Welcome back you fuzzy little mittens

Let's begin.

     After the Golden Globes, Christoph Waltz went to celebrate with Quentin Tarantino. Boy did he celebrate, the following day he had an interview to do with Conan O'Brien. In the video I linked is a part of that interview. I actually kind of feel bad for Mr. Waltz, he has a very public interview to do and he seems still visibly "under the weather" I think is the proper term. Lucky for Mr. Waltz, Conan has a good sense of  humor for things like that and doesn't call him out but does rib him a little on it.

     In other news film star and stuntman Jackie Chan has pointed the finger back at the US for being the most corrupt counry, in defense of his homeland China. In an interview with Phoenix TV he was very defensive of his home and native land. Saying that China has been bullied among the nations for its corruption and arguing that there isn't a nation without corruption. During that interview he pointed the finger to the US saying that he believes that the states has it the worst when it comes to corruption. He went on saying that the people of China should only discuss their problems as a nation amongst themselves and say "our country is the best" when it comes to foreigners. Though I don't believe these are fighting words, I think it was a bit foolish to go on the attack with pointing the finger and especially at the good ol' US of A. Because as we know from action, the US doesn't take to kindly to insulting words.

 

There was much harumphing to be had I'm sure.

 

 

     What about Bob? No not the movie, starring Bill Murray. "Well who the hell is Bob then?" you ask? Well "Bob" is actually something of an alias that is being used to give a name to a man that would make his country proud. "Bob" was a software developer for "a US critical infrastructure company" that outsourced his own job to China.

Welcome back from Holiday Hell.

Hello I hope you all had a lovely holiday, let's begin.

During my hiatus I found out that Putin is the Snidely Whiplash of adopted children. Mr. Putin has made the executive decision to ban all adoption from Russia to the U.S., including 46 children who already had the greenlight to go. Even though Russia's Children's Welfare department is infamously known to be sub-par. He has decided to try and support the Children's Welfare but in tandem with banning outgoing adoptions to the U.S.
Many of the citizens are upset about the decision, and in fact it has been a splitting arguement for those in the Russian government. Apparently Putin isn't stopping at just adoptions, he plans on undoing many bilateral items between the U.S. and Russia.

Did you enjoy your holiday maybe a little too much? Well fear not! Thanks to the Journal of Food Science we know there's research connecting the dots to help alleviate your hangovers! Research from a study on the liver cells in mice and in humans shows that "Cellular Toxicities" were alleviated by use of components from asparagus. Asparagus now does more than just make your pee smell weird, it'll also make that next-day beer-piss less miserable in the future!

Finally, I'll leave you with this video,

In case your childhood sucked, that's the first level of the first world in Super Mario Brothers, as done in Minecraft. The boys over at Rooster Teeth created the level further exhibiting the endless fun that can be had out of the simple yet elegant world-building game.


I hope you all have a fine weekend, and don't forget your asparagus!


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Everybody Panic!

Oh no, the end of the world is nigh!!!

 

 

 

 

     But facebook feels fine. In fact the social media giant feels so fine that it has recently launched a new feature in its messaging system. Facebook will charge $1 for a service that will guarantee your message get delivered directly into the recipient's main inbox. I didn't know until literally yesterday that facebook had even made the change of creating what is essentially a junkbox for spam and unwanteds, but they named it the "other" box. They're charging individuals right now to guarantee that their messages can spam directly instead of being swept to the "other" inbox. Facebook went on to explain why you should pay them money saying "if you want to send a message to someone you heard speak at an event but are not friends with, or if you want to message someone about a job opportunity, you can use this feature to reach their Inbox." I know, I'm going to ignore that as well.

 

 

    The movie that tells the story of Seal Team Six and tracking Osama Bin Laden, already released to select theaters, has come under fire. The C.I.A. has issues with a scene depicting the use of torture to get vital information on Bin Laden. Senate representatives of the agency have stated they have looked at the C.I.A.'s files and site that no such torture was used to get the information needed and that they essentially just got the info in another manner that you shouldn't worry about. Something that nobody seems to be bringing up is the fact that this is a movie, and anybody thinking that something out of Hollywood is completely factual is out of their mind anyway. Basically everybody is pointing fingers and saying the other is an ass, and I'm just laughing because we know the C.I.A. operates under near-complete secrecy and anything said or done by or about them can be complete bullshit. Either way, I look forward to the wide release on January 11th, no matter if it's B.S. or not.

