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October 31, 2006

The Blacklist Returns - Air America Blackout

via Raw Story | Media Matters | ABC memo reveals Air America advertiser blacklist

An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that nearly 100 ABC advertisers insist that their commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates. According to the memo, the adverstisers insist that "NONE of their commercials air during AIR AMERICA programming." Among the advertisers listed are Bank of America, Exxon Mobil, Federal Express, General Electric, McDonald's, Microsoft, Wal-Mart, and the U.S. Navy.

I formally ask you to not give money to any of these companies, otherwise known as "The Usual Suspects."

Posted by Alan at 03:11 PM | | Comments (0)

Brazillians hate Midwestern cuisine, cafeterias

Boing Boing: Henry Ford's Detroit suburb in the Brazilian jungle

“I’m a worker, not a waiter!” a Fordlandia employee reportedly yelled in the food line one day, sparking the plantation’s most notorious riot. Workers armed with machetes joined the protest against the self-serve mid-western cuisine in a country where food traditionally was served at the table. The seringueiros demolished the cafeteria as North American officials scrambled to the dock, jumped into boats and waited in the middle of the river for Brazilian troops to quell the melee...

“A workman’s mess hall was set up but native workers did not like the wholesome Detroit-style cooking and complained bitterly of indigestion. North American fare in the jungle no more pleases the customers than a quick change to Amazon fare would please you or me,” Wilson wrote in a Harpers magazine article titled “Mr. Ford in the Jungle.” Furthermore, the natives did not choose to square dance on the village green or to sing the quaint folk songs of Merrie England or to treasure Longfellow.”

Posted by Mojo at 12:22 PM | | Comments (0)

“Happy Halloween”? How about “Happy KISS MY ASS”?

One Girl & her cats | “Happy Halloween”? How about “Happy KISS MY ASS”?

What I hate is what it has turned into. It started out good. It was intended to be good.... But in my honest opinion anything supernatural walking through the portal between worlds into our realm would only need to take one glance at what happens today before saying “pffft. Fuck this. Anyone up for pizza?” and walking straight back out again....

vandalism110204.jpgBut this trick-or-treating thing has gotten WAY out of hand.... True to great British tradtion, it's worse. We don’t just get eggs chucked at our houses; we also get stuff like bottles, rocks, bricks….Our cars aren’t toilet papered; they’re trashed, or nicked and THEN trashed. We get abuse hurled at us, threats made, some people are even physically assaulted, and not only are 90% of the bastards starting the trouble in their teens and not in costume – they also don’t want sweets (candy): they want cash. And if they don’t get it, or whether they want it or not, they cause chaos and destruction and fear in their wake.

And it isn’t even a British holiday!


Posted by Alan at 12:18 PM | | Comments (0)

"I hate Halloween! Tell somebody I said it! I hate Halloween!"

WHAT'S WRONG WITH HALLOWEEN? | by Dr. R. L. Hymers, Jr. | A sermon preached at the Baptist Tabernacle of Los Angeles | Lord's Day Morning, October 20, 2002

But in the late 1970s the old Hippies began to make Halloween an adult event. Now that the Hippies control our culture, Halloween has become what the Times called our national "bacchanal."...anti-ha.gifThe word "bacchanal" means "an orgy," "a debauched saturnalia," "a carousal," "a drunken, licentious revelry" ...

I don't blame you young people. Your generation did not make Halloween what it now is. It was the old Hippies, your parents' generation, who made Halloween a drunken, wild, debauched orgy. The Hippies are to blame - the Ozzie Osbourne, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon crowd. They're almost as bad even after they become Christians. The women still don't pluck their eyebrows or comb their stringy hair and fix it. They still have hair growing out of their noses and food sticking between their straggly teeth. They still think they are right on every point - at all times. This is the crowd of old Hippie Neanderthals who gave you "the age of Aquarius" and the modern bacchanal of Halloween - when they turn the entire United States of America into New Orleans at Mardi Gras - and swim through an ocean of their own vomit to worship Dracula and Frankenstein!

I hate everything the old Hippies do - from the old Hippie Bill Clinton to the old Hippie Rosie O'Donnell. I hate their way of life - and I hate their Halloween! I hate Halloween! Tell somebody I said it! I hate Halloween!


