Random Thought Of The Day #455

Day 455

Party planning is tiring. You gotta write an invitation... keep the guest list to a manageable number and then actually send people invitations? Then after that, you gotta still do the stuff like... clean the house so people think you're a lot less messy than you really are. And when that's all done, you gotta still actually throw the party. My natural apathy is kicking in already...

So the invitations for the housewarming party have been sent... I THINK I got everybody. If I missed someone, lemme know. 

Or maybe it's just because I don't like you all that much and intentionally didn't invite you.

Or you... you know... live like 400 miles away and I have no expectation that you'd drive here for 1 party. Cause that would be absolutely stupid to do. I wouldn't drive like 400 miles or more for a party unless it was a family member's wedding. And even then... I might say "eh, not worth the trip".

Seriously... who the fuck drives 400 miles for a party? You're lucky if you can get me to go 2 miles to the grocery store some days. But maybe that's just because I'm lazy. I actually had someone get mad at me about a year or so back for not inviting them to a party because they lived 3 states away. WTF, mate? I'm pretty sure that's a reasonable reason to NOT invite someone to a party.

Oh... yeah... I guess I got off track there.

I don't remember where I was going with that... so um... yeah...

Bye

oh... and here's some other funny comic stuff... this time... Spider Jerusalem

It does work.

Random Thought Of The Day #454

Day 454

I'm going to make you a few promises today... Here's the first 5.

1.  If your power goes out tonight and you go down to your basement to check the circuit breaker, I promise that it wasn't me and I'm not hiding behind the furnace with a knife.

I promise.

2. When you wake up tomorrow and get in your car... I promise that I haven't snuck in during the night and cut the brake lines.

I promise.

3. When you go to bed tonight and see that window open just a little more than you think you left it, I promise I didn't climb in and hide in the attic with piano wire until you go to sleep.

I promise.

4. When you think you hear that noise in the closet and go to get your gun and find it isn't there, I promise that I'm not hiding in there with it, watching you and waiting for that moment that you realize your only protection is gone.

I promise.

5. If you hear something in the bushes outside the house tonight and think "oh, it's just an animal"... I promise that it is. I'm not there waiting for you to walk back towards the door with a chloroform soaked rag.

I promise.




You can trust me. I promise.

RTOTD #453.1

Day 453.1

8 years ago yesterday, America lost a great treasure. Herb Brooks, the guy who took a bunch of kids from Michigan, Minnesota & Boston and beat the Big Red Machine in Lake Placid in 1980, died 8 years ago yesterday. He was still an amazing coach, scout and hockey mind.

He's sorely missed.

Random Thought Of The Day #453

Day 453

How did I miss this?  There was a debate over whether or not Bert & Ernie should get married on Sesame Street?

THEY'RE PUPPETS!  They go over your hand or hang off of strings? Often made out of a sock or other pieces of cotton? You know....puppets. They aren't gay. They aren't straight. They aren't bi, asexual or like screwing goats. They're inanimate objects with some guy or girl doing a weird voice outside of your field of view. They flop around on a screen or a stage of some kind and that's pretty much it. They're supposed to be funny.

Ok, I get it... Sesame street is a tool to teach kids about morality, diversity, community and all that other fun stuff that they might not learn while still sheltered at a young age. Cool. That works... But don't we think that pushing the the whole "accepting gay marriage" thing is a little too much for Sesame Street?

Cue the moral indignation in 3...2... 1... go

No... I'm not saying it's wrong to teach kids to accept non-hetero relationships at any age. That's cool. I think kids shouldn't be sheltered into thinking that the only "right" kind of relationship is what they're going to mostly see on TV between hetero couples & then end up confused when they see a non-hetero couple on the streets or be conditioned that it's unnatural or anything. I just didn't think Sesame Street is really doing much in the line of validating relationships of ANY kind to kids. Nor should it be.

