Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
pothead vs stoner
A stoner is someone who wishes to become enlightened by his cannabis use, and uses it more as a ritual experience.
A pothead is someone who simply smokes because of its intoxicating properties and would do anything to get high, most likely with others than alone.
pothead is someone who has lost his job, car and girlfriend to weed
A stoner is someone who smokes but still leads a normal working life
stoner - someone who enjoys smoking, getting stoned, etc...
pothead - someone who lets pot take over his head (like the word), so it wouldn't be positive...I think of it as an insult.
pothead- someone who smokes pot regularly.
stoner- someone who smokes pot regularly, loves the subculture behind it, has ideals similar to the rave scenes PLUR (peace, love, unity, respect). when "passing the peace pipe" to settle differences actually has significance. along those lines...
so its kinda like the whole all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
A pothead is someone who simply smokes because of its intoxicating properties and would do anything to get high, most likely with others than alone.
pothead is someone who has lost his job, car and girlfriend to weed
A stoner is someone who smokes but still leads a normal working life
stoner - someone who enjoys smoking, getting stoned, etc...
pothead - someone who lets pot take over his head (like the word), so it wouldn't be positive...I think of it as an insult.
pothead- someone who smokes pot regularly.
stoner- someone who smokes pot regularly, loves the subculture behind it, has ideals similar to the rave scenes PLUR (peace, love, unity, respect). when "passing the peace pipe" to settle differences actually has significance. along those lines...
so its kinda like the whole all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Is sending kids college a waste
It's been nearly a year since Formula Capital's James Altucher discussed his theory on why sending your kids to college is a bad idea. The segment proved to be one of Tech Ticker's most popular...and controversial of 2010. More recently, a report based on the book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses found that after two years of college, 45% of students learned little to nothing. After four years, 36% of students learned almost nothing.
Meanwhile, the cost of college keeps rising -- 20 times the rate of inflation and much faster than say healthcare costs -- and student loan debt keeps growing. As of mid-2010, U.S. student loan debt totaled $850 billion vs. $828 billion for credit card debt, according to the Federal Reserve.
So with more people coming around to the idea that maybe Altucher is onto something, the money manager and author is back with a follow-up: The 8 Alternatives to College:
-- Start a business.
-- Work for a charity.
-- Travel the world.
-- Create art.
-- Master a sport.
-- Master a game.
-- Write a book.
-- Make people laugh.
Meanwhile, the cost of college keeps rising -- 20 times the rate of inflation and much faster than say healthcare costs -- and student loan debt keeps growing. As of mid-2010, U.S. student loan debt totaled $850 billion vs. $828 billion for credit card debt, according to the Federal Reserve.
So with more people coming around to the idea that maybe Altucher is onto something, the money manager and author is back with a follow-up: The 8 Alternatives to College:
-- Start a business.
-- Work for a charity.
-- Travel the world.
-- Create art.
-- Master a sport.
-- Master a game.
-- Write a book.
-- Make people laugh.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Living
from my windows i can see,
living trees,
dew glistening from the leaves, dripping,
like dark blood welling from an ancient wound,
spilling life onto the damp ground below,
filling craters in the mud,
indentations, recording a past memory of a day gone by,
the energy printed on the record of time,
the trees know they will go on,
even when war and hatred fill the earth,
the grass will still grow,
pushing through the pores of fresh loam.
living trees,
dew glistening from the leaves, dripping,
like dark blood welling from an ancient wound,
spilling life onto the damp ground below,
filling craters in the mud,
indentations, recording a past memory of a day gone by,
the energy printed on the record of time,
the trees know they will go on,
even when war and hatred fill the earth,
the grass will still grow,
pushing through the pores of fresh loam.
You, Destroyed my soul
And the sky, it burns like fire,
My world, it came apart,
Your up there laughing,
just laughing,
cause you ripped out my heart,
slowly I am giving in,
my heart is black as coal,
you've left me cold and empty,
you've destroyed my very soul,
So now i stand here screaming,
my mind is lost to rage,
my only,
for death to come,
so I can turn that page
My world, it came apart,
Your up there laughing,
just laughing,
cause you ripped out my heart,
slowly I am giving in,
my heart is black as coal,
you've left me cold and empty,
you've destroyed my very soul,
So now i stand here screaming,
my mind is lost to rage,
my only,
for death to come,
so I can turn that page
My Insomnia
Insanity hounds my every step,
Insomnia has followed me home,
Madness has fallen in love with me,
and now I'll never be alone,
But time is the knife that cut my skin,
and the past is the ghost that haunts me,
Anger has bound me in chains,
and so I'll never be free,
Blood is the life that revived my soul,
Hurt is the angel that I've known,
Memory is the friend I have,
because I am always on my own,
The outcasts ore my followers,
the damned are my spawn,
murders are my family and heaven leaves me forlorn,
But insanity hounds my every step,
insomnia has followed me home,
madness has fallen in love with me,
and now i can never be alone.....
