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I got recruited to wrestle in college. That was my best sport. Also pretty solid at baseball, football, cross country (actually way better now at this than I was back then). Played on the sprint football team at Navy for a couple years (football, but with a weight limit. So mostly full of excellent position players who were too small to play D1 and guys like me who were athletic enough to learn how to be 160 pound linemen).
Sometimes I miss the distraction, the camaraderie, all that jazz. Understanding of the fact that this whole world is a pretty bizarre thing for so many people to take seriously, but hey bread and circuses or whatevs.
Sometimes I miss the distraction, the camaraderie, all that jazz. Understanding of the fact that this whole world is a pretty bizarre thing for so many people to take seriously, but hey bread and circuses or whatevs.
Duff...- Current Bass Player of UFO
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The whole "lol, sportsball" thing has been an essential missing ingredient of this Nietszce reading cliché we're talking about, and I decidedly cared way too fucking much about sports when I was fifteen (which is not to say I was any good at them. At all.). Certainly every night I was watching Jordan score 30 points I could have been reading Sartre, but y'know.
Gene Bootcut- A fanatic of the sketch genre
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I wish I'd spent more time playing and watching sports as a teenager. I would have been okayish at best at both of those endeavours, but yeah. Trying to read books that made me see clever and rarely getting through more than 100 pages can't have been a significantly better use of my time
zappo- Supermasculine Menial
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I'm satisfied with having done a lot of all three of those things--reading, playing sports, and fanatically watching sports. Time largely well spent.
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Played plenty of video games, too. No regrets at all.
Duff...- Current Bass Player of UFO
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Would definitely care way less about sports if given another chance.
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What do you guys think happens first? Openly gay POTUS, or openly athiest? Dollars to donuts it’s the former.
Ned Braden- Yawn Yeller
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Duff... wrote:Would definitely care way less about sports if given another chance.
Agreed. But not in the past, in my current life. Caring about sports in the past is 50% of the reason I’m “successful.”
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Caring about sports as a child caused me nothing but misery and pain. The class I grew up with (literally, we were fed from the same elementary school into the same middle school and high school, there was never a mixing-in of new kids from other schools like you normally get to stir things up) were ridiculously athletic and sports obsessed. There was no way to compete with these kids and how they were all groomed to do sports because that's just how it was. There was no plan B when this didn't work out.
Playing sports and watching sports are two different things, I'm glad I watched all those games with my family and friends, would have been awesome if I hadn't spent all that money on cards and shit but I have nothing but good memories from that.
Openly gay president, for sure.
Playing sports and watching sports are two different things, I'm glad I watched all those games with my family and friends, would have been awesome if I hadn't spent all that money on cards and shit but I have nothing but good memories from that.
Openly gay president, for sure.
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lol i fucking love this guy https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/gy8bn4/justin-trudeau-said-peoplekind-and-right-wing-media-is-very-upset
was thinking about the terms "craftsman" and "workmanlike" the other week and was wondering when we'd see this discussion in the mainstream
was thinking about the terms "craftsman" and "workmanlike" the other week and was wondering when we'd see this discussion in the mainstream
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Maugham once wrote something along the lines of “the only love that lasts is of the unrequited variety,” and I suspect that he was right. That said, if given the choice between miserable and poetic/beautiful or happy and uncertain/likely doomed, I’ll take the latter every time.
It’s been the worst month ever, and the only thing keeping me from drowning in my own head is this thesis I keep forcing myself to come back to.
It’s been the worst month ever, and the only thing keeping me from drowning in my own head is this thesis I keep forcing myself to come back to.
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I quite like this quote, and maybe there's some truth behind it in such that unrequited love is the only kind which doesn't settle into familiarity. It is the love of the unknown and desired which is the passionate kind, not the simple love of calm recognition.
I'm a believer that love is a chemical reaction, but damned if it isn't the sort that will fuck you up for months. I am still completely fucked emotionally from being 'ghosted' by the girl I moved to California for, but for some reason I'm looking for jobs here despite having no real friends nor any reason to stay other than a hope I know is futile that something will work out with her.
