<a href="http://www.harrumph.com/020424.shtml">harrumph! still crazy!</a> nutrition facts 75895796daniel millerSaturday, April 27, 2002publish<a href="http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-03-08/screens_feature14.html">The Austin Chronicle Screens: Wave It in the Air Like You Just Don't Care</a> Look forward to a mention of this in My New Church part 3 coming in June. 75895769daniel millerpublish<a href="http://fray.org/cafe2/">{fray.org} fray cafe 2 : austin, texas</a> RealAudio. The very first one (Derek's) is v cul. also check these out: <a href="http://fray.org/cafe2/photos/03.html">his girl Heather</a> <a href="http://fray.org/cafe2/photos/03.ram">RA</a> <a href="http://fray.org/cafe2/photos/07.html">praystation dude Josh</a> <a href="http://fray.org/cafe2/photos/07.ram">RA</a> 75895463daniel millerpublish<a href="http://designforcommunity.com/display.cgi/200204192002">Design for Community: Essay: Community-friendly advertising</a> Haven't actually read this yet. This is as much a note for me as it is for you. 75895297daniel millerpublish<a href="http://seaspray.trinity-bris.ac.uk/~aworg/">alternativeworship.org</a> SWEET! Check me MAD props on this site! Major congrats to Steve for pulling this awesome site together! 75895010daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.afterdinner.com/readers/">afterDinner: for Readers</a> sweet! 75893668daniel millerpublish<a href="http://playtime.alexmassie.com/past/20020419.php">alexmassie.com : past lives.</a> Art is a lifestyle of pure misery. 75893575daniel millerpublish<center><img src="http://a1860.g.akamaitech.net/7/1860/34/ad1917a5751d67/school.discovery.com/clipart/images/puddle.gif"> watch where you step from now on</a> micha's story</center> only at <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com">danielsjourney.com</a> and <a href="http://dealingwith.blogspot.com">dealingwith.blogspot.com</a> 75892993daniel millerpublish<img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/michasmap.jpg"> 75873546daniel millerpublishA couple more blocks down and Micha pulls a quick right into a small dirt parking lot/driveway. There is a ragged and out-of-place tree climbing sideways across an old building that is one story in the back and two in the front. The tree half-obscures a car port that Micha practically flies into. The branches first scare, then scrape GS, right across the arm, leaving a good-sized gash across his forearm. Micha stops the car on a dime--albeit a dirt dime--and GS practically flies into the dash, having to awkwardly hold out his other elbow--the one that�s not bleeding--to keep him from sprawling out all over the passenger-side leg-area. Or whatever you call that part of the car. The floor. Micha and GS both climb out of the car, GS having to negotiate the killer tree to make it out of the car port, and they meet behind the car in the cloud of dust left by Micha�s Dukes of Hazard move. GS is holding his bleeding arm with the fall-breaking arm. �Oh, goodness, Johnny! What are we going to do with you? We are going to have to do something about that!� <center>Didn�t she mean �baby?�</center> Micha proceeds to pull a screwdriver out of her little sundress pocket and hold it up like it was of some importance. <center>She meant she was going to stab me?</center> Micha proceeds to crouch down behind the sedan and remove it�s license plate with the screwdriver. Micha proceeds to throw the license plate to the back of the car port, where it lands out of sight in front of the car. Micha proceeds to lead Johnny, quite literally by the arm, down the alley, around to the main street, and into an ice-cream parlor. But not the latter before getting the cast away tree leaves out from under Johnny�s sleeve. Apparently, this ice-cream parlor has a car port. �My boy fell and cut himself just outside here, do you might if we use your bathroom real quick?� <center>Of course they don�t mind.</center> �Of course we don�t mind. Help yourself. It�s right there around the corner. Here. Take some napkins.� �Thank you.� Micha proceeds to stick Johnny�s bloody arm under the facet and runs cool water over it for a few minutes, lightly rubbing the cut with her fingers every so often. Then she pulls his arm out from the sink, popped the lot of napkins right on the cut and says �hold that there.� Micha proceeds to go back out into the store and order herself an ice cream cone. One small scoop banana, one small scoop chocolate. Oh and can you put the banana scoop on top? Thanks. Yeah. 75873341daniel millerpublishI'm really not proofing this stuff before I post it. So sorry. No. Actually. I'm not sorry. 