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Many Potentially Interesting Musings:
Jun. 3rd, 2009 01:16 amFinally broke down and spent $1.99 at iTunes to download a single episode of Beavis & Butthead that I simply could NOT find at Limewire. I downloaded it three different times and all three downloads were missing the end of the ep. So I bought it. Anyway, it's the one where they aren't allowed to laugh, which is largely considered the funniest Mtv ep of B&B ever.
The news is bumming me out as of late. It's one of the reasons I haven't been posting as often. Also, I spend a lot of time on Facebook. Anyway, Dr Tiller's murder is horrible and sad. I was saying earlier that this kind of thing didn't really happen when Bush was in office. People seem to get all riled up when we have someone even remotely pro-choice in the White House. I actually like Obama's stance on the abortion issue, which I read as Hey, we're never going to agree, and should continue to debate the issue respectfully. In the mean time, lets see what we can do to reduce the number of abortions. It's perfectly reasonable, so why are people freaking out?!? Oh yeah, because of dillholes like Randall Terry and Bill O'Reilly are calling respectable doctors "government sanctioned mass murderers of children." While I certainly advocate personal responsibility, I don't see how you can be surprised when you preach lunacy to a bunch of loons and then one of them does something loony.
Then of course there's that horrible plane crash, the Guantanamo detainee who killed himself after 7 years in captivity without being charged, Susan Boyle going to the psyche ward, GM making Detroit a fucking joke, and idiots mocking the new additions to the DSM V when they don't have the first fucking clue about psychology, psychology, or the process of successful treatment. Okay, I'm done.
Forgot to post this when it actually happened, but I watched my first James Bond movie from beginning to end. H and I watched Casino Royale, which I must say, was very good. Daniel Craig is HAWT, which I cannot really say about any other Bond, except maybe Timothy Dalton. The plot was good, full of some surprises. Rather than being what a 12 year old thinks it's like to by a spy, this Bond goes right up to the line of cartoonish super badassery, and then stops. Plus Craig was the only person in the movie overtly portrayed as a sex object. No vacuous "Bond girl." And no ass-kicking bikini girls. So yeah, it was good.
I also checked out Taken, which featured another character tantalizingly close to cartoonish super badassery. It was def an enjoyable watch! But you know, Maggie Grace is nowhere near 17. *checks* Yep, she's almost 26, making her just three years younger than Harry Potter.
And finally, some arrogant jackass had the balls to write an unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye. Now he's surprised to be getting sued. Some other asshat at Daily Beast said something about how you can't copyright a character and that what this jackass did is fine. I'm pretty sure if I tried to publish a story about a young wizard named Harry Potter, someone would (rightly) sue my ass. (In fact, the distributors of Harry Potter and Leopard Walk Up To Dragon can likely explain that better than I can) That said, I'm interested in hearing absolutely anything JD Salinger wants to talk about, even if it's just cursing out another writer.
At first I was very into the new Safari, but it's been shutting down a lot. FAIL.
The news is bumming me out as of late. It's one of the reasons I haven't been posting as often. Also, I spend a lot of time on Facebook. Anyway, Dr Tiller's murder is horrible and sad. I was saying earlier that this kind of thing didn't really happen when Bush was in office. People seem to get all riled up when we have someone even remotely pro-choice in the White House. I actually like Obama's stance on the abortion issue, which I read as Hey, we're never going to agree, and should continue to debate the issue respectfully. In the mean time, lets see what we can do to reduce the number of abortions. It's perfectly reasonable, so why are people freaking out?!? Oh yeah, because of dillholes like Randall Terry and Bill O'Reilly are calling respectable doctors "government sanctioned mass murderers of children." While I certainly advocate personal responsibility, I don't see how you can be surprised when you preach lunacy to a bunch of loons and then one of them does something loony.
Then of course there's that horrible plane crash, the Guantanamo detainee who killed himself after 7 years in captivity without being charged, Susan Boyle going to the psyche ward, GM making Detroit a fucking joke, and idiots mocking the new additions to the DSM V when they don't have the first fucking clue about psychology, psychology, or the process of successful treatment. Okay, I'm done.
Forgot to post this when it actually happened, but I watched my first James Bond movie from beginning to end. H and I watched Casino Royale, which I must say, was very good. Daniel Craig is HAWT, which I cannot really say about any other Bond, except maybe Timothy Dalton. The plot was good, full of some surprises. Rather than being what a 12 year old thinks it's like to by a spy, this Bond goes right up to the line of cartoonish super badassery, and then stops. Plus Craig was the only person in the movie overtly portrayed as a sex object. No vacuous "Bond girl." And no ass-kicking bikini girls. So yeah, it was good.
I also checked out Taken, which featured another character tantalizingly close to cartoonish super badassery. It was def an enjoyable watch! But you know, Maggie Grace is nowhere near 17. *checks* Yep, she's almost 26, making her just three years younger than Harry Potter.
And finally, some arrogant jackass had the balls to write an unauthorized sequel to Catcher in the Rye. Now he's surprised to be getting sued. Some other asshat at Daily Beast said something about how you can't copyright a character and that what this jackass did is fine. I'm pretty sure if I tried to publish a story about a young wizard named Harry Potter, someone would (rightly) sue my ass. (In fact, the distributors of Harry Potter and Leopard Walk Up To Dragon can likely explain that better than I can) That said, I'm interested in hearing absolutely anything JD Salinger wants to talk about, even if it's just cursing out another writer.
At first I was very into the new Safari, but it's been shutting down a lot. FAIL.
