ask_stork_daddy misstree so, stork, i need to plumb the depths of your knowledge for a minute... 1. what is your favorite joint lock? if neccessary and/or you're bored, draw a stick figure diagram in paint for the pictures account. tell a story about it if you have one. 2. what's the worst injury you've ever recieved? 3. do you believe that people have souls? 4. what's your favorite mixed drink recipe? 031023 ... stork daddy okay, my favorite joint lock would most likely be what is called in brazillian jiujitsu the kimura and in catch wrestling the double wristlock. i'd love to draw you one, but unfortunately i'm only good at abstract art. also, i'd be unduly boasting if i said i was so above everything that i'm ever really that bored. but i'll post pictures of one of my favorite grapplers who uses that move almost primarily doing it from a variety of angles. as for interesting stories...i taught my sister this move and a guy who knew her came up from behind her on the street and jokingly grabbed her and she dislocated his elbow and shoulder with it. i made that story up, but it is an interesting story about that joint lock. oh and wish me luck, i have a tournament tomorrow. 031024 ... stork daddy the worst injury i've ever received isn't the broken orbital, or the dislocated ankle, but the acute case of heartache when pj grendell moved away to new york in 8th grade before either of us could elaborate on the feelings for each other that each of us must've suspected and hoped for ever since third grade but doubted too much to act on. What really hurt was afterwards everyone telling me how much she had liked me. It must've really hurt her that I went out with her best friend at the time merely because i thought pj could never see me as anything but a brother. 031024 ... stork daddy actually forget all that...the penis in the sliding glass door was definetly worse 031024 ... stork daddy dear god, if there is a god, save my soul, if i have a soul.....hmmm....i don't know...depends on what you mean by soul. I believe the classical western definition of soul has a couple of components to it and that much of what it refers to exists both in my conception of things and the popular conception of things. In terms of being the conditionable essence of a person that can be stained or saved, really that notion has merely been replaced by personality, the collection of the desires and beliefs and actions of an individual, the sum of their various weights. And frankly i don't know if a spectrum of neurosis is anymore of a useful way to effect human change than the old way of right and wrong when priests were the psychotherapists and our minds were not sent into an abyss looking for the user illusion constantly, looking for more and more awareness always. As for the other component of the soul, the conscience, the presence, the feeling of choice and the ability to always have done otherwise that would become central to existentialism, this is a little bit more complicated. In the classical conception of things, this was tied to rationality but not limited by it. I do believe there is a part of our brain that looks at all decisions as arbitrary at a certain level, just so we are aware enough of choice to research our choices as well as possible, but i do not see why this cannot be a part of the mind and see no need to posit any supernatural cause of it. this does not mean i do not believe in the supernatural, after all, what i feel and believe isn't always based on what i've learned in books, but a lot of it is on the hunches and wishful thinking that characterizes a lot of humanity's basic strategy. dualism is a problem though, as how a non-material soul interacts with a material body is problematic. it's like casper going through walls but holding up objects. and yet, i do not know what causes consciousness. it is a profound enough problem for me to not rule out much. though we are supposedly electricity and blood and atoms, something in the organization or something else imbues upon us a subjective quality, although there is no reason to think that we are unique in a subjective experience just because one isn't communicated to us by other forms of life. still, there is nothing in our current understanding of component parts that says why or where consciousness arises. i think sometimes that whole safe bet thing of...if i do have a soul, i might as well not sully it since the cost of doing so if there is unseen consequences is greater than the benefits of acting as if i don't have one in this lifetime. nah i don't really believe that...i guess i believe in a more non-traditional soul...like....though it is twisted up in our personalities, it really is that consciousness central to sentient beings, and