June 30, 2004

IT'S A WRAP

Tom of Hilarity Ensues has taken it upon himself to wrap up the 2015 series. You remember the 2015 series, right?

Anyway, it's got blood and violence and guns and knives and explodey things.

The only question left is whether Jeff's going to tack on an epilogue.

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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

Love is the binding that holds you to your dreams. Love does not come over you, rather you choose to love. Only when you choose to love one forever and you stand by that dedication of love will you truly love for life and live happily every after.

(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)

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TODAY'S GRAFFITI CURRENCY

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Attempting to thow a bone to the liberals, President Bush appointed Michael Moore as Secretary of the Treasury. The results were predictable.

What was less predictable was that Moore agreed to resign his post after the complete production run of the new bill was shoved up his ass by Donald Rumsfeld.

(Hat tip to the delightful SondraK of Knowledge Is Power for the pic)

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BLOGOSPHERE POLITICAL COMPASS PROJECT

Sandor of The Zoo has the first draft of a chart indicating the political positions of various & sundry bloggers. He'll be updating it twice monthly as an ongoing thing, so you can still get your spot on the graph of fame. All the how-to's can be found here.

I can't help noticing that no-one's fallen into "Left Authoritarian" quadrant yet. Where the hell is the League of Liberals when you need them?

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MEANWHILE AT ALLIANCE HQ

Filthy Lie Assignment Reminder: Evil Glenn's Independence Day

Wednesday Linky Stuff

Precision Guided Humor Round-up: Air America's Excuses

New PGH assignment: Michael Moore's Theme Song

A couple late assignments

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AIR AMERICA'S EXCUSES

(A PRECISION GUIDED HUMOR ASSIGNMENT)

Air America, the sleazy, pathetic commercial propaganda arm of the DNC, is having (and I'm being polite here) a few minor financial difficulties, and may not last much longer. When it finally goes off the air in bankrupt humiliation (my dead pool pick is February - I figure they'll be completely irrelevant after the inauguration), there's going to be lots of finger-pointing and blame passed around. There's also going to be a dervish of spin put on the "why" of the failure, and I expect it to give rise to such excuses as the following:

Contract with Satan guaranteeing Air America's success found invalid due to not being signed in blood.

Al Franken's thick glasses kept accidentally setting the studio on fire.

Randi Rhodes didn't talk about her nipples enough.

Too much money wasted on salaries, not enought spent on bribes to Clear Channel executives.

Rush Limbaugh depleted the nation's supply of Oxycontin, so not enough was available to make Air America's hosts witty and insightful.

Digital brownshirts kept smashing people's radios

Al Franken is Jewish, so Bushitler had him gassed.

The fact that Al Franken is still alive does NOT disprove this theory.

Air America staff constantly attacked by vicious hordes of rats and cockroaches, who, apparently, didn't appreciate the competition.

The Air America signal simply wouldn't carry. Not surprising, since vibrations in the electomagnetic spectrum tend to vote Republican.

Nobody was buying commerical spots. Even a NAMBLA spokesman was quoted as saying "we don't want our reputation soiled by these degenerates".

Air America had to shut down because of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws, which expressly forbid such things as speaking in direct support of a candidate, or speaking at all if you're dumber than a bucket of monkey spunk.

Although Al Franken created a lot of great material he would often flush the toilet before it could be retrieved.


I tell ya, I'll be sorry to see 'em go...

SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS!

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NOTE-IT POSTS: A YEAR OF STICKY THOUGHTS

Dana of Note-It Posts celebrates 1 year of blogging today, with a little year in review post.

One of my favorite sections:

September 27, 2003 I posted who would be in my fantasy blogger harem.

October 3, 2003 I offered my boobies for charity (how's THAT for a welfare replacement?).

October 4, 2003 I began participating in miniluv's week-long Good News Blogging Challenge.

October 7, 2003 was the date of my first Top Ten - the Top Ten Reasons Not to Vote for Howard Dean.

November 17, 2003 - my first Linkified Lyrics, Toby Kieth's I Love This Bar.

December 3, 2003 I launched Bloggers With Boobies. Bloggers Who Support Bloggers With Boobies followed on December 7th.

