This post will be set for plugs in which I feel you all should know about, things I'm looking forward to and I think you should look in to. These will be movies, comics, books, and my own shit.

In celebration of the 4th of July, I honor someone who loved it so much, he hated everyone that ran this fucking country, and today, we need someone like him, to tear these fucking bastards a new asshole and show them the america that we're living in right now, in only the way Hunter S. Thompson could.



Hunter S. Thompson shot himself in 2005, and I don't think it was because he was sick, I think it had to do with the fact that he felt helpless to do anything in country he was living in then, and we still live in now.

Fucking nazis.

I'm not sure if this is awesome, or just fucking crazy.



"Over on Instructables this chap has a "how to" guide, so you can try it yourself. Assuming a) you can get hold of a laser-etcher and a helpful operator, b) you can defeat the safeties on the machine designed to stop you doing this and c) you're a total nutcase. Because doing this cooks your skin, frying small parcels of it into vapor. It's basically digital branding, and it exposes your body to mahoosive amounts of laser energy. And it hurts."


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I often wonder how a lot of people spend their birthdays, I suppose a party is often involved, though I haven't had one of those in ages really.

I turned 21 yesterday, I spent the majority of it on a bus, travelling from PA, after my car had taken the shit and the engine blew out on me, my poor car will be missed, not merely for getting me from point A to B, but because I'm a sentimental sap. So I spent Monday, waiting for a salvage truck to come and pick-up my car, made $50, but it wasn't enough to get a bus ticket home, so I then had to wait for my grandma to wire me some money to be able to ride the bus, I ended up leaving at 12:05 AM for home, with a 5 hour layover in a city that was 40 minutes away.

I can't say I didn't love the adventure though. I got to go to Wizard World Chicago, I spent the nights in my car, sleeping like a hobo. I got to meet Warren Ellis, Mike Wolfer, and Jacen Burroughs, oh and the Editor of Avatar Press William Christianson. Drank with all those guys, except William, and got to see a lot of the country I otherwise never would have.

I came home to birthday pie, so I can't complain to much.

Next year I want to go to San Diego Comic-con... but I'm not sure if I want to drive there. It'd be a whole lot of fun though to do so.

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving to Chicago, I should be there sometime late that night and busting into the Warren Ellis Q&A at Wizard World Chicago 2008. This weekend is going to be great, I'm going to get to meet a bunch of Whitechapel folks, I'll be meeting a bunch of comic book artists and writers that I really like, I'm going to be meeting some old friends and I'm going to get to see Chicago and the whole trip there. I'll have pics when I get back Monday... oh and my birthday is Tuesday and I'll be 21. Great fun.

Well it's about fucking time. I loved this show, a cult classic, if there ever was one.



I can't wait.

This is one of the funniest fucking things I've ever seen! The Website Is Down: Sales Guy Vs. Web Dude Finally found a way to embed this. A must see!

Thanks to whitechapel, I've found something new, it's art... really big art. The kind of art you need to be atop of a mountain to view, or in a plane. It's incredible. I wonder how much planning and foresight goes into each one of those pieces. I wonder how much measuring and double checking goes into it all. I wonder how often someone messes on up by walking on it without knowing it's something, or a wave washes it away unsuspectingly.

Just awesome.

I'm sure there is a great deal of you, to young to really know who this man is, and to have never really shown any interest in finding out about him, he was a comic from the 70's, a comic with an idea and a message and it was fucking insane for the time, but a lot of things were. He stood out though. He went to that place where no one ventured to go before him, not very many anyways. He went after censorship, he joked about it, he made records of what you couldn't say on the radio and television, he spoke about religion and politics and how they were a joke, before The Daily Show was even a twinkle in the eyes of Comedy Central, before Comedy Central was even established. He changed a lot of things, and he will be missed, for he has died, he died at 71 of heart failure, he was mortal, and god decided he'd had enough of him.

shit, fuck, piss, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.

Indeed.