75873308daniel millerpublishThey drove an alarmingly short distance before stopping, pulling over in an alarmingly populated portion of said small town with large police department. In fact, right in front of the jewelry store Micha had scoped. Planned. Arranged might be the best word for it. She left the car on, parked the wrong way I might add. <center>Me still in it.</center> And got out. She walked up to the door, swung it open, popped her head in, and said something. <center>Something I couldn�t hear from where I was sitting.</center> �Hey, don�t worry about the key, just leave the back door open when you leave.� �What are you doing here?!� came the agitated response from the only person she could have been talking to, the only person in the shop, a young guy with black wavy hair and clothes definitely not befitting a jewelry store clerk. �There are cameras right on you! All over!� �That doesn�t matter,� Micha said and proceeded to enter the store, running her hand across the top of the display case, looking longingly at the content stored within. When she got to where the man was standing, dumbfounded, she leaned over, her elbows now on the case, and asked very plainly, �Can you show me this one?� She pointed to a bracelet in the display case below her. �Sure,� came the hesitant and worried response. �Don�t worry. There�s no audio. It�s just a super-eight. I�m here shopping. Now just leave the back door open tonight.� �But there are three locks.� �So leave them open.� �Ok. Ok.� �Now sell this to me for three bucks,� Micha says, pointing to the silver now on her wrist along with the mass of gold. �That�s a three hundred dollar bracelet. I can�t do that. You�re on camera.� �I�m going to hand you three bills. Ones. Hundreds. It doesn�t make any difference. I am going to remove them from the safe tonight anyway. Just write in your little ledger book at the end of the day that I gave you three hundreds. Ok?� �Ok.� �Ok?� �Ok. Ok.� No. This is definitely not happening. A cop car slowly drives by outside, inches from GS�s elbow sticking out the window of the stolen car. No. GS can only keep from throwing up by remembering that that would definitely draw the attention of those cops. The police hate drunks. Micha comes back out of the store, new purchase on her body, while the police cruiser is still not even getting smaller in the distance. She smoothly drops back into the car and pulls out into the road. The sun is that annoyingly dim but bright way it gets right before it dips below the horizon. Where if you�re facing away from it it�s dark, if you�re facing towards it it�s blinding. Micha makes a left down a side street and GS is blinded. 75872593daniel millerFriday, April 26, 2002publishMicha led GS down the street with a bravado he had never before experienced. He was compelled to follow, but even so her quick pace kept her four feet ahead as they made their way down the street to the main connecting road. Normally they would have made a left to go down to the bus stop, but this time Micha walked right across the four-lane �highway� (as they called it--even though it clearly was not) and into a parking lot of a small, old strip mall across the street. She had it going on, from the summer dress to the beehive to the gold all over her wrists, neck, and ears to the oversized purse/beach bag under her arm. Before GS even had a chance to make it across the road, Micha had her slim jim out from under her dress and jammed between the window and door of a nondescript navy blue sedan in the remotest part of the parking lot. The door was open before he got up to the car. The engine was roaring to life as he got into the passenger seat. They were pulling out of the parking lot before he even managed his first words. �What the fuck are we doing?� <blockquote>A: No Clue. A: Obtaining transportation A: Going on a little spree A: Following a plan</blockquote> Micha was totally stoic, unusually silent, her usually comic, light, beautiful manner replaced by a serious, dark, and equally beautiful one. GS�s face became a picture of contorted confusion and terror. One would think you were forcing him to perform some meaningless task over and over. One would think he was stuck at some major mind fuck of a job. Bending over to worship at the feet of the Gods he was forced prostrate in front of. But no. Here he was. In fact, forced into this terrible excitement by a mother that had abandoned him--or had he abandoned her?