What color are the trees in my world

First off I was thinking about wiggers, you know rich suburban white boys that think they're from the hood. There's this picture that is one of many cliche's in FARK.COM Photoshop contests of three obvious posers wearing their best bling standing infront of their trick out too lame too pointless vehicles and every time I see it I can't help but laugh at how rediculous they look.

It did however start me to think about how sill the whole it's a black thing/ it's a white thing concept is. It seems strange to me that in this day and age we are still deviding things racially. Granted the dipshits in that picture don't come across as anything but posers but I'm sure there are black posers co-opting the same look.

My self I've never been a trend whore it just never appealed to me, of course my father was a big part of it too. Every year just before the school year would start we would shop for my next years wardrobe and it did not include anything that was expensive, not that I was hoping to wear most of it but there were some Lightning Bold and Hang Loose clothing I liked. Don't get me wrong I was happy with both my imatation Members Only Jackets. My wardrobe consists mostly of the ole my brand is what ever's on sale. Although I did have the black with grey zipper Bugle Boy Parachute pants in high school those were pretty hot.

But why is it so silly when white kids try to dress ethnic? Let's not even get into trying to talk ethnic. I guess what's really funny is by the time the trend catches on nearly all the gangsta clothes are designer, something the originators of the trend wouldn't ever buy.

Now on to the good news of the day. The shitbag Bernard Ebbers of Worldcom fame was sentensed to 25 years in a federal pound me in the ass prison today.

This gives me hope that the whole attitude of white collar crime is a victimless crime so there's no reason to be harsh to the criminals is finally fading away. Then again the judges really don't have a choice these days most people that got fucked financially in both Enron and Worldcom were ready to riot if they didn't get what they saw as justice. Of course most of them would like to see the purps hung by their balls.

So now John Rigas the shitbag head of Adelphia cable gets to spend 15 years in prison. His son Timothy got 20, and now Ebbers with 25. You think maybe Ken Lay is sweating a purple twinkee right about now with his trial coming up in January?

That pious asshole Rigas got what he deserved. He is exactly what I hate about people that hold them selves up as morally supior to the rest of us only to show that they are in fact imoral trash. This douchebag for years kept hardcore porn off Adelphia because it offended his moral senses, yet he had not trouble spending a billion dollars Adelphia's money to build his personal golf coarse. Just goes to show you that the old "let he who is free of sin cast the first stone", is a pretty safe bet to take. When was the last time you saw any rocks flying?

It all goes back to my point that I can make these observations because I know I'm scum I certainly don't pretend to better than anyone else although I know I am. Seriously though I don't believe in God, I certainly don't care what other people do to them selves or what the watch as long as it doesn't break the law or hurt somebody not involved. So fuck all you people that do, try spending a little more time worry about your self and don't worry about me I'll be okay.

Maybe it's just me.

So this past weekend I didn't feel like spending as much money as I usually do on weekends so I elected to spend Friday Night at Bob's Big Boy in Burbank to look at some great cars, which by the way there were some spectacular cars there this past week end but to tell you the trueth the one that caught my eye this trip was a early 70's Pinto Runabout all original. Those cars got a lot of grief over their life time and apart from that whole blowing up thing they really weren't bad cars.

I'm a big fan of sleeper cars and the Pinto just happens to have just enough room under the hood for a small block V-8. Can you imagine the look on some Camero mulleted tiny penis boy's face after he's been waxed by a Pinto? There was a guy that used to show up with a mid 60's four door Valiant that just looked like grandma should be driving except for the built 440 emptying out through dual three inch exhaust with two chamber flowmaster mufflers. It had the sleeper look but you could hear this guy coming for miles.

But that fun in no way prepared me for Saturday. A friend of mine is building a new sandrail and another friend is building a Baja bug so they needed to go to a place called KarTek, now unless something else is going on Karen does her distance training for her marathons on Saturday so I decided that taking a road trip would be better than sitting at home with nothing better to do.

Well four counties and three freeways later we're in the town of Corona. I now know where rocks come from, ALL OF THEM!. That's all there is in Corona, nothing grows there, not with out help anyway. Now the whole trip we cross though towns and cities where I always have to ask, "why the hell would anyone live here?" well Corona takes the cake you don't willing live in Corona you're sentenced there. When I asked one of my friends, "You think that a hundred of years ago someone stopped here and when, this is it?" He remarked that they probably broke down and couldn't leave.

