Older Entries:


Thicker - 2009-10-05

Casual Fall - 2009-09-30

The Ozark Outcasts League - 2009-09-16

The Chariot - 2009-09-10

On Turning 36 - 2009-09-08

Oh Hai - 2009-08-28

The Truth About Drunks - 2009-06-07

Chapter X - 2009-05-15

Dream Country - 2009-04-14

A Day in the Life of Mein Pope - 2009-03-18

Vendor in Chi-town - 2009-03-15

OBAMA SMASH - 2009-02-25

Da Humors - 2009-02-19

Sister, I Need Rest - 2009-02-03

Vendor X Declares War on Israel - 2009-01-15

Elevate me 2009 - 2009-01-14

Gas and Worship - 2009-01-07

Tis The Season For Clobbering Mike (It's Clobbering Season!) - 2008-12-18

Card Fancy - 2008-12-14

Back in Court - 2008-12-09

Worrk For Jerks - 2008-11-12

Happy Boxing Day!!! - 2008-11-04

The Noise Ordinance - 2008-10-28

The Morale of This Story Is : Watch More Chowder - 2008-10-25

Why I Hate Saturn - 2008-10-23

The Good News - 2008-10-22

Shadowbox - 2008-10-15

SUPER ANGER - 2008-10-15

Furious in Los Feliz - 2008-10-08

Fun Party PSI - 2008-10-01

As Dumb As It Gets - 2008-09-24

-/|\- - 2008-09-04

Whup Date - 2008-08-28

The Joys of Activism - 2008-08-27

Hauled Over - 2008-08-19

Oh, Hai - 2008-08-12

The Pros and Cons of Drinking Beer - 2008-07-21

Atheism Redux III - 2008-07-17

Atheism Redux II - 2008-07-15

Atheism Redux - 2008-07-11

slash u - 2008-07-11

MASTERS! - 2008-06-23

From Heck - 2008-06-18

Silly Lizard People! - 2008-06-10

De-Activisim - 2008-06-03

In For A Pound - 2008-05-29

What a Window Washer You Would Be... - 2008-05-19

What Is It About Winning An Election That The Democrats Find So Distasteful? - 2008-05-15

Bland Omens - 2008-05-09

First Rule of Hate Club - 2008-05-02

Get the Lead Out, Red! - 2008-04-18

Art Week - 2008-04-10

Uroboros - 2008-03-27

Goodbye Steel Plant, Hello Nightclub! - 2008-03-24

Passions, Pt. 4 - 2008-03-04

Passions, Intermission - 2008-02-19

Passion Part II - 2008-02-13

Passions, Pt. 1 - 2008-02-11

Wards of the State - 2008-01-30

Flute Building - 2008-01-23

Keep It Real - 2008-01-17

Goddamned Stupid Microsoft Word - 2008-01-10

Live Grenades - 2008-01-10

Welcome Home, Vendor! - 2008-01-08

A Quest for Fantastic Women - 2007-12-11

The Hot Vote - 2007-12-04

Unshackled - 2007-12-04

Disappointment in November : The New Kid - 2007-11-26

I'm Write - 2007-11-13

The Stone Bar - 2007-11-12

Insert Picture of My Eyes Rolling Here - 2007-11-07

Sliding Deeper into Obsession - 2007-11-01

November Part II : Nuts To Your Fucking Village - 2007-10-29

Daisy's Been Around - 2007-10-23

Level - 2007-10-16

Screwed Up - 2007-10-16

More polichat, but not about November. That will be later... - 2007-10-09

Why November Will Disappoint Me - 2007-10-08

Thoughts on Family - 2007-09-25

The Job - 2007-09-18

My Checkered Present - 2007-09-10

When Vendor Was in Pharoah's Land - 2007-09-05

Maker - 2007-08-29

Bruhlhand - 2007-08-22

A Gut Feeling - 2007-08-21

The Will to Fail - 2007-08-08

Be My Miyagi - 2007-07-26

Epiphany - 2007-07-23

Move Move - 2007-07-17

Xeno's New Art (A Complaint and a Solution) - 2007-07-13

Little Things - 2007-07-09

Why I'm a Subgenius - 2007-07-06

The New Rage - 2007-06-27

A Reminder - 2007-06-26

The Weekend - 2007-06-20

Throttle - 2007-06-20

Rise of the Griffith Street Coyotes - 2007-06-14

L-4 Dialogues - 2007-06-12

Icons - 2007-06-07

The Arrogance Fallacy - 2007-06-04

Fer Freakin Finally - 2007-05-30

Vendor X in Costa Rica - 2007-05-23

Hamburgeusa Especial Con Caballo - 2007-05-18

It Has Been |0|3|3| Years Since All of Vendor's Things Were Consumed By Fire - 2007-05-08

