The Labyrinth

To Be A Pokemon Master!

2010-11-06T12:36:00.004-04:00

I'm going to be a Pokemon Master! I'm going to master all the games available to play on the Nintendo DS from all four Generations of Pokemon... all leading up to Pokemon Black and White coming next Spring!

I have completed LeafGreen and am now working on HeartGold.

I shall go in this order.

LeafGreen
HeartGold
Emerald
Pearl
FireRed
SoulSilver
Sapphire
Diamond
Ruby
Platinum
White
Black

Below is my Team from LeafGreen: Blastoise, Primeape, Raichu, Exeggutor, Ninetales, Aerodactyl.
Look out Pokemon, here I come!

Bumper Sticker Stupids!

2010-11-05T14:37:00.003-04:00

I hate when i see this shit.... and this is real. While on lunch today I ran to bank to deposit Mike's bonus check as well as stop at Wendys for a nummy tripple with cheese, I came across this...

I don't get the need to express one's point of view in bumber sticker form. Okay, I'm all for politcal candidates but all this shit is all about abortion and the rapture. Do they really think they are changing minds with this?

One bumper sticker is bad enough... but this is just nucking futs!

Tarkan Is Real(er) Than God

2010-11-04T15:27:00.007-04:00

I can't stand it when people say things like, "I have a relationship with God... it's not a religion."

No... It is.

You believe in a being that one cannot smell, touch, taste, see, or hear. The being is all powerful and perfect... except for all those mistakes he made... which were was all about of it plan... so he could get his only son killed... which doesn't make sense because if he's God then we're all his sons and daughters and therefore he obviously had billions of children.

To say you have a relationship with God is like saying I have a relatinoship with Tarkan. No matter what I may delude myself into thinking, Tarkan and I do not speak, touch, taste, see, or hear eachother. For all I know Tarkan isn't real. He's certainly "realer" than God. But maybe he's just made up... digitally animated... a computer... a figment of my immagination.

Tarkan and I don't connect. It's not a two way street. When I talk to family and friends we connect and exchanged.

It's the same with God. It's a one way street. One deluded indiviual. One nonexistant being.

... just like Tarkan.

Deep and Dark Colors

2010-11-03T21:19:00.003-04:00

I realize today that I only wear four colors to work...

Black. Red. Grey. Purple.

Maybe one day I'll throw a green or blue in there some day.

The Great Search For Wii Games

2010-11-02T18:41:00.010-04:00

I spent my entire lunch looking for two Wii games today. The first was Goldeneye 007 Wii and Pikachu's Pokepark. One's mostly for Mike. One's totally for me.

I thought it'd be simple. I'd go to Toys R Us, get the game, that'd be it.

Nope.

Creepy Toys R Us guy is all like "Nope, those games both got pushed back." No freaking way. Pokemon should have come out Monday and there's no way they pushed this shit back at the last moment. Oh and Toys R Us guy was total mouth-breather, going on about how he has a Master's in Biology.

So I went to Wal-Mart and there was a spot for the game and everything. But no game. "Fuck me," I groaned. I asked the guy and he was all confused and such. No Pikachu (no spot either) and no Goldeneye.

Just as I was about to leave he finds the game and luckily decides to try and ring it up. It comes with a shirt too... more on that later.

So now I want Pikachu's Pokepark. Where else? I try GameStop. The guy there says he's never even heard of the game and also says that Goldeneye wasn't there either because they didn't get it in the mail. What ... the... fuck...

So finally, with like 5 minutes of my lunch break left I try Best Buy. Hallelujah! They fucking had it. And I only came back 15 minutes late from lunch.

So now onto the shirt... It's stupid. It's white and has a top hat on it and reads "Cheater." Mike explained it to me bust still...

I suggested to Meg that we mail it off to Oklahoma with a note to Lance saying, "Thinking of you. Love, Jay."

AFI's Crash Love ~ ...Another Review

2010-11-01T20:45:00.000-04:00

Let me be the first to admit that I might have posted in haste when it comes to AFI's album Crash Love. Now, over a year later I would like to re-review the album again. I've said it once, I'll say it again. Sometimes you've just gotta let an artist blow their load all over your face before you can actually enjoy the CD.

Additionally, I shall also review this album in the order I have set it in my iPod, not the traditional order.

1) Torch Song ★★★★★
This is now my absolutely favorite introduction to any album ever. So much so, I actually have lyrics from it permanently tattooed on my arm... no, seriously. I fucking have the lyrics, "I saw you. Angels came to light your path. I heard you... keep their wings pressed under glass" tattooed on my shoulder. Pure perfection.

And what's better is if you research the Torch Song Trilogy is kinda makes you wonder what is going on in Davey's life... hmmm.

2) Beautiful Thieves ★★★★
My view on this track has not changed. It is my second-least favorite on the CD (not counting Veronica Sawyer Smokes... we'll discuss that later). But this is a good track. I still feel like this could be slipped into the middle of Decemberunderground and nobody would notice.

3) Medicate ★★★½
This song hasn't changed either. It's my least favorite on the album and I honestly think they choose to put this song out as the sequel so they wouldn't get noticed because there are plenty of hard hitter that could have gotten sick radio play and this was not one of them.

4) Cold Hands ★★★★½
Wow, how things have changed. This has become a huge favorite on the album. I posted earlier how much I hated this song and that I thought it was boring filler. Not so much now. I actually really love the chorus now. The lyrics are some of my favorites as well.

5) Too Shy To Scream ★★★★★
Yeah... so this is probably the most played song on my iPod throughout 2010. I blame Beyonce. You see, somebody uploaded the Single Ladies music video with this song playing instead of Single Ladies... and for some reason I loved it.

6) End Transmission ★★★★½
What I love about this song is mostly the line, "Go grab your bag I'll bring the gun." Most particularly because we used to refer to Pandora's (now ex) boyfriend Lance as 'the bag'... short for douchebag. It's okay, she calls him that now too. But anyways, we'd always talk about how this song was Davey telling Pandora to grab her bag (aka Lance) and he'd bring the gun. Bwahaha.

7) OK, I Feel Better Now ★★★★
Definitely the slowest song on the CD but it's a goodie. I don't especially go looking for this track but it flows great in my version of the list.

8) I Am Trying Very Hard To Be Here ★★★★★
This is still the best song on the album. It still should have been the first single and I still love it love it.

9) We've Got The Knife ★★★★
Okay, yeah, this is technically a b-side but I think it should have been on the album. It really feels like Sing the Sorrow and when sprinkled on this album it feels right.

10) Sacrilege ★★★★
Finally Davey belts out his "fuck religion" song. What makes me laugh is how many AFI fans like to pretend this song isn't directly an attack on organized religion. Talk about delusion.

11) Too Late For Gods ★★★★½
Another track that was actually a b-side and totally should have been on the album. I love the line, "What did I tell you? I promised I'd give you a story." This song goes great after Sacrilege.

12) Darling, I Want To Destroy You ★★★★★
This is my second favorite song on the album and totally should have been the second single. I just love the part when he says, "And here's my favorite part... where you may find my heart... and I disappear." Gives me chills every time.

13) It Was Mine ★★★★★
The final track took me the longest to like. And now I just love it. Not sure what else to say... really.

And here we come to Veronica Sawyer Smokes. Wait. What? What am I talking about. There's no such song as Veronica Sawyer Smokes. If there was I'd hate it and I'd have to pretend it didn't exist. Because as long as it doesn't exist I totally love every single track Davey has put out since like forever... So yeah. Veronica Sawyer? Nope, doesn't exist. Isn't real. It's fake. Not real. ::puts fingers in ears:: Lalalalala.

Oh, a final note. I still hate the album cover but the name of the CD has grown on me. So I just substituted my own cover which is featured above.

Bottom Line: I now hold this CD as a very close second to Sing the Sorrow. Oh Davey, please forgive my sins and trespasses. I beseech you to keep me in your good graces.

The Phoenix Shall Rise Again...

2010-10-31T20:26:00.005-04:00

Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

It has been over a year and today I bring you the rising phoenix, the return of The Labyrinth.

I come back to you today on All Hallow's Eve, when the viel between the world of the living and the world of the dead is at it's most thin. I return. I rise. I soar... like a phoenix.

Below is a fan-made video for Tarja Turunen's "My Little Phoenix."

Enjoy...

AFI's Crash Love ~ A Review

2009-09-22T17:23:00.004-04:00

I'll pull no punches here. This album is a pretty big disappointment. I've broken it down song by song. But before that, I'd like to talk about a few things first. Oh and please remember, this just one fan's opinion that I am more than entitled to it. If you disagree, do so respectfully.

I in no way want to shout "AFI has changed" and cry. Yes, AFI has changed and I completely expected so. They changed when they went to Sing the Sorrow and they changed when they went to Decemberunderground. I welcome change that I like. I don't welcome change I don't like.

Many people love this album. Many hate it as well. Of course, once the dust settles, and the fanboys and fangirls have their multiple eargasms, they will likely change their opinion of the album. Too many are jumping to "this is waaaaay better than Sing the Sorrow." I'm sure the fans will still love this CD after they get used to it but I doubt they will hold it up so high. Sing the Sorrow will always be AFI's best is my opinion.

One of the smaller problems with this album is it's length. Only 43 minutes long. This is their shortest, not by much, DU was only 44 minutes long, but it seems like very little for such a long wait. The best song on the album in my opinion is 2 minutes 39 seconds long!

One of the more annoying things about this album is it's name and cover art. I won't harp on this but I absolutely hate both. They feel like a pop album; like Miley Cyrus or the Jonas Brothers. When I expected AFI to grow as an artist I didn't expect them to grow into love, hearts, and gold.

It might just be me, but overall, this CD is just too pop. I'm not against anything being mainstream. And even though the lyrics are dark... ish, I really wasn't expecting or wanting such an upbeat and happy album. I don't know why... I should have expected such from the gay ass title and cover. (i mean this in no disrespect to the band or Davey in specific... since I myself am gay, lol).

So here's the track by track review:

1) Torch Song ★★★★½
This CD starts out pretty good. This song really sounds like a mix of all the good from STS and DU. This is definitely a great opener. I love the lyrics, "I'd tear out my eyes for you my dear, oh my dear."

2) Beautiful Thieves ★★★★
This track is not bad. It sounds very DU-ish (which is fine with me). I enjoy this song enough to keep it on my iPod but I certainly wouldn't call it 'single' material. To me the best CDs are ones where each and every track could be a single.

3) End Transmission ★★★★
Now the album starts getting weird. In a good way though. This song sounds very 80s and very Black Audio-ish. I like it. Not quite sure why this girl is grabbing her bag and he's grabbing the gun, but it's pretty cool. By this track I am happy with the album... so far that is...

4) Too Shy To Scream ½
Oh how quickly the mighty fall. I absolutely hate this song. I have to work hard just to finish the not even 3 minute track. It sounds like they went to some 1950's soda stand and started dancing to the jukebox. This is NOT rock. This is where AFI turns to gay ass pop. I have finished the song once... which just sorta ends outta no where. Oh, and I gotta make fun of the first line, "I come quietly." Yeah right, when you should "Oh!" at the beginning of every track.

5) Veronica Sawyer Smokes ★
Suddenly we've slipped and fallen into the CW. I have trouble finishing this track as well. Too pop. Too boring. Just... dare I say, un-AFI.

6) OK, I Feel Better Now ★
Well, I don't. By this point in the CD I am being quite let down. A few really good beginning songs that just slip into total shit. The problem with this song (which is starting to leave the the pop world, but not entirely) is that it just sounds like total filler. Nothing stands out and I just don't care.

7) Medicate ★★★½
I like this song to start but it got old really quick. I can remember how much Miss Murder and Girls Not Grey just made me so excited for the full album. Medicate is good, not great. It had two problems. The first is that it seems to stick out like a sore thumb among the other tracks. The second is that it sounds as if their label said to them, "make a song specifically tailored to Guitar Hero and we'll call that the first single."

8) I Am Trying Very Hard To Be Here ★★★★½
This is the best track on the CD in my opinion. It sounds more like Miss Murder than anything else, I think (other probably don't). I think this should have been the first single. Maybe it'll be the second. There are two problems with it I see. The first is that the winners who sing the whole "flash flash car crash" part don't seem nearly as enthusiastic as they could. The second is that this song is only 2 minutes and 39 seconds long. If it were longer, I'd have given it five stars. This song is exactly where I was hoping for AFI to go with the whole album... but they didn't.

9) Sacrilege ★★½
This is the only song that actually does sound like their old stuff. Unfortunately it sounds like a scrapped b-side on Sing the Sorrow. The chorus is kinda boring and the song as a whole sounds like filler. This is one of the tracks that could totally use some angry Davey shouting or screaming but the entire CD lacks that.

10) Darling, I Want To Destroy You ★★★★
With this song we are back into a pop sound. This is the most DU-ish sounding song on the CD in my opinion. I like it... I can't say why, but I do. It sounds very very much like a song that would be heard on the CW as well.

11) Cold Hands ★
Eh. Boring. Filler. Terrible chorus. I just don't care.

12) It Was Mine ★
This was rumored and expected to be their powerful and epic end track ballad like Endlessly, She Said and This Time Imperfect. Those songs have stood the test of time as truly amazing emotion filled tracks of epicness that It Was Mine fails to deliver. This too feels like filler

Overall Score: ★★½

The songs just don't hold together well. I miss lengthy tracks. I miss hidden tracks. I miss shouting and feeling. I miss rock. I know, I know, they change and evolve and that's exactly what they have done. But they didn't evolve in the direction I expected men in their mid-thirties to go.

It seems very clear that they and/or their label is pushing them in the direction of teenagers. That disappoints because I don't feel like they were pointing in that direction in the past.

I have given this my open-est mind. I love a few tracks but nothings seems to have the massive power all of their previous works had. Each CD had on it an epic song (think Kiss and Control, ...But Home Is Nowhere) and an epic ballad (think This Time Imperfect, Endlessly She Said, God Called In Sick Today). This CD has neither.

Some people (mainly young AFI fans who weren't even in high school when Sing the Sorrow was released) will absolutely love this CD and give it a perfect score. I'm willing to bet that Davey and Jade love this CD too and good for them.

Me, personally, just feel so meh about this CD. The powerful response I got from Sing the Sorrow, Decemberunderground, and even Black Audio's CexCells does not happen with Crash Love.

All I can do now is enjoy the few gems that this CD brings and patiently wait for the new Black Audio CD. Davey says that it's already done... but in the last few years I've learned I can only trust less than half of what he says in interviews.

Sigh. Not all is lost this Autumn. I have really enjoyed the new Three Days Grace, Nelly Furtado, and can't wait for the new Breaking Benjamin, Atreyu, and Shakira which all show far more potential.

Watch Alice, Wasted, Wash Her FACE!

2009-08-20T02:54:00.003-04:00

Omigod! Been listening to a lot of AFI (hoping to drum up some excitement for Cash Love) and I came accross these videos. The first one Mandar showed me years ago. They're hilarious.

You see, brilliant as Davey can be, he often is hard to understand. These are interpretations of what he's saying in their songs. Hilarious!

Maudie's Here!

2009-08-18T01:00:00.003-04:00

History really does repeat itself. This excerpt from an episode of All in the Family (featuring Bea Arthur as Maude) really speaks to today. Hopefully history does repeat itself in the form of televison... I'd kill to have a program today that tackled serious issues today like All in the Family did in the 1970s.

Albums '09: Past & Future

2009-08-16T00:45:00.003-04:00

So 2009 so far has been a very good year for music that I like. First I'm gonna talk about CDs that have come out this year already that were good in my opinion. Then I'll movie on to some upcoming albums from some of my favorite artists.

LaFee ~ Ring Frei ★★★½

German "pop" band LaFee released their 4th studio album in January. I say "pop" because they are considered that in Germany however I myself would call them rock (or at the very least soft rock). Ring Frei is just as good as their previous albums and didn't dissapoint. Not stellar. But darn good. The stuff that was good was good but the stuff to skip was easily skipable. Oh and if you haven't heard of Lafee, the lead singer is female and is eighteen, believe it or not.
Download: Scheiß Liebe, Eiskalter Engel, Lieber Gott

Hoobastank ~ For(n)ever ★

I was happy with their first CD. I really liked their second CD. I absolutely fell in love with their third CD. I used to have a huge crush on openly atheist lead singer Doug Robb. What the fuck happened! I hated this CD. It just sounded like a b-side collection. Very unhappy. Boo!

