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Heh.

From the article:

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are trying to blunt a Supreme Court decision that says local governments can seize people’s homes to make way for shopping malls and other private development.

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said Thursday the high court had made ‘’a horrible decision'’ and he hoped it would cause a backlash.

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Wow, Tom DeLay! For real? Ya fucking think, you assclown?

Hey, here’s a thought: let’s get more conservatives on the Supreme Court! What a great fucking idea!

Man, I have to stop reading the news for a while this evening or I’m going to wind up killing someone. Time to make some dinner.

Congress Working on Property - Seizure Bills - New York Times
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We can’t let people see us like this!

They might think that we’re a tolerant, accepting society who labours under the belief that all people, everywhere, should be free and equal to be who they are and speak their mind without fear of retribution. That we have a just system of government that is strictly separated from any form of religious belief. That our nation’s leaders and politicians act in the best interests for their country and their constituency. They might think that we’re intelligent, rational, feeling, thinking human beings who care about one another and the world and utterly reject ideologies that center on hatred or discrimination or the belief that we are all one people with the right to be free to do as we like and live as we please, as long as we do no harm to others. We just can’t come across like that, can we? No! That would never do. What would the world think? They’d think we were all big, soft, liberal pussies, wouldnt they? They might even think we’re…gay!

We are, after all, America, and whatever we want you to believe, that has never been who we are, either now, or at any time in history since we raped this land and massacred the natives who once flourished here. These days, as on other, past occasions, freedom has become nothing more than a word the current administration uses to invade other countries to plunder their riches in order to line their own pockets, while the rest of us lose our rights and sink further into a miasma of desperation and despair. Except if you’re rich. But then, if you’re rich, you’re one of them, aren’t you?

You aren’t? Well what the fuck are you standing around doing nothing for?

And people wonder why I’m so fucking angry all the time these days. If you aren’t, you’re either part of the problem or you’re too fucking stupid to care. Either way, save us all some trouble and kill yourself. No matter what anyone tells you, you’re a worthless waste of space.

Past is prologue.

Do something!

Lincoln Memorial Video May Be Revised - New York Times
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The current video:

Lincoln Memorial Video - 8 Minutes

The King Of Fish

He should have lived. :(

SI.com - More Sports - Thai fishermen catch catfish believed to be world’s largest - Thursday June 30, 2005 11:00AM

An excellent way avoid admitting you were wrong!

Just simply refuse to continue the discussion and pretend the other person is at fault.

It works great if nobody is clued in to what youre doing. Unfortunately, if they are, you just look like an asshole. A great big, insecure, pathetic asshole.

Stay tuned for more great tips on how to never admit you’re wrong! With all the shit that’s been going on lately, I’ve got a million of ‘em.

“It wasn’t a racial incident.”

Okay, so you call the guy and his two friends niggers over and over and beat the fucking shit out of him with an aluminum baseball bat just for walking in your precious neighborhood; yet you yourself, upstanding white citizen that you are, Mr Minucci, not only inform this kid that “this is what you get if you want to rob white people” but then, just to prove how morally superior you and your friends are, you steal the bag of clothing he had bought for his infant daughter, as well as the very shoes off his feet as he lay bleeding on the sidewalk of Howard Beach…a candidate for a parking lot if I ever saw one…with his skull cracked open.

All because this black dude had the nerve to sully your lily white neighborhood with his foul footsteps.

If that’s not a fucking racial incident, as your buddy proclaims, you disgusting, knuckle-dragging thug, then what is?

Sounds to me like the good citizens of Howard Beach need some baseball bat therapy of their own.

The only time I have ever been ashamed of being Italian is because of Howard Beach. It took me a long fucking time to get over the first incident, and now it’s the same nightmare, all over again. What is it going to take for people to fucking evolve?

New York Daily News - Home - Howard Beach ‘bias’ attack

Edit: Just to let folks know I’m not completely clueless…I know those three black dudes were looking to jack a car. They didn’t, though. Just remember that. They didn’t. Those white dudes didnt know about the car anyway…they were bent on cracking some black boy heads, and regardless what the black dudes were doing there in the first place, that doesn’t make those white idiots innocent or justified. They didnt attack that kid in self defense. They attacked him because he was a nigger and needed to be taught a lesson not to walk in a white neighborhood. This was a hate crime, and that’s the bottom line. Just keep that in mind.

Can’t take me anywhere…

Goddamn it!

I’m just about to eat my delicious barley soup for lunchies and start my final, purgatorial tape for work, and whilst taking up a wee bit of soup for Hazel, one of my older ratties, I got a big fucking drip of soup on my right boobie. Viz:

Gah!

