Penetration Flashing

It's been a hectic and tiring week, and I just haven't felt like looking at a computer screen when I've finally gotten home and settled, ergo the recent lack of updates.  Hopefully, I'll be posting more this week.  In the meantime, check out my Amazon Wish List and buy me some cool shit.  You know you wanna.

Its Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  How many people do you know that have been touched by the disease?
Submitted by Karen.

Breast Cancer Awareness

My mother had breast cancer throughout my junior high school years.  At the time I really didn't realize the severity of it, partly because she was incredibly strong, and partly because of my own naivety and ignorance.  After a double mastectomy and radiation therapy she's been cancer free for 10 years now, but it has forever effected her endurance and her ability to do the kind of work she used to do.  Even if the cancer never comes back she will forever feel the effects of it.

Finding Emo

Caution:  Uninhibited rant lies ahead.

Could somebody please explain to me what the deal is with everyone throwing around the term emo when they don't even know what the bloody fuck it means?  I've heard everyone from Green Day to Bright Eyes to Elvis fucking Costello classified as emo (as an insult) by people who's musical spectrum ranges all the way from Creed to Nickelback to whatever the fuck they're playing at the Abercrombie and Fitch this week.  Never mind that none of these bands are even the slightest bit emo.  It's like it's just become the cool insult to hurl at whatever you don't like or understand.  Like in junior high when everything was "gay".  Then you have the jock and metal meatheads who seem to think that anything they can't beat their chests to is emo. 

"Dude.  What's this emo shit you're listening to?  Billy Joel?  Gay." 

Or the asshats who think it applies to anything with emotional lyrics.  Cause, ya know.  B.B. King is SO emo.  I bet old Riley cuts himself after every show, and I don't mean to check his blood sugar.  Never mind that cutting has nothing to do with emo either. 

And the thing is, I could let all this slide if it weren't people over the age of 18 doing this shit.  Under 18 you're supposed to be stupid.  You're young.  It's your job.  But I'm hearing this shit from fucking grown ups with families and children.  And their children are going to grow up to be dumb as dick too, because that's what happens when stupid people breed.  And they will grow up and elect one of their own as leader of the free world.  Oh wait. 

End rant.

What's the best music documentary or concert film you've seen?

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

Adobe Photoshop CS

While away at school a few years ago I became interested in image manipulation and graphic design through the use of Photoshop CS.  It was nothing more than a hobby at the time, but I soon found that I had a knack for working with images.  Soon after graduating I decided that I wanted to go back to school for a formal graphic design education.  I plan to start classes in 2008.  Most of the work I did was in the form of message board signatures and banners for myself and some of my friends in the gaming community, and I was briefly a designer at the now defunct ClanGraphics.com.  Unfortunately, due to Hurricane Katrina wrecking my good computer, I have been unable to pursue my hobby any further for the past couple of years.  Here are a few of my favorite signatures I created for myself as well as a few friends.

Devil Kazuya Signature

City Lights Signature

Resident Evil Zero Signature

Kazuya Neon Signature

Green Machine Signature

Sin City Signature

Ninja Turtle Nexus Signature

Rourouni Kenshin Signature

Liquid Letterbox Signature

Final Fantasy Signature

My first and only attempt at animation:

Dark Knight Animated Signature

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Improv Everywhere has recently posted their latest prank:  Sending 111 shirtless men into an Abercrombie and Fitch to buy shirts.  I think the video speaks for itself.