Digital Moving Day.

I neglected this blog! I am sorry. I started a new superior blog though! One that I will actually update.


go there now.

Updates

I did not finish NaNoWriMo this year! BAWWWW

I am a "Geek Culture Examiner" for Examiner.com now, and you can see my articles here.

In other news I have perfected my procrastination skills, so I suppose it is time to move on to something else.

Twitter is run by a bunch of Wussies.

In case you haven't seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a wuss is part wimp and part pussy.


At any rate, recently the topic #nogod trended very high on twitter, the result of Retarded Reverend Run posting the oft quoted and always backhandedly hateful "No God, No Peace / Know God, Know Peace". This led to a great digital celebration by atheists, and bug-eyed/mouth-foaming rage from the christians, all spouting their typical hate speech and demanding that twitter remove the trending topic. Before too long the mountain of gaping sores that run Twitter buckled, merging the #nogod trending topic with #knowgod, so the #nogod topic was hidden.

Over this last weekend and for more than 24 hours the topic #youmightbealiberal trended in the top topics, a hashtag used by the Fox News zombie set to make a lot of vulgar and hateful comments, many of which were blatantly racist, under the guise of "political humor".

The display was altogether incredibly sad, and I found myself compelled to take some kind of action. Motivated by the fact that Twitter had just recently buckled and removed a trending topic for users almost entirely from southern USA, I decided to contact twitter. The email I sent follows:

"Recently I observed as a trending topic (#nogod) was cleverly taken off by merging it with (#knowgod) in what seemed to be an obvious attempt to placate outrage shown by christian users. I was, personally, very disappointed by this action as I felt on a whole it opened up an opportunity for possible dialogue about theology, but I understand why the trending topic was removed even if I don't agree with you. I am writing now to urge you to take action against the #youmightbealiberal trending topic and remove it from the trending list. this topic is doing nothing but propagating hatred and slander on your service (from both liberal and conservative viewpoints). I feel that if Twitter has stepped in to modify the trending topics simply to not offend a single group of people, Twitter should absolutely step in in this instance to stop this service from being utilized to spread and fuel the short-sighted and close-minded prejudices that currently divide our country at present."

Pretty great, right? I know, but thank you. Not that I expected Twitter to actually grow a pair of testicles and take action on the matter, but I did remain hopeful that some idealistic doe-eyed intern would read the message and respond with some genuine empathy. Not the case:

"Hello,

Thanks for your email. While I understand your frustration, Twitter is primarily a service provider rather than a content mediator. As such, we do not mediate disputes over potentially disparaging content."

Then why did you do it a week ago? Congratulations, Twitter! Congratulations on your complete fucking lack of a spine.

Heroes Episode Review: "Shadowboxing"

How people can write a show about people with fucking SUPERPOWERS and make it so inane and boring is absolutely astonishing to me. This week, on Lifestyles of the Superpowered and Fa..oring? Boreous? Boring. It's boring.


Anyway. This week we follow three stories almost as lacking in excitement as one another:

• We pick up where we last saw Claire, hanging out in a suuuuper spooooooooky meat factory for "sorority (more like bore-ority) initiation"
  
• Matt/Sylar/Sylar/Matt is leaving wherever and heading to New York City to bully some answers out of Peter Petrelli
  
• Peter and Mildly-Offensive-Deaf-Hospital-Office-Administrator-Lady(MODHOAL) essentially do nothing

After Invisible Sorority Girl tries to skewer Gretchen in the meat factory and summarily makes an impromptu Claire-kabob for the other rushes to see, Claire and Gretchen have no hard time convincing the other two girls that they are all on "drugs" - a clear indicator that none of these girls have ever, in fact, used "drugs". The bore-gasm is then continued when the completely expected and in no way surprising event of Gretchen not-being-able-to-deal-with-all-this-superpowery-stuff occurs and she decides to go home, thus shattering the wet dreams of at least hundreds of sad nerds across the globe, and ending one of the most poorly contrived attempts to win back viewership I have ever witnessed. Some more completely unnecessary events happen. Seriously, if they cut all the filler and just presented the plot points that remotely affect the god damn awful storyline, this season would have about a 20 minute total run time so far.

