Nihilism for Dummies!

What is this nonsense?

Nihilism for Dummies is a "weblog" that looks at, in rough and compressed fashion, current events from a decidely pseudo-nihilistic point of view. This is not meant to be "high-minded" or "insightful" - it's mostly just an online journal of thoughts and notes. I don't really pretend to be one of those "bloggers," who are busy pretending to change the online media world. I'm just a guy who writes for the amusement of the occassional visitor.

If you came here looking for good, old-fashioned information on nihilism, you are just plain out of luck. But, you can read this amusing Primer on Nihilism over at blogspot.

Quote of the Day:

(or longer, if I don't change it)

"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong and 100,000 people paid with their lives; 1600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies; 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever on a pack of lies."

British MP George Galloway to Senator Norm Coleman, R-Minnesota

Obligatory Stupid Tracker!

Going back to this tracker, temporarily. Still, though, please actually take a minute to mail me if you wander in here and tell me what you think. It can't get better if I do this in a vacuum. Unless, you know, it's one of those Dyson vacs - cause those are sweet. We've got one, you know...

Places I hang:

Asheville Rock Messageboard: be warned, most posters not from Asheville, most discussion not serious. Quiet Zine's Messageboard, for the Sylvawheeans out further west. Good group, odd metal/indie split. This City Can Burn: They will tell you they are not emo.

August 2005: None! Yet!

2 August

Crack Journalism!

Or, journalism on crack. In yesterday's Asheville paper, we have a story about the new Sonic Drive-In in Marion, NC. That's right. It gets better. Dateline on the story? August 1. Lead paragraph? "A new drive-in curb service opened for business on June 30."

That's right, kids. It takes one month to get this kind of story right. That's dedication.

What I want to know is: When the hell will my town get a Sonic?

1 August 2005

Welcome back. July sucked a dick. Now it's August. Yea. Alright. Rock and roll.

Man, they should legalize that shit!

Ah, the little joys we find in the hometown paper. For those of you too lazy to click that and read the last Letter to the Editor, let me reprint here for posterity:

Smoking marijuana should be legal

To the editor:

I am writing with regard to illegal pot smoking. I think that pot smoking should be legal. I think that you should have to register at the courthouse first and then pay taxes and be able to sell and smoke it. It's an herb. If God didn't want people smoking it, He wouldn't have made it. Then foster homes wouldn't be so filled up all the time. I think the government should take this into consideration.

Chadwick Richard Setzer, Waynesville

OK, so legalizing pot would relieve overcrowded foster homes. Hmm. Ya think maybe this dude was real fucking high when he wrote this letter?

Oh well. It's a slow start, huh?

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