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Woman charged of raping man
A 22-year-old woman was charged with interfering with a man in his thirties. The incident was allegedly caught on film.
The woman, the offended and a friend were allegedly in the apartment of the friend where the incident took place Saturday night. The man explained to the police that he was laying on the sofa sleeping when he suddenly woke up as the woman was handling him
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The New York Post on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
HERE'S the game's basic bit: You're a cocaine dealer, see, and you get ripped off in a drug deal that goes bad. So your mission is to get your drugs and your money back - by committing as many violent, homicidal crimes as you can possibly think up.
You can pursue your goal by killing Haitians, of course, but you can also kill anyone (or everyone) else. You can machine-gun them, beat them with baseball bats, chop them up with machetes or run them over with stolen cars.
And when you do, everything will look incredibly and shockingly real, with blood spewing everywhere.
You can kill a cop, steal his gun, and then use it to shoot someone else. Or you can pick up a prostitute and have sex with her in the back of your stolen car, then beat her to death - or shoot her, bludgeon her, whatever you want.
In fact, "whatever you want" is what the game is all about. Thanks to its artful and complex programming and its incredibly realistic graphics, the game creates the impression of being inside a totally unscripted, live-action drama in which you can manufacture your mayhem as you go along.
People, this is insane. This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy (emphasis mine) - or than any lie the feds think Martha Stewart ever told them, or any line in any song that Bruce Springsteen ever sang that rankled a cop in the Meadowlands.
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I want this.
The Official Shotgun Rules
The term Shotgun refers to the front passenger seat of an automobile. Calling "Shotgun" is the act of claiming the position of Shotgun for one's self. As this position is the most coveted of all positions when riding in a car, the following list of rules has been created to ensure that Shotgun can be acquired in a fair and equitable manner by any passenger of an automobile.
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More Suzuki goodness! Awesome cover for the box. Nice to see the Tarintino is homaging Suzuki with more than one reference to his work in Kill Bill.
I want *this* for my birthday
Suzuki's best in post modern yakuza cinema with the brilliance of Akira Kurosawa. I *must* have this boxed set.
"Bush will win next election": God
Pat Robertson said Friday that God told him President Bush will be re-elected in a landslide.
"I think George Bush is going to win in a walk," the religious broadcaster said on his "700 Club" program on the Virginia Beach-based Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded.
"I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004. It's shaping up that way," Robertson said.
"The Lord has just blessed him," Robertson said of Bush. "I mean, he could make terrible mistakes and comes out of it. It doesn't make any difference what he does, good or bad, God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him."
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Guess who's going to China for a month this summer?
Movies that I want to see: Master of the Flying Guillotine
The storyline is fairly routine as these films go but this Taiwanese production rises above the vast majority of its contemporaries, thanks to first rate choreography by Lau Kar-leung and Lau Kar-wing (who also appears as a tournament contestant utilizing the three section staff) and a number of unusual, enjoyable touches. In addition to the thrills offered by The Blood Dripper (which may have some basis in historical fact and is manipulated here in a much smoother and more lethal looking manner than in the previous year's picture), the Indian fighter can extend his arms about a yard out in front of him (like The Fantastic Four’s Reed Richards!) and Fung Sheng can spin his head around 360 degrees, a la Linda Blair in THE EXORCIST. There are also a number of clever touches presented within the fights. The Thai killer does not wear shoes, so The Boxer lures him into a shack with a metal floor. The other Ming loyalists build a fire around the place and prevent the Thai from escaping the building, forcing him to try and fight while his feet are getting scorched. The Boxer's final battle against Fung Sheng unfolds in a coffin maker's shop that Wang's character has fitted with some ingenious booby traps (spring loaded hatchets fly out of coffins the Manchu assassin's weapon accidentally causes to open). While kung fu films from this period often "borrowed" music from Hollywood or European features (with Spaghetti Westerns a popular source) MASTER is unique in that it is scored largely with early German electronica. The main title is from NEU! 2, while the cue heard whenever Fung Sheng makes his appearance is actually another track from the same album called Super 16. There are also cues from Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk albums that I am unable to identify but there is certainly no mistaking them for anything else. This offbeat accompaniment perfectly suits the action and adds considerably to the entertainment value of this much beloved, highly repeatable movie.
