A few weeks ago the website www.radioheadlp7.com showed up on the World Wide Web and spurred off debates and rumors about whether the site was indeed the official website for Radiohead's next big album. Music news websites picked up on the site and started reporting on its every detail and update. Then earlier this week a countdown started leading up to this morning. What internet users found when they logged onto a website was not in fact any big reveals about the album, but instead were met with the super-sweet baritone voice of the red-hot redhead himself, Mr. Rick Astley. Epic lulz.
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On my slow yet steady slide toward hating Gays and 'Abortionists' (aka. becoming 'conservative'), I've become a pretty big fan of 'Libertarians'. And a magazine i like a lot is Reason. This is a pretty nice piece about gun laws. I don't know that it makes a compelling case against gun laws, but it does reveal some of the fallacies in what current gun laws are trying to do - and what they may ever be able to do.
I'm not sure that gun laws can prevent a rebellion since i'm not sure i agree with the idea that you need guns to be 'armed' in this day and age. Seems like hacking is a much more potent weapon.
I stand behind the 2nd amendment (not very liberal of me, I know). However, I don't see the people being able to overthrow the government with the guns we have. We're way outgunned. Perhaps our current cache would be more useful in post-apocolyptical anarchy. Road Warrior style...
I stand behind the spirit of the 2nd amendment - to not take away the people's power to defend themselves from tyranny.
the actual way they describe it "a right to own guns" i think is one of many ways to execute that logic. and to your point, eric - it's probably the least effective today.
He's kinda scary there in the middle when he get's all generalist - i'm sure he's thinking of a specific group of people, but it's pretty counterproductive to generalize the republican party by way of the immoral idiots.
Whoever said moving in with someone is fun and easy was a giant pimple faced liar. This is like how no one ever says how much life sucks when you first leave college. Anyway.... Here are some drawings I've made to sell my decor/organization ideas to Kelly.
We just got back from a trip to France where we attended a wedding. Receptions over there last about 24 hours. There was music and dancing until 5:00 AM, then folks took a 3 hour nap and started in again in the morning... The video above was taken at the beginning of the evening before dinner and after the first drink was poured.
I've been to quite a few of American weddings and I can say that this French wedding had more of the following: Dancing, Games, Singing, and Food. The French wedding had less of the following: Beer, Speeches, and Farting.
As we all await the baby race from our married w/o children contributors... lets enjoy this romantic snippet of what their lives will be filled with between temper tantrums and dirty diapers.
Kanye West blames MTV for Britney Spears' less than stellar performance at the Video Music Awards. "Man, they were just trying to get ratings, and they knew she wasn't ready and they exploited her,"
Eric had said that an old friend of mine - cory - had requested that eric make him a drawing of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" - so i thought i'd give it a try.
quoting Bertrand Russell: "you strictly have to be agnostic about whether there is a teapot in orbit around mars, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of it's existence as on all-four with it's non existence."
On religious logic (what if scientific papers used it):"Professor Hadley was brought up to have total and unquestioning faith that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs"
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in, some of us just go one god further."
Umm, with the song that was chosen for the commercial, I would say it is not a song that makes me happy or makes me smile. That's an angry, bitter song.
i think it's the whole gorilla getting a-little-too into playing the drums to a slow song.
But also, chocolate is a comfort food for bad times, so maybe the song symbolizes hardship. the gorilla symbolizes chocolate. and the drumming symbolizes how chocolate makes sad times bearable.
it's a gorilla making the best of a sad situation. like "this song is sad, but i'm gonna make the best of it and just ROCK!"
and the tag line is 'glass and a half full'. so you can look at the song in a "glass half empty" way and say it's and angry bitter song. or you can think in a 'glass and a half full' way and say 'yeah, the drum parts ROCK!"
and chocolate is the catalyst to this thinking, vis a vis chocolate = gorilla.
I think this commercial is trying to say, "Phil Collins is a monkey. Shut up and drink your chocolate milk."
The drum beat is trickier than it looks. Mr. Gorilla keeps time with his left foot on the high hat (cymbal bouncing on his left) while doing a syncopated beat with his right foot on the bass drum. You have to be skilled with you legs.
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