I'm so sorry for not writing in a while. Between having a very depressing Winter, and just being swamped out at work. I've had little free time and little desire. I've also begun to write write... you know with a pen and paper! I know! When was the last time you actually WROTE something and not typed it? But it's something that has been lurking in my mind for years now and I'm just now able to get it out of my head onto paper. I'm hoping that eventually I'll have something I can publish. Yeah, it's something that could be published! I know, 'What could you possibly be writing about that someone would want to read?' Well, I'm not sure if you'd be all that interested in reading it. Actually I think most people won't be interested in reading it at all. I'm hoping that some will. I will let you all know about it soon enough... A year or two (at the most!) God! I can't think of having to work on it more than that. But as a preview/teaser. I want you to think, What if God did exist? What if he was just a Great Scientist and Architect. And all this, all this Universe, was his but one of his greatest equations? =)

Love you all, Ari

I'm sooo over this country... I mean OVER! Christmas is NOT under siege! You bunch of Fasco-Christian Cry-baby Nazis! You don't live in a pure WASP country. So get the fuck over it already!

From Media Matters:

CNN's Dobbs: "Happy Holidays" "exclude[s] everyone who is celebrating Christmas"

Lou Dobbs, host of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, joined up with FOX News anchors and conservative commentators who have alleged that Christmas has been imperiled by Macy's department stores' use of the phrase "Happy Holidays" in its advertising. On the December 15 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, Dobbs claimed that Macy's department stores are "exclud[ing] everyone who is celebrating Christmas" by using the phrase "Happy Holidays." Dobbs then questioned the merit of using "Happy Holidays," asking CNN business correspondent Christine Romans: "[W]hat other holidays are we celebrating right now?" Finally, Dobbs concluded that Macy's is "wrong" in assuming "Happy Holidays" encompasses Christmas.

read more here...

Mr. Dobbs, up until you're recent hop onto the 'Christmas Under Siege' bandwagon, I maintained a certain degree of respect for what seemed to be your level and fair program. However, you've seem to have forgotten that you don't live in a 100% pure christian nation. And notwithstanding the relationship you may have with your friends, there are a great many people who are not christian and are in fact very offended when someone assumes they are and blurts out "Merry Christmas", as opposed to a more inclusive, sensitive, and informed "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holidays". If you wish to get technical about the issue, then perhaps you should advocate to your xenophobic fans that they should keep their Christmas greetings to themselves until the morning of December 25. After all, "what other holidays are they celebrating" on December 20th, or 21st, etc?

Hoping you'll one day find enlightenment... Peace on Earth to all mankind, and Season's Greetings!

This from the Associate Press:

Ohio Justice Throws Out Election Challenge

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court's chief justice on Thursday threw out a challenge to the state's presidential election results on a technicality, ruling that the request improperly challenged two separate election results.

Chief Justice Thomas Moyer ruled that state law does not allow voters to challenge the results of more than one race in a single complaint. The challenge likely could be refiled.

The challenge before Moyer, filed Monday on behalf of 40 voters, included the results of the presidential race and of Moyer's race against a Cleveland municipal judge.

All right fuckers! I'm back! I was down and out, but I've just about had all I can take of the "Wha' happened?!"

Fuck "Wha' happened?!" What about "Wha' Happening?!" Here's something for you to choke on:

Over this past weekend, a fancy-ass market on Manhattan's lower west side decided that it had just about enough of what the rest of us call Free Speech. Seems they didn't like a certain little painting.

(Now mind you the little painting in question depicted our Leader as a collage of little monkeys swimming in a marsh.)

So some schmuck manager at the market (Chelsea Market, mind you) saw the painting (AFTER the installation... why didn't the fucks look at things BEFORE they went up?) and flipped out. They then closed down the little showing. Read more.

Now our country's only been a fascist dictatorship for a few years, but I'm pretty sure this type of activity is still called censorship!

Well I don't know about you, but I thought this type of 'patriotism' only happened in Oklahoma City, or some other backwater retardopolises. (sidenote: umm... isn't the plural form of "metropolis" "metropolii"? and not "metropolises"? And if not, whaddafuck!?) But apparently red is the new black at the Chelsea Market.

So I think it's about fucking time we did something. Contact them, and tell them you're not going to shop at their dumb fucking stores ever again! And let them know why! Here's my letter:

Please pass this along to your management...

I am writing about the censorship of Christopher Savido's painting, Bush Monkeys while it was being exhibited in the market. I could not be more disturbed and disgusted by this action. Your market is located on the lower west side of Manhattan; not Memphis, not Raleigh, not Salt Lake City, nor some backwater town. A VAST majority of your patrons believe that freedom of speech and expression is a sacred and fundamental right that should be honored and respected. I will no longer shop at your establishment, and will encourage my friends and associates to do the same. Your organization should be ashamed of its actions and you owe not only the artist an apology but you owe one to New Yorkers as well.

Sincerely,
Ari Reyes

I would like to advise you that you have lost a faithful customer due to your decision to close the Animal Magazine art exhibit because of the Bush Monkeys piece. Do you not know where you are? Do you not know the people who are you customers? We are New Yorkers, we are not easily offended and if this piece of work is something that you feel is possibly too offensive then I shudder to think what you would think is not. Would you not have had the mind to view the works before they were displayed? By your decision you have shown yourself to be really nothing more than money-hungry opportunists projecting an imagine that has now been proven to be nothing more than a hollow facade. We NYers are living in a time when we are the island of what many consider the last basin of sanity, and though that certainly does not mean anything goes, it does mean that our time-honoured tradition of respecting, even encouraging, differing view points is not only strong and thriving, but should be encouraged. If this is your way of respecting your customers than I suggest you hang a 'Wal-Mart' sign on your door and lower your prices - perhaps then you will get the customers you so seem to crave.