<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417</id><updated>2011-07-07T20:03:52.878-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Life of an Assless Man</title><subtitle type='html'>Poetry sketches, love poems for liz, and the occassional sexist endeavor</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>43</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-5060165766868182272</id><published>2010-02-03T20:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T21:22:34.583-08:00</updated><title type='text'>my life 6 words</title><content type='html'>never did manage to understand you&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;or &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;aspie child to prosody proponents foe&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;or&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Pittsburgh Jew Lacked Much In Faith&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;or&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Faulting pulchritude did it with guile &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;or&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Cautious examination leads to strange result&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;or&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-5060165766868182272?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/5060165766868182272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=5060165766868182272' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/5060165766868182272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/5060165766868182272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-life-6-words.html' title='my life 6 words'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-175078446037732664</id><published>2010-02-01T18:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T18:06:49.228-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Rain falling.&lt;br /&gt;Smoke rising.&lt;br /&gt;Suck Blood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; "&gt;Give nourishment.&lt;br /&gt;Breathe fire.&lt;br /&gt;Live art.&lt;br /&gt;Wail sacrilege.&lt;br /&gt;Make love.&lt;br /&gt;Show scars.&lt;br /&gt;Create beauty.&lt;br /&gt;Destroy yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-175078446037732664?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/175078446037732664/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=175078446037732664' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/175078446037732664'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/175078446037732664'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2010/02/rain-falling.html' title=''/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7898714155960667258</id><published>2010-02-01T17:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T17:37:24.482-08:00</updated><title type='text'>blah</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Palatino, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;during my worst times&lt;br /&gt;Alone and cold&lt;br /&gt;fear jailed&lt;br /&gt;or passing with&lt;br /&gt;whores&lt;br /&gt;life contained a certain&lt;br /&gt;contentment-&lt;br /&gt;I wouldn't call it&lt;br /&gt;happiness-&lt;br /&gt;it was more a grand&lt;br /&gt;balance&lt;br /&gt;that guised &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="font-family:Palatino, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "&gt;itself as fullness&lt;br /&gt;and it helped in the&lt;br /&gt;cubicle&lt;br /&gt;and when life&lt;br /&gt;collapsed&lt;br /&gt;with the&lt;br /&gt;girls. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7898714155960667258?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/7898714155960667258/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=7898714155960667258' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7898714155960667258'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7898714155960667258'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2010/02/blah.html' title='blah'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-6334977281860461236</id><published>2010-01-29T14:38:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T14:39:53.901-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mi primera poema en espanol!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;El tiempo es el único retablo familiar, último punto de referencia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Incluso tu sombra cae sesgadamente aquí, imitándote de manera extraña,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;¿Ó eres realmente encorvada y escapas a toda prisa o por la banqueta?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;¿Cuándo te volviste tan pequeña?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Es fácil volverse nostálgico. Es algo fácil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Claramente el tiempo no es un paisaje para construir un hogar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tu amado, en cuya querida ciudad tú ahora moras,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;está de acuerdo en que uno de ustedes tiene una ventaja.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;¿Pero cuál de los dos?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Le haces recordar a tu amado que “morar” proviene del antiguo Castellano,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; significando así el “descarriar”, “deambular” le señalas, retorciendo tus llaves entre tus dedos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Entonces permanece. “Di que permaneces aquí” sugiere tu amado,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;recordando demasiado tarde,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;que permanecer también significa soportar, tolerar, cargar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;¿Son acaso todas estas palabras para ‘quedarse quieto’ tan problemáticas?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ambos se asientan en ‘residir’,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;libre de interpretaciones erróneas,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;balanceando sus piernas sobre el balcón&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;que tiene vista al parque&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a donde a veces van solos, los dos,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; para alimentar los pajarillos negros&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; que te hacen recordar tu hogar de la infancia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ni tú ni tu amado sugieren que clamas el vivir aquí.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; Secretamente piensas que aquí moras,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;te estás enredando,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; te estás desenredando&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;y lo opuesto de lo opuesto&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sólo tu sombra vive aquí,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;conservando aún todo lo que siempre ha tenido.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Por que tu cuerpo es su techo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Porque eres su hogar.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Su hogar sin hogar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-6334977281860461236?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/6334977281860461236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=6334977281860461236' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/6334977281860461236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/6334977281860461236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2010/01/mi-primera-poema-en-espanol.html' title='Mi primera poema en espanol!!!'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-8631295841422010348</id><published>2010-01-29T07:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T07:46:13.345-08:00</updated><title type='text'>a loveless world</title><content type='html'>I was fairly drunk when it began&lt;div&gt;and I took out my bottle and used it&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was working the next day&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I did not look pretty, but I brought it off&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Finished in Bar Americas &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I drank scotch, beer, tequila, vodka&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and noticed a nice one sitting next to me&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Buck toothed she grinned at me&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;lovely.  and I put my arm around her&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and began loading her with bullshit, When I awakened at 10 am the next morning &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was in a strange house&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In bed &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;with this &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;woman, she was asleep but looked&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Familiar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-8631295841422010348?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/8631295841422010348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=8631295841422010348' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/8631295841422010348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/8631295841422010348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2010/01/loveless-world.html' title='a loveless world'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-1000903132531245148</id><published>2010-01-29T07:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T07:35:24.873-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Paulina</title><content type='html'>Captivating, Callous&lt;div&gt;In equal measure&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Or perhaps &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;infinitely so&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the hard sun &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dancing &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;so brightly &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;across the flower bed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;beautiful&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;she looks at me,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;or perhaps through me&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a rusty shell &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;battle-wrecked&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Drunk from the war&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ha!, and I become &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;quick with the world&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and more so with a cruel word&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;your gaze beats them back&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;just like it was meant to do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-1000903132531245148?