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Still haven’t seen the movie, but ran prieur has some interesting observations:

“Did we conquer the Indians? When lefties say that Avatar purges white guilt, they are making several questionable assumptions: that we are white, that we feel guilty, and that white guilt is a good thing. This is an obsolete view of race. A more helpful view was pioneered in the zine and book Race Traitor: that “white” is a social class only loosely connected to pale skin, that thinking of ourselves as “white” makes us obedient to an unjust system, that the best thing “white” people can do is not to sit around feeling guilty for the crimes done in the name of whiteness, but to disown whiteness and take the other side. Every one of us has ancestors who lived more or less like the Na’vi, and who were violently conquered by disconnected, resource-extracting cultures. If we all stop identifying with those cultures, the whole game is over.

We did not conquer the Indians. The Babylonians, the Romans, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans conquered us… but not completely. The reason Avatar is so popular, and so important, is that it is helping us to remember who we are.”

Also check out these cases of strange Avatar specific depression: http://bit.ly/5v6kmg

Makes me think of something like stendhal syndrome.

Here are a bunch of poems I wrote using the iPhone Dragon App (iTunes Link), a voice-to-text dictation application.

When I say ‘I wrote all of these poems’, I need to clarify on my methods. I was actually just speaking complete and absolute jibberish into the microphone – no words, just fake sounds.

Here is a sample of the crazy mouth noises I was making:
“Sound File Of Garrett Making Weird Noises And Annoying His Roommates”

After saying a bunch of crazy stuff, I let the app do it’s normal translation and emailed the results to myself. After some very minor editing (mostly for style), here are the results:

1.

Shannon home today
and I can’t know God
bless us to kick some Zune cool
as you can see mom went to ask him
she moaned hello
Micah’s status on that check
on the class
is yet

2.

Is another cool as you can just talk
into the address to each blocking
issues one to lose at why haven’t
you can automatically Shikara
tools for parking pass up an update
on the team behind
King and Queen King Kong keep hi
Sue see if I should hand them on a minute
to catch up with the
VCRs

3.

Zekes motion they had the benefit of a mall
and one tool in Stanton step at home man with dad
to just book the half Google Yahoo tie
to contact Louis dog eat at aqua Terra food shop
Keanan multi-touch
is shot

4.

In Tucson, that’s so what do we go man
to beat him
zone shall to eat will knock me soup time
and I’ll call you, get skin

5.

Seven opportunities that I can do with
the separate of an amended the gift
I cannot image

me speak there is a classic cup of 10 o’clock
but that is the tequila
to pick up at the two topic happened to www.that’s good
to be picked up at the Pentagon

I keep hoping that the fact that you come to the beginning of the cavity
do that but exactly
to get the E.E. boat babe

6.

Bubba,
can a convicted digit
minute?

that that that that that

7.

I think that dude is acting up
that dude that
that’s the second

got back to the doctor, said that
goatee death but
the Buddah dude that got booted

8.

Come home
and not know of his Louisville need
to remember googling movies
just need

9.

Candle lobby T. mom
to leave all that key morning
to the woo hoo SeaBlue Zach DiVita
howdy do do the body doddy do
E.E. dog food out of

10.

Can the content that fax a document
and if it’s a PE
but Sandra,
there is no show today, same time.
That’s what difficulties can escape onto a bunch of that to come in
and I to to to to to
to see photo attack
that had seen another B.

Hope that is a good day back out
to take that that that that
the old goat

11.
Tina Boka
text devil

hey I cheated
but to buy tickets at the CNN
will be able to add daddy

about the boutique David
I’m on the Internet today
and no
ha ha
whole movie Kathy did I see but I can imagine who he
ha ha… the 13th

out

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This final poem was done slightly different. Instead of using my mouth I plugged in a bass guitar and experimented
with trying to create poems by interpreting human speech. I didn’t really have that great of results, but this one
really seem to describe the ‘poem’ of the bass:

12.

Dude dude dude