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  1. GMan

    Ha-ha!

    By GMan,

    Awright, Patriots! They beat the stuffing out of the Chargers. Heheh... This will go a ways toward reparing their reputation... You know, Bill Belichick was revered and regarded as a genius just two weeks ago... Just goes to show how fast critics turn on somebody without considering the facts. The taping was bad, yes, but the tape was confiscated before half time. Yeah. I'm a diehard Pats fan. Way to go.
  2. GMan

    Oh Nuts.

    By GMan,

    LynZ, the bassist for Mindless Self Indulgence, has married Gerard Way, the frontman of My Chemical Romance. Yes, My Chemical Romance, hideously emo to no end. Considering MSI songs like 'Mark David Chapman', which mocks emo people, this should add a whole new level of awful to the signs of the apocalypse already visible. Seriously, if you're a Mindless Self Indulgence fan, you'll understand why this is so disturbing.
     
    Running for the nearest bomb shelter with a shotgun, ammo, a laptop and his CD collection in tow,
     
     
    GMan
  3. GMan

    Argh

    By GMan,

    I go back to school on Thursday. I don't want to. I'm so nervous about it, and it feels like it was just yesterday that it was May 29th and I was having a blast with my dad seeing Hot Fuzz and going to the mall while my sister had a bunch of her friends over, and I looked up the Bravo series 'Dexter' on Wikipedia when I got home... And it feels like it was just yesterday that it was June 15th, and I was at Canobie Lake Park with my friends, going on wild rides and just having a ton of fun... Or a few weeks ago, when I went to Canobie Lake Park again with my dad and sister, and then the next day my friend from down the street invited me to go with him to Six Flags park, and I obliged... Argh... I wish I could just be a kid again... I feel so old... I hate having a sharper perception of events than my peers...
  4. GMan

    Heyyyyy, Comic.

    By GMan,

    Well, let's just say I said I'd update 'Late Saturday' instead of 'tomorrow' in my last entry, 'kay? Because pretending makes all the bad things go away, even the stupid people on the internets. Today's comic is my fourth. Yeah, I know you're all tired of me posting them out of order, or at least that's what I think, but hey, it beats not updating at all.
     

  5. GMan
    ...This is actually my sixth one, I just felt like making this instead of posting what I made previously.
     
    ...You can tell this is just being silly, right? Coz I like my readers to have a sense of humor, especially when I post complexities like this. See, I'm making fun of both sides of the subject at once. And just having fun.
     
    EDIT: Republished for lack of comments.
  6. GMan

    Apophenia

    By GMan,

    Apophenia. They say it's a tendency to see connections where none exist. I say apophenia doesn't exist. Everything is connected in some horrible, horrible way. That slightly bent spoon- If you hadn't set it down three seconds before 5:33 PM last week, you wouldn't have bumped into the wall, and your right foot wouldn't have hit it, and you wouldn't have had that limp the next week, and you would have been out of that bank before it was robbed and you were shot in the knees.
     
    Or, it's all a conspircacy. The Illuminati are always out to get you somehow or scheming something. I should know, I was a founding member. Or was I? But that's the sort of thing you don't know due to our amazing plots. Run along now, and if you speak to nobody of this, there shall be a great sum of gold on your doorstep the next morning.
  7. GMan

    More Pixelly Goodness

    By GMan,

    This was actually the second one I did, before the noob one I posted earlier after midnight. You can tell because it's titled 'fun-with-scratch-02', if you check the image URL location. Yeah, I like this one best.
     
     
    EDIT: No comments, republished.
  8. GMan

    Ah-cthulhu!

