now i ask you..... how do you feel without the boy of the week blog?
I must admit.... I am NOT that sad.
Mike wasn't really actively looking for a roommate anyway.

I was attempting to start a cult with the boy of the week blog. But, alas...nobody joined. I was unable to retain members. I have therefore decided to shut down the boy of the week blog forever!!

*POOF* it is done.

I'm so sad....so lonely....

Monica, please! Lead me! Guide me through these dark times!

I want in your cult Monica. I'm very vulnerable right now, and have money to burn.

Here is a sample of the idiot's in my computer ethics class:

"I think that it is morally wrong to mess with people's minds."

"Rigging an election ballot is dishonest, deceiving, and an intrusion."


How did two year olds get into a graduate level college course?

So what did you come up with Monica?

Yesterday in my Social Psych class, we got into groups and each group was to come up with a list of A) ways to become an effective cult leader B)ways to retain cult members
C) a list of characteristics of a good cult leader and D) where to go to find members for your cult (what type of people you would recruit
That was the greatest fun ever.
David Koresh has nothing on me!!

Matt,
I am ALWAYS paying attention.
Most commercials (truth.com or not) are biased. They are always going to show you stats to support their beliefs. It is good for you that you realize that so that you may make an informed decision every time!

Very good Monica! Glad to see you are paying attention.

Brian has a good point, too. Those truth.com commercials exxagerately claim that secondhand smoke is this horrible epidemic responsible for lung cancer. They shape the statistics to support their claims. Really, it is to shock people to get their attention, just like MADD does.

you just made that up!!

isn't THAT a statistic?

75% of statistics are made up on the spot.

The stakes are high this election year.

Pollster John Zogby: “This is an Armageddon election. Each side is saying, ‘You elect the other side, and it's the end of the world.' In that kind of a situation, it's very difficult to see Nader getting many votes.”

I found that quote funny. Armageddon is hilarious.

Sorry, I stole this. I really hate what this organization is doing to our civil liberties:

MADD (and NHTSA) grossly overexaggerate [motorists.org] their claims [madd.org] of "drunk driving accidents," which are really alcohol-related accidents (a misleading statistic used by NHTSA [dot.gov]). Did you know that if you, while 100% sober, hit a drunk pedestrian, it counts as an alcohol-related accident? Or did you know that if you get in an accident and EVERYONE is sober (driver, pedestrian, passengers), you can still be counted as alcohol-related due to the statistical correction [dot.gov] that NHTSA uses, since only 63% of drivers [dot.gov] are tested for their BAC level!

MADD claims that 0.08 BAC reduction saves lives, yet a study by NHTSA found no proof of such reduction [dot.gov] after North Carolina enacted the lower BAC limit: "There appears to have been little clear effect of the lower BAC limit in North Carolina. Survey data
indicate that the general public believes the new law was well-publicized. Although awareness of the new
lower limit was not particularly high nearly 18 months after the law took effect, frequent drinkers did
evidence a substantial degree of awareness that the law had changed and about what the new BAC limit
was. As is typical in North Carolina, enforcement of the lower limit was vigorous and strict."

MADD wants to lower the BAC limit lower and lower, to 0.05. It claims victory over the 0.08 law over the previous 0.10 standard. However, it has been found [uiowa.edu] that "the
relative risk [of being in a traffic accident while using a cell-phone] is similar to the
hazard associated with driving with a blood alcohol level at the legal limit." The legal limit in that paper was 0.10 BAC. Another interesting note is that "These data also call into question driving regulations that prohibit handheld
cell-phones and permit hands-free cell-phones, because no significant differences in
the impairments caused by these two cellular devices were found.", but that's another topic of conversation.