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Next time I'm drunk, I think that I shall resist the urge to blog
Tell me about your Christmas loot
Why Blankets speaks to me
Raina: Why do you love me, Craig?
Craig: 'Cuz I do.
Raina:Well, I love you too. But. But--what's that supposed to mean? Where will it lead us?
Craig: Does it matter?
Raine: YES! It matters. It's not just the moment. In a few days you're leaving--I mean, I barely know you.
Craig: So that's...I mean... That's EXCITING. WE've so much to discover.
Raina: I guess what I'm trying to say is that everything ENDS. No, "end" is too graceful a word--everything DEGENERATES--CRUMBLES--So why bother getting started in the first place?
Craig: ... I don't know.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Find Those Weapons:the Hunt for the Real WMD
HOW THE HUNT WORKS
1. You order the treasure hunt
2. You get a CD, a clue book, a matrix, and a map of iraq in the mail
3. You begin solving all the clues using the matrix, map, and CD
4. It will lead you to a place where you can get a certain item
5. That item will be exchanged for the real $5000 golden trophy, a bag of cash, and a barrel of oil. (If you don’t want the barrel of oil, we will send it to George Bush
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We're watching Bad Santa on Tuesday
Anyone that wants to go is welcome. Mike's gonna be there as well as I and possibly the Canadian and Chinese members of Team China.
Saddam held by Kurds, drugged and left for US troops: report
Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British tabloid newspaper has reported.
Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped by Saddam's son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.
The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi president's capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, "exposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incomplete".
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Hello! My name is Lambuel and I hope that we can be friends. I would like to share with you my love for Jesus. Did you know that Jesus loves each and every one of us? It's true! In the Bible, He says: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life"... Isn't that COOL?!
My OBJECTIVE is JUST 4 KIDZ! The "z" is for "zealousness," 'cause Jesus wants us to be hot for Him, not lukewarm. I read in the Bible that He said: "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent"... Let's do that!
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Are there ghostly goings-on at Henry VIII's palace, or is that hazy image of a fellow in fancy robes just a bit of Christmas cheer?
Closed-circuit security cameras at Hampton Court Palace, the huge Tudor pile outside London, seem to have snagged an ethereal visitor. Could it be a ghost?
"We're baffled too. It's not a joke. We haven't manufactured it," Vikki Wood, a Hampton Court spokeswoman said when asked if the photo the palace released was a Christmas hoax. "We genuinely don't know who it is or what it is."
Wood said security guards had seen the figure in closed-circuit television footage after checking it to see who kept leaving open one of the palace's fire doors.
In the still photograph, the figure of a man in a robe-like garment is shown stepping from the shadowy doorway, one arm reaching out for the door handle.
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The Animated Batman: an Unofficial site
If you're like me, you probably have mad love for the Batman animated series from the early nineties (yeah, I know, it's hard to believe that the show is now over ten years old). Like Smallpox, the love for Batman the Animated Series is incredibly infectiously, and thankfully some people deem it worthy of study. Jay Allman, the host of the site has jam packed it with critical essays on the show. Whether it deals with re-occuring themes or how it fits into the large wasteland of pop culture, it's well worth reading.
Tell Rob what you thought of the Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King
Fluevog shoes: the only Satan resistant shoe on the market
Chow down: come on in, The water's fine and Style's no sin. "Fluevog" - some just can't pronounce it; Others, hooked, could not renounce it. Misspell it any way you would: "Fluvog" or Flueflog"*, it's all good. For quality, they can't be beat - and scorn their style? Well, they're your feet. In Vog we trust, all others scram, We are the cure for Fashion Spam, Designer footwear nonpareil, Champion of independent style, And even Open Source Footwear - John's influence is everywhere. Your Fluevogs cast Angelic love (on Earth, dude, as it is Above). Wear boring shoes? No 'Voggin' way! So, Don't Delay - Fluevog Today
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Manifest Destiny
Manifest Destiny -- a phrase used by leaders and politicians in the 1840s to explain continental expansion by the United States -- revitalized a sense of "mission" or national destiny for Americans.
