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Blogging While High Ep 5: What’s with Twitter users?

By anthonytaurus March 26, 2009 5

This Blogging While High episode was brought to you by NYC Diesel.
Read Blogging While High Ep 4: I Miss the Muppets
Note: This post inspired by Five people I am no longer following on Twitter @ These Digital Times

Intro

My 30 day marijuana hiatus is up [link]. It was up since Sunday, March 22. But, I admit, I rationalized my way to a day short. Yup. If I count the day I decided to start to March 22nd, it would have been 30 days. However, and this is where the rationalization comes from, I include the time before I started in which I didn’t smoke any weed, which amounts to a period of 2-3 days, I really did 31-32 days, since I only did 29. At any rate, I was off for 30 days and that’s what it is. I win. Nyaaaaah.

Strain Report: NYC Diesel

It was ok. The smell was pretty potent as I could smell it from my pocket while I was at the store. It felt good in my hand – firm but not rock hard, kind of fluffy. It looked really good when I finally got home. It even tasted good.

However, I’ve had better NYC Diesel. I don’t think it was as strong as it should have been. I think the buds were possibly screened before packaging because when I pulled out the microscope, a lot of the heads were missing but even inside the buds when I cracked them open.

Let’s Talk: Twitter

What is Twitter? Easy answer.

“Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.” [Twitter]

However, you’ve got folks that go even deeper to explain Twitter better than Twitter. [About] Here’s a lengthy account that basically expands the hell out of that definition like a synopsis of an Art of War passage. That’s a semi-high brow joke for you people who only read Eric Jerome Dickey.. yeah you! LOL.

However, I feel almost bombarded by these social media folks that, I think, has redefined how twitter is used. Their way is careless and wild. They have no integrity. I think that’s what might be ruining twitter. The problem is, of course, greed. People want to be followed the most. People always want something. I don’t think folks should feel they have to follow someone else.

I suggest folks follow who they want to hear from. Also, we followers need to not be upset if someone doesn’t follow us. Don’t worry about your twitter ranking. It’s irrelevent. Increase the integrity of those that follow you.

Truth is, I know people are following me just because I am following them. And I am following people just because they are following me. Most, I genuinely have an interest. But, they aren’t interesting at all. Right now, I follow 340 people and 405 people follow me. I am knocking 5 people off my list right now. They are

Chris Moody, @chris_moody, is just boring but he’s the manager of New Media at the Cato Institute [@catoinstitute] which is pretty cool to follow.
Evan Williams, @ev, is also boring and the CEO of Twitter.
Terry Ng, @kineda, is a link pusher… ahhhhh. Everything is a link. Booooo. GO OUTSIDE. But, I do keep his site on hand. I just go to it about once a month.
THERUNDOWN, @therundown, is another link pusher. I’ve already got an RSS Reader.
Just Salad, @justsalad, is a spot in NYC that serves just salad. Get it? Just Salad. Anyway, I love green flora but not that much. I’m a red meat eater anyway. “Where’s the beed?” I’ve always said if PETA ever gets animal as food concept banned or criminalized in some way, I will eat a PETA member. I figure if I am going to break the law, I might as well try human!

Anyway, I think this is what we should all do. Look on your list and just remove 5 people from it that you know you probably never cared to follow in the first place. I hope it’s not me though. I’d think folks loved me. LOL

Do you have any good follow or following rules that you use to maintain the integrity of your list??

Edit: Make sure you follow me on twitter @anthonytaurus!

Categories: Blogging While High, Legacy

Blogging While High Ep 4: I Miss the Muppets

By anthonytaurus January 30, 2009 2

This Blogging While High episode was brought to you by PHD.
Read Blogging While High Ep 3: Ten Friends vs Free WhopperIntro

I’ve never been one to follow the crowd completely. I’ve always liked the “other” things people don’t normally give much attention. It’s like finding a gem that others may have ignored because it wasn’t big enough. In the situation of Jim Henson’s Muppets, I’ve always felt a few characters didn’t get their due respect. So, here are some videos of those guys

Swedish Chef

This guy has probably been my number one favorite of all time because you can’t understand a damn thing he’s saying but you really do.

Bunsen and Beaker

My favorite muppet scientists. Bunsen is always devising some crazy thing and Beaker gets to deal with the pain of trying it out for him. And, who could ever really get over Beaker’s “language impediment”.

Statler and Waldorf

I think anyone will recognize these two old men but I am sure if I went around by name, I’d get blank stares. They are the reason I want to be a crotchety old man one day. It seems like so much fun.

And Just for fun

Strain Report

When I sat down in the car with my connect, she told me that this PHD is really good, even better than the PHD from before. I didn’t think anything of it to be honest. The PHD was always good. I should have known something was up when she asked me about the smell in her car. She was never really concerned about the smell before. But, none of that registered to me. I went to my friend’s spot, rolled a decent sized blunt, and began kicking his ass in Fight Night 3. No, I am NOT to be reckoned with in Fight Night 3. I did let him knock me out once while I used Roy Jones Jr. But, that was the 3rd match or 2nd rematch so I had to let him get it. LOL.

