Columbus Day. A PROUD day for Americans. Celebrating their...Giving thanks...errr uhhh...Remembering fallen...no...honestly, what does the modern American have to do with Columbus day and why would they want to actively celebrate it?
Spain will love their new country. We can build it up and it'll have a successfull global economy all the way to the year 2009
Not only was he a master of the ironic joke, our main hommie Columbus was the first rapper you know the jam.
1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, looking for some bitches but only got a few. Went up North and punched a grue, went to Home Depot and got a screw.
Work in progress.
So Columbus, found the Americas, which we will just narrow down to North America at this point. You know the story, seeking spices he fucked up and missed the spice islands and found the land soon to be know as "Home of The Double-Whopper"
Worth more than gold!!!
You could also say the our friend Chris was on a peace keeping mission, bringing out a "care package" from Spain. Extending the olive branch. Making the world a better place.
uhhhh...shit
So not only was Chris a shitty explorer, he brought on the genocide of countless Central American Nations.
So why do WE celebrate this holiday? NATIONAL holiday I remind you. Post Office is closed (its not like they were MAKING money right?) banks and shit are closed, and for what? Celebrate our heritage? Most Americans are of Northern European decent, no Spaniard in us whities! Also, the stock market crash of '29 occurred on a Monday that was a holiday. The market crashed and on Tuesday when everyone wanted their cash, the banks just didn't exist anymore. Luckily we got ATM's nowadays.
Can anyone please enlighten me as to what us Modern Existence Americans (yeah bringing it full circle) have to celebrate here? Honestly?
So go enjoy your double pay day. Enjoy the day off (I wont have jury duty...will I?) and watch some...
You can find me snuggling up on the couch with a Turduken, chatting with my buddy John over a coffee and brandy celebrating Columbus Day. Glorifying a series of vertical support bearing school busses. (get it, column-bus)
Enjoy your heritage America
UHHHMERKA
--Shane
"The cops can be here for only two reasons. Someone had too MUCH fun or not enough fun."
Watch this damn video...then go to the page and read the description. This "FILM" was made by a reported 15 year old.
CAUTION YOU ARE ENTERING AN OPINION ZONE NOTHING HERE WILL BE BACKED UP BY LOGIC
This video was recommended to by via YouTube. Honestly, what have I done in the past to deserve this "SUGGESTION". The video was nothing more than a shitty slide show to some throwaway pop music with crappy coloured (yeah French-Canadian on your ass, droppin' the "U's") fonts and texts. Not only does it basically promote underaged sexuality (god I sound like a bible thumper, I swear to god (dammit! SUB BRACKETS!) that this is like a one time argument on "UNDERAGED SEXUALITY" let hoes be hoes in my opinion).
AND THE DESCRIPTION! Holy crap, when I got to the part where these two random characters I've never heard of get in bed, the female takes off the dudes shirt and exclaims 'MUSCLES' the the sky I almost lost it, then when "they get into bed and mak out" I went into an epileptic tourettes fueled tantrum of EPIC PROPORTIONS.
At least they used a condom....
So please, go watch and derive you own opinion, and tell me what you think? Does out Modern Existence make it alright for a young girl to write glorified porn on YouTube, I think it does....but only if it's good porn.
--Shane
"Never EVER bring a roller backpack to school, douche bags will kick it over for no reason. It's actually quite convenient though."
The world is a boring place to some. Those particular few are often looked upon as normal or subnormal beings. Not the best or brightest they are usually overlooked. And there is even a smaller few from THAT small unique group that become something extraordinary and they completely shock everyone. And even more precise still there is a group of people that find something new to exploit, make the world their oyster so to speak.
Leonardo DiCaprio as Frank Abagnale, Certified Badass
From Frank Abagnale Jr's adventures in the '60s jet setting all around the world with fake cheques and impersonations or Kevin Mitnick's social engineering and pioneering computer cracking exploits people find interest in their stories. Yes they are in fact illegal, illegal which became MORE illegal because of how much they did. Then the things they became famous for became SUPER illegal, like smuggling heroine illegal. Though however people find their wrongdoings (which aren't all that bad, really.) justifiable in their story. They idea of this romantic they-could-do-whatever-they-w anted-with-the-world attitude and opportunities, people crave this sort of thing. Remember (prepare for me to bring it full circle!) the world is a boring place to some, and most cannot do anything to change this and wish to live vicariously through the Abagnales and Mitnicks of the world. (honestly, why are the only two people that come to mind that fit this story have ridiculous last names that make spell-check go into a stroke.)
Harold Ramis as Kevin Mitnick. Actually not that's really him this time. Dammit
So what since then? The library of choices for people to day dream about has become small, and well overused.
It's time to add Colton Harris-Moore to that list of people who surprise the status quo and break the norm.
Alec Baldwin as Colton Harris-Moore.
