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I don't know how many of you out there read Xkcd. If you don't then it's one you need to start reading. The art isn't amazing. In fact, it's just stick figures which is why I always laugh when people tell me they can only draw stick figures so why bother trying to do art. Here's a web comic that is over the top popular and all they do is stick figures. That asidem sense this site is a social media site I figured we should know where we are on the map. What map you ask? Silly net trolls! The map of Online Communities of course. You see knowing where we are allows us to get to where we want to be.
Here's a link to the massive version of this so you can scroll through and find your favorite sites. (LINK)
Don't forget to read more of the XKCD comics they will have you rolling. One of my personal favorites was one recently about tech support
So it's rare when you get your picture randomly drawn. Weirder still to have it then drawn on a cake. Even more weird to have that picture of you be naked and for a guys birthday cake.
Back story a year or so ago I drew myself naked and just out of the shower pulling hair out of my ass. When you have really long hair sometimes it gets stuck in weird places. Currently my hair gets stuck in my armpits. I know it's really annoying. Anyway that's where this picture came from.
So now a year or so later I get a tweet from my friend @glitchritual saying he ate my dick and that I'm officially famous. I click the link and see this.
So yeah that previous comment made sense. Now why he or a friend of his made me into a cake I really have no idea. I do think that's pretty dog damn awesome that I'm naked in icing. I mean I'd eat me ;).
If you want to see some of @glitchritual amazing art work click the --> link
Jen noted today, that it's national binary day, also Columbus day, and oddly enough it's also national coming out day. Who knew one day could have so many recognizable features. That's right it's a day set aside for those who did things not of the norm sexually to come out and say this is who I am. Well I'll be saying to a world wide web audience that I don't care if your gay, if that's who you are then awesome. I refuse to hate someone based on who they love. When I grew up on a small farm in Kansas I never even knew there were gays or what they were. It wasn't really until college that I realized that this was a way of life for people and that loving someone didn't fit into a box. Most of you can't comprehend this but I grew up before the internet became the tool it is now. I was born basically around the same time as the net and together we have both grown into very weird and astonishing things. That aside I ran into my first “gay” person when I got to college. I found out later that a few members of my high school class were gay too but they hadn't really come out till later. So on to college...
It was in college that I made friends with a guy who went by the name Shade. He was a wicked wild goth who was just about as bubbly and nice as you can get. That's right a gay goth pagan, all republican christian folk beware. Fashion your pitchforks and lynching rope. This was my first introduction to the homosexual community and I have to say I wasn't turned away, repulsed, or even bothered by his sexuality. As my years in college progressed I became friends with more and more of the LGBT community. That's (lesbian, gay,bi-sexual, and transgender) for the layman. I think people know when you aren't someone who hates them for no reason outside of fear. So I gained many a homosexual friend. Weirder still is that I went to school to be a minister. I think Christians above all shouldn't be anti-gay. One of the reasons I don't really go to church anymore. I found so much hate in the christian community that it turns your stomach. Here people are just trying to live their lives and love someone and it seems the world screams that they can't do it. It is not ours as “straight” or “normal” people to judge them as what we deem to be unclean and queer. So easily people throw around words like “fag”, “gay”, and “queer” as common insults and yet we all seem to cringe if racist terms like “nigger” or “wet back” are used in describing someone. We know that it's not right to call someone racist terms but terms based around sexuality are far game.
Recently, I was playing Halo Reach with some friends of mine and of course everyone on live chat screams out profanity and some of the most common used terms are “fag”, “gay” and “homo”. Imagine the shock of some 12 yr old kid and his older brother when my friends said, “why yes I'm gay.” To which these scholarly gents replied, “I bet you suck cock!” Something when said to your average hetero male illicits a mad response. In this case my friend simply says, “I hope I do it well or at least so I've been told.” These red neck bastards were tongue tied it seemed all their insults revolved around gay bashing, but what do you say when the person actually is gay. It was heaven to witness I wish I could have had the whole thing transcribed. Now days everyone knows about homosexuality in it's many forms and thanks to the internet it's not something you can't research. In fact there are many TV shows, movies and celebrities who are gay. Younger generations have positive role models to look up to and know they were unafraid of who they were and made a stand.
Recently, my grandma asked me if I was Gay because it had been a while sense I had a Girlfriend and apparently I act a little gay. I wear skirts, dress in drag, and hang out with gay people. I promptly said no, but would it matter if I was. I personally don't see the harm in it. Gay marriage won't ruin the foundation of marriage, plenty of heterosexuals have done that by getting married and divorced over and over again. Gay people don't threaten our way of life. They certainly don't infringe on any rights held by hetero people. The same rights mind you they are given as well. The only reason people are anti gay anything is because they are against being gay or different. Just admit it! Racist people hate certain races because apparently the color of their skin makes them less than human well that same logic makes for easy understanding of gay hatred. It's because you just don't like it, so they are wrong. How presumptuous of you the haters. I despise any form of hate on your fellow man, be it racism or sexism. Disliking someone because they are different than you and you fear what you don't understand is no reason to hate them. Life's to short to hate. We are all just people save your hate for people that deserve it. People that hurt, maim, stalk, kill, and rape. Those people have forgone their right to be acceptable in society. Hating someone for who they love is just absurd. So come out today, come out as who you are and as that person come out for the rights of all people. Lets put a stop to all this hate and the suicides that have been the result of the assumed hate of a nation.