The people of the United States felt it was their mission to extend the "boundaries of freedom" to others by imparting their idealism and belief in democratic institutions to those who were capable of self-government. It excluded those people who were perceived as being incapable of self-government, such as Native American people and those of non-European origin.
But there were other forces and political agendas at work as well. As the population of the original 13 Colonies grew and the U.S. economy developed, the desire and attempts to expand into new land increased. For many colonists, land represented potential income, wealth, self-sufficiency and freedom. Expansion into the western frontiers offered opportunities for self-advancement.
To understand Manifest Destiny, it's important to understand the United States' need and desire to expand. The following points illustrate some of the economic, social and political pressures promoting U.S. expansion
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First they came for the vibrators...
A Texas housewife is in big trouble with the law for selling a vibrator to a pair of undercover cops, and the Brisbane vibrator company she works for says Texas is an "antiquated place'' with more than its share of "prudes.''
Joanne Webb, a former fifth-grade teacher and mother of three, was in a county court in Cleburne, Texas, on Monday to answer obscenity charges for selling the vibrator to undercover narcotics officers posing as a dysfunctional married couple in search of a sex aid.
Webb, a saleswoman for Passion Parties of Brisbane, faces a year in jail and a $4,000 fine if convicted.
"What I did was not obscene,'' Webb said. ""What's obscene is that the government is taking action about what we do in our bedrooms.''
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Thanks to David for the link.
Ladies and gentlmen, Wesley Clark, democratic presidential candidate.
Movies that I want to see: Santa Claus
Everyone knows Santa Claus is a holiday hero, but who knew he could hold his own against the forces of Hell itself? A cinematic testament to Santa's innate goodness (and oft-overlooked toughness), the Mexican film Santa Claus pits "the best friend of boys and girls everywhere" against a devil described as one of the Dark Prince's cleverest disciples
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Prosecute George W. Bush
for War Crimes
We, the undersigned, believe George W. Bush should be prosecuted for the following war crimes:
1. George W. Bush ordered a War of Aggression against Iraq. This constitutes a Crime Against Peace - for which Nazi leaders were prosecuted at the Nuremberg Trials - and violates the UN Charter.
-Iraq never attacked the US or threatened an attack, so the US is not acting legally in self-defense, which is permitted under the UN Charter.
-Iraq played no role in the September 11, 2001 attack on the US and never provided material support to any terrorist group that attacked the US, so even the non-legal Bush doctrine of pre-emptive attack does not apply.
-At the time of the US attack, Iraq was nearing full compliance with UN Resolution 1441 and prior resolutions requiring disarmament, and the majority of the Security Council believed UN inspectors should be given more time, so the US is not enforcing UN resolutions, as it claims.
-George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in order to bring about a regime change, which was never authorized by a UN resolution, and violates the UN Charter.
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The Funniest article that I've read all day: Vice's Touching People: Our Top 10 Outsiders Videos
What I Really Want
This is the winner. It was parodied in the Mr. Show movie Run Ronnie Run and Beck couldn’t resist putting it in a recent video. This way-too-short informative clip (you want it to go on for days) features a typical Marin County self-help group talking about actualizing your dreams. The story goes that, halfway into filming, the leader of this bizarre yuppie cult decided “everything has to be destroyed – RIGHT NOW!” The filmmakers managed to salvage this 15 minutes before the rest was lost forever.
HIGHLIGHT: A man rests on his knees and, after being encouraged to say what he feels no matter how much it hurts, bursts into sobs and screams, “I want to touch people. I want people to TOUCH ME!!!!”
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My chest hurts from laughing too much.
If you build it, they will come
This is how people have stumbled upon my page this week.
-Frithjof Schwesig and porn film
-artbomb artblog
-viewtiful joe review blog
-Bladder Vee-String Female Vagina Prosthesis
- vee-string
- vee string vagina
- japanese site:blogspot.com
- Soccer Poster Vagina
- japanese goldar
I want to know who's looking up "soccer poster vagina". My tiny brain doesn't understand.