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/1000903132531245148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=1000903132531245148' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/1000903132531245148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/1000903132531245148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2010/01/paulina.html' title='Paulina'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-8784156917538199160</id><published>2010-01-29T07:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T07:17:48.126-08:00</updated><title type='text'>In My Dreams</title><content type='html'>You approach me quickly&lt;div&gt;Mouth Agape &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;with sharp isosceles teeth &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gnawing now &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;through Muscle, Sinew, Bone &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gorging yourself on the delicate offal of my body&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My nightmares are much worse&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;you're not there at all.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-8784156917538199160?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/8784156917538199160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=8784156917538199160' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/8784156917538199160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/8784156917538199160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-my-dreams.html' title='In My Dreams'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-1856262063090513683</id><published>2009-05-12T12:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-20T15:54:58.832-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Relationship Ended When you Started Crying</title><content type='html'>The magnificent violence of a drop of rain,&lt;br /&gt;Enough to carve chasms,&lt;br /&gt;profound as the grand canyon,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;expansive as the space between us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drawing the jagged coastlines,&lt;br /&gt;and winding rivers&lt;br /&gt;inter coastal highways really.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;our worlds shaped.  Shattered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;delicate lines,&lt;br /&gt;false permanence endowed by our maps.&lt;br /&gt;The maps will fade, and the lines will erode.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Falling fast by life's wayside&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A single drop is the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;The start of our world,&lt;br /&gt;and for us, the start of the end&lt;br /&gt;a single drop magnificent in its violence&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;grandiose in its semiotics&lt;br /&gt;your tear draws a minimalist painting&lt;br /&gt;that splits our shores forever.&lt;br /&gt;divided for all our history&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the magnificent violence in a drop of rain&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-1856262063090513683?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/1856262063090513683/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=1856262063090513683' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/1856262063090513683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/1856262063090513683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2009/05/drops-of-rain.html' title='Our Relationship Ended When you Started Crying'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7518319985697274760</id><published>2008-12-08T11:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-08T11:02:42.816-08:00</updated><title type='text'>They're getting better</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times;"&gt; Dwelling in a foreign land. Time is the only familiar&lt;br /&gt;tableau, last locus. Even your shadow falls aslant here,&lt;br /&gt;aping you strangely, or are you really hunched and scurrying&lt;br /&gt;along the sidewalk? When did you grow so much&lt;br /&gt;smaller? It is easy to become nostalgic. One easy thing.&lt;br /&gt;Clearly time is not a landscape to make a home in.&lt;br /&gt;Your beloved, in whose beloved city you now dwell,&lt;br /&gt;agrees one of you has an advantage. But which one?&lt;br /&gt;Remind your beloved that &lt;i&gt;dwell&lt;/i&gt; comes from the Old&lt;br /&gt;English, meaning to &lt;i&gt;lead astray&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;to wander&lt;/i&gt;. As ravel&lt;br /&gt;has come to be both &lt;i&gt;unravel&lt;/i&gt; and also its opposite, you&lt;br /&gt;point out, twisting your key ring in your fingers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Abide&lt;/i&gt; then, say you &lt;i&gt;abide&lt;/i&gt; here, suggests your beloved,&lt;br /&gt;remembering too late that &lt;i&gt;abide&lt;/i&gt; also means to &lt;i&gt;endure&lt;/i&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;to tolerate&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;to bear&lt;/i&gt;. Are all the words for holding still&lt;br /&gt;so fraught? You both settle on &lt;i&gt;reside&lt;/i&gt;, free&lt;br /&gt;of overtones, swinging your legs over the balcony&lt;br /&gt;that overlooks the park where you go sometimes&lt;br /&gt;alone to feed the little black birds that remind you&lt;br /&gt;of your childhood home. Neither you nor your beloved&lt;br /&gt;suggests you claim to &lt;i&gt;live&lt;/i&gt; here. Secretly you think&lt;br /&gt;you dwell here, you are raveling, you are unraveling—&lt;br /&gt;becoming opposite, and opposite’s opposite. Only&lt;br /&gt;your shadow lives here, still having everything&lt;br /&gt;it has always had. Because your body is its roof.&lt;br /&gt;Because you are its home. Its homeless home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7518319985697274760?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/7518319985697274760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=7518319985697274760' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7518319985697274760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7518319985697274760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/12/theyre-getting-better.html' title='They&apos;re getting better'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-3652305560975651596</id><published>2008-12-04T14:27:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T14:28:11.990-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Brain Hive</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;The secret hives are aligned&lt;br /&gt;    near the lianas of heaven,&lt;br /&gt;    among the luminous nests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Gather nectar there, bees of my thoughts,&lt;br /&gt;    little bees winged with sound&lt;br /&gt;    within the pregnant cloud of silence;&lt;br /&gt;    laden yourself with resin&lt;br /&gt;    perfumed with stars and wind:&lt;br /&gt;    we will seal all the gaps&lt;br /&gt;    communicating with the tumult of life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;span style="font-size:-1;"&gt;Laden yourself also with stellar pollen&lt;br /&gt;    for the prairies of the earth;&lt;br /&gt;    and tomorrow, when there will be wreathed&lt;br /&gt;    the wild roses of my poems,&lt;br /&gt;    we will have celestial rose hips&lt;br /&gt;    and sidereal seeds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-3652305560975651596?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/3652305560975651596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=3652305560975651596' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3652305560975651596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3652305560975651596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/12/brain-hive.html' title='Brain Hive'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-3429506954135387573</id><published>2008-07-02T09:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-02T10:15:12.195-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>coffee shiop amsterdam&lt;br /&gt;1.  hot tub&lt;br /&gt;2.  steelers&lt;br /&gt;3.  beer?&lt;br /&gt;4.  dj?&lt;br /&gt;5.  breakfast&lt;br /&gt;6.  lunch&lt;br /&gt;7.  chris sandy roy&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-3429506954135387573?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/3429506954135387573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=3429506954135387573' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3429506954135387573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3429506954135387573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/07/coffee-shiop-amsterdam-1.html' title=''/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7089997893243204184</id><published>2008-06-23T12:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T12:39:25.871-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On my sunday</title><content type='html'>I've been thinking about what makes me want to be a writer, and what I've come to realize is, it's the other writers.  So many people I read are able to establish connections with both the fictional (or fictionalized real person) characters they write about, and relate this connection with the people who read it (for me anyway).  So I figured if it's the writers then they must be reflected in my writing.  So I pulled out my dog eared copy of poems by blake and got to reading.  He was not angry, and was not especially sad.  I say this knowing almost nothing of who he was.  However the fact he's so good made me angry, and thus I desecrated a bunch of my older writing is inferior.  I now greatly regret this.  If I've ever given you a poem, I kept a copy.  I no longer have these copies.  If you have a copy, and you see it's not on my site please send it over to me as I now have no back catalog, and want to vomit over my drunken destructive stupidity.  That's the last fucking time I try to read and abuse drugs at the same time.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7089997893243204184?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/7089997893243204184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=7089997893243204184' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7089997893243204184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7089997893243204184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-my-sunday.html' title='On my sunday'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7180547649477572232</id><published>2008-06-23T07:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T07:19:42.450-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I write the way I do</title><content type='html'>Because I can be better than this dip shit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Supermarket in California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit-&lt;br /&gt;man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees&lt;br /&gt;with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.