The... I Hate Clowns

I just found a website that I had not visited for roughly 10 years. I didn't think it was actually still online. That website is, of course, IHateClowns.com.

I have hated clowns ever since I saw the movie 'IT', just like a lot of people who were young and saw the mini-series starring Tim Curry, for the first time in the early 1990's. I hate them to hell. I'm particularly slightly frightened of the more creepy looking/acting ones.

That is why back in about 1999, when I stumbled across this website, I became a member and used the site's limited email service. This was back when the major free email service was still Hotmail, and you had something like 10MB for your inbox.

Don't know why i'm bringing all this up. Think it just made me feel all fuzzy like inside to see a website that i thought had died, still kicking it around on the internet.

I tried my old email address and login, to see if maybe I was still a registered user of their email service, but alas... I am not. I was thinking about creating a new email address there, until I realised that their service isn't quite free anymore. Shame.

The... Polanski

I've just read that Roman Polanski has been arrested after roughly 30 years living in France, escaping trial for allegedly drugging and raping a 13 year old girl. Amazing.

I would have thought that Polanski would be one of those guys that stayed on the run until they died, but he got caught. It'll be interesting to see what the outcome will actually be.

Will the US extradite him back to their soil, and will they go to trial for something that happened 30 years ago? Seriously, the person who he apparently did all this to says to leave it the fuck alone, and that she doesn't care.

It'll be a very interesting few months ahead for Mr Polanski I think.

The... Stupidity

Okay, a few days have past since the big Australian dust storm made everything look like a fucking scene from Doom or Superman 64, or something... but it has confirmed for me that most of the people in this fucking town I live in are idiots.

For example, the photo to the right is of my fathers car the day that the storm happened. The dust on it is what made it through a cover he puts on the car during winter to keep ice from forming on the windshields and shit.

When the dust storm had finally passed, he eventually cleaned the car before driving it. A logical thing to do.

This is however, my point. The logical thing does not occur to people in this fucking town. Later on in the day, driving around, we saw people driving their cars who hadn't even bothered to wipe the dust off of their front windshield. THEIR FRONT FUCKING WINDSHIELD!

They were struggling to see through it to drive. Others hadn't wiped it off any window bar the front one, so reversing parking cars became annoyingly stupid in the main street. Not to mention those people that made left or right turns who couldn't see through their fucking side windows because they were plastered with red dust.

Seriously people. Use your fucking brains.

The... Apocalypse

This morning, I awoke to an odd sight. The world outside my window was all red and there was an eerie calm, like being in the middle of the eye of a storm or something. I figured that the red was just fog and the sunlight from a sunrise was making it that colour...

...little did I know, that it was really the Apocalypse.

Imagine that!

That is a photo of just outside my front door. Creepy as all fuck.

The... Cure Article

Well, my first article for another website has been published. It is about a subject near and dear to my heart, a subject of which I have self-appointed myself as a deity. That subject is of course... alcohol.

I'll be writing a bit more for the site when I have the time to do so, and it will all be about alcohol... so if you are a fan of the subject, you will like what I have to say. Or at least, I hope so.

The... GIS Of The Day: Monkey Jesus

I was trying to think of something for today's GIS, and I just started throwing random words together. That is when I came up with the search term for today... which is 'monkey jesus'.

Why is it that? Why not?

MONKEY JESUS

monkey man: I wonder if he is going to let the ATHF swim in his pool...


George Michael - Jesus To A: Sweet monkey jesus! It's the dude from Wham and those toilets...


This is not about Jesus: What the hell is the deal with this drawing? Are the other monkeys scared of the Monkey Jesus or something? It reminds me of communist propaganda or something.


Monkey Jesus smooches Shelly: The chick in pink reminds of that girl from Lazy Town... and yes, I would probably fuck her.


"Jesus said: I have cast fire: I want to hear the rest of the monkey assassin's bible quote.

I think that will probably do for today. There are still a fair few strange ones that I missed.

The... Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov

People have a tendancy to change their names for one reason or another. For a while, I thought that the greatest name that anyone could ever changed theirs to was 'Optimus Prime.'

The person that chose that name was a NY Firefighter who claimed that Optimus Prime was like a father-figure to him... whatever.

But now, that man has been beaten.

Meet Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov...


Good work dude... i'm pretty sure you'll never get laid.

The... GIS Of The Day: Unhappy

I was unhappy with the GIS Of The Day earlier, because it sucked absolute ass in the end. Plus, I wanted to muck about with the improved editor that has apparently been added to blogger... which I don't remember seeing at all. How long it has been here... I don't know.

Anyway, let us move on. I want to use a better word, and what word is better than the word which describes how I felt about the earlier post:

UNHAPPY

Unhappy: What the fuck? It is apparently a little robotic head thing... of a dog person... thing?!


An unhappy 'puss in boots': No shit it's unhappy... and a bad pun.


Unhappy customers are a fact: If it is a fact, then maybe your business sucks ass?


A Very Unhappy Family: It is me, or is this kind of creepy?

Okay, I think this will do it. A lot more strange...

Wooh... thingy: 2aum37qhpe

The... GIS Of The Day: Random

Okay, so I am bored.

I thought i'd have a go at something I once did at a very old site of mine that was pretty fun to do. A Google Image Search, using a completely random word that I come across during the day or whatever... and then I will post the strangest pictures or links to interesting looking pages from the first 5-10 pages. Not sure how many pages I will do... most likely only 5.