But at the same time it has driven me to art and at least I'll have something tangible to come of it. Stay tough Ned, life only gets easier when it looses its "big events" and I have a feeling a passionate guy like you could use a little bit of the chaos from time to time. Hopefully you get a little less in the near future.
I'm a believer that love is a chemical reaction, but damned if it isn't the sort that will fuck you up for months. I am still completely fucked emotionally from being 'ghosted' by the girl I moved to California for, but for some reason I'm looking for jobs here despite having no real friends nor any reason to stay other than a hope I know is futile that something will work out with her.
But at the same time it has driven me to art and at least I'll have something tangible to come of it. Stay tough Ned, life only gets easier when it looses its "big events" and I have a feeling a passionate guy like you could use a little bit of the chaos from time to time. Hopefully you get a little less in the near future.
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This is the thread where you post about how depressed you are and how waking up is fucking tiresome and who gives a shit anymore, right? Lets get deep bros woo hoo
you guys ever wanna disappear from everything you know for like 6 months to forever?
you guys ever wanna disappear from everything you know for like 6 months to forever?
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I'm drunk
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"jabberwocky" is such a great word
i've been thinking about it a lot lately
i've been thinking about it a lot lately
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i'm beginning to think that gary numan was onto something w/ that whole spiel about wanting to turn himself into a machine to take away the pain of being a man
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Jan Svankmajer - Jabberwocky from deanna t on Vimeo.
Ned Braden- Yawn Yeller
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C-poots wrote:I quite like this quote, and maybe there's some truth behind it in such that unrequited love is the only kind which doesn't settle into familiarity. It is the love of the unknown and desired which is the passionate kind, not the simple love of calm recognition.
I'm a believer that love is a chemical reaction, but damned if it isn't the sort that will fuck you up for months. I am still completely fucked emotionally from being 'ghosted' by the girl I moved to California for, but for some reason I'm looking for jobs here despite having no real friends nor any reason to stay other than a hope I know is futile that something will work out with her.
But at the same time it has driven me to art and at least I'll have something tangible to come of it. Stay tough Ned, life only gets easier when it looses its "big events" and I have a feeling a passionate guy like you could use a little bit of the chaos from time to time. Hopefully you get a little less in the near future.
Thanks for the solidarity and the kind words. I have too many things going on right now, and the fact that I’m also underwater with school...
Moving to location unknown
Need to find a new job
Divorce
Unrequited love
Deaths in the family
Money/debt problems
Depression
Two properties to rent/sell while searching for a new place
It’s an unhealthy cocktail, and I’ve tried and failed to fix it with cocktails. I will persevere, cause what else is there to do, right? Also, I’m hoping this government shutdown will buy me an extra day on the paper due tomorrow.
Did the Red Hot Chili Peppers have a song called jaberwocky? Cause it’s be a shame if they didn’t.
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Ned Braden wrote:Did the Red Hot Chili Peppers have a song called jaberwocky? Cause it’s be a shame if they didn’t.
*KIEDIS VOICE*
JABBERWOCKY, LA KINGS PLAY HOCKEY
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Which piece of pop culture should I consume right now to make myself feel happy.
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Re-watch Stop Making Sense.
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Fuck that is such a great call... opening credits on meet Wally sparks rolling and I wanna see if this is as amazing as I assume it is... no memory whatsoever of this film.
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You were so right Zappo
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Is human achievement even a real possibility? Has any human ever “succeeded?”
And if no, why go on? My personal answer is that something beats nothing, even if that something is ultimately irrelevant. And also, my answer is that you will have nothing eternally, regardless... so might as well have some patience and take all of life, painful, bad, more painful, occasionally enjoyable, and bad. Cause... we all get to the void of nothingness soon enough so why rush it?
And if no, why go on? My personal answer is that something beats nothing, even if that something is ultimately irrelevant. And also, my answer is that you will have nothing eternally, regardless... so might as well have some patience and take all of life, painful, bad, more painful, occasionally enjoyable, and bad. Cause... we all get to the void of nothingness soon enough so why rush it?
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