&lt;br /&gt;    In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images,&lt;br /&gt;I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of&lt;br /&gt;your enumerations!&lt;br /&gt;    What peaches and what penumbras! Whole fam-&lt;br /&gt;ilies shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives&lt;br /&gt;in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you,&lt;br /&gt;Garcнa Lorca, what were you doing down by the&lt;br /&gt;watermelons?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old&lt;br /&gt;grubber, poking among the meats in the refrigerator&lt;br /&gt;and eyeing the grocery boys.&lt;br /&gt;    I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed&lt;br /&gt;the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my&lt;br /&gt;Angel?&lt;br /&gt;    I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of&lt;br /&gt;cans following you, and followed in my imagination&lt;br /&gt;by the store detective.&lt;br /&gt;    We strode down the open corridors together in&lt;br /&gt;our solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every&lt;br /&gt;frozen delicacy, and never passing the cashier.&lt;br /&gt;    Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors&lt;br /&gt;close in an hour. Which way does your beard point&lt;br /&gt;tonight?&lt;br /&gt;    (I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the&lt;br /&gt;supermarket and feel absurd.)&lt;br /&gt;    Will we walk all night through solitary streets?&lt;br /&gt;The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses,&lt;br /&gt;we'll both be lonely.&lt;br /&gt;    Will we stroll dreaming ofthe lost America of love&lt;br /&gt;past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent&lt;br /&gt;cottage?&lt;br /&gt;    Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-&lt;br /&gt;teacher, what America did you have when Charon quit&lt;br /&gt;poling his ferry and you got out on a smoking bank&lt;br /&gt;and stood watching the boat disappear on the black&lt;br /&gt;waters of Lethe?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allen Ginsberg&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7180547649477572232?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7158413953984120338</id><published>2008-06-23T07:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T07:07:27.744-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I Don't Write in any rhyming schemes</title><content type='html'>Because I'll never be as good (or close) to those who came before me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Poison Tree&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was angry with my friend:&lt;br /&gt;I told my wrath, my wrath did end.&lt;br /&gt;I was angry with my foe:&lt;br /&gt;I told it not, my wrath did grow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I watered it in fears,&lt;br /&gt;Night and morning with my tears;&lt;br /&gt;And I sunned it with smiles,&lt;br /&gt;And with soft deceitful wiles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it grew both day and night,&lt;br /&gt;Till it bore an apple bright.&lt;br /&gt;And my foe beheld it shine.&lt;br /&gt;And he knew that it was mine,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And into my garden stole&lt;br /&gt;When the night had veiled the pole;&lt;br /&gt;In the morning glad I see&lt;br /&gt;My foe outstretched beneath the tree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;William Blake&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7158413953984120338?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/7158413953984120338/comments/default' title='Post 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7785058944561720605</id><published>2008-06-16T11:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T14:12:36.101-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Invalidation (I don't know why this didn't post right the first time)</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3 class="post-title entry-title"&gt; &lt;a set="yes" linkindex="1" href="http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/invalidation.html"&gt;Invalidation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;   The snapping intensifies&lt;br /&gt;my senses aroused&lt;br /&gt;I know she's trying to get my attention&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Slap*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps a bit more than physical&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She gives in to her qualms&lt;br /&gt;I give in to my idiocy&lt;br /&gt;I can't help the coward within&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She lashes&lt;br /&gt;I wilt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well this isn't the sort of S&amp;amp;M I had in mind&lt;br /&gt;No leather&lt;br /&gt;No whips&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just myself&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beaten red&lt;br /&gt;no release&lt;br /&gt;no satisfaction&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(unsure if this needs more lines. Does it get the point across?  I mean what it says.  The expectation of one kind of give and take of pain, and the reception of something else.  I'm just not sure if that gets across.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7785058944561720605?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/7785058944561720605/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=7785058944561720605' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7785058944561720605'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7785058944561720605'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/invalidation-i-dont-know-why-this-didnt.html' title='Invalidation (I don&apos;t know why this didn&apos;t post right the first time)'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7255859912743919854</id><published>2008-06-12T13:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-12T13:15:44.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>For Liz part Deux (written with her words)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="ej8B8e" dir="ltr"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;" id="1g56"&gt;I believe&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div id="1g57" class="h8iICe"&gt;soulmates who eat sunshine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="1g58" class="h8iICe"&gt;butterflies and babies;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="1g59" class="h8iICe"&gt;finally at peace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="1g5a" class="h8iICe"&gt;giggling because I've found her,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="1g5b" class="h8iICe"&gt;finally found her,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="1g5c" class="h8iICe"&gt;I found her.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="1g5d" class="h8iICe"&gt;alone and decrepit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="1g5f" class="h8iICe"&gt;Cerebrally vacant.&lt;br /&gt;Metaphysically evil,&lt;br /&gt;but&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="1g5g" class="h8iICe"&gt;vivacious in body&lt;br /&gt;My perfect soul mate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7255859912743919854?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7255859912743919854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7255859912743919854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/for-liz-part-deux-written-with-her.html' title='For Liz part Deux (written with her words)'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-4612968610828975443</id><published>2008-06-11T14:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T14:03:43.607-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Written right after I came back from Amsterdam with Chris Bill and Dough</title><content type='html'>&lt;span id="igbq" name="KonaFilter"&gt;&lt;span id="igbq0"    style="font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;color:#800000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Amsterdamnit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How agreeable it is to be touring Amsterdam this winter,&lt;br /&gt;wandering her streets and ascending her breakneck stairs.&lt;br /&gt;A pleasure to cruise these local, familiar streets,&lt;br /&gt;fully grasping the meaning of every road sign and billboard&lt;br /&gt;the sudden hand gestures of my compatriots.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no abbeys here, no crumbling frescoes or famous&lt;br /&gt;domes and there is no need to memorize a succession&lt;br /&gt;of kings or tour the dripping corners of a dungeon.&lt;br /&gt;No need to stand around a sarcophagus, see Napoleon's&lt;br /&gt;little bed on Elba, or view the bones of a saint under glass.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How much better to command the simple precinct of home&lt;br /&gt;than be dwarfed by pillar, arch, and basilica.&lt;br /&gt;Why hide my head in phrase books and wrinkled maps?&lt;br /&gt;Why feed scenery into a hungry, one-eyes camera&lt;br /&gt;eager to eat the world one monument at a time?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of slouching in a café ignorant of the word for ice,&lt;br /&gt;I will head down to the coffee shop and the waitress&lt;br /&gt;known as Dot. I will slide into the flow of the morning&lt;br /&gt;paper, all language barriers down,&lt;br /&gt;rivers of idiom running freely, eggs over easy on the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And after breakfast, I will not have to find someone&lt;br /&gt;willing to photograph me with my arm around the owner.&lt;br /&gt;I will not puzzle over the bill or record in a journal&lt;br /&gt;what I had to eat and how the sun came in the window.&lt;br /&gt;It is enough to light a joint and smile&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-4612968610828975443?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/4612968610828975443'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/4612968610828975443'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/written-right-after-i-came-back-from.html' title='Written right after I came back from Amsterdam with Chris Bill and Dough'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-1540601039040383041</id><published>2008-06-11T13:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T13:59:51.078-07:00</updated><title type='text'>more fucked up shit I wrote after molly dumped me.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Suicide Note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I die&lt;br /&gt;It will be by my own hand&lt;br /&gt;The rest of you will be left to wonder&lt;br /&gt;why I&lt;br /&gt;was trying to get away from&lt;br /&gt;me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-1540601039040383041?