by B.J. on 3/31/2003 11:07:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Change speeds.

I haven never really tried to do that.

I'm referring to my running up and down the court in basketball.

The only speed I've known is "full-go." And the 40-year old guys get used to it and know how to stop me --- they just step back and watch me do something stupid.

But in my 10 years of watching basketball, only now have I noticed how slow these guys actually play. They harness their speed and use it only when they really need to. SLEEK deception.

BUT, then again, if you DO want to go fast, make sure you know what the hell you're doing.

 

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by B.J. on 3/23/2003 10:53:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


[Title Added 08/31/03: Ignorant Idiocy of Me]

Obscure oriental observations. Yeah, we already know Asians are good at math (except me : ( ), but here's other stuff I noticed. I know I'm preaching integrating and all that good shit, but I can't help but notice some trends (most of these apply to observing non-friends and stereotyping them anyway):

1) Asians tend to have laptops in college. I count Hane, Erwin, Chelle, Sue, Jay (this dude down my hall), Keith, Bel, Kenny (fool that makes me look like Scottie Pippen on the basketball court to his Fred Hoiberg) vs. all my white, mixed friends who have a total of 3 laptops between them, 2 of them combined with desktops because those 2 are computer freaks (Chris and 'Yell).

2) Asians don't bullshit about what they want. When some short Filipino guy went down with an injury during basketball, he wasn't scared to ask for water. If they want to get out of class, they'll be the first ones out (the arrogant ones). They'll also stick to the music, and a big group of friends.

3) Asians do NOT read fictional books for fun.

4) Asians are clean. Even when they don't shower for 4 days. ; )

5) There are 3 types of Asians:

1. Ghetto (90%)
2. Nerdy (9.9999999999999999999999999999999999999%)
3. My friends. (0.000000000000000000000000000000001%) [Yes, I calculated them :roll eyes:] If you think I consider you as a friend, you are probably weird.

[Edit 08/31/03: A bigoted post. This is the blog that I had in mind when I orchestrated that apology for the stupid blogs post.]

 

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by B.J. on 3/18/2003 10:36:00 PM 0 comments Print this post


Studying.

I do it so I don't waste my fucking money.

Chuck D really pinned an idea into my head that if you behave like college is a prison, it'll become one. It's only a matter of time before you end up in a physical prison.

Hahaha, and while I'm on that, I just learned some random info from a friend.

We add 5 seconds to our lives everytime we walk up the stairs because we move further from a heavier mass.

Time goes slower the closer you are to a heavier mass.

So our feet are younger than our heads, though the smell would say otherwise.

And living on the 4th floor of the most bipolar dorm, Cowell, Prescott in history, is actually making me younger.

 

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War

by B.J. on 3/17/2003 07:31:00 PM 0 comments Print this post


I don't follow this shit very much, but I think I'm being as IDEALISTIC when I say I don't want war and that it ISN'T inevitable as the GI Joe-black-and-white-1840s pro-war crowd.

We're going to war for oil again.

All our on-the-surface reasons are shit, because Georgey said he was going to bomb whether Saddam left or not AFTER SPECIFICALLY giving Saddam an ultimate that if he wasn't going to leave, then he'd bomb. We didn't even have proof that he had weapons of mass destruction pointed at us (forget for a moment that we have our own weapons aimed everywhere in the world and troops stationed in just about every country).

Here are FACTS (things pro-war people don't take into consideration) :

We're just creating more enemies by killing more Iraqis, more husbands, more wives, more brothers, more sisters, more children LOST. These are PEOPLE who are just chillin' like me right now, but there's a fair chance that they won't be. With these inevitable kills, Saddam would have even more reason to disrupt the US if he hasn't had already. He's selfish in his own right, so bombing PEOPLE would do nothing for him and for us, except disrupt our image across the lands even more. Saddam doesn't discriminate who he kills, just as long as it isn't him. When you're hunting a criminal, you don't bomb whereever you think he's going to be in buildings full INNOCENT people, you go STRAIGHT after that criminal. We already bombed AFGHANISTAN to the stone age. . .casualties probably 8x more than the 300 in 9/11. We've already killed over 250,000 in Iraq since the Gulf War, and we're out for more ? WE'RE LOOKING LIKE THE BULLIES.

And people over there will be MORE THAN LIKELY even more pissed off and could possibly draw up their own terrorist activity here. Big or small, there will be some people who will suffer the consequences. For all we know, we could've just pushed the Al-Qaeda (the terrorist group responsible for 9/11 apparently) into bed with Saddam's crew for disruption of the United States (the Al-Qaeda and Saddam are very polarized groups), and THAT could eventually boil into something especially with the technology available nowadays. That can eventually "throw a screw" into our economy. North Korea can also blind side us.

