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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 | Why I'm not "real", why I don't let jpg's and gif's represent me as a person....
On the Murderous Capacity of Images
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Thus perhaps at stake has always been the murderous capacity of images, murderers of the real, murderers of their own model, as the Byzantine icons could murder the divine identity. To this murderous capacity is opposed the dialectical capacity of representations as a visible and intelligible mediation of the Real. All of Western faith and good faith was engaged in this wager on representation: That a sign could refer to the depth of meaning, that a sign could exchange for meaning, and that something could guarantee this exchange---God, of course. But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say, reduced to the signs which attest his existence? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer anything but a gigantic simulacrum---not unreal, but a simulacrum, never again exchanging for what is real, but exchanging in itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference.
So it is with simulation, insofar as it is opposed to representation. The latter starts from the principle that the sign and the real are equivalent (even if this equivalence is utopian, it is a fundamental axiom). Conversely, simulation starts from the utopia of this principle of equivalence, from the radical negation of the sign as value, from the sign as reversion and death sentence of every reference. Whereas representation tries to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the edifice of representation as itself a simulacrum. This would be the successive phases of the image:
it is the reflection of a basic reality.
it masks and perverts a basic reality.
it masks the absence of a basic reality.
it bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is its own pure simulacrum.
---Jean Baudrillard, "The Evil Demon of Images and the Precession of Simulacra," in Thomas Docherty, ed., Postmodernism: A Reader (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1993) pp. 194 ff.
http://www.uta.edu/english/apt/collab/baudweb.html
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If you all remember I bought Baudrillards book a while ago, I'm still working on this. I researched about him today and found this little except that pretty much covers how I feel about the question: So, got any pics?
not to say I would never post one... but I'd have to seriously think about it after reading this excerpt! After all, anyone who reads this blog has a better image of me than someone who never read it and only ever saw some random pic... then again, the blog itself could take over and people think all I am is a blog..? and the representation morphs into something very ugly and unreal...
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Tuesday, September 21, 2004 | Happy Birthday to my girl.... stay blessed ma.
no posts from me for a while!!!!! I'm BZ like Biz Markie... ok I'll stop now <3
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Friday, September 17, 2004 | wtf...? I'm hoping it's a joke really
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Tuesday, September 14, 2004 | I had a close encounter with some upchuck last night....It was horrible y'all.. after feeling sick all day at work, I came home, slept, woke up and threw up all over my bed and floor... groos huh? It really was too... all I could see was a lot of water and green lettuce ( my dinner from the night before )... I guess that's what'd made me sick.. I didn't eat a thing yesterday... anyway sha.. I spent the night cleaning my floor, my radio, my phone, even my bible.. I had to wash my sheets even though I was tempted to just throw them out.. I sfinally lept on my raw mattress with my queen duvet at 2am yes, the same duvet that acted as a bucket during the event.. thank God for Tide... The only good thing is I get to go shopping today for a new mattress pad :) keyword: shopping and a day off work.. all in all I'd say it was worth it :D
With that in mind, lol I wann asend Birthday Wishes to Someone special... Happy Birthday B
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Thursday, September 09, 2004 | The ugliest box I've ever seen!
But it's still well done, and these kids put waaaaaay too much time into their towers.. but hey whatever makes your dough rise.. see more
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Saturday, September 04, 2004 | The $700 deficit
I really can't believe this... after months of careful budgeting I'm in the hole $700 and I have to find $400 for a course I have to take this fall and another $200 or so for other bills... this is insane... I hate being stressed about money I have no fucking clue where I"m supposed to find $700 before my next paycheck which is two weeks away sicne I just got paid on Wednesday! How the hell does it work out that I'm not working for ME anymore I'm working for everybody else. The little bit of money I said I'd save for December is non existent now.... luckily I had $399 or so in my account so I can pay for my course.. which leaves me with like less than 40c in my account.. and $700 less than I'm supposed to have at the beginning of September... So not only is my savings plan up in smoke I have no idea how I"m supposed to eat or even buy gas for the next eleven days!! I just can't believe this...
There is no good news today folks.... I doubt there ever will be again. I'm so depressed now.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 | The burden of proving yourself innocent
 By now we've all heard of the updates to the now defunct Kobe Bryant rape charge? Isn't it sad that you can sue or charge anyone with any serious crime you wish just for your own personal gain? And what's to I find it worrying at how easily these charges were brought without any investigation by the prosecution... at least if he were really guilty they would have a rebuttal ready for the defense.. Anyway.. my thoughts on the whole debacle!
Case dropped with Prejudice meaning he won't be charged again
Lucky for Kobe he won't be getting charged again. I"m happy about that because as time goes by it gets more and more difficult to prove your innocence and of course there are the legal bills... getting that "Not Guilty" doesn't come cheap.. just ask O.J. or Oprah. So one good thing leads to another right... that can't be any more truthful than in this situation. Sure, they can still sue him in Civil court but unlike O.J. he probably won't be paying a dime for fucking a slut ( not that sluts can't/don't get raped but you have to be a SERIOUS ho to sex someone after you supposedly got raped! ) anyway with all the evidence they gathered for the real case I'm pretty sure he won't part with a dime in any Civil case.. in fact I think he should sue the bitch and the city of Colorado.. what a ras!
