Absurd Singularity

Was finally able to catch an episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher" since Comcast, in an attempt to suck even MORE money from my already broke ass decided to give me free HBO for a week. And it did not disappoint. The best quote of the day came at the very end and it's been something that I've always found incredulous when it came to Dubya and the "he's just a regular guy" bullshit that Repub supporters like to bring up constantly like that's something to be proud of.

"What is this longing for a regular guy in the highest office in the world? Presidents should be exceptional. John Kerry, for all his flaws, is an exceptional person. And President Bush? Well, he's a special person."

Emphasis on exceptional is mine. Cause that's what I truly believe the President should be. We're talking about the presidency here people, not some king of the frat house beer party. Although I wouldn't go so far as calling Kerry exceptional, compared to Dubya, he's at least a lot closer.

a down payment, college tuition, or retirement money. I just need a $60,000 speaker system. Boo yeah! ;-p

cohones. As much as I find their actions despicable, I'm also somewhat impressed by the sheer brazenness that Repubs and their supporters have. It's a love/hate kinda thing. ;-p

is good. God knows we all need it these days. Anyway, pretty funny stuff for those in the NY area.

only 19 days till the big day? Geez, when did that happen? Although I guess it can't come soon enough cause I'm sure everyone's already tired of all election nonsense. But I guess we can't complain all that much living in a non-swing state. I rarely see election ads. I'd hate to see what the Ohio-ans are going through.

Out of Touch, Out of Ideas, Out of Time. Catchy, they should've come up with it sooner.

SHOCKED I tell ya. =p

Definitely siding with the gays on this one.

He's so on target.

Watch it for yourself.

At first, the Yankees/Red Sox game was looking to be a good one as the game was tied at 6-6 in just the 3rd inning. I usually don't care all that much but I started feeling a certain smugness and primal glee after seeing that the Sox was basically getting clubbed like a baby seal (not that I enjoy watching baby seals being clubbed, just the Sox ;-), down 13-6 in the 6th. After returning home and tuning back in for the 8th, that smugness has given way to just plain embarrassment for Boston. 17-8 and then 19-8???? You sure this is a PLAYOFF GAME? Hell, the umps should just call it quits and let everyone go home to get some rest for tomorrow's game. Good lord. Andy's post's title directly below would apply to this entry quite well too.

I find it rather amusing that two of the most closely-followed women in entertainment today decided to release songs that alternate between bemoaning their fate and telling everyone to fuck off. First there's everyone's favorite, Britney Spears (or as she wouldn't mind being known as, Britney Federline), with her remake of Bobby Brown's "My Prerogative." At least this one is relatively listenable to as opposed to the debut of everyone else's chesty favorite, Lindsay Lohan, who's "Rumors" song is so bad, I wanted to dive head-first out of my car window, while I was driving it, into the Hudson River, so I could either cleanse my ears or plug it up with silt just to stop the pain. Apparently she just needs to free her mind and "just wanna dance and have a good time." Indeed.

I mean I understand the fact that they deserve to have a smidgen of privacy but for god's sake, you didn't have to RELEASE A SONG ABOUT IT! Fer cryin' out loud.

you're still not sure where you really stand politically, here's a little quiz that may help you. Quick & easy, 10 questions.

And a rather uh, bizarre effort to get everybody's favorite squinty-eyed cowboy out of office. Enjoy. ;-p

My Netflix queue is currently at 140 and growing. When the hell'm I gonna have time to finish all these movies??? The good news is that Netflix is getting WAY better at getting anime titles these days and I cycle through those much faster than with regular movies. Seems like every new release title is available nowadays. Kudos to them. Plus they just lowered their monthly price from $21 to $17 so that's always good too.

The last episode of Macross Zero is finally out fansubbed too. Super duper, can't wait to watch it tonight. Quite a good series.

The other series I'm currently watching through Netflix is Ai Yori Aoshi, another one of those harem comedy/romance things in the same vein as Love Hina and the venerable Tenchi Muyo. You know, where every female in the story either starts off in love or winds up in love with the main male lead. There's something primitively attractive about the premise even though intellectually, you know it's just so wrong. ;-p

I just missed out on getting a Canon EOS 20D digital SLR for 50% off from Amazon Marketplace. Goddangit I gotta stop dilly-dallying on stuff like this when I run across 'em.

It's utter crap like this that really gets my goat about hick Republican supporters. Talk about narrow-minded, intolerant and ignorant. I wish they DO move out of the US if Kerry wins. If that's the only way to get their asses out of the US to see what the rest of the world is really like, so be it.

Oh, and I found a way to circumvent Salon's ad page that you usually have to go through to get the One Day Pass access. Go to the article you want to read first, then type in the following URL in your browser's location box: http://www.salon.com/news/cookie.html

It'll set up the one day pass cookie in your browser and then automatically redirect you back to the article that you wanted to read.