Of course, it had to wait until after I changed out of my bathrobe and put on nice, fresh, clean clothes.

Fuck! That makes me crazy!

Oh, shit!

Oh, shit!

Oh, SHIT!

CNN.com - Former hostages allege Iran’s new president was captor - Jun 30, 2005

Southern Baptists: What The Fuck?

Pulled original for editorial purposes. Got a big old thang that’s gonna be going here. Stay tuned, I’m working on it.

Industry standard?

I caught a glimpse just now of some interview thing where some freakish Ron Howard-lookin’, gender-indiscriminate broad just made a comment that, as if any further proof were necessary, seems like the ultimate “you fail” statement:

“Watching Chaotic is like having a hidden camera at a middle school and listening to two 13 year olds at lunch go on about I love you, I love you more. Either that, or it’s like dialogue by George Lucas.”

I’m not quite convinced that this is the kind of noteriety Darth Lucas dreamed of in his younger, less acceptably geeky, but more talented days, but nonetheless, it is now his legacy. He has become the butt of Britney Spears jokes. A measure by which all that is truly awful is compared. And not even Ed Wood awful, either.

Good old George has managed to do something that isn’t easy to do in Hollywood: carve out his own niche of absolute, uncontested crap, so firmly ensconced in its crapitude that it is now used to illustrate precisely how awful the most heinously awful crap actually is.

Well done, George!

Lifetime achievement award, indeed. Where’s a real Sith lord when you actually need one?

Actually, leave the Sith alone. They’ve been through enough. Let’s pull out the real ammunition and send the Nazgul to George’s spiffy new HQ, and show him how it’s really supposed to be done, once and for all.

The sad truth.

Too true to be amusing anymore.

Tom Tomorrow

YES.

I want to be Peter Jackson’s love donkey.

King Kong :: Large

They’re here, they’re queer…

Today was Gay Pride day. All over the country, parades and marches celebrated the homosexual community.

During this time when being a fag can still get you killed in this country, where the government of the United States not only refuses to recognize homosexuals as human beings with the same rights and privileges as any other citizen, but wants to change the documents that make up the very foundation of our society to ensure ensure that gays and lesbians will forever be discriminated against in this land of the free and home of the brave, Gay Pride is more important than ever.

The gay rights movement “officially” began with the Stonewall Riots in 1969. From that day to this, the gay and transgender community has made enormous strides toward equality.

I believe that a good deal more than half the people in this country believe that gays, lesbians, and transgender people should be treated exactly the same as any other person. It is only the vocal, hateful, usually conservative Christian right that makes life difficult for those who do not see hate and intolerance as either acceptable nor admirable.

One day, this kind of shit…hating people because of their sexual orientation, their gender, their race, their religion, their skin colour…will be history and people will find it hard to believe that it was ever even an issue. I wish I could believe it is something that I will live to see during my lifetime, but I doubt it.

Still, one hopes, and toward that end, fights on, undaunted.

Dilemma.

There was a serious post here, but I have deleted it.

Why? Because, you see, I have the most awesome friends in the world.

Thank you, Yaz.

<3<3<3

Adopt A Blog: Mark II

Edit: Fixed now, and working properly. Come get yer blog! :)

Well, for some reason this bollocky thing isn’t working right, so I’m experimenting here to include the link so that it goes to the Technorati site so anyone from China (or other countries) who needs free blogging space outside their country can see me on their list:

That’s the code. Let’s see what happens.

If you need a blog space, email me at:

perilous
at
gmail
dot
com

And see the post from 21 June for lots of details and blithering!

Good luck to you.

Online Etymology Dictionary

Online Etymology Dictionary

This gets me all the way off.

Enjoy!

Snoobles.

Adopt A Blog!

Major props to Mu for turning me on to the Adopt A Chinese Blog project!

This BBC article explains a bit more of what’s going on in China and the massive Internet crackdown the Chinese government has long imposed and continually strengthens against its own people. Somehow, despite my compulsive news reading, I missed it. As soon as Mu told me about it I got all fired up to check it out, and now that I have done so, I’m open for business, baby!

If you are a blogger from China, or any country wherein your absolute right to freedom of speech is either suppressed or restricted and you would like me to host a blog for you, you are welcome to contact me at perilous at gmail dot com.

I’ve never done this before, so the details will mostly have to be worked out as we go, but this is what I can tell you I can give you for certain right now:

- Your own folder on my freakywacko.com domain, complete with WordPress installation, if desired.

