Picked up X-Men at the library, well, guess it was yesterday at this point. Hadn't seen the thing until now, out of a complete lack of interest in doing so.
Delusionally, perhaps, I'd thought the film would at least be more entertaining than watching that unelected blithering idiot giving the State of the Union.
Instead, I learned a very valuable lesson. Namely, that although there was a time I was willing to calmly accept that some people have much more emotional investment in the symbolic value of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty than I have any possible reason to, that time is long past. Instead, having someone make a blatant attempt at emotional manipulation using those symbols just annoys the fuck out of me.
I should point out that I don't think that's the lesson they were trying to get across.
While I'm working up the enthusiasm necessary to get through the no-doubt-thrilling final battle sequence, could someone be a perfect dear and ask the creature that runs a small victory to remove whatever link is bringing people here and causing that monstrosity to appear in the referrers list? I'd do it myself, but the mention of "pro-Saddam activists" made me realize that I don't ever, ever want anything to do with the little shit.
Oh, and Amish Tech Support? I want the link gone. I also want the dipshit asshole motherfucker responsible for that thing gone. No, scratch that. I want him to suffer. I want him in agony. I want to be able to create a mix cd consisting entirely of selected highlights from hours of his recorded screams of torment. I want him being tortured to be a permanent fucking installation at the Art Institute. I want people to be able to take their grandchildren there someday to look at him and say, "Oh, I remember this from when I was a kid. There was still some flesh left on the body back then."
On the plus side, I rather enjoyed Patrick Stewart's and Sir Ian McKellen's performances. And since I also have zero interest in seeing either the fucking Trek movie or the fucking Hobbit movie, it ain't like I can see either of them in anything that's out now. . .
Great. On top of everything else, CassieNewton.com is over the GeoCities bandwidth limit.
I think some poetry would be just the thing to cheer me up now, too.
Update: How to Spot a Tourist.
Ten-to-one "Aaron the Uppity Negro" is really one of those skinny, pasty white boys with fake sandy dreads or an orange 'fro. He's just mad because none of the girlies will say he's pretty fly for a white guy.
That was Andrea Harris, writing at A Small Victory.
I think Jhames sums all this up rather nicely, but that quote from her really defines their side completely.
At this point, I can't even feel insulted by them, to be honest. I just wonder who -- or what -- they're talking about.
It obviously isn't me.
If you're even considering whining here about X-Men 1.5, I'd advise against it.
Consider this a pre-emptive "Shut the fuck up."
Thank you for your kind consideration. And shut the fuck up.
:)
You are an inspiration, & I Luve youu.
Rant on, baby. Rant on. I'm framing this one.
Wow do you have issues boy. And shit taste in movies.
Hmmm. That seemed rather...unnecessary and overly harsh.
I just checked and www.whiny-negro.com is still available. If you hurry, maybe you can move your site there.
wow
ain't you the cool one. nothing useful to say and a whole blog to say it in.
Did somebody run over your puppy? Damn dude, you need new prescriptions for politeness and respect for other's opinions pills.
Why don't you just shut down your website if visitors from other planets bother you that much? Or throw a login up so you can preach to your own little secret society and no one else.
Oh wait, I get it. This is the "Post some crap about a few popular websites and enjoy the ego boost as your traffic numbers and comment counts go up" game. You have to forgive me, I'm a little slow.
On the other hand (a brief and fragmentary image of the heroic helmsman leaping through the deluge to grab the wildly spinning wheel), there's what an old friend likes to say about Sir McKellen and Mr Stewart in X-Men:
"Mommy? Why are Gandalf and Captain Picard fighting?"
Make of it what you will.
Nice rant. Mostly filled with bile and anger, but I suppose that's what I should expect. I think you should be in charge of peaceful operations in Iraq.
I'll send the ticket.
My my my ... can't handle the trackback and whiny to boot. Stop insulting good people and get over yourself. Soon.
God, everybody - lighten up...that was top-drawer invective, a rare thing on the net these days. Try to rise to the occaision, ok?
Oh, Aaron. You are so fucking awesome. I'm sorry. I know I'm supposed to add to the discussion here, but I just am all misty with adoration right now.
