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What follows is a series of emails I posted to friends of mine on occasion. Some of it is just lame ass humor. Some of it is biting social commentary. None of it is spell checked or grammaticly reviewed--they where stream of conscious writings and to "fix " them defeats their purpose. Enjoy!

Ramblings, or, trying to kill time 'till 4 O'clock

Um, disregard this meaningless dribble as meaningless.
Don't believe anything you read today(Including this)
Step on a crack, break your mom's back
Don't floss with fish bones.
Never feed chicken bones to dogs.
Don't play chicken with a train.
Train yourself to not let your mind wander.
Mind your own business.
Business is the backbone of corporate America
"The U.S.A ain't a free place" Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam
Jam is good to spread on toast.
Don't spread yourself too thin.
Thin skimboards are better than thick ones.
Better than Ezra is a rock/alternative band.
Band together to stop needless clapping at the movies.
Movies are often an escape from the horrible reality of life.
Life is cereeal as well as a board game.
You can tell I'm horrendously bored right now.
"Right now there's no tomorrow" Van Halen
Vans are shows that are expensive canvas hoodwinks.
Canvas is what most painters produce art on.
"Art is very ambigious, it's purpose to to create a reaction, not beauty"
-Glen Vomacka
The above quote is mime.
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
Waste not want not.
What do you want with your fries?
Fries are the reason we love potatoes.
I can never tell if I am spelling potatoes correctly anymore.
Spelling is highly overated for many people-it's too obvious.
People should learn to live with each other.
Learn to learn.
"To understand all, one must first understand nothing" Glen Vomacka
Nothing is why I am here, as in I have nothing to do.
Here is a very abstract concept, especially as there are many labs.
Labs are why I didn't do so well on my chem 109 test.
Chemistry is a class dealing with stuff I have to get up at 8AM for.
8AM is very early in the morning.
Morning is when the sun rises beyond the crap that is night.
Night is the time when the moon shines it pale blue light upon us all.
Blue light is a very pleasant sight to view
JUST pleasant is how too many people live their life.
Just is sometimes confused with what is right.
Right is the opposite of left.
Left is a direction we take in the game of the stage of life.
Games are our release from our own pitiful reality that we create.
Create new worlds to explore within yourself, try something new.
New and improved is what got America where it is today.
Is America in good shape, or bad, in realative terms?
Terms of Endearment was a movie I never did see.
Seeing is believing, and "faith is a fine invention/ for gentlemen with
need/ but microscopes are prudent/ in an emergency"Emily Dickinson
Emily was your true closet poet, the ultimate definition ofthe word.
Words are often confused with feelings.
Feelings are often confused with words.
Confused is a state that can often lead to a higher awareness.
As a smoked out High School English Teacher of mine tried to teach,
poetry is awareness.
Poetry is what got me through to being me today.
Me, myself, and I have thrown a party for ourselves.
Party time is Friday night, and Saturday night.
Saturday night is a bad time to get drunk.
Being drunk on Sunday morning is not condusive to studying for midterms on Monday.
Monday is the start of the work week, and who ever thought agriculture would have led to so much work eventually.
Work is now what binrgs me to leave you-our rather, school work.
Goodnight, and sweet dreams, kiddies out there.
-Glen Vomacka

