I’ve been complaining to my-self about how I can’t talk about anything anymore, now that I know people that I see read my blog. It came down to having to maintain multiple personas.
One thing I can say is that I am currently in the prosses of downloading Fool by Christopher Moore. I’ve had a hard time getting into the book, so I’m going to see (or hear, rather) if I can get drawn in.
Turns out Moore is writing another vampire book. I suppose that it’s about Tommy and Jody. It’s called Bite Me. That’s pretty exciting. I fear that after a second instalment things start changing. But the relationship between Tommy and Jody can still be put into may challenging, funny circumstances.
Hmm. Unsatisfingly short. I wrote a whole bunch of crap that’s not worth posting, so this is the last few words I have in me for tonight. Here it is 2:30 in the morning. I really shouldn’t be writing this late. I’ll regret it when I re-read it in the morning.
This is probably a joke that none of you will get. The movie is “The First Men in the Moon.” The game is “Team Fortress 2.” The joke is about to me ruined. The Pyro looks like the Selenites.
There’s something nice about May. May-be because it’s an easy word to spell, and kinda fun to say.
As much as I hate summer, I suppose there is a redeeming quality to May. It lies on the threshold between the warmer part of winter and the colder part of summer. (Between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.) It’s the “just right” month of the warmer whether.
Jonathan Colton offers another good reason to like May:
But dame, did the season bite me in the ass. I’m my college newspaper’s video editor which means that I’m the one who has to shoot all the video. And Cinco de Mayo was yesterday. So I go, and I shoot. And I got burnt really bad. My face it a light pink, my arms are red, and the back of my neck, as my dad just described it, is purple. I didn’t even think about sunscreen, and I don’t have a hat. All well, I put my blood, sweat, and malignant melanoma into my work. You bastards better just enjoy it.
It’s going to get a lot harder talking about school, now that I know my Journalism teacher is reading. I can’t really complain, though. She expands my viewership from four to five.
I think knowing that I’ve acquired a few more viewers that exist on the farther end of the chronological spectrum means I can just perplex them even more. For one example:
Victorville citizens gathered in the hundreds at street corners and City Hall to protest tax increases and government spending on income tax day.
“My daughter’s in college now. Without these taxes she wouldn’t have to take any loans out. We pay for things like welfare abuse and illegal immigration,” said Diane Reeder, as she stood on the corner of Bear Valley Rd. and Cottonwood Ave.
“I don’t believe that anyone is listening to us,” said Karen Smith.
Apple Valley protest organizer Frank White holds his flag upside-down in protest.
“I don’t think it’s a Democrat or Republican issue,” said Frank White. White, the Apple Valley protest organizer, was sending a surprising message when he was marching up and down Bear Valley Rd. with his American flag hung upside down. “The upside down flag represents a company in distress. I’m your average American family and I’m in distress.” White is married and has five children.
White once owned a swimming pool company that later took a dive. “When I had my company, payroll tax and workers’ comp was insane.”
At Victorville City Hall, a trailer-mounted sign condems socialism, federal taxes, and Assemblynab Anthony Adams.
Meanwhile, at Victorville City Hall, radio show host Barb Stanton held her own tea party protest. Victorville citizens were able to have their voices heard as nearly 200 people gathered holding signs that said “Taxed enough already” and “No taxation without representation” and “Don’t tread on me.” “We’re not taking it any more,” said Carl Kerns on the issue of government spending.
Protesters used the opportunity to let off steam over the rising national debt and the state’s deficit. They also expressed a lack of trust of their representatives, and even distributed recall petitions against Assemblyman Anthony Adams.
Since being made video editor for my college newspaper, I’ve noticed that I haven’t yet produced anything, making my skills as a video editor a little unsubstantial. To reconcile this I shall show you a few of my previous works.
These are a few short videos that I produced as a vlog. They are fairly simple, but I did have to produce separate slides for the transitions.
This was a tribute to some of my favorite people. Notice how sleek the slides and transitions are.
