All I've got is a vacancy...

[jackshoegazer]

I fell asleep watching The Big Lebowski last night.  Man, that is a great first five minutes.  Did you ever notice, at the beginning, when the Dude is writing a check at the store, after the narrator talks about Saddam and the Iraqi's and Bush Sr. is on the TV talking about it, the date Dude writes on the check in September 11th.  1991, but nonetheless, it's pretty odd.

For those of you not watching the news, or living in America, the car companies here have been in steady decline for years and years and Ford just announced that it's cutting another 30,000 jobs in th next few years.  Gee, why are American car companies failing so horribly, but foreign automakers are thriving quite nicely?  Well...

According to a separate survey that was reported in the same day's Wall Street Journal, the average American CEO earns 475 times what his average employee earns -- not counting executive perks that aren't required to be reported as salary, yet, so the actual number is probably higher. The average Japanese CEO earns 11 times what his average employee makes.

Hmmm, coincidence?  Obviously those CEOs aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing.  Unless it's written in their contracts: Squeeze the company dry and run it into the ground while simultaneously lining your pockets, you rich, smug, bastard.

It's almost time to take the boy to school.  He's all caught up on his work, finally.  Ethan's pretty aware of the outside world, knows the names of actors and directors, famous people in the media, and yet, he chose to do his Hero Project about me.  I thought that was quite flattering.  I asked him if other kids picked their parents and he said a lot of them did, which surprised me.  I wonder, at what age do kids stop looking at their parents in that light and begin to identify with strangers on the world stage?

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[holographia.livejournal.com]

my father's new wife thinks I'm a drug-addicted, alcoholic, Satanist thief.

people with small minds sure are quick to judge, aren't they??

i got stuck with the tag of drug-addicted satanist at 11 because my mom let me dye my brown hair auburn and i was quiet and kept to myself. i also wouldn't let her parents bully me into attending church with them so i guess that's where the satanic bit came from. my dad raised me to be wary of religion and church was just way too boring when there was fun to be had playing outside!

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

The first time I went to church, my first thought was, "Wow, these people are all dead." A strange thought, I thought, but now I understand what I meant.

I was called a Satanist because I was studying psychology and comparative religion at the time and apparently if you study things other than Christianity, you're a Satanist :P