So, for those of you not aware, as I know much of you probably use Comcast, that there is this thing that's been sneaking it's way into the internet by our favorite ISPs, such as Comcast, this little thing being Net Neutrality. Well, now we can all thank Google and it's infinite greatness as the company that absorbs what we want and then gives it to us, as they're in the means of developing a toolbar to detect Net Neutrality.

Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality. Now, Richard Whitt--Senior Policy Director for Google--announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs:

"We're trying to develop tools, software tools...that allow people to detect what's happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they're not happy with what they're getting -- that they think certain services are being tampered with," Google senior policy director Richard Whitt said this morning during a panel discussion at Santa Clara University, an hour south of San Francisco.

For those of you not aware of what Net Neutrality is, well, here is Wikipedia.

So, in an interview to G4, the director of The Hulk has unveild a tie-in to the Avengers rumor, a cameo by Captain America will be featured in the new Hulk movie, to go along with the cameo by Tony Stark. This is all leading to the cross-over, that we're all hoping for. A live action Avengers. Oh, and Lou Ferrigno does the voice of the Hulk, and if you don't know who he is, he played the Hulk in the older television show, which was a huge influence on the movie.



Also, for those who missed it, here is the scene that features Captain America's shield... it's rather blury... and hard to really call it his shield, but it has been confirmed, and compared to the teaser image that'd been available previously, it's oddly missing.

Before:


After:

I just had to.

Apparently a crazy japanese guy decided he needed to kill people and so, he went and drove into Akihabara, killing 5 men, one female and one unidentifiable (probably someone cosplaying). This, perhaps coincidentally has occured on the seven year anniversary of the Ikeda elementary school killings that happened in Osaka. Eight children were killed in the incident.

The EyeDildo is a clear acrylic dildo with an embedded camera and LED setup so you can play “ob/gyn, the home game”. It’s at least nice to see someone ripping off Sony (EyeToy) versus Apple (iEverythingEver) for once. And while there is absolutely no way to make the combination of thrusting pointy things and eyes sexy, the name does have a certain impact.

$200 lets you realize that the inside of your partner isn’t nearly as pretty as the outside. It uses regular ol’ batteries and comes with TV hookups so you can just plug in and plug in and see internal organs on your 60″ flat screen!

Now, dildocams have been around a long, long time, but I’m rather excited about this for the machine vision and augmented reality aspects. With today’s technology (read: OpenCV, ARToolKit and too much time and education your hands), you’re just a few sleepless nights of coding away from games like “Cervix Invaders” and “Poop Ship Destroyers” and “It’s in my nose, is that my brain?” and “Malignant or Not”. Ok, so that last one, not so much a game, I suppose.

I still think this would be the ultimate survival horror game flashlight peripheral. But I’m just gonna stop there.

Because everyone wants to see that we're all pink on the inside.

We've been waiting 12 years... come the fuck on already!

We've reached a point in art, where everything, even eggs can be considered an art form, which is funny, that something as simple as stacking eggs or taking fucking trash and gluing it together is considered art, but comics still haven't reached the point of being considered art. Who the fuck knows why. This looks about as easy to do as making a picture out of dominoes.

I've just finished watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an adaption of the same title by Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thomas, the man who invented the genre and changed the face of what is journalism itself. With him there would be no Spider Jouraslem, and someone who is very much needed today in the mainstream news media I believe. He brought with him a sense of journalism intergrity that was uncompromising, if sometimes he did make up what he was writing, but it was great stuff nonetheless. The next step for me now, after watching this movie, after finding out he was such a huge drug fiend, seeing all the things he did in Las Vegas, trying to find that story, trying to figure out what the American dream is, my next step is to read his books and find out what he found out about our country, because I am sure, today, tomorrow, it'll still hold true, that this country is fucked because the people chase after a dream that'll never be, happiness, because happiness is being able to stop and relax and look at your laugh with a smile, and no one can do that, because we always want more, and to say otherwise would make you a fucking liar.

I've finally found a new anime that I like. Which is hard, since a lot of them sucks, but here is one with great art, the style and story is good and funny and the music kicks ass! I've only watched episode one thus far, but it's great.



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