Insomnia has followed me home,
Madness has fallen in love with me,
and now I'll never be alone,
But time is the knife that cut my skin,
and the past is the ghost that haunts me,
Anger has bound me in chains,
and so I'll never be free,
Blood is the life that revived my soul,
Hurt is the angel that I've known,
Memory is the friend I have,
because I am always on my own,
The outcasts ore my followers,
the damned are my spawn,
murders are my family and heaven leaves me forlorn,
But insanity hounds my every step,
insomnia has followed me home,
madness has fallen in love with me,
and now i can never be alone.....
Scream
Scream i cried in anguish,
tearing at the skin that held you,
Scream i cried out in hate,
Ripping apart the old and new,
Suffer i schemed into your face,
spraying poison in your eyes,
Suffer i scream in distress,
Digging deep into your disguise,
Bleed i howled in anger,
Digging my claws into your chest,
BLEED i howled in desire,
laying you down to rest,
sleep i wept with torment,
brushing aside your hair,
sleep i wept in anguish,
stilling a soul in the air,
I'm sorry i whispered in sorrow,
twisting in deaths violent dance,
I'm sorry i whispered in regret,
taking away you one and only chance! ! !
tearing at the skin that held you,
Scream i cried out in hate,
Ripping apart the old and new,
Suffer i schemed into your face,
spraying poison in your eyes,
Suffer i scream in distress,
Digging deep into your disguise,
Bleed i howled in anger,
Digging my claws into your chest,
BLEED i howled in desire,
laying you down to rest,
sleep i wept with torment,
brushing aside your hair,
sleep i wept in anguish,
stilling a soul in the air,
I'm sorry i whispered in sorrow,
twisting in deaths violent dance,
I'm sorry i whispered in regret,
taking away you one and only chance! ! !
Jones on the fast track
You can often look back at sports’ biggest superstars and pinpoint the specific time when they suddenly clicked with the public. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird did it when they met in the NCAA finals. Tom Brady did it when he led the Patriots to their first Super Bowl title. And so on.
For 23-year-old Jon Jones, part one took place over the past few days. Part two, the culmination of the journey, could very well take place in six weeks.
On March 19 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., Jones faces Mauricio “Shogun” Rua for the UFC light heavyweight championship in a match that was put together literally while he was inside the cage at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, beating formerly unbeaten Ryan Bader (13-1).
It was clear from the weigh-ins on that Jones (12-1, the only loss coming via controversial disqualification) had captured the imagination of the UFC fan base, who already had come to the conclusion that he was going to be the next major star in the sport.
Some future starts live up to their hype, like Georges St. Pierre. Some struggle, but eventually get there, like B.J. Penn. Others, like Vitor Belfort, who headlined Saturday night’s show, end up as someone who started off dominating everyone but failed in the end to live up to his initial promise.
But even if Jones had beaten Bader on Saturday night, he was considered at least one more win away from a title shot.
Instead, the man slated to get the next title shot, Rashad Evans, suffered a sprained knee ligament in training on Friday. On Saturday afternoon at 2:30 PT, as UFC president Dana White was driving to the arena for UFC 126, he got the word from both Evans’ doctor and UFC’s doctor, Dr. Steven Sanders, that there was no way Evans would be ready to fight in six weeks.
All of Jones’ fan momentum in recent days – he was the center of attention at Thursday’s public workouts and got a huge ovation at Friday’s weigh-ins – wasn’t lost on White, who made the decision to go with Jones as the new challenger.
But that required several things falling into place: Rua agreeing to the change, and Jones beating Bader.
“There wasn’t a backup plan,” said White. “Right before Jones and Bader came out [for their match], Rua’s team accepted,” said White. “[Jones and Bader] were literally in the Octagon.”
The rest of the plan couldn’t have been scripted better.
Jones ran through Bader, dominating the match from start to finish. Bader couldn’t deal with the wide variety of striking attacks Jones, with his 84-inch reach, was throwing at him. And Bader, a two-time NCAA Division I All-America wrestler, was dominated at wrestling by Jones, who never wrestled after junior college.
