Having converted to football fandom a few years back now I must say that I am stoked as hell to have the footballs back! Madden, Sunday games and best of all...Tis fall! I do believe that this is my favorite time of year. When the weather is perfect, TV is entertaining again; alive this particular year with a good year for Chicago sports, and ridiculous election season, and TV shows that are not reruns. I hope the Sox make it, I think the Cubs will make it and the Bears seem to be playing better than anyone expected (though that bubble could burst as it's only week 2 as of this writing) so you've got that. I also haven't given much bloggy time towards much in the realm of pop culture so let's do a little empty-headed, summer round up shall we?
Best Summer Blockbuster: Hands down, The Dark Knight. I liked this movie so damn much that I am now afraid to go see other movies because I already know whatever it is wont be as good as TDK was. What a perfect film, well paced, well performed, well directed and how 'bout that Joker?! Holy fuck! Ledger's Joker made Nicholson's look like Romero's. Actually, none of the big tent poles this summer were too bad which is why I felt it was a pretty great summer movie season. I liked the Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk and even HellBoy II...Hell, I even enjoyed The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Though I should point out that my expectations were so low, like Jar-Jar Binks cameo low, that the mere fact that it was serviceable and despite some stupid shit (CG monkies from Jumanji, Interdimensional Aliens, surviving nukular weapons) it really played out alright and I never quite felt like strangling Shea The Bouf. So, a masterpiece I will never forget? Nope. Not a stinking turd that makes my ass itchy with redness so therefore...it's alright.
Best Shit I saw on DVD: Finally saw The Flight of the Concords and as most people would expect; LOVED IT! Bought the soundtrack! Enjoy 'Uckin with my Shi! Also of the ass kicking, laugh out loud variety...Weeds. I cannot get enough of this show though I must confess I have obsession issues with Mary-Louise Parker...Why can she not love me as I her? WHY!?!?! The 3rd season was pretty awesome/hilarious and if you have not indulged and are seeking another cable TV show to get into via the netflix DO IT!
My favorite movies to get via the netflix are the documentaries...There never seems to be a short supply of fucking awesome docs...This summer I saw several I LOVED and heartily recommend: Darkon, The Business of Being Born, War Made Easy, Everything's Cool, A/K/A Tommy Chong, What Would Jesus Buy and The Lost Boys The Tribe (yes, I actually saw it...Don't ask...I don't understand it myself). Additional honorable mentions go to Smart People and The Bank Job...Statham fucking rocks. Darkon is good for those who may have loved The King of Kong last year and is just about as sad/funny as you can get...I nearly busted a gut but again I am a sick, evil fuck though I wager if you read this stoopid blog then you will likely like that movie. Everything's Cool made me a bit depressed but is well worth the watch and similar things can be said about War Made Easy. I strongly urge any parent or parent-to-be to check out the somewhat controversial Business of Being Born as it brought up many questions and inspired much discussion, occasionally heated as it covered stuff I never would ever have thought about (or need to really) but for some reason my curiosity brings me to things like this. What Would Jesus Buy? is also quite funny though it has it's moments that make you feel sad as well...Sad that we are all addicted to buying shit, and more shit, and more shit after that...This flick takes an interesting, performance art approach to addressing that issue. An issue which also bleeds into the credit debt nightmare many of us share with our little nation these days.
Best Summer Read: Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We do (And What it Says About Us) Is a fascinating exploration of driving and how our psychology fucks it up for ourselves and everyone around us. I knew I was a bit of a lead footed driver but now I have a whole new idea as to what kind of driver I am (and hopefully was). A lot of my traffic oriented assumptions turn out to be quite wrong and so will many of yours. If you come across this one and you happen to do a lot of driving then I say CHECK IT OUT!
Best Summer CD: Yeah, I still by CDs like a jerk but the BEST of this summer? Beck's Modern Guilt! Short, sweet and fucking AWESOME!!!!
And on that note I close this post suddenly as it is QUITTING TIME!
