If you spent any time with me you know I hate girls halloween costumes. Enjoy the below video (contains language).
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
Doug TenNapel, creator of Earthworm Jim and graphic novelist, has decided to quit blogging. The first graphic novel I read was Earthboy Jacobus by TenNapel and I have corresponded with him about my own project. Doug wraps up the purpose of his blog with a great point:
Our attempts to prop up the universe to squeeze a few more days out are noble efforts but are just a Band-Aid. Science is just a half-assed Christ hoping to dole out life to the begging masses for a few bucks. Knowing most 75 year olds why in the hell should we live longer? We’re set in our ways by 30 and have few epiphanies after that. Mankind doesn’t need a face lift, he needs a heart transplant, a brain transplant and a mind transplant. That’s where God comes in.
Jesus is not a half-assed Christ. He didn’t offer us crap plus one. He isn’t here to socially improve the world. He didn’t come here to make me quit smoking. The statement Christ makes with his life is radical…he died at 33. He could have rejected the cross, doomed mankind and been within his rights but running from suffering to persue narcissistic comfort isn’t one of his character traits, they are ours’. The human condition was cast in stone when Adam fell from paradise. Call it a myth or allegory but it describes man’s condition well.
I was watching tv this evening when one of two million political commercials came on. The commercial is the voice-over of a mother talking about how she knows her daughter would tell her about getting pregnant and having an abortion, but she is concerned about girls who live in abusive homes that would be endangered by being forced to get parental permission to have an abortion.
I literally yelled out loud when I saw this. What utter manipulative bullcrap! We don’t want to get a girl beat up so let her kill the baby without talking to anyone about it.
And as you would expect the commercial was paid for by Planned Parenthood.
As many of you might know, my annual Halloween production takes place this weekend. I still need a lot of help if anybody stills want to lend a hand (especially monetarily) and will be in the southern California area. I thought I would give you a scene of the film as a teaser. The scene is set as a family of four, Chuck, father, Lydia, the mother, Emily and Chuck Jr, the children, arrive at their campsite for the weekend.
(EDIT: I tried tons of ways to post this online in the correct format, but its not possible)
Perfect for filling your home with the scent of divinity.
Who knew Jesus smelled like mint and vanilla?
Does God smell like Cinnamon Strawberry Cumquat?
I guess it’s better than filling your home with the scent of Jesse.
My candle scent would be the biproduct of digesting humus, feta, and grapes with some sweaty sheets mixed in.
I think they call that “stank”.
Firefox 2.0 is here and its great. The changes are small but they definitely add to the web browsing experience. If your not using tabbed browsing and live bookmarks (if you are using Firefox click the little orange logo in the search bar or bottom bar on this website to add a bookmark that will show you my latest posts as soon as I make them).
The best part of the new Firefox is the new spell check feature. It gives your misspelled works a small red underline when you are typing in any web form, like my comments section for example.
and if you don’t want to jump on the firefox bandwagon at least get Opera.
Everyone should be registered to vote as we have an upcoming election and while sometimes we get so fed up with the politics of politics (and the corruption), not voting won’t fix that. The problem is that it takes a lot of time to be knowledgeable about the candidates and issues at hand. That is why we simply chose to vote down party lines or even simply on looks. And that is why we have crooks and rapists in congress (also because all human beings are essentially civilized barbarians).
Well there is a partial answer to the problem. At washingtonwatch.com you can read up on all the bills congress is voting on and see their significance in very simple american terms…no not freedom…money. Each bill is labeled by the cost or savings per family. If you want to read further you can find out which way your representatives voted and a simple description of the bill. If you really want to dig deep you can read the bill itself.
There are a lot of reasons why I hate the internet (I have to blog for you wolves everyday), but washingtonwatch is a bright spot.
I saw The Prestige last night. It’s good…very good.
I don’t say that about a lot of movies and with most movies I am excited about I actually come out dissapointed that it didn’t fulfill my expectations. Christopher Nolan proves he is a master of storytelling. Most suspense/thriller type films keep the secret from the diegesis (within the narrative) while showing it to the audience. This is what causes the tension. We know there is someone around the corner but the maiden in distress does not. Nolan doesn’t tell us what is happening (though he actually does if you are paying attention) and the characters of the story don’t tell us. This makes for a slow start to the film, but results in a breathtaking finish. At times I smiled at the whit, other times I wanted to clap and in the end I just sat silently during the credits, my mind still running over the details.
The acting, set design and costumes were also superb. David Bowie was great, and as usual Christian Bale was amazing. You also can’t go wrong with Michael Caine. The real shining star of the film, I thought, was Hugh Jackman. The whole film you are wanting to find someone to cheer for, but no one is quite right and you will most likely find yourself rooting for the wrong side. I was worried that I was gonna find it hard not to see Wolverine vs. Batman, but the thought never crossed my mind.
As usual, many reviewers missed the whole point of the film. They were “unwowed” by the ending or thought the characters were unrelatable.
If a story was all about the ending it would be called an ending, not a story and if your not a turn of the century English magician, than you can’t relate anyways.
I hate to used a cliched term, but this movie is truly filmmaking the way it is supposed to be.
Associated Content, a seemingly right leaning news source has the top ten Bush conspiracies.
It has the usual “Bush controls oil prices”, but it gets better.
Bush caused the Cubs to lose to the Marlins in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series so that the Jews, SUV owners, oil companies, white men, and big corporations could oppress Muslims.
and the worst sin of all?
Bush broke up the Beatles.
Joking aside he does make a good point and it goes for people who think Bush eats children for the high protein, low carb content or those who think the gays wanna bring in the antichrist by teaching evolution in our schools.
Psychology tells us that when a person feels powerless, instead of working to actively change the balance of power, 92% will create a fantasy world of blame. It is easier to be the victim than to realize you are not popular because of your own ideology.
Mel Gibson’s new film Apocolypto has gotten a lot of buzz. Despite having blamed the Jews for all wars (or killing dinosaurs WARNING: OFFENSIVE MATERIAL), Mel Gibson is a pretty well liked guy and I’m sure Apocolypto is going to do quite well. The film itself is the story of the fall of the Mayan empire. Part of the film is based on the Popol Vuh, a religious document cronicling the Mayan story of creation.
The story behind the story is supposedly an allegory to the general decline of western civilization and the United States. Comparing the U.S. to Rome is everyone’s favorite pastime, but the comparison to Mayan civilization is a new one. How do we stack up?
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Mayans
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US
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Human Sacrifice
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Iraq War
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Invented New Calendar
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Invented the Internet
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War Sanctioned By God’s
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War Sanctioned By George Bush and he likes God ergo God Sanctioned War
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Advanced Mathmatics System
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Geometry*
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Illiterate Poor Graffiti Artists
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Death Row Records
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While this list is mostly satirical, it’s an interesting point Mel is making and I’m sure the film is going to be very well done. The truth is the more you read about the Mayans the more they sound like so-called “islamic” terrorists. Oh well.
*Geometry is in no way a proven system. It is comprised of postulates and thereoms, that while they are widely accepted have no basis in scientific fact. Whiy is a right angle 90 degrees? Because it is?
Bull@#$!.
“I heard the jury’s still out on science.”
- George Oscar Bluth otherwise known as GOB, Arrested Development
