Archive for March, 2010

Passage of Healthcare Bill Saves School House Rock Video

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

The recent passage of the Healthcare bill has saved the endangered School House Rock video about how a bill becomes a law from revision. The video, officially titled “I’m Just a Bill,” has been used to teach children about the legislative process since it first aired in 1975. Since then the video has come under increased scrutiny and criticism for being wildly inaccurate. School House Rock officials have proposed updating the video to include new characters such as Frank the Filibuster, Rocky Reconciliation, and Carl the Corporate Interest Lobbyist; however, with the recent passage, such ideas have been shelved. One School House Rock official has been quoted as saying, “The passage of Healthcare has been a big boost to us. Now we can justify feeding children this unrealistic crap for at least another decade.”

Critics of the video are unhappy with the plan and plan to protest by drinking caffeinated beverages and being quite civil outside School House Rock offices throughout the country. The group, “Teach the Process,” rumored to be funded by educational strategist and billionaire Some Dude You’ve Never Heard Of, plans to provide jackets and top hats as well as free coaching in British accents. Critics are concerned that, if we continue to teach children such a narrow and simplistic version of legislation, children will become jaded and cynical of the democratic process when they come to realize that good ideas never become law and that we’d be in less debt if we just forced corporations to pay the government directly for the legislation they want. School House Rock officials have responded to the criticism level at them by pointing out that teenage angst and cynicism is a vital part of the entertainment industry and goes hand in hand with such other crushing realizations as being a dateless loser who will complain about legislative process videos and that vampires’ tits don’t actually sparkle.

There is still no word on whether the Computer Rock series will be updated to include pretentious douchebags at Starbucks and people who make way too big of a deal about being able to run every piece of software. Rumors speculate that there is absolutely no intention to mention the Internet or the ability to use computers without punchcards.

Thoughts of the Month: March 2010

Sunday, March 21st, 2010
  • When I see babies I’m delighted at the fact that there will be a future generation to pass our national debt onto.
  • Sometimes, late at night, when I’m thinking about you, I’m really just going over my hit list.  But at least I’m thinking about you.
  • I know zombies are a pain, but I’d take them over fundamentalist Christians.  At least you can kill zombies with a headshot.
  • The fundamentalist Christian scale of evil is rather skewed. It goes something along the lines of Stalin, Hitler, Charles Darwin. I feel like Darwin is owed a free three million murders.
  • New Rule: if it’s snowing on the first day of spring, you can no longer consider yourself to be part of the South.  Liberal up and support the slightly left of center/communist agenda.
  • In light of Idaho signing a law to sue the federal government I’d really like to see the headline, “Massachusetts signs law telling Idaho to shut the fuck up.”
  • Never do I imagine I’ll ever have the chance to shout, “I’m tired of these mother fucking atheists on the mother fucking plane.”
  • For the amount of great comedy Hitler has provided throughout the years, I feel like he deserves at least one posthumous thank you card.
  • The difference between America and Europe: The American right fears that we’ve been taken over by communists when they get the great opportunity to purchase private health insurance.   The French right elects actual socialists.  Meanwhile, nobody is sure what the British are doing because they couldn’t just name their parties appropriately.  At least the Germans have the common sense to call their leftist party “The Left.”
  • It’s not surprisingly America hasn’t won a war since WWII, we changed our strategy from chilling for a few years while the Europeans duke it out to starting shit.  America just isn’t a starting pitcher.  We’ve got three pitches: bomb the shit out of them, bomb the shit out of them some more but from the sea, run them over with tanks.   The system isn’t hard.  The Europeans go at it for a bit, get into a tizzy of a stalemate then the Americans, after deciding which country can still pay for things, comes in and cleans up.
  • the tea party movement recently has been highjacked by window replacement specialists and glass manufacturers.

  • If I ever had a letters to the editor page, I’d call it “Who the fuck are you?”
  • If Mary had told the angel to fuck off would God have raped her?

Bits from the Sketchbook

Monday, March 15th, 2010

A bit of writing from my sketchbook for your enjoyment.

