Here are the Top 10 least religious countries in the world:

1. Sweden (up to 85% non-believer, atheist, agnostic)
2. Vietnam
3. Denmark
4. Norway
5. Japan
6. Czech Republic
7. Finland
8. France
9. South Korea
10. Estonia (up to 49% non-believer, atheist, agnostic)

The one that surprised me was Israel, ranking 19th, with up to 37% claiming to be non-believer, atheist, agnostic. Compare that with the United States, ranking 44th, with 3-9% non-believers, atheists, agnostics.

The survey concluded that “high levels of organic atheism are strongly correlated with high levels of societal health, such as low homicide rates, low poverty rates, low infant mortality rates, and low illiteracy rates, as well as high levels of educational attainment, per capita income, and gender equality. Most nations characterized by high degrees of individual and societal security have the highest rates of organic atheism, and conversely, nations characterized by low degrees of individual and societal security have the lowest rates of organic atheism. In some societies, particularly Europe, atheism is growing. However, throughout much of the world — particularly nations with high birth rates — atheism is barely discernable.”

Mungkin semua orang tahu, Google si raja search engine dunia. Selain mesin pencarinya itu, ada banyak produk lainnya. Sebut saja Gmail, Talks, Docs, Reader, Earth, Map, Picasa, banyak lagi yang lainnya, termasuk Google Chrome OS yang bakal diluncurkan tahun depan.

Tapi coba lihat yang ini:

Wakwakwakwak…

Apa Google sekarang sudah semakin jauh melakukan ekspansi bisnis sampai-sampai sekarang juga mengeluarkan produk keperluan rumah tangga berupa tisu toilet? Wkkk…

Yang pasti tisu itu bukan produknya Google search engine, tapi sebuah merek tisu buatan Vietnam sana. Kalau mau tahu arti tulisan di bawah merk “Google” itu:

Thật dai, mềm mại, mịn màng

Độ hút cao, luôn vì bạn !

Katanya sih artinya:

Sangat kuat, sangat lembut, sangat halus

Berdaya serap tinggi, selalu buat anda!

Pertarungan Soal Merk

Kelihatannya merk ini nggak akan bertahan lama, karena Google (search engine) bakalan melakukan klaim soal merk itu, dan kalo menang, tisu itu bakal ganti merk. Tapi kalo Google search engine yang kalah di pengadilan soal trade mark “Google” itu (seperti kasus McCurry di Malaysia yang menang melawan MacDonald’s), wah… gimana ya…?

Bakal banyak yang diganti tuh alamat internet!

Luôn vì bạn !

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Ieri sera a casa di amici ho rivisto per l’ennesima volta il film Forrest Gump , io lo considero talmente speciale da meritare una rivisitazione . Faccio prima una premessa : io credo che  la filmografia statunitense ( Hollywood) è una filmografia di stato , controllata fin nei minimi dettagli dalla United States Information Agency (USIA) , un agenzia federale pubblica nell’esistenza ma segreta nell’operatività ( come la CIA) istituita nel 1953 allo scopo di creare nel pubblico internazionale una precisa ancorché falsa immagine degli USA. L’agenzia non si occupa solo di Hollywood ora conta sui 30.000 dipendenti e ha sede al 301 IV South West Street di Washington. Ma veniamo al nostro Forrest Gump. È un film inquietante e pericoloso , perchè non solo oltremodo carico di propaganda politica e culturale , ma anche costruito con tecniche subliminali sopraffine e atte ad arrecare danni significativi. Racconta la singolare vita di un americano di Nome forrest Gump ,semiritardato e , da bambino poliomielitico, cui capita di avere contatti sia pure fugaci con molti grandi personaggi e di partecipare ad eventi storici nodali del suo tempo. In pratica una carrellata di 30 anni di storia americana , diciamo dal 1955 al 1985, dandone senza farci accorgere una valutazione precisa. Il film è del 1994 lo conoscono tutti per cui evito di dilungarmi nella trama. Ecco allora gli elementi di propaganda intenzionale che sono presenti nel film.

1)Forrest è descritto come gli USA vorrebbero che il mondo credesse l’americano tipico : forse poco intelligente ma onesto e ben intenzionato , candido sino all’ingenuità ; uno che se fa del male lo fa per stupidità o per eccesso di zelo ( tipo i bombardamenti”intelligenti” o le due bombe atomiche sul Giappone o le oltre cento guerre dichiarate ai vari paesi di tutte le latitudini, da quando questo paese e nato……..loro sono cosi per nulla cattivi solo un po’ bamboccioni) E’ propaganda culturale , perché l’americano tipico è l’opposto : astuto , cinico e malintenzionato , e quando fa il male — pur ridendo , come in genere — sa di farlo. Serve perché gli americani amano fare gli sprovveduti per non “pagare il dazio” . Dopo aver compiuto una delle nefandezze varie, mettiamo un colpo di stato o una strage di civili ( esempi ce ne sarebbero a iosa) sono dispostissimi a d attribuirli al loro “zelo anticomunista” forse eccessivo; a “informazioni sbagliate o incomplete” ; a “bombe intelligenti” delle quali con falsa ritrosia ammettono qualche volta i difetti: ma anche a pura e semplice dabbenaggine . Tutto pur di non dire “ABBIAMO SOVVERTITO , UCCISO perché COSI AVEVAMO PROGRAMMATO. Non dico che non esistono americani come Forrest del film. Esistono in verità , e si possono prendere a modello per un film. Frank Capra lo ha fatto molte volte . Ma averne inserito uno come protagonista di un film come questo non può non che essere una scelta precisa e maliziosa.

2)Attraverso l’abile montaggio di filmati d’epoca vediamo Forrest in contatto con i presidenti Kennedy,Johnson e Nixon . Ci sono più strati di falsità. Questi episodi sono presentati come incontri di un uomo comune con il potere incarnato , e cosi si dice implicitamente che i presidenti americani comandano.