    By GMan,

    Well, the slumbering beast squid that is my good friend Cthulhu the Dreaming has actually posted in his blog. And he's an awesome fellow, you should know that. His life is a very, very complex one, and the guy has to put up with all sorts of problems, every day. The man can be defined as a hero of the very twisted masses. Give his bloggy a gander:

  10. GMan

    My Grandfather

    By GMan,

    My grandfather, on my mother's side of the family, is coming to visit in a few weeks. He's got some memory trouble, and we're afraid it might be Alzheimer's, but so far things have been good and he's okay. Memory problems can be part of growing old, just because of that, growing old. I've really been worried about him, but two things have helped me: One, I gave him a phone call a few days ago and told him how much he means to me and how proud I am of him. I told him how I felt about him and all, and it really helped because I wanted to let him know, while I still had the chance. Two, as I mentioned earlier, he'll be visiting in a few weeks. I was worried similarly about my paternal grandfather a while ago, and after a nightmare about him dying, I called him and had a good talk with him and I told him how I loved him dearly. It kind of helped that I had been on Cape Cod with him and other relatives a week before. So I think seeing my maternal grandather will do me a lot of good, and while nothing lasts forever, at least I'll have a lot to remember him by. I'm just really, really, really, indescribably happy that I got to know all four of my grandparents. I know kids who only knew two of theirs, or one, or none, people who died before or shortly after their birth, or who they never saw before they died... It puts things in perspective when you think about that. And people, please comment on this. Please.
  11. GMan

    ... Wow.

    By GMan,

    Wow, do I have a lot to say. Let me summarize it: I did a ton of stuff, had fun. Then my grandfather from Ohio came to visit, and he left yesterday after being here since Thursday. And it was GREAT seeing him again. We had a ton of fun. Also, today in Salem I discovered the Vallahalla of geekdom: A HUGE comic book store with SO MANY THINGS... OH MAN, I EVEN FOUND ISSUES ONE AND TWO OF THE JHONEN VASQUEZ COMIC 'I FEEL SICK'. RIGHT NEXT TO ORIGINAL ISSUES OF JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC AND THE BAD ART COLLECTION. HOLY CLUMP OF MUPPETS. I mean, seriously, my mom and I went to Salem to shop coz we saw some cool little stores when we were visiting on Saturday (with my awesome grandfather, of course), and we found this place by accident. If any of you people live in New England and near Salem, go there and search for a place called 'Harrison's' or something like that, maybe 'Harrison's comics'. IT IS HEAVEN. Compilations, action figures, knicknacks, issues, graphic novels, issues from graphic novels, back issues of old comics, reprints of famous comics... I cannot believe it took me thirteen years to discover that this place existed.
     
    And in other news, I didn't really mind BZP being down considering my conflicting multiple opinions on it. That and it's just a forum. However, this means that the blog privelages for all the members has been extended. Oh, the horror.
  12. GMan

    Elation From Pixelation.

    By GMan,

    Just some imagemongering via a program called Scratch, which is very fun to mess with. I in fact made a Sparta related animation with it. Nothing serious, just a small 'script' with pictures, and speech bubbles. It's complicated.
  13. GMan

    Bk's Birthday

    By GMan,

    Happy birthday to Bahrag Kal, one of the most imaginative, twisted, deranged, creative spirits I know. It's his seventeenth birthday! I've known him for over 2 1/2 years now, he rocks. However insane and antisocial he is, I identify with him. ...Well, that is the reason I identify with him. Heh. I made him some art for a present. Again, happy birthday to BK. Wish him a happy birthday as well, because the little gnomes in your head are in league with him and he'll know if you didn't wish him a happy birthday.
  14. GMan

    Cigarette Conspiracy

    By GMan,

    Have you ever noticed how many cigarette butts you'll find in one given area? Or how many stores and locations are "No Smoking" places? Or how high cigarette sales have been and remain, and the same for the number of smokers? It's all connected. Every time a smoker goes into a no-smoking establishment, if they're smoking they have to put out the cigarette. Once they leave, they probably light another one up. Add that to laws about smoking in public places, your home, and wherever, and you realize how often this can happen to one smoker. And it means they probably have to buy cigarette cartons a lot more often. No-smoking laws might be a useful thing to help prevent fires, second hand smoke, and various other problems, but it's all just an extremely effective ad for cigarettes. Smoking bans in places like pubs didn't get passed sooner because the cigarette companies fully backed the opponents of the proposals, until they realized how much money they could make from it. Who needs more smokers when you can maintain a more or less stable number and make them buy more? And guess who manufactures the nicotine patches and whatnot?
  15. GMan

    Smeeeep...