Utada Hikaru ~ This Is The One ★★★★½

Simply one of the best CDs of the year. Her first english CD was amazing and this just blew it out of the water. I haven't fallen in love with an R&B album like this in a long time. I have a Pavlov's dog association with this CD because I was listening to it all the time while reading Carl Sagan's cosmos... but that's just random. So what keeps her from getting a perfect five stars? The last track, Me Muero. Perfect right up 'til the end. Strangely Utada herself says that's her favorite song. Oh well. An amazing R&B album by and amazing Japanese artist.
Download: Taking My Money Back, This One (Cry Like A Child), Poppin'

Marilyn Manson ~ The High End of Low ★★★½

Twiggy is back and it's easy to tell. A lot of people call this album 100x better than his last album Eat Me, Drink Me but I disagree (because I fell in love with Eat Me, Drink Me). Like LaFee's CD this CD has some amazing tracks but it also has some shitty ones. Luckily there are a lot of songs so once you weed out the bad ones you still have a near full album. Is he shocking anymore? No. Is he still a good artist. Absolutely. Manson will always be one of my favorites.
Download: Blank & White, I Have To Look Up Just To See Hell, We're From America

Taking Back Sunday ~ New Again ★★★★★

They kicked out (or he left) their lead guitarist. Did much change...? Nope. Why does this CD get a perfect score? Because I love every single track and don't skip anything. Fantastic album. The best CD that's come out this year.
Download: Swing Swing, Where My Mouth Is, Carpathia

Emir ~ Ben Sen Olamam ★★★★½

A new artist. An amazing artist. A clone of Tarkan (I swear!). Not only is he just like Tarkan, he was produced and written by Tarkan. If this doesn't get your seat wet nothing will (unless your a heterosexual male, lol). This CD just screams tarkan and I can listen to it all the way through. Not a perfect score because there are some 'ok' tracks. But overall, fantastic. I want more Emir!
Download: Ben Sen Olamam, Tornistan, Şeklim Başka

Cobra Starship ~ Hot Mess ★★★★½

Another near perfect CD. This one has one not-so-great track but the rest is pure gold. Be prepared to go feel like you're in a warp-zone between 1988 and 2009 with this gem. The best thing Cobra has going for them is a really unique sound. I highly suggest this CD even if you don't like thier first single "Good Girls Go Bad" as I would call that their second to worst song on the album. Perhaps a guilty pleasure, but hey, if it's good, it's good.
Download: You're Not In On The Joke, Hot Mess, Living In The Sky With Diamonds

~ So that brings us up to date. There is still a lot of new shit to come, see below. ~

Shakira ~ She Wolf
First Single - She Wolf
Release Date: Oct 5, 2009
Confidence - ★★★★★

First things first, I have always loved everything that has come out of Shakira. She is absolutely my favorite female performer of all time. Her new track, She Wolf (which is nothing like anything she's done before) is amazing. I cannot stop listening to it (and the Spanish version, "Loba" is just as good). I have complete confidence that I will love this entire album. Oh, and if you're a straight male and this video doesn't make you cream your pants... check your dick!!!

Sarbel ~ Untitled
First Single - Mou Paei
Release Date: Late Fall
Confidence - ★★★★

I have pretty high confidence in this CD because Sarbel's albums have gotten progressively better over time. This next CD will be his fourth... and yes, he is a bit of a guilty please. I'm still listening to his last CD, Kati San Esena, like it was brand new. Oh and yes, the video is cheesy. But he looks pretty in it and I love the song.

t.A.T.u. ~ Happy Smiles (English Edition)
First Single - Snowfalls
Release Date: Late Fall
Confidence - ★★

The confidence in this is low for two reasons. First of all, it's probably just going to be an English version of their last CD. Second, ... that's if we ever actually even get this CD. I've had to put up with a lot of crap from them, saying this, doing that. Oh well. I hope it's good.

AFI ~ Crash Love
First Single - Medicate
Release Date: Sept 29, 2009
Confidence - ★
Oh boy. Here we go. First things first, I love AFI. My absolutely favorite album of all time is their "Sing The Sorrow." Hands down. Send the competition home. But... AFI has been jerking me around a lot for the last two years. They announced an EP that never happened. They announced 2 music videos that never happened. I went to one of their concerts and they played for about 32 minutes while their opener Sick Of It All played for an hour and a half. They released a live DVD without a CD version ... oh wait, no, they released a CD too... a year later. So here we are, about 45 days away from a new CD. I hate the title of the CD. It doesn't sound anything like AFI to me. More like Miley Cyrus. Speaking of that. Check out the album cover here. Fucking ugly and gay and shitty. I hate it. And now I've listened to the first minute and a half of their first single and I am anything but impressed (despite how much Davey keeps shouting to the rooftops about how epic this CD is going to be). Oh and did I mention they had a 'Crash Love' t-shirt out a whole year ago and the CD still isn't out yet. Sounds to me more like Cash Love than Crash Love. Oh and I've seen a track-listing for the album and I'm not gonna lie, I'm not impressed.
What do I hope? I hope I love the CD. I hope Medicate is a bad sheep and the album as a whole is amazing. I hope it's just as epic as Davey is saying it is. I hope I love love love it but I cannot pretend to have any confidence in AFI right now. Prove me wrong boys. Please... prove me wrong.

Rammstein ~ Untitled
First Single - Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
Release Date: Late Fall
Confidence - ★★★
The first single is really good, not amazing. Their last CD is was pretty good but not amazing. I hope the CD is great. They've been gone for a while so I hope that means they've been working hard!

3 Days Grace ~ Life Starts Now
First Single - Break
Release Date: Sept 22, 2009
Confidence - ★★★★
Their last CD was amazing and I can only hope they do just as good.

Atreyu~ Congregation of the Damned
First Single - Unknown
Release Date - October 27, 2009
Confidence - ★★★★★
I give this five stars because their last CD was perfect. It falls as my second favorite album of all time (a very close second to the aforementioned "Sing The Sorrow" by AFI). I could almost give this confidence four and a half stars because they're heading out on tour with Douchebag Undead this year. Lucky for me, I know that the band themself did not pick them, their record company did. Not to mention, I love the album title and the song titles seem very promising.

Tarkan ~ Gelenek (Rumored)
First Single - Unknown
Release Date - Late Fall (Rumored)
Confidence - ★★★★★
Everything that comes out of Tarkan is pure gold. He shits diamonds. My only hope is that the CD really does come out this year but as of yet we haven't had anything concrete. The only thing that is not going for Tarkan is how amazingly perfect his last CD Metamorfoz was. How do you go up when you've reached perfection?

The 200th Post! Woo! Check Out This Video!

2009-08-15T23:51:00.000-04:00

What I wanna see is the bloopers to this video...

I Must Have A Twin...

2009-08-14T15:12:00.000-04:00

Mandar and I went into town yesterday (to get Starfy and a milkshake) and I was asked the strangest thing while in the drive-thru at the ... um, drive-thru.

"No cheesy today!?"

I was like... "Um... excuse me?"

Apparently she swore that I came through all the time and got cheese covered fries. I hadn't been to that drive-thru for months. And I've never purchased cheese covered fries.

But this wasn't the first time. About a year ago at the Wal-Mart down the street I was abruptly stopped by some tall black guy who said to me, "Hey! Mark! Long-time no see!"

I was like, "Um... I'm not Mark."

He laughed, "Oh man, you're such a kidder. You and Sabrina still together?"

WHAT THE FUCK!

So I'm convinced I have a twin in town.

...

And what's the point of the titties above? Well, on Penn & Teller's they have tits in every single episode and it works for them... Plus when I typed in 'twins' in google this image came up.

Child For Sale! (Short Rant)

2009-08-13T14:55:00.000-04:00

This'll be short. Two months ago before summer quarter began I purchased my textbook for my Child Psychology class. It's my final GEC (general educational class). The textbook was $100.

First day of class I asked my professor, Dr. Kreisher, very sternly, "Are we going to actually use the textbook."

She replied, "Oh yes, absolutely."

So I pulled off the plastic wrap (which meant said textbook could not be returned for full price) and opened to chapter 1.

After two weeks of class, I hadn't used the book even once. Her class was completely lecture based. So I left the book at home as it was weighing down my bookbag. I assumed at some point I would need it.

After the full 8-week class period, I never used the book even ONCE!!!

So I go to the campus bookstore to try to sell it back, hoping for ten of fifteen bucks at the least. Nope. Nothing. They have a new addition.

So I'm fucking stuck with a book that I will never ever ever use.

Grrr.

We'll Drink And Dance And Sweat Right Through Our Pants

2009-08-12T14:38:00.000-04:00

So there is this Saloon in town where all the hicks go. I don't know how the subject came up but a friend of Mandar's mentioned that this specific Saloon openly breaks the smoking ban. I confirmed this with several people at my work.

In Ohio smoking inside any public building is illegal. All bars, all restraurants, all saloons must be smoke-free. You're welcome to smoke outside though.

But not at this bar. This bar is defying the government and letting people smoke. Not just letting them smoke, encouraging them to smoke! Why, you ask?

In defiance of Obama. The hicks are breaking a state-wide smoking ban that went into effect during the Bush administration.

::facepalm::

By the way, if you drive by said Saloon today you'll fine a for-sale sign in front.

The Guiltiest Pleasure Of All

2009-08-11T18:04:00.003-04:00

I've been kinda absent of blogging but I have several blogs planned to come. Tomorrow is my last day of summer quarter so I'll have some extra time to blog.

So as for my guilty pleasure... I can't even talk about it. It's adorable. Watch below...

I'm going to go buy it after dinner tonight. Yes, I know. Bad. But it's just so god damn cute!!!

Clash of the (FALSE!) Gods

2009-08-06T14:42:00.005-04:00

This'll be short. So there's this new show on the History Channel called Clash of the Gods. I've only seen the first episode which is all about Zues.

I really expected them to simply talk about the old pagan religions and never mention modern religion, specifically Christianity.

Oh no. Not only do they mention Christianity. They often treat it as if it's 100% true and accurate. For example, "Zues was seen as the one and only all powerful God... and this was two thousand years before Christ." Pfffst.

However, it's not all bad. They do not shy away from mentioning the connections between pagan myths and Christian and Jewish myths. Like comparing Zues's birth story to Jesus's.

Things like this are mentioned, "Hades is like our hell" or "Their creation myth is what the Greeks had before the availability of the book of Genesis."

Really!?

It's actually quite schizo. I can't figure out from where this show's viewpoint is coming from. It's a pretty good show and is informative... but sometimes it will rub you in the wrong direction in it's clear attempt not to piss of Christians. Funny, I notice that they don't bend over backwards to appease Muslims? Funny...

Oh and I just gotta throw in this quote, "Some believe that this statue [found in Dion, Grece] could be a missing link between Greece's worship of many Gods, and the single-god philosophy of Christians and Jews... Greek's were embracing the idea of one god before the arrival of Christianity."

They seem to be treating all other religions as stepping stones to the truth, Christianity. What the fuck? As if religions have been evolving toward the perfection of the Jesus cults. ::snort::

I myself don't consider Christianity to be a single-god religion but a three god religion (father, son, ghost). I think it's convenient that they don't mention that Islam is a single-god religion... and that's the #1 first tenant of Islam (there is no other God besides Allah and Muhammad was his prophet).

Hey, maybe religions are evolving. Many gods to three gods to one god to no gods!

Weird Ass Music Videos...

2009-07-28T23:45:00.002-04:00

'Nuff Said... Just watch...

Stick Figures Are Fun!

2009-07-27T21:22:00.002-04:00

Coming Out Of The Swiss Closet

2009-07-22T20:37:00.004-04:00

Foward: This post was originally written on July 7th, 2009. I have amended it to be more fitting today.

So this blog is supposed to be amount me. It's about my life, my opinions, and so on. Well, over the time I've had this blog I've left something out of it. I've completely avoided it for the near year I've had this blog now and I really can't hide it anymore. I'm done being neutral. I'm done being Switzerland.

There are these two people in my life right now. One of them is a really good friend and the other is her boyfriend. She reads this blog. This post is going to piss her off. It might make her cry. It might end our friendship (I'm sure it's ended already though now). But I can't pretend any longer. I can't dodge issues any longer. As much as it hurts to tell her this point blank... I have to. I hate her boyfriend (this should be no shock to her).

They've been together for over two years. It all started when he started working for the same place as she was (and so was I at the time). From the very start I didn't like him. I wasn't scared to say anything then because they were just friends. She pursued him as a friend at first. I didn't really care much because I never expected it to lead to what it has. He was living with his girlfriend at the time. Eventually they started hanging out together and to nobody's surprise his girlfriend didn't like this. They broke up and within a short period of time my friend was dating him. He certainly didn't have any trouble breaking it off with the old girl when he found a new one. (I have found that he's never been without a girlfriend)

When things started it was innocent enough. I didn't like him but I didn't dislike him. I didn't know him. After a while he ended up moving in with her and her parents. Things were still relatively innocent.

During the first year I only got to know him a little bit. I can remember the time we went to the zoo with him. He really pissed me off because all he did was text on his fucking phone the entire time we were there. I even took them both to BD's Mongolian Grill, my treat, to get to know him better. I realized that I didn't like him but I didn't say anything.

Last year my boyfriend and I had to stay with my parents for two months. They live very close to my friend and her boyfriend so we spent a lot (i mean a LOT) of time there. This is truly when I really got to know this guy.

During this time all he did was text. Text text text text text. He was secretive about it too. And when she told him that it made her unhappy all he did was turn it around to make her feel bad (i've never seen her cry more often than during those two months). I would have to deal with her sobbing in tears because of the shitty way he treated her at least once a week. Eventually I broke down and told her that there are other fish in the sea. This REALLY pissed her off. She told me she didn't want a close friend of hers to hate her boyfriend. She wanted me to give him a second chance. So I did.

Eventually my boyfriend and I moved back home and I tried to give him his second chance. I was willing to give him a second chance.

The new year came around and she suddenly took an interest in religion (specifically reading the Bible). She is not religious. He is very religious. She's an atheist but she won't admit it. She told him that she knew very little of the Bible and was curious to know more. He, of course, rushed to slam the KJV of the Bible into her hands. They went down to Oklahoma to visit his family who were "so nice" to her (she says). She couldn't believe how nice they were. They took her to church like 5 times that week and even gave her a free bible. They were "so nice." Well, no shit. They were nice because they were trying to convert you to Christianity.

What I love about him is the fact that he doesn't even know about his own religion. Once he told me, "Jesus was not a Jew, he was a Hebrew." Once he had to ask what Good Friday was... you know, the day we celebrate the death of Jesus... you know, a MAJOR Christian holiday. Typical Christian douchebag. But she never saw him that way. She would always say, "Oh that's not him. That's not what he's like." Typical apologist girlfriend who doesn't want to see him for who he is.

He doesn't just treat my friend like shit. He once kicked her dog right in front of her for getting into a two dollar box of chocolates. But that's not him, remember. He's not like that.

But even through all of this, I'm still willing to try and see the good side of him for her. I'm really trying.

I decided one day that I would take her and her boyfriend up to the Natural History Museum. I thought to myself that this was it. This was his second chance to win me over. He failed royally. (Interesting note: My boyfriend and I had four free passes to the museum that we specifically used on his cousin and her boyfriend as well as my parents. We never told them that we had the free passes because they'd bitch that we didn't give the passes to them.)

She has no idea how much he pissed me off and how fucking immature he was at that museum. This boy is supposedly a big fan of science ... but he doesn't accept evolution (which is, of course, the basis of all biology). He described his view of evolution to me as "one little horse giving birth to a retarded big horse baby." When in the human evolution section of the museum he said to my boyfriend, "I'm not no monkey's uncle... I don't know why they try and say that..."

So here was when I was done. They had been together for two years and I had given him chance after chance to redeem himself. I did it for her. I did it because I wanted to make her happy. I can't do that anymore.

I didn't tell her how much that trip pissed me off. I couldn't ever tell her how much I disliked him because she has such a soft skin. She explodes pretty quickly. She can easily dish it out. She can't take it in. But it's not her I dislike. I love her to death (or I did).

So after this little fiasco I cut myself off from her. Ever since then I haven't gone over to her house to hang out because I know that he's there.

Eventually I learned that I wasn't the only one who doesn't like him. Apparently she's the only one who does likes him. (We're talking nearly all of her friends and family)

So over the time after the trip to the museum the subject of cheating has come up quite a lot. Apparently he would come to her and say something to the effect of "if you hear anything about me cheating on you it's not true... okay." Sounds to me like damage control. But this is just speculation. I'm not the only one who thinks he's cheated on her. Friends of hers who I haven't even met think so. And this didn't just happen once, it's happened time and time again. She just blames the "skanks" for spreading "lies." Could he have cheated on her? Easily! He constantly spends the night drinking with "friends" without her and doesn't come home til morning.

If I had to put money on it, I'd put money on him sticking his nastiness in any girl who'd allow it.

She used to talk to me about this kinda stuff but she doesn't anymore. Maybe because I tend to agree with her mother which she hates. Maybe because I'm not telling her what she wants to hear.

Speaking of her mother. Her mother is a saint. Her parents are nicer than I would ever be. One day her mother walked in front of her boyfriend playing a video game and he called her a "cunt." He never apologized. He says he didn't do anything wrong. If I were her, I would have kicked him the fuck out of my house. Her mother didn't. She's too fucking nice. Way too nice.

She says "he just doesn't appologize... that's just him..."

That's just douche.