The Open Season - 2007-05-07

Low Tensions - 2007-05-02

Second Life - 2007-04-25

Matters of Taste - 2007-04-16

Vendor X Online Targa Alpha Channel Tutorial - 2007-04-09

A Workhorse Metaphor - 2007-04-08

Disillusionment - 2007-04-03

Don't Return to FUN PARTY LAKE - 2007-04-03

Repost - 2007-04-03

Whiskey and Grind House - 2007-03-29

Wrong Way Up - 2007-03-19

Fourth Town - 2007-03-10

March - 2007-03-01

All God's Chillin' Gotta Suffa - 2007-02-20

Weren't Dog Guts Involved Once? - 2007-02-14

Someone Set Us Up The Bomb. - 2007-02-11

Let's See What's Mine - 2007-02-04

Pug Vitalis - 2007-01-31

We're In For Some Chops - 2007-01-29

I am Jack's sense of moral outrage (In Defense, Part III) - 2007-01-18

The Po-Lighter Side (Dawkins, II) - 2007-01-16

In Defense of Dawkins, Part I - 2007-01-10

Page of Dreams - 2007-01-05

Bender's Back, Baby! - 2007-01-03

Perks - 2006-11-14

Im in ur studio...missin' ur ky00s - 2006-11-10

Celebration - 2006-11-08

How The Other Half Lives - 2006-11-02

Rebreak - 2006-10-19

The Nature of the Appeal - 2006-10-17

Silent Hill - 2006-10-12

Coherence - 2006-10-09

Another Brilliant Plan - 2006-10-07

Fuck the Little Children - 2006-10-05

Be-tray-OR - 2006-10-02

5th and Spring - 2006-09-27

The Return - 2006-09-17

Week In Review - 2006-09-10

The Lost Days - 2006-08-31

Revisit - 2006-08-27

Love and Respect, But Especially Respect - 2006-08-07

Another Simple Social Solution - 2006-08-02

The Good News - 2006-07-25

I don't even know who I am anymore... - 2006-07-18

Level Eight : Marsh Steel Treatment - 2006-07-13

William's Bird - 2006-07-12

The Secret Lives of Joggers - 2006-07-11

Don't Go Back to Noise Ordinance Lake - 2006-07-06

Postmodern - 2006-06-30

48 Hours - 2006-06-27

Not Afraid of the Police - 2006-06-22

Token John Lennon Music in the Background - 2006-06-20

Mike Dreams of Broken Noses - 2006-06-14

The Tire Went Flat Four Miles from the Train Station. I am Exhausted. - 2006-06-07

Seeing the Big Picture - 2006-06-06

A Short Review - 2006-06-01

Wet (boom) - 2006-05-25

Critters... - 2006-05-19

A Moment We've All Been Waiting For - 2006-05-12

In Which Mike and Clint Spend a Weekend in Joshua Tree National Park and Mike Almost Breaks His Vow - 2006-05-10

Major Credit Card Numbers Stolen - 2006-04-26

Mud in your Eye - 2006-04-18

Piggy! Noooooooo! - 2006-04-07

Vendor X Loses His Cool - 2006-04-05

The Cloud Cover : Part I - 2006-04-03

Sundry Pies - 2006-03-22

The Entity - 2006-03-15

In Which Our Hero Forces His Friend To Wander For Miles Through The Chilly Streets of Los Angeles in March - 2006-03-13