--six years ago and now acted like it was last week and all was forgiven. Here he was in a stolen car going over the speed limit through a small town with a large police force on a hot evening with the windows down and the hair-dryer air coming in full force over his sopping wet pits. No. This was definitely not happening. No. No. No. There was going to be no good ending. Everything was not going to be fine. His mother was going to drive him, quite literally, over the edge, into the bright light at the end of the tunnel which was actually an Amtrak train coming at them full speed, into the arms of the law, a law that would never let them go and certainly not allow him to even take the bar exam ever in his life, yet alone dream of passing it and working in a courtroom as Matlock�s noble assistant, screwing the secretary and living happily ever after. No. This wasn�t the movies. This wasn�t even TV. Well, sort of not. This was real life. Well, sort of not. No. This was it. This was definitely the end. It was at least really not good. 75871991daniel millerpublishcan't u see i'm listening to my own damn music already?! 75870971daniel millerpublishweb sites and ads and flash shit with sound or music is evil. 75870968daniel millerpublish<a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/19/trancenden.html">MP3.com - Trancenden</a> this act is well worth your look see 75870949daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.tlcfanmail.com/">TLC Fan Mail</a> New York, NY - Friday April 26, 2002 - It is with profound sadness and shock that I learned late last night of the tragic death of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. Lisa was killed in a car accident while on vacation in Honduras, in Central America. 75870909daniel millerpublishjust watched <a href="http://www.unitedartists.com/nomansland/">no man's land</a> and highly recommend it. very important film. just came out on video. 75870807daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.bullshitjob.com/officespace/whatdoyoudohere.wav">people skills</a> <a href="http://www.bullshitjob.com/officespace/problemhere.wav">problem here</a> <a href="http://www.bullshitjob.com/officespace/goahead1.wav">go ahead</a> <a href="http://www.bullshitjob.com/officespace/hawaiianshirtday.wav">hawaiian shirt day</a> 75865443daniel millerpublish...had been so long since i'd done an honest micha entry i almost forgot the font color (993333)...hopefully there are two of you out there still staying caught up and even more hopefully wanting to know what the heck is going on/going to go on...i've had one of those weeks and at this point i'm fried but i can tell you we're near the end...hopefully i'll use this outlet to get over being fried and get this story done and over with...but somehow i feel like it was one of those cosmic weeks and you guys (not being sexist i just honestly don't know of any gals besides miriam reading this) are happy to have had a bit of a break because you've been slammed too...but maybe i'm way off and need to return my prophet button..."i had a humble pin once, but they took it away because i wore it"... 75865196daniel millerpublishAfter a short afternoon respite back at the house, Micha began rapidly packing up the contents of her rental. GS was in a daze on the couch, for the most part in his own world, however at one point he did read a small piece in the Arts & Leisure section of the paper about some play about a play where the cast are killed every night. Finally, late in the afternoon/early in the evening, he took notice of what his mom was doing--namely moving quickly all over the house throwing things into large open boxes she had staged throughout. And he asked himself, whatthefuckisshedoing? <blockquote> A: No clue. A: Packing. A: Getting ready to get out of Dodge. A: Following a plan. A: A plan GS had no idea was even in existence. A: A plan he had no idea he had been a part of since day one. </blockquote> So he asked himself, �What is she doing?� and fell back into his dazed little world on the couch. He managed to pull on his socks and shoes at some point, immediately after which Micha announced that it was time to go. 75865059daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.freshworship.org/zine/simplicity.html">www.freshworship.org - Home of Grace - fresh vital worship</a> 75859458daniel millerpublishthe Pray For Dan webring 75858597daniel millerpublish<a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com/2002_04_21_theyblinked_archive.html#75790986">in traffic today i saw a large, hand-written sign in the back window of a jeep that read simply, "I NEED A JOB" and listed the guy�s phone number. next to this placard was a one page resume taped to the window.</a> 75849614daniel millerpublishthe Let's Get Dan To Church association SD DJMPBGTH LGDTC yeah. 75835267daniel millerpublishim so sorry. i suck. no micha. boo hoo. i'm busy. talked with me dad for hours. i am thinking of starting a new revenue stream for djdc: let me know which name u like the best: the Save Dan fund the Dan Just Might Possibly Be Going To Hell club those are actually my only two ideas so far. let's start hashing this out. let me know your ideas. 