Writer's Block and Bad Parenting

Alright, so let's see...Today (or better yet yesterday at the time of writing) is my wife's birthday. What really sucks about this is that I had to work. Seriously, this was one of the longest nights in recent memory. Ever have one of those, not timely long, long nights where 15 minutes seem like an hour? Yeah, those suck donkey balls and it was one of those nights. Let me explain this to those who don't know me and may for whatever reason decide they wanna read this blog of mine. I work third shift so for me even though it's 5:03am on March 31st, it's still the 30th in my opinion. A new day doesn't start until I go nighty night and then crawl back out of bed. I do like to irritate my wife and play with her when the whole issue of days come up and use the whole "technically it's (insert day here) not (insert day before other inserted day) because it's X o'clock in the morning hahaha." Yeah I know it's cheesy but whatever.

Writer's block really really sucks. In the midst of typing the ending to a story I'm wanting to work on (doing it backwards because the ending came to mind first and I hate trying to write literally from front to back) and when you have the ideas and are unable to convey them into words, while having it sound cohesive, really really sucks. I just wonder if other (people with a passion for doing something but will never get really big at it so it really seems pointless anyway) "artist" ever run into a block. You ever hear of Painter's Block? Sculpture's Block? Optical Illusion Creator Guy's Block? No because they can show you what they mean. Nope not me I gotta go for one in which I have to describe and make people see. For instance, I'm going to describe something and I want you to try and envision it without me actually saying what the hell it is. A huge furry beast, with claws that could slash through flesh like a knife through butter, takes his slumber in a dark and dank hole that nature carved out for him. Ok...so now Google "bear sleeping in cave" which one does a better job of "showing" you what the hell is going on? Google Images - 1 Me - 0.

Why does IE not really work? Ever since I updated this damn browser to their "we wanna be like firefox so now we have tabbed browsing" look, just about everytime I try to use one of the tabs it either takes forever to load or it just refuses to load. Visually yeah it looks better and is more appealing for my eyes than Firefox...but looking good doesn't really matter all that much when intelligence plays a factor (just ask South Carolina).

Something else that's been annoying me. I recently watched 2 videos from 1985 (Part 1 Part 2). They were covering the topic of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D for all my hip to it nerd bretherin out there) and how D&D was causing kids to kill themselves. This is what is know as a moral panic. It's ridiculous because what they're saying is that 35 deaths (I think that was the number) were all linked to D&D. Now in this argument they claim that ALL of these deaths had D&D to blame as the sole reason. The parents in those videos say "oh we didn't know he was into it and blah blah blah" well maybe if you spent a little more fucking time with your kids you would know what the hell they're into. Hell, maybe you'd even find out that he gets picked on by the rest of the damn school and he's an outcast. Did you ever think of that? It's like saying "well we had 100 people kill others last year, and of those 100 there were 35 of them who had facial hair...therefore we lay the blame at the feet of goatees and their evils." Because what they fail to mention is that OTHER PEOPLE KILLED THEMSELVES AND OTHERS THAT YEAR NOT JUST D&D PLAYERS!!! Why not blame the Yankees? Hell, I'm sure there were more than 35 Yankee fans who killed other people. These are also the same people who will argue that Video Games (like GTA4, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead) are making kids go out and kill people. Fuck that noise what is making these kids do this shit is because A) they don't have great parents B) they are most likly getting shit from their peers at school. But of course no one wants to bring the parents or the schools into it do we? Same thing can be said about Heavy Metal. "Oh it's the work of Satan." Fuck that no it isn't. What is it is the work of people who can do more than get beats off a computer and play nursery rhymes over top of it (looking at you rap industry, I've heard row your boat and others in rap songs) they can actually play instruments while keeping said beat and hell some of them even sing while playing instruments. To sum up this whole rant: Man up and quit trying to blame your inadaquacies as parents on someone else.

I'm gonna end this particular entry with a list of sites that I frequent and what I think about them.

I-Am-Bored.com - Alright for a good laugh everyonce in a while. Sometimes they post things a little while after they've burned out. But all in all good.

Cracked.com - Good site just wish they would do more articles than what they normally put out in a day.

Break.com - Overall enjoyable site. Plus, it's where the Break Moments in Deevolution come from.

MentalFloss.com - Love the site. Full of random information and they have great dedicated writers.

FMyLife.com - always makes me feel better about my own life.

So yeah I think that's all the non-gaming sites I visit. Not gonna list the gaming ones in case anyone from my work stumbles across this blog and decides to block those. Well kids I'm out.

Blog Number One

Alright. Finally gave in and made a blog. Just feel it's something I can do to help pass the time. Pretty much just want to get my thoughts out there and this way people can (although I doubt they'd want to) keep up with what's going on and how I feel about it. So here we go try and keep up and sorry if I offend but hey it's my opinion.

Currently there is something out there giving vampires a bad name. Not that they ever really had a good one to start with but hey. I'm speaking on this Twilight phenominon that is going on. I think it was best described as "the Harry Potter kids have grown up and need something else to turn too." But as my wife has pointed out to me "not everyone who likes Twilight liked Harry Potter." So apparently I'm already busted on that thought. Now don't get me wrong I think the movie was alright (7.5/10) but my biggest complaint with the whole thing: VAMPIRES DON'T SPARKLE IN THE SUN THEY FUCKING DIE. Now that comment can also be modified to "vampires don't go in the damn sun because they die" and then it isn't just a Twilight attack *cough*Anne Rice*cough*. Now I normally just take vampire movies for what they are and I had enjoyed the movie Interview With The Vampire. My wife informed me that in one of Anne Rice's books Lestat flys to the damn sun. My response to that was to quickly say yeah and he died. Yeah...that didn't happen, apparently he came back to Earth. Now the logistics of A) flying to the sun and being a vampire and B) not being frozen completely in the vacuum of space astound me because neither one of those two items are very plausable. Vampires burn with fire which seems to be a pretty consistent thing amoungst vampiric lore. The sun is a giant ass ball of flaming goodness, so how the hell does that work? Secondly, if Lestat did go into space without protection his "blood" would have frozen and he'd be dead. So, currently I give Twilight the belivabilty factor over Anne Rice. I'm now done bitching about unreal vampire stuff.

Alright I'm done with this first one. I have a feeling that I'm going to have to cut my rants short or just go on mutiple rants when I do this. Anyway, farewell people have fun and remember nothing I say will be held against you.