Why Go Into the Outside World At All? It's Such a Fright!

So first of all, I haven't had the cable teevee for about two years. I remembered seeing a lot of back and forth in the ol' blogosphere the past couple of years about Mad Men and True Blood. Frankly, I couldn't be bothered. Well, the queue finally hit my series chunk on Netflix, so I gave 'em a shot. Well, I don't got no high-falutin' intellectual criticizin' of them there shows, but I gotta say, I am thoroughly enjoying both.

I finished season 1 of True Blood on Netflix last week, and I am about halfway through season 1 of Mad Men for this week. How come no one told me that J. Pierrepont Finch was the big boss in Mad Men? That shit is hi-larious! How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is like, my fourth favorite movie musical of all time!



And yes, True Blood is truly awful. It's also fucking ridiculously fun; I don't think I've ever seen something so goddamn stupid that I've enjoyed so goddamn much. Supposedly, the second season is even more retarded than the first. I can hardly contain myself!


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So, in other news, I got's me a job, bitches! Tell you more later.

Also, MJNA is chilling at .40 cents a share. So all in all, pretty good. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Seriously, Dudes

MJNA absolutely roars to a close at .36 cents at the end of the week. I've made about $2,000 dollars in the past week. Are you seriously going to tell me you haven't bought shares yet? Come on.



ps - stuck in salary negotiation limbo on the job front. Please keep your fingers crossed for Matt out there, ScaryShitsters.

I'm Rich, Bitch!

So didja buy MJNA like I suggested when it was still .26 cents? Guess what? .30 cents right now, suckers! I just made a cool $500 dollars.

Go ahead, treat yourself to some Medical Marijuana, Inc. You deserve it. And remember, it's never too late to get in on a good thing.

Also, a personal update. I currently have in front of me, simply put, the two best job offers I've ever had in my entire life. And by a country mile, to boot. I don't know what I'm going to do, I've got a lot of hard thinking to do, and I need to figure this shit out yesterday. Talk t0 you folks later. Gotta get back to cogitating.

Matt Money

So, been dealing with a lot of stressful job-search stuff right now. Doing a lot of soul-searching, and trying to figure out what the hell to do next. Right now I have four or five really intriguing possibilities, and I need to make up my mind, and soon. I gots to cogitate, so I dunno how much bloggering I'm going to be doing right this second.

So, in the meantime, how's about a smoking hot stock tip?

MJNA, currently trading as an over the counter stock at .26 cents. It's our pick of the week over here at Matt Money!



Webistics, er, Medical Marijuana, Inc. is the name of the company. They have some sort of a debit card/automatic tax & book-keeping application for medical marijuana dispensaries. Is it gonna work? Turn a profit? Who knows! But seriously, where the fuck else you gonna put your money? GM? But of course, caveat emptor, this guy (who sure seems like a real smarmy cocksucker, if you ask me) calls them a "scummy penny stock," your classic pump and dump situation, if you will.

I don't know, I don't care. It's cheap (real fucking cheap), and as far as I know, it's the only publicly traded marijuana stock currently out there. I'm living in Oakland right now, in the heart of Oaksterdam, and I can tell you that there is a whole hell of a lot of money being made out here. Seems a shame not to get your slice of the pie, right? It seems to me that you can't afford not to buy it, it is only .26 freaking cents!

Don't be a sucker. Buy it. You know you want it. Come on in, the water's just fine....

Cheap Post

So, I have slightly updated my blogroll. A few old ones are gone, a few new ones are here, so whatever. Read 'em, and shit. By the by, IOZ has a great blogroll, I'd recommend reading those guys, that's pretty much where I begin my blog-nerding each day (and my sincerest condolences to the monsieur).

I guess the most obvious change is that I shuttered UsefulActivism for the time being. Frankly, it's not a discussion with which I'm particularly invested or interested. "Why should we hear about activism and such? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?" I'm seriously pseudo-retired from politics and activism right now.

So what am I gonna write about? Dunno. I imagine I'll be writing a lot about how I don't write about politics. But whatevs. I'll leave you with a thought for the day. Dennis Perrin really distilled a lot of how I've been feeling lately with this nugget:

Outside, the world continues to burn. It always will. I read headlines, stay aware, but it's becoming more abstract to me. Is this imperial privilege? Or do we all lose the edge that once informed our lives -- assuming we ever had it? Any explanation will suffice. I'm tired and open to suggestions.