75835221daniel millerpublish<a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com/?/2002_04_21_theyblinked_archive.html">TheyBlinked</a> check out me props! check out me props! 75805712daniel millerThursday, April 25, 2002publishsorry again...:P :P 75792727daniel millerWednesday, April 24, 2002publishsorry no Micha today....everyone needs a day of rest... i'll be gone all day tomorrow but will probly write something while i'm out and post it when i get home late night... until then cheers! 75753530daniel millerTuesday, April 23, 2002publish<a href="http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/ml.html">Modern Living</a> this particular one has to be some of coolest stuff i've seen with flash for a while... 75749790daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.islandwatersports.com/">IWS ONLINE WORLD. The Official Site of IWS Surf Superstore, Deerfield Beach. Florida, USA. ||||||</a> Hey if you want to see some of my handiwork, the popup on this site is from yours truly... 75735909daniel millerpublishjust in case you're clueless on that last post, you missed the <a href="http://dealingwith.blogspot.com/2002_04_01_dealingwith_archive.html#75477202">micha competition</a>. 75728711daniel millerpublishPS for those of you following the micha thread--it's going to be over in about three days time. so if you're a would-be hacker of <a href="http://gs_citizen.blogspot.com">gs citizen:s blog</a> then you'd better get crackin'. and if you've been wondering what's been happening with the story, i've been updating <a href="http://gs_citizen.blogspot.com">over there</a>. but the ending is going to come in a couple (read one or two) short bits and then the final bit, which will be long. pretty long. cheers. i've got to go do work! 75728638daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.ihatestarbucks.com/">I Hate Starbucks</a> 75728279daniel millerpublishUpdate: Anyone coming from Next-Wave, this one is the one to read first! Very good stuff: <a href="http://www.h2so4.net/evany/starbucks.html">No Daddy Starbucks, No!, by Evany Thomas (h2so4)</a> ... Worse still, I've come to expect one on every corner. At home I studiously avoid Starbucks in favor of local talent, but on a recent cross-country road trip, my need for the sustenance of coffee easily canceled out my boycott. I pulled into an affluent little town early one morning and caught myself hoping for a glimpse of that cursed green sign. "How can there not be a Starbucks here?" I moaned in a decaffeinated haze, my neck craning over the steering wheel, "This is the perfect demographic!" And whenever I found a town�like fabulous Las Vegas�that not only had Starbucks, but Starbucks with a drive-thru window, I was disgustingly ecstatic.... 75727610daniel millerpublish<a href="http://nologo.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/23/1534204&mode=thread">NoLogo | Bono, Bloody Bono</a> Admittedly, I have never been a fan. Bono has always seemed a little pompous and overblown to me. But what the heck, pop music is aural candy. The candy I can live with. What was more alarming was to see Irish pop stars Bob Geldof and Bono praising the Canadian Prime Minister in Genoa during the G-8 meetings last year. Meanwhile, on the other side of the barricades Carlo Giuliani was shot and killed by a police bullet. Police routinely attacked independent journalists, medics and protestors, as has become a routine practice in crowd control. 75727453daniel millerpublish<a href="http://nologo.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/25/0658228&mode=thread">NoLogo | The Capitalist Communitarian</a> 'Starbucks is so social. We go to Starbucks stores because of a social feeling.' Yet, strangely, the agency discovered that fewer than 10 percent of the people they observed in our stores at any given time actually ever talked to anybody. Most customers waited silently in line and spoke only to the cashier to order a drink.'' Schultz's gloss: Starbucks customers ''felt they were out in the world, in a safe place yet away from the familiar faces they saw every day.'' His acumen lies in understanding his market. He figured out that we don't truly want the genuine community of a Milan coffee bar. We want upscale, vaguely European ambience in which contemporary culture has been decontextualized, wrapped in a blanket of the dim past, made cozy, comfy, secure, palatable and attractive to the business class. ...this was the only good part of the article... 