random historical post from my old blog. mainly so i could reference when i first got my alesis 6hd i suppose.. also, this racist poem i had the misfortune of coming across.
historical blog post from 3 years and 2 months ago
In case nobody remembered or realized, Native Americans were here when the Europeans arrived. Throughout North, Central and South America their populations were decimated, at times completely erased.
Don’t you think that should, at least, be a small point in the immigration debates? Sure, these immigrants are here illegally right now. And, immigrants from other countries [...]
wade hampton (1818 – 1902)
so this guy might be related to me.. his burly ass beard seems enough to signify his genetic closeness to this hampton.. but i just don’t know. if this relation is true, the hamps just can’t get enough of war! man oh man, we’ve been in wars since the revolution here! [...]
well, here is the first installment of my every-now-and-again bookmark digest! looks like we have a whopping 6 entries. some real gold though, seriously.
1. the brick testament
this is a graphic rendition depicting the stories of the old and new testament of the bible, in the world of legos. this blew my mind.
2. MEChA: a vehicle [...]
come on, now. ya gotta do better’n that. ok, ok, so not to quote erik .. well, i just did so. damn. what an intro.
so, it’s mercury retrograde, and finals week begins tomorow for me at 8am.. i worked today from 9am to 3pm, went to my Dad’s until 8:45.. and i’ve basically been jerking [...]
to the T! well, nearly.. what’s today? friday.. day before payday.. but the checks come today anyway. so, the 24th. i suppose i set the blogs up a year and 3 or 4 days ago. *shrug* .. even more so to the T and true to my style, i don’t even make a few posts [...]
i was reading a selection from “The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage” by Paul Elie .. it’s one of the final reading assignments for my class, ‘Roman Catholicism Today’ and was reminded of the journals my 9th grade english teacher had us write, and simultaneously, of the sometimes profound often [...]
aztec astrology (link)
hhmm.. i looked up ‘astrology’ on bloglines and came across an ‘aztec astrology’ website.. pretty wicked, i thought, though the girl whose entry contained the link warned it didn’t match up with her at all…
strangely enough, this aztec description matches pretty well with some of the things i know about my ‘western’ natal [...]