3) I presidenti americani invece non contano proprio niente. Il potere negli USA è detenuto dall’establishment imprenditoriale , in particolare dalle multinazionali , e il presidente, è solo un impiegato incaricato di fare i loro precisi interessi nel mondo, il che è la definizione di sempre della politica estera americana. Gli USA in effetti sono UNA DITTATURA IMPRENDITORIALE . Dire o suggerire che i presidenti americani comandano è pura propaganda. Quindi si presentano i tre presidenti secondo i soliti cliché ; Kennedy idealista, democratico,benintenzionato;Jhonson populista , democratico ,benintenzionato;Nixon disonesto ,poco democratico male intenzionato ( e perciò sarebbe stato allontanato dalla carica,e cioè licenziato). Tutto falso erano dei presidenti americani e perciò erano tutti uguali , tutti dediti a fare gli interessi all’estero dell’establishment , con i soliti metodi spietati .kennedy fece uccidere Ngo Din Diem ; tentò di fare altrettanto con Castro ( per venti volte secondo quest’ultimo) ; diede impulso alla sovversione in Indocina ; fece preparare l’orrendo programma –quadro di manipolazione pscicologica di massa che fu chiamato in suo onore Camelot ( come i media americani chiamavano Kennedy, perché era nobile e senza macchia come un cavaliere della tavola rotonda ; il programma per chi non lo sapesse , THE QUARTER MAN che fu usato dalla CIA per il colpo di stato in Cile del 1973 faceva parte di Camelot) Johnson fece mettere in scena l’incidente del golfo del Tonchino e poi iniziò i bombardamenti di civili in indocina che alla fine tirate le somme , avrebbero provocato 6 milioni di morti . Nixon era come loro , appena un po’ meno simpatico , e fu licenziato solo perché aveva sancito la sconfitta nella guerra del Vietnam.

4) La sensazione della democraticità del sistema americano pervade tutto il film. Lo fa in maniera indiretta , dandola per talmente scontata da non meritare evidenziazioni . Come si è detto , gli USA non sono affatto una democrazia . Sono un sistema totalitario , che si regge sull’esclusione del voto di più della meta della popolazione e sulla repressione del dissenso . Sopra l’ho chiamata una dittatura dell’imprenditoriato , e questo è. Dire o suggerire che sono una democrazia è propaganda

5) Durante una manifestazione hippies e di neri a Washington un uomo un po’ anziano e in divisa stacca goffamente la spina del megafono dell’oratore di turno. E’ una inserzione di propaganda sublimale: suggerisce che gli eventuali boicottaggi alle manifestazioni progressiste degli anni 60 –dei pacifisti , dei figli dei fiori ,dei neri-furono dovute ad iniziative estemporanee e personali di singoli benpensanti , sia pure magari appartenenti a qualche corpo statale o federale. Abbiamo invece avuto modo di vedere a proposito del movimento dei diritti civili dei neri che si trattò di ben altro, che si trattò di una repressione ufficiale , e violentissima benché surrettizia , ordinata dal Congresso.

5) Nel film i movimenti degli hippies pacifisti o dei neri per i diritti civili sono potentemente diffamati . I loro happenings sono tutti disordine , ubriacatezza, droga e intemperanze sessuali. Non è certo la parte “buona” dell’america. La parte buona è evidenziata da Forrest , che casualmente capita in una di queste manifestazioni vestito in alta uniforme (è in licenza dal Vietnam , dove faceva il suo dovere ;mantiene la divisa perché — ci suggerisce la regia –ne è orgoglioso) . Viene proposto un party delle pantere nere ,cui partecipa Jenny l’amata di Forrest : alcol, droga e tutto il resto .Un giovane presentato come comunista , segretario di cellula ,picchia Jenny senza apparente motivo: si sa come sono i comunisti .La salva Forrest , nella sua divisa . Non sono opinioni del regista o dei produttori ; è propaganda dell’USIA.

6) Nel 1978 l’USIA ha stabilito con molta precisione come Hollywood deve rappresentare la guerra del Vietnam , sia dal punto di vista politico che tecnico-militare. Politicamente va detto , o dato per sottointeso , ch egli Usa intervennero per difendere il sud dalla minaccia comunista. Dal punto di vista militare non andavano assolutamente mostrati i bombardamenti di civili e tutta la guerra andava ridotta a una guerriglia nella foresta , con piccole pattuglie americane che si difendevano dai da proditori attacchi di elementi non in divisa .Panzane naturalmente, propaganda. Gli usa intervennero per assicurare a tutte le loro multinazionali le risorse del paese e dell’Indocina tutta ; interessavano particolarmente le foreste di alberi della gomma buoni per fare i pneumatici . I bombardamenti di civili erano quotidiani , e cosi fu per anni . E la guerra fu una classica guerra moderna, risolta non dai guerrieri Vietcong ma dalle artiglierie , e dalle divisioni corazzate, meccanizzate e di fanteria dell’esercito regolare del Vietnam del nord . E’ importante invece far credere che si sia trattato unicamente di guerriglia : si giustifica in qualche modo l’esito del conflitto .Invece ammettere una guerra regolare rivelerebbe una verità che gli usa vogliono tenere nascosta , la congenita e stupefacente debolezza delle loro forze di terra , che non sono in grado di battere nessun avversario , praticamente( nel 1968 , l’anno dell’offensiva del Tet , quando i carri armati del Vietnam del nord giunsero a Saigon , 540,000 equipaggiattissimi soldati americani appartenenti a 51 divisioni,appoggiati da una potentissima aviazione e serviti da 850.000 ascari Sudvietnamiti , avevano a che fare con il seguente avversario : 87400 regolari nord-vietnamiti ripartiti in 10 divisioni , 56000 Vietcong , altri 69000 guerriglieri sciolti , e 50800 elementi non combattenti addetti ai trasporti ,sanità propaganda e cosi via) Forrest va alla guerra in Vietnam e le sue vicende concordano con la versione USIA , COME è PER TUTTI GLI ALTRI FILM di Hollywood ,è ovvio . Non si parla dei motivi della guerra, ma se ci fosse stato qualcosa di losco l’intelligente e democratico tenete Dan lo avrebbe detto no? Quindi il combattimento a cui partecipa Forrest e tipico di quanto prescritto dall’Usia : la sua pattuglia cade in un’imboscata .Di carri armati Nordvietnamiti che avanzano in file serrate e di carri armati americani abbandonati dagli equipaggi in fuga non c’è traccia.