Weapons Inspector Haunts Bush in British Satire
It is polling day in the United States and George W. Bush has gathered together his friends and family at the White House to celebrate his imminent re-election.
But the party is gate-crashed by a sinister U.N. weapons inspector, just back from 18 fruitless months wandering Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
He has a devastating report to deliver to the U.S. Congress and a few tough questions to ask Bush and his friends.
That, in short, is the plot of a new play by director Justin Butcher, whose first political farce, "The Madness of George Dubya," took London's theaterland by storm a year ago when it was staged during the build-up to the Iraq war.
"A Weapons Inspector Calls" is a similar offering -- "slapstick, vulgar, brash entertainment," according to Butcher.
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So, what do you all think of the new blog look?
I'm trying for the "Game of Death" colours from Bruce Lee's track suit, but I can't manage to get a black line to divide my tables on the left and the content on the right to appear. Anyone with mad HTML skillz want to give me a hand?
Saddam Hussein, the deposed Iraqi leader, was captured in a raid on a farm house near Tikrit on Saturday night, American military officials confirmed Sunday.
The officials said they had used DNA tests to confirm his identity.
"We got him," American administrator L. Paul Bremer III said at a news conference here.
Coalition troops discovered Hussein hiding in a hole below the farm house, located in the town of Adwar, 10 miles from Tikrit.
Military officials said that Hussein had put up no resistance and that not one shot had been fired in the operation.
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Mad props to my buddy Stephen
Thanks for indulging me on the last minute. My horrible butchering of the language non-withstanding, she was impressed by the fact that I knew a little Cantonese.
I have a case of the virulant flu
For the last three days I've woken up to sore joints, a sore throat and a killer headache. I don't seem to be getting any better. In other news, the USA is out of flu vaccine.
The poster on the left is the poster for Kini Fukasuku's Battles Without Honor or Humanity. The one on the right is a poster for Hishakaku: Honor Among Wolves. You can see more yakuza-eiga posters here.
Whistle with me, my friends.
Meme watch: Killographic
A public interest group had a holiday warning and a new word on Monday for parents of video game users: Beware of "killographic," defined as the "graphic depiction of brutal violence."
The National Institute on Media and the Family, an independent, nonprofit group, said "killographic" scenes are featured in a number of video games within reach of children.
Issuing its eighth annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card, the institute listed games parents should avoid for their children, led by "Manhunt."
"If pornographic is the 'graphic depiction of sex,' then killographic should enter our vocabulary to describe the 'graphic depiction of brutal violence,"' David Walsh, the institute's president, told a Capitol Hill news conference.
"Clever phrase," Doug Lowenstein, head of the Entertainment Software Association, which represents computer and video game software publishers, replied when asked about "killographic."
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Detention at the Dumpster: a Saved by the Bell/ Power Rangers fanfic by Duke Brown
"AHHH! After ten thousand years, I am free!" cried a shrill voice. It belonged to a strange-looking Asian lady with white hair. She climbed out of the dumpster, followed by an assortment of monsters. A winged humanoid with canine and simian features led the monsters, followed by a fat goofy blue one, a skinny six-armed furry one, a younger Asian female in gold armor, an elfish creature, and some clayish creatures.
Slater looked at the new arrivals. "Harmless, huh?"
The white-haired lady spoke. "I am Rita Repulsa, Empress of Evil!" She pointed ho her companions. "And these are my minions: The MonkeyDog guy with wings is Goldar! The golden woman is Scorpina! That fat one is Squatt! The skinny one is Baboo! And the elf is Finster! And those drones are my Putties! Now that I have introduced ourselves, it is time to conquer Earth!"
"Now just a minute Miss Repulsa!" The all-too-purebread Belding shouted. "You just cannot come in and take over the Earth!"
"Watch me, Balding!" Rita snickered as she and her goons disappeared.
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How I have made a difference in the world
Thanks to me, everyone I know know whistles the "Twisted Nerve". All the fucking time.