We then switched to Ranbow 6: Vegas 2 and that’s when it happened. My eyes were closing and I couldn’t keep them open. It could very well be that I hadn’t slept at all since I woke up around 1am that morning and it was, then, around 10pm. My friend continued playing while I caught myself drooling, literally. I realized this PHD is REALLY GOOD. My connect was NOT bullshittin.

Earlier this afternoon, as I was writing another post after smoking half a joint, I noticed the screen of my laptop start.. hmmm.. wiggling! I thought to myself, “THIS PHD IS REALLY GOOD!” Then I fell to sleep again. It’s great because I haven’t been put on my ass since the Pink Bunny Hallucination of (November) 2007.

The PHD is pretty strong. I wish that my sense of smell was better so I could relate the scent better. However, I can smell the freshness in it. As I look at it, the light causes the “diamonds” to sort of dance. When I crack open a bud, it’s like a jewelry store, everything just glistens. It’s not as frosty as other buds I’ve tried. For example, a friend had some Bubble Gum that was just dripping diamond dust, very white, and very strong. I say that because I didn’t want to over-praise the PHD.

Anyway, if you’re in New York City and you hear someone has PHD, you won’t be let down. Also make sure you try the Headband and the Nebula if there’s any left. I missed out on it. The Blueberry Kush tho.. eh.. pass on it!

Categories: Blogging While High, Legacy

Blogging While High Ep 3: Ten Friends vs Free Whopper

By anthonytaurus January 9, 2009 4

This Blogging While High episode was brought to you by Juicy Fruit.
Read Blogging While High Episode 2: Gimme some Christianity, Hold the GodTen Friends vs Free Whopper

So, I’m sitting here skimming through the Huffington Post for anything remotely interesting and I come across: Whopper Sacrifice, Burger King’s Facebook Promotion: Delete 10 Friends For Free Whopper. Well the title sort of speaks for itself. If you delete 10 friends from your Facebook page, you can get a free whopper.

As I was smoking, I thought about it at face value. I felt negative about it: “Why whould I give up 10 friends for a whopper?” I thought it wasn’t worth it. I felt this wasn’t a good campaign.

As my mind climbed toward that high, I thought about what friends I would get “delete” if I chose that whopper. I came across a few names I figure I wouldn’t really miss. I stopped myself at three names. Don’t ask, I only remember one. No, I am not telling. But, she’s one of those people with too many friends herself so I wouldn’t even be missed.

DAMN

Could I find 10 friends that wouldn’t even notice I was off their list?

NO! NO! NO! Leave it alone.

So, I just started reading the article to see what it says while Larry King had Priscilla Presley talking about Elvis and some watch and some horses and some shit about cake on the lawn on that bar at the bottom. Anyway, I read (as quoted from Adweek):

“The effort crafted by Crispin Porter + Bogusky came about after agency creative staffers confronted the too-many-friends scenario themselves on Facebook.”

And I thought that made perfect sense. I had that problem on Myspace. Had a list about 200+ and chopped it down to about 75 actual people. And yes, I communicated with all of them. Unfortunately for Myspace, it’s all about Facebook.

Now, that I am done with that article and my high has begun to taper ever so gently, that whopper is looking really really good. Those 10 friends are about to get rationalized right the fuck off my list. I will give each one a reason. Some will be harsh while other will be soft. Some might be quiet and some might get loud. But, in the end, it’s all about feeding these munchies. That whopper sounds damn good to me

Strain Report

Juicy Fruit is awesome. It’s really the kind of marijuana that I look for. At the first few puffs, I didn’t really feel anything. After a while, I just start hearing differently. Immediately, I knew there had to be some sativa in it. It’s as if you can more easily focus on specific sounds while tuning others out. Like right now, all I hear is me tapping on the keyboard and the hum of my fan. At the same time, I can hear the traffic outside of my window but it’s very muffled. Also my body became numb and tingly. I felt my toes curling a bit. That’s when I knew I was high. I just got more sensitive to hearing and feeling. Don’t ask what happened (down there). This stuff works.

I believe it also has some indica in it. I do feel the drowsiness in it. The first time I smoked it, it put me to sleep. It’s not as strong a sleep as the Kushes I’ve had. It’s more of a very warm comfortable feeling. When I usually throw the cover over myself for a nap, I snuggled up with my pillow and I noticed everything was soft and relaxed. I didn’t drop like a rock. I felt rocked to sleep. This stuff works.

Physically speaking, Juicy Fruit is packed with diamonds (or THC). It was almost like a pale green color when it’s usually much darker. The color is lighter due to the amount of diamonds. It doesn’t smell all that strong and I couldn’t place it but scent is just a small part of the evaluation. And, it does smoke up quite smoothly.

Categories: Blogging While High, Legacy

Blogging While High Ep 2: Gimme some Christianity, Hold the God

By anthonytaurus November 6, 2008 2

This Blogging While High episode was brought to you by Northern Lights.
Read Blogging While High Episode 1: What happen to the story in porn?