Michelle's not going to like you dissing one of her favorites.
Didn't like X-Men in the theatre. Liked it much more each of the 5-10 times I've caught pieces of it on cable.
But I also really like Anna Paquin.
Heh, I de-linked, you want to be de-linked, we're still playing Martin and Malcolm. Two sides of the same negroid coin.
The persistent tug on the line and the feeding of small fry must mean that we have ourselves another successful trollbaiting. I'm glad you all could be here now we're going to seal off this room and wipe everything down with bleach.
Sorry. You're not a winner.
goneaway, I'm resisting the urge to use ammonia mixed with bleach. . .
See, Jason, I still would'a gone with the Xavier-Magneto comparison.
--k, you made me laugh out loud. You are officially my favoritest person in the world right now.
And apropos of nothing, readers may now order a print of that photo I'd posted a few weeks back (and which is included in Heather's guest gallery at JanesGuide), if so desired.
Datarat, I am going to address some comments directly to you, because what you said above proved you a mealymouthed fucker in my book, and I can't stand the idea that you get to spew your bullshit here and no one would address it.
1) Aaron has ALREADY had one ticket to Iraq paid for and punched by right-wing fucknuggets like yourself. As such, I feel he's got more right to comment than most.
2) Why do I get the feeling that YOU feel YOU are not in any danger of receiving such a ticket, hmmmmm? I'm taking a blind guess, I know, but your comment stinks of chickenhawk.
3) It's my students -- people whose well-being I value immensely -- who are receiving such tickets right now. They got on the ticket mailing list in order to go to school, not in order to throw their lives away in a pointless attemptt o impose American culture on others. now they may lose othe opportunity to learn PERMANENTLY. And when they start coming home in bodybags, their families will finally stop sitting mutely in the face of ranting chickenhawlks like you and will speak up about thier unease over this stupid and pointless conflict.
GWB is the Working American's president. He has a strong mind, and a stiff back. Maybe what you all need is a little hard work, maybe learn the value of a dollar.
Awww, the cobwebs weren't out of the head enough for me to continue the x-men related stuff.
Thank you for setting it right.
Now, excuse me while I choose to not click on links.
Gee, and Republicans can teach us the value of a dollar, Rick? Like maybe Enron did? Good thing we have so many people with a good head for money in this administration, boy howdy!! All those corporate bandits who manipulated energy markets are real savvy to the meaning of dollars!
Garrity, you're my hera.
Garrity, what Heather said.
Jason, no worries. But does it keep you awake at night? The feeling that someday the tourists will click your name and come for you... and your blog?
And I forgot to mention that Scarlet Letters now offers mini-ads. Site favorite Chris Bridges has one, as does VASpider.
Who will no doubt be along shortly to ask if anyone knows what happens to a datarat when it's struck by lightning.
oh come on I have to say it "the same thing that happens to everything else." Image me with an overly self-important voice and a long flowing white wig while saying it.
I ♥ Aaron no matter what, blonde wig and Visa®-label dresses and all.
Yeah, I know. “Shut the fuck up.”
Hey, there, Aaron. Nice blog. I read it all the time. Keeps me in touch with the other side of things. Tells me what I need to know about silly movies I don't bother to see. Great public service by a great American.
I'll make sure you get an extra-big tax cut, just to show no hard fellings, okay?
A shrubbery!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I heart Aaron too. And other such sentiments which are a little less flowery. Which is why I'm taking him away from all this very shortly.
I'm afraid he'll be much too busy to entertain the masses for a while. So sad, that.
One of those days, eh?
*fumbles for my old therapist's card*
She'll help you work out your issues with white women, Aaron. (This is like the third incident, now?) She's great!
Oh wait. My therapist is a white woman.
Never mind.
Oh Aaron you must hate me too since I'm a white woman right? You've just been pretending all this time.
Fucking A.
What problem do you have with pro-Saddam activists? I thought you were a lefty? Oh...its the term "pro-Saddam activists" that you don't like. Funny, I never took you for the kind of guy that has trouble calling a spade a spade...
Interesting.