*Whistle blows, Tim busts office window, slides down neck of purple brontosaurus and foot pedals his Saturn the fuck outta here!*
Friday, September 19, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
I like to network, I like to disco
Been a busy couple of days as my office has done some strategic moving this week. Since I have had this job my office had been part of a miniature cube farm stuck catacomb style in a basement of a dorm on my beautiful campus. Wasn't particularly bad as I don't mind a cube that has a bit of space but it was close quarters with the rest of my office. Essentially nine of us were crammed in various corners of our basement with no windows and no real ventilation. It made being on the phone difficult as it could get loud quickly and you had to get used to the notion that there was no such thing as a confidential conversation and so forth. As I mentioned, we are in the basement of a dorm and as it happens the campus Residence Life office was housed directly above. This year we opened a brand, spanking new dorm on the other end of campus complete with a new and improved residence life office. So off they went and up I went! My department now has a front door which is above ground and a bit more ideal for meeting with students and so on. So, I, for the first time, have my very own office AND it has a WINDOW. Now, I actually am somewhat indifferent towards windows, they are nice and the like but to the rest of the campus I may as well have been given a bar of gold. So, I shall not take it for granted *drops pants, presses ass on new window, loses job*
Anyhow, another fun aspect of my current gig is that I often have weird and different kinds of events both on and off campus where sometimes speak, sometimes, sit a table and look pretty, sometimes just direct people to and fro and today had one of the weirder of my many weird events...I was a chamber of commerce networking luncheon. I go to a couple of these sorts of things each fall and every time they can be slightly different as they are always trying different things to get more and different businesses, consultants, entrepreneurs together to hob-knob, compare notes, try and manipulate each other, and generally just get to know who and what else is around the area. Each town and village has it's own chambers and then their are larger regional chambers that the smaller ones are part of and all of them are loaded up with all kinds of members and organizations. Although they tend to be largely small business owners and consultant types. To say it was boring would be incorrect but I can also say that they are not exactly thrilling either as really they are just kind of bizarre in a low key sort of way.
Today's event was the absolutely most unique one I have been to yet as instead of the usual lunch, guest speaker, awkward, "forced-smile" conversations this particular chamber group (one of the larger regional ones) went for a speed dating approach. They had four rows of chairs lined up and people were assigned to a row and seat and you had a minute to tell the other person across from you what you do, company does, etc. and then you move to the next person. We were there largely to act as a sort of community reach out from our college and to hopefully suck in a few people who might want their MBA and so on. So I had to pitch my entire list of programs and services in basically 30 seconds then they got to tell me about their shit. Their shit included, various financial advisers, credit union types, finance consultants, a eco-friendly paper shredding organization, a pest control service (Rentokil!), a party room director from a Schaumburg restaurant, a company Human Resources provider, a personal health insurance consultant, a small business developer, and a dude from New York Life. It was intense, annoying and at the end I felt like i had just finished screaming at a concert THEN it was time for the luncheon part of the networking luncheon...
We then were assigned tables carefully choreographed so that you wouldn't be sitting with any of the people you just shouted your job description to in the speed-dating line and here's where the magic happened. I enjoyed my fine lunch with two small marketing's company reps, a printer, someone who sells payment systems, a mortgage sales person, a security consultant/sales guy and my favorite...A Disaster consultant! That guy was a McCain voter, had the gut, belt buckle and cell in a gun holster to prove it...And he really wanted to scare the crap out of all of us. Naturally, as we began to dig into our catering we each took a few minutes to tell each other what we do for a living and when it was his turn it was 9/11 time! He talked about floods in Iowa, train derailments in Wisconsin, poisoned cattle, failed computer networks, and even mentioned that next week he was going for some training for dealing with "active shooters." So, he gave us this whole talk about how every company needs a disaster plan and they need him to think ahead for them. Not that he isn't correct, he is absolutely correct about those things, it was just the way he communicated it was classic, "THEY'RE COMIN STRAIGHT FOR US!" reactionary, fear-mongery and just plain awesome. It also helped that the security guy was next to him so he was able to piggy-back his security talk along with him and by the end I was ready to create a secure disaster plan that is infallible!
It also lead directly into an "Oh, 9/11 is tomorrow" conversation which is another good conversation to have with strangers let me tell you! You have to wade in carefully so as not to cross into political waters which is SO FUCKING HARD to do, especially for me. The disaster guy was quite serious about it and lost good friends in the towers so you really had to be careful and after he said that I decided it would be best if I simply nodded and didn't say anything. The mortgage sales guy was quite an experienced networker so he then tried to take the 9/11 talk to, "Boy, I remember exactly where I was that day; do you all remember where you were then?" which is a good way to try and get every one talking though I almost said no just to see what they would do. I didn't and everyone at the table then nodded vigorously and started to tell where they were all at once. Quickly it became a case of each trying to top the other with how their parents almost visited the towers that day, or their sister's ex-husband's dog was there up to the guy who was friends with firefighters who died in the towers. My favorite was one of the marketing people who chimed in with, "Oh, I remember that day really well! Wasn't it early in the morning?" To which I really wanted to say, "No, that was the third Iraqistanian war in 2004!" Marketing people RULE! Hell, small business people RULE!
So, naturally after the desserts I promptly jumped up on the table itself and condescended personally to each and every person there, took a dump and flew out of the room through the ceiling propelled by natural gas.
