Monday, December 31, 2012

New year

I'm going to start over this new year, and I'm going to start by saying that I promise myself not to go on sites that will probably be no longer releveant anyway for reasons or another (ex. Comics Alliance, io9, The Patron Saint of Superheroes, TV tropes, certain comics forums where orthodoxy and such are to be mandatory and everyone else derided(such as one on Watchmen where they make fun of their reading material like it's ingrained and natural), I can go on but won't).

Thursday, December 20, 2012

December 21, 2012

If the world ends tomorrow, I would like to say my two regrets are not getting a driver's license, and not getting around to self-publishing a graphic novel, i had tons of free time in between school, and yet I did nothing. But f it doesn't end, then I shall go up to a 2012 believer on December 22 and do the most annoying laugh right to their face.

58 years

It's been 58 years since Seduction of the Innocent by Wertham was published, and I'm wondering if comic books and their derivatives are any better off than they were than back in the 50s (not meaning financially, but in public and private perception, that stuff). And if it's not comic books, then would it be video games, as a new scapegoat and/or target of derision?

Thoughts on a day trip

It's disheartening, planning a trip to UCLA to check it out, finding your way to the science library so you can check up on old aerospace periodicals, going there by intrinsic motive, and then seeing the graffiti drawn in pen on the reading desks, the cleanest one I can say was a dragon flipping off a knight, and a line saying to a block of text "whoever wrote this is a nerd!".

Monday, December 17, 2012

On The Science of Superheroes books

This is going to bug me all winter if I don't say anything, but the book The Science of Superheroes from years ago is a disappointing book. There, it weighed so much but slid off easily once typed. I thought it would be a great book, but it left me almost hopeless, the authors being condescending and making frequent errors about the comics, pardon the word, super-judgemental, come off as armchair experts who self-aggrandize and use the word "logic" very indiscriminately. I could go on, but it all screams a 2000s worldview, where everything's trained to be bollocks (taken from a Red Dwarf episode), and there's nothing but a post-meta-modern thing on everything, and it's all ridicule, or considered "modern mythology"(which sounds annoying anyway), there's no care, no enthusiasm, no imagination or filling in the blanks, I can go on, but I'm not happy writing this and want to not be involved at all, with all this. And on James Kakalios, it just comes off as a jerk move to go into The Physics of Superheroes, give it so full of life and hope, and then ruin it by being a total jerk with the words "inherently ridiculous", you no-good, I trusted you!

Thursday, December 13, 2012

A Less Emotional Follow-up to the Zehr Post

This is a addendum post, sort of like Dark Victory to The Long Halloween, and is more of some letting things off my chest while tired: I never liked the 2000s as a whole, and one reason why was the people self-appointed as intellectual leaders and warriors, such as two sides of a coin the authors of The Science of Superheroes (who in retrospect maybe were hacks who wanted to show off their savvy and trendiness in science while being super jerks, and also maybe it was like it was them making their own view of the world independent of observation) and certain American religious denominations and pundits (who in retrospect may have been hacks wanting to show off moral and intellectual superiority and making a world not based on observation), it got tiring to a point of thinking it will never end. Don't have an ending to this, so I'll let it peter off.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

An open letter to Paul Zehr

An open message to Paul Zehr, author of Inventing Iron Man(if he ever reads this, unlikely since he never read the email I sent him): Sir, I have to register a complaint against you, because when I bought your book and read it, I was so excited, enthusiastic, with the respect and belief to the material, until it got to the last chapters, where you just switch gears with your snarkiness and hatred and tongue-in-cheekness and such on stuff like Iron Man's heart problem (especially the line "It's a ridiculous idea, but then this is superheroes we're talking about", where I wanted to throw the book across the room), it all just ruined it. And it makes you look like a discredit to science, to comics, and so on. I hope the philosophy that you and other people of this era who write books on pop culture academia use to elevate then bring down people becomes lost to time.
(Come to think of it, this can be used for many examples, such as Psychology and Batman, to a lesser extent though)

Monday, November 12, 2012

Post-election brain nausea

I really hope candidates don't campaigning for the White House in 2016 by next month, just want some time in politics that's not about the next battle and instead on staying sedentary in some sense of the word until 2015 at least. I fear that it'll get to the point where they're predicting the fetuses who will win in 2068's elections in 2020 (kind of like in Dune, where the Bene Gesserit are predicting the generations it'll take to create an emperor messiah of the Galaxy, although he was a generation early and rebelled, what was I talking about?), or that spacetime itself will become fragmented and people start campaigning back to previous elections(I would like to see that if it happened.).