Granted, I haven't watch it in like... forever... but I don't remember them really having romantic relationships of any kind between any of the characters. Maybe I'm forgetting something, but I don't remember any OTHER 2 characters having any sort of romantic connection. It just always seemed like most of them were just friends with each other (except Oscar... nobody liked him cause that guy was kind of a dick... and kinda awesome)... Is there a straight couple on the show that I'm not remembering? If so, forget anything I really said... showing the other types of romantic relationships is perfectly reasonable. I just don't remember Sesame Steet having ANY relationships.

I always got the impression that Bert & Ernie was trying to teach kids that you can get along and live with people that you might have almost nothing in common with. That people that live differently than you aren't bad people or anything. Just that they're different and we can still get along at the end of the day, even if we disagree on almost everything else. The whole "live and let live" message.

Granted, you can still get a lot of the same message across if they were gay, but I think it loses its effectiveness about the "getting along with people that are different" message at that point. I can't really put into words yet this morning WHY I think that though. I might have to come back to that. It's the same message in a different way. More from the perspective of the other characters getting along with "people that are different than themselves" than 2 characters that have very different personalities getting along with each other.

But if "legitimizing" non-hetero relationships to kids is the goal, why not just throw in a new non-hetero couple? I think you'd get the social perspective of "gettling along with others that are different from yourself" better than attaching it to existing characters.

I guess what I'm saying is that don't try to teach the whole lesson... on the inter-personal level and on the social level... with the same characters. It's like saying "we need a half-black, half-hispanic, muslim, trangendered lesbian character to teach suburban white kids about relating to someone of a different race, religion, sexual orientation and non-traditional gender types all at once!".  Effectively teaching anyone about diversity by sticking all of the "diverse traits" in 1 or 2 characters means a lot of the effectiveness about some of those areas is going to be lost.

I just think that you'll end up diluting the message too much when it's all coming from 1 or 2 characters. And it's almost like teaching kids that everyone is the same execpt like 1 in 20 people that are nothing like the others. And we all know that's not true.

Or I'm probably over-thinking this. Yeah, probably.

And I couldn't really find any funny pictures for this one cause I'm trying to NOT make too much light of it. I think it is important in the grand scheme to get kids to understand the diversity of the world to help break down the walls of prejudice that exist. I just think there's better ways to go about it than to shoe-horn the one set of friends that doesn't get along really well into a non-traditional relationship just to teach kids that that kind of relationship is just as normal as mom & dad's.

Though the whole "sleeping in the same bed" thing really doesn't help my case.

Random Thought Of the Day #452

Day 452

So apparently the MPAA is going hard after people that are pirating movies. Watch your ass, people. Use proxy servers when possible, IP masking or any other sort of annonymity-creating methods you know of to hide your IP when downloading.

Christ, I'm thinking about going back to the old fserv method on mIRC to get my pirated movies. Now I just need to remember how to avoid the REAL perverts that still use that regularly.

Actually, fuck it... I'll just hit RedBox or wait for Netflix to deliver them and then rip them, send them back immediately and watch them when I feel like it thru my xbox or appleTV. That's what Handbreak is for.

With the way the MPAA, RIAA and all the rest of the AA's are going after people for piracy anymore, it's just almost not worth the effort. But with how much utter crap hollywood, the LA music industry and the Valley porn producers are putting out there anymore, it's more of a crapshoot on how good something is anymore. And with how much stuff is competing for our ever-shrinking entertainment dollars, it makes it even less likely that I'm gonna go out and waste money on something that I don't have a pretty good indication is worth every penny I'm paying for it.

And don't get me started on buying DVDs anymore. It's not fucking worth it. At all. Between the physical space that they take up, the apparently rising cost of them for no apparent reason (gotta make up the profit margins lost from all the crap that people bought when they were down to like $8 each 5 years ago and people bought them like fucking candy, I guess) and THIS:

and they wonder why people pirate movies?

Fuck... by the time the god damn thing starts, I already forgot which movie I put in the dvd player and I've gotten distracted by watching Netflix Instant Play on my phone.

But I do have to ask you all your opinion on this one...