Let's look at the logic of this, shall we, sweet Rosemary?
I am a pacifist. I abhor violence in all forms.
Saddam Hussein is violent. I am aware of this.
When the US makes war, this is also violent.
Why is it so hard for you to see that I can abhor making war NO MATTER WHO IS MAKING IT -- my own government or someone else's?
You may not agree with me, but I think throwing gasoline on this fire will cause more violence than it solves. This does not make me 'pro-Saddam.' Simplistic dualism of this sort curtails intelligent political discussion, and simultaneously makes you look like a complete blithering idiot.
Now THAT is calling a spade a spade.
a spade a spade...
no, forget about it.
There are an amazing number of people who should be informed that Aaron has a problem with white women.
How are we defining white today?
And, you know, who made this about race?
and, you know, is this really about anything...
Michelle, do you have X-Men 1.5?
Gah. Aaron, damn you, why, why, why did you invoke that line? Now I have to sit here and twitch for a little while. Worst. Movie Line. Ever.
Is it okay if I just don't even acknowledge any of the rest of the comments that just don't bear response? I'm thinking that's probably what I'm going to do.
VASpider, I'm thinking that not acknowledge thing is the best solution.
That, or mucking with the .htaccess to block referrers from certain sites, but anyone with half a brain could easily get around that.
Hang on, forgot who I was trying to block. It would probably work fine.
Well, garrity, yeah, it DOES make you pro-Saddam. Cut and dried. End of conversation. Doesnt matter how you dice it, slice it, justify it, or just plain attempt to rationalize it. SOMETIMES MAINTAINING PEACE REQUIRES FORCE. THIS AINT A FUCKING UTOPIA, you PACIFISTS LIVE IN A FUCKING FAIRY WORLD, IT AINT REALITY, and UNDERSTAND ONCE AND FOR FUCKING ALL that the PRICE OF PEACE IS NOT A FREE LUNCH. WHAT in the name of all that is good can you or do you not understand here? Mankind is not inherently good and peaceful. How many thousands of years of battle does it take before you understand that? Do you want to live by Saddam's and Bin Laden's rules? Is THAT what you consider living? Then you belong living with THEM. Your overblown and ignorant repetitive rant regarding "body bags" ad nauseum only reflects your cowardice and your inability to comprehend a much greater truth: that a freedom-loving country has no use for scum that cannot and/or will not understand one simple rule: Sometimes maintaining peace requires force. Simply put by GWB last night, and that, you ignoramus, is simplistic truth that you will probably never comprehend. And before you comment back with some useless liberal trash, I have an 18-year old son and I would be proud to know that he would defend the freedoms of his country, unlike leeching cowards like yourself.
No Jason I do not have X-Men 1.5. Is it worth the money?
And yes perhaps we should define white. Or not. How about we just define mutant and non-mutant. No?
more entertaining than watching that unelected blithering idiot giving the State of the Union.
here's the 30 second summary
Good, good. That's my plan.
So, are you going to be in Minneapolis the last week in May, you think, or am I going to have to trek out to Illinois to track you down when I'm out Midwest-way?
Nice job on the cut-and-paste-over, Drape..."A message to the people of Iraq..We can't help you..go home and die".
What's the matter, hurt to much to hear a speech where the REAL content is completely truthful that a cut and pasteover is needed for comic effect?
Vickie -
Before your beady little head explodes from the pressure caused by all that stick up your ass it would behoove you to note that your distinguished host actually went to war once. I'm guessing that the Gulf War didn't increase freedom or peace for either Aaron, Iraq, or either of the Shrubs. Do you wanna ask him about that or just fuck off quickly and quietly?
ps. I know others have mentioned this already but you can't expect the link sheep to read back over comments older than ten seconds.
Wow.
A speech not only from a politician that was nothing but the honest truth AND from Dubya no less. My stars!
