Bombastic 'Mo

Really Pittsburgh?

Guess there was nothing better to do.

Were the World Mine

I just got home after spending a glorious day busing around Seattle’s University Area, eating vegan pizzas and watching adorable gay films. Ok, one Pizza and one Film.

The film in question was Were the World Mine, a darling musical to the style of a Midsummer Night’s Dream. Although predictable (and what adaptation of Shakespeare isn’t?) and totally campy, the movie is heartwarming, well put together, and if my overuse of the word adorable will suffice… adorable.

Here’s the trailer for the movie.  Go see it soon, these indy films are never out long.

Google this!

I’ll admit, the post was somewhat inspired by my webhost, Senor Jonathan Edwards.

I was looking through my stats (that’s right audience, I know about you…) and one of the nifty things that is tracked is what Google searches have led people to your page.

Thanks to my amazing reporting on this teenage crazy of Sexting, my page is the first thing to show up if someone Google searches for “bombastic sex girl pictures”.  I’m not sure if this is really the type of site they are looking for.

On another side note, apparently someone can have “bombastic tits”.  That doesn’t really make sense to me.  Are they pretentious?  Or perhaps they are simply over-inflated.

The more you know.

Anyone down to Drink Liberally?

A new friend brought my attention to the group Drinking Liberally.  From their website:

“An informal, inclusive progressive social group. Raise your spirits
while you raise your glass, and share ideas while you share a pitcher.
Drinking Liberally gives like-minded, left-leaning individuals a place
to talk politics. You don’t need to be a policy expert and this isn’t a
book club - just come and learn from peers, trade jokes, vent
frustration and hang out in an environment where it’s not taboo to talk
politics.

Bars are democratic spaces - you talk to strangers, you share booths,
you feel the bond of common ground. Bring democratic discourse to your
local democratic space - build democracy one drink at a time.

While drinking liberally, always remember to drink responsibly, and make
liberal use of designated drivers. Drinking and driving is reckless and
irresponsible, like a neocon war or corporatist tax cut. Liberals, don’t
do it.”

They have groups throughout Washington, including my usual haunts, Seattle and Olympia.

Anyone down?

All those years… it was the Pepsi

The American Family Association has it’s knickers all up in a twist over Pepsi’s latest commercial which, as always, “promotes the gay lifestyle” (emphasis added).  The commercial, which is only airing in the United Kingdom (which throws into question why the American Family Association has any say whatsoever) features a guy out with his friends who suddenly gets the chutzpah to go gay after drinking a Pepsi Max (a low calorie, sugar-free alternative to real Pepsi).

You can judge for yourself whether it’s promoting the homosexual lifestyle.  I’m not sure which lifestyle the American Family Association is picketing, but the Gay Lifestyle I know sure as hell doesn’t drink non-alcoholic drinks at a bar.  Just saying.

Pepsi has a pretty decent track record with the GLBTQ community, and this isn’t the first time they’ve been boycotted by the AFA.  PepsiCo donated $500,000 to both the Human Rights Commission (HRC) and Parents and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG).

“On November 15, AFA received a condescending letter from Paul Boykas, director of public policy, in which he refused to address Pepsi’s support of the homosexual agenda,” read an AFA action alert.

Personally, this revelation all of a sudden makes sense out of my life.  As a child, I was HOOKED on Pepsi (although none of this sugar-free crap).  Before I finally kicked the habit, I was drinking 8 to 9 cans a day.  I finally did the math, and that was like 1,700 calories a day from sugar.  (I was also a chubby bunny.)  If only we had access to this cool, refreshing Pepsi Max back then.

Damn you homosexual agenda!

But on a lighter note, I’m inspired by PepsiCo’s fair and logical approach to marketing (although I’m not sure we’d ever see this ad in the United States).  Perhaps it’s time to start a campaign to replace any and all Coca Cola in bars with Pepsi.  Coke doesn’t really have much of a track record.

Higher Brow than Bloody Chickens

Warning: Probably Not Safe for Work.

‘Veggie Love’: PETA’s Banned Super Bowl Ad

“THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS A NAZI DICTATORSHIP USING NAZI PSEUDO-SCIENCE TO PERSECUTE INNOCENT PEOPLE!”

I stumbled across this link while reading a great story on a new smoking ban in California.  That momentous step forward aside, I wanted to draw your attention to this outstanding, upright citizen’s website.

http://www.smokershistory.com/

Titled “The Conspiracy against Tobacco”, the site is one long, rambling rant against Anti-Smokers.  Someone needs their nicotine fix.  Some of my personal favorites:

“For six decades we, the American people, have been victimized by deliberate, knowing scientific fraud, perpetrated by the American Cancer Society and its accomplices, and funded by their corrupt lackeys in Congress, whose goal is totalitarian dictatorship over every detail of our personal lives!”

And of course:

“Worthless Congresspussies Still Bend Over for the Anti-Smokers!

These brain-dead, spineless pieces of human junk should be holding hearings exposing the anti-smokers’ deliberate, systematic, and decades-long use of defective studies that ignore infection, to falsely blame smoking and lifestyle for diseases that are really caused by infection - not sniveling about slippery slopes like a bunch of stupid little children.”

If anything I ever create comes across this ugly and completely incomprehensible, please put a stop to me.

“The health fascists turned America into a giant Tuskegee Experiment!
Infectious diseases are the leading preventable causes of death in the United States and throughout the world, and always have been. By their obstruction of the truth, the anti-smoking conspirators have caused the needless deaths and suffering of uncounted millions. They have compounded their crimes by persecuting the innocent, and stealing their victims’ money to line their own over-privileged pockets, under the pretext of the Big Lie that smoking is an economic burden to society. Morally, the anti-smokers deserve to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, and hanged like the loathsome criminals that they are.
We must have REVENGE! REVENGE! REVENGE! for everything they’ve done to us! Never forgive and never forget their crimes!”

He’s as great as they say

http://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/

Not funny, just sad and poetic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpC3GPlO9_U

Like, I kind of wanted to laugh, but really, shit.  8 years = 2,922 days.  That’s a lot of damage.  (I counted leap year, but not that extra second added to 2008.)

Pam Anderson to India: Dogs need better Sex Ed

In case you missed this one, well-known civil rights activist Pamela Anderson wrote an open letter to the municipal commissioner of Mumbai.

Ms. Anderson felt motivated to express her disdain for Mumbai’s recent High Court ruling that stray dogs should be killed in order to protect the public from a public health nuisance.

In the open letter, Anderson explained to the government officials of India “Dogs cannot use condoms, but with the municipality’s help, they can be ‘fixed’ - painlessly, quickly and permanently”.

Honestly, I’ve been a vegetarian for nine years now.  I have to leave the room when my family carves the turkey during Thanksgiving.  But even I realize this is just stupid.

“Killing is not the best way but stray dogs are a menace,” said medical professor Samir Gulivani in a BBC interview. “The way they suddenly pounce on bike riders is dangerous. Something has to be done and they have to be off roads.  [Pam Anderson] is hot but why is she writing to the municipal commissioner?”

Fanatic or Fiction?

I ran into this while reading the gay-news-circuit.  I’d never heard of the website before, and it took me a while to figure out if they were legitimately fanatical or incredibly clever.

I’ll let you decide for yourself.

How to raise your kid to be a breeder.

Dr. Jonathan Edwards develops secular-filtration device for oxygen.

I’ll admit, while trying to find a third link (two just doesn’t seem like a good sample size), I got bored of the site.  It’s jokes are pretty repetitive (Christian’s hate gays, penises, and the environment), so maybe don’t even bother clicking the second link.  But the first one was all right.