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Learn Your Goddamn Math!

November 29, 2011 in America The Fucked, Rants

It went something like this: two of my acquaintances are talking on one of their Facebook walls about the daunting task of preparing holiday cards.

Madame Bovary: "After preparing sixty holiday cards, I feel exhausted." (She actually wrote "Christmas cards," but in that this is a multi-denominational/atheistic blog, I decided to sanitize her words for you heathens.)

Barbarella: "Ahh, I actually had to prepare ninety holiday cards, so I'm equally if not more exhausted."

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Why You Should See “Tyrannosaur”, Why It Should Win Oscars

November 27, 2011 in Cinema

There is a strain of British cinema that's the polar opposite of the usual Oscar-bait costume drama you normally see trailed everywhere. Some call it "miserablist", and it usually involves a portrayal of often alcohol-fuelled violence, the "working class", multiple cups of tea, then some more violence. Then some more tea. Calling it "miserablist" is painting a whole host of independent cinema in broad strokes, much in the same way I just did with the eponymous "costume drama", but everyone needs a sound-bite length description of everything these days, much in the same way we need a "like" button to show agreement or pleasure. The phrase "miserablist cinema" doesn't carry much weight with me – it's too short-hand, too glib and does a disservice to the actual content. I prefer "realist". And it doesn't get more real than Tyrannosaur.

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The Shifting Symbolism Of Thanksgiving In Modern American Culture (NSFW)

November 23, 2011 in NSFW

Yes, in this post I shall discuss what Thanksgiving means to those who celebrate it in modern America. No, not really. It's really just Thanksgiving-themed pornography, if I'm being honest. Yep – every dirty and lewd Thanksgiving-related filth I could find out there on the internet is embedded below. I only called it "The Shifting Symbolism Of Thanksgiving in Modern American Culture" because someone might be walking behind you as you surf the web on your lapbook or netpad out of sheer boredom on Thanksgiving, and well they won't suspect a dryly-titled big-fonted post here, will they? Oh no they won't! HAHA!

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The Mute

November 21, 2011 in The Wonder Of Words, Wordsmoker

I can't get them out. Lord knows I've tried. They're always there, paragraphs and pages swelling against my skull until I can't fit another thing inside; volumes spurt down my spinal cord and scorch my nerve endings alive. They nest in the pit of my stomach, heavy-laden and full of purpose but without direction. Emotion rattles my ribcage, thump-thumping my heart out of rhythm in a chest that's always just a bit too tight. Letters crawl up my esophagus, choking like a too-thick piece of steak until I drool vowels down my chin. Verses forge their way down my arms, always stopping short of my fingertips, sizzling like electric fence wire buried under my nail beds. 

The Complaint

November 21, 2011 in Crime and Punishment

On Cinco de Mayo of this year, I was working at an off-duty detail for extra money at a local department store. I was in the car—probably typing or editing something for this blog—but I honestly don't remember what I was doing. At about nine o'clock the dispatcher came over the radio with a car crash that was just south of my location—about half a mile away. Normally a crash wouldn't take me off of my detail, but the notes said that it was a three-car collision where multiple children had been ejected from the vehicle and were lying dead in the street. 

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The Last Moments Of A Candle

November 19, 2011 in RIP

Micro-Fiction Roundup XLVII: Feel the Burn

November 19, 2011 in Micro-Fiction Roundup

Hi everybody! I know you probably thought I forgot about you, but I've just been coming off a two or three or four week Halloween candy bender. Oh what, like you don't start dipping into your trick-or-treat stash a week early? Pfft whatever, live in denial, haters. While I was busy scarfing down Tootsie Rolls (Best. Candy. Ever.) and avoiding candy corn like the plague (They suck. Get over it.), you were all busy writing about getting busy — with yourselves. Here's a quick recap off all the entries:

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5-Second Movie Review: Immortals

November 18, 2011 in 5 Second Movie Review

 

Another movie that makes everyone worry about their abs. Fan-fucking-tastic!

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More American Horror: Piggy, Piggy

November 16, 2011 in television

1994. The cops come knocking on the door. Ack. I think I’m getting old ‘cause dogs getting blown up in microwaves and kids getting shot in libraries aren’t at all entertaining to me. Just makes me feel sad and sick to my stomach. But hot naked older men crying and masturbating over sexy housekeepers? I’m totally okay with that. More, I say! As much hot naked men masturbating as you can! Anyway, the high school kids are frightened and die at the hands of another kid. That actually is an American Horror Story. A realistic version of the Whistle Death song. O, dear, that one cheerleader needs to drink more water or maybe her lemonade Gatorade spilled? Red gun lasers swimming over Tate’s black-shirted chest. He shoots himself in the head with his finger. Ur doin it rong!

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