Posted by Alan at 11:55 AM | | Comments (0)

People who hate halloween suck

10/31/02 People who hate Halloween

People who hate Halloween - and I've known a few of them - suck. This is truly one of the greatest holidays Americans have, free of relentless commercialization (only Hershey's and Spencer Gifts at the mall make any money), plum full of pagan symbolism, and virtual carte blanche for every man, woman and child to splatter themselves with green makeup, sprout boobs and sashay around town. I'll go ahead and say it: Christmas is fine, but Halloween is my favorite holiday.

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Posted by Alan at 11:35 AM | | Comments (0)

Poem:Halloween

Diary Of Barbie's Worst Enemy | Poem:Halloween

I hate Halloween. With all my heart.
Simply because he called me 'pumpkin'.
The childhood sweetheart who scarred my heart
who lived to cave my pretty face in.

I hate Halloween. With a passion.
Because all the ghouls creep out at night.
In my life, bad men are in fashion:
serial dating fright after fright.
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I hate Halloween. With its tricks, treats,
its thugs throwing eggs and flour at homes.
Blackmailing ASBO-kids with cheap sweets
as I quiver at home with hormones.

I hate Halloween. With its dark face,
shrouding me with its cape of the past.
Reminding me how he’d crowd my space
and how ‘stupid me’ thought it would last…

I love November the First so much,
where I can re-cleanse, try to forget.
Where I can forget his knuckled touch
and the worst man I have ever met.

(c) Sarah Parry 2006.

Posted by Alan at 11:23 AM | | Comments (0)

"hey ma, they use to kill Jews on Halloween"

Atlas Shrugs | I Hate Halloween
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Once upon a time I loved Halloween. Crushingly loved Halloween. When I was a kid, I had this gypsy costume that I was so crazy for. I thought I was just so fabulous in it... So on this dress would go and off I would go to collect candy. Chocolate. How fabulous is that?

What I didn't know was the history of Halloween. It has deplorable, ugly elements. I would deck the house full out in Halloween decoration -- but it was my kids who came home years ago and said. "hey ma, they use to kill Jews on Halloween. It's a pagan holiday." Apparently Halloween was a night when many pogroms would occur against Jews.

Posted by Alan at 11:01 AM | | Comments (0)

Good Christians Hate Halloween

The Seventh Sense | Good Christians Hate Halloween
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'Mom, why can't we go trick-or-treating like all the other kids? Are you afraid we'll eat too much candy and our teeth will rot?'

'Well, Jerry,' said Mom, 'I certainly don't want your teeth to rot, but no, that isn't the reason you can't go trick-or-treating. As Christians, Daddy and I don't let you take part in Halloween because we know Jesus doesn't want us to do such things.'

'But why, Mommy?' Sarah exclaimed. 'What's wrong with Halloween?'

'Halloween is filled with fear, meanness, and sadness.'

'I don't understand, Mom,' said Jerry. 'How is dressing up in funny costumes and going door-to-door to get candy scary or sad?'

'The devil is very good at making things look wonderful on the outside that are wrong on the inside. Halloween is one of those things,' Mom said.

Posted by Alan at 10:54 AM | | Comments (0)

25 things I hate about Google

Search Engine Watch | 25 Things I Hate About Google
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1. Web search counts that make no sense.

5. Easier access to all your tools.

10. Give us paid web search support

12. Be more responsive to click fraud complaints

15. Put the brakes on self-serve AdSense.

16. Stop giving away Blogger for free.

22. Stop opening products to everyone, then getting overwhelmed.

25. Fix the philosophy.


Posted by Alan at 12:04 AM | | Comments (0)

October 30, 2006

Why do I hate Grosse Pointe?

edgewise | Why do I hate Grosse Pointe?
00nat4.jpgthe place I grew up is distinctly NOT home for me. I have a profound averse reaction to it. ... the house I primarily grew up in...is... disturbing.... "why do you hate grosse pointe?" demanded patrick. "what's wrong with it?" I didn't have the slightest idea where to begin. ... when I worked at ACT registering people for the test over the phone, the detroit suburban mothers were infamous-- they're just mean. haughty and snippy and endowed with an air of encompassing entitlement. really unlike anywhere else. these chicago friends may have their northshore snootinesses, but grosse pointe is a phenomenon unto itself. rigid and narrow and sneaky and small and bitchy. on saturday night I went with my sister and the kids to a couple of halloween parties .... I was overwhelmed by... something-- a kind of shiftiness in the eyes, an air of hauteur, a leaning back and looking down noses, not being bothered to make an effort to be friendly or kind--