75727178daniel millerpublish<a href="http://jstellaxyz.tripod.com/">Propaganda</a> 75726902daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.jasondiceman.com/">Jason Diceman's Homepage</a> 75726758daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.communicationism.org/jasondiceman.com/projects/no_logo_doc/index.htm">No Logo Documentary</a> 75726719daniel millerpublish<s>hey this is something i submitted to <a href="http://www.next-wave.org">next-wave</a> today</s>. Update: they're running it in May. thanks Dave! you, dear reader, can still <a href="mailto:mill6858@bellsouth.net">let me know</a> what u think tho. or wait till it's on next-wave and flame me on their message boards. anyway, i think i'll keep it up here since not too many people are reading this right now, certainly not the readership of next-wave! cheers! hey also sorry about the lack of spaces in a lot of places--had to run the text through a compression filter to make it show up right in blogger, and so whenever the text went over a line in the original HTML, it killed the space My New Church part 1--TFIC<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1"title="">i</a>My message to the evangelical church: don&rsquo;t change.You&rsquo;ve got it right.This revelation came to me while I was walking through <ahref="http://www.walmart.com/">Wal-Mart</a> this afternoon. Incase you&rsquo;re not keen on these things, Wal-Mart is numberone on the <a href="http://www.fortune.com/lists/F500/index.html">Fortune 500</a>,with revenues of over two-hundred nineteen thousand milliondollars. That&rsquo;s 220 billion, if you round up to the nearestbillion.<img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/walmart.jpg">Church, why bother emulating Willow Creek, Cavalry Chapel orSaddleback when you have the ultimate example of a perfect,well-oiled, successful evangelical machine right in your ownneighborhoods? Don&rsquo;t mess around. Check out these winningtechniques that your favorite and most successful churches do orshould share with the most successful business/consumptionmachine in the <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580082319/ref=sr_aps_books_1_1/202-8110689-8751037">world</a>.<ol start="1" type="1"><li>Convenience/One-stop shopping</li></ol><img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/starbucks_logo2.gif" align="right" width="125" height="124">There is one important rule you need to get in your head:Once they&rsquo;re in your store/church, keep them in yourstore/church. This means that you need to get things intoyour store/church that consumers would might otherwise have to gosomewhere else to experience/consume. Your church may have abookstore and a food court. Maybe even a Starbucks.<a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title="">ii</a> But really we need to lookagain to Mr. Walton, setting our sights high--does your churchyet have a hair salon? an optometry center? a portrait studio? Iftoday&rsquo;s church is to truly reach people with God&rsquo;sWord and protect them from the evils of the World, we need to beproviding these services. Don&rsquo;t let the World steal thesesouls simply because they have no other option but to go somewhereelse for their affordable family services!<ol start="2" type="1"><li>Clear demographic research</li></ol>What is Wal-Mart&rsquo;s objective? Sell shit. What kind ofpeople do you find in Wal-Mart?<a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3"title="">iii</a> Overweight, over-budget consumers. We, as thechurch, need to do more due diligence on our most promisingdemographic. Did Wal-Mart get to be number one only selling toupper-middle class white people with short hair and khakis? Idon&rsquo;t think so. Money doesn&rsquo;t only come from peoplewith deep pockets, church! The lower-middle class are who theyare because they spend money on shit--money that could be used toBuild the Kingdom! Let&rsquo;s get these people saved andtithing!<ol start="3" type="1"><li>Exciting and meaningful clich&eacute;s and rituals</li></ol><img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/image003.jpg" align="right" width="236" height="135">Church, you are trying too hard sometimes. This whole praiseand worship thing? <a href="http://www.bullshitjob.com/officespace/umyeah1.wav">Yeah</a>. Again, let&rsquo;s take a lesson fromour champions of successful corporate culture:<blockquote><a href="http://www.walmartstores.com/wmstore/wmstores/Mainabout.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1025970499.1019484510@@@@&amp;BV_EngineID=cccdadcehklegkkcfkfcfkjdgoodglh.0&amp;pagetype=about&amp;template=ContentWithImages.jsp&amp;subCatOID=-8279&amp;categoryOID=-8279">The Wal-Mart Cheer</a>:Give me a W! Give me an A! Give me an L! Give me a Squiggly! Give me an M! Give me an A! Give me an R! Give me a T! What's that spell? Wal-Mart! Who's number one? The Customer! Always!