7)A parte come un cammeo va trattata una scena di Forrest in Vietnam. In una sequenza di pochi secondi si vede la pattuglia di F avanzare in perlustrazione col fucili spianato in una risaia , fra i contadini sud vietnamiti che rimangono chini a lavorare tranquilli sulle loro piantine , come se niente fosse .E’ una scena subliminale. Trasmette un messaggio preciso: che i contadini sud vietnamiti in generale –si fidavano degli americani , li consideravano amici e alleati. Una falsità; i sud vietnamiti , e i contadini in particolare , erano terrorizzati dai soldati usa . Basti ricordare l’episodio di May Lai , dove nel novembre 1968 la compagnia Charlie sterminò tutti gli abitanti perché nei pressi erano attivi guerrieri ; le vittime furono 500 , ed erano donne e bambini perché gli uomini erano a pesca. Esiste un filmato di tale operazione , girato da uno dei soldati .Da notare che Hollywood non ha mai tratto un film da tale episodio , che pur si presterebbe.

Analoga la scena in cui il reduce tenente Dan presenta la nuova moglie a F: nel doppiaggio italiano è definita una latino americana, ma ha i tratti somatici indocinesi , addirittura vietnamiti ( messaggio subliminale: i vietnamiti non ci tengono rancore , perchè non gli abbiamo fatto nulla di male) Nell’originale inglese la donna è definita “vietnamita”e cosi è il doppiaggio nei paesi meno evoluti.

9)Una sottile propaganda culturale è propinata da F podista .F corre a piedi per gli States senza mai dire nulla .La gente pensa che abbia qualche messaggio da comunicare e diversi giovani cominciano a trotterellargli dietro in attesa . Dopo tre anni e due mesi F si ferma ed i giovani pendono dalle sue labbra, ma lui dice “sono un pò stanchino”. penso che tornerò a casa . E’ una irrisione per coloro che attendono qualcosa dai pensatori , dagli ideologi , da tutti quelli che non ritengono soddisfacente il sistema americano e continuano a cercare. Per l’ USIA il sistema usa è perfetto e chi spera di trovare alternative è un illuso.

10) Nel film c’è un chiaro elogio al capitalismo americano . Dopo il Vietnam Forrest e il tenente Dan, uno semiritardato e l’altro senza gambe, diventano miliardari con la Budda Shrimp Company .Messaggio subliminale : sono due meritevoli e il sistema — che è giusto —- immancabilmente li premia , sia pure dopo averli fatti penare un po’. Si fa di più .Si suggerisce infatti — sempre per via sublimale – che è Dio stesso a guidare tale sistema : provoca una tempesta che elimina la flotta peschereccia della concorrenza. E’ l’dea fondamentale del Calvinismo , la religione americana : Dio fa arricchire i meritevoli , o gli insondabili prediletti , e manda a ramengo gli altri. Segue un po’ di propaganda subliminale della Apple Computers :Forrest e Dan si arricchiscono ulteriormente investendo in azioni di questa multinazionale , che diventa veicolo di positività e quindi positiva essa stessa. Diventati capitalisti consolidati i due fanno beneficenza : elargiscono donazioni alla parrocchia protestante locale, soccorrono finanziariamente la madre dell’amico nero Budda morto in Vietnam , e fondono un ospedale a Bayoula , il paesino dei pescatori di gamberetti rovinati dalla tempesta divina. .Nella vicenda è contenuta ( in via subliminale) una diffamazione dei neri : i pescatori di Bayoula ( paesino della Luisiana sul delta del Missisippi) sono tutti neri e sempre stati in miseria, ma ecco , arrivano due bianchi a fare il loro mestiere e diventano miliardari.

11) Forrest ha una vita punteggiata da contatti personali, benché fugaci con grandi personaggi pubblici : conosce Elvis Presley (cui addirittura ispira le tipiche movenze) ; incontra i presidenti J.F.K,L Jhonson e R.Nixon ( e ne innesca la caduta) partecipa casualmente ad una intervista televisiva di J. Lennon ; assiste all’attentato del governatore Wallace. Occorre in qualche modo rendere verosimile tale sequela di eventi pubblici e si ricorre ad altri strumenti sotterranei , che riguardano accettabili concatenazioni di eventi sul piano privato e predispongono ad accettare anche quello a livello pubblico . Il filo conduttore sono gli arti inferiori del corpo umano .Forrest bambino guarisce dalla poliomielite e diventa valido maratoneta .In Vietnam il tenente Dan lo ammonisce come prima cosa a tenere i piedi asciutti ( le risaie) Lo stesso tenente perde proprio le gambe .Il collegamento con la sfera pubblica avviene con il governatore Wallace , rimasto paralizzato nell’attentato , e su una sedia a rotelle , come il tenente Dan. Il tenete alla fine cammina con delle protesi che richiamano gli apparecchi portati da Forrest bambino.

12) Ma questa la lascio trovare a voi………vi do giusto un suggerimento. Andate a vedere la biografia di una certa Jean Seberg ( attrice assai nota negli usa ma anche in Europa ) e confrontatela con la figura di Jenny Curran l’amata di Forrest e vi stupirete delle analogie tra le due……………………

Molti lettori Italiani potranno obiettare di non aver mai sentito parlare della Seberg.Può darsi, ma altri si

Ci sono paesi poi dove la vicenda ebbe un eco maggiore che in Italia , inducendo strascichi più lunghi nella memoria .In Francia ad esempio e senz’altro negli USA. Non tutti i critici cinematografici europei inoltre sono come quelli italiani , o come Paolo Limiti odoratore di Hollywood e delle sue bionde star del passato ben si guarda dal citare anche minimamente la vicenda “ Seberg” .Povera Jean Seberg .Le diffamazioni dell’FBI la uccisero .Ora anche le diffamazioni di Hollywood pesano sulla sua tomba.

Giusto per solleticare la vostra curiosità fate qualche ricerca sul programma : COINTELPRO, oppure su qualche nome del tipo Huey Newton, Abbie Hoffaman, Bobby Seale, Holly Maddox o sul quel “ buon uomo” di Robert Maheu e della sua passione per certi filmetti pornografici ( ne sa qualcosa , sua malgrado il compianto M.L.King) e se non bastasse il “buon uomo” si ripete anche nei confronti del presidente dell’indonesia Sukarno e della cantante Eartha Kitt. Ma si sa …è tutto roba fatta in buonafede e che diamine !!