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I hate banks

Just a Girl | I hate banks
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I logged onto my accounts online a few days ago, the day before my paycheck electronic deposit, and here was the last three transactions on the personal account:

(balance here is 35.90)
10/26/2006: Checkcard - 15.00 (balance 20.90)
10/26/2006: Checkcard - 10.00 (balance 10.90)
10/26/2006: Checkcard - 5.50 (balance 5.40)

OH SHIT, I thought. The balance after those last three transactions is only about 5 bucks. Yes, I was getting paid the next night at midnight…. but I wrote a paper check at the grocery store the day before also for 31.00. Oh well, I thought, I’ll have to pay a 33.00 overdraft fee, if it comes in before my check… shit.

OK, so I logged the very next morning to have a look. and HERE is what it showed:

(balance here is 35.90)
10/26/06 - Check - 31.00 (balance 4.90)
10/26/2006: Checkcard - 15.00 (balance -10.10)
10/26/2006: Checkcard - 10.00 (balance -20.10)
10/26/2006: Checkcard - 5.50 (balance -25.60)
10/26/2006: Overdraft fee - 33.00 (balance -58.60)
10/26/2006: Overdraft fee - 33.00 (balance -91.60)
10/26/2006: Overdraft fee - 33.00 (balance -124.60)

WHAT THE HELL!!???!!!????!!???

from wikipedia:

Some banks arrange their overdraft protection program to pay the largest check first, in order to increase the number of overdrafts and maximize fee income.
OH those rat-bastards!

Posted by Alan at 09:57 PM | | Comments (0)

Today's Lying Sack of Shit: Lynne Cheney

HuffPo | Martin Lewis | Lynne Cheney: LYING LIAR

"I have never written anything sexually explicit..." - Lynne Cheney on CNN "The Situation Room" - October 27th 2006.
Lynne Cheney - you are a liar. A lying liar. And as an author who is currently hyping a book targeted at children - you should be especially ashamed of the flagrant tissue of lies that spewed from your lips today.

Please explain the presence of the lesbian love affair, brothels and attempted rapes in your serious literary work "Sisters" (1981)

And what is the character of the Vice President in your book "The Body Politic" (1988) doing to his mistress at the precise moment when he has a heart attack? Playing mahjong perhaps?

Here's a link to "Sisters" - especially interesting to social conservatives and Virginia voters who wish to see how the Vice President's wife extols "family values":

Read the entire book online. (Kleenex not included)

They don't like me to use sexist words here, so I'll just call Lynne a crazy fucking asshole.

[posted by Alan]

Posted by Mojo at 06:13 PM |

When better psychotics are made, Ohio will make them

Brad Blog | EXCLUSIVE: Unredacted Death Threat Letter to Stephanie Miller
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A man from Centerville, Ohio, identifying himself as "Sock" Sokolowski has sent a death threat to radio host Stephanie Miller after a recent appearance on Fox "News'" Hannity & Colmes.
"As with Cindy Sheehan the best thing that could happen to you would be seeing some WONDERFUL activist sticking an AK-47 up your Glory Holes and sending you into eternity"

"Honestly, should I hear of either you leaving this earth prematurely I would initiate a personal celebration that would make Animal House appear to be just another quiet Sunday in church."

"...we must identify this nation's enemies and though we keep friends close, we MUST keep our enemies even closer and you two vile bitches are just that."

Referring to both women as "mother fuckers," Sokolowski writes that he hopes for further exposure for both Miller and Sheehan on "TV shows…as GUARANTEED your words will someday possibly accelerate your demise."

"[I] would love to celebrate and would for days on end as I would and will when still another America HATER meets his/her maker."

Posted by Alan at 05:53 PM | | Comments (0)

Dixie Chicks Say They’ve Been on a ‘Hate List’

MNSNBC | Dixie Chicks Say They’ve Been on a ‘Hate List’
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[Natalie] Maines said, “We’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”

A new documentary, “Shut Up and Sing,” which opens this week chronicles the backlash and how this country band from Dallas still feels the heat from that 12 word remark.

MATTHEWS: Were you blacklisted?

MAINES: Absolutely. They have a hate list and we were number one.

