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[austin_dern]

No whimsy today; I'm too angry after a night spent dealing with people who feel they deserve to be stomped on and beaten up since it happens all the time, and my anger at the people who stomp and beat them. I'm particularly angry at the Something Awful/Portal of Evil/UEI type who harassed a friend's nascent Livejournal. I want that sort to suffer for all the good things they've strangled and all the kind people they've terrorized; and I don't like feeling vengeful. It's bad for my soul.

I hope today's more pleasant, when I just have to think up a speech for the argon_centaur and Mavra wedding ceremony on spindizzy_muck. Apparently I've earned a reputation for giving heartfelt, Captain Kirk-like speeches touching just the right emotions; I'd take anybody's insight to what to say. It's to be my first officiating of a muck marriage, and the first time in years I've been to one. Usually I wonder if bride, groom, and minister will ever be connected simultaneously.

While I got to rub against the G5 iMacs, I got back late and missed most of Pinocchio; I hope I can catch the rerun tomorrow noon. I also wonder if the donkey transformation scene is the inspiration for the transformation-art cliché of the animal tail -- for most species a soft, flexible, fluffy thing -- tearing through the former human's clothing.

Trivia: The Gregorian calendar year 1100 AD contains no Orthodox Christmas. Source: Calendrical Calculations, Edward M. Reingold, Machum Dershowitz.

Currently Reading: The Left Hand of the Electron, Isaac Asimov.

Comments

[orv.livejournal.com]

The Something Awful/Portal of Evil crowd is just an expression of the same childish attitude that you saw on your elementary school playground. I bet a lot of them got teased as kids, and now they figure it's their turn. The whole thing really disgusts me, these days.

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

It's almost redeemed, however, when I see somebody who is directly involved with such a group begin to change and realize that it's not fulfilling. Kinda like when the Decepticon Jetfire changes alliances to become an Autobot, however briefly... er... something like that.

Anyhow, I've seen this happen a couple times, and it almost makes it worth putting up with the crap to have my faith renewed that some people can and will grow out of it. Then again, it would be so much more convenient if the crap weren't there in the first place....

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah; I was raised in that solidly liberal philosophy that I can't quite make myself believe anybody's beyond redemption, and if somebody wants to make amends badly enough I'd probably forgive them whatever was done to me, or friends. I'm tired of the provocations, though, and I'd like more people to grow up without going through a deliberately stupid phase.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it -- we didn't have bullies on my elementary school playground. The cruelest we ever got to one another was saying things like ``we're gonna beat you'' while playing kickball, or maybe doing the kissing-bandit thing. The different grades didn't harass one another either; we just played with whoever we felt like, and wandered off by ourselves if we felt like.

Moving to a new middle school where people certainly did tease one another was a shock, and I'm still disgusted by the bullies and wanna-be bullies.