Socialist Republic of VIETNAM

stamp: 3000 đong

year: 1991

amphibian: frog – Hyla aurea

Last month, Amy Morison, the editor of Live Hoi An magazine, sent me an article from a freelancer named Clint Lambert on the resurgence of surfing in Vietnam on the stretch of the Central Coast in Danang nicknamed China Beach by American G.I.s during the war. The article, which we picked up, mostly focused on the efforts of Aussie expat Dave Spencer and the newly formed Danang Surf Club to jump start the surf scene, but also touched on the Vietnam Veterans Longboard Society (VVLS), a group of surfers and veterans that formed after the release of Between the Lines, a documentary that follows the lives of two surfers: one who went to war and another who dodged the draft and took refuge on the beaches of Hawaii.

We got some great wartime surf photos from the filmmakers, and Gordon Smith from the VVLS helped us flesh out the story, but unfortunately, neither the photos nor the additional material we developed with Gordon’s help made it past the censor. A shame, because it’s a fascinating story and the photos were fantastic.

Below is a trailer for Between the Lines, in which some of the photos we hoped to run can be seen. Enjoy.

A week before Japayuki and Bebot Angel and I were to fly off and begin the awesomest adventure of all, I had a case of the procrastinitis and left packing the night before the flight. I am not a heavy packer, mind you. I know all my travel needs and know that I don’t need to bring the kitchen sink for a 5-day trip. But since I was beginning to panic, seeing as my bag was still empty save for a couple of carton of cigarettes, I got into git-r-done mode.

I took out all the clothes I could possibly need and laid them out on the bed, the bag by the foot of it. Shirts, shorts, pants, towels, a dress, shoes, socks, underwear, jacket, malong, toiletries, electronic equipment (ie. my crappy point-and-shoot (RIP)), and documents were spread out in their own areas and neatly arranged. I hit the blunt a couple of times and started packing slowly and methodically. I then started taking off my clothes. I kept packing the essentials. I was now down to my underwear. Should I bring denim pants or is that a bad idea altogether? I danced half-nekkid to the rockin’ songs in my head. Oh! I must remember to bring .. heeeyyy .. I still have half a bottle left of wine .. *drinks*

I may or may not have looked like this while I was packing my shit.

This went on for the rest of the night. I slept on the bed, over the clothes I wasn’t planning on bringing, drunk and high. I woke up the next morning, with a slight hangover and a stench in my room. As I stood up to get ready for work, I noticed that my bedroom blinds were wide open. And that they faced a nice family on the 5th floor and a couple of bachelors on the 6th. I just gave my neighbors a bon voyage show. Could this trip get any better? OH HELL YEAH.

To be continued.

Der amerikanische Senator John McCain kritisiert im Interview mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung Barack Obamas Afghanistan-Politik, bzw. konkret: das Ausbleiben der verbindlichen Verkündung einer Truppenerhöhung. So weit, so wenig überraschend. Immerhin war John McCain ein früher Unterstützer der erfolgreichen Truppenerhöhung im Irak und hatte sich bereits während seines Wahlkampfes als Präsidentschaftskandidat der Republikaner 2008 für eine ähnliche Strategie in Afghanistan ausgesprochen.

Interessanter finde ich, wie Vietnamenveteran John McCain auf eine Frage nach der Vergleichbarkeit des Afghanistan- und des Vietnamkrieges reagiert. Nicht ablehnend, was ja denkbar wäre, so beliebig wie dieser Vergleich bisweilen angewendet wird (erst war Afghanistan das neue Vietnam, dann der Irak, jetzt wieder Afghanistan), sondern wie folgt:

Vergleiche mit früheren Kriegen sind immer relevant. Aber Fakt ist doch dies: Als die Nordvietnamesen am Ende in Südvietnam einmarschierten, da gabe es im ganzen Land keine amerikanischen Soldaten mehr. Wir waren längst abgezogen, aber das verschweigt die Linke gern.

Merke: Vietnam wurde an der Heimatfront verloren. Und dort ist man aktuell wohl mit anderen Dingen beschäftigt. Apropos: Der Guardian berichtet aktuell von einer Afghanisierung des Afghanistankrieges.

I had to do something similar to this recently – albeit on a much smaller scale.

I moved into the new flat and once I’d set up the laptop, the additional screen, the internet cable and the speakers, there were cables everywhere. I bunched them all up together and secured them with a twist of wire.

In Hanoi, the telecommunications explosion also means there are wires everywhere. There has been talk of digging up the city and putting them underground but in the meantime – there’s a quick fix.

Place your ladder directly onto wires. Climb up without a safety harness. Loop a rope over the many wires and get your mates at street level to pull down. Tie the bunched up wires together and hope that none have been damaged in the process.

Oh and do it on a weekday. On a busy street. And don’t stop the traffic.

Now that’s cable management.

June 11, 1969.  Camp Evans, Vietnam.

Dear Rita,

It’s noon now and I decided I’d start that long letter I promised you.  Don’t know what I’m going to say to make it long, but…

I’m on sandbagging detail today.  We’re making sure we don’t work too hard though.  We laid three rows of bags all morning (about a half hours job).

Honey, I’m all out of tapes, so if you want to get any more you’ll have to send one first.  I can’t get a hold of any more over here.

I know what you mean about that carnival.  I remember how big it seemed when I was a kid.  Now it’s hard to see why I bothered to go.  Maybe before too many years we’ll be taking our own kids to it.  Then it should be a blast.

I’m glad you finally got your glasses.  I hope they help your eyes so you don’t have any more problems like you did with your old ones.  And I hope you wear them when you’re supposed to.  Don’t forget to send me a picture (négligée picture too!).

I was surprised to hear about Les K. extending over here.  I thought he was in a hurry to get back stateside.  But an early out does look good.  There is talk about a nine-month early out now, and if that goes through I may extend for a month to get it.  But no more than that.

This is six o’clock now.  I’ve heard rumors that we aren’t going to have a work formation tonight, but I don’t know whether or not to believe it.  It’s too good to be true.

I got a letter from you which was mailed before the one I got last night.  It’s the first time that has happened.  Anyway, I’ve got two to answer now.

One question I guess I’d better answer right off is about our food.  Well, I could describe it very vividly, but I won’t.  Suffice to say keeps me alive.  My biggest gripe is the iced tea — I hate iced tea.  And that’s all they have, so I stick to water.  Goes great with the meals.  I think I have lost a little weight, but nothing serious.

Thanks for the Times, and yes I would like to get them regularly.  Any current news is hard to get over here, and Time does a darn good job of presenting it.

