They must be trippin'

What the fuck? Did his mother name the kid while high on Oxycontin? Were they high? And what's up with all these ghetto/hillbilly names white people are coming up with these days? I see it all the time in the schools and on xbox live (a whole other story). Man, they should invent a new word called ghetoO'Billy or something. There we go, I just did. Now, don't say I never did anything with my life. I invented a new word-GhetoO'Billy!

I bet if they have a daughter they'll name her Trick.

Tit for Tat...

That'll work, it always does!

Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said:

"Japan cannot avoid the tsunami of the world recession, but it can try to find a way out."

"The world economy is in a once-in-a-hundred-years recession. We need extraordinary measures to deal with an extraordinary situation," he said.


Huh? How do they know this happens once every hundred years? Didn't this just happen in Japan like fifteen years ago? And if it happens every hundred years why didn't world financial leaders expect this to happen? They're acting like this is a natural occurring phenomenon in nature, kind of like El Nino or hurricane season. You expect me to trust the words of the same arrogant assholes that got us into this mess in the first place? If they were so fucking smart they should have seen this coming a mile away, but they didn't. Now they're claiming it's just "something that happens once every hundred years". Sounds like one big fuck up that happened as a result of human arrogance and greed.

Well, at least the world falling apart will clean the slate for real change. Things fall apart for a reason-in order to create real, lasting change things have to be destroyed first. You can't fix a intrinsically broken system by working within the broken system. Our system is on its last legs. The machine is about to break, for good. Humanity must evolve its way of thinking, its economy, its politics -- everything -- if it plans on surviving. Good riddance. Let the world fall apart. Hells a coming and payback is a bitch, especially when rents way over due.

It's all 20/20 in hindsight. Too bad none of these fools had or have any real foresight.

Chrysler: Thanks for investing in us, America

What, you mean I had a choice? Great, thanks. Investing in failure and hollow dreams is one of my favorite, All-American past-times. Merry motherfucking X___________mas. Thanks for the lump of coal, Santa; I mean Uncle Sam.



Wow, if they followed through on any of the things that "Chrysler is committed to" they wouldn't have gotten into this mess in the first place. I guess, the last thirty years of mismanagement, shotty engineering, and ugly cars will just be their version of a Mulligan. Besides, we shouldn't have expected an American car company to provide: "cars and trucks you want to buy, enjoy driving, and will want to buy again", "deliver products with the best quality and value", and "improve fuel economy" on their own. I mean, that's just crazy, especially when the Japs and Krauts can do it for us!

After-all, that's the real American dream-to have someone else do it for you and make a shit-ton of money at the same time! Hard work, innovation, tenacity, accountability, etc.-those are just myths of the past! Money for nothing! We can have it all! Now that's the future. Shit.

Edumacate yourself!

Great, another private school educated administrator without a single day of real-life public school teaching experience. Well, at least he knows how to say the right thing (is a career politician) and won't have his high minded-ideals bashed against the wall (there's a reason why over 50% of teacher quit within three years, and it's not the pay).

I love his idea of residency programs for teachers seeking advanced degrees in education. How long does he think teachers will stick around in urban schools after they've gotten their Masters/Phds? How many days did he stick around teaching after he got his advanced degree? Oh yeah, he hasn't taught a day in his life.

Oh, and bribing students to do well in school is a great idea. As if the value of an education isn't incentive enough. Shouldn't we be teaching students about thinking in the long-term, especially with America's fiscal/credit/savings crisis? Doesn't bribing them to do well in school just support the instant gratification, "now, now, now", "me, me, me" mentality of America?

Whatevar, at least it all sounds good and that's all that counts these days.

One more thing: I love the idea of accountability just so long as the students, parents, and communities are drawn into the equation of accountability. After-all, it takes a village to raise a child-not just a teacher. Therefore, all of the blame shouldn't be placed on the teacher for the failure of the student. However, blaming the teachers for everything is an extremely politically convenient "solution" to the nation's education problems.

It's times like these that I miss a good ole tar and featherin'

Those close-set, beady eyes just scream schemer.
And is that hair even real?

A Few Questions on the Bail-Out...

Is this loan going to insure that GM, Ford, Chrysler, etc. don't make shitty cars anymore? Will this loan be able to pull Americans like me away from our love affairs with Japanese automobiles that we have owned and have served us well since we were teenagers? Not to mention, will America's love affair with German engineering and various European luxury cars disappear? Will this loan improve American students' scores in math and science, which will in turn lead to more competitive U.S. born and bred engineers that can provide the innovation necessary to make American made cars not suck anymore? I doubt it. This loan seems like more money being flushed down the toilet for the sake of supporting the gluttonous lifestyles of the crooks who got us into this mess in the first place.

I like Obama's Trasition...

mainly because he's showing wisdom in his selections by not going too far left. Personally, I hate far left wack-jobs just as much as I hate far right wack-jobs. They both have no sense of balance or perspective on the world. What we need is balance, which Barack is showing.
In addition, Barack is showing foresight by setting the table for winning the next election. Despite the far-left's: "We've got a huge mandate for change" mentality, Barack seems to know that he can't win a re-election solely with the support of the far-left. After-all, he only won 53 percent of the popular vote (aided by an atrocious Bush/Republican presidency). Yes, he won a land-slide in the electoral college, but the popular vote leaves a lot of people out there who aren't too fond of him. Not to mention, only 62 percent of eligible voters showed up to the polls, which leaves about 38 percent of eligible voters out there who just don't give a fuck (or see much potential for change) either way. That's not a huge mandate, especially when younger voters tend to get more conservative as they get older and gain more experience dealing with the realities of the real (not ideal) world. Unless, of course, they're super-rich and sheltered within the ivory tower-blind idealism is a luxury of the wealthy.

So, good job on your selections Obama and keep pissing off the far-left. Their view of the world is just as skewed as the far-right. Keep it sane and govern from the center.

As Cormac McCarthy once said about the world: "...it is, a hat trick in a medicine show..."

Anything, is a possible. Then again, it could all be a bunch of bull-shit. Depends on how you look at it, I guess.

I wasn't going to go here, but the door was opened for me. Therefore, I just have to go where no self-serving, politically correct white man has gone before.

"Bring it, Obama. No wait, I want to be secretary of state. Stick your cock down my throat, skull fuck me for all my ideas, policies, and appointments, call them your own, and to top it off rob me of my remaining dignity by blowing a fat load of jizz all over my face. And don't forget to get some in my eyes!"


