i'm a pushover.

bone made no promise of ceasing the talk about shaving his back and he made his way into the links section anyway. i'm not sure how i rationalized that, we go back quite a ways. i think he'd link me even if i talked about shaving my back. it's either that or the realization that he might very well be the only person with whom i can talk about the heavy homosexual undertones in the teenage mutant ninja turtles.

here's the text of that conversation:
alceste1103: if i were a ninja turtle - who would i be?
ricv56: raphael
alceste1103: f**k
alceste1103: why?
ricv56: ???
alceste1103: cause man, chicks don't like raphael, they like michelangelo
ricv56: i dunno that you fit him as much as you just don't seem to fit any of the other ones
alceste1103: and i'm not michelangelo, i'm raphael
ricv56: michaelangelo is a sack of crap
alceste1103: i think he's gay
ricv56: i think he's the only one that's not
alceste1103: michelangelo?
ricv56: raphael
alceste1103: whew
ricv56: i thought you were saying you thought raphael was gay
alceste1103: nope
ricv56: good
ricv56: i think he's the only solid hetero in the bunch
alceste1103: what about splinter? pederast?
ricv56: likely
ricv56: a four hundred year old rat cohabitating in a sewer (read:underground) with four teenagers
alceste1103: so what? it's all a homosexual allegory?
ricv56: don't even get me started on shredder, krang, bebop and rocksteady
alceste1103: oh no
alceste1103: oh, you have to explain this to me
ricv56: a warthog and a rhinoceros? if that's not code for beastiality, i don't know what is
alceste1103: hmm
alceste1103: that's pretty thin
ricv56: and a disembodied brain lives in a man's crotch co-leading an alliance of evil with an insecure ex samurai who keeps his face covered?
alceste1103: so?
ricv56: that just screams S&M
alceste1103: g*dd*mn, some days i get down on my knees and thank god i know you

i added a few other links, mostly of personal interest, stuff like c.s. lewis, john wesley, and jim goad. i bet that's the first time those three guys have ever been mentioned in the same sentence. it's goad that's the wildcard there. lewis gives us "mere christianity", wesley, "a plain account of christian perfection" and from goad we get "the redneck manifesto." i was surprised by goad's book, i first saw it in a borders in wheaton, and expected, as the title might suggest, it to be written from a total right-wing "we're under attack" point of view, probably solely in "rant" style. i picked it up and, after a few pages, knew i had to get it. goad does rant, it's probably what he does best, but his book was ridiculously well-researched. i read it on a flight from LA to austin, and finished it quicker than i can remember finishing anything else of comparable length. the book and his website are definitely not for kids, however.

had a really good conversation with laura last night, definitely the highlight of the day. other than that, i worked on cleaning up my office and did some studying. school's gonna start here in about three weeks, which means i'll have lil kids on tuesday afternoons again and i won't have time to organize myself or do much study. future education is definitely weighing on the brain now.

i'm pretty stoked about lunch the sunday before christmas now.

feeling: peaceful
thinking of: 709 Michigan St. 8B, Wheaton, IL 60187
music: "wishlist" pearl jam