That bit about Jeannie & Virgil — I kind of expected it, and I’m real glad.  For awhile I thought it was all over with them.  Wish I could be there for their wedding.

Why bug your mom about getting bulbs for the camera?  Couldn’t you pick some up?  Or is that just an excuse for not taking the picture?  If it is I’ll cut you off — whoops, guess I can’t do that, can I?

A picture of me with my mustache would look just like the same as a picture without one.  It’s too light to show up.  However, I started another one and when it gets long enough I’ll darken it with a grease pencil and have a picture taken, okay?

Well, Reet, it’s 6:30 now and no work formation yet.  So I’m going to take a shower and change close now.  I’m going to put on some civilian clothes! That will be different.  Be back shortly.

Okay, this is shortly.  I didn’t get all dressed up like I was going to because it’s too hot yet, even though it’s raining.  Instead I’m keeping cool by sitting around in my underwear.

I hope it was just a trim job your mom did on your hair.  I know what you call a “trim.”  But that’s another reason I want some pictures.  Got to keep tabs on my wife’s hair.

He said you saw Gene C. — where has he been?  I thought he was over here somewhere, but he couldn’t have completed his year yet.  And if he’s coming over at all he won’t really have too long.  He’s only got about nine months left in the Marines.

You know something Reet?  It’s too bad we didn’t get you pregnant before I came over.  Then he could have the doc say there complications and I could get a 30 day emergency leave.  Maybe that’s not so bright after all — I’d go back just as horny, wouldn’t I?  Oh well, it was a thought.

Seriously, I wish we could have children right away, but I guess there’s plenty of time for that.  First there’s a million things I want to do with just you.  And they start out with just being with you, forever.

I love you Rita.

All My Love,

Jeff

Actors from Britain’s TNT Theater are set to delight Ho Chi Minh City audiences November 26-29 with performances of Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol.”

Actors from Britain’s TNT Theater perform Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Ho Chi Minh City Drama Theater ( Photo: U. Phuong)

The play tells the story of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge who refuses to help anyone despite his or her misfortune. His frozen heart only begins to thaw on Christmas Eve when three ghosts visit him from the past, present and future. 

The drama will be performed at the Ho Chi Minh City Drama Theater in English with Vietnamese subtitles and uses live musical performances to connect with audiences.

The main actor, David Ahmad, lives in London and this is his second tour with TNT Theater.

Directed by Paul Stebblings and produced by Grantly Read Marshall, the play is presented by the local Le Quy Duong Company together with the Arts Performing Department under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The classic drama will be performed November 24 in Binh Dinh Province, and in the central cities of Hue and Da Nang, and capital Hanoi after November 29.

Through this international arts cooperation, the Le Quy Duong Company says it hopes to boost cultural exchange, diversify professional arts for the country and give Vietnamese audiences exposure to world literature and art masterpieces.

Tickets cost between VND150, 000-450,000 ($9-27) and can be purchased from the Ho Chi Minh City Drama Theater, 30 Tran Hung Dao St., District 1. Performances will begin at 20:00.

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So the counselling session was all booked. I was running a bit later than I had wanted but thought it would be ok. One of the reasons I was running late is that I had ducked by a chemist to get some antihistamines for my hayfever. My speed of ducking was not helped by the fact that on the way back to my car my sandal broke. Guess that is what you get for having cheap shoes made in Vietnam!

Anyway, it was a lovely hot day and I had been walking and not drinking enough water. I got in to my car, put the antihistamine in my mouth (wanted to feel a bit more perky for my counselling session), was grappling for my water bottle when I started to feel nauseous. I almost got the bottle of water to my mouth when I managed to vomit over the car. A very inauspicious start to my career counselling. Was nowhere near home to have the time to go home before my counselling session. However, I somehow managed to miss myself completely. Loads of tissues later (knew hayfever preparation had to be good for something) and I was on my way.

Then got caught in a traffic jam. The saving grace to this was that the career counsellor was stuck in the same jam.

The outcome? I actually had a good session and have some clear steps to take forward what I want to do.

The Saigon Times Daily 11/6/2009 2:29:36 PM

HCMC – San Miguel Pure Foods Vietnam Company Limited in the southern province of Binh Duong is cooperating with the Philippines-based SURE Company to install a power generating facility to convert biogas collected from the company’s wastewater reservoirs, said an official of the province’s Department of Planning and Investment.

Le Viet Dung, deputy director of the department, said related agencies of the province had agreed for San Miguel and SURE to invest some US$10 million into the power generation project in a move to help treat wastewater discharged from pig breeding-farms in Lai Hung Village, Ben Cat District.

Dung told the Daily that San Miguel Pure Foods Vietnam and its Filipino partner were completing final procedures to benefit by selling carbon credits from developing this project in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism.

“Electricity generated from biogas will be sold back for San Miguel Pure Foods Vietnam’s production activities, and this project will also help the company limit bad smells into the nearby environment,” Dung said.

In July, local environmental inspectors discovered a broken embankment of a wastewater reservoir of San Miguel Pure Foods Vietnam and some 230,000 cubic meters of wastewater in nearby Ben Suc Spring and Thi Tinh River.

HCMC-based Saigon Agriculture Inc. (Sagri) is investing some US$1 million to install electricity generators using biogas collected at its Phuoc Long pig breeding farm in Pham Van Coi Ward in HCMC’s Cu Chi District.

Bui Ninh Son, manager of Sagri’s Office of Projects Management, told the Daily that the Phuoc Long pig breeding farm was breeding some 17,000 pigs. Wastewater at the farm releases large amounts of biogas every day that could be collected for power generation.

Huynh Kim Tuoc, director of the HCMC Energy Conservation Center, said the city had a potential source of biogas from pig farms in Hoc Mon and Cu Chi which could be collected to produce 50 megawatts.

However, Tuoc told the Daily the city had no overall project to collect biogas for power production.

http://saigonvrg.com.vn/svi/?module=newsdetail&newscode=818

The inimitable and award-winning Burn Magazine is currently featuring a selection of my Orphans of Agent Orange work on its website. It can be seen HERE. Agent Orange/dioxin poisoning is something that has been covered numerous times and by some great photographers, including Julian Abram Wainwright and Justin Mott right here in Hanoi, but in the end, after being here for a while, I decided that I wanted to explore the subject matter as well, as it is such an important aspect of Vietnam’s recent history.