If I haven't already mentioned, this kid's also a racist. He voted for McCain and said he couldn't tell us why he didn't like Obama because it would "make us mad." After Obama won, she went to bed (he had already went to bed, mad that Obama was winning) and he told her, "yeah, I know. That nigger won!" There is this guy who they work with who is half black and half white and he thinks he's mexican (despite people constantly telling him the truth). He refers to him as 'the spick.' He's a racist and she refuses to see it. She just says things like "oh that's not him. He's just joking. He listens to rap music."

But now she's becoming a racist. She thinks it's okay to call one of her shop supervisors a "nigger"... now, she's not a racists (or she says) but that word just applies to him. Yeah...

So I broke my whole avoidance of her boyfriend by going to her birthday party. I couldn't skip this. He was a total douche there too. I met his mother at her party and she was very nice and quite pleasant. His douchiness apparently didn't come from her.

He was so lazy at the party. He made her cut a piece of her own cake for him because he was too lazy to cut it himself.

That's not all. He makes her pack his lunch and makes her microwave his lunch at work... everyday... without fail. If she didn't, he'd starve. If she packs his lunch and she forgets his fork or something he calls her a bitch and storms off. Then he says things like "maybe I'll just move out now!" He's a total drama queen.

Oh yeah, and apparently she has to pick out his clothes...

Well I could go on forever but I have to get up to the present day.

Suddenly he wants to move out now (this was in July/August). She wants to move out too... but he wants to move out with someone else. Apparently he wants to get an apartment with his friend Timmy. He actually asked her "would you be mad if I moved out?" No fucking shit. First he said he wanted to move out because of "religous issues." Then it was "money" issues. Supposedly he thinks he can save more money by having more bills. Now he suddenly wants to move out and live with his mother again. It's so obvious that he's trying to inch his way out of this relationship.

Well that's it. I hate him. I'm done with him.

Am I risking my friendship with her? Yes. Do I care? Yes. (well, not anymore, see below)

I just hope that she understands that it's not her, it's him. I hope she understands that I've given him two years of chances and I just can't like him. I'm posting this here because she'll read it here and the only other people who read this don't know her personally.

I told her a while back that I know they won't last. It pissed her off. I told her to prove me wrong.

I just hope she understands. I afraid she won't. I've kept this in for too long and I can't keep it in any longer.

It looks as though their relationship might be ending soon. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope it does end. I hope he leaves her because she won't leave him. The way she lets him abuse her and treat her like shit I don't think she would EVER leave him. I hope it ends because I hope the best for her. I know she's better than him and I know there is a much better guy out there for her that she'll love a hundred times more.

