Johnson was driving past the statue recently with her young daughters and several of her daughters’ friends when the girls began to point, giggle and comment on the anatomically correct “David”.
“I didn’t even know it was art,” Johnson said. “To me, it’s just a naked man standing on the side of the road. Once the girls saw it, I found myself in a position where I had to explain what a penis is.”
Jesus christ! You mean you had to actually be a parent for once! Oh my god!
Interested in a thorough and sociologial look at the success of “All Your Base” (AYB)? Check it out. It’s a pretty interesting breakdown of memes, and how they penetrate society.
Naturally, questions arise. Notably: what the hell does this “All Your Base” nonsense mean? And why should I care about it? Come to that, why do I find myself repeating the oddest phrases, all-but-senseless strings of quasi-English along the lines of “Somebody set up us the bomb”?
The very definition of badass… The spring METAphrenie reel. (22Mb QT download)
I really hope the next Zelda on Nintendo’s Gamecube looks this good. (1.7Mb)
I’m going to see Boy Sets Fire tonight with Eddie and I woke up this morning with this need to find a decent Emo-streaming internet radio station. Now, having heard Scott describe Boy Sets Fire as ‘scream-o,’ I thought of the perfect name for a streaming emo station… ‘Stream-o.’ Jesus christ, am I sexy.
From *spark-online:
You couldn’t find two more different lives as far as their experiences go. Boy, girl. West coast, east coast. Public school, private Catholic school. Unisex, all-girl. Middle class, upper-middle class. Broken home, still married. Warm weather, cold weather. Wild shooting spree, calculated hit. 15 years old, 14 years old. But the result was the same: two completely abused, miserable, lonely, hopeless, ignored, shuffled, suicidal kids could take no more. Not another day. Williams not only profusely shared his plan to shoot up his school (while recanting it of course as a joke), saying he really didn’t want to go to school that day. Bush internalized her pain, so isolated that her plan included only herself.
I guarantee you this is the experience of Elizabeth Bush and Andy Williams and Dylan Klebold and all the others that came before and will make their mark in years to come.
The question is, will society ever start making an effort to stomp out the bullies and take THEM into examination? Will people start thinking before they have children, for whom they don’t have the mental or emotional capacity to care for, guide, and nurture? As long as the hard long arm of the law slams down on these minor-aged offenders, as long as the punks who tormented the victims appear on a thousand video clips declaring the evil of their victim’s acts, as long as the blame is placed on gun laws and only by whiff, the parents, these killings will continue.
What could have easily become my situation in High School, described very well. Some insight on why ‘kids these days’ seem more violent than ever.
One the funniest things on the web, ever. via K10k.
Slot cars. ExciteBike-like customizable tracks. Watch out for the mad oversteer on those babies… they’ll fly right off the track.
Should software companies and computer companies really be making television devices?
“Those in the PC world have been conditioned to expect that things don’t work out, but consumer electronics is a whole different world,” Snowden said. “People expect things to work on a TV.”
Apparently TiVo and UltimateTV systems are having problems (constant rebooting among other things), and consumer electronics buyers aren’t happy with them. And they shouldn’t be… for the longest time, the only thing you had to do in order to get a TV to work was plug the damn thing in, plug the coaxial cable into it, and viola… a working TV. But these computer-based TV systems developers (TiVo runs on Linux, and UltimateTV probably runs some sort of NT kernel, I’m expecting, seeing as how it’s MS-owned).. don’t understand that there is a zero tolerance in the entertainment/consumer electronics market for glitches. Something MUST be perfect before it leaves R&D and goes into production, because customers simply won’t tolerate the ‘update’ schema that computer users have been used to for so long. I’m not saying that updates are bad for computers, they are asked to do a million different things every day. But a television or TV system has a very limited and specialized routine to follow. A ‘glitch’ isn’t an accepted event in that world.
I hears that them there people’s at that New York Times news-a-ma-paper ain’t payin’ no ‘tention to them’s grammar…
No, I ain’t no smart man, but why in the heck wouldn’t they just-a get a rid ah that there bad story title? And what about them a-ma-postrophe’s there? Is they sposta be there, too?