Uh, I didn't have a funny ending so I thought I would make one up.
Anyhow, another fun aspect of my current gig is that I often have weird and different kinds of events both on and off campus where sometimes speak, sometimes, sit a table and look pretty, sometimes just direct people to and fro and today had one of the weirder of my many weird events...I was a chamber of commerce networking luncheon. I go to a couple of these sorts of things each fall and every time they can be slightly different as they are always trying different things to get more and different businesses, consultants, entrepreneurs together to hob-knob, compare notes, try and manipulate each other, and generally just get to know who and what else is around the area. Each town and village has it's own chambers and then their are larger regional chambers that the smaller ones are part of and all of them are loaded up with all kinds of members and organizations. Although they tend to be largely small business owners and consultant types. To say it was boring would be incorrect but I can also say that they are not exactly thrilling either as really they are just kind of bizarre in a low key sort of way.
Today's event was the absolutely most unique one I have been to yet as instead of the usual lunch, guest speaker, awkward, "forced-smile" conversations this particular chamber group (one of the larger regional ones) went for a speed dating approach. They had four rows of chairs lined up and people were assigned to a row and seat and you had a minute to tell the other person across from you what you do, company does, etc. and then you move to the next person. We were there largely to act as a sort of community reach out from our college and to hopefully suck in a few people who might want their MBA and so on. So I had to pitch my entire list of programs and services in basically 30 seconds then they got to tell me about their shit. Their shit included, various financial advisers, credit union types, finance consultants, a eco-friendly paper shredding organization, a pest control service (Rentokil!), a party room director from a Schaumburg restaurant, a company Human Resources provider, a personal health insurance consultant, a small business developer, and a dude from New York Life. It was intense, annoying and at the end I felt like i had just finished screaming at a concert THEN it was time for the luncheon part of the networking luncheon...
We then were assigned tables carefully choreographed so that you wouldn't be sitting with any of the people you just shouted your job description to in the speed-dating line and here's where the magic happened. I enjoyed my fine lunch with two small marketing's company reps, a printer, someone who sells payment systems, a mortgage sales person, a security consultant/sales guy and my favorite...A Disaster consultant! That guy was a McCain voter, had the gut, belt buckle and cell in a gun holster to prove it...And he really wanted to scare the crap out of all of us. Naturally, as we began to dig into our catering we each took a few minutes to tell each other what we do for a living and when it was his turn it was 9/11 time! He talked about floods in Iowa, train derailments in Wisconsin, poisoned cattle, failed computer networks, and even mentioned that next week he was going for some training for dealing with "active shooters." So, he gave us this whole talk about how every company needs a disaster plan and they need him to think ahead for them. Not that he isn't correct, he is absolutely correct about those things, it was just the way he communicated it was classic, "THEY'RE COMIN STRAIGHT FOR US!" reactionary, fear-mongery and just plain awesome. It also helped that the security guy was next to him so he was able to piggy-back his security talk along with him and by the end I was ready to create a secure disaster plan that is infallible!
It also lead directly into an "Oh, 9/11 is tomorrow" conversation which is another good conversation to have with strangers let me tell you! You have to wade in carefully so as not to cross into political waters which is SO FUCKING HARD to do, especially for me. The disaster guy was quite serious about it and lost good friends in the towers so you really had to be careful and after he said that I decided it would be best if I simply nodded and didn't say anything. The mortgage sales guy was quite an experienced networker so he then tried to take the 9/11 talk to, "Boy, I remember exactly where I was that day; do you all remember where you were then?" which is a good way to try and get every one talking though I almost said no just to see what they would do. I didn't and everyone at the table then nodded vigorously and started to tell where they were all at once. Quickly it became a case of each trying to top the other with how their parents almost visited the towers that day, or their sister's ex-husband's dog was there up to the guy who was friends with firefighters who died in the towers. My favorite was one of the marketing people who chimed in with, "Oh, I remember that day really well! Wasn't it early in the morning?" To which I really wanted to say, "No, that was the third Iraqistanian war in 2004!" Marketing people RULE! Hell, small business people RULE!
So, naturally after the desserts I promptly jumped up on the table itself and condescended personally to each and every person there, took a dump and flew out of the room through the ceiling propelled by natural gas.
Uh, I didn't have a funny ending so I thought I would make one up.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Some non-political crap
Thanks for stopping by!