Music & movie piracy has been around for a while... digital piracy for the past 15 or so years. First it was Napster, then Kazaa, and other services. P2P file sharing is not going away. I think we can all agree on that. But I have to ask, 5 years ago, when the studios were still making a killing on DVD sales and piracy levels were at the same level as they are now, why weren't they going sue-happy then? Is this just a cheap ploy to make up their lost profit margins by sueing instead of putting out a decent product for the price?

When I could walk into a best buy 5 years ago and buy a new-release DVD the first few days it was out for $9, I didn't mind buying them. If I do that now, it's nearly $20 because it's a new-release. It used to be cheaper to drive up sales on new-releases... now it's more expensive to drive up profit margins (well, bad economic understanding & bad math makes them think that, but that's a whole other argument). And they wonder why people aren't buying them as much?

Thankfully, it looks like the lawsuits have mostly been directed at people torrenting indie flicks or generic porn. It doesn't look like most of the BIG studio productions have been targetted yet. Or even the BIG release porn stuff.

I guess it's because most of those already make a killing in total profit, so it's not worth the effort or bad publicity to go after pirates of blockbuster movies. So I guess we're a little safer in that regards for the time being. But it's only a matter of time before they start going after that too.

Though I do wonder... since Apple found a way to make money off my pirated music collection, are they going to find a way to do the same thing with my pirated movie collection too once it's in the iCloud system?

Random Thought Of The Day #451

Day 451

Oh, this is marginally interesting... scientists have found more evidence that the building blocks of  DNA are not entirely specific to Earth. We're all aliens.

Now we just need to find Superman. Cause if there's DNA building blocks in meteorites, that means there's life elsewhere, and that the planet with the life blew up and some of the rocks smacked into Earth and if so, they totally sent a spaceship with a baby and it landed somewhere in Nebraska.

That's how this stuff works. It's true... I saw it in a comic book.

But that once again bring up my point... Superman should totally be a fat guy. I'm not gonna keep proving it. It's just true. Superman should be a fat guy.

Speaking of superman... apparently there's going to be a new Superman movie. A total reboot of the franchise this time. It's going the Batman route and going with the title of Man Of Steel with no reference to Superman at all. I guess it's to distance itself from the abortion that was the Bryan Singer one with the SuperBaby and Cyclops from the X-Men movies for no apparent reason.

Spider-Man is also getting a reboot with Amazing Spider-Man.

So with all the superhero movie reboots coming out, what's the list of comic books that have NOT yet been made into movies that you would love to see?

Personally, I'd kill to see any of the following:

The Authority - superhumans that don't take any shit at all and put the bad guy down for the count. Period. Plus, it would be wonderful to show a strong, monogamous relationship between 2 gay male characters on screen in a superhero flick. We haven't seen that really yet. Especially between the 2 biggest bad-asses on the team.

StormWatch: Team Achilles - humans trained and armed to take down superhumans. Fuck waiting for Superman to beat up the gigantic bad guy, these guys can take him out faster and then take down Superman when they're done with the first guy.

Wildcats - Why do you need to always punch people to save the world? The corporation IS the 21st century superhuman. And what better way to save the world than to use all of the proliferate advanced technology to the rest of the world. Imagine a world with unlimited electricity for pennies. The Jack Marlowe & the HALO Corporation is bringing that to you. HALO... Your world, only better.

Deadpool - Though it is in active development with Ryan Reynolds reprising his role from the first Wolverine movie... except he'll be able to talk again in this one. And routinely break the 4th wall. And talk to his thought bubbles. I hope we actually see the thought bubbles on the screen.

Invincible - Probably the Spider-Man of the 21st century. Think all the cool things about Spider-Man in his teens with Superman's powers.

So what about you? What do you wanna see?

RTOTD #450.1

Day 450.1

So why the fuck are the Brits rioting again? Did school text books go up in price a nickel? Oh, wait... what's the british version of a nickel? Fuck. Whatever.

No, no... I know... Dr. Who is on hiatus and they're bored?

Wait... a sex tape of the queen came out... except it was from the 90's and not the 40's. I'd freak out if I had to see that shit too.

No, that can't be it... someone on tv actually admitted that American football is more interesting to watch than Soccer?

