Monday, April 07, 2003
Failure was riding in the trunk |10:15 AM| Portalstar and I did our very best to go swimming this past sunday. We continually met with park closings, new "Temporary closings" and in one instance, an apocolyptic sized swarm of insects.

We drove all over the wilder areas of Austin, which translates to "tamed, but uncomfortable". The first swimming area we checked had people fishing in it, but before I could get a hook stuck in my ass, the park ranger told everyone they were closed. Star and I did our best not to fall off the cliffside. Finding Mansfield dam closed to the public for an unspecified period of time, we ended up walking down to the base of it. More people were fishing, but what chased us off there was a huge, undulating swarm of droning insects. I wasn't sure what manner of flitting creature they were, and according to Portal "If they're mosquitoes, we're leaving".

I leaned forward (the swarm was over the water) and snatched one from the air. Lo and behold, I held a flying vampire. When I related this to Portal, she said "We're leaving" and began hurrying off towards the car. Seeing a lack of urgency to my pace, she yelled back "Fire in the hole, [Cecil]!" and continued running. I found this amusing, but I did still find myself running before the bastards picked up on all the bananas I've been eating. From what I understand, it makes you more attractive to the needle nosed bastards.

Despite our attempts to commune with nature, we ended up using the over-chlorinated pool back at my apartment.



I did finally get to see "Battle Royale" at a den of stinky-hippidom, the "Escapist Bookstore". They were raising money for the West Memphis 3. I intend to look up information on that particular cause. Battle Royale itself lived up to what I had heard, but it had an unexpected ending.

If you happen to get a chance to see the documentary (Called "Hell House") about the South Texas Trinity church's haunted house depicting the wages of sin and whatnot (Also called "Hell House") I strongly reccomend it. It's an entirely terrifying film, but not in the way the subjects would have intended, I'm sure. I wonder what, exactly, the producers of the film told the church members, or how they presented themselves, to be given such access to the workings of the project. I ask this, because the documentary is very clearly biased against the church (for good reason).

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