Because sometimes things just happen when you least expect it.
Meet Goldbird, who came as a late birthday present less than a month after Goldberg the Steelix (formerly Onix) came into my life. Makes all those years of wanting another shiny Pokemon worth it!

PS. Tell [shadow of darkness] to suck it!

In a perfect world.

In a perfect world.

I have a suggestion.

When you're having a good day, and you're by yourself... You're feeling thoughtful ... Introspective... Maybe even vulnerable. You do something calming... Meditation, have a drink.. Think about yourself, your feelings, in particular. Your fantasies, your more... base desires...

Watch Natural Born Killers. It should give you a lot to think about .

We are a living absolute
Stuck in an anguished innocence
This moment loved, I greet the sun
Then wake from a war I could have won

"Well in your arms"
I'll keep this memory to me
This kitchen floor won't revere all
The things I felt for you...Oh.

Please!
Level with me, Understand,
I'd do anything for you!
Seize
Any moment while you care
This void's coming after you!

'Cause loneliness is why you heard.
Just don't kill the messenger?


The dust will dance against my breath
The world awakened, slowly dressed
A life, unanswered in the light
With questions scattered through the night...

And now my heart feels heavy,
The weight will drag me down.
You were the only reason
They'd find me here, tonight

Please!
Level with me, Understand
I'd do anything for you!
Seize
Any moment while you care
This void's coming after you!

'Cause loneliness is why you heard,
Just don't kill the messenger?

This is Goldberg. To all my fellow Pokemon gamers out there, you know that Goldberg is a magical gift from God. Goldberg is a symbol of infinite justice and love, the karma for years of loyal fandom, and is the joy of my life and very soul.

To you people who don't play Pokemon, this is just a "shiny" Onix. The only thing that differentiates him from any other Pokemon, or any other Onix, is his gold coloration, and the neat little sparkle animation he makes when I send him into battle.

Why is Goldberg so special?

Shiny Pokemon have a 1 in 8,192 chance to spawn. You can play the game for a thousand hours and never see one.
I am a geek. I have played various iterations of Pokemon for over 3,000 hours. I have probably battled or encountered over 100,000 wild Pokemon. I have only seen six shiny Pokemon in my entire lifetime. I have only successfully caught three, including Goldberg here. The last one I saw was five years ago. I failed to catch it. Ten years ago, I caught a shiny Pokemon in a game I long since lost/sold. I don't remember.

This is a big deal. I'm so happy.

I cannot express in words how much AT&T Uverse cable sucks infinite dick. It is so, so, so, so inferior to Comcast (or cox, depending on your area.) I get fucking nothing on demand. All I watch is ondemand. There is less than ten percent of the movies Comcast had on demand. There is less than 4% of the TV shows on demand. The internet is faster, but big woop! I can't even watch decent movies on Netflix because

NETFLIX SUCKS FUCKING DICK NOW TOO

Man, Phil, dude... Way to be a statistic, *sigh* R.I.P.

I hate-- everything I am
Becoming
This change is torture.
There is never enough to give,
Only plenty to take...
And this I wage:

When the ground parts from below,
Will it feel so?
How can I gain from another
When the other goes?

this Hand,
this Hurt,
my Heart...
I'll flirt with disaster!
Just know now
That the deal is off!

"I'll be no good," this time defines!
I'll put my touch
Around the grip of this knife.
These dirty hands
Just won't come clean!

I'm a Murderer,
The worst these worlds will see.


Mercy--Please leave her just a little
Bit longer,
She's all my world.
My love, I apologize
With that, you will see the end of days,
Just rest assured.

They won't let her go--and
I remain so
Alone-- to work out a clever
Way to get her home!

I Will
Do What
I Must.
I'll flirt with disaster!
Just know now 
That you're out of luck!

"I'll be no good," this time defines!
I'll put my touch
Around the grip of this knife.
These dirty hands
Just won't come clean!

I'm a Murderer,
The worst these worlds will see.

Oh, save me from defeat again
This is war
Murder the love so close!
While she rusts, you curse,
"DIE, my darling!"

If only you'd known
Just how lovely you glow
In the Flame of Error!

Yea, I ask too much...
Please turn back the clock--
And take me instead!!!

"How have you
Come to lose
The only thing,
The other 1 to your 2?"

I've become the wrong one
In everyone's dream

Please burn me now, God...

"I'll be no good," this time defines!
I'll put my touch
Around the grip of this knife.
These dirty hands
Just won't come clean!

I'm a Murderer,
The worst these worlds will see.