The Flaming Lips: Do You Realize
Last year, dealing with a bag full of shit concerning failing relationships and a life that I wasn’t happy with, I went for an incredibly long drive to find some joy.. It was fall and the leaves were spray painted with the colours of the sunset and the van made them trail behind me like coat tails. It was Thanksgiving weekend, but I had nothing to be thankful for that day. Since I was far beyond what I would call home, I combed the radio waves like a veterinarian might a dog. It was a Saturday afternoon, so I decided that my best bet would be cbc’s program, Definitely Not the Opera. My ears only were half listening to Sook Yin Lee talking about what she was thankful for, but they stood at full attention when she played “Do You Realize” by the Flaming Lips. At that moment, driving down a dead-end street in slow motion, I finally understood the song, and all that it meant. I read later on that the song was a simple way about telling about the deeper truths in life. It’s true. ”Do you realize that life goes fast/it’s hard to make the good things last”
It's so true, and I think that many people take it for granted.
Bladder Vee-String Female Vagina Prosthesis
The Bladder Vee-String Female Vagina Prosthesis™ is designed to fulfill the feminine illusion. Your penis is placed into a hole in the bladder, which holds you in place. The bladder does not hold liquid, but allows for an even flow. This allows urination in a sitting position as a female without removal or adjustment. The Bladder Vee-String Female Vagina Prosthesis™ is made of pure liquid latex rubber which is hand brushed into a mold with up to twelve coats for each of the custom made products. There are three to four different colors of tinted latex in each product. The hair is sewn on by hand and adhered to the back with liquid latex. This product is $164.95 plus shipping and handling
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How people are finding me
I've been checking my stat report for the last couple of days from Blogpatrol and that people have found my website using the following searches:
chichiren
fog n suds mission
macleans trailer park boys03/12/2003 04:27:37 gaming perverts (Yahoo)
Japanese crime fighting perverts (that was me!)
Macleans Trailer Park Boys
jetstream blog-spot
Vicar gives out porn films
A German vicar inadvertently supplied his parish with dozens of hard core porn films in an unsuccessful bid to teach people about the life of Christ.
Frithjof Schwesig, vicar in the southwestern town of Lampoldshausen, had ordered 300 copies of a video film portraying the life of Christ as told by the gospel according to Luke.
"In a first batch 20 to 30 videos were distributed and we immediately got a reaction from five to seven people saying we must have given them the wrong film," he said.
"It was a real porn film. Within an hour our staff had collected all the videos. Really, all were withdrawn."
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Beer and Nachos at Fog ‘N’ Suds this Saturday night at 9:00
I’ll be there with Team China and I’ll my hardest to get Norman to come. Everyone that can make it is invited. I know a couple of you may be working, so drop me a line so I know when/if to expect you.
Plugging for my friends: Gamers Against Censorship Group
My buddy Stephen has set up a discussion group to discus video game censorship. In his own words
This is a group made by gamers and for the gamers. We are here to show and educate the world about the myths and problems of games that organizations and other groups want to censor.
If anti-video game groups are united, then so are we. We shall criticize their fallacies and yet work with them on their positive points. It's about time we should be together as one voice and not just some simple blurb on the 9-o-clock TV News.
If you're a gamer and want to be an activist, check out the site and sign up.
Schwarzenegger says he has no backup plan if bond deal fails
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't have a backup plan if the Legislature or voters reject his propsal to sell $15 billion worth of bonds to pay off the state's existing deficit.
"Failure is no option. It just doesn't exist," the Republican governor said Monday. Without a backup, he said, "That means it has to happen."
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Holy fuck. No backup plan? I'm glad I'm not a Californian.
Brian Michael Bendis on Family Matters: my dream
My my dream, Brain Michael Bendis (the writer of Alias and Powers, for you non-comic geeks) had been a stff writer on the sitcom Family Matters. He revealed that before the show was canceled that he had single handledly wrote the plots for most of the defunct season. He alluded that during the now final season that many of the plot twists had been foreshadowed. This is a list of what he had constructed for the "missing season"
-Steve would lose his virginity to a mystery woman and become a sex addict.