The PRACTICAL thrust of this war mess, which is the MAIN THRUST is control of the oil supplies, which would be a SHORT-TERM fix to the economy. But it's what that shady-ass Dick (Cheney) and Bush are and have been major players in, and they intend to make a profit.

And PRACTICALLY, this oil problem could've been solved:

-Coal could be used and minimized thanks to technology.

-Nuclear power

-Hydroelectric power is working well in Norway

-Solar power

-Wind power

etc. . .

I realize that they can't just switch the power off now and have these things implemented by tomorrow. It has to be a gradual change, but then again, these power sources should've been worked into the system. If it weren't for some people (Reagan and Bush) spending money on useless shit like "Star Wars", then we wouldn't have pissed away so much money, and it could've been used on something useful like these power sources education or something ala Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty or Truman's Marshall Plan. It's never too late. . .

But the most PRACTICAL solution is probably to. . .

Go drill fucking Alaska, then. You win, George.

Going to war with Iraq is just like getting mad at a pinto for taking up two spaces. You want to park in one space, but you blow it up instead.

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by B.J. on 3/12/2003 03:25:00 PM 0 comments Print this post


Woohooo ! ! ! ! !

1-2-3 punch of the Bulls punched us to victory over those damn Lakers.



Packing the punch from beyond the arc. He's cool cause he started the headband craze when he was still in college at Michigan.



Baby Shaq ! Eddy Curry ! 20 points on Shaq ! What's amazing is that he even played defense ! Shaq even talked about how he, Yao Ming, and Eddy are the only 3 legit centers in the league. Woohoo.



And the emotional leader helped fluster Shaq to only 13 points even though Shaq averages 27 points per game.

And Jalen Rose too. : )



Not a fluke win. The Lakers were in top form, no excuses. Kobe had 35, hell even Rick Fox scored 23. Woohoo, this should stir up confidence in the Bulls' young team. Celebration ! WooWOO !

 

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by B.J. on 3/11/2003 09:57:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


This blog goes out to you, suparraDly FIRER !

Why the Bathrooms at Riverside Are Dirty as Hell

Yeah, I'm not a Riverside student (and neither are a lot of them at 'big R'), but it's fun to make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me' because then 'us' ('u' and 'me' combined) could compete with J-Lo.

Yeah.

OK, whatever, moving on. . .

The bathrooms are dirty because students just don't give a crap (toilets say otherwise).

Respirators (thats all humans carrying out the process of respiration) get dirty by just touching the door.

I mean would you want to use a damp, dark, cement-floored public restroom at Griffith Park wearing a suit (or dress) just before a wedding ?

That's what it's like using a restroom at UC-Riverside.

Students will throw something away like paper towel and because the bathrooms are dirty, the students figure that it's dirty anyway, so then the used paper towels reach the floor, and the mess PILES. They'll spit, hack, and throw stuff anywhere they please because they know that they won't have to clean it up eventually. Trash also because especially harder with annoying, plastic, welting 'Push' trashcans from 1973, which I wouldn't want to touch after having washed my hands CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL style. As a result that paper towel ends up on the floor, and the pathogens spread. The janitors have probably lost hope of ever 'spic-and-spanning' the place (as if its an apartment) and settle for just throwing the trash and sweeping up the floor as a result of constant use.

As a result of this CONSTANT is the FOUL smell. Who would want to touch a rusty flusher with their bare hands in a horrible-smelling stahl with grafitti and toilet paper floating and flowing like 'P.Diddy's' career (maybe a Somalian kid if you promised him a crumb of your Krispy Kreme donut and a ounce of a sip of your Starbucks) ? Thus the mess and smell PILES up from the toilets. Reach with your foot to flush the excrement down the toilet !

Everything adds to the ATMOSPHERE and FEELING that the place is dirty, so what would putting YOUR trash in the trash can do, students reason.

Adding to this hold-your-nose atmosphere are the junior grafitti artistswho write on the stahls and walls. I've been thinking about the bathroom next to Buschelman's class back at Loyola, and the ones I always saw were like "Taggers suck" and "If you want a great time, call 310-386-4532 (that was random I swear), usually some number intended to be a girl's." Now in college it's been upgraded to such 'sophistry' as "End the occupation of California" and "If you are reading this, you should get down and start focusing". These taggers come to make a statement (and what better way than to write in a foul-smelling shithole), silent but deadly expressions (I mean the writing). One funny comment leads to another, and before you know it, the bathroom becomes the LA greyhound station --- PILE full of foul waste and writing on the wall.

So what does this all add up to ? A PILE of BS !

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by B.J. on 3/08/2003 09:57:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Ethnic Clubs

You know. . .the Multicultural Students Association, those Filipino clubs.

They're not so bad as I once thought.