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/1540601039040383041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/1540601039040383041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-fucked-up-shit-i-wrote-after-molly.html' title='more fucked up shit I wrote after molly dumped me.'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-165050522822478671</id><published>2008-06-11T13:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T13:42:12.464-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow I was depressed when I wrote this (but it's pretty well constructed)</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4 id="tlih1"&gt;Ending&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;flaccid seated upon the couch,&lt;br /&gt;midnight, lapping cheap vodka &lt;br /&gt;from a cup, Jesus, have I come&lt;br /&gt; to this?&lt;br /&gt;I once  battled at parties&lt;br /&gt;for a laugh.&lt;br /&gt; now I'm not laughing.&lt;br /&gt;I swallow joylessly and wonder,&lt;br /&gt;How much time will be asked from me?&lt;br /&gt; how many days?&lt;br /&gt; my soul is empty and &lt;br /&gt;a stupefying clarity rests in my brain.&lt;br /&gt;things arrive; they pass&lt;br /&gt;they go to nothing.&lt;br /&gt; I understand the fall of cities, of&lt;br /&gt; nations.&lt;br /&gt;Light shimmers on the cock pit&lt;br /&gt;of a large crane.&lt;br /&gt; I look towards it as if it made sense to&lt;br /&gt; look upward. it's true, the sky has rotted:&lt;br /&gt; it won't be long for any of&lt;br /&gt; us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-165050522822478671?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/165050522822478671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/165050522822478671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/wow-i-was-depressed-when-i-wrote-this.html' title='Wow I was depressed when I wrote this (but it&apos;s pretty well constructed)'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7849725395150213814</id><published>2008-06-11T13:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T13:40:10.337-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Another one along the same lines.  This is the worst shit ever.</title><content type='html'>&lt;h2 id="nblo"&gt; &lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p id="nblo1"&gt;   Do you think of me&lt;br /&gt;   When the music of morning&lt;br /&gt;   First begins to sound,&lt;br /&gt;   When his barks and their horns&lt;br /&gt;stir your world with their singing? &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p id="nblo6"&gt;   Do you think of me&lt;br /&gt;   As the sun lengthens shadows,&lt;br /&gt;   Until all the world&lt;br /&gt;   Fades into one big shadow,&lt;br /&gt;   And the night music begins? &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p id="nblo11"&gt;   Do you think of me&lt;br /&gt;   As your eyes close, and the night&lt;br /&gt;   Folds in around you,&lt;br /&gt;   Like the arms of a lover,&lt;br /&gt;   To hold you until morning? &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p id="nblo16"&gt;   You are in my mind&lt;br /&gt;   During all of these moments.&lt;br /&gt;   You are the music&lt;br /&gt;   Of my life, but I wonder,&lt;br /&gt;   Do you ever think of me? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7849725395150213814?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7849725395150213814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7849725395150213814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/another-one-along-same-lines-this-is.html' title='Another one along the same lines.  This is the worst shit ever.'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-5510307771071425853</id><published>2008-06-11T13:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T10:07:45.799-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Hunt (correction this is about a bad first date that ends in sex (possible all first dates that end this way are bad))</title><content type='html'>To cleave through the night&lt;br /&gt;Like an butchers knife&lt;br /&gt;Carving this very second&lt;br /&gt;Exposing the bone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To sprinkle on it&lt;br /&gt;That which fills my ears&lt;br /&gt;The electric clink of silver on teeth&lt;br /&gt;The boiling, brimming murmur between&lt;br /&gt;Launching myself like a ship to sea&lt;br /&gt;Through the aroma clouds&lt;br /&gt;Stinging, clinging molecules&lt;br /&gt;Of beer and ash&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dipping it into this glass&lt;br /&gt;Ensuring my platitudes with the burn&lt;br /&gt;That rolls down my throat, molasses-like,&lt;br /&gt;Flesh-numbing, happy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally framing it with the walls&lt;br /&gt;The corners of this stinking place&lt;br /&gt;So it would never powder in palms&lt;br /&gt;Clenched, losing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I would have you&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-5510307771071425853?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/5510307771071425853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/5510307771071425853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/hunt-written-who-knows-when-but-i-think.html' title='The Hunt (correction this is about a bad first date that ends in sex (possible all first dates that end this way are bad))'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-4911742505415651889</id><published>2008-06-11T13:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T10:51:21.523-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Invalidation</title><content type='html'>The snapping intensifies&lt;br /&gt;my senses aroused&lt;br /&gt;I know she's trying to get my attention&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Slap*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps a bit more than physical&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She gives in to her qualms&lt;br /&gt;I give in to my idiocy&lt;br /&gt;I can't help the coward within&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She lashes&lt;br /&gt;I wilt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well this isn't the sort of S&amp;amp;M I had in mind&lt;br /&gt;No leather&lt;br /&gt;No whips&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just myself&lt;br /&gt;reddened, and bruised.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-4911742505415651889?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/4911742505415651889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/4911742505415651889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/invalidation.html' title='Invalidation'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-8756611527700703543</id><published>2008-06-10T10:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-10T10:15:08.466-07:00</updated><title type='text'>fucking the dog</title><content type='html'>All you have to do is walk this way&lt;br /&gt;around the bend and just past the point of no return&lt;br /&gt;you, simply,&lt;br /&gt;open your mouth and remove all filters&lt;br /&gt;say what you want&lt;br /&gt;liberate your ideas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do not spare feelings,&lt;br /&gt;Do not parse words&lt;br /&gt;Do not hold your tongue&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This path of openess&lt;br /&gt;is mostly a route to your pettiness&lt;br /&gt;revel in your inability to express&lt;br /&gt;do not revile your ability to upset&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Own your shit&lt;br /&gt;You will make people mad&lt;br /&gt;They will hate you&lt;br /&gt;Or at least think you odd&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will be well on your way&lt;br /&gt;to that glorious place&lt;br /&gt;where you've fucked the dog.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-8756611527700703543?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/8756611527700703543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/8756611527700703543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/fucking-dog.html' title='fucking the dog'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-4484132429096204462</id><published>2008-06-04T12:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-04T12:24:55.828-07:00</updated><title type='text'>oops the for liz post was supposed to read this</title><content type='html'>Boom&lt;br /&gt;My head explodes&lt;br /&gt;Your face is coated.&lt;br /&gt;It's strangely erotic&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This look, you covered in my gunk.&lt;br /&gt;Fascinating&lt;br /&gt;beautiful young woman&lt;br /&gt;Thoughtful and kind&lt;br /&gt;Covered in me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You were the cause of the head explosion&lt;br /&gt;It's your own fault you're covered in my ick&lt;br /&gt;If only it weren't my big head you'd made burst&lt;br /&gt;"Women exist to serve men"&lt;br /&gt;Ugh&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-4484132429096204462?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/4484132429096204462/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=4484132429096204462' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/4484132429096204462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/4484132429096204462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/oops-for-liz-post-was-supposed-to-read.html' title='oops the for liz post was supposed to read this'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-2517717716236353681</id><published>2008-06-02T20:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-02T20:42:43.774-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Off the top of the dome (be kind about spelling as I had no spell check and am totally reliant)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Conversations I have with myself and others all the time.  In free flow writing poetry edition&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Word Vomit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If I don't spew something I might die&lt;br /&gt;I will force these words&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Uninspired dribble&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unintelligible, Unrelated&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Worst of all unfeeling&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still, they are guided&lt;br /&gt;they are forced to surface&lt;br /&gt;They will not be drowned&lt;br /&gt;their air was almost up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's it.&lt;br /&gt;The build up of toxic gases killed it's reason&lt;br /&gt;The nascence of a mush brained poem&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wanted to right this for so long&lt;br /&gt;it would not be written.&lt;br /&gt;It could not be righted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can't believe this is the poem I dreamt about.  