Artestie

1. Being Gay Is Not Natural

And real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning, tattoos, piercings and silicon breasts...

2. Gay Marriage Will Encourage People To Be Gay

In the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3. Legalizing Gay Marriage Will Open The Door To All Kinds Of
Crazy Behavior

People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has
legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. Lamps are next.

4. Straight Marriage Has Been Around A Long Time And Hasn't Changed At All

Hence why women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5. Straight Marriage Will Be Less Meaningful If Gay Marriage Were Allowed

And we can't let the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage be destroyed.

6. Straight Marriages Are Valid Because They Produce Children

So therefore, gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our population isn't out of control, our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7. Obviously Gay Parents Will Raise Gay Children

Since, of course, straight parents only raise straight children.

8. Gay Marriage Is Not Supported By Religion

In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9. Children Can Never Succeed Without A Male And A Female Role Model

Which is exactly why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10. Gay Marriage Will Change The Foundation Of Society; We Could Never Adapt To New Social Norms

Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

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Since we're on the subject of homosexuality, this is something else I found on a journal.

1. On average, gay men have a wider and longer penis than straight men. XD

2. Homosexuality is mostly (but not completely) genetic, hence why gay parents do not equal gay children.

3. Around 3-4% of the male population is gay, around 10% of male super geniuses are gay (like Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo).

4. From an evolutionary perspective, one popular theory on the evolution of the "gay genes" in males is that the same genes benefit the mother.

5. So far, scientific research has not found definite "gay genes" related to women, and only 1-2% of women are lesbians.

6. Most gay men are gay by the time of puberty and will stay that way for the rest of their life. Women can become gay anytime and switch back and forth.

7. One observation during industrialization, later supported but experiments on mice, shows that overpopulation and crowding cause an increase in the percentage of homosexuals (along with suicide, infanticide, and all that other stuff that will decrease the population.)

8. Many men experience prostate enlargement, thus some scientists invented a prostate massager which works like... anal sex. Thus they concluded that gay men probably have healthy prostate.

Ok you guys, I know this is going to blow your minds… but I started sketching again today. =] so far all it is, is a window. Oh! I just had a thought! =] ok, I now get to erase the tree outside the window, I have a better idea… if I can pull it off.

I don't know yet who/what is going to be sitting in the windowsil.. but its going to be something… you guys ready for new submition?? Might be a couple days, but guess what?? You'll be getting one!

Lol. Sorry for the lack of… well… sketching. =]

Much love to my loyal watchers!
Artestie

Alright, I set me up an account for all my photos and other misc. junkness.

So if you want to see my pictures new and old, head over there. =]

Artestie

6-24-08

We left Seward yesterday at around 11am, we were planning on leaving Sunday evening I believe but right when we put our net into the fish hold we started seeing jumpers everywhere. About 50 jumpers in 15 minutes just about everywhere around the bay. So instead we looked around some more, watched some more fish jump here and there then we attached the Jitney to the back of the skiff and retreated back into port. After we docked we took the net back out if the fish hold and piled back onto the boat, then we headed off to bed.



Monday (yesterday) we woke up at 6, went out into the bay ready to set our net, set it at around 7 after watching more fish jump, pulled it up by 8 and caught about 30 fish. Now 30 fish isn't worth it for cost recovery, they weigh about 5lbs avg. and we are getting 30cents per. lb. so that's only 45$ for the boat, which is about $3.60 for me at 8percent of profit. 3.60 for an hours worth of hard work? Hmm… McDonalds pays better! but I'm not complaining, I enjoy it immensely. And we've made way more than our share this summer so I'm not whining over that. Though with all the jumpers we expected more, so we drove back to the harbor, delivered out 30 fish, cleaned out the fish hold, and proceeded to pile the net back in it. Once we finished that we reattached the Jitney to the back of the boat and started driving to Homer. Dave had already taken the skiff and loaded it onto the truck trailer to drove it back instead of accompanying us on the boat. Well I guess someone had to take the Truck back, and if it wasn't Dave then it would have been me because Mark's truck is a standard and I'm familiar with driving standards as you well know.



