Comments for RailCannonBlog http://www.railcannon.net/blog "We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us." --- Francois de La Rochefoucauld Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 Comment on Why I Don’t Watch Lost by maxgxldealer http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-48 maxgxldealer Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:58:08 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-48 Mornin` Awesome post, Love the read! And i wud have to answer them all with YES!!:P Mornin`

Awesome post, Love the read! And i wud have to answer them all with YES!!:P

]]> Comment on Why I Don’t Watch Lost by I LOST THE LOST CHANNEL http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-47 I LOST THE LOST CHANNEL Thu, 07 May 2009 16:45:39 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-47 The show has become BORING, once it was great but it's time has come, as a matter of fact its time is over. I can't watch it anymore, it's ridiculios anymore, at one time intriguing but now just too weird -- the writers lost their thought process along the way, now its anything goes. Not that anything goes didnt happen before, but its different now - sorta like random garbage placed along the street in a orderly manner. Or strictly organized chaos, it's just too farfetched when before it was just farfetched...................... The show has become BORING, once it was great but it’s time has come, as a matter of fact its time is over. I can’t watch it anymore, it’s ridiculios anymore, at one time intriguing but now just too weird — the writers lost their thought process along the way, now its anything goes. Not that anything goes didnt happen before, but its different now - sorta like random garbage placed along the street in a orderly manner. Or strictly organized chaos, it’s just too farfetched when before it was just farfetched………………….

]]> Comment on Why I Don’t Watch Lost by Leo http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-40 Leo Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:57:15 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-40 Nice... Nice…

]]> Comment on Traffic Collision by Chris Fan http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/06/01/traffic-collision/#comment-39 Chris Fan Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:38:04 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/06/01/traffic-collision/#comment-39 Whoah, what the hell happened? The link's broken now. Whoah, what the hell happened? The link’s broken now.

]]> Comment on image persistence by D Ou http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/06/03/image-persistence/#comment-38 D Ou Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:56:23 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/06/03/image-persistence/#comment-38 There's nothing like a confrontation with death to make one think about the frailty of life, and then, the miraculousness of the soul. Don't fixate on the physical, that only leads to morbidity. Send peaceful thoughts instead to the poor woman and marvel instead at your own bones, nicely enclosed within skin, flesh, and muscle. And take care that it stays enclosed. There’s nothing like a confrontation with death to make one think about the frailty of life, and then, the miraculousness of the soul. Don’t fixate on the physical, that only leads to morbidity. Send peaceful thoughts instead to the poor woman and marvel instead at your own bones, nicely enclosed within skin, flesh, and muscle. And take care that it stays enclosed.

]]> Comment on Responsibility for Intolerance by amy http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/03/06/responsibility-for-intolerance/#comment-37 amy Sun, 11 Mar 2007 05:17:58 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/03/06/responsibility-for-intolerance/#comment-37 This story is so horrific. So heart-breaking. Cannot believe the shit her teacher did. Fucking candy cane in the shape of J blood of Jesus. I'll give her blood my blood is fucking boiling hearing this shit this is so ridiculous. I want to know what town this is. This diversity training goals blah blah is not fucking enough. I want to sue this whole friggin school district I want to sue this district to the ground and fire this teacher. The teacher and the principal and the district superintendent. I want all their houses razed to the ground. I want their possessions confiscated and I want their reputations ruined and I want their children to forsake them in their old age leaving them hungry and penniless and bereft of love or life or happiness. I mean, honestly, when a man prefers being a Muslim in the West Bank to being a Muslim in America? It. Is. A fucking. Problem. This story is so horrific. So heart-breaking. Cannot believe the shit her teacher did. Fucking candy cane in the shape of J blood of Jesus. I’ll give her blood my blood is fucking boiling hearing this shit this is so ridiculous. I want to know what town this is. This diversity training goals blah blah is not fucking enough. I want to sue this whole friggin school district I want to sue this district to the ground and fire this teacher. The teacher and the principal and the district superintendent. I want all their houses razed to the ground. I want their possessions confiscated and I want their reputations ruined and I want their children to forsake them in their old age leaving them hungry and penniless and bereft of love or life or happiness.

I mean, honestly, when a man prefers being a Muslim in the West Bank to being a Muslim in America? It. Is. A fucking. Problem.