The Truth about Deviance - 2006-03-08

Melody is Passe - 2006-02-26

Bring Back My Swinging Media - 2006-02-16

Zero Hour : Part III - 2006-02-09

Zero Hour : Part II - 2006-02-08

The Zero Hour Approaches - 2006-02-07

Conversations Which May WELL Have Taken Place (You Don't Know!) - 2006-01-31

Fish Boy's Dream - 2006-01-24

The Chocolate Message - 2006-01-18

A Matter of Orientation - 2006-01-08

Feeling Better at the Expense of Others - 2006-01-05

I'd Like Your Opinions About 2006...thus far.... - 2006-01-02

My Creation... - 2005-12-27

How Vendor X Got His Pox Back - 2005-12-21

Burbank does NOT know how to party... - 2005-12-20

Just To See - 2005-12-11

Dosemity - 2005-12-05

A Thing of Beauty - 2005-11-27

Sitting Pretty - 2005-11-22

The Movening - 2005-11-12

Act III - November - 2005-11-07

Three Fine Events - 2005-10-25

It's My Time and I'll Cry if I Want To - 2005-10-20

Back and Happy - 2005-10-18

I am Coming... - 2005-10-06

Condition Yellow - 2005-10-02

A Movie I Like! - 2005-09-26

Been Missing You - 2005-09-15

Know Your Signs and Portends - 2005-09-13

Vendor X at the Hollywood Bowl - 2005-09-11

Better Off Dead - 2005-09-07

Public Service Announcement - 2005-08-29

WAR(r)! - 2005-08-26

Exponentials - 2005-08-22

Return to Disney Studios (or Don't Go Back to Disney Studios Lake!) - 2005-08-15

You'll Be Glad I Did It - 2005-08-10

We Should Have Evolved Beyond This Centuries Ago - 2005-08-04

Step OFF - 2005-07-28

A Forsaken Balloon Slowly Festers in my Office Trashcan... - 2005-07-21

Are You Superconnected Now? - 2005-07-14

Where it counts means my John Thomas - 2005-07-12

A Day at the Movies - 2005-07-02

The Earth Shook - 2005-06-14

The Talk of the Town! - 2005-06-08

Fuck the Pink Boys, Quit You're Job, Slack Off and Worship Bob Dobbs - 2005-05-26

For Some, Opinions Are Like The Divine Intervention of a Loving Savior - 2005-05-19

Constant Drift - 2005-05-17

Follow Up - 2005-05-10

I been tired...sick, too... - 2005-05-09

Lemmee Tell Ya! - 2005-04-30

How To Jog - 2005-04-26

Don't Eat World - 2005-04-20

My Glorious Creation! - 2005-04-17

UPLIFT STATUS! - 2005-04-10

So...What Are You Trying to Say? - 2005-04-06

Your Life Has Lost Its Vertical Hold - 2005-04-04

When Pepper Was in Vendor's Land - 2005-04-01

Some Quick Notes About The Weekend - 2005-03-31

As I Promised - 2005-03-24

X Impressions - 2005-03-22

Most people are hurt or shot while having fun. - 2005-03-19

Today's Random Opinion - 2005-03-16

Three Cylinders of Satisfaction - 2005-03-11

All They Told Me Is That The Job Paid $75 Cash And I Had To Wear A Gorilla Suit - 2005-03-06

Live From Manhattan Beach - 2005-03-02

Appear Suzlu Nomaz - 2005-02-27

The Point - 2005-02-23

Gray Days - 2005-02-20

I Think All Young Actors Are Cunts! - 2005-02-14

The Plodding Footsteps of Progress - 2005-02-01

Mud In My Eye - 2005-01-27

The Spirit of Arlo Guthrie Lives On In The Form of a Naked Trucker Playing the Guitar. - 2005-01-25

My Brave Little World - 2005-01-22

I Wish I Could Be More Positive - 2005-01-18

Am I Not a Brother To You? - 2005-01-13

Working Man - 2005-01-10

Los Angeles, 2005 - 2005-01-09

Hiya, Dad, I'm in JAIL!!! - 2004-12-21

The Greatest Act of Man is Prank - 2004-12-10

Crude and Random Insight - 2004-12-09

Oh the things we learn... - 2004-12-03

Let's just test a few apostropes, shall we? - 2004-12-02

Episode 318 : Hey, Scumsuck! - 2004-12-01

There was a time when I was more inclined to LIKE people I hadnt met, yet... - 2004-11-29

Petersons Field Guide to Hollywood Extras - 2004-11-25

I sowwy... - 2004-11-22

Infocom Guide Us - 2004-11-15

If you read this whole thing, I guess you have earned some kind of reward... - 2004-11-09

Reboot! - 2004-11-05

Seriosly. Go fuck yourself, America. Go and FUCK yourself. - 2004-11-03

Two Photos - 2004-10-31

A Simple Entry To Pass The Time - 2004-10-27

The Concrete and the Clay Beneath My Wheels - 2004-10-21

Whotta Bag A' Dicks - 2004-10-13

Another Lost Weekend - 2004-10-12

Dormancy - 2004-10-07

Id Call This Entry Revenge, But Im Saving That Title For An Actual Instance of Revenge, or For When I Join The Crew of The Revenge - 2004-10-04

