Through the hilariously funny Real Life Comics, I have foounf a link to the Oracle of Bacon, a fun way to find out how many degrees of separation there are between any actor and Kevin Bacon. There are also links ot other sites to do it with any actor. It's a very fun way to waste time, but even better...
Check it out... I'm only 3 degrees away from Kevin Bacon!
Slate's Seth Stevenson recently took a trip to Tokyo and is writing about it. The topic of the day is hentai.
I felt duty-bound to rent several anime porn DVDs. And so to my local video store in the Roppongi district of Tokyo. Getting a rental membership at this place was a challenge as no one spoke much English, so we had to communicate the membership agreement terms with hand gestures. Every time I rent a DVD, there is great effort made to tell me when it's due back, but little success in having me understand. It's a struggle. But now that I've decided to rent porn, the language barrier is my friend. Less embarrassing when the nice young woman at the counter rings up my rentals. Hey, maybe I just didn't quite gather that this was porn. My mistake! Won't I be surprised when I get home!
I wish I could tell you the titles of the DVDs I rented, but they were all in Japanese. Instead, I will tell you the titles of the porn films available through pay-per-view at one hotel I stayed in here: Raw Mouth Secretary, Burst Boobs 3, Panty Hose Mania, The Wives Who Torture Very Well, Tits Petting, and Be Smeared With Semen. Sadly, I did not watch any of these. As for the animated porn I did watch in hopes of gleaning some insight into the Japanese id? I have this to say: Go away, Japanese id! You are scary! I am scared of you!
It's now the smallest hour of Wednesday, and I'm watching one of those delightfully pointless French films with one guy and three girls he has to choose between. He is somewhat weak and somewhat selfish and more than somewhat indecisive, and consequently, without particularly meaning to be, somewhat cruel. I know a young man almost exactly like him, in appearance, in behaviour, and in the fact that the girls just queue up to be tormented by him. The actresses all have bigger bums than you expect of actresses, which makes them look like real people, which I like. All they've done is walk about, and talk. No expense has been incurred, all expense has been spared, which I also like, although everything looks great because the setting is the coast of Brittany, which I like a lot. Because it's not Hollywood, you can't tell what's going to happen next. I'm enjoying it, even though it has subtitles, which I hate. Oh bugger, it's just finished, and nothing was decided.
Is it me or does this sound a whole lot like the way a number of Anime serials work? Not only that, but his draw ("since it's not Hollywood I don't know how it ends") to French film is also my draw to Anime. I dislike Hollywood endings and I don't like the way there's not a real beginning, middle, and end (however one defines and end that doesn't include low ratings) on TV.
Inappropriate thoughts: No, Johnny, we don't love you anymore
The other day a friend's mom was telling me about their kids. She'd had some liquor in her system and was talking pretty freely about her kids and her marriage. She was saying though she loved her husband a lot, it was the kids that helped get them through the hard times that happen in any marriage. They didn't "stay together for the kids", per se. They're still married and their youngest has just graduated from college. But marriages are often tough and the kids were the nucleus of the family.
It's actually something I've heard before.
It got me thinking, though. The first thing that divorcing parents tell their kids when they break the news is that it's not their fault and that it doesn't mean they love their kids any less.
Well, if kids are enough to keep marriages together in cases like my friend's parents and so on, then logically doesn't that have to mean that one of the two things told to kids whose parents is going through a divorce is wrong? Logically, it means that either the parents don't love their kids enough to stay together for their benefit (that may not be the kids fault, mind you, the parents could be incapable of that kind of love) or that it's the kids' fault for not being the nucleus that holds the family together either by not causing enough emergencies to bring them together (iow they're too good) or being the object of disagreement (iow they're being too bad).
I thought the guy was supposed to have it easy when getting married. The woman plans all the big stuff with the wedding, the guy pays for what he needs to pay for, picks a couple friends to stand with him, and shows up at the correct day and time, right?
Wrong.
To keep this concise, I will keep this post to the "pick a couple friends part." I have a problem. I have too many friends that I have been really close to at some point in my life.
Right now, my list consists of 8 friends and 1 cousin. I have 2 groomsmen slots and 3 (*maybe* 4) usher slots to fill.