"Yeah, you're my bitch now."

Whaaaat? Barack Obama's well-written, eloquent speeches aren't spoken from the heart? They're written by an over-privleged, Ivy-League, white boy. Whaaat? I wonder if Barack even wrote his own books. No, wait, they're not nearly as well-written as his speeches. Maybe, just maybe, he isn't the great brown hope we all hoped for? Oh well, shit happens. Just ask this guy.

By-the-way, I have nothing against Obama. I actually voted for him, but not b/c I think he's the "answer" or "change" we are looking for. He was just the lesser of two evils, as usual but in a different color. If his name was Jim Smith, he was white, had the same voice, same ideas, and spoke the exact same way no one would have been excited about his promise of "hope" and "change". I think a lot of people just got caught up in a cosmetic, superficial fad like most Americans do these days. He was an easy answer with an excellent sales pitch. I truly hope he proves me wrong, but then again hope hasn't gotten me very far in life. I'm just curbing my enthusiasm is all, Larry David style.

Cruel World, Indeed...

Well, I've been slacking on the blog thing because of the new book I'm working on -- an accessible, exciting, action-packed one full of hope (because hope sells regardless if it's false or full of hot air) -- but I'd thought I'd spread some holiday cheer. Check it out:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081204/ap_on_re_us/proposal_death

Anyways, it's concerning a 20 something mail-order, Filipino bride and her 45 year old hillbilly, dream-boat of a man who she left the Philippines for. Basically, he proposed to her on a dangerous portion of the Oregon coast, she fell in, and all 4' 11'', 93 lbs. of her was swept away by the riptide. Now, I realize this is a horrible tragedy, but even I know that sleeper waves and their riptides are extremely strong this time of year. Why couldn't this local man wait until summer to propose, or at the very least not propose so close to the water? Damn, some people just don't think. And when people don't think, shit like this happens. Keep the dream alive, America. Don't think! There's always someone else to blame or solve your problems for you!


Oh, and I'd like to say my first "novel" was full of hope too. I just didn't pitch it right. I focused too much on the cynical/satirical/social commentary aspects of it. And frankly, that shit don't sell. Hope sells, the hard truth doesn't (at least at this point in history). Therefore, I'm going to resubmit it using a more upbeat, hopeful slant to it. It's going to go something like this:

Be the change you wish to see in the world. Change starts in the mind. For the world to truly change then people themselves, as individuals must change (humanity must change). Someone can’t do it (change) for us, no matter how optimistic they are. God said to Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ: "It is arrogance to try to save the world-save yourself”. That is how you bring about true change. That is true hope. And that is what the Land of Lost Dreams is about: changing ones’ self serving dreams (mentality) into something greater. A true change must be conceived in the mind for it to be transformed into action. It will not be easy, for anyone. This is the story of one man’s arduous journey of change through the mind which leads to consequent action in the land where dreams are bought, packaged, and sold to the highest (and sometimes lowest) bidder.

So, that's how I'm going to frame the new pitch, while I work on my science-fiction novel that is accessible and exciting for all. However, it's a more of a hard science fiction/horror novel. The kind of speculative fiction novel that one would read and say: "Hey, that's not science fiction-that could really happen." Anyways, it's a money maker and that's all publishers really give a shit about anyway. No one wants to take any risks, even if the risk is worth while. Oh well, I'll quit my bitching and get back to writing it. But for those of you that care here's the angry rant I wrote to myself the other day concerning the responses I've been getting to The Land of Lost Dreams:

So, I kind of feel like Stephen Crane circa 1896 when he had a great book to publish, but couldn’t find a publisher because it didn’t fit into mainstream American literary theory. At the time American publishers were focused on Victorian style novels that had a moralistic message; not on books that were realistic. I feel we’re in a similar situation these days, except publishers are obsessed with pumping out books full of “hope”, whether or not the “hope” they sell is false, contrived or complete bullshit doesn’t seem to bother them. It’s what they think sells. And maybe it does, but I’m sorry “hope” in itself isn’t enough. You can “hope” all you want but that doesn’t necessarily change the reality of the matter. A change of one’s mentality that leads to a change in action is what is necessary for real change. “Hope” in itself is just a fairy tale-another easy solution for weak-minded Americans.

At any rate, I’m getting plenty of positive response from editors and agents, but most of them chalk their rejections up to “I like your idea, I like what you sent, but there’s not enough “hope”, “I like what you sent, but I don’t think this is the right time for your book” (What the fuck? This is the perfect time! I guess it doesn’t pay to be way ahead of the curve these days), or “keep writing and try to instill some more hope”. Sorry, I guess I was too realistic. I wish I could offer the people of America an easy solution, but I’m just offering a snap-shot of one man’s mind that’s caught up in a mentality driven by the contemporary American dream of excess, self-gratification, and self-entitlement. But the thing is: there is hope in the book. It’s just that the “hope” isn’t some crack-pot’s easy solution that says: “Read this book and all your problems will be solved” or “Read this book and you will be so filled with hope that all your problems will be solved”. This book is not “you do”. Change is an arduous process that begins in the mind (completely changing one’s mentality), and in-turn leads to action. Change is not merely “hoping”. Yeah, I “hoped” my heart out that my mother wouldn’t die of cancer, but that wasn’t enough. There isn’t any difference between my mother’s cancer and the cancerous mentality that the majority of Americans (and humans in general) hold. This mentality is what got us into this mess, and merely “hoping” isn’t going to change shit. That’s the reality. Sad but true. Sorry.

Anyways, I’m going to self-publish on Lulu and link the book to this blog. On second thought, I probably won't do this because I'm broke and I want to do a second round of submissions. But if I do, please buy it. I’ll provide some sample chapters on this blog so you can see what you’re getting yourself into. I’m also contemplating selling them at Powell’s books in Portland. Or maybe I’ll just give them away (on-line and in person like a bum on the street peddling for change, except I’ll be peddling my book)? At this point I just want people to read it because I feel like 10-20 years from now people will be saying: “Damn, at least one American didn’t have his head up his ass”. Besides, I’m working on a highly sellable novel at the moment that is accessible to all, thought provoking, and a true “page-turner”. It’s the kind of book that could be spin-off into a series (books as well as films, mini-series, or graphic novels). That’s all I’m going to say about them until I finish the first book.