I can't fight this feeling anymore...
that the show is going down the drain faster than a coat hanger abortion, I mean.

Cut to Peter, who saves some nameless extras with his new life-giving ability after a train crash. MODHOAL pouts and generally looks dejected. This repeats for all of their scenes in this episode.

I really cherish this time we spend together being uninteresting filler content.

Sylar, in control of Matt Parkman's unfortunate blubbering physique, waddles through a metal detector in the airport - only to find that Parkman stashed a gun in his bag! Completely unpredictable hijinks such as this continue, with Parkman even tripping Sylar (who is in control of Matt's body, so, that's stupid) like a third rate Loony Toons character. Sylar unsurprisingly responds by bashing in a Good Samaritan's head with a tire iron. Sylar and Matt then sit in the diner Charlie worked at, idly threatening each other until Sylar convinces Matt to spill the beans on where his body is. They (he? whatever) leave the diner, at which point we see that while Sylar was absently doodling while in the restaurant, Matt had written "I HAVE A GUN AND I AM GOING TO KILL EVERYONE IN HERE" on the paper, and the waitress called in the 5-0. Outside the pair is met by a completely absurd amount of cops skidding into the parking lot and popping out of their cars in the usual fashion that they do in fictionalized versions of such a scenario. Matt, having finally had enough of this awful script, manages to take back enough control of his body to make like he's moving to pull a gun out of his jacket, at which point he is just fucking riddled with bullets (like so many bullets, seriously, you don't even know).

So many.

Oh, I almost forgot. there is a brief scene near the beginning where Sylar's Body wakes up at The Carnival, turns into Nathan, looks confused, then flies away. The episode ends with Nathan arriving at Peter's apartment, with a truly brotherly "Gosh Petey, I think I'm in big trouble!". Really, this whole episode existed just to show those two 15 second scenes. Fucking embarrassing.


I'm sure you're asking yourself why I continue to watch a show I obviously do not like. Trust me, I ask myself the same question.

This is an update about nothing in particular

I probably shouldn't be updating my blog about nothing or making comics about kids with weak stomachs with NaNoWriMo less than two weeks away, but here I am anyway.

There are just about a million things I wanna get going that are probably going to have to wait until next year on account of NaNoWriMo, so hopefully the trade off of a complete novel first draft will be worth it.

Also I have watched so much television recently that I felt compelled to write fanfiction. I didn't actually do it, thankfully, but still. I need to get out of the house more ever.

Balloon Boy! The Comic

My epic re-imagining of the insanely stupid Balloon Boy story.

So Disney Bought Marvel.

Illustration by Khary Randolph.

I originally planned to write this big exploratory article on what's going on and my guesses about the future, but I lost the zest for it. Instead, I give you this:





Marvel sold out! Sellouts! Fuck them up their asses!

Anyone out there with this argument who says they wouldn't sell their business for $4 billion dollars, no matter what or how dear it is to them, is a liar. Plain and simple, you're lying.


The comics are all going to be ruined and watered down and have fucking Donald Duck and Goofy join the X-Men!

This is just stupid. If the acquisition hadn't been made so public on the internet, no one would have even noticed. Disney owns a shitload of other companies, Miramax and ABC included. Both of which release tons and tons of adult-oriented material. Disney didn't buy Marvel to fuck with it's shit, they bought Marvel for the rights to the characters. The intention here being to make ADDITIONAL content to appeal to 8 - 18 year old boys. So more cartoons, action figures, pajamas, whatever. The comics, I'm sure, will remain unchanged.


What about Marvel Comics Island in Universal Studio's Islands of Adventure Park?

Hey, a decent question! From Examiner.com: "According to the Orlando Sentinel, Universal Studios will retain control of all Marvel attractions inside Islands of Adventure, including the popular Incredible Hulk roller coaster and the Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man 3-D ride. Moreover, no theme park east of the Mississippi River will be allowed to build attractions based on the Marvel characters featured in the existing Islands of Adventure rides.". So Marvel stays intact at Islands of Adventure. However, Since the deal with Universal is only good east of the Mississippi River, I wouldn't be surprised if California sees a complete Marvel theme park eventually.


There you have it. The comics stay the same, the theme park stays the same, and there will be some new cartoons. So nerds, quit your god damn bitching.