I love her to death and I hate him and I can't pretend any longer.

~~~ ADDITION ADDED SEPT 30th ~~~~

So we're not really friends anymore. I just got so fucking sick of her stupid ass drama she posted on Facebook that I deleted her. (that's why I'm okay with posting this now)

She ranted for a day about how I don't have balls and blah blah blah. She never messaged me to ask what was wrong.

Her mother asked her if she ever talked to me about me deleting her and she said "NO! I don't even care."

So abusive, racist, douchebag boyfriend is better than her friends.

In life, choices you make determine where you will go in life. I predict that she'll get knocked up, have his kid, become a stupid fucking Christian (because she is dying to have some meaning to her life), and one day after she stops being his second mother he'll leave her and she'll find out he's been fucking around behind her back all along.

::deep sigh of relief::

It's good to get shit off my chest...

Better Than A Hot Stuffed Gyro

2009-07-15T23:51:00.002-04:00

Greek singer Sarbel has a new single out... Me likey!

Mayonnaise and White Bread

2009-07-12T00:53:00.003-04:00

This is one of my favorite moments from the Golden Girls. I really wish I could see the whole comic strip...

Mmmm... That's Good Medicine

2009-07-08T16:42:00.000-04:00

So douchebag extraordinaire Perez Hilton is known for posting not so great photos of celebrities and making fun of them and calling them fat. I figure that's probably pretty fun. I'm gonna give it a go!

Looks Like Big Girls Do Cry...

2009-07-07T23:34:00.000-04:00

And right there is your proof...

Adorable Animals I Never Knew Existed

2009-07-06T16:44:00.002-04:00

For the Fourth of July Mandar and I found out that the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo was having a special. $2 off admission if you wear red, white, or blue, as well as free admission to the Rainforest and the Dinosaur Exhibit. Hot damn we said!

We had a really fun time. The weather was perfect. It was the first time I'd ever been to that zoo and I really enjoyed it. I feel like I was way closer to the animals than I ever get at the Columbus Zoo.

So anywho, we found...

Oh wait...

OMG!

There was this HILARIOUSLY fun Asian lady who was tempting this monkey with a tasty sammich. You see, there is this thing called Monkey Island. There is no cage or anything. It's just an island with a little river going around the entire island.

So there she was, shoving a huge sammich in her fat gob. Every once in a while she'd take a moment to stop eating and wave the sammich around in front of the monkeys! They got so pissed and she just kept doing it. It was great.

I wish the picture I snapped of her was of her waving the sammich but apparently it was so good she couldn't stop shoving it into her face. We saw her eat two sammichs total.

So anywho...

There were three adorable little animal I had never heard of that I just loved. The pictures below are not from the zoo, they're from online.

Chevrotain

Rufous Elephant Shrew

Rock Hyrax

The Rock Hyraxes had lots of little babies who have back legs that look like little human legs. They're such little chub balls and believe it or not they are more closely related to elephants than rodents.

The Chevrotains have such tiny legs that they ran around like they were wearing high heels. The Elephant Shrews looked like tiny little ant-eaters.

I bet they would have loved to take a bite of the fun asian lady's sammich.

People Falling Down Is Fun!

2009-07-05T23:08:00.002-04:00

I'm going low brow. Like... bottom of the barrel. When people fall down... I laugh... normally.

Free Car Repair And A Fish Taco

2009-07-04T21:02:00.010-04:00

So Friday Mandar was off work in observation of Independence Day. We left early because we had to go back to get our car repaired again. The service center hasn't been doing a bad job or anything, it's just my car keeps having something wrong with it.

It all started in May. I took my car's back tires to the limit. As far as I could possibly go without blowing a tire. So I needed to get two new back tires... immediately. $180 there. *insert cash register sound*

For a few weeks I'd been hearing some rattling when I breaked on a hill. I took it to the place where I purchased my car for repair (I figure they'll do a half-decent job at the least since they will want me to purchase there again). Turns out I needed a front end alignment as well as a bunch of shit replaced in the front. With parts and labor, $530. *insert cash register sound*

So a few weeks went by and then I was hearing another noise. It was only when I came to a full break. It was not really a new noise, it was a noise I had heard over top the old noise. I take it back to get checked out again and it was only $118. *insert cash register sound*

So a few more weeks go by and yet again, something else is wrong. Now we're up to the present. We arrived at noon and waited for forty minutes in the waiting room. Finally the guy comes out and tells us that the steering column needs replacing. This didn't really surprise me cos when I breaked the steering wheel felt like it was gonna pop out at times. He tells me that with parts and labor it would be approximately $825. *don't insert cash register sound*

I shit my pants. But to my surprise he tells me, "I talked to my manager and he tells me that he knows that you've been in and out of here a lot, dealing with a lot of rattling noises. So he told me to go ahead and replace it and do everything for no charge."

I shit my pants again. Doing shit like that makes me want to buy a car from them again. Considering what a shit hole GM is in right now and how horrible the economy is, doing an eight hundred dollar repair for free is amazing. This is the mark of a good repair place.

My parents and Aurora have also used this dealership for repairs and have never had a single complaint. In fact Aurora herself has received free repairs in the past as well.

Not everyone loves them though. Supposedly Pandora got a repair there and she says they used tape to fix her car and they had to pay twice for the same repair. She freaks out when she hears that we get our car repaired there. Oh well. Can't please everyone.

Now, Pandora's boyfriend tells us to go to Bill Harris's dealership and have our car repaired there.

Well, there's four big problems with Bill Harris. First, they have have a bullet-hole in the class in the front of their dealership. Second, we almost bought a car there after four days of attempting to make a deal. In those four days we looked at nearly ten cars ranging from two hundred dollars a month to four-hundred and fifty dollars a month. After too much jerking around we just left. Third, on November 4th 2008 Bill Harris's dealership threw the biggest party in our town for John McCain, calling their dealership Republican Victory Headquarters. Talk about a way to totally alienate a huge portion of your prospective clients. Fourth, Bill Harris is not just a dealership owner, he's a politican.

I've never had a problem with the dealership I bought my car from. When I bought it, I showed up in the morning, picked the car I wanted, waited for approval, signed paperwork, and drove off with my brand new car that very day without a single problem.

So anyways, now onto the Fish Taco. After we left the dealership with my car (which breaks fantastically now), we went into town to get food to go over to Aurora's house. We got a buncha of regular tacos from Taco Bell and then went through Long John Silver's to get two Fish Tacos.

The Fish Taco is simply amazing. I love it! I love it! Aurora loves it too.

That's all.

Fish Taco = Crazy Delicious.

RIP Michael Jackson & Perez Is A Douchebag

2009-06-25T23:25:00.008-04:00

This is not gonna be your typical RIP Michael Jackson post. It is a tragedy and is terribly sad, especially for his family and the fans who had purchased his tickets. But one thing we can remember is Michael Jackson was surely a tortured soul and had major internal issues that he no longer must suffer with. At least we can say that he's no longer suffering. He was an inspiration for multiple generations and he changed the world, moving millions of musicians to produce amazing music. RIP Michael Jackson 1958-2009.

Now onto the douche. Perez Hilton.

If you're not familiar with him, he's got a website where he draws cum on celebrity faces and calls the thinnest celebrities fat cows (he himself being a fat cow). At the beginning his site was funny and quickly updated. Now it's total shit. He'll call Britney Spears and Jessica Simpson fat... then he'll turn around and talk about how terrible teen eating disorders are. He's done a lot of douchey things but within the last few days he's gone overboard. And you won't believe what he said about Michael Jackson.

Well, the first douchey thing he did was call Will.I.Am a faggot. The Black Eyed Peas's manager got so pissed he punched Perez in the face. So GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), demanded him to appologize for saying "faggot" (especially considering that Perez himself is gay and has recieved GLAAD awards).

Did he appologize? No. He said he was sorry to his fans (lol) but not to Will.I.Am. Not to mention, he freaked out because people started saying things like "well, you deserved it" or "when you call people names and spread rumors for a living, this is what you get." Now he's playing the victim because he got hit. Of course he doesn't care about of the mental abuse he puts on people.

So today, Michael Jackson was rushed to the hospital and Perez posted this:

"We knew something like this would happen!!
Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance from his Holmby Hills home to a nearby Los Angeles hospital on Thursday afternoon!!
Supposedly, the singer went into cardiac arrest and the paramedics had to administer CPR!!!
His mother is even on the way to visit him!!!
We are dubious!!
Jacko pulled a similar stunt when he was getting ready for his big HBO special in ‘95 when he “collapsed” at rehearsal!
He was dragging his heels on that just like his upcoming 50 date London residency at the 02 Arena, of which he already postponed the first few dates!!!
Either he’s lying or making himself sick, but we’re curious to see if he’s able to go on!!!
Get your money back, ticket holders!!!!"

Did he appologize? No. Did he do anything? Yes! He deleted what he posted hoping that nobody would notice. What a fucking douche.

If there's one thing I can't stand it's a person who says something completely fucking terrible and decides he's such an assholey-douchebag that he won't appologize. What a fucking baby! And he's shocked that we are so sad that he got punched. I hope somebody punches him again.

I'm So Exicted.... And I Just Can't Hide It...

2009-06-09T00:03:00.002-04:00

So there's a lot of stuff coming out in the second part of this year that I'm excited for. Yeah, I know. I'm a pop culture whore. Some of it's guilty pleasure, some not. Either way, I'm pumped! Recently I was very satisfied with the new Taking Back Sunday CD as well as the new Marilyn Manson CD. Mandar and I are also loving the Sims 3 so I hope what still is to come won't disappoint.

True Blood: Season 2 - June 14th

Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince - July 15th

Wii Sports Resort - July 26th

Julie & Julia - August 7th

New Cobra Starship CD - August 11th

I Can Do Bad All By Myself - Sept 11th

New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Holiday Season

In addition I am also looking forward to the new Richard Dawkins book for which I couldn't really find a good YouTube video for. There are also new Tarkan, Shakira, and Atreyu CDs slated for release this year!

Good Cover, Bad Cover

2009-06-07T23:18:00.002-04:00

I was tagged or memed or whatever to pick a good cover song and a bad cover song. I couldn't make up my mind on the good cover so there are two. There are tons of bad covers but the one I picked was the first to come to mind.

Good Cover
Alien Ant Farm's version of "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson

Atreyu's version of "You Give Love A Bad Name" by Bon Jovi

Bad Cover
Jessica Simpson's version of "These Boots..." by Nanci Sinatra

Scientists Don't Even Believe In Evolution!

2009-05-23T11:45:00.001-04:00

Gosh. CNN used be to pretty good. So was TIME magazine. What the fuck happened? Below is a shocking headline from CNN!

Yeah and TIME magazine totally failed with the article below.

Yes, if you read the article is all about how Ida is not our earliest ancestor because in the grand scope of things our ancestry goes far further back. The article is mainly about how scientists didn't need to see Ida to have proof of evolution.

But here's the problem. First of all, this article was on CNN which you click on and sends you to TIME magazine's website. But just think how the average person (who just can't accept evolution) will react to this. They'll look at the headline from TIME and say to themselves, "Oh, so apparently scientists don't believe this thing is real." Like a game of telephone it'll translate to, "Scientists don't even believe in evolution. I guess they have accepted that the book of Genesis is the true account."

Originally the title to the article was "Scientists Roll Their Eyes at Ida" but I guess somebody felt that was inappropriate.

Jesus fucking Christ!

Random Images 3

2009-05-22T01:49:00.004-04:00

Once again. Random funnies I found online over the last few months...

This last one is just too disturbing (click here) NSFW!

Facebook Debate Pt. 2

2009-05-21T16:14:00.002-04:00

47 Million Years And Waiting

2009-05-20T19:32:00.002-04:00

It's clear that no matter how much proof there is, they'll never accept it. Especially when they believe the proof is just made-up by those evil and deceptive scientists!!! Religious people once said "there aren't any transitional fossils!" And now that there are hundreds they say, "Fossils don't prove anything!" Way to move the goal posts!

Hehe. I wonder how many people goggle pissed off with the image above. Darwin's birthday logo was subtle. This is just slap in the face to creationists and I love it!

I Wanna Do Bad Things To You...

2009-05-16T23:48:00.006-04:00

Yep, it was inevitable. I fell in love with some vamps. Anne Rice's books were good but never got me enthralled. My fault, not hers. Stephanie Meyer... ugh, sappy, predictable, boring. Her fault, not mine. Then came along Charlaine Harris.

She's a part-time author, part-time minister. She writes stories about sex, drugs, and lots of blood. Every single one of her books in the Sookie Stackhouse series contains the word "dead."

It all started over at Mandar's cousins house. Aurora had gone on for a while about being enthralled by the Sookie Stackhouse novels. She was psyched to be getting the upcoming ninth in the series. After I finished reading Contact by Carl Sagan I thought, sure why not, I'll give it a try.

I bought the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series called "Dead Until Dark." From page one, I was interested. By page 292, I was hooked. Even better, HBO picked up the book and converted them to a weekly one-hour television program which they dubbed True Blood.

The story takes place in the rural Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The books are told from the prospective of 25 year old Sookie Stackhouse. Just months have the underground vampire community decided to "come out of the coffin" thanks to the creation of a sythetic blood drink called TruBlood Sookie is exited to meet a real live vampire when he walks into Merlotte's Bar (where she works of course). Mr. Bill Compton is a gentleman (and has a handsome 1800's look about him). From there Sookie finds herself getting slightly attracted to her dead new friend. The once quiet town of Bon Temps is shocked when several murders occur just months having the vampire's appeared. Sookie is torn between her new beau and the normal life she once had.

Above is the uber amazing Eric Northman (and his second in command Pam), the 1100 year old vampire who runs the vampire bar called Fangtasia. Oh, did I mention that they refer to the people who have sex with vampires as fang-bangers?

The series True Blood is a lot different from the book. Each season of the show represents one book. However, since the book is less than 300 pages long and the show has twelve one-hour episodes, there's time to fill. What I love is how every single scene from the book is in the show. And what's great is they have room to add more. Much much much more!

This show is not for the faint at heart. There is a lot of fucking. And I mean a lot of fucking! There's drug use. Gore. Violence. Blood. Lots of blood. Let's put it this way. Twilight is like huggies pull-ups and True Blood is like Victoria Secret lace lingerie. Don't watch unless you can handle big girl panties!

One of the things I love about the show is it's location. Deep south Lousianna. Just check out the show's opening credits. I love the song they choose and the imagery is perfect.

So it's my new addiciton. Good thing for me, I just finished reading book one and I've got eight more to go (and there currenlty is no end in visible sight for the series). I sure hope HBO keeps this series going for a nice long time!

The Voice Of The People

2009-05-06T19:57:00.002-04:00

So I went looking for a nice polo shirt today and I had to poop. So I went into the bathroom and found some of the best graffiti I have ever seen. Enjoy it below. Oh and try spot the spelling error.

How Very Inappropriate

2009-05-02T13:25:00.002-04:00

Last night at Aurora's house we were watching some great Bollywood videos. "Nimbooda" below was one of them. We jokingly said that this was the Indians do during the 5-minute breaks at work. I might have hit a low-brow moment when at very end of video people are cheering, I said, "Quick! Everybody get their Dell headsets back on!"

Haha. I'm priceless.

Sadness...

2009-04-27T22:57:00.002-04:00

I loved her on Maude and on The Golden Girls and even on an episode of Futurama. We'll miss you Bea Arthur, 1922 ~ 2009.

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Bunnies On The Highway

2009-04-23T23:31:00.008-04:00

I just finished reading Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, Contact. I saw the movie when I was a teenager and loved it but the book was quite a bit better in some places and not as great in other. It was slow in places. Nevertheless, I still think that Jodie Foster played Ellie Arroway perfectly, maybe even better than Carl Sagan wrote her, lol.

The book was strange in a way because it was published in 1985 and it ends in the year 2000. For example, the Soviet Union still exits in the book. I'm not in anyway saying that was a failure in any sense (he couldn't have known) but it was strange and kinda funny at times. Not to mention, the President of America in the book was a Madam President which by 2008 we still have not seen. I bet if Sagan was alive today he'd be surprised that we had a black president before a female.

Overall, the ending was considerably better. More detail made it deeper. There was also a very thought provoking thing that had to do with pi at the end.

But while reading there was a very funny part where Ellie was talking to a old man who lived in a retirement home that orbited earth. I would like to share it:

"You see, the religious people -most of them- really think this planet is an experiment. That's what their beliefs come down to. Some god or other is always fixing and poking, messing around with tradesman's wives, giving tablets on mountains, commanding you to mutilate your children, telling people what words they can say and what words they can't say, making people feel guilty about enjoying themselves, and like that. Why can't the gods leave well enough alone? All this intervention speaks of incompetence. If God didn't want Lot's wife to look back, why didn't he make her obedient, so she'd do what her husband told her? Or if he hadn't made Lot such a shithead, maybe she would've listened to him more. If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: the biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business if there was any competition."

I guess I never mentioned why I called this bunnies on the highway. There was a long exposition early in the book about rabbits in New Mexico that see car lights. It was interesting.

"You Can Ride To The Top, But You Can't Ride On My Cock"

2009-04-22T13:27:00.000-04:00

A band I love called Cobra Starship is about to come out with a new CD late this summer (rumored to be coming out August 1st!). I'm not sure if it's their first single or not, but they added a new track from their upcoming CD on their MySpace which you can listen to below. It's called "Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We're Famous" but worry not, it has nothing to do with Pete Wentz or Fall Out Boy.

I saw Cobra in concert last fall and I hope they go on tour again. They're on tour now but they're only opening for Fall Out Boy (huet!). Last fall lead singer Gabe Saporta had an issue with his throat and couldn't sing that well. I'm willing to bet they are a lot better when their lead singer has a voice, lol. Oh and yes, I love the new song. I've listened to it about a million times already.

I Hope I Beat Asylum Seeker...

2009-04-21T15:38:00.003-04:00

By posting this video before he does... that is if he's seen it lol. It's pretty cute. It's nice to know that so many people are so adamantly against that stupid ass gay storm video from NOM.

Happy Four-Twenty!

2009-04-20T15:34:00.003-04:00

Smoke 'em if you've gott'em! Lol. But seriously. I love this picture of Brian and his bong from last night's episode of Family Guy (which can be seen in full and legally on Hulu.com).

Names Have Been Changed To Protect The Fucking Whiney Ass Bitches

2009-04-18T13:23:00.005-04:00

I'm friends with this douchebag on Facebook who I don't even know, really. He comes into my work a lot and buys snackers. He had a class once with me. He's a big Christian but boy does he love pussy. He loves to talk about pussy. He loves to eat pussy. He loves to talk about eating pussy. Besides Jesus and pussy, the only other thing he talks about is sports. Bleh. Three things I hate.

So he posted this thing below.

And so here's my question. What the fuck is a 30 hour fast going to prove? What is the fucking point? Especially since he's probably going to eat the entire fridge when it's over.

It might be to show him how people in other starving countries have to live. Except they don't eat like a pig before it starts and then get to go out to Denny's and pig out again after just 30 hours. This is one of those things in American religion that is just so fucking stupid. Things like this make this kid feel holier than thou and I'm willing to bet that he won't be 100% pure in his fasting.

What I hate more about this kid is how much he complains because his parents can only afford to send him to OSU and not a good school. He complains and says things like, "Uh, my parents are patheitic. They wasted all their money and now they can't even send me to a worthy school and so now I'm in class with poor people who are practically homeless."

I don't know how I keep myself from committing a felony with a chicken bone. God damn, just imagine how much good he could do with the energy he put into that thirty hours. He could volunteer at a homeless shelter (we've got on in our town). He could pick up trash outside. He could do so much but instead he just doesn't eat for a little bit. Jesus fucking Christ! I'm so done!

Fun With Captions! Potter-Style

2009-04-17T11:40:00.001-04:00

After the release of the new theatrical trailer for Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, I decided to have some fun with captions with it as well.See below.

