How Soccer Explains the World (Foer)
Link: http://www.amazon.com/How-Soccer-Explain...6959&sr=1-1

Nope. Not the the good people who published Eerie, Creepy, and Vampirella in the 60s, 70s and 80s, but their downscale competitors. Fass, the publisher of the Eerie imprint eventually had a falling out with his partner Sam Harris. Harris would eventually purchase Vampirella and other Warren assets in 1984.

Cinema Sewer 3- Robin Bougie

The Frankie's Sputino: Kitchen Companion and Cooking Manual

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hassid Roots - Deborah Feldman

"The End of Money" by David Wolman. Interesting look at the history of money and the move to a "cashless" society.

I am way ahead. I'm already cashless.

Get thee to Fort McMurray young man.

The woman to dude ratio is lacking there.

There's black gold in dem thar hills. Six months of hard work & no pussy and you'd have a bankroll that could buy you a harem in Russia or Thailand.

Brandon's friends have already told him all about Thailand.

The all STDs available flatrate should be killer.

There's blacks in dem thar hills too. Somalians have hit town. They are a fucking scourge in any community they invade.

"No one seems to know why" they are killed. You fucking liberal pussies. They are known as notorious turncoats when it comes to the business of crime.

Jeebus! I had no idea things were that bad back in the old country. When I left for good about ten years ago, it was pretty much motorcycle enthusiasts and native gangs committing all the murder and mayhem.

I read an article about the Somalis caught up in Alberta's drug trade, and it sounds like the poor dumb fuckers are being slaughtered by the Hells Angels.

I have no friends.

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I read an article about the Somalis caught up in Alberta's drug trade, and it sounds like the poor dumb fuckers are being slaughtered by the Hells Angels."

Total bullshit. 81 has not wanted any kind of war after Quebec. They are killing one another because they are fucking animals. They poison any environment they inhabit. At least the viets, lebs etc. had the decency to hold down jobs and assimilate. Listen to the vid again. 70% employment rate? In my 24 years in the biz, not one somalian has ever applied for a job.

There has been extensive coverage of this in the media. I'm shocked the news report in the above link didn't comment that the murders in northern Alberta are mostly drug related. People think there is easy money to be made off the drug trade to oil workers with lots of disposable income. Turns out that the people who already have that turf don't like to share it with interlopers.

Apologies if I came off sounding trollish. I suspect we're more of the same mind on immigration than my comment might have let on. I find it faster to read something than to watch something, so I googled "somalia alberta" and read a Toronto Star article about the murders in Alberta. Yeah, I know it leans left, and stupid left at that.

I've traveled enough to know that not everybody shares the same values, and if you drop a bunch of kids who have spent most of their life lolling around, kicking a soccer ball, chewing khat, and getting whatever work they find through family connections back in the old country, it ain't going to be a recipe for success in their new country, regardless of whether they are up against themselves or the Hell Angels.

Last time I was back in Canada, waiting on a visa application, I was sitting around with a bunch of co-workers, one of whom had brought her Serbian boyfriend. I enjoyed talking with him, but you could tell the women in the table were getting uncomfortable.

On the one hand, they liked how "multi-kultural" the scene was, but on the other hand "Dimitar" had some opinions that weren't very progressive. I thought it was funny that they never thought of the potential consequences 10 or 20 years down the road. What if "Dimitar" and his buddies think there are too many people running around in hijabs or Sanjay and Mohammed bring their feud that goes back 500 + years with them? Not exactly a recipe for social cohesion, no?

My old neighbourhood in Seattle (basically Highway 99 from SeaTac down to Normandy Park, I think...prime Green River Killer hunting grounds) is just swamped with Somalis. The last time I was there was maybe 5 years ago and you couldn't kick a soccer ball without hitting one. They are a physically beautiful people...think that model David Bowie is married to. And the coldest, deepest eyes you've ever seen. But it's like nassim said, they come from a place very different from the 1st World. I think we expect folks to come here from the 7th Level of Hades and just hop onto the American Dream carnival ride. With skill sets that just are not adaptable.

That said, the Germans, the Irish, the Scotch, the Italians and any number of foreigners have been coming here for years and have adapted. Mostly because up until the last 50 or so years they've been expected to assimilate. With all cultures being equally valid and diversity being the coin of the realm, such is not the case today. To the detriment of everyone.

I don't think the hippy dippy diversity line would be so bad, in fact, I think it would be good, if we were skimming off the cream of the crop from places like India, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil, Chile, South Africa etc. It would help diffuse any tensions or sore feelings that inevitably result while everybody adapts to the new mix. But if it's open to everyone, and we're taking in both Abdi and Sanjay without thinking about who has a better skill set first, it's a naive, and ultimately toxic way of looking at things.

There were drugs in Fort Mac long before the Somalians hit town, just like there were drugs in my hometown. The media can try to blow smoke up our asses with the 'poor, displaced immigrants from a war torn land' bullshit all they want. We have welcomed people from all kinds of hell holes and they aren't committing violence like this. Even other refugees from that part of the world (Eritrea, Ethiopa) do everything in their power not to be associated with them. Yeah , yeah they need more after school programs and soccer fields....

http://winnipeg.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100122/wpg_gang_100122/20100122?hub=WinnipegHome

They need to go swimming wearing cement shoes.

I'm reading the new issue of SKEPTIC, specifically a great piece debunking all the 9/11 controlled demolition foolishness.
http://www.skeptic.com/
Paging Germy Steal.....

I've been meaning to check out 2600 Magazine: The Hacker Quarterly, and just downloaded it on my Kindle Fire.