I spent some time talking to the program director of the Friendship Village, where the images were taken, and sitting with the kids and hanging around for a few days before really taking my camera out. I didn’t have any kind of time line or agenda, and I think it really helped to slow down and consider what I was doing there. I don’t do that often enough.

or: I’ll trade you civil liberties circa 1980, for the right to beat your wife circa 1920

or: If Glenn Beck were a decade, which one would he be?

For almost a year now, and even further back possibly, I have been fascinated with politics and punditry. I have become a self-proclaimed politico and I follow politics and media pretty closely, as closely as my tenuous hold on sanity will allow. In following politics my liberal mind has always been perplexed by the conservative party line of ‘returning to traditional American values’ and trying to recapture the ‘lost spirit of what it is to be an American’. In recent months it as been the loud ram’s horn call of Glenn Beck, and his ever growing audacity matched only by his ever growing audience, that has caused me to pontificate further on this subject. For the past few weeks this idea of lost values and traditional American fundamentals has led me to research where we might have gone wrong. Is there a specific time and place, a particular era that the GOP and other right-leaning hard-liners would want us to return to? If I can put my finger on the ethos that these guiding principles existed in, can we get back there? I delve in to this quagmire of American history to try and find “Glenn’s America”, so that he and others can stop preaching in general broad strokes and say, “we need to get back to what we believed in 19XX (or 18XX as it may be).”

When examining the general party ideas of what I understand to be the GOP’s fundamental idealogical structure I take my understanding from some 25 years on this planet, though you can’t count the first 16. I think that until you turn 17 and start trying to find yourself and begin to shape your views and identity in preparation for voting and contributing to society you are more of a blank slate in terms of personal free thought; up until this point you do not question a source but only try to fit in to the general parameters of ‘normal’ life as to not rock the boat and interfere with the indoctrination that American public schools instill in our youth. My true views have been shaped in my most recent years and as such I have adopted a view of the world quite different from my parents’, a direct result of informing myself for the first time in my life. In my home growing up as a small boy liberal leaders and democratic ideals warranted venom and crass, lewd criticism. The views I set forth will be of my own creation, independent of those I was raised on, either despite or in spite of them, I cannot tell. A crazy person isn’t crazy if he knows he’s crazy. Indeed.

The GOP seems to feel that gays should not marry, and are sinful. This makes no sense to me as sinful is a religious idea, not a political one; though it seems one position is quite often the result of the other. Gun rights should be protected at all costs to personal safety and public responsibility. Abortion is a no-no, ‘nuff said. They want smaller government, tax cuts, reform to let states decide things, though not gay marriage rights or any of the other items I just mentioned. They are for fiscal responsibility. GOP feels that a free market should regulate itself, again smaller government. They claim to fight for the middle class but public programs and universal anything is bad, that’s more government. They hate the environment as far as I can tell. Campaign finance reform (yeah right), education in America (no child left behind has gone so well after all). Prayer in school is ok, capital punishment and the death penalty are pretty much thumbs up, and the Ten Commandments should be at the steps of a courthouse flying the confederate flag. I am pretty close on this, right? So, basically it is a small government that has an abridged copy of the constitution, a cliff’s notes of the Bill of Rights, and a bible as it’s guiding principles. Hmmm, ok.

So, in American history, where can we find this utopia we strive for every day? This shangri-la we lost so long ago would obviously be the one saving grace for this country of godless sodomites. If we could only return to this point in time then everything would be fine. As far as I can tell it is the GOP that can save us if you believe the rhetoric. The liberals and the liberal media have scattered us across the nation and we are divided along partisan lines and are all doomed unless we jump on the Republican band wagon like some lifeboat after the Titanic sank. This is what self proclaimed “libertarian” Glenn Beck would like you to believe. I will give him credit for criticizing the government as a whole, even in the Bush days, though not in such inflammatory terms, but in reality he is like a Liber-publican. So, let’s take a step, Glenn, in to the way back machine and start a search for the time in American history you would like us to return to, as well as all of the Republican nay-sayers.

I want to start by saying that I am skipping the nineties completely being that he wasn’t happy with Clinton either, and it is far too close to the 21st century and the liberal progress this country has made; there is no way anyone wants to get back to how we were in the nineties, not even me and I loved my teen years in the nineties. And I am going to come back to the eighties later, they were too soon as well, but I will look at them briefly. We are sending our way back machine to a time when I think this country went bat-shit crazy and we were in maybe the most turmoil as a nation than anyone today can recall. I want to start out in the era that good old Glenn was born in, and that many of our current figure heads today, that make our decisions, can remember very ‘fondly’…the sixties.

Well I start here, in this decade of utter unrest by trying to illustrate that this can’t possibly be the America Glenn wants back. This cannot be the period in American history we want to recapture. This was a time that the late Strom Thurman must have hated with more zeal than any other period in history. It is hard to decide where to start. The sixties started out innocent enough, Kennedy beat Nixon and became the President, what followed was the Bay of Pigs incident, rumors about Marilyn, the meager beginning of Vietnam, the cuban missile crisis, then the man is assassinated. Further Vietnam BS, Malcolm X is killed, the Compton Cafeteria Riots in San Fran, then Nixon and all his Vietnam BS and his ‘secret plan to end the war’, the massive inflation crisis, MLK Jr. is killed, Bobby Kennedy is killed, the Stonewall riots of ’69, oh and a little thing who was named Manson did some killing. Great decade.

The sixties were a time of massive riots in the black and gay communities. Civil rights on all fronts tore the fabric of this country apart from women liberation, blacks, gays, even the Chicano revolution in this country. Outside of that was the acid wave of the sixties, a complete change in television, film, art, and especially music. The counterculture as it came to be known galvanized this country after the death of JFK, I think. The nice, homely manners of the 50’s were gone in a big way and now came very free thinkers, revolutionaries, protests exploded, demonstrations, inflation choked the middle class as they tried to compete with the changes in the landscape. The sixties were an ugly, hate-filled time, the emerging civil rights movement after the death of JFK was really the catalyst for it all. There is no way we want to return to the sixties as a country. America was in a violent turmoil and unsure of it’s identity and where the road we were on was going to lead us and people were strung out or scared for their lives, or both. I don’t think Glenn wants that back, so let’s move on.