</blockquote>Let&rsquo;s see how very easily this could be used to enhanceyour own organization&rsquo;s culture:<blockquote>Give me a J! Give me a Squiggly! Give me an C! What's that spell? J-C! Who's number one? The Customer! Always!</blockquote>Com&rsquo;on <a href="http://www.rickfounds.com/">Rick</a><a href="http://www.eventsounds.com/wav/liftname.wav">Founds</a>, let&rsquo;s get crackin&rsquo;.<ol start="4" type="1"><li>Meaningless rules and doctrine� <a href="http://www.walmartstores.com/wmstore/wmstores/Mainabout.jsp?pagetype=about&categoryOID=-8245&template=CategoryDisplay.jsp">-1-&gt;</a></li></ol>Oh, wait, we&rsquo;ve got that.<ol start="5" type="1"><li>A strong central leader� <a href="http://www.usdreams.com/Walton34.html">-1-&gt;</a>� <a href="http://www.ralphmag.org/BF/wal-mart.html">-2-&gt;</a>� <a href="http://www.geocities.com/weezus/waltongod.html">-3-&gt;</a>� <ahref="http://www.geocities.com/weezus/antichrist.html">-4-&gt;</a></li></ol><img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/djdc_brand.gif" align="right" width="250" height="131">Church, do not bend to those who might think anon-hierarchical, decentralized leadership structure is good forthe church! They are communists! Americans need to be led!Be sure to choose your leader carefully using the followingcriteria (please remember #2--our leader must not come from ouractual target group):<ul><li>middle aged</li><li>attractive with no physical handicaps, blemishes, largescars, etc.</li><li>short hair (<a href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=1COR+11:14&amp;language=english&amp;version=KJV&amp;showfn=on&amp;showxref=on">ref</a>) (<a href="http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible?passage=1COR+11:14&amp;language=slovokian&amp;showfn=on&amp;showxref=on">in my wife&rsquo;s native tongue</a> it totally makes sense! ;)</li><li>clever</li><li>at times, very clever</li><li>capable of taking the complexities of life and reducing theminto no more than 10 asinine bullet points</li><li>seven bullet points is the best, as it corresponds with thenumber of perfection<a href="#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title="">iv</a></li></ul><ol start="6" type="1"><li>A strong central and infallible text� <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553562835/103-7774459-4829419">-1-&gt;</a>�</li></ol>Oh, wait, we&rsquo;ve got that.<ol start="7" type="1"><li>Seven points is the best, as it corresponds with thenumber of perfection</li></ol>&hellip;and don&rsquo;t forget to <a href="http://www.samsclub.com/eclub/main_i_want_walmart.jsp">request aWal-Mart in your neighborhood</a> so that you can shop withgreater ease and convenience and learn how to build aproper church&hellip;<hr><img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/djdc_TM.gif" align="right" width="300" height="156">All contained work, including this &copy; statement, &copy;2002 by Daniel Wayne Miller, Ltd. (NASDAQ: DWML). Use of any image or morethan three consecutive words from this work is strictly forbiddenby US Copyright Laws and punishable by imprisonment, frivolouslawsuits, civil harassment (including but not limited to spam<ahref="#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title="">v</a> emails, standard mailsolicitations, and front-door solicitations from the Mormonsand/or Jehovah&rsquo;s Witnesses), or general mockery and fingerpointing (including but not limited to the phrase &ldquo;<a href="http://sounds.wavcentral.com/movies/monty/blow_nose.wav">I blowmy nose at you</a>&rdquo;).<hr>Daniel Miller currently suffers from <a href="http://www.tmj.org/">TMJ</a> and runs <a href="http://www.danielsjourney.com/">danielsjourney.com</a>. His long hair is a shame to him. His wifeis really Slovak. He&rsquo;s lower middle class not so muchbecause he spends too much as he <a href="http://dealingwith.blogspot.com/2002_04_01_dealingwith_archive.html#75137405">doesn&rsquo;t earn</a> enough. He buys his nonfood consumables(i.e. TP<a href="#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title="">vi</a>) atWal-Mart because they&rsquo;re the cheapest there.