Epic!

2009-04-16T21:09:00.001-04:00

In theatres July 15th!

Fun With Captions! Tarkan-Style

2009-04-15T15:19:00.009-04:00

So me, Mandar, and Aurora have been all up in a Tarkan mood lately (he's coming out with a new CD this year!! AHH!). So while panning the internet for good photos, I got some great ones. Of them, several were in dire need of a good caption. See below.

Notes On Life: Crocs, Puffs, & Time

2009-04-13T20:31:00.007-04:00

So while Mandar got his hair cut today I stayed in the car and cleaned up the files on my mobile. Next to the hair cut place was American Payroll Advance and next to that was a cigarette store called Puffs. The first thing I noticed while Mandar got his hair cut was a man wearing gray sweat pants and orange crocs (if you don't know what they are, you're lucky). He was entering Puffs. Anyways... I hate these shoes. They're so lazy and ugly and they should never be worn in public. They should be wore to the swimming pool or out into the garden.

As if one person wearing them wasn't enough, another person showed up and entered Puffs. She too was wearing crocs (purple ones) and sweat pants (dark blue ones). Both people were rather large and were buying a considerable amount of cigarettes.

After they both left, I looked to the signage of American Payroll Advance. To my suprise, they are open six days a week. Each day they open at 9:15am. Really!? 9:15am??? What a fucking strange ass time to open. Why not 9am? Why not 10am? What exactly is pushing them back fifteen minutes?

So that's all. That's all that's on my mind. I've been doing a lot of writing in other places so I haven't had much time to write here. 9:15 my ass. Psssh!

ADDITION: Sure they're fugly... But if you want one more reason why crocs suck... click here.

I Must Be One Of Those Fags

2009-04-10T13:23:00.010-04:00

There is a band out there I hate. I mean, I hate. I have never hated a band more in my life than this band. I first heard of them because Pandora's boyfriend just loves them because he and his high school buddies drink to their songs. I thought that perhaps this horribly shitty band was no more known to the world than to teenage boys who got together every weekend to smoke weed, drink booze, and fuck nasty hoes. I was wrong.

At work last night, one of the managers had her iPod connected and was playing on shuffle. A song came on and I thought it sounded familiar... it was Hollywood Undead. I cannot even express how much I hate this band. I walked right up to the stereo playing the iPod and ripped the cord out. I wasn't going to listen to that shit. My manager got pissed off and said that she, "loves this band! They're so amazing!" She plugged it back in and started all over again. I dropped what I doing and walked as far away as possible into the dinning room and sat down, waiting until the song was over.

So let me tell you a little bit about Hollywood Undead. They are a group of six douchebags (Charlie Scene, Johnny 3 Tears, J-Dog, Da Kurlzz, Duece AKA The Producer, and Funny Man). They started out as an unsigned band on MySpace and got so popular that they got a real record deal. They wear hockey masks so that you can see what they really look like (although you can see them here without their masks thanks to some girls MySpace). So they have fake names and wear masks so that people don't know who they are. And I can understand why. Below are some chosen lyrics from four songs off their debut album Swan Songs.

Hollywood Undead - "Christmas In Hollywood"
So meet me under the mistletoe lets fuck
so meet me by the manura lets get drunk

Little Timmy stole from 7-11
So we stopped by his house with a pair of sevens
We drank in his room with some dude named Kevin

He didn't leave cookies but we needed a snack
So we took the beer back and I FUCKED HIM IN THE ASS!!!

underneath his suit was just a bunch of pillows.
instead of bags of presents, he had bags of dildo's.

Hollywood Undead - "Undead"
Motherfuckers who don't know what,
You better watch what you say.
From these industry fucks,
To these faggot ass punks,
You don't know what it takes,
To get this motherfucking truck.

Johny's taking hands up, with all the faggots who hate,
Cause I am good motherfucker and there's a price to pay,
Yeah, I am a good motherfucker and its judgment day!

I'm getting used to this nuisance,
And all the fags who bad mouth this music,

You need to slit your wrist, get pissed and go jump off a bridge,

Because its nothing in my mouth except my dick and what I spit,
So my dick is in my hand when I respond to faggots talking shit,
Speaking of fags, already wrap with the drag,
We killed him and then we stuffed his body in the Cadillac.

Hollywood Undead - "Pimpin"
Where I ride with jdog
And it's like, okay, basically
We get shitfaced and crazy
We're screaming "FUCK THE POLICE!"

We're six Caucasians, hell raisin'
Blazin', making zero pay
Can't wait to drink to stop the pain

And I got my soldiers in the back so you don't wanna face me
And when your girl look up at me, I'm lookin' right down
And all that yappin', you know you gon' get a smack down

Hollywood Undead - "Everywhere I Go"

Wake up
Grab beer
Grab rear
Shave beard
Put on some scene gear
Gotta get drunk before my mom wakes up
Break-up with my girlfriend so I can bang sluts
I'm undead, unfed
Been sleeping on bunk beds
Since ten
So if I don't booze it, I'm gonna lose it
Everybody get to it, do it, get ruined

So just get buzzed and stay fucked up
We'll keep them panties droppin’

When I start drinking
My dick does all my thinking
Hoes want to be scene with me
And I like their big thick titties

I wanna see your booty rubbing against my dick
when I start buzzin'
Come on girls I wanna see you drinkin'
I wanna see your brain start shrinkin'
Make a move I saw you winkin'
Drunken pussies what I'm thinkin'

So booze, violence, fags, sluts, more booze, more sluts. All they do is talk about drinking and fucking drunk girls. Wow, sounds like my kinda guys! Oh and we can't forget about them telling us their names. None of what I chose reflected this but they are constantly telling us who they are. So yeah, I must be one of those fags who bad mouth their music.

What is sad is not necessarily that they exist or that they are the way they are. It's the fact that there is a very real audience of people out there who likes them. There are people out there who really like their music. They sing along, get drunk, and think to themselves, "Oh how I wish I was just like them. I wish I could drink all day long and fuck drunk girls like they do in the songs. Hollywood Undead is just so cool! It's so cool they sing about breaking up with their girlfriend so they can fuck sluts. It's so cool they have nothing else in life but drinking. It's just so cool"

Anna & Eve!? ::Snort:: Really?

2009-04-08T14:17:00.008-04:00

So now that four states have legalized gay marriage (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Iowa, California still in flux), the religious right is FREAKING OUT! Check out this great video below from them.

This is so vague! "The clouds are dark and the winds are strong... and I am afraid." I don't even get half of the shit they say. "My freedom will be taken away." What!? How? "I am a California doctor who must choose between my faith and my job." HOW!? WHY!? "I am a Massachusetts mom who has to watch helplessly as public schools tell my children that gay marriage is okay." Haha, really? Helpless? "Advocates [for gay marriage] want to change the way I live." Oh jesus fucking christ!

It's no wonder this video has 1/5 stars on YouTube. It's just stupid. First of all, I don't think any 2nd grade teacher is forcing kids into thinking that gay marriage is okay. They might be telling their students that it's LEGAL (in some states). But why hide this information? Like they wouldn't find out. THEY'RE SECOND GRADERS! In a few years they'll be in high school!

Here are few other great videos this organisation made against prop 8 (all dealing with the horribleness of second graders being aware of laws).

On the world's stage, gay marriage is legal in the following countries: Belgium, South Africa, Canada, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway. Civil partnerships (a stone throw away from marriage but not quite the golden coin) are legal in the following countries: Andorra, Iceland, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, Slovenia, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Wales, Scotland, Greenland, Uruguay, and in parts of Argentina, Australia, Brasil, and Mexico. And the following countries are currently working toward legalization (in debate): Australia, Israel, China, Nepal, New Zealand, Estonia, Philippines, France, Portugal, Greece, Switzerland, Hungary, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Taiwan, and Iceland.

This list was tiny 10 years ago and nonexistent 20 years ago. Gay marriage is going to happen and eventually people will look at the opponents of gay marriage in the same way that we look at the opponents of interracial marriage today. As idiotic bigots! Click here to see a map of what states outlawed interracial marriage before 1967. Thanks to the Homosecular Gaytheist for bringing this video to my attention.

I Challenge You!!!

2009-04-02T23:59:00.000-04:00

I challenge you to listen all the way through the following two videos from Bollywood sensation Aishwarya Rai and not have the dying urge to jump out of your chair and shake your booty! Really! LISTEN! AHHH! GODZILLA!

This One's A Panty Creamer!

2009-04-01T18:51:00.007-04:00

I didn't cream my pants... but I might soon (when I get my hands on the entire Manson CD). This last week 6 of the 15 tracks off of Marilyn Manson's upcoming CD The High End of Low were leaked. One of the songs he officially put out and it's called "We're From America." I absolutely love this track. Especially lyrics like, "we're from America, it's where Jesus was born," and "we're from America, where we speak American," and of course, "we're form America, we turn literature into litter."

I love how this sounds like the really good days of Manson. My favorite album of his was Holy Wood and I never expected him to return to that kinda sound. Don't get me wrong, I love all of his CDs, but this new sound from The High End of Low sounds great!

The leaked songs are the following:

Arma-God-Damn-Mother-Fuckin'-Geddon
We're From America
The Wow
Into The Fire
Four Rusted Horses
May Be Harmful If Swallowed

Below you can hear "Arma-God-Damn-Mother-Fuckin'-Geddon" and "We're From America." Squee!!!! Oh... and the reason I named this post "This One's A Panty Creamer" is because after I told Mandar's cousin Aurora that I would burn her the new stuff she sent me a text that said "Ooo! I can't wait... he makes me cream my pants lol!"

Addition: According to sources close to Manson, the only "complete" track that has been leaked is "We're From America." Apparently the other five are demos or incomplete versions. Either way. They're still great! Especially Arma! By the way. The High End Of Low comes out on May 25th!

Addition #2: Fuckers removed the second video. WHY!? You can hear it for free on Manson's myspace page.

The Honeymoon Is Officially Over

2009-03-30T00:41:00.006-04:00

Like always, when the guy you voted for gets into the white house, you have a honeymoon period where you glow with glory for having picked the better guy. Eventually you learn that even though he's the lesser of two evils, he's still a politician.

The honeymoon is over.

This last week President Obama shot down quite assholily (new word) the idea of legalizing marijuana to help stimulate the economy. This sorta pissed me off and showed me that the honeymoon really was over. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad he's president. But like all adults, after a while we have to accept that we never 100% agree with a pick for president on all issues.

But I know his game. He's a politician and he knows that right now he needs to make sure that he's still gonna be president in four years. We all know how the right wing would react if the "nigga president" legalized weed. After all, four little douchebags all sent me the exact same text a few days ego outlining their "Obama Stimulus Package" as being a bag of weed and some chicken. Three of these four people being people who openly enjoy weed and chicken. All four of these people being republican.

I might have to paraphrase here. But Mos Def said something smart recently, "If we live in a country were you can smoke cigarettes, drink bear at eight o'clock in the morning, and watch every type of pornography out there... why not legalize weed and make some fucking money off it."

The police don't want to police it. The people want to smoke it. We need to start making money. WHY THE FUCK IS THIS STILL ILLEGAL!? Why are we wasting so much money locking up people for a victimless crime.

For Obama to mock "huh huh, I don't know what's going on on the internet, huh huh," is offending. I guess the internet is just full of potheads, right? Like Bill Maher said, that was a McCain answer.

By the way, this is the number one thing on people's mind right now. Not because we're all dying to toke up, but because we want to get rid of this stupid ban on marijuana. Because instead of wasting money on police and jails locking pot smokers up. We should be selling marijuana at street value and making a glorious prophet. Unlike Pandora's boyfriend, I have no desire to smoke weed all day long while doing nothing else, whether I'm rich or not. But I don't want my tax dollars going to busting kids and poor people for enjoying the euphoria that marijuana brings. If marijuana was legal today I wouldn't smoke it. Just like cigarettes, I don't need it and I don't wanna spend my money on it. Believe me, I could get a ton of weed in a heartbeat tomorrow if I wanted it. But the fact that I don't smoke doesn't make me want to stop anyone else from smoking.

The definition of stupid is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We've been wasting away billions of dollars and lives on a failed drug war for 30 years and yet we haven't tried a new game plan. I firmly believe that all drugs should be legal. Every single one of them.

In America I'm allowed to buy a firearm and go home and blow my brains out. But I'm not allowed to buy a dime bag and suddenly think that Across The Universe is a good film or become so deluded that Dane Cook is suddenly funny.

Bottom line: The drug war failed. Marijuana is safe. Legalize!

Below is video from Bill Maher's latest episode of Real Time that sparked this blogpost.

I'm Really Into Asian Chicks...

2009-03-27T01:32:00.003-04:00

Especially right now. But not like that! Dirty minds! But for some reason I am all over music from Asian artists. First I was plotzing over Utada Hikaru's new CD and now I'm totally into this new girl from Korea named Boa Kwon. She's got a lot more sass than old Hungfutada. Check out her first English single below. Oh and yes, now we're beginning to tread into the waters of guilty pleasure. Man, if I were straight, I would totally beat off to her.

What Little Douchebags

2009-03-26T13:56:00.001-04:00

Bobby Jindal and Fred Thompson are such little douchebags. They are supposed to be leading the country and yet they are going on about how they want President Obama to fail. They want him to fail? They honestly want the economy to get worse and not to show any signs of any recovery until 2012 just so a republican might get the chance to get into the White House. They want unemployment to continue to raise from it's 9% now up til god know what in four years!?

This should outrage everyone. How fucky petty and selfish is this!? This is like hopeing that a doctor fucks up an operation just because you don't like them personally.

You know what, I never liked Bush. But I never ever wanted him to fail. I never wanted the war to fail. I never wanted the economy to fail. Yes, I did want a democrat to enter the White House when he left, but I didn't hope the country to go into the shitter just so my guy got elected.

This just shows out of touch these rich politicians are. Bobby Jindal and Fred Thompson aren't hurting because of the economy and so they have no trouble hoping that Obama's economic recovery will fail. It just shows that to them, this is all just a game. It's just a game to them and they don't understand that to everday people it's their livelihood. They don't know what it's like to loose a job and get stuck with bills and not a dime in the bank. They don't know what it's like to have a house get forclosed on. To them, it's all just a game. These are not the type of people who should be representing the people in our government.

When it comes to something like winning a war or saving the economy, we should never want our president to fail. Saving the economy should be something that all Americans can get behind but good old fashioned bipartisan politics strikes again and shows us the real douchebags in the room. You know, in college Bobby Jindal and a few of his friends assaulted a woman and strapped her to a bed, performing a Catholic exorcism on her. They believed that she had something very evil inside her that needed exorcised out of her. I never thought I'd say this, but can somebody please strap Bobby Jindal and Fred Thompson to a bed and grab me some holy water?

DIC (Deceptive Immoral Chicken)

2009-03-25T23:28:00.001-04:00

So, yeah, I know. I just posted that I've been too busy writing my book to write in this blog but I just had to write about this. I just returned from my stupid KFC work meeting (yeah, they have meetings for crew members) and I must tell you all two extremely stupid things.

The first is the immorality. The other day my boss was taking an order from a little old lady who was both nice and polite. She asked for an 8-piece meal which costs $18 (comes with 8 pieces of chicken, 2 sides, 4 biscuits). Now, we have a special running on TV for a 10-piece meal which costs only $15 (comes with 10 pieces of chicken, 3 sides, 5 biscuits). The 10-piece is cheaper and it comes with more. So I started to stay, "You know, if you rang her up for the 10-piece it would be cheaper for her." He gave me an angry look and said, "Ssshhh shhh!" Later on he told me that giving out specials to people who don't specifically ask for them "hurts his bottom line." That's his new slogan. I replied, "What if that were your grandmother? Would you really charge her more simply because she didn't know we had a special." He gave me a funny look and smiled, "Yeah!"

What a fucking douche.

Now for the dumbest shit ever. KFC is getting ready to unveil this new "Kentucky Grilled Chicken" which we will be getting on April 14th. Now, this "grilled" chicken is not actually grilled... it's baked. And to top it off, if somebody asks us, "How do you guys grill your chicken?" We are supposed to reply, "It's KFC's secret." We are not allowed to tell them the truth.

Yeah, right.

I don't get it. I'm just of one of those people who have trouble lying for no good reason. I've often been labeled as a "whistle-blower" at KFC. I'm apparently dangerous! How am I gonna keep my mouth shut about this? It's so fucking stupid! Just call it baked chicken! Our fried chicken really is deep fried. Why can't our grilled chicken really be grilled? I just don't get it. Why should I let my honestly be completely thrown out the window... over CHICKEN!

Oh and while I'm at it, lets address the KFC commercial they keep playing. In it they show some nice clean 28 year old lady who says something like, "Hi, I'm the chef. Every KFC has a chef. Every day I make KFC's secret recipe from scratch." Okay, the truth is this. There is no chef. There are a couple of dirty male teenagers who are using pre-packaged flour recipe that is made every three or four days and kept in a freezer. Also, Tyson does not make our chicken, despite what the commercial wants you to think.

Now, there is also a commercial going on and on about our new 99 cent and up menu. They go on and on about a huge list of items that you can get for only 99 cents and up. Below is an image that contains the items on our value menu. Those in color are the ones that actually are 99 cents. Those in black and white are 1.49 or 1.99. But hey! It only 99 cents!... and up

I don't get it. Why can't they just advetise it as 0.99, 1.49, and 1.99? Taco bell advertises their value menu as being at three prices. Why can't we? I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain to pissed off customers that we don't really have a 99 cent menu. I can't wait til next spring when I graduate and get away from this corrupt company. At least I used to have a good manager until she was forced to quit and was replaced by a "good christian man." Psssh. Whatever!

As I've Said Before...

2009-03-24T04:18:00.003-04:00

When I'm not writing here... I'm writing somewhere else. Hehe.

Oh but here's a little something to make this post worth while. My quote of the day!

"Is there anything wrong, my little roman noddle?"
~ Yasir Hamoudi

Dancey Dance!

2009-03-20T15:00:00.002-04:00

So I got my grade for winter quarter today! I only took one class last quarter (cos I hate winter quarter) and it was Legal Research and Writing. It was a very tough class. We had to research in Federal Reports, United States Codes, Law Reviews, and more. On top of that we had to learn how to do citation which can be fun but it hell on earth at the same time. It's so absolutely technical and must be perfect.

What was I saying... Oh yeah! I got my grade and it was an A-! For this tough class, I would have taken an C- and been happy. Next quarter... ::gulp:: Legal Research & Writing II and Fundamental Accounting I. Eek!

She Will Love You Long Time!

2009-03-19T00:49:00.000-04:00

No, I'm not cracking some racial joke. Well... maybe a little (She actually does say that she "will love you long time" in one of her songs). But seriously, I downloaded Utada Hikaru's second English CD called This Is The One and it's actually really amazing. Her first CD Exodus was an unexpected gem in my CD collection and I'm more than satisfied with her sophomore English effort. At first I was a little afraid because I wasn't thrilled with her first single called "Come Back To Me." The most I listened to it the more it grew on me though. See video below.

Aww. Wouldn't they make an adorable blasian baby... Anywho! I decided to give the CD a chance anyhow and from the very first song I was into it. It feels very modern Japanese and very Western at the same time. It's very pop and hip hoppy and dancey. If she wasn't so damn talented you might call this a guilty pleasure but I feel no guilt listening to this.

If you haven't heard any of Utada, you will find the best stuff below. Below is her first single from her first English CD, Exodus. It's called "Easy Breezy" and yes she is saying "You're easy breezy and I'm Japanesey."

Now below this is Utada performing my favorite song from Exodus called "Kremlin Dusk". Now, it starts out slow but it really speeds up and it just breathtaking. She's absolutley amazing live.

This next video is her second single for Exodus called "You Make Me Want To Be A Man."

Now if your wondering what she sounds like in Japanese... AMAZING!

So if your interested in her new CD. Below you can preview a couple of tracks thanks to some videos I found on YouTube. The songs are as follows, "Apple & Cinnamon", "Dirty Desire", "On and On", and "Crying Like A Child."

Ugh! She's just so damn cute and Asian! Oh yeah, and Gwen Stefani's Harijuku girls can just go eat their hearts out. They ain't got shit on Hikki!

What I've Learned From Twitter (It Does Suck!)

2009-03-18T16:34:00.006-04:00