So what happened to Stephen Crane’s book? After being universally rejected in America it was published in the U.K. It became a big hit in the U.K., and then became a big hit in the U.S. Go figure. I guess I should try to get in contact with some U.K. publishers/editors/agents. Until then I’ll try the self-publishing thing (maybe). I’m in the process of obtaining a digital copy of a painting that I think is perfect for the cover of “The Land of Lost Dreams” from my friend Michael Pacheco. He’s great. I hope it all works out, for everyone-including you.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I hope you stuff yourselves full of hope, then shit it all out the next day!

Sea of Unsold Dreams

The self-proclaimed voice of generation illiterate, self-entitled, dipshits...

who else but Kayne West!

Apparently, he just declared himself the Michael Jordan of music for the last decade. Or in his words "the voice of this generation". What generation is that I might ask? Generation illiterate, lazy, self-entitled, dip-shits?

Man, I'm an avid fan of music and this has been the worst decade of music in American history. He can stake his claim because the majority of his fans are a fucking pathetic joke just like he is.

By the way, if you were truly the best you wouldn't have to tell everyone, because everyone would know it.

Oh, and your music sucks.

OWN A NEW HOME!

And watch it burn! The California dream is going up in smoke as I type!

End of days? Nah, just burnin' down the old to bring in the new, real change. Not the fake, talk is cheap kind that goes on pins, posters, t-shirts, and various other trinkets.

A friend of mine took this picture from his rooftop near Hollywood today. The crows just happened to fly by when he snapped the picture.

Man, my timing is impeccable. Represent! I'm so glad I got out of there when I did (I'm almost done hacking up all the black shit in my lungs from 4 1/2 years of living in HelL.A.).

Prepare for the onslaught, suckas! This shit is 'bout to getz realz up in here! Fo shiz! I be bringin' daheavy shit that you can'tz be dealin' wit, yo! Are you ready for the new shit? Ready or not, here I come!

Okay, too much wine and dine. Time for bed. I'm starting to sound like Kayne West's dumb-ass up in here.

Two-Step forward, one-step back...

I saw an interesting self-made billboard on the way up to Seattle from Portland yesterday. It read:
"WE CAN'T SPEND OR TAX YOUR WAY TO WEALTH."

Good luck, America. We'll need it.

He has overcome! You haven't done shit!

Okay, yeah. But what about you?
And when are the rest of us going to "change"?
Oh yeah, he's going to do it all for us.

By-the-way, I'm happy that Obama won. I'm just sick of everyone acting like we just saved the world or won WWIII or something. Nothing has changed and he hasn't really done anything yet aside from talk a good game.


I'll chill the fuck out when people actually change, not one man.

BTW:

Who is the person being described here?

Like all powerful speakers ______ greatest asset was his ability to determine what listeners wanted to hear and give it to them in simple language that appealed to them on an almost instinctual level.

"He was very charismatic, very charismatic," said________

"He appealed to anyone on any level at any time."

________ mastery of word and presentation left few in attendance with any doubts about his abilities.

Nope, it's not Barack Obama. It's Jim Jones -- another great public speaker. Not to say that Barack is a maniac; I'm just saying that all Barack has done so far is give us a bunch of powerful words and charismatic speeches. He seduced us like a poor good-looking guy would a down on her luck fat girl who needed some loving. I hope he meant what he said, and wasn't smooth talking us to get what he wanted. I hope he doesn't break our hearts.

PEOPLE NEED TO CHANGE BEFORE THE WORLD WILL CHANGE.

And I thought L.A. smog was bad...

Ah, progress. And all we need to do to boost the world economy is to keep expanding the economy. I hope that cutting America's addiction to foreign oil by 50% will be able to stop the rest of the world's addiction to it. Not to mention, I hope the emerging "green-economy" will provide enough extremely low-skilled, high-paying jobs to the exponentially growing population of unemployed, fat, lazy, self-entitled, rude, under-educated, over-violent Americans who need jobs.

I've hoped a lot of things in my life, and I've found that it doesn't often float or lead to change. It just leads to broken hearts. Good luck, America. We'll need it, along with the rest of the world. A miracle would be nice too.

Celebrity Rehab: The Cure...

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I'm sorry to say, but this says it all about America...

FEAR MONGERING McCain says:

"America's enemies won't test me, but they might test Obama."

Sounds like more of the same to me, W, I mean John.

Well, here's what I fear the most McPain:

"To teach or to kill people? That is the question."

That’s what’s riding on this election for me and many other Americans. If Obama is elected he claims that he will hire “an army of teachers”. McCain on the other-hand claims he will cut spending for everything not related to the military, which kind of sounds like a military state if you ask me. I don’t know why anyone hasn’t brought this point up yet? Anyways, if McCain is elected and cuts all funding for essential services that will in-turn force millions of Americans to join the military simply out of economic necessity. He won’t have to reinstate the draft because the only jobs out there will be military related. Again, it sounds like he wants to turn a free-country into a military state. Of course, we could always start plundering other countries to boost our ailing economy. That’s what I call old-school experience, medieval even, not maverick. So please, take my moral dilemma into account when you cast your vote next week. Even though if McCain is elected it won't be a moral dilemma, it will be something I'm forced to do one way or the other. Let freedom reign!

McCain also had the nerve to flatly say, "I won't raise taxes on anybody" in response to Obama’s tax plan. Please, how many times have we heard a Republican say “no new taxes” only to see them raise taxes?

What happened to the personal responsibility Republicans love to tout?

"Homeowners are the innocent bystanders in a drive-by shooting by Wall Street and Washington," Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Wednesday.

Not to mention, what happened to the fundamental value shift that McCain has been touting concerning "Country First"? It sounds like McCain is sacrificing even more of his "values" just to get the votes of people who are just as much to blame for the American greed (Dream) game falling apart as the Wall Street guys, the federal government, and the banks. I'm sorry, but people need to take financial responsibility for their own investments, futures etc., rather than doing whatever it takes to keep up with the Hollywood Joneses. If the person taking out the loan can't figure out that he can't afford the loan (or can but doesn't care just so long as he can get the hot car/house to show of to his lost dream chasing friends) then it's just as much their fault as the person giving them the loan.