that it exists on its own at some level, enjoying in each lifetime a few uncluttered moments when it is connected to its source. haha...just kidding what nonsense! here our my real thoughts on souls...as qouted from tom petty who writes damn good soul music for agnostics...."let's have a cheer for all those bad girls and the boys that play that rock and roll, they love it like you love jesus, it does the same thing to their souls" 031024 ... stork daddy and if you can't take your liqour straight, i'd say a boilermaker or a black and tan. i know those aren't what most consider mixed drinks but that's my style anyhow. if i'm out with friends i guess i get a jack and coke to conform, though i don't like to drink as it keeps me from the one true path. my friends seem to enjoy it quite a bit when i drink however. 031024 ... stork daddy yay...another bobble for my collection 031025 ... misstree what's your regimen when you're dropping weight? and what weight do you wrestle, and how tall are you? sorry for all the wrestling pokes, dated the cap'n of the wrestling team through high school and it still kinda fascinates me. hate pro wrestling, love the real stuff. and how the heck did you get the name stork daddy? 031028 ... stork daddy well...i put myself on a strict regimen of baked beans and ham which i call the cowboy diet. you will lose vast amounts of body weight...but it won't be pretty. nah...i tend to start early as opposed to the last minute cutters. i find that if you start early you tend to hit a wall at about 12 days because your metabolism has slowed down so much you don't lose weight by starving and don't have the energy to exercise. so really i just eat jamba juice, vegetables and salmon for about a month while exercising till i throw up at least once a day. rinse and repeat. i now compete (in jiujitsu or muay thai or anything else) anywhere from 147 to 160 lbs. and am a towering 5'7'' inches tall. i wear a c cup and my penis is....beautiful. anyways...i don't get to compete as avidly as i'd like to what with all of the crap i keep doing because it's what i'm supposed to do like study etc. but i'm getting back into it again. and i'm sure i can make time if you want to roll. i mean, i'm still a young man....oh and stork daddy, stork daddy....well as for the stork part, i guess i didn't get it because of my build...and i don't deliver babies, or eat frogs. sometimes my eyes seem piercing and birdlike, but why particularly a stork? well i guess i got it the same way i got the name king kong NINJA. i hope that helps. 031028 ... stork daddy oh i forgot...a big part of my regimen is listening to the russian national anthem or antonio inoki's theme song. also running up hills with my fat friends on my back. yes all of them. and the daddy part of my name is because unfortunately at this point in my life, i am my own father! now for my cryptic unfinished consciousness/soul thoughts: is every lego a castle? or does the castle emerge from legos? okay that was a bad one....sorry 031028 ... misstree is gonna go pass out drunk. how do you get enough nutrition? and what is jamba juice? 031029 ... cupcake omg stork daddy you must be soooo healthy! does it suck when you try to lose weight, i mean is it hard for you mentally to do that?? i don't know if i could do it! 031106 ... stork daddy firstly mistree i don't get enough nutrition, secondly a jamba juice is a brand of fruit smoothie they sell in and around the bay area and other california locations. it's very good for you, and even better when you spike it with coconut rum. cupcake. no i'm not healthy. yes it is mentally difficult. that's why i'm insane. on a side note...recently i was getting choked and blood vessels popped in my eye. i wish i had a webcam, it's really quite nasty looking. the whites of my eye are red. but i got out...and that's what matters. 031107 ... misstree stork, if you find a way of sending me a pic of the bloody eye, i'll consider that fair trade for boobies. if you send me midget_stumping_porn as well, i'll call ya daddy. 031107 ... cupcake that makes me sad. :( you shoudl take better care of yourself. 031110 ... stork daddy maybe you should take better care of me! you ever think of that? or perhaps the person trying to choke me should've taken better care of me. 031110 ... misstree i could have someone kneecap him if you like. it'll cost, though. and i'm sure you'd like a precious little young cheerleader like cupcake to take care of you. once i get her bound and gagged, i'll share. maybe. 031110 ... :_) isn't it obvious i'm trying to get your attention young_man? 040201 ... . . 