The 6 + 1 consist of: 2 friends I have known since junior high (roughly 14 years). 4 friends that I met while in college and became really close to. 1 cousin whom I was not in his wedding but have gotten decently close to in the five years since.
All of them I would consider extremely good friends, guys I can depend on. I would consider them amongst my best friends. Actually, there are 3 others I would add to this list, but for logistical reasons would not be able to be a part of the wedding party (if they can make the wedding at all).
On one side, I could say that I should go with the two I've known the longest, but that creates a problem because the two I have known the longest I was closest to back in junior high and high school. I am still very close with both, but the reason in part that the other 4 became close is because the first two weren't around that much during my college years. And then there's my cousin to consider, who I think would be hurt if he weren't part of it.
The reproductive biology of women supposedly supports his account: Menstruation, with a blood loss excessive compared with that of other mammals, makes women crave meat. Women have also lost the usual advertisement of fertility — heat — and are always open to sex. Men, who have high levels of testosterone, which increases their sex drive, are then lured into hunting and sharing meat by the promise of continuous sex from these menstruating, sexy women. The trade is meat for sex and everyone wins as genes are passed down by the iron-rich women who produce healthy, intelligent babies.
The female lust for meat, Dr. Shlain suggests, is responsible for the evolution of much of human behavior, including intimate relations between men and women, foresight and puzzle solving, complex social interactions, different psychological moods between men and women, and any number of human traits that we now see in the best and worst of us.
So what the theory indicate, then, is that in the begining there was man and there was woman. There was some manipulation involved and we've been suffering ever since. Pandora's Box, The Original Sin, and now Evolution.
Clearly women are to be blamed for all of the world's problems...
Via Pete I discovered this hilarious site that catalogues humorous quotes from IRC chats. Funny stuff and if you keep clicking on it, it'll show you more.
RoninChaos: She's like "I tried on this dress, and I looked like a bride". WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU CRY ABOUT THAT?! RoninChaos: I don't cry when I put on a tux. RokChik: lol, she cried b/c she wants TO BE a bride RoninChaos: she's supposed to be getting married RoninChaos: And she wants me to relate or some shit. I can't do that. RoninChaos: Like I said, when I put on a tux, I don't think "oh dear god, this is what I'll look like when I get married!" and then start fanning myself. RoninChaos: Oh fuck, now she's talking about how nice the sleeves are. "Aren't they nice? They're so great". THEY'RE FUCKING SLEEVES!RoninChaos: I mean, god damn! WTF does she want from me!? RoninChaos: Okay, I think that gun is around here somewhere..
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[terrance?]: have you read the LOTR books [stratusxh]: no, however, i have them, and i'm considering reading them before school [stratusxh]: dunno though [stratusxh]: that boost of geekness may well keep me from getting laid for a couple weeks after reading them [stratusxh]: i sure as hell know the Harry Potter books did that
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[Burna] lol you got free AOL knowin AOL sucks ass [Demi] Its [Demi] Free. [@Prowler] So is gum on the bottom of chairs.
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[Zang] How old is Sky? [Cyril] 25 i think [Cyril] he just gained a level [Cyril] er year
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[bludstone] so like, with anime now [bludstone] some otaku dude in japan encodes it, uploads it.. it spreads [bludstone] and its available before the airtime cuz of timezone changes ermshtn [SiamShade] haw [SiamShade] l33t [bludstone] dammit, i need to get laid. [SiamShade] where the fuck did that come from [SiamShade] you're talking about anime and how it spreads then "i need to get laid." [SiamShade] oh wait [SiamShade] that makes perfect sense
Note: This was originally put in the drafts folder a long time ago. Blogger screwed up and it was lost. However, thanks to wbloggar, it has been retrieved! So about six months after the fact, here it is.
Andrew Northrup clarifies his position of recreational drugs:
Just to be clear, the Poor Man's official editorial position on the use of recreational drugs: much like writing your own poetry, there is nothing wrong with it, as long as you have the common decency to be ashamed of it, and don't try to inflict it on other people. Failing this, you may be excused if you do not film your travels around the country on a pot-powered bus, playing "Weekend at Bernie's" with the putrid corpse of 1968. If all of this proves too much to ask, the editors are still willing to look the other way if you will kindly refrain from being Woody Harrelson.]