ROBISON: And you said something about corporate America, you know, it brings up another subject of the consolidation of media. Once again, these were edicts coming down from corporate headquarters, that they weren’t allowed to play our music. It wasn’t a local type of thing. But for the most part, it was coming down from the top, “You are not allowed to play the Dixie Chicks.”

NBC, CW refuse ads for Dixie Chicks movie

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Newly raised black Mason receives hate mail

Newly raised black Mason receives hate mail

A Massachusetts black minister who recently became a Mason by joining a regular Antient blue lodge working under the Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts says he received a letter last week showing an African-American man and containing racist remarks.

"To think that they are prominent up here as opposed to down South, no one thinks that," Bro. Chan-Williams said. "But now one must ask the question, how prominent are they up here?"

Posted by Alan at 04:47 PM | | Comments (0)

Sometimes, hate just isn't funny

culturekitchen.com | Dealing with the hate

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If you can bear it, the photographs are here. They are from the Musarium program, "Without Sanctuary," and they are a documentation of lynchings. Of the "strange fruit" that hangs in trees. Of what happens when the worst in the human psyche is joined with the worst in others, and mobs arise.
One of the ways that we know about the mobs and the lynchings is that photographs were taken. Photographs were taken, and then they were turned into postcards, which were sent through the U.S. mail. Imagine. The Comstock laws made it illegal to mail erotic or lascivious or contraceptive information using the U.S. postal service, but it was perfectly okay to send trophy shots of what had been done to other human beings by mobs.

Posted by Alan at 03:49 PM | | Comments (0)

Democracy is such a fucking bother

5 things I hate about Elections. 2006 Edition

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* Election signs - The annoyance of seeing such well written drivel as "Vote for Blah", or "We Love Blahette", is only to be beaten by the next thing that I hate.........

** Election Commercials - I find these just as if not more annoying than the signs. These commercials take the place of more interesting Vonage and Gieko caveman commercials. Let me watch my high school football games and syndicated Friends in peace........

*** Controversies -The bottom line for me on this is, why should I let one douche bag change my vote? Hell, if that was the case we would never vote would we?

**** Electronic Voting Machines - I keep hearing, and reading about the crookedness perpetrated by the people in charge of these machines. I don't know whether any of this is true. I am just so sick of hearing about this.

**** *Politicians - Last but not least, Politicians. I don't like them. I hate having vote for them. And no matter who I vote for and what party he is in I feel dirty voting for them.

Posted by Alan at 12:22 PM | | Comments (0)

Expert: Gays must destroy marriage so they can suck dick at high noon on Main Street

Townhall.com | Why Gays Hate Marriage | By Kevin McCullough

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With utter contempt for God, and for the voters of their state the New Jersey seven unanimously said that all who live in the confines of its borders must fundamentally agree to the moral premise, that what the Bible terms perversion, the voters should call healthy.
What's the real goal of the activists, the judges, and the radicals who seek to subvert a moral world view?

The answer is simple, no longer satisfied with practicing the unspeakable perverse sexual pleasures that their hearts seek in private bedrooms, they wish to be able to do so in public. They are also suffering from such immense guilt over the actions of their sexual behaviors because they know inherently that the actions they perform are in fact unhealthy - that they will go to any means necessary to try and shut down the voices in their heads that tell them it is wrong.

Posted by Alan at 12:50 AM | | Comments (0)

I hate rap

I hate rap

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Rap, By Definition, Is Bullshit

I'm not really huge into music or anything, I have things I like and things that I don't. But rap is the only type of music I can say that I HATE. This isn't unfounded either. Sure, I hate it just based on my own tastes, but I have more reasons than just that. Rap isn't even music. According to Dictionary.com "Music" is:

mu·sic n. - The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre. - An aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds

I don't find anything about rap "aesthetically pleasing" or "harmonious". I did, however, find a much, much more fitting definition:

bull·shit - (Vulgar Slang) n. - Foolish, deceitful, or boastful language. - Something worthless, deceptive, or insincere.
- Insolent talk or behavior. - Something considered of poor quality, foolish, or otherwise totally unacceptable.

Does that fit the genre of rap like a glove or what??

Posted by Alan at 12:33 AM | | Comments (0)

Teen Has Breasts Removed After Infection

Teen Has Breasts Removed After Infection

RAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A teenager who decided to get her breasts pierced for her 18th birthday faces reconstructive surgery after a flesh-destroying infection forced doctors to remove her left breast.