Late in the second round, Bader wanted to get the fight to the ground but was having no luck putting Jones there, so he decided to go to his back on the ground, doing the rare wrestler equivalent of pulling guard. That move proved fatal, as Jones locked in a power guillotine from the top for the submission at 4:20.
At that point, the crowd was buzzing. While Jones was heavily favored, seeing it play out against a powerhouse fighter who has been able to out wrestle everyone had people thinking that Jones was destined some day to be not just a champion but perhaps the next dominant champion in the sport. But nobody had a clue how soon that opportunity could come.
White came into the Octagon as Jones was about to be interviewed and said that Evans had blown out his knee, and White added that Jones would be getting the next title shot, a rare moment where momentum and timing intersected perfectly.
“I thought he did pretty well,” said Rua about his new opponent. “In all of his fights he’s been winning convincingly, so I think he’s the guy who deserves a chance to fight for the belt the most.”
The irony of all this is the closeness of Jones and Evans, who both train at Greg Jackson’s camp in New Mexico. In recent weeks, Evans’ role in camp was to mimic Bader.
“He took a lot of punches playing Bader helping me get ready for the fight,” Jones said, noting that he was thinking that starting on Monday, his job over the next six weeks will be to return the favor and mimic the movements of Rua.
“Rashad is an awesome guy, an awesome fighter and an awesome friend,” said Jones. “For people who think he’s arrogant, he an amazing person,” I told him I would never fight him and I was ready to come back and be the best ‘Shogun,’ as a training partner. Now it’s vice versa. Now I’m fighting Shogun, and he’s out of the title picture. He told me, ‘I will never fight you for the belt, and no one will ever force it on us.’ He’s a great guy. I’m really sorry for what happened to him.”
Evans may only be out of action for six to eight weeks. Doctors will put his knee in a brace and hope it heals quickly. There is a chance he may need surgery, which would delay his return significantly longer. Evans has been out of action since earning his title shot with a May 29 win against Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, which earned him the next shot. Rua last fought three weeks earlier, winning the title from Lyoto Machida. But after the win, he needed his own knee surgery. Evans turned down any fights in the interim, not wanting to risk his title shot.
White decided against telling Jones that if he won he would be getting the shot, and White said that had Bader won, the UFC was not planning on offering the shot to him.
“Ticketmaster has been going crazy,” White said regarding the reaction by the public after the announcement. The Evans vs. Rua fight had sold about 9,000 tickets for $1.6 million when Evans went down.
Jones, who grew up in Endicott in upstate New York, said he expects a ton of people from his home city to make the drive to Newark.
“My whole high school will be there,” he said. “With the economy the way it is, nobody wants to take a flight. I know my New York base will be there, and I won’t let them down.”
Rua didn’t have any serious issues with the change, noting his experience fighting for the PRIDE Fighting Championships, where fights often were made at the last minute.
“Well, actually being on the sidelines for a while is never good,” Rua said. “You lose a little fighting rhythm. It is what it is. In the UFC, we don’t fight that much in a year. They take care of us as fighters. They give us enough time to get ready properly. When I fought in Japan, they sometimes would tell me the opponent two weeks in advance. I have time to prepare for this mentally, and everything will be fine.”
For 23-year-old Jon Jones, part one took place over the past few days. Part two, the culmination of the journey, could very well take place in six weeks.
On March 19 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., Jones faces Mauricio “Shogun” Rua for the UFC light heavyweight championship in a match that was put together literally while he was inside the cage at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, beating formerly unbeaten Ryan Bader (13-1).
It was clear from the weigh-ins on that Jones (12-1, the only loss coming via controversial disqualification) had captured the imagination of the UFC fan base, who already had come to the conclusion that he was going to be the next major star in the sport.
Some future starts live up to their hype, like Georges St. Pierre. Some struggle, but eventually get there, like B.J. Penn. Others, like Vitor Belfort, who headlined Saturday night’s show, end up as someone who started off dominating everyone but failed in the end to live up to his initial promise.
But even if Jones had beaten Bader on Saturday night, he was considered at least one more win away from a title shot.
Instead, the man slated to get the next title shot, Rashad Evans, suffered a sprained knee ligament in training on Friday. On Saturday afternoon at 2:30 PT, as UFC president Dana White was driving to the arena for UFC 126, he got the word from both Evans’ doctor and UFC’s doctor, Dr. Steven Sanders, that there was no way Evans would be ready to fight in six weeks.
All of Jones’ fan momentum in recent days – he was the center of attention at Thursday’s public workouts and got a huge ovation at Friday’s weigh-ins – wasn’t lost on White, who made the decision to go with Jones as the new challenger.
