Inspired by Raquel...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
National Photographic
For over a century, National Geographic has chronicled archaeology, scientific expeditions, wildlife and world cultures for more than 100 years, and that means they've taken a lot of pictures. Like 11.5 million photos or so. Now, you have a chance to own 240 famed pieces which will be on auction at Christie's in December. It's expected to fetch about $3 million, so start saving up.
Even Comics Don't Believe In Print Media
It's not just Newsweek that feels publishing is not what it used to be...
As of Superman issue 13 (which hits stores tomorrow), Clark Kent, quits the The Daily Planet, the Metropolis newspaper that has been his employer since the 1940's. Shouldn't he have received his pension already? Yes, we could talk about reading a text message about Lois Lane and her new boyfriend, or a "new Kryptonian threat" named H'el (for the silly-titled upcoming storline "H'el On Earth" - zoinks that's clever!)
In what is supposed to be a Jerry Maguire-esque moment, and prompted by his boss and the owner of the newspaper getting on his case, Superman quits in front of the whole staff. Writer Scott Lobdell says, "This is really what happens when a 27-year-old guy is behind a desk and he has to take instruction from a larger conglomerate with concerns that aren't really his own. Superman is arguably the most powerful person on the planet, but how long can he sit at his desk with someone breathing down his neck and treating him like the least important person in the world?" So when did comic books become less about capes and tights, and turn into TPS reports?
"Clark's situation is one most any working stiff can relate to, when they've had enough and don't want to take it anymore. And the superhero, who became a journalist in the first place because he wanted to speak out on things he couldn't as Superman, has been in this awkward position of everything he's writing is certainly a shading to keep his identity secret," Lobdell added. "Rather than Clark be this clownish suit that Superman puts on, we're going to really see Clark come into his own in the next few years as far as being a guy who takes to the Internet and to the airwaves and starts speaking an unvarnished truth - he is more likely to start the next Huffington Post or the next Drudge Report than he is to go find someone else to get assignments or draw a paycheck from." Holy shit, that is ridiculous!
After a long love affair with comics, I found myself less interested in them - though I still have a soft spot for some of those costumed characters. And even though DC Comics tend to be shitty in comparison to Marvel (my heroes of choice), this is lame no matter who the publisher is. I read the issue in question, and it is retarded. There's no need for Clark Kent to be concerned about his cover identity, or paying rent in a place with buddy Jimmy Olsen when the first few pages of the story have him in a secret facility near the center of the earth bench pressing 5.972 sextillion metric tons (the approximate weight of the planet)...for five days straight. Really. On those opening panels alone, the rest of the story and premise for Superman to even be Clark Kent is senseless. But hey, at least he's hip enough to see how outdated publishing is - even if unnecessarily updating the character is anything but hip.
Monday, October 22, 2012
What's Tila Tequila Been Up To?
Here's a stellar rant from her website - verbatim, that show's she's in a good place, and things are working out for her.
Please excuse my extremely explicit letter to “THE OTHERS” as I have had enough so I just wanted to tell you guys before you read further so please don’t get offended. I don’t usually talk this way but again, this is a letter for “THE OTHERS” so please go ahead and stop reading at this point because my letter to them is NOT pretty. Love you! Now let me get back to my letter to those pricks because I know they are reading this now! Their time is running out. I’m sick of their bullsh*t and f*cking with humanity’s lives as if we are just a bunch of disposable toys to them! Time for a REVOLUTION and also time for my “HOLY GRAIL” website to finally launch soon! F*ck them! Yes, you, “THE OTHERS” and you KNOW we, the people, are going to win this time. We are all sick and tired of your sh*t. You want a War? Ok let’s get ready for one, but only if YOU yourself participate and not act like a bunch of old, ugly, rich, evil COWARDS hiding while you send out our young, beautiful boys here in AMERICA and TRAIN THEM TO BE MURDERERS TRICKING THEM INTO THINKING THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND WHEN REALLY YOU ASSHOLES LIED TO EVERYONE! I DECLARE A WAR BUT NO SOLDIERS, JUST ME, THE PEOPLE, AND ALL OF YOU SO CALLED ILLUMINATI, ELITIST COWARDS! I HAVE ALL YOUR SECRETS, I AM MUCH WISER THAN I WAS BACK THEN WHEN YOU F*CKED ME OVER SO BAD I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO JUST DIE FROM ALL THE PAIN YOU ORCHESTRATED AND INFLICTED UPON MY SOUL! MY TILA ARMY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE HAS YOU WAAAAAAAAY OUT NUMBERED!!