    By GMan,

    I started going to a program called 'Summer of Service' at my local church on Monday. I went there last year. You go help out some charity or operation and then in the afternoon you play games. This year I'm only going on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays because of appointments and a Lego engineering course I'm taking.
     
     
    I'm wondering, should McDonalds add new characters to its pantheon of characters? I have a few ideas...
    Son of Hamburglar- Does horrible, horrible things in the name of burgers. BURGERLICIOUS!
    Boss McCheese- Mayor McCheese's corrupt older brother in charge of the city. How did you think he was elected?
     
    ...
     
    That's all for now folks.
  16. GMan
    OCTOSQUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID! Now isn't that cool, children? But watch out for the giant Hobosquids and Octotelemarketers... They's everywhere and they're out to eat our brains or some sort of vital organ. Or maybe just steal condiment packets from Taco Bell. Whatever.
     
    I'm gonna listen to Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" now, it makes me feel nostalgic.
  17. GMan

    Home From Cape Cod

    By GMan,

    Got back from the lovable region of Cape Cod around 12:50 today, and the trip was quick. Every since they got rid of that Sagamore Bridge Rotary the trip's been faster. No nasty traffic. This morning, we cleaned up the beach house and all with our relatives, and then we packed everything into the car. We had breakfast at this great diner called Larry's P.X. Restaurant, and we got our meals quickly. That place makes great pancakes.
     
    We were on the road, and my sister was whacking everybody frequently, due to her love of the whole Punch Buggy thing.
     
    The vacation itself was great, as chronicled in my previous entries. However, I'm inclined to ponder something: How, in the space of several weeks since I saw them on Father's Day, two of my cousins who live in Massachusetts (who are sisters of one another) changed from, in the case of the older one, pleasant to arrogant, rude, and irritating, and in the case of the younger one, from only moderately annoying, to whiny, loud, and mouthy. The older cousin was rude to everybody including her own parents (her mother is my father's sister) and behaves like since she's the third oldest youth (she would be second youngest, but my uncle from Colorado's daughter from a marriage before he met my aunt came on the vacation) she has to prove she's better at everything and that everybody else is just a moron. The younger one's got an indecipherable Boston accent and a speech problem, and she speaks extremely loudly. Not that that's a problem, but unfortunately, she's gotten pushy and whiny. Which goes awfully with the aforementioned factors. Now, I'm not making "baseless judgements", mind you, I've known both of them all their lives. I was with them for a whole week, too, so I do in fact have a rational basis for my statement.
  18. GMan

    I Just Realized...

    By GMan,

    It's now three hundred times easier to stalk somebody! Yes, I'm talking about the updates. Hellooooooooo, -----... Or perhaps -----? -----? Whatever, now I can obsessively track somebody and know that they're obsessively tracking me trying to find out why I'm obsessively tracking them to find out why they're obsessively tracking me! WOO! Now all that's missing are the Emo kids who are just a mustache away from looking like Hitler who "cut themselves" and write awful poetry about it in their blogs!

    Don't reference sites with forums. -Shine
  19. GMan

    These New Updates

    By GMan,

    Head spin they my make. Are awesome confusing, are but they. I'm having trouble posting stuff for some reason, but aside from that I think the updates rock.
     
    I went to see Die Hard 4 yesterday. WOO! Bruce Willis rocks.
  20. GMan

    Comic Book Ritual.

    By GMan,

    I believe I have found a new ritual to perform while at Cape Cod. When I was little, my dad bought me two Superman comic books from the Stop and Shop on Cape Cod, though I can't remember what issues they are now... I still have them, though. And last year I bought a ton of Civil War Marvel comics from a store in Brewster (located very near the Cape). And now, I've purchased several comics. I'll start with the best.
     
