Organs

A friend wondered ”What is the most rad human organ?” one day. I gave it some thinking.  I then realized that the lungs are the most rad human organ.  It’s simple. Lungs get air. Air is awesome. BAM.

He also wondered ”what is the most intense human organ?” and I know that one too, it’s the pineal gland. Yeah. You know that shit.

Space

I really miss science fiction.

Well, it’s still there, but it’s not.

Space is dead.

We don’t care about seeing the universe, having decided it’s just boring, we don’t dream of playing god and remaking worlds in our own image.  In the real world, the future is dead. Mankind doesn’t desire to escape this gravity well we have fallen down. Excuses like costs and danger.. stupid things.  It’s fucking space, 40 years ago we had men on the moon, and now it seems we are 10 years away from the moon? The fuck is that shit? It’s so sad in a way, that we are so focused on what is in front of us, we can’t look at the bigger picture, of having humanity across the cosmos.

I want to re-ignite that dream.

Late to the party on this.

Somewhere in the world there is a man.

this man has a knife, and he’s just hangin out.

21 feet away from you.

Try going for a walk in the park.. WRONG BITCH! HE IS 21 feet away, Just Hangin Out.

My day is fucking ruined by this dude.

So don’t get close to anyone.  Stay at least 30 feet away from every single person you can find.  As if they have a knife, you will be stabbed.

Then I saw this.

Fuck.  We are all fucked.  Knife Guys will be getting me from 121 feet away.

I give up, I’m going to hide from these knife guys.

Oh.. nothing to worry about.  That dude just lost the fight against a piece of cardboard.  In fact, he lost his goddamn “peanut” as it were.

I don’t like the suburbs

I am not sure if it’s the grass.  Or that if I turn down the wrong street I will see another neighborhood almost just like mine.  Nearly anywhere in the country.  My 2 story, 3 bedroom home is cookie cutter.  It’s not a bad design, nor is my neighborhood, which is how I could travel 500 miles and find another like it.  Then another 1000 to another just like it.  That is skipping all the ones inbetween.  The suburbs grate on me.  It’s the sense of sameness, I know that others have mentioned this but it really makes me feel insignificant to know that others are feeling this way too, as I know out there, is at least 1 or 2 other people who are almost me.

There is also the fact that the suburbs are unsustainable, and most buildings aren’t built to last.  What happens when this 40 year old home becomes 100?  Will anyone try and protest the demolition of the suburbs?  Where are people going to expand?  40 years ago my home would be in the country, a 45 minute drive from Detroit, a weekend getaway.  Now the getaway places are 100 miles north.  But people are already living and working there.  When will the cabin-on-the-lakers realize they are the reason why they need to get cabins further and further out?  When does our horizontal expansion stop?

I want to live in a city, I want to be around people.  I want to live somewhere with public infrastructure and it’s own unique style and ideas.  I want to live in a place that isn’t the same as every other place.

Fun with /r9k/ vol 1.

There was a hookup thread, I decided to get in on the action.  So I posted this:

27
Male
Gotham
6’2″
Strong
Fighting Crime
My Parents Are DEAD
HeckYeahImBatman

It wasn’t long before I got some replies..

The Future Has Been Here

I have a T-shirt.

This is what is on it.

I was browsing the web, and it suddenly dawned on me, the future is here.  As I was browsing the internet on a cellphone that has a fucking keyboard and a touchscreen.  It’s better than the ones on Star Trek.  The future arrived and no one noticed, as the future looked like the past still.  No one tore down the old buildings to make way for new ones, nothing has changed that much in terms of looks, aside from cell-phones and the prevalence of laptops.

The future did come.

It’s just invisible, it’s here in radio-waves that we can’t see, but deliver all the information in the world, and can send anything.  I can be nearly anywhere in the world and talk to a person somewhere else on the world via video.  I can find out information on anything within seconds.  The future is here, and it’s mostly been about communication and thinking better.  I can solve a math problem using a website that it used to take hours for a mathematician hours to perform.  I can right click on words that my computer know are misspelled and fix them.  25 years ago that idea didn’t even exist.  I can play videogames with people in China.  The future of the past didn’t even have that as an idea.  Hell, Star Trek the Next Generation had Holodecks, which were local Multiplayer only.

Almost all the information of the world is at my fingertips, things my grandparents and parents never dreamed up are right here.  In my pants I have 2 small electronic devices roughly the same size as my wallet that each have better displays than fullsize TVs from 15 years ago, they have better CPUs than laptops from 12 years ago, smaller batteries and more RAM, and are less than 1/20th of the weight.

The future came, and it’s going to keep coming, and we can never be sure how it will look.

Comics I Think Are Awesome

Cassanova – by Matt “I now write major Marvel comics” Fraction with art from the Brazillian Wondertwins of Ba/Moon. And spies.

Phonogram – Music, Magic and More good shit for people of quality from a Videogame Journalist/Guy who writes Thor some and Some very nice art.

Mouse Guard – Mice with swords and heroics.

Nightly News – Grim, crazy and featuring a great art style by Johnathan Hickman who is now doing major shit over at Marvel.

Incognito – A super-mafia goon in Witness Protection. Damn good comic and also a stepping stone between regular Super-hero stuff and Brubaker’s Criminal.

Planetary – Every single issue. Possibly the most important comic series to ME, Warren Ellis at possibly his best and John Cassiddy doing amazing art.

Daredevil – Pretty much everything from the Kevin Smith Relaunch to the recent end of it has been great, the parts that SEEM bad are good and only look bad due to what’s around them.

All-Star Superman – Grant Morrison’s loveletter to the Man of Steel and manages to be true to the ‘Classic’ world of comics and also throughly modern with Frank Quitely throwing in some super-detailed art.

Ex-Machina – The Mayor of NYC has a super-power. Mostly about politics, but really more about trying to do the right thing and believe in something larger than yourself. Brian K. Vaughn writes it, Tony Harris draws it.

Starman – Also drawn by Tony Harris. A long 80 issue DC series that is unique in that is has a proper ending. Possibly the only good thing to come out of the early 90s comics.

I Drink Your Milkshake!

I have been waiting all day to shout “I drink your milkshake!” but much to my dismay, not a single person I see has a milkshake handy.  Don’t they understand that I can’t be satisfied without their milkshake?

This is why friends are horrible, none of them can tell that I suddenly had that line from “There Will Be Blood” stuck inside my head.  I almost ordered a milkshake at Dairy Queen, just so I could hand it to someone, steal it back and shout “I Drink your milkshake!” at them.  Instead I got a Blizzard with truffles in it.  I think it made me sick, but it was as amazing as it sounds.  I don’t feel bad about eating it at all.

I can’t even remember too much about “There Will Be Blood”, I can remember it being good, and the line I keep repeating, the jarring music, and that it was fairly fucked up.  I am not sure if I want to see it again any time soon, but I want to say the line again soon.