Thoughts: Strippers, My Delicious Library, Riots in Toledo

I read an aticle on Drudge today about poverty-stricken New Orleans evacuees spending money on strippers and booze. More power to you I say. They interviewed a savvy stripper. `They were tipping me $5 a pop,'' said a Zachary's dancer named Angel. ``I told them I felt bad taking their money. But I still took it.'' What an Angel!
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So I'm organizing all my books into this software called Delicious Library, you scan your book title and it catalogues it into your computer so you know what you have. Also as you scan it tells what the book is worth now on Amazon.com, so I'm scanning along, all of a sudden I scan an old copy of The Frogs by Stephen Sondheim and it says 149.95 on Amazon. I'm like what? So I go to Amazon and sho enough. I must have paid 3 bucks 20 years ago for this script. Then I scan in another play called Public Enemy by Kenneth Branagh, bingo, 125.00 dollars it's worth. So I go to Amazon.com and there are 5 copies for sale and the lowest is 125 and the highest is 211.00. Thats crazy. 211 dollars. You know how many carne steak asadas at Del Taco I could buy with that? Damn. On a side note, my Sunset Blvd CD is worth 89 cents but I think that's high, don't you? The best though is a book I own entitled Michael Marons Instant Make-Over Magic. I bought this book in high school in 1986 and now it's only worth 0.01. I swear to God. 1 penny. That's how it's listed on Amazon. But i wouldn't sell it for 5 pennies! Knowing my luck I'd sell it and the next day I'd be needing a Michael Maron Instant Magic Make-Over and then what the fuck would I do?

Oh, and in case you're curious, I own 753 books, 245 cds and 176 movies. Delicious Libray kicks ass!

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I was riveted and repulsed by the looting in Toledo. I love Toledo. They have a great porno theatre in Toldeo, I forget the name but anyway back to the looting! My Lord! When is this country gonna have a brutally honest discussion about poverty and race. The news commmentators kept mentioning that the majority of the looters were black. But when a bunch of drunk white dudes overturn cars after a football game they don't say, "We can't help notice that the majority of the rioters are white." it's time to start discussing race as opposed to just saying, "racism is bad." It seems everyone is racist! Why? I don't believe the answers are simple. Cats don't like dogs for the most part. Fish and birds are not friends! I grew up thinking racism could only be doled out by white people. It wasn't until I got older that I realized everyone hates everyone, period. One of my best friends is Chinese and he hates Koreans! Hates them. I wouldn't even know the diference. Man, this shit is complicated and bumper sticker slogans like, "Racism is bad", don't solve anything.