Anyway, a few guidelines:

1. Each page in GIS contains 21 images. At least 5 pages should be roughly 105 images to find something stupid.
2. Pornography will have a NSFW image to click on to see the image proper.
3. It is what I find to be strange or interesting... not anyone else.

And we're on our way!

RANDOM

Random Fact Generator: I wonder what kind of random fact generator it is?


Random Natural Acts: This accompanying text gave me a bad mental image.


14 is a random number t-shirts: A bit of a random idea for a t-shirt.


Fein 6-inch random-orbit: I have no idea what any of that accompanying text means.

Sadly, that is the best I could do with the word 'random' from the first 5 pages. Beyond that, there was even more shit. Pretty bad if your ask me. It was nothing but a crapload of charts and statistical looking things.

What a way to start off. Four images of utter crapness.

Yay!

The... Mothersbaugh

I've had my kids the last few days, and they've been pretty good. Most of the time, they've been quite content to sit still and have been watching a lot of Nick Jr.

Which means, I get to either watch or hear a lot of Nick Jr.

I swear, the whole line-up of shows makes me think of DEVO. Constantly. The music is either made by Mark Mothersbaugh, or inspired by his work, or he is on the show that is currently on.

It was quite strange the first time I spotted him drawing on 'Yo Gabba Gabba!'

My kids were watching him intently as he started to draw some creature, the type of which I cannot recall... but he then drew a flute and the drawing started to play the flute and jump about the place (which reminded me of "Cactus Chef playing 'We Didn't Start the Fire' on a flute" from Late Night with Conan O'Brien). Obviously his mind is still warped from the old DEVO days and this has translated to the projects that he is involved in...

...which is good to see. That's exactly what kids need these days. Some good old 1970's/1980's insanity.

By the way, I found the Lego man from here. Quite awesome indeed.

The... Gripe: Sliders

So, I was walking up the road to get a copy of todays newspaper when for some reason I began to think of the 90's tv show, Sliders. You know the one, the fat kid from 'Stand By Me' is an uber-genius and discovers a method to travel between parallel worlds that he ends up calling 'Sliding'.

Anyway, I was thinking about the whole premise of the show, that they're trying to get home after the sliding thing goes wrong causing their device to open a portal at intervals of differing times. So one world they might have two days to wait, or another might be as little as two minutes.

The first episode of the second season ended with them landing on a world that could possibly be theirs after receiving it's coordinates from an alternate fat kid, and they had about a minute to discern whether they were on their world or not.

The newspaper in the letterbox doesn't give any clues, as on this world OJ Simpson was tried for a double murder, the Raiders are playing out of Oakland and the Cleveland Indians actually made the World Series.

Could that much have happened since they left? Well, gee, I don't know. Maybe they need something more tangible to figure out if they are on their world.

So, how did they try to figure out if they were on their world? Well, you see... the front gate of the fat kid's house was always squeaky on his world. And luckily, they arrived out the front of his house. Take a look:

For those that couldn't be fucked watching it, i'll explain. He tests it out... and alas, it isn't squeaky... which means... this can't be their world.

They decide to slide on.

After they've slid away, his mother walks out with the gardener who shows her that he has fixed the squeak with a bit of oil.

Wow.

They just moved on from their world because they couldn't really be fucked to check for anything else apart from a fucking gate.

This seriously was one of their major tests throughout the show as to whether they were on their own world or not.

"Is the gate squeaky?"

If the gate was squeaky, they would usually try to settle into "their" lives until they realise that something isn't right... like the President is a Nazi, or something along those lines.

One thing that I find a bit stupid, is the fact that they just keep sliding like it is their only way to get home.

Why doesn't the fat kid who is an uber-genius who invented the intra-dimensional sliding system in his fucking basement sit the fuck down on a really good world, and build a new fucking device? He surely must be able to build it again, seeing as he could have the resources of a rich blues singer at his disposal, and he has the fucking Professor along with him to give him a hand.

Not to mention... he might have a parallel version of himself who could offer a hand with building the fucking thing.

Really. Why the fuck slide?

The... Justice League

I had some spare money this week after my routine "buying food to survive the fortnight", and managed to snag a copy of the recently released 'Justice League: The New Frontier' from DC Comics.

I liked it mainly for the fact that it focused on two of my favourite comic characters: Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern of Sector 2814 and J'onn J'onzz aka The Martian Manhunter.

The direct-to-dvd release is essentially a quick retelling of the start of the Silver Age of Comics, and for fans of that era of comics, it does a pretty good job.

The Golden Age heroes had been forced to retire after the McCarthy hearings, with people fearing them for their use of masks, wondering what they were hiding. Batman is considered a vigilante and is wanted by the authorities, whilst Superman is a registered hero under the government. Barry Allen, the second Flash, is already active and is already gaining a few of his famous rogues gallery such as Captain Cold and Gorilla Grodd.

Hal Jordan has returned from Korea after the war has ended, and is enlisted in the ranks of Ferris Air. It takes a fair while for him to get the Green Lantern power ring, almost near the end of the movie, but the buildup is good.

They nailed the Manhunters origins quite well, with him being transported accidently to Earth by a scientist who ends up having a heart attack at seeing the Martian's true form. He then goes into seclusion watching television to learn of Earth customs and shit until he finally takes the form of a noir detective and becomes... well, a police detective. The only thing I was disappointed about was that he wasn't shown to be eating any Oreo cookies.

That's all i'm gonna say for now. Off to space!