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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
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DO YOU BELIEVE IN GHOSTS
You're not alone.
South Carolina is reportedly one of those most HAUNTED places on earth.
Me? I'm a skeptic.
Most so-called "evidence" of the paranormal can be easily debunked.
I WANT PROOF!
I'm looking for people in the Columbia/Lexington area that are interested in starting a part-time paranormal research group.
The goal of this group would be to investigate haunted places seeking scientific evidence of paranormal activity.
If you are interested, please contact me.
Serious inquiries only, please.
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I PRESS FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Why the age restriction?
I am younger than 21, but am interested in doing research.
I too am extremely skeptical of such claims.
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HIS REPLY:
Clint,
It's not really about age, it's about maturity.
About six months ago, I ran a similar ad and the only responses I recieved were from teenage girls. I'm a 34 year old married man (with a daughter of my own). Most paranormal investigations require late night hours.
"Excuse me, Ma'am. Can your 14 year old daughter come spend the night with me in some old house out in the middle of nowhere? We'll be... uh... looking for ghosts and stuff."
It just doesn't work.
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Friday, October 20th, 2006
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The time went by really slowly, but finally the moment arrived and they were ready to open the hatch. Mike and Misha called me closer and told me to take a good whiff because this would be the first time I would smell “SPACE.”
They said it is a very unique smell. As they pulled the hatch open on the Soyuz side, I smelled “SPACE.” It was strange… kind of like burned almond cookie. I said to them, “It smells like cooking” and they both looked at me like I was crazy and exclaimed:”Cooking!”
I said, “Yes… sort of like something is burning… I don’t know it is hard to explain…”
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"Zuma the sea lion has no bias between Carolina and Clemson. The 16-year-old male sea lion seems to like all South Carolina football the same. Around Columbia, Zuma has become a local celebrity for predicting who will win the USC football game. Last year, he was 70% accurate. This year, Zuma will not only try to predict the USC game winner, but the Clemson game winner as well. So far this season, Zuma’s record for picking the correct winner of the USC game is 3-1. He hasn’t been as lucky with Clemson, with a record of 2-2.
To watch Zuma pick the winner of the football games, come down to Riverbanks Zoo and Garden the Monday before the big game. It’s always fun to see who Zuma picks! If you can’t make it out to the zoo, Zuma’s USC picks are broadcast on WLTX every Tuesday on Gamecock Extra at 7 pm and Clemson’s picks are broadcast on Friday evening. Zuma’s picks are also on the web! Visit www.wltx.com or www.riverbanks.org to see a video of his past choices."
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
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"If we build our demonstrations in ways that make us steadily less disposed and less able to do this kind of outreach to new people, we are on a downhill track. Suppose, for example, that we are on a major campus like the football-focused one in State College, Pennsylvania that I recently spoke at. If our core campus movement of a hundred activists is so constructed and oriented that we spend almost all our time relating to one another socially and politically, to people very like ourselves, and almost none of our time going into sports bars and fraternities/sororities and all the other campus venues where 40,000 other students congregate, then no matter how insightful and courageous and committed we may be, how are we going to build a majority project? Of course it takes great courage, commitment, and knowledge to become radical on such a campus. Of course it is exemplary to make sacrifices in order to work for and go to demonstrations miles and miles away, whether in Quebec or Washington DC. But there is another step necessary in movement building and it also takes courage and is also exemplary. We need to become adept at going into those local sports bars or fraternity/sororities, or neighborhood social clubs, or religious centers and starting a conversation, over and over, with the people we need to win over to our movement."
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I want to write about how most everyone I talk to seems to hate Columbia specifically and/or South Carolina in General. People are the essence of a city. If you define your city as shitty, do you include yourself in the population of said shitty city? or are you so elite and non-shitty that you remove yourself from the population and exist in a somewhat less shitty place undefined on a map perhaps just a concept in the brain? Please tell me what makes this plot of land so unworthy of your presence? The people, the buildings, the ideologies, the antiquity, the lay of the land, the smell of the air? Be more specific in your hatred. Would you be happier in another city? I don't see how you would be. People are really the same everywhere you go, building structure is basically the same, Cities are mostly flat. You are what makes the plot of land shitty. You make no difference in your community. You whine and moan and maybe you make art or read. This makes no difference. You should squeeze the life out of the city. It is very intricate and a thousand other adjectives I will not write.
You could always move away to another city, but I bet soon the new space will indeed become shitty. If happiness isn't working out for you, maybe happiness shouldn't be your main goal in life. It should be something else. You define it. You can enter another reality, namely one where you forget you exist and end up fucking fat chicks, by using a combination of drugs. This is an attempt to run away, but are you really escaping or just running around in a circle? I'm going to stop now, but I have plenty more on my mind so stay tuned.
