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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Fist Of Jesus
What happens when you combine Jesus and zombies? This (NSFW for over the top blood):
[youtube http://youtu.be/GuKV2Z3eYTY]Anyone Remember These Commercials?
I was in the shower this morning when this randomly popped into my head:
I have no idea why that popped into my head. It’s best not to ask questions of my brain. It’s an incredibly creepy but effective ad. That sent me spiraling into a Youtube vortex of Mormon commercials from the 80s. Remember this one:
Or this one:
The last one is interesting because it features a black kid. Why is that interesting? Let’s just say the Mormons aren’t know for their racial sensitivity towards Blacks.
There are other commercials too, but the above are my favorite. They’re simple, catchy, and tell an important moral lesson without being preachy aside from the memorable “From the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-Day Saints, the Mormons!” at the end.
Three-Fifths Of A Living Wage
I recently read that phrase on a blog post that I have since forgotten, but the phrase itself stayed with me. That’s some really powerful imagery in a few words.
Obviously, living on minimum wage is not anything nearly as bad as slavery was, but the phrase isn’t meant to evoke the way minimum wage earners are treated physically but the way they are treated politically and socially and in that respect there is a lot of similarity. Giving every person the ability to have a 40 hour work week which pays a living wage would go a long way towards equality.
I don’t have much else to add about the subject past what I’ve already written in my American Disdain for the Poor post. The phrase just stuck with me so I thought I’d share.
LOL Of The Day
There has been a brouhaha over a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol Building. The ACLU has sued saying it’s a governmental establishment of a religion which directly contradicts the First Amendment. It certainly does, but that’s not what’s funny. What’s funny is what happened next. A few other religions then requested to put their own monuments on the grounds. This would certainly be a way for Oklahoma to skirt the First Amendment violation. The only problem is that one of the first to apply for adding a new monument was the Church of Satan. Well, they recently released a design proposal for said monument and it’s…well, take a look:
The best part is you can sit on Satan’s lap! BWAHAHAHAHA! There is no way in hell (ha!) this gets approved, but oh, would it make the Oklahoma State Capitol Building a tourist attraction.
Goodbye Net Neutrality
Here’s an inventive way to screw over the Internet. Take a service you put an arbitrary cap on, say cell phone data plans, and then offer companies an opportunity to bypass that cap by paying a nominal fee. As if I needed another reason to hate AT$T.
I have to admit, it’s a wickedly inventive way to wedge your way into disbanding net neutrality. Cell phone companies have long charged more for more use for minutes and texts and data plans, but now they’re offering customers the chance to use certain web sites that won’t count as going over their cap. It’s a win-win situation for AT$T. Customers get to use unlimited data for certain sites and AT$T gets more money from the companies that can afford to bribe them the extra costs.
AT$T gets away with that for a few years and then Comca$t can come in and complain that AT$T has a market advantage by being able to charge more for allowing companies unlimited access to their networks. Soon, all of net neutrality is completely thrown away causing a massive shrinkage in the amount of commercially viable websites on the Internet.
The Beauty Of Winter
I couldn’t find my good camera so these were taken with my phone, but the still turned out pretty nice. Ice crystals forming on my window. It is amazing how delicate they look.
Just A Little Snow
The Day After A Party Is The Most Unhealthy Of All
Any successful party is sure to have lots of leftovers, some of which are bound to be perishable. You have your chips and dips which no longer have a container. There’s usually cakes and crackers left sitting out. Salads and fruits that won’t last long. All of them need to be eaten. The day after.
So let it be known that on January 1st, 2014, I ate the following: 10 deviled eggs, half a bag of pita chips along with some sort of cheeze sauce, 4 slices of pretty disgusting cold pizza, a handful of pistachios, a slice of really stale cake before I threw the rest away, some mixed vegetables and their accompanying dip, 6 peppermint cremes, lots of pretzels, and more cookies than I can count.
Also, there were a couple of wee ones at the party near the beginning and an hour in, you’d swear that an all night rave had just occurred. I should start a new tumblr, awesome party or 4 year olds, where people have to guess which was responsible for the mess left behind.