I gotta run to work now, so you'll have to go to Dana's place for the linkified versions of these lines.

As a consolation, I'll give you the link to a picture of her in a slightly-too-thin cotton camisole.

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June 29, 2004

MORE PROBLEM SOLVING

Ok, so now you've snuck in to see Flabbyass 9 1/2 (or whatever the hell it's called) and you've taken some notes and you're all set to rip His Hugeness a new one.

Then you realize that there are about 6.02x1023 different lies that need fisking. What a daunting task! Whatever will you do?

Via Physics Geek, I've learned that you can go to Fahrenheit Fact and see which chunks-o-crap have already been neutralized. Link the best, fisk the rest, and still have time to go out drinking.

Or just download the site to your PDA, go out drinking anyway, and read it over while you're nursing the hangover the next morning. Whichever.

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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

Speak softly my love, hold me close against your heart... because my life is yours

(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)

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TODAY'S GRAFFITI CURRENCY

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As always, when looking between the amount you're paid and the amount you've actually earned, you'll find someone from the government with an arrogant little smirk on his face.

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BLASPHEMOUS EXPLETIVE

Ya know what I love about lefties? It's the way they respect everybody's diversity of opinion and never let a civilized discourse devolve into a series of ad hominem attacks. It's the way they keep a conversation rooted in fact and never let strong emotions cloud their judgement. It's...

Screw it. I can't do this with a straight face.

That, and I'm pretty well pissed.

Remember Michele? She's that nice lady I blogged about recently with the Showcase entry who'd had a political epiphany and abandoned the left for greener pastures.

I also mentioned that some of her former friends reacted by taking a virtual crap in her comments, so I asked the kind-hearted among you to give her some support. A lot of people did, and she appreciated it.

Some of her former friends, however, decided that the best way to deal with the situation was to hijack her blog. Straight up destroy the content and leave a rude message on the scorched earth where some fine writing once stood. Just in case the cowards cut & run, here's a screenshot of their handiwork:

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Unable to respond in any rational manner they showed their true pack-of-diseased-hyena colors by stealing intellectual property and issuing threats.

I'm suprised there weren't any giant puppets involved.

On the bright side, Michele managed to transfer all her old posts to a new site and will continue blogging in the face of despicable thuggery.

To the miserable pieces of shit that perpetrated the offense:

Fuck you.

And the horse you rode in on.

And the little dog that followed your horse into town.

Especially that little dog.

Assholes.

UPDATE 6-30-04 12:10AM: Blogspot has removed the offending site. Good thing I've got the screenshot as proof. more...

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June 28, 2004

SUDAN UPDATE: CARING SLIGHTLY MORE, BUT...

Eric of Straight White Guy sent me a link to a briefing on Sudan's checkered past involvement in terrorist activities.

That's got my attention, but... 1996?

I'm still looking for a recent threat assessment, and some arguments that it's better for the war effort that we invest our blood in Sudan instead of elsewhere, or whether we really need to keep our boys freed up & flexible, so as to deter the major anal irritants (N. Korea, Iran, Syria) from trying anything funny should they get it in their heads that we don't have the manpower to respond.

UPDATE: 1998 (also from Eric) - a little more informative.

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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

In her love, I am the hero, the king, the poet, and alive.

(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)

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TODAY'S GRAFFITI CURRENCY

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As a follow-up to the popular State Quarters Program, the Treasury released the first in the series of "Alcoholic Beverage Mascot Dollars", featuring Captain Morgan. Coming soon: The Budweiser Frogs and Spuds McKenzie.

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MEANWHILE AT ALLIANCE HQ

Precision Guided Humor assignment reminder:
What excuses will Air America come up with to explain their poor performance?
Due Wednesday by 8pm.

Monday Linky Stuff

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ARROGANT, IVORY-TOWERED, CLAM-HEADED ELITIST

I went to the Showcase, as I do more or less daily, to check out the new blogging talent on the scene. While there, I found out that Mac Diva of BlogCritics did a hatchet job on the Showcase site, thinly disguised as a lukewarm endorsement. Simon does an applause-worthy job of defending both the Showcase and blogging in general against this swath of smarmy condescension, but I want to add my own loving foot-to-gluteous.