Oh, save me from defeat again
This is war
Murder the love you hold!
While she rusts, you curse,
"DIE, my darling!"

"I won't let go," this mind opines!
I must sever, with the edge of this knife.
These dirty hands could pull me free,

I'm a Murderer,
Of your bitter memory.

Oh, save me from defeat again!
Don't let me think of her again.

I got an orthodontic spacer put in today as step one of my dental work so I can stop looking like a star of the book The Great Book of British Smiles from that one episode of The Simpsons. You know, that one that can get the little jingle
"Dental Plan, Lisa needs Braces!"
stuck in your head for weeks.

Anyway, after feeling like I had stuffed a rabid badger stuffed in my cheek all day, I finally took a close look at this torture device in the mirror.

WHY IN THE FLYING FUCK IS THE PART OF IT THAT TOUCHES MY CHEEK AT ALL TIMES IN THE PRECISE, EXACT SHAPE AS A FUCKING FISH HOOK? AND ALMOST AS SHARP??????

WHY?

Somebody was talking about a youtube video about "where America would be now if Romney was president," and they read a comment saying we would me MUCH better off if Romney was president. Here was my response.

who ever said that comment is an idiot. And not just for the "divided" comment. We are in a bad recession because of a pro-war, anti-regulation president. The rich pay less taxes now than they did in the 1950s. We have a larger defense budget for our nation than the next thirteen largest national defense budgets COMBINED.

We have no regulation on our banking practices, and no consequences for fraudulent banking. The minimum wage has NOT gone up with inflation, and our lower middle class workers and poor workers are making less money than they have made in comparison for DECADES.

And when the politicians decided they need to save money? where did they go to TAKE that money?
They take it from the schools
the elderly
the children
public outreach programs
programs that feed and aid the poorest of the poor
and where have the politicians given MORE money?
The richest couple thousand people who live in this country, at the expence of the tens of millions of poor

SO when someone thinks Mitt Romney, a man who LITERALLY made his fortune collapsing companies and firing thousands of people, could be better suited for the job? They are STUPID AS ALL HELL GET OUT.

Obama is a scumbag. Obama is coming for your freedoms, and not your redneck gun freedoms. HE's coming for your right to free speech. He's coming for your right to a fair trial. He's coming for your rights to not be subject to unlawful search and seizure. His drone warfare programs have killed thousands of civilians in the middle east and he's lied about every last bit of that. Drones have killed over 1,000 innocent children, and more poor, impoverished muslims in yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria take up arms under terrorist organizations, against the UNited States EVERY DAY.

But would we be better off with Romney?
HELL NO.

Believe
When you lie
You will never need to recognize yourself,
To deceive--To remove all chance of doubt
And be received:
With your Lie

The Deception is complete--When you
Concede
And decide
To Release your life,
Sacrificed to

ME
Pennance can't absolve your sin.
Into ME
Pennance can't absolve your sin.
All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin.
All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin.

Believe
When you lie
You will never need to recognize the source
Of deceit--To renew your faith in God,
You must Believe
In your lie

The redemption is complete--When you
Conceive
And Decline
To reject your life
Sacrificed to

ME
Pennance can't absolve your sin.
Into ME
Pennance can't absolve your sin.
All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin.
All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin.

Reap your life
Like you want to
Recognize
All you've come to

Reap your life
Veiled in shadow!
Recognize
Faces of the
Crucified
I can hear their screams
Tonight
Ever haunting me...

Burn your lie

Into ME
Pennance can't absolve your sin.
Into ME
Pennance can't absolve your sin.
All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin.
All your belief
Cannot absolve your sin.

Great peril awaits us
Beyond the Black River
Summoned by the beating of drums

Our number is few
Our errand is dire!
We do what must be done.

At the bidding of the high priest
The tribes gather for war!
Evil sorcery is unleashed
Upon the opposite shore!


Make your stand with the Great Hound
The frontier is lost!
Black waters lie before you
Together you cross...

Take heart!
Do not fear!!!
When you know
Your Death nears!


We shall build you a cairn...
Beyond the Black River
Where no one will disturb your rest

There you shall lay
In your helm, and in your harness
Your Sword across your breast.


Now take a quick moment!
To answer this question
As the ferry-- approaches the shore

Will you have the coin?
To pay for your passage
Or the courage?
To take up the oar!

Metaphor,
For a missing woman:
Pull me in
to your perfect circle

One wound,
One chain,
One resolve
Liberate this will
To release us both

Gotta Cut away...
Clear away...
Snip away... all sign of this
Umbilical residue
Keeping me from killing you

and from pulling you down with me, here
I can almost hear you scream...

