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[Nov. 29th, 2009|12:14 am] |
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Ninja god damn mother fucking Assassin. |
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[Nov. 15th, 2009|03:30 am] |
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i've never been as upset with myself as i am right now. i quit being mean to myself forever, no longer will i take out my own frustrations on me. I will deal with them in a healthy, rational manner. |
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[Oct. 27th, 2009|08:24 pm] |
I don't know why I feel it's necessary to write about this, seeing as how I think the people that read this are a very intelligent bunch, but dear god does it bother me. If you've seen any sort of news reporting on the current net neutrality debate, you've probably seen any one of several republican congressmen talking about it saying things like:
"This would destroy this model of service that consumers have come to expect, that already works and works well" - Rep. Phil Gingrey R-GA
When you hear these things, you'd think they are in favor of net neutrality, which is the current way the internet works where everything is accessed at an equal speed and no websites come at premiums or work better than others because of ISPs. But what they are actually arguing for is the opposite, and trying to create a business model where companies must pay ISPs for priority service, thus actually REMOVING the freedom and equality of the internet but also turning it into a monstrously profitable service for telecom companies.
The big problem I have here isn't how dumb removing net neutrality would be(very), but how the Republican tactic here is to say that Freedom on the internet is the freedom of companies to decide what you're allowed to look at on the internet through financial barriers. The information you will be allowed to access will be controlled by who can afford to pay the telecoms. Things like Wikipedia which are entirely nonprofit and donation funded? Sorry. Webcomics artists or independent bloggers? Gonna have to get "real" jobs.
And it's all made worse by how the entire Congress is a bunch of old people, which brings me to how JOHN OLD ASS MCCAIN is writing the bill that might change the Net Neutrality rules. The dude doesn't know how to use email, AND he receives more money from telecommunications companies THAN EVERY OTHER SENATOR. And the icing is that it's called THE INTERNET FREEDOM ACT OF 2009. Yeesh. |
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| Tim interviews Jello Biafra(!!!!!!!) |
[Oct. 20th, 2009|05:32 pm] |
Alright so today I talked to Jello for about half an hour and it was not nearly as scary as I thought it would be, just kinda awkward because I didn't have a lot of questions, and more of statements that I expected comments on. I will not ever be releasing the actual recording to you because there are parts that are really really embarassing to listen to, however I can assure that this transcript is absolutely verbatim and uncut. We had a great Stooges nerd out.
( 30 Minutes of Jello interviewin' goodness ) |
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[Oct. 11th, 2009|11:10 pm] |
Dear Universe:
I suppose I've already told most people this, but I am so going to Voodoo Fest for free on The Pogues guest list. Hell yes. My job rules. I am also interviewing Jello Biafra and Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship and if I'm lucky WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER! Words cannot express how much I want to talk to William Shatner. And Jello should be pretty awesome as well, you know just as long as I don't think about how bad the lyrics on his new cd are. Which I'm getting for free from the label by the way. I know, I know, I just talk about all the awesome perks from my job, but you'll note that I make less in a week than people working minimum wage do in half a day. Thanks though Alternative Tentacles! Jesse from Blatz/The Frisk works for them, I should write him a letter about how cool he is.
And speaking of Blatz who shared the Shit Split with Filth whose song Today's Lesson was covered by AFI whose vocalist Davey Havok was featured on the song Jekyl and Hyde by The Nerve Agents whose drummer and guitar player are now in Darker My Love, I SAW DARKER MY LOVE, A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS, AND ALL THE SAINTS TWO NIGHTS AGO. AND IT WAS FUCKING GREAT. Great great great show.
Man I could have made that connection quicker by saying Jesse was in the Frisk with Hunter who is in AFI and so on.