<a href="http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/store.aspx?storeid=dealingwith"><img border="0" src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/djdc_consume2_smalest.jpg" width="400" height="180"></a><hr>endnotes (click note reference again to return to main text):<a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title="">i</a> tongue firmlyin cheek<a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title="">ii</a> Why this entiretreatise is not written around the Starbucks method is another question. But why should we model Starbucks--just becausethey&rsquo;re cool? Actually, come to think of it, only cool people who can afford $7.95 cups of coffee (I&rsquo;msorry--<a href="http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2002_01_20_dish_archive.html#9049008">Venti decaf lowfat extra hot extra foam hazel nutvanilla lattes</a> {try to beat 20 syllables on the <a href="http://pub95.ezboard.com/fnextwavefrm21">message board</a> you freaks!}) should be invited into the Kingdom! How else will it be built? Oh well. I&rsquo;ve already started this piece so I guess I&rsquo;ll have to do Starbucks next time.<a href="#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title="">iii</a> --generally--ofcourse you and me have both been to Wal-Mart, and we do not, asyet, fall into this category, but let&rsquo;s not sell* ourselvesshort ourselves just yet. *(ouch)<a href="#_ednref4" name="_edn4" title="">iv</a> If theindividual&rsquo;s height, weight, and yearly income each havesevens in them, this is also good. For example, the perfectcandidate would be 6&rsquo;1&amp;7/16&rdquo;, 197lbs., and <ahref="http://dealingwith.blogspot.com/2002_04_01_dealingwith_archive.html#75140333">earn</a> $777,777/year.<a href="#_ednref5" name="_edn5" title="">v</a> <a href="http://www.spam.com/">Spam</a>&reg; is a registered trademark of<a href="http://www.hormel.com/">Hormel Foods Corporation</a>.Spam, in lower case, is a popular term for bulk unsolicitede-mails. The term comes from a 1970 Monty Python skit in whichconversation in a diner is drowned out by rowdy Vikings who singabout &ldquo;Wonderful SPAM.&rdquo; The metaphor applies to junke-mails crowding in-boxes.<a href="#_ednref6" name="_edn6" title="">vi</a> <a href="http://downloads.mp3.com/AAIBQsdqCwBBh0n7CgGAwARub3JtUAQAAABSq.oBAFEBAAAAUwEAAABUAQAAAAgAQ.lSxDyoFNEYJfUFuIM.jFjpQSlg/The_Toilet_Paper_Theme.mp3">toiletpaper</a> 75707473daniel millerMonday, April 22, 2002publishEverybody�s talkin' 'bout this little girl that works downtown / I don't even know her name / she bartends on Friday nights / mixes drinks and picks her fights / I don't even know her name Uptown boys say that she's a knockout /and the downtown boys stay till they get kicked out / If I knew her favorite song, I'd play it on the jukebox all night long When she works that place is packed that place is packed / all the dudes keep crawling back / they don't even know her name / tonight we're stayin' all night long / or until the moneys gone / we don't even know her name Everybody�s talkin' 'bout this little girl that works downtown / I don't even know her name / blond hair, brown eyes, long legs, electric things / I don't even know her name Well all the dudes write love lines to her up on the bathroom walls / and some guys swear they got her number but she don't get no calls / one more scotch boys � one more round and I'll work up the nerve I swear / but last call comes and last call goes � and I'm still sitting here If I knew her favorite song I'd play it on the jukebox all night long <a href="http://www.lormusic.com/frames/mainframe.html">so many good songs...</a>local bands are never this good, yet alone SO good live...please check them out...they won't be 'local' much longer!! :P 75683415daniel millerpublishso, the Pop Disaster tour hits my current city of residence in less than a month. $85 for lawn seats?? (that's for two. who wants to go to something like this alone?) anyway, that's a lot cheaper than U2. But it should be cheaper than U2 so that is little consolation. maybe i could just go in with five or six friends and rent three DVD's by the bands who are playing and host the Pop Disaster Alternative at my house... that might bring the tab down to around $1.75 each. we could turn off the A/C and shut all the windows to get the place hot like the s.music center would be. i could sell hot dogs and beer for $8 each. we could go to the band sites if we wanted to buy a t-shirt. hell, maybe we could just make some while we watch... yeah. i like this idea. <a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com/2002_04_14_theyblinked_archive.html#75550179">how is it we have the same first name</a> and so much in common??!! ha ha! 75683382daniel millerpublish<a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com/2002_04_14_theyblinked_archive.html#75556387">it seems few remember what jesus taught.