Fuck I'm such a loser.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; I'm a liar, but this isn't a lie.  I hope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi have we met?&lt;br /&gt;My name's Max.&lt;br /&gt;If we've met, I've lied to you&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The compulsion propels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A viscous cycle&lt;br /&gt;too sticky to escape&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried being honest with people&lt;br /&gt;it turned my interactions...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It grated my relationships.&lt;br /&gt;People hated me&lt;br /&gt;Narrator included.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried telling you. I'm dull,&lt;br /&gt;I'm nervous,&lt;br /&gt;I'm happiest when I'm alone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It didn't matter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you were only happy with me: aggressor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I made bad jokes,&lt;br /&gt;I spoke brusquely,&lt;br /&gt;I was sexually aggressive with all the wrong girls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was emotional.&lt;br /&gt;I was weird.&lt;br /&gt;I was the center of attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the man I'm known as.&lt;br /&gt;This is part of the man I am&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am my own actions,&lt;br /&gt;I own my reality,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and yet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am vacant.&lt;br /&gt;I am lost.&lt;br /&gt;I don't have a fucking clue how it ended this way. Why do I insist on making a fool of myself?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yeah the pussy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Floods and Droughts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allow me to introduce myself&lt;br /&gt;I am mustache Max&lt;br /&gt;hiding something behind a thin vail&lt;br /&gt;Like a gay man with... well... a mustache.&lt;br /&gt;I am a creator of bad words, and a provocateur of hair brained schemes&lt;br /&gt;I am the impetus behind an entire school of thought.&lt;br /&gt;Maxian: Posturing is victory&lt;br /&gt;Learned in the ways of savage beasts&lt;br /&gt;I spit soap box philosophy Enlightening a minority&lt;br /&gt;I will change your life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or not&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm really a self important loser with a big nose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm out of shape, and out of my mind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't know why people are impressed with me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NOTICE to readers It's A Sham.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My confidence is so tied to others&lt;br /&gt;not just their liking me,&lt;br /&gt;but their agreance.&lt;br /&gt;Tacit, or other. In my mythology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am a legend, or I want to kill myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just wish I had a middle speed.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; I don't think anyone else does this (all assholes do this)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am unique.&lt;br /&gt;A precious, precocious snowflake.&lt;br /&gt;No don't look that way,&lt;br /&gt;I'm original.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My jokes?  I came up with those&lt;br /&gt;Oh you'd heard it before?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Why I use drugs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because.&lt;br /&gt;They.&lt;br /&gt;Make.&lt;br /&gt;Me.&lt;br /&gt;Cool.&lt;br /&gt;no lie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Is That Right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her smooth skin glistens&lt;br /&gt;a light sheen of sweet sweat upon my lips&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The flow from the left foot&lt;br /&gt;to the left hip&lt;br /&gt;along her shapely side&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enticing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her right side buried&lt;br /&gt;At peace&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her back rhythmically pumping&lt;br /&gt;Up and down&lt;br /&gt;Gentle reminders of her exhaustion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lucky me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Witness to sated beauty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Her body tells me she wants to be held&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just want her to go&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please leave&lt;br /&gt;I've got a lot of work to do tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;I really need a good nights sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I stay silent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I move to the couch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nice Blind Date is on.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-2517717716236353681?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/2517717716236353681/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=2517717716236353681' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/2517717716236353681'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/2517717716236353681'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/06/off-top-of-dome-be-kind-about-spelling.html' title='Off the top of the dome (be kind about spelling as I had no spell check and am totally reliant)'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-3040293847521353162</id><published>2008-05-27T09:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-27T09:33:18.418-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Things I Think While Depressed</title><content type='html'>I wish I wasn't me,&lt;br /&gt;But I don't want to be anyone else.&lt;br /&gt;How can you appreciate when&lt;br /&gt;The only thing you dislike more than yourself&lt;br /&gt;is everyone else.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-3040293847521353162?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/3040293847521353162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=3040293847521353162' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3040293847521353162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3040293847521353162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/05/things-i-think-while-depressed.html' title='Things I Think While Depressed'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7383388221695225846</id><published>2008-05-27T09:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-27T09:21:25.799-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lonesome Thompson Gunner</title><content type='html'>Warren Zevon&lt;br /&gt;The soundtrack to my travels&lt;br /&gt;my travails&lt;br /&gt;have a much less poignant ambience.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7383388221695225846?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/7383388221695225846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=7383388221695225846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7383388221695225846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7383388221695225846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lonesome-thompson-gunner.html' title='Lonesome Thompson Gunner'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-6337401358714230294</id><published>2008-05-26T08:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T08:35:35.061-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On reading poetry</title><content type='html'>I'm posting this mostly as a reminder to myself (well only erik actually looks at this site) &lt;br /&gt;1.  Read with the grammar not the structure&lt;br /&gt;2.  Finish the poem if you can, and if you can't either it's garbage, or you're an idiot&lt;br /&gt;3.  They don't have to make sense to touch on reality.  So don't dodge the topic because it's a big fucking quagmire.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-6337401358714230294?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/6337401358714230294/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=6337401358714230294' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/6337401358714230294'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/6337401358714230294'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-reading-poetry.html' title='On reading poetry'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-5635818549059999508</id><published>2008-05-26T08:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T08:23:53.887-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lemon(lime)/LSD (poem found written in highschool while tripping)</title><content type='html'>The acid spews delicious&lt;br /&gt;It's flavor jump from the pallet&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Absorbed in paper and citrus&lt;br /&gt;They hue my life&lt;br /&gt;Flavors and realities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One an altered state.&lt;br /&gt;The other alters taste.&lt;br /&gt;The effect is striking,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only in its similarity.&lt;br /&gt;Cerebral changes emerge,&lt;br /&gt;They are beaten back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Only to renew its nascence.&lt;br /&gt;So easy to forget,&lt;br /&gt;Tastes and sensations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This feeling,&lt;br /&gt;Pleasurable, Indescribable.&lt;br /&gt;Is it from a good meal, or the six tabs I swallowed?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-5635818549059999508?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/5635818549059999508/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=5635818549059999508' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/5635818549059999508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/5635818549059999508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/05/lemonlimelsd-poem-found-written-in.html' title='Lemon(lime)/LSD (poem found written in highschool while tripping)'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-1139494887756368016</id><published>2008-05-22T09:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T09:41:48.157-07:00</updated><title type='text'>On intimacy and other ununderstandables</title><content type='html'>Intimate moments&lt;br /&gt;The light touches the skin pressed,&lt;br /&gt;the words unleashed...&lt;br /&gt;Spewed un-edited un-filtered full of life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of life you live behind a shield&lt;br /&gt;A spiked wall ready to bash.&lt;br /&gt;Turning your friends and family to tikka&lt;br /&gt;Your words unsaid metal skewers bisecting your relationships&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These moments of intimacy.