#NowPlaying: - Lick it - Roula <-- click and listen totally gets stuck in your head lol
Once in everyone's life, if they live long enough and by long enough I mean at least a century. You will come across a day like today. Most pleasurably celebrated by people way back in 1910 by looking at painted images of girls with no clothes, reading exerts from the Kama Sutra, or just getting down with people in crazy ways. That's right today has been 10/10/2010 or as I would call it X/X/X day It's the century porn day. Much like a few years ago you had Satan's birthday on 6/6/06 They released that movie about Satan's son or something... blah blah blah no one cared. It wasn't nearly as important as XXX I mean come on. Apparently, they are looking to give porn sites the tag .xxx instead of .com. How cool would that be. No longer will we be so easily confused by Googling a site and accidentally getting a porn site or accidentally looking through a porn site. Of course it's an accident it always was wasn't it? Sure all those windows opened themselves. I have no idea how all that porn ended up in my net history. Porn has been at the forefront of many of the advancements in modern media and the development of social networking. Remember chat rooms. Those were all about horny people. Web-cams, multi-angle DVD's, and Streaming Net video all came around through porn. Video chat, sex lines, and sexting. Hell, the other day I saw an Ad for a service that you can pay to sext that will Sext you back. Jesus that's crazy! Lets face it sex sells and that's what has been driving our industry to newer and better ways to get people to look at other people naked. People really pay for these services, and where there is money to be made their will always be a product. Sure, there's lots of other things you can use technology for but in the end, in that dark room with the glare of the computer on your face what is the last site you want to visit. The last tug on your soul to see just how depraved we humans can truly be. I think anyone will have to admit to having watched porn at some time in their lives. Doesn't matter how old or young you are. We have all wanted to have sex and or see sex. There is a carnal desire in our blood that makes us urge for the people we are attracted to no matter what crazy stuff they do. Girls with guys, guys with girls, men with men, women with women, Furrie's with other furries. Fat, skinny, young, old, short tall, black and white. We all have those dark secrets that turn us on. So on this X/X/X day why not just invest a little time in a little carnal delight. Let go of those barriers you put up that says society says being sexual is wrong. No it's right it's how we were programmed and if you believe God made us then he programmed us. What kind of cruel creator would program in a base code and then expect the computer to not run off that code. So go get you some loving tonight whether it be with a loved one, a hook up, your hand or your B.O.B. Tonight celebrate in style, love others, and love yourself... HAPPY XXX DAY!
Once I got out of the dorms in my college life; I went on to live in this tiny basement apartment and lets just say it was less than livable. My room at the time was the same size as most girls closets and so I kept my computer and book cases in there. That's about it. Our living room was smaller than the room I have now and in that I had my bed, dresser and TV. You see my bed was made of 6 sleeping bags, many sheets and comforters, some curtains and two Mexican blankets. Sure I could wash the whole thing piece by piece. (That took like 3 days.) But I never thought about it's limitations when it came to getting the girl or good sleep. I even got a girl while This whole dumb phase of my life happened. She must have hated it. It wasn't until I had a Girlfriend that said she wouldn't sleep with me unless I had a real bed that I took the initiative to get a real bed. Strange how fast ultimatums like that push you to do things. The very next day I was on a full blown search to find myself an amazing bed. I did so with in that week. I found a bed and the most awesome sheets for it from a furniture outlet store. Sadly, it did not have the pillow top surface; but it is one of the most comfy beds I or any of my friends have slept in. Being a rather large guy I got the Queen size bed which I think is a bit bigger than a full and still in my price range. This allowed me to spread out or have company stay over if I fancied a romantic night with a lady may happen. The girl I am currently dating has a twin size mattress. This size of mattress should have been tossed to the wayside the day you got out of the dorms. This size says to anyone coming into your room you will not be sharing this bed with me. I shared that bed with her one night when I fell asleep at her house. To say we were close was an understatement. Had we been conjoined twins I may have been closer. Once you are on your own and have the means to getting a proper bed it is a must. Not only for the comfort of a good nights sleep but for the availability of company in that bed. We are creatures born into a need for companionship after all.. make that night together one you will never forget. For not only the romantic setting but the amazing sleep you get in the process. I tell you a bed is worth every penny you put towards getting one that works for you. After all we spend 1/3 of our lives asleep. It only makes sense that 1/3 should be comfortable.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 10:12AM