- If you choose WordPress, I will allow uploads of several image formats to the server for your convenience. Space will be limited; I suggest the excellent Imageshack as an alternative. If this is blocked from your country, please email me and let me know, and we’ll find another solution.

- Level 9 administration on your WordPress blog. I will keep level 10 administration for myself, to minimize potential abuse and more importantly, to ensure that I can get into the software at any time to assist you with technical problems that may arise.

- I will never mess with your blog unless you specifically request assistance in some way. Unless you are a bigot who decides to use the blog to spew poison against any member of the human race, what you have to say is none of my business, whether or not I agree with it. So, as long as you’re not some kind of hater, consider this my oath in writing that I will never, ever, ever log into your blog and alter or delete your posts for any reason.

Since I have never done this, each setup will be a learning experience and adjustments will be made as we go along. I can certainly host more than one person, so please feel free to email me anytime to check space and availability. I will do my utmost to provide as many bloggers as I can with space where they may feel free to speak their mind without interference from me or anyone else. It would be my most profound honour to do so. This is what the internets were MADE for.

Though this is a project to help Chinese people get their message out to the world, I encourage folks like Palestinian bloggers, folks from Darfur or Tibet or Cambodia and the like, displaced refugees that are somehow lucky enough to have access to the Internet, and especially any women living in Africa and the Middle East to contact me.

Right. As I’ve already said, though, you can be from anywhere. I welcome with open arms anyone from anywhere in the world, as long as your need is a real one. Except for people from New Jersey and the American south. Fuck you guys.

I’m also thinking of Jason from Just Another Soldier, and in the spirit of what he did, I am also extending these capacity to members of the American military in Iraq or Afghanistan right now.

Jason is in the infantry. He’s a writer. He kept a blog while on active duty in the Middle East, and when his CO found out, he got in trouble for it. He pulled the blog and continued distributing his posts via email. I was on that mailing list, and the stuff he wrote was fucking great. I didnt always agree with the things he had to say, but the guy is intelligent, and he’s a good writer, and he’s a great observer. I have no problem with knowing this man helps protect my country, and if I could, I’d shake his hand, thank him, and buy him a beer. I wish there were a lot more like him. He has the kind of balls to do what he feels he has to do, and the courage to face the consequences for his actions. I respect that immensely.

Our soldiers are going through some deep shit, and let’s not be coy: the American government doesn’t want the rest of our country to know how fucked up things are over there. We are also forbidden to see things the government doesn’t think we should see, such as the planeloads of coffins quietly shipped back home for burial.

We are told “mission accomplished” and any further questions are relegated to the “hippie pinko antiAmerican” community, routinely shuffled off to barbed wire pens, placed carefully out of eyeline or earshot of anyone whose job it might be to actually listen to the citizens of this country, blocked from view by security, and only then encouraged to make our opinions known. We might not be China, but we sure as hell aren’t blameless. I didnt vote for this. Did you? Our folks are dying over there. Tens of thousands…hundreds of thousands…maybe millions of civilians are being killed. Our military was lied to, and current statistics show it: nobody is signing up anymore. The lies are becoming transparent even to those who have stubbornly refused to see, despite all the evidence.

Jason got busted and demoted for simply telling the story of active duty life in the Mideast. This guy is no radical. He’s just another soldier. Personally, I think Jason is one hell of a guy, and because of him, I’m making this offer to host a couple of military blogs, if anyone’s looking for space. I’m not a fan of the military: in fact, I despise the military. But I know what the definition of “necessary evil” is, and I know that a lot of our folks out there in the deserts and oases have gotten a hell of a wake up call over the past two years. A lot of people have died needlessly, thanklessly, their lives thrown away by an administration that thinks only satiating their greed for power and wealth. Our soldiers deserve to have a voice. I want to help with that, because contrary to the Bush administration, when I say that I support our troops, I mean it.

Wow. This is really cool. I hope someone out there contacts me, though the chance is quite slim since I have a molecular readership, and not much opportunity to spread the word. But if you are out there and you need help getting your shout out, I’m your girl. Keep the faith. It won’t last forever. And if youre reading this and don’t need the space or have space of your own…spread the word, eh?

Consider this my $1.05.

Peace.

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From the Who The Fuck Gives A Shit Already, For Chrissake, It Doesnt Fucking Matter department

This is a stupid fucking article..

Gay or Straight? Hard to Tell - New York Times

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You know what’s funny?

Listening to Haley Joel Osment actually attempting to discuss the literature of HG Wells with Steven Spielberg’s cock in his mouth.