I remember a time when I used to work for MINI that I sold a guy a 20,000 dollar car for 50,000 dollars just so he could drive it off the lot that day. There's no way the guy could afford it being that he was backwards on his trade-in. Not to mention, the guy didn't make that much money. But he wanted it "soooo bad". Sad thing is he just had a kid and was talking to me about how he needed to start a college fund for his newborn. However, he just "had to have this car and was willing to do anything to get it". So I worked out a monthly payment plan that he could afford. Thing was that by the time it was paid off it would cost him 50 Gs. He was so happy to have gotten his hot car that he didn't even do the math to see how much the car would cost him by the time he paid the car off. Lucky me, I ended up getting a sweet commission for the deal. I'm not proud of what I did, but a lot of people were caught up in riding the "something for nothing" gravy train at the time.

People (everyone in this country) need to start taking responsibility for this gigantic All-American fuck-up of a country that we've all helped create with our backwards "Bigger is better, Hollywood mentality". After-all, this is a democracy. Therefore, we're all in it together and all responsible to some degree in terms of where this country is and where it's going.

Get your shit together, America. This whole mess is highlighting the pathetic, self-serving, childish nature of the American mentality.

McCain came to change Washington, but Washington changed McCain

How can you be "country first" and a Christian while being against taking money from the rich (people who don't need it) and giving it to the poor (the people who do need it)? You can't, unless you're insane in the McCain.

Hypocritical Republicans make me sick. They make hypocritical Democrats look like angels. For the love of God, what's wrong with people? We've all gone mad.

McCain's real slogan should be: "The rich first, everyone else second class servants to the rich". In other words, by "country" McCain really means "rich people and gun toting rednecks who enjoy shooting people they don't understand for kicks".

America's reaction to the debate last night:

Left-wing: "We're so screwed if McCain is elected."

Right-Wing: "We're so screwed if Obama is elected."

Anyone w/out their head up their ass, and doesn't like the smell of their own bull-shit: "We're screwed no matter what".

I'm sorry, I like Obama and really want to "hope" he can single-handedly save the world, but from experience I find that "hope"in itself isn't enough. There needs to be some steel to his words, and a solid American public instilled with the values that are essential to a strong democracy (education, intellect, work-ethic, open-minds, altruistic motives, a lack of hypocrisy, etc.). Unfortunately, the majority of Americans (on both sides) lost their minds and any real "American values" a long time ago.

Not to mention, Obama is just looking like a smooth talking politician with a seductive voice to me right now. And McCain just looks like an angry, crazed old curmudgeon that will do anything to win.

Yeah, I'm not exactly optimistic, but I'm not exactly pessimistic either. I'm just realistic.

By the way, I'll be posting my short-story soon and the pdf version of my novel "The Land of Lost Dreams". I'm almost set up here in Portland, so I'll have plenty of time to write my next novel too. Yay!

They wanted hope, but the only hope that I could give them was that there is no hope for this world...but life would go on, just not the way you could have ever imagined. The way that you had hoped it would.

It's a proud day to be an American...

when Beverly Hills Chihuahua is the number one movie in America.



I always thought that a well-educated public was the key to a successful, effective democracy. I guess this shows where we're heading-down the toilet.

Is Barack Obama an Arab?

Somebody actually asked this question? And they're allowed to vote? Jesus fucking Christ...you've got to be kidding me.

I'm sorry, but it's not "socialists" like Obama that are a threat to democracy or the well-being of our country. It's idiots that have to ask this question. God damn, are there really that many ignorant and uniformed Americans this late in the presidential race?

I may be a teacher and love to say that there is never a dumb question, but this definitely was a dumb question.

“There are millions of people around this world praying to their god—whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah—that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons. And Lord, I pray that you will guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their God is bigger than you, if that happens,” said Arnold Conrad, the former pastor of Grace Evangelical Free Church in Davenport.

No wonder God is damning this country. His "Christian" American preachers are about as ignorant and illiterate as the "Is Barack an Arab?" guy.

Bush needs to stop trying to "inspire" confidence.

Bush is just making things worse by trying to "inspire" confidence in the American public and the world in general. He's lost whatever credibility he had a long time ago. Therefore, every time he comes on television and says "everything is fine" everyone thinks the opposite-that everything is not fine. If he really wants to help out he'd just keep his pie hole shut and let his term run out before he does any more damage.

Palin vs. Biden Speach...

One of the things that bothered me the most about this speech was Palin referring to Biden as "bringing up the past without looking to the future".

This is exactly why the Republicans got us into this mess in the first place-they don't understand the past. After-all, those most likely to repeat the mistakes of the past in the present are those who don't understand the past. Kind of like how the Republicans didn't understand that we shouldn't prop our economy against the housing market (like Japan did), or how they didn't learn from Vietnam (you can't win a war of occupation through attrition). These are just a couple examples of how the Republicans would rather stick their heads up their asses than analyze their own mistakes so they don't make the same ones in the future.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It cuts both ways. They wouldn't have become terrorists if we wouldn't have made them terrorists through our hypocritical, self-serving actions. The Middle-East and Iran hates us for a reason-we fucked them over. In-fact, they used to like us until we stabbed them in the back and fucked them in the ass on numerous occasions.

Study up on your history, Sarah Palin. Not to mention, the rest of the ignorant Americans who think we're the "shining beacon of good in the world". Fucking morons. We deserve this mess. If there is a God it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better for America and the rest of the world.

Someone asked me if I'll miss the L.A. sunshine...

Well, sort of, but not really. The smog-shine is kind of gross and makes your skin feel all clammy and nasty, especially after you're in a place that doesn't have any air pollution. Not to mention, it's really bad for your lungs. However, I probably won't be saying that in the middle of winter. I'll be begging for some smog-shine.

One thing I definitely won't miss is the lack of water in California. After driving by the reservoirs near the NorCAL/Oregon border I really got a sense of how dire the California water crisis is. This is the only picture I was able to take because I was driving. It isn't the best, but you should get the idea. Well, enjoy drinking and bathing in your recycled shit, piss, cum, hormone, persciption medicated water Cali!




Get out while you still can, friends!

Then again, I'm sure Obama will change everything once he's elected President by filling up the empty reservoirs with hope! He'll just spread his arms out and give the sky an eloquent speech that will cause the heavens to rain unlimited opportunity, wealth, and enlightenment down on America and its people. After-all, this is the same guy that voted for the bail-out. What a change!

So they pased the bailout. Now what happens?

1. The Market skyrockets for a short-period of time (maybe a year and a half max).

2. Credit lines to people/businesses who can't pay their bills are re-opened. Those people/businesses spend more money that they can't pay back.

3. Wall street types start figuring out that a bail-out doesn't equate to new jobs or more highly-skilled/educated American workers. Out-sourcing to different countries with better educated, harder working, and lower paid workers continues.