And this really nice collection arrived from Amazon this morning:





Noticed that the most current issue of Skeptic has a story on scientology, and if you are a fan of Penn & Tellers: Bullshit or God Is Not Great, I can't say enough good things about Bare Faced Messiah.

http://www.amazon.com/Bare-Faced-Messiah...3246&sr=1-1

thanks. ill have to grab that.

They also usually brought some kind of work skills, and they came from a similar western Judeo-Christian culture. Wop thanksgiving meant a bowl of pasta with the turkey. German thanksgiving meant a bowl of sauerkrout with the turkey. Somali thanksgiving is cutting of your sister's clit with a dull knife while chewing some khat. Making matters worse are our own home grown spooks like Tritone who probably has himself convinced that allowing Africa to flush its toilet on the US was good thing. Blacks like Tritone think Africa is some kind of romanticized dream world and that bringing that trash to the US will allow people like him to experience some kind of connection to the past. Tritone has more in common with Jigaloo than those African savages. They'd cut his balls and them while he watches.

The skill set they're bringing is that of either a slave or a mercenary.

Don't forget the lucrative market in Khat!

this is random but dark related,a month or two ago on nightline they went to an elementary school and asked a black kid what his favorite food was that the school served,he crosses his eyes and smiles as he exclaims"UMMM Chicken!!!"

The Forever War (Dexter Filkins)

Just cracked the new Shermer book.

BTW the Helix autobiography was obviously self published; haha sooooooooooo many egregious spelling errors. It has a lot in common with the movie FUBAR as well.

The Veganomicon

[link]http://www.theppk.com/books/veganomicon-the-ultimate-vegan-cookbook/[/link]

Over 250 of our favoritest vegan recipes with absolutely no “soy cheese” this or “store bought veggie burgers” that. Many of the recipes were written for every day meals, in hopes that you won’t even need to look at the recipe after making it a few times. The kind of chow you can whip up any night of the week with your pantry staples and some seasonal produce. But you can also trust it when you’re looking for an extravagant spread to impress, say, your inlaws, or the mayor of your town when she stops by.

During the course of developing recipes we kept coming back to this phrase: Recipes you wish you’d grown up with. These aren’t necessarily restaurant masterpieces, although we bet many of the recipes will rival that of the $26 entree at many vegan eateries. It’s real and honest home cooking, with a splash of panache that only two food obsessed chicks could arrive at. These recipes were not born from airy-fairy, spotless brushed stainless steel made for TV kitchens. The recipes that await you in the deepest, darkest inner sanctum of this book were created by two women who cook, live and eat in real, urban kitchens. This is food made while chatting with significant-others, gossiping with friends and shooing nosy pets off the counter-tops. In other words, this is kind of food you make and eat while life happens.

How the hell is any entree at a vegan eatery worth more than $15, let alone $10?!? Do they stuff the tofu with steak and lobster?!?

Just like any other food genre, one can charge whatever they want for food. Most vegan restaurants I know, even the high end ones, charge $15 for entrees. I'd say that's average for any mid-price restaurant. I'm guessing if a vegan place charges $26, it's for the ambiance.

Even raw restaurants which are typically more $$$$ than vegan due to cost of food (organic produce, nuts...remember grains; ie, rice, wheat, etc are not raw food) plus labor- dehydrating and sprouting can take nearly a day to make.* But we're talking just a few more dollars higher on the menu. Even at a FANCY raw restaurant like Cru (Los Angeles), $20 seems to be the highest. And that's unusually high as well.

In a nutshell: Vegan places are usually same price as other places.

*Raw is way easier and cheaper at home once you get the hang of it. My friend's great with the advanced stuff requiring dehyrdator, soaking nuts, sprouting, soaking nuts AND she has a family! Me, I'm a single gal, but I'm lazy. I'm sticking to soups, dips, juices, garnishes I can make in my Vitamix5200 for now. And trust me, that still adds A LOT to my daily raw intake.

Just finished American Gangbang: A Love Story by Sam Benjamin (jondra).

http://www.amazon.com/American-Gangbang-...4341&sr=8-1

Fun read. He's pretty stereotypically nebbish and guilt ridden, but there's a certain honesty to the whole thing. I'm curious which site he shot content for. It was all IR stuff, so I'm sure Cocksucker would know.

That was a good read. The arc was pretty interesting - from noob with alt-porn leanings to jaded Internet pornographer in almost no time flat.

Not sure, but I remember seeing his youtube channel years back. Oh, and Brandon weighs in on the Amazon reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Gangbang-...nDateDescending

Where does he weigh in? I thought was funny, or sad that Benjamin wanted to make alt-porn but was fapping to Slap Happy.

according to the book he's a big BI fan. Or was.

Sam Benjamin is a cool guy. He shot for blacksonblondes and other sites, too. The Malibu place was rumoured to rent for $10,000 per month. No one minded the drive out there along PCH. Good times!

$10,000 was what he said in the book.

Right. I remember him telling me that in person, too. It was this amazing villa up a hill in Malibu. Great ocean view. I wonder who lives there now.

Poor Folk and Other Stories (Dostoyevsky)

Nice job, Brandon. I see you're taking the advice to heart. I just wanted to compliment you here in public so you got the immediate reward you need.

Just finished reading this book. Its all good.

Who the fuck has a hyphenated first name followed by not one, but two middle initials? I can see either/or but not both. That's more self-importance than even I've been accused of.

^^^ A guy who graduated from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Wow. This means that CUNY's doing better than anyone thought. Way to go, Alex.

Why? How so?

On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

Are you really just now getting to that?

Better late than never. He had shit to say. Seriously.

Have you read any Hunter S. Thompson yet? If not, that should be next starting with "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

Fear and Loathing is saying the opposite of On the Road. The best Keroauc I've read is Big Sur.