Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Space the Final (National) FRONTier
Nerds seem to have big problems with the movie version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Get over it losers. It's not that big a deal, it doesn't mean the books cease to exist. It's just a movie adaptation. It does not spell the end of the world, but of course nerds know that. They're some of the smartest people in the world, fully 4/5ths of Nobel Prize Winners in Science are nerds. They wouldn't be nerds if they didn't critique, dissect, and pick apart things. That's why most people love nerds.
Racist sometimes love nerds unless they're Black or Jewish. That's why racists hate Steve Urkel and Rob Morrow when he was on Northern Exposure. They even hate Black Jewish Jocks like Rod Carew. Racists use nerds to prove stupid theories like why all Blacks should move to one island and Whites to another or why Jewish people eat white babies.
Ford Prefect is Black (my favourite part is the thumbs down emoticon next to the topic)
Racists seem to have big problems with the movie version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy. Get over it aryans. It's not that big a deal, it doesn't mean the White race comes to an end. It's just one black actor playing one character, a fucking alien character, race shouldn't be an issue. That may explain why aliens know the worth of a good towel and can create starships that cross massive fucking distances and humans are still stuck on earth, they don't spend countless hours arguing about what colour someone is. Oh wait! It's just a fucking movie and it doesn't matter. Most people have no patience for racist nerds. They're batshit.
Most Definitely
Nerds seem to have big problems with the movie version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Get over it losers. It's not that big a deal, it doesn't mean the books cease to exist. It's just a movie adaptation. It does not spell the end of the world, but of course nerds know that. They're some of the smartest people in the world, fully 4/5ths of Nobel Prize Winners in Science are nerds. They wouldn't be nerds if they didn't critique, dissect, and pick apart things. That's why most people love nerds.
Racist sometimes love nerds unless they're Black or Jewish. That's why racists hate Steve Urkel and Rob Morrow when he was on Northern Exposure. They even hate Black Jewish Jocks like Rod Carew. Racists use nerds to prove stupid theories like why all Blacks should move to one island and Whites to another or why Jewish people eat white babies.
Ford Prefect is Black (my favourite part is the thumbs down emoticon next to the topic)
Heaven forbid that any major motion picture have an all white cast. Those rare films are only allowed in the special cases of historical reenactments or war films, where having black or asian cast members would expose the multiracialist nonsense for what it is.
Racists seem to have big problems with the movie version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy. Get over it aryans. It's not that big a deal, it doesn't mean the White race comes to an end. It's just one black actor playing one character, a fucking alien character, race shouldn't be an issue. That may explain why aliens know the worth of a good towel and can create starships that cross massive fucking distances and humans are still stuck on earth, they don't spend countless hours arguing about what colour someone is. Oh wait! It's just a fucking movie and it doesn't matter. Most people have no patience for racist nerds. They're batshit.
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Gone and Forgotten is a site, run by Jon Morris, that essentially ridicules and dissects obscure, cheesy and terrible comics. It's a pretty hilarious site that pokes fun at the silly, the bizarre (Krypto the super dog and Beppo the super monkey), the offensive (Fast Willie Jackackson), to the completely fucked up (Hansi : the Girl who Loved the Swastika).
'Hansi' is a story about a former Nazi turned Born Again Christian. She starts off as a young girl in the Sudentenland, goes on to become part of the Hitler Youth and :
Gone and forgotten goes on with the story of Hansi,
In the same vein is Superdickery. The site takes the 'Superman is a dick' joke and runs with it, almost to an obsessive extreme. Regardless of how nerdy the site is, this is pretty funny, some of the other images in the gallery are just disturbing.
Jon Morris, of 'Gone and Forgotten', also creates the strip 'Jeremy Just Turned Nine'. The current strip is the last for a while, but it's a gooder.
