Gawd it's frigid here. -1 as the high, and I'm sayin' great!
Just like a Wisconsin Winter to wait until February to actually frost some stuff over. And a far cry from our 60-degree day a few days ago.
And it will likely be one of the last Wisc Winters I'm involved with. Because it turns out that NYC is happening this summer. Probably late June, since I'd like to see my lil' bro off to Iraq before saying "later!" to the rest of the fam.
Rumor has it it'll warm up to positive temperatures soon. I blame my hot new skew-hawk haircut. And it's a good thing I'm beautiful, because if I wasn't, I would be a criminal mastermind. This is actually a bit of an interesting take on vanity in our culture, how beauty is a survival mechanism, and how acceptance into society is how one secures one's genetic lineage.
In other news, the Labyrinth Zone Dr. Robotnik is one of the hardest bosses in videogame history. And the new Fox series FREE RIDE had better be amusingly relatable to my situation, or I'ma stab me a writer or three.
John K., creator of Ren & Stimpy and part-time animation revolutionary now has a blog. I'm not a huge fan of the man, because he strikes me as a little to "stunted man-child" for any real admiration, but I do love the fact that he's a firebrand and an iconoclast, and it's impossible not to respect his effect in American animation. Ren & Stimpy changed the wold, man. And if he could do non-ass-related-humor, I think he could do a lot with the world.
And now for some "taking things too seriously" AnthroNerding, re: an episode of Family Guy in which Chris travels to South America to get away from Freshman hazing. Aside from the usual FG wackiness, there's the unfortunate little bit of ethnocentrism in the episode, where Chris finds a "primitive paradise." This is unfortunate. The idea of the noble savage is as destructive as the idea of the brutal savage, and either one raises my hackles. The rest of the world is not paradise, nor is it burtal horror. Bringing water isn't heroic. Sexual awkwardness and coming-of-age difficulties exist EVERYWHERE, and it's not quite that easy to become accepted or married (!) by some other culture. It's insulting to imagine that their life is somehow simpler, for better or worse, or that they can be "civilized" (or that "civilization" is really any better). They gloss over the suffering and accentuate the "simple pleasures" in something that reeks of stereotyping. And it eats my goat. Not that it SHOULD, I mean "Come on, it's just a cartoon!" makes sense. Just that I think I'm weirdly sensitive about the suggestion that any kind of advancement or civilization continuum exists. So FG irks me 'cause of that. It also irks me when they mistake tedium for comedy, and when they think they can get away with obscure pop culture references and horrible animation/drawing. And every time someone tries to compare it to The Simpsons.
Wow, I have a surprising amount of not-love for Family Guy.
Paradoxically, for some mutant reason Ultraviolet looks like it could be a fun flick. Though perhaps this is born of my passion for a virus-infected Jovovich. Even if she is a cut-rate Aeon, she can do it with that adorable half-accent and some sexy ass kicking. Is she my knock-off Charlize Theron? I don't think so. No one could truly replace Charlize! But on the tarot card that this represents, Jovovich is the dark zombie necromancer woman, while Charlize is that pure high-minded maiden. Necromancers are sexy, yo.
Just like a Wisconsin Winter to wait until February to actually frost some stuff over. And a far cry from our 60-degree day a few days ago.
And it will likely be one of the last Wisc Winters I'm involved with. Because it turns out that NYC is happening this summer. Probably late June, since I'd like to see my lil' bro off to Iraq before saying "later!" to the rest of the fam.
Rumor has it it'll warm up to positive temperatures soon. I blame my hot new skew-hawk haircut. And it's a good thing I'm beautiful, because if I wasn't, I would be a criminal mastermind. This is actually a bit of an interesting take on vanity in our culture, how beauty is a survival mechanism, and how acceptance into society is how one secures one's genetic lineage.
In other news, the Labyrinth Zone Dr. Robotnik is one of the hardest bosses in videogame history. And the new Fox series FREE RIDE had better be amusingly relatable to my situation, or I'ma stab me a writer or three.
John K., creator of Ren & Stimpy and part-time animation revolutionary now has a blog. I'm not a huge fan of the man, because he strikes me as a little to "stunted man-child" for any real admiration, but I do love the fact that he's a firebrand and an iconoclast, and it's impossible not to respect his effect in American animation. Ren & Stimpy changed the wold, man. And if he could do non-ass-related-humor, I think he could do a lot with the world.
And now for some "taking things too seriously" AnthroNerding, re: an episode of Family Guy in which Chris travels to South America to get away from Freshman hazing. Aside from the usual FG wackiness, there's the unfortunate little bit of ethnocentrism in the episode, where Chris finds a "primitive paradise." This is unfortunate. The idea of the noble savage is as destructive as the idea of the brutal savage, and either one raises my hackles. The rest of the world is not paradise, nor is it burtal horror. Bringing water isn't heroic. Sexual awkwardness and coming-of-age difficulties exist EVERYWHERE, and it's not quite that easy to become accepted or married (!) by some other culture. It's insulting to imagine that their life is somehow simpler, for better or worse, or that they can be "civilized" (or that "civilization" is really any better). They gloss over the suffering and accentuate the "simple pleasures" in something that reeks of stereotyping. And it eats my goat. Not that it SHOULD, I mean "Come on, it's just a cartoon!" makes sense. Just that I think I'm weirdly sensitive about the suggestion that any kind of advancement or civilization continuum exists. So FG irks me 'cause of that. It also irks me when they mistake tedium for comedy, and when they think they can get away with obscure pop culture references and horrible animation/drawing. And every time someone tries to compare it to The Simpsons.
Wow, I have a surprising amount of not-love for Family Guy.
Paradoxically, for some mutant reason Ultraviolet looks like it could be a fun flick. Though perhaps this is born of my passion for a virus-infected Jovovich. Even if she is a cut-rate Aeon, she can do it with that adorable half-accent and some sexy ass kicking. Is she my knock-off Charlize Theron? I don't think so. No one could truly replace Charlize! But on the tarot card that this represents, Jovovich is the dark zombie necromancer woman, while Charlize is that pure high-minded maiden. Necromancers are sexy, yo.
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loretta:
we need sunlight to feel good. After a long winter with only grey sky it does get depressing, it's a fact.
loretta:
yes, it's hard to take the eyes of her.