October 08, 2003
May you live in interesting times...
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger - no stranger, I suppose, than Governor Ronald Reagan - and we all know how that story ends... these are certainly interesting times.
I actually just spent the last hour researching that "Ancient Chinese Curse" about living in interesting times, simply because I wanted to make the title a link to the origin of the phrase, and then make the body of this message about how 'interesting' these times have been lately. but after all my research, I'm dismayed to say that it's not an ancient curse at all - it was made famous by Robert Kennedy in 1966, but originated in a science fiction novel from 1950 - both references by the way, say it's an ancient Chinese curse, though the Chinese have never heard of it...
So anyway, curse or no curse, these are interesting times indeed.
Times when the Terminator (once credited with the highest body count ever recorded in an action film) is in charge of the fifth largest economy in the world.
Times where Water Purifier Salesmen are poisoning city reservoirs to bolster their sales, Tony Blair admits that he knew Iraq had no WMD's before the war, Roy Horn gets mauled by his own damn tiger, it's raining frogs in Connecticut, they're actually TRAINING dogs to sniff for shit, Michael Jackson is now 'officially' Whiter than White people,and BumFights II is released even though the four kids who were paying the homeless men bottles of rice wine to beat each other senseless were charged and sentenced after the release of BumFights 1.
...oh... and this is just TODAY's news.
On the home front, work couldn't be crazier, family life couldn't be crazier, and I don't think I know a single person now, who hasn't just come down with some strange illness or had some freak accident. Crazy, Crazy, Crazy - that's all I gotta say. I'm seriously considering signing up for Survivor just to hang out in paradise for 40 days with 'normal' people who have 'petty' problems...
Yup, I think I'm back - how do you like the new blog format? LOL!
Posted by Calvin at October 8, 2003 11:39 AMisn't swartzenegger becoming governer, like, the eighth sign of the apocalypse?
Posted by: sage at October 9, 2003 01:49 PMIt's actually the fourth sign - Revelation 4:6 -
"And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying 'I told you I'd be back. For it is good to crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women'. And, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. The beast whose flesh appeared as it were metal exclaimed 'come with me if you want to live, for these are the End of Days.' "
Read all about it here
Posted by: Calvin at October 9, 2003 02:29 PMand wasn't arnie IN the end of days???? makes ya think, don't it?
Posted by: sage at October 9, 2003 02:47 PM