I just read an article from the Redwood Review here at SC talking about how ethnic clubs (referring to Asian, Black, and Hispanic leaving out Jewish, Irish, etc groups) cause self-segregation. As much as I'd grit my teeth and wish to see otherwise, I do see a lot of those people in the clubs here just hanging out with their own: self-segregation. I guess the Jewish, Irish, etc. groups are accepted by the writer because they associate, thus INTEGRATE more easily with other whites WITH NO QUESTIONS asked by observers. He'll easily look over a TYPICAL whiteboy group, but squirm over a group of colored folks. This writer fails to acknowledge whites being guilty of self-segregation as well. He's got the right idea of INTEGRATING social groups, but he goes about it without looking at the logic behind staying in an ethnic group.

When I do see Asians, blacks, hanging out or INTEGRATING with whites as the writer of the article wants, it seems sort of FORCED or that the white folks usually aren't the mono-colored left-in-high-school abercrombie jackholes who'll only hang out with a person of color if he's done something TyTe, as in anchor blue jeans TyTe. In these groups it seems as if people are BEING FORCED to be nice to each other. That makes for UNCOMFORTABLE situations. So then by that basic premise of UNCOMFORTABLE situations, I could see the logic with ALL types of people just hanging out with their own: self-segregating. I mean people of different ethnicities and races are cordial to one another, but then they wouldn't have great, true-to-the-heart convos with them.

Just because I could see the logic behind race and ethnic groups doesn't mean that it's right. INTEGRATING IS RIGHT. It's the only way you can make the super tightest CONNECTIONS (right Sleek ?). Seems like you have to be super open-minded at first to be great friends with people of different races and ethnicities; the open-mindedness which usually means you feel you've been part of the bottom or forgotten at one point in your life and you haven't forgotten.

The most FLAGRANT ethnic and race group without stating so, fraternities (The one that Erwin might start is exempt because it actually seems nice) AKA racist druggies don't look like they have cool convos either, just that they want to look 'popular' or something so they can fuck some low-self esteemed, pimply-faced 15-year old blonde.

"These voices, these voices, I hear them, and when I talk they'll follow, they'll follow."

I always feel like the girls sitting in those circles are just rape bait waiting to happen. Most of these frats are just an aura of FAKENESS or so it seems by the way they present themselves.

I guess it takes open-mindedness from the observers AND the people who want to show off their CONNECTIONS to a white dude to just accept the integrating. Obviously it's hard for me to grapple with the integrating going on right now because a lot seems fake as hell. Those circles aren't the open-mindedness and colorlessness where you can diss about any part of your home-dogg without referring to seriously derogatory stereotypes including that shit beard of his or that nasty Cecilia whore he likes. But at the same time of being OPEN-MINDED, it seems like you gotta be an ASSHOLE to root out the fakeness. . .

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by B.J. on 3/06/2003 09:08:00 AM 0 comments Print this post


Ultra annoying ass

Ever since September, I've been bipolar about this school.

I've loved it in front of the LA people.

And looked like I hated in front of the actual SC people.









(Not actual sketch of asshole)


It took my friend 'Yell to confirm my suspicions that people here aren't as politically LIBERAL as I thought. Just SOCIALLY Liberal as in, it's cool to smoke, drink, and have sex. I noticed that 1st quarter in my core class when the white abercrombie tudes like talked about how rad the school system is already and how there's really a chance for everyone to succeed. And in my music of India class, there's this wide-nostrilled lanky dumbass with ever-changing hair color who sits between 5 poor hoes thinking he's the shit making annoying teardrop noises every time there's a pause in the class. He also talks during documentaries like its his most important conversation. I want to take my pencil and jab it in his fucking head so he could shut the fuck up and cease his useless abercrombie existence.

Imagine if I knew this guy. Oh man, field day ! I think it's reason enough that he's ruining the class for me. He is probably the perfect example of a SOCIAL LIBERAL: drinking, smoking, stupid shit. . .but he probably wouldn't give a shit about war or anything.

It's OK to be politically unactive, but just make sure you use your common sense. That sample idiot above doesn't have the common sense to shut the fuck up in class or even absorb anything, so why would he use it when he needed to vote ?

Damn SC. . .

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by B.J. on 3/01/2003 09:37:00 PM 0 comments Print this post


R.I.P. Father Jones.

Though I haven't been there much for 3 years, it's hard to imagine what my sister would be doing on any given Wednesday or Friday. He kept her straight with those long-winded practices. She doesn't have an obnoxious group of stupid loud friends.

I always wondered what Father did in his off-time. I wondered what he felt like living alone. I wonder what he felt like giving all his time to some Catholic school kids. He never greeted anyone with a hi. The man was a mystery.

But let it be no secret that I never saw any malice from him.

Good man, good man. You'll be missed.

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