Uncle Mark took the first shift from 11 until around 2, then came down into the cabin and woke me up to take the second shift. If your not driving, most likely your catching a few winks of sleep, or in my case according to Dave and the rest of the crew, sawing logs. They catch winks, I saw logs. Unfortunately I have been assigned 'cook' since Dave is not here to take up his job, and I had to make lunch around 11, it consisted of soup and grilled cheese, if they wanted better they could have just made it themselves, though they didn't complain. I drove from 2 until 3:50 when Mark came back up and relieved me, I was surprised, I wasn't expecting anyone to relieve me for a couple more hours still, but hey, whatever. I went down into the cabin and 'sawed some more logs'.



I was having a weird dream that coincided with last year then the net came off the jitney as we were traveling and we had to slowly winch it in at 10 ft at a time in 10ft sees. Anyway, in my dream the net came out of the fish hold and we were dragging it through the ocean (again) and we had to slowly get it back onto the boat. I was asking Uncle Mark how it came out of the fish hold when all of a sudden, in reality, out of my dream Uncle Mark starts attempting to get my attention by whistling and calling my name from the door of the cabin. I, thinking that the net is still out in the see and we have to get it back on the boat, jump up, hit my feet in multiple items rushing out of my bunk as Uncle Mark says "Hey! A whale just surfaced right next to the boat!" I just stare at him. Uncle Mark woke me up, out of my dream where something went wrong on the boat to tell me that a whale surfaced by the boat?! I had seen hundreds of whales last summer, and multiple whales this summer, why did I need to see another one!? Heh', it made me laugh though how I thought the net was in the water like my dream. =]



I went back to sleep about half an hour later, at 5:30 and caught some more sleep before being woken up at 8:20 to make dinner. Dinner consisted of some spaghetti sauce, noodles, and green beans. I created this meal then headed up to the Wheel House and relieved Travis so he could go down and get something to eat. Once they had finished Travis came back up and relieved me so I could eat something as well. There were a few noodles left that I put olive oil and pepper on and some green beans. Guess what? I went back to my bunk and attempted to fall asleep again. Mark went up a couple minutes later and Travis came back down and hit his bunk as well. A few hours later I woke up and walked around in deck, we were going through a pass of some sort that went by a glacier, there was 5 acres of land for sale way out here, it was mainly flatland and it would be perfect for me if it were a we bit older and had the means to get here and back… and to survive the winter. Mark figured they would probably take just about any offer they got for the land, not too many people would wish to buy land way out here, it wasn't to far from Homer by land, you just had to walk across a mountain and then take a boat across Kachemak bay. Too much work for the avg. american. But it would be heaven for me… nice little straw bale house, wood heater, middle of nowhere, secluded all to myself… yea… I would love that. I went back to sleep about an hour later.



I woke up at 1am this morning and noticed that Uncle Mark was asleep in his bed, therefore Travis was taking a shift up in the wheelhouse. 2 hours later I woke again and decided to relieve him, I went up there and told him to go down and get some more sleep. I've been up here since then and its 6:20 right now. I've seen a couple whales (gasp) so far, and a few proposes… nothing new or exciting. That's life so far… I'll attempt to write more later, we have about 4-6 more hours of driving left.



We reached Homer at around 10:28.

"Shot through the heart, And you're to blame..." ~Bon Jovi

I had a dream. I had a dream I died.

    Standing on the top of a tall building, I looked down at the ground, contemplating life and its meaning. I felt the cold concrete against my feet. The cool crisp air slashing my face. And the thought of ending it all, fresh in my brain. My ears hear the sound of traffic beneath me, the shouts of people conversing through normal, everyday life… and a fleeting thought of just one jump, to end this life and continue on in another… with this thought in my mind my toes tentatively crept forward, closer to the edge, on the edge, feeling the empty space beyond.

    I lift my arms, and raise my face towards the sky. I take a deep breath, smell the sweet smells of life in this world, feel the breeze flowing through and around my body. I lift a leg, stretch it straight out in front of me, testing my will, my patience, my desire to keep this life. I feel the muscles in my remaining leg bunch and coil in the anticipation of a jump, a spring from this world into another. My muscles contract, my body lowers into a crouch, I tip forward even as my leg pushes off of this concrete life towards something, somewhere else. The thrill and wonder of not knowing where I might go pushes me into this open beyond, and for a moment, I can fly.

    The world rushes towards my body, fast, faster than anticipated for the observant onlooker… but for me, it feels as though the clock has stalled, time has come to a stand still and I'm caught, motionless in time. The soft breeze flowing through and around my small, still body, the breath of anticipation on my lips, hope and fear mingling in my heart. Suddenly the clock moves, the second hand turns, and I fall.

(There is more to this dream, but it got erased... )