The picture above was taken at a Buddhist temple between Shanghai and Suzhou in January of 2007. The central image is the Chinese Buddhist diety Guanyin - the Lady of Mercy.
The girls of Elfen Lied

• 5Oct 08

  Pneumonia and weight loss and Sunday on [as]

  Greetings, friends and fellow bloggers. Lots of things going on in my corner of the world and few of them good. About 12 days ago, I had a nasty little sinus infection that turned into a really bad sore throat. Then, about a week ago, the cold settled on my chest. I simply thought that I had a bad caugh and cold. After a few days it got significantly worse; I had a scratchy, burning sensation while caughing. Going against my better judgement, I went into urgent care last wednesday. They X-rayed my lungs and found what they suspected were spots of early stage pneumonia. I missed a couple days of work...I really hate that...but got to wrap myself up in a heavy blanket and sleep for 14 hours every day since then. My fever is up and down, and while high, I have been sweating very heavily. The very worst part of this all is that the meds I am taking cannot be mixed with alcohol so I haven't had a beer in days. I weighed myself this evening. I am down 10lbs to 232. All from being laid up in bed sick. Of course, with the nausia, I haven't been eating much either. The doctors say that the anitbiotics should fully work by Monday. With my luck, though, I probably got the bad-attitude pneumonia. Fair enough. I am a stubborn MF, so bring it on, microbs! I'll F you up.

  So, I am watching [as]. It is about 2am Sunday morning. What the hell?!?. This may be the worst sunday line up I have ever seen. The best on tap is Metallocolypes and ATHF and then it is down hill from there? God, I do hope it gets better in the next hour or so. Sunday morning is the only time I look forward to TV...well, I like late wednesday nights on the history channel too. And now, it's all crap. Bummer. Time to buy some more anime box sets.

  • Posted Oct 5, 2008 2:00 am GMT
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• 24Sep 08

  Poultry from Heaven - does God like Chicken???

  Greetings, once again, friends and fellow bloggers. For the few of you who have read through my blogs, you know that I am Catholic. I have never claimed to be very good at it. I have always been enough of a leftist and anarcho-syndiclist to look through dogma (the social construction of religion) to see what is most important: faith (the spirituality of religion). Anyway, every now and then I am given a scripture quote from a close friend that intrigues me. Here is the most recent one that has peaked my interest...and strangely enough, it reminds me of one of my favorit t-shirts.

  The quote is from Psalm 78:27: He rained meat down on them like dust, flying birds like sand on the seashore.

  ST'Q to god: You are totally awsome!!

  [one of] My favorit t-shirt[s] has this statement: There is a place for all of god's creatures. Right next to the potatos and gravy.

  • Posted Sep 24, 2008 12:31 am GMT
  • Category: Humor
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• 12Sep 08

  Death Magnetic

  Holy crap, friends and fellow bloggers. As I type this I am listening to Metallica's new album Death Magnetic. And I will tell you this, for those of you who have read my blogs on Musical Chicken, I now have some serious fuel for the fire! This album rocks and it rocks hard. So far, it is more indicitive of their peek 80s sound than of their late 90s or their previous album, St. Anger, which was more of a thrash metal. I am only on track 4, but I am liking it. Move over Disturbed; you won't be living in my CD player any more.

  Rock Hard, friends.

  ST'Q - aka Shadowheart

  • Posted Sep 12, 2008 10:56 pm GMT
  • Category: Music
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