My story

About me:
I go to college. I write a blog. I like to challenge my curiosity. I have a beautiful girlfriend. what else to be said? I don’t like people who are narrow-minded and ignorant.

Contact: akozdra@gmail.com, aim – monstermagnetfff

Activities:Smoking Cigars, Bowling, Eating at Diners, Hosting Parties, Chopping Wood, Listening to music, Painting, Sewing, Writing, Driving, Chilling, Writing letters, Sliding Down Railings, Jumping into Leaves, Sledding (at Night), Stargazing, Hitting baseballs, Pondering, Reading, Watching Movies and TV shows, Peanut Butter, Cutting paper with orange scissors, Bathing, Running, Gargling, Touching myself all over, Making people uncomfortable, Taking tests, Reading Newspapers, Doing Sudokus, Crosswords, Olive Garden, Anytime with my lovely Jacki, Giving the Finger, Lighting Candles, Sitting. Nothing.

Favorite Music:
Genre:
Rap – Ol Dirty Bastard
Metal – Protest the Hero
Rock – Fall of Troy
Dance – The Lizzard
Classical – Ravel
Jazz – Grant Green
Punk – Buzzcocks
Progressive – Genesis
Blues – Lonnie Johnson
Avant-Garde – Splattercell/David Torn

Favorite TV Shows: Da Ali G Show. The Office. Entourage. Friends. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Sealab 2021. Police Squad! Chappelle’s Show. Futurama. Sports Night. Flight of the Conchords. Project Runway. Sarah Silverman Program.

Favorite Movies: It’s a Wonderful Life. Vertigo. the Good the Ugly the Bad. Harvey. Magnolia. Good Will Hunting. Diamonds are Forever. Once. Amelie.
Favorite Books: The Stand. The Complete Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Into The Wild. Nectar in a Seive. Things Fall Apart. The Army of Caesars. Kane and Abel. Walden. Civil Disobedience. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Quotations:

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
E.B. White

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
Heraclitus

“Of cheerfulness, or a good temper – the more it is spent the more it remains.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring there.”
Robert M. Pirsig

“You better back the fuck up, before you get smacked the fuck up”
Tupac

Insteresting stuff, yo.

Khat – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat – 740 pounds was confiscated by Philadelphia police. this drug can be ingested like chewing tobacco (packin lip) or made into a tea. both forms – dry and fresh – contain drugs (cathine and cathinone) which are found in amphetamines. “Khat consumption induces mild euphoria and excitement.”
an unidentified person said that taxi drives often use this drug to stay awake and alert during long and late shifts. Khat has a can induce hyperactivity, constipation and users are said to become more talkative. it’s said to cause a lack of appetite too. cheaper than cocaine, authorities are becoming worried.

Contraception for Men – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21038295/wid/11915773?GT1=10412
Pills are being developed for several effects:
” * Sperm blocker: Researchers who have been developing the Intra Vas Device are expected to announce test results showing “substantial equivalence to traditional vasectomy methods” in a study of 90 men. The device — a set of removable plugs — blocks sperm in the vas deferens, the tube that’s cut in a vasectomy. Further research is needed to find whether fertility returns after the plugs are removed.
* Testosterone-like pill: A drug called “selective androgen receptor modulator,” or SARM, is being tested on humans as an osteoporosis and muscle-wasting treatment. It also shows promise as a male pill, researchers said. A similar drug taken orally reduces sperm counts in rabbits.
* Nonhormonal pill: Research shows a non-hormonal compound called CDB-4022 prevents monkey sperm from swimming to their destination. Upon stopping treatment, fertility returned completely in 16 weeks, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. But the safety of the drug still needs to be tested. “

Male contraception is dangerous but good too. rape = bad. good = play boys.

Phillies back to tied for first in the NL East. Good luck with that. Moyer’s pitching? he’s 50 right?
playoffs, maybe.