]]> Comment on Out of Phase by alexou http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/02/25/out-of-phase/#comment-23 alexou Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:52:08 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/02/25/out-of-phase/#comment-23 It kind of reminds me of Stanford's Asian big-little sib program... my big sib told me that a big reason why they wanted to participate as big sibs is that their big sibs sucked, were useless, etc, and they wanted to improve the program by being better big sibs than the ones they had. But instead, they themselves were typically not great either, wash, rinse and repeat. I saw my one of my big sibs all the time cause he was also a Mendicant, but we didn't see the other two members of our sib family much at all. :) So I actually don't know that the majority of people forgive our parents out of knowledge that we'll fuck up with our own kids too -- in fact on some level, isn't that really fatalistic? I'm sure most people feel they won't make the same mistakes their parents do. Then again more and more I hear people (like Chris) say they see how they are incredibly influenced by their parents, whether they like it or not. Myself, I still feel like I was adopted (in the sense that I see none of my parents characteristics in me, good or bad). That poem was definitely glass half empty. With like, a hole in the bottom too. It kind of reminds me of Stanford’s Asian big-little sib program… my big sib told me that a big reason why they wanted to participate as big sibs is that their big sibs sucked, were useless, etc, and they wanted to improve the program by being better big sibs than the ones they had. But instead, they themselves were typically not great either, wash, rinse and repeat. I saw my one of my big sibs all the time cause he was also a Mendicant, but we didn’t see the other two members of our sib family much at all. :)

So I actually don’t know that the majority of people forgive our parents out of knowledge that we’ll fuck up with our own kids too — in fact on some level, isn’t that really fatalistic? I’m sure most people feel they won’t make the same mistakes their parents do. Then again more and more I hear people (like Chris) say they see how they are incredibly influenced by their parents, whether they like it or not. Myself, I still feel like I was adopted (in the sense that I see none of my parents characteristics in me, good or bad).

That poem was definitely glass half empty. With like, a hole in the bottom too.

]]> Comment on Out of Phase by zygote http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/02/25/out-of-phase/#comment-22 zygote Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:36:23 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2007/02/25/out-of-phase/#comment-22 Maybe the balance is that we know that we will be out of sync with our children, just as our parents are out of sync with us. There is no justice across the generations because the kind of damage that our families cause us is enduring and unforgivable (and weirdly enough, in some instances, probably a necessary part of our upbringing). Yet for the most part we inevitably forgive or at least reconcile because we recognize, just as you say, that we can also never repay our families for what they have given us. You should watch Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. There is this incredible scene in the movie where Sidney Poiter's character, John Prentice, is confronting his father about how the older generation that his father represents, has been there both to make possible and also to hold back all the progress and advances that the younger generation hopes for. I mean, the way I sound it is lame, but that movie? Fucking. Incredible. People can't talk about race and class and generational strife the way they used to. Our discourse today is too fraught with irony and subtlety to achieve the same kind of biting painful clarity. p.s. A glass half empty view on this whole issue can be found in Philip Larkin's poem, "<a href="http://www.artofeurope.com/larkin/lar2.htm" rel="nofollow">This Be The Verse</a>." Maybe the balance is that we know that we will be out of sync with our children, just as our parents are out of sync with us. There is no justice across the generations because the kind of damage that our families cause us is enduring and unforgivable (and weirdly enough, in some instances, probably a necessary part of our upbringing). Yet for the most part we inevitably forgive or at least reconcile because we recognize, just as you say, that we can also never repay our families for what they have given us.

You should watch Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. There is this incredible scene in the movie where Sidney Poiter’s character, John Prentice, is confronting his father about how the older generation that his father represents, has been there both to make possible and also to hold back all the progress and advances that the younger generation hopes for. I mean, the way I sound it is lame, but that movie? Fucking. Incredible. People can’t talk about race and class and generational strife the way they used to. Our discourse today is too fraught with irony and subtlety to achieve the same kind of biting painful clarity.

p.s. A glass half empty view on this whole issue can be found in Philip Larkin’s poem, “This Be The Verse.”

]]> Comment on Why I Don’t Watch Lost by alexou http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-17 alexou Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:35:52 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-17 oh and i feel like i have to jump in on PA's gabe's behalf -- if you read his and tycho's entry, i don't think he actually complains about the fans and their theories -- and i'm not attacking them either. in fact, it sounds like gabe was one of those fans, with some of those theories. except maybe now he thinks the show is just fans and their theories, and the writers are just making it up as they go along. oh and i feel like i have to jump in on PA’s gabe’s behalf — if you read his and tycho’s entry, i don’t think he actually complains about the fans and their theories — and i’m not attacking them either. in fact, it sounds like gabe was one of those fans, with some of those theories. except maybe now he thinks the show is just fans and their theories, and the writers are just making it up as they go along.

]]> Comment on Why I Don’t Watch Lost by alexou http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-16 alexou Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:29:08 +0000 http://www.railcannon.net/blog/2006/11/01/why-i-dont-watch-lost/#comment-16 who's the nerd on the show? who’s the nerd on the show?

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