 

     In other news, slut-shaming continues. A three time US Olympian has come forth to the public, admitting that she worked as a high-end prostitute in Las Vegas(where prostitution is legal). Suzy Favor Hamilton, who is married, was outed by an internet tabloid and issued a public statement herself. She said "I am not a victim here and knew what I was doing" adding "I realize I have made highly irrational choices and I take full responsibility for them". Her spouse did know of her sex-work and she stated "He wasn't supportive of this at all". She mentioned that she did the escorting because she's working through some personal issues, of which she is being treated for by professionals.

Mrs. Favor Hamilton is an upstanding member of her community. Besides being an Olympian for her country 3 times she also runs a real estate firm with her husband. She also does motivational speaking and promotional duties for Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association as well as for Disney. It seems many look over all of these credits to her personality and choose to shun her because she worked as a sex worker in an established industry. I don't subscribe to that same point of view. Though I feel for her husband, he wasn't exactly a willing participant, it is her choice and she didn't exactly go hooking on the corner next to a meth house. She made a risky choice, she hoped it would stay down low. Unfortunately, now it has gotten out in a society that likes to look down their noses at sex-work even though it is "the oldest profession". I'm not saying what she did was necessarily healthy, but I don't think she should be shamed by the public for her choices. Her issues are personal and didn't effect anybody but herself and her family.

 

 

     Instagram the social-media photo application, changed their minds to a more rational train of thought. Instagram canceled plans on using user content without permission for advertising. Originally they had planned to change their "Terms of Service" so that they could use the pictures of users in advertising without compensation and the signing of the new Terms of Service would've assumed permission on all content, including content from those who were underage. The company started with this idea(a bad one) as a means to monetize their services, which is from a free to use application. Their wording was too broad for the public and people raised hell over it, so Instagram thought better and kept the 2010 Terms of Service in action.

 

 

Well that's all I have for now kiddos, until Monday. Have a good weekend and get completely obliterated for the apocalypse!

 

 

 

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I apologize

due to some personal issues I will not be posting a blog today

I'll try and double post one tomorrow, thank you for your understanding.


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Happy Birthday Paulina Gretzky

I know shameless flaunting of skin, but hey she's the daughter of a legend!

          Let's continue with more fluff. Artist Jason Mecier as made a name for himself of creating portraits of celebrities using unconventional materials in the mosaic style. He started off with a edible portrait of Martha Stewart,

Martha is, of course, on the right

 

he has now upped the game and created a Kevin Bacon portrait out of 15 pounds of bacon. To what end did he fashion all that bacon in the likeness of Kevin Bacon? I have no idea, but Mr. Bacon has never looked tastier(unless your my brother who would argue that he looked better in Footloose).

 

     The spotlight has fallen on the seemingly eternal bromance between Matt Damon and Ben Affleck again. Mr. Damon has come forth on his feelings about the accusations of his bromance being actually a romance(people calling him and Mr. Affleck gay together).

"I never denied those rumors because I was offended and didn’t want to offend my friends who were gay, as if being gay were some kind of fucking disease." Mr. Damon expressed his discomfort in having to be confronted with the issue in the first place. The conversation was ever more pertinent by the fact that he will be playing the role of Liberace's longtime lover and partner Scott Thorson in the biopic "Behind the Candleabra". Matt Damon added "If Liberace were alive today, everybody would love his music and nobody would care what he did in his private life." How true, Mr. Damon, How true.

 

I'll leave you with this kiddos. Which is a link to a video hosted by IGN that shows the first 5 minutes of the new Bioshock game Bioshock Infinite. I'm pretty psyched to play the game myself, I haven't purchased it yet, but it is a must have for my collection.