Stephanie Edington of Crawfordsville remained hospitalized Friday at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, where surgeons also removed lymph nodes and infected skin up to her collar bone.

Dr. Robert Goulet Jr., a professor at the Indiana University Cancer Center, said the piercing created an entry point for the bacteria, but the procedure likely did not cause the infection itself. Edington is diabetic, which left her susceptible to infection, he said....

"By the time she got here, the skin tissue was all pretty much completely dead," he said. "She was a very sick kid when she got here."

Posted by Alan at 12:14 AM | | Comments (0)

October 29, 2006

I hate bees

snellspace.com | I hate bees

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Around noon today I decided to take the 1yr old out for a walk down to the corner store to pick up some drinks for my wife and I. On the way back I walk by this one particular tree only to find me and my son surrounded by a small swarm of bees.
I had about ten or so buzzing around right up in my face, at least three on my arm and one or two on Aaron’s head. I managed to brush those them away from his head only to have them come right at my face. Natural instinct was to let go of the stroller and attempt to get away from the bees. The next thing I knew I’m watching the stoller roll right off the sidewalk and fall over into the street. Luckily the stroller took most of the impact but Aaron’s head did make contact with the blacktop. He’s fine now but he’s got one hell of nasty looking bump on his forehead. As a precaution, my wife went ahead and brought him down to the clinic to be checked out given the size of the bump. I feel absolutely terrible that it happened.

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Hate Gang Bang!! Mormons Hate the Arabs for Hating Jooooos!

LDS Patriot | Arab Hate Industry

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Looking for a good anti-Semitic book to read? Would you like to learn how Jews are responsible for all the ills of the world? Perhaps you need a refresher course in holocaust denial. Do you need to “prove” how the Jews have betrayed and plotted against Arabs from day one?
You had me at "Hello," sailor!
When was the last time you’ve read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion? How about a reasoned defense of Hitler’s killing of Jews? Want proof America is a greater evil than Hitler, Stalin or Jihadists like al-Qaeda?

Next time you are in Doha, capital city of Qatar, make sure you schedule your trip around the Doha International Book Fair, and glut yourself on anti-Semitic, anti-American, anti-West literature until your cup-o-hate runneth over!

Posted by Alan at 11:23 PM | | Comments (0)

The Party of Hate

Talk Left | The Party of Hate
Via digby, a former speechwriter for President Bush writes:

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That sweet mullet is making me hard.
I have also grown to hate certain people of genuine accomplishment like Ted Turner, who, by his own contention, cannot make up his mind which side of the terror war he is on;
I hate the executives at CNN, Turner's intellectual progeny, who recently carried water for our enemies by broadcasting their propaganda film portraying their attempts to kill American soldiers in Iraq. I now hate Howard Dean, the elected leader of the Democrats, who, by repeatedly stating his conviction that we won't win in Iraq, bets his party's future on our nation's defeat.

I hate the Democrats who, in support of this strategy, spout lie after lie: that the president knew in advance there were no WMD in Iraq; that he lied to Congress to gain its support for military action; that he pushed for the democratization of Iraq only after the failure to find WMD; that he was a unilateralist and that the coalition was a fraud; that he shunned diplomacy in favor of war.

Being a Bush Republican is a mental illness.

Posted by Alan at 09:50 PM | | Comments (0)

I HATE HAPPY PEOPLE

Open Container speedWay | I HATE HAPPY PEOPLE

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I’m not entirely certain what I mean by that. But I get the feeling my readers will appreciate it — because my hunch is they hate them too.

And it’s funny — because I like everybody really. But I was just in a bar full of Happy People. At a Halloween costume contest. Trying to send an email off real quick before I puked.

And then I left. Came to another bar and decided to work out some of my frustrations in writing before I went back there to throw punches.

Posted by Alan at 01:44 AM | | Comments (0)

Closeted lesbian, porn author and screeching liar Lynne Cheney stinks up CNN

Short Version:

Long Version:

Posted by Alan at 01:36 AM | | Comments (0)

Bob Dylan musical is excruciating

Critics, fans pan, dislike and hate Dylan show

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Stoned again.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new musical set to the songs ofBob Dylan has left critics disappointed and fans disillusioned with the iconic musician's decision to allow his songs to be set on the stage.