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Monday, August 29th, 2005
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boy, those russian sailors really did look like russian sailors.
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| Time: | 1:40 am. |
| Mood: |  thoughtful. |
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Today I said "au revoir" to my alcohol addiction therapist, Richard Cole. He's an intellectual "sac de douche" and despite this minor character flaw, I respect the man a tremendous amount. He's taught me some pretty valid stuff. I was supposed to give him a 20 year plan for my life, but we ended up talking about religion the whole time. I was relieved because I don't have a 20 year plan for my life. He asked me how I felt about religious matters and I told him I was an atheist. There was noticeable hesitation and weakness on my part. He started off talking about the origins of life and likened religion to "a wall that catches the light from a projector." the light being projected is composed of the myths and perceptions of a higher being throughout history. He explained the real meaning behind the myths of Noah's ark and Adam & Eve and Atlas. I didn't comprehend at first, but as he harped on and on and drew models of a "soul atom" I began to synthesize all the information. He told me not having an open mind on matters of spirituality would turn my life to shit. He contends that all religions are fundamentally the same. He posed the question "are you the container that holds the light or are you the light that is inside the container?" apparently this is an idea far eastern in origin that Jesus heard about through his father, the carpenter, possibly through Buddhist pilgrims?
MORE ON THIS LATER
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i have a newfound interest in plants, flowers and trees. i really couldn't tell you why. maybe because it's one of the only hobbies i can afford right now. very soon i'm going to excavate the backyard and plant some oddities like giant vegetables and nightbloomers. hopefully they'll takeover the entire backyard and i'll never have to cut the grass again. i'm also going to start a worm farm in an old porcelain bath tub.
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
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| Time: | 7:15 pm. |
| Mood: | ready to go out. | | Music: | nightwish. |
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01. Reply with your name and I will write something I like about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie/icon reminds me of you.
03. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, I'll tell you what it would be.
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. Put this in your journal.
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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| Time: | 10:07 pm. |
| Music: | TRS-80 - Formula '71. |
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pushing shopping carts in the hot sun and cleaning menstrual blood off toilets and being constantly yelled at by jaba the hut really makes you ponder life. i'm so tired of this routine. i struggle to get out of bed in the morning and dread going to school, and then after school i'm headed to work where i receive a measly $5.15 an hour. i make around $70 per week if i work 20 hours. i spend $30+ on gas every week. $5 here and there for food really adds up. i'm left with nothing by the end of the week. something has to change. i had a meeting with my guidance counselor today, who is also my sister in-law, and revised my senior schedule so i could graduate early. that will make things easier on everyone. my mom will sell the house, move to tennessee, and i'll be on my own. as for college, i'll probably end up going to USC. i would love to one day make a career out of researching/writing/speaking on foreign policy . we'll see.
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2005
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Thursday, April 14th, 2005
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| Time: | 1:10 am. |
| Music: | dead meadow - let it all pass. |
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i'm $500 in the hole and i have to go through an alcohol diversion program.
in the process, i will learn to love the sour taste i get when i kiss pig ass.
i still have my license though! which means i can still go see one of my favorite people!
it's weird the things people think and what happens when they think those certain things.
a person thought i hated their guts and so they stopped contacting me and i took that as
them hating my guts and so i ceased my efforts to communicate with them. but we both found out
that none of that was true and so now everything is good news! this person really and truly accepts
me for who i am. i even told them the story of how salt-n-pepa used to be favorite group and they
still love me.
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2005
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when you dress like a cowboy people love you by default. you get free hotel rooms, free beer, free weed, free xanax, coke & shrooms cost money.
you meet people like "gucci", decked out in the ultra suave purple gucci suit. he pulls knives out on people and shit. when a deal goes bad he cuts their balls off with a bowie knife and puts em in a mason jar filled with mineral spirits and gives the jar back to the amputee. he's always nervous because he's on the run from the cops. so nervous that if you don't have a window in the room, he doesn't enter. you meet girls who own a $7.5 million house. dad sells coke and
lab grown shrooms. you meet girls from your hometown, you shit in their hotel bathroom, you leave. i gotta stop writing because i have the urge to hurl.
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Thursday, March 17th, 2005
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| Time: | 10:31 pm. |
| Music: | cex. |
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yes i am drinking on a school night
on the porch that belongs to an old girlfriend
talking about things that needed to be talked about
we are both happy now
to have issues resolved
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