AND BELIEVE ME, ALTHOUGH THE MASSES DON’T KNOW THAT SUPER HUMANS REALLY DO EXIST, WELL I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW WE DO SO WE DON’T NEED WEAPONS TO DESTROY YOU! GO ON.. SHOULD I TELL THEM ABOUT THE SUPER HUMANS THAT EXIST AND ALL OF THOSE EXPERIMENTS YOU DO ON THEM TO USE THEIR POWERS FOR YOUR OWN BENEFIT? SHOULD I TELL THEM THAT IS WHY SO MANY “MISSING CHILDREN” POP UP EACH YEAR BECAUSE YOU SADISTIC F*CKS WERE THE ONES BEHIND IT??! AGAIN, THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF US OUT HERE WITH SUPER POWERS AND I WILL GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER AND YOU EVIL PRICKS ARE ALL GOING DOWN!!!
UNLESS YOU STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND FIX ALL THE WRONG YOU DID TO MANKIND, FIX THE EARTH THAT YOU RUINED, THEN I AM SURE THERE WILL NOT BE ANYMORE FRICTIONS AND HATRED BETWEEN US GOOD GUYS AND YOU EVIL PRICKS! SO WHAT IF YOU ARE ALIEN HYBRID? THAT DOESN’T MEAN YOU OWN US! YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THERE ARE ABOUT AT LEAST 100 DIFFERENT TYPES OF ALIEN HYBRIDS ON PLANET EARTH RIGHT NOW AND WE ARE ALL WAKING UP HONEY! PREPARE FOR WAR. I HAVE OFFICIALLY DECLARED IT.
AGAIN, I TELL YOU IN ADVANCE I HAVE NO WEAPONS, I AM NO TERRORIST, I LOVE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, AND THE ONY WEAPON I HAVE TO GO TO WAR WITH YOU F*CKS ARE MY NATURAL SUPER HUMAN ABILITIES AS WELL.
TIME IS RUNNING OUT AND I DONT CARE ANYMORE WHAT YOU DO TO TRY TO MAKE ME LOOK CRAZY! I AM TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW THAT WE BOTH KNOW THAT YOU AND I HAVE BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR A VERY LONG TIME! AND YES I AM WELL AWARE THAT THIS LETTER MAY MAKE ME SEEM BIZARRE BUT AT THIS POINT I DON’T EVEN CARE ANYMORE! THIS IS ABOUT YOU, NOT THEM!
SHALL I GO INTO TELLING THE PEOPLE HOW YOU KEPT WATCHING ME MY ENTIRE LIFE EVEN BEFORE I WAS BORN? AND INDEED YOU SENT THOSE 3 MAN MADE GREYS TO TRY TO SCARE ME AND PLOT SOME TYPE OF ARTIFICIAL ABDUCTION! HA! VERY CLEVER HUNNY BUT I DIDN’T FALL FOR THAT SH*T, AS BELIEVABLE AS THEY WERE AND EVEN ALMOST GOT ME FLYING BACKWARDS INTO THE YELLOW BLAST THAT KEPT PULLING ME UP AND AWAY… TRYING SOOOOO HARD TO STEAL MY SOUL! AS A MATTER OF FACT, YOU DID IT WHILE COURTENAY WAS RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!!! SHE KNOWS WHAT YOU DID THAT NIGHT.
BUT YOU AND I BOTH KNOW, YOU KNOWWWW THAT I HAVE MY PEOPLE ALSO WATCHING OVER YOU! AS LONG AS I AM ALIVE, AS LONG AS GOD IS IN MY HEART, AS LONG AS MY KIND CONTINUES TO PROTECT ME, THEN YOU CANNOT DO SH*T TO ME!
AS FOR EVERYONE ELSE I SINCERELY APOLOGIZE FOR MY CURSING AS YOU GUYS KNOW I AM NEVER THIS WAY NOR DO I SPEAK THIS WAY TO ANYONE… ONLY WHEN SOMETHING TRAUMATIC HAPPENS SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME IF I HAVE OFFENDED ANY OF YOU WITH SO MANY F-BOMBS!!! BUT THIS LETTER IS FOR THE OTHERS. I DONT USUALLY AGREE WITH SUCH LANGUAGE BUT THOSE PRICKS DON’T DESERVE MY RESPECT!!!
