Good Jam Session
Had an awesomely fun 5 hour jam session today with Colin and Conrad, here’s some highlights.
A Week of Practicing Drumming
Playing some more drums, recorded to see my progress. I played the crappy guitar riff separately, because I haven’t figured out how to play guitar with my nose yet.
Parallel Pens are COOL
I wanted to try my hand at calligraphy so I went looking for a fountain pen or dip pen to experiment with, and ended up finding Pilots’ crazy Parallel Pens – pens without a funny nib composed of two thin metal plates.
Damien Plays the Drums
I wanted to record myself on drums, then record myself playing guitar…but the video got kind of fuxxored. :/
Catholic is as Catholic does
Like George Carlin, I was Catholic until I reached the age of reason, and boy did my stint as a Catholic teach me a lot…
Call Me Reverend
Something I’ve been waiting for finally arrived today… The certificate officiating my ordainment as Reverend Damien Laliberte. Nope, this isn’t a joke. I can now baptize, marry, and perform various and sundry other ministerial tasks in 49 of the 50 glorious United States of America, and parts of Canada. Time to piss God off. WHERE [...]
Islamophobia: Repression on Both Fronts
Preamble: This is not an article for or against Islamic culture, or Western culture, or religion. This is a nit-picky observation of the interaction between two groups of people, and small details that unintentionally work to produce far reaching cultural effects.
Stupid, Protest-y “Feminists” at Lectures
There is a woman, maybe the same one, I don’t know, but there’s always one at EVERY scientific lecture or presentation that in any way involves discernible differences between men and women and how the differences relate to behavior.
Usually a large woman, with a disproportionately small backpack.
Behaviors I Hate
Ex. 1: When you say something and people refute it with household nonsense.
“I just read this report in Science Magazine by Real Smart People Who Do Research that says most people in France speak French.”
“Yeah but I knew a guy from France and he actually didn’t speak French. He spoke Spanish.”
“SHUT THE FUCK UP. THAT [...]
Building a Guitar
Well, I’ve been locked up in a room making sawdust for the last week. I’m building a guitar. From scratch.
Some pictures of how it’s coming so far: (Ignore the dates, I’m using some cheap old camera so I don’t have to worry about the sawdust killing it)
Protected: Strange Medicine, Dreams, Girls, & Music
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Religion: Ad Hominem
In this post: I rant for 5 minutes about religion and atheism, God and infallibility, moderates and terrorists, apologists and fundamentalists. But now with VIDEO!
Sketchbooks
My journal fell apart the other day. Which pissed me off, because I like to write in nice leather bound journals. Anyway, I copied everything interesting over to a new one, and reading the old stuff made me open up my old sketchbooks. I used to draw a lot. I don’t think I was very [...]
