Sipes (Criterion is a new religion)

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obscure, random chat on gmail...


Brandon: http://peacebuilding.wordpress.com

Kyle: looks like Northern Ireland knew of your coming

Brandon: yeah, they knew they had to get their shit together before I showed up...that way they can be like "No, no, we've been getting along, I promise!"

Kyle: well...have a guinness on the house.

Brandon: yep, and Jameson whiskey

Kyle: fuck you

Brandon: "That's how Kyle says I love you"

Kyle: not everyone knows...sometimes I forget that

Brandon: yeah..."hey Lebron...go fuck yourself"

Kyle: phil storer is not "busy" in that honduran internet lab.

Brandon: maybe he's online trying to get his passport again

Kyle: I plan on writing a letter to Wendell Berry...found his address online. At the library in Louisa, KY, they have more Max Lucado books than Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Cervantes, Dante, Dostoevsky, Thoreau, Donne, Hugo, Hesse combined. I figure he can come and plant some seeds.

Brandon: We here at Clark County have been reading articles lately about libraries weeding out their classics because they aren't being checked out...they are more concerned with being "relateable" and "current" and are trying to stay competitive with shops that sell mass market fiction, etc. Read an article about a library getting rid of 90% of their hemingway because it hadn't been circulating.

Kyle: it is awful dude.

Brandon: so instead of starting programming with the local schools and on their own to get people interested in the actual writers of our past, they decided to let it all go and hope that Danielle Steel and Debbie Macomber and Tim LaHaye will satisfy their deep literary hungers

Kyle: Grisham

Brandon: I tell everyone I never wanted to burn books until I started working at the Library

Kyle: right. it is odd that this area I work in is so dependent on Military (the start ROTC classes in like kindergarten)...and I can't so much think non-violent thoughts without feeling watched. it has been really difficult to connect

Brandon: yep...trust me, we live less than 20 miles away from 2 military bases...wright patt and an air force base just south of town. multiple times a day these gargantuan cargo planes in that odd muted grey color float overhead. And when I'm on my way to yellow springs to disconnect from the redneck mindset, I have to look off to the east and see F-16's doing training drills about 30 feet off the ground and a few hundred yards from the road

Kyle: that is awful dude. I visited an adolescent yesterday who burned his arm with cigarettes in a game of chicken he played with a friend....I diagnosed him as severely bored.

Brandon: "This...is chemical burn"

Kyle: I wish...I can't even get these kids to identify with fuckin' spiderman.

Brandon: I realized the other day that, like some people cite scripture in their speech to illuminate points and give weight to what they are saying, i do that with movie quotes

Kyle: me too...and everyone is like, huh? Except for other Criterions like ourselves. Criterion is a new religion.

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