Friday, November 9, 2012

Pornographic thoughts (wait, scratch that, Thoughts on measure B)

It hit me, why are pornographers and porn stars so mad about Measure B in Los Angeles? Why not just embrace it, buy a bunch of those exotic condoms, the type mentioned in that Monty Python sketch(where Eric idle is a Protestant housewife), they use them in the films, the films get sent around the world, and viewers decide to go buy those exotic condoms since they see it as the new norm. Once that's done, they can invest in those condom manufacturers, promoting safe sex around the world, as well as making some cash in the process. It's a thought, anyway. (By the way, if anyone decides to use this idea, please credit me or I will, do, something, I'm not sure what.)(I don't know if there was a joke I was getting to, probably not)

Monday, October 29, 2012

The Church of Scamology: A Theological Doctrine Written in 12 Minutes

After doing some research on religion (well, seeing The Book of Mormon musical), I've decided to found my own religion, called Scamology. Here it is:

I. The Church of Scamology is a religious organization focused on one thing: Making a ton of money with as little work as possible. What, were you expecting some big philosophical essay?... Fine. We believe that the Earth was created in a giant explosion somewhere near Andromeda that resulted in the spreading of a force called "Ego" throughout the planet. So all the ego was floating around, without a job or purpose in life, before it finally fell into the oceans of early Earth life, growing as life grew, until it became a power wielded in some humans. Some notable people who wield massive quantities of ego include Tyler Perry, Sarah Palin, the main cast of Desperate Housewives, and Jesse Ventura. And uh, yada yada, space wars, some other stuff, to today, where we seek your money for our undisclosed cause.

II. Commandments and wisdoms
   1) Send as much money as you can to Ultimate High Priest and Lord of Life and Everything Nick Scroggs; checks, Visa, and Mastercard accepted. No money orders please.
   2)When in doubt, spend money on Church-certified prostitutes with official certification patches (see page 73 in the manual What the Hell is Scamology and Why Should I Give A Flying Rat's Ass?, available January 2013, for details).
   3)Thou shalt not marry others in order to get as much action/nookie as possible for all yalls, but thou shalt always marry their money (the divorce it so it can marry UHPLLE Scroggs).
   4)You are a child of the universe, though it'll always prefer your younger sibling who's more talented and popular than you ever were.
   5) Never trust anyone who still uses MySpace.
   6) All debates over who's the better captain, Kirk or Picard, shall be ended with a swift boot to the head.
   7) Sabbath will be every Saturday night, so we can catch that week's Doctor Who.
   8) Other than that, do whatever, we don't care, it'll be someone else's problem when you die.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Dreams(aka an excuse to blog)

You ever have weird dreams? I know I have, and there seems to be no pattern. One night it's being in a comics shop where everything you could ask for is there, and another it's me involved in investigating down the mystery behind some faked anti-Muslim internet video that leads to a supernatural conspiracy including a cloned ghost army of friends and middle-aged Caucasian guys running the Black Panthers. What's really weird though is that even in dreams I can't afford the stuff I'm dreaming about, and yada yada, I'm just posting this to not leave gaps in the blog record.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

News from Jolly Old Britain

In addition to all the current problems surrounding the Olympics in London, it is now being reported that V has filed a complaint against Norsefire, and Daleks have invaded and are currently battling in the streets with the Tomorrow People. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Silly Walks has nothing to do with this, and thus gave no comment besides its apology for bribing officials to make silly walking an event.

Monday, July 23, 2012

A Nick Scroggs Sequel to The Dark Knight Rises

Scene: (sees articles on Dark Knight Rises involving popcorn, absurdity, gritty realism, corporate fascism, placement on political spectrum, etc. Cue bashing own skull into keyboard repeatedly.)

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Thought on The Avengers

I'd just like to say to anyone out there going to see The Avengers just to mock it (so all people then, it seems), I'd just like to say that no matter what, it will make more sense than living in Los Angeles.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Thought of the day

I'm amazed Howard Stern is still around, I thought he had faded away with flannel shirts and alt.newsgroups.

Friday, April 13, 2012

Random Thought

News: lingerie football league going on hiatus. Beginning sarcasm mode: Oh the humanity! It had so much potential! End sarcasm mode.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Random Thought

Only in LA can you go to a college health fair and figuratively and literally be handed paper sacks full of condoms by people at the booths.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

A question

Why is the idea of a big museum night heist so alluring? I mean like the prospect, the sneaking in, the possibility of walking on a tightrope over a crowded street and garden, what is it?

Friday, March 2, 2012

Untitled

You ever get the feeling that everything is okay, but then something is off, and then you realize the Australian Simpsons are being dragged off by Morlocks from New Zealand? And then you wake up.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Random thought

If a time machine ever gets invented, I want a law to be made promising no one is to go back to the 80s to meet Madonna or Kim Wilde (and also in the law a stipulation to make sure no one goes back to rewrite the law.).

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Random Thought

Is it wrong to want to ask a person from South America who speaks German if they're related to Nazi war criminals?

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Random Thought

I wonder what the candidates think about Whitney Houston's death.

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Random thought

Los Angeles is a post-apocalyptic wasteland, minus the apocalypse.