The Superlative Life
I think adults of sound mind ought to be left alone to do whatever they please as long as they do no harm to others. If being patriotic means wanting a fair shake for the commoners of not only my country but also for those of the whole world, then maybe I am; if being patriotic means wrapping myself up in the flag and blindly supporting government leaders and institutions even when they do wrong and viewing any criticism of such as unamerican, then I am certainly not. If we accept that government governs with the consent of the governed, then wouldn't it be unpatriotic to not speak out when one's government acts in a way contrary to one's values?
I do my best to live for a purpose greater than myself, yet I try to have fun along the way. Whether or not there is an afterlife of any sort, things have at least been made to appear that this life is it, it seems to me like the Creator (whatever that is) wants us to get the most we can from our short visit here.
Beliefs are shaped by experience, I don't think I have any more control over my beliefs than I do the color of my skin or eyes, so I find the notion absurd that a kind, loving God such as what was described to me at a very early age could send a person to a terrible place forever merely because of what they believe.
An Awesome Quote
"If people are good
only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed."
-Albert Einstein
Lens Contents
- Required Viewing For All
- Quick Facts About Rodney Lewis
- My Favoritest Band Ever
- My Ween Playlist
- My Blog: Rodney's Ramblings
- My Webring
- My Favorite Television
- My Primary Social Networking Profiles
- My Secondary Social Networking Profiles
- My First High
- My Beck Playlist
- My Twitter
- Stephen King Taught Me How to Write
- My Foo Fighters Playlist
- Public Relations
- My Elliott Smith Playlist
- Seattle Hempfest
- My Voice
- My 42
- My bauhaus Playlist
- Rodney in the Media
- Please Sign My Guestbook
- About Me
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The Corporation
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The Corporation
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Corporations have become a fundamental part of western culture. No matter who you are or what you do, chances are most facets of your life are affected by some of the thousands of corporations that exist in this world.
Quick Facts About Rodney Lewis
- I was born in Edmonds, Washington, USA
- I grew up mostly in Puyallup, spending a little bit of early childhood in Tacoma, and nine months of my tween years in North Carolina (Rutherford County and Charlotte)
- I currently live in Seattle and have since a year after I graduated from high school
- I graduated from Rogers High School in Puyallup, Washington
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The Rainbow Gathering
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A Rainbow Gathering happens when a bunch of people, who generally find the values of Western culture rooted in consumerism antisocial, create a temporary or semi-temporary community in an attempt to, at least for a short while, create a more sustaina...
My Favoritest Band Ever

Ween is the best band ever because they are so talented and they make such wonderful music--in every genre you could imagine--without even seeming to really try. Other bands take themselves and their music so seriously and end up being so mediocre, while most of the time Ween seems to just be fooling around and everything they do is pure brilliance. They are a breath of fresh air in a poppy bubblegum one-hit-wonder wasteland.
I could easily play ten different songs of theirs and convince someone that each came from a different band, the eclectic mix of musical styles are highly diverse. My favorite albums are Pure Guava, Chocolate and Cheese and The Mollusk but there are some great songs on all their albums.
If you die without hearing this music you will have never lived!
My Ween Playlist
- Happy Colored Marbles (Quebec)
- Cold Blows The Wind (The Mollusk)
- I Can't Put My Finger on It (Chocolate and Cheese)
- Falling Out (White Pepper)
- The Golden Eel (The Mollusk)
- Ice Castles (White Pepper)
- Baby Bitch (Chocolate and Cheese)
- Bananas and Blow (White Pepper)
- Light Me Up (The Friends EP)
- Birthday Boy (GodWeenSatan: The Oneness)
- Tastes Good on th' Bun (Shinola, Vol. 1)
Pure Guava
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Chocolate and Cheese
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The Mollusk
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My Blog: Rodney's Ramblings
Thoughts on Life, People, Art, God, Politics, Language, and Everything Else
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"I am not about no!"
-Darren
My Webring
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Computer Gamer's Clearinghouse
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My Favorite Television
This is some of the most brilliant and hilarious stuff I've ever seen in my life. Unlike a lot of modern-day humor that relies heavily on current events and people in the news for its punchline, Strangers With Candy may very well be timeless television enjoyed and appreciated for generations as great effort was made by its creators to eschew most topical comedy
I will always love it the most for its uncanny way of establishing the look and feel of the preachy 1970's network television after school special and completely turns the moralistic lessons that they teach upside-down. Even if Florrie Fisher lived for nothing more than to provide inspiration to Amy Sedaris in giving life to Jerri Blank, she did succeed in doing something really special with her time here.
Strangers with Candy - The Complete Series
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There are so many reasons to love "Strangers With Candy"!
My First High
On one of these occasions I was introduced to the concept of flight simulation. I was amazed.
Flight Sim X-Gold
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On final to KBFI runway 16L
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I want every human being to experience the magic. Throttling up, cruising down the runway gaining speed, pulling back on the stick, getting light on the heels, and the pavement falling, falling out from under them as they do the seemingly impossible....
My Beck Playlist
- Cyanide Breath Mint (One Foot in the Grave)
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Stephen King Taught Me How to Write
It wasn't the subject matter of horror and the macabre that I liked nearly as much as his deft ability to describe very subtle and nuanced things, his ability to articulate common everyday experiences that everybody has that nobody would think even relevant to try to find words for.
His best works transcend the genres he is too-often pigeonholed into.
The Stand Unabridged will always be one of my all-time favorites, an epic everyone should read. Pet Sematery will always stand out in my mind for being the book equivalent of a great popcorn flick, never pretending to be more than it is and being perfectly fine and happy with that. Rage is still one of the most intense page-turners I've ever read. His compilations of short stories are better than most of his novels. The Jaunt will always freak me out.
He inspired me to begin a plethora of short stories and novels that I never finished when I was a teen. I always felt confident opening up a tale but sadly by the middle and end it lost its wind. By my early twenties reality got weirder and more surreal that any fiction Stephen King or I could have ever come up with, which is kind of ironic when you think about it.
I picked up a copy of Dreamcatchers recently and could not get past the first couple pages. I could not cope with the onslaught of Stephen King cliches. It was like he was writing It again. It was horrifying indeed but not for the typical scary story reasons.. That Family Guy episode was right on in accusing him of not even trying anymore.
But our abilities are never all our own. I would be remiss in not giving a bestselling author that was once a high school English teacher credit for whatever writing ability I may have. I hope if you like anything you've ever read that I've written, you too will think kindly of him for it. I have many fond childhood memories of reading his tales and trying to write ones just as good. I never succeeded, but it got me writing and writing and writing, and no matter if anyone else likes my writing, I enjoy it and feel confident about it, and that's what's really most important.
That reminds me of another extremely valuable lesson he teaches his readers: Don't pander to your audience. Don't give them what they want, give them what you want. They will appreciate it so much more. I think if you give it some thought, you, as I have, could learn to apply that lesson to many aspects of your life.
The Stand: Expanded Edition: For the First Time Complete and Uncut (Signet)
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Skeleton Crew
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My Foo Fighters Playlist
- Exhausted (Foo Fighters)
- For All The Cows (Foo Fighters)
- See You (The Color and the Shape)
Public Relations
Practice of Public Relations, The (10th Edition)
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My Elliott Smith Playlist
- Figure 8 (Figure 8)
- Southern Belle (Elliott Smith)
- Rose Parade (Either/Or)
Seattle Hempfest
- Drug Policy Reform Movement/About Us
- I wanted to create a website for those who think that what people do with their own lives and their own bodies is none of anyone else's business. The ultimate criminal government is one that micromanages and over-regulates its citizens' lives and their private behavior. Any government engaging in illegal activity calls into question its own legitimacy.

