Not a lot of time today. I woke up with no equilibrium, which was a little strange. I had a dream that I was on a speedboat trying to get out of some bay into open water with a corpse in a bag, and the girl I was with (a short, businesslike little person [not even remotely attractive]) was concerned about all the maritime traffic and what it was gonna mean for our successful exiting of the bay. The corpse was someone that we’d killed and we were taking it out to someone who wanted to examine the corpse and make sure that the guy was dead for sure.
So yeah, that led right into me staggering around with no balance like a drunkard. Then I left my coffee at home when I dropped off my kid. THEN I left the car seat in the car when I dropped him off instead of leaving it in the daycare like I’m supposed to.
It all goes to show, the events of September 11th continue to be devastating, confusing, and disorienting, like a morbid dream. Sigh.
My passport photo is hilarious. Well, not to some people, like TSA screeners for example. To them, my passport is an obvious forgery. Here’s why. In the picture I look so much like a terrorist it even freaks me out. I’m bundled in various rags and clothes (due to the picture being taken in the winter), I’m unshaven, swarthy and I’ve got a look on my face that you only get from a hangover and subsequent walk through the snow and bitter cold to the photo place or from days and days of living in Florida taking flying lessons. Not to put too fine a point on this amateur terrorist racial profiling that I’m doing here, but in this picture I look definitively middle eastern, and yet there’s my name “Brendan Kelly” which, uh, is also a terrorist name but from a whole different batch of terrorists. And it says I was born in Missouri, which is true, but it seems a little crazy that there’s a middle eastern guy walking around with an IRA name like Brendan Kelly and he hails from Missouri and right now he’s flying to London by himself. Hmmmm.
I get searched EVERY TIME I fly international as a result. Not the jellyfinger cavity search, but the pretty thorough patdown (hands cupping balls and spreading buttcheeks through pants are two of my favorite moves) and the extremely thorough carryon search (squeezing out all my toothpaste and checking seams in the bag and stuff like that).
I’m sure that in this day and age of fear mongering and acquiescence to xenophobia and any public humiliation in the name of safety (which sounds a lot like the beginnings of national socialism if I’m not mistaken) that I’ve got it relatively good. I mean, I’m NOT a terrorist, and I’m just a guy who actually IS named Brendan Kelly who WAS born in Missouri and just looks like a crazy jihadist in my passport photo but not so much in person. I’m sure any practicing muslims, anyone who’s actually Indian or Jordanian or Pakistani or whatever have it a lot worse than I do. I mean, I can’t imagine the trouble that someone deals with being a practicing muslim of middle eastern descent just, I don’t know, trying to go buy a stack of pancakes at an Ihop in Nebraska, much less taking a flight from Boston to California by himself.
Eh, well, I just read on Yahoo that Osama Bin Laden is officially a failure, so it looks like that’s it. Terrorists lose. We win. Superman can now start walking again and Mickey Mouse can come out of hiding and we’re gonna get all those poor, filthy unwashed hindus and muslims all the cheeseburgers and porkchops they can handle. And a jesus. Let’s give em a jesus, because lord knows that this different prophets thing isn’t working out. And we’ve been trying, lord knows we’ve been trying to show them that jesus is the only way, but no amount of bombing seems to get it through their heads. Well, maybe this article in yahoo is what they need to see. Hey Taliban! Check your yahoo! We win. You lose. Pick your jesus. You get either the rock and roll born-again jesus or the stately catholic jesus. No. wait. Never mind. That catholic jesus is nothing but trouble either. You get rock and roll, no abortions, death penalty, speaking in tongues, big stadiums full of worshipers, no sex, scare the shit out of people Jesus. Don’t worry. You’ll love him. He’s uh, wow...he's actually just like the born again mohammed but instead of boxcutters he uses questionable detention methods and patriot missiles. Okay, glad that’s settled. Happy September 11th everyone!
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As of this morning there have been 5,130 American servicemen fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2,9993 fatalities on September 11th.
705,112 estimated civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In other news, Penn State will win the BCS this year.
whoops, 2,993
GO SPORTS!
We can't even get on a domestic flight anymore without getting cupped by every TSA agent in the gate . . .
I used to have a ridiculasly long goat-tee when I was younger. If I didn't shave then I really looked like a terrorist. I only flew a couple of times but know I was harassed every time(and I proabably had some sort of contraband on me). Shaved that thing off and now no probs. Good thing I didn't take my passport photo then!
Even if it's longer, I always chose the security line with the cuter worker just to get my rocks off.
And we thank you for it
so I live in NY, and yes remnants of 911 still effect the city, but here goes a joke my friend told me a few years back:
Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
September the 11th.
September the 11th who?
YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER FORGET!!!
...i found it amusing.
I just read your fav songs on the NME site. I want to say, for the record, that on Skate Or Die Kody sounds exactly like the moose from Eek The Cat, which is not a bad thing, just strange. I can't wait to get a hold of that album though.
What did one twin tower say to the other on Valentine's Day?
I'm falling for you.
My dad very clearly a white guy, but he has a big fucking beard and so they always stop him and, every time, he gets really pissed off about it.
Oh, and one time on the way home from the airport, he realized that the backpack he was using for his carryon had a boxcutter in it because he had forgotten to make sure the backpack was empty before using it for carryon. That was an entire trip, two times going through security.
I can kinda hear that, Steve. I caught the myspace stream of the new TBR record and a few of the tracks sound just like Lillingtons songs (Phantom Planet)! Hot damn, I'm more excited than Candice sitting quietly in BK's bedroom closet every second thursday, wearing a full-body suit of assorted lunch meats, emerging in the wee hours to (again) attempt to balance a martini olive atop his sleeping nose for hours.
It's not his nose I'm trying to balance things off of Robb
glad to see no means no made your favorite songs list. those guys are amazing and aren't given nearly enough appreciation
Touch and/or tongue us Robb/BK.
Candice, I thought it would be funnier and less obvious to present the manifestation of your dangerous obsession as something non-sexual and childlike in its simplicity.
Townes Van Zandt on your NME list? Very nice indeed.
Dude, I lost my virginity on 9/10/2001. No wonder I'm fucked in the head.
I just think back to last year's 9-11 post which was probably the funniest thing I've ever read. Love, love, love it. I love the bit about learning to fly in Florida, too.
love,
Kyle
you and your monotheism rants you silly goose......
in other news "we are...............penn state"
please, look at this: http://peopleofwalmart.com/
Anyone caught 'Tyler Perry's I Can Make Bread All By Muhsewf' yet? Worth the ticket price? Just wait for vhs?
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