'Hansi' is a story about a former Nazi turned Born Again Christian. She starts off as a young girl in the Sudentenland, goes on to become part of the Hitler Youth and :
Hansi ends up as some kind of Gestapo Candy Striper, taunting injured German soldiers. "I lost MY ideals when I lost my eyes on the Russian front." says one poor kid. "We are nothing," snaps back Hansi, cheerfully, "The Reich is everything!"
Gone and forgotten goes on with the story of Hansi,
Eventually Hansi ends up as a teacher in the Bavarian Alps, meets up with her old love Rudy, and they settle down and get married. Unfortunately, the marriage is rocky until they introduce the Bible into it. Kay, whatever floats their U-Boat. Then, inexplicably, Hansi and her family (kids invisibly appear along the way) decide to emigrate to America, but it turns out to not be as near as great a place as they'd heard.
Anyway, she sets up some kind of ex-Nazi self-pride Christian study group in various jails around the country. Wouldn't you?
In the same vein is Superdickery. The site takes the 'Superman is a dick' joke and runs with it, almost to an obsessive extreme. Regardless of how nerdy the site is, this is pretty funny, some of the other images in the gallery are just disturbing.
Jon Morris, of 'Gone and Forgotten', also creates the strip 'Jeremy Just Turned Nine'. The current strip is the last for a while, but it's a gooder.
A couple of years ago when I was still in Banff I ordered a bunch of zines that were reviewed in an issue of HeartAttack or PunkPlanet. I was feeling a isolated and uninspired. I thought reading about other people's projects would motivate me to do something. I heard back from very few of the zines I ordered, one of the few I did hear back from was Infiltration. Essentially a zine about being places you're not supposed to be. It reminded me of the times Kyle, Mike , and I snuck into to the local institute of higher learning to 'borrow' dry ice and old photographs. Except Infiltration was more concerned with documenting their visits and less concerned with 'borrowing' things.
I found the Infiltration link off this site called appropriately enough, Insane Bunkers. after looking for more information on the Danvers State Insane Asylum featured prominently in the movie 'Session 9'. The links on the site are almost as interesting as the content of the site.
I loved reading National Geographic as kid. I hated the papercuts it left on my fingers. The first time I ever heard of Chernobyl was in the pages of a National Geographic I read in the waiting room of my mom's hairdresser. I vaguely remember owning a Commodore 64 game in which the goal of the game was to prevent the meltdown of the plant. I could never beat the game. Go fucking figure.
John Darwell put together a pretty interesting book in 2001 called 'Legacy' which is 35 image collection exploring the 30-kilometre exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Power Plant. The book is beautiful if you ignore that fact that it's about a crumbling ghost town that's too full of radiation for anyone to inhabit because of the world's worst nuclear accident. With only 35 images, it is a tad too short.
I was pretty amazed to find a tour through Chernobyl on the internet. The site is amazing featuring two tours,Ghost Town and Land of Wolves, through Chernobyl. The English isn't the best, but it hardly detracts from the overall impression.
I found the Infiltration link off this site called appropriately enough, Insane Bunkers. after looking for more information on the Danvers State Insane Asylum featured prominently in the movie 'Session 9'. The links on the site are almost as interesting as the content of the site.
I loved reading National Geographic as kid. I hated the papercuts it left on my fingers. The first time I ever heard of Chernobyl was in the pages of a National Geographic I read in the waiting room of my mom's hairdresser. I vaguely remember owning a Commodore 64 game in which the goal of the game was to prevent the meltdown of the plant. I could never beat the game. Go fucking figure.
John Darwell put together a pretty interesting book in 2001 called 'Legacy' which is 35 image collection exploring the 30-kilometre exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Power Plant. The book is beautiful if you ignore that fact that it's about a crumbling ghost town that's too full of radiation for anyone to inhabit because of the world's worst nuclear accident. With only 35 images, it is a tad too short.
I was pretty amazed to find a tour through Chernobyl on the internet. The site is amazing featuring two tours,Ghost Town and Land of Wolves, through Chernobyl. The English isn't the best, but it hardly detracts from the overall impression.