SHALL I CONTINUE??? YEAH SURE WE KNOW ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND BUNKERS… OLD NEWS. BUT SHALL I TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT THE ENTIRE CITY INSIDE THE HOLLOW EARTH??? SHALL I TELL THE PEOPLE THAT YOU CAME HERE AND LEFT YOUR OWN PLANET TO INFILTRATE OURS AND NOW SOME OF YOU STILL CURRENTLY RESIDE ON THE MOON!
SHALL I TELL THEM THAT THE SO CALLED “MOON” IS ACTUALLY WHERE SOME OF YOU STILL RESIDE TO WATCH OVER US, AND THE MOON IS ACTUALLY YOUR BASE. OH LET ME NOT GO INTO HOW YOU TOTALLY F*CKED THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE NATIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE!!!!!! THEY WERE ACTUALLY ONCE VERY ADVANCED AND LOVING BEINGS UNTIL YOU CAME HERE AND FUCKED THEM ALL UP JUST LIKE YOU’RE DOING TO US NOW.
BUT GUESS WHAT? DO YOU KNOW WHO I SAW WHEN I DIED 7 TIMES???? MIND YOU I GREW UP BUDDHIST BUT I NEVER GOT INTO RELIGION MUCH, BUT IM JUST GOING TO SAY IT ANYWAY, ON THE 7TH NEAR DEATH I ACTUALLY SAW THE MAN. YEP. SOMEONE I NEVER KNEW ABOUT. SOMEONE I WAS NOT FAMILIAR WITH. SO I COULDN’T BELIEVE IN HIM BECAUSE I DIDN’T KNOW THE STORY BEHIND HIM!
BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK I SAW THE 7TH TIME I DIED EARLIER THIS YEAR????? FOR 3 DAYS I CROSSED OVER AND WAS SHOWN MANY THINGS, THEN ON THE 3RD DAY….. I COULDN’T BELIEVE IT BUT I SAW THE MAN! YEP! THE ONE I DIDN’T USED TO BELIEVE IN BEFORE BUT HE CAME TO ME AND HE IS DEFINITELY REAL!!
SORRY FOR THIS RANT, BUT SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED AND I JUST CAN’T BE TOO NICE ALL THE TIME TO THOSE EVIL ONES ANYMORE WITH WHAT ELSE I JUST FOUND OUT THEY ARE DOING TO KILL US ALL!! US INNOCENT PEOPLE! HOW DARE YOU!?
ANYWAY THIS LETTER WAS FOR “THE OTHERS” SO PLEASE DIS-REGARD THIS MESSAGE AS YOU GUYS KNOW I WOULD NEVER SPEAK TO YOU THIS WAY! I AM ON YOUR SIDE NOT THEIRS! PLEASE DIS-REGARD AND DONT WORRY, BUT “THE OTHERS” KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT! Again I feel horrible for having you guys see me this way, but sometimes when cowards hide, and only watch me from afar, well, the only way I can get my message straight to them is through here. I’m sorry guys hope I didn’t get any of you upset or anything! *HUGS* But “THE OTHERS” ohhh that’s a different story! People in the WHITE HOUSE are even stalking my pages! LOL Yes I know cuz I can track your IP addresses just like you track mine and my phone etc….Tell those Senators in DC I said HI! and Thanks for dropping by my page. Never knew you were such a fan of “TILA TEQUILA” who would have ever thought I’d be your worst nightmare? F*CK YOU! At least I’m not scared to show my face. At least I speak 100% TRUTH even if SOME o the things I say may come off sounding crazy, but at least I’m not afraid and as long as YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW, that is all there needs to be said… for now.. Anyway.
GOD BLESS! And trust me, at the rate you’re going you’re gonna need some God Blessing your sins hunny!
Sincerely,
Miss Tila -The Bitch who annoys the crap out of you cuz I’ll keep calling you out to protect the people that you kill everyday! And oh yea… next time you wanna make a stupid ass amateur video of me being “ANONYMOUS” maybe I wouldn’t laugh so hard if you actually talked on it instead of using some robot who can’t even read! LMAO! Later f*ck heads. Come and get me! As I’m on my tour, at the end of my shows I get on stage, get on the mic and scream out to the crowd “F*CK FACEBOOK, F*CK THE ILLUMINATI, WE ARE HERE AND THEY CAN’T DO SH*T!!!!! Then EVERYONE STARTS CHEERING! I guess there’s a LOT of people that HATE YOUR GUTS RIGHT NOW…. Didn’t take me much to get everyone to cheer while I called you cowards out LIVE, IN PERSON, ON STAGE.. as opposed to HIDING like you do. You’re pathetic beyond belief. Quite laughable at this point hunny!