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Today:
TV with a cup of grapefruit juice and rye bread with butter. the butter was delicious.
Reading for English. What was it about….? hmmm. oh yes, french fries and the McDonald’s model. the main message was about advertising, I think. if healthy foods are marketed as tastey and filling and delicious rather than healthy it will sell better. The McLean Deluxe was a great example of how health-oriented marketing failed. and the other essay was a rant by a wife who wants to have a wife. She goes on about what her wife would do and not do and it’s a good analysis of what women expect to become when the become married.
After reading, I went out to Herb’s. (Music – Avril “girlfriend”) got supplies – beads and hemp. and drove into town to what I expected to be a good “kill-two-birds-with-one-stone” (one-parkjob, actually, but still) adventure. (Music – Dispatch “the general”) 1 – got blacks from the cigar parlor. the guy had a beautiful beard and long dreads. asked “need matches?” “no” “matches, lighter, hug? you need a hug?” “sure, I’d love to” 2 – Philadelphia Inquirer. Bagel Barrel and The bookstore did not have it. and I wasn’t going to settle. so Wawa. (Music – Sublime “Got the hooch”)
stopped at CVS to see Rach. but to my surprise – Rach and Jessi were there. it was brief. but good.
Newspaper highlights – Dunkin Donuts coupons, “Zane’s Trance”, “Poem” and www.storytour.org.
I want a donut. yum! Zane’s Trance is a book about a boy who writes compulsively and goes on a trip to visit his mother’s grave which he hopes to be his resting place too. a journey of sorts. Story Tour is a van tour in Philadelphia that films the stories of individuals. Made of the First Person Festival and Memoir and Documentary Arts held November 7-11. go to the website to watch the stories. only going to be filming 5 days a week for one month. and if you see a retro van with film equipment, stop and tell your story.
Poem by Ryan Navin

I am a calm, messy, paranoid perfectionist
Insomniac that sleeps like a baby.
I am an intellectual who can’t read
And a musician who can’t hear.
I am an ARTIST with no poems, pictures plots or
Paintings to properly personify my particular problems.
No songs, synonyms, soliloquies, or sonnets to
Sincerely speak my specific situations.
I am as strong as a rock worn down with time
I am as peaceful as a deserted Island used for Nuclear Bombs.
I always do what’s right,
Never what’s left.
I am a poem with a bad ending.

Here’s to you, Ryan Navin, artist indeed.

Brought to you by Bethlehem Steel.

I’m back home in my town of Doylestown. I love it. I saw the extreme-walking-kinda-like-a-raptor man. and the change of color in the environment is devestatingly beautiful. Today’s title comes from “Mad Men”. an advertisement for a city, more than a company: Pittsburgh – brought to you by Bethlehem Steel.
I miss sleeping naked. I can’t do that at college, unless I get a single at PSU. Oh yeah, I’m transferring to Penn State, cross my fingers hoping to get into main campus. I’m finally getting over a headache that stemmed from late last night. I don’t know the cause of it yet, it’s probably psychological or that grinding problem with my teeth. That’s how I deal with things bothering me. and I can’t find my nightguard – retainer-ish thing.

Overheard at CB West:
Girl: what the FUCK!
Guy: LANGUAGE!…fucking dykes.

I miss seeing a sunset and a sunrise without the corruption of buildings. and at 2AM last night I finally finished shaving, I was so busy yesterday.
Drove home, went to the courthouse (which was pointless because everything closes 45 minutes before it should), bank, drop mom of at nail salon, home, pick mom up, drop pills of at Raffelle’s, Kmart, Superfresh, CVS. Home – Change clothes, eat, drink. Out – Cameron picked me up and we went to the East-West Game (an east home game).
East-West Game:
Jesse Sherk!
Al Pitman!
Mr. Przybyszewski – only guy in the normal stands standing up to watch the game
There was a cute baby by the field when Cameron and I stood by the field
People I saw:
Carolyn, Maddie, Kim, Ian, Sean, Kelsey, Payton, Eli, Emily, Bodor, Rach, Susie, CC, Timmy, Maddie, Sean Foster, Gelb, Lembo, Greg, Warpath McGrath, Jen, Bethanny, Zach, Mitch, Lilah, Plum, Villagra, Conley, Nicolo.
Good time.
And then I saw my Jacki!
and we went to get Chinese (food).
and we went home and she’s beautiful. and I drove her home.
I feel asleep to Ali G.

I had weird thing in my mind at night. occasionally I would hear screaming. and it wasn’t like angry it was just loud screaming about normal stuff. like “I NEED TO USE THE BATHROOM”.