I take it the tooth fairy is still visiting you as well? Going to give those shiny quarters to the piggy bank Shrub'll be giving to the HIV-infected in Africa or those of us low-income poor folks who'll soon find ourselves with healthcare coming out of our ears too, no doubt.
i STILL say, if we REALLY care about liberating our friends abroad from liberty-hating extremists, i vote we lock and load our AR-15s, strap on the night vision goggles, and paraglide into f'ing australia. there are some f'd up m'f'rs down there--particularly those "men's rights" loons running around demonstrating against women.
and while we're at it--won't somebody please strap on their AR-15s and liberate us from the seattle f'in police department? they've practically got a higher civilian body count than saddam "gasface" hussein himself.
let's get our facts straight, my darling war-trolls. people who are against the war are americans, they love liberty, and they hate tyrants. we would gladly fucking strap on machine guns and go fight the enemies of freedom, except for the fact that some of them seem to have taken over our own government while we were busy microwaving some popcorn. and there are good friends of yours way over on your side of the political fence who are in complete agreement with me. mark my words, sooner rather than later, you will too.
i know you would all love to have been characters in "band of brothers" but A, it's a little too late for that, and B, it was just a fucking television show, assholes. in reality, war--ALL wars--serve one purpose: to line the pockets of war profiteers. there's one easy way to starve a pinheaded, psycho bastard like saddam, and it is to DRY UP THE WEAPONS SUPPLY. but it's our No. 1 export, so that's unlikely to happen any time soon.
enjoy bukkake in your goddamned american flag diapers you motherless freaks--and don't get into a battle of insults with me because i am insane and feel absolutely no pain. so you're just going to have to shoot me.
hi aaron! hope you wore your wellies and brought your golf umbrella today...looks like we're up to our knees in it.
peace out...
According to the courts, Mutants are no longer considered human...at least in the toy world. Human characters are taxed at a different level than non-human characters when imported or exported. So being considered non-human gets mutants around the world cheaper.
Not sure how I feel about that in an abstract sense.
Or maybe we could consider Xander's speech to Dawn on the latest new episode of Buffy in which he explains that Dawn is amazing because she lacks powers and has to watch all her other friends be cool because they do.
Sounds kind of defeatist to me. Especially considering she's probably the most mutant of them all being a giant ball of energy wrapped in humanity.
But she sure doesn't act like no mutie. Not that I have anything against muties.
So long as they don't act so mutie around me, I'm fine.
Speaking of which, what's Senator Kelly's number? I want to support him. And do you know where I can buy one of those handy dandy personal sentinel robots that are all the rage these days?
To clarify: I didn't mean to make it sound like I made the mp3 myself.
The excellent job with the decoupage was done by Jay Smooth, a noted NY hiphop radio personality.
I did not find the effect comical, I found it chilling. Chilling particularly because it said something truthful about what a war would mean.
And if you must bifurcate the handle, it would be "drapeto", not drape.
i heard someone say sen. kelly was a mutie. but then, they've said the same thing about me. which is why i am logging this from an i-cafe. or a library. or something. wouldn't do too good to make it THAT easy for Them to find me...
drapeto, do you pronounce that like "torpedo"?
Wow It's a good thing that blacks are only 8% of the actual fighting forces of the US of A.
Ooh Ooh I should mind my tongue, hate and all..yadda yadda..you'll probably expect reprashuns and all.
BTW Michelle asked me to say hi numbnuts.
Shrubbery. Yeah, that was funny, once upon a time. Back in '94 when I whupped Ma Richards' patoot to become gubnor of Texas, she went around callin' me a shrub.
After all the votes were counted, I called her up and said, "That's Gubnor Shrub to you."
Suddenly she didn't think it was funny.
Michelle, you need better friends.
What do you mean he was referring to the other Michele?
Why is numbnuts an insult? if you literally had "numb nuts" wouldn't a possible cause of that be from heavy usage?
Don't see anything wrong with that.
Mr. Bush, please hit your buzzer before you shout out an answer. We're going to have to disqualify you and give your Rice-a-Roni to someone else.
Why is it that the cretinous inability to avoid pointless dualist oversimplification is ALWAYS coupled with the compulsive urge, once a cretinous dualist assumption has been pointed out, to simply pile on schoolyard taunts?
Aaron, these ones bore me. Have new ones showered and brought to my tent, won't you?
You're ever so kind. *dimples*