She rubbed herself against me as the band launched into an electric rendition of Woodie Guthrie’s This Land, with both the private property and relief office verses included. For the first time in the entire trip, with her unmoisturized hands finding their way around my neck, I felt as if I wasn’t being looked upon with either lust or loathing depending upon the color of ribbon they’d stuck to the back of their car. Her hair was tied up in back and she’d covered it with a red handkerchief. She wore a faded blue jumpsuit and pumped her fist into the air as the band launched into the chorus. She looked like a cross between Rosie the Riveter and a Soviet propaganda poster. I didn’t know her name, where she was from, or if she was a card carrying Marxist—a growing trend of the fresh out of college bunch, a sort of protest against the crap they’d graduated into. The only thing I did know is that she wasn’t a lesbian or that she was a lot more drunk than she appeared to be.

If they ever decide upon a name for our generation it shouldn’t be x, y, or z. It should be the Onanites—the legacy of the baby boomers. We were the first generation to come of age with instantaneous and unlimited access to porn. Sure, we didn’t invent masturbation, but we did elevate it to an art form. I’d also like to point out that we didn’t go blind. Quite the opposite, I like to think we finally woke up.

The song ended and she grabbed me by the hand, looked me in the face and beckoned me to follow. We ended up outside the converted warehouse with her sitting on the concrete lip of the loading dock and me up leaned against the rubber bumper, my arm perched on top. She held a lit cigarette in her hand, which she rested upon her kneed. I don’t recall that she ever took a drag, just let it sit there, smoldering

“So, what brings you here?” she asked.

The question struck me to be a bit odd. Granted I was a bit older than the crowd, but the songs were written before I was even born. The Bush years wouldn’t be more than a blip on her radar. “I like the music, I guess.”

She shifted her weight and scooted back against the dock door, leaning her head back and looking at the sky. “No, I meant what are you doing here? You’re from outstate, right?”

“Yeah,” I said.

“So then?”

“I don’t really know.”

“How’s that?”

“I just left. So, I suppose, in the scheme of things, I’m here because this is where I am.”

“How philosophical.”

“You think?”

“It’s pragmatic, if not wholly untrue. I’m sure James would be proud.”

“You studied philosophy then?”

“English lit, but theory’s close enough to count.”

Thoughts of the Month: Feb 2010

Monday, March 1st, 2010

People that need to be smacked

  • People who clap at the end of movies.  Unless you’re at the premiere, nobody in that movie theatre had anything to do with that movie.  Trust me, if by some odd chance the best boy grip is in the theatre with his mom, he’s not going to feel any more appreciated that you applauded the movie.  It’s not a live performance.  The only person doing any actual work at that moment is the projectionist and the underpaid teenagers waiting for you to move your fat ass out of the the theatre so they can clean it.  So don’t applaud.  Sitting on your ass through a movie isn’t an Olympic sport.

Religion is the imagined relationship to the imagined.

I’m a rebel, I make wishes at 12:12.

Sometimes, when I see older people, I like to think of them as
time-traveling future versions of myself come back to look in on me.
Sometimes, I’m also rather disappointed.

To chicken should be a verb.  Make it happen English speaking people.

I’m not sure which power I’d rather have as Jesus: water into wine or water into coffee drinks.  Sure, the wine is more expensive, but the coffee adds up after a while.  Plus, you can’t always have wine with you and you don’t need it everyday.  When you think about it, if you can pop a good latte into existence you’re going to be able to pay for the wine.   And how do you age a wine you just popped into existence?  You know Jesus wasn’t popping $6k bottles of  ’45 Bordeaux into existence.

Evgeni Plushenko, the Russian figure skater, could totally rock a Lincoln beard and top hat.  Also, if you’re going to say your opponent skates like a girl, well, you might not want to be referring to a sport that is essentially dance moves.  Seriously, when you’re not jumping you’re waving your arms around in choreographed moves.  Oh, and you’re a sexist jackass.

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