RamblingsII, or, still trying to kill time until four o'clock II

Violets are red, roses are blue, I am so bored,
I'm writing to you.
Blue is the color of these fricking words on my screen.
Screen is what you do to keep out the undesired.
Undesired is the way many people view many things.
Things is a very ambigious word out of context, much like they or them.
Context is how to read words in their rightfull place.
Place is where you are located at any given moment in this mess of reality.
Reality is scewed every which way but loose.
Every Which Way but Loose was a movie about a street fighter and his chimp.
Street Fighter was a vidoe game.
Video games are something that take your money in return for watching little
gobs of nothing float across a screen, waste your precious moments of
life away, and leave you with nothing but anger.
Video games frustrate me, especially Raiden Trad and Raiden Trad II.
Why did they make a second Raiden Trad when no one ever could even beat the first one?
First is a thing everyone strives for.
Who knows, why is first so impotant.
Why is anything so important.
So there.
There is neihter here, nor, well, wait a second...
Wells are huge holes desigend by people with nothing to do so they could make martinis.
Wait, that was a James Bond movie probably...
Shaken not stirred.
Shaken up is what happens in an earthquake.
They say the big one is going to hit any second now, and we'll need to grow gills and breathe like fish here on the coast...
Naw, we'll just all die.
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf, the big bad wolf, the big bad...
Well, I for one would be if I was some plump little pig in a house of straw.
That tears it, this fricking day was the last straw,
Don't ask me why the above.
Sky above, stars below-GV
Make us all seem to glow
"In the glow of radiation" Sheryl Crow
What is radiation save for minute particles that want to mess with our molecular chemistry-waht's wrong with that?
Actually, since it's my very chemical being, I guess that is wrong after all.
After all is said and done, what in the hell did we get out of life.
A lot of love, some nice hits, a chocalate sunday, a first ascent of a new route on El Capitan, a huge smile om our face when our first child is born, the sound of a gentle waterfall in a virgin part of the Brazilian Rainforest, the knowledge that we did something good and productive for someone else, a crazy tripped out perception of what
is to be as far as a metaphysical philosophy would see.
Wait, disregard the previous previous statement.
Double negatives freak out English Teachers.
I hated learning about grammer, didn't you?
Who cares what it looks like, as long as someone understands I'm cussing them out on paper-that's the important thing.
Actually, probably best if he didn't understand, if he's some big hairy brute who likes to wrestle tractor trailors for fun.
Wrestling is all so ake it makes me cry to think I once enjoyed watching it.
Isn't is so sad how much we enjoy sports like boxing and football, where the essential purpose is to knock the shit out of your opponent?
"In reality, who is the opponent-no one but ourselves"-GV
Damnit all to hell, what to say whata say.
Hell is a place very vividly described by Dante.
Vivid is the best way to describe that adrenaline shot segment in Pulp Fiction.
Sorry for the bad memories Grant.
Isn't it funny how we take for granted the fact that the sky doesn't fall down on top of us and crush us like we crush ants with the heels of our feet acidentally at night when we can't see and our so drunk we don't care.
We should worship science as a god-in fact, many of us do.
What is a god but a perception made by a human?
If a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound-we cannot tell, for there is nothing to tell.
In the same way is gods, if no one believes in diety in any form, is there such a thing-we can only tell when we die.
Imagine dieing when the next hand hold crumbles at the middle of El Capitan... without a rope-it's happened.
What A great way to die.
"It's better to burn out, than to fade away" Neil Young
Kurt Cobain sure believed this.
Ohhh..that was cold.
glad it's not a cold day today-I'm wearing shorts right now.
A dollar short and a day late.
That pretty much describes the Russians, doesn't it?
(I don't really mean that excpet as a joke-Please don't kill me KGB)
Who is more just, the CIA or the criminals?
At least the criminals admit to breaking the law-well, most of them.
Most of them constitutes a majority.
Majority rule sucks as far as I'm concerned-because it often overlooks the minority.
Not saying that anarchy is the best solution, just saying that we, as a race, are SCREWEWD!
