And You Thought Sin was Ugly!

You know how every girl in the whole school always bitches about their yearbook picture?

They whine and cry and tell everyone not to look because of how awful it is. Then you see it and they look positively gorgeous.

Well, check out my stunning school picture.

I hope re-takes are soon. This is just awful!

The problem is that I can't smile right unless I'm looking in a mirror. Also horrible acne.

So nobody else has an excuse to bitch and moan about their school picture any more. Got it?


If I might go off topic for just a bit here (Who are you to tell me I can't, anyway?), six posts makes September 2007 the slowest month in Chasing Ducks history.

Trivia Time
Last week I snorted a line of frosted mini wheats cereal, followed by a line of honey smacks cereal, both ground to a coarse powder. My right nostril isn't too happy about this.

Balls!

This is an original Jake quote.
Ever since my creation of this note card, I often scream this whenever I'm angry.

Everybody Loves Recreational Rugs!

So I'm sitting in history class, 8th period. Pretty boring. We're doing a chapter on Hammurabi, who was the first ruler to make a written set of laws available to the public.

Mrs. Nolan says "Ok, everyone, on a sheet of paper, write down some basic laws that most countries have today."


I'll translate my dysgraphic handwriting:
Don't kill people
Don't steal stuff
Don't cheat people out of money
Don't smoke stuff that the king thinks you shouldn't smoke
Don't hit people

And don't mind the odd shape off to the side. It's a doodle on the other side of the paper that only makes sense in the context of that class period.

Anyway, when I read my list aloud, Mrs. Nolan said "Yeah, so most of those were laws in ancient times, too, except for the rug laws."

Rug laws? "What laws?" I asked, a bit puzzled.

"The kinds of laws where a government may not want its citizens using certain recreational rugs."

Rugs? Drugs, maybe? Somehow the "D" in "drugs" got dropped twice. I had to doodle it!


Getting high on rugs: slightly more expensive than pot, but much more fun to tell people about.

Daily Note Card of the Day: The Beginning

You probably remember Cole. He's in my English class this year!

I have English 8th period, and by then I'm either ridiculously tired or antsy (aka: ready to get out of school).

At first...I put up with this, but then Cole and I found a way to keep me awake or in control.

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Thus began: The Daily Note Card of the Day.

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Every day, Cole gives me a note card and I think of some quote, either original or from a movie/book/song, either funny or just plain random, and then I draw a person saying it. After completing the card, I then pass it around the class. The formula has held true every day since.

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Readers, you are fortunate or unfortunate enough to read these Daily Note Cards of the Day!

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The very first one will be up tomorrow! (Ooh...the anticipation!)
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Back! Back, I say!

This post isn't too original, and it's not supposed to be. This is mostly an attempt to stave off the vultures. Chasing Ducks is starting to smell ripe and the scavengers are closing in.

I'll post a real post soon, but for now, let's look at my accent.

• What American accent do you have?
  Your Result: The Midland
  
  "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.

Nifty. I suppose I've travelled enough to lose my accent, though I think I may be picking up a slight Texas ugliness to my voice.

Try this out. Before submitting, run through the answers a second time. The first time, you may not realise how different they mean when they say "different."

The Midget Gallery

I'm going to cut right to the chase on this one. Dane, Kacey, Ryan and I found a midget gallery in Paris. It wasn't like a walk-in thing, just a store front with no door.


Here, in the window, someone has displayed less-than-clothed pictures of a midget.


But wait, there's more!


I decided to look in to this hole.


By the way, creepy, circus-like music was pouring out of the radiating slits.

There was a slideshow of midget pictures in the peep-hole. This is one of the less-naked ones.


I'm a bit confused. What was the inspiration for this? What is the artist trying to convey?
Whatever it is, he's obviously not conveying hard enough to get through my skull.

Our quote for today comes from a game of Gears of War that I just got done playing with ianb2405, LoneSpartan1214 and El Deej. In Gears of War, many objects can be dented or destroyed by meleeing them, such as the furniture in the indoor section of the level we were playing.

Quote of the Day

Look at Ian [ianb2405]. He's over there beating the shit out of that couch. I think he just, like, hates the furniture. "Yeah, fuck you, bureau!"
-El Deej