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I purchased The Downward Spiral for the first time in the summer of 1996, when I was thirteen. It was on audio cassette. I would listen to it on my Sony Walkman headphones in the dark after bedtime. Sometimes I would get so scared I'd have to turn it off without making it through both sides all the way to "Hurt." I hadn't ever taken church that seriously, and hearing Trent snarl "god is dead" just seemed to affirm my growing suspicions. I discovered a darkness in myself that summer, a darkness that remains with me to this day. I've since purchased it over a dozen times to give as a gift to friends or to replace my copy which had worn out

There it is. Fan boy gush gush. Hate if you want.


I can relate to your story, except that I was listening to Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse" during a bloodletting orgy with a blindfold on.

I purchased The Downward Spiral for the first time in the summer of 1996, when I was thirteen. It was on audio cassette. I would listen to it on my Sony Walkman headphones in the dark after bedtime. Sometimes I would get so scared I'd have to turn it off without making it through both sides all the way to "Hurt." I hadn't ever taken church that seriously, and hearing Trent snarl "god is dead" just seemed to affirm my growing suspicions. I discovered a darkness in myself that summer, a darkness that remains with me to this day. I've since purchased it over a dozen times to give as a gift to friends or to replace my copy which had worn out



There it is. Fan boy gush gush. Hate if you want.

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Realize folks, this is FOX NEWS. How often does FOX NEWS report 100% of the truth and facts, or even 1% of the time? This is an organization that rountinely is the mouth piece if not lap dog, of the Republican party. Often the vehicle and media engine to spread fear, confusion, and hatred. They appeal to the lowest common denomiator of this country's people - the ones that are not wise enough to think for themselves.

So, for the sake of the arguement, lets just say Fox News, and more importantly Mr. Beck, is reporting this information 100% correct and factual (when you stop laughing, read on).

The US Census is mandated through the US Constitution, to be perform every ten years. Its to gather information needed for goverment spending and direction of resources. Its to make the best effort to contact every person of legal age, and every household in the U.S.A. Over the years of this process, somethings have changed, understandibly, since the country has changed from the original thirteen colonies. The current census has its own website and process to explain what it is, does, and can not do. Do a yahoo/goggle search. If you still have questions, contact your representative or senator for additional information.

Mr. Beck, is neither informed, nor honest when it comes to legal system of the USA, nor the facts of the 2010 US Census. As always, with Fox News (come on guys, you know this drill after 8 years of GWB & Fox News!), you have to check the information they give for accuracy.

I'm reading Black Man by Richard Morgan (Thirteen in the U.S). Loved his Takeshi Kovacs novels and though this is supposedly inferior I'm still enjoying it.

Strange. Late last year I was reading Richard K Morgans "Thirteen", a near-future scifi thriller. Part of the background was that the US of today split up into the eastern federation, the pacific rim and "Jesusland" as it was colloquially known. While the other two parts of the country were doing ok-ish, Jesusland was fenced off at the border (to keep the faithful safe(ly) inside), stirring up trouble for everyone else and drifting into third-world-nation status. Oh and being slowly run over by radioactive mutant ants. But that's happening already.

At times I really wonder how fast fact catches up with fiction.

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Ohmygosh! Thirteen babies? Whoa.

Start Here:
http://www.disquiet.com/thirteen.html
13 different english translations of the same brilliant poem

And more about the guy himself and his heteronyms at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa

Had to start a new comment, 24 hour lock out!

Stratton Park - Play in the Vast Drama
The Thirteen Club - Moderation is the Key

"Did you know that thirteen avatars are made each second with non-animated-gif disorder?..."

Ok. I'll stop now.

In reply to this comment by NicoleBee:
"Sadly, there is no cure. But with your help there can be hope."

Nice to see you! I was surprised to see you've been about so long with the bronze star and all. I thought -I- was slow to find videos I want to sift.

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Hey, I can't help it! My avatar has non-animated-gif disorder (NAGD).

A lot of my favorites are already mentioned here, like HHGTTG, Pratchett, Vonnegut, Simmons, so here a few others, since I don't want to sound repetitive (in no particular order):
* Winston Churchill - The Second World War
* Walter Moers - The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear
* Scott Adams - The Dilbert principle
* Charlotte Chandler - Hello, I must be going
* Frederick Brooks - The mythical man-month

This isn't warfare. This is annihilation.

Nearly 1,000 Gazans have been killed, 4,400 have been injured, and an estimated 90,000 have fled their homes since Israel's offensive on Gaza began on 27 December, according to Palestinian figures.

Thirteen Israelis have died, three of them civilians, Israel says.

It is impossible to independently confirm casualty figures as Israel has refused to allow international journalists to enter Gaza.

A UN watchdog has accused Israel of showing a "manifest disrespect" for the protection of children in Gaza.

More than 40% of those killed in Gaza were women or children, said the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, even though Israel had signed a UN protocol condemning attacks on places where children were likely to be present.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Israel of trying to "wipe out" his people.

So manly, taunting a thirteen year old kid and calling her a bitch.

I declared myself “The Rogue Poet” back in 1990 when I got serious about writing.

I'm in my forties. My life has been half cursed and half blessed. My parents divorced when I was very young, and it was a very violent situation. My mother remarried a cowboy and I had to stop her from taking a knife to him one night when he came home drunk, stinking of pussy and perfume. A few years later I had to pull him off of my mom's back when he tried to strangle her. They finally divorced.

When I was thirteen, a little boy died in my arms. Actually, I kept him alive long enough to place him in his mother's arms and watch him take his last breath. I was covered with his blood head to toe, and I can still remember the taste of it in my mouth.

I rolled and totally demolished a Chevy Nova when I was sixteen and walked away without a scratch. “My Sharona” was playing on the radio as I watched the world do flip flops through the passenger's side window. My mom and my girlfriend at the time said they could see a hand mark in the middle of my back which lasted a couple of days.

I was stalked by somebody, or somebodies, back in the ninties and it left me a little scarred, emotionally and psychologically. As a result, there are very few people that I trust enough to get close to now, hence my roguish ways.

I had a near-death experience in 1994 and I could sense a presense in my room. It talked to me. I don't know who or what it was; I forgot to ask its name, but it saluted me and left when my body turned the corner and I started to come back to life. The next day, something happened that explained to me that I had to experience that near fatality for some strange reason concerning my future.

I have known true love. It is magical. I knew it twice, with two wonderful girls that I met in my early twenties, but life got in our way. We parted, and I never fell in love again. But I have hopes.

I have been very fortunate in other respects.

I can be a real pain in the neck sometimes, and I even drive myself crazy, but over all, I think that most people consider me to be a stand up dude.

Silly Trebek, it's pronounced 'leet' not 'thirteen-hundred thirty-seven'