At least you have your health...

It seems at some point, stop-smoking television campaigns made a shift in approach, which I assume means this new direction will have a bigger effect on people. I'm bothered by this new direction. At some point stop-smoking ads talked about the health risks, long painful battles with cancer, dangerous effects on children who inhale second-hand smoke, and so on. But the latest commercials are focusing on...WRINKLES. "You should stop smoking because it will make you appear older." While this is certainly true, and I don't want society to promote the fear of death, it seems distressing that we've given up on appealing to people's common sense. Now the ads are appealing to the vanity of smokers. The idea that someone would be more likely to quit smoking due to the threat of wrinkles than cancer is just...creepy.

Nostalgie de la Boue

You beg yourself not to do something, constantly...pleading...and then it happens anyway. Words fly out of your mouth and you hate yourself for it.

Of all the few movies that make me want to collapse on the floor heaving great sobs, 'A Walk To Remember' gets to me the most...which seems silly, since the star is Mandy Moore...the pop singer...but the story really is touching. The kind of movie that makes you think "I'd be ok with dying a 18 if I could spend a year with that kind of love."

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I've heard of expirements where scientists hook up a piece of food of some sort to some wires and whatnot, and when the labrat bites into it, they receive a shock. After one or two shocks, the rat would learn not to bite into that piece of food.

I lack the intelligence of a labrat. It makes me angry.

Ipsissima Verba -- Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico

Seven words could unravel the very fabric of my universe. Nobody knows them but me. Destroy my world. Utter my name and crack my reality wide open.

Hold my hand...


Close your eyes...



Dive with me...