Thursday, January 31, 2013

Now that 2012 is a month in the past...

I would like to make an exception that proves the rule, and by that I mean make a post that I'll do off the bat, letting petty business and excess emotion and rage take over instead of my higher brain and such, I'll regret doing this later, and it'll fade into obscurity after a few minutes, but I'll post it anyway to get it off my chest. Something like that, I don't know.  And I'll use euphemisms to help.
Here it goes: Frak Mitt Romney, frak Rick Santorum, frak Newt Gingrich, frak Ron Paul, frak Rand Paul, frak Michele Bachmann, frak hypermasculinty, frak Rush Limbaugh, frak Karl Rove, frak Todd Akin, frak frak Comics Alliance, frak the Patron Saint of Sueprheroes, frak the exploitation and destruction of native peoples around the world, frak the Tea party, frak corporate fascism, frak militias, frak Aspergers "curebies", frak the incompetence of the public and private school systems, frak Julian Darius of SequArt with his arrogant D-bag photos and writing style, frak conspiracy theorists, frak bloggers, and frak me too.
There you go, and please no angry comments or anything, this is one time only, I hope.


Monday, January 28, 2013

Bookmarks and history I found while looking on y computer

I'm going through old bookmarks on the computer, and there's like a million of them, but I'm putting some here that I don't know why I bookmarked them, or if I do, then I'm surprised it's there. And I'm posting them all here because there's some that might prove useful to someone else, and I'm bored:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=esquilax
http://blog.loa.org/2011/11/john-dos-passos-on-1932-bonus-army.html
http://www.ign.com/articles/2011/10/26/is-arkham-citys-dark-knight-the-true-batman
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-lose-the-lecture-as-teaching-tool?ps=cprs
http://geekfeminism.org/2012/02/09/the-geek-social-fallacies-of-sex/ (This one is still a mystery, but i think it was a link on Something Awful one day when I was sick so much I was semi-conscious)
http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/mad-men/
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/11/weird-stuff-mcdonalds-sells-around.html

And if you look at these and decide to judge or send me morre links like these, or even to put advertising on this site, please don't, unless you sign up for the Church of Scamology, of course.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

School days memories Part I:Elementary and Junior High(Middle school)

I mostly have bad memories of public school, not for the learning experience, or the good people in students and teachers there, but all I can remember (unless shown photos or something) is a lot of the bad stuff from those days. And in the interests of my own psyche that finally wants to open up these to complete strangers viewing on their computer screens (in a break from taking in porn or complaining about films they've never seen), I will now start a list of these things I remember:

-Elementary school, there were moments where I would eat a lunch of a butter sandwich (because they were delicious to my young taste buds), and then get mocked by a chorus of older kids singing "bread and butter, bread and butter", I don't even know why. Or other times where I got made fun of for watching Digimon when Pokemon was in.
-Although in retrospect, much of the bad stuff in elementary was me doing stuff and not thinking I'd get in trouble, such as cutting my own hair with safety scissors during an art assignment (Don't remember why I did that).
-Things got worse going to middle school. I hated middle school, and the following items will be of that time until I go onto high school.
-The kids were much meaner and nastier, I know some were mean and nasty in elementary, but most of the time it may have been harmless (such as singing "I believe I can die, I got shot by the FBI") unless it me being made fun of. But middle school,  it was terrible. The kids I hung out with at the YMCA after school center were often smiling bullies, frequently taking advantage of my naivete so I did such things as say swear words in Spanish, or one scary day where they tricked me into getting onto a public bus with no knowledge of its route when I complained of how the Y's van was taking hours to get to pick us up, I nearly got lost until I got to the Y. They were all kins of kids, some nice guys who disappeared after a while, to middle class kids who were almost out of a stereotype manual, to big thugs and plain mean guys who loved making fun of me for things such as my talking about oldies music.
-Also there was a ton of random kids at the school who made fun of me, or tricked me. Jerks who would start picking on me after school even though I never met them, and my attempts to reply back with insults like "Get bent" made them respond that I was hitting on them. Kids who would suddenly hide under my umbrella on rainy days without permission(because we all had to wait outside the buildings before lunch ended). After school kids waiting for And this seeming conspiracy of kids, who after school would yell stuff that for some reason made me angry (such as the phrases "Nicky's hair" and "Happy Birthday"), then run for it, and though I did attempt to fight back using my bookbag as a weapon, they were always too fast and superior in every way to me. There were times where waiting for the Y van, I would get picked on in full sight of the kids waiting for their parents to ick them up, and a bunch of YMCA kids and others tortured me with things like threatening me with "pepper spray" that was actually candy spray, and no one stood up for me.
-And then there was this one guy named Angelo, he was one grade below me, yet a foot taller, this big meathead with rosy cheeks, Neanderthal brow, and buzzcut, he would always treat me as a target and openly mock me, talking own to me, and on a ton of occasions imitating my young voice, which was stated to sound like a giraffe. it's been years, details are fuzzy, but I lived in fear.
-There were good teachers though, but the school system itself sucked, because i did complain about these kids, very often, but only one was ever caught. It left me very cynical and untrusting of people, knowing that the kids were hiding from trouble in plain sight. They were monsters under those John Burroughs uniforms, and yes I'm saying the name of the school, because that name still burns in me as a scar.
-And this might not mean anything, but I do remember a lot of the kids during the school year and summer day camp playing illegally downloaded music and playing bootleg DVDs for the whole center.

When I come up with more stuff that I don't have a memory for off the bat, I'll continue this post. In the end, I don't know the causes of all this except within myself, but I do wish for a reform of the school system here in the United States, these might all be examples of unnoticed factors that mean the States have been going downhill in academics compared to other countries (not trying to be a nationalist or patriotic, just want to help prevent future catastrophe and unhappiness, if applicable).

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Question and Rorschach

Rorschach was based on the Question. But then in the 80s, the Question reads Watchmen and sees Rorschach. Two things, one, why doesn't the universe implode from that meta-loop, and two, what if other Charlton characters or DC figures (such as Superman) were reading their parent company's other publications and imprints? (I envision Animal Man reading his own comics reading is own comics ad infinitum.)

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

A typical blog post: Stuff I hate

It gets annoying every freaking time that someone says that superheroes are "fundamentally absurd", "inherently ridiculous", "apogee of unreality", et cetera, especially when they give the connotation that it's the only thing out there that they think is absurd, singling it out, like nothing else exists but their perfect world and the superhero stories to be mocked even though they exist. Article writers, scientists, even the writers themselves (Alan Moore), it gets frustrating and annoying.
(Yes, i am aware there are better uses of time and life than this, but I had to get it off my back.)

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Update on the Church of Scamology

The Church is taking an indefinite hiatus due to a variety of factors that were out of my control, such as some investors arrested for a counterfeit placebo ring; the editor of the postponed website turning out to be a not a ghostly white face in a mirror, but some guy with an unknown agenda who's gone underground, last sighted in Belize; and the chosen pastor apparently has been abducted by aliens. So sorry about it, but please, keep on sending the money.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

A Rebuttal to Alex Jones

Two things: One, there are so many things to make fun of in Alex Jones, the radio host and King of the Hill reject, but as a sometimes-avid reader of history, the parts of his rants about tyrants taking guns got me thinking how inaccurate he is. And two, this is a neutral as possible informal post, so there's no citations or anything, and I am by no means being an authority on the subject here, and for all I know this post could be inaccurate without me knowing it. or something. Anyway, here it is:
The American Revolutionary War began in 1775, and enemies of the British such as the French were supplying weapons to the Patriots; meanwhile there were a number of loyalists who wanted to stay under British rule, not everyone was taking up arms. Hitler, he was popular and legally elected, taking advantage of the Weimar republic's weakened state from the Great Depression; plus, many Germans probably did not own personal firearms at the time, although there were also many paramilitary groups in 1930s Germany from across the political spectrum, but that's enough on Hitler for this. Stalin, had the might of the Soviets on his side to purge millions of people, and probably the only people around in the Soviet Union for a really long time to have firearms, and also had the gulags. Mao, during the early years of the People's Republic didn't take away guns, but rather used campaigns of purging and getting people to rat out others, and there were some counter-revolutionary rebellions that did exist with weapons, at least in the 50s I'm guessing. Castro, apparently he has loved guns since he was a kid, don't know how that's relevant but couldn't hurt. And Hugo Chavez, I haven't done any research since I'm nervous I'll find scary shouting posts on Google and not a single statistics chart.
Okay, didn't turn out as well as I thought, but I think the point is clear. Or not, so I'll spell it out: I couldn't find anything on stealing guns away to prevent being overthrown, and the statements made in his CNN interview show an awful ignorance to history and factors such as cultural context.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Alex Jones Speaks Out Against Rise of the Patriots(A satirical news article))

Making headlines once again after earlier this week where he traveled back to the 1930s while yelling at Piers Morgan on CNN, psychotic conspiracy theorist and part-time Ugly American stereotype Alex Jones is speaking out against the threat represented by the Patriots, a secret cabal that ruled the world in secret in the Metal Gear game franchise. Said Mr. Jones on hi radio show, "We have lived long enough in the shadow of these Patriots, who use the name to fool you into thinking they are patriotic, when actually patriots are people like me, who know the risks posed by foreigners such as commies and Orientals. They wanna put these tiny nanomachines doo-hickeys into every gun so that no one can fire them! Well, I say that we should destroy them all, and take steps to give every American training in battle like this Solid Snake (a real American hero, by the way), and personal Metal Gear robots for everyone! Let the government try to take away 300 million walking tanks, they won't, and the world is safe. In the meantime, I'm waiting for Grand Theft Auto 5, so I can kill some of those Los Angeles types who hate guns." After this, there was varying reactions from all sides, Glenn beck said something, but since he's an irrelevant hate-monger, it wasn't important. And Piers Morgan was sighted buying a  China Lake Grenade Launcher, his reason being "If he comes back to finish me off since I can't be dpeorted on his orders, I'll be ready" Representatives of Mr. Jones have no idea how he got his hands on the Metal Gear games,  which it turns out are very anti-war.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Nixon's Birthday

 Today is Richard Nixon's 100th birthday. And all I think about is how in Watchmen he sent Dr Manhattan to Vietnam, thus really affecting history and repealing the 22nd amendment. (Apparently, he was chosen as a way to savagely mock Reagan, as Alan Moore said "No one is going to argue that Nixon is scum", or something like that, which is funny because I was going on CNN, which had an article about how Nixon could be a new model for the GOP, but anyway I'm getting off topic.) What was I talking about? Oh yes, Watchmen. I wonder what G. Gordon Liddy would react to how he was the inspiration for the Comedian? Probably by assassinating Alan Moore. Anyway, that makes me wonder what would happen if you gave criminals copies of Watchmen, how would they react? Would they slam it for being unsympathetic or inaccurate to criminal life? And who would win in a fistfight, Stan Lee or some blogger guy who sits all day reading comcis then saying the comics suck and that he is great?
Ed. note: Sorry, I was playing backgammon with Khloe Kardashian, someone called me to edit this post? I'd love to, but I'm on break.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Generations (No, not the Star Trek movie)

Here's a post that will be the apogee of blogging, as it's formed in an impulsive few seconds without any editor, and will probably be regretted by tomorrow morning: I'm in a way glad not to be part of the cultural generation timeline, I mean I have grandparents of the Silent Generation, not sure of my parents, but I'm neither Generation X nor Millennial (I think, not know), and it's good because I didn't get involved with the shared path of so many of my school peers (from elementary and middle school, mostly), such as short hair. Although a lot of that might explain why I was always picked on, is it so wrong to be reading instead of using school computers to download bootleg music?

Monday, January 7, 2013

Thoughts on the late 60s and today

Been reading a book on my shelf of journalism during the Vietnam War, and as I reached the section on domestic turmoil, I couldn't help but think of how different it is to about 2012 to 2013. Like how construction workers, nicknamed "hard hats", were able to go around in New York and smash in the faces of students, and rather than arrested, they became a political force. Or the backlash to the Kent State shooting, where citizens wrote in and suggested vigilante action against anyone with long hair. Representations of the people being fought in the far-off, great, I lost my train of thought, I swear I had more. Oh well, I leave you with this post.
Edit: Also, how blue-collar workers brawled right when their jobs would become obsolete with robots? Nope, now I'm trying to tap a well without water. Good night.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Breaking News From Provo, Utah

This just in from our cracked news team in Salt Lake City, apparently Brigham Young University is editing their rules on abstinence for its students to exempt the Japanese-originated brothel practice known as Soapland. Says University spokesman Irving Prescott Freely, "We want our student body to abide by the honor code, but realize that if they strictly follow it, their brains will explode. So, after one of our students was caught with a video of the practice, we all got together and thought that it'd be the perfect solution, since they technically aren't engaging in extramarital sex, and logically are not sinning, and thus is within the rules." For those of you who want to know what this practice is, but wisely don't trust internet search engines, here's a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapland (By the way, that's the magic of Wikipedia, two pages before that I was looking for a page on audio-visual clubs, then thanks to clicking on the wrong link I wound up there.)
(Note:This is not a real news item. But if you pass it on as a real one, then go for it, that'd be hilarious.)

Friday, January 4, 2013

On Steroids

I hope that baseball players and other athletes stop taking anabolic steroids, because of the unethical and illegal aspects, as well as IT Does Not Make You Stronger, You Overpaid Idiots! It's not like if you take them, you'll become the Hulk, or Captain America, or even Hourman! GAAAAHHHHH!!!!(Sorry, on a bit of a sugar rush from eating gummi candies, ironically now am pumped and READY TO KICK ASS!)

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Things I want gone in 2013 (A humorous-ish list)

-Fox News
-Rush Limbaugh
-The Kardashians
-TV Tropes
-Skinny jeans
-Any elected official who believes the only place for endangered birds is on a menu at their country club.
- TMZ
-Ke$ha
-Excessive food at Denny's, such as the Bacon Sundae.
-Scientology
-A number of blogs taken away from loudmouths who believe themselves high-and-mighty experts.
-Condescending cultural critics
-Paranormal Activity movies
-The current president of Syria
-Anyone who is considering a run for the presidency in 2016
-The two-party system
-Conspiracy theorist gym teachers
-Suburbs
-A lack of journalistic integrity
-People who do lists of what they hate and wish were gone in the next year while ignoring the optimistic potential of other things.
(P.S.-Sorry if it didn't turn out funny, but you guys read this without paying, so no refund, ha ha!)

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Last word on The Science of Superheroes

In retrospect, I never should have trusted that book, even back when I first got it. Due to such things as the authors naming the Hulk "This Man, This Monster", despite that any comics fan would know that's the name of the famous Fantastic Four storyline about the Thing. And calling Donald Duck by Carl Barks a superhero, and not once even acknowledging his Italian alter ego PK, and who knows how many inaccuracies are in there. That's all.