Point is, why do they want to keep lowering the BAC when it has been shown that the vast majority [dot.gov] of drunk driving accidents occurs with drivers with over 0.10 BAC, and that below that, it's as risky as using a cell phone? Why is MADD targeting low-BAC-level drivers, such as 0.08 (and as they hope 0.05), with huge fines, property confiscation, loss of driver license, and obscene insurance surcharges? MADD wants to bully states [www.ridl.us] into the 0.08 BAC law by passing legislation that threatens their funding.

Furthermore, when NHTSA's accident data was loaded in a database and independent statistics [www.ridl.us] were ran on it, the massive exaggerations were exposed. Quote from the previous link: "Through the use of this tool we were able to discover that across the entire country NHTSA nearly doubles the number of instances of drunk drivers. And this is prior to them implementing their "Multiple Imputation" methodology which adds in more numbers for "unknowns"." Take the stats on my state [www.ridl.us], Massachusetts. While NHTSA claimed that there were 160 drunk drivers, 113 of those drivers were listed with no proof!

So there you have it. Twisted statistics (they are careful to say "accidents related to alcohol," but everyday man reads as "drunk drivers"), constant agenda to lower BAC more and more despite the lack of proof.

One last lie commonly perpetuated by MADD (and NHTSA) is are the year-to-year comparison stats. Every year MADD claims [madd.org] that we have more and more alcohol-related (a deliberately misleading statistic [www.ridl.us]) accidents: 17,380 in 2000, 17,400 in 2001, 17,419 in 2002. The outcry is "more and more people are dying!" The truth is that there are more cars on the road in 2002 than there were in 2000. And obviously, the more cars, the more accidents! (it's like, "no shit, there are more cancer deaths in United States than Switzerland!") NHTSA publishes the vehicle miles traveled: in 2000 2,749,803,000,000 [dot.gov] VMT, in 2001 2,781,462,000,000 [dot.gov] VMT, in 2002 2,855,756,000,000 [dot.gov] VMT. So if we use a meaningful figure, such as number of alcohol-related accidents per billion vehicle miles traveled, then we get: 2000 had 6.32, 2001 had 6.26, and 2002 had 6.10! So in truth, the percentage of alcohol-related deaths compared to miles traveled has decreased in the last three years! Sure, the decrease is not much, but you see how these statistics are taken out of context.

Other than Ancient Greek history, I have a facscination with the idea of a liberal radio network. It is not happening for many reasons. Do you know why? It is not as simple as "because nobody cares", since many do care. It is mainly political.

Happy Birthday Mom.

I'm studying the life of Alexander the Great by watching anime. It is about as reliable as the pre-literate oral story tradition or the Bible.

But you know what, stories are not about the facts of what happened, but the conclusions that the listener draws from them.

"The mind is an organism that will make patterns. It doesn't care if there are no real patterns to be had. We make conclusions to stories all by ourselves." - Bob Deutsch, cognitive anthropologist

I use YAhoo IM now.

mattkomanecky is my screen name. I think we should all dump this blog and get an instant messenger service.

I vote for yahoo, but am willing to change.

I wouldn't want to force myself upon others. If they have something to say to me I'm sure they will.

matt komanecky has instant messenger so does mike mann
matt is kinglouis something and mike is mjmann or something like that.
You should check into it.

Who uses AOL instant messenger?

Anyone?

I'm gbg41977 if anyone is interested, doubtful as it may be.

Matt parked his car backwards today and lo and behold, his car made friends. He had friends on either side of his car. Experiment complete.

YOU GUYS ARE SOOO BORING!!!!!
You stress me out

I am going to start taking YOGA classes.

Gay bishop: 'It is about God's love'
"It's not just about sexuality. It's not about homosexuality," he said. "It is about God's unbounded love. It is about a God who loves us beyond our wildest imaginings. Why are people so angry that God's love might be extended to folks like me, and folks like you?"

"We want an action hero to take charge, to protect us and lead us to victory," says Ava Cadell, a clinical sexologist

I mean really folks, who doesn't want the title "sexologist" on their resume.

That is why it would be plausible to have a woman president. As long as she is really hot, men will vote for her.