My Voice
I Always Carry It Around With Me Already Anyways!

Before a certain time in my life, if you had told me that I would someday be involved even peripherally with karaoke, I would think you were full of it.
Now, I think it's kind of cool. There's nothing like the intense rush of many people cheering you on and clapping and hollering, even when you know their drunk.
My Karaoke Playlist
- Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
- A Million Ways (OK Go)
- Limp (Fiona Apple)
- I Alone (Live)
- I Believe in a Thing Called Love (The Darkness)
- People Are Strange (The Doors)
- For All The Cows (Foo Fighters)
- Mad World (Gary Jules)
- Rainbow In The Dark (Dio)
- Lady Madonna (The Beatles)
- Sitting, Waiting, Wishing (Jack Johnson)
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Dead Can Dance)
- Cold Blows The Wind (Ween)
- Playground Love (Air)
- Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy)
- Figure 8 (Elliott Smith)
- Breakin' Up (Violent Femmes)
- You Know My Name (Chris Cornell)
- Tired of You (Foo Fighters)
- Come On Down to Kate's Pub and Meet Some Friends of Mine
- My good friend Gloria has thrown together a little informal weekly shindig at my all-time favorite bar ever
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encyclopedia.com- 'karaoke'(; ) is a form of interactive entertainment or video game in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music (and/or a music video) using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known pop song minus the lead vocal. Lyrics are usually displayed on a video screen, along with a moving symbol or changing color and/or music video images, to guide the singer. In some countries, a karaoke box is called a KTV. Due to its English pronunciation, it is sometimes incorrectly spelled "kareoke". It is also a term used by recording engineers translated as "empty track" meaning there is no vocal track.
My 42
Three Magic Words: The Key to Power, Peace and Plenty
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My bauhaus Playlist
- Slice of Life (Burning from the Inside)
- Boys (Gotham)
Rodney in the Media
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- 2-SEP-1996: "Greg McCormack circled the streets of the University District in his customized van, subtly alerting the area's street youths that he and his nightly provision of clothes and food..."
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- 21-AUG-1993: "One student used a computer by blowing Morse Code into a tube. Another typed 30 words a minute with a mouth wand - a pencil attached to what looks like a..."
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"Stop worrying so much!
Everything will be okay
And then it won't
And then everything will be okay again!"
-One of Anna's girls
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Ignorance is our only enemy. No matter how much of a burden some philosophers may reason knowledge is, I believe it is ultimately our friend. Its proper application has the potential to better our lives in so many unpredictable ways. I hope my Lenses inform, educate, entertain, and enlighten.
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