So I'm at the mall in some store full of plastic clothes and folks trying to stuff themselves into those clothes, but seemingly only those far too small for them — I don't have a problem with the overweight part, if that's what someone chooses* for themselves, more power to 'em… but if you want to look good (no matter what your weight is), you should try and find clothes that fit. Same goes for super little people in oversized clothes — it doesn't bring out their best. Big or small, the right clothes can help you achieve your aesthetic goals… but you have to realize that a mini-skirt isn't really a functional corset. Anyway, now that I've gotten everyone even angrier at me…
I had kind of a
“Friday the 13th: The Series” moment there. Don't buy that tiki in the discount bin unless you're equipped for dealing with ancient curses.
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Although I do think that “be happy the way you are” is a terrible, terrible mistake. If “be happy the way you are” was a valid way of looking at the world, why get tattooed or pierced, to say nothing of why bother exercising, learning, or improving oneself in general? The cool thing about being human is that we don't have to be happy the way we are because we have such incredible capacity for modifying ourselves on so many different levels. People should try and excel in everything they do.
Thanks to secret agent Dana for this lurdo spy shot… I called the shop to ask them why they were using my logo and they didn't get that “we found it on the internet and just really liked it” doesn't cut it when you're claiming that it was designed by some dude named Ramprashad. They've promised to take it down immediately. If they don't I guess it's time to make some money in court.
When I was eleven years old I read Mike Resnick's The Olympians in Isaac Asimovs Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #2. I may actually be remembering the wrong story, but it was a far future in which humans had contact with many alien races around the galaxy. Human athletes — the Olympians — traveled around the galaxy challenging each alien species to compete in its “native” game. Humans had great pride in, with gargantuan effort, consistently winning every event.
I realize it's an inevitable evolution as the US crumbles as a leading nation, but I really had hoped for them to clean up across the board, taking the majority of the gold medals. One of America's greatest gifts — and one they lose more and more every day — is the ability to inspire people around the world. It's not really an “us and them” sort of thing that I want to see — even if it's total hogwash, seeing good looking American athletes winning is like watching Superman… Like I said, even if it's all lies, somehow there's a little taste of “truth, justice, and the American way” winning over evil buried in there.
But in any case, the Olympics are a symbol of excellence just like America is a symbol of excellence (even if they're falling short right now). We all just need to figure out how to convert these symbols back from advertising slogans into reality. Of course, if we had half a brain we'd stop squawking this patriotic garbage and start worrying about the Shenzhou threat. And Shenzhou is a real threat.
Do you even know what it is?
Note: This is a link to an adult site. Don't click it if you're not cool with that.
I just got the following email:
Hi people,
I was looking for some idea's to design my own tattoo and found some nice material on your site to inspire me.
There was one disappointed however: one tattoo was very cleverly displaying the NAZI-symbol and I had to look a couple of times to be sure.
I don't know if the designer did it intentionally or by accident, but it is there all the same.
Do you have some kind of policy?
To me it seems best to avoid that kind of statements, don't you agree?
I included the picture in smal size and painted the symbol in green to make you notice it too!
I hope you make the right choice.
Yours truly,
Thimon
Here was my reply:
Honestly, I think that you're probably making an assumption on this a little too quickly — finding swastikas in Celtic designs is very easy when you're willing to look in negative space like that. I'd hate to start going on that sort of a witch hunt.
While I do not post really overt “white power” type tattoos, I'm also really loathed to politically censor the tattoo galleries. I'm just not sure if it's relevant for me to put politics *ahead* of the tattoos in this context especially when it's so vague.
Shannon
What do you think? Did I make the right call in keeping the tattoo posted? Should I really remove every square celtic knot on the site because someone might imagine that there's a swastika in the middle?
I'm going to assume that most of you know who Crazy White Sean is (if not, here are some pictures of him performing in Prague). Anyway, people have been asking me if he's dead a lot lately, so here's the story (based exclusively on postings via his webmaster).
Last Wednesday, most of Crazy White Shawn's corpse came flying “out of the sky” and landed on a street corner in Amsterdam. The coroner reported that Sean was already dead before hitting the ground, as he was missing the top-left quarter of his body, which was later discovered in the trunk of a BMW at a nearby construction site. Two men were held for questioning.
They admitted to having put part of Sean's body into the trunk of their car and claimed they were there at the construction site helping him set up for a new stunt, although they told police they were trying to talk him out of it at the time. They recounted that Crazy White Sean had been climbing the crane, and then slipped when the layer of pigeon shit (it's Amsterdam after all) cracked off the crane and he lost his footing and began to fall to the ground (he was not wearing safety gear).
As he fell, he struck a high tension cable, which wrapped around him and then literally tore him in half. The larger part of his body was thrown about five hundred feet, and the smaller part dropped to where his friends were standing. Not knowing what to do, they just picked up the piece and panicked. Police have since released them and are calling it “death by misadventure”.
Details of the death were posted on Crazy White Sean's website, and millions of dollars in donations started flooding in. All of the pieces of Sean's body have been frozen in liquid nitrogen, and top scientists in cloning, bionics, and reanimation are currently working hard to have him restored. Assuming the “two part freak” still possesses “that skill of rapid healing” he'll be at the August 30th CD release party at Winston Kindom, Amsterdam. So yeah, don't get yourself too sad.
The humor impaired can highlight the white text following: Obviously this is a media prank. The postings to the website are written by CWS himself to promote the CD release party.