I looked up "Lisa Madigan sexy ATTORNEY GENERAL" in google and found the following quote in the Chicago Sun-Times:

"LISA MADIGAN, STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Daddy's little girl is all grown up. If she'd just take off those glasses ... well, she has, and she still reminds us of our school librarian. Our sexy school librarian."

WISER, PAIGE. "The 'It' Factor." Chicago Sun-Times. January 7, 2004. http://www.chicagosuntimes.com/output/lifestyles/cst-ftr-politician07.html


GRRRR! She's hot!

Matt, you were supposed to back your car in to your normal spot today (friday) to try our experiment. Do it monday? AND park in your usual spot or we'll never know if it is the spot or the backing in. Okay?

Is anyone going out tonight? Or something?

and finally folks, I discovered the recipe last night for Pizza Hut Pizza Dough.
Homemade pizza's abound. I'll let you know how it is and maybe invite you over to share. But you have to be good little boys and beavers.

the boy of the week blog doesn't say "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard..."
so what are you gonna do about it?

well, my car likes your car when it's being nice. She (my princess) doesn't appreciate being made fun of.

Or is my car a boy?

Monica, I don't understand my car. We are of different generations, and I just don't know how to talk to her.

Maybe you could just keep parking next to her. She is always in a more sociable mood when she has your car to talk to.

(I think maybe because my car makes fun of your car for stalling in the middle of 5th street traffic. That's called leveling, when you make fun of others to bring them down to your level.)

I checked out the blogosphere and The Wily Beaver is the only blog without the phrase, "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard..."

So there. All fixed.

Matt Komanecky's car has bad feng sh ----way or something. It is always alone in the parking lot. Ne'r a car around. Sometimes I park there just so the car doesn't feel lonely. Matt doesn't seem too concerned about this, But I am. Maybe his car needs an intervention or something.????

Matt Komanecky says "blogging is soooooooooo last year"

Well, you don't want to be a whales penis...do you?????

Having never been a whales penis, I can say I sure do like some cheese ravioli once and a while.

a dork is a whales penis. (at least that's what i heard).

I've never had a virus. I need to get checked though.

People who get viruses are dorks.

...it's true!

Hey Matt. I got the one virus you sent me, and hotmail highlighted it for me. I don't know why your school's cpu's didn't see it.

Hey! Who's got that new virus going around? I'm gonna check my e-mail right now.

wanna buy a truck?

My car is dead. DEAD i said. She died on me this morning on my way to class.
Welcome to Winter Weather Watch 2004!

He's some roid freak.

who is Howard Dean?

Was he as mad as Howard Dean?

I heard that he was mad at Americans for taking steroids. He's so angry.

I actually HEARD a good portion of the address. But I missed the party....
Matt as I was driving around campus, I saw you in your office... I honked *beep beep*

Poor Matt Woo, I hope he's ok. He looked well enough last night.

My mom had a dream that somebody hanged Matt Woo from our back porch. That creeped me out. Things have been getting a little bit morbid around here with Grandpa dying so slowly.

I missed the speach too Monica. No big deal. Those speaches would be a lot more interesting if they had to talk about all the shit they did that fucked up the country, and then said sorry.

awwwwwwwwww.... I missed the state of the union party? DAMNIT!!!!!

Monica NEVER lurks.

My new bumper sticker supports the President. It says, "I support the vague war on a general evil that will last decades"

"a complete dickhead"

That is ok to say in the new journalism.

Causus party tonight! My house!

No, causus party has been cancelled.

State of the Union Address Party is ON!

You know, I bet they still do moonlight skate, but I left too early to find out. The pre-pubes kicked my ass at skating.

I'll be on my toes, looking over my shoulder, with eyes wide open, ears peeled, and many other body-oriented metaphors.

I know Monica is lurking in the distant shadows...