Another interesting case

Michael Hearne, 43, charged with misconduct. 19 year veteran Camden county police officer. He lent his own gun to a friend in a plot to rob drug dealers. I wonder if it was an act of robin hood, or of sheriff of nottingham. he’s barred from public office in New Jersey. He was suspended previously for advising a drug kingpin – Jose Rivera – on how to talk to narcotics investigators.
What are your motives, Mr. Hearne? are you trying to help the Camden community or yourself? am I out of line to ask?
Motives are often overlooked in court, in fact, in most cases they are absent. French courts work differently, I’d like to look into that. Had it been a selfless act, should he be arrested? Lethal weapons are dangerous, but so are drug dealers.

Do Not Reelect These Senators

Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Kennedy Amdt. No. 3035 )
To expand “federal Hate-crime law to include gay men and lesbians”

Do not reelect these senators:
Alexander (R-TN), Nay
Allard (R-CO), Nay
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Bond (R-MO), Nay
Brownback (R-KS), Nay
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Nay
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nayf
Craig (R-ID), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dole (R-NC), Nay
Domenici (R-NM), Nay
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Nay
Hagel (R-NE), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Lott (R-MS), Nay
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Martinez (R-FL), Nay
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Murkowski (R-AK), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Stevens (R-AK), Nay
Sununu (R-NH), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Nay

In his defense however, John Cornyn of Texas said this “All crimes of violence are crimes of hate.”

Other news, 70% of White Americans believe OJ Simpson’s charges to be true. whereas 41% of Black Americans believe the charges to be true. He was set up, that’s all I’ll say.

Mychal Bell was released on bond and will be charged as a minor. Walter’s, the District Attorney in the case dropped adult charges, but not because of protests, but because they were denied by thrown out by Third Circuit District of Appeal. He that only God kept the protest peaceful. Yeah, they aren’t human beings or anything. fuck off, you little bitch.

My heart goes out to two foreign Red Cross workers abducted in Afghanistan. They aided in freeing South Korean hostages.

Also, don’t forget to follow the Senates attack on Moveon.org for their ad saying “General Petreaus or General Betray us?” Freedom of speech is being attacked. If an organization can’t speak it’s mind, what makes you think you can speak yours?

This is the first section.

Morning! (paranthesis)

I planned in advance for this day (ok so I didn’t plan that well, it was just a thought a couple days ago). I made coffee ice cubes(yum)! and before english (110) I put a hot steamy pot of coffee on. and so I made iced coffee after I got my newspaper (the philadelphia inquirer). It’s so good (the coffee)! today’s headline are nothing to rave about (a long walk shows strides street has made, septa imposes another fare hike – WOW!) so I decided to read the first paragraph of each article and the story about mayor streets walking and excersizing caught my attention. Because mayor streets brother (milton) has been in the news on a bad note (bribery and what not), I was curious as to what people thought about Mayor street, hisself. FUCK (Search for torrentsI need sugar, iced coffee without sugar, are you mad?!) Because walker texas ranger is not interesting today (which is suprising, I know), I searched through the wide world of tv, and I found a JEM (Mythbusters!). Today’s topics are excited(Movie-type shooting – if there is enough power in a bullet that will transfer enough to push a body back like in the movies, and the brown note – a frequency that makes you poop your pants). EWWWW (poop!).
I’ll write again (don’t worry).
For now I’m busy (pooping my pants).

It’s a Pan!

Split Brain Behavorial Experiments
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/126862/Split_Brain_Behavioral_Experiments.html

I’m just not quite right today

Something’s wrong, I don’t know what it is. is it too loud? is it too quite? I just don’t feel entertained. I’m not amused. I need a certain type of person, someone fun but with curiousity. someone who doesn’t challenge me to resist the urge to scream. someone who challenges my intellect and curiousity in argument. I miss me sometimes. I miss my house and independence. and the ability to kick someone out of my own room. I want. I am greedy. I want. to read a newspaper and show how interesting the world is. to watch something beautiful and tell it to someone. like how I saw the biggest leaf today. it was bigger than a piece of paper. it was truly a looseleaf. This week was rough. High school classes were more intimate. I liked discussion. I don’t care for lectures. I put some effort into expressing my life and putting my study of the weird into my blog. I haven’t spent much time for who I might be. I think I’ll be psychology-ing up with my Social studies ed or minor or something-something. Fuck sports and puzzles and games. sometimes. Today, something’s not quite right today. I don’t need anything right now. I don’t need to buy clothes. I don’t need anything more. I don’t need anything to own. I’m an easy person. I’d like some attention. “There’s a healing in the angel-wing of sleep.” Thanks Frederick Douglass.

