Blibbet Post
by Joshua Minton
A blibbet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag. There are a lot of things I wanted to sprech about but none of them added up to a full post so allow me to introduce the blibbet post--think of it as a buffet for your mind.- College Football: It is very weird to me that I'm so excited for college football to start. I detest sports. I hate them. Well, maybe hate is a strong word. You hate the IRS. You hate beauracracy in the work place overshadowing execution and human initiative. You're supposed to hate getting a prostate exam. So, let's just say that, as a teenager, I had no interest in playing or watching sports which didn't involve a short, emaciated & pasty white boy getting laid (which I can tell you is none of them). But ever since I picked up a copy of NCAA 2007 on the XBOX 360; I've been seeing this Ohio State season unfolding in pure glory in my mind. Sure, we've got a bunch of rookies but they are thirsty for blood and they're coming to the one school in the Midwest where the city is built on great college football. We don't have a pro-team here in Columbus because they would never be able to generate the loyalty that Columbus people have for the Buckeyes. Being a hater of football is probably a lot like some survivors stories of Nazi Germany when they talked about being forced to stand up in a crowd during a Hitler speech and when everyone said HEIL! that is was all they could do not to raise their hands and yell along with the crowd. And even though I have a sociopathic streak of personal independence swirling through my genetics--Ohio State football is one of the few situations in my life where I am more than happy to go along with the crowd. Go Bucks!
- Has anyone tried smoking or eating this Salvia herb before?
Salvia divinorum, that is — a member of the sage family of plants that has been used for hundreds of years by the Mazatec indigenous people of southern Mexico as a medicinal herb and means of divination.
I checked out the most popular site for ordering and finding out info about this herb but I'm still a bit skeptical. I guess it's kind of like that old adage that I wouldn't be a member of any club tha would have me--I would have a problem smoking any herb that isn't illegal.
Today, it continues to be used in shamanistic rituals. But it has also become popular among the university and college crowd in Canada and the United States — although for many, once is enough, experts say.
What may be surprising, given its powerful hallucinogenic effects, is that cultivating, selling or using Salvia divinorum are all perfectly legal in Canada and most of the U.S.
UPDATE: Fantastic Bastard sent me a link to this interesting documentary on this herb. It's well worth watching.
- Sex in space would be "hotter and wetter" than sex on Earth. After reading this article, I won't be knocking myself out to get into it in space any time soon.
- Check this out:
A special force of online commentators had already been operating in Suqian city in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu since April, the Southern Weekend said.
So there is a cyber army of online commentors defending the Chinese Communist government against dissidents and revolutionaries. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is proof positive that the primary battleground of the 21st Century is not the desert of the Middle East but Cyberspace--the realm of ideas and paradigm. If you can manipulate the paradigm under which groups of individuals live under, you have absolute power. Ideas fuel reality and are far more valuable a commodity than oil.
Their job was to defend the government when negative comments appeared on Internet bulletin boards and chatrooms, the weekly quoted local officials as saying. Suqian city’s propaganda department recruited the commentators from among government officials, the weekly said, adding that they must "understand (government) policies, be versed in (political) theories and be politically reliable". "They will guide public opinion as ordinary netizens. This is both important and effective," Ma Zhichun, one of the recruited commentators, was quoted as saying.
- The complete Six Feet Under boxed set is being released on Halloween this year. All five seasons will be included along with both soundtracks and a book of obituaries that shows how all the main characters finally assume room temperature and take the celestial dirt nap. For those who have never seen this amazing series, I highly recommend watching every episode in order back to back. This show will change the way you think about the world, I gay-ron-tee.
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This blog was originally posted on July 30, 2006
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