"The Times They Are A-Changin'," which made its Broadway debut on Thursday night, was conceived and

choreographed by Twyla Tharp, who transformed Billy Joel's songs into the Tony-award winning "Movin' Out" which enjoyed a successful three-year run on Broadway.Music critic Dave Marsh said Dylan had followed other musicians branching out into other ventures such as The Who's rock opera "Tommy."

"The joke in The Who circle was they had done everything but 'Tommy On Ice' so I suppose this is better than 'The Bob Dylan Icecapades'," he said.

Posted by Alan at 12:57 AM | | Comments (0)

I hate my husband

What the Hell Is Wrong With You? | I Hate My Husband

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Publius and I are sitting on the couch with my two laptops after several cocktails complaining about how there's nothing on tv and nothing to do. He made me mad for reasons I have already forgotten and so I googled the phrase "I hate my husband." 25,900 hits. He googled "My wife hates me." 955 hits. So, we can conclude that while 25,900 women hate their husbands, only 955 of those husbands are aware of it.

Posted by Alan at 12:50 AM | | Comments (0)

October 28, 2006

The Savage Critic(s) locate shitty comics

The Savage Critic(s)


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WETWORKS #2: Whilce Portacio's work is the stuff of migraines for me--I can't look at it for too long without getting nauseous and seeing odd visual haloes in my vision. So you'll have to turn elsewhere to find out if this vampires-versus-werewolves-versus-
cybernetically-augmented-soldiers story is proceeding along nicely or isn't. I've got to go lie in a dark room for a few hours and not think about it. No rating.
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CIVIL WARDROBE: Ouch. I'm a fan of Rich Johnston's writing (I have the first two issues of Holed Up somewhere, although I can barely remember reading them) but this really stank. I thought the first three pages were kinda funny as Johnston does a parody of the opening of Civil War #1, but that's just a set-up for unamusing single-page riffs on Marvel characters--imagine Not Brand Ecchh as a pin-up book and that's Civil Wardrobe. I wanted to like this, I really did, but it was Awful

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October 27, 2006

I hate animated gifs

Posted by Mojo at 06:00 PM | | Comments (0)

Steve Irwin in Hell

Raw Story | Daily Mail | Oh my god, South Park mocks Irwin

irwin271006_228x375.jpgThe latest episode shows an animated Irwin in Hell with a stingray poking out of his bleeding chest....

Hundreds of dead celebrities are invited, including rapper Notorious B.I.G., Princess Diana and Hitler.

But at the party Satan receives complaints from his guests that someone is inappropriately dressed up as Irwin.

Satan confronts Irwin but the Aussie environmentalist protests it is really him, not a guest in a costume.

Posted by Alan at 05:54 PM | | Comments (0)

People I Hate

Support Your Local Gunfighter | People I Hate

NT004L.gifI hate minorities. The only people who have ever contributed anything of value to this country are white men and white women.

I hate the poor and the so-called middle class. Who has time for these laborers and craftsmen? Who cares what happens to the little guy, the blue-collar worker, and the rest of the proletariat that infects this great nation?

I hate the sick. I despise people like Michael J. Fox who parade their alleged illness in front of the media in an apparent cry for sympathy.

Finally, I hate homosexuals. They are an affront to the decent, American society to which I belong

I am a conservative, and the media tells me that this is how I think.

Posted by Alan at 05:38 PM | | Comments (0)

undifferentiated hatred

Classical Values | Everybody needs to hate somebody
It's tough for me to hate myself when I didn't do anything wrong.

ar180mac004.jpgBut computers have a way of making trouble for humans by not talking to each other properly, then later imputing their misconduct to humans who had nothing to do with them, so that all you need to do is have a social security number, and VIOLA! You can be in a lot of trouble for the crime of not knowing what it was not possible to know.
Which means you can be in trouble for doing absolutely nothing.

One of the dumbest mistakes I ever made was "moving" (only temporarily and because I had to, not because I wanted to) from California to the East Coast. This caused taxing authorities there to impute income to me that I never had, but because I wasn't there to open the mail, the imputed income morphed into real income because of the simple passage of time. (Nor did calling myself "bicoastal" help.)

Not knowing what computers are doing can get you in big trouble.

AFTERTHOUGT: It occurs to me that I forgot to mention the issue of fairness.

Silly me.

