| Baby Jayne. |
[Feb. 8th, 2010|09:56 pm] |
With some polishing, will be the molten metal sledge that smashes modern minstrelsy to mush. Word. I was making a highlight reel in my head as I listened to it, but it's only been one listen so far and my memory sucks.
Unrelated: I'm not exactly sure what is going on in this Grand Buffet clip, but fast forward past the first 30 seconds or so.
"Just like Cheney said!" *Nazi salute |
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| Image post without the images. |
[Feb. 4th, 2010|10:36 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Royskopp - Royskopp Forever (yup, cheeky enough to self-title) | ] |
Matt Bors on when the thinky president is done thinking</a>. "Refreshing- a president who deliberates before making a godawful decision."
(Also Pabst Blue Ribbon)
Opening Now: Obamaland! Rides include End the War, Green Jobs, and Moral High Ground. Maybe later...
Too much stuff going on to upload the images for display, namely a port issue that is disrupting instant messaging on my main computer. Also, baked a third pizza, this time with crust made from scratch. It was so good that I immediately got the itus and napped. |
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| The $27,000 suitcase. |
[Jan. 31st, 2010|10:58 am] |
Is not the most expensive suitcase you can get.
I would wax on about how deranged and immoral someone has to be to buy it, I would comment how self-deluded they are to think that any amount of material and craftsmanship would put a suitcase at that value. But, I have met people that deranged and posted about it enough.
Some people will spend $27,000 on a suitcase yet never pay their debts (tax fraud being the most common). |
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| Sinfest: Sinfest City tribute. |
[Jan. 31st, 2010|02:27 am] |
Sinfest is a comic with some drastic downs and transcendent ups. The golden era, I believe, was between 2006 and 2008. Ishida put the most effort into his strips then, creating a style with sharp edged, old school line shading, and writing with killer wit. 2009 saw him revert to lazy, ham-fisted characters and more filler strips than any other time. The 2009 strips are a step back from his premier as a refined cartoonist with a consistent, unique style. Characters lost fine details and their features became more bulbous. The last time he burned brightly was during the November 2008 strips, where he created the Barackstar character and the giant Freedomtron robot symbolizing America's ability to be a savior or a scourge to the planet depending on which person is at the controls.
His tribute to Sin City is pretty great, though. He is challenging himself to meld the Sinfest style with that of another author to great effect. Notice how all the other panels are superior to panel 7 and panel 8, which feature that ham-fisted look.
Compare October 2007 comic (selected by clicking at random) to this November 2009 comic. The 2007 comic makes extensive use of light and dark as well as three dimensional viewer perspective. The more recent comic has a starkly flat perspective of the scenes, far fewer detail, and a facial style more akin to the original Astro Boy cartoon. |
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| United States terminal velocity |
[Jan. 26th, 2010|07:24 pm] |
I needlessly reposted the God comic twice because I can't remember things. I thought I had already posted this quote from a goon:
things will keep getting worse faster, then you'll be like "wow we hit rock bottom" but you'll be wrong every time. eventually things will be getting worse with such velocity that american clocks will tick more slowly than clocks not in america
soon, there will a single america throughout all time, unchanging, frozen, and we will discover it to be the absolute upper limit on how terrible an entire nation of people can be |
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| Ad-lib law breaking. |
[Jan. 25th, 2010|11:59 pm] |
"Unprivileged enemy belligerent" the latest in invented terms used to give the auspice of legitimacy to public law breaking by state officials.
Sen. *** ********* (I-Conn.) is joining Republicans in ripping the FBI for reading Miranda rights to the would-be airline bomber, saying the administration made a mistake and should transfer Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab to military custody.
“We write to urge the administration to immediately transfer Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, a foreign terrorist, to the Department of Defense to be held as an unprivileged enemy belligerent (UEB) and questioned and charged accordingly,” said *********, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, in a letter to President Barack Obama on Monday. Ranking member Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) also signed the letter.
This is a sign that lawlessness has increased by another increment. They are no longer drafting unconstitutional legislation in the middle of the night, they're just making shit up.
The biggest security risk in our country is when criminals like this have chairmanships in national security and intelligence committees. |
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| Andre Bauer |
[Jan. 25th, 2010|02:05 pm] |
S.C. Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer Compares Helping Poor to Feeding Stray Animal
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals," Bauer said during a town hall meeting, as the Greenville News reported over the weekend. "You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."
Impoverished people do statistically have more children, more children than they can support, much to the suffering of the entire family and society as a whole. This is a legitimate issue and the Lt. Governor's crass comparison turns the issue into class warfare- drum roll- to the detriment of us all.
The fanatically anti-welfare crowd, (many of whom draw welfare) will call him a hero, the bleeding heart liberals will call him a monster, and in the end nothing will improve.
It is not a revelation that he wants to outlaw abortion. "Love the fetus, hate the human," this guy is one of the stereotypes that ruined the Republican party. |
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| The Gloaming continues. |
[Jan. 22nd, 2010|02:48 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | Paws - Ambien Sleepwalking | ] |
It's getting pretty dark in here.
There is now no functional difference between pseudo-president Bush and President Obama, save for that Obama was elected and has not illegally invaded any nation yet:
Obama to indefinitely imprison detainees without charges
... But in September, the administration announced he changed his mind: rather than seek a law authorizing these detentions, he would instead simply claim that Congress already "implicitly" authorized these powers when it enacted the 2001 AUMF against Al Qaeda -- thereby, as The New York Times put it, "adopting one of the arguments advanced by the Bush administration in years of debates about detention policies."
The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday. ....
This is not a distortion, this is not a compromise, it is a pure lie. The United States is a police state with fortress prisons, able to hold anyone without incident (including law-abiding citizens).
... the administration is claiming the power to imprison whomever it wants without charges whenever it believes that ... it cannot prove in any tribunal that the individual has actually done anything wrong. ...
The rule of law will not be restored under Barack Obama. It will be decades before that happens, if it ever does under the current federal government.
The only way to avoid unlawful detention is through self defense. |
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| Pictures of Sad Children tribute. |
[Jan. 22nd, 2010|12:54 pm] |
A program featuring someone's paintings was aired on PBS today. The artist was born with no arms, I immediately thought it was the kind of thing you'd see in the comic Pictures of Sad Children.
This ePen isn't very smooth and I have no practiced with it. The first frame is decent, the rest are oval heads. Maybe my life is one continuous mistake. The gray is too dark, but it's too late for regrets! |
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| Delusion and comorbidity. |
[Jan. 18th, 2010|10:58 am] |
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Being around someone with an aggressively destructive mental illness can upset the sanity of someone else. Take Capgras's delusion, where someone believes that someone has been replaced by an evil doppelganger. If that person actually has disassociative disorder, it feels like a nightmare world where an important ally is suddenly suddenly becomes an enemy doing everything possible to hurt you. |
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