the militia is well-armed… now teach them to aim

On saturday i went to the mall.. you remember, the one in kingston, the one that got shot up 2 weeks ago? Some schmuck took an AK-47 knockoff (coulnd’t even get the real thing) and empited 2 30 round clips in the middle of the mall. 30 or 40 peope ended up in the hospital… form broken/flying glass injuries. TWO people actually got hit by bullets. Two. out of 60 rounds. Now yes this is a wonderful thing for the poor innocent patrons of the mall (incidentally, the same chain of malls that was kicking people out for wearing anti-bush clothing a year or two ago… if only i’d had an AK…), but let’s focus on dead-eye dickwad for a moment. Now, i’m not much of a gun guy, but i’ve gone to the shooting range a few times and I can hit inside the circle at 25 yards with someone else’s .38. Motherfucker has his own assault rifle in the middle of a crowded mall and can’t hit more than 2 people? Dude! Kill youself out of shame, you’re givng the rest of the gun-toting crazies a bad name.

So anyway i was at the mall… bought some sunglasses. and a cd. the cd was atrocious….

should have gone for the mp3 player… alas.

oh right.. the great white north part

sunday however was far more exilerating. Went skiing with a bunch of
skydiving folk. Holy shit i’ve never skied so hard. We went to
Hunter, which was busy as hell, but we stayed to the back of the
mountain and avoided 90% of the lines.. very slick. A couple of them
knew the mountain really well so we just skied — no questions about
what color was this or that slope — we just went down everything, and
did it pretty well. Only thing we didn’t do was hit the bump runs, thank
god. Fun crew. one of the more lush of the group had buried little
stashes of beer in the snow at various places on the mountain…
apparently this is a regular thing for him. So we’d pass one or two
around in the lift lines or on the lifts…each run. crazy. we finally broke
for lunch at like 3pm and hit the sushi bar. did you know hunter has
a fucking sushi bar? some place in NYC sends a bunch of fish and
japanese guys up to the catskills on weekends and it’s actually pretty good.
it’s even reasonably priced…. for sushi.. which means you spend what
would would have spend on a burger and fries in the main part of the
lodge. oh yeah, and they have Sake :)
it was swell.