Is is ALL FUCKING gone. - 2004-09-30

Scum Love - 2004-09-23

My weekend at 6-8,000 feet. - 2004-09-22

Praise Be - 2004-09-17

Bombs and Cornbread - 2004-09-15

Do Waitresses Dance and Other Strip Club Tales - 2004-09-14

Another long overdue post - 2004-09-13

Things To Do And Eat - 2004-08-17

Working, So Far - 2004-08-12

Crazy Geeks In the Midst - 2004-08-03

From the depths of delusion... - 2004-07-29

The Story of Authority - 2004-07-22

Who Put The Bop in the AMERICAN ONE DOLLAR BILL? - 2004-07-16

The Call of the West - 2004-07-08

Don't Just Throttle, Throttle With PASSION - 2004-07-05

What Is The Silent Ethic? - 2004-06-30

The New Face of Vendor X - 2004-06-28

All things are either one cup, or one third cup. - 2004-06-21

I Saved The Day! - 2004-06-09

Touching Base - 2004-06-02

Your Liver Is Evil, and Must Be Punished - 2004-05-31

Yay, Gays! - 2004-05-24

All Caps Means I'm Passionate - 2004-05-17

Some Good Things Happen - 2004-05-12

Come With Me Back To The Mecha Of Our Childhood - 2004-05-10

Mike Feels Like An Ass - 2004-05-06

Mike Feels Like An Ass - 2004-05-06

Please Push the Validate Button - 2004-05-05

Some Bad Things Happen - 2004-05-04

Michael B. Heaney, Shirking Responsibility Since 1992. - 2004-04-13

[when] did u c your [last] *flying saucer* - 2004-04-06

Too Much Media Exposure Makes Mike a Ranting Asshole - 2004-04-01

The Chef RUI3Z U!!! - 2004-03-29

Stranger At The Gates - 2004-03-21

Read Achewood and Watch Firefly. DO IT! - 2004-03-20

I'm BACK, Baby - 2004-03-15

Never get off the boat. - 2004-03-05

Commandment 11 : SHUT UP! - 2004-03-02

Happy Days are Here Again - 2004-02-23

Talk is cheap. Free, even. - 2004-02-20

I Also Taught Her How to Say Aqui - 2004-02-17

AKIRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - 2004-02-12

This is a test - 2004-02-08

Refuted Thus (and other stories in which inanimate objects turn on me...) - 2004-02-04

Hey, Vendor X - 2004-02-02

God of the Snow-font Discusses The Written Works of Jonathan Cott - 2004-01-27

I'm but mad west to east... - 2004-01-14

I'm A Lot Like...Omelas. - 2004-01-07

Fer Freakin' Finally! - 2004-01-05

Works both Great and Small - 2003-12-31

If Only They'd Been Afraid of Freakishly Pale People - 2003-12-19

My Blood Pressure is 142 over 81 - 2003-12-15

Doing It Right - 2003-12-02

A Positive Response - 2003-12-01

A Few Different Things - 2003-11-18

Ah, Hell No, Earthharp! - 2003-11-10

I really have been openly threatening pretty much everyone in power, lately... - 2003-11-10

'The Curse of the Mummy' is my favorite stupid joke ever. - 2003-11-02

Jack of All Pretension - 2003-10-21

Beer and Black Coffee - 2003-10-20

The Sky's Gone Out - 2003-10-08

I'm sure we all have our own ideas on what to do to the Buddha if you meet him on the road... - 2003-10-07

Beer, Bonfires and Backhoes. - 2003-09-22

Problems Undiscovered - 2003-09-17

The New Theocracy - 2003-09-17

Please Understand How Hard I'm Working to Keep You All Alive - 2003-09-08

Buncha Goddamned Firsts - 2003-09-02

I go a ta fah fo FIGH DOLLA!!!! - 2003-08-26

Whose Metaphor are You? - 2003-08-26

Don't ask me for the physical address. I do not know it. - 2003-08-18

Not Benedict - 2003-08-11

The Peaks and Valleys of my Day to Day Routine - 2003-08-07

I've Been Singing About These Ducks ALL NIGHT - 2003-08-05

How To Spend Your Summer - 2003-07-30

It's a Sexy Revolution! (Duley!) - 2003-07-23

Step Out for a Moment. - 2003-07-12

The Night I Forgot To Drink - 2003-07-08

Creation Above Board - 2003-07-05

The Boy at the Door - 2003-06-29

Labor Unrewarding - 2003-06-24

Too Drunk To Type - 2003-06-19

Winning's a Chump's Game. Try 'slack', the new path to success and happiness - 2003-06-18