This effort to "get bloggin again" is also part of an effort of my own mentally scaling down online. I have shit and little sites everywhere and I am hunting them down and deleting when necessary, and in one case, I am posting a link to another blog abandoned a few years ago. I called it the Local Boob and at that time I was trying to play political blogger not unlike the past several posts here. Obviously, I still care about that shit BUT I just don't have the stomach to keep at it all the time; say like a certain Guither guy I know. All the same, I need to vent sometimes and my narcissitic, me-first, personality jives well with blogging and social networks and all that other hooey that keeps people in touch online and estranged in real life.
I do love me the interwebs as it has much use but there are peculiar downsides I have noticed more and more and we rapidly move further and deeper into our computer machines and further away from actual human interaction. One obvious one is the negativity. Ever call a complete stranger on the street a "dicknosed cumsucker" to their face because the way they looked or perhaps expressed an opinion with a T-shirt? Hard to do in life as you really don't have time and do want to be courteous and polite and so forth...But online? Gloves are off baby! Hell their ain't even gloves in the first place there are just text, code and typing so it is way easy to call someone's lovely grandmother a "near-dead, stinking cunt" because she happend to comment on a baseball article with an opinion different than yours. Funny how that goes, eh? You see online these are not other people, we don't psychologically respond that way, we see icons, avatars or simply text denoting "someone or something" and thus it becomes patently simple to not just disagree with someone but to also go on and mention that they should have their intestines forcably removed and raped while stabbing out their eyes with a blender. It's not unlike road rage only with more creativity and thought applied to random attacks. We don't generally see other people driving around in traffic, just other cars...THINGS...So that is partially why it's so easy to yell invective in the confines of our own automobile where no one else can hear. Sometimes this can be HILARIOUS! Sometimes you can barely notice and sometimes, I at least, feel bad.
In this big, polite, PC, Diversity is good, world we all float around in you simply are not allowed, or allow yourself, to let the drawers down and let the turds fly...Online, however, you can tell Sister Theresa to go fuck a rusty train spike and die from tetanus-aids while bleeding from the holy rectum without a moment's pause! Gotta LOVE IT!
The other thing that has developed over the years, particularly with white people, are the same kind of retarded, unspoken, social stigmas that come up with any thing else in the realm of pop culture. "This" is cool and "that" is dumb and therefore there are various kinds of judgements one can make if you happen to prefer, like, or are unaware of "that." A fantastic example is how people "feel" about Facebook versus MySpace. MySpace, starting around aught four or five, became the internet place to go. Friends, bands, lovers, narcissitism it was wonderful but soon, not unlike how "dating people you met on the internet" used to be "uncool," so too went MySpace. If you are "in" now you are on Facebook! Which happens to be the same in almost every way but the organization and color scheme but it is SAFER! There's less spam and therefore it is not nearly as "whorish" as that shitty, dirty, spam ridden, slutty, MySpace...BLECH!
Nevermind that the internet is actually computer code that tells your computer what to show you in the form of text, photos and colors and really is actually not anything at all. Yet, should you use your computer to manipulate code on MySpace Or Craig's List (in R&R anyhow) or a place that has...dare I mention...Pornography...Then you are a lesser person. You are scummy, dirty, blah blah blah. Now, really, I am just stating an obvious notion that has also applied to what kind of movies you watch or like, TV, Books etc. It is simply culture and personally it doesn't really matter. I think I just find it amusing at how much stock we all put in the proverbial shadows on the wall. People are funny like that! For that matter I'M just as guilty (as it were) as anyone else is...I just wanted to riff on that notion a while. Share yo thoughts!
This effort to "get bloggin again" is also part of an effort of my own mentally scaling down online. I have shit and little sites everywhere and I am hunting them down and deleting when necessary, and in one case, I am posting a link to another blog abandoned a few years ago. I called it the Local Boob and at that time I was trying to play political blogger not unlike the past several posts here. Obviously, I still care about that shit BUT I just don't have the stomach to keep at it all the time; say like a certain Guither guy I know. All the same, I need to vent sometimes and my narcissitic, me-first, personality jives well with blogging and social networks and all that other hooey that keeps people in touch online and estranged in real life.
I do love me the interwebs as it has much use but there are peculiar downsides I have noticed more and more and we rapidly move further and deeper into our computer machines and further away from actual human interaction. One obvious one is the negativity. Ever call a complete stranger on the street a "dicknosed cumsucker" to their face because the way they looked or perhaps expressed an opinion with a T-shirt? Hard to do in life as you really don't have time and do want to be courteous and polite and so forth...But online? Gloves are off baby! Hell their ain't even gloves in the first place there are just text, code and typing so it is way easy to call someone's lovely grandmother a "near-dead, stinking cunt" because she happend to comment on a baseball article with an opinion different than yours. Funny how that goes, eh? You see online these are not other people, we don't psychologically respond that way, we see icons, avatars or simply text denoting "someone or something" and thus it becomes patently simple to not just disagree with someone but to also go on and mention that they should have their intestines forcably removed and raped while stabbing out their eyes with a blender. It's not unlike road rage only with more creativity and thought applied to random attacks. We don't generally see other people driving around in traffic, just other cars...THINGS...So that is partially why it's so easy to yell invective in the confines of our own automobile where no one else can hear. Sometimes this can be HILARIOUS! Sometimes you can barely notice and sometimes, I at least, feel bad.