This is something I’ve been thinking about for quite some time now. It sort of came to me backward in the sense that I understood the answer before I knew the question. The answer came about when I was having my troubles believing in God. It’s not that I am atheist completely. I consider myself a realist, a rationalist, and a naturalist. I think there is a god but not a Christian god nor a Muslim god nor a Jewish God nor the bunch of other gods out there. It’s only just now that it hit me did I realize the question. If Christianity didn’t have the strong faith of a God behind it, would Christianity be better?

ABSOLUTELY YES

I believe the problem with Christianity is in the the Bible’s strict and tight connection with God. If you believe in a god, any god, then the stories attributed to that god become real for you. Some part of you has to believe in the mythology of the Three Kings following a star to baby Jesus, Moses parting the Red Sea, the Ten Commandments, and Noah building an enormous ark for two of each animal. That’s some incredible shit to pull off.

But, let’s try to separate God, or the strict belief in God. Let’s read the bible and view the stories as if God were just the connecting character in a series of short stories, poems, and songs written by different people at different times. What if Moses was part of a larger group and Exodus was in one of those raids to free slaves in Egypt? He had a few rules and didn’t want anyone getting in the way. And, Exodus, being the poet/writer, wrote the story and decided to embellish it a lot. So, wading through some water or taking a boat became “parting the Red Sea” and those simple rules of Moses’ original group became the Ten Commandments. They stuck simply because they’re a damn good set of rules. And, Moses isn’t necessarily chosen by God, but instead was lucky enough to carry Exodus to freedom.

The scenarios can get crazy in describing how the bible came about. What if God was a real person? He was just telling some great stories and someone decided to write them down. That would explain the whole, “as told to me by God” issue. My point, with the Ten Commandments, is that the message can still be delivered without believing that it came from a higher omnipotent being.

Revelations

In separating God from Christianity, I reject the frivolity and think more dynamically about the stories. I take lessons from them and at the same time keep away from the rabid fanaticism. I truly do believe in, “Thou shalt not kill.” However, I am not “faithful” enough to sit quietly and “accept God’s will” or pray for a different outcome. I don’t believe in God. So, if I have to break that commandment, then so be it.

Sober Update

I have to say I agree. Christianity, through the Bible, does offer a lot of good guidelines to living. However, there are some concepts and ideals that are taken too far. It’s my ultimate opinion that it’s the strength that people give to a god that allows them to take the stories of the Bible too far. The Bible is a book of parables or fables. We should learn from it, not force its stories into reality.

Categories: Blogging While High, Legacy

Blogging While High, Ep 1: What happen to the story in porn?

By anthonytaurus January 9, 2008 1

What kind of pornography do you own? Do you just like the straight stuff? Maybe you like a particular flavor? Are you into some sort of funny, weird or even “carnal” fetish?

Well, I am into porn that has a damn storyline, a plot! Everything goes straight to the glory but where’s the process? Where’s the glory road? I see a porno these days and it’s usually just two people straight fuckin? We don’t know who’s who, how they met, or why they’re doing what they’re doing. Is this a nurse/patient situation? Who’s the nurse or patient? Why are they fucking?
SOMEONE FILL IN THE BLANKS.

I’m tired of seeing only this wham bam thank you ma’am shit. What are we teaching the youth? Well I am not that far removed from high school, bout 10 years. But, I read the news. Those kids these days are fucking like rabbits! They got accessories, hand signals and gang signs developed just for fucking. A WHOLE FUCKING NEW INDUSTRY DEVELOPED FROM KIDS JUST WANTING TO FUCK… like what? Todaaaaay’s porn! It don’t teach them anything ‘cept how to fuck! They ain’t even awkward about it anymore.

Anyway, I say we need to bring back some plot in our porn! Who remembers Debbie Does Dallas? The cheerleaders were fucking to help get money for Debbie to get on a bus to go somewhere. That’s a reason. That guy is getting a blowjob to help Debbie! That’s noble! I can respect that. There’s Co-ed Fever where Traci Lords boned her brother to help him get over his fear of girls. Taboo where all kinds of family members are fucking each other. And Devil in Miss Jones where a woman is trying to fuck her way out of hell. Where are you gonna find those wild teacher/student sex scenes?

I think the future of porn is in the past but by real actors? Who wouldn’t want to have Omar Epps give the business to Vivica Fox in Higher Learning? How about Brad Pitt boning Angelina Jolie in Mr. & Mrs. Smith? And other titles.. The Matrix, Jason’s Lyric, How Stella Got Her Groove Back..and uh oh.. Driving Miss Daisy… and ooohhhh I am gonna get in trouble for this.. Brokeback Mountain! Whoa! Not my cup of tea either, but there’s a market for it.
Anyway, my high is subsiding. I’ll be back!

Categories: Blogging While High, Legacy

Blogging While High Ep 5: What’s with Twitter users?

Blogging While High Ep 4: I Miss the Muppets

Blogging While High Ep 3: Ten Friends vs Free Whopper

Blogging While High Ep 2: Gimme some Christianity, Hold the God

Blogging While High, Ep 1: What happen to the story in porn?

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