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Babyland--a lot of fun. I would have pogoed more if I didn't have a headache. Got a CD. Pretty decent. Go me. Songs at point remind me of Killing Joke in a good way.

My weekend otherwise was quiet, trying to chat with Sivan, going to a Santa Rosa Hall barbeque. Bought some 'swinger's magazine' in attempt to find a girlfriend. A poor attempt, I must add. What was I thinking? I want company and a tour guide, not just sex. Hell, at this point, I don't care about the sex.

Diva Destruction, another interesting band, is playing on the 10th in San Francisco. Should I make a day of it? How do I get there on time when a Greyhound bus ride is 9 hours and a train ride is 12 hours?

"The Almighty will decide . . but what?"

Inspired in part by a hawkish little poem, I decided to re-read Beliefnet's *cough* lively debate about the Holy Land, and came across this.

Apparently, Muslim apocalyptic novels are big. Some of them have the Temple Mount as the focus. Oh boy.

"To make sense of all this, picture apocalyptic believers seated in a triangular theater around the stage of Jerusalem. All agree that history's last act is being played out, but they hold different programs. Jewish Temple activists--bit players in real life--have starring roles in the Christian play; Jews and Christians alike unknowingly play in the Muslim script. Hope and fear are the sound system, wildly amplifying every word, every footstep. Small actions at the Temple Mount take on significance that nonbelievers--such as secular politicians and analysts--neither expect nor understand."

Ariel Sharon: Messenger of Abrahamic Apocalypse?

I have no clear-cut answers. I find no side completely right or wrong--it seems that the religious Zionists and the imans that go on about 'wasq' both value a view of absolute victories and glorious battles.

I think all that will happen will be dead people.

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Rah. I have succumbed to the amazon.com list making meme.

Maybe I can get it cheaper somewhere else?

Anyway, here it is: Fuel for the transformation, books to read for various novel and story ideas I have going on: a comic book, a novel, a trilogy on the apocolypse, and a module for Neverwinter Nights. Have fun and suggest more books I should look at?

(Edited because of wrong URL) :)