In this big, polite, PC, Diversity is good, world we all float around in you simply are not allowed, or allow yourself, to let the drawers down and let the turds fly...Online, however, you can tell Sister Theresa to go fuck a rusty train spike and die from tetanus-aids while bleeding from the holy rectum without a moment's pause! Gotta LOVE IT!
The other thing that has developed over the years, particularly with white people, are the same kind of retarded, unspoken, social stigmas that come up with any thing else in the realm of pop culture. "This" is cool and "that" is dumb and therefore there are various kinds of judgements one can make if you happen to prefer, like, or are unaware of "that." A fantastic example is how people "feel" about Facebook versus MySpace. MySpace, starting around aught four or five, became the internet place to go. Friends, bands, lovers, narcissitism it was wonderful but soon, not unlike how "dating people you met on the internet" used to be "uncool," so too went MySpace. If you are "in" now you are on Facebook! Which happens to be the same in almost every way but the organization and color scheme but it is SAFER! There's less spam and therefore it is not nearly as "whorish" as that shitty, dirty, spam ridden, slutty, MySpace...BLECH!
Nevermind that the internet is actually computer code that tells your computer what to show you in the form of text, photos and colors and really is actually not anything at all. Yet, should you use your computer to manipulate code on MySpace Or Craig's List (in R&R anyhow) or a place that has...dare I mention...Pornography...Then you are a lesser person. You are scummy, dirty, blah blah blah. Now, really, I am just stating an obvious notion that has also applied to what kind of movies you watch or like, TV, Books etc. It is simply culture and personally it doesn't really matter. I think I just find it amusing at how much stock we all put in the proverbial shadows on the wall. People are funny like that! For that matter I'M just as guilty (as it were) as anyone else is...I just wanted to riff on that notion a while. Share yo thoughts!
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Good 'n Evil, faith and spare change...
Welp. that's a wrap on that good ole RNC! And never, not even John McCain's speech, was there any mention of anything specific that he intends to do. A few sort of vague promises to lower taxes and stop sending money to countries that don't like us and maybe he'll fire some crappy teachers. Outside of that I heard a couple of echoes from the Obama campaign (energy stuff, CHANGE) and a few more insults. Idiots. Sad truth is they still could win. People, especially salt of the earth rich republicans (and the clowns who share their values) like all that us vs. them, good vs. evil. It's down home, straght talk that leads to more money for me and away from stupid community organizers and the rest of you lazy, liberal, America-hating, layabouts. Get out there and teach some one to read, DAMMIT! Enlist! Marry a member of the opposite sex and breed so you can better condescend to those idiot liberals and out-of-the-closet gays who don't have kids and don't spend all their money on gas and Disney and...and...and...WE GOTTA STOP THE EVIL!?!?
Despite the literal truth that all of the world exists in some every changing shade of gray...THERE'S GOOD AND THERE'S EVIL!?!? The GOOD (faithful, family, who want all that money they make while working for "you") are thusly ENTITLED to all they deserve. We are entitled to drill the fuck out of the few parts of the region we haven't destroyed and implanted a Wal-Mart into because that's OUR OIL! We are entitled to drive SUVs, own guns, consume endlessly, and magic away all of our waste with increased nuclear power, clean coal and all the rest of that shit Obama talked about last week.
This is why I maintain these people are living in a cartoon. A fictional "'Merican" fantasy land where everyone thinks and acts like us and feels just like all those awesome movies Ronald Reagan used to make. We're all Americans and despite our vast diversity and economic disparity wanton lust for waste we all DESERVE to be rich, have no government interference and let the invisible hand of the free market make everything better. Because clearly the consumer rules and all those massive corporations will respond. Just like they did in the 1970's when it became painfully obvious to some that we might be completely fucking the entire human habitat...BLAH BLAH BLAH...FAMILY VALUES! Palin is HAWT! And they are good, common folk not rich elitist like the media and Mr. Aloof Obama! Hell, they are so awesome it's almost as if it wasn't the very same party and people that were leading the country the last eight years. In fact, those guys (apparent liberal, big spenders who have become just like "them") made a few changes already! Fourth ammendment? CHANGED! America doesn't torture? CHANGED! Invade another country against every supposed American historic principle? CHANGED!