-Carl would be responsible for a lynching while on an undercover investigation
-Steve discovers a magical bus stop. Who ever controls this bus stop can control the flow of mass transit in New York. A gang war breaks out for the control of the bus stop.
-Steve develops another alter-ego, this one a homeless white man to be played by Michael Jackson.
Segways enlisted as battle robots
It’s called the Segway Human Transporter, but the Pentagon is drafting the two-wheeled scooter as part of a plan to develop battlefield robots that think on their own and communicate with troops.
THE PROGRAM is still in the research phase, so the self-balancing scooters aren’t expected to report to boot camp anytime soon.
So far, university researchers armed with Pentagon funding have programmed Segway robots that can open doors, avoid obstacles, and chase soccer balls — all without human control.
Researchers say potential applications for the robots include performing search missions on the battlefield, transporting injured soldiers to safety, or following humans around while hauling their gear.
Dean Kamen, the Segway’s inventor, told The Associated Press he had no qualms about enlisting his brainchild into the military.
“You build a car and it can either be used as an ambulance, or it can drive your troops around,” he said. “My personal reason for liking (this program) is we would love to get more Segways at universities. The more we have our technology among the tech world, particularly the young geeks, it could only help us.”
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New Grant Morrison interview is up
THE PULSE: You said you view some of the world's greatest religions like sci-fi. Howso? Or is it just some religions that are like sci-fi?
MORRISON: Imagine a new technology which allowed ideas to be somehow grasped from the air, transformed into symbols and recorded on stone or papyrus. When gazed upon by an educated person, these images would then transform themselves magically into consistent sounds in the head.
We're so familiar with written language that we sometimes forget how outlandish a concept it must have seemed to our ancestors. Writing allowed people to copy and transfer their thoughts and their tribal codes of conduct to others, even unto generations they themselves would not live to personally instruct, affect or control. The words themselves must have seemed alive and immortal and as "holy" as ghosts. Written law was thus a way of mastering time and influencing the future, a weapon greater than fire and steel, I hope you'll agree. When read, the written word made the head buzz and ring and fill up with voices and commands from nowhere, as if God Himself had come thundering down through the symbols, off the page and into the room, fertilising and impregnating the mind with his Ghostly, unmistakable presence.
So God(ie Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah) always watching us, always judging, is, I believe, a living concept which emerged along with the early development of alphabets, to prey on developing human minds. IN return for providing a lush spawning ground, the "God" meme rewards the human mind with simple satisfying but ultimately incomplete explanations regarding its place in a complex and frightening universe. What the three "Religions of the Book" call "God," I call a virulent and hard-to-kill memetic structure finding its perfect technological carrier medium at a critical time in the history of humanity.
The wholly masculine "God" of the great monoreligions is a personification of written law and its strange effect on our brains. "He" is the cop in the head who constantly checks our behavior to ensure that we don't step too far beyond the limits our culture has established and expected us to internalise. "He" demands obedience and the performance of irrational rituals in "His" name. We've got so used to that hectoring critical voice in our heads and have so many new explanations for it that most of us don't call it "God" anymore and churches are emptying.
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artblog
When my friends Stephen and Mike didn't have lives, they'd occationally work on Moon Karma Zero a collaborative blog that was supposed to be like Grammarporn. Much like Grammarporn at the moment, it's not often updated, but when it is, it's usally good stuff.
One of my favorite things that they did was list their favourite artists of the day. Be it musician or comic artist, they'd all get a shake of our bandwidth. It's been far too long since they've done it.
For those of you, like me, that enjoys comic creation, I suggest that you check out Artbomb's artblog. Just think of artblog as a succulent pig whose orifaces have been filled with new and exciting comic art and ideas. Check it out and get your fix.
A 6 page preview of Blankets, for those who haven't had the pleasure
I've lived those moments, illustrated there. I can't wait to pick this up.
Conversations with Christopher: Frankenstein's monster
Rpb: Frankenstein's monster: Is he a zombie, or a robot?
Christopher: I dunno. That's a good question though
Rob: It is.