How about we take a step forward and find Glenn in the seventies as a small boy, maybe these are the innocent and moral times he wants back…but I doubt it. Well in the seventies music really got good including the first ‘rap’ song, movies got weird, TV got lewd, and the country just got fucked up worse. This country started watching shows like All In The Family and the Brady bunch, dealing with some of the issues of the day. Vietnam choked the first few years while a little thing called Watergate slipped by the news press during Nixon’s re-election campaign and then killed him by ’74. It was the most embarrassing and shocking scandal in American political history, which in my opinion was the death of politics. I think that Nixon and his escalation of the doomed Vietnam war and his scandal killed the American political system. Outside of the US revolution was abundant across the world. Woodstock was a shining beacon of what drugs and music and mud can do for young people, a complete change from how we started the decade on the campus of Kent State where the National Guard gunned down peaceful protestors of the war on a college campus; unthinkable today, one would hope. The draft was the height of outrage, an unbelievable moment when Ali fought the draft and Elvis went in. Protest and anti-war sentiment was as widespread in this country as pant legs were flared. The Cold War ramped up a bit and this country got really scared, really fast. Our involvement in a few revolutions and military coupes as well as an assassination or two was a continuation of poor foreign affairs decisions. The middle east started down the road to where we are today with Israel, Egypt, Syria, the Soviet Union, and Afghanistan, all starting to kick each others asses.

The seventies brought women’s rights to the forefront as the sixties had civil rights for minorities eclipsing women’s rights to some extent. Vietnam ended finally, well our involvement, leaving the North to just wait for us to leave and drop Saigon to it’s knees and claim the country unified again. A sad end to a war we should have not been in and an end that was mostly our fault. Oh and lest I forget the massive recession we were in mixed with oil crises a couple of times resulting in rationing and further middle class stresses that included a very high unemployment rate. Then of course there was Jonestown, about 900 dead there. Idi Amin started his tyrannical, violent rule of Uganda as well. Is this the era we should return to? Hatred, war, violence, and tragedy pock marked this era. The seventies hold within their years scandal, racism, and fear-mongering, of the most epic scale one can imagine. There is no way we want to return to the moral or political views of this era. The seventies were the time for change for sure, but it came at great expense on the heels of a decade of radical change and upheaval. The 70’s continued the massive crime rate spikes that the sixties brought and the country still sat on the edge of it’s seat every day as nothing seemed to get better. Surely we don’t want the seventies back.

Ok, the eighties might be better, the days of Reagan and Bush, this might be the most likely time we want to return to. The eighties would be the most formidable years of Beck’s life; the decade of excess. The eighties brought the yuppie, and with it, all the coke, parties, and BMW’s we could handle. We saw great multinational growth and wall street was glamorous, they were kings then, still total scum, but they had better PR people then. Of course Reagan declared a War on Drugs, the Cold War raged to a massive scale. Sure, communism fell apart as did the Berlin Wall, but we saw the further mishandling of the middle east that is the source of our problems and involvement there today, can’t argue with that. Reagan put a major black eye on his presidency with the discovery of the Iran-Contra debacle that Oliver North was the mastermind behind. This country saw massive economic growth against the backdrop of very complicated and protracted battles all over the world including Asia, the middle east, central and south america, and ever Ireland with ‘the troubles’ brewing. (Only badass Irish would call a modern, religious civil war ‘the troubles’, an understatement to say the least)

The eighties, I think were a time of thinking that we could not be beaten, being the short attention span of Americans forgetting the seventies. We were coked out of our minds, living beyond our means, and we were kicking Commie ass. But the eighties, world wide, were complicated, painful growth, some democratic, but on the whole we saw massive famine and destruction abroad as the industrialized countries were making head way. The middle class of nations was being evaporated as the gap between rich and poor nations grew drastically. Domestic issues were tough though, as it seemed we were trying to use our power for good as a people with things like LiveAid and becoming more aware of issues in Africa and other countries, the eighties saw the rise of the religious right. They really got fired up on the gay issue and the discovery of AIDS, ‘the gay plague’. This country grew in many way, a decent decade I guess, I don’t really remember much of it but it seemed like a lot of people were having a lot of fun, safer fun.

Glenn probably liked the eighties, he used to be a liberal and an alcoholic, he draws a fine parallel between the two in a Katie Couric interview you should look up on YouTube, and this might have been his favorite time. Old enough to enjoy and understand it, he probably had a great time. Conservatives in power, strides made internationally, excess and money everywhere. The eighties were a wild party time, a decade that seemed to be a release of the past twenty years of hard work, growing pains, and controversial conflict. The 60’s and 70’s were going to lead inevitably to a time when we finally just cut loose and took a deep breath after so much bloodshed, upheaval, and serious talk. It was the decade we all remembered fondly on VH1. Music was weird, movies were great, TV was filled with classics we all watched, and standup comedians were making it big; the country was having a good laugh, a bump, and some beer. Not too bad.

I discount the nineties entirely so let’s jump back to a more general era I don’t think we can reasonably go back to, the 50’s to the 30’s. This was another era of massive wars, depression, civil rights injustice, bigotry, no women’s liberation, industrialization, organized crime, et al. These were times when blacks were openly hung from gallows, women were expected to be barefoot and pregnant in front of the stove, except when they were making tanks for the troops overseas for next to nothing wages. A time where minorities were rightfully scared at night of police or white boys out for a joyride. The prohibition, crime in the streets, Bonnie and Clyde, the Tommy gun, the B.A.R., saloons, speakeasy’s, and rampant bank robberies and crooked cops on the beat. This was a different time for this country and I don’t think we can agree with many of the ideals that were held to in this time and apply it today, the role of women alone is too much inequality to bare, let alone the rest.

OK, let’s take a big jump to my favorite era, the old west. You know the times, I’m talking post manifest destiny, pre-FBI. A time of no gun laws, showdowns in the streets, legal prostitutes, and riding in to town on a horse. Tombstone, San Francisco, Indian and cowboys. A time where gold was rushing and crazy white drunks ran amok and contracted TB and polio. Yes, when there were still a few Indians around, you had ranchers with thousands of acres, cattle drives, train robberies, and the men of storied legend lived and died by Winchester, Colt, and Smith&Wesson. I like to think I lived in the times with a town sheriff, shitty beer, floozies, and general martial law over most of the country. A time where you could shoot a man in the street in broad daylight in front of 50 people, and they might actually clap and then go about their day. The good times.