So go ahead, let's vote in McCain and see what happens! Maybe by then he will share with us how he will change everything and fix the environment, economy, create jobs and lower taxes all while continuing wars and bringing down the deficit. I buy it! In fact, maybe he can use the community colleges to help retrain the American workers to get jobs that won't go away! Because apparently Community Colleges haven't been doing that all along at all. And hell, if we just gave everyone an associate's degree everyone will get a good job...At Wal-Mart and Starbucks!!!
Yes, Barack had plenty of empty shit in his speech too but it sure wasn't more of the same ole, same ole...I heard nothing in these past 3 nights but the usual, entilted, flag waving, cowboy hat waving, "liberal" hating, fear mongering horse shit they always say. No real understanding of what the real Americans (the non-rich kind) or of what our supposed enemies think or are, nor do they understand that a country cannot win an occupation. Not saying the Dems have all those answers either but why in the fuck would anyone consider letting the Republicans keep at it. Ridiculous.
Despite the literal truth that all of the world exists in some every changing shade of gray...THERE'S GOOD AND THERE'S EVIL!?!? The GOOD (faithful, family, who want all that money they make while working for "you") are thusly ENTITLED to all they deserve. We are entitled to drill the fuck out of the few parts of the region we haven't destroyed and implanted a Wal-Mart into because that's OUR OIL! We are entitled to drive SUVs, own guns, consume endlessly, and magic away all of our waste with increased nuclear power, clean coal and all the rest of that shit Obama talked about last week.
This is why I maintain these people are living in a cartoon. A fictional "'Merican" fantasy land where everyone thinks and acts like us and feels just like all those awesome movies Ronald Reagan used to make. We're all Americans and despite our vast diversity and economic disparity wanton lust for waste we all DESERVE to be rich, have no government interference and let the invisible hand of the free market make everything better. Because clearly the consumer rules and all those massive corporations will respond. Just like they did in the 1970's when it became painfully obvious to some that we might be completely fucking the entire human habitat...BLAH BLAH BLAH...FAMILY VALUES! Palin is HAWT! And they are good, common folk not rich elitist like the media and Mr. Aloof Obama! Hell, they are so awesome it's almost as if it wasn't the very same party and people that were leading the country the last eight years. In fact, those guys (apparent liberal, big spenders who have become just like "them") made a few changes already! Fourth ammendment? CHANGED! America doesn't torture? CHANGED! Invade another country against every supposed American historic principle? CHANGED!
So go ahead, let's vote in McCain and see what happens! Maybe by then he will share with us how he will change everything and fix the environment, economy, create jobs and lower taxes all while continuing wars and bringing down the deficit. I buy it! In fact, maybe he can use the community colleges to help retrain the American workers to get jobs that won't go away! Because apparently Community Colleges haven't been doing that all along at all. And hell, if we just gave everyone an associate's degree everyone will get a good job...At Wal-Mart and Starbucks!!!
Yes, Barack had plenty of empty shit in his speech too but it sure wasn't more of the same ole, same ole...I heard nothing in these past 3 nights but the usual, entilted, flag waving, cowboy hat waving, "liberal" hating, fear mongering horse shit they always say. No real understanding of what the real Americans (the non-rich kind) or of what our supposed enemies think or are, nor do they understand that a country cannot win an occupation. Not saying the Dems have all those answers either but why in the fuck would anyone consider letting the Republicans keep at it. Ridiculous.
Cunt-ry First
Wow! I, like many in the past week, also found Sarah Palin to be intriguing and fairly hot just like many in the media and clearly most at the RNC. Hell, they were even sporting buttons that said, "I support the Hot chick for Veep!" and "McCain/Hot V.P.!" Also like many on TeeVee and elsewhere I knew nothing of Sarah Palin nor do I have any specific memories of ever hearing about her before. Apparently, John McCain just found out about her last week too! So, surely she is the right person to be V.P. for the fine red-state types.
Her speech was a well delivered but empty attack on those cuh-razie liberals and their big government and their high taxes and their ridiculous community organizer notions and accomplished exactly nothing. Maybe deep down in the heart of reoublican hearts they have already written this election off as a loser much like the proverbial "they" were saying as John Kerry became the democratic nominee in aught four, "Run a patsy, we're gonna lose now so as we can run Hillary in aught eight." Just run a neato campaign where they can wave their cowboy hats and say stupid, conventional, generalizations about those damn liberals and taxes and hopefully Palin will come off hot and tough enough to be the new, better Hillary come 2012!?