Beyond a reasonable doubt
 Let's face it, after the initial shock of Saint Kobe being charged with rape, and the media going crazy with trying to get details from locals and what not, a lot of people had doubt before charges were even laid! I know and I remember this well because actually I was disappointed at a few people's opinions of "he probably didn't do it" meanwhile all they know is the Kobe they see in McDonald's commercials or in stupid press interviews after one foe his wins... of course you see a nice happy guy.. but Ted Bundy was a nice happy serial killer.. no one believed he did it till they found decomposing bodies in his fridge. By then 20+ people were limbless, headless and oh yea, dead! So popular opinion should never carry weight when someone is charged with a serious crime.. but in this case it would have been hard to find "normal" non reclusive jurors who a) didn't hate the lakers, basketball or black people and b) didn't have an opinion one way or the other about his innocence.
Everywhere you looked, everyone I talked with people thought he was innocent... brain washing thanks to the media's insatiable appetite for naughty celeb news
Esculpatory evidence
 I know from faithfully watching re-runs of L.A. Law that exculpatory Evidence is evidence that the defense is entitled to and the Prosecution is OBLIGATED to provide to the defense. i.e. DNA evidenve that a defendant's D>N>A does not match what was collected from the victim moments after a rape.. Anyway apparently, the Colorado prosecutor DID NOT provide some esculpatory evidence to Kobe's people... he would have been let off on that alone or the evidence would have been thrown out entirely meaning a damaged prosecution case... it's very very bad behavior on the side of the prosecution which often happens when they see past the conviction and become vindictive little lawyers bent on adding a huge notch to their conviction belts and breaking the same laws they swore to uphold.. Lovely isn't it.
So, basically they are saying that not only did she have sex on the day before, the day off, after, and the day(s) after the "Rape" there was even MORE evidence that this chick was just not equipped with the word "No" in her vocabulary therefore making it almost impossible to rape her? I mean there has to be a word like stop or no right? She's probably the one raping dudes, I just think she wanted the world to know she gbenshed Kobe... I don't blame her entirely actually the prosecution should have known better, done it's own research about the victim they're going up to bat for and made an advised decision about whether she was a girl who loved sex too much and might have put out the wrong signals and ended up getting raped or just a girl who loved sex too much, enjoyed being promiscuous for whatever reason and was looking to make a dime while become in Monica-Lewinsky-Famous all in one lay?
20 years, sex offender for life
Imagine that ALL that was at stake here was a lucrative contract with the Lakers, a bruised ego, a lost wife and maybe a little embarrassment.. okay a lot of embarrassment ( not as bad as Michael Jackson's but still pretty big ).. but no, Kobe could have been keeping a firm grip on his soap somewhere in Colorado for 20 long years.. thats almost as long as he's been on this earth! 20 years is a looooong time. From what I know he hasn't finished college so he'd be coming out a certified sex offender, the second most famous rapist in sports history, no education, no wife, an estranged family and lots of turned fans... that's an even worse sentence for someone who is used to first class treatment 24/7/365.... Of course if he did it it's barely a fair sentence... but for someone innocent?
Two weeks to lay charges.. Witness drawing back
Who would have thought that Colorado was even worse than a place like Los Angeles which has a long history of racial profiling and racism in it's police force... In Colorado it's even worse because it's an overzealous Prosecutor and District attorney who are a bit too gung ho to hang another black man who fucked a white ho... I can't believe in this day and age people are still so blind to the fact that not all white girls are sweethearts, yes they are out there fucking 3-4 guys a night... go figure little Jenny's a ho even though she has Mummy and Daddy and her high school diploma... I don't get it.. White people really have issues.. I'm sure they were just burnt that a big name, rich as hell black man can just come into town and gbensh one of their white kids.. Never mind the fact that she was already fucking half of Colorado. I mean how else can you explain them laying charges in 2 weeks without actually finding out about the ACCUSER. Let's face it, it never was about her because even after she wanted to stay off the witness stand in her own defense almost, they were still willing to go forward with the charges against Kobe..? If thats not a witch hunt, I don't know what is.
Money
 If Kobe didn't have as much money as he did... if he was even a regular white collar worker who sexed that girl after a night at the club or something, he's be in jail right now waiting on a more than certain sentence of 20 years in prison for a serious Sexual Offence
In less dramatic News...
Yipee! I got my paycheck today... that's always reason to jumpup high and sqeal like a little girl but today is extra special. My raise started this month so I get an extra $150 in my pocket every two weeks.. I'm so happy /trust/ me... it's a huuuge raise really I just wish there was no such thing as tax. I'm still questioning my decision not to look for a second job... I'd rather try and get some part time projects going so I can get money on a monthly basis... * sigh * the struggle continues but I thank God for listening to my prayers ( slash whines and hours of shameless begging ) because he finally gave me a little break. See kids, whining really works!! :o)
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