&lt;br /&gt;Brief glimpses into my own humanity.&lt;br /&gt;glances into what I think I am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn't it odd.&lt;br /&gt;Strange. Weird. Or at least somewhat unusual.&lt;br /&gt;That all my most intimate moments are with strangers?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-1139494887756368016?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/1139494887756368016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=1139494887756368016' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/1139494887756368016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/1139494887756368016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/05/on-intimacy-and-other-ununderstandables.html' title='On intimacy and other ununderstandables'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-7218695782418822373</id><published>2008-04-17T09:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T13:37:35.229-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What it Means to be a Man</title><content type='html'>-Maxwell R. Davis&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-7218695782418822373?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/7218695782418822373/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=7218695782418822373' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7218695782418822373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/7218695782418822373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2008/04/what-it-means-to-be-man_17.html' title='What it Means to be a Man'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-1806228104895454808</id><published>2008-04-16T16:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-17T10:04:10.242-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Starting a Fist Fight with an Oncoming Train</title><content type='html'>These tides they are a same-in.&lt;br /&gt;A new day dawns to reach the old sunset&lt;br /&gt;nature´s turns are circles&lt;br /&gt;spinning endless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Elitism, A pox on your house&lt;br /&gt;A feckless insult landing squarely on all shoulders.&lt;br /&gt;A faultless man could never reach these heights&lt;br /&gt;Elitist all, decent none&lt;br /&gt;Stop telling me what to do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hear the beast a dancin',&lt;br /&gt;It's screams and wails reverberating&lt;br /&gt;Ah yes he says just like Ghengis,&lt;br /&gt;Just like Caesar,&lt;br /&gt;Just like Bush.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to scream&lt;br /&gt;"It's all falsehood"&lt;br /&gt;"Every word drips lies"&lt;br /&gt;"just look at the trail. That goo is unmistakable"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I swing my fists&lt;br /&gt;Landing air&lt;br /&gt;laughter erupts.&lt;br /&gt;"Can't he see? We're fixing the world."&lt;br /&gt;Maybe they are, but only for them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fuck your world.&lt;br /&gt;Fuck your petty causes.&lt;br /&gt;Fuck health care.&lt;br /&gt;Fuck Social Security.&lt;br /&gt;Their endless eating has stripped my bones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They see, They know&lt;br /&gt;They can't help themselves.&lt;br /&gt;They can't stop themselves from laughing,&lt;br /&gt;"What could be funnier than a boxing Skeleton?"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-1806228104895454808?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/1806228104895454808/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=1806228104895454808' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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type='html'>Three Chimes on the Hour&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ding, Ding, Dong&lt;br /&gt;Rough acoustics startle&lt;br /&gt;Dreary eyes widen&lt;br /&gt;A day like all others&lt;br /&gt;Singular as part of the infinitum&lt;br /&gt;Three more hours&lt;br /&gt;Nine more chimes&lt;br /&gt;A day alike,&lt;br /&gt;But for one last thing&lt;br /&gt;Today the songs are inaudible&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The crescent of an orchid&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vulvic jutting&lt;br /&gt;a flower grown wild&lt;br /&gt;Hanging from the wall&lt;br /&gt;Its openness pornographic&lt;br /&gt;No shame, no fear&lt;br /&gt;Is this the way we should live?&lt;br /&gt;adrift in sensuality?&lt;br /&gt;Its earthy aroma calls&lt;br /&gt;Sweet, and yet tinged with naivety&lt;br /&gt;Does it know how easily it could be crushed?&lt;br /&gt;does it matter?&lt;br /&gt;A flower, a woman the questions are the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Music Defines my Relationships&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The stones ripple across blown speakers&lt;br /&gt;her mouth moves, but her words evasive&lt;br /&gt;a serpentine nature.&lt;br /&gt;They sound of meaning that I cannot grasp&lt;br /&gt;Curling around I want to ask&lt;br /&gt;"what is the point?"&lt;br /&gt;"Why are we waiting?"&lt;br /&gt;Instead I nod.&lt;br /&gt;My agreance is preordained&lt;br /&gt;My cowardice is a learned habit&lt;br /&gt;I tell myself there is strength in this. &lt;br /&gt;That my passivity is grease&lt;br /&gt;These rails need lubrication&lt;br /&gt;If only&lt;br /&gt;If only&lt;br /&gt;If only&lt;br /&gt;Each held word is itself an ends.&lt;br /&gt;The warble now stronger. &lt;br /&gt;More distinct&lt;br /&gt;Less able to understand&lt;br /&gt;never able to interpret&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-2774713693763252190?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-6962969602099171469</id><published>2007-12-06T09:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T09:49:27.552-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Crowds Scare Me (the commonality of the holocaust and a knicks game)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;             The crowd as MSG&lt;br /&gt;                 is Moved uniformly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;             A spirit of worthlessness&lt;br /&gt;             Which infuriates them&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;             All exciting in the detail&lt;br /&gt;             of the endless chase&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;br /&gt;             The blooming of error&lt;br /&gt;             the flash of genius&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;             All to no end save beauty&lt;br /&gt;             the only eternal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;             So in detail they, the crowd&lt;br /&gt;             embody beauty&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;for this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;to be warned against&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;saluted and defied --&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;It is alive, and stinking&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;it snarls glumly&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;its words cut --&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;The flashy child with his&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;mother, gets it --&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;The Jew gets it straight -- it&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;is deadly, terrifying --&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;It is the Inquisition, the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;             Shoah, the Palace &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;Revolution&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;It is beauty itself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;that lives&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;day by day in them&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;idly, fervently --&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;This is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="line"&gt;the power of their faces&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            This is the power&lt;br /&gt;            To move the world&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            Unthinking, Unblinking&lt;br /&gt;            Amock with its anger&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-6962969602099171469?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-426763119307990643</id><published>2007-12-06T09:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T09:41:45.685-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Whole Sale Decimation (on throwing out moldy lunch meat)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="head"&gt;It was an icy day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We buried this life&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then left out the trash&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world set fire to it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mold that escaped&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;both plastic and fire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lived on in the cold&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="a"&gt;&lt;span class="numb"&gt;           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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meat)'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-2802717427169466727</id><published>2007-10-04T11:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-04T11:28:14.042-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Why I'm an asshole</title><content type='html'>Ok so I just read over some of my posts and they all seem to be about how shitty women are.  They are not.  I am silly and overly dramatic in my proclamations.  I am a terrifically flawed being, and I want very much to not come off as someone who hates women.  I do not.  I think they are great like sunshine and lollipops.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-2802717427169466727?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/2802717427169466727/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=2802717427169466727' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/2802717427169466727'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/2802717427169466727'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-im-asshole.html' title='Why I&apos;m an asshole'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-6475430976390743825</id><published>2007-10-04T08:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-04T10:42:53.087-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Anoucha Brown Sanders and Why She Got What She Deserved</title><content type='html'>Anoucha Brown Sanders was almost certainly not sexually harassed.  Her basic claim is that she was routinely referred to as a bitch.  Mind you there is no evidence that this was how she was exclusively referred to, but rather that she was at times referred to in this manner.  