At least I assume that's their plan because otherwise they have exactly nothing. They don't have a leg to stand on outside of the general intrigue Palin and her slutty daughters has brought to the week. Which isn't nothing as I mentioned in a post last week they took the headlines away from Barack and his great speech in less than 24 hours and it hasn't gone back yet. However, everyday that passes it seems someone finds something new to say, bitch about, or accuse Palin of something so we will see if her ship has sails. I particularly enjoyed the shot I saw on Deadspin of Palin in an American Flag bikini holding a fucking rifle (also note Captain Awesome behind here smoking and holding a Schlitz...yaUUUUU esSSSSSS AyyYYYYY!!! *note, picture is a fake). Mrs. Palin I have some conservative values I would like to spurt on you!
That said, her speech kind of made me go limp as a) didn't care for her voice much, b) her sarcastic, passive aggressiveness can fuck right off and c) her values can kiss me on the dick. That's really what it is with these people, I mean, as I said yesterday this shit does entertain me but when it comes to serious consideration for leadership and so forth it's like a fricking cartoon. I think that can be said for anyone who radically believes a little too deeply in the right, left, or what ever but last nights broad generalizations about huge government, higher taxes and liberals was for the birds. What year do they think they are in anyways? Didn't get the impression that the last 8 years existed from last night and instead heard a lot of their usual, puke inducing, phoney baloney. ANd that's not even getting specific such as mentioning their condescending bullshit as it pertains to the apparently useless 'community organizers' of the world. What I got from that was that those are simply "poor people" which also goes a long way to illuminate their never ending fear mongering about rising taxes. Guess who might get a tax hike if the Dems win? Rich people. Just like all those empty headed fuck-a-roos that are waving their cowboy hats all night long.
That's why Obama's point about how McCain and Co. "Just don't get it" essentially trumps all of last night (even Rudy's nasty act of retardedry). So, tonight I will flip to the final night of this horseshit as I too would like to at least hear what McCain has in mind for his pie in the sky convention closer but I am a wee bit more excited about the Giants/Redskins game and the fact that this weekend is NFL RETURNS WEEK!!! So, I will hopefully post some blogs soon that are not politically motivated.
Her speech was a well delivered but empty attack on those cuh-razie liberals and their big government and their high taxes and their ridiculous community organizer notions and accomplished exactly nothing. Maybe deep down in the heart of reoublican hearts they have already written this election off as a loser much like the proverbial "they" were saying as John Kerry became the democratic nominee in aught four, "Run a patsy, we're gonna lose now so as we can run Hillary in aught eight." Just run a neato campaign where they can wave their cowboy hats and say stupid, conventional, generalizations about those damn liberals and taxes and hopefully Palin will come off hot and tough enough to be the new, better Hillary come 2012!?
At least I assume that's their plan because otherwise they have exactly nothing. They don't have a leg to stand on outside of the general intrigue Palin and her slutty daughters has brought to the week. Which isn't nothing as I mentioned in a post last week they took the headlines away from Barack and his great speech in less than 24 hours and it hasn't gone back yet. However, everyday that passes it seems someone finds something new to say, bitch about, or accuse Palin of something so we will see if her ship has sails. I particularly enjoyed the shot I saw on Deadspin of Palin in an American Flag bikini holding a fucking rifle (also note Captain Awesome behind here smoking and holding a Schlitz...yaUUUUU esSSSSSS AyyYYYYY!!! *note, picture is a fake). Mrs. Palin I have some conservative values I would like to spurt on you!
That said, her speech kind of made me go limp as a) didn't care for her voice much, b) her sarcastic, passive aggressiveness can fuck right off and c) her values can kiss me on the dick. That's really what it is with these people, I mean, as I said yesterday this shit does entertain me but when it comes to serious consideration for leadership and so forth it's like a fricking cartoon. I think that can be said for anyone who radically believes a little too deeply in the right, left, or what ever but last nights broad generalizations about huge government, higher taxes and liberals was for the birds. What year do they think they are in anyways? Didn't get the impression that the last 8 years existed from last night and instead heard a lot of their usual, puke inducing, phoney baloney. ANd that's not even getting specific such as mentioning their condescending bullshit as it pertains to the apparently useless 'community organizers' of the world. What I got from that was that those are simply "poor people" which also goes a long way to illuminate their never ending fear mongering about rising taxes. Guess who might get a tax hike if the Dems win? Rich people. Just like all those empty headed fuck-a-roos that are waving their cowboy hats all night long.
