Yurei's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=Yurei2012-12-14T00:55:52ZI ambushed the Chaplain's Assistant with Jason Segel's dick. (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei/writeups/I+ambushed+the+Chaplain%2527s+Assistant+with+Jason+Segel%2527s+dick.Yureihttp://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei2012-12-14T00:55:52Z2012-12-14T00:55:52Z<p>It is raining in southern <a href="/title/Staring+at+the+moon+and+wondering+if+it+looks+the+same+in+Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.</p>
<p>This is not your <a href="/title/Singin%2527+in+the+Rain">Gene Kelly yellow rain slicker and red umbrella happy-happy dancey-dancey type rain</a>, this is the sort of thing that decreases the <a href="/title/marginal+utility">marginal utility</a> of water to nearly zero. Granted, for people possessed of flaming houses water is a pretty valuable commodity. But when it generates ankle deep mud, washes everything out in a perpetual blanket of white noise, and generally makes a mess of everything?</p>
<p>It sort of gets to sucking with a quickness.</p>
<p>You can’t operate in this sort of <a href="/title/Shit+is+a+bad+word">shit</a>, everyone knows that. <a href="/title/fuck+you+I%2527m+an+anteater">You can’t fly, you can’t shoot, you can’t drive anywhere</a>. In an emergency we have the battered Land Rovers or the HiLuxes, trying to get around in an up-armored truck is a bit of a bear, but fucking forget about an <a href="/title/California+Zero+Emission+Vehicles+Program">RG</a>. Junk will be up to the<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…December 11, 2012 (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei/writeups/December+11%252C+2012Yureihttp://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei2012-12-11T18:48:11Z2012-12-11T18:48:11Z<p>Hello. My name is Mike and it has been <a href="/title/November+30%252C+2009">twenty six months</a> since I went on deployment. This isn’t really the <a href="/title/November+16%252C+2010">hard part</a>, however.</p>
<p>The gunfire snaps through the Louisiana humidity, dying in the trees some hundred meters distant from the grave. I’m here for one reason alone, to put another from my team in the ground. For <a href="/title/You+are+not+special.+You+will+die+here%252C+too.">the record</a>, it doesn’t get any easier the second time around.</p>
<p><b>CLACK CLACK CLACK CLACK</b></p>
<p>Arriving two days earlier was an adventure in disorientation and a reunion with those first moments back on the ground in Baltimore. I distinctly recall the sense of being completely anonymous and at the middle of everything. This was the first time I’d been outside in a great long while without having 60-some-odd pounds of crap strapped to my body. Buses and taxis rolled by, vacationers and executives with rolling suitcases ran for the crosswalk. All of them oblivious to the<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…November 16, 2010 (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei/writeups/November+16%252C+2010Yureihttp://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei2010-11-16T06:23:33Z2010-11-16T06:23:33Z<p>Hello. My name is Mike and it has been fourteen months since I went on deployment. This really isn't the hard part, however.</p>
<p>I've been <a href="/title/November+30%252C+2009">home since July</a> and not sure what to make of my current set of circumstances.</p>
<p>When I first returned, there were a lot of whispered conversations and questions about what I was doing. The photos of six months of hair and beard growth, dressed up like <a href="/title/Peter+Weller">Robocop</a> in some small village on <a href="/title/Mars">the far side of the Earth</a>. It isn't something that I can explain easily, and the people that I work for were aware of this. I found out that they actually had a meeting about me and how they were supposed to approach my service in <a href="/title/Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="/title/Education+is+evil.+Knowledge+is+evil.+Be+a+moron.+Forget+how+to+spell.">general set of instructions</a> revolved around not talking about it or mentioning it, operating under the general premise that<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…the wreckage of an umbrella, the skeleton of a mechanical vulture (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei/writeups/the+wreckage+of+an+umbrella%252C+the+skeleton+of+a+mechanical+vultureYureihttp://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei2010-04-22T19:36:04Z2010-04-22T19:36:04Z<p>We are the vultures.</p>