4. The bailout money runs out and Americans (private citizens, businesses, and the government) are in even more debt than before.

5. The bigwigs on Wall-Street that got bailed out figure out whats going on (the economy still sucks, their are no jobs, and people still can't pay their bills) and in response they save their own asses by selling off massive amounts of stock in order to secure their wealth. After-all, this is all Paulson and the like care about-getting the market back up so his friends can sell high instead of low and maintain their position in society.

6. On one dark day the market tanks in response to the massive sell-off of stocks by the whales on Wall Street. The next day the average American stock-holder responds to the massive sell-out of the whales on Wall-Street and the market tanks even further.

7. We the people (anyone not in the top 5% of the tax bracket) are completely fucked. But at least the big-wigs got out at the top of the market.

8. America continues its downward spiral down the toilet.

Why the "bailout" will fail miserably and Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi suck...

Is it just me or is Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi the two biggest douchebags in the history of Washington? I mean, even without hypocritical comments such as his “feelings hurt” rant at the Republicans in response to Pelosi’s idiotic “I’m better than you, richer than you, have a nose job, and I live in California; therefore you should do whatever I say or think” motivational speech.

This is why East coast and West coast elitistist politicians (from either party) are out of touch not only with the average American, but any American who isn’t a filthy rich, hyper-hypcocritical douchebags like themselves.

Now that I think of it, I’m glad she made that speech and the Republicans gave her a big middle-finger by voting against “the bailout”. The bailout won’t work for a number of reasons. In-fact, in the long-run it’s going to make things much worse. Then again, this is Washington and the general American public we’re dealing with; therefore short-term solutions and band-aids are the easiest way to do things.

First of all, it’s not even a bailout-it’s more of a twisted drug-intervention. Simply put, Americans are a bunch of vapid crackheads who are after a pipe dream that there’s no way they can realistically (maybe optimistically, pass it on!) achieve with their lazy minds, fat-bodies, and ignorant philosophies. That pipe-dream is the West-Coast/Hollywood dream of “me, me, me I want to live a life-style that neither I nor the world can afford”. The Wall-St/Financial/ Credit guys were just the drug dealers hooking them an easy fix on their dream. Everyone was having a gay old time getting high as fuck on themselves and their sweet new 22 inch rims they bought with the equity of their second house, which they could afford to buy by refinancing their first house.

The American dream became not about making enough money to buy a home and a car, but being able to make enough money to acquire enough credit so we could buy a Mercedes, a face-lift, two new homes, and a sweet ass boat. And then the country hit bottom. Time to get clean. No, wait…

The Feds are going to save us by resupplying the corrupt dealers so they can give out more loans and extend credits lines to a bunch of greedy, stupid crackheads who couldn’t pay their bills in the first place. What a great idea! I'm sure the dream addicts will all learn their lessons and use in moderation now that they've hit bottom. And I'm sure the corrupt dealers with have a change of conscience after ruining millions of people's lives'. After-all, there will be an oversight committee made of their friends to make sure that they'll do the right thing!

We’re so fucked.

No texting on trains in California...

but it's still okay to text in cars! Just don't use your cellphones; instead look down, take your hands off the wheel and text to your hearts content while you drive! Wow, now that's progressive thinking for you.

What are the Gulf Coast Texans staying behind thinking?

The same thing that they were thinking when they voted for W-they're not thinking. Oh well, I guess there goes a few more McCain voters.

I know it's their right to stay behind, but do we have to waste valuable tax payer dollars on saving ignorant people who have had every chance to leave? I mean, this is really coming down to survival of the fittest. If you're not smart enough to leave, then maybe you're not smart enough to live. In the wake of Katrina you think people would have learned from their mistakes-when the coast guard, national guard, fema, etc., etc. tell you to leave then do it for Christ's sake!

Straight shootin', straight talkin' Sarah Palin...

"...perhaps..."

How the hell is that straight talk? Personally, I'd like a straight answer about whether or not she would start WWIII over a po-dunk country like Georgia. Not to mention, a "small democracy" run by an imbecile. Georgia's president is like the little runt on the grade school playground who just befriended the number one bully in the school. And now that he's friends with the biggest, baddest kid in the school he's going to start shit with all the other kids because he thinks the bully is going to back him up any time he starts a fight. And we may "perhaps" stick up for that little runt.

Shit, the Republicans have been doing anything but "straight-talking" the last few weeks. Unless, you consider preaching to the fanatical choir and talking shit "straight-talking".

It's a terrifying thought that this fanatical woman might be one breath away from being the commander-and-chief. In my opinion, the commander-and-chief needs to possess a little more finesse in dealing with a country like Russia than a self-righteous pit-bull with lipstick or a reactionary barracuda.

Wow, didn't Nostradamus predict that a woman would lead the strongest country in the history of the world to it's downfall, thus leading to the end of the world? Sarah Palin could very well be that woman. I swear that woman is the anti-Christ.

And one more thing: does anyone really think people would be so sprung on Sarah Palin if she were fat, ugly, and had to solely rely on here intellect rather than verbal assaults, snide looks, and camera winks for her appeal? I highly doubt it, otherwise Hillary would have won the Democratic nomination. Poor Hillary, if only she were sexy like Obama and Sarah then she could be president too.

Damn, this country is so superficial and idiotic. We truly deserve this mess we've gotten ourselves into. I just hope that the masses don't choose to get us out of this hole we've dug ourselves into by choosing to bear down and dig deeper (electing McSame). But hell, third time could be a charm.

I guess God doesn't like Texas

Maybe, Jerry Fahwell and his fanatical evangelicals should line up along the Gulf Coast and pray their self-righteous hearts out for Hurricane Ike to disappear? I'm sure God would listen to them. After-all, it's not like they're French Quarter faggots or something. These are true Texas believers here!

So, c'mon faithful fanatics! Put your faith to the test and line up along the Gulf Coast to save your beloved state. There's no way it can fail as long as you have faith! God will show those non-believers when He makes the hurricane suddenly dissipate before our eyes!

God, if only our country were that lucky.

If God really wanted to punish us he wouldn't send hurricanes at us. He'd just sit back and watch us do ourselves in. That's the worst punishment of all.

"We can't kill our way to victory in Afganistan"

No, shit! Those fools in the pentagon/white house are finally figuring that out. Shit, did they already forget about Vietnam?! Wow, you think they would read up on basic military history/strategy before going all cowboy up into a major conflict that will shape our country and the world for generations to come.

