"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." ~Nelson Mandela

my triumphant return to new mexico commences tomorrow

this article from the washington post is fucking ridiculous. it's about how a virginia city, in an effort to quash illegal immigration, redefined family so that only a certain number can inhabit a house.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/27/AR2005122701216.html

my favorite line? "Your nephew, under our law, is considered unrelated,"

adam: fyi - if youre wondering what to get me for xmas, i just saw a commercial and you can get me a queen latifah walmart gift card
erica: cool. where should i send it to?
adam: queen latifah is awesome
adam: make sure you get me the one of her from "bringing down the house"
erica: i don't know... are these in every store
erica: i wodner if they're selling them in upstate ny
adam: it may be a niche market

i hated this movie (mission to mars)

adam: did you SEE mission to mars
adam: it was kinda like contact only they got eaten by red dust
adam: and there were somehow dinosaurs
adam: i dont remember how
evan: yes.
evan: yes i did
evan: it sucked.

umm...

From a friend's blog who I haven't spoken to in a few years (to be fair she did go to vietnam).

Saturday, December 24, 2005
Eh hem...

I'd like to make an official announcement, please.

I am getting married.

This is how I find out? I mean not that we're that close...but a blog? Weird.

On Ali's new ipod

adam: how full is yours
ali: not at all
ali: its got like 20gb left
adam: put some porn on it
ali: i tried
ali: its gotta be a particular movie fomrat

serious blog slacking lately, sorry the holiday season got to me. will correct with a flurry of posts before i leave to go back to new mexico tomorrow morning.

adam

From the season 7 simpsons episode "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"

Homer: "Hi... ummm... let me have some of those porno magazines... large box
of condoms... a couple of those panty shields... and some
illegal fireworks... and one of those disposable enemas. Ehhh... make it two."

Clerk: "My apologies, sir, but the sale of fireworks is prohibited in this
state and is punishable by a f...
[the last customer leaves]
Follow me."

The clerk shows Homer into his stockpile of fireworks.

Clerk: "Any red-blooded, flag-fearing American would love the M-320.
Celebrate the independence of your nation by blowing up a small
part of it."

Later, Marge goes through Homer's purchase.
Marge: "I don't know what you have
planned tonight, but count me out."

adam: this scares me
adam: on vin disel on imdb
adam: The monolithic action star turned from punching bad guys to cracking jokes in The Pacifier, a fish-out-of-water comedy movie that paired him with toddlers instead of heavy machinery. It became an unexpected spring hit, opening with $30.6 million, going on to take in $113 mil overall.
evan: it did?
evan: i...
evan: had no idea.
adam: filing that away as evidence for the class i want to someday teach at gw entitled "america is fucking retarded"
evan: i feel like people might want to get signed in

why dont people listen to evan and i when we warn you all of the dangers of doing things that went badly in the movies?! YOU FOOLS!

THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.

evan: ....
evan: dear.
evan: god.

Adam (Autoreply): A tribute to the late john spencer, who played leo mcgarry on the west wing.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051216/ap_en_tv/obit_spencer_5

“This guy’s walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can’t get out. A doctor passes by, and the guy Shouts up, ‘Hey,you, can you help me out?’ The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on.
“Then a priest comes along, and the guy shouts up, ‘Father, I’m down in this hole! Can you help me out?’ The priest writes a prayer, throws it down in the hole and moves on.
“Then a friend walks by. ‘Hey, Joe, it’s me! Can you help me Out?’ And the friend jumps in the hole. Our guy says, ‘Are you nuts? Now we’re both down here!’
“The friend says, ‘Yeah, but I’ve been down here before - and I know the way out’ "
-Leo/John Spencer, "The West Wing"

adam: she is now on the reality tv show
adam: rollerbabes
adam: about a girls roller hockey team
adam: and i havent been able to confirm this yet
adam: but there may or not be "lezzing out"
milo: thats .....
milo: interesting

milo: and how much lezzing out will there be
adam: apparently there are also fights
adam: im hoping one will lead to the other
milo: haha

adam: but dammit man you cant stop the lezzing out
adam: now matter how hard you try
milo: after 3 years of college, still the same
milo: adam
adam: id like to recall that old phrase
adam: "the more things change, the more things stay the same"
adam: and the day i dont look forward to a good lezzing out,well dammit milo, you have permission to take me out back and go "old yeller" on me
adam: cause thats a world i just dont want to live in

evan: yup - but i have an exam at 3
evan: more like "go fuck yourself you daemon succubus whore and burn in the hell from which satan spawned you"
evan: but in spanish.
evan: hmm
evan: i wonder what free translator would do with that
evan: vaya jódalo usted puta de succubus de demonio y quemadura en el infierno de cuál Satanás desovó usted
evan: awesome

"To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
- e. e. cummings

"America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours." You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."
-President Andrew Shepard (Michael Douglas), "The American President"

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechtheamericanpresident.html

"A Long December"

And it’s been a long december and there’s reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can’t remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass
And it’s one more day up in the canyon
And it’s one more night in hollywood
It’s been so long since I’ve seen the ocean...i guess I should
-"A Long December" by the Counting Crows

The Best of Seth Russel Quotes: Part 1

"Adam Conner, I question your commitment to drinking."
-Seth Russel in London upon my hesitating in joining in our evening scotch nightcap ritual

"Sex is a race to orgasm, and so far I'm undefeated."
-Seth Russel

"You know this movie is pretty much about my life, you know, aside from the drumming."
-Seth Russel on his biographical movie "Drumline"

"I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends. If it went on forever, it would be such a tiresome thing and we'd all be so bored: 'What are we going to do today?' 'Just live again, I suppose.'"
~ Dave Matthews

Via Apop

"if you think the changes of the last 10 years economically, culturally or technology have been significant, you haven't seen anything like the change that's going to come during the next 10 years."
-Gov. Mark Warner, (D-VA)

via the hotline blog, the closing line of Mark Warner's speech to the Florida Democratic Party this weekend.

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2005/12/the_warner_stum.html

"I mean my second wife hasn't even been born yet."
-Ed our freshman year in a moment of deep insight, reminds me of the previous quote from Sen. Graham

"I'm fulfilling the seat that was held by Strom Thurmond, which means my wife will be born next year."

-- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by U.S. News and World Report, referring to the late senator "who at age 66 married a 22-year-old former Miss South Carolina."

via political wire
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/12/11/quote_of_the_day.html

indrina: well i don't
indrina: so being me you have to do it MY WAY
indrina: or suffer a throw down
indrina: yeah, that's right
indrina: you wanna go, chico?
indrina: cuz we can go.
adam: anytime any place
adam: they didnt call me
adam: "el gringo" in high school for nothing
indrina: well, they don't call me bitch for nothing
indrina: i will kick your ass all the way to christmas.

"Have we failed at times? Absolutely. Will you occasionally fail when you embark on your own American journey? You surely will. But the test is not perfection.

The true test of the American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time.

Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams."
-Sen. Barack Obama

Here's to the crazy ones.

The misfits.
The rebels.
The trouble-makers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.

But the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Think Different

-Apple

adam (Autoreply): i had every intention of going on an alcohol vacation...until i got to lindys tonight and our waiter, who was on the bar crawl with me last night, called me a pussy when i ordered a coke. so i got a pitcher. sigh.