Next is a short commentary about a segment Glenn Beck did on his TV show, where he accused atheists of being violent. Here you get to hear some of my writing and voice over skills. Timing was a little off, though.
Next is something completely different.
Anime music videos are editing projects that people do when they watch the same cartoon show too much. They’re very tricky because you have to know the one small clip that you want among 26 30 minute episodes. This was the first one I ever made, and it was also the biggest project I ever started. It took me about four months. It’s a little embarrassing, but I was 14 when I made it.
More of the same, but on a more serious note was the second AMV I started. I haven’t finished it yet, but that’s because my artistic creativity ran out. I was a lot more ambitious with this one, and the minute that I did finish was very complicated.
Just to give you a sense of how much finesse is involved in editing like this, here what the timeline looks like:
I think my abilities speak for themselves, considering I was using the free, underpowered video editor that comes with Windows.
I was sitting down the other day, watching TV, thinking. When suddenly I heard this strange muffled sounding voice. I stood up and discovered that it was coming from my ass! This is what he was saying:
I’m sure no one minds making accommodations for the disabled. After all, our infrastructure is designed around one type of person, one about five-and-a-half-feet tall, two hands, and two legs. Alter any of these and everything that we’ve made would have to be changed. So it’s a worthwhile task to change a few things to accommodate a few people.
It’s a shame that we couldn’t have just kept this in mind. Instead we had to engage in a always asinine attempt at [deep echoing voice]social-engineering.
Now, instead of just being compassionate, we get to be compassionate or face a fine up to $3,500.
I suppose my only problem is: People are obligated to consider the disabled. Does that make the disabled feel entitled?
It frightens me because it runs the risk of loosing our sensibility. I would never park in a disabled space. But if I were in a hurry and was just going to run in and out, 5 minutes tops, I might park in a disabled space, but not if there was only one left. Perhaps I’m a person of insufficient morals, but I would consider that reasonable. I would also that a disabled person—or any other person—to consider that reasonable. If I were disabled (which in the future I might be) I would consider that reasonable.
Apparently I’m wrong though. There are people out there who will walk around with a camera and troll parking lots looking for violators. Regardless of reason or intention they feel these people are all guilty. They have sacrificed their reasoning abilities to get back at people. The Americans with Disabilities Act has given attention whores a weapon to ruin everyone else’s day. Again, this is why social engineering is asinine.
Anyway, take it or leave it, but the ass has spoken.
Due to monetary constraints we had to cut off our satellite service. But that’s OK, it sucked. Except now I’m going to have to conform my bitching and moaning about Fox News to the YouTube videos that other people upload.
I started making little videos critiquing Fox News segments; mostly when they talked about atheism.
I had a hard time reconciling my time with the effort it was going to. I though I was obsessing over one persons opinion too much. So I just did it for fun. At least, that’s what I told my-self. I also made videos because I was concerned that Fox might have some influence over their viewers. I didn’t know that, but I knew that if they were then they’d be dangerous. It wasn’t until the Tea Party protests that concern was vindicated.
Tons of people showed up to these Fox News Tea Parties. And they were all credulous. Even at the small protest that I covered I heard something that has stuck in my brain verbatim ever since (even though I’m referring to my notes in the name of accuracy) the quote was, “Glenn Beck ought to run for president.”
During that whole day I was dealing with the misinformed. I was ridged and maintained integrity when I heard “Obama cut our defense budget by 25%.” But when I heard someone in the crowd say, “Glenn Beck ought to run for president.” I couldn’t help but scoff.
I thought, they’re really getting away with it. They’re really convincing these people that Fox News looks out for them. What sheep. Investing their emotions in actors, charged with the task of drawing in viewers for the sake of selling commercials. While repeating the phrase to the point of hilarity “Fair and balanced.”
I knew that this video was going to dissapear eventally. So, I desided to transcribe the lyrics so you could still enjoy it one it’s gone. (Eventhoug I could probably just embed the video off of Comedy Centerals side, but what the hell, I did it any way, OK?) Anyway, it’s still amoungh the best things I’ve seen produced in a long time. Enjoy…again.