040201 ... stork daddy isn't it obvious i'm playing coy? 040202 ... time_warp have you ever thought of collecting your snippets and publishing them? something in the style reminds me of rollins or gira, these snapshots. i think they would read well in such a form. you should publish. do it now. will you? 040316 ... stork daddy thought of it yes. but then i've thought about a lot of things i shouldn't really do. standing naked outside of christina ricci's home and delcaring my unrequited love is one of them. i don't know if i will. what snippets? who is rollins? and the other person? do they write for Better Home and Gardens? because otherwise i wouldn't have read them. 040316 ... ambermoon stork daddy... can i be your stork mamma? 040316 ... misstree i agree with time_warp. i believe the rollins they refer to is henry_rollins, of black_flag fame. he started his own publishing company, put out a number of books that i think you would rather like. he's a very mentally strong individual but still feels very deeply and expresses it well. _the portable rollins_ is a good place to start. seriously. your works are incredibly evocative, especially much of the stuff from werewolf. i'll shower you with praises on particular examples if you like. but i think it would publish well. i'd pay money for it. hell, if i had the means, i would publish it meself. uh oh... need a question... um... if i can get my camera back, will mountains do instead of an ocean? that whole middle of corn thing and all... 040316 ... stork daddy to ambermoon - only if you can handle it. if you can, you're already instantly attractive to me. to misstree, yes i suppose oceans of mountain are okay as well. and you people will be the first i send any collections to, i promise. 040316 ... sameolme I third the opinion, if not blathes, (which might be toofragmentary),perhaps short stories. My impression is that you enjoy the creation of whirled word worlds,why not share them with a bigger audience? 040316 ... stork daddy i don't know if blather is a reliable sample or cross-section of the rest of humanity. 040316 ... white_wave isnt a groupie misstree summed it up perfectly. storky has publishing potential. I already told him I'd pay him handsomely for his writing. But let's take advantage of the fact we can see it here for free until he becomes rich_and_famous. 040316 ... white_wave drinks something besides soy on 031029 misstree is gonna go pass out drunk. and she said: how do you get enough nutrition? and what is jamba juice? *************************************** LOL! That sure is funny since I can't imagine anyone not knowing what Jamba_Juice is. It is also god_juice. My co_worker drinks an Orange Dream machine everyday. I try to grab one whenever possible. 040316 ... stork daddy that was not in the form of a question. 040316 ... white_wave Picky! Picky! Maybe I should rephrase it. For those not familiar with Jamba_ Juice, I would like ask Stork Daddy: What is favorite ingredient besides pixie dust? 040316 ... stork daddy i usually get the jamba powerboost because it comes with the jamba multi-boost. of course i'm also partial to the protein pizazz. my favorite as far as flavor goes is the berry lime sublime. of course the mango and peach ones are nice too. they're all so wonderful. fruit as fast food. who would've ever thought've that? it's like having a delicious fruit tree right within your reach. well that and a blender. 040316 ... ambermoon to my dearest stork daddy, have no dout that i can handle you. i'd love to. i also injoy your writing and would love to recive a copie of any thing you publish,if you deside to do so. my next question would be do you think you could handle me? *wink wink* 040316 ... stork daddy define handle. 040317 ... ambermoon man handle??? likes it rough 040322 ... stork daddy well then you are in for a treat 040322 ... ambermoon im intreeged do tell.. 040323 ... stork daddy see that bed? you're going to be twisted in it, tangled in sweat soaked sheets, your skin a flushed rose, dot matrixes of burst blood vessles under the skin from where i pulled at your skin with my lips, or slapped it away. we will mutually bruise each other. but not me too much because i'm sensitive to pain. 040323 ... ambermoon wow...i meen god damn...you've left me speachless 040326 ... ambermoon when and where? 040330 ... stork daddy can you meet me in the 7th circle of...actually...the lucky's in daly city would work. 040330 ... somebody Why aren't you Sameolme? I thought you were Sameolme. Why aren't you? I demand answers. Never mind, I am so wierd. I am so stupid. Please just ignore me. 070316 ... unhinged did you get my text message? 070316 ... unhinged no, nevermind, i have nothing to say 070316 ... unhinged does work still suck? why did we have to grow up and get 'real jobs' and bullshit like that? 080228 what's it to you? who go blather from