The first annoyance is this hoary old canard that blogs don't really count because:

A mere 2% of Adult Internet users maintain Web diaries or Web blogs, according to respondents to this phone survey. In other phone surveys prior to this one, and one more recently fielded in early 2004, we have heard that between 2% and 7% of adult Internet users have created diaries or blogs. In this survey we found that 11% of Internet users have read the blogs or diaries of other Internet users.

So. F******. What?

Is your anal-cranial inversion quotient REALLY so high that you think that popularity is an unerring guide to quality? Statistically speaking, and rounding to three significant digits, 100% of internet users have NEVER heard of Mac Diva. Does that say anything about the quality of Mac Diva's writing, research, or posting? Hardly. It just means she's relatively unknown. Judging quality is the province of people who ARE aware of your existence, NOT of those oblivious.

And what is the non-oblivious Mac Diva's judgement of the blogosphere at large?

As imperfect as the media is, it is leagues ahead of blogs in providing reliable information. Even the best blogs provide very little information, relying on being conduits of opinion, instead.

The big mistake here is assuming that only that which is provided by major media counts as information. I say it depends on what kind of information you're looking for. If you're looking for the doin's & goin's on of elected politicians in Washington DC, then you should probably tune in to CBS. Not many bloggers have those kind of connections. But if you want to know what life is like on a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, or what people are writing on their currency, or how to write a love note that'll make your wife's heart melt, you come to me. I GUARANTEE you Dan Rather doesn't know shit about any of those topics, and even if he did, he sure as hell isn't going to interrupt pimping Clinton's stack of lies to talk about it.

The virtue of the blogosphere is this: EVERYONE is an expert on SOMETHING, although usually it's in a very narrow field. Too narrow for the big boys to bother with. Yet sometimes that narrow expertise is exactly what's needed to make sense of what's going on in the world. The big boys don't have the air time or page space to devote to these things. That's why people turn to blogs. There are millions of tiny news-niches that have been left in vacuum for years. Blogs are filling that vacuum.

Picture the universe of information as a big glass jar. You fill it with "big media marbles" and you swear on your mother's grave that the damn thing's full and there's no room for anything else. Blogs are the sand you pour in to fill the spaces in between.

Take the sand and make glass. Take the glass and make a lens. Look through the lens and see the world better, clearer, brighter than you've ever seen it before.

THAT'S what the blogosphere is.


UPDATE 5-29-04 12:30am: I don't say this often, but check the comments to this post, because some excellent points are being made.

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GETTING OFF THE HORNS OF YOUR DILEMMA

So, you hate Michael Moore, and you want to write a scathing review of his latest crapumentary, Fulloflies 90210 (or whatever the hell it's called). But it just GALLS you to think that you have to put money in that bloated shitsack's pockets to do it.

I'm here to help.

Go to the theater, buy a ticket for a good movie, and sneak in to Fukentwerp 69 (or whatever the hell it's called).

Problem solved.

(Hat tip to the Bob & Brian show, where I first heard of this miracle cure)

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June 27, 2004

TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

I can't wait to be with you, see your smile, look in your eyes, feel your sweet touch, hear your perfect words and kiss your perfect lips.

(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)

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TODAY'S GRAFFITI CURRENCY

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[Thanks again I'm a millionaire]

Technically a true statement if you use "Enron accounting".

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IF YOU LIKE THEM, YOU'LL LIKE THESE GUYS

I have my musical preferences. Certain bands and albums I like. I wish I could find more groups that sound like them. Trouble is, I don't have a lot time to go to the library to check out CD's at random. I also don't have the cash to "take a chance" on an unknown artist. File-swapping services? Forget it. I've got enough spyware & viruses on my computer already.

Thanks to Matty O'Blackfive, though, I've found a way to significantly narrow the search. It's sort of a musical version of Google. You enter in an artists name and it brings up other artists who are similar. I gave it a dry run with a couple of my favorites, and I have to agree that the "similars" it picks out ARE actually similar.

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So if you're looking to expand your musical horizons, give MusicPlasma a try.

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