From Life and Love Must Spring Politics - 2003-06-17

An Ending - 2003-05-28

Energy and Impetus - 2003-05-19

But at what COST? - 2003-05-14

Notes From the Garden : The Process of Conditioning - 2003-05-12

Give to the Keep Mike Idle fund or I will conquer your puny nation. - 2003-05-06

Pins 'n Paper - 2003-05-05

Too Slack - 2003-04-24

Free*CENSORED*eech - 2003-04-15

Down and Out Can Be Fun! - 2003-04-07

The Clothes Make the Man - 2003-04-04

Striving For Coherency. - 2003-03-16

- 2003-03-07

On Reasons Why - 2003-03-07

We try and try... - 2003-02-22

Tonight's Theme is Donna Summers - 2003-02-18

Stateside. - 2003-02-17

Traveler's Tip Final : Never Accept Candy From Strangers - 2003-02-12

There's an Equator around here somewhere... - 2003-02-09

Birds, Billiards and Blood. - 2003-02-05

My Dear Friends... - 2003-02-04

Let's hope not... - 2003-02-02

Will Panama Defeat Him - 2003-02-02

Many Remebered Stepping Over My Prone Form... - 2003-02-01

My Opium - 2003-02-01

Whatever makes you happy... - 2003-01-27

Surfing : My Way - 2003-01-24

Buncha Psychotics, allasya - 2003-01-21

Raining, arms to the sides, spinning, pull away shot... - 2003-01-18

The Little Things - 2003-01-18

But does it have to be boiling sulfur? What about copper, or something... - 2003-01-16

Lessee, that's nine people, at about 160 pounds a person and another 40 a pack... - 2003-01-13

Crazy Stuff - 2003-01-08

Overcome your sadness with a fit of sweet American vengeance. - 2003-01-07

blank topic line - 2003-01-05

Life's Not as Bad as It Seems, But Give It Until Monday. - 2003-01-02

So then I grabbed that stupid baby, the one with the diaper that reads 2003, and drop kicked it into the lake. - 2003-01-01

Fighting Fire With Kittens - 2002-12-31

Subjectivity in Reporting : Cheap Risks You Can Take To Make Your Life More Interesting - 2002-12-28

A vs. Spy Christmas Special (Live from Granada) - 2002-12-24

Tower of Righteous Indignation Nearing Completion - 2002-12-20

Coffee doesn't help, but it certanily makes it more entertaining... - 2002-12-18

Living in the Real World (Plus rant!) - 2002-12-17

Contact Information : Nicaragua - 2002-12-16

How to utterly fail to live in Granada on five dollars a day - 2002-12-15

I Recall...Simpatico... - 2002-12-14

I Am The Sun God - 2002-12-10

I Said CENTRAL DE AUTOBUSES, DAMNED YOU! - 2002-12-10

Lost On The Border - 2002-12-10

Onward, intrepid voyager... - 2002-12-03

But the food's still the best part... - 2002-12-02

Quanajuato : The Quijote and Tequila Days - 2002-11-30

I'll try and explain myself... - 2002-11-29

You May Stop Bitching About the Cold at Your Leisure. - 2002-11-28

Those beautiful blue fields... - 2002-11-26

I'm Only to Central Mexico, and I Already Like Poland... - 2002-11-24

Now THIS is my Mazatlan (or, how the hell do you work the punctuation on these freaking spanish keyboards...) - 2002-11-23

There's nothing like a bit o' the clap to make you feel like a man...who's been with a woman...who's been with several other men... - 2002-11-20

It's all in how you spin it... - 2002-11-18

By this time tomorrow, we could be drinking shots from the naval of a cheap mexican prostitute... - 2002-11-16