Oh... I got it.. they might actually have to pay for some cold medicine when they get the sniffles?

Hmmm...What reason do you think it is that they're rioting THIS time?

The first time, it was because god forbid that they have to actually pay for a little bit of their post-secondary schooling.

So what it is this time?

And anyone else notice that it's always the "yay peace" idiots that are the ones out there rioting and breaking shit and screaming "no justice, no peace!" and shit like that? The same ones screaming about how horrible war is and how much collateral damage it creates are the same that are setting random cars on fire in the streets and breaking windows of coffee shops and pretty much any business that they can find? So that's cool, but war isn't?

Alright then. At least a Deadpool-led riot would be funny.

Random Thought Of The Day #450

Day 450

I'm finally getting to the planning stage of the housewarming party for sometime this month.

It has been decided by powers greater than myself (meaning a couple girls came up with the idea and I said "ok" rather than argue, plus it gets me my fix of 50's housewife kink) that we're doing a 50's housewife/stepford wives & misogynist party. I just wanna know which girl is gonna show up in only an apron & heels.

But in the interest of simplicity... I'm just calling it a 50's theme party.

And you have to wear costumes or I won't let you in.

And now, I have to decide which of you I actually like enough to invite. You'll be getting the invitation in your e-mail box within the next week. I'm not entirely sure when the party is yet (I should probably talk to the room mates about that, shouldn't I?)  but that'll be in the invitation, of course.

I'm not gonna do an event page for this one. It's not a public party. But hey, if you wanna bring someone, be my guest. Though I reserve the right to tell them to get the fuck out of my house if they're not cute.

Unless they bring cupcakes. That might get them off the hook. Maybe. If they're really really good cupcakes.

Or chimichangas

 



Yummy 



Random Thought Of The Day #449

Day 449

Hey... look at that... the economy IS still fucked everywhere. Weird... didn't I call that last week?

Oh well... we're still fucked.

So on to something that ISN'T terribly depressing and makes you realize how nobody, except the super-wealthy, is going to come out of this unscathed.

*crickets chirping*

Yeah, I got nothing.

But that picture does bring to mind a quick rant.

Why the fuck don't they show old-school Loony Tunes on tv anymore? Seriously... that shit was awesome! I know that the networks (even cable) won't show even Tom & Jerry before about midnight anymore because of all the "violence" in them.

OK, so old-school cartoons were violent. Certainly they were. Did they teach kids violence? Probably. Who knows? Who cares? It's not like a little kid is gonna be able to rig up a 300 lbs anvil to drop it on the neighbors cat when to see if it gets smooshed and then gets up walking around with a flat back.

I miss my old-school cartoons.

Instead, the new cartoons out anymore feel more like a fucking acid trip than a cartoon. I remember back in college, we figured out that if we got ourselves totally hammered, we could kinda figure out what the hell was going on in an episode of Pokemon. And don't even get me started on the cartoons where the characters play card games to make magical dragons and shit to fight. I couldn't sort that crap out if my life depended on it. And some sponge in his underpants running around.

I'm so confused.

The closest thing we still have to the old-school cartoons are the Simpsons & Family Guy. And maybe South Park, but I don't really watch that much.

I just miss the old, short cartoons. I think the last time we had something really cool like that was Animaniacs. That was a bad-ass show.

I miss stuff like that.

But even that is probably too racist or sexist or something-else-ist to even get onto tv anymore.

Oh well, I guess we're stuck with the acid-trip-lite garbage with some sort of bad-americ-anime influence that doesn't make a fuck bit of sense unless you're 3 years old or stoned out of your fucking mind from now on.

Hell, I'd be happy with the god damn Fintstones. But the tv networks would probably turn it into some weird crap about dinosaur card games that would eat other dinosaurs in a battle. And I would need alcohol or drugs to understand it.

Random Thought Of The Day #448

Day 448

Here's a list of stuff today:

1. Everybody should wish @Sybele a happy birthday today. Cause she's kinda awesome like that.

And then my brother's birthday is tomorrow. And Sidney Crosby's birthday is the next day. And @cooledpurple 's birthday is the following day. What the fuck, yo? Way to make me eat far too much cake in a week, fuckers. Can't you like... spread that shit out?