Other than about six months of living in Portland Oregon I have never lived more that twenty miles of where I was born, beautiful Canoga Park California. So yes I'm kind of spoiled living in the valley first then Simi Valley where I live now. But I have made it a point to stay in these areas no matter how poor I've been and believe me I've been poor. So with that in mind why the fuck would anyone willing live in San Bernardino or worse Riverside Counties?

Driving out on Saturday you start hitting some depressing cities. Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, Fontucky (Fontana actually but the have NASCAR races out there) Norco, and finally Corona. Cheap property has never been a draw to me. Sure the cost of living is less in some of these cities but is it worth it? Look if you live there and enjoy it well then great but let me tell you theres better. Hell I'd live in Sunland Tujunga again over these other places.

What else, yes, oh found that people have actually read the stuff I wrote on this mess I call a site. So I guess I should point out that these are my rants and thoughts don't take anything personally, or do what the fuck at least the feedback I've gotten has been good people that don't agree with me but don't hate me for it. That's encouraging considering my total lack of faith in the human race in general. Makes up for all those other sites where, and we all know cause it happens to all of us you post an opinion on a subject that's totally your own and one of the other contributors just goes ape shit and flames the shit out of you because you don't share their believe or point of view. Christ I don't believe in God but I have a good friend that attends church every Sunday and it's never been a problem, infact we can discuss it. Although I think his mom doesn't like my "Fuck the Creationist" shit though. Anyway keep reading I guess.

Maybe it's just me.

So another work week winds down and I'm at a loss for words. The London thing yesterday was bad for those effected. For me not so much, CNN had a article today about how now more Americans are worried that their next. When are you people going to wake up and realize there are far worse things to worry about in your dailey life than weather or not you're going to be taken out in a terrorist attack. So the chances of another attack within the United States is high big fucking deal. The odds are greater that you will die in some random incident than be killed in a terrorist attack.

Growing up I was worried about everything. In the 70's they told us that another iceage is coming and we're all doomed to freeze to death, and what happened? Other than the shitty Day After Tommorow movie nothing! In fact now they're trying to sell us Global Warming barely 30 years later. Make up your fucking mind or just come out and admit that we have no recorded enoug data to accurately predict natural changes in the weather versus man made effects.

Of course here in California all through the 70's they told us that any day now California's going to slide off into the ocean in the "big one". What happened? Just like as far as we've been here about every ten or twenty years we get a good sized Earthquake that fucks shit up and on the good side actually clears out the pussy riff raff that fear earthquakes and that's it. Just remember this earthquakes don't kill people buildings do.

Polution was supposed to do us in as well, and they really haven't backed off that promise but in my short 37 years on this planet in my purely scientific opinion the air is about 100% better now then it was 30 years ago. When I was in elementary school I remember that as summer approached we'd have a first stage smog alert every day it was above ninety degrees. We haven't had one in about 10 years. When you came over the hill from Simi Valley on the freeway you couldn't see past Van Nuys, not that that area of the valley is anything to look at anyway but still. Now you can see right down into Glendale. So while the air has improved the view hasn't.

The point I'm trying to get to is that between the government and the way the news reports shit they nearly had me worried into a catatonic state until one day I woke and realized that I was still here, and each day that happened I realized that things aren't that bad at all, infact in a lot of way our quality of life was improving. When I was 19 years old a very good friend killed himself and that was my introduction into the concept of how one day someone's here the next they're gone.

Death was always something I thought I would see coming, you know a relative get's old and finally takes the dirt nap. But this was the first time I was confronted with the suddenness.

That taught me that sitting around worrying about what's going to get you isn't necessarily going to keep it from happening. You could be a complete shut in and die in your own house when that random plane falls out of the sky, it's happened. That and when I was old enough to know there's no such thing as God suddenly there's nothing but random chance to both protect you and take you out. Who says the Universe has no sence of humor?

Now this doesn't mean that I now have a death wish and am going out of my way to "bring it on", actually quite the oposite. While I'm certainly not going to hop on a motorcycle and try to jump the grand canyon(Madonna's reproductive tract?) I'm certainly not going to get on a plane because some nut ball fundementalist might blow it up.

Look people we're all going to die someday, with some skill and a lot of luck most of us will make it to a very old age. You're a fool if you think praying to an invisable friend in the sky is going to make a difference and you can be the most careful person in the world and still get taken out if you wander too close to some clod with a death wish and not enough sence to just off himself.

Maybe it's just me.