    Detective Comics issue #833: This is brilliant. A brilliant, brilliant plot with a surprise twist and great characterizations. It's written by Paul Dini, who worked on the DC Animated Universe, so I may be a tad biased, but it's still a work of art... Literally. Man, I'm buying the next issue. I really am, it'll be coming out while I'm here, plus I saw some pages in advance, and there's one of the greatest Joker lines of all time in it.
     
    Punisher: War Journal (I don't remember the issue number): Man. It's a good read. The art is something I like- Punisher's new costume and the costume of the Hate-monger are great. Frank Castle has the look I consider to be the trademark look of a dangerously insane person in the comic books- wide open eyes with slightly yellow corneas, dilated pupils, thick eyebrows, a reddish face, a mouth open in a sort of angry expression, a sort of determined look. Awesome. The plot was veeeery interesting and took a cliffhanger of turns.
     
    Superman/Batman (I forget the issue number): Confusing, but okay. Part of a story arc, so that was the main cause of confusion... But alright. The art was good.
     
    Captain America (I forget the number again): Agh. Even more confusing. Nur. Not much explanation, just lots of nothing. Art was good as well.
     
    Batman Confidential Issues 5 and 6: Oh... This is just... This is... It's AWFUL... They call this a comic book? The plot's awful! Lex Luthor mind controlling a robot body and attacking the US with giant robots! Batman flying in and hijacking the brain of a robot with stuff like the Geneva Convention, when that stuff probably doesn't even work considering what a place the DC Universe is! The artwork is shoddy and bland! Batman has dozens of lame Bat-Gadgets! He has a tiny little plane that takes down dozens of giant robots, for Yog-Sothoth's sake! AGH!
  21. GMan

    Cape Cod

    By GMan,

    Two and a half days since my last Interweb fix, folks. Now, I'm on Cape Cod. I vacation here every year, around the 4th of July, with my family. My cousins from South Carolina come, my cousins in another region of Massachusetts come, my grandfather comes (and my grandmother and my uncle visit once or twice), my aunt and uncle from Colorado come, and we coexist in one house for a week. Awesome. This year, my aunt and uncle brought along my uncle's daughter (from a previous marriage, my aunt is my father's sister), because she's sixteen and she's looking up colleges in the area. I'm writing this from a library in the town we're staying in...
     
    Ah, how times change. A year ago I wasn't as involved in the internet as I was now, sort of. I was playing in Beliwa's Bionicle Kingdoms RPG or whatever it was... I had yet to write my first blog entry... And more. Heh. It feels like last month instead of last year...
  22. GMan
    Sorry I haven't been around lately. Most of my time, I've been reading comics, reading graphic novels, reading comic books, reading up on comics, and most importantly, watching shows based on comics. After I watched Superman: The Animated Series Season 3 several weeks ago before I got out of school, I decided I wanted to get the other two seasons. The biggest reasons being several episodes. The first season two-part episode 'The Main Man' is a hilarious one featuring Lobo, a lot of cool aliens, and a cameo by Starro, and the second season has the episode 'The Hand of Fate' where Superman and Dr. Fate fight against an ancient Lovecraftian entity out to transform mankind into his demon servants. Also, in the first episode of STAS, Jor-El ran into a monster called a 'shoggot', that was a giant bacteria-protozoan thingy. So anyways, when school got out, I soon busied myself by reading lots of superhero stuff. Got graphic novels out of the library, reread ones I owned, and whatnot. I decided that I wanted to get some Justice League DVDs. So I went to Wal-Mart the first week school was out, but only succeeded in finding Justice League Unlimited Season 2, which I bought. Good season. Anyways, I went to Target later that week, but only found Batman Beyond: Season Three. Since I'd wanted it for a while, I bought and watched it. I then re-watched Seasons one and two, and at the Rockingham Mall up in New Hampshire, in the FYE store's DVD section, I found Superman Season 1 and Season 2. I was re-rewatching Batman Beyond's seasons by then, but three fourths through season 2 (which had 26 episodes) I watched Superman Season 1. Then I finished watching BB Season Two and watched BB Season Three again. Then I watched Season 2. Man, that was great.
     