That's why Obama's point about how McCain and Co. "Just don't get it" essentially trumps all of last night (even Rudy's nasty act of retardedry). So, tonight I will flip to the final night of this horseshit as I too would like to at least hear what McCain has in mind for his pie in the sky convention closer but I am a wee bit more excited about the Giants/Redskins game and the fact that this weekend is NFL RETURNS WEEK!!! So, I will hopefully post some blogs soon that are not politically motivated.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Hey Liberals, pick on someone your own age!
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!
That was a button I saw a RNC conventioneer sporting on the vaulted RNC Day 2. This convention is much more hilarious than the DNC and due to hurricanes, and the fact McCain doesn't want to be seen celebrating during a potential tragedy(ies), the RNC is all truncated and hurried up. Not that they have anything to say anyhow as they are suddenly pretending to be non-partisan and have "taken off their 'republican' hats and are wearing their American hats" so from what I have seen less direct red-meat. No giant flip-flops or purple band-aids this year as they happen to be running a veteran flip-flopper. American hats, it turns out, are either giant, cat-in-the-hat style, American flag hats or cowboy hats and glasses and being over 50 are also ideal. Cowboy hats also appear easier to take off and wave or toss when they tell their fibs about how they are not going to raise taxes and essentially do the same shit Obama's campaign says but with more P.O.W. experience.
I pretend to hate this party and it's people but it is hard to do as they really do make me smile. We need these types every bit as much as we need smoking nut liberals but the liberals admittedly are a more depressing sort while all these, down-home, 'Merican, family valued types are hilarious! I just want to have a slice of apple pie, sit on the porch with a thumb in my belt loop, spit, and talk about Jesus. Sadly, that ain't going to accomplish much as we have just witnessed over the last 8 years and most of the 1980s but not that you would notice it when you watch them in hat/flag waiving action. According to what I saw this is an extraordinary election because of the extraordinary candidate...John McCain. See? HILARIOUS!!! That guy is extra ordinary to be sure but; next to what I saw last week (albeit while filled with doubts) I am ever more confident that the sugary sweet (artificial sweetner and flavor added...Sorkin style!) winds of change may keep all the way through November and maybe we just will see that first black president after all?
Then, after a few months, everything (economy, deficit, wars, et. al.) will become Osama bin Obama's fault. The uber-right, professional garbage spewers (Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.) will surely have lots to say and a new(old) dynamic will emerge. It may be like the worst of Carter or Clinton rolled into one quagmirish nightmare?!?! Though hopefully this JFK feeling a lot of us seem to be getting may also "stick," as it were, and maybe...just maybe...Things might get a little better?
That was a button I saw a RNC conventioneer sporting on the vaulted RNC Day 2. This convention is much more hilarious than the DNC and due to hurricanes, and the fact McCain doesn't want to be seen celebrating during a potential tragedy(ies), the RNC is all truncated and hurried up. Not that they have anything to say anyhow as they are suddenly pretending to be non-partisan and have "taken off their 'republican' hats and are wearing their American hats" so from what I have seen less direct red-meat. No giant flip-flops or purple band-aids this year as they happen to be running a veteran flip-flopper. American hats, it turns out, are either giant, cat-in-the-hat style, American flag hats or cowboy hats and glasses and being over 50 are also ideal. Cowboy hats also appear easier to take off and wave or toss when they tell their fibs about how they are not going to raise taxes and essentially do the same shit Obama's campaign says but with more P.O.W. experience.
I pretend to hate this party and it's people but it is hard to do as they really do make me smile. We need these types every bit as much as we need smoking nut liberals but the liberals admittedly are a more depressing sort while all these, down-home, 'Merican, family valued types are hilarious! I just want to have a slice of apple pie, sit on the porch with a thumb in my belt loop, spit, and talk about Jesus. Sadly, that ain't going to accomplish much as we have just witnessed over the last 8 years and most of the 1980s but not that you would notice it when you watch them in hat/flag waiving action. According to what I saw this is an extraordinary election because of the extraordinary candidate...John McCain. See? HILARIOUS!!! That guy is extra ordinary to be sure but; next to what I saw last week (albeit while filled with doubts) I am ever more confident that the sugary sweet (artificial sweetner and flavor added...Sorkin style!) winds of change may keep all the way through November and maybe we just will see that first black president after all?
Then, after a few months, everything (economy, deficit, wars, et. al.) will become Osama bin Obama's fault. The uber-right, professional garbage spewers (Limbaugh, Hannity, etc.) will surely have lots to say and a new(old) dynamic will emerge. It may be like the worst of Carter or Clinton rolled into one quagmirish nightmare?!?! Though hopefully this JFK feeling a lot of us seem to be getting may also "stick," as it were, and maybe...just maybe...Things might get a little better?
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