Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
Month: August 2002
A Suggested Amendment
Posted on August 23, 2002 in Peace
I think perhaps it is high time that we add a new amendment to the constitution.
Prologue to the Zoo
Posted on August 23, 2002 in Zoos
“There better be something GOOD, causing this,” I raved.
Sustained Personal Involution
Posted on August 23, 2002 in Attitudes
Sometimes I think that I’m the most interesting character I know. At least I try. Maybe it is because I have this thing against gossip and against projecting my thoughts on other people. IRC people and bloggers tend to put their thoughts right out there for people to see. So I can easily speak mind to mind. But when I see someone on the street, I tend to avoid projecting my thoughts on them. If I find myself doing it, I make a note in my other notebook, the one I use for fiction. That way I can honestly say that this is not the person I saw, but someone who I styled after their looks, the way they talked, etc.
To tell the truth, it might also be because I live in the illusion that I understand myself far less than I understand other people. I think this is because all you really ever get to distill of other people is their actions and their words. The view I have of myself is different: I’m not just watching my actions, but I am also able to see those endless involutions inside my brain. I have the power to generate my own story and it’s fun to play around as a fictional creation that I weave. I can make this puppet dance, which is something that no amount of cajoling, yelling, screaming, bribing, begging, threatening, or politely asking can I use to cause with certainty in another person.
Bloggies
Posted on August 22, 2002 in Misc
I’m in the running against a least a dozen other sites. Sites that have more pictures to catch the eye, certain strong rivals to my words. Nevertheless, I am in it. Vote for Pax Nortona as Best New Blog.
A Clue for Certain Friends
Posted on August 22, 2002 in Peace
It’s not just our boys. It’s their boys, too. And their girls, their old grannies, the pale women secreted in their harems, and their sun-wizened men who sip syrupy coffee and play backgammon.
Moral Decline
Posted on August 21, 2002 in Peace
It’s about ridiculing saints. It is about pressing people who could be saints to ignore their consciences and their rational minds, to give in to hate.
Possessed
Posted on August 21, 2002 in Courage & Activism IRC/Chat Peace
Joel the Angel of Wrath came out swinging the terrible swift sword of invective.
Exclamations
Posted on August 21, 2002 in Humor?
I’ve been in dirty Batman mode lately:
Great sacred coprolite of Damascus! Holy Shit!
Most Divine High Priestess of Aphrodite! Holy Fuck!
OK, it’s out of my system. Been one of those days.
I think we’re there….
Posted on August 21, 2002 in Site News
If you can read this, you are now at my new web host. We had a few problems getting here — a few people almost certainly ran into 403 errors earlier today. I’m still putting together the site and haven’t fixed the form mail, but I promise to have that done by the weekend. You should see the Moveable Type version of this site coming up on September 1 after I’ve tooled around with it a bit, set up a few templates, and gotten up the courage to stick my little toe in the big cold lake called uncertainty.
You know, for once I saw this coming….
Posted on August 20, 2002 in Pointers Quizzes
what’s your order?
If Tuesday Disappears
Posted on August 20, 2002 in Site News
Don’t worry. It just means that you’ve stumbled into my new server at Glowhost.
I had a heck of a time getting things changed. Foolishly, I used an email address that I never check for my contact. I had to make some calls, fill out some forms, sign some documents, attach a picture ID, declare before all creation that I was the original Joel Sax owner of notfrisco2.com, write out a check, and wink at the older woman who ran the fax machine down at the mailbox place over in Mission Viejo. I suppose it made her day. There were nothing but geezers and salesmen who had their company logos sewn into their work shirts hanging around. She must have been bored.
While I was waiting, I found two humorous signs that I liked:
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AC Repairman
Posted on August 20, 2002 in Weather
I’ve got the AC repairman over here at last, plugging off portions of my cooling system and pressurizing them to see what pops. Now and then a heavy thud or a hollow bang reverberates down from the attic or up from under the deck. He finishes and hands me a sheet with several numbers indicating various psi’s — pounds per square inch. Now we just wait to see what blows.