Naah, I'm not a pessimist, not in the slightest, when we've bombed the shit out of opurselves, cut down every single last tree, used up every drop of oil, natural gas, and water, killed every nation's children in WWW X, pissed on our own graves and finally died, Mother Nature will rebuild and things will start all over again.
Maybe next time things will work out a little better.
Time is an abstract concept that may not even exist in the next era of life on Earth.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote some wild shit about time-The Tralfamodores for example, could see all reality and time at once, so they never worried about jack shit. They knew exactly how the universe would be destroyed- some rocket jock tralfamodore would screw up his ship, cause a chain reaction, and kabow, no more Chrono-Synclastic Infudibulum, no more Ice-9, no more Kilgore Trout, no more you, no more me, no more jack shit.
But like I said, nature will someone find a way to start over.
I mean, how do we know that all of the universe as we know it wasn't the result of some other collosal screw up made before the Big Bang?
If y
For some of us, love is unobtainable.
Some is less than all, but more than one
. One for all, all for one.
What does this reAlly mean, you tell me. One what, piece of pizza?
I had pizza for lunch today.
"I am Homer of Borg, prepare to....hmmm donuts" Homer Simpson
Star trek.....Matt Dawson, need I say more...
Sorry Matt, just joking.
I don't mean anything I say.
Well, sometimes I mean it when I say I'm hungry and need Pepsi.
Hey, Pepsi, the choice of the next generation.
UUUUUUHHHHHH, nnnnnooooooooo-media brainwashing!!!!!!!!
"Your mind is not dirty so don't let the world wash your brain" Inka Inka
They rocked when I saw them play the other day. 4 bucks-can't beat it.
A rolling stone gathers no moss...
Is that why the Rolling Stones are still around?
With all that rolling, you'd think they'd be sick of moving.
Bet they gather moss now.
That was really stupid.
This is not about analyzing my thoughts, if it were, I would never send this to anyone.
Send and ye shall recieve.
God helps those who helps themselves.
Who was a rock? group that did some really cool songs.
I know this becaue Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam does numerous Who covers in concert.
Who covers who?
Why, Eddie, of course
A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse of course, unless of course that horse is of course is the famous Mr. Ed
That was a mean show-making that horse move his lips by who knows what kind of hideous methods.
Glue.
Glad I'm not a horse-what do they have to look forward to but running around till their legs burst and they die of pain?
Horses are cool, humans suck.
I often wish I was not human-don't we all.
Just think, life could be so much simpler if food and mating took up all of our time.
Wait, that means teenage boys, and eve nmany older men, aren't human.
Yeah, I can agree with that.
Ain't life grand.
Life is the process by which we figure out how much we can do without.
There are two ways to be rich, get more or desire less.
There is only one way to be happy-you figure it out.
Zen buddhism teaches us this very simple principle.
However, somehow I think they go a bit too far for me.
Well, I am not the one to judge anothers lifestyle based on belief.
Believe what you want to believe, but be able to back it up.
He/she, who does not constantly question his/her belief, shall never
obtain true enlightenment or firm belief.
Socrates taught that the road to the answer is paved with the questions.
The more you ask, the more you know.
There are no stupid qustions about life,
Except maybe "what happens when I stick this fork in an electrical outlet"
The answer is simple, you fry and die.
No, listen: this is your brain-egg
this is your brain on drugs-egg frying
any questions
yeah can I have mine scrambled?
I like scrambled eggs.
Eggs rule-green eggs and ham---only on easter pal.
Sam I am not.
Uncle Sam wants you...to become a media, military, politician, brain washed pulp of an American, easilt manipulated into whatever is desired.
(See Inka Inka comment above)
I hate machines-too bad I'm so good with them...
Too bad I'm going to be an engineer.
Hey-what exactly is an engineer-some thoughts:
-Scotty is the perfect example; He's giving her all he's got, but still Jim wants more. Somehow he comes through in the end.
-Enginerd
-An Engineer is someone who can take a project that would take anyone else $10 to do, do it for $1, and then charge $100 for having done it.
This was stolen from the spring 94 HSU engineering newpaper/letter
I'm on this years editorial staff. Yippie!
Years and years and years go by, and, as a vampire, I must say, I wanted a BUD LIGHT....aaaaaahhhhhh (sunlight)
Well, I think that should end it.
I didn't like this one much.