    I also have the awesomest ever idea for Superheroes... It's really detailed and I've come up with dozens of characters and plotted it out in my head...
     
     
    I recently bought volumes three and five of [Mike Mignola's Likely Best-Known Work] from a Borders Express at the mall at the same time I got the Superman DVDs, and I was hooked on it. I ordered volumes 1, 2, and 4 from Amazon, and now that I've read them all I'm rereading them. I'll get stuff like the sixth volume, and the volumes BPRD later. Dang though, Mignola's creations are awesome. Very. Also, he did the Elseworlds story The Doom That Came To Gotham...
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    Canobie Lake Park

    By GMan,

    I went there Friday on a field trip. It was extremely awesome. It's a park, by a lake of course, and it has dozens of great rides. I traveled around the park and went on a few, obviously. My favorite was the Extreme Frisbee, a ride with a large disc with seats in it, that swings back and forth 180 degrees while the disk spins around as it goes up and down. Man. That was GREAT. Also, the Turkish Twist was fun. It's a ride where you stand against the wall and the ride begins speeding up, and you're pinned to the wall by centrifical force. The floor falls away while you're spinning around, and then it come back up when the ride ends.
     
     
    I was just at my cousins' house in Marshfield for Father's Day. It was fun seeing my relatives again.
  24. GMan
    This is a question about vegetarianism. Suppose everybody stops eating meat and we all eat veggies. Then what? What will we do with the cows? We don't need that much milk, and none of us would eat that meat. Plus, what about vegetarians who consider milking cruel? And what would we do with chickens and their eggs? And all the commercially bred fish and other such animals? It would cost billions just to make farms into partial animal care facilities, and really stupid. In the end, to avoid expensive upkeep, pollution, waste of resources, and bad treatment of animals, we would need to put down hundreds of millions of cows, chickens, and various livestock. This would defeat one of the goals of vegetarianism, to stop the killing of animals. It could also be seen as cruel, though extremely and paradoxically neccessary, to euthanize all the animals. Plus, the chemicals neccessary for euthanasia would cost billions in total, meaning there's the risk of some farmers resorting to crude and violent means of 'putting down' their livestock. Again, defeating one of the purposes.
     
    Also, although it's a noble cause, vegetarianism has no impact on the meat industry. Somebody else will buy that steak that a vegan or vegetarian ignored. The animals they do not eat will be eaten by somebody else anyways. Meat is a common source of protein and nutrition and whatnot, and people like its taste. People need money, raising cattle to become New York twin steaks is a way to get that money. Processing and marketing and distributing that meat are more ways to make money. Meat has an economic role that most people are fine with. I hold no objection to vegetarians or animal lovers (I love animals myself, particularly kitties), but they're more powerful in animal cruelty laws than putting a wrench into the works of meat producers. There is no actual vegetarian impact on the meat market. People like the taste of cow, pig, chicken, turkey, fish, lobster, crab, and other animals, and they buy lots of it. Not to mention, the (all too true in some cases) stereotype of the preachy-pushy vegetarian/vegan overshadows their efforts. I'm fine with vegetarians so long as vegan shock troopers don't crash through my living room window or they aren't pushing it on me. Really, it's all very ironic... What's even more ironic is I'm going to have steak for dinner tonight. Oh my, what savage disregard for the life of livestock bred to die.
  25. GMan

    Weirdest Dream Ever

    By GMan,

    Okay, so last night I dreamed I died and went to The Place That Isn't Heaven. I freaked out at first, but began adapting to the place. A lot of my classmates were newly dead, too. Dunno why. Some of them concocted a scheme that thought that Satan and the Underworld weren't real. I joined them in on the plot. One of them drove a car down a road, to a mall I think, for some reason. It was led by a pair of people who actually tended to work together as partners in the real world. It ended up failing. Soon after that, I ended up realizing that my parents must have been mourning for me terribly, and I suddenly felt guilty. Satan himself was a very strange character. The people around me kept coming up with things to get out. I had some sort of theory that this was a will-based delusion. I didn't try to prove it. Lots of general spooky stuff followed and I ended up waking up.
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