Can there be such a thing as "undifferentiated hatred"? I can think of few things more irrational, but then, nothing about is rational about being blamed for the mistakes of machines.

Posted by Alan at 04:33 PM | | Comments (0)

Dead Baby Delivered in wrapped package to funeral home

Buffalo News - Dead baby, in package, delivered to funeral home

No word on how it was delivered. US Mail? UPS?

A dead baby boy was delivered in a package to a Riverside funeral home early Wednesday. Buffalo homicide detectives were investigating the circumstances surrounding the baby's death and searching for the mother late Wednesday night.

Dennis J. Richards, chief of detectives, confirmed that the package was dropped off to James E. Grace Funeral Home, 335 Ontario St. There was a note along with the baby's body.

The package was not opened until later Wednesday. The funeral director thought that it might have been a package for his wife, Richards said, and he set it aside.

It was unclear if the baby was delivered alive to the door, if the baby was already dead or even if the baby was stillborn before the drop-off, Richards said. Homicide officials will wait for the results of an autopsy that is expected to be performed today at the Erie County medical examiner's office.

Posted by Mojo at 04:29 PM | | Comments (0)

Shitbird

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Top 10 reasons we hate CFA's

Under The Counter | We are not haters here at underthecounter.

cr15370030.jpg...[H]onestly, we love all of god's creatures.

Except for CFA's.

Thus, we are thinking of banning CFA's from reading underthecounter. They are not hard to pick out from a crowd as we can smell their arrogance from a mile away. For what its worth, they smell like a green eyeshade crossed with a cheap suit.


10) They are so damn smug because they passed a stupid test. OK three tests

9) The CFA Institute reminds us of a cult. Its scientology for bean counters

8) CFA's make lousy wingmen. They repel women

7) Charlottesville, VA was part of the Confederacy. The rebs lost the civil war. We hate losers

6) CFA's hide behind their designation after bottom-quartile performance

5) CFA charterholders mock their Code of Ethics when they are drunk. Thats just wrong

4) 52% of the people who passed the exam before 1993 had their roomate take it

3) CFA shingles are uglier than most of Stevie Cohen's art collection

2) Because we have never seen a CFA reading Trader Monthly

1) Because they are Cocky Freaking Assholes

Glad I got that off my chest.

Posted by Alan at 03:52 PM | | Comments (0)

Georgia Man on Trial for Removing his Two-year old daughter's clitoris with scissors

Genital Cutting on Trial in Georgia Case


The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow.

Khalid Adem, a 31-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, is charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children. Human rights observers said they believe this is the first criminal case in the U.S. involving the 5,000-year-old practice.

Prosecutors say Adem used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in their apartment in 2001. The child's mother said she did not discover it until more than a year later.

"He said he wanted to preserve her virginity," Fortunate Adem, the girl's mother, testified this week. "He said it was the will of God. I became angry in my mind. I thought he was crazy."

Female Genital Mutilation is one of the most perverse and fucked up things in this world.

Posted by Mojo at 02:12 PM | | Comments (0)

In reference to the previous post (below)

Alan throws in his two cents on the worth of sequential art.

Dear Tony Long :

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"In 1992 it won a Pulitzer Prize Special Award." - WikiPedia

Read a fucking book some time, you ignorant motherfucker.

Love,

Alan

I hope everyone writes to Tony and shares his or her opinion of his reviewing ability.

Posted by Alan at 02:10 PM | | Comments (0)

Wired thinks Comic Books aren't as good as "real" books

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And he DIDN'T EVEN READ the book he is dismissing!

I have not read this particular "novel" but I'm familiar with the genre so I'm going to go out on a limb here. First, I'll bet for what it is, it's pretty good. Probably damned good. But it's a comic book. And comic books should not be nominated for National Book Awards, in any category. That should be reserved for books that are, well, all words.

This is not about denigrating the comic book, or graphic novel, or whatever you want to call it. This is not to say that illustrated stories don't constitute an art form or that you can't get tremendous satisfaction from them. This is simply to say that, as literature, the comic book does not deserve equal status with real novels, or short stories. It's apples and oranges.

Posted by Mojo at 01:36 PM | | Comments (1)

It boils down to this: They hate women and the middle class.