Colton Harris-Moore is an 18 year old lad from a place known as Camano Island. Google reveals its in Washington. That's pretty much all I got. He grew up in a trailer in the woods, and didn't really have any kind of formal education and thus was disregarded by the world. Colton is a criminal by all standards (DUHH I said he had no schoolin'). He has been arrested for multiple burglaries in his home town (island hideout?) and a few boat thefts in San Juan County (ok this guy is pretty badass if he can steal a boat all James Bond style). Colton recently got out of Juvenile lockup, and of course he went back to his old ways. Well this time the police where waiting for him (actually I doubt that, but that makes it seem like he's Derringer or something and THEM COPPAS were tailing him).
So like any reasonable criminal would do is leave when the heats on him. Our hero here drifted around and ended up in Idaho where things get good, and the point of my story.
Colton was itching for a quick grab. He needed a car to match his shirt, so he stole a Mercedes. Well eventually the cops found out, hey that's not your car and gave chase. Reportedly the chase ended when Colton crashed the car into the woods and escaped on foot, allegedly laughing at his pursuers as he vanished into the brush. What happened next is amazing.
Colton emerged from the woods at an airport. Now, Colton knew he had to escape. He then broke into a locked hangar, opened the doors, HOT WIRED A CESSNA 182 AND TOOK OF INTO THE AIR!
THATS RIGHT! Our hero of the story escaped and eluded police via the sky. Colton soon ditched the craft miles away in a field, and since then has never been seen. You may ask, how does Mr. Moore fly? Police from his home town, (pirate cove?) report he's a suspect in two (2) (DOS) other plane thefts in the past. He had taught himself to fly airplanes by reading old airplane manuals and reading articles on the internet. Now if that's not like Abagnale and the bar exam I don't know what is. I literally don't care who you are, that's freaking impressive.
Plane didn't walk away from the airport now did it. DID IT?! OH NO SENTIENT PLANES!!!
So hopefully Colton Harris-Moore will get an Academy Award winning movie about his exploits. We can only hope.
--Shane
"Keep your shoulders square and make sure to bring your hips through on the rotation."
According to my buds over at Gizmodo music royalty groups ASCAP and BMI are asking online music stores to pay up PERFORMANCE fees on, wait for it, wait for it, 30 second samples and any purchased videos.
Now, the intelligent folk I shall give respite toward, because your face should be face down in the deep depths of your keyboard. Just a few more moments
So again another late to the party article. I "acquired" the first season of Firefly, from a few privateers and there place of hiding, kind of a cove of sorts.
First off basic formalities. Good show, steampunk space works western setting. Brings the essence of the hobbled together space universe. Bare in mind I saw the film first, the show is better standalone. The disposable characters are a nice touch. Practically everyone on the show gets shot or brutally wounded
Start things off with a quick back story as to why I'm writing an article on this now.
If you've listened to the TWiT TV podcasts then you know who Leo Laporte is. So there has been this meme thats been going on during the This Week In Tech podcast. The meme goes "SCREW YOU insert persons name". Followed by laughter by the guests hosts. I never understood this, but if you know anything about Leo and his podcasts, they are super clean and polite and if anyone curses it gets bleeped
So The Beatles Rockband came out on 9/9/09. I was very very exited for this game and have had it pre-ordered a month in advance. The day came and I went out and fired it up. DAY ONE! I beat the game twice. So much fun, I say that the game is a 9 out of 10. Few small flaws but that's just nit picking, but now lets get to the point of this article.
For years I had this predisposition about the Beatles being huge dicks
Winter's deadly grasp is coming down the calendar, or up, which ever direction gives it more of a menacing feel. Golf courses in Alaska close first sign of daily frost. Thusly, when mine closes down I will in fact be jobless.
Begin the search for winter cash money payment. Alaska is just down right dark in the winter so my existence in the modern world, plugged into the WEB 2.0 world, digital chaos that is the internet, will be very very high. To fund this addiction of information I need to find a winter job
MMMM, its August and i'm dealing with taxes right this second!
Long story short for my benevolent readers (and you Wolverine) I checked a box on my 1040EZ that wasn't applicable. IE (lol internet explorer) shouldn't have been checked
WOW, Wolverine finally got to putting out his first post, I hope everyone read it, it is mature but its entertaining and insightful. He draws parallels to Pokemon and Winston Churchill. Only a master of this craft can do something that daring.
Great great great movie. Ending was a little WTF for me. Go check out Shane Ackers original short that he did that they turned into this movie. Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov didnt really have a creative hand in this one, mostly just being normal producers.
speaking of Timur Bekmambetov, you ever see nightwatch or daywatch? i suggest them both! if you get nightwatch get it on dvd and watch it in russian with english subtitles, someone went through alot of work to make those damn subtitles badass
they are adding more tracks. You can buy day one All You Need is Love and the profits go to Doctors without borders.
then october 20th they are going to release the tracks from Abbey Road that werent on the disk finishing out that album and they are going to release album finishers in November and December
Idk Doc, Spiderman 2 was pretty darn good. But yes this game is fantastic and violent. And its easy to find a gamestop code somewhere to unlock his training room
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speaking of Timur Bekmambetov, you ever see nightwatch or daywatch? i suggest them both! if you get nightwatch get it on dvd and watch it in russian with english subtitles, someone went through alot of work to make those damn subtitles badass