That's not being very polite

you're a bonehead

Mattie--
I stopped by your office today. I hope you had a safe trip to Champaign.
Maybe I'll grace you with my presence next week sometime. Be on your toes... You never know when I might show up..........

Who the fuck has an anger management problem?!?

Tell me now so I can kick their ass!

Song/Video of the day, "Move your feet" by Junior Senior

Hi Joe. Nice to see you.

Something for you scholars to marinate on while ya'll back in the skizzool.

"How could the search for ultimate truth have revealed so hideous and visceral-looking an object?"

When your teachers ask if you have any questions, throw that back at em.

Peace students! Good luck this semester.

Welcome to a new semester. School started today. Mattie I'll look you up on campus. (OTEL rules)

Mattie--- I was just wondering if they still offered the moonlight skate?

Happy Birthday to my nephew Khalil!

He's 7. But if you ask him he'll tell you he's 34.

We are going skating tonight at Skateland! I can't wait. I wish you guys could come. You are all invited.

It'll be great.

Hi Monica.

Hi Joe.

Hi everybody. I hope I see you soon.

You can't say we don't live in a time where evil isn't well defined. It has been made very clear by our President and his economists. Evil is a terrorist and a socialist. Medicare is evil. And so forth.

Imagine if we lived in a politically correct time, where Satan, the Great Adversary, was known as the Non-Gender-Specific Negativity Enabler of the Ethically Challenged.

That's kind of like calling Voldemort "you-know-who".

Don't mess with the boyoftheweek blog. I've taken it over for my own bedevilling purposes.

Quiting smoking is really starting to piss me off and I'm going to tell you about it.

It's day five and I woke up and puked alot of phlegm. My head is full of pressure, I can't concentrate, and I'm really irritable. Yea, this is really healthy. I'm not sure denying my body of something it wants is all that great. Tonight I'm going to try to do something that doesn't require drinking. I haven't done that since New Years and it really doesn't bother me. It's this smoking thing that's got me all fucked up.

Joe,
It's nice to see you again. You should check out Boy of the Week Blog. It's dedicated to finding Mike a roommate (and getting him out of YOUR house!!)
www.boyoftheweek.blogspot.com

Music I am considering buying (gleaned off Amazon.com's 100 best albums of 2003):

(These are a must have)
The Divorce - There Will Be Blood Tonight
Caesars - 39 Minutes of Bliss (In an Otherwise Meaningless World)
Decline of British Sea Power

(Depends on my mood)
Beulah - Yoko
Elefant - Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid
Phantom Power by Super Furry Animals
Libertines
Baby I'm Bored by Evan Dando
Fire Theft

(Undecided)
Decemberists

I got 1st post of the year!

I wager $10,000 that that person doesn't know how to design a website.

That guy was high, but this next guy is schizo.

NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE

And here is the parody site.

THE LEARNING TRIANGLE

It is sure funny what goes around in men's minds, and is then written to the Internet.

Absolute Law #46 – GOD HAS SEX BY THINKING!

- Kenneth Gardner Wingate, from Frankfort, Kentucky.

If you type bimbo into "looksmart" you get Monica's report card.

That is the unfunniest thing I've ever written.

If you type in "world biggest bogey-bum" you get a picture of Joe Natale.

Hey Jim Muir. You ever done any of that stigata stuff while you were high on acid?

The smurfs used to make me really happy, now I don't know.
Commusism is so 1916.

Fuck the Goddamn Internet!

You do a harmless search on Google for "Gargamel" - you remember, that greedy dark character from the Smurfs - and what shows up?

A comparison between Gargamel and the capitalists and how the Smurfs are Communist Propaganda, down to Papa Smurf's red undies! Fucking people with too much paranoia and time on their hands, taking a Hanna Barbara cartoon too seriously! Sounds like a Rush Limbaugh fan to me.

See for yourself here: PAPA SMURF IS A COMMUNIST

Monica. Smart girls are sexy, but getting a "b" makes you look like a bimbo. Better luck next semester sister.

b is for bimbo.