You can't "liberate" a people and expect them to like you if their day-to-day lives' are worse than before they were "liberated". You have to make their lives' better and stop killing them for them to accept/like you!

Man, it's scary to think how incompetent/ignorant our leaders are. Now, if only they could come to the same conclusion to "winning in Iraq"-make their lives' better than before we got there.

Me first, country second crowd...

Wait, isn't that the Republicans? The people that don't want to raise the taxes of the rich in order to help out those less fortunate than them. The military industrial complex that profits from foreign wars such as Vietnam and Iraq.

Yeah, and like you care about education. How do you expect to fund education without raising taxes? Blaming teachers who lack the resources to succeed and work in unstable communities that are drug infested, gang infested, crime-ridden, and dirt poor is not a solution. Your plan is a pipe-dream, especially without money. Good luck with that one. Man, we're fucked if we elect these idiots.

I hope another protester does something soon or I'm changing this shyt.

Oh great, now he's trying to use the fear of the Russians like Bush did the fear of the "terrorists".

"The Maverick" pulls out his secret weapon...

a milf for vice-president. Now there's a way to shake up the election. I almost didn't care that she said nothing of any real depth or importance during her RNC speech. Not to mention, she told a few lies about her record. She just looked so damn hot and feisty when she was taking pot-shots at Barack Obama. Way to pull a double standard and prey on the biases and prejudices of those "smooth talking city-slickers" just like they do towards you and your small town folk. You'll make a great Republican leader, Sarah. You've already got that demagogue thing down pat.

Damn, Barack. You should have picked her. I wish she was your Obama girl.

Two thumbs of freedom up your ass and a bitch slap of change, America. They'll strike the fear (glory) of God into America and the world one way or another! They're not looking for a fight, but they've got the glory of God on their side. So look out because they ain't afraid to fight! I can't wait for some change, some Republican style change with a dash self-righteous evangelicalism.

And did anyone see the shot of Cindy McCain before she was passed Sarah's special child? It was hilarious! She looked absolutely mortified. Every time they showed her with the baby cradled uncomfortably in her arms her face read: "Oh my God, for the love of God let this be over soon. Get this "special child" out of my hands. Oh my God, I think he just shit his pants."

McCain is right, experience counts...

One of the reoccurring themes of the election has been "experience". McCain claims that Obama doesn't have the necessary experience to lead America out of the mess that eight-years of Republican leadership has gotten us into. I would claim that Obama's lack of experience is a good thing, especially compared to McCain's formidable life experience.

Time and action have proven that McCain has the experience of not having the cognitive fortitude to make sound decisions (6 plane crashes), remember the names of countries, or where exactly he owns homes. In addition, McCain is a renowned hothead (which he himself admits with pride in his memoir). I mean, do we really want a president that is able to hold is breath until he passes out when things don't go his way?

And when did getting tortured become a qualification for being president? I mean, we should show him some respect for his patriotism. But truth be told, if he wasn't such a reckless pilot he wouldn't have gotten himself into that mess in the first place. And he even had a chance to get out, but chose not to because he wanted to make his father proud. That sounds more like reckless pride with a touch of masochism than patriotism to me. Those are not qualities I want in a president.

One more thing-elitism. I find nothing more funny than a bunch of rich white-men calling a black-man who "pulled himself up by his bootstraps" an elitist. I mean, you don't get more elitist than the Bush or McCain family. I guess, they don't consider going to Yale or being a member of skull and bones despite being a pathetic student elitism. Cronyism is cool in the Republican party, but elitism is bad. That's why Americans are always touting values such as: "we're number 1", "the leaders and the best", "the best man for the job", "with hard work and perseverance the cream rises to the top", Regan's "trickle down economics", tax-cuts for the ultra-rich, and worshipping elite athletes like Michael Phelps. America was founded and built on elitist values, especially the Republican party. There's nothing more hypocritical or ridiculous than Republicans touting anti-elitism.

So, McCain is absolutely right. Experience matters. And his life experiences portray more of an egotistical, self-righteous, elitist, masochist than a patriot who puts the well-being and future of his country in front of his own ego. His maverick status isn't so much because he is concerned about change or doing things differently, but because he's a hard-headed asshole whose used to getting and doing what he wants. And when he doesn't get what he wants he holds his breath until he passes out. In other words, he puts himself in needless danger in order to appease his bloated ego. Except, when he's president he'll be putting the whole country at the mercy of his reckless, egotistical whims.

America is #1, indeed. No need to worry.

All the new trashcans are so confusing...

Roseanne has a point...

Albeit, she could have made her point less venemously and excluded bringing innocent (until they grow up) children into the fray.

Her point is that Hollywood "royalty", as the douche-bag synchophats on celebrity t.v. shows like to call them, are a bunch of stinking hypocrites the size of which only pales in comparison to their self-righteous egos.

People like Jolie and Pitt (and the California elite in general) love to parade around how self-righteous and enlightened they are to the rest of the country/world. And if everyone could just be a little more like them the world would be picture perfect like an air-brushed photo on the cover of Vanity Fair.

The thing is: the world cannot support the California/West-Coast/Hollywood lifestyle that they perpetuate through their life-styles and films. The amount of resources Brangelina consume has to be astounding compared to the average American. I'd love to know the combined carbon foot-print of the Hollywood/West Coast elite compared to the average Midwestern and Southerner who they love to demonize. I'm sure it's a lot because California already pollutes more than the rest of the country combined.

And while it was distasteful for Roseanne to bring Brangelina's kids into the fray she has a point when she say they'll come out "dunces". Those kids are going to be so spoiled that by the time they reach adult-hood they might as well have grown up as white, spoiled, Beverly Hills brats who consume far more than their fair share of the world's resources.

People just don't seem to get it that everything has to change-our lifestyles, mentalities, economies, governments, etc. The sad truth is that humanity learns the hard way. As long as we hold onto the same consumerist, "me, me, me, I'm so fucking special" mentalities nothing is going to really change. That is, until the bottom falls out on our shaky foundations and we're drowning in our own bull-shit.

Until that day happens I'm finding higher ground.

Peace.

Oh, and I like Bragelina. I just think they're well-paid pawns to a system that they think they're helping to fight/change when in reality they're just perpetuating it despite their self-righteous, ego-stroking efforts. After-all, Hollywood types really aren't that smart and can't see anything outside their own little, individual boxes of greatness.