So I've given Twitter a nice good chance and it really does suck. It's a neat idea but it doesn't work that well in my opinion. It's just like publicly texting people you don't know. It might be better if you were following a lot of people you actually knew in person... but I just don't really care about what people I don't know are doing on a minute by minute basis.

I added Tom Felton and Matt Lewis who play Draco Malfoy and Neville Longbottem (respectively) in the Harry Potter movie series. What I've found out about them through Twitter makes me wish I never joined. Lol. And yes, they really are who they say they are, these are official pages publicly advertised by their managements.

Apparently Tom Felton and his girlfriend are obsessed with dogs and wants another. He asked his "followers" on Twitter to send him pictures of dogs for sale and he'd pick the cuttest. Now, this is very different than what Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling did a couple years ago. She went to the local dog shelter and adopted a dog for nearly £1000 (the normal requested donation to the shelter for taking a dog was only £30). So she donated nearly two thousand dollars to a shelter for homeless dogs. Take a lesson Tom.

Now Matt Lewis is just sad. He calls himself on his profile a "northern layabout" who watches too much TV and sometimes acts. He's not kidding. Below are just a few of his recent posts.

"Diamonds Are Forever is no longer on. Now watching Four Brothers with Mark Wahlberg."

"Somebody asked me about my fav Crane brother but I can't find the question, sorryyy! I'd rather be Frasier but Niles cracks me up, too funny"

"24 is finished. Waiting for Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd to start in HD, oooh... "

"Right 24 time, COME ON JACK!"

"Ok, I'm sat watching Frasier, thought I'd see what you're all up to before 24 - 15 minutes to gooo!!"

"I'm watching King of Queens, something easy to pass the time until 24 tonight!!"

"Just watching Leatherheads with George Clooney, getting mentally prepared for Manchester and Newcastle tonight and tomorrow respectively."

Now, dont' get me wrong. I'm not trying to be judgeful or anything (well, I guess I am a little). But I must say that I'd suprised that rich Matt Lewis does nothing (and I mean nothing) but watch TV and movies. That's cool and all, but I just don't care. I just don't care and that's why twitter sucks.

Bottom Line: Twitter asks, "What are you doing." I interrupt, "I don't wanna know."

Twitter Really Sucks (Update: Not So Bad...)

2009-03-16T16:09:00.006-04:00

So lots of people lately have been getting into Twitter. I thought, sure lets see what it's like and I'll give it a try. It seems pretty cool.

Well, so far, I've decided Twitter sucks and it's because I can't do anything on the site. I tried to upload a picture. It fails. I tried to connect to my mobile. It fails. I tried to upload a background. It failed.

Failed failed failed failed. Wow, way to get me involved twitter.

The same thing happened to me with facebook. The site sucked. I lost interest.

UPDATE: So I guess I've got a twitter and it's kinda fun. (still kinda frustrating but it's getting easier)

http://twitter.com/MazeMonster (add me if you got one)

I still say fuck FaceBook though!

Spellcheck Will Only Get You So Far...

2009-03-14T13:30:00.000-04:00

Recently I made a few (hilarious) typos that I glossed over on accident when proofreading. See below.

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I wrote: Oh and this fucking hung mammoth!

I meant: Oh and this fucking huge mammoth!

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I wrote: And there is this horrible skit where kids cream out "funny" or "not funny" depending on whether or not some scene shown should be laughed at or not.

I meant: And there is this horrible skit where kids scream out "funny" or "not funny" depending on whether or not some scene shown should be laughed at or not.

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So yes, there were no hung mammoths or creaming children.

Wow... Even I'm Shocked

2009-03-13T01:09:00.005-04:00

Okay, Wonder Showzen is terrible... Like terrible in a good way. Basically it's formatted like a kid's show but it's very VERY adult. Lol. Here are a few quotes below. Oh! And there is this horrible skit where kids cream out "funny" or "not funny" depending on whether or not some scene shown should be laughed at or not. It's just hard to describe really. You'll just have to see it here (embedding was disabled) .

"Cows are reincarnated Hindus!"

♫♪Slaves built the pyramids! Slaves built America!♫♪

"He practices (milking cows). I caught him practicing in the bathroom."

"Hey look everybody! Muslim kryponite! (pigs) Oh snap! As'salam Alaikum piggies!"

"I just wanna punch god in the face!"

"I want my innocence back."

You also see a clip called "Aunt Flo" here which also had disabled embedding (grrr!). The only clip that would allow me to embed was the one below but it's cute. I am totally downloading this entire series via PirateBay as we speak. Lol.

"Dino-Tacular!" or "Evo-Mazing!"

2009-03-11T21:31:00.001-04:00

Today Mandar and I went to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and it was amazing. Everything was just so beautiful. When you walk in standing right in the middle after the front desk is a young Tyrannosaurus Rex (well, it's bones that is). First we saw a presentation at the planetarium which was beautiful. It really felt like the night sky was right above us. Then we looked around at the animal taxidermy. Next we went outside to see the live animals they had (foxes, bobcats, raccoons, deer). We also got to see a Native American canoe that was found in the river which we live next to!

My favorite part of all was after we came back inside and went to the prehistoric area. They had a Tyrannosaurus Rex and a Triceratops and a Brontosaurus. Oh and this fucking huge mammoth! After that we looked around at the great apes exhibit which had a huge display on human evolution. There was an area about the big bang, technonics, geology... UGH! It was just so great. Even the museum store rocked! I got a T-Rex Keychain and a bumper sticker that reads "Evolution Happens." We also got a mug and Mandar got an arrow head and shark tooth.

It was so fantastic that we decided to get a membership there! It's totally affordable and will pay for itself. We'll get info on lectures, symposiums, planetarium programs, and even get to attend exhibit launch parties! Membership is so cheap that it will pay for itself by the end of the year.

Remember that clear thinking oasis I longed for? I found it!

*Below are a shit ton of pictures I took on my phone. What made me laugh was that in the space exhibit under the information regarding earth it read "Evidence of possible intelligent life." Lol. Yeah right.

Little Mosque On The Prairie

2009-03-10T14:33:00.005-04:00

So I ran across a rather strange Canadian show last night. It's called Little Mosque on the Prairie and for all intents and purposes it's pretty good. It's rather... campy. I dunno, what to call it. I've actually watched all of Season 1. Perhaps it's because it's absolutely nothing like anything I've seen before. See below report from CNN.

The show centers around a small mosque in rural Canada. There is a man and his converted wife (who is a Muslim but she's very new to it). They have a grown daughter who is a doctor and wears the hijab and is very serious about her religion. There is also a young (and pretty hot) Imam who is from Ontario. And then there's the big sassy black woman from Africa who runs a diner. They also have a controversial radio talkshow host who is always bashing the Muslims.

The good part of this show is that they don't stray away from very controversial issues, like religious conversion, religious modernism, Islamic feminism, homosexuality, religious acceptance, fanaticism, racism, and so on. However, the problem is they seem to take these issues extremely lightly and laugh about them all by the end of the episode. Nevertheless, it's consciousness raising. Best of all, it's something different than the same old Christian family.

So after watching show for a while, I liked it. It's not amazing. But it's a breathe of fresh air.

Now don't get me wrong. Anyone who reads this blog knows how anti-religious I am, but I really do love diversity. Even more than that, I love something that shows Christians that they aren't the only faith on earth and that other faiths aren't crazy (well, they're all crazy, lol).

So anywho, while watching I was thinking to myself, there's no way a show like this would be aired in the United States. Little did I know that there are talks to have it syndicated here in the states. Not only that, but I guess FOX is in talks of making an American version... which I don't understand why... can't American's understand Canadian English?

Well if you give half a shit you can watch the entire first two seasons on youtube (see here and here). I am just now finishing up the first season and the show is in it's third season now. Between Little Mosque on the Prairie, Robson Arms, and Corner Gas, I wish we had an all Canadian channel here. Why not? We've got BBC here. Why not CBC or CTV?

Like I said. It's not award winning material but it's different and it's consciousness raising. The shit here in America is just shit... pure shit. Sure, I don't like religion. But what I don't like even more is religious ignorance. And I can guarantee that if this show does get an American version, it won't last. I don't think Americans are excepting enough to see another culture on their TVs (remember Margaret Cho's television show?). I don't know why. 0.6% of Americans are Muslim. Shouldn't 0.6% of our television be about them? Below is the first part of the first episode.

OOOOOklahoma...

2009-03-09T02:51:00.004-04:00

Okay, so if I ever wished that I lived in the city where I was born, for only once, it was today. Richard Dawkins visited the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma (the city were I was born) and did a little speech and such. See below the video of a protester being taken out of the auditorium shouting about things like, "Offending my God!" ::Snort:: Total douchebag.

It's A Laaaazy Sunday!

2009-03-08T14:23:00.002-04:00

And I'm posting a laaaazy blogpost. But they sure are funny!

Soulja Boy Really Sucks...

2009-03-06T15:07:00.003-05:00

So a friend of mine at work had me make her a CD. She loves hip hop and rap and wanted what she called "a good nigga mix." Strangely it all started when we started singing Ms. New Booty.

So anywho, she gave me a list and wanted me to put all the songs from her myspace on there. Most of the songs I've heard, a few I haven't. Now, generally I'm not crazy about rap or hip hop but every once in a while it's fun. Here is list of the songs that made it onto the CD.

Bubba Sparxx "Ms. New Booty"
Juelz Santana "There It Go (The Whistle Song)"
Lil' Jon feat. YoungBloodz "Snap Your Finger"
Jibbs "Chain Hang Low"
Beyonce "Diva"
112 "Peaches & Cream"
Chris Brown "Kiss Kiss"
Ashanti feat. B2K "Fuck Song"
Soulja Boy Tell'em "Crank That"
Soulja Boy Tell'em "Gucci Bandana"
Snoop Dogg "Drop It Like It's Hot"
Pretty Ricky "Love Like Honey"
David Banner "Get Like Me"
Soulja Boy Tell'em "Booty Got Swag"
Lil' Kim "How Many Licks"
Bow Wow "Shortie Like Mike"
Soulja Boy Tell'em "Kiss Me Thru The Phone"
Mims "This Is Why I'm Hot"
R Kelly "Ignition"
Soulja Boy Tell'em "Donk"

Now, while burning it, I thought. This isn't that bad of a collection at all. I think I'll burn it for myself... minus one specific artist. Soulja Boy Tell'em.

Wow, he really sucks. I mean, really bad. Each of the songs she gave me all start out with him shouting his name and then the entire song is nothing more than him saying the same phrase over and over and over again.

All the other songs I put on the CD were from artists who have catchy songs with clever lyrics. I mean, I know, I'm not an expert on music or rap for that matter. But when I compare Soulja Boy with other rap and hip hop artists, he really sucks. He's so generic and so very repetitive. He's not a talented rapper. He can't sing. He's not attractive. He just plain sucks.

Mythologies and Green Fields

2009-03-04T14:30:00.004-05:00

Last December I got obsessed with a Nintendo DS came called Age of Empire: Mythologies, which is a Nintendo DS remake of the hit PC game. Basically it's a war game that takes place in ancient and mythological Egypt, Rome, and Scandinavia. It's stop action so you take one step at a time which gives you plenty of time to use strategy, much like Chess. I don't really know what else to say about it... besides it's amazing. Unfortunately being a stop action game, it consumes a lot of time and I've been playing it a lot once again. The other night I started playing it at 10:45pm and didn't put it down until around 4am.

Another something I've gotten back into again is Corner Gas. It's a Canadian sitcom that airs on CTV in Canada and WGN in America. Mandar and I saw a commercial for it last year and it looked absolutely stupid. We kept seeing the commercial over and over again and decided to DVR it just to see how stupid it was. And to be honest, I didn't like it the first time. But then I watched another episode (they air two at a time) and for some reason it sun.

It takes place in ficticious Dog River, Saskatchewan. I think the entire series is filmed in the last spring because every single episode (including the Christmas special) occurs during a nice sunny day. The beautiful green fields and the lovely cozy diner. It really makes you want to move to the nice and peaceful fake town. If I could move to any fake place, it'd be Dog River.

I love the charactors too. They too make you want to move there. They're so much more realistic than the plastic shit that's seen on American television. Oscar is the old grouchy man (my favorite episode with him was when he became the town's bus driver). Emma is Oscar's wife who is kinda bitchy, but in the loving motherly way. The show main charactor is Brent who owns a gas station. Basically the whole show revolves around the gas station and the diner (The Ruby) whic his attached to it.

Wanda (the most educated one there) works as the cashier at the gas station. Lacy (who is a dead ringer for Wonder Woman) runs and owns the diner next door. Hank is Brent's lazy and stupid best friend. Oh, and Karen and Davis are the town's two cops. Their hilarious relationship is also a gem in the show.

Take a lesson America. This is what we call a good show. Realistic, quarky, well-written, and most of all, cozy. Below are some great clips from the show I've found on YouTube.

Breaking Down Walls

2009-03-03T23:11:00.004-05:00

Bobby and someone named JayBird left a couple comments on my blog disputing evolution (hold your laughter til the end of the blog please). They have brought up a couple issues and I'd like to address them at this point, although as a busy student with a part time job, please don't expect me to be doing this all the time.

Before I get to the parts about evolution, I'd like to touch base on some of the things that were said regarding the bible.

JayBird wrote: "The Bible and the accounts within are Historical, Scientific, and Archaeological. Real people in Real places in Real history..."

Responce: I dont' even know where to begin. Historical? No, not even close. Abraham, Moses, Lot, Eve, Adam? There is absolutely not a shred of evidence to show that any of these people existed. There is an extremely small amount of evidence to suggest that Jesus himself existed. Just because it takes place in a real land, like Jerusalem, doesn't make it true. Harry Potter takes place in Scotland, that doesn't make it real.

What amazes me is the fact that even biblical theologicans are willing to admit that nearly all of the bible is probably not actually literal truth (the old testament). They are still Christians, they simply accept the book as alegorical word of God. There's no reason why you must take it as literal. And as for Archaeological and scientific? Have you ever met a scientist!? Please, the bible claims that pi is equal to 3 and that all life popped magically out of nowhere 6000 years ago. Education is a blessing truly.

JayBaird wrote: God making robots and forcing them to love Him, isn't true love is it?...

Responce: What is God... just bored and lonely? Why would an all powerful, all knowing, all present being who (supposedly) exists outside of his own creation (including emotions) create humans because he wanted them to love him. Most of all, why does he only want our love? Shouldn't the bears love God too?

This is yet another example of the fact that Christians are people who cannot grow up. They were children with parents who loved them and protected them and made them never feel alone. Now that they are adults, they long to have that feeling again, so they make up a magic invisible friend so that they don't have to face the harsh reality of the universe. Being a Christian is just an excuse not to grow up. Why grow up and face reality and responciblity when you can just make yourself feel good by thinking that a magical being was looking out for you.

Circular logic strikes again. God created emotions, such as love, jealiousy and lonliness... yet for some reason, against the fact that he created these emotions, he is subject to these emotions. Yet again, Christians try and make God out be a human being with human emotions.

JayBird wrote: That is what Gamaliel thought in Acts 5:34-39: (in responce to me saying that Christianity was a dying religion and would one day be a thing of the past)
"I say to you, stay away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will be overthrown; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you may even be found fighting against God".

That was 2000 years ago...

Responce: Of all the religions in the world that you could possibly belief, you just by chance believe in Christianity. If you had been born to be believe in Jupiter, you might be saying the same thing about a belief in him. Christianity will fall, it's slipping little by little every day around the world. To be honest (and unfortunatley), the one religion that is growing is Islam. And no, that's not a good thing at all. This whole thing makes me think about a response Richard Dawkins gave once.

So now onto Bobby. First of all, he thinks that DNA is proof of god. He states "Let’s talk about DNA. Like a computer disk, DNA has no intelligence. The complex, purposeful codes of this “master program” could only have originated outside itself. In the case of a computer program, the original codes were put there by an intelligent being, a programmer. Likewise, for DNA, it seems clear that intelligence must have come first, before the existence of DNA."

Okay, first of all, there is no intelligence needed. For example, sulfuric acid is produced when sulfur, oxygen and water make contact. Sulfuric acid is produced by mixing all three without divine intervention. No intelligence needed.

The fact that you think DNA is proof of God show's how inconceivably ignorant you are when it comes to the theory of evolution. I suggest reading Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale" (heck, I'll even direct you to the audio book for free online). I can be sure by the stupid comments you make that you have not even a rudimentary understanding of evolution by means of natural selection. Educate yourself please. If your God is true, it won't fuck with your faith. But unfortunately I'm sure you realize that it will fuck with your faith, and that might make your life less than comfortable. And in the end that's the American dream, right? Comfort, no matter what!

DNA is the absolute proof of evolution. Period.

Okay, so Bobby also goes on to give me a bunch of bullshit quotes from the following people; I.L. Cohen (creationist), "Chemist" Dr. Grebe (creationist who founded creation research society), and even calls Michael Denton an evolutionist, which he isn't, he's a supporter of Intelligent Design (which is creationism in a neat hat). He also brings up creationist Sir Fred Hoyle, who never accepted that the universe is expanding, which is something else we have librarians of books of documented proof on.

Bobby even falls back to the worst argument ever, The Boeing 747 arguement (which I'll address below). The problem with bobby is that he goes so far as to call god the "programmer" which totally undermines his belief. He refuses to belief that life can form naturally, but prefers to think that magic is how it happens. That's exactly what it is. Magic. He believes that God just always existed for no good reason, magically popped things into existence ... and then eventually decided to give things a more natural look I suppose. It's childish. It's silly. It's sad.

I'm not going to argue with you on this because you and I will never see eye to eye for two reason. We both have up walls. I once had faith in God and Jesus, but my reason mind got the best of me, and now today I allow evidence and proof to guide me to what is closest to truth. For example, I have several walls that stop me from becoming a Christian. If you want me to become a Christian, you're going to have to break down some walls. First, you must get around my extensive knowledge of world faith and most specifically Christianity. Second you must get around my knowledge of science, evolution, physics, and astronomy. Although I do profess myself to be very well versed in world religion, I will admit that I am not an expert on science, because not even Einstein was an expert. There is most certainly stuff I don't know in science, but I am always learning. You must also break down my wall of human experience of multiple cultures. There are no atheists in foxholes but there certainly are Christians. The problem with Christianity is that it teaches you to accept anything a old books says without proof and for no good reason. It teaches you to accept ignorance.

For me to break down you, I need only brake down one wall. Unfortunately it is the greatest wall of all: brainwashing. You've been brainwashed to accept anything Christian, no matter what. You have been taught to accept the Bible no matter what. Why? Because it's pretty, bubbly, and gives you a warm feeling inside... but that doesn't mean it's true.

I do envy you Bobby. Ignorance is bliss. You live in fantasy world where everywhere is made easy. Things are either good and of God or bad and of the Devil. The world is only 6000 years old. There's only one book to read, instead of libraries of hypothesis and theories. Your happy because no matter how much this life might suck, you think a magical one is gonna come later, and for those people who did you wrong, only bad things will come.

However it's not perfect. You've only got one life and you lose it to childlike magical belief. When you find out that a member of your family is gay, instead of accepting that it's simply a variant in nature and is a completely healthy lifestyle, you see it as sin. If you ever horribly lose one of your children in a car accident, you'll think it's part of God's plan, instead of the truth which is that random shit happens and you have no control over what other people do. And when you find out that your wife has an addiction to online pornography, instead of accepting that she's having psychological issues that can dealt with through a professional, you turn to prayer, which solves nothing.

If I haven't totally pissed you off already, please continue. You bring up the Boeing 747 argument and I know why. Because it's sounds good. It's been answered again and again and again but you creationists never give up on a dead idea. You see, when you say to a person, "supposing the first cell originated by chance is like believing “a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.” It perks up some ears, and people remember such a little ditty. But unfortunately for you, there is an answer. But no, it's not all butterflies and unicorns. And even more unfortunately people today with their short attention spans and one-liners love to stick to something short and simple. It comes up again and again not because it hasn't been answered, but because every 10 years there is another generation of people to fool with it.

