bRAINstorming I:

I know I learned the word Filibuster at some point, but I forgot what it meant.

I saw the word pop up in the news paper a week and-a-half ago. I started counting after I saw the word 4 times. Since then, I have read the word 83 times. Lets look up the definition, shall we?

fil-i-buster (fl-bstr) - noun 1. A) The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action. B) An instance of the use of this delaying tactic. 2. An adventurer who engages in a private military action in a foreign country. - (does this make Rambo the greatest Filibuster of all times?!?!?!) Now, I read three papers a day most days thanks to countless train rides. I read the Boston Metro (it's like a third graders newspaper), the Boston Herald (my favorite, lots of speelin errors and lots of sports in the back pages), and finally the Boston Globe (a little more sophisticated). This word is everywhere and I believe it happens every year, and I know it's been happening since the 1900's but I hate this word more than life itself now. I am thinking of creating and marketing a new toilet brush called, "THE FILIBUSTER" - GET IT DIRTY, JUST LIKE A POLITICIAN. I positively believe that would sell well at the Dollar Store. The Weather is Absolutely Ridiculous this Month New England has had only 5 DAYS of sunshine this month. It's absoluetly staggering. I am a man of the Sun. I love it. Every white person in the area is starting to look translucent. Usually about this time, I start to tan up and shave my pecks. Not happening this month. I am managing with the bad weather, but it's depressing in ways. We have been having a Nor'Easter for the last few DAYS! But then I just think the Earth is taking a really long shower, and then I masturbate and I feel better. Back to the sun again, if it is possible, in the future, I want my casket to be shot on a collision course with the sun. It would make me very happy. P.s. - I was kidding about the peck shaving. That's the Sun. Funny thing happened last night. My fiance "A" is a big fan of American Idol. Uhg. So I sat and watched almost 2 hours of this last night, which had some good comedy moments like when Kenny G showed up on stage. "A" was starting to get all emotional about it because she watches the show from beginning to end each year (Yikes!), so about an hour and thirty-minutes into the show the Nor'Easter roaring outside knocked out the power to the entire center in my town. I smoked a little weed before American Idol was on so I could stomach it, and when all the lights went out, the immediate words out of my mouth was, "Dude,......the lights went out." Sitting beside me was "A", and this was her response. - "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Beo - "What...What's the matter?" "A" - "Now I won't know who won American Idol!" I intially started laughing, but she made me aware I shouldn't, and then made the notation that this was the equivalent to the power going out during the Superbowl. Point well taken. Poor "A". The lights came back on about an hour later, but by then she already knew who won. She wanted to see it live.: ) Great Word of the Day Sometimes, while I'm doing something, a word comes flying out of my head. I may have heard it at one time, but I never usually know what the word means. It's really a fun game my mind plays with itself. If that's even possible. Here's the word from yesterday actually. Existential - Right?.....What the Hell does that word mean? Lets look it up shall we? ex-is-ten-tial (gz-stnshl, ks-) Beo says it (egg-sa-stential) adj. Of, relating to, or dealing with existence. Based on experience; empirical. Of or as conceived by existentialism or existentialists: an existential moment of choice. Linguistics. Of or relating to a construction or part of a construction that indicates existence, as the words there is in the sentence There is a cat on the mat. Wow, that was fun. Thanks Robdeadskin. Tune in next time kiddies for Beo's bRAINstorms.