Go Hollywood hypocrites! Keep on making the psychotic movies that teach kids that they can't be happy without a bunch of cool stuff they don't need! People like you will truly save the world someday-by inadvertently helping to destroy it first so it can be rebuilt.

Peace, out.

Roseanne had a point...

The masses prefer a pristine lie to the down and dirty truth-

nothings changed in the world. Just the clothes and the fancy rhetoric is all. It will all come crashing down soon enough, and then the truth will be revealed. Nobody is going to like it. Most will not be able to accept it and will go completely insane (even more so than most people already are).

Damn, I really need to get out of this city. Oh yeah, I am. Whoopeeeeeeee!

What's really happening in Georgia?

According to my Marine friend and a few people that I know that work in intelligence they think it's much worse than anyone can possibly imagine.

It's kind of like that song by Metallica "Of Wolf and Man". Listen to it and you'll get an idea of what's happening in the world right now. "Sad but True" is also a fitting song.

Anyways, have you ever looked at where Georgia is located on the map? If you haven't noticed it's in the perfect location for staging operations in the Middle-East not only for us, but for Russia as well. They know if we lose Iraq we will immediately set up some serious shop there. They don't want that for once glaring reason-they're preemptively preparing for WWIII.

That's not to say Russia wants to start a war merely for starting a war. They're preparing because they're cold hard realists that lack "the audacity of hope". Unlike Americans the Russian government has basically come to the conclusion that the coming climate crisis as a result of global warming is unavoidable. As a result, they're preparing for the major countries of the world to go to war over resources. Securing Georgia is a good start for them because it will cut us off from the Middle-East, prevent us from building missle defense systems, and will give them a direct point of entry to the Middle-East.

Another sad truth is that quite a few American scientists think the coming climate crisis is also unavoidable. Not to mention, the DOD expects as much as well. That's why we're in Iraq and setting up missle defense systems along the Russian border. We claim to have cladestine motives, but that's just a bunch of hypocritical American bullshit. We've become so good at fooling the world to our false ideals/values that the majority of Americans whole-heartedly believe our own bullshit.

Russia doesn't care for bullshit, they cut straight to the cold hard truth. They don't care about hopes, dreams, ideals, or values. All they care about is results. In their minds they're preparing for the inevitable.

Good by, cruel world. It will all be over soon, for most of us. In the end it will be a lesson well learned that will help us start a grand new beginning.

Here comes Russia to Save the Day...

for insane in the membrane John McCain! Just when he was praying to Jesus for a miracle to beat Obama and ensure 100 years of war Russia decided to join America in the de-evolution of the human race! But instead of becoming fat, lazy, anti-intellectual, glutonous, self-entitled, materialistic snobs/slobs they decided to revert back to being blood-thirsty savages who rape and pillage simply for the sake of raping and pillaging.

We on the other-hand, rape and pillage in the name of truth, honor, justice, and the freedom to choose between having McDonalds, Burger King, Starbucks, and/or whatever other generic corporate establishment your democratic heart desires on every other corner of your neighborhood! "Fo' shizzal, you crazy Ruskies. Yous my niggas, fo sho. Fist tap, for sticking it to Georgia! That was straight up gangsta'. I likes dat shit."

"Goosing" is not not gay...

according to the lawyer representing the three varsity baseball players who sexually assaulted several JV players in the back of the team bus in Wilson, New York.

It's just "innocent, non-sexual horseplay, that adults who lack the innocence of teenagers don't understand," he laughably states to that effect with the darting eyes of a kid whose trying to spin an outrageous lie off the top of his head (or maybe he's just trying to remember what he wrote down before the interview).

Uh yeah, whatever. I grew up in a small town and remember alpha-male, macho athletes who used to "goose", and I thought that shit was gay as hell, even when I was twelve. Not to mention, the guys who habitually goosed or partook in "innocent, non-sexual, non-homo-erotic horseplay that involved rectums, choads, and penises" were the types to constantly use the words: gay, faggot, etc while partaking in "non-sexual" horseplay. And even if it was these guys stuck an unlubricated cell-phone up a 14 year olds ass for Christ's sake.

In my opinion, the varsity athletes are sick fucks and should be labeled sex offenders for the rest of their lives.

Oh, and 16 and 18 year olds (all teenagers for that matter) aren't that innocent, especially sexually. This isn't the fifties, even though towns like Wilson try to pretend it is. Anyways, here's the video. You can read the full story at ESPN.

One more thing, it's sexual "undertones" not "overtones". I absolutely agree with him that their are no sexual "overtones" to their behavior, but most definitely "undertones".

One of the keys to mutual understanding and world peace is...

for people to lighten up a little bit and be a little less full of self-righteous pride. Foolish, self-righteous pride is the single most common cause of wars, fights, and general disagreements between people and countries. It also is the number one cause of honor killings.

At any rate, I'd like to bring something up about this picture that nobody in the media is asking.“Some of us didn’t feel comfortable doing it just because to me it was a little clownish for our part to be doing that,” Gasol said. “But the sponsors insisted and insisted. I think it is just a bad idea I guess to do that, but it was never intended to be offensive or racist against anybody.

Isn’t one of the sponsors the Chinese courier company? Doesn’t that mean that some of them were Chinese? Therefore, someone high up in the Chinese company must have known about the picture and approved it. Furthermore, according to Pau Gasol the “sponsors insisted and insisted”, so one of the Chinese sponsors must have insisted too? Did they come up with the campaign? If not, they had to be complacent with the campaign to some degree, right? Why isn’t anyone asking these questions, or is the knee jerk liberal media that desperate for a juicy racism story at the moment that they don’t care to answer the questions: who, what, where, when, and why? They prefer to just cry “racism” (when it was just poor judgment on the Spanish and Chinese sponsors parts) in order to get hits on their web-sites and sell stories.

Oh, and I'm voting for Barack Obama. Although, I'm a little worried about pulling out of Iraq, especially with Russia going all gung-ho in restoring their bruised egos and regaining the pride of being a world power by bombing the shit out of one of their neighbors. It's their way of saying: "nanny, nanny bobo the West can't do shit and we know it. So what are you going to do about it? Huh? Huh? Yeah, that's what I thought you weak, western bitches. You ain't going to do shit except bitch, moan, and posture".

This is one of the biggest resource grabs in history, and we need that oil. What if Russia starts fucking more people up? I'm sure if things got really bad they wouldn't have any qualms about bombing the shit out of the Middle-East and straight up taking their oil. If we move out do they move in? Scary thought. And did anyone notice that Russia had the balls to pull this shit during the Olympics?