Christopher: cause he's really kinda both. Or maybe more like a cyborg?
Rob: Except that he doesn't eat brains.
Christopher: Cause we all know that all zombies eat brains
Rob:Wouldn't it be awesome if he ate the brains of his bride?
Christopher: For real
Rob: And yet, he doesn't have the urge to "exterminate" like a robot.
Christopher: this is also true
Rob: In the end, it remains an enigma for all time.
Christopher: I'm not quite sure if you can ever truly determine the answer to that question, cause maybe there isn't an answer? Or maybe we're just being overly stupid
Rob: I'd say the former.
This is why Metal Gear Solid 3 is gonna be great.
Kill Bill. My house. This weekend.
This is the ultimate KISS collectible, " said Simmons. "I love livin’, but this makes the alternative look pretty damn good." Simmons appeared on The Howard Stern Radio Show this morning to pitch the product, saying, "Most caskets go for $3,000 but ours will sell for $4,500," prompting Stern to chastise him for not giving fans a deal even in death.
Gamegirl Advance on Why Rez is one of the best games of all time
Excited, we inserted our very first Japanese game into our brand new console. We hooked up the trance vibrator, and I began to play the game. The game is, truly, a stunningly beautiful thing. It is a "music shooting" game, but of such elegance and coolness it's in a genre all its own. The premise places you as a futuristic hacker, avoiding security systems and navigating through databases to crack codes in a way strongly reminiscent of Tron. Your mission: information needs to be free. "Flying down neon corridors shooting space/machine beings in time to techno music", as Justin put it, is a pretty good description, as is "Tron on Ecstasy." The game bills itself as synesthesia - union of senses. But even that doesn't begin to relay the feeling of the game. Even without the trance vibrator, the game puts you into a trance state - it's a raver's game, a game of pure sensation. The goals are simply to progress to the next level - not so complicated. But getting there is a sublime visual and aural experience. There's also an invincible "travelling" mode, if you want to just sit back and move through the levels without worrying about your avatar's taking damage.
But god damn, the trance vibrator started thumping like crazy in time with the music.
Well, what would you have done? I moved the vibrator into my lap.
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"After that night, I never saw Guitar Wolf again. Courage and rock 'n' roll: that's what he taught me that night."
The Smoking Gun on the Real World's Rape Scandle
TSG has done many dopey stories about reality television and the misfits who populate those programs, but the below search warrant application provides the most disturbing glimpse yet into the dysfunctional TV form. San Diego cops got the warrant last Tuesday after a woman told of being raped in the home where MTV's "Real World" is currently being filmed. According to the 22-year-old victim, she was at a nightclub when she met the rape suspect, who is identified only as "Justin" in the warrant application (the man is reportedly an acquaintance of a male cast member named Randy). The woman said that Justin offered her a beverage, but after finishing the drink, "she blacked out and woke up the following morning...in the guest bedroom on the set of MTV's Real World." When she awoke, the woman was disoriented, had trouble talking, and realized that "someone had had sex with her while she was unconscious." She also noted that an MTV camera crew was filming her at the time she awoke.
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Orgy hotels to reopen in China
Two hotels involved in a mid-September "orgy" involving nearly 300 Japanese travelers and about 200 Chinese prostitutes in southern China are preparing to reopen after a forced closure, news reports and hotel personnel indicated Tuesday
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Ways to kill time during the democratic debates
I offer you two solutions. The first one is Democratic Debate Bingo. A brilliant use of resouces by the the Republican National Comitee.
Second up is the the Democratic Debate drinking game, for those who feel that a debate is best seen through beergoggles.
I'm the new Vice-President for the Fort St. John Film Society.
And for those who still live here in town, I can promise you that we'll be screening a bunch of great movies in the new year. Can you say Lost in Translation? I can, baby!
This is why I love guerrilla protesting.
Mark Hammil's stage play comes to an end
-- "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks," a comedy starring Polly Bergen and Mark Hamill, closed Sunday on Broadway after a run of only 30 performances.
