And this guy can be the female superhero in your new Wacko Justice League. Does the Internet breed these people or is it an outlet for the insanity that’s always been in our society?
Are my posts too full of rhetorical questions today?
Is the Chandra Levy case getting too much attention?
Have all the other missing persons cases in the world gotten this much attention? Don’t those people’s families deserve this type of search for their missing loved ones? Is the media an evil, damn, dirty ape?
According to the new roster for the Cleveland Browns, they have a player named Ben Gay. The back of his jersey will say, B GAY.
I can’t wait to hear the TV announcer say, “The Tight-End has Ben Gay! He drops to his knees on the 20.”
On this date back in 1174, Joseph Priestley (No, not Jason Priestley) discovered Oxygen. How we breathed up until that point, I have no idea.
I’ve been hearing an alarming statistic lately. I’ve heard it in a few places. I read it on CNN.com a few days ago, I heard it on a commercial, and I read it in ON Magazine (at one point called TIME Digital). The statistic is this. ““Soon, there will be more people using the Internet than there are people on the planet.” Ok, I was a Creative Writing major in college. I did date a Math Major for a few months, but none of her intelligence for math rubbed off on me. And even though I’ve sworn never to do math in public, I’m going to attempt it here. Stand back.
OK, there are roughly 6 billion people on the planet right now. If that phrase is true that there will be more people on the planet using the internet than actual people on planet, then that would mean that more than 6 billion people will be using the internet. This throws me because I’m not sure how that is possible. Are there humans around that no one is aware of, or are we opening the Web to other planets now? As a Web copywriter and designer, that bugs me. Will I have to translate copy into Guijubetubian or whatever the fuck they speak in Zeta Reticuli?
Or, is that phrase, more people on the Web than there are people on the planet, one of those purposely confusing statements like Al Gore’s “I took the initiative in creating the Internet?” Where it’s general enough to fit in a sound bite, yet not quite fact based, but yet isn’t completely inaccurate.
But I’m still thrown by it. How can there be more people on the Web than there are people on the planet? Must be that new Algebra the kids are studying these days.
The Green Party is going to seek National Status. I’m all for legitimate third party candidates, but I’m not sure the Green Party is it. They are still a little to… out there. If you read their platform, and I mean read it all (everything from education, to defense, the economy, the environment, abortion; to capital punishment) you will see that they have interesting ideas in one or maybe two area’s, but they are sorely and grossly underdeveloped in all the other areas. For example, Nader had interesting ideas on consumer confidence, but he wanted to bring home every single GI that was stationed overseas. That’s a completely ludicrous idea, and it’s ideas like that that ultimately got him laughed at.
Fuck it. I’m starting the Llama Party. Cosbysweater? Ready to run? I’m putting you up for Governor of Ohio. Just appoint me to some cushy job where I have no responsibility but get paid well.
July 18th: The safety system on a Texas roller coaster kicks in and stops the train, stranding passengers 225 feet in the air. No injuries.
July 22nd: In Kansas, a train’s brakes fail and it slams into a second train that was loading passengers for the next ride. Seven people get minor injuries.
July 27th: Two trains collide on a New Hampshire amusement park roller coaster. Five people are injured.
July 30th: The wheel of a tilt-a-whirl-like ride comes off its spindle at Michigan’s Adventure Amusement Park. Twenty-five people hurt.
July 31st: Cosbysweater dons a dress and cancels his plans to visit Ohio’s Cedar Point.
It’s a sad day. Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson died Friday in his sleep. Further details have not been released.
Today is the 56th anniversary of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. For those of you unfamiliar with this ship, it is one of the most honored of our military. It was carrying the Nuclear Warheads to be used by the Enola Gay, but was sunk by a Japanese submarine. Because of the secret nature of the mission, no one new the Indianapolis was missing for several days. 316 men were rescued out of the crew of 1,199.
Remember Free Willy? No, I’m not talking about the last Llama party where cosbysweater was yelling, “Free willy here!” I’m talking about that movie with the killer whale. Well, it turns out that Keiko doesn’t want to go free. Keiko, the real whale in Free Willy, has slowly been reintroduced to the wild. Even with 30 - 40 expeditions out to the open sea, Keiko keeps returning to his pen in southern Iceland. This kind of reminds me of Bill Clinton. Remember after the election, he just wouldn’t go away?
Yes, there’s more violence in the Middle East. The Israeli’s killed some Palestinians, or maybe it was the other way around, I can’t remember or keep track anymore. But the most disturbing news of the week has to be that Yahoo is going to experiment with those fucking stupid pop-under ads. That has to be the most idiotic idea in online marketing. Completely fucking stupid on all levels. To bad we don’t have a million viewers here or I’d suggest we boycott Yahoo now. Better get your pop-up blocker installed now.
The author of this piece comparing Calvin and Hobbes to the narrative of Fight Club certainly has more than his share of free time. However, what he proposes is actually quite interesting and may point more to both stories similarity to some meta-history rather than direct correlations to each other as the author suggests.
There is that old line of Shakespeare’s that “there are only 7 stories, but infinite examinations of each.” Of course, the great Bard doesn’t actually tell us what those stories were so it could have been the weed tlaking when he espoused that great theorem.
Certainly, I think that there are some race (human race) memories that could be classified as metahistories and I think that any literature or creations that get close to examining those stories in some insightful way are bound to have more impact than the mere fluff that man spend 90% of his time creating. As I have said before, the concept of all art is to illicit response and I think the most vociferous of responses often come from some examnation of what we feel in our gut and our subconscious to be cosmic, universal truths. As a Fight Club fan, I tend to think the movie gets at some of those points.
So, even though the author of the Calvin and Hobbes piece may have thought it a silly exercise in starined metaphors, he illicited a response in me that involved what I would like to think was insightful thinking. That’s the beauty of being human.
Now go see Planet of The Apes.
Atlanta Braves outfielder Andruw Jones became the second professional athlete (Patrick Ewing was the first) to admit having sexual relations with strippers at an Atlanta strip club. Both athletes testified that the club’s owner and/or manager were in the room when the acts occurred. Coming soon to a porn shop near you: “Strippers Gone Wild with Professional Athletes. A 15-Part Series.”
I’m sure many of you may remember the Xiao Xiao Stick Figure Kung Fu, well now Zhu Zhq is back with a nice little shooting game, that is absolutely amazing, followed by a Matrix kung fu sequence.
There are some other earlier pieces to be had as well. This person or group of people certainly has some talent and creativity.
On this day back in 1974, “Tricky” Dick Nixon was impeached by the Senate. Remember 1974? That’s when Presidents were impeached for real crimes.
Congressmen are going to seek a ethics rule regarding the treatment of interns. The rule will attempt to define a sexual relationship with interns. Under the rule you can only boink your intern if, he/she is from your district, and you are now limited to adultery twice a week. It’s an attempt to restore dignity back to congress.
The wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s ditched-at-sea aircraft may have been found. High-resolution satellite imagery of Nikumaroro Island in the southwest Pacific has detected what may be remains of the plane resting in water within a coral atoll. This has been reported over the last week but I hesitated to post it until I could find the actual satellite image. I looked at it for a few minutes, and I don’t see anything.
Five earlier expeditions to remote islands in the area have recovered artifacts, suspected of being from the lost flight. The upcoming sixth trek is set to depart Los Angeles on August 24, returning on September 24.
Of further interesting note, the Amelia Earhart Project has a map of the island detailing all the items they have discovered believed to be from her plane.
While researchers are still not positive it is Amelia Earhart, they report that Gary Condit is not a suspect.