Or do I need to start making a chart and asking people for when their birthday is before I consider becoming friends with them so that I have a minimum 3 days between birthdays? And if your birthday is too close to a current friends birthday, I will refuse friendship.

"sorry, you must change your birthday or I can't be friends with you. I have a space in about mid-april that's free"

"but my birthday is in September!"

"your choice."

I think I like this plan.

2. So, did we ever fix the whole budget & debt ceiling thing? Or did we start defaulting yet? Is that why the market fell off a fucking cliff yesterday? I haven't been bothering to pay attention. Cause fixing debt by spending more is still like eating McDonalds every day to get skinny and printing more monopoly money won't make it worth more. So I stopped caring. We're fucked any way we look at it.



That chick was probably hot too. The crazy ones
always are.



3. Deadpool is better than you. And funnier. That is why I post a lot of shit with him in it. And he makes everything better. Kinda like sex. Deadpool is Sex.

You gotta love a fictional character that is actually aware that he's a fictional character and, as a result, routinely breaks the fourth wall and talks out loud to his own thought bubbles that he can see.

I'd do that...

Hell, half the time, I'm convinced that I'm a viral hallucination created from that time you took too many of the special mushrooms your mom warned you not to eat. I'm a figment of your imagination.

4. Wait... Alabama passed a law that said it's a crime to be an illegal alien? Errrr.. "undocumented immigrant"... sorry, my mental PC thesaurus broke for a moment there.

So they made a law that says it's illegal to break the law... and like 16 countries are pissed off about this? Am I fucking missing something here?



The one and only time I'll ever make a Star Trek reference.
Star Wars is so much better.



I've been confused as all hell for the last like... ever... about how it's somehow not a crime to break that law. I mean, isn't that kind of the definition of "illegal"? Violating a law = a crime, correct? So now it's NOT a crime to break THAT law? Then why is it a law?



Oh wait... this is one of those "suggestion" laws right? The kind that they can't really do anything if you break it, right? The kind that don't exist?

This makes my fucking head explode. Honestly to god, contemplating immigation law and the domestic policy on immigation is like contemplating time travel at this point. Everything is nothing and nothing is everything. If my brain was a computer, it would just come back with the blue screen of death. And then I'd die.



Like that fucking monkey in Outbreak



5. You know what you never wanna hear come out of the mouth of a girl you picked up at the bar & fucked within the past year or so but haven't really talked to since?

"So I went to the doctor and he said I should call anyone I've had sexual contact with in the past few years".

That can only end badly.

I also would have accepted "I'm late" or "I've been thinking about you a lot and thought maybe we could go out for coffee" or "anything at all, there's a reason I never called her" as alternatives.

6. For the life of me, I can't come up with a MadLibs style blog ever since that first one. I've tried at least 3 times a week since then and I can't come up with shit. I think the problem is that most of this stuff is kinda funny because of the words I use. (this shit is funny. Don't argue with me. And if you don't think it's funny, you have no sense of humor. I am the final arbitor of humor.) And they're also the same ones that I'd need to leave out to make an effective MadLibs blog post. So help a brother out... someone send me something that I can turn into a MadLibs blog. I'll even give you credit for it! (I don't have a funny picture to go with this one. Eat me)

7. When I buy cigarettes, I specifically ask to see the packs first. And then I only buy the kind that say that it can cause premature birth or birth defects in pregnant women. Cause those kind are healthy for you unless you're pregnant. So I'm good.



Smoke these. They're only harmful to pregnant women.



8. I think I need a service bottom just to fold my laundry. I don't mind DOING the laundry, but I hate folding clothes. Any volunteers?

Yeah, once again, you're only getting a strange number of things in a list.

And here's a little more Deadpool for all of you who aren't getting laid tonight (like me) to get the same kind of enjoyment. Deadpool stimulates the same pleasure receptors in the brain as sex. This is actual science. Do not argue with me. I am a Doktor.



I need some fighty time soon.