Richard Alfieri's play about a retired Florida school teacher and her dance instructor received mostly negative reviews when it opened Oct. 29 at the Belasco Theatre. The Associated Press called the play "innocuous" and said it recalled "wan Broadway comedies of years gone by, shows that inexplicably got to New York and then disappeared quickly." Variety described the show as "a desiccated piece of Florida dinner-theater driftwood."
"Six Dance Lessons" has done meager business since opening, last week grossing only $78,728.99, and filling only 30 percent of the seats at the Belasco
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Stonechild hearing resumes, key question unanswered
After a month break, the judicial inquiry into the mysterious death of a 17-year-old Aborginal teen found frozen to death in a field north of Saskatoon in 1990 is resuming this week.
Saskatoon police have been accused of leaving Neil Stonechild to die in sub-zero temperatures 13 years ago, but the inquiry has yet to answer the most important question around the teen's death: How did he end up in a field north of Saskatchewan?
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Monday's pile of addictive webjunk
My friend Stephen found a website called group hug. group hug is an annonymous site where you can confess your dirtiest sins in with complete anominity. By the same token, the site showcases everyone else's sins for your enjoyment.
On the same theme is one of my favorite websites, lowbrow. Like grouphug, lowbrow is a site made of of annonymous essays about people at their lowest moments. Alternately funny as hell and pathetic.
Lastly, Michael Jackson has unveiled a new website dedicated to his innocence. The website is a must who want the unvarnished truth about the allegations, straight from Jackson's mouth.
I need your help
Anyone know of a website that allows you to track your DVD, music, book and videogame collection?
The Gardien's 40 best directors of all time
Oddly enough, the directors are classified in RPG terms of Substance, Look, Craft, Originality and Intelligence. Time to roll a d20.
On another note, DNTO's reviewer called Cat in the Hat Lyncian nightmare. I had no interest in the film until it was described as such.
Rob's Matrix Revolutions drinking game
I made this up while watching Matrix Revolutions when I hung out with Team China last night. Recommended drink for the film? I suggest a Heineken as it's the Official Beer of the Matrix. Be aware, there be spoilers below.
Each time Neo asks a question, take a drink.
Each time a pointless new character is introduced, take a drink.
Take a drink each time someone says "goddammit!". Take two if it's Roland, the captain of the Hammer.
Take a drink when the Kid looks around wide eyed and confused.
Drink the bottle if you hear someone laugh when Trinity dies.
If a character provides a monologue longer than a minute, drink until it's over.
Drink when someone doubts that Neo can save the day.
Take a drink when someone states their belief in Neo.
Drink the bottle if you see Larry Wachoski's post op cameo.
Take two drinks for each Dragon Ball Z hyper explosion.
I just found out that Pearl's getting married
What a shock. I feel old.
Chinese Swords
These handsome weapons are full of tradition. Imported from Hebei, China each weapon is crafted from traditional materials and hand made with local pride. Hebei province is not only the center of Northern Chinese Martial Arts, but also its main steel producer. Made by renowned sword makers, the straight and broadswords are flexible from 90 to 180 degree bends. They make a perfect addition to anyone wishing to use them for demonstrations, practice or display. The material is made of quality "Wushu Steel" and highly favored by Wushu practitioners around the world. Not sharpened.
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New meme: Japanese crime fighting perverts.
Lets give it up for Warren Ellis and Matt Fraction for finding the page. Props to David for naming it.
Jones introduces new flavour
In time for the Thanksgiving holiday, Jones Soda will launch a limited production of the sugar-free and no carbohydrate Turkey & Gravy flavored beverage in the Washington and Michigan markets.
“We are really excited about the limited test launch of our new flavored Turkey & Gravy beverage. This seasonal flavor allows us to enter a new market segment, the meal replacement market. The new flavor will also appeal to new consumers, those who prefers a savory type flavor to the traditional soda flavors,” says Peter van Stolk, President & C.E.O. “With consumers becoming more and more health conscious, Jones Soda's Turkey & Gravy flavored beverage is a zero calorie and zero carbohydrate beverage that can be served warm or cold with a full flavor that will meet and will exceed our customer's expectation.”
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