will be too big for me to calculate. I would love, love I say, to be wrong, to be mistaken, but my ability to be mistaken is also filled with mistakes somehow, and eventually you have to take a break from the mockery to count all the dead people. Once again, I will not be one of them.

I will probably be struck speechless for awhile but here is a picture so you can see that I didn't kick her in the head on purpose or anything.

The reaction has been running for 1080 days. I was starting to get lost but then saw that people were actually working on stuff out there, which means I should probably start being more helpful, and remember that the first year was always going to be difficult anyway, so getting lost is normal. Hitting the ground running is still pretty much hitting the ground.

I think I should be up and working hard at something and then it's like ow my back! The moment I decide to get up and do something both legs give out and the back seizes up and I thank LOLCAT above that this is the weekend and I don't have to move if I don't want to.

I've figured out a lot of stuff in the past week. I didn't realize how many of you are out there by now. There's a lot of you guys.

Eli: My head is pounding, heartbeat has accelerated. It's getting harder and harder to breathe...as our very lives are being vented out into space.
Scott: That is gonna get old very fast.
Eli: This needs to be documented.
Scott: No-one's gonna see that!
Eli: How do you know? We made it here; someone else could too. If we die, maybe this can help them to find out what happened to us.
Rush: Yeah, well, we're not dead yet.
Eli: I'm starting to have slightly blurred ...
Scott: Eli!
Eli: What?!

Hey Daveheart! Where did all your sponsors go? Yeah I thought so!

Storm struck like hurricane

The storm that soaked the state this week was the California equivalent of a hurricane, according to experts working to ready the public for the next one.

Called an "atmospheric river," the storm pulled a geyser of moisture all the way across the Pacific Ocean, from the tropics near Indonesia. The narrow channel of intense rain scored a direct hit on California's Central Coast, then gushed like a fire hose all day.



Near Big Sur, more than 20 inches of rain were recorded in a single day. Sacramento received 3 inches, enough to make this the city's fifth-wettest October in history.

( Of all the blogs to use for hard drive space why do I choose this one, I have no idea )

( while everywhere the ceremony of innocence is puked onto Falcon Heene's Dad on national television )

hmmm.

World's most famous Albanian.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=6972&page=4#Item_19

http://warren-ellis.livejournal.com/598431.html

Watching this on SyFy at the moment:



Friday the 13th The Series, season one episode 11, "Scarecrow".

Never seen it before today or knew of its existence.

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holy shit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_12

Was watching this clip from The Prisoner and stopped a minute or so in to wonder what Tracy Morgan would think. All the time I'm catching myself liking stuff that Tracy Morgan would probably never watch on purpose and wondering what my deal is anyway. I don't know. Tracy I have no idea. Something's fucked up, that's all I can say for sure.

You know, Michael Moore, what can you do with Michael Moore, who wants to see a guy and his squealing about an economic system that pays no attention to him, even though he was right about General Motors, he was right about the Bush administration, he was right about the health care system being about to fail. I guess it's better to overlook a man who constantly and accurately finds serious flaws in the system because we can't all be filmmakers, some of us have to eat tree bark and fling shit at each other and live off the oil in a french fry vat and never get to the movie theater.

The Nobel Peace Prize is making a lot of people wonder why Obama deserves something so huge after being in office only nine months. I think a lot of people are forgetting what it felt like when Bush demolished the social order just 8 years ago. Bush 43 wasn't just wrong as a person, he wasn't just a jerk, he was a mass murderer who nearly destroyed the world. It's easy to get lost in the siphon of the current stories, news channels still yank audiences all over the goddam place trying to get consensus on a bunch of moving objects. Just stop and remember what was finally ended when Obama took office.



This just scared the bejeezus out of me, remembering 2002 and the constant, constant sadness. Tom Ridge came out to be one of the good guys recently. It was a pleasure to see him finally say the terror alert system was being abused by election people. It was a pleasure to see anything at all actually.

Enjoy your prize Barry. Take a breath if you want.

Apollo 13, there are five engines on the second stage booster and one of them fails, the center one, but the other four compensate, and then when they reach 12:34 minutes of burn they cut engines. This is when whatsisname starts puking, before they eject the second stage and wander off to get the landing module in the right place.

5 engines for 12:34 minutes of burn time.

Did this really happen or was it just for the movie? What were they doing? Do I know already?

okay this is the year I will spell things right, I just know it.

"I am deeply disturbed by reports of a crackdown and arrests ordered by Chinese authorities in the wake of peaceful protests by Tibetan Buddhist monks. I condemn the use of violence to put down peaceful protests, and call on the Chinese government to respect the basic human rights of the people of Tibet, and to account for the whereabouts of detained Buddhist monks.

These events come on the 49th anniversary of the exile of the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama. They demonstrate the continuing frustration of the Tibetan people at the way in which Beijing has ruled Tibet. There has been an informal dialogue between Chinese leaders and the Dalai Lama's representatives over the past six years. It is good that they have been talking, but China has thus far shown no flexibility on the substance of those discussions. Indeed, it has delayed in scheduling the latest round, despite the willingness of the Tibetans to continue dialogue.

If Tibetans are to live in harmony with the rest of China's people, their religion and culture must be respected and protected. Tibet should enjoy genuine and meaningful autonomy. The Dalai Lama should be invited to visit China, as part of a process leading to his return."

-Barack Obama, Chicago, IL March 14, 2008