One more thing, I was adamantly against going into Iraq in the fist place. But I hate to say it: if we leave without winning we're fucked if Russia ever decides to flex their muscles.

I have to teach this woman's children...

and people wonder why American kids are such morons. I mean, how am I supposed to work with a woman like this? I bet she's related to the "Extreme Makover" foreclosure family.

Land of the Free, Home of the self-entitled...

I sold my car the other day to a fifty something year old woman. After procuring her loan and passing the cashiers check ("free money") over to me she promptly told me:

"The American dream now isn't about owning your own home or car; it's about making enough money so you can purchase it on credit. You'll be very lucky, young man, to get through life without debt. We're a nation of consumers, but we don't really produce anything of much value. All we have is our purchasing power. It can't last that much longer if you think about it. I'm glad I won't be here much longer, relatively speaking."

I'm glad I've never had much of a greedy soul, at least in terms of acquiring excessive amounts of material possessions. Then again, I grew up in Nebraska, which is a microcosm all its own.

Unfortunately, the mentality that's eating us alive from the inside is spreading like a disease courtesy of Hollywood! I laughed my ass off to the point of almost puking when I saw that one of the families on Extreme Makeover Home Edition put up a 450,000 loan on a home that they otherwise couldn't afford in their wildest dreams without the help of the dream machine. Well, I'm sorry to say that's why they couldn't afford to buy a house in the first place-they're dumb, lazy, undereducated, overweight, self-entitled, greedy, All-American fat asses.

And who in their good conscience would allow that family to take the loan out in the first place? Never-mind, I didn't ask that question.


One thing that's exactly same about the real America and Hollywood is that they're both built on make-believe. Or maybe credit? At any rate people are going to have to pay their bills at some point, one way or the other, sooner or later.

Feist at the Hollywood Bowl...

So, Monoli scored us free tickets to Feist on Sunday. It was a blast. Unfortunately, I got really drunk and failed to update my fantasy baseball team. As a result, I'm not kicking the first place team's ass like I should have been if I would have started Jon Lester and Jorge Campillo.


Monoli took this pic from his brand new iphone, lucky bastard.

I think Stacy is laughing at the plumber's butt in the background (she has eyes in the back of her head). Yeah, she's really that cool/talented!

GLOW in Santa Monica

So, these are some of the pictures I took from "Glow" in Santa Monica last Friday. It was rather disappointing to say the least. The exhibits were pretty lame for the most part, and there was way too many people there. The event wasn't well organized, there were no bathrooms (aside from the beach itself), and there was a motley crew of various L.A. freaks from brahs, skaters, bums, gangsters, yippies, hippies, goths, tweekers, teenagers, hip-sters, posers, moms, middle-aged hippies, whole Hispanic/Latino families camping out at the beach, and everything in between. In-fact, that was the most interesting thing about the event-all the different people there. However, from eaves-dropping on various passerbyers the general consensus was that people were very disappointed by the event, and felt very uncomfortable being around so many different types of people. They masked their discomfort by talking shit about the various groups they weren't a member of.

Despite the diversity of the L.A. area, most of that diversity keeps to itself. It's very rare that everyone mixes together like a true community. Most of the time people just talk shit about the different people in the city they don't understand. That's how diversity is celebrated in America. We love to tout it, but we really don't like living with one another (unless we're separated by out suburbs and we're watching it take place on the boob-tube). Putting everyone together for one night turned out to be an interesting social experiment. I'm surprised no one got seriously injured. Oh wait, they did.

All-in-all, it was a fun experience, but I wouldn't do it again. And I doubt the city of Santa Monica will either. It was completely unsafe to have that many people in that area at once. I'm surprised the pier or the small catwalk over the PCH didn't collapse.

Stacy is not "glowing" from the experience of "glow". The lack of restrooms were even more of a problem for the women.

Relaaaax, kind of...

Okay, so I sent out most of my submissions for the time being and I sold my car. So I can relax for the time being in a relative sort of way. Although, I'm sure I'll find something else to worry about soon enough. I'll post my proposals (w/ sample chapters) on here later in the week.

There is hope, it's just that the submission process is really, really aggravating. It doesn't help that I've got three novels fresh on my mind that I want to get started on. Oh well, I guess this is just part of paying my dues. Once I get this out of the way I'll have free reign to write whenever I want, and not have to deal w/ the life and business end of being an unknown who has to pay the bills w/out his writing.

There is hope for the world yet, thanks to me.

PDF Novel

I'll be posting a PDF link to my novel "The Land of Lost Dreams" very soon. I think it'll be easier and more convenient than posting separate chapters on the blog. I suppose I'll post it on my facebook and myspace pages too.

I'd have posted it now, but I want to submit it first. I'm finding the search for editors and agents to be extremely aggravating. I'd much rather be writing or doing something productive. It doesn't help that I finally realized it's a waste of time and money to submit to major editors and publishing houses. As a result of my ignorance I spent way too much time sifting through candidates. I've come to the conclusion that I should limit my submissions to small houses that accept unsolicited, unagented proposals and to literary agents themselves.

I'm not looking forward to going back to the library to look for agents instead of reading and writing. It's like being at a candy store w/out being able to eat the candy. And to top things off all I get to eat is liver. I'm starting to think I should have been an engineer or computer programmer or something.

I really wish my high school English teacher wouldn't have "inspired" me to write. I almost want to go back and say: "God damnit! Why did you have to inspire me? Why couldn't you have been like all my Berkeley professors and have made reading and writing the most boring, anal-retentive, politically correct, agenda driven bull-shit in the realm of human creation! Not to mention, a completely useless skill in the real world. Now I'm stuck slaving away in some godforsaken public school, in some godforesaken city while I look for editors/agents in my spare time. Why couldn't you have told me what the real world is really like?! Most people suck and are utterly hopeless! There's nothing I can do to change that, so I might as well get mine like everyone is doing before this shit-house of a civilization we've created goes up in flames!"

Oh well, I'll quit my ranting and get back to my search.

FYI: The book isn't that cynical. Its just brutally honest. There's some measure of hope for humanity. It's just that hope has a price like anything else. It's going to cost. There's hope for humanity itself, but that doesn't mean there's hope for every single person. Some of us a just fucked in one way or the other, for one reason or another. It usually has something to do with the nature of our dreams.