Now that’s show biz.

Ticketmaster = Dickheads

Right. So Nine Inch Nails went on sale this morning for the Hollywood Bowl on October first. And now you all know where I’m going to be that evening.

I just spent about 30 minutes agonizing painfully over whether or not I should actually buy a seat for the show, and that goes to show you how serious the dilemma was, because it’s been a long time since they’ve toured; With Teeth, the new record, comes six years after their last, The Fragile, and that one took five years to record. I saw the Fragile show, too, just after I came to California. It was fucking cheaper then; I bought the tickets at the stadium box office. Unfortunately, today is Sunday and the box office for the Bowl is closed. If I waited until tomorrow, all the seats would be gone already…except maybe for extreme nosebleeds. Not that the Bowl really has nosebleeds; it’s a nice venue.

The reason for the agony was simply because of the cockery of Darth Ticketmaster. I mean what the fuck is wrong with these guys? I think I go into this rant every time I am forced to deal with them. The service charges they rob from you are nothing short of fucking outrageous. Ticket prices at the Bowl are already high enough without “teh Ticketmastarrr” coming in and ass fucking you with their goddamned fees.

Now, the Hollywood Bowl is an historic arena. It’s a beautiful place, too, the graceful white shell set against the hills as it is. Here is a picture of what my view will be from the seat I purchased today:

Hollywood Bowl :  View from section M1, middle rows

M1, Row 11, Seat…1! Yes! Aisle seat, baby! I am wise in the ways of manipulating the online ticketing system so that I may obtain the seats I desire! Muahahah! And all this for a mere $49.50. Which is crazy loony psycho expensive if you consider that when I started going to see concerts way back when there were so many good shows coming around that every weekend was a dizzying array of road trips and altered consciousness fueled by a madness for live music, the tickets were nine fucking dollars. The ticket prices for this show…the actual seats…were $35 to $95. I got midrange seating and a midrange cost. In this venue, that’s a pretty good deal. It’s a really nice place to go to hear some good music. Who cares if the benches are wooden? They’ve got a back to them. That’s class, man. Fifty bucks to see NIN…a great live band…outside, in LA, at the Hollywood Bowl, in the fall? No fucking problemo.

Except then I got fucked for no less than $16.00 in various Ticketmaster fees. Yeah.

First there was the seat price: 49.50
Then, a “convenience fee:” 9.90
Then, a “user fee:” 3.60
Then, a ticket fee: 2.50

Total: 65.50
Total Ticketmaster: Sixteen fucking dollars

Okay, first of all: what the fuck is a convenience fee? Are you telling me that it would cost me $10 to go to the Hollywood Bowl box office and get these tickets myself? Because it wouldn’t. First of all, it’s leisure time. I dont believe in that “time is money” bullshit. That only accounts for when you can’t bill out your job any other way. Otherwise, fuck God Money. So yeah, it’s costing me nowhere near $10 to go get the tickets at the box office. It is not a convenience, however, to be charged $9.90 for no fucking reason. Perhaps it would more accurately be described as an “annoying highway robbery because we can fee.” Unless, of course, by “convenience” they mean “we’ll just go ahead and charge you $9.90 for no reason except our own convenience fee.” Then it makes perfect sense, especially in today’s corporate environment.

Number two: User fee. For what? What am I using? The internets? I already pay $60 a fucking month for my broadband. For Ticketmaster’s bandwidth? Use the goddamn convenience fee to pay the millionth of a penny that it costs you when I visit your site, you fuckers! Three sixty? What the fuck?

Thirdish: This is perhaps the most insulting cut of all. This $2.50 fee is simply what they charge you for emailing you your tickets. Yes. I think this is perhaps the very first time I’ve ever paid someone to email me. And I have to even print out my own tickets. So it not only cost me $2.50 to cajole them into sending me an email that I’ve already paid a criminal $13.50 in fees to receive, but then I had to pay for the costs of the ink and the paper to actually print the fucking thing out. And it’s fucking ugly.

So I’m a little cranky about this. I had to sit here and weigh whether or not going to the show was actually worth $65. This is someone who has had a regular account with not one, but two ticket scalpers in the past. First name basis, “we’ll hold this specific seat for you whenever (insert band name here)’s show rolls into town” sort of regular account. A veteran of the road wars. All the folks down front knew each other. I know that because I was one of them, right up until I moved out of New York. I had a regular scalper in Minnesota, too, and would go see a lot of shows there as well. I’d go to more shows here in California if I didnt have a fucking horrible car.

