Lyar's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=Lyar2010-03-11T09:19:22ZFifteen Minutes In The Philippines (person)http://everything2.com/user/Lyar/writeups/Fifteen+Minutes+In+The+PhilippinesLyarhttp://everything2.com/user/Lyar2010-03-11T09:19:22Z2010-03-11T09:19:22ZI was thinking that the people here were very insistent on <a href="/title/selling+their+wares">selling their wares</a> (cheap <a href="/title/sunglasses">sunglasses</a>, watches, the like) when it was rightly pointed out to me that there are just a lot of them, so I was thinking is their some kind of, overall, hive mind sort of thing going on, controlling them all, gathering information on who buys lots of stuff at small insistence, coordinating their "attacks" (as it were) for maximum profit.
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<i><a href="/title/Then+I+thought">Then I thought</a>,</i>
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"Is that <a href="/title/racist">racist</a>? <a href="/title/I+don%2527t+even+know+anymore">I don't even know anymore</a>" but I realised that I wasn't really generalising a race based on a few people, because Philippino (<a href="/title/Filipino">Filipino</a>?) vendors don't really count as a race, do they, more of a subset of a race perhaps? <h1><a href="/title/But+wait">But wait</a>,</h1> if they do have a collective mind, that would certainly different form the actual Filipino people, and therefore they would be their own race, but to point out an actual feature of a <a href="/title/race">race</a> isn't really racism, is it? It's like saying that someone pointing out that <a href="/title/white+people">white people</a>…Le Voyage Extraordinaire (fiction)http://everything2.com/user/Lyar/writeups/Le+Voyage+ExtraordinaireLyarhttp://everything2.com/user/Lyar2009-12-30T05:41:45Z2009-12-30T05:41:45Z<p>
<p>The park was always a prime
hangout for us. The trees provided ample entertainment, as well as shade from
the afternoon sun. We would often walk there, as a group, or sometimes alone,
but we would always leave being picked up, sometimes by Jack’s mum, or Sylvia’s
dad, or either of my parents, because it was always too late to walk back.</p>
<p>But today there would be no
one picking us up. We had <a href="/title/high+school">ditched school</a>, none of us particularly enjoying the
prospect of last period Sport, what with it being such a lovely day and all.</p>
<p>Wherever we went, Sylvia was
always the first to talk. She’d say something like:</p>
<p>- <a href="/title/guy">Hey guys</a>, what’s happening?</p>
<p>if she’d just<!-- close unclosed tag --></p><!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…Them Crooked Vultures (thing)http://everything2.com/user/Lyar/writeups/Them+Crooked+VulturesLyarhttp://everything2.com/user/Lyar2009-12-30T03:19:10Z2009-12-30T03:19:10Z<h1>Them Crooked Vultures</h1>
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<h3> The Band</h3>
<em>Them Crooked Vultures</em> are a "<a href="/title/supergroup">supergroup</a>" composed of <a href="/title/John+Paul+Jones">John Paul Jones</a>, <a href="/title/Josh+Homme">Josh Homme</a>, and <a href="/title/Dave+Grohl">Dave Grohl</a>. By all accounts it was mostly Dave Grohl's who started it all, having met Jones when he scored some trumpets for a <a href="/title/Foo+Fighters">Foo Fighters</a> song. Dave had mentioned that he might want to do something with JPJ, and later started talking to Josh Homme about doing something with Jonesy. Homme was, by his own report, skeptical that Grohl would actually get John, reportedly saying “that’d be awesome. And I’ll ask… The President. And we can put it all together.”<small><sup>1</sup></small><br />
Nevertheless, Dave did begin corresponding with John, and soon, he and Josh found themselves seated together at <a href="/title/Medieval+Times">Medieval Times</a>, celebrating Grohl's 40th birthday, with him watching over them from the tier above. By all accounts, John and Josh hit it off, and a new band was born.
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<h3>The Album</h3>
Their first album (self-titled) was released<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…