I think this might not be far enough back though. When I hear Glenn speak, he talks about the founding father’s principles. The true foundation of the country as he sees it with the men who earned America through blood, sweat, and tears. Jefferson’s America. OK, well let’s first examine the fact that we are talking late 1700’s and early 1800’s. These are pre-electric, pre-phone times. We are talking Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere, plantations, etc. If this is the time Glenn thinks we need to get back to I want to highlight a couple of things. First off, slavery was alive and well…need I say more? Secondly, this country treated women like shit, there were no civil rights, and it was unindustrialized. This country was populated and run by rich, white land owners, and then there was everybody else. I don’t want anyone to romanticize this era. This country was created, founded, and declared on the bodies of millions of natives and the death and suffering of minority races of people removed from their homes and treated worse than dogs in the time period.

America has never been truly righteous. We revolted for selfish reasons, nothing simpler than that. We turned against the imperialism of the Queen and her rule and declared our independence; the worst “dear John” letter ever. Up to that point we had slaughtered, tricked, infected, raped, and pillaged our way to the Mississippi and thought very highly of white skin and could kill a black man for any reason at any time, or sell them, whatever struck our fancy. What I am about to say is going to piss off the right, but if I could meet George Washington I think I would take the opportunity to shake his hand and then slap the wooden teeth out of his head. These were racist white bigots with an knack for the written word and hard on for ‘freedom’ by their definition as it applied to them as an emerging nation of first class citizens at the top of the shit pile. All due respect, but their ideas and principles were fundamentally offensive and their beliefs of equality were for themselves and those they agreed with. How many minorities or women were running around enjoying their freedom of speech or right to bare arms…or even read? I rest my case.

So maybe Glenn does have a time in mind. Maybe he wants the scandalous, violent 70’s, or the civil unrest and inequality of the 60’s. The old west certainly had smaller/non-existent national government, and the 40’s sure were good times to be a gangster, Nixon would have done well, that’s for sure. The eighties surely had the best coke, and some unprecedented growth, outside of post-industrialized America (without all of these pesky labor laws we got). Maybe he wants the great depression era, maybe to live amongst the greatest generation, or rub elbows with white men who raped their slaves on their plantation as a matter of principle and patriotism. The history of America is short, embarrassing, and seemingly without a lesson learned throughout. Glenn, I dare you and your constituents to point out that shining beacon in American history that is so much better than now, ‘cause I must have missed it. All those moments have led up to now, and I’ll be damned if where we are isn’t a hell of a lot better than where we were; you can pry this progress from my cold dead hands, pal.

Skönthetstävlingar är mycket populära i Vietnam. Som ett kvitto på engagemanget finns det för ändamålet en nationell lag som reglerar hur de ska genomföras. Det händer att deltagare som känner sej förfördelade i efterhand klagar på utgången. Men en tävling följs hela tiden av en annan. I veckor har media följt en internationell historia, Mrs World, som i år avgjordes i Vung Tàu i den södra delen av landet. Fruar från ett 70-tal länder, Sverige och Danmark inräknade, har vallats runt mellan Pagodor och Tempel med fotografer hack i häl. Finalen avgjordes på bästa TV-tid. Under total intransparens, nådde fruarna Vietnam, USA och Ryssland den avgörande slutomgången. Där skulle var och en av de tre berätta varför just de var värda att vinna och representera(?) alla världens fruar. Här tändes en gnista i det annars solkiga programmet. Fru Vietnam Hoàng Thi Yén, som med sina 33 år och sju års äktenskap torde vara en av de mest erfarna i sällskapet, sa att hon ville göra upp med samhällssynen att kvinnor ska stanna hemma och ta hand om hushållet. Det är inte omöjligt att hennes smått engagerade svar fick en avgörande betydelse. Det blev nämligen ryskan (till höger) som vann, fru USA (mitten) kom tvåa och Hoàng Thi Yén (vänster) fick nöja sej med tredjeplatsen.

i know i know. it’s ALWAYS the weight. or the boys or the relationship issues. boy my life is so predictable isn’t it? haha

so everyone’s heard about the freshman fifteen right? how people usually balloon up during their first year of college because it’s all so new and you’re eating junk food everyday and staying up lately trying to get the classes you want for registration (i’m so sorry lovina! get some rest babe!) so they gain weight!

but me. yea, i’ve lost weight. and it’s PRETTY sad. when matt gave me that flu-curing massage, he pretty much said “wow, you’re probably the only person that LOSES the freshman fifteen” which of course i laughed off. but it’s SAD. and SCARY. and well, my schedule goes something like this.

monday

- breakfast … a muffin + a cup of soy milk/hot chocolate + a bowl of cereal

- lunch ..a chicken ranch burger

- snack at store .. an eggroll

- dinner .. two bowls of rice + whatever we have

i don’t know if that’s over 2000 calories? =[

and tuesdays are worst

- minimal lunch and breakfast –> whatever i can get considering i work from 7 to 1

- snack at store

- dinner

— i get to the store at 4 which means if i eat something large, my appetite for dinner will go away and i won’t eat much for dinner.

well, i won’t write out the rest of my week but that’s pretty much it. i feel like i’m withering away. and it’s funny that what scares me the most isn’t that i’ll die or something but if shawn didn’t like me anymore because of my thinness. it’s quite scary that thought. something that encourages me to go foraging in the kitchen for any high calorie food products. man, i’m so screwed up in the head.

packing for vietnam makes me wonder what to bring because they’re so god damn judgmental over there about what you wear. i mean, when i was 14, it didn’t matter much but now i’m 18, i have to wear something that is fashionable yet fit for my age. AND i have too keep my family’s face. so it’s like…finding the balance between not a prude and not a tramp.

but this last week has been great in terms of fun-ness and whatnot. i’m getting so much better at pool thanks to my constant practicing. i had an amazing lunch with friend. he took me to Korean Tofu House and ordered for me (in korean!) this awesomeeee Tofu Soup that was so delish. and his pancake (crepe? omelet? pancake? hahaha) was also so delish. and we just sat there being all quiet and whatnot and he was sutdying for his film class presentation and i was just sitting there staring at him study. it was eerily creepy but not at the same time. ahah. you know what i mean? okay, maybe not. but sometimes you’re just with people where you sit next to each other and not really be saying anything but it’s totally not awkward. okay.

well. laters. cuz im going to go shower and then see what crazy antics lady gaga is going to do on the AMAs tonight! tah tah <3