I can take a shuttle to the Bowl, and even if I had the car of my wildest dreams I wouldn’t take it to the Bowl, anyway; they charge thirty bucks for parking there. It’s a nature area and there’s hiking trails and shit; I always forget if it’s actually a state park or not, but the big observatory is up at the top of the hill. It really is a beautiful area, and parking is hugely limited. Anyone who would drive around that area on the night of a big show is insane; I got stuck in that traffic one time and I thought I would die there.

So yeah, I’ve done more than my share of concert going, and I’ve paid high prices before. I tend to prefer to procure my tickets at the box office, because back in the day there was a good chance they’d be specially printed tickets instead of the generic slices you receive today; KISS had a habit of making their logo on their box office tickets sparkle with glitter. They even did that for a few of their conventions. Only the box office had those specially printed tickets. Plus, there’s just something about going to the box office to get your passes into the promised land that I always found to be a magical kind of thing. Rock and roll is an important part of my life, and it’s a personal thing. I love the theatrics and the otherworldliness of it. Just like I hate finding out how magic tricks are done. Some things are just better left unknown.

Ticketmaster charging $16.00 in fees for this single ticket transaction is like some kind of horrific violation of magic that to me. As I sat there, fuming, staring at the screen and literally hearing the tick, tick, tick of the tickets slowly and inexorably being sold out at this smallish venue, I knew that if I didnt go ahead and buy them then I’d wind up having to scalp tickets, and since $65 for a single seat is already a big expense to swallow on top of the laptop I just bought, a scalped seat would be well over $100 and would be much harder for me to procure. So I gritted my teeth and did it, and if I had Mr Ticketmaster standing within 10 feet of me when that charge went through I would have caved in his skull with a tire iron.

But I did it, and now I have a seat for the NIN show, and my hatred of Ticketmaster is at its highest peak ever. I’m going to send an email to the Hollywood Bowl folks to bitch about the fact that tickets went on sale Sunday so there was no choice of getting to the box office before they sold out, thereby forcing people to be subjected to the astronomical fees over there at Ticketmaster. It won’t do any good, but at least they’ll get some feedback on how horrible it is.

At least I know the show will be good. I wish that the artists that sell seats through Ticketmaster would put up a unified front against them and demand that they lower their fees. It’s so easy to sell things online; all these guys have to do is find another way to do business. It wouldnt be hard and it wouldn’t take long. Venues could also get with it and put their box offices online, too.

Hell, if I had a choice between paying $16 in Ticketmaster fees and maybe $5.00 in fees for the ability to order tickets online direct from the box office, I’d go for the box office every damn time. Five bucks a ticket is a decent “convenience” fee and I’m sure the venues could use the money.

Ticketmaster gets away with this shit because nobody stops them. Pearl Jam tried, and they got slapped down, but they made their point. However, that was one band, one time. Shame on everyone else for doing nothing about this, and a pox upon people like the recently pathetic John Lydon, who actually defends Ticketmaster’s practices.

Ticketmaster is a vile monopoly, and they have always perfectly illustrated the exact reasons why we decided to make monopolies illegal here in this country: when you only have one way to obtain a service, that service provider will almost always become abusive and hostile toward their customers. Artists need to come together and do something to stop this shit…because they’re the only ones who can. I find it frankly disgusting that hardly any artist bats an eye over it.

Yeah, that means you, too, Trent.

Man. :(

Wheee!

I’ve already managed to make a couple of groovy changes, and I sorted out a couple of things as far as where shit goes, as well. It’s all very exciting! I actually really like this theme. If I can manage to make the changes to it that I want, I’m not going to even bother making my own, because this base style is very similar to what I originally wanted. Tonight is the very first night that I’ve worked with WordPress and was both able to learn something, not lose my temper, and actually make changes I liked.

Sweet.

Edit: Okay so I’m screwing around with the Permalinks, and I broke some kind of thing I dont know what it is yet, but all the archives are now 404s. So I increased the posts on this front page to show all the entries and I found a page in the codex that has some information on how to troubleshoot things. However, I’m bleary eyed and I just realized it’s a quarter to three in the morning and I have 10 tapes to get done by 11:00 Monday morning, so I’m going to leave it broken and go to sleep. All the posts are viewable anyway. I’ll work on it some more when I get some time. Comments are broken, too, goddamn it. :) Fixing this is definitely a priority, even if I have to reinstall the theme to reset this crap.

Edit Edit: I fixed it! But now I dont have permalinks. So…imma leave it alone until I find out how to set permalinks up without breaking the entire archive and comment areas. Now I really am going to lie down for a while.

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