new panthers record

Panthers: Things Are Strange
They're at their best when they bring the rock as directly as possible, but their Vice Records debut features several tracks in excess of seven minutes. Do the math.


damn.. i could have bought the new Bjork, Speakerboxx/Love Below, and even the new Converge each for 11 bucks- if anyone's got a hankering for some new music hit up Blackbyrd right away, as there's some muthafucka who's dishing off (Radiostation ripped) new cds, and the byrd's actually sellin' 'em cheap.

yo..... shaun of the dead sometime this weekend.... tony and eric i think u guys said u were down, but the invitation is open to all.... if no one wants to go ill go by myself, but in that case ill probably see first daughter instead.... holmes and blucas are you FUCKING KIDDING ME????!!!!!!!!! damn hes enough to make a girl forget all about boreanaz

well, the first tens seconds aren't entirely unimportant...the title screen, if i remember correctly shows a flock of birds haplessly circling in the air, uncertain who to follow. an obvious visual metaphor to our own confusion over whose news to accept.

Control Room was definately a significant step above War Room, but not half as entertaining as Startup.com

so... can I borrow it sometime next month? that would be so awesome. I'll make my whole family sit down and watch it. I'm tired of the whole choosing to remain ignorant so you don't have to think differently thing that my dad does so fucking well.

slightly angry, yes... but who totally ignores their daughter when thinking of people to go to baseball games with when it was the daughter who bought the tickets for them, and the daughter with whom tons of baseball was played?

yes, I'm bitter... but I'm no emasculating dyke, I promise you that.

*roar!!*

I've got it on tape, if you, or anyone else, would like a peek. As soon as my bro has seen it, it's free for use. The first 10 seconds or so are missing (and that's the part where they reveal the murderer, and the room in which the murder occurs), but the rest of it is there (commercials and all!)

ranty ranty ranty

I missed control room??? damnit! It would've been so good to see too... damn.

oh well, I sat by a fire and was somewhat "put in my place" by my dad instead.
I swear he's angry with me for taking a Women's Studies class. And he keeps getting into arguments with me about certain things... like the whole welfare rule where women don't qualify if they live with a man... where my reasons (though sound) are thoroughly un-supported/accepted by him. It's driving me crazy. What the hell do I have to do to help him see the other side... short of emasculation? or is that what he's worried about? that I'm some insane hairy-legged dyke living under his roof and trying to push his wife away from him. Right, 'cause that's what I am. I know he wishes I wore frilly pink dresses like I did when I was three - like I hated wearing when I was three - but who the fuck wears frilly pink anything at my age? and I'm not three, and it just isn't the same if you're not three, no one looks cute in a frilly pink dress beyond the aproximate age of 7, and even then you're pushing it. Fathers can't expect their daughters to remain innocent and girly for their whole lives if they're also going to succeed. (sure, you can be girly and succeed, but not innocent... and that's where the problem really lies). Fuck, it just pisses me off. And I know I can't "campaign" against the norms of my family... it totally wouldn't fly. But still, who the fuck takes their 8-month old granddaughter into the kitchen to watch the women clean up and tell her that that's what a "good girl" does, what about his grandson? I hate traditionalist families, I hate how caged they make me feel.

um, sorry, I guess that's a rant. but I needed to do it, so thanks.

Central Terminal: Specifications on "Fortressa mode"

Well it is me again same deal as last time. Well better get started.

"Fortressa mode" allows for Grand Arms to fire at extreme line of sight distances. This was needed in the war against the space monsters since there was no orbital weaponry to kill the aliens as they entered the Earth's atmosphere. The technology for most of the world's military was not advance enought to make a ground based cannon able to hit objects insuch extreme ranges. Like most typical animes Grand Arms was created not by the military-industrial complex but by a "mad scientist" and then entrusted to Al later. Therefore Grand Arms posses technology that was far in advance of current technology.

"Fortressa mode" basically turns Grand Arms into a fortress which can not move but is securly braced against the ground. It is therfore capable of firing its weapons at maxmium capacity with great accuracy. This means extreme range in firing (approximately 380,000 miles (distance from Earth to the Moon. Like most typical animes, numbers have a signifigant importance and creators of these shows will pick numbers which have some real world signifigance or some cultural meaning. Such as 4 being the number for death in asia would be a good number for a character associated with death.) and pin point accuracy. To counteract the fact that it couldn't move Grand Arms posses the most powerful barrier ever created by man in this mode. Grand Arms also sports several anti-air and anti-personel weapon batteries in this mode. This mode would be used to engage the monsters before they reached Earth and could be further used against air targets. This mode was excellent for sniping and the sensors had such good range this mode also served as a good (and very heavily armed) observation post.

Now for the Specs

Height: Roughly 8 meters
Weight: ???
Power Generators: Cold Fusion Reactor, Alpha Engine, Beta Generator and Gamma Device
Armor: Grand Armian variant Panzer
Max range of weapons (with accuracy within a + or - of .01 degrees (term for the accuracy of a gun.)): 380,000 miles
Max range of weapons (How far the weapons will shoot not caring about the actual accuracy): ???
Weapons: Mega Fixer Cannon x2 (Fixed over shoulders) Positron Cannon (Mounted in chest) 60 mm eye beams x2 (Function as anti-air weaponry)5 baralled extended range beam cannons x2 (Essentially the finger beam cannons in a long range configuration) Long range Thor class missle launcher xmany (Fires farther then the Giga Class) Extreme range Linear Guns x2 (The linear guns boosted to a extreme range.) Anti-air missle batteries xmany (For use against air targets) Anti-air laser batteries xmany (Just in case they can intercept missles) Anti-personel laser batteries xmany (used against small targets)
Secondary systems:Panzer cloak, long range sensors, Giga magnetic torroid barrier
Ultimate moves: Extreme Positron cannon (The most longest distance firing move that Grand Arms Panzer posseses. It is only second in power to the Omega beam move but has range that is immesurable.)

Well that is all for now.









Warning Grand Arms Panzer Specs, skip if desired

Toys 'ʁ' Us

Dammit... well that's what I get for flipping the keyboard.
I humbly concede, now I need to find a mirror to keep next to the computer just in case I need that backwards R.

I hate it when I want to find something that I had read online, but the search space can only be vaguely defined. In this case it was this poignant use of the subjunctive, If America were Iraq, What would it be Like? (I'll get to that later.) Unfortunately, and it happens often, I frequent many an often updated blog, and simply flipping through archives does not always help. It actually surprises me that, at this point, there is no simple tool (*hint, hint firefox extension) to search through the pages of one's browser history in the browser. (Yeah, yeah, there are external tools. But they're all Windows tools, and are useless to me.)

Anyway, to the article itself. I got my dad to watch Control Room tonight (although he is currently sleeping through the most important part) and we got into a discussion about objectivity. His point was that, right now, everyone is focussing on the negative in Iraq, and not on the good being done. Beyond the fact that the media never talks about the good (when was the last time you heard about palestinians not suicide bombing israelis (they can't all be vociferously climbing the 'fence' and eagerly blowing themselves up)?), I'm not sure that things in Iraq are as good as the President says they are. On the one hand, they claim that elections are on the way in January. On the other, the best case is tenuous stability, and the worst is civil war. Nevertheless, based on facts we do know, the Juan Cole comment is significant. I don't pretend to know how good or bad it is, but it's clearly not as good as the President says it is.



Oh, and Beck, Leo was right. You need a mirror to write Toys 'Я' Us. In the profound words of Zelos, "I'm too pretty! Seriously!"

Haven't done this in a while. A Something Awful Unlikely Movie Prequels: