Suicide

Worlds Strongest Whiskey To Go Back Into Production

yeah...ok...if I'd had a bottle of this 2 years ago, I'd be dead now.
Or, at least, needing to hire someone to wipe my ass

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Teacher has sex change

Sex Changed Teacher

This is, of course, moronic. We have a shortage of decent teachers, and this person wants to teach. According to a couple of kids, McBeth was a GOOD teacher.

Vincent Mustacchio, parent: "Why then, would she want to take that abnormality and subject that to this age of school children?"

So children shouldn't see abnormalities? Or anything that might make them confused or uncomfortable?
OK.
No teachers in wheelchairs.
No teachers with any kind of scars.
No teachers who are of any race the kids don't normally see.
God forbid, no arabic teachers. That might raise issues.
No teachers who might be perceived as gay.
No teachers who might dress too 'butch' or 'femme'

No teachers who don't look exactly like June and Ward Cleaver.


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Stupid Healthy Happiness

OK, I hate salad.
I really do.
Sometimes I'll admit I get a craving for it, but usually after I've spent a week or two not eating anything remotely close to healthy.
But I hate salad.
I play with my salad to avoid eating it (I like to make little mouths out of onions)
Unfortunately, salad...veggies...are good for you.
And so I am in bondage to salad.
But no longer!!

Bolthouse Farms

The drinks and juices these guys make get me much more nutrition than my salad does.
I highly suggest the Perfectly Protein, the Berry Boost and the distressing Green Goodness. I say that last one is distressing because if I'd known what it looked like, I would never...EVER...have bought it. It is repulsive.
However, it tastes like green apples!
I have one serving of each a day.
No more salad for me!
As I've so often said...That's not food. That's what food eats!
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I Eat Your Horny Flesh

I Eat Your Horny Flesh
(my webcomic)
Its coming back!! WHOOHOO!!!
There's a number of strips up there now, but it was just such a pain to produce them since I know zero about photoshop. I had to build each on manually and it took me an hour. And I'm lazy.
Add in the house buying and the move and it just plain old fell aside.
However, my friend built me a quick and easy template to handle it all so within the next day or two, it should be updated and should continue to do so at least twice a week.
Hope y'all like it!
(if you do go visit, please excuse one or two of the older items that are all messed up...I'll fix those eventually)

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MTV tries to be cool, makes you a loser

MTV Hypocrisy

I saw this last night. MTV is saying that kids should give up a day (or more) of their spring break to help out with causes they believe in.
And I am 150% for that.
But...
If MTV really wants this to happen, don't you think they should stop running their big spring break programming?
Basically, the message is "Please, help out the world. We cool people will be over here partying"
I fucking hate MTV.
They came so close to being great.

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Am I the only one who doesn't care about Don Knotts?

Honestly, people.
He was awful in everything except Mr Limpett.
And even there...
The fact is that the Andy Griffith show is crap.
god.
I suppose that this comes down to the old "Marx Brothers" vs "Three Stooges" debate.

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Jesus as a superhero

Steve Garfield has an interesting post up.
Funny, I see this as DIRECTLY relating to comics.


Jefferson's Bible

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MAN EATING CHICKENS

Well, this has to be a sign of the end times.
We're truely doomed.

MAN EATING CHICKENS!!!

Chickens born with a mutated gene associated with tooth development were coaxed by researchers into growing functioning teeth, according to a paper published in this week's Current Biology.

yup...we're clucked.

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Spiderman

Spiderman in black

is tres cool. definately a black costume (though the picture is black and white)
if you click on the image, you get a bigger one.
guy on Ain't It Cool News said that you can sort of see the green goblin in the eye reflection.
surprisingly, I think I can.

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Govenor Living In A Box

The Daily Show isn't real???

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Trading Spouses and brain tumors

OK, so, don't get me wrong, I LOVED the episode of Trading Spouses with the religious freak
being switched with the new age woman.
I mean, this woman Marguerite is, in fact, a nut job.
No doubt about it.
Her friends, who our new age chickie had to deal with, actually seemed worse, though, in many ways.
I'm not going to go into detail about the craziness of this M, because if you care about such things you've already heard about them.
But now that I've really watched it, I'm actually worried about the woman.
I think she may be very sick.
And I don't mean in her beliefs. Thats her business and not mine.
But...
1) at one point, she starts to smell oders that aren't there. She smells them so vividly, that she starts to wretch and vomit.
2) she turns near-homicidal at one point, screaming her lungs out at her husband (who seems as sane as she seems crazy)
3) During #2, her family acts as if they've never seen her this way.

I think she may have a tumor.
I'm really not kidding about this.
I'm pretty sure these are all symptoms of tumors.
Its terrifying.
I hope someone gets her some medical attention
Of course, this could all be due to how they cut the footage.
Or maybe I'm watching too much House

Now that I've paid more attention to the ending, I don't find it as funny.
There's something very scary and disturbing about it all.
And I feel for her family.
The eldest daughter and HER daughter were given money to move out.
I hope they use it.

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China Insane Over Animation

China Insane Over Animation


Now, I suppose that this is reasonable, in the sense that they are trying to
encourage locally developed animation (though I don't I don't see why the ban
only applies to mixed live-action/animation shows and movies).
However, I suspect that insanity may be at the heart of this ban, as seen with an earlier edict:

Chinese regulatory authorities are notoriously skittish regarding broadcast and film themes that include the supernatural or fantasy, including talking animals. "Babe" was banned on the basis that animals can't talk and some viewers would be confused.

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McDonald's getting sued

McDonald's getting sued

OK, now, I'm not completely certain either of these lawsuits have merit but...
1) the wheat thing: if you are allergic to ANYTHING, should you be eating at McDs in the first place?
2) The dairy thing. Sure. Sue away. Show me damages. C'mon, vegan. Once again, they should have been up front, but I seriously doubt Ms Sugich spent much time agonizing over the revelation.

Restaurants (not just fast food joints) should be and have to be upfront with everything about their food. But part of me feels like, if you walk into a fast food restaurant, and you are in any way health-or-diet conscious, aren't you looking for trouble?

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BEST BUY BULLIES

DON'T LET BEST BUY BULLY YOU

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You want your camera? Come get it.

Camera Unlost But Not Quite Found

See, we wonder why our kids grow up without morals.
We'd rather blame video games.
We'd rather blame TV.
We'd rather blame the music.
But no.
Its because we teach them this crap.
We'd rather teach them its OK to steal and lie.
And then we wonder why they steal and lie and go into rages about the media and the schools.


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I am unfunny

Amazing.
That show...The War At Home...has rendered me unfunny.
I mean, completely.
There are zero laughs in me.
I laugh, I still like jokes and wit...but I find myself unable to generate humor.
This is bad.
This is very bad.
Psych warfare?

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Crucify Myself

Sure, crucifixtion sounds good

The Scottish TV presenter and journalist Dominik Diamond is considering undergoing physical crucifixion as part of a controversial television documentary about Christianity.

Now, don't get me wrong, I think there's alot to be said for journeying physically as a response to journeying spiritually.
(actually, I thought the whole point of Christ's cricufixtion was to make sure we didn't suffer?)
However, one can go too far. I suppose this would be alot like a evolutionary biologist trying to live underwater to discover about his genetic past.
I'm assumign that Mr. Diamond is just putting on a show with this statement. Which to me undermines the profound nature of what he claims to be doing.
Either that or he's a whack job.
I wonder if Tori Amos will be watching.


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Infection!

I heard something on NPR this weekend about rising infectious diseases and how that might change our lives.
Surprisingly, it wasn't about how, y'know, getting infections and dying might change our lives.
The guest talked about how we'd have to consider if we wanted to go swimming in a particular pond, for example. Apparently, when he was growing up, his parents kept him from swimming for fear of polio.
And, certainly, I'd agree with him. We are so used to getting sick, getting some medicine, and getting better that we are unprepared for dealing with preventing sickness. Doctors, for example, recommend a fairly annoying process for washing your hands in a public bathroom:
1) wash your hands for 30 seconds (longer than you think it is)
2) do not turn the water off
3) take a paper towel and dry your hands thoroughly.
4) keep the towel, and use it to turn off the water
5) keep the towel, and use it to open the door to leave.

I have no idea what to do with the towel then.
And I can't imagine anyone cares.

What I was thinking, though, was that we'll have to develop different attitudes towards medical care.
If serious diseases are on the rise, does it not follow that, sometimes, decisions will have to be made regarding who gets what care?
Eventually, we'll have to start weighing costs and benefits as resources become more strained. Should 15 'units of healthcare' be spent on a person who probably won't live or should 15 people with decent chances of recovery each get 1 unit?
If there's ever another flu pandemic, this will almost certainly become an issue.
50 million people, in 1918.
50 million people and now we are even closer together.
And now we transmit much faster.
What will it take?



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Comics Review: Kid Eternity by Grant Morrison

The problem is that I wanted to like Kid Eternity.
I really did.
I read it when it first came out in 1991.
Hell, I even had a comic with an original Kid Eternity story in it.
So I wanted to like this.
The art by Duncan Fegredo reminds me of Dave McKean. The story was written by Grant Morrison.
So I wanted to like this.
It talks about Big Things, Primal Things.
So...
Well, you get the point.
The story follows Kid Eternity, an ancient, minor-at-best character as he discovers who and what his purpose really is. It follows a comedian as he discovers his role in the bigger picture It talks about the coming change as heaven and hell ascend, with humanity, to the great oneness.
The problem is that I didn't like it.
It was disjointed and confusing.
The art, though beautiful and expressive, didn't convey a narrative.
The story, though it tried hard enough, was choppy at best.
And I know I liked it when I first read.
But that was a great time for comics.
DC was taking every chance, every risk, because they were still getting crushed by the X-titles.
This was part of a wave of books that just went into the realm of the weird, laying the Vertigo groundwork.
Sandman, Animal Man (also by Morrison), Swamp Thing, Shade, The Changing Man.
They talked about the foundations of the universe, about heaven and hell, the nature of reality and who we are.
It was a time of learning and trying things and just going insane.
And, for the most part, it worked. K-E was just not part of 'the most part'.
And that’s OK.
Breaking format is always dangerous, especially when sales are measured month by month.
The failures are to be expected.
Hell, they are to be encouraged!
Failures like this are the result of trying something new. And that’s a good thing.
It means things are growing and changing and I love that.
DC took a lot from that era, though it also left a lot behind, and part of that was an understanding of their own universe.
They keep that in the background, and it pops up randomly, especially with their magic characters.
But even the more 'mainstream' characters grew from it.
Heroes became expressions of the forces of nature; the red, the green, speed.
They became archetypes, neither the first nor the last ones of their line.
You couldn't have had Kingdom Comewithout that sense of God-ness.
Not in my opinion.




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Sorry

Sorry its been a dead weekend. Just one of those things.
Productivity should go up today and tonight.
Stay with me folks.