Lenticular_J

It says I have four. That's pretty cool.

Glad I have fans. I would defend my views, but I don't give a [bleep].

Laugh along.

White Catholic people are weird. Where are all the rosaries? The statues of Mary? The tortillas, for God's sake?

Weird. Who is that guy, anyway? I've been seeing him all over fashion sites.

Someone's been following fashion week.

Arr they serious with this [cabbage]?

Dallas is becoming a big center for computers, too, although not necessarily gaming. And Houston attracts tons of engineers and doctors due to oil companies and a massive medical district. But Texas kicks ass.

Nobody much cares about the South. We make do.

It was pretty funny, though. [hide] I have to vent, because this is pretty much the first time I've been caught in the middle of [cabbage] like this. I feel as though theater will be interesting next year. So my friend Travis (college) and this girl Jordan (theater) were sort of dating this spring. She broke up with her boyfriend, who I can honestly say is one of the most boring people I've ever met, to be with him. They were a weird couple, because they're kind of weird people, although in a remarkable way. Travis brought out the best in her, and she kept the worst of him at bay (sometimes he has very violent mood swings. they piss me off and I tell him so). They just worked, you know? But her parents forbid them from being together, because they're not exactly the best parents. For some reason, Jordan is completely submissive to them. Her mother is the mean one, the dad just doesn't resist her. Even though it's a two-year age difference, and there are easily a hundred people who could say why they should stay together ... Jordan ended it. The weirdest part is, this entire time she'd been "friends" with her ex, who'd been bragging that she would come crawling back. He doesn't have much acclaim with anyone apart from a handful of basketball players. She did go crawling back, though. And she's also been really close to a mutual friend, Jackson, who said he's been uncomfortable with it. So, last night was the first night I'd seen Jordan and her friend Tay all summer. Travis needed to get something from Tay's house (she told me she'd taken it one night drinking with another friend, since then she's blamed me, who was out of town the first half of the month really), and since he figured there's no way Jordan would be the angry one, he could go in and get it. Tay freaked out, swearing at me and Travis both. We were really confused, and just maintained our composure. I was proud of myself. So was our friend James that was also there, since none of us are very good at staying cool with something like that. Especially with Tay, who has had a history of neediness. She basically leeched off of our group of friends for attention, and when we realized that she is nowhere close to a nice person, we just cut off contact. She proceeded to [bleep] random guys and now she's getting a tramp stamp. Ah well. Anyways, when Travis went with Tay to her room so she could prove she had nothing, Jordan starts complaining about us being here. She's really pissed me off lately. Just because she's never, EVER disobeyed her parents, she went against everything she actually wanted. I had a long talk with her about it, and she told me I should leave because she was scared I was right. I just don't understand her all of a sudden. Now she's very flaky, and only really hangs out with the other cheerleaders, who she used to only visit with occasionally. So strange... But it's okay. Travis graduated my freshman year, and the most amazing girl in the school at the time he graduated, Haley ... I got him her number because I'm an amazing wingman. Him and James and I were wandering the mall, bored and sad because the past few hours had been boring (apart from the conflict at Tay's). James, who's a shy lad, is known for making beautiful women just appear all of a sudden. And he did. We saw probably 15 girls we knew in about five minutes at one part of the mall. Including Haley, who was with her sister (who's great, if you've never met Haley). I think the fact that some other attention-needy girls that we saw were all over us helped interest Haley, who has a boyfriend. But when Travis said, "I just want to be friends" all sweetly and winked, she had a coy little smile. Game on.[/hide] Should be an interesting summer yet. And an interesting school year afterwards. Me? I've been driving, practicing calligraphy (I have horrible handwriting, fountain pens and calligraphy are helping), working like nobody's business, trying to find a barber and a good tailor, and getting the supplies I need to straight-razor and safety razor shave. A lot of reading and writing. Writing letters, soon as I get some nice stationary. Just because it's a gentlemanly pursuit. I've been working out and getting a tan personally, too, even though my job ends up with me roasted and bulgey. Shoveling hundreds of pounds of sand and cement in 100+ weather will do that. But I have been having fun. I hope you have, too.

Did you want it to be? Oh, that was in poor taste.

I am preparing for the solstice! Yeeeeah!

My friend Jackson's girlfriend gave our friend Travis a Taylor guitar. Holy [cabbage]. We're all very good friends, but that's unbelievable.

Cyber terrorism only means the government is scared of citizens' ability to communicate quickly, effectively, and secretly. If records and files were what "enemies" wanted, they could have them with ease. A simple Google search shows how [cabbage]ty the US' computer safety is. Terrorism as a whole disgusts me. We're supposedly at war with terrorists. We're at war with ideals and terrorism is a method used. Terrorism is one of the most popular ways to fight a war of ideals - because idealists rarely have their ideal militaries. So they make do. Throughout history, terrorism has been used as a legitimate method. Targeting civilians was just part of the loot of war. It's just that there were real armies to back up said terrorism.

This is why you contact your local senator or representative, kiddos. Pay attention to the [cabbage] they try and pass one day. If you actually understand C-SPAN, good. If not, there are people that find these things out.

http://www.amazon.com/Chrome-Mirrored-Aviator-Sunglasses-Special/dp/B000K5Y5PQ/ref=pd_sbs_a_2 Three great pairs of aviators. I've had nine in my time, given away most of them, broken a few of them working. Actually, they aren't even broken. They're sitting downstairs because they are loose. And when you've hit a pair of sunglasses with a sledgehammer, and that's the only problem you have ... That is good. Spend the rest on a meal.

Maybe not creepy. But fun.

At my high school people just [bleep] and have babies or not. It's not very complicated at all.

H by Hudson makes fantastic shoes, though. But boat ... boots? I wouldn't pay that much for 'em.

Legally any cell phone that works has to be able to dial 911. I go into bars. "Sneak" I guess. Even though all I do is tell them I'm not drinking because I'm driving. Usually I get a "don't cause trouble." I'm such a badass.

I thought I was sort of similar. Then I realized I was just making excuses, even if they are good ones. That's why I'm considering pursuing a relationship with a girl who's in a very similar situation. Maybe we could fix it together. And if not, it'll be a fun ride.

By the time a girl is 16 or so, it's probably mostly gone. A doctor could probably tell whether it was broken by sex or not, but, still.

So if a man cannot do that, is he not manly? The only thing that determines manliness are the sexual organs. And thats all it boils down to. The rest are simply misguided stigmas. No. And manliness is a character trait. A penis denotes a person as a male - not a man.

Of course, then there's Hemingway.

I'm a member of that site's community. It's taught me a lot. A man should be able to lead. He should be able to fix a cabinet. He should be able to kill a deer. He should be able to raise a family, mend a bone, do calculus, and debate philosophy. Specialization is for insects. That website, though, might very well have changed my life. The people who run it are absolutely amazing folks, and the community is made up of all kinds of great people. Enough praise, though. I feel that two things that are so basic for men: having a sense of style. And being able to shave properly. That is wet-shaving. Real cream (or soap), a badger brush, and preferably either a safety razor or even a straight razor. Although modern razors are okay if you excel in many other areas. The only problem is, a man who shaves like his grandfather (or great-grandfather) probably excels at a lot, too. So watch yourself.