Give me
One more medicated, peaceful moment!
Give me
One more medicated peaceful moment!

Now I don't wanna feel this
Overwhelming
Hostility!
I don't wanna feel this
Overwhelming
Hostility!

Gotta Cut away
Clear away!
Snip away, in spite of this
Umbilical residue!

Gotta
Cut away!
Clear away!
Snip away inside of this
Umbilical residue
That's keeping me from killing you!

for Kai.


"Keep me with the beat..."

Some people seem to think they always know what's best for you,
Their little minds try to create a world to keep you still!
The bolt is thrown, the cage is locked!
You saw this, don't you lie.
At first you cry, and then you hate,
Those people stole your will!

Do as you are told!
And maybe then we'll let you out!
You might be dead and cold,
You might be full of doubt.
Don't try to escape!
Cuz you don't have nowhere to go.
If nothing is your fate,
There's no scenario

No, nothing.

Do you call my name?
Do you stain my brain?
My eyes are blurry, and I can't see you anymore!
Do you call my name?
Do you breed my pain?
My heart is bloody, and I can't take it anymore.

So you just sit there, stuck, afraid, to risk reality.
Afraid to cause yourself more pain, to face insanity!
But nothing ventured, nothing gained!
You see, your fear is your cage.
You beg for help but you're alone,
Stuck in a helpless rage!

Do as you are told!
And maybe then we'll let you out!
You might be dead and cold,
You might be full of doubt.
Don't try to escape!
Cuz you don't have nowhere to go.
If nothing is your fate,
There's no scenario...

"It's me!
I see...
Please...
LET ME OUT, I'M PETRIFIED!"

Do as you are told,
And maybe THEN we'll let you out.
You might be dead and cold,
You might be full of doubt!

So, Don't try to escape!
Cuz you don't have nowhere to go!
If nothing is your fate,
There's no scenario.

Come on!

Do you call my name?
Do you stain my brain?
My eyes are blurry, and I can't see you anymore.
Do you call my name?
Do you breed my pain?
My heart is bloody, and I can't take it anymore!

Do you call my name?
Now call my name
Do you stain my brain?
Now stain my brain
My eye's are blurry, and I can't see you anymore!

Do you call my name?
Now call my name
Do you breed my pain?
Now breed my pain
My heart is bloody, and I can't take it anymore,
Anymore!

There's something wrong with my phone, it's at least temporarily broken. ANd I've had kinda a crises tonight. I apoligise for being unavailable, and I'l catch up with you all either tonight or tomorrow.

Oh,
You think they had it all?
While you were left with nothing?
No, oh!
You've taken a fall!
For them to walk all over...

You've made your bed
So soft, and comforting
These dreams await--
One great "Good morning!"

We've made our beds
To lie in them proud,
Proud of our great mistakes!
This warring knife
The flash of this blade
Turn about face!

I implore you, Brother,
Don't walk away
Don't walk away from me!
This is our War...

My brain doesn't do priorities. Ugh.

"If I said it won't hurt, well, then I'd be lying."

"You had all them on your side, didn't you?
Didn't you?
You believed in all your lies, didn't you?
Didn't you?"

The Ruiner's got a lot to prove, he's got nothing to lose and now
He made you believe!
The Ruiner's your only friend? Well he's the living end to the
Cattle he deceives!
The raping of the innocent, you know the Ruiner ruins
Everything he sees!
Now the only pure thing left in my fucking world
Is wearing his DISEASE!

How'd you get so big?
How'd you get so strong?
How'd it get so hard??
How did it get so long?

"You had to give them all a sign, didn't you?
Didn't you
You had to covet what was mine, didn't you?
DIDN'T YOU?"

The Ruiner's a collector; he's an infector serving his
Shit to his flies!
Maybe there will come a day when those you keep around will
Suddenly realize!
Maybe it's a part of me you took to a place I
Hoped it would never go!
And maybe that fucked me up much more
Than you'll ever KNOW!

How'd you get so big?
How'd you get so strong?
How did it get so hard??
How'd it get so long?

And what you gave to me!
My perfect ring of scars
You know I can see?
What you really are.


You didn't hurt me, nothing can hurt me,
You didn't hurt me,
Nothing can stop me now.
You didn't hurt me, nothing can hurt me,
You didn't hurt me,
Nothing can stop me now.
You didn't hurt me, nothing can hurt me,
You didn't hurt me, nothing can hurt me,
Nothing can make this stop