But that required several things falling into place: Rua agreeing to the change, and Jones beating Bader.
“There wasn’t a backup plan,” said White. “Right before Jones and Bader came out [for their match], Rua’s team accepted,” said White. “[Jones and Bader] were literally in the Octagon.”
The rest of the plan couldn’t have been scripted better.
Jones ran through Bader, dominating the match from start to finish. Bader couldn’t deal with the wide variety of striking attacks Jones, with his 84-inch reach, was throwing at him. And Bader, a two-time NCAA Division I All-America wrestler, was dominated at wrestling by Jones, who never wrestled after junior college.
Late in the second round, Bader wanted to get the fight to the ground but was having no luck putting Jones there, so he decided to go to his back on the ground, doing the rare wrestler equivalent of pulling guard. That move proved fatal, as Jones locked in a power guillotine from the top for the submission at 4:20.
At that point, the crowd was buzzing. While Jones was heavily favored, seeing it play out against a powerhouse fighter who has been able to out wrestle everyone had people thinking that Jones was destined some day to be not just a champion but perhaps the next dominant champion in the sport. But nobody had a clue how soon that opportunity could come.
White came into the Octagon as Jones was about to be interviewed and said that Evans had blown out his knee, and White added that Jones would be getting the next title shot, a rare moment where momentum and timing intersected perfectly.
“I thought he did pretty well,” said Rua about his new opponent. “In all of his fights he’s been winning convincingly, so I think he’s the guy who deserves a chance to fight for the belt the most.”
The irony of all this is the closeness of Jones and Evans, who both train at Greg Jackson’s camp in New Mexico. In recent weeks, Evans’ role in camp was to mimic Bader.
“He took a lot of punches playing Bader helping me get ready for the fight,” Jones said, noting that he was thinking that starting on Monday, his job over the next six weeks will be to return the favor and mimic the movements of Rua.
“Rashad is an awesome guy, an awesome fighter and an awesome friend,” said Jones. “For people who think he’s arrogant, he an amazing person,” I told him I would never fight him and I was ready to come back and be the best ‘Shogun,’ as a training partner. Now it’s vice versa. Now I’m fighting Shogun, and he’s out of the title picture. He told me, ‘I will never fight you for the belt, and no one will ever force it on us.’ He’s a great guy. I’m really sorry for what happened to him.”
Evans may only be out of action for six to eight weeks. Doctors will put his knee in a brace and hope it heals quickly. There is a chance he may need surgery, which would delay his return significantly longer. Evans has been out of action since earning his title shot with a May 29 win against Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, which earned him the next shot. Rua last fought three weeks earlier, winning the title from Lyoto Machida. But after the win, he needed his own knee surgery. Evans turned down any fights in the interim, not wanting to risk his title shot.
White decided against telling Jones that if he won he would be getting the shot, and White said that had Bader won, the UFC was not planning on offering the shot to him.
“Ticketmaster has been going crazy,” White said regarding the reaction by the public after the announcement. The Evans vs. Rua fight had sold about 9,000 tickets for $1.6 million when Evans went down.
Jones, who grew up in Endicott in upstate New York, said he expects a ton of people from his home city to make the drive to Newark.
“My whole high school will be there,” he said. “With the economy the way it is, nobody wants to take a flight. I know my New York base will be there, and I won’t let them down.”
Rua didn’t have any serious issues with the change, noting his experience fighting for the PRIDE Fighting Championships, where fights often were made at the last minute.
“Well, actually being on the sidelines for a while is never good,” Rua said. “You lose a little fighting rhythm. It is what it is. In the UFC, we don’t fight that much in a year. They take care of us as fighters. They give us enough time to get ready properly. When I fought in Japan, they sometimes would tell me the opponent two weeks in advance. I have time to prepare for this mentally, and everything will be fine.”
Feb top ten zines
Top Ten Zines
Negative Guestlist #14
More Noize #5
Distort #31-#34
Alta Intensidaz #6/Fanzine Miguel #19
Antipatia #13-15
Absolutely Zippo #46
El Zine #8-10
Fun Fun Fun #6
Standard Issue #11
XXX$posed SF’s Lusty Lady – Life Beyond the Looking Glass
Negative Guestlist #14
More Noize #5
Distort #31-#34
Alta Intensidaz #6/Fanzine Miguel #19
Antipatia #13-15
Absolutely Zippo #46
El Zine #8-10
Fun Fun Fun #6
Standard Issue #11
XXX$posed SF’s Lusty Lady – Life Beyond the Looking Glass
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