zensauna

CRASH!

And so the new starts; by braking a plate on Buddha's head. My goodbye to the year that was 2007. Into a thousand pieces the plate went, with me hurling insults in finnish into the dark Minnesotan new years eve. After defacing this plastic representation of the great mystic I bent in front of the fire and praying to pagan finnish mythologies in my own way (by drinking) I sought to foretell my future: by melting tin in the fire, and then while shrieking my name I dumped it into cold snow...

Two figures emerged when I plunged my hand into the snow and groped around for the metallic statues representing my life for 2008, one flat but wavy the other curved and twisted. The first one was fairly obvious: a stormy ocean. Troubled waters. Adversity! The other took some more booze to decipher. Antlers! The other figure represents antlers! And antlers are a primodial alpha-male symbol of power. That or then this twisted tin figure represents a demon spawn from hell... So I will face adversity this coming year, and if I prevail I shall have power; if I fail I shall be hunted down and sodomized by a demon spawn from hell!

And to end this night of pagan worship I entered my temple, the holiest of all places, the sauna and summoned forth the spirit of Lyly with beer and water and sweat. And after this sweet creatures hot embrace I appeased the winter gods by rolling in the snow, naked beneath the stars, screaming in joy. Had not the neighbors been out watching the fireworks downtown I would have most likely been arrested for exposing myself to a minor. Oh well... I shall see if I manage to accomplish that tonight.

So that was that "eve", plenty of more to come this year!

At the time of writing Barack Obama has won the Iowa caucus with around 8% more votes than runner-up John Edwards. So there seems to be hope. But that is not enough. And neither are the people who vote at the caucuses representative typical Dem.'s or Rep.'s. The gun crazed reverend, Huckabee, won the Republican caucus with 9% more votes than Romney... Huckabees campaign was a shit stain in the media a few months ago, but now he has grown over Romney, who clearly led all polls back then... This represents the unwillingness that Rep.'s have towards making a mormon, i.e. a minority, president. And this is probably true for Dem.'s as well. They are both quite alike in the eyes of a European, Rep.'s and Dem.'s that is.

The future looks dark. If Obama is elected the Dem.'s candidate in august (and I hope he will be) he will have to fight hard to get unregistered people to vote, and to vote for him. He has to. He can't expect to win by flirting with white democrats. Many of them will just vote Republican. Just so that a black won't be the next president. And I'm sure they'd be happy to vote for someone like Huckabee who is "a nice, down to earth, fella". The New Hampshire primaries are in 5 days, so I will be following that with interest from home in Finland, providing I'm not fucked up on Melatonin. And if Edwards wins there he will be strongly back in the game, and if he gets elected president, then we will have a true terrorist nation on our hands, one that will hate America, you and my pagan ways.

But enough about that crap.

There are some interesting news from Finland, namely that the commander of the military gave a speech about how quantity is not the defining factor of a good military, but quality. The good side of this is that this is another example of how the finnish military is starting to wake up to the realpolitk of today, and that hopefully we could end general conscription someday... On the dark side, and this side truly is dark, that will require money. Lots of it. And because the government won't raise taxes the money will be taken out from public welfare and services like health care and education.

And so I leave you with one final thought tonight, well more like a piece of information that you should feel grateful for that I bother to enlighten you with it: With the free world coming crashing down I have decided to buy land in the wilderness and fortify a cabin and a bomb shelter there, and then set of to piss off and hurt every single person who shits on the disenfranchised and when they come to get me, I'll flee from the cabin to my bomb shelter and vanish until I am needed again!

Peace & Love,
-zS