Otterz & Endz

The Simplicity of Life

By Ryan Livingston / September 16, 2003 /

Life is not simple. In fact, it’s quite unnecessarily over-complicated. Think about it… billions of peptides randomly swirled together in a puddle, which then randomly formed billions of proteins which then randomly walked ashore in the form of a being so chemically complex that they only now found the recipe. It was stuck to the…

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Group Therapy

By Ryan Livingston / September 4, 2003 /

A growing craze with college professors is the idea of groups; I like to call them “aggregation of silent gawkers.” These cabals usually consist of 1-2 mute brains and 1-infinity equally mute onlookers; forced together by location or alphabetical commonality, and united under one cause – appease the ringmaster. Well, the system doesn’t work. And…

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There and Back Again, and There Again Yet Again, Chapter II

By Ryan Livingston / September 3, 2003 /

I can always tell when school is about to begin – my legs hurt. It’s like and old war wound that heralds the coming hurricane. I just can’t explain it; and it happens right before each semester since my high school days. I can move around 200lb picnic tables for days on end (to which…

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And the Amish Were None the Wiser

By Ryan Livingston / August 18, 2003 /

As most of you may know, last Thursday (August 14th, 2003), we had ourselves a little blackout. And when I say little I of course mean the entire north east of North America. For those of you in the dark about what went on (boo!), about 11% of the USA/Canadian power grid died out. No…

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Eclectic Dreams – 04/30/03

By Ryan Livingston / April 30, 2003 /

It has been a while since I’ve had a dream that I can remember well. Many are mundane and not worthy of discussion. This one however I feel just has to be written down. Plus it makes a good post filler.I’ll try to get as detailed as I can, but its been a few hours…

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Just a Random Stab At Fox

By Ryan Livingston / April 29, 2003 /

Tell the truth now, is there ever a bad time to berate the Fox corporation? I think not. This photo-shenanigan was one I did a while back (around the Man vs. Beast and Firefly Cancellation rants) but just never got to posting it here. But it speaks sooth now as it did back then –…

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New World Otter Radio?

By Ryan Livingston / April 24, 2003 /

You know, it could happen someday, and thats the scary part. This entry is an assignment I just finished for my radio production class and now I’m posting it here for lack of a better journal topic. This is the futuistic tour of the WOTT studios: Welcome to WOTT 90.0FM, New World Otter Radio NYC,…

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Art Intimidating Life

By Ryan Livingston / April 23, 2003 /

I give movie makers a lot of credit. Over the past month, Ray and myself have be trying to produce a movie for my video production class… and of course for the NWOt. Without giving away too much detail, it’s a short film about a doomed documentary crew and its cursed subject. The script is…

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My Rambling and Rough Hewn Thoughts on the War

By Ryan Livingston / April 14, 2003 /

Usually I ignore things written on bathroom walls, especially since I’m busy with other matters; but this struck me as cool. Here’s to Saddam Hiding in a Cave. May Marines piss Budweiser On that cocksucker’s grave. May they beat on his balls With a big brass hammer Until his asshole whistles The Star Spangled Banner.…

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The 4th Day of Spring

By Ryan Livingston / March 23, 2003 /

Yes, yes, spring is here. Oh how I look forward to being serenaded by Mr. Softee at one in the morning. Who picks these songs anyway? Pop Goes the Weasel and Turkey in the Straw were not meant to be looped while traveling at 1 MPH down a residential street. They were meant to be…

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