If this is true so the fuck what?  I work in a high pressure environment.  People get frustrated, and sometimes personal insults are exchanged (particularly if you're an unpleasant person).  A week ago my boss threatened to slit my throat.  I didn't think of this as him attempting to kill me.  Our environment is fast paced and people say stupid shit.  Her claim that Isiah propositioned her seems ludicrous as he's isiah thomas and she's massively unattractive.  Girls get over on this shit all the time, but you can't say shit, or you're a chauvinist.  In a sports environment masculinity rules.  There is no way around this.  She knew she was working for a sports team a certain amount of more limited decorum while unfortunate is certainly not sexual harassment.  Shit damn you women folk sure do abuse a history of repression don't you?  I mean she may have been harassed, but just because she's a woman, and they're men doesn't make it sexual.  The case came down to Isiah's word vs hers of course she wins.  This is actually true in rape cases also.  A women's word bizarrely carries more weight than a man's.  I hate this.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-6475430976390743825?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/6475430976390743825/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=6475430976390743825' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/6475430976390743825'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/6475430976390743825'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2007/10/anoucha-brown-sanders-and-why-she-got.html' title='Anoucha Brown Sanders and Why She Got What She Deserved'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-2225254289163875751</id><published>2007-09-18T12:19:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-18T13:12:57.213-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dark Alleys</title><content type='html'>Blah...  So the last two days at work I have been moving like a sloth.  I had been making about 60 calls a day in the three weeks prior to this.  The last two days? 15 total.  Now I get calls and emails and do other things, but mostly I've come to work read about sports (and oddly enough a lot of economics), and left.  You'd think these would have been two of the best days in the history of employment.  Incorrect good sir.  These days have sucked.  They've sucked so much I put two blog posts up in one day (ok I've done this before).  They've sucked mostly because I had been in a good flow on the phone, and I completely killed my momentum.  Also I have to show some production this month as last month I did really well, and I've only booked one deal this month.  Ok on to the funny.  So  I had an interesting thing happen to me last evening.  I went out with a girl I've been talking with for a bit.  She's super new york.  Distressingly so.  She regularly regals me with tails of her 600 dolce pumps.  slap.  I hate this girl.  She is the antithesis of almost everything I like in women.  She's not the least bit independent.  Her parents pay for all her bills includiong 2K for rent! She is exclusively concerned with the superficial.  I have meaningful conversations with strangers I meet on the train, but I can't get her to tell me anything valuable about herself.  Why do I spend time with her?  She's hot.  She has a fantastic body with big boobs and a great ass.  She's blond and tall (5'9) and has these amazing green/grey eyes that sort of glow.  I've found that if you have wonderful eyes (and don't look bad elsewhere) I can listen to insipid prattle for sickeningly long periods.  She may be the most attractive person who I've ever dated.  So last nigth we got dinner, and I wanted to punch myself in the face the entire time.  I figured if I had a concussion I wouldn't be bothered as much by the things she was saying.  The dinner ends.  We go back to her place and start hooking up.  She goes down on me for about 2 minutes then suddenly stops.  She looks up at me with those great eyes, and I'm thinking she's about to say something exciting like insert sexual fantasy here.  I was mistaken.  Instead she says "you know what I'm thinking about"  I choke back "apparently not sucking cock"  she starts talking I go soft.  Ten minutes later I'm out the door.  I just wish I wasn't so fucking pathetic.  If I wasn't I'd avoid these situations in their nascence, and not have to deal with ridiculo9us situations like this one&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-2225254289163875751?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/2225254289163875751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=2225254289163875751' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/2225254289163875751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/2225254289163875751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post.html' title='Dark Alleys'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-4084878545231214746</id><published>2007-09-18T11:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-18T11:23:24.657-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I'm tired of everyone butchering the power rankings.  He's a set worthy of my greatness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;1. New England Patriots.&lt;/b&gt; easiest placement.  fuck Tom Brady&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Indianapolis Colts.&lt;/b&gt; Why didn't they blow that titans team out?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;. Pittsburgh Steelers.&lt;/b&gt; Weak opponents, but impressive victories.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;4. Dallas Cowboys.&lt;/b&gt;  It pains me to put them here.  The offense is so potent that in this small segment romo made all nashvilles women pregnant &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;5. Chicago Bears.&lt;/b&gt; Introducing your week four starting QB Brian Griese. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;6. Denver Broncos.&lt;/b&gt; Defense flies, the running game is &lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;great&lt;/span&gt;, and I know a girl who says Cutler is hung like a horse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;7. Washington Redskins.&lt;/b&gt; Portis is healthy.  Jason Campbell isn't awful.  Santana Moss I hope dies in a fire&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;8&lt;/span&gt;. Baltimore Ravens.&lt;/b&gt; Defense is still top notch.  Kyle Boller could win the mayorship of pittsburgh for all he's done for my steelers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9&lt;/span&gt;. Cincinnati Bengals.&lt;/b&gt; Giving up 51 points was an anomaly. You know it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;10. San Diego Chargers.&lt;/b&gt; This was almost unthinkable in preseason&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;11. Green Bay Packers.&lt;/b&gt; Yeah I know.... Brett Farve just inked a deal with depends.  Aj Hawk kind of reminds me of AC Slater&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;12. Houston Texans.&lt;/b&gt; Oh my god how did this happen?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;13&lt;/span&gt;. Tampa Bay Bucs. &lt;/b&gt;Mark it down they are the 6th seed out of the NFC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;14. Seattle Seahawks.&lt;/b&gt;  I guess QB's who look like accountants just don't bring enough to the table.  Also that Super Bowl win was no fluke.  The D is soft and the O is softer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;15. San Francisco 49ers.&lt;/b&gt; Wah? weren't they supposed to suck on defense?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;16. Detroit Lions.&lt;/b&gt; Very dangerous wide outs.  Also Jon Kitna is my second cousin, and he tells me that he saw Calvin Johnson walk on water&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;17. Philadelphia Eagles.&lt;/b&gt;  I thought the eagles addressed their wideout issues two years ago?  Oh. That didn't turn out well? My bad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;18. New Orleans Saints.&lt;/b&gt; Reggie Bush just announced he'll be a contestant on dancing with the stars. run to the light young man.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;19. Carolina Panthers.&lt;/b&gt; Steve Smith is good.  The rest of the team?  They resemble my toilet the morning after 30 beers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;. Jacksonville Jaguars.&lt;/b&gt; David Garard, good move guys&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;21. Arizona Cardinals.&lt;/b&gt; Larry Fitz is my Bill Brasky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;22. Tennessee Titans.&lt;/b&gt; Forget about them trust me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;23. New York Jets.&lt;/b&gt; Is there anyone in the country who was shocked when they cheered pennington's injury?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;24. Cleveland Browns&lt;/b&gt;. Thanks for the help brownies&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;25. Miami Dolphins.&lt;/b&gt; Joey Porter looks like he has a little left in the tank&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;26. New York Giants.&lt;/b&gt; week ten headline.  Introducing Interim Head Coach Kevin Gilbride.  (if they pull Bill Cower out of retirement next year I'm killing someone)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;27. St. Louis Rams.&lt;/b&gt; No pace equals last place.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;28. Oakland Raiders&lt;/b&gt;. Is JaMarcus starting yet?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;29. Minnesota Vikings.&lt;/b&gt; Wow they are really bad.  Tavaris Jackson plays qb like he can't wait to be benched&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;30. Buffalo Bills.&lt;/b&gt; 1 first down in the first half...yikes.... What's the over under on the number of fingers that cripple can move?  I put it at 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;31. Kansas City Chiefs.&lt;/b&gt; At least we know their players have active poll dancing futures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;32. Atlanta Falcons.&lt;/b&gt; The D would be better if it had a couple of vick's pit bulls on the field.  Also Joey Harrington is a gay icon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="sg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-4084878545231214746?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/4084878545231214746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=4084878545231214746' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/4084878545231214746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/4084878545231214746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2007/09/im-tired-of-everyone-butchering-power.html' title=''/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-3612521578821593527</id><published>2007-09-06T09:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T10:04:09.847-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What Frustrates Me About Mike Vick</title><content type='html'>Ok so I don't care about dog fighting.  