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Overshadowing Your Message
Dinesh D'Souza is a conservative scholar and behind the not-so-curiously timed recent film 2016: Obama's America, which shockingly does not support the current president. And now he's the former head of the evangelical King's College in New York. Yesterday he stepped down, after a meeting the school's board regarding his relationship with a woman who is not his wife. Oops.
It's a bad sign to be tabloid fodder, even when it's evangelical magazine WORLD reporting you're bringing a woman to a Christian values and introducing her as your fiancee. When you're married. D'Souza claimed to have filed for divorce in California a few days after the conference, and has denied any wrongdoing, saying he and his wife separated two years ago. No, it's not on par with the casualties of Hitler's art or Manson's music, but it's best to not let anything become bigger than your original intentions.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Emmanuelle In The Ground
Sylvia Kristel, known to my generation as "hey, did you see that naked chick having sex!" when we were adolescents, died at 60 from cancer.
The actress, who became an international (and cable) star, is best known for her role in Emmanuelle films, as a housewife that experiences a sexual awakening after a trip to Thailand. The series spawned a virtual cottage industry of soft-core films, that could be seen with frequency on
Before acting, Kristel was a model and won the Miss TV Europe contest in 1973. She was also fluent in Dutch, English, French, German and Italian, but that hardly as interesting as the massive coke habit she fostered for years, or that she smoked unfiltered cigarettes from the age of 11, which ultimately lead to her first bout with cancer in 2001. Here's the legacy she was the foundation for:
Emmanuelle series
Emmanuelle (1974)
Emmanuelle 2 (1975)
Goodbye Emmanuelle (1977)
Emmanuelle 4 (1984)
Emmanuelle 5 (1986)
Emmanuelle 6 (1988)
Emmanuelle 7 (1992)
Black Emanuelle series
Black Emanuelle (1975)
Black Emanuelle 2 (1976)
Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)
Emanuelle in America (1977)
Emanuelle Around the World (1977)
Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (1978)
Emmanuelle in Space series
Emmanuelle: First Contact (1994)
Emmanuelle 2: A World of Desire (1994)
Emmanuelle 3: A Lesson in Love (1994)
Emmanuelle 4: Concealed Fantasy (1994)
Emmanuelle 5: A Time to Dream (1994)
Emmanuelle 6: One Final Fling (1994)
Emmanuelle 7: The Meaning of Love (1994)
Emmanuelle made-for-TV films
Emmanuelle's Secret (1992)
Emmanuelle's Revenge (1992)
Emmanuelle's Perfume (1992)
Emmanuelle's Magic (1992)
Emmanuelle's Love (1993)
Emmanuelle in Venice (1993)
Emmanuelle Forever (1993)
Emmanuelle 2000: Being Emmanuelle (2000)
Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle and the Art of Love (2000)
Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle in Paradise (2000)
Emmanuelle 2000: Jewel of Emmanuelle (2000)
Emmanuelle 2000: Intimate Encounters (2000)
Emmanuelle 2000: Emmanuelle's Sensual Pleasure (2000)
Emmanuelle 2000 (2001)
Emmanuelle in Rio (2003)
Emmanuelle Private Collection: Emmanuelle vs. Dracula (2004)
Emmanuelle Private Collection: Sex Talk (2004)
Emmanuelle Private Collection: The Sex Lives of Ghosts (2004)
Emmanuelle Private Collection: Sexual Spells (2004)
Emmanuelle Private Collection: The Art of Ecstasy (2006)
Emmanuelle Private Collection: Jesse's Secrets Desires (2006)
Emmanuelle Tango (2006)
Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Skin City (2011)
Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Sexy Bite (2011)
Emmanuelle Through Time: Sex, Chocolate & Emmanuelle (2011)
Emmanuelle Through Time: Rod Steele 0014 & Naked Agent 0069 (2011)
Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Supernatural Activities (2011)
Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Sex Tales (2011)
Emmanuelle Through Time: Emmanuelle's Forbidden Pleasures (2011)
No Longer All The News(week) Fit To Print
Their decision to go all-digital hastens the problems newspapers and print are experiencing, as blogs and websites dominate, and readers favor tablets and mobile devices over pages. The last issue of the magazine will have a December 31 cover date.