</a> it was something about infinite debt and god having to exact a suitable payment for this debt, right?? no. you are now equating the teachings of yesh'uah ben joseph with a highly detailed, hellenistic ideological "ransom paid to the devil" construction developed by Origen (~185 - 254 CE) and the even more insidious "satisfaction for god" theological construct articulated by Anselm (~1033 - 1109 CE) and then further developed along judicial/penal lines by the "reformers" (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, et al). jesus taught about something called the kingdom of god. what i have taken to calling the other kingdom. think of any system, power, structure, economy, matrix, kingdom, reality--the kingdom of god, the matrix of god, the reality of god is always the other kingdom. always that which one cannot fully bring into language. always that which one must enact with body and word. a community bordering and embracing the impossible--anticipating and enacting the emergence of the impossible here, now, with this person, in this circumstance. the other kingdom is a living force within the social order. a way of being (in another place this might be called dharma, but don't let me get too confusing here...). his vision was for this living force, this yeast of culture, to become so pervasive that it ultimately shaped every institution and relationship that it touched. the other kingdom is a subversive voice always already speaking from within in critique of any system claiming to mediate the other. it is constitutionally and ceaselessly pregnant with subversion, with reversal, with otherness. 75683343daniel millerpublish<a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com/2002_04_14_theyblinked_archive.html#75559562">"deconstruct with hope"</a> ...nice. like it. yes... 75683239daniel millerpublish<a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com/2002_04_14_theyblinked_archive.html#75626946">In Memory of Layne 1967-2002 </a> 75683063daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.lormusic.com/frames/mainframe.html">LOR</a> For 23 years, I've looked down the long road / where the only things that I've known / are the things I've been shown / now I'm scared to know more / and I'm scared to stay / and the long road keeps calling me everyday And the seasons keep changing / tides still come in / whether living or dying, there is world without end / whether in happiness or sorrow, I will say everything's fine / and if there's one thing for sure, this is no standard life December again / it's my birthday with friends / and the friends keep on changing / it seems like a sin / but it's human nature to change in the heart / the only thing you can't change is the place that you start The hint of new days hangs round / like the last few Fall leaves suspended above the ground / when winter comes rushing through / What will I do with myself? Where will I go? Will I change? Will I transcend who I am / Will I rebuild myself into a better man � a better man than me? Sometimes I just want to be alone / sometimes I just want to be alone / tonight I just want to be alone 75683019daniel millerpublishIt's official, I have <a href="http://www.tmj.org">TMJ</a>. Great. One more thing. Eating now sucks (click click) and I feel like someone is constantly poking me in the ear. But at least I know why my jaw was moving (one of the symptoms). 75682329daniel millerpublish<a href="http://dontcloseyoureyes.warnerbros.com/story.html">Insomnia</a> just saw the original of this movie--<s>Danish</s> oops Norwiegen--w/o knowing NOLAN was doing a re-make with Pacino and Williams!!! Wow!! Anyway, I was looking it up to recommend the original, who has the guy from Time Code in it--no idea he was SWEDISH! Wow right there! Anyway...here's the link: <a href="http://www.cinephiles.net/Insomnia/Film-Synopsis.html">1</a> <a href="http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/script_reviews/_insomnia.html">2</a> <a href="http://apolloguide.com/mov_revtemp.asp?cid=1449">3</a> <a href="http://dvdmg.com/insomnia.shtml">4</a> and ooo now i want to see <a href="http://www.miramax.com/prozacnation/">Prozac Nation</a> too!! WOW! all this info at one time is overwhelming...anyway...any takers?? anyway...just watched the trailer for the american version on Insomnia and it doesn't look as good...still going to go see it tho! 75669208daniel millerSunday, April 21, 2002publish<img src="http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/mia/m/i/mill6858/images/walmart.jpg"> 75668420daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/insight/article.php?story_id=248">[the unamerican] 2</a> 75664569daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.spammobile.com/">www.spammobile.com</a> 75663799daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.lormusic.com/frames/mainframe.html">Legends Of Rodeo</a> 75663167daniel millerpublish