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just a few of the things i was thankful for today (in no particular order):

• i have a pretty fuckin' cool family who looks out for me
• Native Americans
• we're not at war - yet
• i still have some friends, even though some of them aren't very friendly lately
• all the people on LJ who list me as a friend :)
• my summer fling (*sigh*)
• the end of my summer fling (*whew!*)
• getting to be with Ria, and hanging out together again after so long
• i have outlets for expressing myself in sound, vision, and text
• i have learned an awful lot about the world
• i have learned an awful lot about myself
• i'm a much better person today than i have ever been
• i'm finally really actually getting in shape AND IT'S WORKING :D
• i've managed to build up my CD library to way past where it was at before when it got stoled
• i'm smoking less and less and less and less and less
• mistressxenobia and tyrsalvia, two of my favourite people on the 'net who i desperately hope to see IRL sometime
• astralweeks, who is astonishing
• nancianna, who was my best friend, even if only for a little while
• Fred and Lisa
• sweet and fair Melissa in San Diego, whom i love and admire and cherish and adore tremendously, and who i am convinced is a bodhisattva
• Tony D.
• Jessie and Mike
• Travis and Eirit
• Tricia
• Cat (*sigh*) and Seth
• my journal started as nothing a little over a year ago, and has turned into a sort of experiment with honesty and openness and Truth and, well... letting it all hang out, more or less. thus have i opened up more here at this URL than i ever have in my life. i feel much more confident in myself, too, even if i've had to make an ass out of myself at times.
• life hasn't killed me yet!

thanks for William S. Burroughs, Sr., R.I.P.

A Thanksgiving Prayer
by William S. Burroughs

For John Dillinger, in the hope that he is still alive.
(Thanksgiving Day, November 28th 1986)

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.
Thanks for the American dream, To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Thanks for the KKK.
For nigger-killin' lawmen, feelin' their notches.
For decent church-goin' women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.
Thanks for "Kill a Queer for Christ" stickers.
Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.
Thanks for a country where nobody's allowed to mind their own business.
Thanks for a nation of finks.
Yes, thanks for all the memories-- all right let's see your arms!
You always were a headache and you always were a bore.
Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

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ohboyohboyohboy i'm gettin' there... got all the graphics finished for 46 technothrope.com's phpNuke themes!! now i'm tweaking the hell out of the HTML. i've actually still got 3 themes to translate (just tiny bits) into English, and yet another folder of 37 themes that need to get a little "extra" tweakage (which i may not be technically capable of in some extreme cases, we'll see... i'll give it my best shot anyway). so all in all, i'll have nearly 100 skins available for the fucker!

when i'm done with the HTML for the 46, i'll have to go through and configure everything. since i'll be uploading the SQL file anyway, i figure i'll just go ahead and get some content going locally before i actually upload the thing.

seriously, you really need to see some of these graphics. the only real WORK i had to do was stripping the logo off of crazy backgrounds and replacing them with my own. you'll soon see what a fuckin' MASTER i am. i made 'em look PERFECT! most of them, however, were painfully easy. but those ones that had text over top of graphics were a bitch. i actually had to go pixel-by-pixel in some spots. i'm so glad it turned out so good. i mean really, really good, too.

plus, i'm getting really familiar with the basic theme structure... and you know what that means. i'll get my own themes built once i've got the back 40 tilled and stuff.

hell, i may even upload it all tonight, if i'm feelin' squirrelly. i just really want to show off my handiwork.

i will definitely need some contributors... but not just yet. go ahead and get some stuff together if you want to get some articles up. the name of the game is web design + development. there will also likely be an off-topic section as well, considering my 99 other interests. one of which btw is etymology (just so ya know) (yes, i do read and collect dictionaries and thesaurii) (not that that has a god damned thing to do with anything) (just want you to know how impossibly smart i is) (it doesn't hurt to have some brains on the other end from that sweet fine ass o' mine) (hee hee haw) (are my parenthetics buggin' yew? i don't mean to BUG ya).

right.

technothrope.com coming soon to a meat-thing near you. will post actual link when ready.

wait til you see this shit.