Unwashed philistine masses...(RANT)
I found myself talking to some one this morning. And if i were to be brutally honest, I'd have to admit that i despise this person. It's my ex's brother. To set the stage for this i'll provide some back ground. She came from a family of Seventh Day Adventists. They observed a Saturday sabbath where they didn't do anything. No electronics, nothing to eat. And they certainly didn't do anything to bond with each other on those days. So after her and I started dating i made her question some of the beliefs. I'm not a maniacal hater of religion or anything. But when i asked her why she did it, she realized she wasn't doing it for her self or any reason that...

Unwashed philistine masses...(RANT)
I found myself talking to some one this morning. And if i were to be brutally honest, I'd have to admit that i despise this person. It's my ex's brother. To set the stage for this i'll provide some back ground. She came from a family of Seventh Day Adventists. They observed a Saturday sabbath where they didn't do anything. No electronics, nothing to eat. And they certainly didn't do anything to bond with each other on those days. So after her and I started dating i made her question some of the beliefs. I'm not a maniacal hater of religion or anything. But when i asked her why she did it, she realized she wasn't doing it for her self or any reason that would make those traditions remotely spiritual. Any way, her brother and i have never gotten along too well cause he's a fanatical believer. Anyway at the store this morning. I ran into her family. She has sense started dating some one else. Being the decent and understanding people her parents, they realized she needed to make her own way and hadn't blamed me for the schism. They stopped and said hello and commenced the usual chatty cathy crap. When they asked how my studies went i told them that i had picked up and english major on top of my biology. Citing how much more work it was they asked me why. I told them that while i love the science, I'd felt that my creative, artistic side was starting to disappear and i did like the idea of that(Those aren't the only reasons). To which her brother said(and thus starts the rant[finally!!!]) "Writing isn't art." Oh fuck no... OH HELL NO MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!! Resisting the urge to whack him over the head with a package of frozen skinless chicken breasts, I instead took solace in his parents look of disbelief, and the tinge of terror that came when they realized he had insulted me. So then i asked him it the psalms were not a work of art. He said those were gods words. I asked if God couldn't create art. He stuttered. First direct blow ah yeah. Then i asked him if written works based on the bible weren't written for the sake of art. Cited Paradise Lost. No response. apparently he hadn't read that(huge fucking surprise there...) Then i asked if music was art. He said "Yeah, but well" i cut this off by my asking if the writing of music was some how removed from that particular artistic creative process. Then i pointed out that movies were widely accepted as art(and his sister got a degree in movie special effects from the SAN FRANSISCO ART ACADEMY). Is the writer again not part of the art? Our town's greatest hero is DALTON TRUMBO!!!!!!!! He wrote Spartacus, Roman Holiday, and Johny Got his Gun! That magnificent communist bastard is our shitty town's only real timeless personality! At this point his parents and i both knew my point was made as he stood there, truly speechless. His father had a smirk, and his mother was embarrassed at him. At that point i was quite pleased that i hadn't reached for the omnipresent .40 cal. on my hip at his initial, insulting, ignorance(Call me what you will but don't insult artists just to serve your egocentric purposes). Then i excused my self adding that i had a pottery firing to go to. While walking away i realized that the greatest victory there wasn't breaking her brother down so easily. It was knowing that as i walked away, her parents wished that i would have married their daughter.

Wow these seem to run longer every time. But any way I'm off to a Raku firing for the better part of the day. I'll get pictures of all of that and post about it. Should be fun, but very hot too.