Starting next year, it will be rebranded as a subscription-based digital publication called Newsweek Global. There are currently 1.5 million subscribers (down from a peak of 3 million) that will gain access to the digital edition, and the new digital-only Newsweek would be on par with current print price (currently they also offer the iPad edition at $24.99 annually, and a combined print-iPad yearly subscription for $39.99). Newsweek will still offer selected content for free on the Daily Beast website.
With the loss of U.S. News & World Report in 2010 to digital and the move by Newsweek, TIME magazine has not made any mention of a full shift to digital while they enjoy the lack of print competition. And it remains to be seen if the tabloid-esque and attention getting covers of late - the Muslim uprising in the Middle East, a photoshopped picture of Princess Diana, and President Obama under the tagline "The First Gay President" - will have the same impact among the interweb's usual assortment of ridiculous opinions. Now they'll have to compete for relevance against the Huffington Posts and Drudge Reports, who's time on the web means more than Nwesweek's decades in print.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Who Is Twitter?
Beevolve, a social media marketing firm (that sounds redundant), analyzed 36 million Twitter profiles to break down the range of users. Sounds like a lot of shitty work done by interns...
The average Twitter user is a 28 year old American girl who has an iPhone, has 208 Twitter followers while following 102 people, tweets a lot about fashion and family, likes the color purple and uses "love" quite frequently in her tweets. If this describe someone you know, then you should rethink who you are friends with. If you're a celebrity or involved in the media and arts, it makes perfect sense, but nobody needs to be chirping about how much they like the a dress at the mall. It's not as bad as Facebook, with all the "hey look at me, pay attention to me" posts about what people had for breakfast, but still awful.
They have plenty of statistics, like the average Twitter user has tweeted 800 times, and only 26% of users favorite Tweets? You can read them here...but don't tweet it. Tweeting is for assholes.
Back In The Closet
The world is about to have 20 - yes, 20 new episodes of Trapped In The Closet unleashed upon it. The day after Thanksgiving, if you're not one of the few getting trampled at a Ohio Walmart at 4am, you can check out the next block of the story that Kelly threatens, I've got like a hundred chapters to come." There's affairs, bisexuals, midgets, pimps, pastors, and AIDS, and that is just what's happened so far. In other words, an American classic...
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Cooking 101
Since Scarlett and I are now fortunately endowed with a shit-ton of new kitchenwares, there's no shame in admitting we don't know how to really cook...and you can all come clean too. That's how I know I'm not the only one who'll benefit from this cheat sheet.
Emphasis On Alternative
Andre Barnett is the Reform Party presidential candidate this year, who some of you may know from his softcore gay pron videos on MuscleGallery.com or as a fitness model - though most of us have no idea who he is. He's a fiscal conservative and former serviceman (Army), but is a neophyte when it comes to politics.
"Having never served in a public office, he is pure and untainted," says the Reform Party's website. "His style, demeanor and speech is Presidential. He is solid in his beliefs and never waivers. He is ready to give an answer at all times. He is accountable and dependable and is a man of integrity." Ummm, I don't know if being inexperienced makes him unqualified, but it doesn't necessarily make him qualified either...
So if you're still undecided and are tired of bending over and taking it from the man, maybe you'll want to swing your vote for a guy who's already taken it and could be more sympathetic to your plight.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Tombstone Rodeo
There were many passings this weekend that made news, from old television hosts and older politicos, to aspiring athletes and foolish ones, but two stood out to me. The first was Jose Melena, an employee of Bumble Bee Foods, who died in the most spectacular of ways via industrial accident. Cal-OSHA had the pleasure of investigating how Melena ended up cooked in an oven, described by the coroner's documents as a "giant murder boiler" "steamer machine". But fear not fish feeders, the plant will be back open today, so you'll have no break in production or food shortage. Just make sure you get the cans where they were packed in spring water.
The other death was not as remarkable, but no less satisfying to me. Police said 19-year-old man tagging a three-story building in the Westlake district here in Los Angeles fell to the ground, and was declared brain dead, though I would argue he was brain dead long before that.
The incident occurred around 2:30 am, when only good things happen, when the unidentified victim attempted climbing a tree to reach the building in the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and Union Place. To think, if he had only put that much effort into getting an education and raising his IQ! He was taken to a hospital, where he later died, and none too soon. Why so happy about this? I hate taggers - they have no value in society.
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