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When You Wish Upon A Star

Joe Lopez — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:22:26 +0000

When the end comes and that last bit of oxygen evacuates from my lungs, vacant eyes will stare off into infinity and I will wish that I had…

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Blessed Are The Hypocrites…

Joe Lopez — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:20:41 +0000

I’m so incredibly tired of politics. On the one hand, I wish I wasn’t; it’s important to keep a hand in selecting who runs the country. However, it’s get tiring watching the endless parade of what I like to politely call “shitheels and charlatans” screeching from their obscene pulpits about how they know what’s best for us.

You know what’s best for us?
Probably not you, you power-grabbing bastards.

Don’t sit there and tell me this country needs to return to its “christian roots” when you turn, “Love one another as I have loved you” into bigotry and intolerance. Don’t sit there and dandle “hope and change” in front of me and then give me neither.

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” Bertrand Russell

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Starting the Last Year Ever.

Joe Lopez — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:09:52 +0000

It’s been over a year since I decided to put anything here. Not for any lack of things to say but I think mostly because I just felt what I had to say wasn’t that terribly important.

And really, who’s listening?

However now, this year seemed a little different. I’m generally not one to fall for hype or superstition but I started thinking about it: what if… what if all this Aztec stuff is true and the world comes to a very abrupt end on the Winter Solstice of this year. It certainly is a curious mental exercise to put one’s self through.

Still, what if?

What if all that we have ever known as life is just suddenly blasted out of existence, pulverized into dust, scattered on solar winds. No one left to weep or mourn or even say, “Hey, remember that time humanity got drunk and put a lampshade on its head?”

No one left to remember.
If nothing else, I want to remember. At least for a little while.

I want to remember this year. What might be tantamount to making a New Year’s resolution, I’m going to try to write a little something every morning – just to remember. Most likely, the solstice this year will come and go like it does every year; all of us buzzing about in our self-important little existences bundling up and buying presents or what not.

But just in case…

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Ten Lists to End 2010: Day Ten: One confession

Joe Lopez — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:32:49 +0000

Day ten- Well, it’s only taken me a lifetime to come to this conclusion.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

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I’m not a very good human being

Ten Lists to End 2010: Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.

Joe Lopez — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:27:27 +0000

Day nine – just two?

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

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Ten Lists to End 2010: Day Eight: Three turn ons.

Joe Lopez — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:08:00 +0000

Day eight – Well, since I have to narrow it down to three, I’ll just go with these.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn-ons.
Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

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Geekiness.
Red hair.
Thigh-highs.

Ten Lists to End 2010: Day Seven: Four turn offs.

Joe Lopez — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:02:39 +0000

Day seven- I think these are all pretty self-explanatory.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever).
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

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Stupidity
Materialism
Chemical dependency
Close-mindedness

Ten Lists to End 2010: Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever).

Joe Lopez — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:47:11 +0000

Day six – I’ve excluded children and parents. I think those are givens and also cop-out answers. So, here’s the list provided without order or explanation.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever).
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

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Susan
Dawn
Hector
Becca
Jenny

Ten Lists to End 2010: Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.

Joe Lopez — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:44:31 +0000

Day five – I think the title says it all.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

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Married Mrs Lopez v1.0
Done so poorly in high school
Sold myself short so ofter.
Left Yuma.
Lied to myself for so many years
Learned how to say, “don’t go.”

Ten Lists to End 2010: Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot

Joe Lopez — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:18:15 +0000

Day four – hot on the heels of Day Three. I’m getting caught up. And now, it’s time to explore those curious angled corners that my mind travels to.

Day One: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now
Day Two: Nine things about yourself.
Day Three: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day Four: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day Five: Six things you wish you’d never done.
Day Six: Five people who mean a lot (in no order whatsoever)
Day Seven: Four turn offs.
Day Eight: Three turn ons.
Day Nine: Two smileys that describe your life right now.
Day Ten: One confession

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Man’s vain attempts to make sense of the infinite.
Why are people so stupid?
Hey! That would make a good title.
Do I really have to watch this?
Squirrel!
Is she really going out with him?
I really should be writing.