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And so it went, back and forth, back and forth... a discussion on US politics between me and my in-laws on the day after my mother-in-law's funeral. I didn't want to go there, but the discussion in the living room was all about Hillary- the dreaded threat to the American way of life. After my debunking claim after claim, then asking why Hillary's position is any different or worse than any GOP position and then my insisting that my father-in-law tell me exactly why he hates her with such passion, it all came out:

sorryvince.jpgThey hate her because she had people killed. I thought that all that hoohah about the Clinton's killing people had been debunked. The debunking email didn't get to the Hillary haters (or maybe they just deleted it).
In all honesty, Republicans (including jealous Republican housewives) don't like women who assert themselves outside of the home. "Assertive women must be murderers too," they think. That's just projection. It also makes me wonder what kind of mothers these dipshits had.

Posted by Alan at 11:44 AM |

Things I hate today include but are not limited to:

Let's die like Romans, since we have lived like Grecians | In which I think I need a tin hat.
The Faiere Queene, Edward Spenser the motherfucker, essays, Friday tommorrow due dates, my effing ear, memorizing lines, my acting performance, Odwalla smoothies, & goddamn gray paint under my fingernails.

1069645.pngOdwalla smoothies should just go ahead and put a warning on their drinks.
WARNING.
Odwalla Fruit Shake may taste like
regurgitated baby cereal puke!!

Posted by Alan at 11:09 AM | | Comments (0)

love and hate

neuro=surgery | love and hate

toolband.0.jpgmoments when teaching is frustrating
- you enter in a classroom where the air is hot and thick, and you are sure everyone will be sleeping...

moments when teaching is gorgeous:
- you see someone in the audience with a TOOL t-shirt

Posted by Alan at 10:54 AM | | Comments (0)

Family Guy, The Game: For Fans Who Hate Themselves

GIANT | Family Guy, The Game: For Fans Who Hate Themselves

stewie.jpgIt’s disappointing when a company goes and gets a great license, then realizes it can’t figure out what the hell to do with that. Straight out of the early ’90s (or so it feels like) comes Family Guy Video Game!, a not-so-fond reminder of the days when Acclaim used to sucker-punch us with endless Simpsons games and whatever else it could find to whore out before it went out of business.

Posted by Alan at 02:27 AM | | Comments (0)

I hate tidying

N@ked Under My Lab Coat | I hate tidying

rubbish.jpgIt means drawers and cabinets opening and closing, stacks of things toppling and falling over, heavy things being hefted, tricklets of perspiration trickling down the spine, dull aches propagating across the brain pan, sweaters being consigned to oblivion in the back of the wardrobe, and sad neglected dishes that I don't even recognize turning up in dusty dark corners of the kitchen.

Posted by Alan at 02:04 AM | | Comments (0)

Top 10 reasons I hate the TMobile MDA Pocket PC Phone

Top 10 reasons I hate the TMobile MDA Pocket PC Phone

tmobilemdaaj3.gif5. Pushing buttons - well let’s see - this is a hard one - the buttons just don’t work on the touch pad half the time - if I hit the call status, I expect to see the keypad to enter my conference call #, not go to Speakerphone
6. quickBoot time - the other day, I left my house, turned on the phone in the car - by the time I got to Costco - over 4 miles away, the phone finally came up with the password screen when I pulled into the parking place - a good 8 minutes later. Gotta love a ‘mobile’ phone that you can actually use in the car
7. we’ll call this one - “general Windows freak out”. 75% of the time this phone freaks out, windows won’t close and it just plain doesn’t work, way to go Pocket PC 5.0
8. hold up and then go ballistic - this is what I call it when I try to end a call, hit the “end” button like 10 times and nothing happens - then in about 1 minute, the phone sounds like a machine gun when it performs all 10 of those button presses in about 10 milliseconds

Posted by Alan at 01:37 AM | | Comments (0)

Today's rant shoots hot lead John Woo-style - you know, sideways through the air and in slow motion - at Word for Mac 2004.

This Writing Life | Why I hate Microsoft Word | by Ian Hocking
My novel, Proper Job, is a nice, single Word document (not too big; only a meg or so) with carefully applied styles, continuous section breaks, and chapter numbering that automatically updates, and has a neat list of chapters in the table of contents. In other words, this is not an exceptional document. Its complexity should be well within the grasp of Word.


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normal_killbill1024.jpgWell, m'friends, it ain't.

Word has randomly removed line breaks between sections (those blank lines that indicate a change of viewpoint).