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Today The Simpsons was born and so was Milla Jovovich

     Let's start on the uplifting story today, because we all just realized it's not even hump day yet. In Texas an officer of the law handed out something that isn't reported about often. Compassion, a still unnamed officer pulled over Hayden Carlo for speeding. When asked about his lack of a valid registration Carlo fessed up saying "there's no explanation for why I haven't done it, except I don't have the money. It was either feed my kids or get this registration done." So the officer handed him a ticket. "Where's the damn compassion you're talking about?" You ask because you didn't follow the link. Well I appreciate you're attention to my blog. The compassion part came after Carlo unrolled the ticket to find Mr. Franklin looking right back at him. That's right, the police officer issued the ticket but also gave the man a $100 bill. With the money, Carlo straightened up his registration as well as his wife's and notified the Police Department about the officer's kind gesture.
     The Department said the officer prefers to remain unnamed but that they will still be honoring him for his actions for a member of the community.

     To nobody's surprise the Westboro Baptist Church threatened to protest the funerals of the Newtown Connecticut. The internet group Anonymous had something to say about it.



Anonymous posted what they claimed was the personal information for members of the Westboro Babtist Church(WBC) on Twitter. Soon after, the Twitter account and website for WBC were hacked. Anonymous also put forth a request for people to sign a petition that puts WBC's tax exempt status in question. Not only to question their tax status but also to classify them not as a religious group but a hate group. Most of us are just wondering why it took so long.

     For my final paragraph(tirade) I'd like have a word about the starlet Amanda Seyfried and her quirky collection. Here's a link, in case you hadn't seen Conan give her a jetpack wearing raccon. Miss Seyfried already had a taxidermy collection and Conan talked with her for a few minutes about it. The overall reaction has been some uncomfortable shifting in seats. It seems, people find her collection to be in an outworldy weird realm. I would have to disagree. I understand that taxidermy is not something you'll find as popular as say baseball trading cards or coins, but taxidermy has been important in our society. My grandmother had to learn how to do taxidermy when she was a student in sciences. It was a way to teach people about animals, such as the taxidermied items found in our natural history museums, and it was a hands on way to teach doctors and scientists alike about dissection and anatomy. I understand that in this day and age those practices are out of date, but I would hardly call taxidermy barbaric. Taxidermy has gained a bad name because people associate it with trophies in hunting and also in ritualistic killings(which of course is a minority).

     Anyhoo I'd also like to send out some support to the guys at Team Respawn for Machinima. They just started up a new channel to showcase all the in-house produced segments featuring a lot of Mr. Sark and APLFisher. I think they're hilarious and very entertaining. They do a lot of hard work so I figured I'd feature one of their videos here.

 

 

 

 

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Good morning class, let's begin.

     To begin; Newton, Connecticut was and is a tragedy. There's no denying that fact, it hits home with anybody who hears about it. Another thing that can be said about the tragedy, really any tragedy, is that it is a highlighter on the pages of society. I don't mean to be insensitive, my apologies to the townspeople of Newtown and the victims' family. The truth is the truth. Unfortunately with this violent tragedy people lie about quotes, and discuss politics and regulations. I don't know about you but my facebook feed is abuzz with the words "Newtown Connecticut Tragedy" but the popular follow up to those three words is dusty rhetoric dredged back up from election season. Nobody liked it then and not only do people still not like it, now it is inappropriate. My only words to be associated with Newtown Connecticut are; I'm greatly sorry for your loss. A hard and bumpy road is ahead of your whole town and your neighbors want only to comfort you. My condolences.



     On a lighter note, recently we've found out that 3 female Rebel pilots were left on the editing room floor. One of which apparently already has a back story in the fan fiction world, and she's not exactly a spring chicken.

But she could blast your face outta the sky. There's been speculation as to why they were left out, most believe because it would bother the sensibilities of the public to see women blasted into space-dust. Either way we're all hoping that there will be a stronger female presence in the new Disney-made Star Wars due out in the not-too-distant future. At least to those of us not stuck in the Angry Dome about the Star Wars universe having some additions.

 



     In Celebrity Announcements, music producer deadmau5(aka Joel Zimmerman) proposed to his girlfriend Kat Von D. He did this to nobody's surpise over Twitter. He tweeted this picture with the message

"I can't wait for Christmas so.... Katherine Von Drachenberg, will you marry me?"

Congratulations to him and her, I hope their love lasts.

 

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