Wrong again "not my contempt." The google thing matt wrote about was funny. Not terribly funny, but still.

bah, that's simple google manipulation.

if I had a bunch of people put in Matt K and shithead the same thing would occur

simple tricks for simpletons i say

Type in "miserable failure" on google, click "I'm feeling Lucky", and you will get the Biography of President George W. Bush.

b is for booooooooo indeed.

Merry Christmas everybody. And remember, the more you hate yourself and the world you live in, the more Christ loves you.

You see, I have an advantage over you all: I am a sci-fi nerd. We don't get depressed. We live in a happy world of goblins and elves, and though the evil Lord of the Dark Forest can never truly be driven out, we know that the wherever the light shines, the shadow does disappear.

There is a downside of being a comic-book reading, fantasy-loving dork. Most of us have bad hair and clothing, and don't really care about washing our greasy hair and bodies. And don't ever come over to our mother's basement where we live. It is really messing and smelly.

well folks----- grades are in. Report cards arrived today. I got 3 a's and 1 b. (b is for booooooooooooooooooo!!!) I am devastated. Heartbroken if you will. I don't know what to do with a b.

I'm so depressed that I'm contemplating driving a nail through my hand so I can feel something other than sad.

I did make it through this week. Now it's the weekend and I want to do something other than drink. I'm tired of that. It's time to meet people that do other things with their life. Chances are it will be the same thing again.

Let's play, "Who's more depressed?"

I'm so depressed, I just want to eat Spicy Hot Cheetos all day.

Beat that.

"[Steve] Oedekerk wrote Patch Adams, for which he should not be forgiven. Why he was given free reign over this project -- he wrote, directed, starred and produced [Kung Pow!] -- is beyond me."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM

I thought parts of it were very funny.

This one is better:

"This film is so heartwarming that it makes Patch Adams look gritty and raw."
-- Rich Cline, SHADOWS ON THE WALL

"put on some make-up...turn on the 8-track..."

Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
RATING: FRESH 93% on the Tomatometer!

"Any movie in which the tranny protagonist can theoretically link Anne Murray and David Bowie in rock history is automatically a work of genius."
-- Dave White, IFILM

I'm still singing songs from that movie.

"The ang-er-y inch! The ang-er-y inch!"

Check out the other reviews as well.

The critics are not being as kind to Julia Roberts' new film,
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
RATING: ROTTEN 36% on the Tomatometer!

"Julia Roberts falls down, falls in love, brays her guffaw, and bares her teeth. Her fans will love it."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL

"Everyone in Dead Girls Society, err, Mona Lisa Smile wears their one character trait like a placard."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE

"This story is so unoriginal it hurts."
-- Danny Minton, KBTV-NBC (BEAUMONT, TX)

Again I woke up and couldn't go to work.

It's not that I physically can't go, it's all in my head.

After 3 days straight inside my apartment I've finally started cleaning the place up. My brothers going to come by in about an hour to take me to a wake. I only met the guy a couple times, but he seemed nice. Old people die, that's just part of life. We'll all die someday. I think with getting out I'll have the motivation for the rest of the week.

shit man

Every Sunday I say to myself before I go to bed.

"This coming week is going to be better, I know it."

It never is.

california dreamin

SNOW SNOW SNOW!

WHY???????

Here's another:

Eat my dick!!

No one cares to post on here anymore. I secretly want everyone to leave so I can have it all to myself.

I'm having some serious sleeping problems lately. I get home from work and collapse from exhaustion for 2 hours then I'm up until 12 or 1 and I can't seem to get up in the morning. It really is getting bad.

Here's something profane:

"Your fuck stock is ass prone"

I have new profanity: Christ You!

I'd like to spend some time in you head Matt. I think three seconds would be enough.

I spent some time screaming this morning. I also threw a water bottle, just like they do in the dugouts during baseball games.