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The Chinese characters for troll are made up of the characters for Internet (互联网) combined with the characters for provocation (拖) and learning (钓).

"The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project. The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."

- Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

Are you such a dreamer to put the world to rights?
I'll stay home forever, where 2 and 2 always makes a 5.

-Radiohead, Hail to the Thief, "2+2=5"

If Britain is attacked by nuclear bombs or by missiles, we do not know what targets will be chosen or how severe the assault will be.

If nuclear weapons are used on a large scale, those of us living in the country areas might be exposed to as great a risk as those in the towns. The radioactive dust, falling where the wind blows it, will bring the most widespread dangers of all. No part of the United Kingdom can be considered safe from both the direct effects of the weapons and the resultant fall-out.

The dangers which you and your family will face in this situation can be reduced if you do as this booklet describes....

-UK Ordnance Survey, Protect and Survive

This is my world, and I am a World Leader Pretend.
This is my life, and this is my time.
I have been given the freedom to do as I see fit.
It's high time I razed the walls that I've constructed.

- R.E.M., Green, "World Leader Pretend"

Daniel Mulholland Laenker, like so many identities, started as a cheesy amalgamated cipher. In the eighth grade, I wrote bad Robotech fanfiction ("Daniel M. Laenker" was an anagram about Lancer whose actual meaning I've since forgotten) and refused to put my given name on it. The pen name kept longer than the fanfics; I've used it on abortive attempts at science fiction, mostly cyberpunk, ever since. I suppose it's my craft name now.

I was born in Virginia Beach, a bulkhead of a city that exists in anticpation of being packed up and shipped elsewhere, and the breeding ground of Missy Elliott, Pharell Williams, Pat Robertson, Edgar Cayce and so forth. As a child I lived in Newport, Rhode Island; Charleston, South Carolina; Sasebo, Japan; Rota, Spain; and especially Norfolk, Virginia. At the time I was almost non-eventful, and I almost hope to keep it that way.

At some point I'd like to be a town planner and/or a socially responsible urban land real estate developer when I grow up. Or, in other words, a thug.

(This is, of course, assuming that I ever manage to grow up. God willing. It would be nice to be a gold medal aesthete, but we can't do that in real life, now, can we?)

I've been between religions for several years now, lately leaning most closely to a Christo-Pagan mishmash of Hellenic pantheonic reconstructionism, Catholic mythology, Buddhist ethics, and Shinto techno-animism. I've been reading esoteric theory and procedure but I'm not sure what to make of it. Some of it is terrifying. I'm fairly certain of God, or even Gods for that matter. My devotion to Hephaestus, God of Craft, borders on the depraved; and I've been given precious little reassurance the Godhead - Zeus, YHWH, Vishnu, whatever His name - isn't utterly crazy.

Lately I've been going through some changes in my understanding and sense of myself, and while it's hard to describe these changes until I suss them out fully, it's a metaphysical survey of my self-image and my being. I'm trying to marry these essentialist changes with an existentialist perspective on, well, that which exists. (Here's my philosophy in a nutshell.) If you'd like to be on my Essentialist Nonsense filter, drop me a line.

I could pretend to have a barometer on the pulse of my real interests here, but I won't. That's why the vast majority of my blogging is public: not only does it keep this journal going, but it shows who I am much better than any attempt to catalog who I think I might be. I hate it when others describe themselves through exposition and God knows I don't want to inflict it on you.

International Workers of the World - One Big Union of All The Workers

Man is condemned to be free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - J.P. Sartre

Bont is mooi! -- Fur is beautiful!
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DISCLAIMER

I am a member of the Camarilla fan club. I hate the Cam so much, I've taken two officer positions at once. That said - and I am of the opinion it should go without saying - this is my journal containing exclusively my opinions. This weblog (i.e. LiveJournal) is not a Camarilla forum, nor will it be until and unless that organisation or its parent company establishes contract terms and conditions in writing with me. Said content is therefore NOT subject to the Camarilla's Code of Conduct or other rules and regulations, nor may or will any part of it be "Sanctioned" in any way, and I hereby formally and vehemently refute any Camarilla policy or Coordinator's statements to the contrary.

Disinterests:

150: adam sandler, ahistoricity, aimspeak, aliteracy, american idol, anarchism, anarchy, andrew sullivan, anti-feminism, anti-semitism, anti-zionism, antignosticism, antitheism, anton levey, ayn rand, b.f. skinner, ben affleck, blue collar comedy, bowling for soup, british candy, brussels sprouts, chaos, chickenhawks, circuit bois, conflict diamonds, cowardice, crypto-fascists, cults, detroit, dick cheney, discordianism, disease, dishonesty, dominionism, dominionists, donald rumsfeld, donald trump, dragonball z, durian, e! entertainment television, ex-gay, exalted, exxonmobil, fascism, fatal, fred phelps, general motors, george w. bush, good charlotte, hiv, homophobia, illiteracy, inauthenticity, ingrid newkirk, insane clown posse, intellectual dishonesty, intelligent design, japanese candy, jean-marie lepen, jerry bruckheimer, jerry falwell, jimmy buffett, joel silver, john bolton, john howard, juggalos, kerry dougherty, kid rock, l33tspeak, larry the cable guy, laura schlesinger, liars, libertarianism, likud, limp bizkit, linkin park, liver, loki, luddism, luddites, lyndon larouche, maoism, marijuana, martin lawrence, methamphetamine, michael bay, michael savage, michigan, milton friedman, mind control, misogyny, myself, nazis, nazism, new jersey, nickelback, nietzsche, nigeria, nightclubs, noise, nu-metal, objectivism, objectivists, orientalism, otaku, papa roach, pat robertson, paul wolfowitz, people for the ethical treatment of animals, post-leathermen, postmillennial dispensationalism, premillennial dispensationalism, prosperity theology, racialism, racism, ralph nader, religious fundamentalism, rick santorum, robert heinlein, robert mugabe, rowan atkinson, satanism, satanists, scientology, sleet, snow, stalinism, suburban assault vehicles, sun myung moon, television news, the intransitive form of "witness", the prayer of jabez, the purpose-driven life, the rapture, the verb "axe", the word "nucular", theocracy, theocrats, tom cruise, top-40 country, top-40 hip-hop, top-40 r&b, tripe, uncle kracker, unification church, urn42, video games, werewolf: the forsaken, you, zell miller

(The nifty off-site tool that keeps track of these calls them "dislikes"; I call them "disinterests" here, because while I might certainly feel strongly and speak disapprovingly about many of these things, I moreover just don't want to have any involvement with them, and probably don't want to hear about how much you like them. Thanks to