And because she asked, I want to squeeze Rachel exactly 12.4 times per day (it came out like that because I only keep weekly tallies) and she makes my heart sing this much ----------------------------------------. |
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[Oct. 1st, 2009|01:50 am] |
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Tim returns to das Springs! |
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[Sep. 28th, 2009|07:49 pm] |
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Buh, I can't believe I ever thought I was done growing up. Time to open the brain and scale back anger production. Gotta learn to let things go all over again. |
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[Sep. 17th, 2009|02:16 am] |
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I'm going to try to pitch an all party issue of Tigerweekly for the sole purpose of interviewing Andrew WK. And I wanna meet him in person. I need to make this happen. I am deadly serious about this. |
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[Aug. 30th, 2009|10:25 pm] |
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Checking in. I'm a freelance writer for a weekly newspaper/magazine thing here in Baton Rouge now and for my first story I'm gonna try to get an interview with Victor Gischler, who's currently writing The Punisher and Deadpool. Nerd glee is barely containable. |
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[Aug. 22nd, 2009|10:29 pm] |
Things that are awesome: My room is huge, it's like a two person room but with only one person in it. And that is me. I am getting a new cell phone. Midtown Comics' weekly sales. Axe now sends their gift certificates monthly instead of month and halfly. Justice League the cartoon. Having even more of my friends be at my college. Having a window AC instead of central air that I had no control over. Ben Folds.
Things that are bad: There is one toilet in the bathroom here. Everyone but me has a suite bath. It sounds like there's not much of a problem, but other people use that bathroom when theirs is tied up, which SUCKS FOR ME. ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY TAKE A SHOWER IN THERE. I waited an hour to pee yesterday. It was bad. |
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[Aug. 17th, 2009|04:56 pm] |
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HEY I'M LEAVING FOR COLLEGE WEDNESDAY SO IF YOU WANT YOUR STUFF BACK YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GET IT |
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[Aug. 14th, 2009|02:21 am] |
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500 Days of Summer is the best movie about people ever made. It portrays exactly how relationships are, makes you feel how they do, and in a cool touch is structured like one. Joseph Gordon-Levitt should win every award for this movie. Best Actor, Venzia Trophy for Goaltending, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Cy Young, all of them. |
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[Aug. 12th, 2009|12:07 am] |
Dear Country,
We are making absolute asses of ourselves. Our screaming angry masses yelling at our politicians about a series of reforms based only on hearsay is making us look like total idiots, and i don't know if you know this, but the rest of the world sees our news too. Bearded elderly man who asked Arlen Specter if he had ever read the Koran, I especially mean you. Reading a book corrupts someone? The audience in Missouri that booed the news of unemployment going down? Are you even listening anymore? Does anything that doesn't come to you from the white male on television of your choice register?
Please, the rest of the planet is watching,
Tim. |
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[Jul. 30th, 2009|06:08 pm] |
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So I just "won" what Axe calls a Morning After Kit, which is a toothbrush, hairbrush, t-shirt, and pair of sandals. Thanks guys. I entered because I wanted more gift certificates. Great. |
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[Jul. 26th, 2009|02:57 pm] |
I've had this idea for a while but I guess I just decided to do it.
Comic books have one completely unique thing on other genres of literature YES THEY'RE LITERATURE FUCK YOU and that's the constant variation between characters from writer to writer. One of the things this leads to is that comics fans can be both fans of characters and fans of writers, which brings me to the whole point of why I'm writing this. I bet that if I was a fan of the X-Men previously, I would have hated my favorite comic author ever Grant Morrison's turn on X-Men.
( Cut for spoilers and massive rambling essay ) |
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[Jul. 25th, 2009|02:26 am] |
Today Dylan and Daniel and me pulled out Marvel Ultimate Alliance on a lark. The game gives you that real feeling of being awesomely powerful, especially since Dylan's playing the fucking Hulk and pulled an 11 thousand experience chain. I love my DPS Dr. Strange, even if my boy Daredevil is probably the best character in the game after the game-breaking Silver Surfer.
Oh, and remember Dethklok vs. The Goon that I posted about like 3 months ago when I found out about it? It's fucking awesome. It's like an episode of the show but with MORE murder! |
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