To quote Dave Wyndorf

Whoa

I’m just not quite right today

Whoa

Thank you TVgasm!

Because the Blog world is supersaturated with useless crap, I decided to go through PC World’s 100 favorite Blogs. I found this Jem: TVgasm.com. TVgasm recaps tv shows often with writer commentary. here’s a sample from a recap of WWE RAW (one of the stupiest shows to begin with):

“I really like Shelton Benjamin, and think the guy has a ton of upside, but he has the mic skills of Helen Keller. If I were GM, I’d make him the company’s first deaf-mute wrestler. And I’d make him wrestle a dwarf hermaphrodite mime.”

“Speaking of idiots, Candice Michelle and her magic wand are waiting for Vince in the leather couch room. “I heard there’s a position open on RAW,” she tells Vince. “What position did you have in mind,” the old horndog asks. Candice starts disrobing to show Vince her qualifications, which, evidently, are fake titties and the ability to have an orgasm just by unbuttoning her top. Before Vinnie can unbutton anything of his, however, Kurt Angle and Daivari cock-block him and we go to commercial.”

Althought it’s low-brow, who cares. it’s faster and funnier than actually watching the show.

I think I’ll look up Mythbusters recaps too. Also, hahahahaha. this is ridiculous.
I’ll be linking to more great websites and articles. There was a Klingon Kama Sutra Article on Boing Boing, if you’re interested.
and there is a Blog devoted to Japanese Commercials!
and one that has 1950/1960’s advertisements!
and there is a site for established and up-and-coming comedians. Funnyordie.com

Enjoy yourselves, I know I have. Enjoyed myself.

Reader’s Digest Article – July 2004

Italians sexiest, British funniest, Germans rudest!
Who are the sexiest, rudest, funniest people in Europe?

According to a Reader’s Digest survey, the Italians are the most popular and they are the sexist as well – maybe there’s a connection.

Italy is also the country Europeans would most like to live in, and Italian the nationality they would most like to be.

The British are top of the poll on two fronts. They have the best sense of humor, say fellow Europeans, who seem to judge the Britons by Basil Fawlty, Monty Python and Mr. Bean.

And Britons are thought to have contributed most to the world, with respondents citing football, medicine and industry among others as the reason.

The survey was carried out by Reader’s Digest magazine to mark the accession of ten new states to the European Union in May 2004.

It was felt a good time to ask Europeans what they felt about each other. To find out, the Digest dispatched researchers to 19 countries across Europe, from the UK to Russia, inviting nearly 4,000 respondents to comment on any country but their own.

They asked them questions like which Europeans they liked most and least, who were the sexiest, most efficient, who had the best sense of humor and the best food, and where they’d really like to live.

The answers – some of them surprising – were published in the July issue of the Digest. Italy came out of it smelling of roses, with Europeans in love with the country, its people and its food.

Some of the main ratings:

Sexiest – Italians, followed by Spain, then France
Least sexy – Belgians
Funniest – British
Least funny – Swiss
Most efficient – Germans
Rudest – Germans, with French second
Least rude – Norway and Switzerland
Most open-minded – Dutch
Favorite European city – Paris
Favorite country – Italy, with Spain second, France third

Some respondents’ comments:

Middle-aged Belgian woman – “The Germans make too much noise and are too chauvinistic.”
Young Dutch woman – “The English do not seem to know how to behave when they’re on holiday. All they do is drink and yell.”
Spanish shop assistant on Italians – “They party and have a great sense of humor.”
Young Briton on Italians – “They know they’re sexy, which is annoying, but it makes them even more attractive.”
Briton on contribution of Irish – “They gave the world Guinness.”
Elderly Swiss man on British contribution to world – “They created football.”

- July 1, 2004