they have leukemia. wishing them positivity and well being.

it is drizzly outside.

looks like up in dallas they had snow the other day.

it is pretty cold out..

last year we lost roky erikson, and in september we lost daniel johnston. two people who lived largely in part in austin, texas.

austin is a good place to live. looking forward to sxsw which i will give my report of here(stay tuned).

i do not really go to shows much these days. i saw a really good black angels show, and a flaming lips show. mercury rev and holy wave too. good music.

it was at levitation fest (formerly austin psych fest).

i like that stuff.

video games wise i have been stuck in the game legend of zelda breath of the wild. i have been playing super mario bros 3 again. great game. super mario bros 2 and super mario world are games i like.

i like the aesthetic of hyper light drifter, great game

another really good video game is spelunky.

i like bernie sanders. hopefully he gets elected.

everyone i grew up around is conservative. here in austin everyone is very liberal. from my time in finland i would say i am a proponent of social democracy.

i am not one of those guys who is super anti-sjw if you know what i mean. i feel like people who think the left is all maniacs take limited information about extremists.

if somebody identifies as female or what have you, i find it disrespectful to the person to not address them properly, as in how they would prefer to identify. i do not identify as lbgtq but i feel like some people are just wired a certain way.

marijuana should not be illegal. the us jails too many people. psychedelic drugs should be decriminalized and legal for therapeutic use. some people benefit from microdosing, for example many people in computer science who use psychedelics in small doses to large doses to help with their programming.

lsd for example, is very useful. it is also highly potent, leading to it being quite commonplace today in some circles, namely artists, musicians, and college students. a 100 microgram dose is enough to bring about psychedelic visuals, deep intoxication, and giggling laughter for 8 hours at its plateau.

if taken too often, it can be a really negative experience. i do not take lsd anymore but for a few years of my life i was taking it a lot. now i do not even like the stuff anymore.

lsd is fine but can sometimes be sold as one thing while being something else. dangerous analogues such as 25i-nbome can be sold as acid.. there is an adage that goes back at least 10-20 years: “if it’s a bitter it’s a spitter!”

overall i think drugs are good only if you never really take them. your mind should not be altered all the time every day. this is why i generally avoid cannabis.

it sure makes music interesting.

pot makes me anxious and paranoid around people, why i rarely if ever use it.

alcohol is fine if you stick to no more than 3 beers at a time. it is rather poisonous.

drug laws are too harsh, and make no sense. if alcohol is so legal why is marijuana not?.

the following is an excerpt from the clothier quarterly, derry, maine, from 1906:

“that’s it” harry said as he threaded the eye of a needle. harry mchemmerschmidt was very wealthy, the wealthiest clothier in all of hargensplargen, maine. he made clothes for the wealthiest aristocrats in all of the northeast us.

harry was particularly addicted to laudanum. a liqeur based extract of opium, full of morphine, very popular in the late 19th century seamstress and clothier world. hargensplargen had a drug store just two blocks away from harry’s shop. in the last year his addiction really picked up. sometimes he would accidentally get needle stuck in his fingers, while nodding off. mr.mchemmerschmidt was very sad and used the laudanum as a form of mood balancer. though it often ended up with him vomiting and passing out in a puddle of his own vomit.

he started having visions, of a religious nature. he told reporters in 1897 “the lord appeared before me with great plans of setting to restore his nation upon the earth. i was born in the lord’s promised land to his people, maine. i was to sew together a garment only worthy of our god.” he set to work. he started using cocaine to stay awake for hours, and to counter off the humours curing, somnelent effects of his heavy laudanum use. he stitched together a 40 foot by 20 foot suit, the largest suit ever made east of the mississippi.

he waited four long years for the lord to come out and try on this ornately adorned suit. when this did not happen by 1901, he would get intoxicated and proclaim from a soapbox, “there is no god! god does not exist!” to further get his point across, he climbed up the town’s church, affixed with a large metal rod, in the middle of a thunderstorm. he sewed together a flag that had on it his idea that god had cheated him and made him look like a fool so he shouted from the top of the church “this is a church made of lies” in a slurred, intoxicated tone.

there was a bright flash as he said this, and lightning had struck the spire of which he was precariously perched and leaning on. He was electrocuted and fell to his death. church attendance has since been on the rise in his hometown of hargensplargen maine. they bought his suit and scrapped it for linens. this is why hargensplargen maine now puts up thieves and aduterers onto the church spire’s lightning rod to this day, for god to judge them. even the governor of maine came for the spectacle in a highly covered visit in 1904. this author will mention how later that year, the governor was found to be having multiple affairs with women in bangor, boston, and even as far as burlington.

the moral of the story is do not climb onto the roof of a church in the middle of a thunderstorm. the hysteria of harbengarben, maine is at full steam, according to this author. they have made the churches spire twice as high with donation plate collections.