Goodnight and Sweet Dreams, kiddies out there

-Glen Vomacka

It's eight o'clock, and all is well.
The wizard of ID-what a great comic.
Comic is what I think of people who think they have everything.
Spoiled rich kids never turn out right.
Just look at the cast of Good Times
"Whatchyou talkin' bout Willis?"
Talkin', talkin', talkin'--can't we ever just listen.
Listen hear son-when I was your age-I used to walk five
miles, uphill both ways, barefoot, in the snow to school everyday.
So, if you ask me-why bother?
Earnestly we go our deaths on the field of battle.
Patrioticism is for countires who need to create incentive to get young want to die.
Well, I guess every country needs patriotism, then, don't they?
Who really wins in the wars-no the citizens, not the soldiers.
First off, there is no winning SIDE to a war, only a party-the economic party.
Problem is, once you kill all the rice-eaters, who are you goning to sell rice to?
So you've got all this rice,and no-one to feed
No, not true-there's starving people, you say.
You're right, and why are they starving in the first place?
Well, now they're starving because we, the developed nations, the humanitarians, decided to help them---and made things worse!!
We never can just step back and let things run their course, can we..
Not with Mother Nature, not with ourselves, not even with other people.
Oh, screw it all. Go to a Pearl Jam Concert, or two, or three:-)
Why not enjoy yourself?
I mean, after all, life's too short, and so am I, so why should I waste my time trying to put my nose somewhere where it is neither wanted, nor needed, nor even helpfull?
I wish someone would tell our wonderfull governments this.
But then, that would take weeks and weeks or serious deliberations between all our political figures to decide if the pape should be white or blue. Even longer if the question arose on handwritten or typed...
You get the point I think.
Point-Mr point, no point, clueless, with our regard I shove myself off the face of bridge between reality and fantasy.
In fact, whose to say I haven't already, for I don't even know where on this bridge I am, if I am on it at all.
If I am on the bridge, what's to say which side I am on it-the underside or the upperside.
Who's to say gravity is really a viable function of the earth, or just something in our imaganations-explaining why so many people fly in their dreams
Dreams-whose to say this whole blue and white cornacopia on my screen is even real. I may be dreaming, but I am alive and awake and thinking... Or am I. Does "I think therefore I am" hold validity if this is not true reality-Are they my thoughts, or just reactions to the world around me For, what causes thought-that is unknown I say. Where does the central process of though occur. They say the brain, but is that the whole truth, and this is not reality, does the brain even exist in truth? What is thought, and who decided if I am participating in it besides myself or so stupid little piece or plastic and wire fitted to my skull by some so-called scientist?
Are we all not scientists? Do we all not follow those stupid scientific method steps all throughout our days and lives?
What is time but a function of how we distinguish reality. What is the past save something that is now unchangeable-and time is just that variable that goes to zero as it nears the x-axis?
Yeah, integrate time and the world order. I bet you would get zero-cause that's definitely where We are leading ourselves, and our children (not that I have any yet, or will for a very long time I hope)
Integrate time with respect to relaity, and then, what would you get?
 

As always, some of the above may not make complete sense ( or be spelled right) That is not the intent of the author, but if it perplexes you and makes you miss sleep deciphering the meaning of some quack that is me-I apologize.

And, so once again,

Goodnight and sweet dreams, kiddies out there.

there's some swear words in here amy...

