A Tout le Monde
I'm going to design a t-shirt, maybe see about mass-production - I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels this way.
Call me a secular cynic, but I absolutely hate the Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts/various kids' organizations. Ok, not the organizations, not the kids, but the parents/coaches/scoutmasters/den mothers, etc. I can't walk out of any store in Virginia Beach, it seems, without having some adorable little girl ask me if I want to buy those stupid cookies. They can't put a sign up and let people come to them, they have to accost you as you, minding your own business, exit Wal-Mart or Lowe's or whatever. They have to send their minion children to do the asking, since the parents already have crushing disabilities (a result of repeated rejections) and so they use children to guilt people into buying the overpriced cookies, popcorn, or whatever. Or the coaches of the various teams have their pee-wee football players hold up their helmets at you, as a beggar would his cup for alms.
The sad part is that I feel like throttling the kids, when they probably don't want to be there either. Mom or Dad sits in their chairs, shooting the breeze with the other parents (or guilt-ridden customers) as their kids spend twelve hours begging. I saw a woman today stop and explain to a young girl why she couldn't buy cookies from her - forget that the woman had never before seen the child or the parent, forget that she has her own bills to pay, food to buy, and children to support, she feels it necessary to explain to a little girl exactly why she can't buy those overrated cookies.
F**k that.
So I'm going to make a t-shirt. The front will say something to the effect of, "No, I don't want to buy your cookies."
Nobody will get it. They'll think it's some stupid quote from some stupid movie, and I betcha some stupid Girl Scout will try to sell me cookies after reading my t-shirt, but hopefully it cuts down on the perpetual plea.
The back may say something like, "Girl Scout Cookies are high-calorie, high-sugar, high in saturated fat and nearly devoid of nutrition."
But no one will bother to read it, because there are so many words.
At least it will make me feel better. Email me and I'll send you the design, when I finish it, so you can make your very own anti-Scout shirt.
The title of this blog comes from another interesting bit of news on the musical front. A man named Kimveer Gill shot up a college in Montreal. He killed himself after being wounded in a shootout with police. He had made a mix tape/cd of a bunch of songs, including one named "A Tout le Monde" by Megadeth, and that supposedly inspired him to start shooting. First of all, that song is one of the least likely songs to inspire shooting people. Second, it wasn't the only song, not by a long shot. However, Megadeth is planning on releasing a new version of the song on a new record, and one of the people injured in the shooting isn't happy with that.
Hayder Kadhim, a hip-hop artist, still has fragments of a bullet in his head and another bullet remains lodged in his neck.
"I think that's disrespectful to us. I believe respect comes before money," Kadhim said.
Rose Slanic, general manager of Roadrunner Records Canada, which is releasing the MEGADETH album, said the song was recorded prior to the Dawson shooting and is not disrespectful toward the victims.
Now, read that sentence again. The one that starts, "Hayder Kadhim, a hip-hop artist," and tell me that you don't see any irony there. A "hip-hop artist" gets shot by someone listening to Megadeth, and it's disrespectful to ever record that song again. Meanwhile, "hip-hop artists" (which is, in itself, and oxymoron to yours truly) cash in regularly on the idea (and occasional action) of shooting each other. They call it "beefin" and make millions off of it. Don't sell me your crap, sir. You can polish and gold-plate all you want, a gold-plated, shiny pile of crap is still crap.
F**k that.
Not at my most eloquent tonight, but I reserve the right to be a normal person from time to time.
I'm going to design a t-shirt, maybe see about mass-production - I'm sure I'm not the only person who feels this way.
Call me a secular cynic, but I absolutely hate the Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts/various kids' organizations. Ok, not the organizations, not the kids, but the parents/coaches/scoutmasters/den mothers, etc. I can't walk out of any store in Virginia Beach, it seems, without having some adorable little girl ask me if I want to buy those stupid cookies. They can't put a sign up and let people come to them, they have to accost you as you, minding your own business, exit Wal-Mart or Lowe's or whatever. They have to send their minion children to do the asking, since the parents already have crushing disabilities (a result of repeated rejections) and so they use children to guilt people into buying the overpriced cookies, popcorn, or whatever. Or the coaches of the various teams have their pee-wee football players hold up their helmets at you, as a beggar would his cup for alms.
The sad part is that I feel like throttling the kids, when they probably don't want to be there either. Mom or Dad sits in their chairs, shooting the breeze with the other parents (or guilt-ridden customers) as their kids spend twelve hours begging. I saw a woman today stop and explain to a young girl why she couldn't buy cookies from her - forget that the woman had never before seen the child or the parent, forget that she has her own bills to pay, food to buy, and children to support, she feels it necessary to explain to a little girl exactly why she can't buy those overrated cookies.
F**k that.
So I'm going to make a t-shirt. The front will say something to the effect of, "No, I don't want to buy your cookies."
Nobody will get it. They'll think it's some stupid quote from some stupid movie, and I betcha some stupid Girl Scout will try to sell me cookies after reading my t-shirt, but hopefully it cuts down on the perpetual plea.
The back may say something like, "Girl Scout Cookies are high-calorie, high-sugar, high in saturated fat and nearly devoid of nutrition."
But no one will bother to read it, because there are so many words.
At least it will make me feel better. Email me and I'll send you the design, when I finish it, so you can make your very own anti-Scout shirt.
The title of this blog comes from another interesting bit of news on the musical front. A man named Kimveer Gill shot up a college in Montreal. He killed himself after being wounded in a shootout with police. He had made a mix tape/cd of a bunch of songs, including one named "A Tout le Monde" by Megadeth, and that supposedly inspired him to start shooting. First of all, that song is one of the least likely songs to inspire shooting people. Second, it wasn't the only song, not by a long shot. However, Megadeth is planning on releasing a new version of the song on a new record, and one of the people injured in the shooting isn't happy with that.
Hayder Kadhim, a hip-hop artist, still has fragments of a bullet in his head and another bullet remains lodged in his neck.
"I think that's disrespectful to us. I believe respect comes before money," Kadhim said.
Rose Slanic, general manager of Roadrunner Records Canada, which is releasing the MEGADETH album, said the song was recorded prior to the Dawson shooting and is not disrespectful toward the victims.
Now, read that sentence again. The one that starts, "Hayder Kadhim, a hip-hop artist," and tell me that you don't see any irony there. A "hip-hop artist" gets shot by someone listening to Megadeth, and it's disrespectful to ever record that song again. Meanwhile, "hip-hop artists" (which is, in itself, and oxymoron to yours truly) cash in regularly on the idea (and occasional action) of shooting each other. They call it "beefin" and make millions off of it. Don't sell me your crap, sir. You can polish and gold-plate all you want, a gold-plated, shiny pile of crap is still crap.
F**k that.
Not at my most eloquent tonight, but I reserve the right to be a normal person from time to time.