It's so easy to just think, God created the world in 7 days, humanity with two people, and if you belief Jesus is the son of God, you'll get another life that's paradise after you die. Considerably easier than reading the libraries of books on philosophy and science that turn out truer answers.

Richard Dawkins once again explains the Boeing 747 argument as well as expands on evolution a bit. Now can we please put this one in the ground?

By now, I'm sure I'm simply speaking to the choir, as I'm sure most creationist have shut off their computers and decided to watch something on PAX-TV. If your still here, the video below do a great job expanding on my beliefs. It's such a good video, I've just had to add it to my sidebar.

Now there may be some apologists out there who might say, "Oh, your version of truth is science and Bobby's version of truth is Christianity. What makes yours more truer than his?" Well, I could go on, but since people do love on-liners, here's a go at one. Bobby's faith in Christianity will only allow him to marvel at the moon from a far, while my embracing of science will get to me the moon itself.

Final Thought: In short, Bobby and JayBird. I do not believe that you are stupid or evil or anything like that. I believe that you are uneducated, misinformed, brainwashed, and close minded. The tree of knowledge contains fruits most sweet, but they come at a cost. You, and so many others, are stuck in the garden of ignorance, while I, and so many others, are in the world of harsh reality. And I wouldn't go back to being ignorant for all the bliss in the world.

Fuck No Cussing! (Potty Mouth Rant!)

2009-03-02T03:16:00.004-05:00

I guess Los Angeles is proclaiming a "no cussing week" which is total fucking bullshit. Cussing is the god damn dumbest shit on earth. Some dumb bitches in history decide that a few words like ass, shit, or piss are bad and suddenly they just are for no good reason. So I wonder, L.A. has a huge Asian population. Is "no cussing" only in English or in any language. Because as scary as cuss words are, they don't mean shit to somebody who doesn't speak the language. And what about the fact that what is considered a cuss word today won't be tomorrow and what was considered a naughty word yesterday isn't today?

Cussing is nothing. It's the height of total bullshit. It pisses me the fuck off when adults are so afraid of swear words. Don't they understand that words are just sounds coming out of somebodies cock sucking mouth? What might be a cuss word in one language might be the word for love or pussy or popsicle in another. Why the fuck does it matter!!!

I swear, parents made up cussing to make their kids feel like even the sounds coming out of their mouth could sinful. Tell me, what is worse? A child making noises with his lips, tongue, and teeth in the form of the word fuck, or a parent placing poisonous chemicals in the form of a soap bar in their child's mouth for doing so?

I guess the teenage cunt-licker responcible for "no cussing week" wants to spread awareness around the world. You know, in some languages there are no swear words and in other there are several. How about, instead of spreading awareness of cussing, which has nothing to do with fucking morality, how about spreading awareness about shit that really does matters like breast cancer, diabetes, childhood obesity, heart disease, illiteracy, homelessness, education, starvation, health care, poverty, or... I dunno, ANYTHING!

There is so much shit in the world and you're telling me that this little douchebag had nothing better to do with his life than to start clubs because scary nonsenscial words coming out of other teenagers mouths made him so made that he decided to take on the pussiest job of all, MOUTH MONITOR.

So what's the argument against cussing. Cussing is bad. Why? Because it's naughty. Why? Because those words are bad. Why? Because they're cuss words. Why?

IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE!

Jesus fucking Christ!!! Can we please focus on the real problems in the world and not the made up bullshit like CUSSING!

How Fucking Petty... (Small Short Rant!)

2009-02-28T23:15:00.002-05:00

Okay, just ahead of time, before I start this short little rant, I'm gonna warn you that this is a very petty rant over nothing. The real reason I'm putting this down is because I wanna look back at this one day and laugh. So after reading, don't be surprised if you say to yourself, "Oh come on, how fucking petty..."

I'm at work one day on drive-thru window. This guy pulls up and orders and at the very end says, "Oh and can I add a medium order of tater tots?"

I replied, "I'm sorry, we don't actually carry tater tots."

He paused and then said to the person in the passenger seat, "He says they don't have taters tots."

I heard a woman say to him under her breath, "Are you kidding? I've been getting tater tots here since I was little. When the hell did they get rid of them?"

Okay, KFC has never EVER EVER carried tater tots....

Part of me thought that just maybe, despite their seriousness, that this was all a joke. They pull up and it's a man and woman in their late thirties with a couple of young kids in the back. The woman looked annoyed and man looked confused. They said nothing about the tots again and moved right along without a problem.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THEM!!!! I mean, okay, I know, they don't work at KFC but what on GOD'S GREEN EARTH made them THINK that KFC has EVER carried tater tots. I only know of one fast food chain that carries tater tots and that's Sonic and they just recently came up from the south. Sonic has only been in Ohio for like, 5 years or so.

I know, I know, I know. What a petty rant but jesus fucking christ people!!!! JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!

Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Is One Smart Cookie!

2009-02-27T21:16:00.009-05:00

So floating about the HBO and Showtime OnDemand Channels, I came across a couple good documentaries made by Nancy Pelosi's daughter Alexandra Pelosi. They aren't amazing but they're worth the forty minutes they each cost.

The first is called The Trails of Ted Haggard and is about what life is like for gay pastor Ted Haggard. You might be feeling a little bad for the guy for just a moment ... but then you realize, even jobless and poor as he is, he's still living a hundred times better than most people are in the world today. Not to mention, when you see him feeling bad and suicidal, just remember how many years he spent making people feel terrible about the things they were doing while he was doing the exact same thing. Perhaps Pelosi wants you to feel bad for Haggard... but I say fuck him. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck him. See trailer below.

So then there's Right America: Feeling Wrong which is just great. It's nothing but republican idiots freaking out about Obama and crying when he won. They go on and on about things like claiming he's gonna be sworn in on the Quran and that he's gonna cost all small businesses their everything. The best line in the movie was this: "There are hard working people out there, and then there are gays."First of all, everything these idiots say might seem like wacko right wing psychos but they are not. Everything they say is completely normal of the republicans I'm surrounded by and bits of the documentary are filmed only miles away from where I live. Oh, and there is also a great part where this woman goes on and on about McCain being pro-life and such. She says how important it is to have a pro-life president and that "what are we gonna do if everyone is pro-abortion and then there's nobody left on earth cos everyone got abortions." (Paraphrase) Oh yeah, cos everyone is just dying to get an abortion. Boy oh boy I wish I was a girl that way I could get pregnant and get lots and lots of abortions. They're so fun! They're like a day at the spa! *Rolls eyes*

Below is the first ten minutes of the documentary which can be seen in full on youtube. The beginning is the best part because it takes place right after Obama won and people are crying and wigging out!

So if you've got Time Warner Cable and you've got HBO, check out their OnDemand channel for some great fun. Be prepared to be very annoyed though. But just remember... Obama fucking won! WOO!

A Clear Thinking Oasis (Nice Long Rant!)

2009-02-26T00:23:00.007-05:00

Sometimes at work I long to be around smart people. Like today, a girl named Tiffany said faggot. She then caught herself and asked if I minded if she said it. I told her, "I'd rather you say faggot than nigger to be honest." She laughed and replied, "Why?" I said, "Because there is more history and hatred behind the word nigger." Laughing even harder, she replied, "Yeah right. Nigger is just fun to say!"

This next thing might seem trivial but it got under my skin. This guy named Josh told me that he didn't know how to view his own myspace page. He knew how to see new comments, but didn't know how to see his own myspace page. Really? Yeah, I know, it's silly. But it amazed me that somebody that age who actually had a myspace didn't have the knowledge to view it.

Later I overheard Josh and Bobby talking and complaining about their homework. I don't know what led to it or what the conversation was about, but I did hear bobby say, "I swear, people are just stupid. I mean, if we evolved from monkeys then why are there still monkeys. It's that simple. And besides, science has proven that all humanity came from two people and that's exactly what the Bible says. As if we needed science to tell us that."

I didn't even say a word because I would have been there all day. I wouldn't even know where to begin with that statement. But then again, Bobby was the one who thought that President Obama was going to be kicked out as soon as they realized he was born in India and that Former President Bush would come back to fix everything he messed up.

And then there's my manager. Yes, I know it's fucky fried chicken... but this guy is an idiot (and is a head manager of a money making franchise!). He cannot spell anything worth a shit. The other day he posted a note about a meeting ... oh i'm sorry, it was actually a meating. A mandantorry meating at that. Apparently if we have any reazon why we cannot attend said meating, we are reqiered to talk to the mangement.

So perhaps I'm being picky. Either way, I thought it was funny... especially since it said that everybody had to be thier (yes, not only did he use the wrong form, he spelled it wrong too). So being the funny guy I am, I wrote a little note on the paper in the office that pointed to the misspelled words and read, "Spellcheck is a blessing. Use it."

Apparently he was so fumed when he saw it that he was seconds from calling me up on my day off and firing me. I guess he calmed down and decided to "have words" with me instead. He told me that he knows that he isn't the best speller, but that I needed to bring these things to his attention because calling them out by writing on the paper makes him look stupid (as if spelling the words horribly wrong didn't already). He also said that "not all of us went to school for computer techonology and know how to use spell check." He's 29 years old people. He's only six years older than me!

Apparently I'm dangerous at fucky fried chicken. I'm a whisteblower! There was this new policy about using paper liners on chicken. The big manager told everybody that liners cost five cents each and that for each one we waste he is taking five cents out of our paycheck (he was being dead serious). I got bitched at for blowing the whistle on this because I knew that these things couldn't possibly cost that much and all I had to do was look up in the cost book to find that per sheet that he claimed was five cents was actually a cool four hundreths of a penny each. So apparently they aren't five cents each sheet... they're 5 cents per 125 sheets.

I talked to big man manager Dan about his lying to crew members about the cost of product (cups, paper, chicken, etc) and told him that morally I found it abhorring (had to explain that word to him). I told him that in the end people will not respect him for lies and that if he wants to lower paper cost that he needs to tell the truth about how it hurts the company and not to lie about it. He told me that he did not agreed and he didn't care if people respected him or not and that the ends justified the means. Whatever. (Oh and big shocker here. This guy who makes his own shedule actively shedules himself to work so that he can get out of church but is apparenlty a devout Christian. Nothing says hypocrite like a Christian actively avoiding followers of his own faith in devotion to God by skipping church every week).

Oh and today, new rule! Apparenlty now we need to have a manager with us with their special manager key before we can clock in or out because we can't be trusted to clock in and out by ourselves. On top of that, we need the manager to issue 10% senior citizen discounts on food. Wow. When I critized this I mentioned how we were told if we clocked in early we would be wrote up and that nobody has been wrote up. I went on to expose the fact that all their threats have proven to be empty as nobody has been fired or wrote up for the miriad of rules that we were warned about (and that everybody breaks on a daily basis). I told them they had empty threats and I was told to "try them." *Rolls eyes*

So anyways, the point of my rant is this. I wish I could say that these were isolated instances of stupidity but they're not. I know this is fast food and these are teenagers but I assure that little chances as these people grow up and branch out. I wish I could say that stupidity was uncommon but it's not. I know there are smart people out there and I know there are educated people too. All three of these people voted in the 2008 election (2 for McCain, 2 surprisingly for Obama). It's days like this that I say to myself that democracy doesn't work. A democratic society cannot flourish and prosper when it's voters are fucking stupid. I would actively support a McCain/Palin presidency if it meant that all the stupid people in America magically became educated.

Usually talk at work does not go past sex and annoying customers. But every once in a while it does and on these days nihilism seeps into my brain like never before. It's like there are forty people all telling me the pen is blue when I can clearly see that the fucking pen is red! There used to be a girl named Kelly who was so smart and so well read. She was my clear thinking oasis and I miss her a lot. Even her boyfriend who volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, spending six months in Hungary building homes for low-income families, was smart. They broke up and he now works at Pizza Hut and she attends university.

I want my clear thinking oasis back. I want somebody to come to my work who can exchange intelligent statements and hypotheses.

Jesus freaks and religious nuts are so lucky. When they are surrounded by people who do not share their beliefs they can simply write it off as evil, sinful, or the AntiChrist. When we intellectuals are surrounded by people who don't understand science, religion, philosophy, psychology, etc etc etc, all we can do is take a pencil to our face and stab stab stab!!!

I often float between this strange dissonance in my desire that I was born during a much more simple time, like the 1400s. Sure I wouldn't have modern medicine, science, or a worldwide view of humanity... but boy would I be at bliss. Knowledge is a burden and sometimes I wish I was just stupid (but not really). Because then the next wish floats in, that I was born in another universe.

In this universe, I like to call it my Madam Butterfly universe, there is no religion, bullshit ideas, or mental laxity. When people want to get philosophical and ponder life and existence, they open up a book or watch a documentary about the natural processes like deep sea life, rain forest diversity, quantum mechanics, or philosophical futurism. They might read Bible tales, but not to take them seriously, but to learn more about primitive beliefs and the human experience. They would read from the Bible, the Koran, Hindu texts, Greco-Roman faith, and more to achieve a sense of man's strange path to understand himself. When they want to get out of the house, they wouldn't go drinking or clubbing. They'd go to museums of art of history or to the local Denny's to discuss literature.

I remember the first time I went to Richard Dawkins' website and saw the subtitle, A Clear Thinking Oasis. Something about it made me feel like I could sense the breeze through my hair as a stood on top of a great mountain overlooking a gorgeous natural scene (perhaps because next to the subtitle happened to be a picture of him doing just that).

Alas, the closest place to get to this is to pull up my ipod and listen to the sweet English voices of Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward as they tell me stories about Abraham, and Moses, and the grasshopper, and the platypus as well as mitochondria and genes of a selfish nature.

I've Got An Idea... (X-Rated)

2009-02-25T11:07:00.001-05:00

How about this? For Election 2012, Republican Candidate Bobby Jindal and Democratic Incumbent Barack Obama fuck to see who wins the White House. Whoever blows the biggest load wins. Ta-dah! I'm a genius... and not that great a photoshop. Lol.

Oh Why Isn't There More!?!?!?!

2009-02-25T01:16:00.000-05:00

This was just amazing. Obviously this isn't really Eminem... but I just love this.

Der Sandmann Kommt...

2009-02-24T15:31:00.003-05:00

The newest video from Oomph is finally here! (Yeah, I know, it came out a few weeks ago but the actual single doesn't come out until 27th Feb. Woo!)

Google Knows...

2009-02-22T22:07:00.001-05:00

They Can Just Eat My Ass!!!

2009-02-21T00:25:00.003-05:00

So I saw Madea Goes To Jail and it was fucking hilarious. I have not seen a movie so funny for years. I really loved Diary of a Mad Black Woman and didn't think any of the sequels would do better but this was simply amazing. There are rarely movies that I could see twice (especially comedies!).

What made this movie even better was the fact that the theatre was nearly packed (Harry Potter and Pirates didn't even have this many people on opening day!). People laughed and cheered and everything. A really great movie going experience overall.

Now, Rotten Tomatoes has given Madea Goes To Jail 32%. Apparently critics don't like Madea because Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Family Reunion both got lower scores. Well fuck them, they can just eat my ass. S go on, call the po po ho. I ain't scared of no po po ho.

I won't spoil any of the movie but it was all good. From the storyline of Madea to the storyline about the prostetute. Simply hilarious. My favorite part has to be when Madea is arrested at her house. I was a little worried before the movie as often movies tend to put all the funniest parts in the tv-spots and trailers. But the hilarious parts of this movie were all left for the theatre audiance.

Take it from me, I rarely see comedies that I would recommend to other people to go see. See this movie. You'll pee your paints. Believe me, Mandar and Pandora will admit that I am usually extremely critical of movies, especially comedies. This was just so great.

Oh, and there is this really great part in the end where this guy does something great and this collection of older black ladies behind us inthe theatre were saying, "Erhurm! Now that's a man! A-hun!"

A Thought On Black History

2009-02-19T20:32:00.007-05:00

Tomorrow Mandar and I are gonna go see Madea Goes To Jail (see theatrical trailer below... for some stupid reason, there is a teaser for another movie before the trailer for Madea... so no, I didn't put the wrong code in).

Tyler Perry's movie franchise is a strange one. Often dramatic. Hilarious. Heartwarming. Some people say that it portrays a negative view of the southern black community and enforces stereotypes. But unlike Cosby did in the 1980s, I think Perry actually portrays black (specifically Georgian) life in a far more accurate sense with a great balance that isn't afraid to take on tough issues. Hell, Maya Angelou is in the second movie, Madea's Family Reunion. What more do you need!?

Bill Cosby did something very different but I think he failed in avoiding all controversial subjects. He floated his sitcom around in this strange world where racism didn't exist. Althought that's nice, it's not reality. And if we're ever going to get to that reality, we need to address the issues that are still present today. After all, it isn't uncommon for me to overhear people at work or school or wherever talking about "President Nigger."

Now, Tyler Perry's series isn't perfect. And god help me I hate his television programmes, but I really love his movies. When it comes to dramatic comedies, there really isn't anything else out right now that I give a damn about.

Perhaps it's because Madea reminds me of my grandmother from Texas, or perhaps she's just fucking hilarious, but I love her. Below are a few of my favorite scenes from Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea's Family Reunion.

I don't really know what there is to say about Black History Month. To be honest, there really shouldn't be a black history month because black history is not black history, it's simply history. Human history. It's a history that we all can learn from and shouldn't dare pretend is a thing of the past simply because we've elected a black president. Hell, America elected a Catholic president once and still people today say they would be afraid to do so again.

It really saddens me how many young people today use the word nigger. At least half of my work says it without flinching. Several of the teenagers I work with are under the believe that "blacks have more rights that whites now days" and "niggers get away with anything because nobody wants to look like a racist." I could understand if someone in their seventies said something like this, but seventeen?

And why do we call Barack Obama our first black president? He's not fully black. In fact, most people aren't fully black. I'm not fully white. My mother is latina and my dad is white... and actually his great uncle is black so what does that make me? Am I white simply because I'm light skinned. What about Barack? If he's 50% white and 50% black, then why does the black part overpower the white part so much that we are forced to calling him the first black president and not the first multiracial president?

Here is a little test that I heard about from Richard Dawkin's "The Ancestor's Tale"...

Below are 10 squares of skin taken from people's faces. Try and guess before clicking on the pictures whether or not the person is black or white. Then see whether the color of the skin really is what determines a person's "color".

On a final note, you might have noticed that at no point did I refer to anybody as "African-American" and there is a good reason. I had my consciousness raised by a friend of mine back when I worked at Sears. She was black and told me that she didn't consider herself "African-American" because she and her parents and her grandparents were all born in America. None of them have even been to Africa. She called herself a black American, pure and simple. And true, we might say, yeah, but her lineage goes back to Africa. But if we say that, then aren't we all African-American's then?