Not even a little bit.  In fact if anything I"m pro-dog fighting.  This may sound odd especially because I have owned dogs my whole life, and I would never want any of them to be involved in dog fighting.  Sure it's somewhat gross, and the animals are mistreated.  This happens to lots of dogs.  Have you ever been to a dog shelter? Those places are shit holes filled with dogs people bought, and then cruelly abandoned.  They torture these dogs by leaving them in cages in a room full of dogs.  A higher stress dog environment almost couldn't exist.  How about racing dogs?  they have a useful track life of about 2 years.  The very cream of the crop (maybe a percent, but I have no proof of this) are bred.  The rest are usually sold to places that do medical experiments on them until they die.  Culturally, we don't value the lives of dogs very highly.  Nor should we they are animals just like cows (though cuter and less delicious).  Onto Mike Vick.  So the dude fought dogs?  He didn't molest children.  He didn't get caught with an illegal firearm.  He just made one animal fight another animal.  So what.  We kill lots of animals every day.  Just look at your shoes.  Animals are all over those bitches.  Somehow because many of us have owned dogs this guy gets crucified.  His going to jail is a joke.  He owned those dogs, the property he fought them on, and he harmed no person with his actions.  Leonard Little a defensive player with the rams killed a bitch while driving drunk.  He never missed a season.  After killing the bitch he then got another dui.  Still no suspension, or even sizable jail sentence.  Yet somehow Mike Vick gets black listed by the NFL, and a hefty jail sentence?  Oh did I mention that the dogs they took from Mike Vick are all being put down?  they are.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-3612521578821593527?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/3612521578821593527/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=3612521578821593527' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3612521578821593527'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3612521578821593527'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-frustrates-me-about-mike-vick.html' title='What Frustrates Me About Mike Vick'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-5302269973263656013</id><published>2007-09-05T12:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T12:48:54.662-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One of my many flaws</title><content type='html'>I don't deal well with dumb people.  I just struggle with it.  Why?  I'm impatient?  I hate teaching if there isn't sex involved?  I'm not detailed oriented enough?  I'm not coddling?   I wish I knew why, because I deal with these people every day.  Every day I become silly amounts of frustrated by various peoples inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks.  Yeah, I get your argument that I wouldn't be very smart in a hunter gatherer group, or whatever tribal nonsense you throw my way.  I disagree I'd invent motherfucking fire.  Beyond that disagreement I don't care about those lives.  In a modern office environment I could do every job excepting c-level positions and accounting stuff.  These things require unique skills that I don't have.  However, if I give you something to input in a database it should almost never get fucked up.  This is the crux of why I don't deal well with dumb people.  If I know that I can do something without a problem, and I'm greener than central park, then you should be able to as well.  I don't understand why this isn't the case.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-5302269973263656013?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/5302269973263656013/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=5302269973263656013' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/5302269973263656013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/5302269973263656013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2007/09/one-of-my-many-flaws.html' title='One of my many flaws'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-6452171606000903315</id><published>2007-09-04T13:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T14:52:41.516-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Women you think are attractive, but are not</title><content type='html'>It drives me insane.  Why can't everyone simply realize that my universal standard of beauty is correct?  First I'm going to give you a handful of celebs who fit this classification, and then I'll break them into archetypes we're all familiar with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Obvious (and famous)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1. Paris Hilton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I know that she's universally reviled so this barely is worth mentioning, but she's not very good looking.  I mean she has that petite head, and a decent body, but I saw that she wears a size 14 womens shoe once, and that terrifies me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2. The Olsen Twins&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Oh how the mighty have fallen.  These two at the age of 16 held the hearts of men everywhere.  I started college at Allegheny, a little nothing school that was good for drinking.  My freshman year a fake website went around the campus like wildfire.  This website was supposedly an article in the NY times saying the Olsen Twins were coming to my school.  It set the campus on fire.  Now I wouldn't fuck them with Harry's dick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.  Salma Hayek &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok so I hate Frida Kahlo.  I hate that a depressed person who did almost exclusively shitty self portraits is almost certainly the most famous women painter how about Okeefe or Morisot?  They are both miles better, and they don't suck.  Oh she's also famous for being a commie.  More to the point Salma is not a good looking lady.  Very gangly hardly any proper curves, and a face that only Sandy could love.  Who's Sandy?  He's the zoo keeper, and king of all zuss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;4.  Keira Knightley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Having sex with her would be like banging Skeletor&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5.  Anyone on Desperate Housewives not married to Tony Parker&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Ok, Eva is hot.  The rest of these cougars?  not so much.  I mean I can practically see Teri Hatcher's Labia (they've become conscious hence the proper noun)  coming out of her Capri pants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Archetypes&lt;br /&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Rich Girls with too much time and money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;stop with the $400 facials, and the more expensive accessories.  If you weren't so fucking ugly you wouldn't spend all that time trying to make yourself look like you belong in Star magazine.  You don't.  Yes your bag is nice, and yes you still must develope a personality&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;2.  Petite Jewish Girls&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Hey! Now that's what I want in a partner, whiny.  Also you looked better with curly hair, and no anorexia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.  Skinny Tall Blond Girl I see everyday&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;You have no ass, no tits, and an ehh face.  I see you every day, and because I'm desperate and pathetic I usually smile and say hello.  You never do back.  I hate you.  Also if Jon tells me how hot you are again I'll lose control over my bowels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;4.  Most Slanted Asians  (this means koreans, north western chinese, and japanese.  I don't know many others)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Ok so you win the hair and skin battle.  You lose the ass, tits, personality, and most every other battle.  Also I always found it really odd how the asian kids I knew hung out only with other asian kids.  I try to avoid jews from sq. hill (or do they avoid me?) why can't we be a melting pot? ok enough of that.  You are almost universally over rated.  We're talking Chris Benson territory here.  Also you all look the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;5.   Most Every Latin Girl I know&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;So you've got some curves.  Good for you.  You still aren't very pretty, and you really could stand to lose about 25 lbs worth of those curves.  Nice tits though&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-6452171606000903315?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/6452171606000903315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=6452171606000903315' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/6452171606000903315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/6452171606000903315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2007/09/women-you-think-are-attractive-but-are.html' title='Women you think are attractive, but are not'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2266790405212945417.post-3193686869183261639</id><published>2007-09-04T13:50:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T13:57:43.003-07:00</updated><title type='text'>of vitriol and the world of blogs</title><content type='html'>This is a first.  In fact, this is several firsts.  I am currently at work, and not working.  This is not one of the firsts.  The first, first is I've never written a blog post before.  This may be surprising to some of you as conversations with me often seem like prolonged blog posts.  I tend to make numerous losely connected, and usually unsupported arguments, and then bring them to the table as truth.  In this blog I will do this exactly.  I endeavor to make as many shit jokes as possible and somehow weave them into a cogent enough tale that even my friends will be able to make sense of them.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2266790405212945417-3193686869183261639?l=asslessman.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/feeds/3193686869183261639/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2266790405212945417&amp;postID=3193686869183261639' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3193686869183261639'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2266790405212945417/posts/default/3193686869183261639'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://asslessman.blogspot.com/2007/09/of-vitriol-and-world-of-blogs.html' title='of vitriol and the world of blogs'/><author><name>mdesus</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13158473434852931383</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