Oh, and Robot? Why the fuck was I not informed about the Shit Split cover show in Mpls. on May Day? Dude, I would have seriously flown up for that. Blatz is like my favorite band evah, yo.

By the way, lemme tell you a little something about something else. "Super-liberal hypocrites, what the hell is this hippy shit anyways?"


Oh yeah, and "Oakland rulz!!!!!!!!!!" -- Jesse Luscious

Never Mind the Poltroons, Here's Arthur Silber

Help Arthur Silber. Please donate to him here, he desperately needs whatever assistance you can offer. I "unretired" from blogging in large part to write this post.

Arthur is simply one of the most generous and beautiful people I've ever had the pleasure to converse with on this here internets, and I hope to hell that he is doing alright. No one writes with his power or clarity, and on a myriad* of subjects to boot. No one.

I'm just gonna cut and paste Chris Floyd's post from last week in its entirety:

Arthur Silber has been silent for quite some time, and his last post spoke of horrific problems with his health -- which has been declining for a long time, and now seems to have taken a deep plunge.

I don't know his precise situation at the moment, but it is likely to be dire. I imagine too that in addition to the health problems, he is facing the usual crush of bills at the end of the month. He is one of our strongest and most thought-provoking voices, yet is forced to live at the margins of society, while witless poltroons and egregious time-servers swim in gravy.

I am not authorized to speak for him, and am not speaking for him -- but just on my own volition, I would urge you to go to his site and, if you have anything to give, give what you can to support Silber in this difficult time. We need his insight, we need his wit, we need the disturbing, productive fire in the mind that he can light.

And while you're there, avail yourself of some of the "Major Essays" listed on the side; this is powerful stuff, and you won't see anything like it anywhere else.

Please donate. Even if it is just a few dollars.

Thank you.

*Hey Smilingdork, if you're reading:

usage Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it.

PS - Arthur, I promise to write soon. And guess what, it's mom's birthday today!

A Story...

Once upon a time, there was a guy with a facebook account. The guy works in the political industry. The political campaigns industry, actually. Specifically, the political campaigns for shitbag Democrats industry. This guy has also been friends with a former (reformed?) blogger for about 6 years, give or take.

The guy wrote this the other day on his facebook page or wall or whatever the fuck the kids these days are calling it:

if there is no public option, i am not voting in federal elections any more........

To which the friend/blogger (duh, me) replied:

Give me a break man. I would think that being perpetually "surprised" and disappointed by the actions of politicians, especially Democratic politicians would finally get old. Or at least exhausting. Stop being a chump. Stop voting. And Jesus Hector Christinez, stop voting for "More, and better, Democrats." Buy a fucking clue, please.

I then proceeded to post these two links:

http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2009/07/thats-not-change-america-can-believed.html

http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/2009/07/postpartisan.html

Well, a bit of not-so-pleasant back and forth then ensued, and the guy ended the conversation thusly:

honestly matt if you knew what i thought aside from a quick tidbit on facebook expressing my frustration about this bull shit healthcare, then you could talk but until than dont talk to me about what you believe is going through my head.

And you know what, he's right. I simply haven't the faintest as to what is going through this dear friend of mine's head. It was unfair of me to assume that he may have been "surprised" or "disappointed." Frankly, I don't know how he felt, nor do I care.

So, the proper way to have expressed my frustration with my friend would perhaps be better phrased, "You are part of the problem."

I love this guy like a brother, and we have literally spent hundreds of hours arguing over and discussing "politics." If he still doesn't get it, he simply never will. And he is not alone. He is like the vast majority of those of us who follow (i.e. waste our time reading about/listening to/talking to others about) politics.

I am done. I try (and it is an effort) to not pay attention. To not get dragged into these asinine discussions of bafflement over Obama/The Dem's actions/decisions. I am much happier now. I recommend that you try to do the same.

So to my friend, I again apologize. I have no fucking clue what could possibly be running through your head. I know for a fact that you are an intelligent person, with a good heart, and someone that I care about a lot. So why you spend your days working to elect and re-elect these awful people, let alone waste your time talking about "politics" in your precious few hours away from work, I will never know.

I did the same for many years. I promise I never will again.