So there's my random rant about black history. Thoughts?

Nobody Will Get This But Me...

2009-02-18T22:28:00.001-05:00

But I wanna look back and remember this one day... lolz.

Fuck You! Lady Gaga!

Still Can't Get Enough...

2009-02-14T00:48:00.001-05:00

Of this fantastic picture. Here's great Darwinistic version. Hahaha. Now this is evolution!

In Celebration Of...

2009-02-13T12:36:00.000-05:00

In celebration of Darwin's 200th Birthday, I'd like to suggest that we all read, "The Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins. It is one of the most interesting books I've ever read in my life. If this eye opening book doesn't make you make you marvel at the processes of evolution and the accomplishes of science, nothing will.

Ever ponder the strangeness of the platypus and think, "How does this fall into the evolutionary tree?" Ever wanted to know what science has to say about racism and the differences between the human races? Ever thought, "I understand how life evolved and evolves, but how did it start in the very first place."

This book will change the way you think about life, sex, racism, reproduction, and the animal kingdom. Dawkins takes a backwards step from today to the beginning of life on earth a little bit at a time, describing how changes in evolution that created what we are today.

Here's a consciousness raising fact. We are all the product of winners. All of our ancestors were winners because they all succeeded in passing down their genes to the next generation. None of us have any ancestors who were failures, because if they failed, they wouldn't be our ancestors.

If you're poor you can download the audiobook here for free. It's elegantly done by Richard Dawkins and his wife Lalla Ward. If you can afford it, pick it up. My own copy is in the mail right now from Amazon.

A Fun Blogger Game For All!

2009-02-12T14:24:00.000-05:00

I wasn't tagged by anyone with this (whatever that means, i'm new to earth, lol). But I did find this on a super-hot blog called Evolved and Rat/i/onal.

So here's the rules to the game. Try it out, it's rather fun!

RULES:
a) Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle
b) For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
c) YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS
d) Tag at least 5 people
e) Everyone tagged has to do the same thing (no they don't, actually)
f) Have Fun! (Step f is not required)

1. IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
"Blood" by Papa Roach
Sounds like me, certainly.

2. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
"Send My Love To The Dancefloor, I'll See You In Hell" by Cobra Starship
Lol, sorta.

3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
"Hips Don't Lie" By Shakira
I guess that's true...

4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
"Six to Eight" by AFI
Lol, I don't get it.

5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
"Die Alive" By Tarja Turunen
Oh gawd, I hope not!

6. WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
"Gekreuzigt (Crucified)" by Oomph
Oh yeah, that's me!

7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"Been There, Done That" by Emma Bunton
Nice! Really Nice!

8. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"Bless The Child" by Nightwish
Bahaha, that works.

9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
"Boys" by Britney Spears
... okay this is kinda weird.. lol

10. WHAT IS 2 + 2?
"Enough" by Disturbed
It sure is!

11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
"No One Cares" by Atreyu
That's mean!

12. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
"Hunger" by Oomph.
Hahahaha, it certainly isn't!

13. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"Damned and Divine" by Tarja Turunen
I'm not saying anything...

14. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"I Kissed A Girl" by Katy Perry
ROTFL! Holy gawd! This game is evil!

15. WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Te Dejo Madrid (I Leave You, Madrid)" by Shakira
I guess I'm getting married in Spain... lolz

16. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"Over The Hills And Far Away" by Nightwish
What?!

17. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"Snegopady (Snowfalls)" by t.A.T.u.
It really isn't... especially right now!

18. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
"Zydrate Anatomy" by Repo! The Genetic Opera
Lolz, i've never tried it.

19. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
"Deceiver of Fools" by Within Temptation
I sure am!

20. WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
"The Dope Show" by Marilyn Manson
It is on TV right now? Lol

21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
"The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" by Missy Elliot
This one doesn't work that well.

22. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
"Dreh Dich Nicht Um (Don't Turn Around)" by Oomph
Not really, I'm gonna post it as something else, lol.

Lest We Forget The AntiChrist Superstar!

2009-02-11T13:34:00.005-05:00

I am a big fan of Marilyn Manson. Later this year he will be coming out with a new album called "The High End of Low." I'm so pumped to hear the new single called "I Want To Kill You Like They Do In The Movies."

Now his last CD "Eat Me, Drink Me" was really good. But it was short and most of the songs were slow and mellow. I still loved it, but I'm excited for some new shit that Manson has described as being a lot like his older stuff.

So in celebrating Marilyn Manson, below I've complied my top 10 favorite songs by him, as well as my top favorite 3 music videos.

And yes, as strange as it might seem, for the last week or so I've been listening pretty much to nothing but Marilyn Manson and Gokhan Ozen (see post below). Talk about a diverse musical taste!

My Personal Top Ten Marilyn Manson Songs

"Disposable Teens"
"The Beautiful People"
"Rock Is Dead"
"The Fight Song"
" Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth""
"The Dope Show"
"Coma White"
"The Reflecting God"
"The Death Song"
"This Is The New Shit"

Random Images 2

2009-02-10T01:29:00.001-05:00

Like I said in Random Images 1, sometimes I save images for one reason or another and never do anything with them until I clean up my desktop and find them again. Here are a few.

Gotta Love Turkey!

2009-02-09T14:14:00.003-05:00

Okay, so sure, despite the fact that they do have freedom of religion in Turkey, you will probably be sent to jail for reading Richard Dawkins books or trying to access his website... But just think of the great music you'll be listening to in prison!

I have three favorite artists from Turkey. Tarkan, Nazan Oncel, and Gokhan Ozen. Ol' Gokhan has come out with a new EP this year and I thought I'd share a couple videos by him. Good stuff!*

*warning, must be in the mood to have gay islamic sex to enjoy the music below

Tudors Season 3! Ahh!! April 5th!!!

2009-02-08T22:34:00.000-05:00

Sorry, I think I just jizzed in my pants...

Check out this teaser below!

Mainstream Media Is Such Shite

2009-02-07T13:41:00.002-05:00

Check out what the latest poll on CNN.com is....

Oh and here's a top story on the CNN Political Ticker

I did find a really good media watchdog group that has some insightful articles here. It's called Media Matters and they do their best to correct the bullshit facts that all the major media outlets lie about.

Oh Big Fucking Deal!

2009-02-06T13:14:00.004-05:00

Okay, I don't smoke weed for two reasons. Firstly, I don't smoke anything. Secondly, it costs too much. But despite my lack of smoking, I have a lot of friends that do, and I am a huge advocate for the legalization of marijuana. So I say this whole thing with Michael Phelps smoking a bong is fucking bullshit.

Before I get to that, lets get to some truths. First of all, marijuana is illegal. Alcohol is not. I've had several classes that have explored psychotropic drugs and the legality of them. There is one and only one reason that pot is illegal. Because you can grow it at home. I'll explain more about that later.

So like I said, I'm a huge advocate for the legalization. What horrible things would happen if we legalized pot, you ask? Well to start, the police force would have all this extra time on their hands if they weren't cracking down on stoners. Court rooms would work so much faster because they would have a dramatically lower amount of cases without them prosecuting pot heads.

Next, horrible drug companies would start selling pot. The terrible government would tax it like hell too. Because it would be grown in high amounts and mass produced, it would cost very little to make. Cigarettes have a shit load of ingeredients and cost about $4 a pack. It would cost about $0.23 to product a pack of weed-smokes. For every pack the government would tack on $2 in tax, and the company producing would take $2 in profet, and so a pack of weedarettes would run about $4.23 a pack.

With all that extra money, the weed producing compnay would have huge explosion of available jobs right here in America. With all that extra money, the government could do any of the following.

Improve schools
Give out a shit ton more government aid for higher education
Improve roads
Give out extra funds for the research of diseases like cancer and AIDS
Research more eco-friendly ways to do everything
Give out another stimulus

So, wanna stimulate the economy? Legalize weed!

Oh and so you're saying to yourself, "But isn't weed a gateway drug to really bad things?" Actually, there is sufficient evidence to show that for some people it is, but there is a good reason why. It's because of it's illegality that people tend to move to other things. It comes under the idea of "if i'm doing one illegal drug, why not another." So if it were legalized, it would definitely not be a gateway drug.

But the problem with legalization is this one fact. You can grow pot in your house. Companies would be trying to sell a product people can grow at home. That's one of the biggest reasons against legalization and it's a stupid one. I can crow tomatoes in my house by I still prefer to buy them in the can.

Well, may perhaps you're saying to yourself,"oh but weed is a drug and it's terrible." There is one, and only one other drug out there that is safer than marijuana. And that's caffeine. Everything else is worse. Wanna know that is really bad. Alcohol.

Every year millions and million die from alcohol. Every year... nobody dies from weed.

When people drink alcohol, terrible things happen. They get angry and hit their wife. They fuck their friend's girlfriend and ruin their marriage and friendships. They drink too much and die of alcohol poisoning. They get behind the wheel and hit another car, killing themself and the people in the other car. They get too drunk and angry and take out their gun and go out and kill someone. They drink too much and become alcoholics. They get chemically addicted to alcohol, quit cold turkey and die of shock (it can and does happen!).

When people smoke weed, terrible things happen too. They eat the whole pizza. Their pipe gets dirty. They go through taco bell and annoy the employees. They find star jones attractive (see video below).

Here's the bottom line. When you do too much alcohol, you die. When you do too much weed, you consume the fridge. It is absolutely stupid that alcohol is legal in this country and that pot is not. Alcohol kills. Pot makes The Yellow Submarine more enjoyable.

Okay, so I must admit that pot is not perfect. There are some adverse effects to smoking pot. Here is a list from familydoctor.com.

Trouble remembering things
Slowed reaction time
Difficulty concentrating
Sleepiness
Anxiety
Paranoia (feeling that people are "out to get you")
Altered time perception
Increased appetite
Red, bloodshot eyes

Is this really anything close to or as terrible as alcohol or cigarettes? Why is it that the legal stuff is worse than the illegal stuff.

I don't drink either. I hate the taste of alcohol and the horrible feeling in the morning when you've drank too much. So if I have to do one or the other, put that beer away, and pass me the bong.

Oh and this bullshit about Michael Phelps is stupid. He could smoke cigarettes and drink 'til the cows come home and nobody would bat an eye. But the minute his lips hit that bong, he gets a suspension and looses endorsement deals. He put out a statement apologizing for his actions and saying it was immature and that he would never do it again. I understand that his agent probably made him say that but honestly, if that were me, I would have said, "Fuck you guys, I'm an adult and I'll do as I please. I like smoking. I did it once. I'm gonna do it again. Mind your own fucking business."

Strike Three! You're Out!

2009-01-29T15:35:00.003-05:00

Two weeks ago I found a site advertised by Shirt.Woot.Com. The site is called $6 Shirts. Pretty campy shirts, but right up my alley. So I ordered 3 shirts. See below.

Strike 1: After a week without a tracking number and the website still saying "processed", I had to phone them and ask them for it. Big shock. Hadn't shipped yet cos they were still "backed up from the holiday." Yes, they're talking about Christmas. A month after Christmas and they are backed up. He told me, "I hope you get it next week." Note: Their website says, "all orders ship within 2 business days." Mine took 7 business days. I'm willing to bet that if I had not called, they would have never shipped.

Strike 2: They finally came today and it was shipped USPS despite me being charged for UPS Ground shipping as my invoice said. For a 1.5 pound shitty bag I was charged eight dollars for shipping.

Strike 3: My "Azalea" Ganesh shirt was not Azalea. It was light pink. Not the dark pink from the picture. Nothing like what was advertised. Lucky for me the other two were fine. Click here to see what my Ganesh shirt really looked like.

Never ordering from them again. I should have known to stick with reputable well known sites like Amazon. Luckily I only paid a total of $26 dollars for two shirts I'll definitely wear and one I might on the the right day. Oh yeah, they never respond to e-mails either. An extra strike, I suppose. I would love to bitch but, they won't do anything. Their about us does say, "buy from us with caution." Tisk tisk.

This... Is A Boy!

2009-01-28T23:47:00.001-05:00

This horrible thing below I found at WalMart. Apparently there is a little box set of clothes and a wig to look just like Hannah Montana. I'm sorry, but the kid in this costume is a boy...

♫ ♪Homo! (In sing-songy voice)♫♪

Yesterday's Psychotic Episode

2009-01-27T22:59:00.003-05:00

Every once in a while I go crazy. I don't know what happened but I lost my mind around 10:38am. It's rare but it happens. Usually I rearrange furniture but this time it was different. I was just sitting there doing laundry and it hit. I started foaming at the mouth and was like "Ahhh!!!!!! I gotta clean something today!! AHH! AHHH!!!"

Reminds me of Aurora's mother. Apparently anytime she smokes weed she goes crazy and starts re-wallpapering the house. I must have inhaled some laundry detergent fumes or something because I had to clean something. I was screaming inside. Unfortunately for me, I've been cleaning a bit lately and there really wasn't much at home to organize. However, for about a year and half Mandar and I have been talking about how our storage facility needed organizing. We were planning on doing it in the summer during a nice day, but I just couldn't wait. Even with the 15°F weather, I just had to organize.

Well after two days of madness, bags and bags of trash, frozen cheeks, seven huge silver totes, and a shite load of donations to Goodwill... I finished in two days, all alone. Here are the before, during, and after shots. Looking back, I don't know how I did it.

My Mental Murphy Issues

2009-01-24T11:26:00.005-05:00

Last summer when Mel B of the Spice Girls was pregnant, I accidentally said something strange to Aurora and Mandar. I said, "Yeah, Mel B apparently just had a baby with Murphy Brown."

Aurora cocked an eye. Mandar shouted and laughed, "What!?"

Apparently Mel B had a baby with Eddie Murphy, not Murphy Brown.

So this really was just a slip of the tongue, nothing more, nothing less. I thought.

Coming to the present time, last night at my parent's house my dad happened to mention a hilarious story (to him). When I was in 2nd grade I came home and told my dad that at school I was working on a puzzle all day... of Murphy Brown. He was confused and was sure that I wasn't really doing a puzzle of Murphy Brown in the 2nd grade. He tried and tried to figure out what I was doing a puzzle of. The next day he had to go to my school and ask my teacher (notably concerned I guess). I was actually doing a puzzle of Charlie Brown.

What the fuck is wrong with me!? Why am I always thinking of Murphy Brown.

I blame CBS.

Do You Really Want To Be My Friend?

2009-01-22T12:46:00.003-05:00

... and do I really wanna be yours?

Gimme Dat Ol' Fashion Religion, Fucka!!!

2009-01-21T00:40:00.000-05:00

In 2003 rapper DMX said he wanted to retire from rapping to become a Pastor. Former rapper and current pastor Ma$e told him to wait until "god called upon him." Well I guess god's giving him a ring cos it seems like DMX wants to be a pastor again and would like us all to not judge him for a "couple bad songs."

To my surprise (lol) he apparently has more than one "bad song." He also has some lovely songs about Jesus and prayer. Here's a little taste.

"Prayer"
You give me the light and let me bask in your glory
So it was only right that when you ask for this story

"We Don't Give A Fuck"
"Look at him", I said after a few laughs, "Dumb nigga
Stupid is as stupid does cocksucker
Somebody shoulda told me I was fuckin wit a clown
And I think they found and let.. you.. nigga.. drown
....you know how shit get around

"Ready To Meet Him"
Our father, who art in heaven
I'm not ashamed to ask for guidance, at 27
No longer afraid to knock on your door
Not scared anymore to lose my life in the war
After what I just saw, I'm ridin' with the lord
Cause I really can't afford to lose my head by the sword

"My Niggas"
My niggas take you straight to the back & get ill
My niggas give it straight to the bank when we kill
My niggas put niggas on ice til they chill

"Prayer 3"
Lord Jesus it is you, who wakes me up every day
And I am forever grateful for your love..
.. this is why I pray

"X Is Coming For You"

IT WAS ALL FOR THE MONEY, while I'm hittin and splittin him down
from his nose to his nuts
Fire department comin, put the hose to his guts
We both know you pussy, but I ain't gonna say nuttin
Just hit a nigga off, and you can stay frontin

"Some X Shit"
Open cases got me PAYIN to stay out of jail
While these streets, got me to prayin to stay out of hell

Since beginning public life as a rapper, DMX has made headlines for multiple arrests, such as for violent behavior, animal cruelty, reckless driving, unlicensed driving, drug possession, and identity falsification.

As of December 31, 2008, DMX has pleaded guilty on charges of drug possession, theft, and various other charges and was sentenced to 90 days. DMX is scheduled to be sentenced January 30th in an Arizona superior court.

The 38-year-old rapper is engaged and has eight children, whose ages range from three months to 16 years.

The Level Of Stupidity and Intolernace

2009-01-20T13:30:00.004-05:00

There is apparently a very high level of stupidity in my class. Today my professor asked, "Is anyone gonna watch the inauguration at the student hall?" A young lady who has never spoken out before said, "The what? What's that?" My professor explained what the inauguration is (choking back laughter). The girl responded, "Again!? I thought we did that in the fall." My professor said simply, "No." The girl screwed up her face and asked, "Then what was all that fuss about in the fall?"

Oh and apparently there is a high level of intolerance too. Back in the spring I recall hearing some red-neck in the computer lab saying this (paraphrased of course, insert southern twang), "Well I was online and I watched this video of this guy who said that there no way Obama Bin Ladin will be president. He said that if Obama beats Clinton that he will guarantee that he won't get in. He said, 'I'm not saying I'm gon' kill him, but if he wins the election then I tell you that somebody will make sure that nigger don't become president.' So personally I hope nigger does win the election so that way we can kill him and send a message that the only niggers that need to be in the white house are those scrubbing the floors." Haha. Doesn't today feel good?

But even though most of us have accepted (and embraced) President Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. Some haven't. Check out a few of these outrageous websites below.

http://www.americansagainstobama.com/
http://www.againstobama.com/
http://www.obamaforgery.com/

Yes Sir Mr. President!

2009-01-20T00:02:00.000-05:00

Do doot de-do doot de-do doo doo doo doo doo ...

Wow, isn't it nice to have a smart, educated, attractive first family!?

Definitely A Major Fucking Fail

2009-01-19T14:57:00.000-05:00

The Best Album of 2008

2009-01-18T14:31:00.000-05:00

Okay, so technically it came out in 2007, but it was re-released in 2008 and that's when I've been listening to it the most. It's Atreyu's "Lead Sails Paper Anchor."

Now, Atreyu purist call it their sell out album. But new fans of Atreyu will call it their best and refer to their previous stuff as just "okay." Some of their old fans call this "overproduced" but infact I think it's actually just professionally done.

It's got it's heavy side with songs like Doomsday, Honor, and Lose It. These songs are a lot like older screamo Atreyu but contain still a lot of actual singing. There are some obvious radio hits in Becoming the Bull and Falling Down (a great song about religious people who claim to have voices in their head from god).

Seriousness comes in a couple songs like Can't Happen Here which is all about how religious war is tearing the world apart.

"Does your God...
know my God?
This is how the world will end."

The song No One Cares is great however oddly enough I have a strange memory attached to it. As I was driving to pick up Mandar after work I happened to be listening to a song called No One Cares while passing a sign that said "Jesus Cares." Another serious song is Slow Burn which is generally about depression over addiction.

"And after this I feel as empty as the night before,
feel the pain and yet I'm still begging for more.
Masochistic, nihilistic, gurging wrecked up thoughts
My life's a mess and I can't find a way to fix it."

Apparently they saw ahead of time that people would bitch about their new sound with their new record label so they did the song Blow.

"Shut your mouth we've heard it all
Hypocrites and critics all
Can fuck off
We do this for our souls"

Lastly there are two epic songs that are best two on the album. When Two Are One and Lead Sails Paper Anchor. I can't really say much except download them and listen.

Virtual Console Download: Phantasy Star IV

2009-01-17T12:54:00.000-05:00

Perhaps the best RPG of all time in my eyes. Definitely the best game for the Sega Genesis. And now it's available for download from the Wii Virtual Console. It's Phantasy Star IV.

Now if you've played the games that come after Phantasy Star IV then you've been playing shit. PS4 was the last and best. With amazingly deep (especially for 1994!) characters and a brilliant plot, you'll be engulfed in a story that lasts until it's epic finale.

Not only is there the main plot, there's moonlighting opportunities from the guild where you can earn extra money and equip more powerful weaponry and armor. Check out some great screenshots from the game below.

For only $8 you can download it on your Wii today!