<p>We certainly aren't the <a href="/title/Predator">apex predators</a> of the <a href="/title/Shiloh">battlefield</a>, not even of the <a href="/title/Prophet+of+human+wreckage">ISR/UAV community</a>. We don't make the arrangements necessary for the death to occur, but we most certainly profit from it as it allows us to survive. Whether that stems from the fact that the person who would have driven a <a href="/title/Irish+Car+Bomb">VBIED</a> into our <a href="/title/Man+in+the+High+Castle">front gate</a>, or some nut with <a href="/title/Bag+of+Crushed+Child">an AK-47</a> who enjoys taking periodic pot shots at the base, we're here to watch people <a href="/title/Everything+Dies">die</a>.</p>
<p>Living vicariously through the lens of the bird, we have collectively watched a number of very fucked up things happen.</p>
<p> When you watch for a long time you begin to experience a weird transference through the camera. The ammonia from ammunition stabilizers burns your eyes, the dust, the clatter of automatic weapons fire, the way the distant 30mm rounds from an <a href="/title/A-10+Warthog">A-10 Warthog</a> sound like<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…March 30, 2010 (idea)http://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei/writeups/March+30%252C+2010Yureihttp://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei2010-03-30T19:16:03Z2010-03-30T19:16:03Z<p><a href="/title/I+am+not+your+fucking+Employee+of+the+Month">I do stuff</a>. <a href="/title/I+want+to+watch+pornography%252C+but+my+pornograph+is+broken">Stuff involving cameras</a> with <a href="/title/But+there+are+NUNS+watching+us%2521">giant fuck-off lenses</a>, <a href="/title/Airline+Hero">airplanes</a>, and <a href="/title/you">you</a>.</p>
<p>I <a href="/title/Bovine+Selective+Visual+Impairment">leer</a> at you from <a href="/title/flight+level">FL 115</a> while you <a href="/title/Subspace+Spam">pick your nose</a>, <a href="/title/Screaming+Bullet+of+Compact+Imported+Death%252C+or%253A+How+I+Found+Out+My+Mazda+Protege+Could+Go+130mph">drive too damn fast</a>, and <a href="/title/The+United+States+should+go+to+war+with+everyone">many, many other things</a>.</p>
<p>I know <a href="/title/Crazy+reincarnated+astrological+stalker+Miley+Cyrus+can%2527t+wait+to+see+you+again">everything you do</a>, because <a href="/title/Just+before+you+make+that+next+move...">I watch you fourteen to eighteen hours a day, seven days a week</a>. I know when you take <a href="/title/MOTORBIKE+BITCHES%2521">rides on your motorcycle</a>, I've seen you doing all manner of <a href="/title/The+Bear+FAQ">wacky shit</a>. <a href="/title/Am+I+The+Antichrist%253F">Trust me</a> when I say that<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…The Dog Hunter (personal)http://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei/writeups/The+Dog+HunterYureihttp://m.everything2.com/user/Yurei2010-03-27T22:19:17Z2010-03-27T22:19:17Z<p>The shitheads had been storing their <a href="/title/HME">HME</a> in a cave. Well, it wasn't so much of a cave in the sense that it housed <a href="/title/Christian+Bale">Christian Bale</a> or some other lackwit who jumps out of the shadows and informs you bluntly that they are <a href="/title/the+goddamn+Batman">the goddamn Batman</a>. This cave-not-a-cave was sort of a semi-circular depression in the side of a hill some 300 meters from their compound, which we had affectionately named <a href="/title/How+to+turn+a+crack+house+into+a+crack+home">The Shithead House</a>. Partly because no one has come along and invented a really good slur for Afghans yet (this war has no <a href="/title/Jap">Jap</a>, no <a href="/title/Gook">Gook</a>, no <a href="/title/Skinny">Skinny</a>, we just call them shitheads,) and mostly because anyone that puts fucking <a href="/title/firetruck">plastic landmines in the road</a> to blow up kids really is a fucking shithead. No doubt about that.</p>
<p>HME, which is the military shortening for '<a href="/title/On+getting+blown+up+8000+miles+from+home+by+a+man+who+does+not+own+shoes">Home Made Explosive</a>,' is principally what they use in <a href="/title/Improvised+Explosive+Device">IED's</a> out here. There are<!-- close unclosed tag --></p>…