words from nowhere polute my soul
while dreams and thoughts etheral goals
and clouds up high brings rain below
below me in hades my future awaits?
awaits me for who knows how long
is it possible to beat death?
in a foot race like the turtle and the hair?
slow and steady wins the race
slow i'm slow, you're slow, life is slow
the post office is really slow
post a note wherver you can...let others feel your cheer
cheers...
now that was a great tv show...how many 11 years?
years brings tears bring cries bring fame
but am i one to play their game?
what is the game? to be numero uno?
to be numero dos?
or tres?
who gives a shit what THEY say the game is?
who the heck is THEY anyway?
hmm...
the government? the russians, the nuclear weapons?
thermalnuclear haitian extortianistic masturbaters?
if you fish-does that make you master baiter?
does that mean you need a license for masterbating?
well shit-would that mean taxes and surcharges and stuff?
would we have to pay the government to wack off?
would their be a coin slot be the bed or by the shower? or would there just be ppl standing around wherver you went?
so much for freedom...
what is freedom, anyways?
the ability to do what one wants when one wants,
unless it harms others, or involves crossing a double yellow line
or crossing the street or discharing a firearm within city limits
or aborting a fetus...
i used to be pro-life, until i realized my whole foundation for it,
that people should take responsibility for their actions-namely sex especially since sex is designed for REPRODUCTION, NOT, amusement, was completely and totally an obsolete and far too noble idea... ideas are what drive mankind insane
who's to say who's insane. how do we know sanity is not, in fact, Insanity
and all the ones locked up are the one's who are free...
imagine it if you will-the whole earth is a prison, and freedom lies
indoors...
shitty thought about outdoor concerts-since accoustics are better outside...
accoustic-what exactly is accoustic-beating a bongo drum in it's natural
state?
but nowadays that's it's UNATURAL stare, what with amplifiers and wooie
bars and foot pedals and shit like that...
we've become freaks of nature ourselves people...
i mean, think about it-we're so different from other lifeforms that our
hieracrhy is based on our freakish nature?
so what makes freaks so bad?
what makes difference so terrible?
life is so confusing, i think i would like to get drunk and forget it all...
yeah-like that helps-wake up with a hangover and life twice as sucks...
if not thrice or quadruple or whatever...
books to read, books to burn, books to write books on...
so-what's the best use...should we ban literature so "harmfull" thoughts
won't infect the hext generation-you know, those morally destroying
authors like kurt vonnegut junior, and nathanael hawthorne and books like
catcher in the rye, etc...books that REALLY made me just go out and want
to kill someone...come on people, grow up...
i will accept responisbility, but i refuse to grow up...
for what is growing up? losing ones dreams, ones hope? one's hair, one's
waistline? losing one's idealization and the twinkle in the eye, the
spontanaeity, the intra AND introspective views of the world and
ourselves, the willingness to try something new-to be someone special...
WHY would ANYONE want to GROW up?
i'd rather burn out than just fade away...

-glen
 

have a day mate!

staring, staring, staring at the screen
just doesn't do a lot of good.
We haven't gotten that far yet in development of computers
tho i hear they've got thumbpads that read directional thoughts...
Hmmm...directional thoughts, what an odd phrase...
Who decides why somethign is odd? I mean, just becasue you've never heard
it doesn't mean that millions of others haven't either
The world's strangest guy would think *everything* was odd, just becasue his view of normal (based on himself, unless he's fucked up by media and culture 'n'such) is so different
Afterall, what is normal--it varies, at the best sense of the word...
>From what I've seen, it tends to be boring...
But it must infect us, why else would we, as a race, spend so
Much of our lives tryign to escape our lives?
We've got movies and books and computers and board games and the biggest escape--role playign games--all to keep us from facing reality,
Or rather, is it to entensify reality? Do we do it so that when we have an ice cream in real life, it makes it this incredible experience? Is that why resterauntsd and coffee shops make so much money after a movie lets out? So many ppl have wasted so much of their lives being someone else or being somewhere else that even the mosdt boring experience, or even crappy experience (like burning your mouth on hot coffeee) becomes so powerfull and incredible?
What's wrong with living life as life is lived? I guess that's something Whitman and Emerson woudl agree with, to an extant, if they ever got off the pulpit and stopped trying to reach heaven...
But then if there *is* a heaven, i suppose *someone* has got to reach it right? Wouldn't want God to get lonely, now would we?

ok luv ya go bye now
-glen
have a day mate!