Beauty in Advertising - 2002-11-13

How I Learned To Fear Greyhound - 2002-11-13

The least helpful doorman in the world. - 2002-11-13

Greyhound Bus ATE MY BALLS - 2002-11-11

How to tell when you're culture is in decline... - 2002-11-08

Man, I LOVE That Library... - 2002-11-08

Return to Denver - 2002-11-07

Ah, providence. - 2002-11-04

And So It Begins - 2002-11-02

Okay, I swear this is the last one - 2002-10-30

One last thing... - 2002-10-29

Second Verse, Same as the First - 2002-10-29

The most amazing thing... - 2000-10-29

A Little Honest Labor
2010-01-20

Another year, another tarot card. Justice, number eight in the major arcana, revealed a lot to me in its making. First off, I learned an odd little fact about the tarot. Turns out that three of the four cardinal virtues are represented in the tarot, justice, temperance, and strength. However the fourth, prudence, was mysteriously left out of the deck (or lost in translation as the deck grew and spread.) Either way, I find it appropriate that caution, wisdom and prudence are not considered exactly part and parcel to having one's fortune told with a pack of cards. (For whatever reason Crowley, in his Thoth deck, disses both strength and temperance, changing them to lust and art respectively, leaving justice as the lone virtue.)

More importantly some of the real importance of building one's own deck, or shall I say some of the real benefits of doing this, were made more apparent to me. In exploring each card, I've had to explore myself, since these cards are supposed to represent their subject matter as it best relates to me personally. With cards like the Fool and the Magician, my understanding of the card and what I wanted from it appeared complete in my head practically a priori. Part of this was the thrill of the project, and part, of course, related to my own love and experience with these cards juxtaposed on top of my own fantasies about my own nature.

As I've moved forward, I've begun to encounter cards I have very little prior personal relationship with. What is 'Justice' to me, as represented and explored in the card? My understanding of this card was pitiful compared to my knowledge of cards like the Fool or the Hermit. And arguably part of this was that very little attempt has been made on my part to explore those aspects of myself which relate to that card's nature and message. In a reading, (especially one you're doing for yourself) its very easy to gloss over cards you don't much care about (one of the reasons self readings are typically discouraged.) However, when building your own cards, its much harder to honestly ignore a card that way. And so in building some of these cards, I've achieved my first real relationship with them, which can only serve to enhance my ability to use and understand my deck (or any deck,) effectively.

And so, Justice!


A Month Short and Fifty Thousand Words LONG (Like My Co..)
2009-11-30

Not that I've been great about updating regularly to begin with, but this month I was, obviously, extremely awful! I do, at least, have what I consider a half decent excuse this time.

Will write more later, but I am flush burned OUT on that right about now.


Up In Arms, Cemetery Version
2009-11-03

Today, I went biking down to the Fayetteville National Cemetery, which is a rather nice place, an historic monument, a civil war cemetery, part of the public trust. It's a place I like to visit from time to time. I won't say that I'm exactly reverent, but I do like to muse and ponder the whole nature of the dead buried there, specifically in relationship to military service, especially in relationship to the civil war. I keep quite, to myself, don't cause any trouble, show respect.

Today, however, a car pulled up behind me and honked its horn. A middle aged woman got out when I stopped and walked up to me, a cemetery employee. Sternly, she asked me if I was visiting a relative. I replied that no, I was just sight seeing. She explained that the cemetery was not a bike trail and that she'd let me 'sight see” today but if I were to return she'd make it, and I quote, “bad for me.”

Now, I understand that people can be a little protective about the dead or, more importantly, their irrational bullshit faux spiritual concepts like the idea that somehow a bicycle is more “disrespectful” of the dead than, say, a car. I am also well accustomed to the condition that 99 out of any 100 people, handed the slightest illusion of authority, will use it to the least beneficial or intelligent degree possible. Still, this was simply idiotic. There was no possible harm done to the cemetery or, “the dead.” As a national historic landmark the cemetery is mine to visit, and I don't need a dead relative there to justify it. Her reaction was one built purely on an irrational, control freak mentality.

I've been looking around for any rule that might suggest that either a: the public isn't welcome at their leisure or b: that bicycles were somehow forbidden. Nothing. Just another example of a pointless bureaucrat with no idea what to do with the actual responsibilities she should be focusing on. And this ridiculous idiot, this half assed civil servant, has the audacity to get in my way.

Fortunately, I am no longer powerless! With a better grasp of my local government along with my public access producer's license, I can now make things “bad” for her in an entirely legal way! Finally, I can be one of the people griping endlessly to the city council about things they don't want to hear! Finally I can have a focused, specialized issue to write endless letters to the editor over. And while I am tongue-in-cheeking my reaction, I do not consider it an overreaction. Heading off this moronic kind of 'public service' is an important aspect of maintaining the power of the citizenry, especially in this 'post 9/11 environment” where officials are overeager to take it all away. Fight the retarded halfwit illusion of the power!